Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 206 Foreign Trade
The little fat man obviously did not think of this. Confucianism in this period has a strong sense of mission and a strong ability to accept, but anyone who can respect Confucius and read scriptures, regardless of region, nationality, or Confucianism, can perfectly absorb it and become Confucianism. Dong Zhuo, one of the territories under the system, suddenly discovered that it was no longer necessary to capture the captives himself, and these natives came here one after another, wanting to settle in the Han territory.

Dong Zhuo only provided them with some food, and they voluntarily devoted themselves to the construction project.

At this time, the merchants of the Han Dynasty also seemed to see the huge benefits, and foreign commerce began to develop rapidly. When it comes to foreign trade, the most developed area is naturally the Western Regions. An important transportation point for the circulation of materials, the silk, pottery, bronze, and evil gold of the Han Dynasty were transported here by these merchants.

In exchange for many Western specialties that are not available in the Han Dynasty, and then return to the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Not only the merchants of the Han Dynasty, many blond and blue-eyed Western merchants also felt that they were within the territory of the Han Dynasty, and their trading bases gradually moved from the Western Regions to Liangzhou. Guzang County was in the middle of the war. For the first time, there have been earth-shaking changes. After becoming a place that merchants must pass through, the development here is extremely rapid.

Coupled with the various policies proposed by Jia Xu, the commercial tax alone allowed Liangzhou's tax to quickly surpass that of Jizhou, Qingzhou, etc., which shocked the emperor. However, for some reason, Jia Xu never forbade the big man However, they never allow the disclosure of iron-making, farming and other technologies. There are always businessmen who take risks for the huge profits.

But their end is always very tragic. Jia Xu is different from Zheng Xuan. He has no bottom line in his actions. He ransacked and beheaded some merchants who violated the Han law, and hung their heads on the city walls of Guzang County. Suddenly, the entire city was covered with heads, including children, women, and old people. Zheng Xuan was very annoyed by his behavior.

However, he still hung up the heads of these people for three full days, which made the merchants terrified, and they no longer dared to act casually as usual, because in recent years, the number of tribute exchanges from small countries outside the borders has continued to increase, and the big Honglucao Song's affairs also gradually became busy. The emperor expanded his power again and again, and he recruited many subordinate officials, which barely maintained the normal operation of Dahonglu.

The huge profits in Liangzhou made Wenren's eyes straight. He proposed to the emperor to reduce commercial taxes and create more commercial taxes. He believed that only by encouraging the development of commerce can the country's finances be improved. Even better, but this time, the emperor clearly rejected his request. Before, it was a folk handicraft, and most of the people who were engaged in this area were good families.

For these people, the emperor can mercifully reduce taxes.

However, for these merchants, the emperor really does not like them. He will not shake the national policy of the great man. Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business has been an unchangeable national policy of the great man for hundreds of years. This cannot be changed. No matter how much wealth can be created, It's all non-negotiable.

In Yangzhou, Wang Fu, after discussing with Wen Renxi, made changes to Yangzhou in private. He built large-scale water conservancy, increased farmland, and increased grain production. At the same time, he vigorously developed Yangzhou's ship industry and sent The fleet looked around, and repeatedly reduced the taxes on commerce and handicrafts. He even encouraged merchants to trade with foreign countries.

The merchants went south, and some of them brought back a lot of good things. When they saw that the merchant brought back a few feet tall, with a long nose, like a monster that came out of the Book of Mountains and Seas, he asked people to dedicate the monster to him. Son of Heaven, this kind of monster was discovered as early as when Emperor Xiaowu conquered the south, and it was called an elephant, but after that, everyone obviously never saw it again.

Such a huge monster caused a great commotion when it was transported to Luoyang. Of course, the people along the way looked at the giant monster in shock, and some even followed it for a long time. When the monster was transported to Luoyang , the emperor and all the officials came to the top of the city in person to watch. The emperor walked out of the palace, and the people knelt down and worshiped along the way.

Accompanying him were the Empress Song, the eldest son Liu Bian, and the Empress Dowager was unwell and did not leave the palace together. When they reached the top of the city and saw these huge strange things, the emperor secretly marveled, but he did not expect , There are such tall animals in the world, he thought to himself, if they are domesticated vigorously and let them replace the cattle in the future, will farming become easier?
He Xiu was on the side, also frowning, looking at it carefully, thinking like a son of heaven in his heart, thinking, this animal is so huge, if it is tamed vigorously, will this meat make it affordable for many people?Thinking of this, He Xiu went down to the top of the city himself, walked up to the giant beast, stretched out his hand to stroke it, pinched the piece of meat, but shook his head secretly, it seemed inedible!
The elephant was stared at by He Xiu strangely. For some reason, he was a little nervous. The thin and dark barbarian beside him was grinning and speaking in not very fluent Chinese. "

Looking at this barbarian, He Xiu thought to himself, this guy really looks like Cao Cao, he asked solemnly, "Is this thing edible?"

The barbarian was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. Looking at the old man, he felt a little apprehensive, looked at the elephant beside him, and said tremblingly, "Boss, we haven't eaten this before, so we shouldn't eat it." Edible"

"Then what does it eat?"

"It eats fruit."

He Xiu just nodded, looked at the elephant for a while, and then looked at the barbarian, turned around and left without saying a word. If it has no effect on the big man, but can only be used as an ornamental object, he is not very interested , but he did not expect that his questioning would leave a big shadow in the barbarian's heart, after the barbarian returned to his hometown.

Everyone asked him, what does the emperor of Han look like?

The barbarian said tremblingly: "The big Han emperor has a mountainous belly and looks extremely strong. It is said that his cook slaughtered three cows for him every day. I took the elephant there, and his cook even came to ask me , can this elephant be eaten?"

From then on, in the south of the Han Dynasty, a statue of a god with a big belly appeared inexplicably and was worshiped by many people. At the foot of this statue was a kneeling elephant. The image of a big man with kitchen utensils is not as good as that of He Xiu! !
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