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However, this kind of happy ending is not what the people in the Zuo General's Mansion led by Zhang Jiashi want to see.

Because, what they need is an excuse to send troops, it's as simple as that.

No one doubts that with the current strength of the Zuo General's Mansion in Liaodong County, whether it will be able to achieve a final victory in this planned war. Some people may wonder that this incident is more of a conspiracy deliberately planned by Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping. But this point is completely unimportant to Zhang Jiashi.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi knows very well that in terms of the current climate, if he wants to start a war, he has already lost the time. In Zhang Jiashi's plan, the most suitable time for war was the beginning of spring sowing.

Because at that time, the new troops under Zhang Jiashi's command and the arrangements between many personnel were able to adapt to the situation on the battlefield. And now, obviously, is not a good time, because in many ways, the troops under the command of Zhang Jiashi are completely unprepared for the war against Jizi Korea.

Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Jiashi is not doing anything at this time.

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In the following days, Zhang Jiashi asked Mo Hong to send a large number of Mo disciples who were good at investigating intelligence to go deep into the control area of the Jizi Joseon to spy on the intelligence of the Kizi Joseon side.

In more than a month, Zhang Jiashi received a lot of information about many aspects of the Jizi Korea, such as the garrison area, fortresses, access roads, cultural conditions, and so on.

The thing that Zhang Jiashi is very concerned about is that Jizi Korea is still a country that is more inclined to the slave system, although it has a good relationship with the Great Qin Empire, but in terms of system, it is not a hierarchical comparison at all.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi despises Jizi Joseon, but each system often corresponds to different situations. Just like in the case of Mingo Korea, if the current attack on Mingo Korea is in the middle of the agricultural slack period, if the plan for a surprise attack fails, the other side will inevitably carry out a full mobilization.

Because of the disadvantage in equipment, the large number of the North Korean army in Minzi may not be able to solve the troops under his current command with a sea of people. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the army of Minzi Joseon is also quite unbearable in terms of the will to fight.

However, to avoid greater casualties and to take the best time to send troops, Zhang Jiashi was also willing to wait. At the very least, if the other side is unable to effectively mobilize slaves or civilians who are busy farming, in many ways, Zhang Jiashi will have to face much less pressure.

There is also a big aspect of the postponement of the dispatch of troops, because Zhang Jiashi's recruit units are far from reaching the combat effectiveness that Zhang Jiashi expected, and if a full-scale war with Jizi Korea really breaks out, then these recruit units are sent to the battlefield at this time, and there is a situation where they are about to collapse, then he will really fail to go home.

Under the influence of many factors, Zhang Jiashi consulted with Chen Ping, Li Zuoche and others, and decided to use the pretext of "peaceful settlement" to confuse Jizi Korea and make more adequate preparations for himself.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi also encountered a related problem, that is, since he was ready to do this, then it would undoubtedly be a stupid thing to conduct business with Jizi North Korea, but the current situation is that Zhang Jiashi cannot easily ignore the supply of materials from Jizi North Korea, after all, although Zhang Jiashi's Zuo General's Mansion has hoarded a large amount of materials, but if there is a war with Jizi Korea next year, these hoarded materials alone are far from enough.

For this reason, Zhang Jiashi still prepared another solution to the problem.

Perhaps, there will be some downsides to this, but Zhang Jiashi would rather gamble on the impact of continued trade with the North Koreans.

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Under Chen Ping's hint, many family heads knew that General Zuo's Mansion was preparing to relax the guidelines for trade with the Donghu people.

Under Chen Ping's hint, in addition to salt, iron, and grain, the caravan could relax the material restrictions in other aspects. In particular, those who are the owners of the family basically purchase distilled spirits from Zhang Jiashi's distillery.

Donghu, who is mired in ongoing civil strife and warfare with the Su Shen people, is also in a chaotic situation, but it is also a good time for these heads of families to make a lot of money.

Many small tycoons gathered their forces together and formed a large caravan carrying a large amount of goods to Donghu.

The exit gate located in the north of Dingxiang City is the departure channel of this caravan.

The wagons or ox carts carried a large number of various goods, from pottery and porcelain to distilled spirits produced by Zhang Jiashi's distillery, and many unrestricted materials, which were transported by the caravan to the north, controlled by the Donghu people.

The caravan may not have seen a scene like purgatory on earth, many people have come to the northern grassland of the Great Wall region, which has not yet recovered and is still charred black, and the corpses scattered in the black soil have made many people have to gasp or simply vomit.

They never imagined how many people had died in this place.

However, don't say that they don't know, even Zhang Jiashi doesn't know how many Donghu people were devoured by the fire that burned unintentionally.

Of course, for Zhang Jiashi, if the enemy is unlucky to come home, for him, this is of course a good thing.

Many of the accompanying caravan guards or some hired young men would accidentally trip over the bones that were exposed on the ground. Perhaps some people have had an intimate encounter with skeletons that have almost completely decayed into skeletons.

A lot of people are screaming, and there are a lot of people watching the situation, overwhelmed.

And near these skeletons, there are even many wild dogs or very fat rats, looking curiously at these strange creatures in their eyes.

However, the caravan passed through the black open graveyard and continued its march towards the north.

No one knows how many people died in this place, but after a few years later, after the area was officially developed after the defeat of the Donghu people again, the cultivated farmland and the crops produced were quite good.

However, people who knew about the situation in this area did not dare to eat the crops grown in this area, and the county guards at that time had no choice but to buy all the crops and ship them to other places for sale.

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This group of caravans, in addition to some powerful families, of course, is also indispensable to the officials of General Zuo's Mansion, including Zhang Jiashi, who sent personnel together.

Of course, this has the meaning of supervising these heroes and families, but more, Zhang Jiashi also hopes that he can let others share some benefits, and not let these families develop rapidly.

Zhang Jiashi has no professional discrimination, and there is no concept of "all the world is inferior, only the reading is high" after Zhu Cheng's science, in his heart, the development of the merchant class is very positive in many aspects for the whole society.

In addition, for tax considerations, Zhang Jiashi is very clear that he can get more taxes in business. In such a situation, as long as there is a well-controlled and balanced environment, many times, there is no need to worry about money.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty illustrates a very realistic fact, that is, to exploit the already exhausted peasant class, it is very likely that it will only kill itself. If Emperor Chongzhen could follow Wei Zhongxian's practice and carry out regulatory taxation on the capitalist class in the south of the Yangtze River, then there would be so many uprisings by peasants who only wanted to survive at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

The answer should be no.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi did not resist the development of the merchant class, he needed a better environment for the circulation of goods, and then to develop the economy of the entire region and increase the corresponding tax revenue.

For this reason, Zhang Jiashi and Chen Ping, after discussion, began to carry out a transaction tax collection that was only a trial nature.

In the initial implementation stage, Zhang Jiashi will use about 5% of the total amount of goods traded, which is the so-called 20 tax method.

After Chen Ping communicated with these families and Haoqiang, many people quickly accepted this clause, because Zhang Jiashi's tax amount was completely acceptable to them.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi plans to replace the military merit system, which is likely to evolve into land annexation, in the form of tax exemption quotas at the right time. But this matter, if you want to do what Zhang Jiashi expected, I'm afraid that Zhang Jiashi will not be able to do it in his life.

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Land, as the basis for the survival of an agrarian nation, Zhang Jiashi has a lot of ideas. That is, he came from the later generations, and did not want the system of land to become hereditary at all. That is to say, whether it is a reward or a land that he has cultivated, Zhang Jiashi does not want these lands to be concentrated in the hands of some people forever.

He would prefer to change the system to a system of access to use.

However, if you want to do this, Zhang Jiashi knows very well that there is not much difference from talking about the night. At the very least, even Zhang Jiashi, who now basically controls Liaodong County, cannot implement this method.

If the status quo is maintained, there is nothing wrong with it now, but many dynasties have been indirectly or directly destroyed by peasant uprisings, and land annexation is one of the biggest causes of peasant uprisings.

Zhang Jiashi was very helpless, because he wanted to do a lot of things, either he couldn't do it, or he just didn't want to do it at all, but Bai Qi said a sentence that made Zhang Jiashi think deeply.

"Break and then stand. ”

These four words are the words that Bai Qi said. The reason for Zhang Jiashi's deep thought was that the war at the end of Qin would sweep the entire Great Qin Empire in a few years.

Isn't this the best chance to break and stand up?

Thinking of Zhang Jiashi here, a plan slowly emerged in his mind.

Although it is not known whether this solution will be realized, once it can be successfully implemented, then it may reduce many of the problems that will inevitably occur.

At this time, Bai Qi reminded Zhang Jiashi: "If you do this, don't you also add some problems that may occur at that time?"

"It is impossible to have the idea that the two evils are balanced and tend to be less, and that they are absolutely correct and infallible. What can be done is to correct and fix mistakes, and that is enough. ”

After Zhang Jiashi finished saying this, he slowly wrote something on a piece of paper.

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This piece of paper and the corresponding content, Zhang Jiashi still did not implement it in the end, this is not to say that Zhang Jiashi did not want to do it, but before he died, he did not find the opportunity to do this.

And this piece of paper was sandwiched in the Central Library of the Great Qin Empire, an inconspicuous book.

One day, hundreds of years later, this book was borrowed by an ordinary student of the Great Qin Empire. When the student discovered the piece of paper, and the somewhat faded contents on it, he wondered what it meant.

After that, because of this piece of paper, a series of turmoil was triggered, which Zhang Jiashi did not expect.

However, Zhang Jiashi did not find a chance until the moment when he died in this world, and finally appeared hundreds of years later.

The monarch of the Great Qin Empire at that time, the 23rd Emperor, under many considerations, finally reformed the original land system, which was on the verge of collapse. After the reform, some people compared the content on that piece of paper and found that many articles corresponded to the corresponding content on the paper.

As for this piece of paper, who wrote it?

Comparing from the handwriting, it is naturally Zhang Jiashi, but whether it is the monarch of the Great Qin Empire or the minister of civil and military affairs at that time, they are unified and silent about this situation.

After all, this is something they can't accept, and neither can many others, including the hardest-hit class of big landowners, who have kept most of their land despite their own efforts. However, it is only a few decades before the land is back in the hands of the state, which is the main reason why many people remain silent about the situation.

Some people are worried, some people are happy, because ordinary peasants who have regained a large amount of land do not have to face the crisis from land annexation, and the peasants who still occupy most of the population base also reduce the pressure on the Great Qin Empire at that time.

As for a certain student who discovered this piece of paper, he also changed the trajectory of his life because of this piece of paper.

His name is Di Renjie......

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Trade with the Donghu people, because the Donghu people were in the midst of civil strife, for security reasons, the caravan only sent relevant personnel to inquire about the current trading intentions of the Donghu king, and then proceeded to the next step.

Suger, the king of Donghu, who was exhausted by the alliance with other small tribes and the attacks of the Sushen people, was quickly overjoyed when he received the report of this. Because of the lack of a large number of supplies, he can now be said to be very eager for such a caravan.

The envoy sent out to communicate proposed whether it was possible to let people protect the caravan safely, or trade directly near the caravan, which made Suger have to think deeply.

But out of demand for these caravans, Suger finally agreed to the emissary's request.

The two sides traded near the area where the caravans were now entrenched.

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It is not that this caravan is unwilling to go north, but in this chaotic area of civil war, the caravan encounters cold guns and arrows every day, if it were not for the size of the caravan is quite large, and the escort force is enough, otherwise, this group of caravans would have been wiped out by a large-scale attack group long ago.

After Suger's envoy left, it was not without him that the leaders under his command wanted black to eat black. Although Mr. Li, whom he relied on, was gone, Suger also did not want to do this kind of killing chickens and eggs.

During this period of time, Su Ge, who served as the king of Donghu, obviously learned a lot of things that he could not see in the position of tribal leader before.

For the sake of long-term consideration, Suger issued a stern order that the Donghu tribe under his command was not allowed to attack these caravans from Great Qin.

In order to avoid some things from happening, he even personally led 10,000 Donghu knights to the area where the caravan was encircled.

The first contact between the two sides began at this time.

In the face of a large number of goods, Suger can be said to have mixed joys and sorrows, happy that many materials are what Suger now thinks he needs very much, and worryingly, from these merchants, he heard that the possibility of being able to buy weapons and a large number of weapons is almost impossible.

Even if he was willing to pay more, most people politely declined the request.

From the tone of these merchants, Su Ge could also guess that this was obviously a signal that the Qin army in Liaodong County had tightly sealed the relevant materials.

Suger did not do anything drastic because of such a situation. Because he knew very well that if he did, there would never be the next caravan coming to this place.

Therefore, he exchanged a large amount of livestock or furs and other materials for a large number of caravan goods.

There were also people who asked for money or jewelry, and Suger was able to satisfy the demands of some merchants in this regard.

After all, for the current Suger, a little money can still be afforded.

What satisfies Suger the most about these goods is the wine that can make people feel warm when they drink it at this time, compared to mare's milk wine and rice wine transported from other places, these wines are deeply loved by the ethnic men of these grasslands.

Of course, it is not without incidents of forcible robbery. But there was no need for caravan personnel to solve this problem, and the Donghu people, who had long been strictly ordered, solved this problem first.

And in the compensation afterwards, Suger gave double the price.

Such a thing made some people in the caravan show a trace of worry in their eyes.

Because a sane king, for other forces, no matter how you look at it, is not a good thing.

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At the same time, in the other direction, Zabehe, the former king of Donghu who defected to the Su Shen people, looked at a group of knights wearing Qin army equipment in front of him with a complicated expression, and he slowly asked the knights in front of him: "Aren't you afraid that I will surrender to Suger now?"

"You wouldn't do that, or you wouldn't be in this place right now. The knight looked at Zabehe coldly, and said slowly: "If it is possible, it is also very good for you to continue to fight like this, General Zuo likes to be calm, rather than killing our Great Qin soldiers and people at every turn." ”

After the knight left these words, he quickly turned his horse's head, led a large number of knights, and quickly turned around.

In a short time, the sackcloth covering the more than a dozen carriages that had been left behind was lifted by the men under the command of Zabekh.

Placed on it are a large number of bronze weapons.

When Zabekh saw this, he showed a hint of resentment but helplessness.

How could he not know what kind of calculations the youngest general of Great Qin in the south had?

What the other party hopes is that he can fight with Su Ge to break the net and further consume the strength of the Donghu people.

It's just that what can he do if he sees it?

Zabehe regretted why he had attacked Liaodong County on a large scale, the other party had obviously prepared at that time, and it could even be said that he was just waiting for him to jump into the trap......

But now that it's here, what else can he do?

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