PFC Chapter 121 Small report?
Chapter 121 Small report?
Chapter 121 Small report?
Hanzhong has a special terrain.
This place is mixed between Xianyang and Bashu.
Among them, Xianyang, as the capital of the Qin State, had prosperous commerce and economy.
As the granary of the Qin State, Bashu has a vast land and abundant resources, cheap grain prices and high output.
These two places, regardless of whether Hanzhong is adjacent to any of them, can get the opportunity for rapid development.
But now Hanzhong is mixed between the two places, but the local development is extremely poor. The reason is that there are huge obstacles between Hanzhong, Xianyang and Bashu.
To the north of Hanzhong is the Qinling Mountains, which cut off the connection between Xianyang and Hanzhong.
To the south of Hanzhong are two big mountains, Daba and Micang, which cut off the connection between Bashu and Hanzhong.
The three mountains are in a pinch, completely cutting off the connection between Hanzhong County and other places. Even though Hanzhong's own resources are not bad, if there is no external stimulation, it will be difficult to develop rapidly by relying on the local resources alone. It is even more difficult.
Although now above the Qinling Mountains, there is already a rudimentary form of a "Road to Shu" opened up by the Qin State.
But that's just a narrow path.
From the prototype of this "Shu Road", if goods are transported in large quantities, maybe three to four thousand catties of commercial goods will have to use more than a dozen horse-drawn carts, and it will take ten days and a half months to enter Hanzhong from Xianyang.
This kind of transport capacity is not directly proportional to the time and energy consumed.
For most businessmen, it is a loss-making business.
The embryonic form of this "Road to Shu" is only when the Qin State transports grain from Bashu every year, it will spare no effort to use a large army to clear the way, cut down trees when encountering trees, and move stones when encountering stones.
But this is obviously far from enough for Mo Jun.
What he needs is not a small path, but a road to the sky that is enough for a large-scale caravan to pass quickly and smoothly.
And not just one.
In Mo Jun's plan, the "Tongtian Avenue" he wants to build should connect the entire Bashu and Xianyang, and use Hanzhong as the transportation center to turn the rich resources of the two places into a boost.
"Gunpowder (fire sulfur stone) and cement are already available. Simple road construction is not very difficult, but..."
Mo Jun took out an animal skin roll, and after opening it, it showed a map of the Qinling Mountains.
Now 'cement' has been manufactured by Mojun, and has started to be put into large-scale production.
And this world already has gunpowder.
With these two things, it is not very difficult to build roads from the Qinling Mountains.
The only problem now is mainly time.
no doubt.
The plan of "digging mountains and digging roads" formulated by Mo Jun is an extremely huge amount of work.
Based on the size of the [Xiongchumo Chamber of Commerce] alone, it may not be impossible to complete, but the construction period is a bit too long.
The best way is to find someone to cooperate with.
Speaking of cooperation.
The first person Mo Jun thought of was naturally Ying Zheng.
As the current king of Qin, Ying Zheng can provide too much help to Mo Jun in this kind of big project.
However, Ying Zheng's flaw is also obvious, that is, he is too poor.
Mo Jun, as the current internal history of Qin State, knows what Qin State's financial situation is like, he knows better than Ying Zheng.
For expenses other than the normal expenditure of the imperial court like now, Yingzheng can provide all kinds of manpower and material resources, but he can't provide money.
So in order to relieve his pressure, Mo Jun had to find a way to find a few wealthy 'shareholders'.
"My lord, an urgent letter from Xianyang."
Just as Mo Jun was thinking, Hei Yu suddenly appeared quietly and handed over a roll of bamboo slips at the same time.
Mo Jun opened the scroll and took a look.
It was found that there was no substantive content in it, it was just an imperial edict for Ying Zheng to call him into the palace urgently.
However, the fact that Mr. Mo had to be summoned to enter the palace had already explained a lot of problems.
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Two days later.
Inside the Xianyang Palace.
Yingzheng on the throne wears a crown and black clothes.His eyes were deep and cold, from high to low, looking down at the ministers below.
a long time.
Just listen to him slowly say: "The three-day period has come, do you have a good plan?"
under the throne.
There are only seven or eight ministers, and the leader is none other than Chang Wenjun "Xiong Dian".
Faced with Ying Zheng's question, Chang Wenjun and the ministers behind him all lowered their heads, speechless.
Chang Wenjun also worshiped one of the nine ministers in the state of Qin, and he was called "Shaofu".
There are two functions:
[-]. In charge of the taxation of mountains, seas, ponds and official handicrafts operated by the royal family.
Second, be responsible for managing the royal family's private wealth and solving life affairs.
The power of the post of "Shaofu" in Jiuqing seems to be ordinary, but because it is in charge of all the royal family and official affairs, and can go directly to Tianting, its real power is not trivial.
Generally speaking.
Only people who are trusted by the king can take this position.
Once Chang Wenjun, as a "family relative from Chu State", won the trust of Yingzheng, so he promoted Chang Wenjun to this position.
However, since the last incident of "Nanjun Conspiracy", Yingzheng has begun to limit Changwenjun's rights intentionally or unintentionally.
Now Chang Wenjun, the "Shaofu", has basically lost the second right to "manage the royal family's private wealth and solve life affairs", leaving only the first function.
But not long ago.
The first function in charge of Chang Wenjun also had problems.
"Xiong Qing, as the 'Minor Mansion', you are in charge of the taxation of the Daqin Mountains, Seas, Pools, and Lakes. Now that the Qin State's salt mines are dry and there is a shortage of salt, do you have any countermeasures?"
"Sir, there is nothing you can do."
Facing Ying Zheng's inquiry, Chang Wenjun was silent for a long time, and finally only uttered five words.
This time, it really wasn't that Chang Wenjun deliberately made trouble for Yingzheng. After all, now that Yingzheng is in power, if anyone still wants to imitate the previous Zhisu Neishi at this time, they are really looking for a dead end.
But the matter of salt and grain has been a big unsolvable problem for all dynasties since ancient times.
The number of salt mines in Qin State is limited.
Not long ago, two salt mines dried up at the same time. Unless a new 'salt mine' can be found again, even if a god descends to earth, there is no way to solve the predicament Qin is facing now.
Ying Zheng also knew this, but Chang Wenjun's answer was obviously not what Ying Zheng wanted.
"Trash, what use does the widow want you, the 'Master'?"
Ying Zheng's eyes were cold, looking at Chang Wenjun Xiong Dian below, the dissatisfaction in his eyes deepened.
As the saying goes, when you like someone, his farts are delicious.But when you hate someone, he looks like he's eating shit when he eats.
Today's Chang Wenjun is probably in such a situation.
Before the Nanjun incident, Yingzheng had always been very tolerant of Changpingjun and Changwenjun brothers. Even after the Lai Ai incident was over, he once thought about giving Changpingjun the position of the right prime minister of the Great Qin Dynasty.
But now, no matter what the two brothers did, it would only annoy Ying Zheng in his eyes.
Chang Wenjun obviously knew this too.
So in the face of Ying Zheng's harsh criticism and reprimand, he decisively chose to remain silent.
Anyway, the drying up of the salt mine is completely helpless. Even Yingzheng can't because of this, let alone his official position as a "shaofu", right?
He can't be as unlucky as the previous Zhi Su Neishi.
Is it possible that that hateful bastard can still solve the problem of drying up the salt mine?
What a joke.
Moreover.
That guy can't protect himself now, how could he still have the time to take care of this matter.
Seeing the group of ministers below with the attitude of 'dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water', Ying Zheng's eyes became colder and colder.
Right now.
A guard's voice suddenly came from outside the palace.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Shengping is asking to see you."
Hearing the guard's voice, Ying Zheng first glanced at Chang Wenjun below, only to see that Chang Wenjun's whole body shook suddenly after hearing Mo Jun's arrival, and then his eyes seemed to light up.
Seeing him like this, Ying Zheng became more and more disgusted in his heart, but he said calmly on the surface: "Xuan!"
"Here!"
The guard responded, then walked out of the palace and brought Mo Jun in.
When Mo Jun just walked in, he felt that the atmosphere in the palace seemed a bit oppressive. Ying Zheng on the throne was expressionless, and several ministers below bowed their heads and were speechless.
Only Chang Wenjun, who was at the front, looked at him a little strangely, faintly, with a bit of malicious excitement.
"Chen Mojun, see Your Majesty."
Seeing Mo Jun's arrival, Ying Zheng's icy face softened a little, and he said gently, "Mo Qing is free."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Mo Jun thanked him, then straightened up, and looked at Ying Zheng above with a slightly questioning look.
So far, Mo Jun still doesn't know the real reason why Ying Zheng urgently summoned him to return to Xianyang.
After arriving in Xianyang, Mo Jun naturally learned about the drying up of two salt mines in Qin through his own eyes and ears in the court.
But this has little to do with Mo Jun.
The responsibility of governing millet internal history is mainly to manage private finances such as grain tax and commercial tax.
The salt and iron (bronze) of the Qin State belonged to the official business, and under normal circumstances, it was managed by the Shaofu, which was in charge of the royal family.
Therefore, if there is a problem in the salt mine, the first person to look for is not Zhi Su Nei Shi, but Shao Fu.
Unless it is said that the Shaofu cannot come up with a solution, then Ying Zheng will call a group of ministers to hold a big court meeting to discuss and solve the problem together.
But if it's a grand court meeting, there can't be only so few people here today.
Feel Mo Jun's eyes.
Ying Zheng didn't show off, and said directly: "Qing Mo, someone sued the widow that you oppressed the people in Hanzhong County, bought and sold the people's property by force, and slaughtered the people in disregard of their lives. Is there such a thing?"
After listening to Ying Zheng's words, Mo Jun suddenly realized.
Engaged for a long time.
It turned out that it was because of this incident that he hurriedly summoned himself back!
Mo Jun glanced at Chang Wenjun next to him, and saw that although Chang Wenjun had a calm expression at the moment, if you observe carefully, you will find that there is obviously a little more complacency in his eyes.
Obviously, this guy has clearly told Mo Jun that he is the one who made the report, so what can you do to me?
Mo Jun took a deep look at him.
Then he resolutely bowed to Ying Zheng, and said with a firm face: "Report to the king, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it."
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(End of this chapter)