Many years ago, Heifu, as Li You's subordinate "Sima of the other department", led 3,000 people to the south to conquer Yuzhang.

He wrote this half-year-long journey into three volumes of "Southern Expedition", although the words in it are simple and unpretentious, but the content is very detailed. After Heifu got married, he presented this book to Qin Shi Huang in order to explain that the southern expedition was unprofitable and difficult, so that his subordinates would not be sent to the hot and terrible green hell of Lingnan to die.

Qin Shi Huang remembered the description of Nanchang and other places in that book:

"From Fanyang, Yugan to the west, there is no one in the hundreds, there is no city and acres, there are few Yue tribes, and there is no open road. Traveling more than 100 miles, to Ganshui, this water runs through Yuzhang, stretches for thousands of miles from north to south, and flows into Peng Lize......"

"The subordinate chooses a place to build a city in the lower reaches of the Ganshui River, the local ancient trees are trimmed with vines, the forest is cloudy, and the sound of birds and beasts is noisy. Bison, wild deer to thousands of herds, gathered here, and there are bamboo slopes, also stretching for dozens of miles, in the meantime the bamboo joints are interspersed, raw thorn bamboo shoots, the taste is bitter, there are Gan giants haunted in the meantime, plundering people and eating ......"

In short, it is a wild scene, Heifu and others built a city here, it can really be said that the high-rise buildings are raised on the ground, in addition to the natural reckless bushes, there is also the disease of "water Gu" that makes people smell and change, there is no way to treat the disease after accidentally infecting it, and it can only slowly weaken and die, so it is called "Jiangnan Bei Fever, Husband died early".

But now, since the founding of Nanchang, it has been seven or eight years, in early September, after the southern tour to this place, Qin Shi Huang found that Nanchang has been completely different from the reckless land described in the "Southern Expedition"!

The first thing that made the emperor's impression was the convenient water transportation.

His huge entourage, on a boat, crossed the river and floated on Peng Lize. However, I saw an endless stream of ships sailing out from the "Hukou Pass", some went east to Huainan Huiji, and some went west to Hengshan and Nanjun, all loaded with goods.

What was shipped out was dark brown sugar, and what was brought back was agricultural tools, silk cloth and other necessities that Yuzhang could not be self-sufficient.

It is said that this pass was set up seven years ago, a military official named "Zhao Tuo" proposed to set up, and the water transportation extending in all directions was also established from that time, and now it is very convenient to enter and exit Yuzhang and take the waterway.

After landing on the shore in the shallow plain and looking at the scenery of Lushan Mountain, the county guard and the county lieutenant of Yuzhang personally ran to greet him, led the emperor to drive, and walked southward, gradually approaching Nanchang City.

The road was built according to the standard of Chidao, and it is said that this was many years ago, when Heifu ended the campaign and stepped down from Fanyang Ling, he instructed his successor to say that "if you want to get rich, you must first build a road", at least the road from Nanchang to Shisahara should be repaired.

"It's not rough."

This sentence left by Heifu made the emperor laugh, and the construction of Chidao straight roads across the country is also something he has always insisted on, and only by connecting the world's use roads can it be truly unified.

The road, although it was only a simple dirt road, was rammed very flat and did not have the bumps as expected.

A few miles away along the road, there is a smoke-curling Lilu, and the surrounding area of Lilu is surrounded by paddy fields. The rice has been harvested, only bundles of straw are left in the field, and one or two children are still catching yellow eels at the edge of the field - it is said that in the Yuzhang water, all kinds of fish, turtles, shrimp and clams are everywhere, and you can get a full handful of land by throwing a net casually, so the local Yangyue people do not have to work hard all day long, and they can easily fill their stomachs.

In short, what I saw and heard was very different from Heifu's "Southern Expedition".

But the emperor didn't think that Heifu deceived him by talking nonsense in the book, because these farmlands are only found near the road, and the field of vision extends to ten miles and dozens of miles away, and what you see is still a reckless jungle, sometimes passing by the river, and you can even see a big crocodile basking in the sun with its mouth open on the bank......

In Yuzhang, the power of people is still very small, and naturally only a little space is retreated.

But this is not easy, this place can be changed from a barren clothes to a plastered field, all of which are the result of thousands of tuntian soldiers, plus the hard work of immigrants from Nanjun.

Along the way, however, Qin Shi Huang was most impressed by the endless sugar plantations.

At the beginning of September, when the farm is over, it is the time when the sugarcane is in full bloom, and they are tall and tall, like a forest of reeds, but they are neatly planned. The leaders worked in the fields, making the final hoeing and fertilizing. The black-skinned sugar cane, known locally as "black-skinned sugarcane", is ready to be harvested in two months.

Yuzhang County Shou reported to Qin Shi Huang, although Yuzhang has the benefit of mulberry hemp, but the number is still small. In addition to grains, the main crop is sugar cane, which has been passed down from Namgun.

Because Yuzhang is humid and hot, in spring and summer, the sugarcane fields do not even need to be irrigated, and in autumn and winter, they need to take care of one or two, so the locals are busy with rice before the autumn harvest and cane fields after the autumn harvest.

"Since the official camp of the sugar mill and the sugar monopoly, the price of sugar has risen, almost every household will plant some sugarcane, and the government will take it away before the lunar month, and before the spring ploughing and farming, it will hire people to squeeze the juice, and the people can also get some money to pay the ......."

Yuzhang County Lieutenant Yin Tong is a person with a great desire to perform, and immediately replenishes the county guard.

Sugar monopoly, this is a new policy introduced by Shaofu last year. After nearly a decade of grass-roots development, the sugar industry has become a major trade in profit, second only to grain, salt, iron, and wine.

At a time when the imperial court was in financial difficulties, in order to prepare for the money for this inspection, in order to maintain the huge expenses of the Great Wall, Lishan, and Zhangye Tuobian, Qin Shi Huang agreed to the Shaofu to implement a sugar monopoly - to bring the sugar workshops in the south into the government's banner, and to purchase sugarcane from the common people, squeeze sugar and sell it, so as to enjoy the benefits of monopoly!

However, in the process of implementation, there are also differences, and the sugar mills of the Chu nobles in Huiji, Jiujiang, and Donghai County are simply and rudely forcibly confiscated.

However, the sugar mills in Nanjun, Yuzhang, and Bashu were either purchased by local finance, or the owners of the sugar mills were allowed to turn into small officials and continue to operate, but they only changed from making money for themselves to making money for the government.

This is the rising sugar industry in the south, and at present, Li Xin has destroyed the Yue clan, controlled Hexi, set up Zhangye County, and Wusun and Loulan have expressed their willingness to surrender. After the unremitting efforts of the Wu family, the road to the states of the Western Regions has also been opened, although the Western Queen Mother State has not been found, but after killing the Yue family, the middleman, this year, the silk and sugar of the Central Plains are directly sold to the Western Regions, and huge profits have been obtained.

Although ordinary people in China can't afford to eat sugar, the demand for sugar is getting bigger and bigger.

Huge profits, which is also the driving force for the imperial court to implement the resale of sugar......

In addition, the sugarcane fields are not difficult to take care of, and the harvesting and squeezing of sugar are in winter, which does not affect farming, so Shaofu is eager to plant sugarcane like planting mulberry hemp.

One of the reasons why Qin Shi Huang went south to Nanchang in Yuzhang this time was also to see this new "militaristic benefit", as well as the big plan that he had always planned but did not implement.

For Qin Shi Huang, although there was a priority, the plan would never be canceled......

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When they arrived in Nanchang City, the small sugarcane fields of self-employed households adjacent to Qianmo gradually disappeared, and they were replaced by continuous large sugarcane fields. These sugarcane fields are either the fields of large military landowners, such as the Heifu family, the "pioneer of opening Jiangxi", or the public fields of the official camp.

The emperor also asked how big the Heifu family's field was, and when he heard that it was not out of specification, he smiled.

I heard that in addition to Heifu, his old subordinates Gongao, Lixian, Dongmen Leopard and others all have military fields near Nanchang, and most of them are planted with sugarcane.

The people who work in the fields are no longer the common people of Qianshou, but the "Yue slaves" who are naked and tanned by the sun.

"These more slaves, most of them are Yangyue people."

The county guard and the county lieutenant of Yuzhang pointed to the slaves who were cut off their big toes and worked in the sugar cane fields: "Yuzhang has Yangyue and Ganyue, and Ganyue has been attached to His Majesty, and Yugan County has been set up to govern it, but the Yangyue tribes are scattered in the mountains and forests, disobey the king's law, and often gather to rob pedestrians, so the counties will go into the mountains every year to encircle and suppress, and the Yangyue people who are captured will be used as slaves and maids to take care of the sugar cane fields."

The use of Yue Nu is very popular in Yuzhang, one of the reasons is that Yue Nu is easier to use than Xia Nu......

You must know that in the Qin Dynasty, although slaves and maids were at the bottom of society, they were also protected by law. It's okay to work, but the master can't kill without authorization, otherwise he will be held accountable, and Zhutian's rebellion is an excuse to let the government help "kill" his fugitive slaves.

The same is true for public slaves, and if the slave is whipped too severely, the officials who attack them will be held accountable.

This is not humanitarianism, it's just that labor is expensive, just like borrowing a ploughing ox to whip too hard, causing the ox to be injured and thin, and the government wants to ask you......

But this is limited to "Xia Nu", that is, the slaves of Qin and the Six Kingdoms, and the alien slaves who cannot understand the language, but it is a blank in the law, and they are not even included in the subordination, and they can be squeezed at will, without restrictions!

They became the cheapest laborers!

Because of these two reasons, but all the areas where cane and sugar are squeezed, slaves have become popular, Yuzhang and Changsha use Yue slaves, and Ba Shi of Bashu uses slaves, because of this reason, Ba Shi Li mainly repairs the five-foot road, through the southwest Yi, the emperor has agreed. It is said that the month before, the envoy of Shu County had already trekked through mountains and rivers and arrived in the "Dian Kingdom" and asked him to enter the court and submit to him......

It was Ba Shi who made a good start by buying slaves from the southwest, and the southern counties also realized that slaves had even become commodities. Nanjun, who also cultivated a large number of sugarcane fields, began to buy slaves from Yuzhang and Changsha. In addition to arresting the local Yangyue people, Yuzhang and Changsha also began to try to buy slaves from Nanyue and Xiou further south, and a slave chain gradually took shape in the south, but the number has not been able to rise.

Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, there will be a slave trade, in the final analysis, or a shortage of labor, this is also the hardship that Yuzhang county guards and county lieutenants want to tell the emperor: it's not that they don't want to increase their income for Shaofu, but the big hole of insufficient labor can't be filled at all!

After listening to the complaint, Prime Minister Li Si frowned and said: "Didn't Your Majesty have ordered that when the chaos is going on, three thousand women will be selected from the traitor's family and sent a Yu Zhang?" ”

In addition, there are several Tian nobles, and the whole family has moved to Yuzhang.

Yuzhang County Guard and County Lieutenant said at the same time: "Even so, it's still a drop in the bucket!" ”

That's right, the marriage of 3,000 sinners with garrisons and immigrants can indeed increase the population, but it will be more than ten years before newborns come in handy. But now, Yuzhang urgently needs a lot of labor to meet the expanding sugar industry!

"Prime Minister, as the saying goes, distant water can't save the thirst of the near, why should we give up the near and seek the far?"

Seeing that the time was almost up, Yin Tong also came forward and proposed to Qin Shi Huang what he had been planning for a long time.

"The minister dared to say to Your Majesty, there are Nanyue and Xiou in the south of Yuzhang, and Dongou and Minyue in the east. Baiyue is not satisfied with the king, the name is Jun, but he is actually the king, and he gathers all the people. The Yue tribes fight, often cross the border, harass Yuzhang and Changsha, and many old Chu rebels go to take refuge, instigating Baiyue to be enemies of the Son of Heaven! ”

"The land of Baiyue is vast for thousands of miles, there are many tribes, and its people are millions! If you can send a large army to conquer it, the other generations will be separated, and they will be destroyed, and you will be subdued! And its place, then the south of Qin ends in the north! The benefits of rhino horn, ivory, jade, and pearl can enter the Central Plains. If you plunder its mouth, Yuzhang, Changsha, Nanjun, and Huiji cane fields can also have more than 100,000 slaves, and their profits will increase tenfold! ”

Yin Tongchang bowed to the chief: "This has a hundred benefits and no harm, so the minister dares to ask Your Majesty to send troops to recruit Baiyue!" ”

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