Great Tang Idyll - Chapter 1335

[Chapter 981]

With the coming of the New Year, every household is busy. Those who have booths are busy selling their own things, while those who are not in business are busy cleaning and purchasing all the things they need for the New Year.

The prices of commodities in various places have risen all of a sudden. The usual villages and small county towns have increased by between 10% and 20%, and the county towns where the state capital is located have increased by 20% to 30%. , cities like Beijing and Luoyang have all increased by more than 30%.

There are also the 50% range achieved by various commodities, but there are no more, and there is no 100% price increase.

Of course, except for luxury goods and antiques of calligraphy and painting.

This is a habit that has been developed in recent years. The market economy fluctuates normally under the macroeconomic adjustment. Businesses without strength cannot raise prices, and those with strength dare not.

The domestic economy of Datang has maintained steady growth. It is not that the people have no money, but the people who have a surplus in their hands are no longer hoarding necessities for survival, but have begun to buy goods that can improve the quality of life. Good clothes, beautiful Jewelry, comfortable house, these are what the people yearn for.

Some people like to travel. As long as they have more savings, they are willing to go out for a walk and see what other places look like. They don’t have a big burden on survival. The biggest burden is comparing with their neighbors.

People in the village compare each other to see who lives better, who has a virtuous and beautiful daughter-in-law, whose children have high academic performance, and even more musical instruments. in comparison.

The powerful people in the village began to compare with the people in the county again, and the competition was everywhere.

However, the people are not under pressure to survive. There is zero expenditure on education and medical care. In theory, there is zero expenditure, but in fact, there is still a part of the expenditure. For example, the school thinks that the school is good.

The adults in the family want to move, and if they move the house, the children will naturally go to the local school, and the medical level of the local medical center is not enough.

If the sickness is not good, the family members have to find a way to take the patient to a better place to seek medical treatment.

There is no expenditure on direct medical care and education, and the money is used for assistance. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don’t care about such things.

In fact, there is no way to control it, it belongs to the most basic human existence.

As for the social unrest caused by the increase in commodity production in the process of economic development, it has always been balanced by means of shifting the crisis.

For example, the production of citrus in Huainan Road has tripled, and there are also many fruits in other places.

In the face of the backlog of sales, some people will organize a big ship to process the citrus and ship it overseas.

Although people who grow citrus can’t keep the original price.

But income has been able to grow, at least outperforming inflation.

Then the excess money is naturally used to improve life,

or to be saved in the bank for future generations.

Luxury goods are particularly important in such a social environment, and production technologies have begun to be widely used, such as hand-cranked juicers and soymilk makers, such as coal or firewood-fueled ovens.

For example, glass windows that have started to drop in price.

These things are middle-class consumer goods, and they are what the people of the Tang Dynasty who have already obtained food and clothing are willing to pursue. When wages, grain and animal husbandry increase again, the middle-class consumer goods will become low-end daily products. of high-end consumer goods into medium consumer goods.

For Datang itself, it is a virtuous circle. As long as the production technology can keep up and the speed of transformation into productivity is controlled, Datang will not have problems.

However, it is a huge threat to the outside countries or tribes. Their basic productivity cannot keep up. They finally bought things from the merchants of Datang. It has not been used for a few years. The new ones are better. something appeared.

There is always comparison and competition between people. Whether to buy new things is a problem. If you don’t have enough money to buy them yourself, if you don’t buy them, others save money to buy them. What should you do?

“So, without the help of foreign basic technology, weak countries that rely on the products of strong countries to survive will never develop. Their human resources have been used in the purchase of daily necessities in strong countries, and these daily necessities are very important to them. It’s a luxury.

In order to enjoy more of the Tang Dynasty things, they will inevitably take various measures in their own country, or they will use unscrupulous means.

There will be fierce internal struggles, even wars, and there will be no way to free up the country’s basic economy.

Therefore, we must restrict the export of technology, and we must not let them master better technology. When we study the seventh generation technology, the common people use the fourth generation technology, and the military uses the fifth generation technology, their technology acquisition is not allowed to exceed ours. Second generation.

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twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, there is still another day for the Chinese New Year. Zhang Xiaobao is not idle. He is giving lectures to Li Longji, members of the royal family and people who specialize in national strategy.

It is not that Zhang Xiaobao wants to lecture today, but some people are not thinking about it. Stable, in a place leading to the Straits of Malacca, to be precise, the local tribe in Singapore at that time, I don’t know how to have a very smart chief.

The chief told the former businessman that he was willing to submit to the Great. Tang, if you truly surrender, you can even send officials from the Tang Dynasty to govern and build factories. They can provide a lot of land, cheap labor, and even no money, as long as they provide two meals.

At the same time, they also wanted to accept the education of Datang, and hired teachers from Datang to give lectures to their people using local jewelry. The

news came as the businessman returned home, and many people were very happy, thinking that this was not the case. Fighting and subjugating the soldiers showed the powerful style of the Tang Dynasty.

So Zhang Xiaobao had to find them all and teach them a lesson, lest they really agree to others.

Wang Juan was also listening in, and after Zhang Xiaobao finished speaking, she continued: “They’ll learn our technology and then apply it, and they don’t really use such technology to attack us, but they’ll fight others, and they’ll take a lot of risk on land to take someone else’s place, in the ocean to go to the unknown remote place.

This is a kind of competition for resources, and it is the driving force to promote the development of their civilization. If you want to leave some enemies to your descendants, then agree to their proposal.

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“Have a good New Year, all have a good New Year.” Li Longji dropped a sentence, got up and left, and the meaning was clear.

Those who ask to be seated are not allowed to agree, and they must also be careful in the future.

“Madam, let’s go too.” Zhang Xiaobao went to help Wang Juan as if he was protecting his baby, and the others stood up to send him off.

“Let’s go, let’s go. After coming back for a new year, I still encounter such things. It’s annoying. Don’t put your mind outside one by one. Let’s develop inside Datang. You don’t need to change the external strategy. Hundreds of people from outside, it is better to improve the living standard of a commoner in the Tang Dynasty.”

Li Xun, who rushed back from the outside, complained to the crowd and walked away with square steps.

The expressions on the faces of the rest of the royal family were not very good-looking. Why did Li Xun speak like this?

It’s nothing more than a close relationship with Zhang Xiaobao, and the prince didn’t say anything.

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New Year’s firecrackers sounded one after another.

A lot of people came to compete for the Zhang Wang family’s mansion.

There are Zhuanghu, and Li Longji and other royal family members. Instead of celebrating the New Year with the common people, they went to Zhang Wang’s family to have a New Year’s Eve dinner.

It would be impossible to celebrate the New Year in another family. The emperor is here, and he has to wait on him. Fortunately, it is now the Zhang Wang family.

I often meet with Li Longji, so I don’t have the kind of care and caution under the dragon’s prestige. Li Longji even paid New Year’s greetings to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan’s grandparents. Although he didn’t kneel, his waist was bent.

Like other princes, they all have to pay New Year’s greetings. People like Xiaobei’s prince and others need to kneel and kowtow. Don’t look at the old man and the old lady. To kneel, how about you?

Of course, it’s not just kneeling in vain. The old man and the wife gave each of them a big red envelope. In addition to tens of thousands of dollars, there was also a plan related to their busy development of the Tang Dynasty, which was specially formulated by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. , For them, planning books are more useful than money.

The amount of each dish on the dinner table is not large, but there are many varieties, and everything can be tasted.

In fact, I couldn’t eat much at all. The adults were chatting, and the children were led out by Xiaobei to set off firecrackers. From their own family, plus the children brought from Zhuangzi, more than 100 people listened to Xiaobei, and put the children together. Bei was so busy that he didn’t play much at all, and was always organizing and coordinating.

“When Xiao Bei grows up, she will also be a female prime minister.” Li Longji looked at Xiao Bei who ran in and asked the children to grab some melon seeds, then hurried out with them and said with a smile.

The royal family heard other thoughts, and before anyone could speak, Zhang Xiaobao’s voice sounded: “Xiao Bei, it’s too tiring to be prime minister, it’s better to play happily all day long, and if you have the ability, you can focus on serving the country. Only people who serve the people can be prime ministers.”

“It’s a pity!” Li Longji shook his head and said, but he still considered that even if he abdicated in the future, he would get someone from the Zhang Wang family to Zhongshu, otherwise it would be easy to appear Bad things.

For example, when others see that no one in the Zhang and Wang family is an official in the imperial court, they think that the power of the family has become smaller, and then they don’t care, and usually they have conflicts and bully them.

In that case, the consequences would be very serious, and it would be easy to send a bad signal to the common people. Even if the provocateurs were cleaned up, the common people would think that no one dared before, but now someone dares, because the royal family did not value the Zhang and Wang families.

Li Longji thought about it, he didn’t know who should be pulled into Zhongshu for a while, so he had to put it down temporarily and asked Zhang Xiaobao, “When will you leave?

” , that’s the real home.” Zhang Xiaobao replied that he and Wang Juan had to go to the Zhang and Wang Zhuangzi in Sanshui County to complete the wedding.

Li Longji frowned: “Is there enough time? Cuckoo can’t bear the bumps.”

He knew that Wang Juan was pregnant, so he congratulated him. Unlike women in the village, it would be a shame to get pregnant before marriage. But it’s nothing to change to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. Logically speaking, unmarried people can’t have the same room, but the two people are no different from married people after they have arranged their marriage.

This is actually discrimination against women, but even if Xiaobao and Jujuan gave birth to their children a year ago and have not married yet, no one in the whole Tang Dynasty would think that Jujuan is not good. UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com Many blessings for the children.

But it is estimated that some people will say Xiaobao, why he didn’t get married earlier and gave birth to the child.

Li Longji thought about it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He believed that the people of Datang could really talk about Xiaobao in front of his face. It’s all right now. It’s just right to come a month earlier.

Zhang Xiaobao didn’t know how Li Longji was slandering, he replied: “It’s okay, the ice on the river that passed this year has not broken, walking on the ice, snowmobiles powered by diesel engines, you can go back a few days in advance, make arrangements, rest and rest. ”

Really?” When Li Longji asked, he already knew that the fact would not change, it must be true, and he thought, sure enough, the best technology has always been used in his family. The house was, and it is now.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded firmly.

Li Longji smiled again: “It’s just right, I’ll go too, join in the fun.”

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There is still today, and the book will end today.

I’ll talk about it separately when I finish the last chapter.

[End of this Chapter]