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

Chapter 431 Competing in the Central Plains ([-])

"Hehe, boy of the Huan family, if you have the ability, you will come to the country of Yan, and you still want to avenge your father? Hahaha! What a joke!"

Su Jun who had already boarded the boat laughed loudly, and when Huan Wen rushed to the shore, the boat had already left the port and sailed towards the vast sea.

"hateful!"

Huan Wen, a 17-year-old boy, was extremely angry, but he had no choice but to watch Su Jun, the leader of the rebels, take a boat across the sea to the country of Yan.

Huan Wen and Huan Fan belonged to the same clan, from the same family, but that's all, not the direct ancestors guessed in the rumors.

Huan Fan was tortured to death because of his involvement in the Yan Civil War, but Huan Fan's clansmen still lived in the Central Plains, and later traveled to the south in full clothes and became a poor family of the Jin Dynasty.

Although the family has been reduced to a poor family, Huan Wen has shown outstanding military talent since he was a child, and the family was lucky enough to marry with the upper-class family, barely entering the outer circle of the Jin family.

ten days later

Yandu
Luoshan Villa Area

This used to be the residence of the royal family's soldiers, but now it was sold by Yan State to the dignitaries of the Central Plains.

As for the ancestral mausoleum of the Wang family, it has been moved from Luoshan Mountain to Tianchi Mountain (Changbai Mountain Tianchi), so that the descendants of the clan will be peaceful next to the emerald green Tianchi.

Near Tianchi Mountain is the newly expanded Wandu City.

When he came to the Luoshan villa area, Su Jun began to visit the scenery here.

In terms of the scenery alone, it is actually not very good. The key is that the Yan Kingdom has been built relatively well, creating that kind of historical and cultural feeling.

The old Wang Family Manor has been transformed into the Yandu History Museum, which stores a large number of historical materials made by the Wang Family.

Historical murals, historical picture scrolls, sacred relics left by ancestors of the past dynasties, governance of the ancestors of the Yan Kingdom, quartz stone statues of the sages of the Yan Kingdom, stone statues of some important inventions, explanatory notes on major historical moments of the Kingdom of Yan, and the old royal manor Additions have been carried out, from the previous three-story building to the current nine-story building, which not only adopts the mortise and tenon structure of the Central Plains, but also uses the geometric principles from Greece.

As for the principles of geometry, they were brought back from the distant Greek civilization when the ancestors of the Yan Kingdom traveled to the Western Regions.

Therefore, the load-bearing walls and load-bearing wooden beams inside the museum are much less than those in the Central Plains, and the entire hall looks very empty, without a large number of load-bearing bodies inside like the large buildings in the Central Plains.

The mortise and tenon structure of the Central Plains, the geometric principles of Greece, the public baths of Rome, the armored cavalry tactics of Anxi, the riding and shooting skills of Xianbei, and the specialties of various civilizations can all be found in Yan.

In the mural room, hundreds of mural walls stand tall, depicting the glorious deeds of generations of ancestors of the Yan Kingdom.

Since the first ancestor Wang Kang couldn't bear the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty and the people, he rose up and led the people of the Central Plains to flee to Liaodong.

Then King Wen calmly governed the people with benevolence and righteousness, and won the support of all people. He is the reincarnated Duke of Zhou, even if Confucius and Mencius are not as good.

Then Wang Youan, the famous general of Yan State, defeated the Xiongnu, saved the people of the Central Plains, and has been immortalized ever since.

In order to save the common people in the world and free the people of the Central Plains from Wang Mang's tyranny, the most important female king of the Yan Kingdom broke into the Central Plains alone with a temporarily recruited rebel army and assisted Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu in defeating Wang Mang in Kunyang. Wang Mang of the Wang family in Taiyuan.

Then, in order to save the people of the Central Plains, Wang Jue, the first generation of Yanhou, determined to join the army and serve the country. He killed the Cao thief and fled in a hurry, and killed the Xianbei tribes to surrender one after another.

Then Yan Houba led the people of Yan State to overthrow the tyranny of Wang Ting, brought Yan State back to normal, and followed Yao, Shunyu's custom of abdication, abdicated to his cousin Wang Xue, and died of illness shortly after worrying about the country and the people.

Finally, I went to Yan Houxue to recuperate and vigorously develop people's livelihood, so that the people of Yan State lived a happy life.

After leaving the mural area, Su Jun wanted to enter the upper floors, but was told that only the first three floors of the museum were open to the public, and the fourth to ninth floors were only open to the descendants of the clan of Yan State.

When visiting the museum, Su Jun also saw many old acquaintances, most of whom were losers in the political struggles in the Great Jin Dynasty Hall over the years.

Among them is Wang Dun's general Zhou Li, who ran to Yan to seek political asylum after Wang Dun's rebellion was quelled.

At the beginning, Su Jun rose up by quelling the chaos of Wang Dun, and the person in front of him was defeated by him.

"General Su, I've been waiting for you for a long time, hahaha!" Zhou Lu smiled at Su Jun. He used to be the prefect of Xiangyang in the Great Jin Dynasty, and now he has lived in Yandu for several years. , took the wealth of Xiangyang people to take refuge in Yan State, and was welcomed by the government of Yan State.

How could the country of Yan not welcome a wealthy Central Plains dignitary like him who came all the way with huge wealth and high consumption?
Make money, it's not shabby!
"Hehe..." Su Jun smiled awkwardly, he didn't expect that he would actually live with his former defeated general, but he didn't meet Zhou Li when he visited Yandu personally last time.

They like everything in Yan State very much. The only thing they are dissatisfied with is that the Yan State Council has re-unified the marriage system not long ago, and the entire Yan State implements monogamy. have a sexual partner.

This made it impossible for them to conceive and enjoy themselves, so they could only go to the brothels in Yandu to spend a lot of money.

The State of Yan does not advocate diligence and thrift. On the contrary, the State of Yan has been advocating extravagance for the common people and wealthy businessmen, and at the same time advocating the nobles to be diligent and thrifty.

The reason for this is that it has something to do with the foundation of Yan State.

Only by allowing the people to spend extravagantly and high can they go bankrupt and eventually become slaves to open up wasteland overseas.

Only by allowing the wealthy businessmen to spend extravagantly and spend heavily, can the money transferred into the pockets of the wealthy businessmen be recovered, and then use this money to continue overseas land reclamation, and at the same time prevent the wealthy businessmen from having too much money, so that they can use the money to develop their own power.

However, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, as the ruling class, must instead be diligent and thrifty, and not waste the resources of land reclamation, so that Yan Kingdom will continue to grow in land reclamation.

Luxurious enjoyment is originally a method used by the Yan government to harvest the wealth of the rich people in Yan. Only by allowing the wealth to circulate can Yan’s finances run healthily. The same tail does not fall off.

Of course, the wealth circulation of luxury goods is only allowed to circulate within the country of Yan, and it is absolutely not allowed to circulate to foreign countries. The rich are harvested by the luxury goods of their own country, that is called wealth circulation, and the rich are harvested by the luxury goods of other countries. It is purely sending money to other countries.

Therefore, Yan State strictly restricts the entry of luxury goods from other countries into Yan State, such as silk, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, antiques, etc. from the Central Plains. Luxuries such as silk, porcelain, and glass from Yan State were sold to the Central Plains.

Yan State only imports raw materials from the Central Plains, and does not import luxury goods. At the same time, Yan State gives priority to exporting luxury goods to the Central Plains. The export priority of bulk goods is relatively low, especially the export of grain, which is strictly restricted, and the business tax for grain export is high. Outrageous, so only the Yan State government can export grain, and the Yan State merchants will not export grain.

Exporting luxury goods to the Central Plains is free of tax, but exporting wool has to pay 50% tax, and exporting woolen cloth that has been processed by textile workshops and has higher added value only needs to pay 20% tax. 99% of taxes are to be paid for exporting grain.

Conversely, if you import luxury goods from the Central Plains, you have to pay 99% of the tax, while you only need to pay 20% of the tax when you import cloth from the Central Plains, and you only need to pay 10% of the tax when you import wool from the grasslands. , you do not have to pay taxes.

By setting different taxes on different goods, merchants are guided to import more useful raw materials and export more useless luxury goods.

(End of this chapter)