Tracks were being laid outside Chang'an City at this time. For this matter, the city was also lively for a while.

However, after the bustle, it will be over. When you are in Chang'an City, you will often see some new things. After hearing more, you will see more and seeing more, and the people will gradually become more calm.

The most concerned issue for everyone now is the legendary sweet potato. Some people say that the imperial court will distribute sweet potato seedlings to every household in Chang'an City in the beginning of next spring.

Some people also say that this is not the case. The sweet potato seeds for the past year must be supplied to Guanneihedong and Hebei, where drought is prone to. People in Chang'an are afraid that they will not be able to take turns. Only those families with their own means can get some of them at home.

There are many different opinions in the city, and there are all kinds of people saying it, and I don’t know who to believe, but everyone is still looking forward to getting a few sweet potato seedlings next year.

As for how the people in the capital can grow sweet potatoes at home, this is indeed unlikely in the 21st century, but in the seventh century AD, it was very common.

The Chang'an City where everyone lived at this time in the early Tang Dynasty was built earlier in the Sui Dynasty and was called Daxing City at that time.

The Sui Dynasty was a short-lived dynasty. In addition to the dynasty changes, the population in Chang'an area was also damaged. During the Zhenguan period, the population of Chang'an City was not very large. However, the city was large enough. A street was dozens or hundreds of meters wide, and a family was as big as a few acres of land. It was common for growing some vegetables and food in their own yards.

It is the Zhenguan period, and the war-torn era in the past twenty years have just passed. Many people in Chang'an survived the war, so they are more aware of crisis.

Since you have a place to grow vegetables and grains at home, you must plant them. At critical moments, it may become a living food. And those streets in the market are often planted with vegetables and crops on the roadside.

This situation was even more serious in the past. In recent years, all the streets in Chang'an City have been paved with cement pavement, and the situation is relatively better.

I heard that sweet potatoes were planted in the field in spring, and a small seedling could grow in autumn. One nest could produce 10 to 20 kilograms and about 3,000 plants could be sown per acre of land, which would be at least 30 to 40 kilograms.

If you plant millet and wheat, even if you are careful to take care of it, the yield per mu will be only three or four dan. If the land is barren and irrigation is difficult, it is good to produce one or two dans, and it will be even more fruitless in the year of disaster.

In comparison, this sweet potato is simply a god-given food. Even the Kunlun people with black skin and curly hair became very popular in Chang'an City for a while.

Some gentry men also stood up and said that although this sweet potato is abundant, it is not as good as the grains containing the essence of heaven and earth. They advise the people to eat more grains and not to overeat the sweet potatoes with fat and sweetness.

The people also know that grains support people, so the grain yield is low. In recent years, as the population in Chang'an City continues to increase, grain prices have also risen steadily. The grain produced in Guanzhong can no longer support so many Chang'an population, so they can only transport grain from the plains in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Not to mention the other things, the money alone is a lot of money.

Besides, the people in Chang'an City have never seen any sweet potatoes before, and they don't know when they can plant them. How can they eat them at this time?

I think those gentry officials must have eaten sweet potatoes, and I don’t know how much they ate, but they ate a lot of precious grains as food or entertainment?

Some people also say that in Changle County, Longxi, the people in the county have planted sweet potatoes this year. They have planted them in the first year of the year. In the coming year, every household will be able to plant them.

Many merchants who came from the west said this. Many people were very envious when they heard it. There were also those unfair people. They said that they were the people living at the foot of the emperor, but they were asked to compete with the people in the border areas. Why is it because of the Lishi Luo Sanlang? Speaking of which, the Kunlun people who donated grain this time were also disciples of Luo Sanlang...

The Luo family also heard such words from time to time. One day, Lin Wulang heard people say this in the market and was a little worried. He went home and said to the aunt. If the words were said by the market, it would be detrimental to Luo Yong.

Aunt Luo was also worried, and she didn't know where the evil wind was blowing from. Whether there was a villain behind her was doing something bad. This was clearly to push Luo Yong to the top of the storm.

Fortunately, not long after, a caravan carrying white cloth came to Chang'an City and sold it in the east city of Chang'an City. This time, they shipped a lot of white cloth, and the price was also cheaper than last year, so the people in the city went to buy it one after another.

After that, many caravans carrying white cloths entered Chang'an City one after another. The price of white cloths dropped again and again. Everyone in the streets and alleys began to talk about how much the price of white cloths dropped today. They were considering when it was appropriate to buy cloths. They were afraid that after the current period, the price of white cloths would rise again.

“There is no need to worry about price increases.”

"Do you know how many white flowers have been planted in the Hexi land?"

"It's all over the mountains and fields."

"I can't see at a glance."

"The land in Hexi is suitable for planting white flowers, and there are probably more farmers who will plant this species next year and next."

"Their grain production is very low in their place, and some places cannot even be planted. If they don't plant white flowers, they will have to waste."

"This white stack of cloth is not bad compared to linen cloth."

"I heard that there is another kind of cloth, which is mixed with white velvet and twine."

"The flower cloth is also very beautiful and looks tight, and the price is only a little higher."

"How can the price not be high? It's still transported from Longxi all the way, which is not as good as the linen we produce locally."

“…”

Even if the price of this white stacked cloth has dropped a lot compared to previous years, it is still a bit more expensive than the linen produced in the pass.

But there are also expensive markets. Nowadays, most of the men and women in Chang'an City wear white folded cloths. If anyone doesn't have one or two white folded cloth clothes, it is obviously not up to the trend.

There are also some active businessmen who put white velvet on the mezzanine of the clothes and make a jacket, which is slightly cheaper than the silk-filled jacket, and is also soft and warm, suitable for winter wear.

There are several garment shops in the east city, and they hired skillful women to make clothes in the courtyard behind the shop. Recently, the shop has sold white buns from merchants coming from the west, which are specially used to sew such jackets. During this period, those shops have been in and out of every day, and their business is very prosperous.

It has been more than a month since the white cloth in Dunhuang is transported to Chang'an City. What people in Chang'an have to consume have already been consumed for a round, and there is no way. The place is too far away to catch up.

There are also some merchants who buy goods, especially those from other places who come from the lower reaches of the Yellow River. They are very expensive. The more ordinary the white cloth is, the harder it is to make money. However, those high-quality flower cloths can still sell at a relatively good price and have relatively large profit margins.

Groceries in the north and south do not sell white cloths this year, and they don’t sell white cloths. They sell a kind of scarf, which is long, about one foot wide and two feet long, and some are square, about one foot wide and one foot long.

The towel was spun with various patterns, which was a bit like the patterns of the peony cushions earlier. They were not the same. They were mostly modified, and the color schemes were different. There were also some new patterns that I had never seen before.

Nothing strange about these. What's strange is that these towels are weaving with velvet rings and brocade. The pieces of towels are woven and soft, folded neatly and placed on the shelves.

At first, some people thought it was a new style sweat towel. After asking the young men who sold goods, they found out that it was actually a facial towel, which was specially used for cleansing faces.

Everyone felt novel when they heard this. In the past, most of the cleansing towels were cut by each household to use a piece of fabric. Good families used good fabrics, and poor families used some rags to make up their numbers. Now, groceries in the north and south are actually specialized in buying and selling these towels.

Although it is unheard of, there are many rich people in Chang'an City. Such a soft and beautiful scarf costs only more than ten cents, so I can buy it.

Once you buy it, you will know the difference. This softness and water absorption are not comparable to other fabrics. No matter how expensive or gorgeous those cloth towels are, they are just a good example and are not suitable for use.

Use a facial towel like this, dip some hot water, twist it until it is half dry, and then apply some refined mutton fat soap, tsk...

In the past two days, many families sent their families to buy facial towels from north to south.

Logically speaking, the batch of goods that Luo Erniang and the others sent this time were quite a lot, which was enough to sell for some time. It was bad. Women in this era loved to stock up on dowry. They bought some good things and put them in exquisite or simple wooden boxes. They were passed down from mother to daughter to grandchildren, and passed down from generation to generation.

These Chang'an women often bought dozens or hundreds of towels, and within two days they emptied the inventory of groceries from north and south.

Luo Siniang was squeezed out of groceries in the north and south this day, and her hair was scattered by many people. She was chased by many people and asked when the second batch of goods would be shipped. If there were any more this winter, she made her big.

After finally taking off his body, he returned to Bai Mansion with exhaustion. As soon as he got off the carriage, he saw Bai Yimao commanding several servants to bring towels from his carriage. There were at least hundreds of bundles.
Chapter completed!