Chapter Twenty-Three: The Trajectory
The farce in Luoyang did not make Chang'an people feel excited or ridiculed, there were sour grapes that knew the goods, and there were also people who did not know the goods that said that the Luoyang turtles did not know whether they were alive or dead, and there were even more Qingliu who wanted to encourage the imperial historian to come to a vigorous "ban on business" movement. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Forbidden business" is not the essence at all, as the chairman of Datang Empire Co., Ltd., Li Dong understands this. Suppressing the status of a merchant to a minimum and making him a lowly person a parity is not the same thing as prohibiting a merchant.
This farce came to the completed Taiji Palace, and Li Dong summoned Kangde, the palace supervisor of Luoyang Palace, and after this Hu girl brought by Shi Dazhong, he told the master of the empire and his master everything about Luoyang.
"The Luoyang clan is all involved?"
"Except for the remnants of the former Sui Dynasty, there are more or less mixtures."
Kant thought for a moment and replied seriously.
"I ordered Shi Dazhong to go and operate, I heard that it was you and Wang Qiudao who handled it?"
"The slave maid and Wang Qiudao each got 200,000 bonds, but they were not the bonds of 'Iyo Copper Mountain', but the bonds of 'Iyo Port'."
"Huh."
Li Shimin suddenly sighed a little self-deprecatingly, stood up and took two steps at random, he put his hands behind his back, paced for a moment and asked, "Is this really ...... That's it. ”
"Your Majesty?"
"Let's go down."
"The slave and maid are gone."
Out of the palace, although Kant was already the supreme leader of the Eastern Capital, he was still like an ordinary little yellow door, and ran to Shi Dazhong's house, and only after reporting his name and surname did he enter the door.
"Shi Gong, go down and meet Shi Gong."
Kant hurriedly made a big salute, Shi Dazhong looked good, starting in the second half of the year before last, there was really no need to let him run anymore. He doesn't run around either, as a former close attendant, the emperor runs around because he is worried about whether you will leak the secret of the forbidden world, which is a dead word.
He hasn't enjoyed it enough, how can he be willing to die?
"Oh, don't be polite, get up, but what doubts do you have?"
Kant frowned slightly, and said cautiously: "Shi Gong, Your Majesty ......"
After saying this, Kant looked up at Shi Dazhong: "Shi Gong, that's it." Your Majesty has a will, but he has not shown it, and he is stupid and cannot comprehend it. ”
Shi Dazhong, whose face was a little serious, said: "Do you know that after the Jingluo Plate Rail and Guan Luo Chi Dao are cultivated, ......?"
Suddenly, he paused, pinched his fingers and calculated, and continued, "In July and August of the eighth year of Zhenguan, the Ministry of Civil Affairs allocated funds to double the money of Jingluo Plate Rail and gave it to China Resources. The same is true for Guan Luochidao, but it was in June and July last year, and it was Shangshu Zuo who presided over the matter. ”
"What's the matter with this Guan Jingluo Board Rail and Guan Luo Chi Dao?"
"After the two roads are completed, Guan Luo has one thing, do you know? As the palace eunuch of Luoyang Palace, there are some things that you should pay attention to at that time. As a forbidden eunuch, His Majesty occasionally asks the right question, but he cannot know everything, nor can he know it. ”
"Please also ask Shi Gong to teach me."
"Since the connection between Chang'an and Luoyang, except for those who are rich in mu yields, Guanluo is not as good as the people in Chang'an and Luoyang." Shi Dazhong is willing to promote Kant, after all, there is a relationship, and others will not think that Kant is not Shi Dazhong's person because Shi Dazhong does not admit it.
Although the eunuch has a low status and has little right to speak, who knows if there will be a day when he will turn over?
Shi Dazhong also thought about it, he didn't go around anyway, but someone always had to help his disciples and grandchildren support him, this person, if his status is low, he won't care about him if he has a high status.
His master spent money to renovate Luoyang Palace, is it just to look good? In order to make Luoyang Palace deserted and run a mouse? Kangde, the palace supervisor of Luoyang Palace, will send it sooner or later, and it is a matter of time.
"In the early years, the family had 250 acres of land, and there were more than one year, not to mention the food and clothing, but to eat millet until you don't want to eat it, this is a simple thing, right?"
"Yes."
"But now? Let's just say that Jinchengfang is mostly Hu people who have taken refuge in the Tang Dynasty anyway. These Hu people have to buy them in Chang'an City. Now a Hu lieutenant, a groom at home, wants to eat millet and pays for it. Chang'an doesn't have enough food to eat, and Luoyang doesn't have enough food to eat? As long as the people of Chang'an pay money, the people of Luoyang will drive the carriage and sell the grain to Jinchengfang and the West Market. ”
"Shi Gong said that now the people of Liangjing, the most poor can also have a full stomach, but those who have property, the grain cannot be sold, and the life is not as good as that of ordinary people in the city."
"At the end of the day, it's because it's fast. In the past, the land of Luoyang in Chang'an was the official road, so what? Can a carriage be slowed down for three or five days, and can a man do things hungry for three or five days? The price of grain in the second year of Zhenguan is so high, why? Isn't it because the food from outside can't enter Beijing quickly? ”
"Now the price of grain is about the same as in the second year of Zhenguan, but why do both Chang'an and Luoyang feel that the price of grain is low?"
"That's a lot of money."
Shi Dazhong was a little helpless, this Kant can only say that it is okay to keep it, and if you want to forge ahead, it is unlikely.
"Why did the imperial court admit that the man in Liangfeng County bought land to build a road, and later added money to redeem it? During this period, everything is not enough for outsiders, but the old man can tell you one thing, back then, if it wasn't for the Liangfeng County man, it was possible to be a princess, but I was afraid that if someone arched the fire at that time, the Liangfeng County man would be guilty. ”
Kant was shocked, but now the man in Liangfeng County is not only fine, but he is also the governor of the county, and he is obviously in danger.
Seeing that Kant immediately calmed down, Shi Dazhong nodded with satisfaction: "Now, China wants to build roads, but also doesn't want to build roads, do you understand?" ”
When I talk about China at this moment, I mean the Taiji Palace...... Kant nodded and said, "There are pros and cons. ”
"Yes, there are pros and cons, so Luoyang is now going to build a new road south to Huaishui. Your Majesty has to ask you, a land-sitting household in Luoyang, how to answer when the time comes, do you have a charter? ”
"This ......"
The merchants were no more advanced than the landlords, but with the right means of transportation, whether it was a carriage, a sailboat, a lazy road, a rail, or anything else, they were suddenly advanced. The landlords did not have the personal will to take the initiative to move the grain thousands of miles away, but the merchants had such a willingness after calculating the cost and revenue.
The amount of resource mobilization, at this moment, divided the winners and losers, and the lower levels of their respective systems gradually widened the gap.
The helpers must have earned more than the peasants, and it was at the same moment that the courage of the helpers surpassed the peasants, although it was still at that moment that they began to become "proletarians".
Ordinary people can't feel this kind of change, but as a big empire, Zhenguan monarchs and ministers and a large number of reserve elites can find the trajectory from the data and the changes in reality.
It's so palpable, and it's so unattainable.