Also in December 270, when Chang'an was due to the arrival of envoys from the three Western countries, many magnates and scholars opened up new fields in their thinking and set off brainstorming. In the far south of Xinjiang, the sons and daughters of the Han family here are also about to move towards a completely new field.

After taking the three southern counties of Jiaozhou, the Jihan government of course also set up its own Jiaozhou Thorn History Department here. The first Jiaozhou assassin was Wang Qi and Wang Kongshuo.

Speaking of which, Wang Ji used to be in Nanzhong, although he was only a governor of Nanzhong, but he was really in charge of seven counties below. And this Jiaozhou assassin history has only three counties. Such a change of position is actually a typical rise and fall in secret.

However, such an arrangement was a strong request of Wang Ji himself, and it was also Guan Yi's need to maintain the overall stability of his Fuxing Society: Wang Ji's prestige in Nanzhong was too high. And it's different from Fuling County, the old nest of the Fuxing Society. In Fuling County, although any Fuxing Society elder can mobilize 100,000 natives in Fuling County. But there is no doubt that such a transfer must be approved by the Yi concerned, otherwise it will not work. And in Nanzhong, well, of course everyone knows Guan Da Sima, but if you really want to talk about prestige, let alone Wang Ji, even the new Nanzhong Governor Ma Yi is higher than him.

Therefore, such a transfer of duties is necessary. The minister is actually a monarch in a sense, and because of the embarrassment of the position of the minister, he is even more suspicious than the average monarch. This point cannot be changed by a simple traveler with a broad heart.

And Guan Yi also knows that in the face of history, because Wang Ji is not from a big family and his political position is always wrong. So don't look at him following Biqiu Jian to destroy Goguryeo, and followed Deng Ai to destroy Shu Han. But in the end, Wang Ji will always be just a county guard. This time, putting Wang Ji in the position of Ji Han's only four state assassins is not a disadvantage to him.

After Wang Ji became the assassin of Jiaozhou, he did three things.

First, arrange Wu Jia and other remnants of the Eastern Wu Lu Wang Party to Nanzhong to be the county guard. not only thanked the other party for their contributions, but also emptied the family in the three southern counties of Jiaozhou (of course, the power of the Tao family and the Xue family in Jiaozhi County must take the initiative to attack. ）

Second, with the Red River as the main reliance, the traffic from Nanzhong to Jiaozhi County should be fully dredged: the reefs in the river should be cleared and those that cannot be cleared should be checked and marked. Ports should be built in the county towns along the river. A new official road link should be built between the port and the city...... All of the above is a super project. The amount of labor required is staggering. And Wang Ji gave extremely generous treatment to the natives of the three counties of Jiaozhi, Rinan, and Jiuzhen who should be recruited. It immediately captured the hearts of the local natives.

However, for the natives who were recruited, although the salary given by Wang Tingshi was very kind, it was not very good. The remuneration he gave to everyone was all copper coins, not a grain of grain. In this way, everyone had to take copper coins over the mountains and mountains to buy grain in Beijiaozhou, which was controlled by Soochow. However, although it is very troublesome, in the end, there is money in hand, as long as you are willing to work hard honestly, this problem of food and clothing has been solved. This alone is enough reason for everyone to support the rule of the Great Han here.

But for Wang Ji, it is not possible not to issue copper coins. Because Jihan's foreign trade has always been in a state of overtaking, and the output of Yunnan copper mines is getting higher and higher. Now Ji Han's headache is not where to find enough copper to improve the poor quality of the national currency. It's how to spend the extra money: if this development continues, with the prosperity of the overland Silk Road, this excess amount will be even larger. In order to stabilize the value of the currency, there was no effective solution, so Guan Da Sima had to prepare to learn from the Western Zhou Dynasty and cast a large number of copper ritual vessels.

Therefore, the current Jihan Dynasty, not only Jiaozhou, but also Fuling, Nanzhong, Yongliang and other places, have begun large-scale construction of various public works. As for the payment of workers' salaries, the previous rule of half grain and half copper coins has also been changed, and copper coins are directly distributed in full.

As a consequence, the price of grain in Jihan began to rise. It has risen from about 120 yuan per stone to 150 yuan, and according to this trend, there is a possibility that it will continue to rise.

Farmers in the country have certainly benefited from rising food prices. When the peasants have money, the various commodities of the Renaissance Society will of course sell better. At the same time, the spread between ordinary grains and meat has narrowed as a result of rising food prices. Ordinary officials and workers with money in their pockets also pondered adding a few dishes of meat to their tables. And when the government has more money, the supply of meat on the tables of the standing army will only increase. As a result, the nomadic tribes living next to the Han people also benefited. The physical fitness of the Han family has also been effectively guaranteed and further improved...... Therefore, an appropriate currency depreciation is beneficial to promoting the overall development of the economy.

And how smart the Chinese people are: domestic food prices have risen so much, so why do we still have to buy grain at home? As a result, large grain merchants, small traders, and ordinary people living on the Han and Jin and Han and Wu borders entered the Jin and Wu borders to buy grain by various means.

This is actually sucking the blood of both countries. It is not that people of insight in both countries are blind to this. But what can be done about it? The situation in the Jin Kingdom is slightly better, but there are large loopholes in Youzhou in the north. And Soochow, that's just a sieve.

In short, due to Wang Ji's construction in Nanjiaozhou, the local aborigines bought grain from Beijiaozhou after they had money. As a result, in addition to the sick prosperity of Beijiaozhou, a large amount of food and even population in Dongwu began to lose to Nanjiaozhou in an endless stream.

In addition to clearing the family to facilitate the smooth flow of government decrees, and building a large number of buildings to benefit the natives. Wang Ji's most important task in Jiaozhou was to open the sea route.

The three districts of Cochin, Jiu Zhen, and Ni Nam are the northern regions of modern Vietnam. This place has indeed been the territory of China since ancient times. But this place is too far away from the Central Plains. And in the agrarian era, the output here was minimal. Therefore, the successive Central Plains dynasties maintained their rule here, in fact, the gains outweighed the losses.

Take the Ming Dynasty on the historical plane as an example. Zhu Di pacified Annan and garrisoned troops here. How much can I get from this tax each year? The maximum is less than 70,000 taels a year. And how much does the garrison here spend on military expenses every year? Three million taels per year. On the one hand, the reason for this situation is that the Ming government's ruling strategy (such as forcibly changing the land and returning it to the river) has gone wrong, which has provoked a general revolt from the indigenous people of Annam. But in any case, with such a huge disparity in the inflow and outflow of accounts, any minister in charge of finance would advise him to abandon the matter.

Therefore, no matter how ambitious Guan Yi is, no matter how unwilling the future rulers of the Han Dynasty are. As long as the income and expenditure here cannot reach a balance or become positive, this place will be abandoned by the rulers of the Central Plains sooner or later.

How can we improve the output here? Agriculture is one thing, but more important is maritime trade.

After taking this territory, in addition to reinforcing the pass at Pheasant Pass to guard against the attack of Eastern Wu, Wang Ji also spent great effort to dredge the silt at the mouth of the Red River and build a new port in accordance with Guan Yi's instructions. In October of this year, after the delivery of the sea ship promised by Soochow, Wang Ji began to lead the team south to explore the route.

However, this year's Kong Shuogong is also in his sixties, and his physical fitness is not as good as before. So this time, the leader of the army went south was the former Taishou of Fuling County, Zhang Wei, the son of Zhang Yi. His deputies are Geng Teng of Nanzhong and Quan Wu on the side of Eastern Wu.

"In this way, everything will be left to Zimiao."

"Please rest assured. Wei must do his best to complete the tasks assigned by the Great Sima and the envoy. ”

The fleet led by Zhang Wei consisted of a total of 50 large sea ships and more than 100 inland river boats. The ship was piled with silk, ceramics, soap, and other goods. The entire fleet consisted of 1,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 sailors.

The route of this fleet was to follow the coastline of the Indochina Peninsula first, according to the map of Southeast Asia and the Indian Peninsula drawn by Guan Da Sima. After reaching the Straits of Malacca, head west. It then travels north along the western coastline of Indochina before reaching the Indian Peninsula. Establish a direct official link with the Gupta dynasty that ruled there. He then moved to the western part of the Indian Peninsula and established contact with the Kushan Empire there.

If everything really goes well and you find Kushan, then the rest of the things will be easy: at this time, Kushan has been beaten into a dog by Sassanid Persia, but due to the growing threat of Gupta, Guishan now not only does not dare to seek revenge on Sasan, but instead uses Sassanid as the suzerain, relying on Sassan's help to fight Gupta against Gutta. Therefore, as soon as you reach Kushan, it is very easy to establish contact with Persia at sea. In this way, the Maritime Silk Road was successfully opened. In this way, the problem of limited cargo volume will be greatly alleviated. The commodities exported by the Han Dynasty have changed from relying entirely on silk to developing ceramics and silk at the same time.

Of course, all this is Guan Yi's vision. The specific implementation also requires the people under him to bravely open up.

As the representative of Cao Wei that year, he crossed the sea to the Japanese archipelago and declared the Yamatai Kingdom as a vassal kingdom of Cao Wei. He was not like an ordinary doctor. He really agreed with Guan Yi's idea of developing sea routes. So this time, he also made a big bet in this fleet.

"Grandfather, grandson is gone. If you don't find Guishuang, your grandson will never survive! ”

"Good! Mi'er do it well. My Han man, in addition to being able to open up tens of thousands of miles in the western frontier, can also cut through tens of thousands of miles of waves in the South Sea! ”