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Chapter 4 The Weather of the Tang Dynasty

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    "You go carry the bucket, and I'll borrow the car." Chen Wang confessed and left the house.

    The Tang Dynasty was based on agriculture and attached great importance to agricultural production. After the rule of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty became strong and prosperous, and it was common for farmers to own cattle.  At that time, owning a cow was similar to owning a tractor now. It was a symbol of wealth. How could Chen Laoshi, a poor family, afford it.  Whenever you need a cow, you have to borrow it from someone else.

    Chen Laoshi was a little hesitant: "Where can you borrow it? If you borrow it, you have to pay back the work. It's just such a short distance and you can carry it on your back, so what more is needed?"

    Anyone with experience in rural life knows that in rural areas, households without cattle and households with cattle "swap jobs" to plow the land, instead of using people to pull plows.  It was impossible to use people to pull plows when cattle were scarce. Using people to pull plows when cattle were common existed more in imagination and in the writings of novelists.

    Country people are simple. If you need help, just let me know and you won¡¯t come.  If you really go to the extent of using people to plow the land, it can only mean that you have failed as a human being. You have failed so much that no one wants to deal with you.  Chen Laoshi is poor, but he is not a failure in life. He is good at woodwork, and the villagers are willing to "exchange jobs" with him.

    The so-called au pairing means that Zhang San plows the land for Chen Laoshi for three days, and Chen Laoshi has to do carpentry work for Zhang San for three days. This is still interesting for Zhang San, and it is not considered a "good job".

    Humans have labor, and cows have labor. As for how much labor is counted, it depends on the attitude of the owner. There is a cow that is better than a human algorithm, and there is also a half-human algorithm. When you meet a good person, it is not counted as labor.  That¡¯s all personal work.

    In another world, Chen Wanrong was born in a rural area and knew very much about rural affairs. Chen Wanrong himself was a poor man with great ambitions. Chen Laoshi's unwillingness to ask for help coincided with his wishes: "Mom,  There¡¯s no need to borrow it, I¡¯ll just carry it.¡± Chen Wanrong¡¯s previous family background was also not very good. He had been helping his parents with work since he was eight years old. Carrying something was not a problem, and he only used it as a physical exercise.

    "The drunkard's intention is not to drink" best illustrates Chen Wanrong's purpose. If this extremely poor family wants to live a good life, it is impossible to rely on Chen Laoshi's carpentry skills, and it still has to rely on its own efforts.  My specialty is chemical engineering. I will take advantage of the opportunity of delivering barrels to go out and look around, maybe I can find an opportunity.

    Opportunities wait for no one, it¡¯s up to me to look for them. This is what an aspiring young man should do!

    Mrs. Chen Wang looked at Chen Wanrong lovingly and felt very uneasy: "Wanrong, you are the best. Isn't this a hardship for you?"

    "Mom, it's not like I haven't carried it before." Chen Wanrong was very touched by her care and enthusiasm. Not to mention carrying something, he didn't care no matter how hard or tiring it was.

    Mrs. Chen Wang was still a little worried and warned: "Wanrong, you have to be careful. If you can't carry it, carry it less."

    Chen Wanrong responded and walked to the room on the left. The room was very messy, with chopped wood pieces all over the room.  There were two wooden barrels on the ground, stacked together as high as half a person. The wooden boards were an inch thick and very strong, weighing almost a hundred pounds.

    Chen Wanrong grabbed the brown rope on the barrel and lifted it up, and worked together with Chen Laoshi to lift the barrel out of the house.

    Lay the barrel horizontally, tie it with a straw rope, and carry it horizontally on your back.  Carrying a round object will sway from side to side when standing upright, which is very uncomfortable for the back. It is much more comfortable to carry it horizontally. The experience accumulated in many years of rural life has once again come into play.

    Chen Laoshi urged: "Go early and come back early. Planting is about to begin. There are more jobs at home than ashes on the ground. Don't wander around!"

    The parent is quite impressive, so how could Chen Wanrong argue with him? In order to make him happy, he obeyed his words and agreed: "I know, dad."

    "Pay the bucket of money and buy two kilograms of meat. Zai Rong will come back today and give him a good health. We must save the money and don't spend it randomly. Zai Rong's tuition depends on this money." Chen Laoshi  Handled the matter.

    Which father doesn¡¯t care about his son?  What's more, he is still a smart son studying in the county school. Chen Laoshi's face glowed red when he thought that his precious son was coming back.

    Education in the Tang Dynasty was divided into official schools and private schools. Private schools are what we know as private schools, private schools opened by failed scholars who repeatedly failed in exams.

    Of course, the official school was a school run by the imperial court. After Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he expanded the traditional Chinese school and opened a county school to recruit smart and good children.  The county school at that time was similar to our current key middle school. Being admitted to a key middle school was a very honorable thing in the era of "education for all", not to mention that in the Tang Dynasty when scholars were highly respected, they were blessed by their ancestors.  Protection is an important matter for honoring the ancestors, and Chen Laoshi is often proud of it.

    The Tang Dynasty implemented a vacation system of ten days and one day off. Chen Zairong studied at Ningxian Academy. Because he was far away from home, Chen Laoshi rented a house in the county for Chen Zairong to study.  Tomorrow??, defeated the Turks, Tubo, Tuyuhun, Gaochang, Yanqi, Xueyantuo, Goguryeo, Qiuci, and even defeated India, which was called Shendu at the time.  In foreign wars, good news and triumphal songs were spread frequently, forcing these countries to submit to their vassals, and the name of Sky Khan spread far and wide.

    Therefore, Chang'an has become an international metropolis. The foreign envoys, children of powerful people, overseas students, and studying monks living in Chang'an come from more than 300 places in Asia.  How many are these people?  According to historians, there were at least 30,000 people.

    This is the most conservative statistic and does not include those barbarians seeking a life in Chang'an.  The Tang Dynasty was the center of the world at that time, and Chang'an was the center of the empire. Like a magnet attracting iron, they attracted countless barbarians to come to the Tang Dynasty and to Chang'an to seek life.

    At that time, there were many Hu people seeking a living in the Tang Dynasty. They were performing jugglers, singing, dancing and laughing, opening shops and doing business, and selling goods to make money. They were numerous and spread across all walks of life.  Under Emperor Taizong's "Yi-Han family" policy, the Hu people not only did business in the Tang Dynasty, but also intermarried with the Tang people, and were eventually Sinicized.  Luojiadian is only a few dozen miles away from Chang'an, so it is not surprising that Hu people do business here.

    Patting his forehead, Chen Wanrong was deeply inspired and thought with great joy: "Hu people lived happily and contentedly in the Tang Dynasty. As a chemical expert, I should have a very promising future in chemical industry in the Tang Dynasty, at least not as good as  These bastards are bad!"

    (Note: An incident happened in my hometown village. A villager¡¯s father passed away when he was very young and his mother remarried. He could only live with his sister. However, his brother-in-law was very unkind to him. He started to live with him when he was thirteen or fourteen years old.  He lived alone until he got married. Therefore, he developed a strong personality and did not want to ask for help. The family was poor and had no cattle to plow the land, so he decided to have his husband pull the plow and his wife to hold the plow. Before long, he gave it to the people from the neighboring village.  The village cadre discovered it first, and stood on the hill and scolded him: "xx, you are a bitch, you don't have a cow to say a word, the cows are all empty, just plow for you. This is not the old society, you are losing  ***¡¯s face.¡± My hometown is a mountain village. The village cadre stood on the hilltop and cursed people, which could be heard by the mountains. When the people in the village found out, they all called him a dirty person. In the end, Murakami arranged for a few cows to handle him.  The land was plowed by him. The township government knew about this, and the cadres stationed in the village had a "communication" with him. Every spring and winter when the land was plowed, the cadres stationed in the village would go to the village to arrange plowing cattle until he was in the province.  I lived frugally and bought an ox, and the matter was over.)

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