"Thanks to your clever plan, Zhutian is finished."

A few days later, in the Yeyi County Pavilion, Heifu asked Chen Ping not to be polite, the two sat opposite each other, he personally poured wine for Chen Ping, and said:

"Your Majesty was in the Weishui Salt Farm, and I heard that the Yeyi Tian clan was the biggest private salt leader in Jiaodong, and all the fields were inseparable, so I was quite angry. After coming to Yeyi, I saw everything you had arranged, and I felt that it was very necessary to uproot the local powerful clans......"

Chen Ping hurriedly said: "After all, it is the policy of the county to govern the night is effective, and Ping can add a little strength, I don't know what happened today, can Your Majesty still be satisfied?" “

Heifu smiled: "Your Majesty is happy, and you are good again and again!" ”

It turned out that Heifu had already assigned good work to his subordinates, and he led the way to the emperor, while his henchman Chen Ping was engaged in image projects in Yeyi......

Half a year ago, after the Yeyi Tian clan was expelled, 100,000 mu of land was allocated to Luzuo and hired farmers for cultivation. Those people were used to being poor, and they were immediately grateful to Dade for having received such a favor. But on the other hand, they were scolded as "Qi traitors" by the Qi people who liked the Tiandan family. At first, I was nervous, but then I found that I had the support of the government and the garrison, so I straightened up and turned over to be the master!

Thousands of families were kidnapped by Heifu in this way, and these beneficiaries became the people who supported Qin Zheng the most, and in order to keep the fifty acres of land, the government did whatever they wanted.

Yesterday, when Qin Shi Huang's car arrived in Yeyi, thousands of households were also mobilized by Chen Ping, men, women and children were on both sides of the road to watch, kneeling to worship the emperor's car, this is it, when the emperor passed by, everyone also shouted the slogan that only later generations had......

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!"

The sound shook the sky, and the whole city was shocked, and even the closed curtain on the emperor's carriage couldn't help but open a gap.

In the eyes of the Jiaodong Lu leftists, chanting "Long live" is not specifically for the emperor. Just like a hundred years ago, Meng Weijun's protégé Feng Tan burned the bonds of the locals in Xuecheng, so "the people called long live", but they had a happy thing, that is, they cheered like this, and that's it!

The emperor asked the county government to give them land, isn't it everyone's benefactor, the government let them shout, then shout!

Can be heard in the ears of Qin Shi Huang, this kind of three shouts long live, but it is particularly pleasant to hear, open the curtain, see the enthusiasm of the people of Yeyi, suddenly long-faced joy, said:

"As Heifu said, the heads of the night and the Qiantou are all wishing me long live! This is the real auspiciousness! ”

As soon as he was happy, Qin Shi Huang let this group of Lu Zuo be rent-free for another year on the basis of the previous one.

With the cooperation of so many extras, Chen Pinglai's image project is indeed not bad, so what Qin Shi Huang saw in Yeyi was all the benefits to the government after the uprooting of Haoqiang.

"I took the opportunity to say to Your Majesty that Tian Chang has many sons and grandchildren, so there are more than ten cities in Jiaodong, and there are fields in every county. Tian Qi, these clans far away to control the benefits of the lakes and mountains and seas, rich rival the country, now although the government is taken back, but especially unwilling, private salt boiling, logging, fishing and hunting countless, this is the benefit of stealing the country. ”

Chen Ping clapped his hands and praised: "There is a saying in the canglu that if more than three rat holes are found in the granary, the relevant officials will be punished, because the grain of the government cannot allow rats to steal food." In the eyes of His Majesty, the benefits of the lakes and mountains and seas are like the grain in the warehouse, and the person who sells illicit salt is the rat in the warehouse! How can you be more merciful to them? ”

He was right, Qin Luli's punishment for frying and selling illicit salt was extremely heavy, and once it was discovered, he would "cut off his left toe" and cut off the prisoner's left thumb, but unfortunately the profits were too high, so he was repeatedly banned.

However, not all of them can have anything to do with private salt, such as the Jisumida clan, they are very cautious, and it is difficult for Heifu to find their handle.

"If you want to add sin, why not? Your Majesty doesn't have to find a reason to rule Zhutian, just the fact that they are the Qi clan of Tian is enough......"

Heifu is very flexible, he has long found a good charge for Zhutian: blocking the way of recommendation, deceiving superiors and subordinates, instigating Confucian scholars and ordinary people to confront the government, and even colluding with overseas anti-Qin forces to fund and deliver news to anti-thieves. Some heroes, such as the Sumida clan, also borrow money from the people, and the city is favored by the head of Qian, with ill intentions!

Heifu's suggestion is very simple, take advantage of the power of the Eastern Tour, uproot Zhutian, and move to Guanzhong for resettlement!

He raised his wine and said with a smile: "This is a quick way to cut through the mess!" ”

Zhutian is intertwined, if you want to rotate with one of them, it is really difficult to sort out, Heifu only killed the Yeyi Tian clan headed by him, deterred Zhutian, and then forbeared, to prevent them from jumping off the wall in a hurry.

Stay until the emperor makes his eastern tour, and then drive them all away!

Heifu's plan was that when the emperor left Jiaodong, there would be no more fields in Jiaodong, and the vacated land could continue to recruit Lu Zuo and hire farmers to farm.

At that time, his real plan to govern the county can be officially launched......

"The policy of the county guard, Ping Shen thinks so."

Chen Ping said: "To govern the rich and noble, we should be fierce, but to govern the people, we should be slow and soft." ”

When he said this, he stopped talking.

Hefu sensed the thoughts of his chief strategist: "What have you heard? ”

Chen Ping replied: "The subordinates heard that during the secret time, the county monarch and the brother-in-law (Zhang Cang) presented a new method of drying salt to His Majesty, but the brother-in-law strongly advocated the imposition of heavy taxes on the official salt to compensate for the deficit of the Shaofu. ”

Heifu knew that Chen Ping seemed to have a different opinion on this, and he had always encouraged his subordinates to express their opinions, so he smiled and said:

"There are no outsiders here, and what you say will not reach Zhang Cang's ears, what do you think, just say it!"

"Yui."

Chen Ping made a gesture and began to explain his opinion: "Ping, who came from a humble background, knows that it is not easy to eat salt in Qianshou. ”

He calculated for Hefu: "A family of five eats at least 15 liters of salt a month, which is one and a half buckets." There are 6 million households in the world, and more than 30 million mouths, so they need millions of stone of salt, but as far as I know, Haihai, Bashu, Saiwai, and Hedong, the salt output of the whole world is only 670,000 stones. ”

There is still a shortage of 300,000 stones of salt in the world, which means that many people in this world do not have enough salt, or even can't eat salt at all......

This is still average, in fact, like wealth, there is a lot of salt, concentrated in the hands of a few. The aristocratic Haoqiang's house salted countless meats, ham and salted fish, but the poor were worried that they could not eat salt and did not have the strength to work.

"Especially in the Central Plains, whether it is Hedong salt or Yanqi sea salt, when sold to Liangdi, it is as expensive as molasses."

Speaking of this, Chen Ping has relatives, although their family is poor, but it is not the most bitter, in Yangwu County, some people can't afford to buy official salt, and they can't afford private salt, what should I do? In a hurry, I can only use the soil of the walls of the pigsty and dry toilet to boil salt.

They went to dig up the soil of the wall, broke the soil, soaked it in water, and after a few days, filtered out the brine with a cloth and put it in a pot to boil, and when the water was dry, all that was left in the pot was nitrate.

This kind of nitrate tastes a little bitter and astringent, and it will be poisoned if you eat too much, but it can save the emergency. In the long run, some learning has also been developed at the bottom: the salt produced by combining the salty with the sour or bitter soil is of better quality than the salt boiled with only one flavor......

Just listening to it makes me feel sad, Chen Ping is still relatively restrained, and he didn't talk about the more disgusting "urine salt" and "fecal salt".

These soil salts can only cope with a while, and after eating, they will have to eat salt for seven or eight days, or even a month, so Lu Zuo is not old, but his hair has turned gray, his limbs are weak, his body is swollen, and all kinds of strange diseases have followed.

Now Jiaodong has a salt drying method, so that the salt output increases, the cost is reduced, in Chen Ping's view, this is a good opportunity to let the price of salt fall, so that more people can afford to eat salt.

But with Zhang Cang's "take from the invisible" policy, no matter how much salt is produced, the government may not reduce the monopoly salt price by a penny!

Every time Chen Ping said a word, Heifu's face became solemn, Nanjun is relatively lucky, located in the lower reaches of Bashu, and the Yangtze River continuously transports Bashu well salt to Anlu. Even if the poor can't afford it, they can rely on the flesh and blood of aquatic animals in Yunmengzeli to supplement salt, so salt deficiency disease is not common.

However, in the Central Plains, where there are many people and little land, this situation is indeed very serious.

After Chen Ping finished speaking, he said to Heifu: "The subordinates have heard that the salt pond in the east of the river has been mined as early as the time of Yu Shun, and the local people sing about it, and the south wind can relieve the sorrow of our people." When the south wind blows, you can ...... the wealth of our people."

"The subordinates hope that the county monarch can do this 'south wind', which can not only enrich the wealth of the country, but also relieve the people's sorrow!"

Chen Ping has his own ideals, hoping that if he can slaughter the world one day, he will slaughter meat evenly to the people according to everyone's status and needs, just like the meat distribution in the Lizhong Society, but even the poorest people can get a small piece.

He was still far from that position, so he pinned this ideal on the Heifu he served.

But after finishing speaking, he was a little frightened, and he was in his position to seek his own government, and what Chen Ping said today was a little out of bounds, and he hurriedly pleaded guilty with sincere fear.

"Get up, get up."

Instead of being annoyed, Heifu felt relieved.

This is the other side of Chen Ping, although he likes to conspire and trick, and he is ruthless in helping Heifu deal with the enemy, but in governing the county, he has always been biased towards Huang Lao's "rule by inaction".

"I'm also Huang Laoye, Chen Ping, your mantra is indeed not just talking. Very good, if you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world, this is the ambition that scholars should have! ”

He helped Chen Ping up and sighed: "It's just that you and I were both leaders in the past, you haven't forgotten your origin, why haven't I forgotten?" ”

Heifu's original intention of letting people study the salt drying method by the sea was not to curry favor with Qin Shi Huang, nor did he simply want to increase the income of the imperial court, but to make everyone in the world, whether rich or poor, eat salt, just like Chen Ping hoped he would do!

This is probably the minimum standard, it is called "poverty alleviation", and after that, it is the ideal state of the 70 people who eat meat and eat meat, and the people of Li are not hungry or cold, which can be called "well-off".

But now, half of the people in the world can't even meet the minimum standard of survival.

But there is no way, before helping the world, you must first save the world.

Heifu said: "Now it's just a place in Jiaodong to dry salt, and it's still a drop in the bucket, but when the method of drying salt spreads to the East China Sea, Huiji, and even Lingnan Yuedi, sooner or later I will make everyone in the world able to eat salt!" However, the most fatal thing now is that the imperial court spends more than it enters the time, and constantly collects oral taxes. “

Heifu also discussed with Zhang Cang, and they agreed that if this continues, something big will definitely happen, and now they can only use salt taxes and gold mines to fill the gap and make this evil government temporarily rest!

Chen Ping bowed, he was a pragmatic person, and he also recognized Heifu's reasons, but he had a heartfelt sentence that happened to be said today.

"Junjun, the levy is to quench your thirst by drinking a donkey, and a heavy tax is imposed on salt, so why not?"

Heifu turned his head sharply and looked at Chen Ping: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Whether it is in Nanjun, Beidi or Jiaodong, what Junjun has done over the years, whether it is the method of composting and manure, but also saying that the water spinning wheel, wool spinning, salt drying, and gold mines are all open source things. It's just that this Great Qin's maladministration is not something that can be solved by open source......"

Chen Ping raised his head and said to Heifu: "Today, Ping has the courage to say that Daqin is now like a big car overtaking on the trail, full of age and bumps. At this time, the most important thing to do is not to reinforce the wheels and axles, but to stop and let the tens of millions of people who are pulling the cart take a breath! ”