Not only is food expensive, but all supplies are expensive.

When Ren Baqian first came, he had 120 liang of salt.

One or two taels of honey.

Coarsely brewed fruit wine, one hundred civilian per pound.

When Ren Baqian first arrived at the Beast Garden, the manager invited him to drink a pound of strong wine (scarce wine) from Izumo, one tael of silver per pound.

As for other materials, such as linen, one tael of silver, one tael of silver, three taels of silver, jokes, and thirty taels of silver.

And one piece in this world is four feet, which is equivalent to thirteen meters.

The income of an ordinary person in a month is enough to buy such a piece of linen. In Dayao, ordinary people wear animal skins, and those with better conditions can only wear linens. Low-level officials only wear two clothes of kudzu cloth all year round, and they have to feel distressed when they scrape holes.

Ren Baqian was chatting with Lin Mengsheng a few days ago and talked about the situation of the people of Izumo.

Scholars are not ordinary people these days, and very few ordinary people can study. Most of them are merchants, and the descendants of officials have the opportunity to study.

This is true for Lin Mengsheng. Although his family is not considered rich and noble in Izumo, they can still be considered rich.

Logically, most scholars like this are not as tempting as the world, but Lin Mengsheng is very familiar with the lives of ordinary people and can be regarded as an alien.

The income of the people of Izumo is lower than that of the people of Dayao.

After all, Dayao has a vast land and sparse population, and the per capita resources are much higher. Moreover, ordinary people are at least in the human wheel and have great strength. Whether they are farming or hunting, they are much stronger than the people of other countries.

You should know that in Izumo, a warrior with a wheel-level income of at least ten taels of silver per month, and a warrior with a wheel-level income can be at least ten taels of silver per month.

The Dayao Feiqiu only costs ten taels of silver a month.

The people of Izumo earn only 800 to 1,000 citations a month.

And in Izumo, a pound of salt is only 100 meters.

Eight pounds per pound of brown rice and eleven pounds of mixed grains and flour are one third to one quarter of Dayao.

But beef can reach fifty cents per pound.

The main reason is that Izumo is mostly farming and grazing less. Although the status of cattle is not prohibited from slaughtering like the Tang Dynasty, it can also be used as a strong labor force, so it is quite expensive.

A rooster is twenty-month, and a hen is fifteenth.

A piece of linen is three hundred tins of paper, a piece of gourd cloth is six hundred tins of paper, a piece of silk is two taels of silver, and a piece of satin is ten taels of silver.

Prices are only one-third to one-quarter of Dayao, and salt can even reach one-tenth of that, and income is half of that of the ancient people.

More importantly, they eat less!

Even if the fertility rate is higher, the family has three or four children, but overall life is better than that of the ancient people.

Of course, this is extremely limited, or even equivalent.

Because ancient civilians rarely get sick, most of them are wounds caused by hunting or skin injuries caused by fighting. The biggest cause of accidental death is not only death in the mouth of wild animals, but also being infected by scratches and bites by wild animals, and being born.

The people of Izumo are completely ordinary people. They will see if they have money when they are sick, and if they don’t have money, they will wait for death.

In short, ordinary people in this era are just seeking survival in order to survive.

What is really different is that Izumo has many "middle class" above ordinary people.

There are many vendors in Izumo, and they do not rank merchants to the bottom like in ancient China. In Izumo's business is well developed, the status of merchants is not low.

Small merchants and vendors usually have no worries about food and clothing. There are also many so-called rich gentry households, as well as big wealthy merchants, and even hire land wheel-level experts.

These people's living conditions are very good. The living standards of a middle-aged and wealthy family are even much better than those of Tong Zhenye.

The big wealthy businessman spent a lot of money.

It is precisely because of the prevalence of Izumo merchants that Izumo's technological progress in all aspects, such as smelting and textiles, are much stronger than Daxia.

Like the ones that Azuma Donglai once reported to the empress, Izumo, who fired a hundred crossbow chariots in a row, is a very advanced weapon in this era.

From various perspectives, Izumo has already appeared in the bud of capitalism.

As long as Izumo is not destroyed, it will be a matter of time before it continues along this road and it will blossom and bear fruit.

Unfortunately, I encountered my own socialist hammer!

Ren Baqian felt that he had corrected their wrong capitalist route and led them to the socialist family.

Stop asking about socialism, what should the empress do?

This is a socialist feudal country with great characteristics!

Should the country give itself some rewards, at least let itself join the party or something? It’s okay to step back into the league!

Not an FFF group.

Ren Baqian thought about it and seemed that he was a member of the FFF group before he came to Dayao.

Then I thought about it now, I laughed first.

"Like a fool!" The empress gave him a blank look, and she didn't see many people thinking about it and began to smile foolishly. She didn't bother to pay attention to him, so she rode Qishui to the front first.

In just half a day, everyone arrived at their destination, stood on the hill, and saw a wide open view, and they could look down at the entire plain.

Two rivers winded on the plain, surrounding a grassland. Large areas of cattle and sheep wandered on it, and there was a small forest at the corners, most of which were a kind of fruit tree. When Ren Baqian came before, he tasted it. It tasted sweet, slightly sour, and the flesh was juicy, which was quite good.

"It's here?" The empress asked Qishui to stop and looked down at the bottom and asked. "The scenery is pretty good."

"It's here." Ren Baqian nodded and said, "Especially the two rivers, the depth is generally between ten meters and twenty meters, which is enough to take a boat and will not flood during the rainy season.

Moreover, the two rivers gathered together in the lower reaches to form a big river, flowing through the junction of Izumo and Chen.

If the new city is here, it will save a lot of effort to transport materials. Relying on river transportation, commerce will become more prosperous."

Ren Baqian decided to settle down and said, "The new city I envisioned has no walls, and it is a plain here, which can be expanded everywhere."

In the vision of Ren Baqian, the new city will reach a population of millions or tens of millions in the future, which is extremely important to facilitate expansion.

"Don't have a city wall? It seems something is wrong?" Tong Zhenye subconsciously said as soon as he came over and heard the last sentence.

"What's wrong?" Ren Baqian asked retortly.

After being asked this, Tong Zhenye was stunned for a moment. What's wrong with it? He was afraid that wild animals would hurt people and that the enemy would attack him. The city wall could play a defensive role.

This is indeed the case normally.

But here is located on the plains and there are no ferocious beasts.

As an ancient clan, I was never afraid of others calling me.

They are always the only ones who beat others!

Thinking of this, there seems to be nothing wrong.

"Mr. Tong was solidified by his previous cognition. Others needed city walls, but we didn't. Besides, in history, there was no country that used city walls to defend against enemy countries? This is the capital, not the border. If the enemy can reach this place, it doesn't matter whether there is a city wall or not." Ren Baqian smiled and said.

"The reason is this, I always feel a little strange." Tong Zhenye scratched his head and said.

"If we want to reach the level of an industrialized society, a large population is essential. Unlike other countries that develop normally, we are completely incubating technology in Lancheng, radiating to the surroundings with Lancheng as the center, and climbing technology up as quickly as possible. Therefore, building such a super capital is the best choice.

Just like Lancheng, the population is only tens of thousands, and the population is too small. Only a few factories can be built, so there will be no manpower."

A small population not only cannot recruit workers, but also has fewer labor, but also fewer young people of appropriate age and fewer students.

Simply put, if the population is small, the potential is small.

"But no matter how large the population is, there will be insufficient food and difficult transportation, so I can't afford it!" Tong Zhenye said again.

In this era, the grain in the city mainly comes from the surrounding areas. On the one hand, it is low productivity and low output, and on the other hand, it is also because of transportation difficulties and too much consumption during transportation.

In a city like Lancheng, there are usually more than 100,000 people who can survive. If it is a capital of a country, it can even reach hundreds of thousands or millions of people.
Chapter completed!