393. Unsatisfactory
It is the spring plowing season now, and the Gongfu is busy every year. In addition to some common jobs in promoting agriculture and mulberry courses, there are also some poor farmers who borrow seeds and plough croakers from the Gongfu, which is also common.
Not everyone under Changle County is hardworking and simple. There are also those who are raving, and those who are not engaged in production. Every year, when spring plowing, summer harvesting, and autumn harvesting, the officials in the county have a headache.
According to some local officials, they have been doing well in recent years. The coffin of the Luo County Magistrate can be kept in hand. In addition, every household can still live a life these days. These people are afraid of being arrested and are caught in the county jail. They only give a bowl of water and two mixed breads a day. They are locked up for 10 or 20 days, and they will be hungry to death.
There is still such a saying in some villages and towns far away from Changle County. It is said that a monk and a Taoist priest had fought in Changle County earlier. The Luo Coffin Board sent someone to arrest them without saying a word. He was kept in the prison for several months.
He also said how high the Taoist priest's magic is, even some great figures in Jinchang City have invited him to his home to do rituals, and said how high the monk came from, and often he is friends with scholars in Jinchang, Dunhuang, and he is also a gentry man.
He was imprisoned in prison all at once. He only had one bowl of clear water and two cakes every day. He had no care at all. After a few months of La Yue, he was released. Oh, he was so hungry that he had a yellow face.
A year ago, Luo Yong went to a town because of the promotion of white flower planting. A big landlord in the town invited him to a meal. Someone mentioned this during the meal and asked Luo Yong if he really caught the monk or Taoist priest.
Luo Yong said: "No, when my people passed by, they all ran away."
The landlord really respected and loved their coffin, the county magistrate Baner, and was afraid that he would offend the big man if he was too scared, so he advised: "If you have such a thing in the future, you should just pretend that you don't know. The way of those people is not simple!"
Luo Yong didn't care: "Then what's the solution? Without rules, you can't be able to make a square or round."
The landlord was silent, thinking about it, if this coffin board was not of this kind of personality, how could he have brought himself from Chang'an City to the border area of Changle County?
However, even if this God of Wealth has a bad temper and is not flexible, he is still the God of Wealth.
Those Chang'an people don't want the best, they are happy and happy, too late.
Not to mention the newly-appeared very bright biogas lamps in Changle County this time, the cashmere workshop and facial scarf workshop of Luo County Magistrate Ajie's house, I don't know how much money the women in the county have earned.
When the white flowers were harvested last autumn, many people from Dunhuang and Jinchang came to Changle County to compete for the supply of goods.
As a result, a few months later, I heard that the prices of ordinary white cloth shipped to Chang'an City had dropped a lot compared to last year. I traveled thousands of miles apart and if the profit was not high enough, it would not be cost-effective.
The situation in Liangzhou is relatively better, and it is closer to Chang'an City. There are also many big families who have built new cloth shops in Liangzhou, and their technology is also more advanced. Dunhuang does not have an advantage in terms of geographical location or technical level.
In their area, only Na Luo Erniang's facial scarf workshop was at its most powerful momentum. Earlier, the first batch of freight was sent to Chang'an City, and they earned money. Later, many large and small workshops around here chose to sell their stock of white flowers to them. As long as the price was negotiated, they would send the goods here.
Nowadays, in all villages and towns under Changle County, there are women working in the turban workshop. There are patterns on the turban. At the beginning, they had to remember the drawings, but they took the lives of these women.
Fortunately, as long as you learn a drawing, you can continue to weave it. Although the patterns are difficult, a facial scarf is only a little bigger. As long as you really spend your time on it, few people can't learn it.
I heard that there were some flexible women in the workshop who learned new tricks very quickly, and their wages were also high, because there were subsidies for new tricks, but there were no old tricks.
No matter how much you earn or less you earn, you will always make money. Even the stupidest woman can only earn a few dozen cents a month, so she would be much tougher than before when she said something at home.
These women work in workshops during the day, and can go out to the streets at night, have more abundant hands and buy some powder and other things.
Since the biogas lamp was lit in the middle of Changle County, many people in the surrounding areas have come to see what happened, which makes the nights in Changle County more and more lively.
Many vendors in Dunhuang and Jinchang also come here to set up night markets. There are also many Yiwu people in Jinchang who do business here, and various kinds of people are very common. There are even some Kunlun people who have just started learning to do business.
Because Changle County is located in a remote location, most of the local and surrounding areas are not wealthy, which makes the prices here relatively low and the things at night markets are very cheap.
There are also Luo Erniang's cashmere workshops and facial scarves workshops, and some defective products appear from time to time. In the past, most of these defective products were consumed internally and sold to employees in their own workshops. Recently, they also took some goods to the night market to sell them at low prices, which attracted many people to rush to buy them.
Such a brightly colored facial towel, with a little bit of the pattern, was sold at a cheap price of three cents. As long as the city is a little more abundant, it is willing to buy it for the girls at home.
There are also those cashmere products that are cheap, but they don’t think they are too much. The young and old at home have to wear them. The cashmere sweaters are light and warm. They wear a set of coats in winter, which is even warmer than the several layers of coarse cloth clothes they used to wrap.
The nights in Changle County are very lively, and during the day, bulk goods often come in and out. Those who come in include white flowers, cashmere, iron, charcoal, wood, grain, etc. Recently, there is also a kind of thorite used to make biogas lamps, which are often transported from Yiwu in a car.
Most of the things shipped out are finished products, such as canned mutton, wooden rail carriages, threshing machines, swallows, needles, sauces, white wine, tea, cashmere products, facial towels, etc.
Now in this place west of Longyou Road, whenever Changle County is mentioned, everyone will think that it is a particularly lively small town, and the people in the city are quite wealthy.
In this era of barren and closed population, a lively and prosperous life is exactly what many people yearn for. So various populations continue to flow to Changle County. These people are both consumers and laborers, and also bring funds.
That is, in the days after the biogas lamp was put into use, Changle County was obviously much more lively than before, and there was a trend of becoming more and more lively.
As the subsequent biogas tanks gradually opened, biogas lamps were also lit in the workshop area, and then it began to promote and popularize it to residential areas. A lamp only costs three cents a month, which is more cost-effective than using oil lamps. The people in the city are not unwilling to do so. At the current stage of promotion, there is no need to charge an account opening fee, and a biogas lamp is also given.
Logically speaking, a lot of money will be spent on such a vigorous promotion, but the Changle County Duke Mansion is not at a disadvantage.
The reason is that their government mansion holds a lot of land. Since the promotion of this biogas lamp, the land prices in the county have risen and many people have sought it. After selling a few pieces of land, the government mansion in Changle County has become rich.
Luo Yong asked someone to carefully account the accounts, and every income and expenditure must be calculated clearly. If there is any extra money, it will be saved for the purpose of repairing the canal.
After resting for half a month, Du Gou and Xia Yan began to go out to survey the terrain. With those officials who were in charge of this work in the past, they often had to return for a long time when they left the city.
Since the biogas lamp was promoted and opened in Changle County, people have come to inquire about the surrounding areas, and those who are looking for cooperation are probably asking Luo Yong to arrange some staff to go to their places to repair the biogas pool and arrange the biogas lamps.
When Changle County is about to develop, Luo Yong is willing to say that the biogas lamp technology is not yet mature, and he will study it again and then promote it to the surrounding areas after the technology is mature.
Guo Xiaoke also wanted this biogas lamp technology, but Luo didn't buy his account at all this time. He ignored him when he came to Tang Jian and Tang Jian. So he went to Chen Jiao and asked him how he was so Shangguan and why he couldn't even control the officials under his command?
Chen Jiao was very depressed and thought to himself that your boss, the Longyou Dao and Anxi Protectorate, could not even press the coffin board, but he came to find me at this time.
In fact, Chen Jiao wanted to leave early in the morning, but the order was reluctant to come down, so he asked his friends of his tribe to help inquire.
The people from the Ministry of Personnel said that Na Luo Yong was just a thorny head, and he was a little capable. The saint cherished his talents, just to make him shine and heat in Longxi, and he didn't want to cause any more trouble. Just now, seeing that Chen Jiao got along well with him, he didn't plan to replace him for a while.
Chen Jiao: What a f*ck!
On this side, Guo Xiaoke couldn't suppress Luo Yong, so he wrote a document to Chang'an City to file a complaint.
The emperor was not satisfied with Guo Xiaoke's achievements in Gaochang in the past two years. The reason why he asked Guo Xiaoke to be the Anxi Protector was mainly to let him go to the frontier to fight. As a result, Guo Xiaoke went there for so long, and there was no fight in a single battle, so he knew that he would call people to go to the mountains to dig minerals all day long.
This cannot be entirely blamed on Guo Xiaoke. In war, the army is famous. The current Longxi area of the Tang Dynasty is extremely friendly with the small countries in the west. Every day, merchants come and go to buy goods. The small countries they targeted earlier are now busy developing and do not cause trouble.
There is also the Yanqi Kingdom, which was not quite arrogant before. Now they have sent envoys to Chang'an, showing their determination to draw a clear line between the Turks, and showing their respect and admiration for the Central Plains dynasty. In this way, do you have the nerve to send troops to attack him?
The emperor has also begun to reflect recently. Is it right or wrong to ask Luo Yong to go to Changle County?
A few days later, Luo Yong's document also arrived, and he was sent with the document, and a box of lanterns and lampshades and biogas lamps.
There is no biogas here in Chang'an City. The biogas lamps are sent here to show them what they look like. Those lanterns and lampshades are useful.
Wipe the candles into the lantern. The burning of the candle will also generate heat, causing the mesh covered with thorium oxide to stimulate strong light, and the lampshade is used on the lamp holder of the oil lamp.
"It's not bad." The emperor said: "I'll find some thorites and make more lanterns and lampshades for use in the palace."
"Here."
Some people saw the emperor's performance over the past few days, and they couldn't help but secretly guess and guess.
"The saints don't seem to like those lanterns and lampshades sent from Changle County." When facing their tribe members and their personal friends, they will also communicate and discuss this matter.
"It's probably not what you love in your heart." Humane said.
As an ambitious emperor, he naturally wants to expand his territory and achieve great success. Although the things Luo Yong did are not good, they are indeed not what he wished.
It’s like he wanted to eat canned lychees one day, but the palace servant said that the canned lychees were gone. He brought him a bowl of canned oranges. Although the taste was not bad, it was not satisfactory.
The document sent with this box of lantern lampshades said the identification and usage of thorium oxide.
Luo Yong also said in this document that the lantern lampshades they made now are not bright enough. He heard that there is a method of burning glass in the Western Regions. If the glass can be used as the lampshade, the lamps made in the future will definitely be very bright. So he planned to organize a team to go to the Western Regions to find a way to burn glass.
Chapter completed!