After returning to his small courtyard and leisurely for a few more days, the Shangyuan Festival of the sixth year of Wude arrived. That person made an appointment about the Shangyuan Festival after dusk, and Yin Qingfeng must go to see it.

There is no lion dance and dragon lantern in the Spring Festival of the Tang Dynasty, but there are their prototypes: Wu opera.

In Yin Qingfeng's impression, the folk customs of the opera are only found in Tibet and the ethnic minorities in the southwest. It was only in the Tang Dynasty that I learned that this activity had started since the Han Dynasty or before, and it was a national celebration. Perhaps it was later due to wars and other reasons, but in modern times, it was only preserved in remote areas.

Yin Qingfeng and Yuemei rejected the invitation of Du Fuwei and his wife, he wanted to enjoy this happiness alone with the little girl.

When passing by a stall selling masks, Yin Qingfeng pulled the little girl to choose for a long time, and then put on a mask with strange patterns. Maybe it was the first time to wear this mask, the little girl looked at Yin Qingfeng and giggled, and changed her mask to Yin Qingfeng to see what it looked like.

Yin Qingfeng took his little maid and walked with the crowd towards Suzaku Street. At this time, the people of Chang'an seem to have flocked here, which makes the little girl dizzy. Yin Qingfeng pulled her tightly, for fear that she would be lost if she was not careful. Child trafficking, an ancient profession in China, is the easiest to get started on this day.

Yin Qingfeng has no curiosity, it's nothing more than watching lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, dancing lions and dragon lanterns, I haven't seen anything in modern society.

It's just that poor people of the Tang Dynasty don't think so.

There is no curfew for the only three days before and after in Chang'an City, and no one cares what time to go home. Therefore, the current Chang'an people are like naughty children who have been holding back in school for a semester, and they can finally have fun.

To Yin Qingfeng's disappointment, this Lantern Festival did not guess lantern riddles, nor lions and dragon lanterns.

But the little girl can not be disappointed or disappointed.

Yin Qingfeng held her tightly, this girl's curiosity was too strong, she was happy to see everything, and she exclaimed from time to time. Yin Qingfeng's little liver is fluttering.

The front finally saw the procession of the opera parade, and the equally excited crowd also saw the procession, Yin Qingfeng took the little girl to squeeze in after a long time.

This drama is not a long group of people, but one by one. Why? If there is a long line, the music behind you can't be heard in front. If the music is on both sides of the procession, the people can't see the middle.

The marchers also wore masks on their faces, and Yin Qingfeng sang in their mouths without understanding or knowing where the dialect was; There are also those who don't sing, similar to rowing boats, swallowing fire, people rolling around on bamboo ladders on their shoulders, and some people don't know whether it's a dwarf or a child, and they are stringing around in the procession.

Later, he learned that there are two forms of opera: singing and swimming. Singing is to sing on the stage, like a stage play like Peking Opera, and you refer to an acrobatic parade that is only carried out during festivals.

There are a lot of people tonight, more than 100,000 or 200,000 are indispensable, and Yin Qingfeng is sweating.

At this time, there was no rock sugar gourd, which made Yin Qingfeng feel that there was less atmosphere.

However, there are still all kinds of snacks to sell. The little girl's mouth is nothing but amazement, but it is eating. I don't know if her little belly will be uncomfortable when I go back for a while.

I felt very sleepy, so I dragged the reluctant girl away from the crowd, and walked back with a rabbit lamp for each person.

It's been six years since Wude, and sometimes Yin Qingfeng sighs that he wants to do a lot, but there are too few things he can do, and everything is limited to his age.

Since improving the food, Yin Qingfeng has only turned the desk into a high table, and "handily" added a high-backed chair and desk.

Fortunately, the winter in Chang'an is not cold, and it is only necessary to cover a thicker quilt in the coldest three or four days.

Although the temperature outside is in the teens, Yin Qingfeng naturally thinks of cotton. Thinking of cotton, he remembered again that the boss who sold coarse cloth said that the coarse cloth came from Qilu.

Yin Qingfeng remembered that he had read an article called "Qingzhou is the Source of the Ancient Silk Road" before. The article proves that the Qingzhou area was the supply place of Chang'an silk in the Western Han Dynasty and the northernmost trading place of the Maritime Silk Road.

If this article is correct, then it is also possible that Indian cotton from the sea is really grown in the Qingzhou area.

As Shandong-born Du Fuwei and Shan Yunying, they should know something about this matter.

Thinking of this, Yin Qingfeng couldn't sit still anymore, he took the little girl and went straight to Xiao Du.

"Do brothers and sisters-in-law know about coarse cloth?"

"Naturally, I know this, why does the little brother ask this?"

"Then there is a coarse cloth output over there in Qilu?"

Du Fuwei looked at Shan Yunying embarrassedly, and Shan Yunying gave Yin Qingfeng an affirmative answer: "Although Qilu is mainly silk, some barren areas will still grow some white stacks, and these white stacks will be spun into coarse cloth. ”

Yin Qingfeng calmed down his excitement, "Then can my brother send someone to Qilu to buy Bai Diezi and seeds back?" The more the merrier! ”

"Naturally, that's fine, I'll tell someone to run."

"Then please brother. When Bai Diezi was taken back, the younger brother came to thank his brother and sister-in-law again. ”

On the carriage back, facing the curious little girl, she explained the purpose of cotton, "Do you remember what I said on the day Sister-in-law Shan came?" If you want the people to be fed, the problem is not big, but after you are full, you must have extra money. The more money they had left, the less they had to expect to get food from the land and they would be able to eat well or even eat well.

The selling price of this white stack is much higher than that of five grains, and farmers can sell the white stacks to buy grain and pay rent, so that in a year, their income will be much higher than simply growing grain. ”

"But they all went to plant white stacks, so who grows food?"

"The fact that you can think of this is proof that you have started to think about it. This question is also easy to deal with. When the time comes, the court can order that the barren land be planted with white stacks, and the fertile land is not allowed to be planted; It is also possible to stipulate that newly developed land is allowed to be planted for five years. Moreover, the land in the Hexi Corridor or the Western Regions is the most suitable for planting white stacks, and when the time comes, let the Tang army occupy the Western Regions, only that side can be planted, and the rest of the area cannot be planted. If there is such a decree, then many people will take the initiative to relocate to the Western Regions. There are more Han people in the Western Regions. It will become the permanent territory of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"But they all went to the Western Regions to plant white stacks, what did they do?"

"It's even better at that, it's about market demand. Market demand is simply the quantity that people are willing and able to buy for a certain good. Take the situation in the Western Regions as an example, the market demand is that the people need food. And there is no or very little food in the local area, which will cause the price of grain to be higher than the price of white stacks. So there will be some people who will grow food, vegetables, etc. ”

This theory, Yin Qingfeng's words are very simple, and the little girl understands it. However, Yin Qingfeng estimated that those sour Confucians who studied Confucian classics all day long would not be able to summarize this truth, and he planned to go back and write down the business knowledge he knew.

But he gave up on thinking about it, and according to his planned steps, now was not the time.

It's not time to write a book, but you can start making money.

The previous taste building, whether it was an attempt or to deal with Du Fuwei, was not controlled by him alone, and he needed a lot of money to support his future actions.

"With soap and cotton coming back after a while, I can have two unique products to sell. I believe that these two commodities will be able to support my own plans in a short period of time. ”

After thinking about this, Yin Qingfeng came to Ren Da, "Ren Da, you go and buy this area in the northeast corner of Shengpingfang, including the house we live in now." Then go and buy some official slaves who know carpentry skills and some ordinary male official slaves and come back; Let Ren Er go to the West Market to find a few shops to buy, preferably together, the larger the area, the better; Go build ten more back pans; He sent someone to buy a large amount of high-grade wood for the bed.

And then go and buy twenty maidservants between the ages of fifteen and twenty, and two servants, who must be of good appearance and literate and hyphenated. Well... And then buy these people's daily necessities what. Okay, that's probably it, you can do it. ”

After Ren Da went out, Yin Qingfeng explained his intention to arrange it to the little girl who was listening.

While the little girl was thinking by herself, Yin Qingfeng began to write and draw. He sells soap, checkers, toothbrushes, quilts and furniture of all kinds.

The reason why he bought slaves instead of hiring them was that Yin Qingfeng was also unwilling to be the slave owner. However, if he wants to have these 'new technologies' to himself, only those who have signed the master-servant contract can keep them secret.

Twenty maidservants, Yin Qingfeng planned to train them to act as salesmen later.

Buying a quarter of the area, he was going to turn it into a processing factory. This quarter of the square area is exactly divided into four areas, Yin Qingfeng plans to live in one area with the little girl, and the other three areas are exactly three processing factories and dormitories.

Ren Da's ability is still good. I know how to buy a house in the Fang District first, and then go to buy a maidservant and an official slave.

After all these things were done, Yin Qingfeng took the little girl and Ren Da and the six people to the county government of Wannian County.