Datang first village

When Li Jing and Qin Qiong led a group of thugs to discuss how to make a big splash on Wa Island, Li Yuanxing did not return to Chang'an immediately, but went to the Jing River again.

Coincidentally, Cui Junsu brought Gao Baiyang and several businessmen to prepare to cross the Jinghe Bridge.

At this time, the bridge is closed and you can only go from north to south, not from south to north.

The width of the bridge is not as wide as the road, there is no other way.

Even though Li Chun is a master bridge builder, it is impossible for him to use stones and a very small amount of cement to build a bridge with a width of [-] feet, so the Jinghe Bridge is also a bottleneck on Li Yuanxing's straight road.

But even if it is a bottleneck, it also increases a huge amount of capacity.

An official and several small officials were specially arranged for Jinghe Bridge.

The rank of this official is a foreigner. As for Li Yuanxing, who is one of the ninth ranks, it doesn't matter. Normally, the rank of the foreigner below the ninth rank is too low. The guards next to Li Yuanxing are all from the ninth rank. Captain.

But it was such a small official who blocked the carriage of Shangshu of the Household Department.

Li Yuanxing watched this scene from a distance, feeling really emotional.

Privileges are not used here. Li Yuanxing sincerely respects a court official who abides by his duties.

"Cui Shangshu!" Li Yuanxing walked to Cui Junsu's carriage in person.

"His Royal Highness King Qin is well!"

Cui Junsu saluted and got off the carriage, still looking at the continuous convoy.

If Cui Junsu wants to cross the bridge, it will affect at least [-] to [-] vehicles here to cross the bridge. According to the manager of Jinghe Bridge, it will be released for a quarter of an hour from south to north every half hour, and this release is only to vacate a car. It's just a driveway, so that cars from south to north can line up and cross the bridge in a single row.

"Ten thousand horse-drawn carriages and fifty thousand rickshaws, can His Highness tell you, what are they transporting?"

"Vegetables, vegetables for the people of Chang'an to spend the winter. It can't be said that the slaves in Yaozhou have vegetables to eat every day in winter, but the people in Chang'an don't. I, the King of Qin, will be scolded!" Li Yuanxing replied with a smile.

The horse-drawn carriage has solid rubber wheels and oil-filled bearings.

The biggest improvement is that the original single-axle and two-wheels have been changed to four-wheels and two-axles, which makes it easier to ride on horseback.

The horse is just a pulling force, and the load capacity is four tons according to the new system of the Tang Dynasty. According to the modern calculation method, it is about two tons and seven.

But the larger ones, with two horses or even four horses, can be pulled up to seven tons in the Tang Dynasty to sixteen tons in weight.

It's just that such a large carriage is only temporarily transporting large stainless steel objects in Yaozhou.

On the road from Yaozhou to Chang'an, the most common ones are single-horse four-wheeled carriages, which actually carry three tons of goods made in the Tang Dynasty, plus one hundred catties of water, dozens of catties of forage, and one-horse four-wheeled carriages of refined bean cakes.

Then there is a cart with a maximum load of [-] catties per person, which uses a belt-driven tricycle.

This tricycle alone has attracted the attention of countless people. In Datang, who has seen a car made of fine steel and a steel chain.Although it looks simple, a year ago, this tricycle dared to ask for three or four hundred guan in Chang'an City.

Packed 350 catties, plus my own dry food and water.

The speed is about 100 kilometers per hour. There are [-] people in a team of these tricycle riders. The team is equipped with a professional emergency repair tricycle repair vehicle equipped with a large number of parts and tools.

We set off before dawn, and arrived in Jingyang at noon.

"Five steps, five steps between carriages." Someone shouted from the bridge.

Very rhythmic, very orderly, lined up and passed the Jinghe Stone Bridge quickly.

Cui Junsu turned his head and asked Li Yuanxing:

"Your Highness, 600 tons of goods. That's [-] million catties. With such a huge quantity, Your Highness can make Chang'an have fresh vegetables all winter."

"This is just the first batch, three times a month. The south of Mingde Gate in Chang'an City is supplied by Qinwangzhuang, and the north of Mingde Gate is supplied by Yaozhou." Li Yuanxing said, motioning to his guards to call a carriage, and the driver first gave The leader of the team shouted that the entire team of ten carriages did not dare to occupy the road and stopped on the open space beside the bridge.

This open space is considered to prepare to queue up across the bridge, or to wait.

According to Li Yuanxing's request, keep to the right. After the team of carriages stopped, they couldn't squeeze through the continuous team. When they were anxious, Li Yuanxing and Cui Junsu quickly walked through the continuous team to the parking lot. place.

"Your Highness, the small one is from the No.18 Workshop in the East Sixth District of Yaozhou. This team is all from the same workshop. Our task this time is to transport the goods to Chang'an, and then follow the dispatch of the chief officer of the Yaozhou Office in Chang'an to deliver some goods Take it back to Yaozhou." The team leader said respectfully in front of Li Yuanxing.

Li Yuanxing nodded with a smile, as a courtesy.

The tarpaulin was opened, white radish was installed under the car, and cabbage was installed on top.Because white radish has a large specific gravity, cabbage is bulky.Just loading radishes without much volume will make the car overweight, but loading cabbages with the same weight will make the pile too high.

"The dishes with good water!" Cui Junsu said that the water is fresh.

"Cabbage is easy to preserve. It can be piled in the snow for a whole winter, and the ones that are frozen outside can be fed to pigs and chickens. One catty is one penny, but this king doesn't know if the people in Chang'an can accept it. He is considering whether the price will drop. Three catties and two cents. But the porters worked hard to pull them over. They had to add two hundred cents of foot strength to run the two hundred miles. It was really hard work to go out before dawn and run two hundred miles at a stretch. .”

Porters are coolies, and many porters are very satisfied after working hard for a day, that is, thirty coins.

But these cabbages can be calculated in a different way. Three hundred catties of goods are brought to Chang'an, and the car dealer will not charge two hundred yuan, because it would take three to five days before.And at least four people are needed, even if a carriage is used, two people are needed.

"Your Highness, the porter on the iron cart ran for a hundred coins this time. Your Highness is sympathetic to the common people, and earning a hundred coins a day with his strength is not low. Many unskilled slaves, for the opportunity of this porter, Already broke my head."

Li Yuanxing smiled and nodded:

"In addition to the distribution in Chang'an's various squares and cities, the consumption of vegetables. I'm afraid the price of two catties and three wen can be controlled. This radish is very nourishing. It is really delicious when stewed with bone broth."

Cui Junsu is the Minister of the Household Department, how could he not know the price of vegetables.

Let's just say that this cabbage is somewhat similar to Chinese cabbage, but it doesn't seem to be the same.

Womb cabbage is available in spring and autumn. Whoever heard that it can be eaten in winter? Even if it is fresh in winter, it costs a hundred cents a catty. Even Cui Junsu may not be able to eat it. Some dried vegetables are already very luxurious.

One catty per penny, how much will you, King Qin, have to pay?

"Ignore the foreign merchants and give priority to the people in Chang'an. Not to mention anything else, this king can still afford ten catties of vegetables per person per month. Let the people have fresh vegetables in winter and live a good life." Year. A few days ago, Cui Changshi asked the king how to pass the celebration this year. The king thought about it. No matter how gorgeous the celebration is, it is not as good as the people to have a good winter and a good year! The joy of the people is the joy of the Tang Dynasty .”

Cui Junsu gave a long salute without saying a word, and after getting up, he silently nodded and gave another long salute.Without saying a word, he turned around and returned to his carriage, waiting for the moment when he was allowed to go south to north.

In Chang'an City, the Guanghua Gate in the north enters the city.

There were tens of thousands of people gathered outside the city gate, which surprised Li Yuanxing.

Because I didn't mention in the Chang'an News that I was going to sell the vegetables. I originally asked Yaozhou to bring the vegetables over, because Li Chunfeng speculated that it would snow in the next few days.

But I don't know why the news let the people of Chang'an know. .

Looking at it more recently, all the workshops in Chang'an have workshop officials leading people to hold up signs with the names of their workshops written on them.

The first team stopped the car, and the team leader who led the team walked to the signboard of Changlefang, looked at the signboard, and then looked at the note in his hand. He was really afraid that he had made a mistake because he was just learning culture.

"Changlefang, dare to ask how to get to Changlefang. I will be responsible for delivering goods to Changlefang."

Hearing the team leader's words, the square official hurried up to meet them, and then shouted at the people behind him: "Changlefang!"

With the word Changlefang, hundreds of people came running over immediately. They were tied to the front of the tricycle with ropes, and they were in groups of two.This is not leading the way, they are helping to pull the cart.

Standing on the wall of the imperial palace, Li Er watched the scene with a telescope and smiled: "Wu Lang has done such a good deed, and the common people should know about it. I personally wrote the article about the Yuan celebration in the second year of Zhenguan, and it will be published on the front page of the Tang Dynasty newspaper tomorrow." As Goro said, the celebration of the Tang Dynasty is to celebrate with the people, the people have fresh vegetables every day, have a good winter and a good year!"

"Your Majesty, His Highness King Qin's original intention should be to let the people thank the royal family!" Jing Zhaoyin Dugu Xiude said softly standing beside Li Er.

"No!" Li Er shook his head heavily:

"One winter, Goro prepared 3000 million catties of fresh vegetables. How much Goro paid, this reputation belongs to Goro. This is a matter for the royal family, not for the court. Go, don't make trouble, anyone who dares to grab vegetables, heavy responsibility .Non-Changan people, but people of our Great Tang Dynasty can also get some fresh vegetables. I don’t know how much the fresh vegetables are worth in the market for the rest of the people, but you don’t know?”

"The minister takes orders!" Jing Zhaoyin was a senior official, and in the early Tang Dynasty, he was also a third-rank official position, but in the middle Tang Dynasty, he mentioned the second-rank official position.

And this Jing Zhaoyin is not only a senior official, but also Li Er's confidant.

More importantly, he is prominent.

There are two big figures are his aunt and grandma, and one is Dugu Jialuo, the mother of Yang Guang.

The other is Li Yuan's mother, the fourth sister of Yang Guang's mother, Dugu Jialan.

Dugu Xiude is also a ruthless person, Wang Shichong was spared by Li Yuan, but he personally led people to intercept him on the road and avenged his father.

In the era of Li Yuan, he was not particularly used, but after the change of Li Erxuanwumen, he took the seat of Jing Zhaoyin.

Just as he was talking, a forbidden soldier rushed over, whispered a few words in front of Eunuch Gao, and stepped aside.

Eunuch Gao took a few steps and came in front of Li Er: "My lord, the vegetable prices have been set. Cabbage is two catties and three cents, and radish is one catty and one cent!"

ha!Li Er couldn't help but stared at Dugu Xiude: "What was the price of fresh vegetables last year?" (To be continued.)