Extraordinary daily life starting from evil spirits

Zhiyuan can think of a stalk, and people will probably say this when they meet and greet in the future.

"I earned another catty of salt today."

"Your salary is really high. It takes me four or five days to earn a catty, and I don't know when I will be able to afford a house."

"What's more, look at the house of the second son Wu next door, the one with a lot of salt is overflowing from the warehouse. It's different for people with three wives and four concubines."

Female: Do you have room?Male: No.

Woman: Do you have a horse?Male: No.

Female: Do you have money?Male: No.

Woman: Then come on a blind date? !Man: I have salt!

Female: Husband! ! !

Well... Salt is perfectly fine to be a general equivalent for at least a few hundred years.You must know that sea salt can be released on a large scale long ago, and salt tickets need to be anti-counterfeiting, so the first batch is only produced now.

The second benefit made Zhiyuan ecstatic, that is, a news came from Guo Jia that a large-scale open-pit iron mine was discovered in a location less than a hundred miles south of Xiangping!

Although it is in the forest, it is at a relatively marginal position, and it can be mined only by cutting down some trees.Moreover, Guo Jia's news mentioned that although the quality of iron ore is not high, it is very widely distributed.

Zhi Kite almost didn't jump up when she heard the news. With coal and iron ore, this is simply the gospel of climbing the technology tree. "Wait... a hundred miles south of Xiangping?" Zhi Yuan's face changed slightly and she hammered her head.

"I'm so stupid. Isn't Xiangping the Liaoyang of later generations? Isn't Anshan to the south of Bailite?! The largest steelmaking plant in China is here!" Zhiyuan immediately looked at the map, and then Estimated the location.

"Order Guo Jia to search the area about [-] miles northeast of Xiangping, and maybe you can find a large iron mine. Then we will see where it is and whether it is convenient for mining."

What the hell, one is Anshan and the other is Benxi.The total amount of iron ore in these two places is more than 100 billion tons. Not to mention that they have mined it, even the republic that has mined it from now to later generations may not be able to mine so much iron ore.

In fact, what Zhiyuan didn't know was that the iron mines in Anshan were indeed easy to mine, and the distribution range was extremely wide.However, the quality of iron ore in Anshan is not very good, and the grade of the ore is very low.

However, the iron ore in Benxi is the best quality iron ore in China, even the ore grade is above 30%, and the rich ore belt even exceeds 50%!However, the iron ore is buried very deep, and it is extremely difficult to mine. Zhiyuan may not be able to find the exact location in his life.

More than 95% of the iron ore in Anshan is lean ore, and the iron content is basically around 20%.In modern times, beneficiation can be used to increase the iron content, but who would do this at the end of the Han Dynasty?

Even with the beneficiation method in later generations, the grade of iron ore in China is only about 36%, which is far lower than the grade of iron ore in the United States and Europe.Therefore, Chinese craftsmen pay more attention to the method of making iron and steel, which is beyond comparison of most European blacksmiths, after all, the iron content there is too good.

In any case, with iron and coal, Youzhou and Liaodong will definitely become an industrial center in the future.Although Zhiyuan also knew that there was a coal mine in Datong, but now she had no control over it at all, so even if she knew it, it would be useless.

But this is really good news, and even Zhi Yuan wants to go to Youzhou to see it.And it seems that girls from other races are pretty good-looking too. The last time I went to Youzhou by myself, Guo Jia opened up a lot of harems.

"It seems that I really want to forget something..." Zhiyuan suddenly thought of that greasy girl.

The girl's name is Qingluan, and she seems to be living in seclusion in a corner of Pingyuan City, and she usually lives in seclusion or burns incense and prays.Since Zhiyuan suddenly thought of it, she decided to go over and see for herself.

Chapter 440: Chaos in Yangzhou

When Zhiyuan came to Qingluan's place, she was almost choked to death.As soon as the door was opened, there was a strange smell of smoke, and Qingluan was sitting in the middle of the yard wearing simple clothes, painting some special paint on his body.

Seeing Zhiyuan approaching, Qingluan smiled at Zhiyuan: "I had a premonition that the girl would come today, so I burned some tobacco in advance to drive away the evil spirits, so as to prevent the girl from being bumped..."

Zhiyuan was a little speechless, she was afraid of some collision.Although Zhiyuan has never seen a soul in this world, she has seen a spirit body... Ordinary gadgets are no match for her at all.

"Miss Qingluan, what have you learned in the past few years in the plains?" Speaking of which, Zhiyuan seems to have tried with this girl, with bronze skin, greasy body, and some bits and pieces of ornaments on her body, It made Zhiyuan have evil thoughts.

However, Qingluan kept a distance from Zhiyuan. Seeing that Zhiyuan's eyes were wrong, Qingluan immediately said to Zhiyuan: "My ability is not as good as my master's, and now I just communicate with spirits frequently."

"The spirit of Fuyu seems to be gradually becoming stable now, and it is not continuing to decline. Moreover, the spirit of Fuyu is also merging with the dragon veins of the Central Plains, and it may become one in a hundred years."

Zhiyuan nodded: "Then what about you? Are you planning to continue like this forever?"

Qingluan smiled: "Since the girl is here, let me just say it... I want to travel, and I want to visit all the spirits in the world."

Zhiyuan: "...Are you avoiding me?"

"No, the girl was joking... By the way, I communicated with Ling the day before yesterday, and I heard that there seems to be turmoil in the southeast direction, please rest more." Qingluan said seriously to Zhiyuan.

Zhiyuan nodded, then thought for a while: "Southeast? Is it Xuzhou?"

"What could happen to Liu Bei? This girl doesn't know how to frame me, and she definitely doesn't want to be molested by me. But this kind of greasy girl, I really want to do it."

Just when Zhiyuan was about to get closer, suddenly a guard walked in quickly at the door. "General, Yangzhou urgent information!"

Zhiyuan looked at Qingluan, and then took Jin Yiwei's information.By the time Zhiyuan finished reading it word for word, her face turned pale.

"This is the turmoil you are talking about?! Damn it, how did this happen?!" Chen Dao immediately went to see the emperor with me, then greeted General Xu (Xu Huang), and prepared to lead [-] elite troops southward.

Zhi Yuan found that her hair was actually sweating, mainly because the secret report was too shocking.

Sun Jian, the general who conquered the South, was assassinated and killed five days ago.Jin Yiwei and Nishang are investigating, suspecting that it may be because of the fierce resistance of the New Deal gentry.

Jin Yiwei is short of manpower, and even found out that there are many nobles in the army, so I asked the general to make a decision.

Attachment: List of Jiangdong clans.

Yu (representative: Yu Fan), Wei (representative: Wei Teng), Gu (representative: Gu Yong), Lu (representative: Lu Xun), Zhang (representative: Zhang Zhao), Zhu (representative: Zhu Huan), Xu (representative: Xu Gong), Sheng (representative: Sheng Xian) Gao (representative: Gao Dai)

There can be more than 50 people densely packed.

To put it bluntly, Sun Jian is also a noble family, after all, he is also a big family.But Sun Jian's loyalty to the emperor was unspoken, so after cleaning up Jingzhou, Sun Jian made a delivery with the officials sent by the emperor, and then returned to Yangzhou.

Originally, with Sun Jian's current status, he was already considered the strongest among the Yangzhou gentry, but because of Zhiyuan's reforms in Qingzhou, the emperor also issued an order to Sun Jian later, which made Sun Jian and the gentry completely turn against each other...

Originally, the gentry thought well, and Sun Jian was also a gentry, so everyone united to deal with that woman Zhiyuan.But Sun Jian didn't do it... He also knew the harm of the gentry. Since the emperor also recognized the threat, the generals who are big men should naturally lead by example.

So Sun Jian directly dismissed his servants, and if he wanted to follow his own, he would hire them at a high price.Sun Jian is not short of such a little money, and now he is not in this position for money, but for fame.

The Great Han's General Who Conquers the South, naturally cannot join forces with ordinary gentry.As for the rest of the great gentry, they planned to surrender to Zhi Yuan, so they were said to be the Qingzhou Emperor.And the remaining part intends to kill the net, or directly rebel.

Rebelling in Yangzhou also has advantages, because there is a natural danger of the Yangtze River here.The army from the north didn't adapt to the climate here at all, and there weren't too many water warfare troops.

When fighting Jingzhou earlier, the navy was brought by Sun Jian.And due to climate reasons, Liu Bei's staff has been reduced a lot, even Liu Bei has a lot of accompanying military doctors.

This is just Jingzhou. Because Yangzhou is close to the sea, the climate is warmer and more humid.Especially in the vast area from Yangzhou to the south, many places are dense forests similar to tropical rainforests, and the inside is dominated by the Shanyue people.

Hmm... Some gentry have already planned to kill Sun Jian and then recruit the Shanyue people to rebel, and finally firmly control Yangzhou, and maybe they can become kings on their own.

The gentry who had this idea began to conspire, and Sun Jian, who didn't know it, wanted to have a good talk with these gentry to see if it could be resolved peacefully.

Sun Jian didn't expect the gentry to be so ruthless at all, and even the gentry spent a lot of money to hire killers.It is said that he is Wang Yue's apprentice and Shi A's apprentice.Sun Jian was assassinated after a banquet with the gentry, and Sun Jian died after the soldiers rescued Sun Jian.

Due to Sun Ce's absence, the Sun family had no choice but to let Sun Quan control everything first.Just after Jin Yiwei sent the message to Zhi Yuan, some gentry hijacked Sun Quan and let Sun Quan serve as the shepherd of Yangzhou to fight against Zhi Yuan.

Sun Quan couldn't help it either, he knew very well that these people might kill their fathers and enemies, but now that his whole family is under control, he can only let them arrange.

The Sun family's army had to be taken away by Sun Ce to help Yuan Shu, otherwise it would not have been so easily controlled by the gentry.By the time Liu Bei reacted, Yangzhou was in complete chaos.

The whole world was shocked... The supreme controller of a state was killed, this kind of thing is definitely the only one.The emperor Liu Bian was also very angry, and even the sad news that his younger brother was killed by the Yellow Turban Army was diluted.

So soon the emperor and Zhiyuan made a decision. Zhiyuan led [-] elite soldiers and cooperated with Liu Bei's local army to go to Yangzhou to quell the chaos.And Zhiyuan has already decided to go on a killing spree, such a bad thing will never be tolerated.

Just when Zhiyuan was about to enter Xuzhou, Yangzhou had already ushered in an enemy, this is Yuan Shu's army... This team can have more than 3 people wearing white cloth on their heads and holding white sails, and the leader is a young general with red eyes .

"Father, I want to kill all those people, and comfort your spirit in heaven!!!" The little bully rushed back to Yangzhou.

Chapter 440 Five: Rebellion

In Lujiang County, Sun Ce almost slaughtered all the gentry here.Dazed by his anger for a long time, he didn't trust any nobles at all, so even if there were people in Lujiang who planned to join them, they were all slaughtered.

Sun Ce is similar to Yuan Shu in some ways, that is, they don't make too many devious ways, as long as you betray me, I will kill them all...

Yuan Shu did it once in Yuzhou, otherwise he wouldn't have been pushed in so easily by his brother.The same is true for Sun Ce, he pushed some neutral gentry to the opposite side when he was happy.

After slaughtering Lujiang County, Sun Ce directly led people to kill Jianye.Perhaps when Zhiyuan came over in person, she couldn't find many soldiers or locals to help, but Sun Ce was considered a local, and many troops who were held hostage by the gentry in the front surrendered one after another when they saw Sun Ce coming.

And Sun Ce also got a navy and crossed the Yangtze River smoothly.

Yuan Shu was really supportive of Sun Ce. Just after defeating his brother, he got the news of Sun Jian's death.Yuan Shu directly ordered General Naqu'a to lead [-] soldiers, and all [-] civilians continued to confront Yuan Shao in Yuzhou.

He led more than 3 soldiers and [-] civilian husbands by himself, and even Runan didn't return and directly killed him with Sun Ce.Sun Ce was moved to tears by Yuan Shu's kindness. He used to be called Yuan Shuzhong's father before, but now he is directly called foster father...

But Yuan Shu now has no descendants due to some reasons, so he is very happy to accept Sun Ce as his adopted son.And it has basically been determined that the heir of his Yuzhou is this Sun Ce...

In this day and age, the importance of adopted sons is very large.In fact, in terms of inheritance of family property, adopted sons and biological sons have almost the same rights.If Yuan Shu really died unfortunately, then everything about him would be inherited by Sun Ce.

This is why in history, the Sun family annexed most of Yuan Shuzuo's family property so easily after his death.Because people are legally rational, this is one of the main reasons why Zhuge Liang asked Liu Bei to handle Liu Feng's affairs well.

Yuan Shu regards Sun Ce as his own son, and he doesn't know why Yuan Shu just likes Sun Ce.

But now because of Yuan Shu's defeat in the previous period, Runan heard that his harem had run away, so he simply ordered Yan Xiang to clean up the nobles in Runan again, anyway, he didn't believe anyone anymore.And Sun Ce is his heir. Anyway, Sun Jian and himself are brothers, so there is nothing wrong with helping him take care of his son.

Yuan Shu also wanted to avenge his brother, so apart from commoners... the landlords and squires might be better off, but as long as they were famous nobles, they would all be killed... and this killing meant killing the whole family.

Yuan Shu and Sun Ce slaughtered more than 3 people in Lujiang alone, which almost didn't scare the gentry in Jianye to death.

On the Qingzhou emperor's side, together with the information of the kite, they all revealed one sentence, that is, the gentry clan related to the killing of General Sun Jian who conquered the South, directly the Yi clan!

Zhiyuan can't control that much anymore, some things have to be more violent.After vomiting blood last time and losing ten years of life, Zhiyuan felt more and more urgent.How long can I live?

In this day and age, a 60-year-old is already a long-lived person. After subtracting ten years...the time left for her is probably only 20-odd years. Zhi Yuan is really anxious now, and she can't take care of some things in the future. .

But now Sun Ce's approach is directly forcing everyone to the opposite side.The reason Zhiyuan did this was because she had confidence in her soldiers.And with Liu Bei's cooperation, the noble family slaves are naturally not to be feared.

Here in Xuzhou, Liu Bei returned with a big victory, making the arrangement of the gentry clear.After all, Liu Bei has soldiers under his command now, unlike Sun Jian's soldiers who were actually taken away by his son to play.

So although some resistance was encountered, in general, Xuzhou's land population statistics are still very fast.And after Zhiyuan came, Liu Bei asked Zhao Yun to lead [-] soldiers to go south with Zhiyuan.

Liu Bei just had a son, so he planned to take a vacation for himself.Zhiyuan expressed her understanding, especially now that the descendants of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were born one by one, so Zhiyuan let them stay in Xuzhou.

So Zhiyuan took Zhao Yun and more than 6 people to the south, and it was enough to have Zhao Yun alone, even if he was defeated, he was guaranteed to be able to escape...

Zhiyuan is also Xu Huang here, and Xu Huang will go to Jingzhou after the rebellion in Yangzhou is quelled.This is also the emperor's appointment, because Xu Huang has always been close to the emperor when he was in Qingzhou. After all...the two have a good friendship.

Xu Huang is a general, and Zhi Yuan also communicated with Xu Huang about some things.After knowing that Sun Ce slaughtered the gentry in Lujiang, Xu Huang couldn't help sighing: "It will be even more difficult for us to occupy Jianye, and those gentry will definitely stick there."

Zhiyuan made a helpless expression: "I can't help it, the hatred of killing my father is irreconcilable. Speaking of which, I didn't expect it. I didn't expect Yangzhou to dare to directly rebel."

Xu Huang asked from the side: "By the way, I heard that Sun Jian's second son, Sun Quan, was hijacked by the gentry. Wouldn't Sun Ce kill his younger brother by doing this?"

Zhiyuan smiled lightly: "Of course not. Speaking of which, the Sun family has a slightly better relationship with the gentry, and that's Sun Quan..."

It cannot be said that Sun Quan had a good relationship with the gentry, but that Sun Quan was indifferent.Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and his third son, Sun Yi, were all short-tempered and very irritable.It belongs to the kind where someone scolds you and you can kill his whole family.

Because of this, only Sun Quangou made it to the end. In history, Sun Ce and Sun Yi were all assassinated by assassins.When Sun Quan was in power, he also began to target the gentry...

But Sun Quan is very powerful in politics, and his ability to fight is very useless. It is estimated that only peanuts, the great master of micromanagement in later generations, can fight against him.

Hearing what Xu Huang said, Zhi Yuan shook her head and chuckled: "Being a son is like Sun Zhongmou...Sun Quan still has some skills, and it is impossible for all the nobles to rebel, otherwise there would be such a big battle."

"If we attack Jianye, Sun Quan may be the gentry's backup. We won't keep those gentry, but I will give Sun Quan a chance."

"After all, he is Sun Jian's son, maybe he and those gentry will like my arrangement." Zhi Yuan sighed, and then said to Xu Huang.

If all the gentry really rebelled, then Sun Ce would definitely not take Lujiang so easily.Because here in Jiangdong, the hidden population of the gentry is definitely more than a few million.

Therefore, Zhi Yuan reckons that the gentry is also chaotic and divided, and not everyone wants to fight against Qingzhou.But... they are now forcibly grouped together because of their gentry status.

"Contact Jin Yiwei, what kind of information do I need from the gentry?"

Chapter 440 Six: Yu Ji Comes Out of the Mountain

This incident had a huge impact. Originally, Jinyiwei's influence in Yangzhou was not high, but because of the assassination of General Zhengnan, the emperor of Qingzhou urgently sent hundreds of people to investigate by airborne.

After many more people had died, by the time Zhi Yuan came here, Jin Yiwei had already collected information on the rebellion.

Mainly Wei, Xu, Sheng, and Gao.Hmm...the influence of these four companies in Jianye is not small at all, and they also have as many as 10,000+ private soldiers.

However, Sun Quan was taken away not by these four families... but by other families headed by the Lu family. Seeing this, Zhi Yuan knew that this group of gentry was only doing it for self-protection.

Otherwise, if the previous four rebels fail to defeat the Qingzhou Army, these families will eventually be implicated.And these few do not believe that the rebellion can succeed at all, because the Qingzhou regime has already controlled both Jingzhou and Xuzhou.

Without Jingzhou and Xuzhou, what would Yangzhou do against Qingzhou?Although there are many gentry in Jingzhou, it must be known that in about a year, the foundation of the gentry in Jingzhou has been greatly damaged due to Liu Biao's defeat.

The fighting power of the Qingzhou Army has scared the Jingzhou gentry. Even if these four families hope to unite with Jingzhou, the Jingzhou gentry will not dare.

What's more, the power of the Sun family in Yangzhou was not controlled by them. Sun Quan still had at least [-] to [-] soldiers to dispatch.And it was Sun Quan's friend Zhou Yu who controlled these soldiers...

These people were staring at Yangzhou Jianye City, and the gentry in the city had no unified interests, so when Sun Cetu was in the neighboring county, these people did not provide effective support at all.

But precisely because Sun Ce did so hard, the gentry in Jianye were naturally a little frightened.Among them, the Xu family is the most radical, and even the assassin who assassinated Sun Jian was found by the Xu family.

The reason why they did this was not because Sun Jian blocked their way.If there is no Sun family, this Yangzhou may be what their Xu family said.So seeing how powerful Sun Ce is, the Xu family decided to continue looking for someone to assassinate him.

The last time Xu Gong, the head of the Xu family, found Wang Yue's apprentice. Although he killed Sun Jian, the assassin also died.But this time Xu Gong thought about it, since everyone in the Sun family is desperate, he should find someone who can frighten him.