Although Zheng Huchen had already calculated that His Majesty had summoned him to attack Quanzhou, he did not expect to talk about selling illicit salt for a long time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSpeaking of which, this is really fat, I have channels, organization, profits, and the support of the emperor, so it is not difficult to carry out this work, as long as you use some heart, you will be able to quickly occupy the private salt market in the coastal states and counties, and the difficulty is how to take these chicken and dog thieves under your command and become a help for the restoration of the country.

However, the conditions given by His Majesty this time are also very generous, he only increases the price of salt from the officialdom twice, and the rest of the profits go to those smuggler salt dealers, and their bureau can take out 30% of it as a fund. Zheng Huchen calculated that the price of salt from the officialdom was at most ten wen a catty, and His Majesty increased the price from it to thirty wen a catty. And the salt in the market is already a pound of 100 wen, the price in remote areas is even higher, 60 wen a pound is always easy to sell, they can extract nearly 10 wen from it, according to His Majesty's algorithm, how can they make a profit of hundreds of thousands of yuan a year.

Don't underestimate this money, the Shuaifu's annual expenditure is only 100,000 yuan, which is enough to maintain the operation of the small yamen of the Affairs Bureau, and it eats very well, and the rest of the money can recruit more people and build a more rigorous intelligence network, so Zheng Huchen is still very motivated to do this. What made him a little embarrassed was that these days, in order to assist His Majesty in winning the Battle of Yashan, the main forces of the Secretariat were placed on the Xing Dynasty and the coastal states, and the intelligence on Quanzhou was naturally lacking.

However, His Majesty had asked to grasp the economic situation of the main economic and trade areas along the coast, so Zheng Huchen did not hand over the blank scroll, and when he came, he asked his subordinates to sort out all the information about Quanzhou in the past two years and bring it together. As for His Majesty's question, Zheng Huchen naturally knew everything and told His Majesty what he knew. The two chatted until noon, and when he saw the time for lunch, he got up and retired, and obeyed the order to transfer the elite forces of the bureau to Quanzhou, and tried his best to cooperate with His Majesty in this battle......

Zhao Yu did not get more valuable things from Zheng Huchen's mouth, all he knew was that Quanzhou had risen again since the founding of the country, and had gradually become a major port of overseas trade in China, not only with Japan and Goryeo in the east, but also with Southeast Asia, South Asia and its western regions have frequent trade exchanges, overseas transportation conditions are better than other ports. The imperial court established a city department here to manage the merchants of various countries, and has become a large profit and tax collector of the imperial court, etc., these general things, but there are no detailed things.

"Alas, this product is worry-free, it's so perfunctory, and you have to rely on yourself to turn it over!" Zhao Hao looked at the two large boxes of files on the ground and frowned and muttered, so many things can't be read in two or three days, and he has to stay up late. Thinking about the urgency of time, in the face of such a large workload, he simply asked people to move everything to the west attic, where there was a spacious stall, and asked people to have the food delivered there, and immediately began to work.

The first task is, of course, to know the city defense situation in Quanzhou, although the materials have been classified, but these materials are mostly related to the economy, and most of the city defense facilities are passed by, which requires Zhao Yu to pick out useful things one by one. He found that the city of Quanzhou had not been demolished during the large-scale destruction campaign after the Mongols conquered Jiangnan, and it was still intact and repaired, which shows the importance that the Yuan government attached to this place.

Like many large state cities and government cities in ancient China, Quanzhou already had Yacheng and Zicheng in the Tang Dynasty, and after five dynasties, Luocheng was built, and there were three city walls. Yacheng is close to the north of the sub-city to the west, which is the state government office in the Tang and Song dynasties, and is rectangular. The sub-city is also rectangular, with one gate on each side of the wall. There is a moat outside the sub-city. There are also moats in the city, commonly known as Bagua ditch. Due to the expansion of the city and the repair of the city many times, Quanzhou has become a city with seven city gates, of which the south side is the largest, the city is irregular with the topography and the situation of the development of the city at that time, the shape resembles a carp, and is also commonly known as the carp city. Quanzhou city is planted with thorn tree, so it is also called "thorn city".

Quanzhou has a city wall in the Tang Kaiyuan period, the end of the Tang Dynasty, five dynasties, its city is square, there are four city gates, three miles around. During the five dynasties of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the festival degree made the stay from the effect and then expanded the city, the surrounding area was expanded to 20 miles, one zhang and eight feet high, and seven city gates were opened. During the Song Tianyou period, Wang Yanbin of Zhizhou expanded part of the city in the west of the city. Expand the city to the east and west. During the Qiande period, the festival made Chen Hongjin expand the northeast city of the city. In the second year of Xuanhe, the county guarded the land algae to build a brick city, more than two zhang high, two zhang wide, and rebuilt it into an outer brick and an inner stone. Shaoxing, Chunxi, Jiading have repairs. In the third year of Shaoding, the county guarded the nine gongs to build the urn city of each gate, and built a wing city of 438 zhang outside the south city, and the circumference of the city reached 20 miles.

As the walls were bent, so did the moat. The roads in the city curve from south to north, and are roughly straight, and from east to west they are also considered straight, so that they generally constitute a crossroads. However, the roads on all sides are not straight, all are curved, and there are water systems in the east and west directions, moats around the inner city, and commercial streets are mostly in the southeast. In the northeast of the outer city, there is Longtou Mountain, and a large number of other vacant land is used to build residential houses, and in the past hundred years, the city and outside the city have been occupied by houses full and dense, and there is no spare space.

There are a large number of foreign expatriates among the residents of Quanzhou, including Arabs, Persians, European Christians, Jews, Indians, African blacks and other races, these foreigners or related things are named Fan or Fan by Quanzhou people, these foreign expatriates also intermarry with the native Han Hokkien ethnic group in Quanzhou and reproduce offspring, and the mixed race of Fan and Han is called Bannan Fan by Quanzhou people. Because foreigners under the Song Dynasty were not allowed to live in the city, they mostly lived in the area from the south gate to the Tonghuai Gate in the town outside the southern city, forming many large-scale Tibetan settlements, which were called Fanfang and Fanren Lane.

There is Jinjiang River flowing through in the west of Quanzhou city, facing the sea in the south, so there are many ports, the four major branch ports of the bay are Fashi Port, Houzhu Port, Luoyang Port, Hanjiang Port, in addition to Chongwu, Xiutu, Shihu, Hanjiang and other ports. The most famous is Houzhu Port, known as Quanzhou Port, also known as Thornton Port. Because this place not only has convenient transportation with Japan and Goryeo in the east, but also has frequent trade exchanges with Southeast Asia, South Asia and its western regions, and the overseas transportation conditions are better than other ports, it has gradually become a major port of overseas trade in China since the Northern Song Dynasty.

"There are still city walls, which is both a good thing and a bad thing!" Roughly figuring out the situation of Quanzhou City, Zhao Yu turned over and lay down and muttered, of course, repairing the city will cause trouble for the siege, but it can also be used for his own use, and he pondered how to turn harm into benefit...... (To be continued.) )