In fact, Zhang Zun set off from the CD almost later than Guan Yi.

As the only male member of the third generation of the Zhang family so far, after seeing that the Guan family has a fourth generation, Zhang Shao also began to be anxious. Taking advantage of Zhang Zun's return to the CD this time, Zhang Shao asked the emperor for a blind date leave for his son.

Zhang Zun at this time is much more popular than Guan Yi two and a half years ago.

First of all, people's fathers are not like Guan Yi's father, Guan Xing, who has been hanging for decades. Zhang Shao is a scholar and a servant, a real high-ranking official who can influence the decision-making of the imperial court. Secondly, Zhang Zun's aunt is the queen! Third, Zhang Zun is the major shareholder of the Fuxing Society, and there is absolutely no shortage of money. Fourth, although Zhang Zun is now only in charge of the lower counties of the three counties, it is also too shou! The twenty-three-year-old county guard, the whole Shu Han is just like this now!

Therefore, compared with Guan Yi's marriage, which is somewhat helpless, as soon as the news of Zhang Zun's plan to marry his daughter-in-law spread, the door of the Zhang family was instantly crowded by matchmakers from all walks of life!

"You guy, aren't you cheating me like this! At this time, the second uncle may be scolding me. ”

At the Niupi County ferry, Guan Yi's fleet has sailed out of the dock. In fact, there are not many people accompanying him, in addition to Guan Xiaoqi and other Guan family members, there are also the newly recruited guard Chang Ju Ning, the planned carrier pigeon cultivator Wumeng Amu father and son, and others. This was normal, but what made Guan Yi speechless was that Zhang Zun ran out of the CD in the name of seeing him off, and he didn't go back after arriving at Niu Pi, and directly pulled dozens of generals from the Zhang family onto Guan Yi's boat.

"Hey! Brother, the younger brother is now thinking about how to do a good job in my Jiangyang County, and how can he be interested in doing those things. Besides, through this door-to-door courtship, the younger brother understands a truth, as long as the husband can make meritorious contributions, why bother without a wife? ! If the younger brother was still the same as he was more than two years ago, there would be so many people asking for marriage today! You see, even Fei Cheng and Dong Ju, the two old immortals, have the cheekiness to send someone to the door to propose. Didn't his Fei family also want to learn from my Zhang family, and both sisters were married to the prince? How would this remind you of marrying my sister to me? As for the Dong family, he is even more shameless, he is the sworn enemy of my Fuxing Society! How is it possible for my revival society to marry their family? What's more, how old is the young lady of the Dong family? It's only thirteen in November this year! I'm such a beast! ”

Your family Zhang Fei and Zhang Sanye are beasts, Xiahou Yuan's cousin niece went out to collect firewood, but was robbed by your Zhang Sanye to be the wife of the village - it seems that Mrs. Xiahou was only a teenager at that time!

"Mmmm, there are so many daughters of the family, and none of you have a catch?"

"How can I have such a good blessing as my brother, and I can meet and talk about it before we get married? Forget it, the official went to Jiangyang County, go to the village of the people to pick one! ”

Hey, family heirlooms, your family does have this family heirloom.

"Then it's not a problem for you to run away like this, it's a trivial matter for the second uncle to get angry. Anyway, I'm used to being cheated against, so it doesn't matter. But you can't just go to Jiangyang County to take office, what about your appointment documents? What about the shogunate? ”

"Hey, hey." Zhang Zun smiled cheaply, turned around and fished out the appointment document of the imperial court from his arms: "The document is here, the younger brother has already premeditated." ”

"Where's your shogunate? Originally, with the connections of the second uncle, it was not a problem to build a sophisticated shogunate for you. You just have to be honest and stay on CD for an extra month or two. The result? You have to think clearly, Jiangyang County's current Taishou Ma Bing is the cousin of the change. As a result, he struggled in Fuling County for nine years, and this Ma Bing didn't care at all, which shows that he is not a person who is easy to deal with. You have to be very cautious about this handover. ”

"Hey! This is better to say, it's not like there's a brother. Ah! ”

"What's in your head? As the Taishou of Fuling County, how can this official be qualified to check the accounts of Jiangyang County? ”

"Ahh So what to do? Brother, you have to save me! CD I'm not going back, but Jiangyang County has to take over as soon as possible! ”

"What a scoundrel! Well, let's not hand it over yet. After we entered Jiangyang County, we disembarked at Han'an, and then took you to a place for my brother. Fuling sent someone to urge Yongbo and Chengzuo for his brother. ”

"Hahaha, the younger brother knows that the elder brother won't leave me alone! Where do we go after disembarking in Hanan? ”

Jiangyang County, three subordinate counties. The three counties are basically arranged in a straight line: at the northern end is Han'an County, and the area where the county seat is located basically coincides with the urban area of Neijiang in Sichuan Province in the 21st century. In the middle is Jiangyang County, where the county is located, that is, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province in the 21st century. At the southeast end is Fujie County, where the county seat is located roughly within the urban area of Hejiang County, Luzhou City, in the 21st century.

In later generations, Neijiang was famous for its abundant sugarcane and sugar, and was known as the sweet city. At this time, however, sugar cane was still in a crunch of the Indian peninsula. So there's no sweet city or something. And Luzhou in later generations, known as the wine city - this has nothing to do with Guan Yi: the production of highly distilled liquor is a big killer for many traversers, and it is not difficult for Guan Yi to do it, but the problem is that he is now crazy because of lack of food, and he can't wait to kill anyone who dares to engage in the grain and wine industry. How could he himself engage in such an extremely food-consuming thing as high-grade liquor?

The reason why I got off the ship in Han'an was because I walked about fifty or sixty kilometers southwest from the county seat of Han'an, and I arrived at a place that has no specific name now, but was famous in later generations: Zigong, the salt capital.

Salt, as an essential part of all animal bodies, plays a decisive role in the survival of human beings. Until China's economy took off, the salt industry was one of the most important sources of national finance for thousands of years.

As far as Shu Han is concerned, because Shu Han is not on the coast, the salt in Shu Han is basically obtained by pumping underground brine and then steaming and cooking. For this purpose, Shu Han specially set up a salt school captain, who is responsible for the production and sales of salt across the country. The first lieutenant of Siyan was Wang Lian, and over the decades, Wang Lian and his former subordinates in Yanfu, Lu Yi, Du Qi, Liu Gan and others, all became high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones, which shows the importance of the officials in charge of the salt industry within the Shu Han regime.

But there is one biggest problem with the salt production in Shuhan: backward production technology. Of course, this backwardness is relative to later generations - in short, due to the limitations of production technology, the salt production of Shu Han is often to select a place first, and then manually dig a pit with a large surface area, and then slowly dig down until people can no longer breathe in the well - this method, generally can only pump brine within one or twenty meters underground, and its output is very limited. Therefore, don't look at the salt wells everywhere in the five counties of Ba and the six counties of Shu, but the salt production of Shu Han can only ensure domestic demand, and there is no bulk foreign sales.

As a traverser, as a traverser who has visited the Zigong Salt Industry Museum. Guan Yi knew very well that the technology that brought revolutionary changes to well salt mining was the Zhuo tube well technology invented by the people of Daying County, Sichuan during the Northern Song Dynasty. With this technology, salt wells can be drilled up to a kilometer underground.

The place where Zigong is located has begun to produce salt in the Three Kingdoms period. However, due to the limitations of production technology, its output is not particularly outstanding among the many salt wells in Shuhan. Although there are also officials from the Governor's Mansion of the Salt Commander, it is not very valued.

As a traveler who has visited the Salt Industry Museum, Guan Yi knows very well that in the Shu Han Dynasty, Zigong already had relatively famous salt wells: Fushi Well and Dagong Well, so although there is no specific name for this place now, with these two salt wells as a reference, Guan Yi quickly delineated the main deep well salt producing area of Zigong in later generations in this nameless place.

"Ling Xing, do you believe my brother?"

"It's not nonsense, it's okay to give your life to your brother, why don't you believe it."

"Alright, this place." Guan Yi pointed with his right hand: "From there to here, this area of six hundred acres, after you take over as Jiangyang Taishou, I will send someone to buy it all in the name of the Fuxing Society!" ”

"Uh, brother, these are saline lands that don't grow much crops, why did we buy them from the Renaissance Society?"

Guan Yi looked around, and after confirming that there was no one else, he whispered to Zhang Zun: "This place starts from one hundred and twenty zhang below, and there is an inexhaustible supply of self-spraying brine!" ”

"Ah!!h Zhang Zun is no longer the boy who didn't understand anything in the CD back then, and he knows very well what brine means.

"It's not just self-spraying brine, there's natural gas underground, well, gas that can burn itself. With this thing, there is no need to cut wood and boil salt at all. ”

Zhang Zun's eyes had turned red, and his breathing began to become urgent. But after a while, he came to his senses: "Brother, one hundred and twenty zhang underground, we can't dig such a deep place!" I used to have salt wells in Fuling County, so I dug five or six zhang down from the sky, right? ”

"Hehe, the salt well production in Fuling County is very small, and my brother is too lazy to improve. It's different here, where the production is huge, and the associated natural gas does not require cutting wood to boil salt. So Brother Wei is going to make a move this time. ”

"Oh." Zhang Zun didn't ask Guan Yi why he knew that there were those things so deep underground, nor did he ask Guan Yi how to take them out. In his opinion, his brother is almost omnipotent, he says yes, that is, if he says yes, then it will definitely work. "But brother, this country has a monopoly on salt and iron. Even if we buy the land, once there is a large amount of brine......"

"Hehehe, well, my brother has almost already agreed with His Majesty. In the future, the salt works here will be monopolized on the spot alone, and the sales income will be eighty percent for the imperial court and two percent for us. ”

Guan Yi sighed: "With this large amount of salt in the imperial court, the domestic salt price should be reduced, and the people can eat more salt." If the output is sufficient, it can also be exported to Jingchu to improve the financial ...... of the lower imperial court The remaining little head, if it goes well, is estimated to earn no more than 100 million a year, and we can use this money to buy people from Nanzhong. This Jiangyang County, especially Han'an County, has a gentle terrain, which is really a good place for cultivating wasteland. ”

"Oh." Zhang Zun nodded stupidly, and suddenly reacted: "Brother is saying that two percent of the shares can make a profit of more than 100 million?!" ”

Of course, the famous Shenhai Well in Zigong in later generations, at the peak of its mass production, there were thousands of stones of brine spewed out every day. Boiled into table salt, there are dozens of stones. Even if the price of salt is halved due to the excessive salt production here, it will never be less than 500 yuan a stone. In this way, the gross profit of a day is more than 20,000 yuan, and this is just a well! Guan Yi clearly knew that the land he had carved out could drill at least two hundred salt wells! For a maximum of three years, the gross profit of the well salt produced here every year is at least more than one billion!