Destiny Only Han

"Why are you panicking? A certain person came here for this."

Hearing Ji Xin's words, the magistrate of Fushun showed a joyful look on his face, and he couldn't help but leaned in front of Ji Xin.

If he wants to take a step further in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, he must do "do it fast".

If it is another county, it can only persuade farmers to teach farming and mulberry, maintain law and order, and then encourage the people to have more children, double the population, and double the tax revenue.

In this way, you can get the word "most" in the year-end evaluation.

But Fushun County is different. It has a unique resource, salt.

With the completion of salt wells, several cars, or more than a dozen cars of white salt are transported out of the salt field every day, and sent to the markets in various counties of Shu County, or to the thorny people in the mountains. , in exchange for the slaves they captured, the delicacies they collected and other special products.

Therefore, the political achievements of Fushun County have never been about population, farming and mulberry, or taxation, but about salt, producing more salt and selling more salt.

For example, this year, the small goal of the Fushun County Salt Field is to double the annual output, and strive to build more than [-] salt wells before the official departure in September next year!
Therefore, the magistrate of Fushun County needs a lot of labor, and it is conservatively estimated that another [-] to [-] salt workers will be added.

But the crux of the matter is that there is no one.

After all, the level of development of Bashu at this time was not high. It was not as good as the later Sichuan and Chongqing regions with a population of hundreds of millions, and easily piled up a municipality directly under the central government and a number one in the Southwest.

After so many years of unrestrained mining, the Thorn Man mine is almost exhausted. After all, not only the development of Shu County needs the participation of the Thorn Brothers, but also the stretches of sugarcane plantations in South County. Thorny figures are everywhere.

According to Ji Xin's statistics in the past few years, about 60 thorn people came out of the deep mountains and were sent to the sugarcane plantations in Nanjun one after another.

Therefore, Liu Ying had almost endless rum, which supported the livestock trade with the Donghu people and the Huns, and exchanged hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses, making nearly [-]% of the land north of the Yangtze River realized. Cattle plowing, or horse plowing.

Therefore, when the market in Shu County was close to saturation and the human mine of Thorns had been exhausted, the output of the saltworks in Fushun County would naturally exceed the demand.

Fushun county magistrate, who was driven crazy by the mountain of white flowers and salt, looked up at Ji Xin, with a light of hope in his eyes, and said in a pleading tone:
"Oh? The Sheriff has come up with a good solution?"

Ji Xin stroked the short beard under his jaw, and said with a smile, "Have you heard of the five-foot way?"

The county magistrate of Fushun shook his head lightly, and a Sichuan character was squeezed out between his eyebrows. He only felt that the name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember what it was.

Ji Xin explained:
"It was a road built in the south of Bodao (now Yibin, Sichuan) by Wei Changying[è] of Shu County in order to control the Southwestern Yi during the Qin Dynasty. It is said that there is a river at the end of the road, which can directly connect to Xiang County. Then arrived at Nanhai County...Because the road is 5 feet wide, it was named Wuchi Road."

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Well, 'Tao' is an administrative unit, similar to Shaomin Autonomous Prefecture.

After listening to Ji Xin's explanation, Fushun county magistrate shook his head worriedly, and murmured softly: "Bo Dao? It has been abandoned for so many years, even if there is a road, I'm afraid it's unusable... After all, there was chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and many places They are all out of the control of the Qin State, and even Bodao, which is next to Fushun County, almost became king on its own, so we brought it down again."

Ji Xin said with a smile: "If it is abandoned, it will be abandoned. At worst, it will be enough to rebuild it? Now we are different from the Qin Dynasty. We rely on manpower when building roads. At that time, I will apply to His Royal Highness for some explosives." , blasting the five-foot road into a five-foot road..."

The county magistrate of Fushun still remained suspicious: "However, the water in the distance can't quench the thirst in the near! Even if the Wuchi Road is repaired, but I heard that the three counties in the South China Sea are close to the sea, and people still lack salt?"

Ji Xin shook his head: "Who said it will be sold to the three counties of the South China Sea?"

The county magistrate of Fushun asked, "Where does the sheriff plan to sell our salt?"

"Of course it's the Yelang Kingdom!" Ji Xin didn't wait for the magistrate of Fushun to ask questions this time, and explained on his own: "In the past, when the Qin Kingdom was here, they bowed their heads to the Qin Kingdom. When he was unable to take care of it, he killed the county magistrates and other Qin officials sent by the Qin State, and then established Yelang State again on its own!"

The county magistrate of Fushun thought for a while, and then asked again: "The Yelang Kingdom is located in a remote place. The output of ten salt wells?"

Ji Xin was taken aback, and said with a smile: "That's right, that's good. I also know the two sentences 'the ground is not three feet flat, and the sky is not sunny for three days'. It seems that you have also read the "Map of Kanyu Wanguo" compiled by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! "

The county magistrate of Fushun smiled reservedly: "At the end of the new year, I went to Guanzhong to visit my relatives, and I took a few glances at my uncle..."

Well, his surname is Xiao, Xiao He's Xiao.

Ji Xin took a deep look at him, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised: "I believe this. If you can ask what you said before, I believe you should have only seen it a few times."

The magistrate of Fushun twitched his lips twice, his face flushed slightly: "Could it be that the sheriff has seen everything?"

Ji Xin shook his head: "This is an important weapon of the country. Even Xiao Xiangguo, I am afraid that he has not read all the "Map of Kanyu Wanguo"!" several volumes."

"Therefore, your doubts are not some doubts."

"The so-called name of the Yelang Kingdom is just a rumor spread by the people of Qin. Yelang is Yelang! Yelang is a ritual of the Jingman, and the oath is sung in a specific tone during the sacrifice. Anyone who has recited Yelang The Lang oath, and the Jingman tribe after participating in the sacrifice, is a member of Yelang, more like a tribal alliance than a country!" (Note 1)

The county magistrate of Fushun nodded slightly, and expressed his opinion: "That is to say, when we broke out with the Yelang Kingdom, we were not fighting a country, but some small tribes?"

"Of course!" Ji Xin agreed, and went on with the trend: "According to the conclusion obtained after His Royal Highness sent people to investigate, Yelang has more than one million people. If all the tribes are united, there may be 2 armored soldiers. !” (Note [-])

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"The important thing is that the Yelang Kingdom is not a thorny people, trapped in the mountains and forests. Recently, I caught a few silk smuggling businessmen in Chengdu. After torture, I learned that they are the people of the Yelang Kingdom. Shu County buys silk and wolfberry sauce, and then resells them to Dian Kingdom, and even more distant Shendu Kingdom!" (Note 3)

"Shendu country?" The magistrate of Fushun scratched his head, a little puzzled by these inexplicable country names, but he focused on another point Ji Xin said, Yelang has a population of one million!
In this way, his salt has a buyer!

However, he was still a bit puzzled. After all, the word "Jing Man" represented a poor and backward person, so how could such a place support a million people?

So he asked back: "I heard that the land of Yelang has many mountains and mountains, how can it support so many people?"

Ji Xin thought about it for a while, and explained: "You don't know that there are not all mountains there. The terrain is somewhat similar to the loess plateau north of Guanzhong. According to the explanation of His Royal Highness, although Yelang Kingdom is surrounded by mountains, there are many mountains in the country. Most of the places on the top of the mountain are "flattened planes" with little ups and downs, so that not only the dams and river valleys can be farmed, but also the top of the mountain can be farmed."

"Moreover, what is better than the Loess Plateau is that there is abundant rainfall, and there is no need to divert water for irrigation. You can barely eat enough by relying on the weather, and the population is naturally large."

Well, flattening is a geomorphological concept, which refers to the overall uplift of the original plains or gentle hills due to geological movements to become plateaus. Although highlands are formed relative to the surrounding areas, the inner surface still maintains the shape of plains.

With the erosion of running water, the flattened surface of the core part of the plateau is relatively complete, and it seems to have returned to the plain when standing on it, while the flattened surface of the edge of the plateau is only retained on the top of the mountain, forming intermittent planed surfaces in the shape of 墚 and 峁.

The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is exactly such a topography. On the whole, many places retain the flat topography, but the surrounding mountains are deeply cut by many rivers, forming a landform combination of deep valleys, steep slopes, and flat tops.

This 'top level' is the platform that carries the population. Although the overall land is not three feet flat, there is a lot of land that can be reclaimed. In many small towns in Yunnan and Guizhou, the population density is not as low as imagined.

As a result, it has resulted in the emergence of stretches of impoverished counties.

But in today's Han Dynasty, this is actually a very good phenomenon.

After all, what Liu Ying needs is a human mine.

As we all know, the poorer you are, the more hungry you are, the higher the quality of human resources!
The magistrate of Fushun looked at Ji Xin, who was reading without much emotion in his tone, and said with a soft smile: "I said why the sheriff came here in such a busy schedule, could it be that he was ordered by His Highness the Crown Prince to prepare for the Has the Yelang Kingdom made a move?"

Well, most of the official residents of Fushun County are Qin people who migrated from Guanzhong before. They received the education of "farming and warfare" since they were young.
"How can you say it's hands-on?"

Ji Xin frowned, and said seriously:
"The Yelang Kingdom used to be a vassal of the Qin Kingdom. Now I am a majestic man, following the destiny and obeying the people's hearts. Naturally, I will come to court from all directions. Therefore, we are just going to inform them that we will come to Chang'an City to pay homage to His Majesty...By the way, how can I get to the palace? Poison country."

Note 1: Lin He's "History of Chinese Wu Nuo".

Note 2: In "Historical Records: Biographies of Southwestern Yi", Meng Nai wrote a letter saying: "... I heard that all the elite soldiers in Yelang can get more than [-] people, and the floating boats on the Kejiang River are unexpected. This system is even more amazing.

Note 3: "Historical Records Biography of the Southwestern Yi", or it is heard that Qiongxi can have a poisonous country two thousand miles away.Qian said that Daxia is in the southwest of Han Dynasty, admires China, suffers from the Xiongnu and is separated from it, and is sincerely connected to Shu. (Well, the final result was that it was not found. 'When I was more than one year old, Kunming was closed, and no one could pass through the poisonous country'.)