Recently, the people have gradually noticed that Chang'an City has become a little different.

Compared with previous years, in winter, Chang'an City is full of displaced people inside and outside the city.

They begged, even stole and robbed along the way, which made the law and order in the city deteriorate, and the residents complained.

At the same time, corpses can be seen lying in wait on the streets, starving, freezing to death, or even being killed for snatching food.

Some homeless people, in order to survive the long winter, even choose to deliberately commit crimes, and then turn themselves in and go to prison.

Although the pain of flesh and skin is indispensable, but in prison, at least you can barely survive, without worrying about your life, and you will not starve to death and freeze to death.

Therefore, often at this time, the prisons of the government yamen are already overcrowded.

It's hard to imagine that what was once a forbidden place in people's eyes has become a refuge for life!

However, this year, such chaos seems to have disappeared without a trace.

Chang'an City, both inside and outside, in the streets and alleys, there is no half of the homeless figure.

It was as if they had evaporated from the world, and they completely disappeared from Chang'an City.

And what is amazing is that ten days ago, outside Chang'an City, tens of thousands of displaced people gathered!

Chang'an City has restored its former prosperity and rhythm, and it is still the same.

And that's not all!

Not long ago, a kind of coal dumplings called honeycomb coal suddenly appeared in the market, and then occupied the entire market with lightning speed.

Honeycomb coal is also equipped with a stove.

Because of its fair price and high quality, it was favored by many people, and soon replaced charcoal and firewood.

Nowadays, every household in Chang'an City basically uses stoves and honeycomb coal.

Honeycomb coal fire is easy to control, and the burning time is long, smokeless and dust-free, extremely clean, can be used for heating, can also be used for heating, boiling water and cooking, all are indispensable.

Some large households, in order to keep warm, even prepared more than a dozen, or even dozens of stoves.

In addition, some merchants and people gradually accepted and enjoyed the convenience brought by the stove.

They began to use honeycomb coal to cook vegetables, and some large restaurants and inns even removed the wood-burning stoves and rebuilt the stoves that burned honeycomb coal.

There was even a request for the charcoal plant to produce larger honeycomb coal, because the restaurant inn has a large number of customers, and the fire is bigger and stronger.

Liu Hua liked to hear it, so in order to cater to the restaurant inn, he also specially improved the machinery.

As a result, the demand for honeycomb coal is increasing day by day.

Honeycomb coal and stoves are playing a role and are subtly changing people's lifestyles.

What made Ye Qiange cry and laugh was that another thing was also becoming more and more popular.

That's the kang.

It came out of the palace, and everyone called it a warm bed.

Intentionally planting flowers does not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade.

Ye Qiange was a little speechless.

Since Ye Qiange rebuilt the Flying Frost Hall without authorization, it is no longer uncommon for Kang to be in the palace.

But outside the palace, except for the Zhenbei Palace, no one else knows.

Cao Guang got the drawings, but he didn't dare to make profits without permission, and the rise of the kang was thanks to Ye Mu Jiang Rou.

It is said that one day, Ye Tianyong, the king of Zhenbei, sat down and the general's female dependents visited Jiang Rou, and occasionally saw the warm bed, and was shocked by the heavens, so they followed suit one by one.

Therefore, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the warm bed spread like this.

And the most direct impact of this is that the demand for coal in Chang'an City has skyrocketed again!

After Ye Qiange found out, he was embarrassed, he never thought that he would make money because of the kang.

Although he was slightly stunned, he was happy to see it.

In recent days, the people of Chang'an City have found that several official roads outside the city are all being renovated.

It's said to be renovated, but it's very different.

The renovation of previous years is just a simple repair.

If there are pits and fill in the pits, if the damage is serious, sprinkle gravel on the road, or even loess, and it will be hastily done.

On the other hand, this time.

The number of people alone is not the same.

In terms of its scale, it is also countless times grander!

For they saw many skilled craftsmen among them.

In addition, hundreds of officers and soldiers were escorted by the side, and horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians were not allowed to pass.

Plus the craftsmen, the number is at least thousands!

They were curious, they were just renovating a few roads, why was there such a big battle?

People who have nothing to do, or who are overly curious, stop and watch.

I found that this so-called renovation is extremely not simple.

It is more appropriate to renovate than to renovate.

I saw that those craftsmen used iron tools to dig up all the original official roads, making the path extremely flat and spacious.

Then, the craftsman began to spread a thick layer of mud on it.

The mud is cyan in color, and sand and gravel are visible to the naked eye.

Once the mud has been poured on, the craftsman smooths it out with tools.

With thousands of people working together, the spectacle was undoubtedly spectacular.

It is winter, and there are the most idlers.

There were more and more people watching the excitement, and soon the roads were crowded on both sides. People are pointing and curious.

But when I saw the craftsmen dumping mud on the road bucket after bucket, my curiosity became stronger.

"What is this?"

There was a lot of talk in the crowd.

"Mud, sand, stones...... Are they building roads? ”

"Probably...... Who knows? ”

People were amazed, they had never seen such a way to build a road.

"Thou shalt not touch it, nor tread on it, and if anyone disobeys it, he shall receive fifty strokes!"

When the officers and soldiers on the side saw that someone was eager to try, their faces immediately turned cold and shouted loudly.

Smelling it, everyone took a soft breath.

The rod is fifty years old, but it will be ordered.

Someone in the crowd changed color, smiled, and stopped moving.

"My lord, this is the way, why don't you let people go?" Someone was dissatisfied and asked loudly.

"Yes, this is an official road, if you can't step on it, how can you enter the city and enter the city in the future?"

"That makes sense—"

Suddenly, it attracted countless responses.

The officers and soldiers glanced at him coldly, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "It's just that for two or three days, you can't step on it, and when the road is formed, everything will be as usual." ”

"What do you mean is that this mud will gradually solidify and become a hard ground?!"

There was no lack of people of insight in the crowd, and after hearing the words of the officers and men, they guessed one or two.

The officers and soldiers smiled lightly, shrugged their shoulders, and carried their broadswords on their shoulders, continuing to patrol and ignore the crowd.

Thousands of people are building roads, and the speed is really amazing.

On the sixth day, the fifty-mile official road outside the west gate of Chang'an City was completed.

In the past few days, the matter of the imperial court building roads has already spread throughout Chang'an City, whether it is a member of the imperial court or a small person in the market, everyone knows about it.

The attention has become higher and higher, and even when Xu Yichan was in the early dynasty, there were ministers who specially told about it.

Xu Yichan knew that this must be Ye Qiange's handiwork.

The cement road, she had seen it in advance, but it didn't affect her idea of going to see it again.

She knew the purpose of Ye Qiange's big formation.

Since you want to build momentum, the emperor will do what you want.

"I heard that the official road outside the West City Gate is about to be completed today, so I and Zhongqing will go outside the city to see, what is the wonder of this new road?"

"Whoa!"