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Everyone has their own troubles, and after Han Ji drove away, Ji Huan's smile slowly faded and turned into sadness and depression.

When the maid Yuan came, she also told Ji Huan about Wei's sacrifice of the sword on a rainy day a few days ago, including her life experience, which made Ji Huan a little worried.

"Unexpectedly, she was originally a lady of the scholar's family, but her ancestor was Xia Ji, who killed the first marquis, the second secretary and the fourth doctor...... Maybe this woman is the same as rumored, she can do some bewitching techniques, so she can be so beautiful and ageless. ”

However, this matter should be left to his future brother-in-law to worry about......

Thinking of this, she rubbed her eyebrows even more annoyedly.

A few times on the case, there is a silk book sent back by Zhao Ying from Wendi, and the content described is not much different from the one that Zhao Guangde brought to Chengyi.

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"The cheap son is going to the end! will only use this strange trick to speculate and hoard and deceive the people! ”

Zhao Zhongxin trembled with anger, his original face was distorted, and with a wave of his hand, he threw a piece of wheat cake that looked soft and delicious.

The people who were waiting on the side felt distressed for a while, this piece of delicate wheat cake had to be exchanged for a few buckets of corn, which was their half-time ration......

"Brother Zhong, speaking of which, this thing tastes really good, even I can't help but want to eat it all, not to mention the township clans."

Zhao Shuqi, who was full of gloom in the past, was much calmer, he knelt on the seat, and ate a piece of scone made of wheat flour unhurriedly, and there was not a single dregs left.

Zhao Zhongxin rushed over and pointed at him and reprimanded: "Do you still have the leisure to taste?" Do you know that every piece you eat means that several buckets of corn and wheat in your territory have flowed into the warehouses of the lowly people! ”

It turned out that after making a name for himself in the lower palace, Zigong's business had begun to expand to the surrounding villages. Naturally, the hungry savages could not afford to eat, but the clans of various townships and wealthy people took out the corn and cloth stored at home and went to the city of the lower palace to exchange for wheat flour.

By the time Zhao Zhongxin and Zhao Shuqi found out, it was too late. A large amount of corn in their fiefdoms has flowed into Chengxiang through trade, and it is said that the patriotic merchant would bring back more than ten carts of corn and forage every time the market was dispersed.

Thinking about it, at this time, Zhao Wuxian's treasury is almost overflowing!

The two of them now feel that they have worked hard in the territory for more than half a year, and they have also gone to the field to perform the field ceremony during spring ploughing, but in the end they made a wedding dress for that cheap concubine!

Moreover, this kind of trading continues, and the ban continues. Especially Zhongxin, this can be regarded as suffering from the connivance of the clan, last year Wei Ju said that his governance was the law of Qi Taigong, but now, he was cut by Zhao Wuxian in turn.

That's why he cried out indignantly: "In this way, the lowly son will not farm and the treasury will be self-sufficient, and when the winter solstice comes, the corn in our township barns will be greatly reduced, and he is the opposite, and he can easily get it if he is the first!" ”

Zhao Shuqi got up slowly, he actually had a plan a long time ago, but he was noticed by Zhao Wuxian, and in an instant, he made Cheng Weng "die of illness", and then sent his cronies to take charge of the Cheng family, so he had to delay until now.

Driven by this wheat flour, Shu Qi felt that he could no longer wait, and when his father returned, no action could escape his eyelids.

Zhongxin is pedantic, and his retainer Cheng He has already connected with his uncle through Shi Tuo in order to help Cheng Weng and Cheng Ji take revenge. Under their discussion, a conspiracy has gradually surfaced, and now, it is only necessary to bring Zhongxin in as well, and take advantage of the fact that his father Zhao Ying has not yet returned, and do that thing together!

He held Zhao Zhongxin's hand, and pretended to be affectionate and said: "Brother Zhong, don't worry, my brother has a plan, he can draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, so that the lowly concubine's territory will have no food and no straw overnight!" ”

Zhao Zhongxin's eyes lit up: "What's the way, come and listen to Brother Wei!" ”

Shu Qi's voice slowly lowered: "This matter still needs you and me to join forces, although the Cheng clan has collapsed, there are many people who are dissatisfied with the tyranny of the cheap concubine, not to mention, I also left an internal ...... in Chengxiang."

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Whether it is Ji Huan, or Zhongxin and Shuqi, they are all speculating that in Zhao Wuxian's warehouse now, Su Mu is probably overflowing.

But they were wrong.

If anyone can enter the well-guarded Chengxiang Treasury, they will find that there are only some straw and guaranteed grain, and some large bags of wheat flour temporarily stored. The rest of the place was still empty, allowing the rats to march in formation.

According to the dense bamboo accounts drawn by the overseas Chinese with the "Zhou Ji figures," this year's winter wheat harvest totaled 40,000 koku: of which nearly 8,000 koku were from public land, and 32,000 koku from the rest were private land, and according to the tax rate of one-twentieth of the tax rate set without shirts, the government treasury received less than 10,000 koku.

A family of six can eat 100 stone of grain a year, that is to say, if all this wheat is made into wheat rice, it can only feed a hundred families, or feed a brigade of 500 soldiers.

Of course, Zhao Wuxian would not use it like this, he transported all the wheat to the mill, and grinded the wheat flour one after another, exhausting several mules and horses without stopping.

As a result, the artisan area near the stream was bustling with activity, and large bags of wheat flour were carried out and loaded onto ox carts to transport away.

Zhao Wuxian is not the kind of rich man who piles up all the grain at home once there is a harvest, counting it several times a day. What he wants to do is to continue to promote trade lines and carry out "expanded reproduction".

What about the corn piled up in the treasury, except for looking at it with a sense of security, other than letting it rot slowly, what other use can it be?

Goods and money, only when they are circulated, can they create greater value!

In fact, after more than half a month, after selling wheat flour four or five times in the market of Hagongyi, Zigong sold more than 400 stones, harvested a total of nearly 10,000 stones of corn and nearly 100 horses of silk cloth!

In addition to one-tenth of the profits distributed to the caravan, Zhao Wuxian entrusted Zigong with most of the income to buy some copper and iron for making tools, as well as cattle, horses, and livestock around the lower palace.

As early as decades ago, Jin Pinggong once said: "Jin has three invincibles, what enemy is there?" ”

This king, who is one south and one north with King Chu Ling, believes that the Jin Kingdom has three favorable conditions, which is enough to be invincible in the world.

The first and second of them are "national risks and horses".

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the land of Hedong, that is, Shanxi in later generations, was not as prosperous and densely populated as in later generations, and many areas were still in a state of half-cultivation and half-pasture, and Zhuxia and Rongdi were mixed. In particular, the Zhao, Fan, and Zhi clans have newly conquered Jinyang, Dongyang, Drum, Fat and other places in recent decades, as well as horses, cattle, sheep, Qiuqiu, tendons and horns and other materials.

In addition, the ancestors of the Zhao family started by raising horses, so cattle and horses are cheaper than elsewhere. At that time, Zheng Guo's patriotic merchant Xiangao bought cattle and horses from the territory of the Zhao family of the Jin State, and then sold them to the Zhou Chamber south of the Yellow River......

Generally speaking, near the left side of the lower palace, a sturdy ploughing ox is worth 50 koku of corn, and a healthy pack horse is worth 50 koku of corn.

As for the good horses that can ride on gallops, or pull heavy chariots, there is less than 400 stone corn, and they do not want to change it, and they do not want to be fooled with grass, and they have to be fed with grain from time to time.

Therefore, Zhao Wuxian's light knights can only maintain the scale of thirty or forty horsemen at present, and the reason is very simple: they can't afford to raise them.

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ps: There is no way to check the prices in the Spring and Autumn Period, so you can only use the data of the Han Dynasty to extrapolate according to the "Examination of the Price Problems of Chinese Dynasties".

The normal price of corn in the Han Dynasty should be between 60 and 120 yuan (five baht) per stone, and in order to facilitate the calculation, we take 80.

According to the breed of horses in the Western Han Dynasty, the price ranged from 4,000 yuan to 33,000 yuan, so it is believed that inferior horses and pack horses are 50 times that of corn, and better war horses are 400 times that of corn.

Cattle are about 4,000 yuan, even if it is 50 times that of corn.

By the way, the conversion ratio of Qin Guojin (half a tael) cloth is 11:1

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