"Simple Economics" is actually the most pitiful economic theory that Ma Qiang knows, in later generations, Ma Qiang also joined the ranks of the national stock speculation, and therefore read a few economic books, but after losing two years of salary, Ma Qiang finally understood that the great A shares have nothing to do with economic theory....

The book written by Ma Qiang is not external, it is for internal officials to see, and Zhen Yan is different from Zhen Yan, Mi Zhu immediately regarded this book as a treasure, it is said that he takes it with him every day, he reads it when he has nothing to do, and he also wrote a lot of things for Ma Qiang to read.

Zhen Mi shook his head and continued, "The output of Qingzhou's salt industry is constantly rising, and I am afraid that it will soon be able to afford the use of tens of millions of people, but how many people are there in Qingzhou in Jizhou?" Do you think the general wants to sell the salt, or will the Qingzhou salt industry reduce production? ”

Zhen Yan's eyes suddenly lit up, and at the same time he felt where his political achievements were.

Therefore, Zhen Yan was ready to personally lead the team and go to Yangzhou by sea.

Although China's maritime caravan really developed to the Song Dynasty, but as early as the Han Dynasty there were many maritime caravans, of which the northern sea caravan was mainly to Japan, Korea, and the southern sea caravan was to Southeast Asia, the Han Wu Emperor had already reached the Indian region during the sea caravan, and through that as a transit station, the Central Plains silk and other goods were resold to Central Asia, West Asia, and Mediterranean countries, therefore, Zhen Yan and other merchants decided to take the sea route to connect Yangzhou and Jizhou trade, I didn't think it was anything unusual.

"Zhen Juzao, it's ready, ready to go at any time." Guan Cheng, who was wearing a navy uniform, stepped forward and said to Zhen Yan with a fist.

It's all to blame on Ma Qiang, once he said in passing that the honorific title of the director should be the bureau seat, and then this title spread.

"I've worked hard to manage the commander this time, don't be so polite, just call me the word people."

"Everywhere, it's just business." Guan Cheng said with a smile.

The fleet set sail, and their goal was Wu County in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou of the Han Dynasty was very large, including Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Fujian in later generations, but because the south of the Han Dynasty did not get great development, the population was not much, and the population of Yangzhou in its heyday was less than 4.5 million, and now it has dropped to about 4 million because of war and plague.

Among the counties in Yangzhou, Yuzhang County has the largest population, but the area of Yuzhang is also the largest, almost the entire Jiangxi in later generations, and then Wu County and Danyang County.

Wujun is about the Jiangsu region of the later generations, plus a small part of the northern part of Zhejiang, the Dantu Port here is the Zhenjiang of the later generations, because this is in the late Han Dynasty, and later Nantong, Shanghai Pudong and other areas are still under the sea at this time.

On the sea boat, Zhen Yan was lying on the railing and vomiting, he had never been on a sea boat, but he was majestic for less than half an hour, and he completely lost the face of a famous scholar.

God is pitiful, Zhen Yan has been mixing on the ground in Hebei all his life, when did he think that he might go to the sea in the future.

"Minwang, why don't you go down and take a rest."

"It's always a matter of getting used to, how long will it take?"

"This is not out of the Qingzhou territory yet, you have to go for two or three days."

....

"Then I'd better go down and rest."

Zhen Yan went back to his room and lay down, closing his eyes while sorting out the current situation in Yangzhou in his heart.

The current Yuan Shu, after more than a year, has recovered his vitality and has begun to be active again.

Since Chen Wen was killed, the position of assassin in Yangzhou has been vacant, and Chang'an has not sent a new person to take over, so Yangzhou is now in a state of autonomy for each county.

Yangzhou is divided into six counties: Jiujiang, Lujiang, Danyang, Wu, Huiji and Yuzhang.

To the north of the Yangtze River are Jiujiang and Lujiang two counties, and south of the Yangtze River are the remaining four counties.

Jiujiang is now occupied by Yuan Shu, and the Lujiang County code is Lu Kang, the Jiangdong boss.

Lu Kang is a descendant of the Lu family of Wu County, and the four surnames of Wu County are called by Zhu, Zhang, and Gu, and they are first-class families, and they are not weak compared to the Zhen family.

More importantly, Lu Kang's personal ability is very strong, he can be civil and martial, when he arrived in Lujiang, there were thieves Huang Sui and others in Lujiang, and more than 100,000 displaced people were gathered to make chaos.

Among the remaining four counties in the south of the Yangtze River, Yuan Shu appointed Wu Jing in the Sun family army as the defender of Danyang County to attack Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin was unwilling to hurt the local people because of the sword soldiers, and directly disbanded and fled to Huiji, but the local people did not support the foreign Wu Jing, thinking that neither Yuan Shu nor the Sun family army was a good thing, so Wu Jing was not out of the city in Danyang.

Huiji is Wang Lang, who has just transferred from Xuzhou, as the Taishou.

Wu Jun is Xu Cheng as the Taishou, Yuzhang is Zhou Shu as the Taishou, because Yuan Shu's main energy is still in Jiangbei, and he did not attack Jiangnan, so their life is still stable.

Zhen Yan knew that Ma Qiang had always looked down on Yuan Shu, although now Ma Qiang had beaten Yuan Shao, who Yuan Shu hated the most, but it was impossible to get Yuan Shu's support, this time, he still had to have a good relationship with the four major families of Zhu, Zhang, Gu and Lu in Wu County, as long as they were willing to trade with themselves, then this business would be easy to do.

Thinking about it, Zhen Yan fell asleep.

- A few days later, Wu County

"What? The fleet of the Zhenbei General's Mansion? Xu Cheng touched his ears, for fear that he had heard it wrong.

"Exactly, this is a letter from them, saying that they are here to trade." The sergeant handed the letter up.

Xu Cheng opened the letter, looked at the paper of the letter first, and sighed, "Sure enough, the paper is good, if I Wujun also has this thing, it will definitely be a great cultural and educational prosperity." After that, let's start reading the content.

"Commerce..."Xu Chengfu thought for a while, looked at the first person and asked, "Zhang Gong, what do you think?" ”

A middle-aged man looked at Xu Cheng and said, "General Zhenbei is criss-crossed, and his soldiers are strong and strong, but after all, he is far away from my Wu County, and he has no contact with us, and he came here in a dignified manner, so he has no other intention to come." ”

This middle-aged man's name is Zhang Yun, this Zhang Yun is not Zhang Yun from Jingzhou, he is a famous man in Wu County, and he is also the head of the Zhang family in Wu County.

"It makes sense, since it is a businessman's business, I will not come forward, and this matter will be fully handed over to Zhang Gong."

"No!"

The news of a caravan coming from the north soon spread all over Wu County, and many merchants and wealthy families were moved, after all, because of the war, the transportation between the north and the south was already very difficult, and many special goods in the north, such as horses, were about to fetch sky-high prices in the south.

"Zhang Gong, we are here this time in the hope of buying grain, you know, now there are wars everywhere in the north, and there is a shortage of food!"

After Zhen Yan and Zhang Yun met and greeted each other, they began to talk straight to the point about their intentions this time.