Chapter 36: Behind the Buff
With the shift of the political center, Chang'an City became the first city in the Tang Dynasty to have an "employment crisis". Although there was no "employment crisis" in the entire Tang Dynasty, just like the overall "money shortage" in the Tang Dynasty, but there was a shortage of "inflation" in some areas, Chang'an City was the local area where there was an "employment crisis" in the Tang Dynasty.
The age group of the "employment crisis" is very specific, concentrated in the age group of 25 years old and over 12 years old, and most of them are male teenagers, and most of the families are small propertied people or old urban farmers, farmers, and handicraftsmen.
The imperial capital passed from Chang'an to Luoyang, and at the beginning there were still old nobles in the Longkou Gate, but with the passage of time, it was only a year, and the "rich and noble families" in the east of Chang'an City tried their best to buy properties in the north of Luoyang City. It's really not good, if you buy a house in the south of the city, you have to rent another set in the north of the city, no matter how big or small, it doesn't matter if you face the street or not.
A man from the founding county, a large family is dozens of people, hundreds of people, if it is a prince's court, and the family used to be quite famous, it is even more raised by hundreds of people. Like the eldest grandson, the entire family, from the master to the slave, and even the doorman, staff, and helpers, all add up, and three or four thousand may not be able to fill it.
And most of these people are "not producing" generations, and everything about them revolves around the "family core", with both prosperity and loss.
So the people who were supposed to be in Chang'an City for consumption and pretending to be forced suddenly went to Luoyang, and the old Chang'an market immediately collapsed by more than half, not two or three percent, but went straight to sixty percent.
Chang'an City, with a population of hundreds of thousands, is mostly like families who can spend money like flowing water.
But in the suburbs of Chang'an, life has become better again, in the old years, Xungui rode a horse to go green, or came to hunt, and the harvest of a year was finished. If Xungui needs to use some slaves and maids, most of these suburban county families will be targeted, first collecting the fields, and then accepting their children, I dare not say that they have been slaves for generations, and it is a good life to be extremely poor overnight.
Now Xungui is going to Luoyang, and the two largest people staying in Chang'an, one is out of the forbidden garden, and the other is fond of farming, so the former "no man's land" around Chang'an immediately changed its appearance, and suddenly it was crowded again. Today's "no man's land" obviously went to Luoyang.
There are more fields, and they want to let the young people in Chang'an City plant, even if they are willing, they are still a minority. The word "urban and rural" has represented "high and low" since ancient times. The essence of the well-known "urban-rural duality" after thousands of years has nothing to do with policy, but more inertia since ancient times.
Even if it is smashed into the sea of gold and silver, the word "urban and rural", in the universal value, is still the former "expensive" and the latter "cheap", occasionally alternative, but also mostly in the land of wealth and wealth, fish and rice, rarely hidden in the ravine villages.
So it is clear that Chang'an City needs labor to reclaim, but it is not supplemented by labor, in addition to farming at the moment is "hired farmers", more or more "nobles" in the city to run the "cheap industry", it is really a shame.
Rao is obviously an example of the East Palace, but the people of the time just watched the liveliness of the prince's farmland, and it was really their turn, that was eager to change the identity of the three generations of "good family", so that they could go to the East Palace to be a guard.
Whether it is people's desires or social values, in short, all kinds of factors come together, so that Chang'an City cannot provide many jobs for Chang'an teenagers to sharpen.
It is really the biggest industry in Chang'an City, and it is actually the "logistics industry", whether it is "SF Express", "Kaishen Logistics" and "Xiqin Logistics", all of which are gathered in Chang'an. In addition to being able to concentrate the Silk Road goods in Chang'an and then send them to the capital Luoyang, most of the world's goods that export the Silk Road are also concentrated here, and then the long "Silk Road" is opened.
The largest camel caravan in the country is here to travel back and forth to Dunhuang every day, what line of business should take advantage of money, what line of work should be evil, even if the people do not use their brains, their eyes are still long.
Guanzhong is bloody, slow to talk about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, only to say that when the Sui and Tang dynasties alternated, Chang'an was a ranger who killed people on the street, and he was also repeatedly banned.
There are countless people who have been assigned to the Quartet because of "private fighting," and many of them have made meritorious contributions in the frontier.
In view of this, the imperial court is also quite concerned about the decency of the "old capital" and "old capital". After all, the emperor and the prince are still there, if Chang'an City is in turmoil, where is the face?
At the right time, the "Cardinal" Aluo was awarded the title of "Loyal to the Monarch, Patriotic and Temperate, Enlightened and Enlightened", and the "Hongwen Pavilion" immediately took this opportunity to preach the benefits of "meritorious service" and "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism", and also took Cheng Chubi out as an example.
It is said that when Chang'an arrives in the Western Regions, he will be trained by General Cheng, and he will become a strong army in the future, and his deeds will be like exploring his bag.
Then he said that the "barbarians in the river" were rampant and unprovoked, repeatedly violated the territory, killed soldiers, "all brothers in the four seas", people's hearts were flesh and blood, and their own brothers were slaughtered by the "barbarians in the river", how could they turn a blind eye and listen to it?
The Ministry of War called for "suffering in the robe and revenge in the river"; The Ministry of Rites said that "Geng Gong in the past, young people now"; The criminal department said, "If you don't go, it's a crime, and you will be sentenced to five years in prison......
Of course, these are all farts for the Chang'an boy, and nothing can match the emperor Lao Tzu's sentence "I am optimistic about you".
Emperor Lao Tzu said, "The world of the Western Regions is promising, and the hot-blooded young man is to fight the heavens and the earth", and when the young man of the "old capital" heard it, it was like a chicken blood, and he felt that he went to the Western Regions to make contributions, and it must be the emperor's order.
It's just that there happens to be an old monk from Fanbang who is traveling with him, and he is still an old monk with pure mana.
Originally, the young men who were used to open up the wasteland and repair the embankment in the past dynasties were actually thrown into the Western Regions River in the Zhenguan Dynasty. There are really some fields, and the emperor Lao Tzu is not willing to toss these people.
Since the manor used eight oxen to plow, Emperor Lao Tzu has become more and more reluctant to stuff more humanoid animals into the Zhuangzi that eat the emperor's grain for nothing.
From the point of view of production efficiency alone, a Zhuangzi uses eight oxen to plow, which is worth eight hundred mud legs, and the mud legs have to eat meat, drink wine and eat grain, while the oxen only eat grass when they are idle......
With a dozen crackling abacus, even the dog knows who to choose.
So Li Dong would rather send people to the Western Regions than drive them to the countryside, which is really too big a gap between the cost and the benefit.
People go to the Western Regions, but they are still considered to be "soldiers", and they are willing to stay for thirty or fifty years, and one person has two or three hundred or four five six or seven descendants, and after fifty years, he is still not rich and solid?
While Lao Zhang lamented that the "Cardinal" Aroben showed off a "buff", he also had to admit that the "Emperor of the Ages" wanted to cultivate, and it was really not something that ordinary people could play.