Compared with the flow of people next to the Baqiao in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, there are seven or eight percent fewer pedestrians on the side of the road to the west of Chang'an. ←

"Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end, Pingyang Hou has a long way to go to Longxi, brother, I will toast you a glass of wine, I wish you success!"

Hou Fu raised his glass and drank it all, he served as a commander under the big farmer Ling Zhuang Qingzhai, and he was busy with official business and had to leave Chang'an for half a step, far less comfortable than Liang Zou Hou Wu Yingqi with a family straight to Longxi.

There are more than 20 liehous who left with the Marquis of Pingyang, they are all close partners of the same age, they are young and at the age of daring to fight and love fantasies, and they can't stand the depressed political atmosphere in Chang'anli, so they take the initiative to follow them to Longxi.

The most eye-catching group of people in the team, they dragged their families and walked in a hurry, they were the abolished marquis of the identity of the cloth people, including the former Gaowan Marquis Bingxin, the former Feihou Chen Yan, the former Chiquan Marquis Yang Wuxian, the former Beiping Marquis Zhang Pre, the former Peng Marquis Qin Wu, the former Guangyan Marquis Shizi Zhaoqi, the former Xinwu Marquis Jin Qiao, the former Marquis Wen Yu, the former Lihou Shizi Cheng She, the former Wuyuan Hou Shizi Wei Qianqiu, the former Chengyang Hou Shizi Xi Ze, the former boiled jujube Hou Shizi Jianxin and others.

The former court captain Gao Wan Hou Bingwu was mourned for only a few years, and his son Bingxin was exempted from the country with a very small fault, and the former Beiping Marquis Zhang Pre was even more wronged, and he liked to fiddle with tools to study technology since he was a child, and he was very relieved to be a master craftsman, he was a neutral faction with neither political ambitions nor political appeals, but because of a momentary negligence in etiquette, he was degraded to a civilian by an edict by the Son of Heaven, and it was really not worth it to suffer at a great age.

There are various reasons for the liehous to be dismissed, most of them were disposed of in the late Han Jingdi and early Jianyuan periods, and they are more fortunate than the liehous who deserved to die for their crimes in recent years. It's just that the lucky ones are relatively limited, and the degraded to the common people not only loses all political and economic privileges. They also had to bear the weight of forced labor and taxes, and sudden changes would have left them in ruins.

Fortunately. Cao Shi thought of this group of poor people.

They were given a precious opportunity to follow Pingyang Hou to Longxi in search of a new life.

Herod!

Quickly raising the whip, the long carriage of horses drove to the far west, Liu Wan opened the thick curtain to look at the rapidly distant scenery and fell into thought, this is the first time in her life to leave Chang'an City, maybe it is also the last time to leave, she has a hunch, maybe this time it will be difficult to come back.

"It's windy outside, sister, pay attention to your body."

Wei Junru's face was full of tiredness. Pregnant women are extremely thirsty for sleep, and at four months of pregnancy, their bodies are getting fuller, and they have to sleep for five or six hours every day before they can sleep enough.

Liu Wan smiled and lowered the curtain and asked absentmindedly: "You say, what does it mean that the husband asked us to go to Longxi?" ”

"Didn't the husband say that we are not at ease in Chang'an, and how good it would be for us to go together with the husband to be companions in Longxi." Wei Junru blinked tiredly and closed his eyes again.

"Yes."

Hanchi Road is the foundation of Qin Straight Road, the 36-meter-wide straight road only a few special groups of people can take the main road, ordinary business travelers are only allowed to walk the road on the edge of the road. Six white horses are moving steadily and dragging the carriage forward quickly, the speed of the central road pass of the gallop is fast and the shaking is small, and the shock absorption system of the four-wheeled carriage is assisted, so you can hardly feel the shaking in the movement.

Liu Wan was very annoyed. Recalling the dissatisfied look of the queen mother Wang Wan the day before leaving Chang'an, she knew that the proposal to leave Chang'an was not supported and understood by the queen mother, and her family hoped that she could help the emperor from the position of the imperial family. Instead of standing in the position of her husband to help her family, Liu Wan has her favorite husband. and his favorite son, how could he leave them to support his younger brother.

She still remembers what her husband-in-law Cao Shi said to him. The tragedy of Princess Jiangyi is enough as one, and she does not want to become a victim of the struggle between the emperor and the princes, and the advice containing concern is not a disguised warning, her husband does not allow her to be neutral between the emperor and her husband, let alone allow her to stand in the opposing camp and be the enemy of the Pingyang Marquis.

The relationship between husband and wife is so deep, and they still have to face the crisis of family tears, you can imagine how her aunts who married and the princesses who married earlier faced their husband's family, being a spy betrayer or a time bomb buried next to her husband, that feeling is really bad.

Looking back at her good sister, Wei Junru, who is sleeping, why didn't she make her own decision in the painful choice, she has her own good sister Wei Zifu, good brother Wei Qing standing in the emperor's camp, and two good brothers Wei Changjun and Wei Buguang standing in the husband's camp, and the family feels very bad in two camps.

"Sister Junru, why didn't your second sister come with you?"

"Hmm, the child followed her husband to Longxi County one step earlier."

Liu Wan's heart jumped slightly, and she was surprised: "Then speaking, there are six sisters and brothers in your family, and only Zifu and A-Qing are left in Chang'an City." ”

"Who's to say it isn't? I regret it now, I shouldn't have let my husband come to Chang'an City in the first place, now she is so favored and pregnant with the dragon seed of the Son of Heaven, it is very difficult to come up with Chang'an in the future, Ah Qing went to be a general to kill the Huns for the Son of Heaven, I didn't sleep all night when I was worried. Wei Junru said with a sad face.

The Wei family was torn into two groups, which was not the result that she, the eldest sister, was willing to see, especially the youngest sister Wei Zifu and the youngest brother Wei Qing in the family, the two older brothers in the family were not at home all the year round, only she, the eldest sister, had the spare strength to care about one or two, but Wei Zifu and Wei Qing were not able to make people worry, their own ideas were right, and they didn't want to get half a point if the relationship between outsiders was advanced.

With the frequency of the carriage shaking, the hearts of the two women shook like an undulating sea, chatting absentmindedly about the short time of the parents, to their surprise that Liu Ling did not follow, and set off for Jiangxia County the day after the grand banquet, it is said that all the follow-up arrangements of Jiangxia County will be withdrawn, and the funds to be invested will be recovered one by one.

Liu Wan has been in charge of the money and grain in the Hou Mansion, and knows a lot about his own family background, the old David Changjun of the Wei family opened a large copper mine in Yuzhang County, it is said that the name is Dexing Copper Mine, some of the veins held by Shaofu produce 120,000 catties of pure copper every year, and the amount of pure copper held by Pingyang Hou Mansion is two and a half times that of Shaofu, and it is 300,000 catties of pure copper a year.

minted six million brass coins, in addition to the output of copper ore associated with the pure silver 10,000 catties, pure gold 500 catties, adding up to more than 100 million pieces of five baht money per year, similar way to operate large and small copper mines have fifteen, the annual fixed net income of 900 million yuan, although not as good as the Han Emperor Wen Emperor favored Deng Tong sat on the world's copper mines, at least in the amount of copper ore in the aristocracy is the leader.

In addition, most of the windfall profits from coal mining are in the hands of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, and the amount of coal trucks transported to large cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, and Linzi in Beijing every year is transported to the common people, and the common people use washed coal slime to make fires for cooking, and the workshops of iron smelting and forging use refined coal to melt metals, and there are also industries such as textiles, printing and dyeing, and papermaking that need heat treatment need coal to heat, and coal is closer to the lives of the people at the bottom than the time-consuming and laborious time and effort of going up the mountain to cut wood and burning it into charcoal.

After years of mining and competition, the net profit of coal is maintained at about 20% and is difficult to grow, the very low profit margin will still bring a fixed income of 800 million yuan to the Hou Mansion of Pingyang, the annual fixed profit of Pingyang Garment Factory is not less than 700 million yuan, the sum of papermaking and printing has never been less than 300 million yuan, the income of iron smelting has been reduced from the initial 800 million yuan to the current 200 million yuan, the income from the transaction of monopolizing the river and the good horse is about 500 million yuan, and the remaining miscellaneous investments have hundreds of items that add up to 300 million yuan.

Especially in the years when Cao Shi served as Shaofu, the annual income will not be less than 6 billion money, and there was a record of 8 billion money a year during the peak period of the yield, and then the industry gradually opened up to the outside world and competition caused the profit to decline, even if it earned less than before in recent years, it has never been lower than the threshold of 3.5 billion money.

In contrast, the fixed income of grain and salt is not in sight, and Jiangxia County, which has invested in it, will not be taken away within two years of seeing profits.

It was a little distressing to send the investment out of Jiangxia County, but thinking about the promise of two million immigrants, Liu Wan's mood suddenly became much more comfortable, and her husband told him that the most valuable thing in the world was not money, but the hard-working, brave, tenacious, and united old Qin people of Guanzhong, with a population of two million, even if there was no eldest son left, he would be able to earn back the wealth of a gold mountain from scratch in ten years.

Liu Wan especially believed in her husband's words.

Cao Shi said that if he can earn it back, then he will definitely be able to earn it back, not to mention that 20 billion money was thrown out in exchange for two hundred people in Guanzhong, even if he was exchanged for two million cattle and sheep, he would have a way to become a big tribe master, and her husband has never lacked the ability and courage to create miracles, which is what fascinates her the most.

More than 20,000 horsemen followed the guards, escorted more than 4,000 carriages carrying nearly 10,000 princes' relatives, and carried a large amount of gold and silver treasures to Longxi, which was the main composition of this huge team.

Less than a quarter of the meritorious princes left, and the living abolished marquis basically followed, and the Guannei Hou family, which followed closely with the princes, also followed more than 40 people, almost taking out two percent of the aristocratic class in Chang'an, Cao Shi's hand can be described as ruthless, and what is surprising is that the imperial court has a tacit attitude towards this.

"Why, you ask me? The reason is very simple, the court feels that the meritorious nobles are a stumbling block in the way, and it is better to be willing to take the initiative to exile to the barren land of the border county, I can't wait to bomb you away, if you leave, your field and house in Chang'an will be disposed of, isn't this to make enough room for others to be promoted? ”

The spacious carriage was large enough to accommodate eight people, and Cao Shi patiently explained to the questioner, his eyes glancing from time to time to the approaching Loess Plateau, closer to his destination. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)