For ordinary people, life is actually about food, clothing, housing, transportation, and family life is composed of various trivial matters. It is not so high-end, but more about trivial matters.

Chang'an is a good place, the center of the world. People from all over the world say that there is no city in the world that is greater and more prosperous than Chang'an.

In Chang'an, there are some people with assets of millions of yuan, and some people with wealth of more than 100,000 yuan. Chang'an does not lack rich people, nor does it lack noble people.

There are dozens of princes and princes, and there are more than 100 dukes who are actually granted the titles of dukes. As for the male titles below the dukes, there are even more dogs.

There are not many officials in the third rank or above purple robe, but there are many officials in the third rank or above, with many officials in the third rank or above, with great honors and titles, let alone fifth rank.

There must be thousands of foreign officials in Chang'an City who are only granted the title of fifth rank or above.

Chang'an is the center of the world.

But Chang'an is not so friendly to ordinary people. Survival is not easy here, consumption level is high, and various prices are much higher than other places.

The most difficult thing is living and travel, especially housing. The earliest residents of Chang'an were better. There were still residential land in Zhufangs, but there were more people. They did not have their own houses in Chang'an, so they could only rent a house, but the rent was very expensive.

The capital city is building residential areas every year. In the early years, there were many mostly empty arch areas in the south of the city. Now it has been built today. Even outside the nine gates of the outer city, large areas of guardrails have been built, but it is still not easy to live in.

Traveling is not convenient.

Many people in Chang'an have long lost their land, let alone farmers. They have become members of this huge city and a member of the supply and maintenance of this city. There are people in every industry.

Butcher, Lifu, coachman...

By relying on their skills or pure efforts, they have their own position in Chang'an, but when they exchange for rewards, they always make them very confused and worried. This confusion lies in their concerns about the future.

They feel that without land, they always lack some security, just like later generations always feel that they have no roots without a house.

However, although Chang'an is located on the Guanzhong Plain, it has a larger population. It is a narrow and densely populated town, not to mention that there are too many honorary, nobles, royal relatives, royal relatives, royal families, imperial guards, etc., and the fields are mainly in their hands.

The bottom members of Chang'an are all very anxious, worried about the future and afraid of tomorrow.

If they have the chance, they are willing to live the kind of life as Ah Huang said, having a piece of their own land, having a wife and a child, and even taking two concubines, being a small landlord or a self-cultivated farmer, and working in their spare time to make money, savings every year and surplus food every month.

However, the living standards of the lower-class people in Chang'an at this time have actually been envied by countless foreigners when put outside.

A majestic, clean, tidy and safe city, a stable living income, is this the life that many foreigners dream of. At this time, the Frankish Kingdom in Europe was just a feudal country established by the barbarians. Even the royal city was full of manure. Even the capital of Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Rome, was known as the center of Western civilization. In fact, it was just a glossy surface, and the poor and beggars were everywhere.

It is impossible for Wu'anzhou to be full of gold.

Even if gold is really everywhere, it is impossible for everyone to have a share.

However, as a Qin family fiefdom far away in Annan, Qin Lang just needs to immigrate from the Central Plains. The Qin family's long-term strategy should still be based on population share and Han people completely occupy the majority, so that they don't have to worry about future control.

Indigenous barbarians, even early Hakka immigrants, were actually targets of suppression.

The Qin family has been using troops in Wu'anzhou in recent years and has captured so many rebellious Xidong Villages. For those barbarians who dare to rebel, the Qin family has never ruthlessly sent troops to attack with force.

After breaking the village, you will never be lenient.

Often, all the barbarians in Xidong are sold directly as slaves, and there is a mandatory regulation that two-thirds of the sold are sold outside and not left in the fiefdom as slaves. This is an important way to change the population.

In addition, the vassals kept recruiting immigrants from the Central Plains and other places to travel south, giving them very preferential conditions, but they would not easily recruit the barbarians from Lingnan.

If refugees who went to the Central Plains wanted to buy land in Wu'an Prefecture, they would receive preferential treatment, with cheap land prices and few restrictions. However, if the barbarians wanted to buy land or wanted to relocate, there would be many restrictions.

This kind of discrimination is everywhere.

After all, as outsiders, the Qin family and his vassals believed more that the Han people in the Central Plains had the same roots and origins. Everyone would rather spend more money to lead people from the Central Plains than give the barbarians better treatment directly.

Although Qin Lang has always been trying to win over the Runong family and the Yang family, the first to submit to the Li Han chiefs, promoted the enthronement and franchise, formed Liliao Township, cooperated in mining and doing business, etc., it still will not change the fact that Wu'an Prefecture is essentially a colony.

The special management model of the colony's own colonies.

"If you want to go to Wu'anzhou, you can find Lao Huang to register." Qin Lang said with a smile.

Wu'an Prefecture has just been in operation for a few years, and now it is the time when a large number of Han people in the Central Plains need to immigrate. At this time, there are still immigration dividends. Those who go first can indeed make cheap land or even divide land, but as time goes by, this benefit will definitely gradually decrease or even disappear.

Once the population is saturated, there will definitely be no vacant fields left.

Of course, Wu'an Prefecture has the largest coal mine in Lingnan, and it still operates a harbor. Relying on the center of Jiaozhou, Annan, the prospects here are very broad, and industry and trade will be more prosperous, and the demand for manpower will continue to rise.

But at that time, what was needed were mainly craftsmen or Lifu, and it would be difficult for the local owner to go there.

Of course, in addition to Wu'anzhou, Lingnan and Annan, there are still opportunities everywhere. There are places where immigrants settled in the past, but it may not be as safe and stable as the Qin family Wu'anzhou.

After all, the Qin family's current security was made by Qin Lang for countless hard work. Without the violent spending of money in other places, how could there be such a quick change without the Qin family's violent spending.

Qin Lang spent money very much on Wu'anzhou.

In recent years, the money Qin Lang earned, except for the money he had opened to maintain the existing stall management needs, was basically invested in Wu'anzhou.

Anyway, Qin Lang can't remember how much money he spent. Wu'anzhou has changed rapidly and Qin Lang spends money at all costs. Now Wu'anzhou has begun to generate profits, but that little profit is completely inconsistent with his huge investment.

I don’t know how long it will take to recover the cost of the money, let alone the investment has not ended, and he still has to continue throwing money in. It is hard to say when it will last.

I don’t know how much I have to invest in just to build Taiping County, Wu’an Prefecture into a Beibu Gulf trading port, but Qin Langshe’s investment.

This is his way of running for the Qin family, and it is worth it to spend as much as possible.

In comparison, Qinrenfang's investment in Songzhou fiefdom is not as bold and financially as Qin Lang, so Songzhou's development is step by step, and even a little slow and no changes have been made.

"Sanlang, I have something important to tell you in person."

Ah Huang and Qin Lang worked together to repair horse hoofs for the leopard. Although he became the chief minister of Wu'an, Ah Huang's authentic work in repairing horse hoofs was still not lost.

“This horseshoe is good and very delicate.”

“This horseshoe has always been.”

“It’s quite expensive.”

"One consistent."

"Wow, it's so luxurious. An ordinary family of five may not be able to save a whole lot of money in a year. This leopard's head is just a whole lot of money."

The rich family smells of wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road, but they are actually everywhere. When Qin Lang reaches this class, it is impossible to say that his assets are billions, but he still has the same living standards as a commoner. This is impossible.

Just like when later generations saw the richest man wearing cloth shoes or simple clothes, they did not mean that they were really frugal with such a standard of living. This is just a side they showed you.

What you see is not entirely true.

Qin Lang doesn't like to perform on purpose. He likes to be casual. Ordinary people want to kill a chicken or cut two kilograms of meat during the New Year. The landlord wants to take a concubine after the harvest.

As long as it is not intentional waste, there is no need to interfere too much else.

"Tell me if you have something to do."

"Li Changshi tried several attempts to conquer Heman tribes in the past two years, and he had a slight victory, but he had not made any major progress. Heman tribes resisted fiercely and were in alliance with the Liaozi tribe in the north. As soon as the Jiaozhou soldiers advanced to attack, the Heman tribe either went south to rescue the Heman tribe, or took the opportunity to harass the Jiaozhou border. On several occasions, he even came to us. Although we were repelled, we could not let them go as soon as they wanted to come!"

Qin Lang took out a special tool for the leopard head to carefully repair the horseshoe palm. This set of tools is worth 100,000 yuan and is quite exquisite. It is an eighteen piece set made of Damascus steel and has exquisite patterns.

"You want to use troops against the Yaozi army?"

"It's impolite to come but not come!"

Qin Lang just smiled slightly, knowing that things were not that simple. Just as Li Daliang, the chief of the Annan Protectorate, repeatedly used troops to Heman tribes in the upper reaches of the Honghe River, it would be beneficial for the Qin vassals in Wu'an Prefecture to use troops to the Liaozi tribe.

"Do you like territory or population?"

"We can't take possession of the territory privately, we just want to grab some people back. Everyone is short of people. Manors, workshops, and mines are short of people, and even the forts of each company are short of people. It's better to buy it directly. You can make money by breaking the village."

When Ah Huang faced Qin Lang, he didn't hide anything.

Li Daliang has repeatedly used troops to the Heman tribe in recent years, and has seized a lot of Heman tribe territory in the upper reaches of the Honghe River. He has established seven new states, and the territory has headed north to Yunnan in later generations, all the way to Mengzi and Jianshui.

This incident has caused several controversies in the court. Some people believe that Li Daliang is looking for trouble because he is not in trouble and deliberately provoked border provocations for military merits, but Qin Lang firmly insists on Li Daliang in the court.

The main purpose of Li Daliang's repeated dispatch of troops was to open up a trade route to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau from the Heman tribe and the Liaozi tribe.

This trade route is based on the Honghe River as the main trunk, and then goes northwest at the old Hekou Street in later generations, connecting Kunming and Dali, the two cores of Yunnan, namely the core of Yunnan.

This trade route is of great value.

Starting from Chengdu, go south to Yibin and Qujing (this section is called Wuchi Road in Qin and Shimenguan Road in Tang Dynasty), then go west to Kunming, Dali, Baoshan, and you can go south to Tianzhu and Piao Kingdom (Myanmar).

Another route, passing through Chengdu, passing through Xichang, Yao'an, and converging with the East-West Ancient Road in Xiangyun (this section is called Lingguan Road in the Han Dynasty, and Qingxiguan Road in the Tang Dynasty!) After reaching Baoshan, it can be divided into three routes. One of them goes west through Tengchong to India, southwest to Myanmar, south through Lincang to Myanmar and Thailand, and then goes to Europe through India and Pakistan, which is known as the Shushi Poison Road in history.

What Li Daliang wanted to open was actually the Annan Ancient Road. He went south from Chengdu to Yibin, then passed through Shimen Pass (Yanjin, Yunnan), through Zhuti (Zhaotong, Yunnan), into Hanyang (Weining, Guizhou, Shuicheng), arrived at Dianchi Lake (Jinning), Yushui, Liangshui, and reached Shengxiu (Jianshui), and finally along the Honghe River to the sea.

This road along Ailao Mountain and Honghe Valley is a natural passage for south-west transportation since ancient times. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, it has changed from a natural path to an artificial corridor, and at this time it has become an important commercial path.

As the chief of the Annan Protectorate and the governor of Jiaozhou, Li Daliang certainly hopes that Jiaozhou can be the import and export port of goods in Yunnan, even Jiannan and Qianzhong. In this way, Jiaozhou's industry and commerce can be more prosperous, the volume of goods transactions at Jiaozhou Port can also increase greatly, and the status of Jiaozhou will become more important.

This is also an important step to expand the influence of the court on Yunnan Qianzhong Plateau that Qin Lang once discussed with him. The Heman tribe and the Liaozi tribe blocked this trade route, blocked the road and robbed the road at any time, and even set up checkpoints to charge fees. Of course, this situation cannot be allowed.

Li Daliang took three years to launch several expeditions against the Heman tribe, and fought along the Honghe River to the banks of the Nanpan River. Seven states were set up along the road, military forts and post stations were established, troops were sent to garrison, immigrants and reclaim land. After opening up this key trunk, he also cleared several branches of ancient business roads, which now made merchants from Jiannan, Hunan, Qianzhong, and Yunnan. The goods were continuously flowing on this business road, and finally converged in Jiaozhou, Annan, which brought fresh blood to Jiaozhou.

However, the Heman tribe was not willing to give up this money tree. Moreover, not only did they lose the money tree, but many tribes even lost the Xidong tribe's mountain village where they lived for generations. How could they be willing to do so?

So both sides came and took it, and they fought hard on this business road. I don’t know how many times they fought. Li Daliang was also annoyed and wrote to the court several times, wanting to shake people and do the big things.
Chapter completed!