North and South groceries

The gifts Luo Yong sent to the magistrate of Dunhuang this time were generous enough, and the letter of apology was written very sincerely. In the end, the wrongly numbered household was canceled from the household registration in Changle County.

In other words, returning this registered household to Dunhuang County has absolutely no intention of competing with them.

The county magistrate of Dunhuang probably also saw Luo Yong's sincerity, and he might have been amused by that coffin Luo. In short, he said that since this incident was an accident, he would not pursue it.

Several other surrounding counties heard the news, and most of them also expressed their understanding. As for whether they secretly envied it in their hearts, it's hard to say.

Wow, that's a big cart of gifts, it's like a pie in the sky.

For the mistakes that occurred in the registration process this time, the Changle County Government has already put in place the relevant responsibilities. The Luo County Magistrate did not scold them, but fined them a little money as part of the compensation.

As for the rest, they were paid out of his own pocket. Who made him the boss of Changle County? If the people under his command made mistakes, he must also be held accountable.

When it comes to fines, the slack nerves of the officials immediately tense up.

It's not easy for anyone to expect them to make the same mistake next time.

Generally speaking, these officials are still very reliable in their work, so Luo doesn't need to worry about everything.

When he has nothing to do recently, he often goes to Changle Academy to attend lectures.The dean of this Changle Academy is Tang Jian, and the students are those gentlemen who came from Chang'an City. Most of the gentlemen are people of insight that Tang Jian invited from the Dunhuang area. There are local nobles and some Hu merchants. birth.

Luo Yong holds the false title of vice-principal in this academy, and doesn't take much care of it, but occasionally comes to attend lectures.

Basically, they came with Qiao Junlin, Qiao Junlin came more, and Luo Yong came less.

Luo Yong likes to listen to those experienced Hu merchants tell about what he has seen and heard on the way of doing business, and sometimes he also learns a little foreign language along with him.

At this time, the Western Regions were full of small countries, and there were many small languages, but the three main language families were Chinese, Turkic, and Indian.

There are also many Han Chinese in the Western Regions, some escaped by themselves for asylum, and some were captured by nomads during the war. There are various reasons.

I heard that in some urban oases along commercial roads, sometimes more than half of the population is Han Chinese. In such places, basically you only need to be able to speak Chinese.

In addition, Turkic and Indian languages ​​are also relatively common. Although there are many small languages, as long as you can speak these three languages, you will not have much hindrance in traveling in the countries of the Western Regions.

To the west of the Western Regions is the Persian Dashi area, and the language there is different. Hu merchants have rarely been to that area, and those places are not currently the economic focus of the Tang government. Chang Le The academy does not currently teach.

However, it is not possible to learn these two foreign languages ​​​​in a short period of time together with the knowledge of political geography of the countries in the Western Regions.

Luo Yong made a suggestion to Tang Jian, asking him to divide these students into majors. The main thing is to teach Indian and Turkic languages ​​separately. The process of language learning is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is not necessary for every student to learn at the same time Two foreign languages, anyway, even if they go to the Western Regions one day, it is impossible for them to go alone.

This is also a relatively new concept for Tang Jian. Although Chang'an City also divides Mathematics and Calligraphy, they are all schools and majors. As Luo Yong said, there are majors in a school. He really didn't know it before. heard about it.

The cultural education of this era is mainly elite education aimed at young people from the upper class. The goal is to cultivate the pillars of the country with all-round development. It becomes pragmatism, and in the end, only officials can be cultivated.

"That's not called an official, that's called a professional talent." Magistrate Luo corrected.

"Those old men in Chang'an City don't know how to laugh at me." Compared with those academies full of literati in Chang'an City, their school for cultivating professional talents is simply too low and tasteless.

"Then give them a laugh, you won't lose a piece of meat." County Magistrate Luo didn't care.

"How else can you say that you are a coffin board." Doctor Tang said.

The coffin board is just the coffin board, Luo Yong quite likes his nickname, and doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

"I heard that you collected a lot of seeds from the Western Regions last year. Did you grow anything good?" After a while, Tang Jian asked Luo Yong again.

"Not at all." Last year, those seeds were collected temporarily, and those barbarian people took whatever they could use. Because they didn't say hello in advance and prepared in advance, it was naturally difficult to receive any good things.

"I heard that there is something new in Gaochang Kingdom recently." Tang Jian shared the news he just got with Luo Yong.Because of the recent war in Gaochang Kingdom, merchants are blocked, and news exchanges are all dependent on the official.

"What is it?" Luo Yong raised his eyelids and asked.

"The way is that outside the city of Gaochang, where the Tang army was stationed before, a few melon vines grew. The vines were as thick as a thumb, and the leaves were as wide as a palm. In early summer, many golden flowers bloomed. Later, The melon was fruited again, and that melon was also very strange. At first it was only the size of a jujube, but soon it grew to the size of a fist, and it grew bigger and bigger. A few days ago, Li Daozong and others led an army back from the grassland. The melon has grown to the size of a millstone."

Tang Jian took this incident as an anecdote and told Luo Yong.

"There is such a miracle? How can melons grow on the wasteland by itself?" Luo used to be surprised.

"Who knows." Tang Jian glanced at Luo Yong, smiled, and said, "There is a saying in Gaochang State that the Buddha was grateful to the Qu clan for abandoning the royal power for the people of Gaochang, and moved from the Tang Dynasty to rescue soldiers. I ran away from the Turkic people, that's why I bestowed such a fetish."

"Tsk." Luo Yong clicked his tongue: "Has this news been sent back to Chang'an City?"

"Hurry up, hurry up for six hundred miles, and you will arrive in Chang'an City in a few days." Tang Jian picked up the teacup and took a sip of clear tea. In this summer, the local food in Changle County is not greasy, but he is now eating I am used to this clear tea, and I always drink a few sips every day.

After coming out of Changle Academy, Luo wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand. Tang Jian's old fox is very smart, and it's not easy to act in front of him.

The last time those Tang troops were stationed outside Changle City, the carts of grain and grass were placed on the side of the road. When Luo Yong passed by once, his hands were itchy for a while, so he put a few pumpkin seeds on one of the wooden carts.

Unexpectedly, by such a coincidence, these pumpkin seeds sprouted and bear fruit outside the city of Gaochang. Maybe it was just like what the people of Gaochang said, maybe it was God's will.

Luo Yong went to the street and saw a peddler setting up a stall selling caramel. In front of the stall were many adults and children, holding dried meat, beans and other things in exchange for sugar.

There are several workshops in Changle County now, and the people in the county work for these workshops, and they can earn some money, so the consumption power gradually increases, and some well-informed peddlers in the surrounding towns come to them one after another If you come here to set up a stall, the business is probably pretty good.

Luo Yong originally planned to go to buy some caramel, but after thinking about buying it back, no one would eat it, so he had to give up.

When they were in Xipo Village, Luo Yongchu earned some money by making tofu. He took the food and asked an old man in Xiaohe Village to make some caramel and put it at home. Baby is average.

Six or seven years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Liu Lang and Qin Niang are both ten years old now. They live in a place like Chang'an City, and their family is not short of money, so they should not be greedy for caramel anymore.

After all, Chang'an City is a capital city. Even though the economic level in the early Tang Dynasty was not as high as that of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there are few places in the world that can compare with Chang'an.

Liu Lang Qiniang and the others stayed in Chang'an City, guarding the north-south groceries, and Luo Yong's disciples took care of them, so naturally they didn't have to worry about food and clothing.

At the beginning of summer, there was a place called Baoshan Island in Suzhou. First, they cooked the loquats from the west mountain, and then the bayberry from the east mountain. Although they were local products, they were not cheap.

Many wealthy households in the local area sent people to buy it by boat. I heard that some people transported it along the canal to some places in the north to sell it. The profit was quite good, but it was not easy to keep.

In those days, Mrs. Luo would go to Baoshan Island by boat every day to find the cheap and good-quality fruits, and take them back to make canned food.

At that time, there happened to be many merchants from Chang'an City who went to the Jiangnan area to collect silk. Aunt Luo found some acquaintances and asked them to bring a jar of canned red bayberry and a jar of canned loquat to Chang'an to eat with Si Niang and the others.

By the time these silk boats returned to Chang'an City, it was already autumn.

The brothers and sisters were sitting in the yard holding pottery bowls and eating canned food. They heard many people outside the yard talking about the gourds from Gaochang Kingdom, and they felt that there were so many novelties in the world.

I heard that the melon is golden when it blooms, and the result is also golden. A melon can grow to the size of a millstone.

People in Gaochang all said that it was a god gifted to Gaochang by the Bodhisattva, but Chang'an City said that since it grew in the place where the Tang army was stationed, it might have been given to the Tang army.

In a few days, there was a saying in the palace, saying that the Xizhou Bodhisattva appeared and bestowed gourds, and the sage ordered them to take the seeds, and gave them to temples and military households in Chang'an City.

The sage also said, "My Buddha is merciful, but I can't save the Gaochang country from fire and water. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty rushed thousands of miles to relieve Gaochang's distress. Since then, Gaochang has become the western state of the Tang Dynasty. The Buddha bestowed golden melons on the place where the Tang army was stationed. It bloomed golden flowers and bore golden fruits. , This is a good story about Tang Jun and Buddha becoming attached to each other through the ages.