Da Qin: Self-destruction and time travel, I will extend my life for Qin for a thousand years

"Ten thousand taels? Haha!"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng and the other three couldn't help laughing.

If they hadn't known about Cui Yuan's conversation with Zai Zhu Di just now and hadn't paid attention to the subsequent developments of the auction, they might have thought that Cui Yuan was pretending not to understand and deliberately making them happy.

"Cui Yuan, you look down on us too much!"

Li Shimin pretended to be angry, walked to Cui Yuan and sat down, patting the table with his palm: "What are we? What is our status?"

"Now that I am an auctioneer myself, how can I only earn ten thousand taels? Do you think this is possible?"

"That's right!"

Liu Bang echoed: "If we only sell ten thousand taels at such a high-level auction, we will be completely embarrassed!"

Although they are experiencing life, it does not mean that they are just going through the motions.

On the contrary, they regarded hosting the auction as a very important challenge, and arranged various means together with the Lu family.

For example, the person from Yaxing who appeared in the middle of the auction was the one they proposed to arrange.

"But Lan Yu and Li Shanchang have already bid, who else is willing to spend a lot of money?" Cui Yuan frowned in confusion.

In his opinion, since the two largest investors have taken action, no one should be able to raise the price anymore.

And since no one is driving up the price, Liuli’s premium is bound to not be very high.

Liu Bang explained with a smile: "You are right. After Lan Yu and Li Shanchang made the bid, the Ming Dynasty wealthy families really had no motivation to bid."

"But we arranged a lot of agents to go through the auction venue, so we didn't let any glass carving be sold cheaply!"

Liu Bang was very familiar with these methods of internal and external cooperation.

"Oh!"

Cui Yuan's eyes lit up: "You are still thoughtful, so how much did you earn?"

Li Shimin and Liu Bang did not answer, but looked at Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng smiled, without deliberately hiding it. He raised his left hand and stretched out two fingers.

"It's more than twenty-five thousand taels of gold!"

“We made a lot of money from this auction alone!”

"There are so many!" Cui Yuan was slightly surprised.

Especially after coming to the warehouse and seeing the mountains of food and donors with my own eyes.

Even though Cui Yuan has passed through the world, his breathing is a little heavy now.

In fact, let alone twenty-five thousand taels of gold, even twenty-five thousand taels of silver is an extremely terrifying wealth.

Unfortunately, just now he was still guessing whether it would sell for ten thousand taels, but now it seems that it is indeed too underestimated!

Moreover, most of this wealth is in physical resources such as grain, grass, cloth, etc., which can be directly invested in the future war against the Maurya Dynasty.

The revenge of the locust disaster in Handan County was quickly avenged by me!

That night, Cui Yuan, who was extremely happy, invited everyone to have dinner together, and even cooked a few modern dishes himself.

The Ming Dynasty had a wide variety of condiments, allowing Cui Yuan to fully display his cooking skills.

He even planned to buy a batch of condiments in Da Ming and store them there before going back to Da Qin.

The people who were full of wine and food, while praising Cui Yuan's craftsmanship, also decided to continue to work harder to promote Liuli and earn more wealth!

In stark contrast to the joy they had here, it was inside the Ming Dynasty Palace.

As soon as he went to court the next day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had just executed Hu Weiyong, became furious and scolded Li Shanchang and Lan Yu for some minor mistakes.

Lan Yu was fine, she was just punished with some salary.

But Li Shanchang was miserable. He immediately deposed his title and became a county prince from the title of Duke of Korea.

This left the two of them very confused and completely confused as to what was going on.

As for other officials who had embezzled money, although they were not directly liquidated by Zhu Yuanzhang, they still remained silent and restrained their various small actions.

From pursuing a higher position of power to wanting to make money through legitimate means.

The catfish effect is happening quietly.

At the same time, in these days, many people in Yingtian Mansion have had their eyes opened.

Seeing those wealthy families transporting cartloads of wealth, although it was not given to them, there was an inexplicable pleasure in my heart.

So what if you have money? It’s not time to give it to others!

Human nature is like this to a certain extent, and we don’t look down on the good of others.

Now when they see the wealthy and powerful families in the past giving away all their wealth in exchange for a pair of fancy colored glaze carvings, they feel so happy in their hearts.

Although the common people have never met Cui Yuan, they can't help but admire this mysterious businessman who ruthlessly earns the wealth of the wealthy family.

Cui Yuan didn't pay much attention to all these changes.

He handed over the auction and publicity matters to Li Shimin and Liu Bang, and earnestly wished that the drama performances and storytelling could not stop.

Just like Ying Yinman, Ying Zheng returned to Da Qin, planning to get the two statues promised to Zhu Di.

Since Zhu Di gave him the drawings of the matchlock gun, he naturally had to do his best.

Because of the relationship between configuring the afterglow and making the statue even more handsome, Cui Yuan had to do it himself and could not just be the hands-off shopkeeper like before.

The two returned to Da Qin and returned to the Lingnan Palace.

"Lingnan is still a little too behind."

Ying Zheng, who had returned from Da Qin for several months, turned his head and looked at the hills in the distance outside the window, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

Ying Yinman also nodded in agreement.

The prosperity and prosperity of Yingtian Mansion left a deep impression on them all.

In the past, I traveled to Han Dynasty or Tang Dynasty.

They went either to the extremely wild desert, or to Chang'an, which is in the same place as Xianyang.

But this time when they went to Daming, Ying Zheng and Ying Yinman truly appreciated the majestic atmosphere of the southern super city.

Let’s not talk about the rich and powerful Ming Dynasty families. Just the beautiful southern women in Yingtian Mansion, with a huge population of one million, left a deep impression on them.

It’s really too busy!

"Speaking of Cui Yuan, when do you think Lingnan will be able to develop? Become the same as Yingtian Mansion?" Ying Zheng asked, and Ying Yinman also showed curiosity in his eyes.

That would have to wait until some great man from over two thousand years ago drew a circle on the map.

Cui Yuan was complaining in his mind, but his words were not so genuine: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. After all, local development depends on real conditions. Any development that is divorced from reality is just a castle in the air and unrealistic."

"Although Lingnan has good geographical conditions and is close to the coastline, it has many hills and no plains except the Pearl River Delta."

"Limited by its shipbuilding technology, it can only do business with small coastal countries." "There are no large cities or important trade routes around, and agricultural development is also difficult due to the intrusion of people and the miasma of ants and insects." To continue.”

"If this situation continues to develop and if we want to be as prosperous as Yingtian Mansion, we must move the political center of Great Qin south here."

"Historically, the South was able to develop because of two large-scale migrations of people's clothing to the South, which enabled the South's economic level to catch up with, or even surpass, the North's."

"If we can't do this, it will be difficult for Lingnan to get up."

"Is that so?"

Ying Zheng was disappointed when he heard Cui Yuan's truth.

The political center of Great Qin was Xianyang, which was the land of Longxing in Great Qin. It lasted for hundreds of years and was absolutely impossible to move.

And this also means that the development of Lingnan will be far away.

"But if we just want Lingnan to develop better, there is a way."

Cui Yuan's next words gave Ying Zheng another ray of light. He raised his hand and pointed at the portal behind him: "In the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of rice called Champa rice. It was high-yielding, early-maturing and drought-tolerant. It could last a year. Thrice ripe.”

"As long as it is promoted in the Lingnan area, Lingnan's economy can initially develop."

"Even the Yue people who have been resisting are very likely to surrender directly to our Daqin after seeing the rice production in Champa City, and the stability of Lingnan County can also be greatly improved."

Cui Yuan didn't just think about the Chamchendao incident.

When he was in Ming Dynasty, he studied the feasibility of this plan and felt that he could give it a try.

He was a native of Lingnan before traveling through time, and he knew very well how huge the potential for development here was.

Although there are many hills in Lingnan, the hot and humid weather here is extremely suitable for rice growth.

By growing rice here, you can achieve three crops a year! This is a huge advantage that is difficult to match elsewhere.

You may not be able to see anything now, but thousands of years from now, this place definitely has the potential to become the number one port and granary in China, or even in the world.

By that time, Lingnan will be the trade and food center of the world, and Da Qin's Guozuo will naturally be able to keep up with it!

Originally, Cui Yuan was looking for a good time to tell the matter, but now that Brother Zheng had mentioned it, he just followed the trend.

"Champa Rice?"

Ying Zheng nodded, feeling a little touched in his heart.

If this Champa rice is really so magical, there is nothing wrong with promoting it in Lingnan.

Isn't the reason why the Yue people have always resisted the Qin Dynasty because the Qin Dynasty plundered their land and cut down the forests, making it impossible for them to hunt and eat?

If they find that the land plundered by Da Qin is used to grow food, and the yield per acre is more than what they have worked hard to hunt, then their will to resist will definitely be greatly reduced.

"Then if things develop as you said, and the Yue people surrender in large numbers because of this, how should we deal with them?"

"We can use the method of overcoming people to rule over people to achieve a peaceful transition."

Cui Yuan replied seriously, and he had already prepared for this: "After we pacify South Vietnam, we can implement the law of county governance here as usual."

"It's just different from other counties. In the counties here in South Vietnam, we can accept the surrender of Baiyue native nobles."

"In this way, for our Great Qin, it is equivalent to pacifying Baiyue."

"As for the Yue people, although they surrendered to Da Qin in name, their ruling position has not changed. Da Qin only imposed demands in some general directions."

"The Qin Dynasty could also establish indirect rule over various ethnic groups in Baiyue through the powerful people of the Yue people."

Although this method also has disadvantages, that is, Da Qin's control over Baiyue will be very weak at the beginning, and as time goes by, this problem will become more and more serious.

But Cui Yuan never thought about implementing this policy all the time. When his control is weak to a certain extent, and those Yue people and nobles want to rebel, he can carry out the reform, remove all the Yue people and nobles, and replace them with Da Qin himself. of officials.

"Isn't this the way Great Qin used to rule the other six kingdoms?"

Ying Zheng was surprised. He didn't expect Cui Yuan's plan to be this.

At that time, the Qin Dynasty unified the world. In order to stabilize the people's hearts, it also appointed the original nobles of the Six Kingdoms to rule the people of the Six Kingdoms.

This also directly led to the sharp decline in Da Qin's control over the Six Kingdoms, even to the point where it was difficult for government orders to leave the customs.

As long as Cui Yuan promoted the imperial examination and appointed Confucian officials as local officials, the situation would be much better.

Unexpectedly, Cui Yuan would come up with this strategy again now.

Isn’t this turning back history? Allowing yourself to make the same mistakes again?

"Your Majesty, the method is not afraid of aging, ease of use is the most important thing."

Cui Yuan explained: "As your Majesty said, Great Qin also used this method to deal with the nobles of the six countries."

"As if it is useless, then why did your Majesty use this trick to stabilize the world?"

Ying Zheng was speechless.

Indeed, as Cui Yuan said, if this method really has no benefit at all, then why would he use it to stabilize the world?

"And the situation in Great Qin is different now. In the past, it was impossible to suppress the huge six countries outside the pass with just one place inside the pass."

"But now, although the entire Great Qin cannot be said to be monolithic, it is gradually returning to the hearts of all the people."

"Under such circumstances, wouldn't it be easy to suppress a small South Vietnam?"

Cui Yuan's reason is also very true.

The land within the pass is too small, so when the nobles of the Six Kingdoms are allowed to rule the huge land of the Six Kingdoms, the situation will get out of control.

But now, for Great Qin, Baiyue is just a small place. Even if Baiyue really rebels, Great Qin can easily crush it!

"I'm going to write an edict and tell you about this matter first."

"There is Champa rice somewhere in the Ming Dynasty, so grain seeds are not a problem, the only problem is the fields."

After being persuaded, Ying Zheng acted quickly, and soon an edict was written.

It said that the Conquering South Army was asked to deploy some manpower to prepare for the reclamation of farmland, and to ask the newly appointed Lingnan County Sheriff, Wuchuan County Magistrate and other officials to assist.

And because Liulicongfang was also in Lingnan, many Mohist disciples who followed were able to make water conservancy tools.

If they, sergeants, and officials cooperate with each other, the effect will definitely be doubled.

After doing all this, Cui Yuan said goodbye and left. He was going to personally make a glass sculpture for Zhu Di.

After Ying Zheng said goodbye to Cui Yuan, he did not go to rest immediately. Instead, he took out a brand new map of the Qin area and meditated on it.

During this trip to the Ming Dynasty, in addition to countless money and food, Ying Zheng's biggest gain was this map of the Qin Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty.

On it, the countries surrounding Da Qin are recorded.

Ying Zheng didn't even tell Cui Yuan about this harvest.

He looked at a big country on the map and murmured to himself: "The Mauryan Dynasty..." (End of this chapter)