Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 501 Who dares to move?

Power is like real estate. What determines the size of power is not the size of the area occupied, but the specific location. Now Pingyang City is slowly starting to turn crimson, which seems to be a sign of something.

The craft of firing bricks reached a very mature stage in the Qin Dynasty, as did the so-called "Qin bricks and Han tiles".

But few people really use red bricks, because in the concept of Han people, red bricks are actually...

scrap.

Why are blue bricks, or Qin bricks, blue in color?

Because it is the best, it is blue. If it can be burnt black, people in the Qin Dynasty probably like it more.

The process of burning red bricks and burning blue bricks is exactly the same in the early stage, but in the later stage, the blue bricks need to be slowly drenched with water, and then the temperature of the brick kiln is lowered to reduce the high-priced iron oxide in the bricks to low-priced iron oxide, resulting in color change. It is cyan.

Of course, in this complex process, if there is a mistake in watering or incomplete restoration, red bricks will appear.

But for Fei Qian, this is nothing. The construction of a Pingyang city wall does not intend to be passed down through the ages. What's the difference between the blue bricks and the red bricks?
Red bricks save labor. The craftsmen who burn the bricks don’t need to take care of them all the time, and they don’t need to spray them with water at any time. They can directly burn the kiln. When the time comes, the air cooling is turned on, and the pipes are ignored. After cooling, they can be transported. And there is no problem of defective products, simple, easy, while reducing the personal risk of kiln craftsmen, it can be produced on a large scale, why not do it?

And it can be regarded as a little bad taste of Fei Qian.

The motherland is red...

In fact, is there a difference between red bricks and blue bricks?

Red bricks have no technical content...

Red bricks can also be mixed with some sundries, and they don't need to be all clay, so the manufacturing conditions are relaxed a lot...

But what's funny is that the brick-burning craftsmen refused to burn red bricks at first, openly defying orders and disrespecting!

Saying that it will smash your own signboard and make people laugh is because you don't know the rules, you are uneducated, and your craftsmanship is not good, so you would rather lose your head than destroy the signboard!
Later, a compromise was made. Here in Pingyang City, a large amount of fired red bricks was used, and in the school palace above Taoshan, a smaller amount of fired green bricks was used. This proves that these craftsmen are really knowledgeable brickmakers, and everyone is happy.

As a result, it is said that these brick houses are all staring at the green brick-burning cave dwellings, holding back their energy to burn a few kilns of good blue bricks, so as to rectify their name. As for the ordinary red brick-burning cave dwellings, they are thrown to their apprentices. ...

But for Fei Qian, it doesn't matter, the good bricks are used to build the city wall, and the poor ones are not wasted. They are used to build brick houses in Pingyang City, and make the best use of everything...

Just like the local tyrants in the Hedong area who have borrowed a lot of supplies from Cui Hou, they still have to make the best use of everything...

Now in the area controlled by Feiqian, military control has been fully implemented, not to mention Pingyang and Beiqu, and Yong'an was actually abolished by Baibo, which is almost like a blank sheet of paper, except for Puzi County, which has not been affected in any way. However, a county is located in a marginal area, and the materials themselves are relatively poor. Therefore, the supply of materials is fully controlled and the military rationing system is implemented. Although there were some complaints at the beginning, these people soon became members of the military control system. staunch supporter.

Hyperinflation in Chang'an, followed by large-scale minting of money, and the spread of bad money driving out good money is extremely rapid. It seems that there are people behind it who not only have no control, but also deliberately continue to promote it...

But this matter, for Fei Qian, is really a good thing.Before, Huang Xu and Huang Xianliang led a group of grassroots officers to learn some words and numbers superficially, and now they have come in handy. Basically all the materials are controlled in Feiqian's barracks. The cheap people only found out when they came to Pingyang that not only Pingyang, but also Yong'an, Puzi, and Beiqu had entered the military control, and the transaction had entered the stage of bartering.

All copper coins, including five baht coins, are out of circulation.

Bad money drives out good money, based on information asymmetry.Only when the party accepting the bad money does not know the value of the bad money can there be a way to conduct a successful transaction. Once the other party knows the actual value of the bad money, will anyone be willing to accept it?

Just like counterfeit money in later generations, only those who have been cheated will accept it if they think it is real. Otherwise, who would be willing to receive counterfeit money in their hands as an ordinary person?
It's just that bartering has the most serious impact on commerce, but there is no better way for the time being. At least we have to wait until after the autumn harvest, when grain and grass prices are relatively stable, to make some adjustments. Now is not the time.

Du Yuan stomped over, as if the back of his butt was on fire, and after sitting in the hall, he let out a long breath: "My lord, these people from Hedong and Hanoi have always stayed here, with sad faces all day long. It's not a big deal to gather in a pile in front of the government office..." Every time they came, the eyes of those people were like pitiful puppies, staring at them full of hope, making Du Yuan this The little heart of today's logistics chief is somewhat overwhelmed.

"Hahaha, don't be in a hurry..." Fei Qian laughed, "Wen Zheng, don't be fooled by the appearance of these people... These people, they only care about money, and they are far from the real family..."

When the Han Dynasty came to the period of Emperor Ling, these local gentry had already built a large number of Wubao, storing food and grass that they could not eat up and a lot of money, but now they only saw that the food and grass stored in their homes were looted by Fei Qian by means. Batch, most of the money in the family has become a pile of scrap copper, which is so sour...

This heartache...

But since they can't even eat, or their homes are ruined because of this inflation, that's not enough. With the current situation, they can still afford it.

It's just that the continuous natural disasters in the next few years, either drought or flood, coupled with the plague caused by the war, finally completely destroyed the economic manors of these gentry and township tyrants.

"Wenzheng, you said, I have been letting them hang out here for so many days, why hasn't anyone risen up to pick a head and trouble us?"

Du Yuan was not polite, picked up the pitcher next to him, poured a bowl of water by himself, and said after he drank it, "This journey has been utterly miserable, and I've lost my nerve. Who dares to do anything?" Even he himself was too scared to look at the several execution grounds set up over there. Now, basically everyone in Hedong knows that Fei Qian's methods are cruel and vicious. Break ground on this monster head?

"This..." Fei Qian scratched his head a little, and originally wanted to say that if someone dared to jump out, he would grab a few small ones to mess with it, and fish some more by the way, but now it seems that it can't be done?
　Demon King Fei is dispatched...

　　The folk customs of the Northland are tough...

　　But having said that, why do kind people usually get bullied wherever they go?
　　Don't people like kindness?

　　This question is worth pondering...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)