Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 411 Scarlet Clothes ([-])
Seven years later

The winter of the 79th year of Marquis Yan (289)
The people in the Central Plains have not enjoyed such a long period of peace for a long time. Although it is not a prosperous age, after all, the exploitation of the aristocratic family is getting more and more serious.

However, being exploited by a family is better than serving meat and meat as food for warlords in the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, isn't it?

In the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were so many people who were treated as food and ate meat. Now, the people no longer need to be eaten. They are finally qualified to be cattle and horses, and finally qualified to be slaves. From corpses to slaves, This is not a rule of peace.

The good and the bad are all contrasted. Emperor Sima Yan is not a wise king, but under his rule, the Central Plains did not experience large-scale massacres like Cao Cao, nor did there appear to be a large number of refugees such as the Yellow Turban Army. The currency issued by various countries that was specially used to collect private wealth was also cancelled, and the relatively conscientious five baht coin became the official currency again.

Before, Yuan Zhao, Sun Wu, and Shu Han all issued inferior currencies, similar to Wang Mang's currency reform, which was dedicated to collecting private wealth, especially the straight hundred coins of Shu Han, which were used until the country was subjugated.

Due to the confusion of the currency system and the fact that the currency issued by the government was particularly pitiful, the entire society regressed back to the civilization stage of bartering at the end of the Han Dynasty and the Yuan Zhao period. Being exploited in the Central Plains.

The unification of the world and the restoration of the five baht coins have re-developed the urban economy of the Central Plains. Luoyang, Yecheng, Liaocheng, Jianye, Xiangyang, Xuchang, Xiapi, Shouchun, and Chengdu, these nine cities, have become the Great Jin City In areas where the city's economy is booming, a large number of handicraftsmen gather in the city to engage in non-agricultural production activities.

It is incomprehensible to those who live in later generations of prosperous commerce that in a society dominated by small-scale peasant economy, how thriving is the emergence of urban economy.

Simply do business, set up a trading market, some handicraftsmen do not farm, but sell their labor skills to make money. This kind of very common production activities in later generations is very rare in natural economic society.

Among them, Liaocheng County, Le'an State, Qingzhou, was originally just an ordinary county seat at the mouth of the Yellow River, but because of its unique geographical location, it became the main area for trade between the State of Yan and the Central Plains. Instead of plowing the fields, he started a small business of buying and selling, or became a dock porter, earning some five baht, and then used the five baht to buy goods from Yan Guo's shop in Liaocheng.

Jiaxiayi in Liaocheng County was originally a small fishing village, but now it has developed into a port city.

Many wealthy businessmen in Le'an (county) moved to Jiaxia Port one after another, which caused the land price in Jiaxia Port to rise day by day. The originally worthless wasteland is now more expensive than good land in other places.

A large number of goods from Yan State were unloaded to Jiaxia Port, and then merchants in the Central Plains used ships to transport them to various places along the Yellow River through the Yellow River.

Similarly, various raw materials from the Central Plains, such as saltpeter, sulfur, artemisia annua, and ephedra, were transported to Jiaxia Port, and then transported away by merchant ships of the State of Yan.

Generally speaking, what Yan State buys from the Central Plains is mostly raw materials, and occasionally people and livestock are bought. What the Central Plains buys from Yan State are mostly handicraft products, especially some luxury goods.

Among them, Artemisia annua produced in the Badong area (Chongqing) is the most popular in Yan State, and it is almost difficult to keep it in stock. Once it appears, it will be ordered by Yan State.

Zhang Zhongjing, who has died of illness, discovered that Artemisia annua can effectively prevent and treat miasma decades ago, and it is an essential medicinal material for overseas land reclamation.

However, the geographical environment of Yan State is not suitable for the cultivation of Artemisia annua. Although some are planted on Sugarcane Island, the growth is slow, the cycle is long, the yield is small, and the quality is low. Therefore, it mainly depends on the supply from the Badong area of ​​Yizhou.

Artemisia annua from Badong will be transported to Jiangling via the Yangtze River, then transported to Xiangyang via the Han River, and then transported to Luoyang by land, and then transported eastward from the Yellow River in Luoyang to Jiaxia Port.

The purchase price of a catty of Artemisia annua in Padang is [-] renminbi, and when it arrives at Jiaxia Port, the purchase price in Yan State is [-] renminbi.

A full ten times the profit, even if the cost of shipping and labor is excluded, the profit is as high as three times, who can not be tempted?
In the trilateral trade between Central Plains, Grassland and Yan, the output and demand of the three parties are as follows:
【Central Plains

Output: population, artisans, doctors, beauties, food, salt, paper, silk, cloth, ceramics, ironware, medicinal materials, books, armor

Demand: fine wine, swallow glass, jade, gemstones, population, food, armor, beauties, fruits, fur, woolen cloth, medicinal materials]

【grassland

Output: Livestock, Population, Iron Ore
Requirements: wine, salt, ironware, pottery, armor, fur, wool cloth]

【Yan Guo

Output: fine wine, wool cloth, iron ore, sugarcane brown sugar, swallow glass, grain, fruit, salt, ironware, artisans, healers, jade, gemstones, armored armor, ceramics, fur, medicinal materials

Requirements: healers, craftsmen, livestock, food, population, iron ore, medicinal materials, books]

It is worth noting that although both the Yan Kingdom and the Central Plains have a large demand for medicinal materials, the Yan Kingdom mainly needs medicinal materials that can resist miasma, and by the way, some medicinal materials that prolong life. herbs.

The grassland is the main place of population loss. A large number of grassland people either entered the Central Plains and became serfs of the gentry, or entered the Yan State and became slaves in overseas plantations.

The Central Plains is the main consumer of luxury goods. Nine floors of all kinds of luxury goods from Yan State are consumed by the aristocratic families in the Central Plains, and more than half of the remaining one floor is consumed by the grasslands as a product of luxury goods. Out of the land, the luxury goods used by Yan State itself are very rare.

The Great Jin Dynasty at this moment is so prosperous and peaceful on the surface.

Looking at the latest population survey reported by counties and counties in various counties and counties, it was found that the statistical population of Dajin had increased from the original 900 million to 300 million. Emperor Sima Yan showed a happy smile, thinking that the world can have such a large population , mainly due to his Mingjun.

The population of the Central Plains peaked during the period of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, reaching 500 million at one time. If it is a real population, it has actually exceeded 7000 million.

Compared with the 500 million population of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty was very satisfied with a population of 300 million.

He couldn't help asking Yang Jun beside him: "Which ancient king can I compare to?"

Yang Jun is Sima Yan's father-in-law, and his daughter-in-law Yang Zhi is also Sima Yan's queen. As the old father-in-law, he showed a flattering smile and flattered him: "Your Majesty cultivates virtue and takes care of the people, comparable to Yao, Shun and Yu."

"Hahaha!" Sima Yan laughed loudly: "Teacher is joking. Although I am a generation of Mingjun, I also have self-knowledge. In the past, Liu Zhongxiong said that I am not as good as the two emperors Huanling of Han Dynasty. I don't think so. Taifu can be outspoken. .”

Although Sima Yan is lustful and unrestrained, and his ability can only be regarded as above-average, he always likes to be a good person. No matter who makes mistakes, he does not want to punish him, so that he connives at the arrogance of the aristocratic family, but he does not mess with the people, so that the people can farm with peace of mind. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as a fool.

When someone spoke ill of him face to face and pointed out his mistakes, Sima Yan could also smile calmly and not take it seriously, but after the laugh, what should be done, or what should be done.

Acknowledging mistakes but not correcting them, humbly accepting criticism from others, but never correcting it, this is Sima Yan.

(End of this chapter)