Great Food Country, Quicksand City, Royal Mansion.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the telegram sent from the dictionary and read the words "the first year of Ankang" several times.

Of course, the word "Ankang" is an auspicious word, but it always feels like a "salted fish".

Probably Ankang was originally a common name for a fish,

It may also be that I have heard too many blessings like "happiness and health" in my last life.

Choosing the era name Ankang gives people a tendency not to struggle, lie down and be rotten, and make money to enjoy.

This will definitely make the countries of Taixi very reassuring.

But the question is, does your dad really think so?

In the current situation, in the next few decades, if the Ming Dynasty does not have any additional strategic goals, even if the emperor completely lies down and sleeps, there will be an unprecedented prosperous era.

As long as Dad doesn't get the wrong direction and tosses too hard, as long as he does what he should do step by step, he will definitely be a generation of heroes in the end.

But that doesn't mean the emperor can really lie flat.

According to the logic of Emperor Shizu, the current state of the Ming Dynasty belongs to the rising tide.

The great victory and the unprecedented development of the colonies, combined with a new round of the industrial revolution, will obscure all the problems that can now exist.

Even if you make a wrong decision on many things, it is difficult to quickly detect it through social feedback.

If it should have been ten percent growth, one mistake could have resulted in a ten percent decrease in results.

At this time, the relevant personnel can quickly detect the abnormality and have to correct it immediately.

If it should have increased by 100 percent, because of a mistake it increased by 80 percent.

The relevant personnel will not be able to find the existence of the error at all, let alone know what is wrong, and of course it is impossible to really correct it.

These mistakes will lead to reefs and rocks below the tide, which will only become apparent at low tide.

When the dividends of victory, colony, and industrial revolution have all been reduced to a limit, researchers can look back at what they have done in the past and find the problem.

The most dangerous thing is that by that time, the problem may have swelled to the limit.

It has swelled to the point where it is already difficult to really solve.

In good times, you need to be more careful.

Especially the already unprecedentedly huge Ming Dynasty.

If you can't make up your mind about something, it's better not to make a choice for the time being than to make a rash choice.

Continue to do nothing.

My father should have this kind of cognition.

Zhu Jingyuan put down the telegram and paid a New Year's greeting to his grandfather and parents, who were thousands of miles away.

Then he took the guards and maidservants upstairs, and on the tower of the old palace, he looked out at the scene outside the courtyard.

The street in front of the old palace is the only street in the old city of the original quicksand city.

There were few buildings on either side of the street, and they were all very dilapidated.

In the past six months, the old houses that are too close to the street have been demolished.

The streets were then widened and resurfaced with asphalt while several intersecting streets were extended to the sides.

With the intersection of streets as the axis, a large number of three-story townhouses have been built in the surrounding area.

All use a completely unified two-bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, with an area of 80 square meters.

The whole quicksand city is a big construction site, and the same work on different projects can be carried out at staggered times.

Therefore, all construction workers will be involved in most of the engineering projects.

It's just that the timing of participation is constantly scrolling forward.

The number of workers who actually participated in the construction of residential buildings and the workers who actually participated in the palace project were nearly 10,000.

Many women and half-grown children also help with chores on the construction site.

They are all simple three-story buildings, with completely uniform standards, and the speed is getting faster and faster after becoming proficient.

Tens of thousands of workers continue to rush to work, less than half a year

More than 400 three-story buildings were built one after another.

Each building has four units, and each unit has six houses, for a total of 9,600 units.

More than 23,000 immigrants, including workers who had just been issued orchids, plus the remaining single orchids, these houses were just enough.

The original immigrant families, as well as the workers who had just taken the orchid concubines, lived in a separate house.

The orchid, who is still single, is a room for two people and a building for four people.

Immigrants will arrive in the future, so more similar houses are being built and renovated.

The ownership of these houses belongs to the royal palace, and the current nature belongs to the low-rent housing provided by the royal palace.

The monthly rent for each house is only two silver bills, which is almost one-tenth of the worker's salary.

These houses can be rented by the workers forever, and the palace will not drive people out.

However, when the number of basic housing is sufficient, the construction team will start to build the traditional Ming-style courtyard with a closed door.

These detached courtyards were gradually sold to immigrants as their real homes.

The two-bedroom low-cost rental housing continues to be rented out for young people who are just starting to live independently, as well as newcomers who have just arrived in Quicksand.

In the midst of these large numbers of temporary houses, the first floor of all frontage is a shop that opens outward.

More than half of the shops were leased to the "supply company" of the royal foundation.

They can provide almost all the necessary goods for a city in one unified manner.

Grain, meat, eggs, dried fruits, canned food, tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea, cloth, clothing, jewelry, bags, stationery, tools, kitchen utensils, musical instruments, bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, guns and ammunition......

Purchase from the most suitable production area of the whole Ming Dynasty, centralize transportation and maintain a relatively reasonable price.

This is a natural enterprise that can achieve a monopoly in the department store industry, but instead of completely making the industry into a modern department store, it is dispersed into a group of shops on a certain street.

It also does not monopolize all the department stores, and when they operate in any city, they will take the initiative to release some industries suitable for local people, and do not set foot in the terminal industries that penetrate deep into residential areas.

Therefore, among the remaining shops on both sides of the old Wangfu Street, the Wangfu of Dashi itself directly manages and operates a part, mainly selling oil and related tools.

Gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oil, oil lamps, candles, fuel cooktops, etc., highlight a profession.

Finally, a small number of shops were leased to individual traders who were also immigrants.

Some of them run restaurants, restaurants, teahouses, and snacks, some sell seafood, fruits, vegetables, and snacks, and some are tailors, tanners, shoemakers, and so on.

The coverage of the operators in the three aspects intersects with each other, basically meeting the living needs of Quicksand City, a small city of less than 30,000 people.

The goods that should be available in the market in the small local cities of the Ming Dynasty are basically available in the street markets here.

What you don't have in a small local town may be just as good here.

After all, Quicksand City is the capital of a country, and its status is the same as that of the political envoy's residence, and there is also a prince who lives, and he stands on top of an oil field, and the level of the trade node is very high.

Most of the goods are imported, and the cost is higher than that of Daming.

Fortunately, the income of ordinary workers in the big food country is also high.

Manual workers are paid twenty silver bills a month, and skilled craftsmen start at thirty-five.

If a woman is willing to show up and work as a clerk in a shop, or if her children work as a handyman in a shop or on a construction site, she will be paid fifteen dollars in silver bills.

Even if the husband and wife are just manual workers and shop assistants, they can earn thirty-five silver bills in a month.

If the 35 silver banknote is directly converted into purchasing power, it is only equivalent to 3,500 yuan in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

However, the actual purchasing power of basic living materials is far more than the 3,500 yuan in the previous life.

The silver banknote is directly equivalent to the silver dollar, which was made by Emperor Sejo

When it came out, the actual value was approximately equivalent to one tael of silver.

The actual silver dollar contained only 25 grams of silver, but because of its very exquisite craftsmanship, ordinary merchants at that time did not have the ability to imitate it.

As a result, the actual value in the market is basically equivalent to thirty-seven grams of one tael of silver.

This allowed the wealthy people to dig up the silver in the cellar for silver dollars, so that Emperor Shizu directly received a full thirty percent of the seigniorage.

At the same time, since the time of Emperor Shizu, the Ming Dynasty continued to industrialize, continuously improve productivity, continue to expand and colonize, and the source of resources has also continued to improve.

Productivity growth has basically balanced out inflation, so much so that in the past 100 years, the Ming currency has not depreciated significantly.

The current worker's income of 20 taels of silver per month is basically equivalent to the income of 20 taels of silver more than a hundred years ago, at least the level of the previous eight-rank official.

More than a hundred years ago, a few coins of silver could buy an ordinary silk horse, and a few taels of silver could buy good silk.

More than 100 years later, before the World War, a few dollars of silver could still buy a fine silk horse.

The wages of the most ordinary workers have soared from a few dollars of silver per month more than a hundred years ago to a few silver bills before the world war, which is equivalent to an increase of more than ten times.

In the thirty-fourth year of Taiping, when the war really ended, the wages of the workers doubled again to the level of more than a dozen silver banknotes, and the craftsmen of the Great Food Country reached about 20 silver banknotes.

However, short-term wage increases have caused inflation to occur.

It will take a few years for new factories and farms to be fully operational, and prices will come back down again after the new products are put on the market.

At that time, the living standards of ordinary people in Daming will improve again.

The money of this era was more expensive than that of later generations, and its purchasing power was mainly lost to more high-end industrial goods, such as bicycles.

Now the bicycle is a very high-end industrial product, with at least three bearings, chains, springs, rubber tires and lubricating oil.

At this time, it generally took 20 silver bills to buy a bicycle, which is equivalent to 2,000 yuan for an ordinary bicycle in later generations. Cars are more expensive.

At this time, the street of Wangfu was a bustling and lively scene.

Groups, pairs, men and women, walking, watching, and chatting in the streets......

There are no old people, and the oldest of the immigrants is a middle-aged man in his forties.

Occasionally, there are teenage and semi-older children.

However, regardless of the boys and girls, everyone was happy and excited.

Most of the people wore satin clothes, which was unthinkable before the Chongzhen Dynasty.

With the improvement of productivity, clothes that were once worn by wealthy families have entered the homes of ordinary people.

Of course, most people don't wear it on weekdays.

Because silk is really very delicate and easily damaged, it will become a tool for nobles to show off.

Nowadays, people usually wear it during the New Year's festival and when they participate in banquets and activities.

Weekday clothes were mainly made of cotton and wool, and linen was completely abandoned.

A small number of people who did not have satin clothes were obviously late immigrants.

They are now also planning with their families in the cloth shop, considering whether to go directly to the tailor to order the ready-to-wear clothes, or buy the fabric and go back to make their own set.

If you buy cloth and make your own clothes, two or three yuan of silver bills are enough to make a good set of silk clothes, and finding a tailor is nothing more than adding some wages.

There is no pressure on most of the workers in the big food country, and a month's salary is enough to make a set for the whole family.

If it is the people of Xintianfu, they will not hesitate at all, they will wear it first, and then buy it when they meet what they like.

But the nature of the people from the Ming Dynasty is still accustomed to living a frugal life.

In fact, both in the East and the West, the people in the Old World were originally relatively "poor", and the countries of Taixi were crazy to run out, and the Shenzhou side was crazy involution.

After all, it is

A piece of land that has been exploited for tens of thousands of years.

Natural resources are almost consumed, and the fertility of farmland is almost consumed.

It wasn't until the discovery of the New World that the poor ghosts of the Old World knew that the land could be so fertile and the products could be so abundant.

After living in the New World for a long time, it is difficult for people to maintain the habit of frugality.

Because even if it is actively wasted, there will be no shortage of materials.

Even if you don't farm, go to the beach and river to catch lobsters, and go to the grassland to kill bison, you can have a lot of high protein all year round.

The coolie slaves were able to eat a few catties of meat and beans every month, and the staple food could also be white rice, which the small landowners of the Old World did not have.

Now the resources of the New World in turn feed the Old World and improve the living standards of the people in the Old World, but the Old World is too big to compare with the New World.

When Zhu Jingyuan stood on the floor to observe, he also noticed that the people no longer had short hair, and the original short hair gang had also begun to grow hair.

Of course, it's not completely unhaircutable, and it's inconvenient to tie a crown if it's too long.

Before the Qing Dynasty, everyone had long hair, but at the same time, they also had "haircuts".

The nature of ordinary people's haircuts is similar to that of girls with long hair in later generations who went to get haircuts.

They mainly fix the length of the hair and modify the shape of the beard.

The shaving of hair in the Qing Dynasty is equivalent to letting modern girls collectively shave their bald scoops, otherwise they will be killed.

That's definitely unacceptable.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at it for a while, smiled and said to the staff, guards, and maidservants around him:

"It looks like there is no short-haired gang in the big food country now......

Niu Jian responded with a smile:

"Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows etiquette when he has enough food and clothing, and the people of the big food country have enough food and clothing, so they naturally take the initiative to learn etiquette.

"The parents who suffer from the body are not really at the moment of endangering life and death, how can they be willing to be thieves......

Zhu Jingyuan was still nodding when he heard the first half, but in the second half, he asked playfully:

"In other words, when it really comes to life-threatening, for example, someone catches you and says that you can live by shaving your hair without your head, otherwise you should shave your hair, right?"

Niu Jian was silent for a few seconds, and then said quite seriously:

"The people are struggling to survive, and if they can survive by shaving their hair, they will definitely shave their hair, just like the short-haired gang in the past.

"However, a gentleman values righteousness and reason, and neglects life and death, or fights with his life, or forbears in order to repay later......

"It is common sense in the world to grow a crown of hair, and it is unreasonable to shave your hair."

Zhu Jingyuan listened and nodded slightly:

"Yes, ordinary people just want to live well, and it doesn't matter if they shave their heads or not.

"The people are the way, those who have constant production have perseverance, and those who do not have permanent production have no perseverance. If you have no perseverance, you will let go of evil and extravagance, and you will do everything."