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Chapter 123 Breaking the monopoly of the gentry

In this era, the Tang people could consume not much, and even have very few entertainment activities. In that era when there was no mahjong poker, and everyone went to bed at night, how could the general public pay for it to consume?

Only with products can one spend it! Only with demonstration can one blindly follow it!

Seafood is the product that Li Chengdao will promote next, and it is also an important chess move for Li Chengdao.

Eating, clothing, housing and transportation! Eating is ranked first.

With its own leading effect, it changed the eating habits of nearly 20 million people in the Tang Dynasty, thus changing the concept of "digging food from the ground" since ancient times and enriching the channels for the entire society to obtain protein and nutrition.

This action will once again make people rich, and the coastal areas that were not valued will be quickly revitalized. From another perspective, the gentry who took the Guanzhong Plain as the basics will face severe tests.

Move the capital to Hongwei New City, vigorously develop the marine economy, basic materials, transportation, and infrastructure to make rapid progress... The entire Tang Dynasty land will be full of countless opportunities!

Don’t the gentry want to monopolize?

Yes, as long as you have the strength, Li Chengdao doesn’t mind you participating at all, but every field is such a huge scale. Can you eat it? It’s enough to keep you to death!

If you can't eat so much, there will be countless upstarts. The rise of these upstarts was facilitated by Li Chengdao. They don't have much background. It can be guessed that some of these people will even be poor and ruined.

After these people get up, they will inevitably have intersections with the great gentry. Some will depend on them, and some will be suppressed. But overall, the greedy nature of the gentry's powerful people will make the emerging class uncomfortable. It is definitely more suppressed than attachment. Even if they depend on them, they may eat a whole bone and leave some soup. The more evil ones are not even left.

The contradiction between these emerging classes and the gentry class will continue to arise in the process of their rise, sharp and enlargement, and they will urgently need a relatively fair environment.

Who gives this environment?

Of course, as the supreme leader and extremely wise Emperor Hongyu - Li Chengdao!

At that time, we will improve the laws, establish rules for various industries, use public opinion to reveal the things that some aristocratic families do, kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and suppress the aristocratic family class in one fell swoop.

If the aristocratic family wants to resist, it will not only oppose Li Chengdao, but also face the anger of the entire emerging class. This behavior will further push the emerging class to Li Chengdao, and the aristocratic family will no longer be able to limit the imperial power.

There is the emperor's guillotine on it and the emerging class is eyeing you. When you stare at your every move, the gentry will be restricted to death.

"During the mobilization period, I built a brand new seafood market for you in Chang'an West City. It has a complete ice cellar and a complete range of supporting facilities. The market will be opened in three days, and Zi Su. You can use these three days to transport all the seafood on the ship to the seafood market. The transportation team Xu Houzhao will arrange it."

Li Chengdao took out the juice from the steamer and was so tender that it seemed to be dripping from water. After sprinkling some fine salt, he put it in his mouth with satisfaction and ate it with relish.

"Yes, Your Majesty...but..."

Yan Zisu thought about it, but she stopped talking.

"What's wrong?"

"Your Majesty, Zisu is thinking about how to price it appropriately."

Yan Zisu blinked, and a hint of embarrassment flashed in her eyes. Li Chengdao didn't say anything about the price. Should he set a high point or a low point?

If the setting is too high, will anyone pay the bill? After all, 99.999% of people in the Guanzhong Plain have never eaten seafood. So many seafood suddenly surged in the market. If they can't sell it, it would be a big loss.

It's a pity that the setting is too low. This is a transportation from Southeast Asia to Chang'an. The fishermen are all looking forward to getting a big gain. If they only sell it for a small amount of money, it will greatly dampen everyone's enthusiasm. Who will dive into such a deep seabed and risk catching lobsters and sea cucumbers in the future...

"Don't worry about the price. Guan Jinsheng will handle it. You can wait and collect the money." Li Chengdao smiled and couldn't help teasing Yan Zisu, who frowned and entangled. "Sister Zisu, I'll give you a briefing. The price of seafood sold will not be less than twenty times your cost. If you can't sell it, I will buy it myself. Is it okay? Hahaha..."

Not to mention that the people in Chang'an City have been paid three months of salary by Li Chengdao, they urgently need a way to consume. Even if they have no money in their pockets, if they know that even His Majesty is eating these seafood, they will definitely break their heads and take out all their savings to taste the same treatment as His Majesty the Emperor. This is no longer a question of whether to eat seafood!

"This, this..."

Yan Zisu took a deep breath, twenty times profit, what does it mean? Before leaving, he and the people below dared not even think about it. At most, he thought that after deducting all kinds of expenses, he would be grateful to be able to double it...

At this time, with Li Chengdao's words, if the profit can really reach twenty times, then this trip to Chang'an would be worth it. Yan Zisu was relaxed and was already thinking about how to catch more fish and get seafood to Chang'an after going back.

"But for seafood, it must be fresh. You already know the method of making ice in saltpeter. I will provide you with all my strength. You have to guarantee this to me. If it is not fresh, I will return the goods..." Li Chengdao said with a smile, "Next, Sister Zisu needs to consider another very important issue. If one is not handled well, the matter will be very exciting..."

"Ah? Your Majesty, what else is there except selling seafood?"

Yan Zisu was stunned. The purpose of coming to Chang'an this time was to sell seafood and fulfill his promise to Li Chengdao. What else is there besides this?

"What's the matter? Of course it's about how to spend money!"

Li Chengdao used bamboo sticks to pick up the steamed conch meat, dipped it in vinegar, and handed it to Yan Zisu. At this time, the emperor's temperament seemed to have disappeared. In Yan Zisu's eyes, Li Chengdao seemed to have become a kind brother next door.

Yan Zisu's eyes were blurred. Instead of holding it with her hands, she stuck out her tongue and gently bit off the conch meat on the bamboo stick. It was not until the conch meat was in her mouth that she realized what she had done. She had a big face on her face and felt ashamed.

Li Chengdao was also stunned. This scene seemed to be like later generations picking out conch meat and putting it into the mouth of his sweetly waiting girlfriend. After 1,400 years, it actually appeared again.

"Yes...I'm sorry, Your Majesty..."

Yan Zisu's ear roots were red, like ripe persimmons, and she looked down and didn't dare to look at the people around her.

"Haha, I'm sorry..."
Chapter completed!
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