Chapter 526: The Fruits of Sinicization
Jincheng is built in imitation of Chang'an, so there is nothing to see in the landscape. After Li Zhi and the others entered the Golden City, they lived in the original Silla Palace, but now this palace has been changed into the Governor's Palace, and Li You's family also lives here, but Li You avoided Li Zhi and them, and just let his wife Wei Shi go out of the city to greet them, and then set up a banquet in the palace.
The avoidance of Li You was originally expected by Li Zhi, and he didn't want to see Li You in the first place, after all, when he was in Chang'an, the relationship between their brothers was not very good, in fact, not only Li Zhi, Li Su, Li Zhen and others all had a very poor relationship with Li You, and now the identities of the two are very special, so it is good not to see them, so as not to embarrass everyone.
Speaking of which, Li You, as the governor of North Korea and Central Korea, can be said to grasp the military and political power in terms of duties, but the reason why Li Yu asked Li You to be the governor at the beginning was nothing more than to use his name to calm the hearts of the people of these three Koreans, so he is also not worthy of the name, and he does not have much power.
After resting in the governor's palace for one night, the next day they were accompanied by Lu Hong and visited the textile factories and food processing factories around Jincheng. As a precaution against the Samhan people, North Korea and the two states have no heavy industry at all, and the main economic pillars are agriculture, as well as textile and food processing factories.
Among them, the textile industry is mainly wool weaving, and the wool mainly comes from Andong Metropolitan Protectorate in the west of Samhan, where large pastures are everywhere and a large number of cattle and sheep are produced every year. Most of the wool produced is sent to North Korea and the two states of China and South Korea, where the mills spun fine tweed and blankets. Then sell to Datang and overseas, but it is worth mentioning. Although the workers in the textile factory are all Sanhans, most of the bosses behind them are Han.
In addition to the wool textile industry, the food processing industry is the second largest light industry in North Korea and Central Korea, and the raw materials for making canned food also come from Andong Prefecture, where mutton and pork are mostly transported to these two states and then made into various canned meats, and there are also some crops produced in the two states, some of which are also canned for sale, but the largest sales are canned meat.
When Li Zhi traveled in the Tang Dynasty. I have been to Taiyuan, where I have also seen a wool textile factory, and know that the most troublesome thing in this kind of factory is not the weaving, but the cleaning of wool, which requires the use of a special cleaning potion, the taste is very choking, and in the cleaning process, the water temperature must be controlled, and constantly stirred. It can be said that it is very troublesome.
"Phew~Bah~, it stinks!" Before he walked into the factory to be visited, his son was already covering his nose and couldn't stand it, and Cai'er next to him also frowned. This is the southeast corner of the Golden City. There is a government-run wool textile factory, and the three Koreans used in the factory are also of the third class at the lowest, and they speak Chinese very fluently. It will not affect the communication, so it was selected by Lu Hong as the target of the visit.
"I told you not to come. But you didn't listen, and now you're suffering! And Li Zhi said with some schadenfreude after hearing this. When I was in Taiyuan. Not long after they came out, the son felt fresh when he saw everything, and when he came to the big city of Taiyuan, he was naturally in a hurry to play, so he didn't go with Li Zhi, and naturally he couldn't stand the smell of wool washing.
"Hmph, what's the big deal, isn't it just the smell, Brother Jiu, you can stand it, and your son can also stand it!" The son covered his mouth and nose and said with a stubborn face.
"Hehe, don't quarrel with your brothers and sisters, presumably Mr. Lu has been prepared and won't let us enter like this!" At this moment, Cai'er suddenly smiled and said.
As a result, Li Zhi and his son-in-law also found that Lu Hong asked people to send a plate of things with a smile on his face, and then said to the three of them: "Your Highness, this is a mask prepared by Weichen, which can temporarily block the odor!" ”
Lu Hong said, reached out and picked up a mask from the plate, and then put it on his face, and Li Zhi, his son, and Cai'er also did the same, picked it up and put it on their faces, but they soon found that this mask emitted a strong vinegar smell, just so that they couldn't smell the unpleasant smell outside.
A few people wearing masks entered the textile workshop of the factory, and they were full of busy female textile workers, all of whom were local Samhan women, who had lost a large number of young and strong men because of the war, and many families could not eat.
Li Zhi walked around the textile workshop and found that this so-called largest textile factory in China and South Korea still uses water power, unlike the textile factories in Datang or Dengzhou, which have used a lot of steam engines as power. However, compared with Datang and Dengzhou, it has an advantage, that is, the manpower is cheap, and the manpower is enough, so although the production efficiency here is not very high, the output is not low.
In addition, during the visit, Li Zhi also found an interesting phenomenon, that is, the whole factory is in Chinese, and no matter what type of work, the workers speak Chinese well, especially some managers, their Chinese is much more fluent than ordinary workers.
For this phenomenon, Li Zhi also specially asked Lu Hong for advice, but Lu Hong told him with a smile that this is the result of the implementation of sinicization, Jincheng here as the capital of the original Silla, greatly influenced by Han culture, the original aristocratic class in the city to speak Chinese as a beauty, and even some ordinary people have Chinese speakers.
It is also such a good foundation.,So after the Qi Wangfu formulated the strategy of implementing sinicization,Sanhan is the area with the smoothest sinicization,And Jincheng is the place where Sanhan has the deepest degree of sinicization.。 For example, in this factory, all the workers in the factory are at least third-class aliens, and their mastery of Chinese has reached the point where they can listen and speak, while the general managers are second-class aliens, they can already write more than 200 Chinese characters, and know some simple arithmetic, and even among the higher-level managers, there are first-class aliens.
Don't underestimate this division of different races, each level is linked to each person's salary, for example, taking the third-level alien race as an example, when they do textile workers, the salary they get is one-third of the average salary of the Tang Han textile workers, and the fourth-level alien can only get one-quarter, but if it is a second-level alien, it can get half, as for the first-level alien, they generally do not do textile workers, at least they will become factory managers, and get higher wages.
In addition to the difference in wages and benefits, there are also various differences in treatment between different races at all levels in work and life, and it is precisely because of this that these three Koreans are desperately learning Chinese, usually wearing Hanfu and changing their surnames, treating themselves as a Han and striving to improve their rank.
In addition, it is also reported that the Qi Wangfu is drafting a rule, that is, if two first-class aliens marry and have children, then one of their children can be selected to become a Han nationality. This regulation is an incomparable temptation for all aliens, because no matter how high the rank of the alien race, it cannot be compared with the real Han Chinese, so they dream of becoming a Han Chinese.
After hearing Lu Hong's explanation, Li Zhi was also surprised by the degree of sinicization of Sanhan here, and at the same time he had a deep understanding of the assimilation of foreign races, and he vaguely seemed to have caught something in his mind, but there were too many thoughts in his head, and he had to find a time to calm down and think about it.
In addition, Li Zhi also found that after the sewage from the textile mill washing wool was discharged into the adjacent river, it dyed a very clear river into a brown-black, and the farmland downstream did not dare to use this water to irrigate the farmland, let alone drink. Seeing this situation, Li Zhi couldn't help but feel something, no wonder he saw that the woolen textile factories in Taiyuan were built on sparsely populated wasteland, and heavy taxes were also levied, which was probably because of this pollution.
However, the wool textile factories here in Jincheng are built everywhere, and there are a lot of polluted rivers, it seems that the sixth brother still doesn't pay attention to Sanhan's side, otherwise he would not have set up all the polluting wool textile factories here.
After visiting the textile factory, Li Zhi visited the food processing factory next to it, which is also a government-run factory, and the scale is also very large, the situation in the factory is similar to that of the textile factory, all of them communicate in Chinese, and the quality of the workers is the same, but the work is different. In addition, compared with wool textile factories, the current food processing factories do not have much pollution, at most some oil pollution is discharged into the river water.
The visit to these two factories made Li Zhi deeply appreciate the results of the implementation of sinicization. This also has a great inspiration for him, the current Tang Dynasty has annexed the northern grasslands, and also occupies the vast areas of the Western Regions, but these two places are not peaceful, and the Tuyuhun in the south has long been occupied, but it has not yet been completely integrated into the Tang Dynasty.
Originally, there was no good way for either Li Shimin or Li Zhi to do the above things, so they could only strengthen the control of force, but what I saw in Jincheng today had opened a window for Li Zhi, and he already had a hazy idea in his heart about solving the above problems.
And Lu Hong looked at Li Zhi who was thinking the carriage, but there was a satisfied smile on his face, others thought that Li Zhi could become the prince of the Tang Dynasty, just because of his good luck, but after this period of contact, Lu Hong has keenly discovered that Li Zhi is definitely a qualified heir to the throne.
And in order to make Li Zhi's experience more profound, Lu Hong took Li Zhi to a very important place in Jincheng again. (To be continued......)