In the year 402 of the Han calendar (197 AD, the second year of Jian'an), Liu Bei presided over a grand spring sowing ceremony in Qingzhou, and at the same time, he also held a wedding for Tai Shici.

At this time, Sun Quan's army conquered Jingyang again, and the army reached the gate of Nanjun, and the people along the way confiscated the Haoqiang land and distributed it to the landless farmers. Cao Cao's army also suddenly accelerated, and after forcing Zhang Ji to surrender, Cao's army was divided into two groups, one led by Cao Hong, with 50,000 soldiers and horses to defend Wancheng and guard against Sun Quan. The remaining 100,000 troops turned around and attacked Hanzhong in Yizhou like a tsunami, and Zhang Lu, the head of the Wudoumi Sect, surrendered without a fight. Cao Cao blocked Liu Yan's way out of Sichuan, and Liu Yan was shocked to hear the bad news and vomited blood and died. Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne, and Shu County was in turmoil.

After Cao Cao occupied Hanzhong, he gained an excellent springboard to attack Liangzhou to the north and Yizhou to the south. The turmoil in Shu County caused by Liu Zhang's succession to the throne, although it did not cause violent political turmoil under the pressure of strong enemies, however, Yizhou officials only survived.

At the suggestion of the strategists, Cao Cao stopped the pace of the attack, and the army was reclaimed in Hanzhong to watch the changes in Shu County.

Seeing that the Cao family could easily take the entire Yizhou, Sun Quan was not willing to be lonely, and hurriedly sent an army to Jiaozhi, and the Jiaozhi stabbing historian became unable to resist, and hurriedly reached an agreement with the Qingzhou envoy to lease several counties near Guangzhou to Qingzhou, and after moving a family into the concession, surrendered to Sun Quan, and waited until Cheng Pu led Sun's army into Jiaozhi, 30,000 Taishan soldiers had been stationed in the concession area, and Liu Bei named the concession area Xiangjiang Mansion, which was a road-level regime (under the state and above the county). The port on the waterfront of Heung Kong Province was named Hong Kong.

Cheng Pu did not dare to provoke lightly, and watched as the Taishan soldiers erected Liu Bei's banner not far from Jiaozhi Mansion and began to recruit troops, and the remnants of Jiaozhi crossed the Lend-Lease border one after another, and the people of several nearby counties poured into the Lend-Lease area to avoid the war, and in the blink of an eye, 50,000 Jiaozhi Zhuangmen began to form an engineer regiment with the establishment of the army, build ports, repair roads, and build houses on a large scale. In the blink of an eye, a powerful navy appeared in Hong Kong, and Tai Shici led his newlywed wife to lead 10,000 sailors into Xiangjiang Mansion.

Cheng Pu looked at the news sent back by Xizuo, puzzled, and turned his head to ask Xue Zong and Lu Fan, the civilian officials who accompanied the army: "Two, what's going on in this Xiangjiang Mansion?" You see, in this planning and design drawing, there is no vacant land for farmland, there are no farmers, what will the people of Xiangjiang Mansion eat in the future? Tens of thousands of troops spend countless money and food every day, Liu Bei, what do you want to do? ”

Xue Zong replied: "The general's task is to take the entire territory of Jiaozhi, in your opinion, is it certain that our army will start a war with Xiangjiang Mansion?" ”

Cheng Pu Laocheng was serious and replied: "Taishi Ziyi is a Qingzhou general, Taishan soldiers are fierce and abnormal, and Cao Mengde's Yanzhou soldiers have suffered a big loss, they are well-trained, and our army is not an opponent in one-on-one competition, not to mention that Tai Shici also brought 10,000 Qingzhou sailors, once the war is not smooth, he can sail away, but our army has to guard against his daily retaliation, and the matter of war with Qingzhou soldiers will never be mentioned again." ”

Lu Fan replied: "When I was in the meeting, I heard of this method of leasing a port, as if Liu Bei's leased port did not have an agricultural area, and those veterans who leased the port relied on collecting ship docking fees to make a profit, and at the same time, they also opened various service facilities in the port area, such as taverns and restaurants, and relied on the collection of taxes from these service facilities to support the operation of the port area. Liu Bei's large-scale construction of Xiangjiang Mansion this time is not a good thing for us. I have heard that a large number of ships from Qingzhou are heading south, and it seems that in the future, this Xiangjiang Province will be a supply point for the southbound fleet, and we can profit by providing grain and grass to Xiangjiang Province and providing daily food. General Cheng, Liu Bei's port expansion required a lot of labor, and it was the spring plowing season at this time. While we can arrange for the farmer to plow, we can contact Tai Shici, and give him all the rich labor, and help him repair the road and build the port, so that the toe can be fixed. ”

Cheng Pu said helplessly: "That's the only way." Report the situation here to the lord, and we will immediately contact Taishi Ziyi. ”

In Qingzhou, Liu Beizheng took the construction plan of Xiangjiang Mansion and explained to the Senate: "My Qingzhou has been developing for more than ten years, and every expansion can bring us prosperity. After the annexation of Hebei and Yousanzhou, do you still remember the prosperity of the market? Three years, three years later, the development of Qingzhou has come to a standstill, have you ever thought about the reason? Liu Bei glanced at the whispering elders and revealed the mystery: "Without him, there is only overproduction." For example, we have adopted horse farming technology, and the acres of land cultivated by one person can be four to eight times that of oxen farming, and we have adopted the Izumo water mill, and the new water conservancy has been built, and the irrigation of crops is more than 100 times more efficient than in the past! With the introduction of a new type of spinning machine, how much more cloth can be woven by one person than in the past? The Central Plains war, the people can't eat enough, how to buy our goods? If we can't sell our goods, our prosperity will suffer.

Four years ago, we annexed the three prefectures of Hebei and Youzhou, and it can be said that all the savings of our Qingzhou fiscal and tax over the years were used to resettle the people of those three states, but what did we get, the sudden expansion of the market, the sudden increase in purchasing power, so that our commerce and production have reached a new level, and in three years, in just three years, we have earned back the fiscal and tax revenues accumulated in the past seven or eight years. Since last year, we have fought a few more battles with fiscal and tax revenues: the first war welcomed back the Son of Heaven and opened up the Luoyang market; The First World War pacified the Wa Kingdom, occupied a land the size of Qingzhou, and captured countless gold and silver; In World War III, we established Lu'an, a cargo transit point in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

These are not enough, we have developed too fast in the past few years, and the new market can not meet the requirements of our production expansion, so the government must spend another amount of money, consume some products, and then open up a market for the four states of Qingdao, Hebei and Youzhou, and the businessmen pay taxes to us and support our government operation, just so that we can use iron and fire to sell goods for them, and the significance of the construction of Xiangjiang Mansion lies in this.

Through government procurement, we will consume all the building materials, tens of thousands of people's daily necessities, and salary income, and when the construction of Xiangjiang Mansion is completed, there will be several countries waiting for us, waiting for the sale of our goods, which will be our future cargo transit station, and I hope that through this port, all the gold, silver, jewelry and other wealth of other countries will be moved back to our Qingzhou.

What is there in the south, there is the country of spices, there is the island of tin island, there is the island of rice three crops a year, there is also the island of gold, with these islands rich in products, my Han can maintain a thousand years of prosperity, the development of Xiangjiang Province is the beginning of the millennium of great cause. ”

More than 70% of the world's manganese ore, 30% of the world's copper ore in Bonidao (Philippines), 30% of the copper ore, 70% of the world's tin ore in Tin Island (Malaysia), at that time more than 50% of the world's gold production in the country (Japan), and Vietnam's chromium reserves accounted for 15% of the world's total reserves, ranking second in the world, in addition, there is the world's largest iron ore - Australia Island. With these resources, we can ensure that the Han will not lag behind in the competition within a thousand years.

It is important that when our nation understands that overproduction needs to be digested by foreign wars, then the expansion of the nation cannot be stopped.

"I don't plan to implicate too much in the construction of Xiangjiang Port, I only choose three powerful trading companies, and they will invest in the construction." When Liu Bei's words came to this, the elders were overjoyed, and they could just pay for it. However, Liu Bei's following words made them very annoyed.

"Considering that not all ships have the ability to go to the sea, I plan to build Xiangjiang Province into a southbound transit station, and use Xiangjiang Province as the base point to build Haikou (Malacca) on Bintan Island into an armed fortress to defend our Han Sea Frontier. In order to compensate for the investment of the Heung Kong Prefecture, I am going to sell the ocean-going shipping rights to the south, and the fleets of the three trading companies that have obtained the ocean-going navigation rights have the right to sail out of the mouth of Bintan Island, and the rest of the trading companies can sail with the fleets of the three trading companies after paying the relevant fees to the three trading companies, otherwise they are all prohibited.

I have calculated the total cost of the construction of Xiangjiang Province, and the following is the total amount that each trading company can report on its own investment, and the three trading companies with the highest capital contribution will receive the construction rights of Xiangjiang Province. In addition, the three trading companies had exclusive rights to trade overseas, and they had to fulfill the task of surveying the sea 100 nautical miles a year and perfecting our charts. ”

Before Liu Bei's words fell, Zhang Shiping, the person in charge of the retired and the club, raised his arm and said, "Xuande, can our retired military club participate in the investment competition of Xiangjiang Mansion as a separate trading company." ”

"Of course you can," Liu Bei replied briskly.

The Retired Soldiers Club is an interest group established by Liu Bei in order to support martial artists and cultivate the spirit of martial arts. The retired military associations with a large number of military fields (tunkentian) and post stations (postal system) are among the largest trading companies in Qingzhou, and they also have a large number of specially trained military personnel. With their participation, even the cost of garrisoning the future of Xiangjiang Prefecture can be saved, and a large number of retired soldiers can be accommodated.

With Zhang Shiping's appearance, after a little calculation, the merchants immediately understood the huge benefits contained here, and they exchanged heads and discussed with each other.

Liu Bei lit another fire: "This time for the construction of Xiangjiang Mansion, I don't plan to compete with the people for profit, I decide: Izumo Trading Company will not participate in the investment competition of Xiangjiang Mansion." In addition, the Mi fleet is not involved. ”

At this moment, everyone is already crazy, Liu Bei, the largest businessman in Qingzhou, does not participate, and the Izumo Trading Company headed by Liu Bei, composed of Liu (Bei) Gao (Shan), Zhou (Yi), and Yin (Dong), does not participate, so there is great hope for the small merchants in Qingzhou. In the blink of an eye, at this meeting of the senators, after the joint efforts of several small merchants, the two giant chambers of commerce of Nanyang Trading Company and Xiangjiang Trading Company were released, and they and Rongbing (retired soldiers) Association immediately carved up the investment work of Xiangjiang Prefecture.

"I personally have another wish, I hope that the managers of Xiangjiang Mansion can be satisfied," Liu Bei said with a smile, after the three trading companies won the bid, according to the agreement, the management of Xiangjiang Mansion was transferred to the Joint Committee of the Three Trading Companies, which was the first government in Dahan to be completely autonomous by merchants. "I plan to go to the Indian Ocean to wash my military boots, and I hope that when the ship I make goes to the South Seas, the Xiangjiang Government will allow it to go."

Zhang Shiping said with a smile: "The virtuous nephew is going to the Indian Ocean, the old man is in charge, and the Xiangjiang Mansion will not charge you for any traffic." However, why do we want to make that ocean the Indian Ocean, we have already called the sea outside Samhan (the Sea of Japan) the Han Sea, why don't we call that ocean 'our sea', as long as we survey and sail, of course we should name it

。 ”

Liu Bei was arrogant: "Okay, give me three years, I will lay a foothold for you in that continent, so that my Han businessmen will come and go there in the future, and they will not be bullied by outsiders." After that, let our merchants empty all the wealth of the Brahman, and let the military flag of the Han Dynasty be planted all over that continent. ”

Qingzhou are all militants, and when they heard Liu Bei's words, they enthusiastically applauded in unison. Zhang Shiping also lost his composure, stood up and announced loudly: "My Rongjun Trading Company has sufficient map manpower, and in three years, I will use a ruler to measure that piece of land to ensure that every path is drawn, and this map will be completed before the virtuous nephew enters the army." ”

Liu Bei nodded again and again, and said: "The people in that land have a habit of collecting gold, and everyone has a few taels of gold in their homes (the per capita possession is 34.71 grams), and the Buddha statues there are made of pure gold, let us go wherever we go, and move all the gold back to Qingzhou."

Gold makes people crazy, and in the warm atmosphere, the Senate forgot that it had planned to investigate Liu Bei's dereliction of duty, as well as the evil habit of fighting wars outside the country all the year round and ignoring official duties. Thirsty for gold, they even passed an additional grant to train the Jiaozhi Navy to support Liu Bei's southward campaign.

In the blink of an eye, we entered the fourth month of the solar calendar, and farming began. The princes of the south fought hard and prepared for a big battle. The first phase of Qingzhou's overseas land auction was also held as scheduled. After efforts by Xuzhou Chen Deng, at the cost of unifying the laws with the four states of Qingji and Youyou, he regained the right of Xuzhou merchants to participate in the auction. Cao Cao duly promulgated a rough property law, but he still couldn't stop the tide of money from pouring into Qingzhou.

At this time, the emperor took Cao Cao's campaign and secretly met with Dong Cheng.

"I came to talk to the queen at night about the suffering of Hangu, and remembered the great achievements of my uncle, so I specially announced my condolences." The emperor was rarely pleasant. Pity Dong Cheng worked hard to save the driver that day, the emperor didn't expect the reward, but now he suddenly rewarded him with a warm face, and temporarily hugged the Buddha's feet, which made Dong Cheng grateful.

The emperor led Dong Cheng out of the palace to the Taimiao and turned into the pavilion of meritorious heroes. After the emperor burned incense, he led Dong Chengguan to look at the portrait. The statue of Han Gaozu is painted in the middle. The emperor said: "The ancestors are so heroic, and the descendants are so cowardly, how can it be a sigh!" "Dong Chengweiwei.

The emperor said: "I want to save the capital of the west, but I have not forgotten it, and there is nothing to give." Because he pointed to the belt of the robe he was wearing, he said: "Qing should wear this robe, tie this belt, often as in the left and right of me." Dong Chengton thanked him. The emperor untied the robe and gave it to him, and said in a secret language: "You can look at it carefully, don't be disappointed." Dong Cheng willed, wore a robe and tie, and resigned from the emperor's cabinet.

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