When the New Year comes, every household is busy, those with stalls are busy selling their things, and those who are not in business are busy cleaning and purchasing all the things they need for the New Year.

The prices of commodities in various localities have risen all of a sudden, with the usual increase of between 10 and 20 percent in villages and small county towns, 20 to 30 percent in the county seat where the state capital is located, and the increase in cities like Beijing and Luoyang has always increased by more than 30 percent.

There is also a 50 percent increase in the price of individual goods, but there is no more, and there is no 100 percent price increase. Of course, luxury goods and calligraphy and painting antiques are excluded.

This is a habit developed in recent years, the normal ups and downs of the market economy under the macro adjustment, no strength of the business can not speculate prices, the strength of the dare not speculate.

Datang's domestic economy has maintained steady growth, not that the people have no money, but the people who have surplus in their hands are no longer staring at the necessities of survival to hoard, but have begun to buy goods that can improve the quality of life, good clothes, beautiful jewelry, and comfortable houses, which are all longed for by the people.

There are also people who like to travel, as long as they save more, they are willing to go out and see what other places are like, and there is no big burden in survival, the biggest burden is the comparison with the neighbors.

The people in the village compare with each other to see whose life is better, whose daughter-in-law is virtuous and beautiful, whose children have high academic performance, and even musical instruments have begun to increase, and everything involved in life is comparing.

The powerful people in the village began to compare with the people in the county again, layer by layer, and competition was everywhere.

But the people have no pressure to survive, education and medical care are zero expenditures, and theoretically zero expenditures, but in fact, there is still a part of the expenditure, such as thinking that the school is good. The adults in the family want to move, and if they move their homes, the children will naturally go to school in the local area, and the medical level of the local medical center is not enough. If the birth of a disease is not good, the family should also find a way to take the patient to a better place to seek medical treatment.

There is no expenditure on direct medical care and education, but the money is used for assistance, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don't care about such things. In fact, it can't be managed, it belongs to the most basic ** of human existence.

As for the social turmoil caused by the increase in commodity production resulting from the process of economic development, it has always been balanced by the transfer of crises.

For example, citrus production in Huainan Province has tripled, and there are also plenty of fruits elsewhere. In the face of a backlog of sales, some people will organize large ships to process citrus and ship it overseas. Although it is said that the people who grow citrus can not keep the original price. But it was able to grow incomes, at least outperforming inflation.

The extra money is naturally used to improve the life, or it is saved in the bank and kept for future generations.

Luxury goods are particularly important in such a social environment, and production technologies have begun to be widely used, such as hand-cranked juicers and soy milk machines, such as ovens fueled by coal or firewood. For example, glass windows that began to drop in price.

These things belong to medium-sized consumer goods, which are what the people of the Tang Dynasty are willing to pursue when wages and grain and animal husbandry increase again, and when wages and grain and animal husbandry increase again, medium-sized consumer goods will become low-end daily products, and the current high-end consumer goods will become medium-sized consumer goods.

It is a virtuous circle for Datang itself, as long as the production technology can keep up and the speed of transformation into productivity is controlled, Datang will not have problems.

However, it is a huge threat to the outside countries or tribes, their basic productivity can not keep up, and they finally bought things from the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and before they could use it for a few years, new and better things appeared.

There is always comparison and competition between people, whether to buy new things is a problem, buy yourself, the money is not enough, do not buy, others save money to buy, what should you do?

Therefore, without the help of foreign basic technology, the weak countries that depend on the products of the powerful countries will never be able to develop, and their human resources have been used to buy the daily necessities of the powerful countries, and these daily necessities are luxury goods for them.

In order to enjoy more Datang things, they will inevitably adopt various means in their own country, or unscrupulous means. There will be fierce internal struggles, even wars, and there will be no free hands to develop the country's basic economy.

Therefore, we must restrict the export of technology, and absolutely must not let them master better technology; under the condition that we study the seventh-generation technology, the common people apply the fourth-generation technology, and the military uses the fifth-generation technology, they are not allowed to acquire more technology than our second-generation technology. ”

On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, there was still one day for the Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiaobao was not idle, he was giving lectures to Li Longji, members of the royal family, and people who specialized in national strategy.

It's not that Zhang Xiaobao wants to give a lecture today, but it's really that some people's minds are starting to be unstable, and in a place leading to the Strait of Malacca, to be precise, the local tribe of Singapore at that time, I don't know how to come up with a very smart chief.

This chief told the merchants in the past that he was willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty, and he could even let the Tang Dynasty send officials to govern and build factories or something, and they could provide a lot of land, as well as cheap labor, even if they didn't give money, as long as they provided two meals.

At the same time, they also wanted to be educated by Datang, and hired Datang teachers to teach their people with local jewelry.

The news came with the return of the merchants, and many people were very happy, thinking that this was called a soldier who surrendered without a fight, showing the strong country style of the Tang Dynasty.

So Zhang Xiaobao had no choice but to find them all over and give them lessons, lest they really agree to others.

Wang Juan was also listening, after Zhang Xiaobao finished saying this, she followed and said: "They will learn our technology, and then apply it, they will indeed not use such technology to attack us, but they will fight others, they will take a great risk to occupy other people's places on land, and go to unknown and distant places in the ocean."

It's a struggle for resources, it's the driving force behind their civilization, and if you want to leave some enemies to your descendants, then agree to their proposals. ”

"Have a good New Year, have a good New Year." Li Longji threw down a sentence, got up and left, and the meaning was clear. Those present are not allowed to say yes, and they should be equally careful in the future.

"Madam, let's go." Zhang Xiaobao went to support Wang Juan like a baby, and the others stood up to send him off.

"Let's go, let's go. When I came back for the New Year, I still encountered such things, so don't put your mind outside one by one, and develop within Datang. The outside strategy does not need you to change, it is better to help a hundred people outside than to improve the living standard of a Datang people. ”

Li Xun, who rushed back from outside, complained to the crowd and walked away. The expressions on the faces of the rest of the royal family members were not very good-looking, why did he Li Xun talk like this? It's just that he is close to Zhang Xiaobao, and the prince didn't say anything.

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New Year's firecrackers rang out one after another. There are a lot of people competing for the mansions of Zhang Wang's family. There were Zhuang households, as well as Li Longji and other members of the royal family, who did not celebrate the New Year with the people, but ran to King Zhang's two families to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

It has long been impossible to celebrate the New Year by changing people's homes, and the emperor is here, so he has to serve him, but fortunately, it is now the two families of King Zhang. often meets Li Longji, so there is no such caution and prudence under the dragon authority, Li Longji even gave Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's grandparents a New Year's greeting, although they did not kneel, but their waists were bent.

Like other princes, they all have to pay New Year's greetings, like Xiaobei's prince and others, they need to kneel down and kowtow, don't look at the old man and old lady have no authority, they are nothing more than a reward for a false position, but people have good grandsons and granddaughters, they both have to kneel, what about you?

Of course, it was not in vain, the old man came to his wife and gave each of them a big red envelope, which contained tens of thousands of dollars, as well as the planning book related to the development of the Tang Dynasty that they are now busy with, which was specially formulated by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, for them, the planning book is more useful than money.

The amount of each dish on the table is not large, but there are many varieties, and you can try everything. In fact, I can't eat much at all, the adults are chatting, and the children are led out by Xiaobei to set off firecrackers, their own family, plus the children brought from Zhuangzi, more than 100 people listen to Xiaobei, and Xiaobei is busy, he doesn't play much at all, and he has been organizing and coordinating.

"When Xiaobei grows up, she will also be a female prime minister." Li Longji looked at Xiaobei who ran in and asked a few children to grab some melon seeds, and then ran out with them in a hurry, and said with a smile.

When the people of the royal family heard it, they had other ideas in their hearts, and before anyone could speak, Zhang Xiaobao's voice sounded: "Xiaobei is not good, it is too tiring to be the prime minister, it is better to play happily all day long, and only those who have the ability and can put their minds on serving the country and the people can be the prime minister." ”

"It's a pity!" Li Longji shook his head and said, but he still thought in his heart that even if he abdicated in the future, he would get someone from the Zhang and Wang families to get the Zhongshu, otherwise bad things would easily happen.

For example, when others saw that no one in the Zhang and Wang families was an official in the imperial court, they thought that the power of the two families had become smaller, and then they didn't care, and they usually bullied them when they had conflicts.

The consequences will be very serious, and it is easy to send a bad signal to the people, even if the provocative people are cleaned up, the people will think that no one dared before, but now someone dares, it is the royal family that does not value the Zhang and Wang families.

Li Longji thought about it, and he didn't know who to pull into the middle book for a while, so he had to put it down for the time being, and asked Zhang Xiaobao, "When will you leave?" ”

"After the second day of the first lunar month, I will leave immediately, get married, and I must go back to Zhuangzi, where is the real home." Zhang Xiaobao replied that he had to go to Sanshui County with Wang Juan to complete the wedding of the two Zhuangzi families of Zhang and Wang.

Li Longji frowned: "Is it in time?" The cuckoo can't withstand the bumps. ”

He knew that Wang Juan was pregnant, and he congratulated him, unlike the women in the village, it would be a shame to be pregnant before marriage, but it was nothing to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.

This is actually discrimination against women, but even if Xiaobao and Juan Juan gave birth to their children a year ago and have not yet married, no one in the entire Datang will think that Juan Juan is bad, but give the child a lot of blessings. However, it is estimated that some people will say Xiaobao why he didn't get married earlier and gave birth to the child.

Li Longji thought so, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he believed that the people of Datang could really say Xiaobao in person, it would be okay now, a month in advance, it was just right, and the adults who wanted to come to the two of them were in a hurry.

Zhang Xiaobao didn't know how Li Longji was slandered, he replied: "It's okay, the ice on the river that passed through this year has not broken, walking on the ice, there are diesel-powered snowmobiles, and you can go back a few days in advance, arrange arrangements, and rest." ”

"Really?" When Li Longji asked, he already knew that the facts would not change, it must be true, and he thought in his heart, sure enough, the best technology has always been used in his family, and Xiaobei's house was at the beginning, and it is like this now.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded firmly.

Li Longji smiled again: "It's just right, I'll go too, and have a good time." ”

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There are still today, and that's the end of the book today. When I'm done with the last chapter, I'll talk about it separately.