Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 304
His Majesty the Emperor knows a little bit about planning. There are water and land docks in Nancheng, and the transportation is convenient, so it is suitable to put the warehouse there.

If the textile workshops are also located in Nancheng, there will be many female workers in Nancheng, as well as female slaves who have not entered Yeting, and they will need a place to live.

There is also a place for the Forbidden Army, where 10,000+ troops need to live. Soldiers and low-level officers can live in military camps, but senior officers must have houses. Military commanders need separate residences for this area.

For a city to prosper, commerce must flourish. Without commerce, so many people would live in the city and have nothing to do or eat.

The textile industry has no problem mobilizing tens of thousands of people. Weaving alone is not enough, but further processing, printing and dyeing, and garment production must keep up.

Li Ye thought about it, what industry can he develop?Thinking about food, clothing, housing and transportation, you can explore what food processing factories process. For housing, kilns are not suitable in the city, but finished furniture is fine. As for business, finished carriages and other things can also be made.

The location is marked on the floor plan of Bianjing.

These things cannot all be done by the royal family.

Gotta attract investment.

In modern times, it would be enough to post an investment announcement online, but in this era, Li Ye was not sure how to do it.

So I brought up the matter of land and asked Zhang Chengye what he could do.

"Your Majesty, are these lands sold to build mansions?"

Li Ye nodded and said: "There is no need for the government to build private houses. The land is sold and built according to the regulations given by the court."

Zhang Chengye said: "How much does your Majesty want to sell it for?"

Li Ye shook his head and said, "I don't know how much to sell?"

"Your Majesty, there are only two types of people who are willing to buy land!"

"Which two kinds of people?"

"One is an official family, and the other is a merchant!"

Li Ye nodded and signaled Zhang Chengye to continue.

"The promotion of Bianliang to Bianjing, as the accompanying capital of the Tang Dynasty, I thought that as long as this matter is settled, officials and officials will flock to it. As for merchants, merchants are looking for profit. As long as there are more people, there will be people buying and selling goods. I think it is feasible!"

Li Ye had some confidence in his heart and said: "I did some calculations. If Bianjing is built in its entirety, it will cost tens of millions of guan. It will cost 300 to [-] million guan to build a framework. This money is not worth it." We need to prioritize: workshops for manufacturing looms and spinning machines, workshops for weaving and spinning, warehouses for collecting grain and grass, and in Nancheng, build more large warehouses that can be rented out if they are no longer needed... …”

Zhang Chengye nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the number of looms will increase to hundreds of thousands of looms in this way. Now there are thousands of craftsmen making looms, but they need a lot of wood. Jiangnan I'm afraid I'm overwhelmed!"

Li Ye said: "The giant timbers used to build the palace rely on Jiangnan corvees. From now on, the timbers will be bought with money, and the timber merchants will bring them over!"

"In the future, apart from digging ditches, repairing water conservancy, cleaning up water transportation, paving roads and building bridges, there will be no corvee!"

There were many corvees in the Tang Dynasty, such as building Bianjing, building city walls, palaces, digging rivers, burning bricks, and transporting official grain. The court did not even need to provide meals. However, in order to appease the people of Xuanwu, His Majesty the Emperor began to After leaving Chrysostom, these common people not only had enough to eat, but also had some odd money.

The construction of the new capital is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the autumn taxes in various places are also being collected one after another. Jiangnan is indeed as Li Ye expected, two seasons of rice can be planted, and in Jiangxi, it can even be planted for three seasons, but because of the fertility of the land, the output of the three seasons Not high.

Officials from the Agriculture Department traveled to various places to teach people how to fertilize.

Dig a pit measuring one foot square on the edge of the field. Put the mud, grass, human and animal feces and urine in the pit to soak it into water. When spring begins, pour the fertilizer and water onto the ground.

This is the experience gained in the Daming Palace. After two months of fertilization and watering on the ground, the yield can be increased a lot.

The large-scale crackdown on corruption did not bring any trouble to the Tang Dynasty. On the contrary, because the banditry was eliminated and the harvest was good, Jiangnan had the appearance of great governance.

What is great rule? There is no military chaos, and the people have enough food and clothing.

From Li Ye's point of view, the people of Tang Dynasty are still well governed. As long as they are not forced and have no way out, there will be no troubles.

Ships from Jingxiang transported the grain from various places in the south of the Yangtze River to the Yangzhou warehouse one by one. Seeing the grain after another, the governor Cui Daogui couldn't help but get excited. He said to the warehouse officer next to him: "Liu Sicang, have you ever seen such a spectacle?"

Liu Bingyi shook his head and said: "It has never happened before. Since the Huangchao Rebellion, water transportation was blocked, grain from the south of the Yangtze River was transported to Hanzhong by the Luoshui River, and the warehouses in Yangzhou were gradually abandoned. They were attacked by various towns and fell into Sun Ru. Most people did not farm. I'm starving to death!"

How long has it been? Two years ago, Yangzhou was still hell. When Sun Ru attacked Yang Xingmi, he plundered Yangzhou. Even three-year-old children were robbed as military rations, except for some who hid in the reeds. Among the people in the mountain, few of the rest survived.

"Look, how much food is there?"

"One million shi was transported to Yangzhou, and the ships behind didn't seem to stop. I'm afraid there will be more than 100 million shi of grain!"

Two million stones, two million stones!
The water transport from Jiangnan to Bianliang is not a ship directly to Bianliang.

is divided into several segments.

Because the Grand Canal and the Bian River in Surabaya have navigation periods, they can be navigated during the navigation period, and the rest of the time the water is shallow and cannot be navigated.

The entire Jiangnan water transport is transported from the Yangtze River to the warehouse in Yangzhou, and then transported from Yangzhou to the Huaihe River by the inland river boat of the Grand Canal, and then to the warehouse in Sizhou. This is the second section.

The third section is shipped from Sizhou and can go directly to Bianliang.

If it is transported to Chang'an, it will be difficult. It needs to set up a granary in Bianliang for transshipment, and transport it to Sanmenxia through the Yellow River water transport. , and then turn to the waterway, transported by the inland river to Chang'an, and then turn to the land for dozens of miles before arriving at Guancang.

For example, if one hundred shi of grain is transported from Jiangnan to Bianliang, and it is transported all the way by water, [-] shi can be transported to Bianliang, and when it is transported to Chang'an, it is not bad to have [-] shi of one hundred shi of grain left.

We must know that the loss of land transportation is several times greater than that of water transportation.

The huge amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River brought the price of the grain to less than [-] Wen almost overnight, which is of course much higher than the Si Wen of Doumi during the reign of Emperor Taizong.

However, after staying in the Tang Dynasty for such a long time, Li Ye also suspected that his ancestor Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was also bragging. A bucket of rice was about [-] catties, and it was only [-] Wen, and a stone of grain was only [-] Wen. What do you think of the price? It's all a little unreal!

In the history of the Tang Dynasty, was there such a bountiful harvest of grain like his dynasty?

(End of this chapter)