Transmigrate to be an Ancient Saint - C328 Xiao wen's instruction

Although he thought that, Xiao Wen knew that he did not have the appropriate round collared robe Tang suit.

After all, although the round collar and robe was in his residence, the officials of Tang Kingdom had been preparing it for a long time. But in truth, the officials of the Tang Kingdom did not prepare for it. Strictly speaking, they did not prepare for it.

If he wore the wrong clothes, it would not cause too obvious of an adverse effect, but it would still cause him to lose some dignity.

Xiao Wen was a decent person, with his personality, he wouldn’t ignore such small details.

But luckily, although Xiao Wen did not have any decent clothes, he had the ability to pay the bill which could solve all his problems.

He turned towards Shangguan Waner, looked at the little angel and asked: “Wan’er, do you know which tailor’s skills are the best in Luoyang City?”

“Luoyang City?” Wan’er thought about it carefully and said, “A few years ago, it should have been the East City’s Tailor Wang. He helped a lot of nobles make clothes. He also made me clothes when I was young. ”

“Alright.” Xiao Wen nodded.

He knew that the Tang Dynasty’s Chang’an City had a population of one million and needed a large amount of commodities.

According to the previous generation’s capital city’s system of centralizing business shops in a fixed area, the Tang Chang’an City had set up two cities on both sides of the street.

The East City and the west market were the same, they were both business districts of the Tang Chang’an City, and from a functional perspective, the two were no different.

As the largest commercial district of the Tang Chang’an City, it played an important role in foreign trade, as well as in meeting the daily needs of the residents.

The East City and the Western City were placed on the same side of Vermillion Bird Street, symmetrical on the left and right, in the southeast and southwest of the imperial city. The two cities of East and West started to build up the business structure of the Tang Chang’an City.

“There are two hundred and twenty lines of goods in the city, and all four sides have buildings and four sides are filled with precious treasures …” This was the record of the prosperity of Chang’an City Tang from the history books.

In the records, not only were there pen shops, wine houses, iron shops, meat shops, carvings printing shops, but there were also donkeys, violinists, acrobats, lute players, and rich men who embroidered silk …

The East City was one of the central areas for the production and trade of handicrafts in the Chang’an City.

The shops were contiguous, the business was busy, and the business was very prosperous. The shops that produced and sold similar goods in the city were arranged in the same area, called a row.

The inn where the goods were piled was called the residence. The residence not only stored the goods for the merchants, but also handled a large number of wholesale transactions for them.

The businesses in East City were not only categorized, there were also two hundred and twenty lines of them, and each of them had a considerable scale.

According to historical records, in the East City, other than the shops, there was also a management agency and a central posting office.

The law of the Tang Dynasty was strict. In order to control the order of the market, not only did the Central Committee set up a municipal administration in the East City, but it also set up a resident organization such as Chang Ping Cang and Ping Guan Gang.

The Tang Dynasty followed the system of marketplaces. Before the middle Tang Dynasty, the government was not allowed to open shops and workshops outside of the city. Therefore, the East City and the West Market were concentrated business areas in the Tang Dynasty. Tang said that in order to ensure the order of the market and fair trade, the government has a long and peaceful reserve in both the east and west cities. As a price agency, the government controlled the price leverage of the people’s livelihood goods in the market, regulated the relations among production, circulation and consumption through government business, promoted the development and prosperity of the ancient society and economy, and played a role that other state institutions could not replace.

The function of Changping is more specific than that of the MPA. Changping is the grain depot used by the state to regulate grain prices. With strong reserves of grain and salt as a backstop, the government will use them at any time to level the price of grain, thereby further stabilizing the market prices and combating the illegal merchants who are hoarding strange goods.

However, although the two markets appeared similar in law, there were still some small differences.

For the ancients revered the left, and when the face was toward the south, the east was the left, and the west the right. Thus, in the Chang’an City, most of the famous officials lived in the east side of the Chang’an City.

As for the merchants, because of the heavy farming, they had always been in an underground position. This also made the west of Chang’an City a place for merchants to gather.

The classification of customers also led to the differentiation between the east and west markets.

In the East City, merchants were mostly selling luxury goods and high-quality daily necessities. Moreover, compared to other places, the price was much higher.

In 2015, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences conducted an archaeological excavation about 300 meters south of the southwest corner of Xingqing Palace.

The excavation can be said to be quite fruitful, 500 square meters of exploration of the accumulation of brick and tile, pottery, tricolor, jade, bone, copper, glass, gemstone ring surface, Kaiyuan treasure, as well as the writing of the “x hotel” porcelain pot film, such as 450 relic of the Tang Dynasty.

From this, it could be seen that in the East City, the goods that people dealt with were much higher than those in the Western Market.

However, due to the scorn of the rich and powerful for the merchants, they rarely visit the market and think that it is a disgraceful action.

As a result, although the East City had a relatively high transaction value, the trading volume was very low.

The West Market, on the other hand, was the exact opposite. Because there were many merchants living in the West Market, more commodities trading and cheaper commodities trading were concentrated here.

Because of this classification, Xiao Wen felt that since Wan’er had recommended the East City’s tailor, then this tailor should be very powerful, at the very least he should be able to provide quality services to the nobles.

Thus, after putting on a set of Chinese clothing, Xiao Wen led a group of little fellows and entered the carriage.

“Master, where are you going?” Manager Wu asked Xiao Wen after arranging for a carriage.

“East City, I need to go buy some things.” Xiao Wen said.

“East City?” Hearing this, Manager Wu was shocked. He immediately hugged onto Xiao Wen’s thigh and said: “Master, you are a dignified genius, how could you go to such a dirty place like the city? What do you want? This little one bought it for you for 99% of the time. ”

Hearing that, Xiao Wen frowned. To be honest, among the strong men who led loose lives, whether they were in the clouds in the north or the Chang’an in the capital, no one would force him to go to the market because of himself.

Xiao Wen would often go to the market to choose top grade ingredients and over time, he got to know a merchant group that specialized in importing top grade ingredients from Song Kingdom.

However, in this Confucian country, this was the first time Xiao Wen felt that the ancients had malicious intents towards business.

But Xiao Wen did not plan to compromise, he glared at Manager Wu, and kicked him away, saying: “I am a junior-apprentice brother, and my ancestor is the Qin Zheng Lv Buwei back then. Back then, my grandmaster always considered himself as a merchant, how can I despise merchants? To detest a merchant was to detest the Patriarch. Do you want me to become a villain who bullies his teacher to exterminate his ancestors? ”

Finished speaking, he did not bother about the Manager Wu, and directly gave Zhuge Liang a look.

Zhuge Liang understood, and immediately ordered the Coachman beside him to set off. As a result, the carriage turned and headed in the direction of the East City.

At the same time, Xiao Wen, who was sitting on the carriage, said to the students in a warning tone, “All of you should remember this well. As for me, the big man, I have my own circumstances here. Let go of the restrictions imposed on the merchants to let the big man become strong. ”

“It would be foolish to simply reject merchants and not know when to use them. If you guys are unable to clearly connect to the uses of a merchant, then I believe you are deceiving Master to destroy our ancestors! ”

What a joke! If this world really was brainless and focused on agriculture, then this civilization could only persist in developing capitalism for 10,000 years. It was only when the guns of the Westerners came knocking on their doors that they were able to open their eyes and see the world.