In February of this year, the dust on the northern grasslands rose again, and the Xianbei Lord Kebineng united with several departments of Youzhou Karasuma to invade southward, and attacked Guangning, Macheng and other counties. The imperial court envoys Xiahou Landu Guo Huai, Hao Zhao and other generals begged for it, and ordered the Ministry to help. At this time, the leader of the Tuoba Department, Jie Fen, had just died of illness, and his son Wei Sufu went out of the battle, attacked the Wei army from east to west, beheaded more than 3,000 levels, and killed Ke Bineng in a big defeat, and fled to Mobei in embarrassment.

Immediately, the imperial court summoned Wei to enter the pilgrimage and named it Xianbei Shan Yu - theoretically speaking, as long as Kebineng and Budugen were claimed to be Xianbei people, they all had to obey Wei's management. It was Wei who was loyal, and not only did he come, but he also brought his five-year-old sister-in-law, Desert Khan, and said that I wanted to keep the child in the palace of my father-in-law, Taiwei, and receive a Chinese-style education, which was tantamount to handing over hostages to the Wei dynasty.

As soon as Cao Cao was happy, he named Cao Xiu's daughter, who was just three years old, and named her Princess Deyang, and promised to marry Desert Khan as his wife—of course, until the two children grew up a little before they could officially get married.

By the way, I told Wei that it won't be long before my daughter Princess Shanyang is going to marry your brother, so you can go back to the north after attending the wedding.

Yesun really bought a dowry of 30,000 gold, and married Princess Cao Xian of Shanyang for his son. The so-called "30,000 gold" is 30,000 catties of gold, but it is estimated that all the mansions in Luoyang City, including the palace, will not be able to make up so much gold. A pound of gold in the Han system is worth 10,000 yuan, so 30,000 gold actually refers to various goods worth 30,000 yuan. This number is indeed very large, thinking that Cao Cao's father Cao Song bought the position of Tai Lieutenant, including bribing eunuchs, a total of "100 million" before and after. In fact, it refers to 10,000 gold and 10,000 yuan - Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty openly sold his official beard in the West Garden. The reserve price of the three princes is 10 million yuan (thousand gold).

But this huge amount of money is not enough for many years of service. And it is Xun who benefits the industry and commerce, but in fact, it is not impossible to take it. It's just that according to the general grain price in the Central Plains at that time, 200 yuan is 1 stone pigu, and 30,000 yuan is 1.5 million stone, which is equivalent to Xun's pure salary for more than 100 years...... If this is an incorruptible minister, such as Xun You, he will definitely be so worried that he will be killed by his head.

Moreover, the salaries of officials are basically half a penny and half a valley, but fortunately, the chaos has ended. Food prices remain at a relatively high level. If this is in the heyday of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty and Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in a good year, a stone skin valley hovers between five to fifty yuan, then it will be even more difficult to make up the amount of 30,000 gold......

Fortunately, the main income of the lord is not the tax income of the marquis, nor is it the tax income of the marquis, and he also used the new title system to "sell the knight" on a large scale, and made a lot of bribes or fees. He comforted Cao Miao and said that the dowry was just to go to the royal family. After passing the princess's dowry, I will definitely be able to get back more than half of it. If it is the princess who has been restored, then when Tan grows up in the future, he will also be able to get a happy marriage - we still have to invest if we should invest.

Cao Cao really didn't plan to take advantage of Shixun, just to look good, basically the dowry was converted into a dowry as it was, and it was not divided, and the bulk of the dowry still fell back into Shixun's pocket. The problem is that the cost of grand ceremonies and wedding banquets is also quite amazing, and after the calculation, I lost 10 million dollars inside and out! It's Hongsuke's flesh hurt.

What's more, through this princess marriage, Shi Xun feels that Cao Cao's arrogance has increased again...... When he married Princess Qinghe in the past, where was he willing to spend so much money - even if it was just the property of his in-laws, it would affect his own frugal policy.

In fact, the initiator is still Xun himself......

Shixun does not seek mansions, gardens, forests, ponds, Qiluo, canopies, or concubines—even if he wants, his wife must agree—in theory, he is much more frugal than most of the rich people in these years. The problem is that the enjoyment of ordinary people after 2,000 years in Xun's memory is a fantasy in this life, even if Shi Chong, Wang Kai and others later can't think of it after racking their brains.

For example, food, rich but know how to seek dragon liver and phoenix marrow, all kinds of rare game, or finches eat tongues, geese only eat palms, but Shi Xun spent countless money to develop oil extraction technology, casting more durable iron pots - you must know that the round iron pot with uniform wall thickness has always been a major problem in ancient casting technology, and it was not until the Song Dynasty in the original history that it could be commonly manufactured, so the Song Dynasty did not appear to stir-fry. In addition, Shihoon has built a large-scale greenhouse on his farm so that he can enjoy out-of-season vegetables......

Besides, he is not tolerant of winter cold, but he can't stand being wrapped in fur at home, he doesn't spend a lot of money to buy anthracite coal and charcoal like others, but tries to lay a dragon to keep warm. In these years, the earth dragon technology is still very rough, and the cost of improving the technology is actually enough to use high-quality charcoal for decades......

Another example is wiping after defecation, Shixun does not use toilet chips and leaves like the poor, nor does he use hemp or silk like some rich people, but he has deliberately developed a kind of toilet paper that is soft and absorbent......

It is the Taiwei who has a high reputation, so what kind of enjoyment he does, it will naturally go up and down, and it will soon become a trend. Cao Cao summoned Shi Xun for this reason and asked him to be more restrained: "I am solid and frugal, and it is inconvenient to criticize Hongfu harshly." However, a gentleman should be concerned about customs, if everyone follows Hongfu, I am afraid that the country will be poor. ”

It was Xun who temporarily fabricated a reason to excuse himself, saying: "A wealthy family is a eunuch, and his family wealth is hundreds of millions. If it is not used, or buried in the ground, the money will not pass, and the country will be poor; or purchase land, and it will be annexed, and the country will be in chaos; In addition, there is a waste of money, with thin customs, and even those who privately make armor soldiers, Your Majesty must not be worried. "That's right, I'm extravagant, but I don't waste it, it's better than Shi Chong and Wang Kai Doufu later, who only know how to collect rare treasures that are hungry and cold and can't be clothed, and smash them casually. Besides, if people hide a lot of money but have nowhere to spend it, aren't you afraid that they will secretly create armor soldiers and secretly plot against them?

When Cao Cao heard this, he couldn't help frowning, but he didn't know how to refute it.

After all, the feudal king was not afraid of his subordinates accumulating wealth and extravagance, as long as they did not arouse public resentment and did not threaten his rule. For example: It is recorded in the "History of the South". There are more than 100 warehouses in the backyard of Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan in Nanliang. The lock was strictly forbidden, and some people suspected that it was a private weapon, and it was secretly reported to Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu to know. Xiao Yan was furious, so he conducted a surprise inspection, and when he opened the warehouse, he saw that it was full of copper coins, as well as cloth, silk, silk, cotton, lacquer, honey and other goods. Xiao Yan saw it with his own eyes and immediately smiled. said to Xiao Hong: "Ah Liu, you can live a good life." Since then, "brotherhood has become more harmonious".

Therefore, although Cao Cao advocated frugality, as long as he did not exceed the rules for the extravagant life of his courtiers, it was inconvenient, and he was unwilling to interfere directly, he was just afraid that Xun would bring bad to the atmosphere of the court. Yes Xun said, I taught them to spend money, it's better than them saving money and not knowing where to go. Besides. I'm extravagant, but not wasteful. I am also against waste--let--let's say a finch stops eating its tongue, a plate of a thousand dollars, and when it's over, I will pour all the rest into the ditch -- and I would like to write an article against waste for Your Majesty, in order to declare the hundred bureaucrats. Then Cao Cao had nothing to say.

But since the atmosphere has been cultivated, do you think it will affect Cao Cao in turn? Yeshun regretted it a little.

Thinking about the problem from another angle, maybe Cao Cao deliberately wanted to reduce Shixun's financial resources......

Fortunately, although Cao Cao opened his mouth widely, it was also the "30,000 gold" that he said on the premise that he had a certain understanding of Shixun's financial resources, and it did not exceed the scope that the family could bear. Because the main income of Shixun is neither official nor land, but from the industrial and commercial industry.

Never before to dig into the land, the least gained, and unless there is an epoch-making leap in technology, it is difficult to make a big increase, since ancient times, the real rich - except for corruption and plunder - have been merchants. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was Tao Zhu Gong, in the Warring States Period there was Lü Buwei, in the Han Dynasty there was Zhuo Wang Sun, and so on.

It was Xun Gai who built many workshops, developed many new technologies, and led many new fashions, including stir-frying and drinking tea, and accumulated countless amounts of money. There was a time in the past when he was forced to put many properties up for sale because the stall was too big and the investment in technology was too high, which led to the inability to make ends meet. However, as these industries grew in size due to more participation, the remaining ones became more profitable, surviving the financial crisis and growing in exponential terms. Of course, there is also Cao Miao's merit, with the accumulation of experience points, this former wealthy lady has a tendency to transform into a strong woman in industry and business.

Especially since Lu Bu entered the Western Regions, Shi Xun has organized caravans to trade in Gaochang many times, and the profits obtained from a round trip are higher than the annual profits of papermaking, printing and other workshops. And the wind of enjoyment he set off at the top also indirectly led to the development of more minerals and the cultivation of cash crops, which in turn increased the amount of national tax revenue, and at the same time filled the pockets of individuals.

Not to mention anything else, just take the wind of drinking tea as an example, at first it was just Xun sending people to Shuzhong, each time digging a few stones of medicinal old tea, when this wind grows longer, there is a far-sighted businessman stealing tea seeds, trying to plant it on a large scale in some areas of Jing, Yang and other states with a similar climate to Shuzhong. Later, when Chen Tea was tired of drinking, more wealthy people in the Central Plains wanted a "new taste", so they took the initiative to propose to the imperial court to pay for the repair of the road from Jiangnan to Henan, and hire knights to transport it on fast horses.

But what if there aren't so many horses in the Central Plains? For this reason, some people went north to Shuo and the land of merger, and cooperated with the Tuoba Department to build a horse farm, and bred the top grade tribute officials, the middle grade for their own use, and the lower grade for sale. Immediately, a lot of land in the Central Plains that could only be cultivated by manpower gradually began to use horsepower......

A small cup of tea, once it becomes a hobby generally accepted by the upper class, the industrial chain involved, the flow and the social wealth created are enough to make people jaw-dropping, and even think that there must be help from God......

Of course, there are also people who have come forward to express concern about this phenomenon, for example, Chen Changwen once asked the imperial court to issue an edict to limit the scope of tea gardens, and not to convert cultivated land into tea gardens without permission, so as not to affect the amount of grain harvested by the local government. It's just that Xun immediately stood up and retorted: "The water and soil required for planting tea are different from planting grains. Or there is a barren field, the grain is less than one stone, if you plant tea, you can get five times. And the tea tax is also higher than the field tax, so the official income is ten times that of the grain planting. Wouldn't it be advisable to take this money and spend it on Zhongtian and Shangtian, build ditches, build water conservancy, raise cattle and horses, and cast iron plows, and get 20 times more than the barren fields? ”

There are a group of talents in the Xun Mansion who have farmed, such as Deng Ai and Shi Bao, plus he also has an old man Guan Hai who is still farming outside Luoyang City, and it is very simple to put forward this kind of data. Chen Changwen has been a court official for many years, and he does not actually manage the people, and the old little agricultural knowledge has been forgotten in the back of his mind, and there is nothing to refute...... (To be continued......)