Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 232 Shanyang's Clothing, Food, Housing, and Transportation

On the way back, with Dongzhu, a little sparrow who loves to twitter, Sun Xiangfu had a lot to do. First of all, he had to tell him a lot about the customs of the Han people. In fact, Dongzhu’s Chinese teacher taught her all these things. Some, but for Sun Xiangfu, or for Shanyang City, what her teacher taught is already outdated.

Because the entire construction plan of Shanyang City was made by Sun Xiangfu, here, you can see more shadows of later towns, at least, it will not be a district system like Luoyang Chang'an.

Sun Xiangfu directly launched the block system here, so, in addition to the commercial street in the bulk commodity trading area, in fact, there will be a lot of houses facing the street in the whole city, so many shops will naturally emerge.

Residential houses built of bricks and tiles will be neatly arranged behind the shops facing the street, connected by lanes in the middle, and even each residential house will have a house number, which is directly included in the household registration.

However, due to the trading and storage of livestock in the old city next to the new city, the number of livestock in the new city has decreased. Except for the professional carriages and a small number of private carriages of the carriage and horse dealers, the number of livestock wandering in the city and the Central Plains This will make the whole city look cleaner. After all, where there are more Hu people, there will be more cattle, sheep and horses. If they are not diverted, they will look dirty.

In the hundreds of miles around Shanyang City, except for the cement road, there is vegetation, and there is very little dust in the air. Even now that it is approaching September, you can see dense chrysanthemums and cornel flowers outside the city on the city walls, except for the winter snow season. , the air here will be very fresh and full of floral fragrance.

Sun Xiangfu finally brought a woman home, which made Yu Xiuer's heart ring loudly. After seeing Dongzhu, Yu Xiuer just sighed, "My husband really likes young people."

Back then, when the two met for the first time, she was thirteen or fourteen years old.

"What are you talking about!" Sun Xiangfu looked at Yu Xiu'er who was going out to meet him inexplicably.

Of course, Chuntao and Hongmei were the saddest when I heard Yu Xiuer's words. They are almost 20-year-old girls. No wonder my uncle doesn't accept them into the house. It turns out that...
Inexplicably, the two of them started to cry. Inexplicably, Sun Xiangfu traveled outside for a few days, and when he returned home, he didn't even have a full meal. He was so sad that he had to cook for himself.

"Hmph, my uncle really has new people and forgets the old ones. It's been a long time since I've cooked for Miss..."

"The latest news, the latest news, my uncle sent the prepared meals to the room of that Hu girl..."

There was something wrong with the atmosphere in the Sun residence. Uncle De was the first to react, but considering that Sun Xiangfu was 19 years old and had no children, he couldn't say much. He just told him that there was news from Su Dingfang that Li Jing's army was still there. The Hu merchant team from the Western Regions had already entered Shuozhou and arrived in Shanyang City two days later.

Meetings and inspections are the most work Sun Xiangfu has done since he became the Protector of Anbei, and he will arrive in two days, so the reception work in the city should be carried out. He wants to let all the Hu merchants in the Western Regions know that Shanyang is the most Where merchants are respected, when they arrive, as the highest-ranking officials in Northern Datang, they will go out of the city to greet them in person.

"What is the most important thing in a person's life? Food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking and having fun. My request to you is to make these eight characters the best possible under the current conditions."

After all the managers of the business premises were gathered in the mansion, Sun Xiangfu started the conversation.He had explained the specific things to be done a month ago, and now it was time to test the effectiveness of their work.

"Patriarch, in our Shanyang, it will snow until October at the most. Therefore, the garment workshop has already produced no less than [-] pieces of tight-fitting and warm cotton-padded clothes, leather clothes, and fur boots. Now, we are in several places in the city. All the goods in the big store have been sold, not to mention the barbarians, even we Han people are very interested in these clothes and shoes, and there are ordinary people who have received wages in the city, and they are all choosing to buy."

The person in charge of the garment weaving, named Jia Shitao, was transferred from Nie Sanniang's subordinates. Chang'an's garment workshop has a full set of weaving, dyeing, new technology research and development, and new product design departments. Shanyang , it is only responsible for collecting raw materials and mass production with mature technology.After all, the price of raw materials for leather goods in Shanyang is much cheaper than that in Chang'an.

In the future, Sun Xiangfu will plant a large amount of cotton in the farmland around Shanyang. It is foreseeable that the cost price of cotton will be very low. Then, it will become the production base in the northern region where the demand for thick clothes is relatively large.

"500 pieces are too few, and the Hu business team has more than [-] people. How much do you think they can bring back to China? However, this year's industry is starting up, so I won't talk about it. Next year, Shanyang's textile industry will In the leather goods processing industry, the finished products must be marked with at least one million pieces. In the next year, it will reach more than [-] million pieces. After three years, I will let the people of the Tang Dynasty wear cotton coats and leather boots. And there are multiple pieces that can be replaced. At the same time, you have to guarantee the export of more than one million pieces per year. Do you have the confidence to achieve this small goal?"

"Yes, the little ones..."

Sun Xiangfu's words were like a hammer, beating Jia Shitao's heart rate doubled, so that the people all over the country wore cotton-padded clothes, and how many pieces had to be replaced, and the annual output couldn't be tens of millions?This is still a three-year plan, small goal?

However, he felt that it was possible to accomplish this, because the looms in Chang'an were constantly being improved under the tinkering of craftsmen. At present, there are only a thousand female workers in Shanyang Workshop, but they are in one or two years. Within a month, more than 5 products were produced. If the number of people increases tenfold, the output for the whole year seems to be easily completed in the first year. In the future, we only need to continue to expand the scale. Anyway, do urban planning At the time, Sun Xiangfu had already set aside a large enough area for them to build a factory building.

What he didn't know was that in future generations, in any garment factory with more than a thousand people, the daily shipment volume is tens of thousands of pieces. In this country, less than one percent of the garment workers can satisfy more than half of the world's clothing. clothing supply.

Moreover, don’t underestimate the clothing industry, which is also a kind of cultural transmission. In ancient times, people who wore the same style of clothes were more likely to be recognized. Sun Xiangfu made great efforts to promote clothing culture from the beginning, and he also hoped that It is easier to walk on the road of integrating other nationalities.Let the country after integration be stronger.Wearing the same clothes, speaking the same words, even if the skin color is different, they cannot be easily separated as in history.

After talking about clothes, Sun Xiangfu immediately turned his gaze to the next person. His name is Luo Jin, and he is the concubine son of Luo Tian, ​​the head of the imperial dining room. Sun Xiangfu has a close relationship with Luo Tian. This Luo Jin had some brains, so Luo Tian sent him to Sun Xiangfu and let him use it.

"Patriarch, the grain reserves in Shanyang are sufficient. The grain shops of the major families have opened in the city, and the price is lower than that in Chang'an. Now, a stone of wheat is only selling for five bucks, and it is still falling. In addition, in the spring of Shuozhou The fields planted by the owner of the family have a bumper harvest. Due to the tax exemption this year, the people have a lot of surplus grain, and it will be sold in the market at that time, which will further impact the grain market and promote the price drop. There should be no problem with the large population growth.”

"Well, I'm quite clear about the data in this area, but my expectations for you are more than that. Simple, fast, unique taste, suitable for sale in the streets and alleys, you must develop more as soon as possible and promote them to the people of Shanyang. In addition, you also need to study some easy-to-preserve food, as a takeaway, it can also generate large profits if it is refined."

In later generations, whether in Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia, there are small stores that make naan cakes and sell them. It is a bit similar to the pot helmets in the mainland, but without adding so many perishable materials. After the kang is ready, it can be preserved for a long time. There is no problem, if it is made with fine flour and some sugar is added to it, it will be delicious and nourishing food for future generations to eat. What's more, if Shanyang City can produce it on a large scale in this period, I believe that the businessmen in the past will be very happy. Willing to buy, after all, it is very convenient to eat this thing as dry food when on the road.

Whether a place can retain people, in addition to sufficient food reserves, stable prices, and even cheap food culture is also crucial. Shanyang will soon become a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands, and Most of the people in this city will be engaged in industry. In order to improve production efficiency, they may not be able to live at a slow pace like before. Shopping, cooking, and washing pots and dishes will all delay the time of young and strong laborers.

Therefore, cheap, delicious, convenient, and hassle-free street food culture must be promoted, at least to ensure that there are several cheap places to eat in every block. In this regard, Sun Xiangfu has seen it in later generations, so he naturally knows the future development trajectory, so it was laid out in advance.

"The small ones have set up a special training class for making snacks in the city, taking in some widows or middle-aged and elderly people, women and children, let them learn these cooking techniques, and set up shop in the city. At present, there are more than 30 in operation. Later, It may reach one or two hundred, but the shops and start-up funds are all in the form of loans..."

"It's okay, our family is not short of this money, the priority is to make the streets prosperous as soon as possible, and the pace can be accelerated."

After talking about eating, it is natural to live.

Zhou Chun is the general manager who manages all the houses in Shanyang City. However, Sun Xiangfu doesn't need to listen to such a comprehensive report today. Zhou Chun's subordinates, three stewards who manage the inn, came out from behind his chair.

"Patriarch, the inns we are running have all been tidied up. They have been in trial operation for seven days, and there is no problem. As for the other inns in the city, when the business licenses were issued, the Governor's Office has imposed many restrictions on them. They In fact, they are all imitating our business, and a lot of them have opened in the past two or three days, and the combined guest rooms can accommodate at least 3 to [-] people, which is more than enough to receive the Hu merchant team."

Since Sun Xiangfu let people from other families come in to invest and open a store, he didn't intend to be a monopoly. Sometimes, it is necessary to maintain competition. He is an official after all, and Shanyang has not yet built an inn, so these inns have to be used to entertain court officials and distinguished guests.

Since Sun Xiangfu separates the catering and inn management, several inns that specialize in room service can do better.The most high-end inn in Shanyang City, the comfort of the guest rooms is not inferior to that of Wangjiang Building in Chang'an. The lowest-end one also has a kang, stove and hot water configuration.It is just because there are not so many steel bars for the time being, and there are no high-rise buildings, most of which are bungalows. When conditions permit, high-rise buildings are also a direction for the future development and transformation of Shanyang.

As for walking, Sun Xiangfu has the least to worry about. The Shanyang territory is flat and wide concrete roads have been built. The four-wheeled carriages pulled by horses run on the concrete roads without any resistance. Therefore, Sun Xiangfu He asked his groom Liu San to open a chariot and horse shop, and used a specially built larger carriage to transport passengers in the city. As long as he heard the sound of copper bells, passengers could pay a penny to get on the carriage, and the carriage would bring them with them. They marched on the main road in the city, and in about an hour, they could almost run the entire distance.

Moreover, the car and horse company already has a future plan. Passenger and freight transportation in several cities around Shanyang will be done. Of course, this will be done after the infrastructure is more complete.

After next year's spring plowing, cement roads within [-] miles around Shanyang, such as Mayi City, Ying County, Huairen County, Shanyin County, Youyu County and Dingxiang City, will be repaired. The cement roads leading to the newly established Anyuan County and Ningyuan County will also be repaired. This depends on the financial and manpower situation of the Anbei Protectorate. Sun Xiangfu has a plan for one year or even three years of development. When you encounter difficulties, find a way to solve it.

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