"I didn't expect that now ordinary people outside Chang'an can take this bus!" Tang Ping sighed to the old farmer.
"A public car?" The old farmer asked doubtfully, "Is this the car we made that you are talking about?"
"Wooing car?" Tang Ping didn't react, and then he heard a whining sound coming from the front.
I looked up and saw that there was a salesman who was walking a little too close to the middle, so the driver made a sound to remind him to give way.
There was no speaker in this car. The driver actually hung something like a lock on his head. The whine just now was made by the musical instrument.
"Hahaha, not bad, not bad, it's not bad to call it Wuwu Che."
Tang Ping didn't think about naming the car a bus or anything like that. Since the people of Chang'an were willing to call it a Wuwu car and it had such an image, it was up to them.
"Uncle, do you think this... Wuwu car is expensive?" Tang Ping was thinking that this car doesn't seem to be used much anyway, and charging two copper coins for one car won't make much money. If the people think it's expensive, it might as well be Forget it for free.
"It does seem a bit expensive to use copper plates, but I paid coal when I got on the bus." The old farmer pointed to a frame in front of him.
"Sir, look at that small box, which can only hold a pound of coal. As long as you pay a pound of coal, you can take a trip on this car." The old farmer grinned: "My boss is kind and he is afraid that we will freeze in winter, so he still gives it to us. We were given coal, a lot of it, and we didn’t take it back even if we didn’t use it up, so we just called it...yes, it was called a benefit for us. We can use it to ride in the car or exchange it for some things from other people nearby."
Tang Ping didn't expect that besides himself, someone else would take care of employee benefits.
"I see that the clothes uncle is wearing are different from usual ones? Is this also an employee benefit?"
This was also one of Tang Ping's doubts. Now that he had left Shanghe Village, he found that most of the people were wearing clothes similar to T-shirts or sweatshirts.
If he hadn't confirmed that this was the Tang Dynasty, he would have thought that he had returned to a modern film and television city or some other place.
Because this is the only place where half the people wear ancient costumes and the other half wear modern clothes.
"Hahaha, what are you talking about?" The old farmer patted his dirty clothes and said, "Yes, this is also given by the employer. It doesn't cost any money anyway, and the employer calls these clothes work clothes. Wear them for work. Work will be much more convenient. I heard that people who work in the workshop area basically wear clothes like this."
"No wonder that's the case. I just saw a lot of people cutting their hair short like the uncle. Is it also for this reason?"
"That's right, people from Chang'an are much more tidy than our place. They have to wash their hair and take a bath every now and then. They also use that thing called..."
"Soap?"
"Yes, yes, it's soap! That's a good thing. Not only does it wash cleanly, but it also smells good after washing." The old farmer nodded: "It's just a bit more expensive, so everyone thinks it's easier to work if their hair is cut shorter. , and you can save a lot of soap for washing your hair.”
Tang Ping did not expect that in more than a year, even soap, which was originally a light luxury, would be available to the common people of Chang'an.
If he had not come, not to mention ten or twenty years, at least a place like Chang'an would not have changed much in one or two years.
But I have been out for more than a year this time, and I have discovered many huge changes before I even entered Chang'an City.
"The uncle is farming in Chang'an. Will his income be enough?"
"Enough, enough!" The old farmer nodded: "The imperial court of the Tang Dynasty was kind and exempted all agricultural taxes. However, it seems that many locals in Chang'an still think that it is more profitable to work or do business in the workshop area, so the Tang Dynasty The imperial court has issued a policy that if families doing business can hand over grain to the imperial court, they will be able to reduce their taxes."
"I heard that using grain to deduct taxes is much more cost-effective than paying copper coins directly. Therefore, many merchants in Chang'an would not let their land go unused and hired people to plant it. Unlike us in the Tang Dynasty, the court had plenty of grain. , at the beginning of this spring, I heard that there was a flood in an area below the Yangtze River. Hundreds of steam locomotives from the imperial court went there carrying grain. Later I heard that it was a hungry man.
There are no dead people. "
The old farmer said with a proud look on his face: "So, the youngest boy in my family is studying in Chang'an now. The teacher at the school said that students from other places, as long as their grades are excellent when they graduate, they will be issued with the Tang Dynasty Household registration. If your grades are top-notch, hehe, you will be issued a Chang'an household registration!"
Tang Ping was also good at complimenting him. Looking at the old farmer's expression, he smiled and said, "Looking at what uncle said, I think his son has good grades, right?"
"Well, that kid is not good at work, but he really strives for success in studying. He told me many of the things I just told you. Now he has received top marks in the first three subjects. Today is the last day of the math test. , I just went to the city to pick him up, hehehe."
Seeing how confident the old farmer is, he thinks that his son will be able to get a top diploma again, or he thinks that his son will also be from Chang'an in the future, so his waist is straightened up.
Tang Ping only vaguely remembered that when his third uncle Li Yuanji came, he mentioned measures such as the introduction of talents. Unexpectedly, Chang'an had already begun to implement them in this short period of time.
This is almost the same as in later generations, as long as you study well, you will be given a household registration in the capital or Shanghai, or it will not be attractive to some wealthy families.
But for a civilian family like this old farmer, the temptation is too great.
In addition, when Tang Ping was here, Chang'an Academy provided a lot of subsidies to poor students. It can be said that the threshold for studying has been much lower than before. .c
Maybe we can't see much effect yet, but as long as we wait for more than ten years, I'm afraid all the civilian students in the surrounding countries will regard Chang'an as a holy place to study.
The two chatted about some things in Chang'an, but basically Tang Ping was asking and the old farmer was answering.
When the car arrived at the gate of the city, Tang Ping picked up Tangtang, who was still looking out of the car, and said goodbye to the old farmer. The old farmer had to go to the city to pick up his son and could still take a car, but Tang Ping planned to walk into the city and go shopping. I visited Chang'an City, which I haven't visited in a long time.
After getting out of the car, Tang Ping carried Tang Tang to a step and put her down.
"Dad, give me a hug!" Tang Tang didn't want to do it anymore. How could his father hold him comfortably when he walked on his own little feet?
"Daddy will hug you later!" Tang Ping knelt down and touched her head, then pointed to the steps and said, "Does Tang Tang know where this is?"
Tang Tang raised his head, then shook his head and said, "Not a few words."
"This is the monument to our heroes in Chang'an."
"Monument of Urgent Eyes of Heroes?" Tang Tang's age was naturally unknown, but looking at the huge statue on it was still shocking enough.
"Dad, are they very powerful? Are they more powerful than you?"
Tang Ping and Wang Qingluan left when she was still in her infancy. In her current memory, she could only see her father and mother in a small box. Aunt Xiaoluo said that her father was the most important person in the world. The most, most, most powerful person.
"Of course you are more powerful than dad." Tang Ping took Tang Tang's chubby little hand, pointed at the portraits on the Heroes Monument and said, "They, it turned out, protected your dad, they are even more powerful heroes than dad. .”
"Then where are they now? Why are they motionless?"
Children at such a young age have no concept of size, so when they are playing hide and seek, they will even look to see if the adults are hiding in small boxes.
Now Tang Tang can't tell the size of these statues from her father, but she can tell that the statues haven't moved.
"They are all in heaven now, continuing to protect us."
After saying that, Tang Ping stood up and said, "Tang Tang follows the example of Dad, let's bow to them."
After speaking, he clasped his hands together and bowed slightly. Wang Qingluan and several guards who followed the two of them did the same.
Tang Tang looked at it and bowed to the monument to heroes.
"Boy, keep your word. I have avenged you all!" Looking up at the statue of a grinning young man at the top, Tang Ping said silently in his heart.
He said something, then squatted down and put Tangtang on his shoulders.
"Ah, hahaha!" Tang Tang was startled by Tang Ping's sudden attack, and then laughed happily.
"Dad, go there, go there!"
Tang Ping looked along and found that Tang Tang was not referring to the city but to a construction site where a house was being built outside the city.
No matter how big the city of Chang'an is, it now has a population of over one million. Most of the houses inside are bungalows. Naturally, they will not be able to accommodate the influx of more people in the future.
So later Datang decided to build a house outside Chang'an, and the structure was not the original wooden structure, but a brick-concrete structure.
When Tang Ping left, those brick factories had just been built and their production capacity was insufficient, so the residential areas outside Chang'an had not been built yet.
Looking back now, I see that quite a few buildings have been built, and they are basically four-story buildings.
In fact, some ministers were opposed to this residential area at first, feeling that the people lacked protection outside the city without walls.
As a result, Li Shimin said directly: "The national border of the Tang Dynasty is the city wall of our Datang Dynasty."
The implication is that no one can safely cross the border of the Tang Dynasty, and then the matter will be settled.
"Dig dig truck, dig dig truck!" Tang Tang excitedly pointed to a working car on the construction site.
Of course, it was not a modern excavator with a hydraulic pump, but an original excavator created by Datang. There was also a shovel on the front, which was first inserted into the ground, and then lifted up, bringing up a lot of soil.
They all use steam engines and transmission devices designed by Datang craftsmen. They are less powerful than excavators and consume more fuel.
But it's much faster than doing it with a human.
Tang Ping also saw an acquaintance there.
"Tang Tang, do you want to see the digging truck?"
"Well, look at the dig truck, look at the dig truck!" Tang Tang excitedly pointed his butt on Tang Ping's shoulder.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
