Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Sitting in the car, Li Mi watched the long queues coming and going. He was about to arrive at Wuwei City. The prosperity here exceeded his imagination.

In a rest area on the official road, Zhang Tianlun and Li Mi stopped the car to rest.

This large bazaar was also built by the head of the player with reference to Yixiali. Because of its good location, it has already begun to take shape.

After the carriage was parked, Li Mi and Zhang Tianlun got out of the carriage, and a strong bean fragrance wafted into Zhang Tianlun's nostrils.

Li Mi was still thinking about the Battle of Hexi. Why was there no news about such a big battle?

But looking at the prosperous Wuwei City today, it doesn't look like it has experienced a war?

Could it be that Zhang Tianlun is lying?
Rao is Li Mi's clever tricks, and I don't know why this happened.

If it was really Shang Qixin'er who personally led troops to attack Hexi, King Jianning should go to the imperial court and wait for the imperial court's support.

With the troops of Longyou and Hexi alone, can they defeat Tubo and attack with all their strength?

And Zhang Tianlun said that Shang Qixin'er was defeated and his head was hung on the city gate. Li Mi didn't believe this kind of thing.

If King Jianning really made such a contribution, he would definitely report to the court.

Absolutely not so low-key.

Having strengthened his judgment, Li Mi began to observe the market again.

The tidy streets are full of businessmen and tourists, and the shops are full of various commodities.

Some of them are products that Li Bi has never seen before, and the dazzling array is dazzling.

Zhang Tianlun dragged Li Mi to a food stall. Temporary tables and chairs filled the open space. Diners lined up in an orderly manner, and the aroma of beans wafted from the front.

What kind of food is this?

Li Mi did not expect to see this kind of delicacy in a service area next to the official road.

Didn't it mean that Hexi is remote?

After finally waiting for Zhang Tianlun and Li Mi, Li Mi saw what the store was selling.

The white bean curd is soaked in warm water. The boss scoops up a bowl of white bean curd for the guests, then adds a bowl of white rice, and finally adds a stack of fragrant dipping sauce, and puts it on a wooden plate for delivery. Gave it to Li Mi.

Holding the plate, Zhang Tianlun found an empty table and called Li Mi to come and sit down.

Tofu has existed in ancient times. It is said that the king of Huainan in the early Han Dynasty was the first person to make tofu.

When Li Mi was young, there were people making tofu and selling tofu on the bustling streets of Chang'an.

Li Mi watched Zhang Tianlun pick up the bean curd, put it on the rice after dipping it in the dipping sauce, and then ate it with the rice, showing a satisfied expression.

Li Mi also followed Zhang Tianlun's example, mixing bean curd with dipping sauce, it tasted really refreshing.

Li Mi became interested in the dark dipping sauce and asked, "Is this miso?"

Zhang Tianlun said: "It's about the same. This is soy sauce, crushed peanuts and pepper, and a little sesame oil. It's a pity that we can't get chili, otherwise this bean curd rice will be more delicious!"

I didn't expect the little dipping sauce to be so particular, and the pepper?

The common people's food in a small market actually used pepper?

And this crystal clear rice, even a wealthy household in Fengxiang Mansion couldn't eat this kind of rice several times a year, right?
But looking at the people eating around, most of them are handlebars or caravan guys. This is indeed what ordinary people eat.

Is the quality of life of the people in Hexi already so high?

Li Mi looked around suspiciously, isn't this a sight that only existed in Chang'an during the Kaiyuan period?

"Can the common people here eat pepper?"

During the first year of Kaiyuan when cooking oil was hot, Li Mi did eat dishes made with pepper in restaurants in Chang'an.

It's just that time has passed, and the prosperity of Chang'an has become a dream. But I didn't expect that in this small market in Hexi, you can eat pepper-seasoned dishes.

Zhang Tianlun said: "Pepper is not a rare thing. Now the pepper brought by the pepper merchants in the Western Regions cannot be sold. The price has dropped again and again. Now pepper has fallen to the price of cabbage in Wuwei."

Zhang Tianlun continued: "And these are pepper residues that have been fried in pepper oil, they are worthless."

Zhang Tianlun said: "This year's soybean harvest has been bumper, and Hexi has tasted the sweetness of planting soybeans. Next year, we will definitely continue planting."

"It is estimated that when it comes to the origin of bean curd in the future, it will no longer be Bashu but Hexi."

Li Mi couldn't understand Zhang Tianlun's inexplicable words, so he asked suspiciously:
"Soybean is good, but can it work without growing staple food?"

Zhang Tianlun said: "The climate in Hexi is suitable for growing soybeans. Soybeans have many uses. Bean dregs are also the best for feeding livestock. Although they are not as high-yielding as corn, they are still a good feed crop."

"Now the farming in Hexi is developing well, and there will be more demand for soybeans next year."

Although Li Mi couldn't fully understand Zhang Tianlun's escaping thinking, but after hearing about the animal husbandry industry, Li Mi frowned and asked:
"Food is the most important thing for the people. If you don't grow the staple food, you only grow soybeans that you can't get enough of? We Han people are not meat-eating barbarians, and there are fewer barbarians and more Han people. With such a large population in Hexi, can we live by eating meat?"

Li Mi's attitude became serious.

Li Mi's vision is still within the framework of traditional Confucianism. In his view, the habit of Han people eating food and Hu people eating meat is determined by heaven.

The grain in the land feeds the population, and the meat of cattle and sheep is only a supplement, but it cannot be used as the staple food.

Li Mi's idea is that King Jianning deliberately exploited the people to grow soybeans and raise cattle and sheep for the upper class to eat meat.

Now Li Mi's impression of King Jianning is even worse. Could it be that such a prince is Datang's luck?

Zhang Tianlun said: "The people of my Tang Dynasty also have the right to eat meat, eggs and milk. Although the animal husbandry in Hexi can only be used as a supplement, some villages have begun to try large-scale breeding. Now primary schools in Hexi have begun to give students Milk is provided."

"What is large-scale farming? What is primary school?"

Zhang Tianlun said: "Large-scale farming is to raise as many livestock and poultry as possible. I heard that there is a chicken farm near Wuwei City, and a chicken farm raises thousands of chickens."

"That one chicken farm alone can supply thousands of eggs to Wuwei City every day."

"As for primary schools, that is the policy that His Royal Highness King Jianning implemented throughout Longyou. All prefectures and counties have opened primary schools to teach children to read and write."

Li Mi took a deep breath and built schools in every prefecture and county town. King Jianning has done so well!
In the early Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong also thought about building a school.

But in the end, the cost was too high, and even the state school failed to build a few.

In the end, I could only set up a Taixue in Chang'an.

In the period of Gaozong, another Taixue was built in Luoyang, the eastern capital.

Unexpectedly, King Jianning established a primary school in Longyou, even if it was just teaching the common people to read and write, it would be a credit that would be praised by future generations of scholars.

Li Mi's favor towards King Jianning picked up again.

After resting for a while, the handlebars began to urge the two of them to get on the car.

Zhang Tianlun and Li Mi boarded the carriage, at this time a child ran to the side of the carriage and asked:
"Newspaper, the latest newspaper, do you two want to buy a newspaper?"

Zhang Tianlun took out two copper coins from his pocket, handed them to the child and said, "Bring a newspaper."

The child quickly stuffed the newspaper into Zhang Tianlun's hands, then took out two eggs from his bosom and said:
"Fresh eggs, just hard-boiled, would you like it?"

Unexpectedly, this kid was good at doing business, Zhang Tianlun asked, "How much is one?"

"Five copper coins!"

Zhang Tianlun took out ten copper coins from his pocket, handed them to the child and said, "Take two eggs."

"okay!"

The newsboy wrapped two eggs in old newspapers from the previous few days and handed them to Zhang Tianlun in the carriage.

The handle bar yelled, then waved the whip, and the carriage continued on its way to Wuwei City.

"What is a newspaper?" Zhang Tianlun didn't expect that the secretary supervisor turned out to be a curious baby, and he kept asking questions since he stepped into Hexi.

Zhang Tianlun handed the newspaper to Li Mi and said:

"It's a newspaper that publishes news. It seems to be a newspaper run by Liangzhou itself, called "Liangzhou Daily."

Li Bi took the newspaper. Although the rough newspaper was printed on the worst paper, the lead block letters on the newspaper were square and square, and one could smell the aroma of ink.

Although the characters in newspapers are somewhat different from normal Chinese characters, they are all simplified characters with some radicals simplified.

But basically with the context in mind, Li Mi can also understand the general meaning.

All the government news is published on the front page. These official documents are all written in semi-vernacular, so there is no problem in reading them.

It's just that Li Bi didn't know what the news said.

"Construction of the Zhangye-Wuwei Railway has started, and the Wuwei section is progressing smoothly"

What is a railway?What does it mean that the Wuwei section is progressing smoothly?
It seems that Wuwei is building some big project.

Li Mi then flipped through, and the next few pages were all kinds of market gossip and serialized novels.

Today's serialization is a martial arts novel. Although there is no previous article, Li Mi is still full of praise for this story.

The exercises in the novel, as well as the theory of true qi of martial arts practitioners, are similar to Li Bi's theory of gang qi and essence of Taoism.

Moreover, the "Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon" practiced by the protagonist seems to have some origins with Buddhism.

In the novel, Shaolin Temple, the leader of martial arts in the world, is near Luoyang.

According to historical records, Shaolin Temple was built by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty at the northern foot of Songshan Shaoshi Mountain in the southeast of the capital Luoyang in order to accommodate the eminent Indian monk Bhatuo.

When Li Mi was traveling around the world when he was young, he also discussed Buddhism with monks in Shaolin Temple. I don’t know what martial arts they know?

Li Mi is more interested in the fictional "Great Song Dynasty" in this martial arts novel. Why did the author make up such a weak dynasty?How can my dignified Chinese people be so weak?