Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2660 Open article (add more)

When Wang Ling arrived in Jiankun, he met with the chief commander of Jiankun. The main purpose was not to let the leaders of various tribes in Jiankun misunderstand the general Hushi, thinking that the smuggling in Taiyuan was the meaning of the general Hushi, and at the same time it was the intention of the general Hushi. In order to warn Jiankun, just stay honest and don't mess around. If you stretch out your claws at every turn, you will not only cut off the claws, but even cut off the head!

  For Mobei, General Hushi’s strategy is relatively clear. Half-cultivation and half-grazing are carried out in places with a mild climate, and the rest of the place is still dominated by nomads.

  Under the guidance of such a policy, Mobei focuses on indirect control, rather than direct end.

Of course, the Jiankun Kingdom is a part of this indirect control. Relatively speaking, these Jiankun people, especially the Poshihe tribe, the Xubuju tribe, Shuqiang, and the Southern Huns are the best candidates. It naturally became the tentacles of Fei Qian's indirect control extending to the desert.

   There are deep conflicts among the tribes, and there are often blood debts between them. Until modern times, among the grassland tribes, there were cases of slaughtering whole families, robbing cattle, sheep and livestock, and oppressing women and children. Slavery even continued until the time when the new order was established, but even so, there were still some brain-dead nomadic descendants , will be attracted by the great nomadic heroes advocated by those with ulterior motives, and then feel that the nomadic era is their glory...

Not to mention that most of these nomadic people are in a barbaric state, have no culture, and don't have much understanding of the world. It is not a derogatory term to say that short-sightedness is really a derogatory term. Only a few people see far-reaching .

   It's like Poshihe Yuanchang.

  Although Po Shihe Yuanchang felt that the conditions proposed by Wang Ling were quite good, he always felt that there might be some problems.

  Of course the more important reason is that the Hussar General is indeed very strong.

  Jiankun Kingdom has been submerged under the small ice river in history, silently.

  In the Northern Desert, most of the nomads are like this.

  More often, due to innate deficiencies, the peak of the nomads is before hot weapons, and then there is nothing to do if they don’t transform...

  The Protectorate of the Western Regions is actually an excellent initiative.

   It's a pity that after the Western Regions Protectorate, the big man can't draw inferences from one instance. Perhaps it was because the Protectorate of the Western Regions did not bring more benefits, or perhaps it was because the high-level officials of the court at that time showed contempt and short-sightedness towards the fringe areas.

   Now, the Northern Territory Protectorate implemented by General Hushi has invisibly expanded this system and expanded the frontier of the Han Kingdom into the desert.

  Although this jurisdiction model is not perfect, it is already a very good system compared to the relatively backward transportation and communication conditions.

  The jurisdiction of the Duhufu is not a simple detention, this kind of management is effective. Take the Protectorate of the Western Regions as an example. Since the Han Dynasty, there have been the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the Chief History of the Western Regions, and the Colonel Wuji, etc., and the Protectorate of Anxi and the Protectorate of Beiting in the Tang Dynasty. There are two roads in the north and the south.

  Even when the Central Plains was in chaos, the Western Regions were often still guarded by officials and soldiers sent by the Central Plains dynasty to prevent nomadic countries from the north or northwest from entering.

  If you pay attention to it, the Central Plains dynasty could not control the Western Regions for a long time, and it probably discouraged the Song Dynasty. But if the Khitan and Liao Dynasty were also regarded as part of the Chinese nation, then the Chinese ruled and managed the Western Regions for a long time.

The Protectorate of the Western Regions also has some problems, such as weak control ability, and the connection with the central dynasty is not very deep, etc., especially in the business profits, which are often swallowed up by middlemen, so that the central dynasty is rarely able to benefit from it. benefited, so he ignored the Western Regions.

   Now that Fei Qian, who knows the importance of commerce and trade, vigorously promotes commerce and trade, there is really no one in Jiankun Kingdom who can resist this temptation.

Poshi Heyuan called together the leaders and discussed for a day or two, but they did not finally come to a conclusion. He could only vaguely agree to Wang Ling's conditions first, and then sent people to report what Wang Ling said. Check out the cloud bazaar.

   In the cloud.

   Rabbit digging holes is a natural skill.

  So what's the problem if the Dahuaxia Infrastructure Technology Tree is full?

  Yunzhong was once abandoned by the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, when Zhao Yun marched into Changshan and established the Northern Territory Protectorate, Yunzhong was regained, and then the abandoned city was repaired, re-planned, and resettled the population.

   In the north of Yunzhong City. Starting from the stone bridge in the outer moat in the north of the city, extending four to five hundred steps to the north, it is used as a trading market with Jiankun, or with various nomadic tribes in the northern desert. Known as the city of Northbridge.

This main street, and two secondary streets running from east to west, have temporarily formed a layout of one vertical and two horizontal. According to subsequent development, it can also be expanded. Basic shops have been built on both sides of the street. If there is a need, it can also be demolished and rebuilt to build a more luxurious restaurant or a large business house.

  During the initial construction, some people thought that the cloud was so remote, how could there be so many commercial firms and so many merchants coming?

  Even Simpi wondered if it was a little too big. After all, many times before, when we traded with nomads, we often just built a circle of grass sheds in a certain place in the wild...

   And this Beiqiao City in the Cloud is a long-term building, not only has a decent street, but also supporting mule and horse shops, cart dealers, post stations, warehouses, and even supporting water supply and sewer channels!

  In comparison, the original Yunzhong County is a bit simpler.

  After all, Yunzhong was only used as a transfer station before.

  Ximpi wandered around in the shop.

The commercial hall is a building surrounded by high walls. There are two-story small buildings as the main body, warehouses and loading and unloading spaces for storing and stacking goods. At the same time, there are guard barracks and kitchens behind the small building. houses.

  Here is the cloud market as a defensive point in case of extreme situations.

The commercial building is mainly made of brick and stone, and the gate is even covered with iron bars. Towers are also planned to be built at the four corners of the high walls around the commercial building. Can't get in. If you wait for the towers in the commercial hall to be built, and then cooperate with the sentry towers in the upper streets, small-scale riots will not cause much trouble, and large-scale riots, not to mention the defenders of Yunzhong City who are close at hand, there will be The soldiers of the Changshan base camp...

  As for the daily security inspections, they have also been in place recently.

  The garrison field for the patrol inspection is not in the commercial building. Simpi arranges it on the other side of Beiqiao City, so that it forms three points with Yunzhong City and the commercial building, and they are the corners of each other.

Simpi inspected the business hall, and specially checked the fire facilities of the wells and warehouses, and even had someone knock down the high wall to see the strength of the compound wall made of earth and green bricks. He was quite satisfied. He walked out of the shop, and said to Dai Si, magistrate of Yunzhong, "well done".

  Yunzhong county magistrate Dai Si laughed so hard that he couldn't close his legs.

  Daisi was born in a poor family, and was originally a small official in the army. Later, because he was serious and responsible, and was quite proficient in arithmetic, he stayed here as a transit official in Yunzhong City. In a sense, Cloud City, including this Beiqiao City, was built by Dai Si himself.

  Xinpi turned out of the shop and onto the street.

  At this moment, in Beiqiao City, the most conspicuous place on the cross street has already begun to have shops in preparation.

  The mules and horses pulling the carts and the busy guys, and the sounds of people and horses from time to time made this newly built market look a little lively.

  The first shop to enter, of course, is the third one, "Salt Iron Tea".

  These three are half-official in nature.

  It is the quotation issued by the Dahan Chamber of Commerce, and then each company goes to bid for this monopoly quotation, which is divided into three-year period and five-year period, and the price is naturally different. This is somewhat like the dealer system of later generations.

In the grassland and desert, people need salt, and livestock need salt, so there are not only high-quality refined salt, but also ordinary coarse salt, and even inferior brick salt, which is the kind of hard bittern, like It's like a rock.

If people eat too much of this kind of bittern salt, there will definitely be problems, but the digestive system of livestock is different from that of humans, so for these large and small animals, it is a supreme delicacy, otherwise these cattle and sheep would have to go to saline-alkaline land to lick it earth…

  The profit of salt, if you look at a bag of salt alone, is really not much, but it is a necessity. Although it is true that the money earned from each bag of salt is not much, but as people in the desert come to buy it, it will add up to a lot.

  Xinpi walked into the salt shop.

  The shopkeeper of the salt shop is taking inventory of the goods. He recognizes Dai Si, but he doesn't know Simpi. He only sees Dai Si walking behind Simpi, and knows that a big man is coming, so he immediately goes up to say hello.

  Xinpi nodded and did not speak, but walked into the shop and asked about the prices of various grades of salt.

  The salt that is common in the market in later generations is called snow salt in Dahan. Belonging to high-quality products, the price is a hundred times that of ordinary salt.

  The next level is called green salt. The color is slightly worse, but there is not much taste of bittern. It is the salt commonly used by ordinary nobles and rich families.

   Further down, it is coarse salt. The color is yellow and black, and the taste is average. Bitter and astringent is a common thing. It is the salt used by ordinary people, and it is the most abundant salt product.

Then there is rock salt mixed with silt, which not only has a severe bittern taste, but also has a silt and earthy smell. It is usually used for livestock, but if the poor people cannot afford coarse salt Yes, will buy this salt too.

  『Buy two copies of each of the four types of salt. ’ Simpi ordered.

  The shopkeeper immediately stepped forward, with a smile on his face, "Your honor is joking, it is a small store's honor for you to come to our shop, how can you let your noble spend money?" What do you want this coarse salt for? If it doesn’t taste good, then whoever, hurry up and get a box of high-quality snow salt...It’s a small thing, it’s not a respect...』

  That’s right, the current Snow Salt has its own packaging, just like the ginseng of the later generations. The thick painted wooden box is covered with moisture-proof oil paper, and there are even carvings and paintings on the wooden box. Small boxes are sold by box, regardless of weight.

  Xinpi waved his hand, "No need. Buy all four, this is for regular inspection, not for me. 』

  『Used for regular inspection? 』The shopkeeper has never heard of this word.

  Xin Pi smiled, did not continue to explain to the shopkeeper at all, turned his head to look at the four kinds of salt he bought, paid the money, ignored the shopkeeper's excuses, turned his head and walked out of the shop.

"This is the new rule of the Dahan Chamber of Commerce..." Simpi said to Dai Si while walking forward, "You will receive the relevant text in a few days... Shoddy goods, bullying the market, you don't have such a thing Is it rare? 』

  Daisi was taken aback for a moment, and then turned his eyes to the salt carried by Simpi's entourage, thinking for a moment.

  『One copy for me, one copy for you. ”Xin Pi smiled and said, “In the early days, in order to attract customers, there must be good products on the market, but there will be more people in the back, and most of them will buy them mixed, and even take the low-quality products to sell high-quality goods...”

  Daisi suddenly realized, looked back at the salt shop, and suddenly felt that this kid might be in trouble.

  In other words, if you want to play tricks, you will be in bad luck.

  The question is how many businessmen are not slippery?

In order to attract business, we use good products at the beginning, and then start to sell some inferior products after a while, just like some brands of mobile phone screens in later generations often have several suppliers, although they all claim the same. But in fact, there are still some invisible indicators that are not consistent, and the natural cost prices are also different.

  The same is true for the salt shop here. The current sale must be official salt, but there may be salt from different regions in the future...

  Same as the salt shop, among other shops, Simpi also purchased the corresponding goods, cloth, tea, etc., some expensive, some cheap,

  These things will serve as temporary inspection standards for the Dahan Chamber of Commerce.

  The Hussar General also issued an order, saying that in the future, there will be corresponding regulations and specific grades for some commodities commonly used by the people.

  『This place will become an important commercial county in Beimo...』 Xin Pi said to Dai Si, 『You have to work hard and don’t slack off. 』

  Daisy naturally said yes.

Simpi walked out, but stopped after walking for a while, looked left and right, and then said to Dai Si: "In addition, some additional sheds and shelves can be built near the storefront to the street, so that these stores can display some goods." Let it out... These Beimo people may not be able to understand the words, nor can they understand what the shop is yelling... If there are goods over there, the Beimo people will know what they are selling. 』

  No way, the language barrier is so troublesome.

  Of course, after getting familiar with it, there will be no such problems.

  But at the beginning, these nomads may not be able to recognize the difference between the word "salt" and the word "wine". Although they can smell it, if they only face Chinese characters, they will be blinded. Just like when the Han people of later generations faced Miao or Tibetan, the Miao people and Tibetans also felt that their writing was very clear. Why are the Han people so blind that they don’t even recognize such a big difference?

  Daisi froze for a moment, then realized that Lian claimed yes.

  Xinpi wandered around again, and he was still positive about the overall situation of the market. Although there are not many shops opened at present, not even comparable to the general counties in the Han area, and the types of goods are relatively lacking, but these are not a problem. With enough profits, those merchants will flock to , turning the Beiqiao market here in the cloud into the largest market in Beimo.

  The gathering of merchants will bring about various changes.

   Not only the changes in the market, but also the changes for the Han people, especially for these nomadic peoples in the desert.

   This is interesting.

   This is also something that Simpi has been summarizing since he arrived in the Northern Territory.

When he was in Shandong before, Simpi, like most of the Shandong gentry children, thought that there was nothing in Beimo, and it was a face project of Emperor Xiaowu. There were countless casualties, and there was no exchange for control of the desert. It didn't take long for the Xiongnu to become Xianbei. The Han people still couldn't set foot in the desert, or it was useless to set foot in it.

  However, this concept was changed after Simpi arrived in Guanzhong.

The Western Region, the Northern Region, or the rumored Southern Region, and possibly the Eastern Region in the future. While building a huge framework, the General Hussars also let everyone in this framework They all felt the new changes.

  Everyone, the Han people, the Xiqiang people, the Southern Huns, and the current Beimo people.

   This is an article on the bright side.

  No one can refuse, and no one can resist.

Simpi had no doubts, whether it was Jiankun people, Rouran people, or Beimo people in other small tribes, as long as they came to Yunzhong and experienced the convenience of the market, no one would refuse Here it is.

  Of course, there may be some blind guys who want to make an idea here. After all, the market here is a semi-open model. This is also an innovation of hussars, and it is also a kind of experiment.

But it doesn't matter. Many military academies in the Northern Territory Protectorate are already complaining that it is not as easy to obtain meritorious service as it was in the early years. It is not easy to accumulate some military merits for themselves and their families. .

   This is an inevitable process. If you want military merit, you can only obtain it in more and more remote and marginal areas. If you can get military merits in the interior every day, then it means that officials like Simpi who manage internal affairs are not qualified.

  So, if someone dares to call attention here, many people in the Northern Territory Protectorate will shout happily, and even fight hard to **** the mission of going out...

   Simpi thought about it, and then there was a smile on his face.

  No matter when, it is always a pleasant thing to have a group of military academy soldiers who can reassure and trust oneself.

  Simpi stood at the northernmost end of the Beiqiao Bazaar, stopped, and looked into the distance.

  Below his feet, the ground clearly has a tangent.

Behind him, there are slate and gravel street pavement, ditches are covered under the bluestone slab, and there are transplanted trees on both sides of the road. In front of him, it is ordinary, but simply compacted. dirt road.

   And further ahead, there is a temporary road stepped by passing vehicles and people...

  In the future, this road will continue to be repaired, and then go deep into the desert along the way of merchants.

   until it leads to the sky.

   Happy birthday to the motherland!

  (end of this chapter)