I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 301: Making money like crazy!
"Zishan, you are finally here." Li Heng strode over and held Bu Zhi's hand with a friendly smile and a kind tone.

"General, do you know me?"

"I have heard of his famous name for a long time and have always admired him. I am lucky to meet you today."

Bu Zhao's face was calm, but his eyelids couldn't help but twitch a few times.

"It's a great honor to be able to enter the eyes of the general." Bu Zhao said with his fists clasped, but he remained wary of Li Heng in his heart.

It is definitely not an ordinary person to be able to sit in the position of general in his twenties, and to reorganize the system in Yizhou and capture Jingzhou.

"To be honest with Zishan, Sun Zhongmou has returned the counties west of the Xiang River to me, the Han Dynasty." Li Heng said straight to the point, "I heard that the barbarians in these places are unruly, and you have been very good at governing these places before. place, so the purpose of my persuading you to surrender is to help me stabilize these counties."

"I am willing to do my best for the general."

"With you in these places, I feel relieved. Just report how many troops and horses you need and how to deploy them. I won't embarrass you, and the people in the General's Mansion will fully support you."

The pressure in Bu Zhao's heart suddenly relaxed.

As for why Li Heng attaches so much importance to Bu Zhi?
the reason is simple!
What is the status of Bu Zhao in Wu State?
Cavalry General!

Li Heng immediately ordered a banquet and called many officials and staff from the general's palace.

So what's his record?

Du Yu is the chief of the general's office, equivalent to the role of the chief internal affairs officer. Now he also serves as the magistrate of Jiangling County, and he will be nominated as the governor of Jingzhou next.

You know, Du Yu is only eighteen years old.

This is a young man with a bright future.

Bu Zhi had neither fought against the Han army nor against the Wei army. In a word: he had almost no results against Han and Wei.

It can be said that it gave Bu Zhao enough face.

His father Du Shu is now serving as the governor of Bajun in Chongqing, which shows that Li Heng values ​​him highly.

"Please come inside Zishan!"

Then in full view of the public, Bu Zhi was solemnly introduced, including Bu Zhi's previous achievements.

Before meeting Li Heng, he actually prepared a lot of words, including this routine.

Du Yu was the first to raise his glass: "My friend, Du Yu, I have heard about the general for a long time, and today I see you. He is indeed extraordinary. I will do it first as a mark of respect."

"Okay, okay, General, please come in!"

Moreover, Bu Zhi was related by marriage to Sun Quan, and he could be said to have a high position of power in the State of Wu.

Such a person taking the lead to toast Bu Zhi also shows that Li Heng attaches great importance to Bu Zhi.

Unexpectedly, these words were of no use at all, so Li Heng just opened the skylight and spoke frankly.

"I just said it here." Li Heng laughed and said, "Come on, come on, please come inside. Let's drink today, regardless of business."

"Thank you so much, General, for your consideration. I will remember you deeply."

For example, as long as Li Heng assigned him tasks, he would pick out some difficult aspects from these tasks to ask Li Heng for more resources.

Hussars General is a general rank second only to General.

Then why did Sun Quan give such a high military rank to the Hussars General?
Could it be that Sun Quan only looked at Bu Shilian for his own sake?
Because Bu Zhi's best skills were in the southern counties. In the state of Wu, Bu Zhi was ranked second in quelling the barbarian rebellion in the south, and no one dared to say he was first.

Jiaozhou was brought back by this buddy for Sun Quan. Jiaozhou has a household registration of 50 and a population of more than 200 million. Moreover, because it has three crops a year, it is a food production area.

Moreover, Panyu had already calculated Haikou in this era, and Wu State already had a record of dominating the maritime countries in Southeast Asia.

Not to mention the barbarian rebellions in Lingling County, Yidu County and other places, which he easily suppressed. In short, he has his own unique set of tactics in dealing with the Nanman issue.

In the past, Lu Xun's strategy for Sun Quan was to fight against the barbarians while capturing their strong men into the Wu army.

But this is not the most effective way to use the south. The most effective way is to stabilize the counties in the south and use barbarians to exploit and utilize the resources in the south to supply the Han army in Jingzhou.

On this issue, Bu Zhao, a key figure, cannot be avoided.

After Bu Zhi finished drinking, even though he had been in the officialdom for so many years, he couldn't help but be infected by today's atmosphere, and he was a little moved: "The general treats me like this, I will go all out."

"I told you that we won't talk about official business today and will only drink wine." Li Heng raised his glass, "Here, let's drink!"

For a time, there was a lot of chatting and laughing.

After three rounds of drinking, Ma Yong raised his glass and said to Bu Zhi: "I have heard for a long time that the general is brave and good at fighting. My admiration for the general is like the endless river!"

"Ma Yushi, thank you, thank you!"

"I heard that all the barbarians in the south are afraid of the general. If the Han wins the general, the south will have no worries!"

Ma Yong brought the topic to the south at the right time.

Bu Zhao said: "The barbarians in the south are good at fighting in the mountains, and their weakness is that they cannot form a military formation as powerful as the Central Plains. Therefore, to defeat them, you don't need to wear a large number of iron armor, leather armor is enough, and you need to be armed with archers and Crossbowmen can lure the enemy and defeat them easily.”

Two days later, Li Heng selected 3,000 infantrymen for Bu Zhao in Xiangyang, and Bu Zhao returned to Jiangling with Du Yu.

Du Yu was ordered to start arranging the planting of tea in advance.

The first large-scale tea planting was mainly in Hengyang County, Lingling County, Wuling County, Yidu County and Jianping County.

Two days later, on the eighth day of August, the news of Cao Rui's death was confirmed.

Li Heng sighed: It seems that Cao Shuang is about to ascend the stage of power in Wei State, but I don't know if there will be a Gao Pingling Incident in the future?
Time passed quickly, and it was already September in the blink of an eye. The Han army in Jingzhou also began to implement the system of returning home to visit relatives.

At this time, the Yangtze River route between Wuchang and Jiangling had been fully restored, and a large number of merchant ships began to travel between each other.

Not only that, the Han River route from Wuchang to Xiangyang has also begun to operate smoothly.

Ship after ship of new salt was transported to Wuchang and then to Jianye.

Until October, the salt trade between Han and Wu had soared from 200,000 jins per month last year to more than one million jins.

And the number is growing rapidly.

What is the flow rate for one million pounds of new salt?
5000 yuan!

Excluding transportation costs, labor costs, and raw material costs, the net income is as high as 3000 million yuan.

Of course, this is the income in October. According to the self-adjustment function of the market, the price of new salt will definitely drop rapidly in the near future.

On October 15, after Li Heng arrived in Jiangling, the first thing he did was to check the currency he received.

The government office in Jiangling was filled with copper coins.

Du Yu pointed to these copper coins and said: "I have checked and found that most of the coins here were cast by the state of Wu. This shows that Sun Quan has made sufficient preparations."

"Sun Quan is minting money?"

"Yes."

"This is a good thing. Cao Shuang should be here soon." Li Heng pointed at the money and said, "How much money is there?"

"Ten million guan, and there are more than 10 million guan on the way."

(End of this chapter)