Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 549
The planting of the second season of rice soon started in full swing. Not to mention, after experiencing the escape incident, the brats like Li Tai were obviously calmer than before.

In the past, when Sun Xiangfu told Li Tai to go on a diet to lose weight, he would try his best to steal it. Now, after struggling in his heart for a long time, he would think of a way to steal it. Even when he was stealing, he would think, Eat as little as possible, and eat all the food you get.

It is not that simple to restrain desire, especially for an immature child, it is already a kind of progress for him to have this kind of heart.

Taking advantage of the growing period of the rice seeds in the seedbed, Sun Xiangfu ordered that the Jingzhou, Caizhou, Huangzhou, and Yingzhou teams gather in Jiangling City. The entire Shannando area is composed of these four teams. The team is going to participate in the sports meeting in Dingxiang, and it will be more than half a month before departure. All personnel and competition items need to be declared, all competition rules need to be explained, and board and lodging preparations, etc. need to be arranged in advance appropriate.

Of the four representative teams, only the Jingzhou representative team was established by the General Manager's Mansion. The manpower was selected and trained by the warriors before. There are about 800 people. They have participated in almost every competition event, but not full participation. As for The other three representative teams only have 400 people, mainly for some certain projects.

However, just from the number and number of participating teams, it can be seen that the Shannan Road area is still at the upper-middle level in the entire Datang.

Among other state roads, namely Hebei Road, Henan Road, and Huainan Road, and the Dadu Hufu in Andong, there are representative teams of corresponding size and number participating. The full-staff representative team has a population base of more than 500 million, which is not comparable to other places.

Then, with the addition of the sixteen guards and the royal representative team, there are more than 60 teams participating in the Tang Dynasty alone, and Tang Jian, who is about to arrive in Dingxiang, has brought more than 120 countries. With the participating teams coming, plus the dozens of teams that rushed over to participate in the competition before, the number of participating teams in the entire sports meeting will reach more than 220, and there will be more than [-] athletes alone.

In a competition with so many people, it is not easy to strive for a single champion, that is, the number one title in the world. According to Sun Xiangfu, the representative team in Shannan Province should give priority to water sports. In more than half a month, after a period of surprise training, at least a few gold medals will come back. After some encouragement and encouragement, the morale of the athletes will increase a lot.

Of course, the matter of the competition is not very important to him. It is considered a success if this excitement attracts all the foreign people to Datang. How to continue this kind of prosperity is what Sun Xiangfu should consider. of.

Jingzhou will be the venue for the next sports meeting. The construction team in Dingxiang will immediately transfer to Jingzhou to invest in the three-year construction after the sports meeting in Dingxiang is over.

The Jingzhou area is year-round, and most of the time is relatively warm. Although the construction period is only three years, the actual time spent on construction is even more than that of Dingxiang City, which took five years to build.

Therefore, Sun Xiangfu's trip this time was mainly to plan the construction of the city. After some investigation, he felt that the overall layout of Jiangling City was still too small. The area of ​​the city was less than five square kilometers. A gathering of thousands of people.

So, he turned his attention to the surrounding areas outside the city, and then, an idea took shape in his mind.

The distance between Jiangling City and Jinan City, the prefecture of Yingzhou, was only five kilometers. The new city simply included these two cities and built a large city with an area of ​​up to [-] square kilometers.

After the city is built, it will be larger than half of Chang'an City, almost twice the size of Shanyang and Dingxiang City, and more than [-]% larger than Luoyang.

After all, even including the Daming Palace that is actually under construction, the total area of ​​Chang'an City is less than 47 square kilometers, while Luoyang City, the eastern capital, is only [-] square kilometers.

After the governing offices of Jingying and Yingzhou are merged into one city, the entire jurisdiction can also be merged together to form a large administrative region, and Jiangling City can be directly upgraded to a capital-level city, leading Jingying and Yingzhou. county.

Of course, Sun Xiangfu had to discuss this idea with Li Shimin after he went to Dingxiang. As for how to get Li Shimin to agree, he needed Sun Xiangfu to issue a more convincing design drawing.

As for the city design, Sun Xiangfu's subordinates have a very professional team. He put forward some opinions of his own. After the land of the new city is circled, before departure, his subordinates will definitely be able to hand over a relatively perfect design drawing to the in his hand.

At the beginning of July, after cross-planting different types of rice seeds in different fields, Sun Xiangfu finally led a large team to set off. Afterwards, Sun Xiangfu had already discussed with the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture how to operate and hybridize the rice seeds. I have made it clear that he came back from Dingxiang almost before the rice was harvested this season. Similarly, this season is just to observe the characteristics of the new rice species produced after the initial hybridization of various rice species, and to choose among them. High-yield rice species suitable for breeding and re-hybridization.

In just half a year, more than half of the concrete road leading from Luoyang to Jingzhou was repaired, which made them travel much faster than expected. It took only about ten days for Sun Xiangfu to arrive in Shanyang. Shanyang at that time was already a scene of a sea of ​​people.

"In recent years, I have often heard people say that the Northland is prosperous, but it is so prosperous. I'm afraid it is not much better than Chang'an!"

Cai Can, Huang Xu and others, as the founders of the state's sports team, also came to Shanyang with Sun Xiangfu. After entering the city gate, they were always in awe. Compared with the largest city in Shannan Road, Shanyang City Jiangling City is more than four times larger. However, in such a large city, the flow of people on the streets is always like a tide, which is very rare.

Moreover, these people wear various styles of clothing, blond hair, blue eyes, dark skin, white skin, and languages. In the shops along the street, most customers and shopkeepers communicate through gestures and body language. lively.

"It is said that there are more than 150 million people in Shanyang City, which is not much less than that in Chang'an. However, it will be clean in a few days, and everyone will go to Dingxiang. During the sports meeting, there are probably at least some people there. More than 300 million people."

The attraction of Shanyang lies in its beautiful environment. From spring to after Chongyang, it is the season when flowers in Shanyang are in full bloom. Moreover, it is also the city where the food and snack culture was first developed in the Tang Dynasty. Now, it is close to eight Moon cakes made of lotus seed paste, nuts, and water chestnut powder are already on the market. The soft and sweet moon cakes instantly make those barbarians in the Western Regions forget the hard and hard-to-swallow moon cakes.

On the street, the internal servant Wang Deyong led several young eunuchs to meet Sun Xiangfu.

"Master Sun, Your Majesty has a request."

"In this case, you should first find an inn to stay in, and after a day's rest, go to Dingxiang on your own. The organizing committee will arrange your accommodation in Dingxiang, adapt to the local climate and the competition venue as soon as possible, and strive to win as much money as possible. The first time in the world to go back..."

"I'll wait, I will live up to the high expectations of the chief executive..."

After saying goodbye to the big team, Sun Xiangfu followed Wang Deyong to the north of the city. As for Hongmei, Chuntao and the little ones at home, Zhang Ke would take them directly to Shanyang's mansion to rest.

"Wang Shijian, I have just arrived at the place, and I haven't rested my feet yet. Your Majesty summoned me. Is there anything urgent to discuss?"

"It's not so urgent, but there are some details about the opening ceremony that need to be discussed with you. In addition, the Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry has made a few big things. If you want to use them, your majesty is a little unsure. Take a look."

"Big thing?"

"It's just a large sky lantern. People from the research institute said that it can carry people to the sky. I hope His Majesty will take this thing to appear on the stage and frighten everyone."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was a little depressed. He had already planted a technology tree for Datang. However, Sun Xiangfu hadn't paid attention to how this technology tree grew. It is said that the research institute in Weinan has been Not idle, it seems that the hot air balloon is the result of their tinkering, but Sun Xiangfu is very worried about the safety of this thing.

Not long after, Sun Xiangfu came to the imperial study room named Wanmin Palace without any hindrance. The bigwigs are all here. It seems that recently, it has become a norm for them to discuss politics here.

After Sun Xiangfu met with Li Shimin and everyone, he quickly became everyone's focus, because among these people, only Sun Xiangfu had the talent for creating new ideas. Most of the opening programs that Yu Xiu'er rehearsed in Dingxiang were Suggestions given by Sun Xiangfu.

"Your Majesty, in fact, those outsiders don't know what etiquette is even more than the ethnic minorities in the Central Plains. We just need to let them see the grand scene and feel the power of my Tang Dynasty. As for the purpose of the sports meeting, what sacrifice In fact, the ceremony and the like can be cancelled. I believe that Mr. Tang has already explained to them clearly what should be said. We just need to let them know in a simple and clear way that this is a pure sports meeting, and it depends on the athletes playing in the sports field. It’s enough to compete for the title of No. [-] in the world and get a generous bonus. When they become more familiar with our Datang and are more willing to come to us, we will influence them through various aspects, and it will be even better. It works."

After Sun Xiangfu explained, he looked at Du Zhenglun and said, "Of course, communication with the rulers and dignitaries of various countries is inevitable. We can hold more banquets in a relaxed way. Communicating with them, it is of course the best to be able to finalize some international trade matters. The minister suggested that the Ministry of Commerce should send all the existing commodities, production capacity, export prices of our Datang as soon as possible, as well as the commodities that our Datang needs. , Materials, and expected price, limit price, drawn up, and memorized, in case His Majesty asks at any time, to respond."

To put it bluntly, Datang spent so much money to hold this sports meeting, in addition to achieving some effects of promoting national culture, it was also to make money. If you want to make money from those foreign countries, then naturally you have to expand business contacts.

"Your Majesty, I think what Sun Shaoshi said is reasonable. The people of Fanbang don't understand the language of our Tang Dynasty. No matter how many ceremonies are prepared, they can't figure out why. Just let them see the population, military strength, and financial resources of our Tang Dynasty. , Strong material resources are enough to achieve the effect of declaring majesty, and doing business and earning practical benefits is what we should do most. As for our domestic output and business conditions, the Ministry of Commerce made detailed statistics early in the morning This year in Dingxiang, we can export goods worth more than 5000 million yuan to all foreign businessmen and tourists.

As for the goods brought by those foreign merchants, up to now, the imperial court has at least 8000 million purchasing capacity. After the sports meeting is held, this number may increase a lot. Their goods may even account for [-]% of our reserves. None of the value. "

"One million pennies?"

Hearing the data from Du Zhenglun's mouth, everyone couldn't help but look at Gao Shilian, Minister of Finance.

At this time, Gao Shilian said proudly, "Your Majesty, everyone, have you forgotten that there are large-scale coin mints in Shanyang and Dingxiang in the North? During this period of time, the gold and silver in these two cities The inflow is huge, the gold and silver coins minted by the mint every day are worth more than one million coins."

Gold and silver are valuable, especially gold coins. One is ten guan coins, and one hundred thousand coins are minted, and the value is one million guan. Among the countries in the Western Regions, there are many countries rich in gold. This year, Datang has monetary policy reforms. The coins minted by the mint, and this kind of very fine coins are very popular with all foreign visitors, but it is turning a large amount of gold and silver that flowed into the Tang Dynasty into coins, and, moreover, it has become deposits in the bank. Instead, the mint made a fortune.

(End of this chapter)