Continuing eastward from the reclamation land, two days later we finally arrived at the coast of the East China Sea. Pei should climb high and look, only to see the reckless and vast, the water and the sky, and the smoke and waves, which can't help but make people's mood become broader. He sat upright in the saddle, waved his hand to greet Wei Xun, pointed to the sea with the bamboo cane in his hand, and asked, "Therefore, do you know why I came to this beach?" ”

He is now a state assassin, and he still has the title of military governor, he is a big leader, and he is no longer a small role in the former Sima Yue shogunate...... In these years, high-quality scholars are used to playing with something in their hands - for example, Wang Yan prefers a jade Ruyi, which was later destroyed by Pei Cai.

However, Pei Gai is not an addict after all, and he will not think about taking the handle Ruyi, or the tail, the former has left him with bad memories, the latter...... If you say that you are like a Taoist priest, you will always think of the eunuchs in the drama...... As for the pu fan that I once pinched during the meeting, if I still use that thing in the wild in winter, will it be regarded as a nerve?

Later, I thought that Wei Rui, a famous general of the Southern Dynasty, once commanded the battle with a three-foot bamboo cane (one said to be bamboo Ruyi), which seemed to be quite handy. Fortunately, there is no bamboo in Jiangnan and Huaibei, so he ordered someone to pick a good material and sharpen it as a staff, which is also three feet long (Jin ruler, probably equivalent to more than 70 centimeters in later generations), which can be used as a baton and can be used as a "strategy" on a horse.

At that moment, he pointed to the sea with a three-foot bamboo cane and asked Wei Xun, who replied respectfully: "For the benefit of fish and salt." ”

Pei should be right, the reason why I must go to the beach to see it is because there is salt here—as for the fishery, it is not yet very prosperous, and how much profit can be squeezed.

Guangling's salt industry resources are very rich, the coastline is long, and many places can dry salt - hence the county name "salt desecration" - and there is rock salt in Huaiyin County. Huaiyin County is the Huai'an City of the later generations, according to the exploration, the reserves of rock salt reached more than 100 billion tons, ranking first in the world, and the grade is high, the burial is shallow, the quality is excellent, but in this year there has been no large-scale development and utilization, Pei Gai was not a civil servant in Jiangsu in his previous life, and he has no understanding of this, so the main concern is still sea salt.

He specially gave Wei Xun Huaihai the title of engagement, and brought him over, so that he could arrest the salt industry. The national monopoly system of salt and iron began in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was canceled in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and resumed again in the Wei and Jin dynasties. However, most of the officials in a county had run away before, and the salt industry was naturally laissez-faire, so Pei should ask Wei Xun to find out the relevant situation first, and then decide whether to invite Zu Ti to bring troops over, and coerce and even exterminate those rich coastal households who controlled the salt industry in the retreat of the country and the people.

In addition, "Inspect the coast for good harbors, and build ships for transportation." "In those days, China's navigation level was already at the forefront of the world, and in the Soochow era, it was able to build large sea ships and sail north from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Liaodong in one go, or go east to discover the island of Taiwan. In Pei Cai's mind, even if the technology has regressed because of the war, it should not be a big problem to build a ship that can drive along the shore without necessarily going deep into the open sea.

"To communicate Huaiyin and Jingkou, if it is carried by sea, compared with carrying people on land, it will inevitably save effort and shorten the schedule."

He still has to rely on Jiangdong's support, even if Wang Dao and they refuse to spit out another grain of rice, after all, Pei promised himself that when the harvest is harvested this autumn, the grain transported from the fiefdom of the king of the East China Sea will be distributed to himself as much as possible. Besides, Director Wang is unwilling to give himself food for nothing, but what if he exchanges it for other commodities? I will directly send people to Jianye, or trade with Wu County, Huiji, etc., you can't interfere arbitrarily, right?

Wei Xun arched his hand and said: "Make you think deeply, Xun can't beat the horse, it's a pity to ......" paused slightly: "Jiangdong is not short of salt......"

Pei Gai smiled: "These two things." "I just told you about the salt industry, and now I tell you about shipping, not for you to collect salt and sell it to Jiangdong by sea - it is also next to the sea, and it also produces salt, and the first thirty-six salt officials set up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty include Haiyan County in Huiji County. Nowadays, Haiyan belongs to Wu County, and there is another county called Yanguan in the southwest of it...... Just listen to the name and know that people are not short of salt to eat.

However, in the future, Zu Ti was going to lead his troops to the west to fight - there was no need to hide this from his staff, and he greeted them soon after crossing the river - there were many places in Yan and Henan that lacked salt, and it was much more convenient for him to take salt to find grain than to carry grain directly. "And salt can be used to make soy sauce and pickle fish, which is twice as profitable."

Wei Xun agreed, but his expression was a little uncomfortable, and he couldn't help it, so he asked Pei Cai: "Do you want to stop your ancestors and go west?" I'm not going to follow him to Yan and Yu, right? Pei Cai smiled: "Don't you want to make contributions on the battlefield and seal your wife and son?" Wei Xun shook his head again and again: "Let Jun Xiu see that the last official is strong, and he is an outlier among the southerners, he really doesn't know soldiers, and he has never even killed chickens in his life...... As long as you follow the envoy, you will have your own level of advancement, so why do you need to die...... If you mistake the matter of the ancestors, I am afraid that the monarch's face will not look good. ”

Zhen Sui next to him pouted when he heard this: "There are no guts and bandits, if you make ...... If the governor has an order, I am willing to follow Yan and Yu. Over the years, dogs and chickens have been slaughtered, and the old man's knife has not been stained with human blood for a long time, I am afraid that it will rust! ”

Pei Cai turned his head and glanced at him: "In this case, I will put you under the command of Zu Shizhi, how about it?" ”

Zhen Sui shook his head and sighed: "Wang Sima asked me to protect the governor, if the governor goes west, the master will naturally follow, otherwise...... Where the governor is, there I will be. Then he touched the big bow on his back: "I'll go hunt some birds and rabbits for the governor to eat." "Turn around and run away.

Pei Gai snorted, and said in his heart that you, or your subordinates, still want to stay and monitor me, I know that you will not leave. He turned to Wei Xun again and said to him: "Guangling is not as good as Jiangdong, especially near Huaiyin, the fields are not very fertile, the swamps are dense, and the household registration is very scattered, so I am afraid that it will be difficult to die if I rely on the grain of the cantonment and the donations of the dock forts, and I must buy ...... from the south of the Yangtze River."

Sima Rui, the king of Langya, also guarded Xuzhou, so although he left the land and the people and ran to the south of the Yangtze River, he still had the relevant documents with him. There is no need for Wang Maohong to make a hindrance from it, and it is up to Pei to search and read it, so that he has a considerable degree of understanding of Xu Fang's geography and properties - it may not be worse than Zu Li, and the two can complement each other.

Pei Gai learned that during the Taikang period of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, there were less than 30,000 households in Guangling County, and 1120,000 mouths - about one-third of the Eastern Han Dynasty when it was strong - of which Huaiyin had the most, nearly half. When he really arrived in Huaiyin County, according to his inquiries with the elders in the county in the past few days, the people who were scattered and suffering were probably close to half, that is to say, there should be 7,000 households and about 30,000 mouths in the county now - so calculated, they are basically within the control of those eleven dock forts! The taxes of the little people are easy to collect - as long as he can take them - the taxes of the rich will be difficult to handle, don't look at them at the meeting to pat their chests and express their support for the government, to put it well, after the autumn harvest, half of them can be paid thank God. In addition, Pei Gai did not have so many officials in his hands to go to the countryside to collect ......

Therefore, in the foreseeable years, grain will be a big problem, and it will be difficult to completely solve it by relying on Huaiyin County alone, or even Guangling County, and it will have to be transported from the south.

So, apart from Pei's possible funding, what goods are it possible to exchange grain from Jiangdong?

In fact, Xuzhou's mineral resources are very rich, copper and iron are not lacking, even in Guangling County, Yandu County and Tangyi County are producing iron, if the scope is expanded to the whole state, Xiapi, Pengcheng have iron, Pengcheng Guozhi Xuzhou County northeast has copper mountain...... The problem is that it takes a lot of time, energy and money to resume mining, and in addition to the fact that Jianye itself produces copper and iron, there are enough people, and there is basically no need to import it from Jiangbei.

The only specialty that can be obtained is only Huaishan Mountain in Huaiyin County - there are many places where yams are available, but only here has the most medicinal value, hence the name "Huaishan". Pei Gai can only think of Huaishan at present, hoping to rely on this resource to exchange some grain from Jiangdong. Of course, this is not enough, and it will only take another year or two to carefully search and try to explore and develop more special products.

It's a pity that I didn't study geology, minerals, or medicine in my previous life......

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Pei Gai left two troops to protect Wei Xun to survey the coast, and he himself went south along the coast to Yandu County. The salt and iron industries in Yandu are very developed, and because of the distance from the indiscriminate, the degree of destruction of the social productive forces is quite limited. But these two important industries are naturally in the hands of the rich, and in Pei Gai's vision, sooner or later this guy will be uprooted, so it is inconvenient for Wei Xun to meet with them first.

After entering the county seat, the rich households were summoned to discuss. Pei should know that his hand could not reach that far for the time being, so he did not mention any tax amount and tax rate to them, and adopted the tax package system of the later Yuan Dynasty, set a basic value of money, grain and iron, and on this basis, each family competed.

In the end, a family surnamed Shi succeeded in winning the project with a tax amount of more than half of the reserve price, and Pei should have given them a farewell to the county salt and iron - there was no such job, and the country guys did not know it anyway - and asked them to pay the tax once this year after the autumn, and the money and grain could be replaced by salt and iron at market prices. This means: you just need to give me what I need, as for how much you collect, how much you are greedy, whatever, Lao Tzu doesn't care.

After leaving Yandu, he went west to Sheyang, handled it according to the regulations, and signed a county master book - but Sheyang is a poor county, there are no special products, and agriculture is not developed, so only silk and grain are collected. The third stop is Gaoyou, which also signed a county master book, and also collected silk and grain.

This big circle has come back, and it is already August, and the autumn endowment has begun to be levied - that is Bian Yan's duty, and Pei should not have to do it himself. But just after sitting down at the county office—now it's time to call the state office—Bian Yan was waiting to report on the first phase of taxation, when suddenly Zu Ti bumped into the door with an anxious look, and as soon as they met, he said: "There is news here, Jinyang...... It's gone! ”

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