Day by day, but there is no sign of the hustle and bustle of Longmen County. After the season passed in March, although the construction of the terraced fields in the East Valley has begun to take shape, but the people in the valley have not only not decreased, but have benefited more, in addition to the previous strong Ding men, the new additions are almost all sturdy peasant women, in addition to repairing the terraces and planting crops, the latest hot spot in the East Valley is to build houses.

Adjacent to the valley under the terraced fields, earthen walls of three or two feet, four or five feet have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

Drawing on the experience of building terraces, the villagers also used the way of collective cooperation when building houses, and the situation was similar to the cooperatives of later generations, where three or five or six families joined forces to build houses in turn according to the order set by lot, and many people worked well, and after everyone went into battle together, the process of building a house, which was originally extremely difficult for a family, became much easier.

To say that during this period of time, the life of the Tang people in Longmen County was really hard, busy with building houses in the field, and almost every day they started to do heavy work like cattle and horses from the moment they woke up, and they did it until it was dark. The intensity of labor is so great and the duration is so long that even the most hard-working farmers are tired and grinning, and they are often reluctant to get up again as soon as they fall.

Not only are they the sturdy people in their prime, but even the old people and children who are still left behind at home in the countryside are not easy, their sons and daughters-in-law are gone, and the old and frail can only grit their teeth and bones again and squeeze out every energy in their bodies to support the whole family.

Looking at the entire Longmen Village, during this time, six or seven-year-old children carried embroidered baskets higher than them to beat cow grass, and seven or eight-year-old children stepped on wooden pestles to reach the stove to cook everywhere, and it is very likely that the younger brothers and sisters who are only four or five years old are cooking pots for them.

All in all, Donggu on the edge of the county seat is like a giant absorber, not only absorbing the strong labor of the entire Longmen Village, but even sucking out all the power that can be accumulated in the entire Longmen Village, even the old people with gray temples and the children who are still in their infancy. Or this Donggu is more like a behemoth, requiring more than 20,000 Tang people to put in all their strength and blood and sweat to barely feed its insatiable appetite~.

Tired is really tired, bitter is also really bitter, but the strange thing is that although so tired and so bitter, not many people complain, although the farmers in Donggu are so tired that they don't even want to say a word at the end of the day, but by the next morning they will still get up energetically, and the enthusiasm for building terraces and the sound of building walls in Hangzhou will not be less than the day before.

When the work is extremely tiring and hard, the farmers and their Hun families will involuntarily turn their heads to look at the neat ladder fields, and look at the rammed earth walls that are inch by inch high, at this moment, the patience of the Chinese peasants who have been inherited in the bones for thousands of years will burst out with the most dazzling light, as long as there is hope, as long as there is a real hope that can make life better, they are willing to wave the virtue of hard work to the extreme, like cattle and horses, even more capable than cattle and horses, more able to endure hardship.

This is where the true backbone of a nation lies, and it is the source of strength that will never be exhausted and has unlimited potential.

The construction of the Longmen Market is much faster than that of Donggu. After all, it's just about building houses. After all, the people who built this big market had enough money and food security. At one time, there were still many people in Longmen County who were worried about the houses that were about to be built - once this big market was built. During this time, it is easy to make money and live well, and the days of living should come to an end! But then everything quietly dispelled their concerns.

Just when the construction of the big market has just entered the final stage. A caravan of the land swarmed again. This time, the caravan brought land full of goods. Not only is there a lot of goods in the south. There were even boxes and bundles of goods from Persia that were stuffed into the houses that had just been built in front of them. With the arrival of these goods, there were many merchants in the land. Seeing the people of their county, they really wondered. Why did this news spread so quickly? It's only been a long time. Do these businessmen know the news of the construction of a large market in Longmen County?

Here, the caravan and merchants in the distance have just arrived. The people of Longmen over there have been extremely familiar with the Xiren ox cart during this time. One after the other. Cart after cart full of leather goods. Medicine. livestock and so on.

Trading began on the big market, which had not yet been fully built. Buy goods with money and barter goods. All kinds of trading methods are used. Then I saw that the people who had just unloaded the leather and livestock began to load a spindle of cloth and silk on the ox cart. Group tea. Chinaware. Iron and so on and so forth; The caravans carrying southern goods loaded with bundles of leather goods. Medicine. Catch up a group of good horses that can be sold at a good price in the pass.

One south and one north are interconnected. As soon as the Longmen Market opened, it showed a huge capacity for cargo distribution, throughput and trading. After a little longer. Not only does Kannai also belong to ~ other counties in the state capital, and businessmen began to come this way. Further afield, prefectures and counties also heard the news; This is already the case in the south. The north side is even more intense. First of all, Longmen Xilai. Then I saw that the people of the Raole grassland also arrived. Slowly, even the Khitans in the Pine Desert will ride several times

Rushed here. They were no longer satisfied with being sold through the hands of Tuyezhuo, they wanted to come and see for themselves what this place was like. And before that, when they wanted to buy some expensive goods. Recently, I had to run to Huairong City.

The opening of the big market has brought a huge floating population to Longmen County, the number of wine shops, car shops, tea shops, fireworks and green buildings has shown a second explosive growth on the basis of the beginning of the construction of the previous big market, this period of time has basically reached the point where you dare to open a store without worrying about no business, not to mention others, only the shopkeeper of the Longmen Inn Guan Pingchao has opened three branches in just a few months, and is still ambitiously preparing to open a fourth, and now counting the money to the soft, The big shopkeeper who can wake up with a smile in his dreams has never smacked Tang Cheng in the back of the county, let alone scolded the "dog official", if he wasn't afraid of the gods in heaven and earth to blame, he couldn't wait to replace the God of Wealth invited by the family with the portrait of Tang County.

In the face of this huge wave, the impact and impact of the small Longmen county is all-round, and the people of the county are like a dream watching the houses they have lived in for decades worthless and rising in price like the Kong Ming lantern in the Yuan Night, and the house price that has risen is called an evil, so evil that they themselves can't believe it when they hear this price. What the hell, what the hell is going on! The house is still the same house!

In the face of such soaring housing prices, they suddenly realized that their previous worries about the imminent construction of the big market were so ridiculous, worried that there was no work to do? If you rent out a few houses at home, the rental money alone is enough for the family to eat and drink, what kind of work are you looking for?

The shock of surprise came too quickly and too greatly, and it felt so good to sit on the ground and become a rich man without doing anything, so that the people in the county town entered a state of collective unconscious dizziness almost at the same time during this time.

The state of the people is like this, compared to their longing for hope and happiness, the people in the county government are much more miserable. Donggu is busy, there are more and more miscellaneous things in the big market, and there are tens of thousands of things at hand that have to deal with the relocation of tens of thousands of people surnamed Hu, these tolerances and scribes feel that they are going to be busy and crazy, their voices are already hoarse because they talk too much, and their legs and feet are even more sore.

In the past few months, the Longmen County Government has posted recruitment notices twice, and the number and scale of the county government have already jumped to the first place among the six counties under the jurisdiction of >> Prefecture, which happened to be reversed from the previous ranking, from the bottom to the order. Rao is still so tight on personnel, and now Yang Jiao, the big shopkeeper who is not suspended in the yamen, is brewing the third recruitment announcement, and when he thinks of this problem, he himself is worried - it is really not good not to recruit, but to expand like this, this yamen is still called the "county" yamen!

At this time, Longmen County is like a carriage drawn by thousands of miles, after more than half a year of foreshadowing and preparation, it has completely entered the fast lane, and its inertia has stirred up everything around, not only tens of thousands of people in the county have been swept into this rushing tide, but the influence has continued to expand to the surrounding areas over time.

When a stone is thrown into the calm surface of the lake, it inevitably stirs up a circle of ripples that gradually expand. Longmen County is a calm lake, and Tang Chengcheng, who was airborne to be an official here, is the stone, as for how far this circle of ripples can be transmitted and how much of a place it can reach, it is still too early to say, everything needs time to give the final answer.

Just when Yang Jiao was worried about the recruitment of the proclamation, he suddenly heard the door of the official room creak.

"Who? Go out, and don't say anything if you don't see a guest now! Now everyone knows that he is the real No. 2 person in Longmen County, and he likes to come to him for anything, not to mention the complicated affairs in the yamen, even the businessmen who think about what benefits and the people who want to expand their houses in the city also come to find him, basically from the beginning of his arrival in the yamen, not to mention the normal time of going to the yamen, even if he eats and goes to the toilet, he can't wait for someone to follow, he really can't hold back, In addition, I was already irritable now, so I didn't raise my head and said cruel words.

"As soon as I heard Mr.'s words, I knew that it was a rush to attack my heart", Tang Cheng smiled and closed the door of the office with his backhand, "It just so happened that Tu Yezhuo brought me some rare herbs when he came here two days ago, or I will find someone to boil some for Mr., so I can go to the fire."

Yang Jiao, who stood up from behind the public case after hearing this, smiled dumbly, he was not formal, he just arched his hand to Tang Cheng casually, "Mingfu, if you really care about people, then you should let a good student rest for a few days, as long as you can calm down your ears and stop listening to things, it will work better than any precious herb."

"I really want to let my husband rest for a few days, but with the current situation of Longmen today, how can I leave my husband in one day? How can the gentleman rest in peace? When he said this, Tang Cheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The official didn't expect this matter to be together, after the general trend has been achieved, it will be such a tight law, don't hide it from Brother Yang, you said, it's been more than half a month, and the words of a certain and clumsy Jing are only ten sentences a day, she has to go to Donggu every morning, and she can't come back at night until it's dark, even after coming back, I'm too tired to talk, I'm so bitter?" ”。

"If the Ming Mansion says so, I feel a lot better", Yang Jiao laughed, "If you lose the east, you will receive the mulberry elm." Although Madame is not free, there is no other flower of stunning interpretation in the Ming Mansion! ”。

Tang Cheng didn't want to hide it from people and couldn't hide it at all, this era pays attention to marrying a wife to be virtuous, taking concubines to sex, and it is really not new for a court official to accept Oiran, it is Yang Jiao who will be so unscrupulous to joke about it.

"She? She's busier than I am now! I just accepted an apprentice, not to mention, the teaching department has a lot of things now, and there are many new songs and dances required for good business, and I want to open a pavilion outside, from the site selection to the inside to clean up the layout, then Feng Sanniang is a no idea, everything has to be pointed at her, there is still time to talk to me", Tang Cheng sighed with a smile as he spoke, "This is called cocooning and self-restraint, if you knew that it is like this now, you should have explained to Ashide and others not to be so anxious to inform merchants from all over the world about the big market, That makes it much easier now."

"It's no wonder that this is an adult, who would have thought that these nine surnamed Hu's paths are so wild, and they can attract so many businessmen?"

"Merchants are very profitable, but they have built this big market single-handedly, and they still don't work hard for money?" , Tang Cheng replied with a smile, without mentioning the agreement that the four companies in the big market were equally divided.

According to the original local agreement, the Longmen County Ya provided the land, and the nine surnamed Hu merchants were responsible for paying for the grain to build a large market, and the profits after the completion were divided equally between him and Longmen Xi and Tianchengjun, saying that it was four, in fact, in addition to the nine surnamed Hu's investors, who were equally involved in the six Hu merchants, the three here were only Tang Cheng, Tu Yezhuo and Tiancheng Junduwei.

Tang Cheng provided land and business security guarantees according to the rights in his hands; Tu Yezhuo is responsible for stabilizing the supply of goods in the north and transporting goods from the south to the north in the market; The commander of the Tiancheng army was responsible for facilitating the customs clearance of the merchants, and provided a greater sense of security for this rich market with the 8,000 sabers in his hands, after all, the Hu people in the north still had the habit of Koubian.

The four parties work together to maintain the normal operation of the large market and share the benefits accordingly. This proceeds, combined with the 30% profit from taking over Niu Zude's business, which had been in operation since the beginning of the year, because there was no question of negotiating prices with buyers, and in order to avoid people's eyes, because the transaction process did not go through the big market at all. If the income from these two creations is added together, it is not an exaggeration to describe Tang Cheng's private wealth growth as a daily increase.

Whether it is in later generations or in the Tang Dynasty 1,300 years ago, it is always the combination of capital and power that can produce the greatest benefits, and this kind of business is the real big business.

"That's fine, the busier those nine surnamed Hu are, the more taxes in the yamen will be collected", Yang Jiao smiled and said: "The hard days of leaking wind everywhere in the yamen like last year are enough!" ”。

Speaking of this, both of them looked at each other and smiled.

This casual joke made Yang Jiao feel a lot more relaxed, "Ming Mansion, there are not enough people in the yamen, especially that big market is too manpower-consuming, and you have to recruit again!" In addition, these days, more and more people in the city are applying for the expansion of houses, and you have to make a charter for this matter."

"If you should move, you will be recruited", Tang Cheng knew what Yang Jiao was worried about, and before he could say it, he said to himself: "Although the Ministry of Officials has strict rules on the number of officials in the yamen at all levels, this government does not refer to using his money and grain to support people. It's just that if you recruit again this time, you should pay attention to recruiting as many people as possible from the nine surnamed Hu, and let them do the things they deal with in the future with the clansmen, so as to avoid fewer incidents."

"Hmm", Yang Jiao nodded when he heard this, "What about the people in the city applying for the expansion of their houses?" ”。

"No, none of this openings can be opened", Tang Cheng said categorically: "The county seat is so big, you can't push the city wall!" The little land left in the city must be firmly in the hands of the yamen, so as to prepare for the expansion of the county school in the future. If the people in the city want to build houses, they can, but they must be in the suburbs, and they must be built within the scope designated by the county government.

Seeing that Tang Cheng was thinking long-term and thoughtful, Yang Jiao, who was worried about the matter, remembered to ask Tang Cheng about his intentions.

"Two days ago, I invited all the people in Liuguan Village to the county seat, and they were walking around for the past two days, because they knew that Mr. You were busy, so I didn't invite you to accompany them, and tonight I invited them to a banquet, and Mr. went to join in the fun", Tang Cheng said and pulled Yang Jiao and walked outside.

Yang Jiao was stunned when he heard this, and after following Tang Cheng out a few steps, he reacted and asked, "What does the Ming Mansion mean by this?" ”。

Tang Cheng stood still and looked at Yang Fu with a wistful sigh, "If what is expected is correct, Mr. and the others are about to return to the Chang'an court, and since then the dragon has left the shoals and the tiger has leaped into Pingyang, which is gratifying!" ”。

"What?" Hearing this, Yang Jiao, who couldn't believe it, stayed there and looked at Tang Cheng, and was in a dream for a while......