North and South groceries

After a few days, some jujube sellers appeared on the streets. At the beginning, there were not many of them, and the prices were relatively expensive. After that, there were more and more, and the prices were also low.

A few days later, autumn rains began to fall one after another, and this was in Chang'an. If it were left in Longxi, large areas of white cascades would be destroyed.

But even in Chang'an, rain in autumn is not a good thing. There are a lot of cooperation between north and south groceries in Chang'an city and suburban farmers. It is good for autumn harvest.

The people in the city had only eaten the jujubes for a few days, and because of the continuous rain, the jujubes were almost gone in the market again.

One is that it is inconvenient to go in and out on rainy days, and the other is that once the freshly picked fruit is exposed to rain, it will not survive and is easy to rot. Whether it is picking fruits and vegetables or harvesting grain, it must be on a sunny day.

Luo used to go to the court, and the court was also talking about the weather. They were worried that the grain in the Guanzhong area would be spoiled by the autumn rain this year. Be tight, if there is a disaster year, it is easy to start a famine.

Fortunately, in the past two years, there have been a lot of granaries in various granaries. Except for the peace in the world, there have been few wars. The main reason is that the yield of corn is high. Most of the granaries in these granaries are corn.

I think how expensive this corn was when it was first popularized and planted back then, but now it can be seen everywhere, and the price is not as good as millet and wheat.

In order to be sure, the imperial court sent people to check the various granaries in the customs at this time, including the righteous warehouses specially used to resist natural disasters, and the Changping warehouses used to stabilize grain prices.

In this way, various large and small granaries in the Guanzhong area will usher in a wave of inspections. If any deficits are found, another group of officials will inevitably be dismissed.

The largest granary in Chang'an City is the Taicang in the palace city. Luo Yong and his Chang'an County government also have a granary, but it is a small granary, which is mainly used to pay salaries to the officials in the government, and some foundations in Chang'an County. maintenance of facilities.

For example, in Chang'an City at this time, there are many ditches outside the walls of the workshops. In order to facilitate access, bridges must be built on the ditches. At present, these bridges are mainly wooden bridges, and pedestrians and horses trample on them every day. Be careful, these wooden bridges are often broken.

If there are rich people living in some workshops, seeing this situation, they may pay for the repairs themselves. If there are no one to repair some workshops, then the Chang'an County Government must come forward to do this.

In addition, there are many places that need to spend money. For example, after the promotion of biogas lamps this time, there are street lamps on all streets in Chang'an County. The maintenance of these street lamps and public biogas tanks is also an expense.

These are basically fixed expenditures every year, and there are also some temporary emergencies.

Luo Yong wanted to replace the wooden bridges in Chang'an County with reinforced concrete bridges, because the wooden bridges are not only easy to damage, but also easy to grow moss when they are drenched by rain. There are relatively few adults in the ditch, and it is often heard that some children fall into the ditch.

However, there is no money. Recently, Luoyang began to repair the railway tracks, and the price of iron in Chang'an City has increased accordingly.There are a total of 54 squares under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County. Under normal circumstances, each square has as many bridges as there are gates. Some squares have four bridges, some have two bridges, and some squares are next to the city wall. For the three bridges, if all these wooden bridges are to be replaced with reinforced concrete bridges, the sum of these 54 squares is not a small sum.

After six or seven days of rain, the autumn rain finally stopped. As soon as the weather cleared, farmers outside the city began to rush to harvest grain.

Jujube sellers can be seen everywhere again, and the price of the dates is a little cheaper than before the rain.

Luo Yong and his family have a jujube tree in their yard, which is enough for their family to eat.

There is no fresh-keeping technology in this era. Sometimes the jujubes harvested on the first day, if they are not eaten after washing, will start to rot the next day. Qiniang and the others use a knife to peel off the rotten part, and still use these jujubes. eat up.

The rest of the jujubes, which were intact and not broken, were dried in the yard. With just this one jujube tree, they probably wouldn't have to buy dates for the next year.

Apart from dates, there are also persimmons, pears, and hawthorns and pomegranates at this time of year, and the rest are rare, such as grapes and oranges, which are very expensive, and not ordinary people can afford them.

And some poor families in Chang'an City are not willing to spend money to buy even the cheapest dates. Some people often take the mixed flour rice bran at home and exchange it with the date sellers for some rotten dates to eat.

In such a large city of Chang'an, there are always rich and poor, especially on the side of Chang'an County under the jurisdiction of Luo Yong.

Luo Yong was born in poverty in his two lifetimes, so he didn't think it was a big deal to eat a few rotten dates. Even now, his brothers and sisters wouldn't just throw away the slightly rotten dates.

However, the difference lies in whether they can not eat these rotten dates when they don't want to eat them, and whether they can afford to eat better fruits when they want to eat them.

Not to mention, life's restrictions on these poor people are far more than just a few fruits.

Temporary difficulties are not terrible, what is terrible is the hardships of generations, with no hope in sight, no chance to succeed at all, generation after generation, let the times wear away.

On the first day of the ninth lunar month, Luo Yong gave a performance on this occasion, saying that he wanted to open a primary school in Chang'an County, in the south of the city and in the north of the city. A total of four boys' schools and four girls' schools would be opened, making a total of eight schools. It is used for the enlightenment of children in Chang'an.