At this time Sun Simiao spoke.
"The scenery in Yuhang is quite good. I visited it more than ten years ago. There is a lake there with a small island on it. I went there to pick herbs. The scenery is incredible."
Hearing what Sun Simiao said, Luo Zhang's eyes lit up and he said, "Grandpa Sun is probably talking about the West Lake. It's really nice there."
"Oh? Is that called West Lake? I don't know about that. I went there directly at that time and didn't stay much!" Sun Simiao nodded.
The group of people landed outside Yuhang City. Looking at Yuhang City in front of them, Gao Yang said again: "This Yuhang City is not big at all!"
Luo Zhang smiled slightly and said, "How can you compare all the cities in the world with Chang'an?"
"In the entire Tang Dynasty, Chang'an was the most prosperous, so it was naturally very big. Although Yuhang was a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, it had been affected and developed by successive wars in the past. It has recovered some of its vitality in these years and is a lot better. "
"You can tell by looking at the clothes of the people that their lives are not as good as they should be!"
Gao Yang seemed to understand, but his father should be worried about these things. As a princess, she couldn't care about these things.
"Husband, when will our Tang Dynasty be as prosperous as Chang'an?" Chang Le looked at Luo Zhang and said.
"I'm afraid it will take some time, but we should be able to see that your father is a wise man with great talents and great strategies. Of course we will help him!" Luo Zhang replied.
When I walked into Yuhang City, I immediately felt the difference from Chang'an. There were sergeants patrolling everywhere in Chang'an. In Yuhang, except for two guards standing guard at the city gate, there was no sergeant inside.
Along the way, the sounds of hawking and shouting came one after another, which made the place seem prosperous.
This made Gaoyang Changle and the others extremely happy, and they wandered around one stall after another.
This place is not like Chang'an Avenue, where even if you set up a stall, you don't dare to shout.
Even in Dongshi there are few people shouting!
The business here is very liberalized. It seems chaotic, but it is also very orderly!
The entire Yuhang is divided into South City and North City, and only these two places have city gates. To the west is the West Lake, which is naturally not suitable for opening city gates. To the east is a stretch of mountains, which is obviously not suitable for building a city. Door.
Luo Zhang and the others entered from the north gate. This is a commercial area with all kinds of goods, including those from the Tang Dynasty, those from the Western Regions, Goguryeo, Japan, etc.
All this is because of Luo Zhang, because he designed offshore ships and distant sea ships, so that items that once required a carriage to pull for half a year now only take a month.
Not only that, the cargo it can pull is dozens of times that of a horse-drawn carriage. Such efficiency naturally makes the south more prosperous.
There are also many people wearing silk and satin on the street.
Luo Zhang noticed that no one with a sallow complexion was seen along the way, which meant that the people of the Tang Dynasty were not hungry, unlike before, and it was good to have a stutter.
Li Shimin has been completely exempted from agricultural taxes, which is nothing short of great news to the people!
In other words, people's income from farming no longer needs to be handed over to the court, but can be kept for themselves.
Of course, the people couldn't eat so much food, and the imperial court also provided a way to sell it to the imperial court, and the imperial court would give money.
And when people have money, they naturally have to buy things. In this way, merchants' business will be better and they can make money.
Merchants had to pay taxes, and the court could receive a large amount of taxes from merchants for court purposes.
In other words, what Luo Zhang once suggested to Li Shimin has finally been realized. This is a cycle, and as time goes by, the people will become richer, the businessmen will become richer, and the court will become stronger.
This is the first time Luo Zhang has tested the results he had conceived, and it seems pretty good now!
When it comes to happiness, the happiest women are the girls, and even Princess Yicheng is not immune.
Whether it is later generations or the Tang Dynasty, women's nature has never changed.
Besides, in Chang'an, they never walked around like this. Most of them were followed by a group of people, so they couldn't go shopping even if they wanted to.
There is no sense of shopping experience at all, but it is different here. With only Luo Zhang and Sun Simiao accompanying them, they have nothing to worry about and no need to worry about anything. The most powerful people in the entire Tang Dynasty are here. Who dares not to open their eyes? court death!
