Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Most Elementary Industry
Just when Yun Chu held a family story meeting every night, when the old monkey racked his brains to compile the teachings of the Faxiang Enlightenment Religion into the story, the people of Jinchangfang had already begun to prepare for the new Shangyuan Festival.
Today's Jinchangfang Shangyuan Festival festival can be compared to the existence of Qujiang lanterns, and it can even be said that Qujiang has nothing to compare with Jinchangfang except for the big festival.
People who believe in Buddhism will go to Qujiang, Mao Water and Land Conference, see flower boats, watch lights, and go through the process of eating, drinking and having fun in one stop in Jinchangfang. However, the difficulty of organizing this year's Shangyuan Lantern Festival is not ordinary. The main thing is that the supply of materials is not available.
This made Yun Chu extremely headache, he didn't expect that Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty, which was extremely powerful in the history of Khan, would not be able to withstand a few giant activities that were ordinary for him and extremely weak for the Tang people.
It is no wonder that as long as Jinchangfang holds that kind of giant event, visitors will come to Wuyang and Wuyang, because this is a wonder that they have never seen in their lives. In other words, the kind of gathering in Qujiang that only requires the participation of personnel and does not require a lot of material support is the de facto large-scale event of the Tang people. Qujiang is now full of fireworks, and it is impossible to see that this place was originally a leisurely and idyllic village.
The smoke from the tail of the seven brick kilns rushed straight to the sky, and was pressed down by the wind in the sky, which shrouded the entire Qujiang River, far away like a nunnery, the original simple farmers, now look black one by one, not only the men are black, even their wives and children, but also a mouth, showing not a mouthful of white teeth, but because of the fluoride in the water, it is corroded into big yellow teeth.
Because of the continuous firing of the kiln, the temperature on the edge of the mountain is significantly higher than the rest of the place, the grass on the ground is still green, and the new shoots are constantly poking out from the ground, and the head is frozen to death by the cold wind, while the lower half is still trying to grow upward.
As long as you look up, you can feel the fine coal ash falling on your face, so the villages here are black, the people are black, and even the earth has turned black.
In the past, Yun Chu felt that the dirt mountain was very hard-eyed, but now there is less than half left, and in the past time, more than half of the earth mountain has become bricks and tiles, and has become a house in Chang'an City.
The last time he held the world's first food conference, Yun Chu almost caught all the fish in the water, and three months was not enough time for the small fish here to continue to grow, nor for the fish from the rest of the river to migrate here to settle down.
Add to that the fact that the river is covered with a thin film of oil, and the oil film is covered with a layer of soot, so that no fish want to survive here. Qujiang was destroyed like this, but none of the villagers came out to complain, they only complained that there were not enough kilns in Qujiang to bring them more income, this is a group of people who have just tasted the benefits of industrialization, because of the seven kilns, Qujiang has basically become the whole Chang'an, and it may also be the richest country in the Tang Dynasty, don't believe it, just look at their tall brick houses to the top, just look at the white flour buns in the hands of the children. Therefore, Qujiangli is very wealthy, but the environment is not as good as before, and these, in the eyes of the Tang people, are not worth mentioning at all.
Yun Chu strolled along the slightly hot brick kiln, and he didn't feel the need to carry out environmental protection projects in the Tang Dynasty. The dirty mess in the early stage of industrialization is a process that must be experienced, even if the pollution in the Qujiang River is serious, it doesn't matter, a strong wind can make the polluted slope here, a semi-flooded world, accept and absorb. Therefore, if the principle of capital centralization is the same, Yunchu plans to set up a few more paper mills here.
found the mayors outside the city to which Wannian County belonged, and sat on the warm brick kiln to discuss how to supply materials to Jinchangfang. "Shaanxi, the people in this city are too edible, not to mention that the grain in our fang has been sold out, even the half-sized pigs, half-sized chickens, ducks and geese were also taken away by the stewards of Jinchangfang in September.
Now the pigsty in the house is full of piglets, chickens, ducks and geese seedlings, if you want to come in handy, you have to wait at least half a year. After discussion, the chiefs agreed that there was nothing they could do about supplying supplies. If the county officials insist on them to provide it, the only ones they can get their hands on at the moment are some sheep and cattle. To say this is obviously the opposite, the Tang people have not yet had the habit of slaughtering cattle for money. As for mutton, it can't support such a large-scale event held in Jinchangfang. "Why don't we go hunting in the Qinling Mountains? One of the lieutenants whispered a different opinion.
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Another lieutenant said impatiently: "How many prey can you get from a hunt of dozens of people?" The county wants more prey, at least a big hunt with more than 5,000 people. However, the imperial court has long stipulated that there shall be no more than 80 people in the folk hunting ground!! "The county is an official family, as long as the county is personally led by the county, we can't get together a few thousand people to live in the mountain?" If it really doesn't work, we will drive those beasts from mountain to hill and finally gather at a pass, and then capture and kill them in turn. Yun Chu hurriedly asked, "Do our people here have any experience in hunting?" Hearing Yun Chu ask, some of the older elders showed a proud look on their faces. "During the Taizong period, we received the most conscription in Wannian County, which was to participate in hunting.
It's just that there were a lot of people at that time, and there were many people in the army, and they all listened to the deployment of Emperor Taizong, and a hunt was down, and it was not a problem to get tens of thousands of skins.
Yun Chu's eyes were suddenly finished, and at this moment, he felt that this might be the only way he could find Daxing meat for Jin Changfang.
If it doesn't work in the past few years, you will rely on hunting to support it, anyway, it is common to kill pandas and eat meat in Datang Jing; As long as it is a wild beast, it is basically a scourge, and as long as there is an opportunity, it must be killed.
There is no shortage of grain in Chang'an City, and the reason why a large number of surplus grains were purchased from the people of Wannian County in the past was to increase the wealth of the people as soon as possible. Let them have more money in their hands, and don't wait until the next money disaster occurs, it will be too worthless. Near Chang'an City, there are six royal hunting grounds, and ordinary princes, princesses and the like can go to the royal hunting grounds to hunt. Even if it is some courtiers with faces, such as the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Tong, as long as these people open their mouths, the royal family will basically agree.
However, as for a petty official like Yun Chu, who is from the sixth grade, if he proposes to borrow the royal hunting ground; The result with a high probability is that someone will spit on his face. Hunting is very common in Datang, as long as a person is bold, he can go in to hunt with a bow and arrow, as long as he ensures that he is not hunted by wild beasts. Hunting is different, there are more than one or two pretext hunting activities in the history books, and finally the emperor is the prey.
This kind of activity is very advanced, and it generally limits the number of people and time, if you hide in the Qinling Mountains beyond the time and don't come out, you can't say anything, it must be a rebellion.
After Yun Chu returned to Chang'an City, he convened a meeting of the Six Senses and the Four Divisions, and after thoroughly understanding the declaration process of the hunting, Yun Chu set his eyes on the bored Ji King Li Shen. Li Shen, who originally looked high, was so frightened that he lost the tea bowl in his hand after listening to Yun Chu's request. And asked Yun Chu with an incredulous face: "Do you think this king can organize a hunt with five or six thousand people near Chang'an?" Yun Chu smiled and said, "I have already asked, you are His Royal Highness King Ji, and you are naturally qualified to hunt in the royal hunting ground, which is in line with the laws of my Tang Dynasty."
Li Mo was amused by Yun Chu's lightly written answer, so he leaned down and looked at Yun Chu and said, "Who is the person you are asking, is it Dazongzheng, or Menxia Province, or Your Majesty?" ”
Yun Chu said in a serious way: "From the "Tang Dynasty Ceremony", I heard that during the Taizong period, there were many princes and princesses who had organized large-scale national hunts, among which Wei Wangtai also specially drew a "Hunting Map" dedicated to Emperor Taizong, which was deeply loved by Taizong.
Li Shen left and right, and after the irrelevant personnel took it out, he grabbed Yun Chu's clothes by the collar and said, "Chenggan, King Wei, Taizhou, Wu Wangke, Qi Wangyou, Princess Shucheng, and Princess Gaoyang have indeed organized a hunt.
Now tell the king, where are these people?
Say, what are you going to do, don't use your worthless truths to come to the lake to get the king. If you don't say a good reason, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people.
Yun Chu looked directly at Ruo Li Shen and said: "No way, Jinchangfang is going to hold the Shangyuan Meeting, there is not enough meat, if King Ji is willing to set up a scene, all the fur harvested will belong to you, I only need meat, and please Your Royal Highness King Ji Don't overcomplicate my thoughts, I am short of meat and crazy." Li Shen frowned and said, "There is no shortage of meat in Chang'an."
Yun Chu sighed and said: "Lacking, it's not an ordinary shortage, I don't believe that you will know Cong when you go to the East and West Two Cities, except for mutton, you can't even find a single pig hair or chicken feather." And what is the scale of the Shangyuan Festival to be held in Jinchangfang, King Ji doesn't know, it needs hundreds of thousands of catties of meat. Li Shen loosened the collar of Yun Chu's clothes, smiled ashamedly and said, "You want this king to pass a message to my imperial brother for you, right?"
Also, my prince only has this role at present, and the most pitiful thing is that the person who dares to use this king to pass on my royal brother is the only one who is a small Liupin County, ah, how miserable do you say this king is in Yongzhou.
Yun Chu pointed at Li Shen County and said, "I think that only I, the Liupin County, begged to pass on the life to His Majesty, which is not too big or small. To put it mildly, King Ji should also invite His Majesty to go on a winter hunt to relax.