In June of the 34th year of Qin Shi Huang, when the army of the Southern Expedition was sick and rushed to the hospital, and wanted to burn the forests of Baiyue to white ground, in Jiaodong, thousands of miles away, Heifu also planned to light a fire, but it was the fire of desire in people's hearts......

The southwest monsoon was blowing strongly, and the port of Yantai was particularly busy, and with the establishment of the Haidong Trading Company, trade with Haidong was in full swing. The merchants of Jiaodong tasted the sweetness of the difference in the price of mink between the two places, and tirelessly transported the extravagance of Jiaodong to meet the needs of the Korean nobles, inducing them to oppress the people, so that the people went into the mountains to hunt mink day and night, and complained that the utopian trade war in "Pipe" was realized here......

The Korean aristocracy liked silk lacquerware, which was more backward than North Korea, and Donghao and Samhan, who did not know the beauty of these luxury goods, preferred another thing......

Having learned the lesson of last year's army going south, but the field was empty, Heifu's advice to Fusu was not to rush to send troops.

"The remnants of Canghai Jun have entered the area between Ma Han and Donghao, and have been avoiding the Qin army. Our army lives in Haidong, and such a powerful armed force intruding into the territory of Mahan and Donghao will make it frightened and vigilant, and if it is not good, it will be used by Canghaijun to gather Mahan and Donghao to obstruct the Qin army. Once they are at war and feuding, the thousands of people who go deep into the lone army will fall into the quagmire, and the king of Canghai will move to another place with his outlaws. ”

The purpose should be clear, the Qin army did not come for conquest, but only to destroy the Canghai Jun and complete the task of Qin Shi Huang.

Different from the idea of the Southern Expeditionary Army's comprehensive enemy, Heifu believes that the most important thing in foreign warfare is to make allies and let them use them for their own use, whether it is Ma Han or Donghao, they can be fought for.

Therefore, after the beginning of spring, in addition to building the "Han City" as a permanent stronghold, the Qin army sent envoys to merchants to "make friends" with the various departments.

A few months have passed, and the news from Haidong has shown that the results are good: on the orders of the government, the merchants under Daojian and Guan Tong began to explore the Mahan region, and the Mahan people have a total of 54 tribes, distributed within hundreds of miles, with tens of thousands of large people and hundreds of small ones.

In these tribes, there are still many dogs named after them, such as dog Lu, dog su, and dog Xi......

Whether it was a cat or a dog, the seamless merchants, under the leadership of the dozens of shipwrecked men who had strayed into Mahan, basically traveled all the tribes that could be reached, and sent gifts from the princes of Daqin to the commanders of Mahan: silk, lacquerware, knives, and brown sugar.

The marshal of Mahan had no interest in wearing silk silk that was light and fluttering and could not keep warm, and although the lacquerware was full of bells and whistles, its function was no different from that of a rough pottery bowl.

On the contrary, it is the sharp knife cutting, as well as the sweet brown sugar after the entrance, which makes the eyes of the Mahan people shine!

The knife is easy to understand, it is a necessary tool for tribal life, as for sugar, in fact, as long as it is human, there are few people who are not sweet.

Human beings have long been addicted to sweetness, and the principle of addiction is a bitter child's story: when humans were apes, there was a serious lack of calories, and sweets are rich in calories, and the sweeter they are, the higher their energy, so when they see sweets, humans will instinctively eat and supplement.

This primitive memory is written into the genes, and it becomes an instinct like eating, sleeping, and popping.

Hef's explanation for this is: "Men and women eat and drink, and the great desires of people are not exceptional. ”

The excitatory area of the brain when eating sugar is very similar to that when taking drugs, but the degree is different, he had heard a movie line in his previous life:

"Sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine and five times more likely to die."

Although I don't know if this data is nonsense or true, the Mahan people, especially the handsome wife and daughter, do love this kind of honey very much. After eating the little bit that was given for free, he was still unsatisfied, and when the merchant came again next month, he said that he wanted to eat again.

This time it can't be given away in vain, the merchants deliberately said that brown sugar is a rare treasure, an extremely precious thing, and the Mahan people must exchange it for mink and raccoon skin.

After coming and going, the trade relations between the Haidong Trading Company and the Malaysian and Korean tribes, but unfortunately, the mink and raccoon skins are also rare in Malaysia and Korea, and after two or three trades, the inventory of the past ten years has been replaced. In the area south of the Han River, there are few of these animals, and they can't catch too many for a while, and other things in the tribe are not interested in Jiaodong merchants......

Just when the marshals of Ma and Han were in trouble, Shang Jia made a tempting suggestion:

Mahan is poor, and there aren't too many mink to catch in the area, so it's okay!

"You can exchange the heads of Canghai Jun's henchmen!"

Canghaijun has left the area of Seoul in later generations and moved to the upper reaches of Daishui (Han River), and after gaining a foothold in the local area, he frequently made friends with Mahan and Donghao. Describe the Qin people as invaders who kill people without blinking, and will enslave Samhan Donghao.

The Ma Han people were originally suspicious, but after Fusu established Hancheng, they did not rush to send troops, but instead sent merchants to pay a friendly visit to them, which was both a gift and a trade, dispelling the doubts of the tribes.

But now, after the two sides are acquainted, Ma Han will have to make a choice on both sides of Qin and Canghai.

This choice couldn't be easier!

"The Qin people can bring useful knives and delicious honey to the tribes, what can Canghai Jun give us?"

As a result, since May, there has been a case of a henchman sent by Canghai Jun to contact the various ministries and was intercepted and killed halfway. And their heads were immediately given to the merchants in exchange for a few catties of brown sugar and a few knives......

The head of Canghai Jun has become the only designated currency in the southern part of the peninsula, and looking back at this long-planned trade, it is really your honey and his arsenic!

"In this way, if it costs 10,000 catties of brown sugar, then Canghaijun's henchmen will be exhausted!"

Heifu heard Chen Pinglai reply that this sweet and evil plan had worked, and he was very satisfied, not every Mahan tribe was willing to do this kind of blood and sugar deal, but as long as one tribe did it, it would inevitably attract a counterattack from Canghai Jun. As soon as they exchanged troops and died, things would become more complicated, and it was only a matter of time before they sent merchant envoys to fan the flames, tie the Ma and Han tribes to the chariots of the Qin Dynasty, and attack Canghai Jun together.

"When the division comes out, it will no longer be the Qin army that will be attacked everywhere, but the Canghai Jun, and it must feel very bad to be surrounded on his own land."

Isn't Canghaijun able to run? But when he found out that the peninsula was full of tribes who wanted to exchange their heads for benefits, how could he run?

As a result, he said no, but Heifu still pulled Fusu again, and taught the young coach one thing:

"War can not only be better than the field, but also better than the court, better than the ...... of goods"

As long as it is for the sake of victory, any means will be spared!

Listening to Chen Ping, Fusu really appreciated Heifu's plan, and also commented:

"A soldier who surrenders without a fight, and a good man who is good! The prison army is worthy of being a good use of soldiers! ”

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On the other side of the sea, Haidong merchants are receiving a steady stream of heads, so Jiaodong must also send several boatloads of brown sugar every month to meet this exchange.

It is worth noting that this batch of brown sugar is no longer produced by Nanjun and Yuzhang, but from Donghai County, because the process is different, it is overcooked, the color is black, and the taste is a little bitter, so it is called "brown sugar".

Since the rise of the brown sugar industry in Anlu ten years ago, Heifu knew that this industry would be confiscated by the government sooner or later, so he couldn't help but let the sugarcane flow out, and even gave it to the Ba widow Qing family for free, so that this line of work gradually spread all over the country: eight years ago to Yuzhang, seven years ago to Bashu, six years ago to Jianghuai and Changsha, five years ago to Huiji......

Thanks to the blessing of the great unification, news and trade were unhindered, and seeing that it was profitable to sell sugar, most of the people who set up plantations and workshops in various places were the old nobles of Chu who occupied a lot of land.

A year and a half ago, the Shaofu finally couldn't hold back and bought all the brown sugar workshops as state-owned as a government-owned industry.

And at present, the family with the most sugar cane fields in Donghai County is Heifu's old acquaintance, Xiang's family, after all, Xiang is still the largest landlord in Donghai County after the fall of Chu State, in addition to the family base camp Xiaxiang County, in Huainan's Guangling, Tangyi and other places, there are many fiefs, according to Qin Shi Huang's policy of "making the head of Qiantou from the real field", these lands have not been confiscated by the government, with the wealth of the Xiang family, it is not a problem to raise thousands of soldiers.

However, since the rebellion of the Zhutian in Qidi, the central government of the Qin Dynasty has changed its policy and relocated all the remaining nobles in the Zhutian region in Qidi, and next, I am afraid it will be the turn of Chu......

It was only when Qin Shi Huang launched a southern expedition that the migration order was not issued immediately - it was to forcibly recruit the people, and to uproot the nobles and nobles, and to offend the nobles together, if so, Chu Di is estimated to rebel.

On the same day, Heifu ended his inspection in the port, and after returning to the mansion with Xiao He, he was discussing the income and expenditure of the treasury this year......

Xiao He is a smart person, he immediately understood, and immediately slapped his forehead, saying that a book had been left in the office, and he was going to pick it up for Heifu to see, so he took his leave.

After walking out of the hall, Xiao He looked back at the door of the hall that was slowly closing, all his thoughts.

Although Lao Xiao relied on his own ability, he was relied on by Heifu and promoted to Cangcao Peng, and began to give full play to his expertise and take charge of real power.

But he knows very well that Heifu's first confidant is still Chen Ping.

The more he knew, the more Xiao He found that most of Heifu's township party disciples all over the country were in charge of Chen Ping, and reported to Heifu through him, and he and Cao Shen didn't know anything about these things.

It is precisely because of the eyeliner placed everywhere that after entering Pei County, I directly found and recruited their "three masters", right? However, the strange thing is that Xiao He and Cao Shen are quite important, but Liu Ji is not very mixed, either as a pawn or as a flag soldier, and is not allowed to go home for several years.

A few days ago, Heifu seemed to have changed his mind again, and it happened that Jiaodong sent a thousand county soldiers to support Fusu, so he promoted Liu Ji to a hundred chiefs and sent him to serve on the Haidong front, saying that it was to give him a chance to make meritorious contributions.

In short, like everything else Heifu does, it's confusing.

Xiao He once again remembered that at this time last year, Chen Ping's hint was tempting, and he was even more convinced that this was what Heifu instructed Chen Ping to do!

"This lieutenant county guard is really righteous and strange, and his ambition is not small......"

Xiao He shook his head, although he was a little uneasy in his heart, but now that he had been on the boat for too long, it was difficult to go down.

"If the world is in turmoil, this big ship parked on the seashore may not be a good place to live."

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In the study where the servants were scattered, Chen Ping also arranged with the black man in Xiaxiang County, Donghai County, who was specially responsible for monitoring the Xiang family's doorman, and reported the unexpected situation to him.

"Junjun, Xiaxiang County, something big has happened!"