At this time, Yang Er, who was in the camp of Jiechi Town, was staring at the map in front of him, thinking about it non-stop. During this time, Yang Er sent a large number of reconnaissance servants to the surrounding areas to check the terrain and roads, especially the terrain and mountains facing the Yellow River in the south. Now the map not only includes Pinglu County on the north bank of the Yellow River, but also Sanmenxia County in Shaanzhou on the opposite bank. Between Jiechi Town and Pinglu, there is an unexpected Zhongtiao Mountain. In order to realize the transportation of salt to Luoyang in the Central Plains, it is necessary to open up the salt road of Zhongtiao Mountain, otherwise there is only a detour to Tongguan, which is really too far. Open up Zhongtiao Mountain, the road to the Central Plains, shorten it by nearly 1,000 miles! Yang Er nodded the folding fan in his hand heavily at the position of Zhongtiao Mountain, as if he had made up his mind. So he called the guard at the door and asked him to go find Pei Yun. He paced slowly in the big tent, and a well-thought idea was now to talk to Pei Yun.

Pei Yun hurriedly stepped into the big tent and saluted Yang Er. Yang Er asked him to come to the case, pointed to the topographic map and said to Pei Yun: "Mr. Pei, you see, I want to form a salt caravan to Pinglu County, and use this place as a transit station to transport salt to Luoyang for sale. In the future, a salt warehouse or grain warehouse will be established in Luoyang as the center, and then salt and grain will be transferred to the surrounding states. It can also be used as a logistics support base for the future conquest of Nanchen to unify the whole country. As he spoke, he looked up at Pei Yun. Pei Yun looked at the map and nodded incessantly. If a large grain and salt storage warehouse is built, then no matter where there is a shortage of grain and salt, it can be transported from the large warehouse to support, which is a long-term move.

"But here it is." Yang Er pointed to the words Zhongtiao Mountain. "This mountain lies between my Jiechi and Pinglu, at least now the salt road is impassable!" Yang Erqin sighed.

"Your Highness's intention is to 。。。。。"

"Yes, this king wants to recruit the people to open a salt road in the mountains, and this salt road needs to be able to run four horses in parallel. This road is not only a salt road, but also a grain road, and it is a trade road that opens up the west of Taihang Mountain and the north and south. With this passage in the future, the materials of the Central Plains can go directly to Luzhou and go north to Jinyang, which will also have endless benefits for my future expedition to the Northern Turks. Yang Er said and stood up. I thought to myself, the ancients did not work the construction of this road, resulting in a narrow vision, and they saw an acre and a third of land in front of them.

"Your Highness, this is a great project for the benefit of the country and the people! This Zhongtiao Mountain is nearly 150 miles from north to south, during which there are many ravines and rivers in the mountains, and it is not easy to open this road! Pei Yun was shocked by Yang Er's words, and couldn't help but remind. This Pei Yun's ancestral home is Wenxi County, Hedong, north of Luzhou, and he still knows a little about the surrounding mountains. For example, the Taihang Wangwu in the east, the Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, etc., the trade route from Wenxi County to the Central Plains in the south is from the Taihang Mountain to the Jizhou Plain and then turns south, which is more than nearly two months' journey. Either go west to Tongguan first, and then go south, but also have to detour for one and a half months to reach Luoyang, Zhongzhou, south of the Yellow River, no matter what, it is very difficult. If you directly open up Zhongtiao Mountain, you can go straight to Luoyang. In fact, the whole Shanxi is more integrated with the Central Plains.

"I have made up my mind, I have my own letter to petition my father and the emperor from the Jingshi, and send Chang'an road builders to recruit people here. The Imperial Court Shangshu Province will also allocate funds for road construction for this purpose. Mr. Pei can then dispatch manpower to find local guides and recruit local people. When the money arrives in Chang'an, you can start work. Yang Er said to Pei Yun.

Pei Yun nodded and said: "Xiaguan will act according to His Highness's wishes, appoint a special person to be responsible for the construction of the road, and Xiaguan will also personally go to the mountains to explore the best path, which is for preliminary preparation, Your Highness don't worry!" Pei Yun felt that what he had learned under the hands of this King of Jin could come in handy, and once this road was opened, he would also make a contribution for eternity! At this time, Pei Yun looked excited, and was about to turn around and leave the account.

"Wait!" Yang Er suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called Pei Yun, who wanted to go out.

"What else does Your Highness command?" Pei Yun turned his head to look at Yang Er.

"Please Mr. Pei choose a person who is good at speaking, go to Jizhou Lincheng quickly, be sure to invite Lincheng Li Chun here, then Li Chun is very good at building bridges and roads. If he builds a bridge, the bridge will not be destroyed for a thousand years. Yang Er thought of the ancient master who built the bridge at this time, the Zhaozhou Bridge he built with his hands really existed for thousands of years, and it can still be used normally, it is a miraculous existence! It's a shame not to have it at this point.

"The lower official will arrange it, and he will definitely invite this Li Chun to His Royal Highness's account." Pei Yun turned around and went out of the account, he had to hurry up to arrange the right manpower, and the matter of the salt field was handed over to Liu Xuan to take care of, so that he could breathe a sigh of relief, and now there were more things.

Pei Yun was looking down and thinking, but three people came up to him, and the leader was his uncle Pei Shiju. Pei Yun was about to step forward to answer, but Pei Shiju spoke to him first: "The main book is just right here, follow me into the account to see His Highness, and I am looking for you." After speaking, he didn't care about Pei Yun, and he was going to lift the curtain and enter the account. Pei Yun had to follow closely at this moment to enter the account again to listen to the discussion. He is the master of the march, and everything is related to his duties.

"I heard Pei Gong's voice from afar, can I gain anything from going to Jicheng County this time?" Hearing Pei Shiju's voice, Yang Er had already gotten up and walked towards the account door, facing Pei Shiju's account. Yang Er asked with a smile, and at the same time saw the two people behind him, and he already had a bottom in his heart.

Pei Shiju smiled lightly and arched his hand: "Your Highness Chitose, the old minister has not failed in his mission, and has invited the head of the Zheng family, who has been a businessman for generations, and his son to His Highness." After Pei Shiju finished speaking, he turned around and introduced the two people behind him to Yang Er: "Your Highness, this is Zheng Fengchi, the head of the Zheng family, and his son Zheng Xu, who have come forward to see King Chitose of Jin. ”

"Xiaomin greets King Chitose of Jin." The two of them hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down and said.

"Hurry up, please get up, there is the head of the Lao Zheng family to run this trip. Thinking of the meaning of this king, Pei Gong has already informed the head of the family and Zheng Gongzi that this king does not know if he is willing to help me at the beginning of his business. Yang Er was polite, which was regarded as giving the Zheng family father and son a big face.

"Lord Wang, I was a businessman in the Zheng family's era, and there were also children who were famous for their fame, but they were often unwilling due to their birth. Today, the prince looks down on us with his eyes, and does not regard my Zheng family's merchant birth as a cheap, and my Zheng family in Hedong is willing to donate his wealth to repay the prince's kindness. The father and son of the Zheng family said goodbye.

Yang Er hurriedly helped Zheng Fengchi up with his own hands, and said with the situation: "Come on, come on, sit down and talk." With a wave of his hand, he motioned for Er Pei to also sit down on the side. The guards outside the account hurriedly brought the tea.

"Gong Zheng, if you are willing to help me, I will make Gong Zheng a farewell driver for my Jin Palace, so that the son Zheng Xu is young, and he will work in my house first, and he will be controlled by my chief bookkeeper Pei Yun." Speaking of this, Pei Yun got up and saluted Er Zheng.

"Gong Zheng, this king knows that you have been a businessman for many years, so can you go to Luoyang, Zhongzhou?" Yang Er beckoned everyone to drink tea, and at the same time asked very casually.

"Tell the prince that there are two official routes from the land east of the river to the south, which are to go out of Taihang in the east and enter Jizhou in the south. The first is to go out of Tongguan and go to Luoyang. These two official roads are difficult and dangerous, and they are very long-term. I don't care about other merchants, my Zheng family caravan crosses the Zhongtiao Mountain Trail every time and goes straight to Zhongzhou. Although the road is difficult and dangerous, it can save more than a month, and time is also a cost! For businessmen have to count. Zheng Fengchi put down the tea bowl and replied.

"Oh? Then there is already a trade road in the middle of the mountain? Yang Er and Pei Yun were not shocked at this time. If there is a business, it is God help me! All I have to do is simply broaden it, and it is much easier to straighten it. Yang Er and Pei Yun looked at each other and smiled.

"Yes, there are, but there are many merchants who do not want to walk, and the road is quite desolate and narrow. In particular, there are many sharp rocks on the road in the mountain, which is very easy to hurt the horse's hooves, which is quite damaging to the horsepower, and there are many cliffs and cliffs on both sides of the road. Every time my Zheng family caravan enters and exits this road, it is personally led by three generations of old servants in the family. The other end of the mountain is Pinglu County, and my Zheng family has a special post house for repair, and each time it must be repaired for three days before crossing the river to the land of Zhongzhou. Although it saved a lot of time, it was extremely difficult. Zheng Fengchi said slowly.

"Next to the mountain road, my Zheng family also has several post stations, which are specially used for my Zheng family's caravan to rest. It is okay to say that it is my Zheng family's business. Zheng Xu added.

After Yang Er listened to the words of the Zheng family's father and son, he stood up and paced back and forth a few steps after the case, and said with a straight face: "Zheng Gong is here to help me, but he can be in charge of the business of my mansion, and I will sell the refined salt produced here to the whole country." The Zheng family's business in this mountain will be used by me. ”

As soon as these words came out, the father and son of the Zheng family hurriedly got up and saluted, and said: "I, the Zheng family, am willing to be driven by His Royal Highness the King of Jin, and I will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire!" ”

"Good!" Yang Er was very excited at this time, "Master Pei, you can send someone to survey the business road with the old servants of the Zheng family, and the bridge repair, the building of the museum, the digging of the hole, and the whether the plank road can pass through the brigade must be drawn a mountain map, which is clear." ”

"Don't worry, the lord is very important, and the officials should handle it in person." Pei Yun got up and said loudly.

Subsequently, Yang Er made some inquiries about the Zheng family's other state capitals' business routes, shops, grain, raw silk and other businesses, and the Zheng family's father and son answered them one by one. Yang Er has a further understanding of the Zheng family's business channels and strength, as Lao Pei Tou said, the Zheng family can make business so big in this era that it can be regarded as the richest man in the Great Sui. Yang Er was very satisfied with the Zheng family's refuge. The transformation of business as the best is really glorious for the Zheng family, and the descendants of the family can be used as officials to shine on the lintel, and ten thousand gold can be exchanged, which is the value of this era.

At this time, under the management of Liu Xuan, a model worker, the salt of the salt farm has reached 100,000 catties, fortunately, the rainy season has not yet arrived, but it is fast, at most there is another month, and the salt stored in the nest must be sold to all parts of the country as soon as possible. The Zheng family's channels will fully cooperate, greatly alleviating the pressure of salt hoarding, and the salt field will also be ready to welcome the arrival of the rainy season.

I don't know how things are going in the DPRK and China.

After dealing with the fine white salt sales channels and professional managers produced in the salt farm, Yang Eryan looked at the direction of Chang'an and thought about it. In this era, poor information communication is really the most unaccustomed place, and it is necessary to establish your own information team. This world is not just a little on the side of Jingshi, what happens in Hebei, Shandong, Chen Dynasty, Turkic, Western Regions and so on, and they are blind to themselves, and they don't know anything. If you can still hear some from the court in Beijing, you don't know anything now! It seems that it is very necessary to build such a wide range of information and intelligence networks, even if some information has been delivered a month or even two months ago, but at least I know what is happening in that distant land. As for immediacy, let's not think about it for now. I've got to find someone to do it full-time, who's going to do it? It stands to reason that Xu Maogong is full of wisdom and scheming and can be regarded as a talent for intelligence work, but this person is a Taoist priest, who travels all over the world all day long, and the rivers and lakes are too heavy, so he can be a military advisor before the battle, and it is not suitable to do this behind-the-scenes intelligence work. The son of the old lady Fu Yu Wenshu Yu Wenhua is a very ideal candidate, but it is extremely treacherous, and it is difficult to control it if it is bigger, in the original history, he was finally the gravedigger of the Great Sui Dynasty, and Yang Er felt a chill in the back of his head when he thought of this. This person can be an important courtier to balance the forces of all parties in the court, and the power cannot be heavy, that's all! Since the character is too poor and the Yu culture can't be used, then who is suitable? Yang Er was outside the account blowing the lake breeze of Jiechi, walking slowly, thinking as he walked. The guards behind him were 20 paces away, and they followed slowly, not daring to disturb.

Liu Wenjing? A name popped up. This person voted for Li Yuan when the Tang Dynasty was first established, and he should be less than 30 years old at this time, just the right age, and was regarded as the first strategist in the early Tang Dynasty. This person is available!

Yang Er thought of this person, weighed it, and felt that this person was the best person to be in charge of the Military Intelligence Department of his Jin Palace. So, he hurriedly returned to the big tent, and the great Sima Taifu Yuwen Shu of the desk writer asked him to immediately find Liu Wenjing and his person, which was roughly in Wugong County west of the Jingshi. There is the mansion of the Liu family, who has moved here from the south for several generations due to the war of the previous dynasty. If as expected, Liu Wenjing should be a county order at this time, and he has not yet made a mark. The letter was detailed along with the construction of the Zhongtiao Mountain Trade Road, and by the way, together with a letter to his father and mother, he sent his own guards to Jingshi without mentioning it.