Compared with the chaotic eastern continent, the territory of the Tang Kingdom can indeed be described as calm and peaceful, or even a paradise.
After various countries sold their excess or even not-so-excess food to Tang Mo, the Tang Kingdom went through the most difficult period. With the support of food, the people here lived and worked in peace and contentment and resumed production.
With this year's bumper grain harvest, the rewards brought by new types of seeds have plunged the entire Tang Kingdom into joy.
The farmers who farmed the land realized that their hard days were finally over. The country reduced the farmers' corvee taxes and even provided some subsidies, which improved their quality of life to an unprecedented extent.
With extra grain in their hands and surplus money in their pockets, these farmers now have the most basic consumption power. And consumption power, in Datang Group's economic understanding, represents the formation of an entire consumption chain.
With the promotion of tractors and other agricultural machinery, and the construction of roads, the cost of grain transportation has been greatly reduced, and farmers have become interested in vehicles and other production equipment.
Immediately afterwards, Datang Group, which was well versed in this, immediately launched the concept of production cooperation groups and directly spread a large number of agricultural machinery throughout the country on lease.
On the one hand, this solves the shortage problem of professional drivers, and on the other hand, it also increases the employment problem of students in the school's crash course.
No matter how powerful the education department of the Tang Dynasty was, it could not guarantee that all people in the country would become college students, learn advanced knowledge, and become pillars of society.
In fact, some people do not like to study by nature. Some people would rather move bricks than write an exam paper honestly.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of employment for this group of people, Datang Group has launched a crash course to provide technical training to this group of people. This set of things is similar to a technical school, which only teaches one skill and you can get a job after learning it.
With this training system, the Tang Kingdom is continuously transporting a large number of skilled workers to places where labor is needed.
For example, excavator drivers, tractor drivers, cement workers, bricklayers, carpenters...
It only takes seven or eight days for these people to follow their masters to work on the construction site.
After learning on the job for another two months, they can become qualified talents, start their own work directly, and train their own apprentices in the future.
The entire system is free, and all those who come to participate in the training only need to help Datang Group train 20 qualified workers with the same skills in the future.
Tang Mo spent a small sum of money to speed up the technical training work of Datang Group. In just half a year, Datang Kingdom had a large group of "migrant workers".
Compared with those countries that sent their labor force to the front lines, the civilians living in the Tang Kingdom were obviously much happier.
They have never experienced such a fulfilling life: working at sunrise and breathing in at sundown, there is new harvest every day, and they are bathed in peace every moment.
Everyone can deeply realize that the Tang Kingdom is changing quietly, and everyone can see that everything around them is developing.
The dirt road at the head of the village was unknowingly paved with stones, and the hard-working road construction workers used heavy wooden piles to compact every inch of the road surface.
This road has nothing to do with the original road that accumulated water when it rained, was often muddy, and was no different from a mountain road most of the time.
It is now raised as a whole, drainage ditches have been dug on both sides of the road, the roadbed has been leveled, and the road surface is slightly sloped to both sides for smooth drainage.
It wasn't until the appearance of this road that the people in this village understood what a road was - the thing they used originally was just a wasteland without grass that had been trampled by people.
Both sides of the river have been rested and trees have been planted. I heard that this can prevent soil erosion, but no one knows what soil erosion is.
The old man who has lived here all his life saw someone repairing the river embankment for the first time. In the past, floods would break out every few years, but he had never seen the government officials caring about the embankment.
What is even more shocking is that far upstream of the river, I heard that a dam is already being built, which will block most of the river water and interfere with the water flow downstream during floods or droughts.
No one knows how much strength it takes to stop the river. Everyone only knows that the last flood destroyed the city's unreachable and thick walls...
Someone with good intentions went to see it and came back and said that the dam had already taken shape. It was so big that he couldn't find an adjective after thinking for a long time. Finally, he pointed to the mountain peak in the distance and said it was bigger than that mountain.
Everyone thought he was bragging, but no one cared about the huge dam that seemed to be still under construction.
People only care about whether there is water in the ditches in their fields, and they only care about the crops in the fields in front of them...
A high platform has been built in a town further away, with a rain cover on it. It is made of frighteningly thick steel, which looks extremely expensive.
People in the town say that thing is called a platform, and there is a special road leading to it that has no end.
The road was paved with crossbars, just like ladders. On the crossbars, I-shaped rails were fixed vertically, extending into the distance, seemingly endless.
Every day, a steel monster that emits thick smoke and makes loud noises stops on this platform, and then countless loads of goods are unloaded from the carriages pulled behind this monster.
Either live cattle and sheep, or a large number of ironware, or snow-white and smooth porcelain, or food...
The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty seemed to have endless resources. This kind of steel monster called a train continuously transported oil, refined flour, and spices that were once ridiculously expensive from afar, and then brought these things that only the nobles could afford in the past.
The prices have been suppressed to incredible levels.
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Anyone whose family has a postman who can ride a motorcycle or a tall horse may still be envied by others for more than two months. Now, if someone can drive a truck, he is called a tyrant.
Yes, those who can drive trucks today are still valuable "master drivers", and drivers are still a profession rather than a skill in the Tang Kingdom.
There was an endless stream of people walking on the flat road, women carrying baskets and holding children in their hands, their eyes filled with peace and contentment that they had never seen before.
There is nothing that makes people happier than having a full meal. If there is, then it is to have a full meal every day.
On the plains, some strange towers began to appear. Thick cables connected these towers that stretched to the top of the mountains. Soon, villages and towns near the towers started to use electric lights.
No one can tell what this feels like. The habit of sleeping in the dark that our ancestors have been used to for generations no longer seems so reasonable at this moment.
Higher-efficiency transformers made it possible to transmit electricity, and the thermal power plants built on the edge of the mines emitted black smoke day and night, announcing to the world the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, there were no environmental thugs causing trouble, and it was still everyone’s simple dream to have a smoking factory in front of their home.
Because anyone who has ever hidden a sweet spot already knows that as long as there is a smoking chimney, the surrounding area will quickly become wealthy.
Even if you just push a cart and sell some wild fruits or eat food in front of these factories, you can earn a lot of gold coins that you never thought of before.
Of course, if you have enough brains, you can find a master in the factory to study for a while, and then you can start working in the factory immediately, which will be more secure.
Because of the labor shortage, the factory pays very high wages to qualified workers. If two members of a family work in the factory, the family can even have the luxury of eating one meat dish for three days!
No joke at all, this may be the happy life that local people have longed for for generations.
In the eyes of these simple people who have been poor for half their lives, what they see in front of them is almost the communism of their dreams.
According to the policies of the Tang Dynasty, the state provides subsidies for newborn babies, and will also provide free education and the most basic medical security in the future.
This was completely unimaginable in the past. Zheng Guo... or almost all countries levied a poll tax. It would be good if you did not hide your household registration when you gave birth to a child. How could you expect people to actively report it?
However, the Tang Dynasty abolished the poll tax and even provided subsidies to farmers, which gave almost everyone no worries.
Soon, everyone's enthusiasm for having children began to increase: since there is enough food, the country also pays to raise children, and even the children's education is free, is it fair to the audience not to play poker with my wife more at night?
In just one and a half years, the population of the Tang Kingdom increased fivefold! In addition to the "childbirth" efficiency boosted by its own affluent life, immigrants also accounted for a large part of it.
The Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty still purchases people on three borders: Qi to the north, Chu to the south, and the Great China Empire to the west.
This kind of business is now almost open to the public. As long as you are willing to come, Datang Group will accept it! However, the price has been reduced from 2-3 gold coins to 1 gold coin.
The market determines prices. Now that the Tang Kingdom has no population pressure, it is no longer in urgent need of population to fill its territory.
But the generals and compradors on the border who have made a fortune relying on human trafficking are not willing to end such a business that is beneficial to them. Recently, they have made a lot of money from this business, and they seem to have reached the peak of their lives.
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In order to make these people corrupt faster, Tang Mo was also willing to spend a small amount of money to satisfy their greed.
Whether they are from Chu State, Qi State, or from the more powerful Dahua Empire, now in the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty, foreign immigrants prefer to call themselves Tang people. This is a symbol of status, and it is also their
A sign of recognition.
If you ask someone on the street if you are from Chu or Qi because of your accent, it is now a very impolite behavior.
If the other party is a little more grumpy, he might start a fight in the street because of this kind of thing. Even the Chinese who used to be slightly superior to others are now well-behaved and honest in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Everyone recognized their identity as Tang people, and even many foreign businessmen were willing to join the Tang state and become a member of the Tang people.
Because they soon discovered that the Tang State gave great preferential treatment to its own merchants, providing tax relief and assistance, and also helping to protect the interests and safety of merchants outside the country.
To give the simplest example, in the past, people from Qi or Zheng were basically unable to do business in the Mirage Kingdom. But now, humans in the Mirage Kingdom are very safe, and the goblins in the Mirage Kingdom simply do not dare to provoke them.
Like Bunas in the past, Tang State was simply a new, larger Jinshan! People who came here to do business found that no matter what they did, they could get huge profits here.
As long as they transport various products from the Tang Dynasty back to their home country and sell them casually, they can make much more money than before.
Everything here seems to be very cheap, so cheap that it is almost unbelievable: ceramic products that only the nobles could afford in the past are as cheap as free here.
An ordinary civilian only needs to spend a few copper coins to buy a beautiful rice bowl. The flowers on the rice bowl are so lifelike that they are simply a work of art.
In the past, such a porcelain bowl would have cost at least 30 silver coins to be placed on a noble's dining table. But now it is placed in piles in the warehouse, and you can even see broken "transportation losses" all over the floor.
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A large number of industrial products have replaced many of the original things. Clumsy wooden boxes have now begun to be gradually eliminated, replaced by more convenient cardboard boxes.
More convenient writing paper replaced the original variety of paper, and with the promotion of Datang Group, it was gradually accepted by everyone.
In more and more big cities, everyone has begun to accept the luxury of using paper to wipe their buttocks, and flushing toilets has gradually made everyone accustomed to a clean and hygienic toilet process.
With the rise of factories, more convenient clothing styles replaced the clothes of the past, and more and more affluent people began their simple pursuit of beauty.
Last year, you could only see men and women wearing identical work clothes in the streets and alleys. Nowadays, many people spend money in ready-made clothing stores to buy better-looking daily clothes for themselves.
The styles from Bunas are smart and convenient, and are very popular and loved by women. These gorgeous clothes decorate the gray streets, and then, like one morning after the spring rain, they suddenly bloom all over the world.
A world that is getting better and better, happier, richer, and... advanced!
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