Railway tracks were being laid outside Chang'an City at this time.
Because of this, there was a lot of excitement in the city and outside the city.
However, the excitement has passed.
Living in Chang'an City, you will see some new things from time to time.
The more you hear and see the more, the people gradually become calmer.
The issue that everyone is most concerned about now is the legendary sweet potato.
Some people say that the imperial court will distribute sweet potato seedlings to every household in Chang'an City next spring.
Some people say that this is not the case.
The sweet potato seeds of this first year must first be supplied to some drought-prone places in Guannei, east of Hebei, and the Chang'an people may not be able to take their turn for a while.
Only those families with connections can get some and plant them at home. .
There are many different opinions in this city, and they don’t know who to believe, but everyone is still looking forward to getting a few sweet potato seedlings next year.
As for how people in the capital can grow sweet potatoes at home, this is indeed impossible in the 21st century, but in the seventh century AD, it was very common.
Chang'an City, where everyone lived in the early Tang Dynasty, was built by the Sui Dynasty and was called Daxing City at that time.
The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty.
Coupled with the change of dynasties, the population of Chang'an was also damaged.
During the Zhenguan period, the population of Chang'an City was not very large.
However, the city was large enough.
A street could easily contain dozens of people.
It is hundreds of meters wide, and a household often has a few acres of land.
It is common to grow some vegetables and grains in one's own yard.
It is now the Zhenguan period.
It has only been about twenty years since the previous war years.
Many people in Chang'an have survived the war, so they are more aware of crisis.
Since there is room at home to grow vegetables and food, it must be planted.
It may become the ration of survival at critical times.
There are also those streets where vegetables are often planted on the roadside.
This situation was more serious in the past.
In recent years, all the streets in Chang'an City have been paved with cement pavements, so the situation is relatively better.
I heard about sweet potatoes.
If you put a small seedling in the ground in the spring, a nest will grow in autumn.
Each nest can produce ten or twenty kilograms.
One acre of land can be sown with about three thousand plants, which is at least three or four.
Yield of ten quintals.
If you plant millet and wheat, even if you take care of it carefully, the yield per mu will only be three or four dan.
If the land is barren and difficult to irrigate, it will be considered good if you can produce one or two dan.
In a disaster year, there will be no harvest.
In comparison, this sweet potato was a godsend.
Even the Kunlun people with black skin and curly hair suddenly became very popular in Chang'an City.
Some noble men also stood up and said that although sweet potatoes are prolific, they are not as rich in the essence of heaven and earth as grains.
They advised the people to eat more grains and not overeat sweet potatoes because they are fat and sweet.
The common people also know that grains support people, so grain yields are low.
In recent years, as the population in Chang'an has continued to increase, grain prices have also been rising.
The grain produced in Guanzhong can no longer feed the Chang'an population, so grains can only be obtained from the Yellow River.
Food is transported from the plain areas downstream, and the food transported from other places costs a lot of money, if nothing else.
Besides, the people in Chang'an City have never even seen sweet potatoes, and they don't know when they will be able to grow them.
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How can they eat at this time?
I think those noble officials must have eaten sweet potatoes.
I don’t know how much they ate, but they ate a lot of that precious grain as a meal or for fun.
Others say that in Changle County in Longxi, the people in that county have already planted sweet potatoes this year.
They planted them at the Baochang's house this year, and next year, every household will be able to plant them. .
Many merchants who came from the west said this.
Many people were very envious when they heard it, and there were also those who were unjust.
They said that they, the common people who lived at the feet of the emperor, were better than those from the border areas.
Went down, why, not because of Luo Sanlang from Lishi.
Speaking of which, the Kunlun people who donated grain and seeds this time were also heard to be disciples of Na Luo Sanlang.
The Luo family also heard words like this from time to time.
One day, Lin Wulang heard someone say this in the public, and he was a little worried.
He went home and told his aunt, saying that if such remarks from people in the public spread to the palace, he might Not good for Luo.
Aunt Luo was also worried, and she didn't know where the evil wind was blowing from, or whether there was a villain behind it.
This was obviously to push Luo Yong to the forefront.
Fortunately, not long after, a caravan carrying white folded cloth arrived in Chang'an City and sold it in the east city of Chang'an City.
This time they brought a lot of white folded cloth, and the price was lower than last year, so the people in the city They went to buy them one after another.
After that, many caravans carrying white folded cloth entered Chang'an City one after another.
The price of white folded cloth dropped again and again.
In the streets and alleys, everyone began to talk about how much the price of white folded cloth had dropped again today.
In total, When I think about when is the right time to start buying cloth, I am afraid that after this period of time, the price of the white folded cloth will rise again.
“There’s no need to worry about price increases.”
"Do you know how many white flowers are planted in the land west of Hexi?"
"There are patches of them all over the mountains and plains."
"You can't even see the edge."
"The land west of Hexi is suitable for planting white folded flowers.
I am afraid there will be more farmers planting this plant next year."
"The yield of food grown in their area is very low.
Some fields cannot be planted at all.
If they don't plant white folding flowers, they will be left uncultivated."
"This white folded cloth is not inferior to linen cloth."
"I heard that there is also a kind of cloth that is made of white velvet mixed with linen."
"The floral fabric is also very nice, but the price is a bit high."
"How can the price not be high?
After all, it has been transported thousands of miles from Longxi, and it is not as good as our locally produced linen." "" Even though the price of this white folded cloth has dropped a lot compared to previous years, it is still a bit more expensive than the linen produced in Guan Nei.
It's just that there is an expensive market.
Nowadays, most of the men and women in Chang'an City are wearing white folded cloth.
If anyone doesn't have one or two white folded cloth clothes, it is obvious that he has failed to keep up with the trend.
There are also some clever merchants who put white velvet on the middle layer of their clothes to make coats.
They are slightly cheaper than the silk coats, and they are also soft and warm, perfect for winter wear.
There are several ready-to-wear shops in the East Market, and they hire skilled women to make clothes in the courtyard behind the shops.
Recently, the shops have been selling white folded flowers from merchants coming from the west, which are specially used to sew this kind of coat.
Son, during this time, people were coming in and out of those shops every day, and business was booming.
It was more than a month later when the white folded cloth from Dunhuang was finally transported to Chang'an City.
The people of Chang'an had already consumed what they should have consumed, and there was nothing they could do about it.
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The place was too far away. , can't make the trip.
There are also some merchants who buy goods, especially those from other places coming from the lower reaches of the Yellow River, but the prices are very low.
The more ordinary white cloth, the harder it is to make money, but those high-quality floral cloths can still be sold.
The price is relatively good and the profit margin is relatively large.
This year, the North and South groceries do not sell white folded cloth, nor do they sell calico or white cloth.
They sell a kind of towel.
There are long strips, about one foot wide and more than two feet long, and there are also square ones, about one foot wide and one foot long.
There are various patterns woven on the scarf, which are a bit like the patterns on the peony cushions from earlier.
They are not the same.
Most of them have been modified, the colors are different, and there are some new patterns that I have never seen before.
There is nothing strange about these.
The strange thing is that these towels are all made of velvet brocade.
Each towel is woven into a fluffy and soft shape, neatly folded and placed on the shelf.
At first, some people thought it was a new type of sweat towel, but after asking the young men selling it, they found out that it was actually a face towel, specially used for cleansing the face.
Everyone found it strange to hear that in the past, most families would cut a piece of cloth for facial cleansing towels.
Good families would use good cloth, and poor families would use some rags to make up for their needs.
Nowadays, these north-south groceries are also specially made.
Start trading this towel.
Although it is unheard of, there are many rich people in Chang'an City after all.
Such a soft and beautiful towel only costs more than ten cents, so just buy it.
Once you buy this and use it, you will know the difference.
The softness and absorbency of other fabrics are simply incomparable.
No matter how expensive or gorgeous those cloth towels are, they are just for appearance and should not be used for practical purposes.
Use a face towel like this, dip it in some hot water, wring it until it is semi-dry, then apply a little refined suet soap, tsk tsk In the next two days, many families sent their families to the north and south to buy facial tissues.
Logically speaking, Luo Erniang and the others sent a lot of goods this time, which is enough to sell for a while.
The bad thing is that women in this era like to hoard dowries, and they will buy some of any good things they see and put them away. , packed in exquisite or simple wooden boxes, passed down from mother to daughter to grandson, from generation to generation.
These Chang'an women often bought dozens or hundreds of towels, and within two days they emptied the inventory of North and South groceries.
Luo Siniang was so crowded with people at the North and South Grocery Store that day that her hair fell out.
She was also chased by many people asking when the second batch of goods would be shipped and whether there would be any this winter.
She was made to make a fuss. big.
After finally getting out, he returned to the Bai Mansion exhausted.
As soon as he got off the carriage, he saw Bai Yimao instructing several servants to carry towels down from his carriage.
The bundles were bundled, at least.
There are hundreds of them.
"Why did you buy so many face towels?"
Siniang said in a funny tone, "Are they for dowry?"
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