Peng Le likes the gold and silver coins of Zhen Qian's bank, and he also has a lot of gold and silver coins hidden at home, and he is very interested in Zhen Qian's practice of harming himself and others, and he really can't figure out why he did it.

With thirteen gold coins in his hand, Peng Le had a smile on his face: "Zhen Dalang, this is a bit much?" ”

The price of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty was one to eight, and thirteen gold coins could be exchanged for one hundred and four silver coins, even according to the exchange rate of the money bank, it could be exchanged for one hundred and four guan, which was obviously more than the one hundred guan he apportioned. If it is exchanged in the market, a gold coin can be exchanged for an additional 500 Wen, a total of 6,500 Wen more, plus the extra four guan, which is more than 10 guan, "How can you let Peng Sihu run for nothing?" The extra is naturally the remuneration for Peng Sihu, ......, so don't shirk it. ”

Peng Lele kicked the gold coin in his arms: "Shame, shame!" ”

"By the way, I heard that Zhen Dalang is going to run a medicinal herb and brick kiln business, although the Peng family can't say that he has much experience in these two industries, but Zhen Dalang must not be polite when he uses the Peng family, I hope the two families will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future!"

The medicinal herb shop was opened because he had the recipe for Jinchuang medicine (Yunnan Baiyao) and cosmetics, and saltpeter and sulfur were only sold in pharmacies in the Tang Dynasty. As for the brick kiln factory, in addition to burning bricks, it can also produce cement, glass, porcelain, etc., which of these things is not a million profits, how can you not prepare in the early stage?

People are afraid of being famous, pigs are afraid of being strong, Peng Le is actually eyeing his own industry, how can there be a good thing in the world to help people for free, Zhen Qian smiled: "Since Peng Sihu is so enthusiastic, he will definitely be disturbed by then!" ”

"Then it's a word", Peng Le walked out of the living room, as if he remembered something: "Is Zhen Dalang going to the county seat, why don't you and I go together?" ”

Peng Le must have seen the carriage at the door, Zhen Qian didn't want to go with him, the Peng family was notorious, mean and unrighteous to his subordinates, not only the slaves in the family, but even the tenants who helped his family farm had no benevolence at all, it was too late for this kind of person to hide? Whoever gets caught is unlucky!

No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles; If you don't accumulate small streams, you can't become rivers and seas.

I never know the difficulty of doing things without practicing, whether it is difficult to make iron and steel, and I also know that special steel needs to add alloy raw materials, but in the Tang Dynasty, which was not supported by a scientific system, all this unconscious foolish dream.

A simple four-wheel shock-absorbing spring made Zhen Qian difficult, and sitting in a carriage without shock-absorbing was like a crime, and the spring made of ordinary steel broke after a few bumps. It is impossible to make steel with the right hardness and toughness without years of experimentation.

The lost hemp steel process of the Han and Tang dynasties is said to be the Damascus steelmaking technology brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, which integrates the steel frying and 100 steelmaking processes, and its excellent performance is still the best material for making sniper rifles.

Seeing that Peng Le went to the next village to raise food, Zhen Qian immediately rushed to the county seat with gifts.

Luquan County was founded in the sixteenth year of the opening of the Sui Dynasty, named after the deer spring water, only twenty or thirty miles away from Sendai Village, and it was an hour to do a bump in the carriage.

Zhen Qian has to come to the county seat once or twice a month, and now there is less than a month before the first day, this time he didn't bring Xiaozhu and Xiaomei to the county seat, and the two little girls actually played a little trick with themselves. Now these two little girls are majestic, there is no housewife at home, they are the hostesses of the backyard, even they can't say or scold now, whose maid can mix like this, it can be regarded as the best.

As long as it is a woman, there is jealousy, this has been the case throughout the ages, Zhen Qian did not treat the two little girls as maidservants, so he naturally cared about what kind of woman Zhen Qian was looking for.

Zhen Qian sat next to the scholar Wang You, and the carriage was driven by the old servant Wang Peng, who was also a personal bodyguard.

Although it is still a prosperous era, it is not safe to go out at all in these years, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is about 11 million square meters, and the population is only 890 million at the peak, and the average is less than 10 people per square kilometer. Think about the country of rice in later generations, the land area is only more than 9 million square meters, the population is more than 300 million, and it is difficult to see the crowds on the road out of the city.

Killing a person in the Tang Dynasty was not a big deal, there was no Internet wanted, the speed of information transmission was slow, and the wicked people who killed people and absconded often haunted the poor countryside, and they were embarrassed to greet people if they didn't bring a few bodyguards when they went out.

Wang Peng sat on the carriage, with a horizontal knife hanging from his waist, and there was a pot of arrows and a curved bow on the side of the carriage, and his body swayed with the carriage, "Da Lang, in the morning, I heard that there are a few families in the neighboring villages who can't survive and have fled. ”

There are some things that Zhen Qian can't manage if he wants to, and it is not a good thing to have a large-scale conscription in winter, especially when he goes to the frozen north, where all the conscripts are bitter and hard-working peasants, who are already short of food and clothing, and who are cold and cold, and there are not a few people who die on the conscription.

This reminded Zhen Qian of Du Fu's "Reminiscences of the Past, Reminiscences of the Heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty": "Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of rooms. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant." Du Fu in "Five Hundred Words of Yonghuai from Beijing to Fengxian County" in "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road" truly reproduces the world before and after the Anshi Rebellion.

As the saying goes, "the nest is not endless, but the one who is related to it is".

After a hundred years of operation, Datang has long been in crisis during the Tianbao period, and the dark tide is surging under the prosperous era, but those corpse vegetarian magnates turn a blind eye.

The division of feudal towns, the chaos of the dynasty, the reuse of traitorous villains, land annexation, and the collusion of powerful officials and eunuchs, ...... small people are defenseless, and their families are surrounded by walls, and there are harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes and forced labor, and there are landlords who bully and oppress, "the clouds are beginning to rise and the sun is sinking, and the mountains and rains are about to come and the wind is full of buildings."

Some people say that the rise and fall is only the appearance, and the trade-off between the interests of the bureaucracy is the internal factor of the rise and fall of a dynasty. Those who are worried about the people, the people are also worried"; "Power is used by the people, feelings are related to the people, and benefits are sought by the people". But when a dynasty declines, "the monarch is vain and the ministers are deceitful" becomes the norm in officialdom, the rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand, and the doom of a dynasty has arrived.

"The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the queen / garden flower across the river", in an elegy, the golden age of an empire is gone forever.

The dynasty is centrifugal from top to bottom, corruption/corruption is abundant, military equipment is lax, the emperor is arrogant and extravagant, and he is in political affairs, and personal ambition is an inevitable choice, and the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion is inevitable.