Chapter 575 The Morning of the Empire
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In the early morning, when the first shiny white of fish appeared in the eastern sky, the entire city was still immersed in a hazy frost mist.
The drum sounds in the military camp in the south of the city were mixed with the sounds of the soldiers. Immediately afterwards, the morning bells on the bell tower in the east of the city were ringing, and the bells in the Dragon King Temple in the west of the city were ringing together with the chanting of Taoists. Then the bells in the Longshan Temple in the south of the city and the chanting of monks in the morning class were almost simultaneously.
Accompanied by the continuous sound of bells, the entire city suddenly woke up. Amid the bells and drums, the troops stationed in the city, including the united soldiers, security teams, military police teams, urban management teams, etc., began to run across the streets. Immediately afterwards, the students from various Scout schools also shouted horns neatly and ran by under the leadership of the instructors. Then, the students from various schools in Dengzhou City also wore their own school uniforms, running by team after team. Finally, even the girls from various girls' schools also ran by.
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When the golden sun rose from the sea and thousands of golden lights reflected the roofs of the city, Xin Dengzhou City had only built a one-meter-high earth wall, but the nine gates of nine majestic city gates had already opened. Under the city gate, we should go out of the city to work early, and we should live outside the city, and we should go to the city shops to work early, and people coming to deliver goods came in and out in a constant stream, forming a morning rush hour.
They rode donkeys, drove wagons, mule carts, pushed coal carts, pulled fresh vegetables, and crowded into the city.
On both sides of the main roads in the city, the owners of breakfast pavilions were shouting hard, the sound of mules and horses roaring hooves and the squeaking wheels rolling across the stone road, and the part-time newspaper boys shouted loudly.
"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers! Today's front page of Jiuzhou Newspaper, Wang Xianzhi captured Ruzhou City and captured Wang Lie, the brother of the prime minister of the dynasty, alive! Come and take a look!"
"The first issue of Zhenguo Weekly magazine was released, this week's news, the latest cultivation of potato medicines in the Zhen** Academy of Agricultural Sciences has achieved amazing harvests, with a yield of 2,500 kilograms per mu, which is a great news. Officials of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences said that large-scale promotion of new potato medicine cultivation will begin next year!"
"Sell newspapers and sell newspapers! Khitan Bala Khan was assassinated and died. It is suspected that it was done by the new Diela tribe Yilijin Yelu Pugu. The Khitan chose Yelu Hende, son of Bala Khan, as the ninth Khan of the Khitan. When Hende Khan took office, he said that he wanted to find out the real murderer and avenge his father, and pointed directly at the Diela tribe. The relationship between the Yaonian tribe and the Diela tribe is tense, and civil strife breaks out at any time!"
When the sun shone a layer of golden color on the Tianlang in front of the mansion of the ** City, the old Dengzhou City, which has always been half a beat, has completely regained its vitality. The masters who make cakes in the cake shop brought out a basket of freshly steamed buns and buns, and the steaming fragrance came to their faces. I don’t know which cage it was. Although the master had sweat on his forehead, his face was full of smiles. The business had been in operation for more than an hour, and it was still so hot. In the past, there were many people who were willing to eat breakfast, but now, the young and old Dengzhou have almost become accustomed to the habit of eating breakfast.
Especially those who are busy working in workshops, many families are busy with morning work, so they are gradually accustomed to buying some buns and steamed buns directly at the breakfast shop.
"Dengzhou big steamed buns, meat-filled buns, soup buns, soy milk fried dough sticks, tea eggs!!"
"Huyoushicake, cold pottery, mutton soup!"
With the shouts, many elderly women carried baskets and baskets, but were purchasing vegetables near home. Soon, on several streets in the city, farmers near Dengzhou rushed to bring various vegetables to the early stages and set up stalls to sell vegetables at places specially marked by the urban management team.
Although Dengzhou has a special large market, those are all large shops. In order to take care of these vegetable farmers in the suburbs, Dengzhou City has set up stalls in many places in the city. In the morning and night, you can get a fixed stall by paying a little money. These stalls located at the entrances of each workshop give vegetable farmers an orderly stall, which also gives the people in the city a lot of convenience, and the entire security and urban appearance are also guaranteed.
The two major markets in East and West have already opened at this time, and various convenience stores located in various workshop areas have also opened.
All walks of life have ushered in a new day.
Dengzhou has always been a prosperous city in the north, and its various commodities can even be compared with Chang'an and Luoyang. However, nowadays, Dengzhou merchants even proudly guarantee that Dengzhou's commodities must be more complete than Chang'an. According to newspapers, there are now 25 major markets in Dengzhou, such as textile shops, rice shops, etc. Among these 25 major markets, there are more than 300 subdivided.
For example, there are four major businesses in Dengzhou, including rice shops, white rice shops, japonica rice shops, and rice shops. There are even small businesses such as rice shops, wheat shops, millet shops, bean shops, wheat shops, coix shoots, and barley shops.
Textile products, divided into more finer lines, small colored lines, silk lines, cloth and silk lines, silk and cotton lines, large colored lines, silk and silk lines, silk and silk lines, silk and silk lines, colorful lines, cloth lines, new lines, large lines, small lines.
There are also steweds, butchers, miscellaneous, five-cooked, horns, pig iron, meat, charcoal, etc., horses, cows, donkeys, etc.
In addition to this, many of them are exclusive specialties in the town, almost all of which are specialized.
The Dengzhou market not only gathers various original commodities, but even the goods from overseas foreign countries are also available. Now, along the coast of the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou is the most prosperous in commerce in the south, and Yangzhou is the most prosperous in the southeast, and Dengzhou is the most prosperous in the north. Further north, there is Duli Town.
Dengzhou has even become the largest commodity market in the north. According to the latest statistics, merchants account for the majority of the current migrant population in Dengzhou. The 26 counties in the town are mainly Dengzhou and several coastal ports along the southern Liaoning. There are as many as 300,000 merchants from various countries alone, and there are nearly 200,000 merchants, of which there are even about 100,000. They are ocean-going merchants from Dashi and Fulin. Most of them go from the sea to Guangzhou through the Indian Ocean, and then to Dengzhou along the coast. The remaining part is along the Silk Road, from the Western Regions to Chang'an, and then all the way to Dengzhou.
If millions of people in Chang'an were everywhere, Hu people who came to Zhongdi to hunt for gold, and the people of the Tang Dynasty had already been used to it. But now, there were even more Hu people in Dengzhou than in Chang'an, Hu Shang, Hu Ji, and even a large number of Hu people came to study. However, there were regulations that Hu people in the town must live for three years and apply for a Dengzhou household registration before they could marry Tang people and take Tang people as concubines. If they want to study in Dengzhou, they must have a Dengzhou household registration for more than seven years before they could study. And after studying in Dengzhou, they must not leave the Tang Dynasty again. The Han and Tang dynasties were not included in this list of people who married Hu girls.
Nowadays, wherever you go, you can see all kinds of Hu people. Big cannibals wrapped around your head, deep eyes, high noses, blonde hair and blue eyes, and Kunlun slaves with black and gray bodies.
Sogdian merchant, big food merchant, beard, Silla maid, Kunlun slave, Uighur horse servant, Goguryeo nurse
Li Jing wore an ordinary cotton jacket from later generations today. The cotton cloth was filled with cotton. It was not very eye-catching and was even warmer than fur. But this set of clothes was extremely precious, and even more expensive than mink fur.
Cotton was introduced to the Central Plains hundreds of years ago, but most of them were planted in royal gardens as ornaments. There was no large-scale planting at all, only many cotton plantings in the Western Regions. However, people in the Western Regions called cotton cloth white cloth, which was extremely expensive in the Central Plains, and even more expensive than silk. So, in the Central Plains, it was a symbol of great wealth. Some prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty dreamed that they wore clothes made of white cloth before their death. Many poets also wrote this white cloth into their poems.
Dengzhou has such a wide range of commercial areas and the help of the Xiaoqisi, Li Jing asked them to collect seeds from various crops. Among them, cotton, Chameng rice and other things were collected in the focus of Li Jing's instructions. However, things were not too troublesome. Taking advantage of the convenience of commerce, the town has obtained a lot of seeds, and even harvested the first batch of cotton and Chameng rice this year.
Using the harvested cotton, Li Jing asked the craftsmen to make a new special loom for removing cottonseed and spun cotton yarn, and finally spun a cotton cloth, making it into cotton cloth, and filled it with cotton. At the beginning, Li Huier and others felt that the cotton cloth was not as comfortable as silk, but when Li Jing made the first set of cotton jackets that Li Jing made was beautiful and generous, and at the same time warmer, he immediately asked Li Jing to make one for them.
Wearing this cotton jacket, a cotton hat on his head, a pair of big cotton shoes on his feet, and a pair of cotton gloves. Although in the cold winter, Li Jing didn't feel the cold at all.
Cotton is a good thing, and you have to choose and breed better seeds to grow cotton on newly cultivated lands in southern Liaoning that are not suitable for growing grain. In the future, Liaodong will develop, and the cold temperature in Liaodong is a nuisance. If there is a cotton coat, this problem can be solved.
With her gloves in her sleeves, Li Jing was like one of the countless foreign merchants who came to Dengzhou to look for business opportunities. Standing on the street, Li Jing looked at the streets of Dengzhou left and right. Compared with Xin Dengzhou City, the old city seemed a little narrow everywhere, not as grand as Xin Dengzhou. Although Xin Dengzhou City only has an earth wall, the layout in the city is much more grand than this one.
However, compared with when I first came to Dengzhou, Li Jing was very satisfied with the old Dengzhou City in front of me. Compared with two years ago, Penglai City is still the same Penglai City, but the horse manure and donkey manure that could be seen everywhere on the streets were gone, and there were no garbage piles on the streets, and even the smelly ditches were dug. The streets of the streets have grown very tall, and the green is a beautiful landscape. Under the locust trees on both sides, there will be a public toilet at a distance.
On the street, a lame stubborn man in his forties in his brown robe was sweeping the fallen leaves on the street with a broom. The hunched back couldn't touch the two big words "Sanitation" on his clothes. Looking at the sanitation worker, Li Jing secretly guessed his identity. Maybe he was a veteran before, maybe he was just a fugitive who was injured in the war, but no matter what. He was arranged by the government to use the street sanitation fees collected from shops and vendors to hire people who were disabled but still able to work and were not suitable for working in the workshop to clean the streets.
Although the job is not decent, you can earn two stale money a month and buy two hundred kilograms of millet, so you don’t have to worry about your life.
Compared to two years ago, Dengzhou has indeed changed apart now, from the inside out, completely changed. Looking up at the half sun that had been hidden in the clouds, Li Jing frowned and made an appointment to meet here. He might not have forgotten the time or got lost.
"Hi!" A crisp sound rang behind Li Jing. Li Jing turned his head and saw that it was Lin Yueru, a little doctor who had met before. Today she changed her clothes and was no longer full of passion, but she was wearing a big white robe and a high-carved bun. There were no other accessories on it except a silver hairpin and a small ivory comb. She stood behind Li Jing.
"I met again. We met in the carriage last time!" She said to Li Jing with a chuckling.
Li Jing was stunned for a moment. Although they had seen each other last time, they had never spoken. This was the first time Li Jing was greeted by a woman he didn't know each other.
"Hi!" After a little stunned, Li Jing also greeted her with a smile. Looking at her appearance again, the face of Guanyan Youshi seemed to be a little tired, with bloodshot eyes and a little black bags. "It wasn't that I was busy treating the disease and saving people last night, and I only got off work now, right?"
Lin Yueru was a little surprised, but then looked down at the big white robe on her body and smiled, "Well, there was an emergency patient last night. He has been busy until now. When he came out, he forgot to change his clothes."
"I admire you for your help, and I am so kind. Acquaintance is a fate. I just want to go to breakfast too. Why don't I invite you to have breakfast?" Li Jing said with a smile.
"No need to worry, I just saw you staring at the old man and said hello when he saw you last time."
Li Jing smiled and said, "I know you are a famous little medical immortal, new to Dengzhou. I am from Dengzhou and I am half a landlord. Dengzhou has many delicious breakfasts, which are delicious but not expensive, economical and affordable, not far from this. I will take you to eat once today, and you can go by yourself in the future."
"What, I think I'm a bad person? I'm a great person." Li Jing saw her staring at him.
Lin Yueru smiled slightly: "The bad guys don't call themselves bad guys! Well, I'll joke with you too. But you have to pay later!"
Chapter completed!