Ten years are not long, but Bashang has truly undergone earth-shaking changes. The road to Bashang is wide and flat, and can be used to travel four cars in parallel.

Even in the rainy season in late spring, the road is still not muddy and difficult to walk, and there is no slurry. The road is covered with sand and stones, and willow trees on both sides, and it is already covered with green ribbons.

The father and son of the Li family are back.

The fellow villagers and neighbors in Bailu Town rushed over, and the Li family's industries such as Bashang wine shop, paper shop, and book shop were naturally going to come to meet their boss.

The teachers of Bailu Academy are naturally coming.

Then the Li family cave was surrounded by three layers of inner and outer layers and could not be squeezed into the crowd. There were crowds of people everywhere and excited people.

The door of the Li family was also crushed and the threshold was also broken. Seeing that the yard in the cave was about to have a stampede accident, Li Chao had to let the officers and soldiers open the way, and the whole family moved to the Li family's house.

Then Li Chao took everyone directly to the field outside the town.

Most people don’t know Li Chao. The county magistrate is no longer the original county magistrate, and the neighbors are also changing. Looking at the strange faces, the smile on the father’s face seemed a little numb.

When he returned home, he wanted to see the old acquaintances here, rather than now, everyone came to watch and said all kinds of flattery.

Dad doesn't like it very much.

Actually, Li Chao doesn't like it either.

After a day of noisyness, I finally invited everyone away.

In the evening, my father didn't have a good meal anymore. He sat at the table and sighed.

"Dad, I will close my door to thank the guests tomorrow and I will not see those people. But after dinner, you will have a few guests."

"No one sees you, you're tired." said the father.

"The neighbors are gone?"

There were hundreds of personal soldiers guarding the gate, but the mansion finally became quiet.

In the flower hall, my father saw several familiar faces as soon as he entered the door.

"Muramasa, Ritsumasa, Ke Wu."

Dad shouted out their names excitedly.

"Duke of Luo."

Several people stood up and bowed to salute with some restraint. The old iron spear came over, "What are you doing? Your family still denies this common etiquette."

Seeing that Lao Tieqin is now prosperous and wealthy, everyone feels much more relaxed as before.

Some call me brother, some call me brother, and some call me uncle.

Everyone sat back with laughter.

"Didn't you go to Longyou? Why are you back?" asked the father.

When Li Chao was the governor of Longyou and the governor, many of the Guanzhong children turned into government soldiers and stayed there to settle down. The family also moved, and many Guanzhong people moved to the past. They immigrated and settled, and divided the land and land.

In the village, Mr. Ke and his son Ke Wu and others also moved there, divided the fields and bought houses. Later, Li Chao returned to Beijing, and they remained there.

Mr. Ke was wearing a silk robe, and his dress was no longer as poor as before. Back then, Mr. Ke's family helped Li Chao make noodles and plates of noodles to change the stove.

"My family is still in Longyou, and the family is very good now. But we started doing business a few years ago. We all borrowed the light of Sanlang. We followed Sanlang's business to do some business. Over the years, we have been doing business."

Mr. Ke and his son are in Longyou, and they are now quite famous. They make wool spinning. Every year, they buy wool cashmere from the Fan Han herders in Longyou, and then process it and spin it into wool, and then sell it to the Li family's business. With the relationship between the Li family, their business is very good, and they have even gone to Supi and Tubo now.

Now he has become the top wool merchant in Longyou. His family has been rich for a long time, and more than 100,000 yuan. The Ke family now has a large number of ranches and farms in Longyou. Not to mention that the business has already been opened to Chang'an, and they have also opened a special one in Bailu Town.

I also built a house here, a very large house, not far from the Li family.

"Every year, our grandfathers will come back to worship our ancestors and then look at our hometown."

"Thanks to you guys and you two, we have such a good life now."

Ke Wu is still an officer now, and is also a Zhechong Chief in Longyou, with a fifth-ranked official position.

"Are the other villagers who moved to Longyou?" Li Chao asked.

"Okay, there is no bad truth. When we went there, which family had at least hundreds of acres of land, growing grain and raising cattle and sheep, and their days were getting better and better day by day. It has been more than ten years, and there has been no war. We rely on the southwest silk tea trade route and do anything casually, which is good."

Everyone mentioned that in the past, life was often too tight, and it was even more difficult to meet natural disasters and chaos. But in the past ten years, life has been smooth sailing and life has become more and more energetic.

"The court is good, and the emperor is even more kind. The taxes are less and the service is gone. We are not afraid of doing business in Daxing Industry and Commerce. As long as we pay taxes according to the law, no one looks down on them. Now, I am still a member of the Taozhou Chamber of Commerce. Even the governor is very polite to us." Mr. Ke was just a small village manager back then. During the slack season, he took his son and his apprentice to the kiln to earn some compensation.

But no matter how hard you work, it is almost the same every year. Life is tight and you can't afford a new set of clothes all year round.

But now in just over ten years, he, Lao Ke, has become a rich man, and his son has become a high-ranking official. As a landlord, Lao Cai, he can often meet the governor's county magistrate, and even become a guest of honor at the governor's banquet.

"Sanlang, sometimes when I think about it, I feel like I'm dreaming, for fear that I'll wake up when I wake up." Dad Ke sighed, "We met a good emperor and a good time."

Li Chao nodded beside him.

"Well, today is indeed wise and kind, compassionate and loving the people. The new policy implemented has benefited the whole world."

The court expanded its territory and immigrated to the border. Although the poor people who had not had much land in the past left their hometown, they were also assigned to Xinduo. As long as the family could plant it, two or three hundred acres would not be a problem. Even like Mr. Ke and others, they had gone to Longyou in the beginning, and no one was divided into three or five hundred acres.

This is simply unimaginable in the Central Plains.

Later, the imperial court abolished the rent and mediocre remediation and changed it to two taxes, and the tax was distributed to a mu, and the money was used instead of servitude to a mu, which made the people much more relaxed, especially the court's fixed land tax, which never added a tribute to the imperial edict, and the people were really moved to tears.

Therefore, although many people have more land than in the past, they have to pay less land than in the past. After the heavy Yao service, everyone's life has become much easier.

"In the past, it was useless to have strength. The family only had a few acres of land. If you want to rent out a few acres of land, you have to ask the landlords to be kind. After finally renting out a few acres of land, the rent was very heavy. The family was exhausted and they were not left with a few grains of grain throughout the year. They were equal to the land, and the family only had dozens of acres of land, but they also had to pay for one hundred acres."

Ke Wu said on the side, "Yes, there were no other places to make money in the past. During the slack season, I went up the mountain to collect prey, or did some help for other people's homes. Those with craftsmanship can still do craftsmanship, but the wages are pitifully low."

Many people sometimes can't understand why life has changed dramatically in just over ten years. In the past, everyone worked so hard, but why couldn't they eat enough? Now, life is getting better and better.

Taxes have been reduced and opportunities to make money have increased.

Even in our fields, we plant whatever we want, and there is no limit. If the price of cotton is high, we can plant cotton. If the income from medicinal materials is good, we can plant medicinal materials. Anyway, when we pay the two taxes, we will pay the money directly.

Everyone no longer has to go to work every year, and can work during the slack farming period. Especially in many families, some young men and girls, now have begun to work in the workshop. The wages are not high, but in terms of calculation, they are much better than farming. Even one person can work in the workshop, which can be worth the farming of the family in the past.

It’s a sad thing to celebrate the New Year, and it’s a famine that will cause you.

Now it’s more than every year. Unless there are three disasters and two diseases at home, and those of you are happy, you can’t save some money in a year.

For example, Dad Ke is so bold that he has borrowed connections to start a business. In just over ten years, he has become a top-ranking rich man in a row of states.

"I feel that gold is everywhere now, and you can pick it up with it." Old Dad Ke sighed.

Lao Tieqin also felt deeply moved. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he licked blood from the knife and ate the broken-headed rice with his head tied to his belt. I wonder if he could survive tomorrow after today.

But now, he is already a Duke, with his own fiefdom and even his own castle.

When several old guys talked about it, they all said that they met a wise king and a wise master.

The Tang Dynasty had a good court, and today it was a good emperor.

Even Li Chao could feel how much the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin are now supported and loved by the people.

"I hope Your Majesty will live a hundred years old so that our good life can continue."

"Long live the emperor, and his blessings are as long as the East Sea and the South Mountain."

"Yes, long live."

The lives of the people in the Tang Dynasty have generally improved a lot, and of course they are far from reaching the myth of everyone living a well-off life. Mr. Ke’s family is quite special, but the vast majority of the people have benefited from the new Zhenguan policy. Because they are divided into fields, especially immigrants are allocated to many fields, the two tax laws have reduced the burden, and the prosperity of industry and commerce has given the people other large income channels besides farming income.

Nowadays, most people can have enough food. However, a very small number of people are mostly those who have fallen into poverty due to illness. In addition, there are many remote places. Although they have more land than in the past, their income is still very low on farming. If you encounter something, you may not be able to make enough money to borrow money and owe money.

Those who live in a worse life now are those slaves.

The slave group of the Tang Dynasty was still very large. While the living standards of the people in the Tang Dynasty were rising steadily, the expanding slave class did not even have freedom. Now the number of slaves in the Tang Dynasty was quite large, with as many as tens of millions of people. They lived and worked in the farms, mines and workshops in the Tang Dynasty, and even among the wealthy families.

However, these good days for the people of the Tang Dynasty are quite special, and they are the dividends enjoyed by the Tang Dynasty's prosperity and expansion. If the land that the people had previously distributed for free may be transferred and merged into the hands of a very small number of people for various reasons.

Most people will still become landless farmers or only retain a small amount of land. They may become the working class of the Tang Dynasty and have no such fundamental survival as land.

After the Qingming period of the Qingming Festival in the early Tang Dynasty, later on, the administration would definitely become worse and worse, and the burden on the people would definitely be heavier.

Nowadays, social resources are a process of distribution, and gradually, they will become a process of re-concentration of wealth.

When the Tang Dynasty one day stopped expanding externally, and even began to lose its border territory and shrink inward, when the population of the Tang Dynasty surged a lot, there would definitely be many new problems.
Chapter completed!