Chapter 735 Persia wants to come to do business?
Nowadays, more and more things are brought back from various expeditions, and various spices are deeply welcomed by the people of the Chinese Empire and merchants, and the mineral deposits are warmly welcomed by the court.
Nowadays, the public opinion propaganda of the Chinese Empire has played an extremely good role in this regard. In short, it has always promoted the beauty of the Nanyang Islands, which has really made many people want to take a look. Well, this is the result obtained when studying for readers.
For such a goal, transportation must be done first. Otherwise, the long journey will lose all the passion, just like when I was a child, I followed my father to Beijing to play. Just taking the train, I took two days and two nights. Not to mention the aisle, even the toilets were crowded with people. The scene still makes me shudder when I think about it now.
After that, I was beaten to death and I was not willing to squeeze into the damn train, but I had to sit in the train and practice the magical skill of holding back and defecation for the sake of life.
Nowadays, the population of the Chinese Empire is still very sparse, far from being crowded in later generations. I remember that when I travel on holidays, especially in tourist areas, it was like going anywhere, like going to the east and west markets, and it was crowded everywhere.
I bought tickets, popsicles, and even squeezed in the toilet. Damn it, I remember that I was having fun in the Forbidden City. At that time, I was feeling uncomfortable. If a buddy in front of me hadn't seen this guy's face pale and asked me politely, I'm afraid I would have been broadcast live in public.
I still feel ashamed when I think about it. This is why I strongly demand that the social sanitation environment in Chang'an must be in place. Each workshop has public toilets, while the East and West cities require every merchant to build a Naisou, and four public toilets have been built in the east and west cities.
It is to prevent some people who cannot find the toilet from having to urinate or defecate anywhere in order to solve the internal emergency problem. I believe no one knows to urinate or defecate in public. Unless it is forced to helplessness, of course, people who have become ill after drinking too much will naturally not be included.
In order to beautify Chang'an and to ensure that all the streets of Chang'an do not have any stains for urine and defecation, so many public toilets were built. To be honest, the effect is quite good. At least when I just rushed into Chang'an City, I could see horse manure, cow dung, and traces of human beings visiting here in many places.
But now, all cattle and horse carriages are equipped with feces. Of course, animals are swearing everywhere. There is no way to stop this, but at least there will be no yellow and green environment here.
If it only takes one day to go from Chang'an to Jiaozhi, and then it only takes two days to take a boat from Jiaozhi to Luzon Island, I believe that countless people will be energetic and interested in enjoying the scenery of southern Xinjiang.
The information from Jiangnan has become increasingly clear. Li Zitong has indeed had the intention to retreat, or has already gained a wise understanding of his situation. He is very clear that he can no longer gain a foothold here.
Just three months ago, Li Zitong's general Fang Shuxiang led 30,000 troops, crossed the sea by boat, entered the Ryukyu Islands, occupied eleven islands in succession, conquered or bribed the tribes on the island, and began to build a large-scale dock on the Ryukyu Islands in preparation for welcoming Li Zitong's army.
After receiving Fang Shuxiang's letter, Li Zitong began to organize the people to cross the sea to Ryukyu. Under my secret instruction, the navy and navy of the Chinese Empire did not stop it, and even accused the maritime merchants of the south of the Yangtze River to transport the people of Jiangnan to the Ryukyu islands.
Why? It’s just laying a solid foundation for future immigration. You know, this young master cannot catch people on the ship with a whip like evil people like Li Zitong. Because the Chinese Empire needs to abide by the law, we cannot use such tricks.
However, Li Zitong's immigration to Ryukyu is a very undesirable thing for our Chinese Empire. In this way, we have more reason to go to and occupy the Ryukyu islands.
A few days ago, an important news came from the West. The Persians were very dissatisfied with the erosion of their missionary erosion and wanted to attack the storm. However, they were beaten up by the storm and lost nearly 100,000 people. This news scared both Byzantium and Persians. They never thought that a small organization that was unknown more than 20 years ago has now risen and has the strength to compete with the two powerful countries that border Eurasia.
Our envoys and merchants had already paid homage to the king of the Persian Empire and presented him with a batch of gifts from the Chinese Empire. Inside, there was a glass mirror about half a foot square, which was directly regarded as a treasure by the Persian king.
In addition, the beautiful and luxurious glass wine utensils made all the ministers of the Persian Empire stare green, and the gorgeous and cold silk, white and delicate porcelain like mutton fat jade, and the exquisite and powerful steel crossbow, as well as the Huaxia Baijing Steel Knife, which is no less than Damascus steel.
In addition, when the full-body heavy plate armor produced by the Chinese Empire appeared in front of the Persian Empire, the Persians were completely shocked by this terrifying human-shaped heavy armor like a steel fortress. Even if the Persian general used his scimitar that could cut gold and jade and cut off his jade, he only left a faint white mark on the surface of the plate armor.
Seeing this scene, all the ministers and workers of the Possian Empire were shocked for a long time and speechless. The Persian king directly asked the envoy whether the Chinese Empire was willing to become friends with the Persians and carry out bilateral trade exchanges.
Of course I have no objection to this. I have already fallen in love with the Persian Empire, the financial backer, and I have long been spitting on the minerals in the Middle East. If I don’t agree, it will be unhurried.
The Western Turks are now doing trade with us through the Western Region Corridor. The railway is now under construction, but the railway is mainly aimed at long-distance and ultra-long-distance travel. I believe that rich people prefer convenient carriages.
Nowadays, the use of horses is no longer limited to selling crossbows and horses to the public, and even retired military horses are being sold. Nowadays, the people of the Chinese Empire are getting richer, so the tools for travel naturally become advanced.
Another reason is that concentrated agriculture has been carried out in Guanzhong area, which has greatly increased the use of horses. The emergence of centralized agriculture not only saves manpower and material resources, but also liberates more labor from the farmland and enters factories, shops and other industries.
Nowadays, in the Guanzhong and Yan'an areas of the Huaxia Empire, the population engaged in agriculture only accounts for half of the total population of the Guanzhong area. The number of workers in the major factories around Chang'an alone has reached 1.3 million.
This is definitely a very terrible number. Ten years ago, the population engaged in agriculture during the Sui Dynasty reached 90% of the total population, but now it has dropped to 50%, which is definitely a huge leap.
Of course, there are many reasons for this, such as the influx of large numbers of refugees who lost their land, and the land redistribution after the war in Guanzhong.
Although the agricultural population in Bashu area has dropped a lot, nearly 70% of it is still agricultural population. After all, the development time of the Bashu area is still short, and most ordinary people still think it is more practical to dig food from the ground.
However, the Xiqin and Hexi regions have large areas of land and sparse populations, so concentrated agriculture is adopted in large quantities, which keeps the agricultural population here at around 60%.
Increasing the proportion of industrial and commercial population is equivalent to liberating more productivity. The benefits of centralized agricultural production are not only to reduce the agricultural population, but under the guidance of official agricultural technicians, these people have received professional training! Farmers have gradually understood the benefits of new agricultural production, which has actually greatly increased the agricultural output.
In addition, in Lingnan, many rice with low yields but good taste and excellent taste have also been preserved. These rice will naturally become high-end staple foods and are exclusively for those rich people, and the price is naturally much higher than ordinary rice.
But the problem is that people like me would rather spend more money than eat rice that doesn't have a good taste.
The population in Jiaozhi area has surged from 350,000 in the past to more than one million, of which Han people accounted for 75% of the total number. Now, the area controlled by Cheng Yaojin has become another granary of the Chinese Empire. The food that is cooked three times a year has aroused great enthusiasm among the people.
What’s important is that the tax here is completely exempt from taxes for the first five years, and after five years, it’s only half of the tax. Think about it, a mu of land only needs to pay one-half of the past, but the output here is three times that of the past. How can this not be moved?
In addition to some of the Han people who were sent directly from Guanzhong, some came from Bashu, but most of them came from Lingnan. After all, the land of Lingnan has many mountains and deep waters, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain enough fertile land to grow food.
Therefore, the people in Lingnan are quite poor, but when they come to Jiaozhi, it is completely different. Those who like to continue to do farm work, allocate land, and have very low taxes. They also like workers. Anyway, the construction of the Jiaozhi area just requires labor.
In addition, national primary schools have been established in all counties and counties. Each primary school can accommodate more than 5,000 students to enroll. This was unprecedented in all previous dynasties. In the past, it was more important to have family differences, but this young master ignored those things. Perhaps the influence of noble families has dropped to freezing point within the Huaxia Empire.
Chapter completed!