Cao Gan had a heavy responsibility, so he didn't have the heart to stay in Yingchun Building to drink and listen to music, and soon left.

There was also a thin figure sitting in the private room next door, and when he heard the sound of Cao Gan leaving, he opened his mouth and asked Feng Yi:

"If you really want to settle the trade between the two countries through the Qianjiang River according to this list in this peace conference, Xuzhou has suffered too much?"

"If you can't afford to lose, you can't take advantage," Feng Yi said, "The casting of armor and weapons that Da Chu will supervise has been restored to a considerable scale, and the shipyards in Yueyang, Jinling, and Jiangzhou will also be opened after the year, even under the auspices of Yang En, the warships, armor and weapons built are slightly worse than Xuzhou, but they have also gotten rid of their dependence on Xuzhou - only Yuzhou will buy and sell these iron products in large quantities from Xuzhou in the future, and at present, it can only be in this way to keep this piece first." ”

At that time, the common people had lower requirements for the quality of iron products, and were quite sensitive to price.

In addition, the art of iron casting has been popularized among the people since the previous dynasty, so the civil iron products of Xuzhou need to be operated and paved for a long time if they want to open up sales channels in the relatively backward world of communication means.

However, the sales channels for armor and combat weapons that have high requirements for iron tools and can also give high prices are limited and fixed.

Even if Emperor Yanyou and the princes of the imperial court have no suspicion of Xuzhou, and the armor and weapons are the sharp weapons of the country, the ministers of the court and the central government will also hope that the official institutions will directly control its smelting and casting, and will not rely on Fanzhou.

At present, Feng Yi rushed to Jinling to persuade Cao Gan to join the low-cost requisition of Xuzhou's armor and war weapons and other iron products at a low price when the two countries made peace, so as to first secure a market that could continue to ship and maintain production.

Only by continuous production can we continue to innovate the process in practice, and only then can we maintain the scale of craftsmen who carry out this kind of production.

The low-price requisition in Yuzhou, compared with the casting technology of the world, seems to be unprofitable, but the smelting and casting level of Xuzhou is comparable to other places in the world?

Qianyang cloth, marine canvas, etc., all the materials that can be produced on a large scale in Xuzhou, the cost has been declining.

According to the list, it seems that Xuzhou has suffered a big loss, but in fact, it is more conducive to low-price dumping in Xuzhou, and Changxianghou only plays the role of a tooth merchant or comprador in Yuzhou.

It is precisely like this that Xuzhou does not care much about the new rules for the purchase of salt and iron, as long as the market is large enough, Xuzhou is actually more willing to dump at low prices.

In Han Qian's view, expanding production and raising the level of productivity are much more important than simply pursuing ultra-high profits.

As for the requirement that Cao Gan represent the Shu State and greatly increase the price of well salt exported south through the Qianjiang River, the reason is simpler.

At that time, the technology of mining well salt was backward, and usually only the shallow underground salt water after the melted salt mine was mined for exposure or cooking, but in fact, as long as it was found that there was a salt mine in the ground and large-scale mining, the production capacity of a salt mine could theoretically meet the consumption of millions or even tens of millions of people.

What is more difficult in the world is the lack of effective methods for underground salt mines.

With the current state of technology, the cost of digging a small deep well is too high, and it is impossible to find a place to dig a deep well to find out whether there is a salt mine underground.

However, once there is a salt spring to confirm that there is a salt mine underground, it is relatively easy to go through certain technical transformation to increase production.

Therefore, even if no new salt springs are discovered in Wuchuan, the production will be increased by ten or twenty times with the existing two salt wells, and in Han Qian's view, there is no substantial obstacle that is difficult to overcome at this stage.

The simplest is to inject a large amount of river water into the existing salt wells to accelerate the melting of underground salt mines, which can also greatly increase production capacity.

From the beginning to the end, Han Qian never thought about making a profit from transporting salt from Yuzhou, what he thought was to send people to the Wuchuan River Valley to directly organize salt production through the dispatch of the Wuchuan County Salt and Iron Yuan Supervisor, who is currently under the direct control of Xuzhou, and mix it into Sichuan salt, and then transport it to the Zhujian Prefecture in Guizhou through salt merchants to sell it for profit......

Feng Yi slightly explained Xuzhou's confidence in these matters, and the thin figure still sighed when he heard it: "It's really a good idea for Changxiang Hou to take advantage of it." ”

"Although Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, is willing to weaken the power of the prince Wang Hongyi, he has no intention of changing his heir, and the foundation of Changxiang Hou is still weaker, so he has to take advantage of it." Feng Yi said.

Speaking of this, Feng Yu asked another thing: "Where is the assassination case currently underway, there shouldn't be much turmoil in Guangde Mansion now, right?" ”

The thin figure said: "Chen Jingzhou came out of Guangde Mansion and quickly took some pacification measures to stabilize Guangde Mansion a little, but the officials, government officials, and military attaches who had retired from the original Guangde Army and were subordinate to the prefecture and county and the prefecture and county defense army were expelled one step earlier. Nearly 200 people were innocently involved in the assassination, more than 20 died in prison, and more than 40 were disabled......"

Hearing the details of the family's sect lord's fierce counterattack on Guangde Mansion, Feng Yi was also embarrassed.

The thin figure continued: "...... Han Donghu, Su Lie and others should have fled into the depths of Fuyu Mountain and were not caught by the officers and soldiers; And some of the retired military attaches of the former Guangde Army were unwilling to be persecuted by the family, and they also fled into the mountains with their families, so they should also unite with Han Donghu and Su Lie - Xuzhou should deploy more eyeliner in Jinling to collect and transmit news, and send people to contact them, and it may be more appropriate to use these people. ”

"For the time being, it's not too early to startle the snake," Feng Yu said, "When I come here this time, I still have to find a way to uncover Shang Zhongjie's massacre of the homeless people and Shang Wensheng's destruction of the corpse......

Before Feng Yi came to Jinling, he had discussed these issues with Han Qian.

Reactivating the intelligence network on Jinling's side is far from being as simple as sending seven or eight people to lurk over.

First of all, ordinary people in the market, even businessmen, have a low status, and there is no source of information about what happened in the imperial city of Chu Palace, in the court, and in the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army.

Even the low-level officials and generals are quite closed.

In addition to collecting information, timely and effective transmission of information is also an important part of the organization of building an intelligence network.

Take Guangde Mansion as the starting point, take the Yishan Post Road, pass through Raozhou through Hongyuan Zhuzhou, enter Hunan, and then take the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road to enter Xuzhou, more than 2,000 miles by land, theoretically the fastest seven or eight days to complete.

However, the speed of 500 miles of expedited post transmission can only be achieved after relying on a series of complete systems such as post roads and post stations to ensure it.

That is to say, Xuzhou should set up less than twenty or thirty transit points with horses along the way, so as to maintain the rapid transmission of information between Jinling and Guangde; At the same time, this also needs to be concealed from the eyes and ears of Jinyun Division and local states and counties.

The speed of taking the waterway does not seem to be slow, but the merchant ships of Xuzhou come all the way, not to mention the inspection of multiple checkpoints along the way, and more importantly, a large merchant ship, it is impossible to say that it is impossible to go, right?

If you want to ensure the rapid delivery of information, the manpower and material resources to be used here are not a small number, and the selection of personnel is also a big problem.

When he was in Xuzhou, Han Qian ordered the selection of suitable people, and Feng Yu of course also considered re-recruiting Han Donghu and them.

Although Xuzhou had no direct contact with Jinling before, some of the situations that happened in Guangde Mansion could also be known from the copies of the post palace that were open to local officials and the gentry of the world.

With Han Qian's prestige, recruiting these retired military attaches of the Guangde Army who had fled into the mountains after being persecuted and fled into the mountains and who might join Han Donghu and Su Lie would not only enable them to directly reach a fairly high level of penetration into the Guangde Mansion and the forbidden army and the guards and pro-army, but also have a group of experienced personnel to form this information transmission network.

However, the problem is that no one in the world is really willing to be someone else's pawn.

They can send people to contact Han Donghu and Su Lie, the fugitive slaves of the Shang family, but they can't give enough support after contacting, but they still want these people to obey Xuzhou's orders, are these people really stupid?

What support can the state give them?

What kind of support do they want?

This was the issue that Feng Yu discussed with Han Qian the most in the last few days of Xuzhou.

But the problem is that these people are the rebels of the imperial court and local prefectures and counties, and their families may be slaughtered by officers and soldiers at any time, so why does Han Qian tell them to work for Xuzhou with peace of mind?

Now many passes have strengthened the investigation of entering and leaving Xuzhou, so many women and children have small families, it is difficult to quietly come out of the deep mountains and old forests, and then move into Xuzhou.

Han Qian recruited displaced people in Xuzhou in the early days, and to put it bluntly, Tanzhou deliberately mixed his own people into the displaced people and infiltrated into Xuzhou, so he let them go.

Otherwise, how could ordinary people who have not undergone rigorous training avoid the eyes and ears of the government and go over the mountains to enter Xuzhou? Not to mention the frail women and children who are old and sick.

Han Donghu and Su Lie were involved in the assassination case, and they were angry, and if they wanted to revoke the local officers and soldiers in the name of appeasement, they must first overturn the case and reveal the truth about Shang Zhongjie's massacre of homeless people and Shang Wensheng's destruction of corpses.

It's just that at this stage, it is too difficult to find the right person to turn over this case.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, who is willing to take the risk of offending the family gatekeepers, regardless of being suspected of being suspected of secretly colluding with Xuzhou, and stand up to turn over this case?

This is something that may cost your life and your wealth.

"Will Shen Xiang turn over this case?" The thin figure asked.

"I guess it's impossible, Shen Yang is not so ignorant of current affairs......" Feng Yi shook his head and said.

Shen Yang is in the position of the ruler, and what he is worried about is the safety of the overall situation of the Great Chu Society, and he will not involve himself in such troubles for the sake of momentary righteous indignation.

"What about Xue Ruogu?" The thin figure thought of a suitable person and asked.

"Your Excellency has considered it, but it can't be someone from Xuzhou who comes to contact Xue Ruogu. Xue Ruogu is upright, but he will not be easily led by the nose by Xuzhou - in addition, if Xue Ruogu dares to stand up at such a big risk as soon as possible, it is not enough to rely on some rumors and rhetoric. Feng Yi said.

"Please ask the old lady to come forward and promote Xue Ruogu to be demoted to Lishui to serve as the county commander - Wei Zhen has done too many things in this case, as long as Xue Ruogu replaces Wei Zhen to govern Lishui, he should be able to find some clues." The thin figure said.

"The adults don't want to involve the old lady." Feng Yi said.

"When you come to Jinling, you should judge the situation and decide some things for yourself." The thin figure suggested that Feng Yi make his own decision on this matter.