Chapter 773: The Han Family's Alchemy
It is impossible to recruit men and women and the number of workers in unlimited quantities. Its actual scope is also in Yidu and Jeju.
There are good things, and the old base of Jeju should never be forgotten.
This incident added another fire to the lively atmosphere on the eve of the folk festival, and in a short period of time, the royal workmanship and cashmere became the hottest topic in Qilu.
Naturally, there are many people who have a good life who don't look down on the wages of the two silver dollars, such as Li Qiong, the chief of the Li family. He was more willing to let his son join the army than to let his son work for the emperor's family.
Now that he is not well fed or clothed, Li Qiong has passed the most basic stage of food and clothing needs, and is seeking social status instead.
In his life, he can mix until the chief of the security guard has come to an end, and he can't climb up again. And his two sons have no talent for reading, not to mention that they have been delayed for many years earlier, and now the family can't buy back the time even if they have extra money. Therefore, one stayed at home to inherit the family business, and the other went to join the army.
Joining the army is dangerous, and you need to be cautious when enlisting in the army. In the Lu Qi Dynasty, the status of soldiers is very high, why did Li Qiong insist on asking her son to be a soldier? The reason is not for military spending, but for the status of military dependents and the treatment of military personnel after discharge.
More than half of the dozens of security chiefs in Jiushan Township are military dependents. At the same time, the sheriffs in this township, and even many officials in Linqu, are not just the judicial police system, but the entire government, and many of them are veterans.
In the army, in addition to practicing swords and guns, there is also a lot of free time, which is the field that the military instructors are responsible for.
From the interpretation and preaching of laws and policies, to reading and reading, anyway, at the end of three years of military career, those soldiers can write and calculate without saying anything, but they are not far from ten. He also has a certain understanding of the laws and policies of the Lu Qi Dynasty, this kind of person is just a small soldier in the army, but he is an excellent grassroots talent in the local area, and there is no difficulty in entering the government to do business.
This situation will not change at least in the early days of Lu Qiding's reign, that is, in ten years. Because veterans are the foundation of the new dynasty. This is like Lu Qian's previous life, is there any comparison between the resettlement of veterans at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the veterans after the reform?
Li Qiong, who has no shortage of food or drink, now longs for "getting ahead", not to mention being an official, at least his children and grandchildren can eat a mouthful of public food. And as far as his two sons are concerned, joining the army is the only way out.
He won't ask his son, daughter-in-law, and daughter to sign up.
The reason why I mentioned this person is just to give an example. His honey, my arsenic. In the eyes of different people, there are different views on the same thing, and people's interests are different.
Although there are people like Li Qiong, it still does not affect the number of applicants among the people, such as the carp crossing the river.
But Qilu's scene didn't affect Yanjing at all. The latter had already completed the establishment of Qi people and land leases, and with a large number of Khitan herders being relocated to the Hetao area, the whole of Yanjing was already under Lu Qizhi's control.
Wanyan Pu Jianu poked his head out of the carriage and looked ahead, after many days, he saw the city wall of Xijin Mansion again. It's just that things are people, and everything is not resting, and less than two years apart, Khitan and Dajin have already changed their appearance.
Xijin Mansion is no longer the Khitan Xijin Mansion, but has become Yanjing of the Han people. The owners of the northern land outside the Saiwai are no longer the powerful and incomparable golden Jurchens in the past, but have become Han Chinese.
In his old memory, the Han people, who were just a group of weak lambs, suddenly transformed into hungry wolves and tigers, dominating the entire 'world'.
This time, when he came to this city of Xijin Prefecture, which had been renamed, he did not have the slightest arrogance on his face when he faced the Khitan in the past, neither humble nor arrogant, polite and courteous, this is the existing attitude of Wanyan Pu Jianu.
It's just that when a person has such a mind to another 'person', invisibly, he has put himself in the position of a weakling.
Because only the weak will take care of these things, and will try their best to maintain their face and dignity, and the strong will never consider these things.
This is more like the previous Zhao and Song envoys entering Liao, not only making me worried, but the entire mission was worried.
The same is true of Wanyan Pu Jianu, who had been stranded in Jinzhou City for many days before he went south to enter the customs, and it was obvious that Jinzhou's big and small eyes and Yelu Ma Wu had already received Yidu's instructions.
Follow the Jinxi Corridor all the way into Yuguan, rush to Yanjing City non-stop, and then follow the avenue all the way to the south......
The cold wind outside was whining, Wanyan Pu Jianu shrank his neck and put his head back, he was worried that he would not be able to reach Yidu before the New Year.
As the team got closer to Yanjing City, there were more and more pedestrians, cars and horses on the road. All kinds of noisy sounds came into the ears of Wanyan Pu Jianu.
The latter, as a person who has seen the world, does not think so.
When Xijin Mansion was still in the hands of the Khitans, it was a big city that was more prosperous than Liaoyang Mansion, and today's noisy and passers-by and cars and horses are not the things that should be.
It's just that as time goes by, they get closer and closer to the east gate of Yanjing City. There are more and more people and cars and horses on the road, and I haven't seen Yanjing City yet, but this scene in front of me made the entire Jurchen mission stunned.
Rolling crowds, countless cars and horses, almost clogged the road!
"This, this Lu Qi...... It's really ......" Wanyan Pu Jianu no longer knows how to describe his mood at the moment. Such a Yanjing City is much more lively than the Xijin Mansion in his memory.
At that time, the Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, which was the Great Liao, was also prosperous and lively, but there was absolutely no current scene outside the Xijin Mansion at that time. Just by looking at the pedestrians and the long queues of cars and horses in front of you, you can imagine the prosperity of the streets of the city.
In fact, there's a reason for that.
The recruitment of the Internal Affairs Office will naturally not affect Yanjing Mansion, which is thousands of miles away, but the impact of cashmere and wool on the entire Yanjing Mansion is huge. When the Khitan people heard the concept of cashmere, they were confused. Of course, they know that the goats will shed their hair in February and March. But for countless years, no Khitans have gone back to pay attention to this. The cashmere units are small in number, and they fall off immediately, which means that the herders cannot collect them at all. They didn't even know it was valuable!
Now the Han court has given a high price to buy cashmere, and the price of wool is not bad, which is an unexpected surprise. After all, the Khitan people raise sheep with a mixture of goats and sheep.
Five animals in the grassland, cattle, horses, camels, and sheep. The reason why it is counted as five animals is that it contains two kinds of sheep - goats and sheep occupy one seat each. Compared with cattle, horses and camels, sheep are the most abundant domestic animals on the grassland, and they are as inseparable from the grassland as fish and water.
When the herdsmen raise sheep, no one raises only one of them, but almost all of them are mixed. And this ratio is 2:1 to 3:1, with more sheep and fewer goats. The reason is not only that sheep produce more meat, or can shave and peel their skin, but also because sheep are easy to manage.
Anyone who has ever herded a sheep knows that goats are difficult to restrain well. It seems to have inherited too many argali's genes in its personality and is too active. In the summer, the grasslands are full of small bugs such as flies, mosquitoes and flies that are annoying to the sheep. If the goat walks against the wind, it is not easy for small insects to fly and bite them. So the flock of goats and goats, who were so annoying, didn't care where they were, they simply kept walking against the wind, and each went its own way. The flock soon dispersed. The memory of the goat is also very limited, and when it goes far, it also can't find a home. Don't you see the story of the little sisters of the grassland, the herdsmen are really worried about finding sheep on the prairie.
But it's not good to just raise sheep. This kind of sheep is a very stupid animal, they always seem to be in a daze and forget to go out with their brains, and they have long lost the vigor and vigilance of argali.
In winter, the grasslands are covered with snow, the rivers are frozen, and most of the sheep can only quench their thirst with snow, and it is simple. But in the spring, when the river thawed, and the sheep finally had a chance to drink the flowing water, they flocked to the river. It's just that the sheep are bent on moving forward, and they don't seem to know that they are scattered along the riverbank, so the sheep in front of them only care about bowing their heads and drinking water after they reach the river, and the sheep walking behind quench their thirst and still squeeze forward in a daze. Every spring, sheep would be pushed into the river and drowned. In desperation, experienced herders have to find gentle riverbanks for their sheep to drink.
Moreover, sheep are lazy and weak by nature, and if they encounter hungry wolves, they only know how to gather together, and even if they are bitten by wolves on the throat, they rarely make a call. This is where active goats are needed, who know how to avoid danger and at least know how to bark when they encounter wolves.
So, cashmere and wool are really closely related to the life of every herdsman.
After the news reached Yanjing Mansion, it immediately detonated many local large households. They have just undergone a drastic change of dynasty, and it can be said that it is lucky to be able to survive from Emperor Lu's sword, and the property power does not know how much they have lost. So much so that in the past year, the capital from the south has entered Yanjing in a big way, and they can only laugh and flatter.
It's just that there are three catties of nails in the broken ship, and these families are not easy to do. They just don't have money in their own pockets, and they also have the capital to partner with local businessmen and foreign capital. Many workshops in Yanjing Mansion are now doing this.
These big families of Yanjing Mansion don't think it's shameful to make money, they are chasing copper smell.
And now although Lu Qi is at war with the Khitan, the trade between the two sides has not been severed. The cattle, horses and sheep on the grassland are still flowing into the Central Plains in an endless stream. It's not that Emperor Tianzuo hasn't issued a ban, but there is a bird for it? The whole grassland needs silk, porcelain, cloth, tea, rhubarb, and so on from the Central Plains.
The latter is the miracle medicine of the steppe. During the Han Dynasty, the Romans had access to rhubarb, which could only be spread through the Silk Road, and even though the Silk Road gradually shifted from land to sea in the future, the trade in rhubarb by land was never broken. The latter benefited not only the nomadic aristocracy of the northern steppes, but also the Central Asians and even Europeans in the far west.
In front of it are the necessities of the life of the Khitan nobles.
It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. The ancestors of the Khitan people used to be very generous, eating good and using good ones, but now they are depressed, and their living conditions have dropped sharply and not to mention, without rhubarb and tea cakes, they are really constipated, and they have accumulated abdominal pain, which has become a fatal suffering.
For many years, rhubarb and tea cakes have always been their main tonic and the miracle medicine for cleansing the intestines, removing fire, curing toothache, and detoxifying.
And without silk and porcelain, how can they dress and live? Do you want to use coarse felt cloth or bulky pottery?
The Central Plains also needs cattle and horses from the grassland, as well as cheese, milk powder, leather, and horn tendons from the grassland.
The two sides have each other's needs, and the trade is going on unpleasantly. Neizhong even needed the local family to go to the grassland to take the lead, so this matter had soon spread from Yanjing Mansion to the grassland in the north.
Hearing that the new economic hotspots are waste in their own hands, how can the Khitan magnates and businessmen on the grassland still sit still? The prairie is full of sheep, this is money picked up for nothing, how can they not be tempted?
At present, there are so many carriages and horses outside Yanjing City, but many of them are theirs.
At the same time, as the political, military and economic center of Yanjing Mansion, Yanjing City is already very lively. Now that they are together, it is not even more crowded, gathering from all directions.
Wanyan Pu Jianu wouldn't know that he happened to encounter such an opportunity, and thought that the scene in front of him was the normal state of Yanjing City. I felt that Yanjing City, which had been in the hands of the Han people for a year, was more than one grade more prosperous than the Xijin Mansion in the heyday that he had seen in the past, which was incredible, and he felt a sense of dizziness in his heart at the moment.
Can the Han people 'turn stones into gold'?
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