The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 71 Layout of Jiangyang County ([-])
In fact, Zhang Zun started CD almost later than Guan Yi.

As the only male in the third generation of the Zhang family so far, Zhang Shao also became anxious after seeing the Guan family had a fourth generation.Taking advantage of Zhang Zun's return to CD this time, Zhang Shao asked the emperor for a blind date leave for his son.

Zhang Zun at this time is much more popular than Guan Yi two and a half years ago.

First of all, his father is not like Guan Xing, Guan Yi's father, who has been dead for decades.Zhang Shao is a servant of Shangshu, a real high-ranking official who can influence the decision-making of the court.Secondly, Zhang Zun's aunt is the queen!Thirdly, Zhang Zun is the major shareholder of Fuxingshe, and there is absolutely no shortage of money.Fourth, although Zhang Zun is now only in charge of the prefect of Xiajun in three counties, he is also a prefect! The 23-year-old prefect of the county is the only one in the whole Shuhan now!
Therefore, compared with Guan Yi's marriage, which was somewhat helpless, as soon as the news spread that Zhang Zun was going to marry a wife, the door of Zhang's family was instantly crowded by matchmakers from all walks of life!

"You bastard, aren't you cheating me by doing this! At this time, the second uncle may be scolding me."

At the ferry in Niupi County, Guan Yi's fleet has already sailed out of the pier.In fact, there were not many people accompanying him. Apart from Guan Xiaoqi and other Guan family members, there were also the newly recruited bodyguard Chang Juning, the planned carrier pigeon trainer Wumeng Amu and his son.This was really normal, but what left Guan Yi speechless was that Zhang Zun ran out of the CD in the name of seeing him off, and didn't go back after arriving in Niupi, and directly dragged dozens of Zhang's generals to Guan Yi. boat.

"Hey! Brother, my mind is full of thoughts about how to improve my Jiangyang County. I am not interested in doing those things. Besides, I have understood the truth through this visit. If you can make contributions, why not have a wife?! If my younger brother is still the same as two years ago, there will be so many people asking for marriage today! You see, even Fei Cheng and Dong Jue, two immortals, have the cheek to send Someone came to propose a marriage. Didn’t the Fei family also want to follow my Zhang family’s lead? Are both sisters married to the crown prince? How would they think of marrying my younger sister to me? As for the Dong family, it’s even more shameless. He belongs to my Fuxing Society. Sworn enemy! How can my Fuxing Society get married to their family? Not to mention how old is the young lady of the Dong family? She is only thirteen in November this year! I am such a beast!"

Your Zhang Fei and Mr. Zhang are just beasts. When Xia Houyuan’s cousin went out to collect firewood, she was snatched by your Mr. Zhang to become Mrs. Yazhai—it seems that Mrs. Xiahou was only in her teens at that time!

"Yeah, there are so many rich ladies, and you don't have a crush on any of them?"

"How can I have such a good fortune as my elder brother? Before we get engaged, we can meet and talk about each other? Forget it, I'm going to Jiangyang County. Let's go to the village of Jianren to pick one!"

Hey, family heirloom, your family does have this family heirloom.

"Then it's not a big deal for you to run away like this. It's a trivial matter for the second uncle to get angry. Anyway, I'm used to being tricked by others, so it doesn't matter. But you can't just go to Jiangyang County to take office. Where's your appointment document? The shogunate What about the staff?"

"Hey." Zhang Zun smiled cheaply, turned around and fished out the imperial court's appointment document from his arms: "Here is the document, my younger brother has premeditated."

"Where's your shogunate? It's not a problem at all to build a sophisticated shogunate for you with the connections of your second uncle. You just need to stay honestly in CD for a month or two. What's the result? You have to think clearly, Jiang Ma Bing, the current prefect of Yang County, is Gaizhi’s cousin. As a result, Gaizhi has been struggling in Fuling County for nine years. Ma Bing doesn’t care about him at all, which shows that he is not easy to deal with. You have to wait a long time for this handover. Be careful."

"Hi! It's better to say this, isn't there a brother here. Oops!"

"What's in your head? As the prefect of Fuling County, how can I have the qualifications to check Jiangyang County's account?"

"Ah! What should we do then? Brother, you have to save me! I won't go back to CD, but Jiangyang County will take over as soon as possible!"

"What a scoundrel! Forget it, let's not hand over for now. After we enter Jiangyang County, we will disembark at Han'an, and then Brother Wei will take you to a place. Brother Wei will send people to Fuling to urge Uncle Yong and Cheng Zuo .”

"Hahaha, I know my brother won't leave me alone! Where are we going after we get off the boat in Han'an?"

Jiangyang County has three subordinate counties.The three counties are basically arranged in a straight line: the northern end is Han'an County, and the area where the county seat basically coincides with Neijiang City, Sichuan Province in the 21st century.In the middle is Jiangyang County, where the county seat is located, which is Luzhou City, Sichuan Province in the 21st century.The southeast end is Fujie County, and the location of the county seat is generally within the urban area of ​​Hejiang County, Luzhou City in the 21st century.

Neijiang in later generations is famous for its rich sugar cane and white sugar, and is known as the Sweet City.But in this era, sugar cane was still in a corner of the Indian peninsula.So there is no such thing as Sweet City.And Luzhou in later generations is known as the wine city-this has nothing to do with Guan Yi: the production of highly distilled liquor is a big killer for many traversers, Guan Yi is not difficult to do it, but the problem is that he is short of food now The shortage is going crazy, whoever dares to engage in the grain and wine industry will want to kill anyone.How could he himself engage in such extremely food-consuming things as high-grade liquor?

The reason why I disembark at Han'an is because I walked about [-] to [-] kilometers southwest from Han'an County, and I arrived at a place that has no specific name yet, but is well-known in later generations: Salt Capital-Zigong.

Salt, as an essential part of all animals, plays a decisive role in human survival.Until China's economy took off completely, the salt industry was one of the sources of national finances for thousands of years.

As far as the Shu Han is concerned, because the Shu Han is not on the coast, the salt in the Shu Han is basically obtained by extracting underground brine and then cooking it.For this reason, the Shu Han specially set up a captain of salt to be responsible for the production and sales of salt across the country.The first Lieutenant of Siyan was Wang Lian. Over the past few decades, Wang Lian and his former subordinates in Yanfu, Lu Yi, Du Qi, Liu Gan, etc., have all become senior officials of two thousand stones. The officials of the salt industry are very important in the Shu Han regime.

However, the salt industry in Shuhan has one of the biggest problems: backward production technology.Of course, this kind of backwardness is relative to later generations-in short, due to the limitation of production technology, the production of salt in Shuhan often selects a place first, then manually digs a pit with a large surface area, and then slowly digs down. , until people can't breathe in the well - this method can only extract brine within 20 meters underground, and its output is very limited.Therefore, regardless of the fact that there are salt wells everywhere in the five counties of Ba and the six counties of Shu, the production of salt in Shu Han can only guarantee domestic demand, and there is no large-scale foreign sales.

As a traveler, as a traveler who has visited the Zigong Salt Industry Museum.Guan Yi knew very well that the technology that brought revolutionary changes to well salt mining was the Zhuotong well technology invented by people from Daying County, Sichuan Province during the Northern Song Dynasty.With this technology, salt wells can be drilled up to 1000 meters underground.

The area where Zigong is located had already started to produce salt during the Three Kingdoms period.But also due to the limitation of production technology, its output is not particularly outstanding among the numerous salt wells in Shuhan.Although there are also officials from Siyan Xiaowei's Mansion to manage, but they are not taken seriously.

As a traveler who has visited the Salt Industry Museum, Guan Yi knows very well that in the Shuhan period, Zigong already had relatively famous salt wells: Fushi Well and Dagong Well, so although there is no specific name for this place now, there are Using these two salt wells as references, Guan Yi quickly delineated the main deep well salt-producing areas in Zigong in this unknown land.

"Ling Xing, do you believe in brother?"

"Isn't this nonsense, you can give your life to your brother, why don't you believe it."

"Well, this place." Guan Yi pointed with his right hand: "From there to here, this land with a radius of [-] acres, after you take over as the prefect of Jiangyang, I will send someone to buy it all in the name of the Fuxing Society !"

"Uh, brother, these are saline-alkali lands that don't grow crops very much. Why did the Fuxing Society buy them?"

Guan Yi looked around, reconfirmed that there was no one else, and then whispered to Zhang Zun: "From 120 feet below this place, there is an inexhaustible supply of self-spraying brine!"

"Ah!!!" Zhang Zun is no longer the son who didn't know anything in CD back then, he knows very well what brine means.

"It's not just self-spraying brine, there is also natural gas underground, um, that is, gas that can burn itself. With this thing, there is no need to cut wood and boil salt."

Zhang Zun's eyes had turned red, and his breathing began to become urgent.But after a while, he came to his senses: "Brother, 120 feet underground, we can't dig such a deep place! I used to have salt wells in Fuling County, so I can only dig five or six feet down to the sky?"

"Hehe, the production of salt wells in Fuling County is very small, and Brother Wei doesn't bother to improve it. It's different here. The production here is huge, and it is accompanied by natural gas, so there is no need to cut wood to cook salt. So Brother Wei is going to make a move this time."

"Oh." Zhang Zun didn't ask Guan Yi why he knew there were those things in such a deep underground, nor did he ask Guan Yi what method he used to get them out.In his opinion, his elder brother is almost omnipotent, if he says yes, he will do it, if he says yes, then he will definitely do it. "But brother, this country implements a salt and iron monopoly. Even if we buy land, once a large amount of brine is produced..."

"Hehehe, well, Brother Wei has almost agreed with His Majesty. From now on, the salt field here will implement an on-site monopoly system, and the sales proceeds will be [-]% for the court and [-]% for us."

Guan Yi let out a long sigh: "With this large amount of salt in the imperial court, the domestic salt price can be lowered, and the common people can eat more salt. If the production is sufficient, it can be exported to Jingchu and improve the imperial court's finances... ...The rest of the small head, if it goes well, is estimated to be no less than [-] million yuan a year. We can use this money to buy people from Nanzhong. This Jiangyang County, especially Han'an County, has a flat terrain, and it is really used for land reclamation and farming Great place."

"Oh." Zhang Zun nodded stupidly, and suddenly realized: "Brother, you mean that [-]% of the shares can make a profit of more than [-] million?!"

Of course, the famous Shenhai well in Zigong in later generations, during the peak of its mass production, had several thousand stones of brine sprayed out every day.Boiled into table salt, there are dozens of stones.Even if there is too much salt produced here and the price of salt is cut in half, it is still impossible to be less than 500 yuan a stone.Calculated in this way, the daily gross profit is more than 2 yuan, and this is just a well!Guan Yi knew very well that at least two hundred salt wells could be drilled in the land he had set aside!For at most three years, the well salt produced here every year has a gross profit of at least one billion yuan!
　The author said that it should have been added yesterday, but he lost his head and forgot.Thanks for the reminder from the dead Zhe Rusi book friend.

　　Zhang Fei had two sons, the eldest, Zhang Bao, who died young.The second son, Zhang Shao, became the minister of Shu Han.Zhang Zun is the son of Zhang Bao.

　　But this brings up a problem: Zhang Bao died much earlier than Guan Xing.When Guan Xing died, Guan Tong and Guan Yi were still breastfeeding.Therefore, according to the above historical facts, Zhang Zun must be much older than Guan Yi.And this will conflict with the status of the leader and elder brother of the third generation of the founding heroes of Shu Han, the protagonist in this book.Therefore, I wrote Zhang Zun as Zhang Shao's son from the beginning.Well, this is a small question, please skip it.Thanks again for the reminder from the book friends of the deceased Zhe Rusi.Thanks!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)