Chapter 40: Chang'an (3)

Chang'an, this solemn ancient city, is now about to pass in September, but there is a little restlessness.

Xishi, the most prosperous place in Chang'an, has now become a sea of red, and against the flowers, is a magnificent restaurant.

At this time, the restaurant was already surrounded by crowds, and Xungui, who failed to buy the first batch of membership cards, felt that they had lost face and blocked the restaurant outside and had to enter.

"Everyone, everyone, listen to me, today's club is full, you can't enter anymore, now there are five people sitting next to a mahjong table waiting to play, no matter how many people there are, it's really not good." Steward Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Why was the guy in the white dragon fish suit able to go in just now, everyone is a figure with a head and a face in Chang'an, how can he let him in and not let us in?" A young man dressed in Shu embroidered brocade shouted, seeing that he was also a rich and noble person.

Steward Liu wiped the sweat on his forehead again, he had seen it when he came to the fiefdom last time, and he couldn't forget that white dragon fish suit in his life, when Li Er came just now, he almost didn't paralyze in fright, and the four big men guarding the door were all pale, Biao Daguang was better, but he just hugged his fist and went in to ask for instructions, and Li Eryi raised his hand to stop it.

The white eyebrows in the blue surge robe couldn't tell that he was a eunuch at all, and he strode into the restaurant with his head held high and opened the way for Li Er.

Li Er stood at the door of the restaurant, looked up at the few gilded 'Chang'an Business and Leisure Club' on the plaque for a while, and then raised his feet and walked in

Li Shimin got up very early today, and at the court meeting, Fang Xuanling reported on the rebellion of Wang Junkuo, the governor of Youzhou, and after listening to Fang Xuanling's summary, Li Shimin did not pay more attention to Wang Junkuo's rebellion, but was surprised by the recent prosperity of Youzhou.

As a frontier city, Youzhou has always been regarded by Li Er as a place where the army is assembled, but he didn't expect that it has now become one of the best merchant cities in the north.

Youzhou Liu family is the largest, followed by the Wang family, the Xue family, the Zhang family relies on the two incomes of tea and glass, and has become another force above the Shandong Xungui group, the family has expanded very rapidly, Youzhou has now appeared a lot of employment and workmanship, if Xu Yang knows, he will be surprised, this is already the beginning of the budding capitalism.

Hire and be hired are twin siblings, and the capitalist exploits the value of the worker's labor through the employment relationship, thus dividing the proletariat and capital.

Once capitalism appears, it is a Pixiu with a big mouth, swallowing a qiē it can see with a big mouth, Marx once said that capital from head to toe, every pore has blood and dirty things, and now those capitalists in Youzhou have indeed become hungry beasts with red eyes, but they are not exploiting the people of the Tang Dynasty, but foreigners.

The foreign policy of the Tang people has always been 'me-oriented', and they take good care of those countries that submit to the tribute, and the annual rewards of jewels are more than ten times the treasures of the tribute, but for those who do not want to be vassals, they rely on force to conquer, but at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin's army was not as strong as the Tang Dynasty, and the 30,000 Xuanjia army was only enough to defend the Beijing division and stick to the Shu Road.

Although Li Shimin adopted a policy of gentleness towards foreign peoples, the fierce Turks, the Tubo people would not pay attention, they were in the nomadic tribe, destined to have no fixed place, no food, rich in agricultural and pastoral peoples is the best place for them to plunder, so a group of Turkic iron cavalry harassed the border passes, they were like a swarm of locusts, snatching away all the harvest of the peasants' hard work, and the ugly face of sitting back and enjoying it has become their morality.

They believe that robbery is a profession of survival, which is very terrible, so since ancient times, tens of thousands of troops have to be sent to defend the border every year, and the tall city walls connect hundreds of miles, but they still can't stop the iron cavalry of the Turks.

Of course, the heroic Tang army can always inflict heavy losses on these foreigners, and after every battle, they can always capture hundreds of Turkic nomadic soldiers.

But now, since the start of various large-scale construction in Youzhou, the demand for coolies has skyrocketed, and a coolie was originally sold for twenty-five yuan, but now it can be sold for two hundred, and there are many businessmen waiting for blood-red eyes to rob people.

The soldiers at the border pass were boiling, and they suddenly found themselves in the border pass for many years, from the twelfth turn to the seventh turn, and as a result, they did not get as many prisoners as they captured after a battle.

At this time, the defenders of the border began to hope that the Turkic soldiers would come soon, and they tried to catch as many alive as possible in every battle, and they would never directly cut off their heads when they were caught, but only cut off the heads of those who died and were seriously injured to invite merit.

Since the Tang army began to do this, this made those foreigners in the border pass of Youzhou very afraid, I heard that the Tang people caught the brave warriors into the boundless hell, where there will be a selection, only those who are selected to be the captain will not receive the curse of the devil, and everyone else will be sucked dry blood by the devil.

The demand for slaves in Youzhou is getting bigger and bigger, the number of slaves is increasing, and Zhang Zetian is too late to deal with government affairs every day, and the changes in Youzhou are too great, just the particularly large stadium consumes all his efforts, the reason is that Xu Yang told him when he left, that gymnasium will come to visit when His Majesty comes to Mount Tai to seal Zen, as for the football team, what is the name of the Wang family, Jiawei Xiaogongzi, who trains there with dozens of people all day long, and the sun is like black charcoal.

The daily merchants who do business in Youzhou are endless, the products produced by the glass factory are almost bought off the assembly line, the roasted tea shop has now expanded to a small half of Liufu, the daily merchant ships continue to drive in and out from the Bohai Sea, and all the tea leaves are newly picked, although the Mao family Zhuangzi is no longer the fief of Xuyang, but the tradition of the children's monthly home rewards is still continuing, and now I heard that the one called Lanxiang Academy has received a full four hundred children, and dozens of gentlemen take turns to teach every day, astronomy and geography, and the knowledge of things, All the teachings are something that Zhang Taishou has never heard of.

Li Er was also shocked by the changes in Youzhou, after the early dynasty retreated, he rubbed his sore head, Wang Junkuo's rebellion was not a problem at all in his opinion, the small shrimp in the ditch was just a small shrimp, and he didn't need his own divine dragon to do it.

I was just going to go to the study to take a break, and I heard that Li Gang had recently completed the compilation of the "Primary School Chinese Syllabus" and was teaching Li Chengqian and Li Tai.

As a result, as soon as he was about to go up and move to the study, he heard a report from the scout that a restaurant opened by a disciple of Guigu in Chang'an West City had opened, and Li Er immediately dismissed going to see Li Chengqian and Li Tai practicing calligraphy, changed to a carriage, and drove towards West City.

(Thank you for the extra tip I bought last year, thank you!) )