The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 397 Marching to the Sea

Also in December 270 AD, when the envoys from the three western countries arrived in Chang'an, many dignitaries and scholars opened up new fields of thought and set off a brainstorm.In the far southern Xinjiang, the Han family sons here are also going to a brand new field.

After taking down the three southern counties of Jiaozhou, the Ji Han government of course also set up its own Jiaozhou Governor's Department here.The first governor of Jiaozhou was Wang Qi and Wang Kongshuo.

Speaking of which, Wang Qi used to be in Nanzhong. Although he was only the governor of Nanzhong, he was actually in charge of seven counties.But the governor of Jiaozhou has only three counties.This kind of job change is actually a typical ups and downs.

However, such an arrangement is a strong request of Wang Qi himself, and it is also Guan Yi's need to maintain the overall stability of his Fuxing Society: Wang Qi's prestige in Nanzhong is too high.Moreover, this place is different from Fuling County, the home of the Fuxing Society.In Fuling County, although any veteran of the Fuling Society can mobilize [-] aborigines in Fuling County.But there is no doubt that this kind of transfer must be approved by the relevant Yi, otherwise it will not be possible.And in Nanzhong, well, of course everyone knows Guan Da Sima, but if you really want to talk about prestige, let alone Wang Qi, even Ma Yi, the new governor of Nanzhong, is higher than him.

Therefore, such job transfer is necessary.A powerful minister is actually a monarch in a certain sense, and because of the embarrassing position of a powerful minister, he is more suspicious than ordinary monarchs.This point cannot be changed simply by a broad-minded traveler.

Moreover, Guan Yi also knew that, on the historical plane, because Wang Qi was not from a wealthy family and political alignment always made mistakes.So don't look at him destroying Goguryeo with Guanqiu Jian, and destroying Shuhan with Deng Ai.But in the end of Wang Qi's life, he will always be just a county prefect.This time, putting Wang Qi in the position of Ji Han's only four state governors is not treating him badly.

After Wang Qi became governor of Jiaozhou, he did three things.

First, arrange Wu Jia and other remnants of the Eastern Wu Luwang Party to Nanzhong as county prefects.Not only rewarded the other party for their contributions, but also emptied the aristocratic families in the three southern counties of Jiaozhou (the influence of the Tao family and Xue family in Jiaozhi County must of course take the initiative to attack.)
Second, with the Red River as the main support, the traffic from Nanzhong to Jiaozhi County will be fully dredged: the hidden reefs in the river can be cleared, and those that cannot be cleared should be checked and marked.The county towns along the river will build ports.A new official road link between the port and the city... All of the above is a huge project.The labor required is staggering.And Wang Qi gave extremely rich treatment to the natives of Jiaozhi, Rinan, and Jiuzhen counties who recruited.It immediately captured the hearts of the local aborigines.

However, for the natives who applied for the recruitment, although the salary given by the governor Wang is very kind, there is one thing that is not very good.All the rewards he gave to everyone were copper coins, not a grain of grain.In this way, everyone had to take copper coins to cross mountains and ridges to buy food in Beijiao Prefecture under the control of Soochow.However, although it is very troublesome, after all, he has money in his hands. As long as he is willing to work hard honestly, the problem of food and clothing can still be solved.This alone is enough reason for everyone to support the rule of the big man here.

But for Wang Qi, it would be impossible not to distribute copper coins.Since Jihan's foreign trade has always been in a state of super, and the output of Yunnan copper mine is getting higher and higher.Now Ji Han's headache is not where to find enough copper to improve the poor quality of his country's currency.It's about how to spend the extra money: if this continues, with the prosperity of the overland Silk Road, the amount of this surplus will be even greater.In order to stabilize the currency value, there is no effective solution, Guan Da Sima has no choice but to learn from the Western Zhou Dynasty and cast a large number of copper ritual vessels.

Therefore, in the current Jihan, not only Jiaozhou, but also Fuling, Nanzhong, Yongliang and other places have started large-scale construction of various public works.As for the distribution of workers' salaries, the previous rule of half grain and half copper coins was changed, and the full amount of copper coins was directly distributed.

As a result, the price of food in Jihan began to rise.It has risen from about 120 yuan per stone to 150 yuan, and according to this trend, there is still the possibility of continuing to rise.

Farmers in the country will of course benefit from rising food prices.After the farmers have money, the products of Fuxingshe will of course sell better.At the same time, due to the rise in food prices, the price difference between ordinary food and meat has narrowed.Ordinary officials and workers with money in their pockets are also thinking about adding some meat dishes to their dinner tables.And when the government has more money, there will only be more meat on the tables of the standing army.As a result, the nomadic tribes living next to the Han people also benefited.Han Jiaerlang's physical fitness has also been effectively guaranteed and further improved... Therefore, an appropriate currency depreciation is beneficial to promoting the overall economic development.

And the Chinese people are so smart: domestic food prices have risen so much, why do we still have to buy food at home?As a result, large grain merchants, small traders, and ordinary people living on the borders of Han, Jin, and Han and Wu entered Jin and Wu to buy grain by various means.

This is actually sucking the blood of the two countries.People of insight in the two countries are not blind to this.But what can you do if you see it?The situation in Jin State is a little bit better, but there is a big loophole in Youzhou in the north.As for Soochow, that is simply a sieve.

In short, because of Wang Qi's Daxing construction in Nanjiao Prefecture, the local aborigines bought grain from Beijiao Prefecture after they got rich.As a result, in addition to the morbid prosperity of the North Jiaozhou, a large amount of food and even the population in Soochow began to flow towards the South Jiaozhou.

In addition to clearing the aristocratic families to facilitate the smooth flow of government orders, and building large-scale construction projects to benefit the aborigines.Wang Qi's most important task in Jiaozhou is to open the sea.

The three counties of Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen and Rinan are the northern part of modern Vietnam.This place has indeed been the territory of China since ancient times.But this place is too far away from the Central Plains.And in the farming era, the output here was very little.Therefore, the successive dynasties of the Central Plains maintained their rule here, but the gains outweighed the losses.

Take the Ming Dynasty on the historical plane as an example.Zhu Di pacified Annan and stationed troops here.How much tax can be obtained from here every year?At most, it was less than 7 taels a year.And how much is the military expenditure of the garrison here every year?300 million taels per year.The reason for this situation, on the one hand, is of course that there was a problem with the Ming government’s ruling strategy (such as forcibly reforming the land and returning it to the natives), which aroused the general resistance of Annan’s indigenous people.But in any case, with such a disparity in the account, any minister in charge of finance would suggest to give up the matter.

Therefore, no matter how ambitious Guan Yi is, no matter how unwilling the future ruler of the Han Dynasty will be.As long as the income and expenditure here cannot reach a balance or become a positive number, this place will be abandoned by the ruler of the Central Plains sooner or later.

How can the output here be improved?Agriculture is one aspect, but sea trade is more important.

After winning this land, Wang Qi not only reinforced the pass at Pheasant Pass to guard against the attack of Soochow, but also followed Guan Yi's instructions and spent a lot of effort to dredge the silt at the mouth of the Red River and build a new one. port.In October of this year, after the delivery of the ship promised by Soochow was completed, Wang Qi began to lead the team to explore the route south.

However, this year Kong Shuogong is also in his 60s, and his physical fitness is not as good as before.So this time leading the army to the south was Zhang Wei, the son of Zhang Yi, the former prefect of Fuling County.His deputies are Geng Teng from Nanzhong and Quan Wu from Soochow.

"In that case, I will leave everything to Zi Miao."

"Please rest assured Wang Shijun. Wei will definitely do his best to complete the tasks assigned by Da Sima and Shijun."

The fleet led by Zhang Wei consisted of 100 big ships and more than 1000 river boats.The ship was full of various goods such as silk, ceramics, and soap.The entire fleet has [-] soldiers and more than [-] sailors.

The route of this fleet is: according to the map of Southeast Asia and the Indian Peninsula hand-drawn by Sima Guan, first travel south along the coastline of the Indochina Peninsula.After reaching the Straits of Malacca, head west.Then go north along the west coastline of the Indochina Peninsula, and then reach the Indian Peninsula.Establish direct official links with the Gupta dynasty that ruled there.Then turn to the west of the Indian peninsula to establish contact with the Kushan Empire there.

If all goes well, if you find Guishuang, then the rest will be easy: Guishuang has been beaten into a dog by Sassan Persia at this time, but because of the growing threat of Gupta, Guishuang not only dare not Looking for Sasanian revenge, instead taking Sassanian as the suzerain state and relying on Sasanian's help to fight against Gupta.Therefore, as long as you arrive in Guishuang, it is very easy to establish contact with Persia at sea.In this way, the Maritime Silk Road was opened successfully.In this way, the problem of limited cargo volume will be greatly alleviated.The commodities exported by the Han Dynasty have changed from completely relying on silk to both ceramics and silk.

Of course, all of this is Guan Yi's idea.The specific implementation still needs the people under his command to develop bravely.

As Wang Qilai, who represented Cao Wei across the sea to the Japanese archipelago and declared Yamatai as a subsidiary kingdom of Cao Wei.He is different from ordinary scholar-bureaucrats.He really agreed with Guan Yi's idea of ​​developing sea routes.So this time, he also made a big bet on this fleet.

"Grandfather, grandson is going now. If Guishuang is not found, grandson will never survive!"

"Good! Mi'er do it well. My son of a big man, in addition to being able to open up tens of thousands of miles in the western border, he can also cut through tens of thousands of miles of sea waves in the South China Sea!"

　Recently, subscriptions have declined, collections have decreased, and recommended tickets and monthly tickets have shrunk.Is it because the quality of the book has declined, or has it been updated every day for a long period of time that has caused everyone to lose interest?How about I temporarily stop updating for a month and a half, and then update twice a day?

　　Well, this volume is over.In fact, I personally feel that the writing is quite hard and sincere.Next Volume: Entering the Central Plains

　　
　
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