At the beginning of May, the emperor drove to Chang'an, Guanzhong.

Along the way, the carriages and horses were murmuring, and the team was mighty.

Emperor Luo Cheng did not stay on the wheel palace all day, in fact, there were hundreds of officials who asked to pull out the wheel palace in the Luoyang Palace of Emperor Ming of Sui, but Luo Cheng did not agree.

As an emperor who immediately conquered the world, he was not yet thirty years old, and he did not need to sit in the wheel palace at all, and most of the emperors rode horses, occasionally in carriages.

He even often took Yu Linlang to leave the brigade and go to the nearby village and grass market to visit Weifu, and he would also summon local officials in the counties he passed along the way, and would go to the local military government to inspect the government soldiers and county soldiers.

Along the way, the emperor found a lot of problems.

Wei Zheng, the servant of the door, was dressed in a Taoist robe, and returned to the costume of the Taoist in the past, he rode a green mule, wiped the sweat on his head, "It's only the beginning of May, it's so hot." ”

"As the old saying goes, after the fifth day of May, you have to sleep on a mat, you see that the rice by the river grows so well, and the weather is not hot, how can the crops grow." The emperor is a black soft-footed head with a white robe, a belt around his waist, and a horizontal knife, which looks like a ranger.

Luo Cheng felt that the temperature at this time should be a little higher than in later generations, and it was this wave of warm current that made the Tubo people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau take advantage of the situation to rise, and even the Khitan and other tribes in the northeast became stronger.

Such a good climate, of course, is also more beneficial for the Central Plains, which means that there can be more land suitable for planting and can feed more people.

It is said that at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Xiaoice climate, when the average annual temperature of the whole of China was much lower than that of later generations, and the summer drought and flood occurred one after another, and the winter was extremely cold, not only in Hebei, but even in Guangzhou in Lingnan.

The Xiaoice period led to a sharp drop in temperature, a sharp reduction in grain production, and continuous natural disasters, resulting in famines, population declines, and turmoil.

"It's hot hot, it's better than cold."

Compared with the last few years of the Sui Dynasty, there were major droughts, the bursting of the Yellow River, locust plagues, etc., at least the wind and rain were smooth in most areas.

In agriculture in this era, when food was mainly dependent on the sky, a good weather was not only important for the people who farmed the land, but also for the imperial court.

When everyone has a harvest, they will be able to eat enough, people's hearts will not be confused, and they will be able to develop steadily.

Wei Zheng said with a smile, "Summer is indeed better than winter, at least for ordinary people, summer hot spots are to avoid the heat, but the winter is cold, but there is nowhere to avoid it, and many people freeze to death every winter." ”

The two monarchs and ministers, with a team of Yu Linlang, walked into a grass market located by the river.

In this era, the city city, the city and the market are linked, where there is a city, there must be a city, the market is generally built in the city, is a special market, generally the city will not let people set up shops along the street, set up stalls anywhere.

Of course, in rural areas, there are also markets outside the cities.

Generally, it is located at some ferries, rivers, or intersections and other places, so that it is convenient for people from some nearby villages to come and trade, and there will be no houses and shops, everyone comes to find a place to set up stalls and trade freely.

This kind of market is generally called a grass market.

Some grass markets are set every three or five days, or every other day, or every single or double, and the people also call it a market.

Compared with the prosperity of the three cities of Luoyang, this small grass market is obviously inferior, not so rich in classification, complete industries. But it was also very lively, with people coming and going, and people shouting everywhere.

Most of the people who came to the market were people from the neighborhood, and some merchants from the city, and most of the people came to the market to buy things, and at the same time, they also brought some of their own things to sell.

For example, the eggs laid by the old hens at home, the chicks hatched by themselves, or the puppies under the janitorial dogs, or the fattened geese at home.

There are also people who sell some of the handicrafts they make, such as reed mats and willow baskets.

There are also some people who will sell the prey they have hunted or the fur they have accumulated.

There are many kinds of good things.

Listening to these people bargaining, and even bartering, Luo Cheng felt very down-to-earth.

In the corner of the bazaar, there are even a few fathers and sons who set up a blacksmith shop there, where they burn charcoal stoves, jingle iron, and make and repair all kinds of farm tools and kitchen knives.

Luo Cheng deliberately went over to take a look.

"Can you fight a knife?"

The man who struck iron looked like he was in his fifties, a little thin, but a little lean, he had a big beard on his face, half of his head protruded, and when he saw Luo Cheng's outfit, he decided that he was a big patron, and immediately smiled, "What kind of knife does Lang Jun want to fight?" ”

Luo Cheng took off the horizontal knife under his waist and handed it to the blacksmith, "Can you fight like this?" ”

The blacksmith took it, pulled it out, looked at it, and shook his head.

"Childe's knife is not an ordinary mouth, it is estimated that it was made by a master craftsman in Luoyang or Chang'an, I don't have this ability." An expert is a connoisseur, and you can see at a glance that this knife is extraordinary.

"Pretty much fine." Luo Cheng said with a smile.

As a result, the old master said, "It's not a secret, although I can fight horizontal knives, but the court has regulations, I can only make weapons for the court, and I can't accept private customization." If the son wants to buy a knife, he still needs to buy it from the government, and he can generally register to buy it. ”

"That's a pity."

When the master saw that the business was going to be yellow, he immediately said, "I can't beat the horizontal knife and the big knife, but the small knife is okay, the dagger or the unraveling knife can be, and you are satisfied." ”

"Then get me a knife."

"Good class."

The knife is very small, not smaller than the dagger, it is generally used with you, you can cut paper and cut meat, so it is not too sharp, people generally carry such a knife on the body, just like the people of later generations will bring a Swiss army knife when they travel, it is a very convenient little thing.

It doesn't take much skill to make a knife like this, and it doesn't take much time, and of course, different craftsmen have different styles of fighting, some delicate and some crude.

Luo Cheng didn't rush to leave, just squatted on the side and watched the old man instruct his sons to take over the construction, and he chatted along with him.

The main thing is to ask about their lives, this blacksmith father and son, let him feel very similar to his own home, there is a natural sense of closeness.

The old man sighed that the past two years have been good, and the most important thing is that after the land is divided into the mu and the labor is transferred to the mu, he feels a lot freer.

In the past, he always had to serve, especially as a blacksmith, and he was often requisitioned.

Now, the court divided the land and granted the land, and his family of eight people, father and son and four men, divided more than 100 acres of land, so it can be said that there is no need to go to the tenant land to cultivate. And after the imperial court converted the service money into the mu, although it was equivalent to paying the service money, that money was much better than the previous years to do free service.