The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 179 The Field of Hope ([-])
"Mother, please be careful and get in the car slowly. My child will help you..."

On the third day of August, Jiang Wei personally accompanied his mother from Qishan Camp to Chengdu.Apart from Long Yu Long Zihui who escorted Mother Jiang all the way here, there were no more than twenty Jiang family generals accompanying her.

"Bo Gong, after I leave, you will be in full charge of this place. Hey, Yuan Jian is old and has been in poor health since the beginning of spring this year, so he cannot leave Chengdu. Please take care of me."

"Don't worry, General, with Zhang Yi here, the Qishan camp will be as stable as Mount Tai!"

"I firmly believe in this." After bidding farewell to Zhang Yi, Zhao Tong and others, Jiang Wei sat in the driver's seat of a carriage and became the driver for his mother himself.

It is only more than eighty miles south from Daying Qishan, which is Xiabian County, the county seat of Wudu County.Wu Qiao, the prefect of Wudu County who was stationed here, had received the news a long time ago, and personally led the troops of Wudu County [-] miles north to meet him.

"Greetings to the general, and the old lady."

"Jiang Wei is really sorry to welcome you from the prefect. Especially since it is the busy farming season, the prefect must be very busy with his duties, right?"

"It's not busy, it's not busy. Didn't the Da Sima Mansion issue an order to exempt the whole country this year! At least this year's busy farming season is not busy."

"Ah? Hahaha, okay, okay, it's been 43 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and it's the first time that all the people under my rule have been exempted from taxes. Hey, Jiang Wei is really ashamed..."

"The general doesn't have to be like this. Speaking of which, let alone me, the whole territory of tax exemption. Even the puppet Wei and Dongwu have never had it."

"So, Da Sima is really a genius..."

Wu Qiao couldn't answer these words, so I had to change the subject: "General, originally our Wudu County was located in a remote corner, so this post house has always been clean. But in May this year, the Hu family in Liangzhou took pictures of Yinping. After the salt lake, the number of salt merchants coming and going increased. Even the business along Yinping and Wudu began to prosper. So today's Wudu station has become noisy. In order for the old lady to rest more peacefully, the next official The prefect's mansion has been cleaned out, and the general and his party can go there to spend the night."

"Otherwise, it's enough for my mother to go to the prefect's house to stay for one night. Wei wants to live in the post."

"Uh, General. It's really messy at the station right now."

"Hehehe, how messy is it? Do you need my mobile corps to send troops to assist in law and order?"

"Well, that's not the case. The disorder mentioned by the lower official is not a disorder of law and order, but too many people coming and going. Forget it, let's do as the general said."

When they arrived in Dexiabian City, Wu Qiao's family came to pick up Mother Jiang.Wu Qiao personally accompanied Jiang Wei to live in the post station in Wudu County.

Before the post station appeared in sight, Jiang Wei frowned quickly.

From a long distance, one could smell the stench of horse dung and cow dung, mixed with various noisy sounds: people shouting and cursing, horses neighing sharply, and cows panting.Messy sounds, mixed in the feces, drifted far, far away.

After turning the corner of the street, the station appeared in sight.The bustling crowd, the motorcades coming and going.As well as various small stalls and vendors around the post station, there are even two or three buildings that have been built more than half, and at first glance they look like restaurants... How is this a post station?It was so lively that it looked like a market town!
"Ouch! There are a bunch of new faces here? Where are the guests from? Judging by your attire, you are from the north, right? Have you ever tasted our Yizhou fruit wine? Hi! Let me tell you, this fruit wine is our big name. Sima invented it. Our big Sima...a guest, eh, a guest?"

"Guests are not interested in wine? Do you want to come to my grocery store? This store just opened this month, in order to reward the support of all the folks. All products are [-]% off. Look? This Jingyao Wax, Yanxi Lacquer , new porcelain, soap...there are all kinds of varieties! Customers? Eh? Customers?"

"Hey! This team of guest officers looks rich and rich at first glance! You are here to do big business, right? You must not look down on the things sold by those small retail vendors! Guest officer, do you want to come to our Haitang Pavilion for fun? Girls here, from Yizhou and Liangzhou, even if you want girls from the Xiongnu, Di tribe or even the Western Regions, we have them all in our shop!"

"Hmph, Mrs. Sao, these uncles seem to be from a wealthy family. How can you see the vulgar fans in your store. Heroes, come and play a few games in Tong Sifang? This store is the number one casino in Chengdu. Tongsifang's branch here. Thanks to the care of Da Sima, I personally gave you several new ways to play, which is very exciting!"

"Mi Dazui, don't fart there! My mother's store is full of vulgar fans, so don't come here last night!"

"Fuck! I didn't know I was fooled until I came here last night..."

During the short distance of a few hundred meters, he was recruited by many businessmen along the way.Jiang Wei's frown became tighter and tighter: "Xuan Gao, why does Biancheng seem to have completely changed after only a few months? When I regained this place in February, it was still completely silent."

"Hehe, General. This place has now become a commercial transit point. The Hu family's cavalry will pass here once every ten days, and they will definitely rest here. These people have money and consume extravagantly. So soon There are many small merchants and hawkers around this Wudu post station. Then these small merchants and hawkers quickly discovered that if they reserve a certain amount of my big man's special products such as fruit wine and new porcelain, and then wait for the Hujia horse team to set off Follow them across the Qiang-inhabited area... Uh, what the official said is not accurate. Instead of crossing, but entering. Then these things will be sold out in the Qiang-inhabited area soon. When you come back, bring the Qiang people Special products such as horses, cattle and sheep came back here for sale, and businessmen from Zitong and Shu County naturally came here after hearing the news... So, there are more and more people in this place. With the post station as the center, the scope of this market town is also growing The bigger it is, the lower officials have already prepared that after the autumn harvest this year, the common people will have leisure, so they will summon a thousand peasants to triple the size of the station!"

"Well, Xuan Gao must have collected a lot of business taxes in the past two months, right?"

"Hahahahaha~~~General, speaking of this, I really want to show off to you. I will take over as the prefect of Wudu in February. In the first three months, I was living beyond my means and miserable. Month Yue relied on money and food allocated from Chengdu. Since May, the days of being an official have been getting better every day. Well, in May, the business tax was 18, in June it was 25, and in July it was [-]. This August, It is estimated that it will not be less than [-]! General, you know that the people on the roster of Wudu County, Xiaguan, were less than [-] before Yanxing. If you take it away, what Xiaguan now controls is worth more than [-] yuan!"

"Hey, a trade route has directly revitalized a county. Da Sima is really, really talented!"

Although Wu Qiao agreed with Jiang Wei's words, Wu Qiao also keenly saw the Xiao Suo in Jiang Wei's eyes.So Wu Qiao quickly answered: "General, even though that is the case. But we should also see that if the General hadn't led the army to station in Qishan, how would we dare to open up business routes like this? It is precisely because the General won and The Qishan camp was held, so that if the puppet Wei wants to attack our Wudu, it must first take down Qishan. That's why we dare to open the door to do business! From this point of view, the general is the Wudu County to achieve prosperity The strongest guarantee!"

"Hehe." Hearing Wu Qiao's words, Jiang Wei's mood improved: "There are so many people coming and going, are there any secret spies from the fake Wei?"

"Of course there is. Jinzuo Cao of the puppet Wei is stronger than Si Wencao of my big man. In the past two months, the officials have clearly felt that there are many people who come and go. What to do is just a guy who looks for people to chat with... But these guys, let them look at them. In a word, if Qi Shan is not lost, it’s okay for them to see everything through it. This trade route is abolished!"

"What the prefect said is true. However, if the Hu family transports all the salt from the salt lake to the northwest, what will the people in Wenshan, Yinping, and Wudu eat?"

"Hahaha~~General, of course we eat Zigong salt! Zigong salt is fine in grain and white in color, and it can also effectively prevent gall disease (an ancient name for hyperthyroidism). And it only sells for [-] yuan when it is shipped to Wudu. One stone. Of course we all eat Zigong salt. In fact, the whole Dahan, no matter whether it is on the list or not, eats Zigong salt. The salt produced by other salt mines must be exported, otherwise it can only be dumped. Drop! It can be said that it is precisely because of the high-quality, low-price, and sufficient supply of Zigong salt that the various families who bought the salt mines had to organize well salt shipments, which led to countless business routes for Dahan!"

"Hiss~~ The production of Zigong salt is so large?"

Of course it is big, my general.You know, during the Tongzhi period of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising cut off the westward passage of Huaiyan, the Qing government ordered the "Sichuan Salt to Chu" to start.For more than ten years, Zigong has provided salt for hundreds of millions of people in the five provinces of Yunchuan, Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan with a small part of the effort.Even so, it's still more than enough.It was also in these ten years that the foundation for the Zigong Salt Gang's great reputation and later independence as a city was laid.

In modern times, the daily standard salt intake recommended by the World Health Organization is 6 grams.In ancient times, due to the lack of fat, sugar and other non-staple foods, this standard would definitely rise.But generally 15 grams is completely enough (many provinces in modern China eat too much salt, and the province with the highest daily salt intake is 23 grams. "China National Geography" salt album data).

How many people does Shu Han have now?There are more than 400 million people listed on the roster, hidden by aristocratic families, and ethnic minorities in mountainous areas. (General History Data of Chinese Population)

Calculated in this way, the amount of salt in the whole country of Shuhan is 190 million kilograms.It is equivalent to 81 shi.And if the current Zigong Pavilion is fully started, how much salt will be produced in a year?Over a million stones! (The peak annual salt production in Zigong wells is 180 million tons. This is equivalent to more than 600 million shi. Of course, that is the use of modern production technology. And so much salt, more than 90% is used by industry.)
Such a super salt farm is the reason why Guan Yi dared to sell all the salt farms in the country!The so-called privatization of salt farms means implementing a system of on-site tax collection or something.Although there are many benefits, before the traversers get out the big killer of Weihai sun salt, Wei and Wu countries can't learn it!
(End of this chapter)