"My father is really ruthless, it has been less than a month since he returned to Linzi, and he is going to Taojun again." Tian Jian rode on his horse and complained.

"Your Highness, there is nothing you have in your hands... Cement, the king won't let you go to Taojun, and the king is also for foolproof! Meng Ao persuaded beside him.

This time I went to Tao County, for safety, and of course for Tian Jian's careful thinking, so he brought his prince six rates, a full 7,000 people, although the training time of these 7,000 horses is still short, but under the training of Meng Ao and Wei Qing, it is much more elite than the ordinary Qi army. But they were missing one of the most precious things. Of course it's different from the woman's, although it's all bloody.

The soldier's idea of killing, an army that has not experienced the battlefield, is destined to be unhealthy, no matter how strict their discipline is, but when they experience all kinds of things beyond the limits of the human body, they only show casualness.

Tian Jian was speechless for a while when he heard Meng Ao's words, his feeling was that he was making trouble for himself, thinking of the money his father gave him, he had a big head for a while, only five thousand gold!

What can you do with these 5,000 gold? Even the food expenses of his own pro-army are not enough for three months, not to mention other expenses.

"Your Highness, this trip to Tao County, although there is no danger of going to Chu State, there is no lack of twists and turns." Meng Ao thought for a while and spoke.

Tian Jian couldn't think about it a little, and asked, "General Meng, what do you mean by this?" "Meng Ao because of his excellent performance in the Battle of Peach Valley last time, he has been named the commander of Tian Fazhang, that is, the marshal of the five capitals, and can be called the first person to come down from Anping Jun Tiandan, of course, this is indispensable to Tian Jian's operation, as a princeling, even if your talent is worrying, but just because you are the prince's person, you can also mix an official and a half-job. What's more, Meng Ao's annihilation of 3,000 Qin troops in this battle can be called a great victory for Qi in the past 20 years. A person who has all talents, and there is a way, it is difficult to become a big official!

Meng Ao hesitated for a moment and said to Tian Jianyi: "Your Highness, although the Song Kingdom has been destroyed, there are still many people who cherish their homeland in the old Song Dynasty, especially the surname Zi. ”

Tian Jian was a little silent, people with the surname Zi have many surnames, like Confucius belongs to the Song people, his ancestors were originally Song people, Confucius's surname Confucius, and the Song family is also a person with the surname Zi, so the Song people are not birds, and when the Song State lobbyed, it was indispensable to be scolded by the Song people for forgetting their ancestors, and learned the etiquette system of the Zhou family to persuade the Song Gong to appoint him.

"Panic like a lost dog." Although it is Confucius's description in the Zheng Kingdom, it is not much better in the Song Kingdom. As a superstitious genus of ghosts and gods, the Song people obviously disliked Confucius's "worship ghosts and gods and stay away", and it is recorded in the Analects of the Eight Hundreds: Sacrifice is like being, sacrifice to God is like God. The son said, 'I will not sacrifice with you, if you do not sacrifice.' ’

Although this sentence does not say that Confucius does not respect ghosts and gods, it can be seen from his point of view that Confucius is not very close to ghosts and gods, and it is obviously unbearable for the people of the Song Dynasty to disrespect ghosts and gods, not to mention that Confucius is a son surname, which is more difficult to accept than a traitor.

After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, according to the ritual law of the feudal system, although the country fell, the victor still could not let the previous aristocratic sects extinct, so when King Wu of Zhou divided the princes, he still sealed the son of the king of Zhou, Wu Geng Yu Yin, in order to worship his ancestors. After the death of King Wu, Wu Geng rebelled and was killed by Zhou Pingping's rebellion, and Wei Ziqi, the cousin of King Xu, was sealed in Shangqiu (now Shangqiu, Henan), with the country name Song, and the capital city was Shangqiu (now southwest of Suiyang District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province). In order to worship the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty, he was one of the two kings and three kings of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, Zhou Gongdan was worried that the inherent territory of the merchants was obviously poorly managed by the Zhou Dynasty as the Guanzhong standard, so he divided himself in the Lu State, and Jiang Shang's descendants were in the Qi State to control the merchants, and Luoyi was born in this way.

Confucius's Analects Yao said that this principle is called "rise and destroy the country, and follow the peerless". After the First Emperor destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the monarchs of the Six Kingdoms were exiled and killed, just like Tian Jian was starved to death in the common land. And Tian Jian's younger brother Tian Jiao was fine, but when Xiang Yu later sealed the world, he was named the king of Qi. Later, Wang Mang was the descendant of Tian Jian, and I have to say that the people of the Tian family were unswervingly committed to the matter of usurping the country.

"The palace has asked Cai Ze to go to Taojun to observe the movements of various forces." Tian Jian said slowly. Originally, he planned to establish his own commercial system in the land of Tao County, and use money to support his army and build fortifications, but he did not expect that there would be many dangers and obstacles, and there would be people with nostalgia for the Song Dynasty mixed in.

During the Warring States Period, the princely states generally seized power, and the country changed its surname or was replaced by a side branch, like the Tian family Dai Qi and the three families were divided into Jin, and the Song State also took the Song Dynasty, and the Song Huan Gong was overthrown by the Song Dynasty Chengjun (Dai Family), and the Song Dynasty became the monarch, that is, the Song Dynasty.

In 318 B.C., Ziyan was proclaimed king, that is, King Kang of Song. History said that King Kang of Song "carried out the king's government", that is, the implementation of political reform, the Song State became strong, the east expedition Qi, take five cities; defeated Chu in the south, and took three hundred miles of land; defeated the Wei army in the west and took two cities; Destroy the country of Teng and take its land. It is known as "the strength of five thousand times Song".

When he was jealous of the great powers of Qi, Chu, and Wei, he did not think about repairing the relationship, but instead made Qi and Wei enemies. Geographically, it was surrounded by the three kingdoms of Chu, Qi and Wei, and it can be called an enemy on all sides.

In 286 BC, there was a civil strife in the Song State, and the Qi State took the opportunity to unite the Chu State and the Wei State to attack the Song State, and the people of the Song State fled in all directions, and the city could not be held, so the King of Song Kang fled to the residence of the Marquis of Ni, and the Qi army captured and killed the King of Song Kang, destroyed the Song State, and the three kingdoms jointly divided the land of the Song State.

However, the Dai family is also a surname, and it is also of the same bloodline as the King of Zhou, and there is no such thing as destroying his heirs, and the people of the Song State can still accept it, but after the destruction of the Song State by the Qi State, after killing the Song Kanggong, how can the people of the Song State not hold a grudge against the King of Qi, and even him, the future King of Qi.

"Your Highness is on guard, in fact, we have seven thousand six rates, plus the 80,000 troops stationed, the revenge of the Song people is not a big deal for us, but we must prevent things like the assassination of Zhao Xiangzi." Meng Ao said.

Even if the people of the Song Dynasty hated the people of Qi State, it was irrelevant, and they didn't see where the First Emperor dared to raise the banner of rebellion when he was alive, but it was not bad for Zhang Liang, a yin person, who sent assassins to kill people when the First Emperor was on his eastern tour.

"This palace has Yang Yi by his side to protect him, and it is safe to come." Tian Jian nodded.

Yang Yi, who was in a daze beside him, heard this, and immediately bowed to Meng Ao and Tian Jian, and said angrily: "Even if Yi dies, he must keep His Highness safe." ”

Meng Ao, who was next to him, laughed, stroked his short run with his hand, and said: "General Ben depends on your kid's ability, if you have spare time, you can also come to me to learn the art of war, there is no future in being a guard for a lifetime." ”

Yang Yi obviously didn't realize what a rare opportunity this was, shook his head and said, "My task is to protect His Highness, and I have no interest in the art of war or anything." ”

Meng Ao smiled awkwardly beside him, and stopped mentioning the art of war, he still had time to teach his son!

Tian Jian shook his head with a smile, but he didn't say anything.

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In the early spring morning, the rising sun, the light is kindly sprinkled to the earth, shining on everything is golden, everywhere is full of vitality, birds and flowers are blooming, the cold of winter seems to have not taken off, and there is still a slight coolness at this time.

The dew on the blades of grass rolls gently, crystal clear, from which it seems to be seen in the distance fierce shouting, all kinds of plants and trees seem to exude a different youthful vitality on this day, flowers bloom colorful buds, a breeze blows, a slight swaying posture will contain the fragrance of winter flowers spread around, the small stream dissolves the cold of winter, and flows slowly on the small stones that can clear to the bottom of the stream, and produces a trace of mist in the warm sun.

A hundred miles west of Taoyi, between the two mountains, there are military camps interspersed here, and when the light mist is slowly lifted, you can dimly see the sweat flowing on the faces of the busy figures, and in a moment, these scenes become clearer.

Between the two mountains, those people wielded pickaxes and hoes to mine the maroon ore, which, according to His Royal Highness the Prince, was iron ore, that is, "evil gold".

It is recorded in the "Chinese Qi Language": "The dollar is used to forge swords and halberds, and the dogs and horses are tried; Evil gold is cast with casting, sizing, catty, and chopping, and testing the loam. The evil gold mentioned here is iron. For the people of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, iron is not worthy of being cast to become a sword, because weapons made of iron on the battlefield are easy to break, but bronze does not have this concern.

Judging the smelting level of a place is to rely on the length of the bronze sword, in Jing Ke's article on the assassination of Qin, the first emperor pulled out the sword and did not draw it out at once, because the sword body was too long.

In the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Jianzi Zhao Ying, that is, Zhao Xiangzi Zhao Wuxian's father, in order to cast Xing Ding, once collected evil gold from the people, and Xing Ding was made of iron, in the Warring States Period, the ancestors already had a record of using iron, but this kind of iron is very clumsy, they only know how to use pig iron, and pig iron has the characteristics of brittle and hard.

In the chemical division of steel, wrought iron, pig iron standard is the amount of carbon, the less carbon, the iron is not easy to break, the more "soft", the less easy to rust, according to the principle of galvanic battery, when the content of carbon is more, galvanic battery corrosion will occur, which is also the reason for the production of stainless steel, the carbon content in stainless steel is already very low.

For the people of Tao County, iron tools are very common, because Tao County is the world, is the richest in the world, the most anointing place, the Song State can be called "five thousand times the giant Song Dynasty" is because the Song State occupies the richest place in the world with Shangqiu and Taoyi as the core, these places are not only developed in agriculture, but also have more commerce than Linzi of Qi State.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, Fan Li helped Goujian, the king of Yue, to be called the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period, and retreated to the second line, no longer in politics, but turned to business, and was called Tao Zhu Gong by the world. It is with iron tools.

Why is Taoyi called "in the middle of the world"? Because Taodi is adjacent to Qi and Lu in the east; Qin and Zheng to the west; Beitong Jin, Yan; The south is connected with Chu and Yue, so Ma Qian of Taishi Company called Dingtao the best place to do business in the world.

Just like the international metropolis of later generations, although Hong Kong's geographical location is not very good and its resources are poor, it is backed by the mainland, and it has grown from a first-tier Asian city to an international metropolis because it has become an export and supply port like Macao when it has not yet reformed and opened up.

From the distant mountain road gradually came an army, which seemed to be only about a hundred men, but the young men in front looked extraordinary.

"Your Highness, there are already five thousand stones of iron ore collected." Wei Qing replied respectfully.

It turned out that this young man was Tian Jian, Tian Jian thought for a while, and said: "Cai Zhanshi and those families of Taoyi are maneuvering, although these thousands of stones of iron ore are not much, but they can also be made into iron and put into the market. ”

"It's not as heavy as a stone." "Chinese Zhouyu". Note: "One hundred and twenty pounds." That is, one stone is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, and the iron ore converted into three thousand stones also has more than 400 tons of iron ore.

Half a month ago, Tian Jian arrived in Tao County, to his surprise, although Tao Yi's forces did not assassinate her, but when he clearly stated that he wanted to take over the entire commerce and armaments of Tao County, watching the amiable families start a series of blows, in just three days, Tao Yi's business operations have completely collapsed.

Tian Jian knew very well that these people were not afraid of him Qi Country, if Qin was here, these people would have been brought to justice by the Qin people a long time ago, for the Qin people, creatures like merchants are the cysts of society, even if they don't kill him, they dare to mess around?

And the Qi State is different, in the time of Jiang Taigong, he did everything in the world, and put forward all kinds of laws to protect the commercial market, even the King of Qi could not simply violate it, and in the era of Guan Zhong and Zou Ji, the Ming monarch calendar was a model that the monarch of Qi must follow.

Especially after the Tian family replaced Qi, as the largest merchant in the Qi country, the Tian family, their national policy was also biased towards the merchants, so it caused this embarrassing situation today.

However, for Tian Jian, a modern man with a history of 5,000 years, the commercial operation of these districts is simply pediatric, and it is simply a fool's dream to drag down all the normal operations of Tao County from a commercial point of view.

The most direct way to deal with commercial rolling is to reduce the price of goods, so that they lose money.

Because of the practice of the Spring and Autumn Period, the mass industry of the Song State was in the hands of these old nobles, and those merchants thought that they had mastered the iron ore and copper mines up and down Tao County, and these worries could be avoided. But they forget, they don't know, that this world is rich in knowledge.

Although Tian Jian is a liberal arts student!