Chapter 778: Heavy Agriculture and Suppression of Business
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The carriage finally got on the road under the reluctant gaze of everyone, and there were three carriages in front of it, which was also the limit of what the knife city could provide, after all, it was a small city, and it was still a small city that was not very rich. Biquge.infohua. For more up-to-date chapters, visit: ww.
At the front were Yan Quan and the four polar envoys, one of them was driving the car, and the rest were in the carriage. In the middle are Xuanbao and Xiaoyin, and they want the smallest one, and the one who drives the car is a Huilong soldier named Zhang Kui. Behind are the Ning family's father and daughter' and Hong Mei, and Ning Wujin is in a car.
The others were soldiers, but they were not horses, but mules or donkeys. Dao City is too poor, those skinny horses Xuanbao really can't bear to take away, the terrain to go back is very complicated, and it is not a charge to fight, there is no need for horses, in comparison, mules and donkeys are more suitable for pulling people!
Everyone has to go east first, before they can go to the official road, otherwise they will always open the road in the wilderness, and they will not be able to reach the Panlong River for a year, and most of the places called the wasteland are not suitable for building, either saline-alkali land or swamp, or hilly area, so it is very difficult to walk.
But there's also the advantage of walking in the wasteland, that is, there's always something to make a tooth sacrifice. Corn cakes can indeed fill the stomach, but it is difficult to swallow, especially in this kind of weather, even if you ride on a horse and do not move, people's sweat will flow down, and it is indeed difficult to swallow dry corn cakes.
So the soldiers got the permission of the deputy general, and caught prey along the way to enrich the meal, and the corn cakes were almost moldy along the way, and they didn't eat much, but everyone was full of red light, and they ate a mouth full of oil, as long as it was a wild thing, they were all put into the pot, and even the rats could not escape the clutches of these guys.
On the morning of the third day after leaving Sword City, everyone finally went to the official road. Stop for a repair and continue on your way.
said that it was an official road, but in fact, it was just a road that the merchants of the Yin Dynasty had walked out in recent years, and it was allowed to allow a carriage to pass. However, in order to maintain the safety of the goods, this road is very flat, especially near the area of Dongshui, which has been repaired by the town navy, and it is smoother than the real official road!
This road is their way of wealth, so they have to put in the effort to maintain it. As long as the road is clear, they will be rich!
On the official road, everyone's speed is much faster, and at this speed, it should be almost a month to reach the Panlong River.
If it is a carriage, the speed will be much faster, but now it is all mules and donkeys, so the speed will be very slow, and it is not easy to find a replacement along the way, although there are also some villages and towns, everyone tries to avoid it, mainly because this pair of people and horses is too conspicuous, once the identity is recognized, it is not easy to get out!
Fortunately, donkeys and mules have a common characteristic, that is, super endurance, which is several times stronger than horses, so as long as you pay attention to rest, it is completely okay without transferring.
On the official road, the weather is slightly cool, especially at night, and the humidity is very heavy. Walking out of the budding shade of the Ice Blade Mountain, you can feel the smell of the polar regions, and the 'Yin' Snake King and the Four Polar Envoys enjoy this climate very much, and they don't want to stay in the car, so they all come out and follow the car.
It's the warmest time of the year in the area, with only one month to spare. However, the further south you go, the warmer it becomes, and although you don't have thick clothes with you, you don't have to worry about the cold.
Since it is an official road, you will definitely meet all kinds of people, many of them are businessmen who go to Dongshui from the Central Plains, they are all mighty "swing" and "swing" convoys, and even some are martial arts merchants, that is, the invited dart board, escorted by the dart master!
Although Qiu Sheng and his gang are military bandits, they have always believed in the method of plucking the 'hair' of geese, but it is not true that every car has to be robbed, and they are also bullying the soft and afraid of the hard.
When they first started, they really didn't let go of any of them, and they didn't finish robbing the goods, and even killed people!
This caused great panic and resentment among these merchants, and some of them had a solid family background, so they hired a big dart bureau to come over, and dispatched hundreds of executioners at once to fight these bandits with real knives and guns!
Don't look at the 10,000 bandits, but they usually don't go out at the same time, because their public identity is the army after all, and they are also responsible for the city defense of Fengzhou and Yuzhen, so every time they come out to rob things, they are only a thousand people.
These thousands of people fight with hundreds of dart masters, and even if they can take advantage, they are limited. The dart master eats the head business of going south and north, and he doesn't dare to go out at all without two hits under his hands!
And they are all martial arts figures, as soon as they say hello, there will be a lot of martial arts people who don't know each other to come to help! This makes the gang of bandits a headache, and what is even worse is that they belong to the lonely army, without backup, one less will die one, although the silver can be divided a little more, but the more you die, the lower the combat effectiveness, and in the end they are all dead, and they can't grab anything!
And the reason why they are most frightened is that their methods make the town navy in the Dongshui area very dissatisfied, this kind of behavior of killing 'chickens' to take eggs and cutting off his financial route made Yue Tianpeng 'provoked' anger, and directly sent two school battalions over, and without saying hello to Qiu Sheng, more than 1,000 bandits were wiped out in Harrier Mountain!
This scared Qiu Sheng and Ye Yifan a lot, after all, they used to be subordinates of the town navy, if this general got angry and cleaned up the two of them, they would really be dead!
Fortunately, Yue Tianpeng only killed the more than 1,000 military bandits, and let the two school camps return to Dongshui, which can be regarded as a wake-up call for Qiu Sheng and Ye Yifan, so that they can understand that they must do things in a measured manner, and they can't do things with a hammer, leaving some leeway for businessmen is equivalent to leaving a way for themselves to make money.
Since then, these bandits have continued to rage, but they have been much gentler, robbing money and not killing people. Even if you rob money, you don't empty it all at once, you don't want the goods if you get enough silver, you don't want the goods, you don't use the goods to make up for the money if you don't have enough money, and you don't empty the goods, only take a part of it.
Then the bandits sold the looted goods to the town navy at a low price to get some silver. And the town navy notified the robbed merchants to come to pick up the goods, saying that they had snatched them back from the robbers, and of course they had to charge some labor fees, so that they not only made a fortune in vain, but also had a good reputation!
In this way, the past merchants resisted less, only as their own 'paid' road money, narrowing part of the profits, Rao is so, and it is more than the people from the Central Plains, so it still attracts a large number of merchants to rush to Dongshui with a steady stream of abundant goods.
Looking at these dusty businessmen, Xuan Bao couldn't bear to grab the road with them, once he met the convoy, he consciously asked people to drive the car to the ditch next to it or the edge of the stone slope, so that the other party went first.
However, Xuanbao is also thinking about a question, when he overthrows the Yin Dynasty and rules the world, will he be the same as Yinhu, and will he ban the sea and prohibit trade?
The Yin Dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, in fact, this is also a tradition in the Bailuan Continent for thousands of years, and it will continue to be like this!
Because the merchants only transported the goods from one place to another, in order to earn the difference in the middle, they could obtain a large amount of silver, so they were always regarded as a group of people who did not do their jobs properly and were of low status.
If these people are allowed to become bigger, then there will be no one to grow grain in the world, the state will not collect taxes, and the army will have no grain and grass supply, and the country will be 'unstable' and the foundation will be unstable!
And the maritime trade will flow all the things that originally belonged to the national self-sufficiency to other countries, resulting in a shortage of domestic materials, and even attracting pirates and thieves, such as the Bird People!
Therefore, whether it is Yinhu or the former ugly emperor, they all vigorously promote the ban on the sea! However, this kind of thing cannot be forbidden, the "temptation" and "confusion" of money are huge, and there are always people who are secretly "touching" and "touching" to do this, and once there is the support of an army like the town navy, it will form a scale!
If he sat in the position of Yinhu, would he be like him, so strict and deliberately suppressed business and trade?
The current Xuanbao is no longer the stupid and stupid treasure he was back then, who would only be bullied by others, and would only be accompanied by 'flowers' and trees in the Moxian Forest, and would not want to be with others!
It can be said that in the past two years, the places he has traveled have surpassed the places that most people have been to in their lifetime, including Xiaoyin and Danniang!
And his unique experience is even more unmatched by others! Therefore, although he is young and very young, he has a lot of life experience, which gives him a different vision and a clearer mind than others!
It is true that the peasants are the foundation of the country's survival, but the businessmen are the hub of the country's strength! If we blindly develop agriculture, the state's function will ensure that no one goes hungry, but it is powerless to resist foreign aggression!
Only by developing business and trade can we see the strengths of others and recognize our own shortcomings. In order to have more and better materials and technologies, create more powerful weapons to defend the country!
A smile appeared on the corner of Xuanbao's mouth, he already knew the answer in his heart, and he also saw the path he was going to take in the future.
Xiao Yin next to him laughed inexplicably, and didn't ask much, just gently held his hand. Xuan Bao and her looked at each other quietly, a smile appeared on their faces, Xiao Yin had already understood what he was thinking, and gently leaned his head on his shoulder.
This is a unique connection between the two, as long as both parties calm down and hold hands with each other, they can understand what the other person thinks. This is the upgrade and evolution of a thousand miles of marriage.
Now the eighteen 'yin' blood 'women' can also use a thousand miles of marriage with Xuanbao, but they can't use their divine sense to talk like they do with Xiao Yin, not because their cultivation is not enough, but because they can't always reach that realm, which may be the difference between the 'yin' blood 'women' and Luanhou's physique.
"Emperor, it's already dark, let's camp nearby!" came the voice of the wind messenger outside the car. Now that they have eliminated the demonic nature, the titles of the four of them have also gone to the devil and become envoys.
Xuanbao responded: "Okay! Stop, camp on the spot!" As soon as the car stopped, Xuanbao took Xiaoyin out of the car together.
During the day, I walked through the undulating hills, but now I am in a relatively flat wasteland, similar to the wasteland when I came out of Toyosu, except that the soil here is softer.
This means that we are approaching the place where people live. Ning Wujin took out the map and said to Xuanbao by the light of the torch: "Emperor, if you don't make a mistake, we will rush to Monkey Village tomorrow!"
Xiao Yin Yingying looked at the map with a smile and said, "Why is it called this strange name, is it that all the people living in this village are monkeys?"
Ning Wujin shook his head and said, "I don't know, this side has always been inaccessible, and even those merchants who passed by didn't want to stay again, saying that this village is very evil!"