Of course, the Maison will not be blindly suppressed. They can contribute to the operation of the well salt minerals with the government, and participate in the profit sharing at the end of each year, although the income between the acres is less, but the income from doing business can be obtained, and the family will be sensible on our side, and those who are unreasonable will be dealt with according to the law. Li Wenyuan said to everyone with a smile.

"Five acres are tax-exempt, as soon as this decree comes out, I'm afraid it will set off a wave of separation." Zhang Juntai said.

"It's easy to manage when the family is separated, and after the separation, they can't form a group for their own interests, putting pressure on the government." Xue Renyue said.

"These are long-term plans, and the top priority is to build a city and build houses for them, let them work together, and give them free houses after they are built. Send someone to count the information of their families. Go ahead. Li Wenyuan said.

Xue Renyue nodded and got up to leave. Li Wenyuan said to Uderu: "Uderu, I want to take Juntai out to do something, you sit in the army, you can't fall behind in daily drills, and military discipline can't be relaxed." ”

Udryu also took the order and left, leaving Zhang Juntai and Li Wenyuan in the camp. "Juntai, bring the gold and silver, let's go to the sea market to have a look." Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

The scorching sun was in the sky, and Li Wenyuan felt that the heat wave of the sand sea under his feet was pressing, and he also lost that there was a Shandan military horse under his crotch, so he walked to the depths of the desert.

took off the kettle and took a sip, Li Wenyuan wiped the sweat on his head and asked Zhang Juntai: "Juntai, how far is it to arrive?" ”

Zhang Juntai called the scout he had discovered earlier and inquired, and returned: "Shopkeeper, you will be in Haishi in one hour." ”

After this trip, Zhang Juntai and Li Wenyuan took the scouts who had discovered the sea market before, and a group of three people came here to do some business pretending to be merchants from the Central Plains. Li Wenyuan pretended to be the shopkeeper, Zhang Juntai pretended to be the bookkeeper, and the scout pretended to be a young man. The three of them were all dressed in cloth clothes, and the Great Sui Law stipulated that merchants should not wear brocade robes, but should wear black cloth clothes.

Wearing a black cloth in this sea of sand, Li Wenyuan scolded in his heart for a long time, but he had no choice but to write down this matter in a small notebook and retaliate later.

After about an hour without saying a word, Li Wenyuan and his party climbed a sand dune, and finally saw a city located next to a small oasis under the dune. It is a small basin in the desert much lower than the surrounding sand dunes, and there are some underground rivers that ooze water from high levels, forming this small oasis.

Li Wenyuan turned over and dismounted on foot, holding the reins of the horse and walking down the slope. Even if it is a Shandan military horse, it is easy for the horse to stumble and fall under the horse when going downhill. Therefore, when going down such a steep slope, the only solution is to get off the horse and walk.

The three of them led their horses down the sand dunes and slowly came to the front of the sea market. Although the sea market is only a black market, it has also built a city wall, which is a very tall rammed earth wall. Under Zhang Juntai's introduction, Li Wenyuan learned that this kind of rammed earth wall is particularly strong and durable in the environment of the desert with little rain, and this kind of city wall is not used for defense, but for sand prevention.

Sandstorms in the desert are often storms that move through the dunes, and often after a sandstorm, a dune will appear out of thin air, and there will be places where a sand dune is missing out of thin air. Therefore, even though Haishi is located in a basin and there are some sand dunes around it as natural barriers, it is still necessary to build rammed earth walls to prevent sand.

In front of the city gate, Li Wenyuan paid the door fee of a silver ingot and received a waist card in accordance with the rules. This kind of waist card is a proof of identity and is to ensure the safety of both parties to the transaction. After arriving in the market, they no longer call each other by name, but call each other and themselves by the name of the waist card. At the same time, this waist card is also a proof of payment of the door fee, and when you return the waist card when you go out of the city, you can get back the door fee paid when you enter the city.

Li Wenyuan's book on Lu Jia, Li Wenyuan was very curious, and asked the person who issued the waist card: "This brother, we are coming to Haishi for the first time, and we have never heard of some things, so I would like to ask you what this Lu Jia means?" ”

The man looked at it and saw that no one came, so he also smiled and said to Li Wenyuan: "Our waist card here is the name of the guests who came in the city, this Lu refers to the famous merchant Jia Lu Buwei in the Qin period, and this A is the ten brand names arranged according to A, B, C, D, P, H, and Xin, and there is no difference in order. ”

Li Wenyuan nodded and said, "I see, then how many waist cards can be distributed by these merchants who come and go here?" ”

The man smiled and said: "You are joking, there are countless famous businessmen and giants throughout the ages, not to mention that in addition to the heavenly stem, there are still earthly branches, and there are also heavenly stems with earthly branches, a total of eighty-two, how many people can take these waist cards?" ”

Li Wenyuan suddenly realized that it was ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, and the combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches was the number of one jiazi in sixty years. At this time, a person passed by and said, "Xingli Auction House has a female slave auction of the Great Qin Kingdom today, so hurry up if you want to go." ”

Li Wenyuan looked at the person who passed by next to him, and heard the person who issued the door number say: "Walk forward from here, walk into the second intersection on the left after the square in the center of the city, and you will end up with Xingli Auction House." Today's female slaves of the Great Qin State have always had a good reputation, especially the attendants. ”

Li Wenyuan laughed, thanked the man, and walked the way he pointed out. On the square in the center of the city is a fountain that has never been seen in the Central Plains, and it is a common Western-style fountain in later generations. At this time, the scout said: "Shopkeeper, this fountain was designed and built by a Great Qin slave a few years ago, and he was ransomed by this city lord because of this exquisite design, as the chief worker of the city's construction. ”

Further on, there was a man sitting on the ground with a turban on the side of the road, playing a flute of strange shape, and a rattan basket in front of him. With the sound of a condescending flute, the rattan basket shook slightly, and soon a black snake opened the lid of the rattan basket and leaned out, with the sound of the flute slowly writhing in the air, for a while the onlookers next to them clapped their hands in amazement. After a while, the sound of the flute slowed down, and the black snake slowly retracted the rattan basket, and finally opened its mouth to bite the lid of the rattan basket and covered it back, and the flute sound just stopped at this time.

The scout next to him said, "Shopkeeper, this is a poisonous person, who often dances snakes here to make some money." ”

During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions and reached a country called Bactria in Afghanistan, where he heard that there was a country called Shen Poison in the southeast of Bactria that was not far from the southwestern frontier of the Han Dynasty. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty tried to open up a path to the body poison from the southwest, but in fact, this body poison was the India of later generations.

Li Wenyuan was also secretly surprised after hearing this, this place really has a net of talented people from all over the world.