Destiny Only Han

Chapter 482 Liu Ying: The Southern Barbarians Invade!
After staying in place for a while, when the horses were full, Guan Ying got on his horse and continued heading east.

He is going to Panyang County to have a look today, and after a night's rest, he will go further east to Dexing County.

Dexing County is the focus of Guanying's inspection.

Two days ago, the magistrate of Dexing County came to report that the coal mine Liu Ying mentioned had been dug locally, and the reserves and quality were very good!
Yuzhang County is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and the straight-line distance from Chang'an City is more than [-] miles. The freight cost of transporting cement and ironware from Guanzhong to here is too high, especially for cement.

Therefore, in order for Yuzhang County to truly become an existence that "controls the wild thorns and attracts Ouyue", the cement and iron must be self-sufficient.

In the preliminary plan given by Liu Ying, Yuzhang County will develop based on the existing counties, such as digging iron ore from Luling County, transporting it to Nanchang City along the Jiangxi River, and then smelting it into steel and casting Appropriate tools and equipment, and enriching the arsenal of Nanchang City for use in war.

Well, the coal fields in the south of Nanchang City have been found, so there is no shortage of fuel for smelting metals.

And Dexing County, where Guan Ying is going, has a famous name in later generations.

Jingdezhen.

The coal fields excavated there are naturally used for firing porcelain.

Jingdezhen in later generations was known as the capital of porcelain, while Nanchang City, to be precise, is now Yuzhang County, owed a large amount of foreign debts from the very beginning, and had to spend a considerable amount of income to pay the interest on the bonds every year. Further development is then completed through a secondary issue of bonds.

In this way, a virtuous circle is formed.

The construction of porcelain kilns in Dexing County is a key point of Guanying work.

Another focus of Guanying is Jiujiang County, which is located in the north gate of Yuzhang County.

Jiujiang means the place where all the waters gather. Ganshui, Poshui, Yushui, Xiushui, Ganshui, Xushui, Shushui, Nanshui and Pengshui flow through the territory.

The famous Lushan Yunwu Tea is a specialty of Jiujiang County.

Of course, today's Lushan Mountain is still wild and overgrown with weeds, and the scale of the tea garden is small, but Guan Ying is very confident that within three to five years, he will be able to see tea trees all over the mountain.

This is also the reason why he will go to Panyang County for the first stop.

People say that people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. The biggest way for the people of Panyang County to make a living before was to domesticate slaves from Yue people, either to work for themselves, or to sell them to other places for money and cloth.

Anyway, most of them are descendants of the Wu family, and they are feuds with the Yue people. There is no psychological pressure to train the Yue people, and the methods are various and efficient.

Because of this, most of the savages captured by Mei Yan and others were sent here first, let the Wu people tame them for a period of time, and after eliminating the wildness, they were sent to the farms, tea gardens, and mines in Yuzhang County.

When it was getting dark, Guan Ying and his party went straight into Panyang County and galloped towards the county government office.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it belonged to the State of Chu, and it was known as Fanyi. Later, when Wu Rui was there, he used this as a base to recruit troops to fight against the State of Qin. Therefore, the county government here is tall and magnificent, and it was expanded by Wu Rui according to the style of the former King Wu Palace. .

It's just that now Panyang County has become a county of the Han Empire, and only some of the illegal decorations have been removed, and the rest are still preserved.

After all, sometimes dismantling and reassembling will not benefit the country or the people except to make the GDP look better.

When Guan Ying walked into the post house, he found that he was not the only one. Jiujiang County Magistrate Qingyang Hou Wang Chi and Dexing County Magistrate Guangping Hou Xue Ou had already arrived.

Although Guan Ying was the superior of the two of them and had more places to eat than them, he didn't dare to push him too hard and greeted him with a smile on his face.

Well, these two people are both from Fengyi, and they belong to Liu Bang's old subordinates and playmates.

When Liu Bang was the head of the pavilion in Sishui, the two of them were the soldiers of the pavilion in Sishui. Later, when Liu Bang went to Mangdang Mountain to fall into the grass and became bandits, the two of them also left their homes and businesses and followed Liu Bang.

Therefore, although there is no outstanding professional ability, Wang Xi ranked No.14 in the first batch of 15 achievements, and Xue Ou ranked No.[-].

Well, Guanying ranks ninth...

After the few people greeted each other, Wang Chi was too lazy to babble, just rushed forward and grabbed Guan Ying's sleeve robe, and shouted loudly: "Junshou, this time, at least half of the ministers will be divided between me!"

Xue Ou rushed up, pushed Wang Xi, and pulled Guan Ying's other sleeve robe: "Why give it to him? I gave him half of it last time, so it's my turn this time! You must know that the porcelain kiln in my place is the most important point in the key points hand-picked by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Not to be outdone, Wang Xi said:

"The governor, don't listen to his nonsense. Although the porcelain is beautiful and sells for a lot of money, it needs to dig the soil first, then dig the coal, and then build a kiln to fire it. I don't know how much manpower and financial resources it will cost! I am different from Jiujiang County. Yes, I found a copper mine and two gold mines there!"

"If we hurry up and dig now, not only will we be able to deduct the interest on the bonds this year, but we will still have a little money left over in our county warehouse!"

Guan Ying's eyes lit up: "Really?"

What Wang Xi said makes sense, gold and copper mines are dug out to make money, which is much faster than selling porcelain!

"It's absolutely true!" Wang Xi glanced at Xue Ou triumphantly, and stretched out his hand to stroke his neck: "If there is any half-fake, this head will be cut off and played as a ball for everyone!"

"It's too heavy, I can't kick it!" Xue Ou glanced at Wang Xue angrily, and cursed in a low voice: "The donkey's stuff is so lucky..."

Guan Ying twirled his beard, ignored Zhou Zao's begging look, and said with a smile: "Alright, this time the five thousand ministers will be divided between your two counties."

"really?"

"Establish written evidence!"

"Let's set up a fart paper, Nai Gong will pick it up first, you just wait here..."

"Don't run away, dog thief, wait for me!"

Seeing Wang Xueou and Xue Ou chasing and fighting each other away, Guan Ying turned around silently, patted Zhou Zao, who looked as disappointed as a resentful woman, and comforted in a low voice:
"Next time, next time..."

Zhou Zao came today, and naturally he came to ask for someone.

Under Liu Ying's plan, Nanchang City will be a transportation hub, connecting the important node of the golden waterway from Nanyue Kingdom to the Yangtze River.

When the caravan sent to the Nanyue Kingdom returns, they will no longer go to the nearby Changsha Kingdom, but will set off directly from Hengpu Pass to Nanzang County (Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province), which is now deserted but is being gradually rebuilt, and then follow Go down the Gan River and return to Guanzhong by water.

Although this is a bit of a detour, the efficiency of water transportation is far higher than that of land transportation, and it saves money...

Therefore, Zhou Zao's face was full of resentment.

It's me, it's me first, obviously it's me who came first...

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Nanyue Kingdom, Hengpu Pass.

A caravan of camels with large Chinese flags came slowly from the mountains and valleys. The Nanyue soldiers guarding the pass immediately blew their horns. The closed door opened, and thousands of soldiers wearing Qin army-style armor ran from the pass. He came out, staring blankly at the camel caravan slowly approaching.

This caravan is exactly the caravan sent by Shangxiantang to do business in South Vietnam.

As for these South Vietnamese soldiers who ran out, they were not trying to launch an attack, but came out to greet them.

Although Zhao Tuo's "Heji Baiyue" advocated intermarriage between Qin people and Yue people, respected the customs of Yue people, and promoted integration and harmonious development of society.

But how much common language do humans and monkeys have in common?

After a while, the camel caravan arrived at the pass, and the head of the caravan, after paying the taxes as agreed by both parties, took pieces of bamboo slips from the South Vietnamese soldiers.

These are family books.

In March of the beacon fire, the family letter arrived at Wanjin's family letter.

When the State of Qin was in power, in order to conquer the State of Nanyue, hundreds of thousands of troops, including merchants, son-in-laws, and dead people, were recruited from the country and marched southward.

Although this is a feat in the grand narrative concept, for the people who have been recruited, this parting may mean the separation between heaven and man forever.

They may never see their wife again, unable to enjoy the warmth of embracing her; Parents, the pain of the child wanting to support but not being loved, may only be experienced by them.

Now that the state of Han in the north has stabilized, their family members who lost contact, those who may, no, must have hid in the deep mountains and old forests because they escaped the war, should have returned to their hometown.

So they asked the caravan returning to Han to send their letters to their hometown.

These wanderers want to go home...

After a while, the caravan set off again, and the soldiers from the South Vietnam Kingdom rushed to the city wall, just watching blankly, until the last Han disappeared from their sight.

"Please! Be sure to deliver the letter..."

The shouts that echoed in the valley had Qinjin accents, Yanzhao accents, and Jingchu Bashu accents. Thousands of people mixed together, but what they wanted to express was the same.

When the fox dies on the head mound, the leaves fall and return to their roots.

Come back home!

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Half a day later, Hengpu Guannan.

A huge army that filled the valley and didn't see each other came quickly. Judging from the flags held up, this was the army of the South Vietnam.

A moment later, a man with short hair and tattoos and wearing gold and silver armor rode on horseback and asked condescendingly, "Has the Han Chinese caravan passed by?"

The guard officer knelt on one knee and cupped his hands and said, "Go back to the prince, I have been out of the customs for more than half a day."

The prince he was talking about was Zhao Zhong, the second son of Zhao Tuo. As for the eldest son of Zhao Tuo, he had already boiled to death...

Zhao Zhong patted his thigh violently, and said bitterly: "Damn it, let them slip away! Han people are cunning and cunning!"

He led the army to set up an ambush at Yangshan Pass before, in order to wipe out the Han caravan and prevent the news from leaking!
Nanyue Kingdom, don't hold back any longer, and teach Han Kingdom a lesson!
The Han State built a fortress in the north of the Nanyue Kingdom for the purpose of attacking the Nanyue Kingdom in the future, so they naturally wanted to strike first!

After Zhao Zhong was annoyed for a while, he didn't say much, but ordered the army to enter the checkpoint to rest overnight and set off tomorrow.

They are going to the Northern Expedition!
(End of this chapter)