"Mother, please be careful and get in the car slowly. Baby's ...... for you"

On the third day of the first month of August, Jiang Wei personally accompanied his mother from the camp in Qishan and marched towards Chengdu. In addition to Long Yu and Long Zihui, who escorted Jiang's mother all the way here, there were only more than 20 Jiang family generals.

"Bo Gong, after I leave, you will be in charge of this place. Hey, Yuan Jian is old, and his health has been poor since the beginning of spring this year, and he can't leave Chengdu. Please bear with me a little more. ”

"The general rest assured, with Zhang Yi here, the Qishan camp will be as stable as Mount Tai!"

"I'm convinced of that." After saying goodbye to Zhang Yi, Zhao Tong and others, Jiang Wei sat on the royal seat of a carriage and personally became the driver for his mother.

It is only more than 80 miles south from Qishan Daying, which is the county of Wudu County. Wu Qiao, the Taishou of Wudu County stationed here, had already received the news and personally led the soldiers of Wudu County to the north thirty miles to meet him.

"Meet the general, meet the old lady."

"There is Lao Tai who guards the distance, Jiang Wei is really unhappy. Especially since this is the busy season of farming, Taishou's official duties must be very busy, right? ”

"If you're not busy, you're not busy, didn't the Great Sima Mansion order the whole country to be tax-exempt this year! At least this year's farming is not busy. ”

"Huh? Hahaha, okay, okay, my Han Dynasty has been founded for forty-three years, and for the first time, all the people under my rule are exempt from taxes. Hey, Jiang Wei is really ashamed......"

"Great generals don't have to be like this. Speaking of which, this duty-free thing in the whole territory, don't talk about my big man. Even the pseudo-Wei and Eastern Wu have never existed. ”

"So, Da Sima is really a genius......"

Wu Qiao couldn't take this anymore, so he had to change the topic: "General, originally our Wudu County is in a remote corner, so this post house has always been very clean. However, after the Hu family in Liangzhou photographed the Yinping salt lake in May this year, the ranks of salt merchants who came and went increased. Even the business along the way with Yinping and Wudu also began to flourish. So today's Wudu Station has become noisy. In order for the old lady to rest cleanly, the lower officials have already cleaned out the Taishou Mansion, and the general and his party can go there to spend the night. ”

"Otherwise, my mother will go to Taishou's house to borrow for one night. Wei wants to go to the inn to live. ”

"Uh, General. It's really messy at the post station right now. ”

"Hehehe, how messy is it? Do you need my Mobile Corps to help with law and order? ”

"Well, not really. The chaos that the lower officials said is not that there is chaos in public order, but that there are too many people coming and going. Well, let's do as the general says. ”

When they arrived in Xiabiancheng, Wu Qiao's family came to pick up Jiang's mother. Wu Qiao personally accompanied Jiang Wei to live in the post station in Wudu County.

Before the post station appeared in his sight, Jiang Wei's brows quickly furrowed.

From afar, I could smell the stench of horse dung and cow dung, mixed with all kinds of noisy sounds: the shouting and scolding of people, the shrill neighing of horses, the low wheezing of cows. The chaotic sound, mixed with the smell of dung, wafted far, far away.

After turning the corner, the post station appeared in sight. The bustling crowds, the convoys coming and going. As well as all kinds of small stalls and vendors around the post station, there are even two or three buildings that have been built for the most part, and they are restaurants at first glance...... This is a post station. It's like a market town!

"Ouch! Got a bunch of fresh faces? Where do the guests come from? Look at what you're wearing, you're from the north, right? Have you ever tasted our fruit wine in Yizhou? Hi! Let me tell you, this fruit wine was invented by our great Sima. Our Great Sima...... Guest, eh, guest? ”

"Guests aren't interested in wine? Would you like to come to my grocery store? Our store has just opened this month, and we would like to thank you for your support. All items are 20% off. You see? This Jingyao wax, Yanxi lacquer, new porcelain, soap...... There are all kinds of varieties! Guest? Huh? Guest? ”

"Yo! This team of guest officers looks rich! You're here to make a big deal, right? You won't be able to see what those retail stalls sell! Guest, do you want to come to our Begonia Pavilion to play? The girls here, those from Yizhou, Liangzhou, even if you want girls from the Xiongnu, Di and even the Western Regions, we have them in our store! ”

"Hmph, Sao Niang, these uncles are from wealthy families at first glance. Where can you look at the vulgar powder in your store. Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to come and play a few games in the Quartet? This store is the first casino in Chengdu to pass the Quartet branch here. Thanks to the care of Da Sima, he personally gave several new ways to play, which is very exciting! ”

"Mouth wide, don't fart there! The old lady's shop is full of vulgar powder, so don't come last night! ”

"Whew! I only found out that I was fooled when I came last night......"

The short journey of a few hundred meters was solicited by a number of businessmen along the way. Jiang Wei's brows furrowed tighter and tighter: "Xuan Gao, why does it seem that he has completely changed his appearance after only a few months in the city?" When I reclaimed it in February, it was still silent. ”

"Hehe, General. It's now a commercial transit point. The Hu family's horse team will pass through here once every ten days, and they will definitely stop here. These people have money, and they spend very luxuriously. So soon, there were many small merchants and vendors around this Wudu Station. Then these small merchants and peddlers quickly discovered that if they had stored a certain amount of some of my Han's special products such as Zhuqiao wine and new porcelain, and then waited for the Hu family's horse team to follow them through the Qiang settlement...... Well, what Xia Guan said was not accurate. Not to cross, but to enter. Then these things will soon be sold out in the Qiang settlement. When he came back, he brought the horses, cattle and sheep of the Qiang people back here to sell, and then the merchants of Zitong and Shu County naturally came to hear the wind...... So, there are more and more people in this place. With the post station as the center, the scope of this market town is also getting larger. Xiaguan has been preparing for this year's autumn harvest, and when the people have leisure, they will gather a thousand people to triple the size of the post station! ”

"Well, in the past two months of Xuangao, there must have been a lot of business taxes, right?"

"Hahaha~~~ General, speaking of which. The lower officials really want to show off to you. Xiaguan took over as Wudu Taishou in February, and the first three months were unbearable and miserable. Yueyue relied on Chengdu to allocate money and grain to maintain. Since May, the life of Xia Guan has been getting better day by day. Well, the business tax was 20,000 in May, 80,000 in June, and 180,000 in July. This August, it is estimated that it will not be less than 250,000! General, you know that the people on the roster of Wudu County were less than 20,000 before Yanxing. In September of the first year of Yanxing, Wudu fell, and the roster was taken away by the pseudo-Wei, and the subordinates now control it in their hands, which is worth more than 10,000! ”

"Hey, a trade route directly revitalized a county. Da Sima is really, really talented! ”

Although Jiang Wei agreed with Wu Qiao very much, Wu Qiao also keenly saw Xiao Suo in Jiang Wei's eyes. So Wu Qiao hurriedly answered: "General, having said that. But we should also see that if it weren't for the general leading the army stationed in Qishan, where would we dare to open up such a large trade route? It is precisely because the general took and held the Qishan camp that if the puppet Wei wants to attack our Wudu on a large scale, he must first take Qishan. That's why we dare to open our doors to do business! From this point of view, the general is the strongest guarantee for Wudu County to achieve prosperity! ”

"Huh." Hearing Wu Qiao's words, Jiang Wei's mood improved: "With so many people coming and going, is there a secret spy of pseudo-Wei?" ”

"Of course. Pseudo-Wei's marching Cao is even stronger than my Han's Si Wencao. In the past two months, Xia Guan has clearly felt that there are a lot of people who come and go here who don't do anything, that is, guys who are looking for people to chat with everywhere...... But these guys, whatever they see. In a word, Qishan is not lost, and it is nothing if they see through this place. Qishan is lost, and if they don't need to look at it, the lower officials will naturally abandon this trade route! ”

"What Taishou said is very true. However, if the Hu family transports all the salt from the salt lake to the northwest, then what will the people of Wenshan, Yinping, and Wudu eat? ”

"Hahaha~~ General, of course we eat Zigong salt! Zigong salt, fine particles, white color, can also effectively prevent gall disease (the ancient name of hyperthyroidism). And when it was shipped to my Wudu, it was only sold for six hundred yuan and one stone. Of course we all ate Zigong salt. In fact, the entire Han Dynasty, whether it is on the roster or not on the roster, eats Zigong salt. The salt produced by other salt mines must be exported, otherwise it can only be dumped! It can be said that it is precisely because of the high-quality, low-priced, and sufficient supply of Zigong salt. As a result, the families who bought the salt mine had to organize the export of well salt, which led to countless trade routes in the Han Dynasty! ”

"Hiss~~ The output of Zigong salt is so large?"

Of course it's big, my general. You must know that during the reign of Xianfeng Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, due to the Taiping Rebellion, the passage of Huaiyan to the west was cut off, and the Qing government ordered the "Sichuan Salt Jichu" to begin. For more than ten years, Zigong has supplied salt to hundreds of millions of people in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan provinces. Even so, it was more than enough. It was also in this decade that the foundation for the prestige of the Zigong Salt Gang and its later independence was laid.

In modern times, the World Health Organization recommends a standard daily amount of salt of 6 grams. In ancient times, due to the lack of fats, sugars, and other non-staple foods, this standard was definitely going to rise. But generally 15 grams is completely enough (many provinces in modern China eat too salty, and the province with the highest daily salt intake is 23 grams. China National Geographic Salt Album Data).

How many people does Shu Han have now? The list of ethnic minorities, hidden families, mountainous minorities, and so on, is about a little more than four million. (General History of Chinese Population Data)

In this way, the amount of salt in Shuhan is 21.9 million kilograms. That's 810,000 stones. And if the current Zigong Pavilion is fully operational, what is the amount of salt produced in a year? More than a million stones! (The peak annual output of Zigongjing salt is 1.8 million tons.) That's more than 66 million stones. Of course, that is with modern production technology. And more than 90% of this amount of salt is used by industry. ）

Such a super salt farm is the confidence of Guan Yi to dare to sell all the salt farms in the country! The so-called privatization of salt farms is the implementation of an on-site taxation system. Although there are many benefits, Wei and Wu will not be able to learn it until the traverser gets out the big killer of salt in the sea!