Just when Yunchu held family story gatherings every night, just when the old monkey was racking his brains to incorporate the religious teachings of Dharma and Consciousness Only into the story.
People in Jinchangfang have begun to prepare for the new Lantern Festival.
Today's Shangyuan Festival festival in Jinchangfang can be compared to the existence of lanterns in Qujiang. It can even be said that apart from the grand Dharma assembly, there is nothing in Qujiang that can be compared with Jinchangfang.
People who believe in Buddhism will go to Qujiang to see the Water and Land Convention, the flower boats, and the lanterns. In Jinchangfang, you can go through the process of eating, drinking, and having fun in one stop.
However, the organization of this year's Shangyuan Lantern Festival is not as difficult as usual.
Mainly because supplies are running out.
This gave Yunchu a headache. He did not expect that Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, which was extremely powerful in history, could not bear a few huge events that were ordinary to him but extremely extravagant to the people of the Tang Dynasty.
No wonder, whenever Jinchangfang holds such a huge event, visitors will rush over in droves, because for them, this is a spectacle they have never seen in their lives.
In other words, the gatherings in Qujiang that only required the participation of people and did not require a large amount of material support were the de facto large-scale events for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Qujiang is now filled with fireworks, and it is impossible to tell that this place was originally a leisurely and tranquil village.
The thick smoke from the seven brick and tile kilns shot straight into the sky, and was pressed down by the high-altitude wind, shrouding the entire Qujiang River, making it look like a demonic realm from a distance.
The originally simple farmers now all look dark. Not only the men are dark, but even their wives and children are dark. When they open their mouths, what is exposed is not white.
Teeth, but yellow teeth corroded by the fluoride in the water.
Because of the continuous kiln firing, the temperature on the edge of the mountain was significantly higher than in other places. The grass on the ground was still green, and new shoots were still poking out from the ground. The head was frozen to death by the cold wind, but the lower half was still there.
Work hard to grow upward.
As long as you look up, you can feel the fine soot falling on your face. Therefore, the villages here are black, the people are black, and even the earth has turned black.
People in Qujiang no longer like farming because the harvest from farming is far less than the income from kilns.
In the past, less than half of the earth mountain that Yun Chu found to be an eyesore was now left. In the past period, more than half of the earth mountain had been turned into bricks and tiles and turned into houses in Chang'an City.
The last time the world's best food conference was held, Yun Chu almost caught all the fish in the water. Three months was not enough for the small fish here to continue to grow up, nor was it enough for the fish in other parts of the river to migrate.
Make a home here.
In addition, there is a thin layer of oil-like substance on the surface of the river, and the oil film is also covered with a light layer of coal ash, which makes it even more difficult for fish to live here.
Qujiangli was destroyed like this, but no villagers came out to complain. They only complained that there were not enough kilns in Qujiangli and could not bring them more income.
This is a group of people who have just tasted the benefits of industrialization. Because of the seven kilns, Qujiang Village has basically become the most prosperous rural village in Chang'an, and it may also be the richest rural village in the entire Tang Dynasty.
If you don’t believe it, you only need to look at their tall brick houses that are built to the top, and you only need to look at the white-faced steamed buns held by the black children.
Therefore, Qujiang was very wealthy, but the environment was not as good as before, and these, in the eyes of the Tang Dynasty people, were not worth mentioning at all.
As Yun Chu walked around the brick kiln, which was a little hot to his feet, he didn't feel the need to carry out environmental protection projects during the Tang Dynasty.
The messiness in the early stages of industrialization is a process that must be experienced. Even if Qujiang is seriously polluted, it doesn't matter. A strong wind can make the pollution here be accepted and absorbed by this semi-prehistoric world.
Therefore, based on the principle of capital centralization, Yunchu plans to build several more paper mills here.
We invited the chiefs from outside the city who belonged to Wannian County and sat in the warm brick kiln to discuss how to supply materials to Jinchangfang.
"Hey, the people in this city are so good at eating. Not to mention that our food in Lifang has been sold out. Even half-sized pigs, half-sized chickens, ducks and geese were sold out by the stewards of Jinchangfang in September.
Take it away.
Now the pig pen at home is full of piglets, chickens, ducks and goose seedlings. If you want to put them to use, you have to wait at least half a year."
After discussion, the village chiefs agreed that there was nothing they could do to supply supplies.
If the county magistrate insists on providing it, all he can offer at present are some sheep and cattle.
It is obviously ironic to say this. People in the Tang Dynasty did not have the habit of killing cattle for money.
As for mutton, it cannot support such a large-scale event as held by Jinchangfang.
"How about we go to the Qinling Mountains for a hunt?"
One of the village chiefs whispered a different opinion.
Another village chief said impatiently: "How much prey can be obtained by hunting with dozens of people? If the county magistrate wants more prey, he must at least have a big hunt with more than 5,000 people.
However, the imperial court has already clearly stipulated that no more than 80 people may be allowed in private hunting grounds..."
"The county magistrate is a government official. As long as the county magistrate personally leads us, we have so many villages and can't we gather thousands of people to surround the mountain?
If that doesn't work, we will drive the beasts from hilltop to hilltop, and finally gather them at the mouth of a valley, and then capture and kill them one by one."
Yun Chu quickly asked: "Do our people here have any hunting experience?"
Hearing Yunchu ask this, some of the older residents showed pride on their faces.
“During Taizong’s reign, our Wannian county received the most corvées, which involved hunting.
It’s just that there were many people at that time, and a lot of people were dispatched in the army. They all listened to Emperor Taizong’s deployment. After a hunt, it was not a problem to get tens of thousands of skins. Tsk, tsk, the old man was lucky enough to participate in the hunt in the 18th year of Zhenguan.
Eleven tigers alone were killed.”
Yun Chu's eyes suddenly lit up. At this moment, he felt that this might be the only way he could find a large amount of meat for Jinchangfang.
If it doesn't work in the past few years, we can rely on hunting to support it. Anyway, in the Tang Dynasty, it was common to kill pandas for meat. As long as they were wild animals, they were basically a scourge. As long as there was an opportunity, they would be killed.
There is no shortage of food in Chang'an City. The reason why we purchased large amounts of surplus food from the people of Wannian County in the past was to increase the people's wealth as quickly as possible.
Let them have more money in their hands and don't wait until the next financial disaster occurs. It is not worth it.
There are six royal hunting grounds near Chang'an City. Princes and princesses can go hunting in the royal hunting grounds.
Even for some respectable ministers, such as Changsun Wuji and Li Ji, as long as these people speak, the royal family will basically agree.
However, if a low-ranking official like Yunchu, who is from the sixth rank, proposes to use the royal hunting ground, the most likely result will be that he will be spat on.
Hunting was very common in the Tang Dynasty. As long as a person was brave, he could go hunting with a bow and arrow on his back, as long as he made sure that he would not be hunted by wild beasts.
Hunting is different. In the history books, there are more than one or two hunting activities that used excuses to hunt, and finally the emperor was regarded as the prey.
This kind of activity is very high-level, and generally limits the number of people and time. If you still hide in the Qinling Mountains and don't come out after the time limit, you must be rebelling.
After Yunchu returned to Chang'an City, he convened a meeting with the six cao and four tribes. After thoroughly understanding the hunting declaration process, Yunchu set his sights on the bored King of Ji Li Shen.
Li Shen, who originally looked aloof, was so frightened that he dropped the tea bowl in his hand after hearing Yun Chu's request.
He asked Yunchu with a look of disbelief: "Do you think I can organize a hunt with the participation of five to six thousand people near Chang'an?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "I have already asked you about this. As His Royal Highness Prince Ji, you are naturally qualified to hunt in the royal hunting grounds. This is in line with the national conditions and laws of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Shen was amused by Yun Chu's understatement, so he leaned down and looked at Yun Chu and said, "Who are you asking about? Is it Da Zongzheng, the disciple, or your majesty?"
Yunchu said seriously: "From the "Datang Ceremony", I heard that during the Taizong period, many princes and princesses organized large-scale hunting. Among them, Wei Wangtai specially drew a "Hunting Picture" dedicated to Taizong.
The emperor is deeply loved by Taizong."
Li Shen looked around, and after driving out the irrelevant personnel, he grabbed Yun Chu's collar and said, "Cheng Qian, Wei Wang Tai, Wu Wang Ke, Qi Wang You, Shu Wang Min, Princess Xincheng, and Princess Gaoyang have indeed organized hunts.
Now tell me, where are these people?
Tell me, what are you going to do? Don't fool me with your worthless principles.
If you don't tell me a good reason, don't blame me for turning against you."
Yun Chu looked directly at Li Shen and said: "There is no way, Jinchangfang is going to hold the Shangyuan Festival, and there is not enough meat. If King Ji is willing to make a show, all the furs harvested will be yours. I only want meat."
Please also ask His Highness Prince Ji not to think of me too complicatedly, I am just short of flesh and crazy."
Li Shen frowned and said, "There is no shortage of meat in Chang'an."
Yun Chu sighed and said: "Que, it's not just an ordinary Que. If you don't believe it, you will know it if you go to the East and West Second Market. Except for mutton, you can't even find a single pig or chicken feather.
And it’s not like Prince Ji doesn’t know the scale of the Shangyuan Festival to be held in Jinchangfang, which will require hundreds of thousands of kilograms of meat.”
Li Shen let go of the collar of Yun Chu's clothes, smiled ashamedly and said: "Do you want me to send a message to my brother for you?
Yes, I, the prince, can only have this effect at the moment. The most pitiful thing is that the only person who dares to use me to send messages to my brother is you, a little sixth-grade county magistrate.
Ah, tell me how miserable I am as a shepherd in Yongzhou."
Yun Chu leaned closer to Li Shen and said: "I think it is appropriate for me, the sixth-rank county magistrate, to ask you to send a message to His Majesty, no matter how big or small.
To put it bluntly, it’s time for King Ji to invite Your Majesty to go hunting in the winter to relax.”
