However, before leaving Pubanjin, Cao Liang still wrote two letters, one was an official document from the imperial court, Cao Liang directly told Cao Shuang to explain the private salt case that happened in Pubanjin, and the other was a family letter sent to the Gaoling Marquis Mansion.

Cao Liang wrote to his family that he had accepted a new official position and would go to Bingzhou to quell the Xiongnu rebellion, and that he could not return home for the time being.

In this era, it is not difficult to recruit soldiers, as long as you have food and salary, naturally many strong people will rush to it.

Although Hedong County is an important place in the belly of the Wei State, it can be regarded as a peaceful area, but in order to cope with the expanding war and the construction of palaces and other expenses, the imperial court is exacting and miscellaneous taxes are endless, and the common people may be able to mix food and clothing, but if God does not give a good face, the life of the common people will be difficult, hunger and cold, selling children and daughters, this kind of thing often happens.

Therefore, in this era, eating grain and becoming a soldier is still a promising profession, according to the regulations of the imperial court, as long as there is a male soldier in the family, the household can be exempted from servitude, and at the same time, a certain reduction or exemption will be given in taxes.

However, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, it is no longer like the melee of the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and you can pull up a group of people anywhere and casually.

Cao Liang's recruitment of troops in Hedong this time will break the precedent of the Wei army only recruiting from military households, and he plans to recruit the best among the civilians, and plans to increase the army's food and salary by two to three percent, so as to attract more elite men to join the army.

Although Cao Shuang has promised to give the establishment of 10,000 people to the five schools of the Northern Army, and will issue 10,000 people of food, this is only the most basic, and Cao Liang will need to pay for this additional part of the salary.

Of course, Cao Liang is not short of this money now, and the income of five stone scatters alone is enough to support an army of tens of thousands of people for him, so Cao Liang deliberately asked Gaoling Mansion to escort money and grain over to facilitate him to start recruiting troops as soon as possible.

After all, although Cao Shuang had already ordered the soldiers Cao Shangshu to allocate military supplies to Cao Liang, Cao Liang knew that the bureaucratic system of Wei was operating very slowly, and when they transported the food and materials to Hedong County, the daylily was estimated to be almost cold.

Therefore, you have to rely on yourself for everything.

Now Cao Liang hurried to Anyi, but Han Jian, the Taishou of Hedong, was like an ant on a hot pot, panicked and restless.

He also just received the news of Han Zhang's accident, which was really like a thunderbolt in the sky, which made Han Jian almost stunned.

Selling illicit salt is a serious crime, and Han Jian, as the Taishou of Hedong, can not know it, and he knows the law and violates the law, so it is even more of a crime.

There is a salt pond in Hedong County, which has always been a large county of salt production, and it is relatively close to Luoyang, so most of the salt used in Luoyang comes from Hedong.

Due to the monopoly of salt by the imperial court, the salt pond is not under the jurisdiction of the Taishou of Hedong, but the imperial court separately appointed the salt governor to manage it, and all the production, transportation and sales of the salt industry are handled by the salt governor.

Han Jian has been the Taishou of Hedong for so many years, so he naturally covets the salt pond in the county, after all, it is not an ordinary pool, and the water scooped out is a lot of copper coins.

But greed is greedy, Han Jian didn't dare to take risks to engage in illegal salt easily, in Hedong County, he could cover the sky with one hand, but out of Hedong County, others may not be able to buy his account, but salt can only produce value if it is sold to other counties or even Luoyang, so for many years, Han Jian has not dared to do it.

It wasn't until a few months ago that the arrival of Hou Cheng, the new chief steward of Yipinju, made Han Jian change his mind.

Hou Cheng is the chief steward of Yipinju personally appointed by Sima Yi, taking over the position of Mrs. Bai Lingyun, after Hou Cheng took office, the first task is to reorganize the business of Yipinju and restore the benefits of Yipinju.

Yipinju's main income before came from Wushisan, but after Cao Liang's leisurely Wushisan prevailed, Yipinju's Wushisan sales plummeted, which directly led to Yipinju's collapse.

Hou Cheng naturally can't go down the old path anymore, if he wants to reorganize Yipinju's business, he must find another way to change the direction of Yipinju's business.

What business is the most profitable? Of course, Hou Cheng knew that as long as it was expressly forbidden by the imperial court, it was the most profitable business.

Others may consider the risk of doing this kind of business, after all, once you miss, you will lose your head, Hou Cheng doesn't need to think too much, after all, with the powerful backer of the Sima family, and those forbidden laws of the imperial court, he can completely trample on the mud.

So Hou Cheng deliberately found Han Jian and conspired with him to sell illicit salt.

At the beginning, Han Jian was still worried, worried that once the matter was leaked and he was investigated by the imperial court, it would not only be a loss of office and dismissal, but even a capital crime.

Hou Cheng moved out of Sima Yi, claiming that Sima Yi was behind their backs, who would dare to punish them?

Han Jian weighed it, Sima Yi is the prince of the dynasty, with a high and powerful position, only with his support behind him, are you afraid that there will be something unfair?

So Han Jian quickly agreed to Hou Cheng's proposal, according to their division of labor, Han Jian was responsible for the refining of private salt, and the transportation was handed over to Han Jian's nephew Han Zhang, who happened to have a fleet and ran the Yellow River waterway for many years, and Yipinju was responsible for the safety of the fleet and the sale of private salt after entering Luoyang.

Although Han Jian can only get 20% of the income, Han Zhang takes 10%, and the remaining 70% is monopolized, but Han Jian knows that this private salt sale relies on Sima Yi's big tree, and after leaving Hedong County, Han Zhang's fleet can still be unimpeded, and it is all the credit of the Sima family, so he is already satisfied with 70% and 30,000 yuan on his side.

What's more, this is 30% of the profit from the sale of the entire illicit salt, which is definitely an unimaginable amount for him.

In Hedong County, he is above 10,000 people, covering the sky with one hand, even if the salt control is not under his control, after seeing him, he is also low-browed, so Han Jian can rest assured and boldly send someone to cook salt privately, and then transport it to Heyin by land, and then load the ship from Heyin, and transport this batch of private salt along the waterway of the Yellow River to Xiaopingjin and other places in Luoyang Ferry, where there is naturally a product to take over.

After doing it for a few months in a row, it was completely smooth sailing, and the journey was safe, after all, in Hedong County, no one dared to check the ship of their Han family, and when they arrived in Luoyang, they were obviously taken care of along the way, in short, the whole process was worry-free, and it was unusually smooth.