North and South groceries

Right now it is the spring plowing season, and the government is relatively busy at this time of year. In addition to the usual persuasion and mulberry work, some poor farmers will borrow seeds, farm tools, and cattle from the government. customary.

Not everyone in Changle County is hard-working and honest, there are also those who are naughty, and there are also those who are not involved in production. Every year when spring plowing, summer harvesting and autumn harvesting come, the county officials are very troubled.

According to some local officials, they have been doing well in the past few years, that is to say, the coffin board of Luo County Magistrate can hold on, and in addition, the life of every household in these years is still going on. These people I was also afraid of being caught, so I was caught in the county government prison, and I was only given a bowl of water and two rice cakes every day. I was locked up for [-] to [-] days, and I would starve to death.

In some villages and towns far away from Changle County, there is still a saying that there was a fight between a monk and a Taoist in Changle County earlier, and Na Luo coffin board sent someone to give them to him without saying a word. He was arrested and locked up in that prison for half a month.

He also said that the Taoist priest's spells were so powerful that even some important people in Jinchang City had invited him to his home to perform ceremonies. He is a gentleman of the noble family.

At that time, he was locked in a big prison, and he only had a bowl of water and two cakes every day, without any care. He was released after half a month, and he was so hungry that his face turned yellow.

It is said that a year ago Luo Yong went to a town because of the promotion and planting of white fringe flowers. A big landowner in the town invited him to dinner.

Luo Yong said: "No, when my people passed by, they all ran away."

The landlord also really respected and loved their coffin board, the county magistrate, and was afraid that he would offend the big man, so he persuaded: "If this kind of thing happens again in the future, you should just pretend that you don't know about it. The way to come is not easy!"

Luo Yong didn't take it seriously: "Then there is no way, there are no rules and you can't make a square."

The landlord was silent, thinking about it, if this coffin board had not such a personality, how could he have brought himself from Chang'an City to their borderland of Changle County.

But even if the God of Wealth has a bad temper and doesn't know how to adapt, then he is also the God of Wealth, right?

Those Chang'an people don't want to be the best, it's too late for Chang Le people to be happy.

Ever since Da Luo came to use, their life as a Chang Leren has been better day by day.

Not to mention the very bright biogas lamps that appeared in Changle County this time, and the cashmere workshop and face towel workshop of the sister's house, the magistrate of Luo County. I don't know how much money the women in the county have earned.

When harvesting white stacked flowers last autumn, many people from Dunhuang and Jinchang came to their Changle County to compete for the supply.

As a result, a few months later, I heard that the price of ordinary white folded cloth transported to Chang'an City has dropped a lot compared to last year. If the profit is not high enough to transport it all the way, it is not worth it.

The situation in Liangzhou is relatively better. It is closer to Chang'an City, and there are many big families building cloth workshops in Liangzhou, and the technology is more advanced. Not dominant.

In their area, only Naluo Erniang's face towel workshop is the most prosperous. Earlier, the first batch of shipments went to Chang'an City, and they made real money. Later, many large and small workshops around here chose to sell their own stocks. Sell ​​them the white fiddleheads, and as long as the price is negotiated, they will deliver the goods.

Nowadays, in every village and town under the jurisdiction of Changle County, there are women working in the face towel workshop.

Fortunately, as long as you learn one blueprint, you can continue to weave. Although the pattern is difficult, a face towel is only that big after all. As long as you really put your mind to it, few people can't learn it.

I heard that there are some nimble women in that workshop who can learn new tricks quickly, and their wages are also high, because there are subsidies for making new tricks, but not for old tricks.

No matter how much she earns or how little she earns, she has earned money. Even the most stupid woman can only earn a few tens of pennies a month, so she is much tougher than before when she speaks at home.

These women work in workshops during the day, and they can go out for a stroll in the street at night. If they have more money, they can also buy some facial hair powder and the like.

Since the biogas lamp was lit in Changle County, many people from the surrounding areas came to see what happened, which made the night in Changle County more and more lively.

Many merchants from the Dunhuang and Jinchang areas also come here to set up night markets. There are also a lot of Yiwu Jinchang people who do business here. All kinds of beards are common, and there are even some Kunlun people who have just started to learn how to do business. .

Because Changle County is located in a remote place, most of the local area and some surrounding areas are not rich, which makes their prices here relatively low, and the things on the night market are very cheap.

Also, in Luo Erniang's cashmere workshop and face towel workshop, some defective products will appear from time to time. In the past, most of these defective products were consumed internally and sold to the employees in their own workshops. Recently, they also took some goods to the night market at low prices. The sale has attracted many people rushing to buy.

Such a pair of brightly colored face scarves, with only a slight error in the pattern, was sold at a cheap price of three Wen each. As long as there are a little wealthier families in this city, they can be willing to buy them for their girls.

There are also those cashmere products, as long as the price is cheap, there is nothing too much. Everyone in the family, old and young, must wear them. The cashmere sweater pants are light and warm, and they wear a set under the coat in winter, which is better than the layers they used to wrap. Coarse clothes are warmer.

Changle County is very lively at night, and during the day, there are often large quantities of goods coming in and out, including white fringe, cashmere, iron, coal, wood, grain, etc. Recently, there is also a kind of thorium stone that is used to make biogas lamps. , It is often transported from Yiwu in truckloads.

Most of the products shipped out are various finished products, such as canned mutton, wooden rail carriages, threshing machines, swallows, needles, sauces, white wine, tea, cashmere products, face towels and so on.

Nowadays, in the area west of Longyou Road, whenever Changle County is mentioned, everyone will say that it is a very lively small town, and the people in the city are quite wealthy.

In this era of barrenness, isolation and sparse population, a lively and prosperous life is exactly what many people yearn for.As a result, a steady stream of people of all kinds flowed to Changle County. These people were both consumers and labor force, and some people brought funds.

That is to say, in the days after the biogas lamps were put into use, Changle County is obviously much more lively than before, and there is a trend of getting more and more lively.

With the gradual opening of the following biogas digesters, biogas lamps were also lit in the workshop area, and then began to be popularized in residential areas. A lamp only costs three Wen per month for gas consumption, which is cheaper than using oil lamps. Well, there is no one in the city who is unwilling. At the current stage of big promotion, there is also no need to charge account opening fees, and a biogas lamp is also given away.

It is reasonable to say that such a vigorous promotion will definitely cost a lot of money, but the Changle County Government is not at a disadvantage.

The reason is that their government has a lot of land in their hands. Since the promotion of this biogas lamp, the price of land in the county has risen, and there are many buyers. After selling a few pieces of land, the Changle County government has money.

Luo Yong asked people to carefully account, and every income and expenditure must be calculated clearly. If there is any money left, it must be saved for repairing canals.

After half a month's rest, Du Gou and Xia Yan began to go out to survey the terrain. Together with those officials who were in charge of this work, once they left the city, they often did not return for a long time.

Since the biogas lamp was promoted in Changle County, people from surrounding places have come to inquire about it, and those who are looking for cooperation, probably want Luo Yong to arrange some people to go to their places to repair biogas pits and arrange biogas lamp.

When Changle County is about to develop right now, Luo Yong is willing to say that the biogas lamp technology is not yet mature, and he will study and study it here, and then promote it to surrounding areas when the technology is mature.

Guo Xiaoke also wanted this biogas lamp technology, but Luo Yong didn't buy his account at all this time, and Tang Jian ignored him when he asked Tang Jian, so he went to Chen Jiao and asked him how he became an official, how did he even The officials under him can't control it anymore?

Chen Jiao was very depressed, and thought that you, the immediate superior of Longyou Taoist and Anxi Dufu, couldn't hold down the coffin board, and you came to find me uncomfortable at this time.

In fact, Chen Jiao wanted to leave early in the morning, but the transfer order was still refusing to come down, so he asked his clan friends to help inquire.

The people in the official department said that Luo Yong is a thorny head, but he is also somewhat capable. The saint cherishes his talent, and just wants him to shine in Longxi, and he doesn't want to cause any trouble. No, look at Chen. Jiao got along very well with him, so he didn't intend to change their side for a while.

Chen Jiao: Who gets along well with that coffin board?What a fart!

On this side, Guo Xiaoke couldn't press Luo Yong, so he wrote a document and went to Chang'an City to file a complaint.

The emperor was not satisfied with Guo Xiaoke's achievements in Gaochang in the past two years. The reason why he asked Guo Xiaoke to be the Anxi Governor was mainly to let him go to the frontier to fight. As a result, Guo Xiaoke went for so long, and the battle was a battle. If I didn't fight, I knew that I would call people to go to the mountain to dig ore all day long.

This can't be entirely blamed on Guo Xiaoke, for such things as war, one has to learn from others. Now the Longxi area of ​​the Tang Dynasty is very friendly with those small countries in the west. Every day, merchants come and go to buy and sell goods. Earlier they The few small countries that are being targeted are now busy with development and do not cause trouble at all.

There is also the Yanqi Kingdom, which was quite flirtatious before, but now they also sent envoys to Chang'an, showing their determination to draw a clear line with the Turkic people, and showing their great respect and admiration for the Central Plains Dynasty, just like that, You still have the nerve to send troops to fight him?

Recently, the emperor couldn't help but began to reflect on himself. Was it right or wrong for him to let Luo Yong go to Changle County?

A few days later, Luo's documents also arrived, and together with the documents, there was also a box of lanterns and lampshades for biogas lamps.

There is no biogas here in Chang'an City, so the biogas lamp was sent here to show them, those lantern shades are useful.

A candle is lit inside the lantern, and the burning of the candle will also generate heat, which makes the gauze coated with thorium oxide inside the lantern emit strong light, and the lampshade is used on the lamp base of the oil lamp.

"It's not bad." The emperor said, "I'll ask you to find some thorium stones and make more lanterns and lampshades for use in the palace."

"Here."

For the emperor's performance in the past few days, some people saw it in their eyes, and they couldn't help but secretly speculate in their hearts.

"The sage doesn't seem to like the lanterns and lampshades sent from Changle County very much." When facing their own clansmen and personal friends, they will also discuss this matter.

"Probably not the love in my heart." Someone said.

As an ambitious emperor, he naturally wanted to expand his territory and expand his ambitions. Although the things Luo Yong did were not bad, they were indeed not what he wanted.

This is like one day when he wanted to eat canned lychees, but the palace servant said that there were no more canned lychees, and brought him a bowl of canned oranges. Although the taste was not bad, it was not what he wanted.

The document that was sent along with this box of lantern shades stated the identification and usage of thorium oxide.

Luo Yong also said in this document that the lantern shades they are making are not bright enough. He heard that there is a method of firing colored glaze in the Western Regions. If the colored glaze can be used as a lampshade, the lamps made in the future must be very bright. It was bright, so he planned to organize a team to go to the Western Regions to find a way to make colored glaze.

The emperor thought for a while, sure, Changle Academy has been open for some time, and it is almost time for those young people in the academy to go to the Western Regions for a walk.