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In addition to the fact that the recovery speed of the Jianghan Plain is quite slow, Zhang Jiashi even had to temporarily give up re-excavating the grain production advantages of the Jianghan Plain because of many factors. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info (.

Also in this predicament, there are three relatively large grain-producing areas.

The first is the Shandong Plain region of the Qi State. As a region with a rich freshwater system, the Shandong Plain has historically become the foundation for human development in Shandong because of the advantages of water conservancy.

For example, the Stone Age culture of Dawenkou was mainly developed by relying on the water conservancy advantages of the Shandong Plain.

This is also like many areas where people live by water.

But the current Shandong Plain, in many ways, has the largest population loss in the Great Qin Empire.

In a sense, this can be regarded as a matter of no choice, because this place has been fighting for a longer time, especially after being swept by Xiang Yu over most of the Qi country, the aborigines of these areas have suffered great damage. Some places have become uninhabited ghost places.

In such a situation, the Qi region, which was originally developed by virtue of the benefits of the salt pans, has now become dilapidated, not to mention these land systems, which were originally rich in the world, because of the serious population loss, many fertile fields have even been abandoned for several years, and in these fertile fields, you can even see the bones scattered among the wild grasses.

This can also be said to be a very negative effect of the war.

Due to a lack of manpower, Zhang Jiashi was able to temporarily postpone the plan to restore the farming system of these lands. For Zhang Jiashi, there is no way to do it. There are so many people, and many places in the Great Qin Empire are short of population, and even the Jianghan Plain area, which Zhang Jiashi pays the most attention to, has to give up restoration and development because of lack of manpower, not to mention the relatively minor Shandong Plain area.

However, Zhang Jiashi did not completely abandon the corresponding development of the homeland of Qiguo.

In contrast to the large population required for farming, Zhang Jiashi developed a natural sea salt area along the coast of the former homeland of the Qi State.

Although this does not mean that the supply of salt in the Great Qin Empire under Zhang Jiashi was quite scarce, on the contrary, after the reunification of the whole country, Zhang Jiashi went through the corresponding statistics. I found that in the past few years, I have developed a corresponding coastal area in Liaoning County, Shang County, Yan County and Zhao County, or the overall salt production area of the sea salt manufacturing area has a considerable surplus on average.

Zhang Jiashi himself knows one thing very well, that is, the cost and benefit comparison of things like salt industry can be regarded as the category of non-capital business. But in some specific cases, the farther away from the ocean. The higher the price of salt, the higher the cost of transportation along with the geometric increase of distance. Not without reason.

For example, after the salt produced in the salt works of Liaoning County was transported to the Guanzhong area, even if Zhang Jiashi wanted to lower the price of salt, he was constrained by the transportation cost and had to give up this idea.

With a simple conversion, that is, one stone of salt is transported from Liaoning County to Guanzhong, excluding the possible loss of long-distance transportation, and the value of one stone of salt that can be sold in Liaoning County will reach the value of three stones or even four stones of salt itself in Guanzhong.

That is, an increase in shipping costs. It has become an important factor that cannot be ignored or even cannot be avoided in the increase of salt prices.

Zhang Jiashi himself is very aware of this problem, so in his corresponding plan, there is also a plan similar to that of the later feudal dynasty in terms of salt.

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Zhang Jiashi's plan is mainly twofold, that is, to determine the scope of salt sales of the two systems based on the cost of freight.

The first system is, of course, sea salt. If the transportation cost of a low-cost, high-yield industry such as sea salt is too high, even if the state wants to lower the price of salt in remote areas. It's an impossible thing to do.

Unless the state is willing to subsidize the cost of transportation in the corresponding remote area.

However, for Zhang, this is something that is unlikely to be done. Therefore, the best way to solve this problem is to use the average salt price in the middle of the sale area as a benchmark.

This benchmark may require a number of adjustments. But Zhang Jiashi himself is very aware of one situation, that is, there should not be much room for adjustment of this benchmark.

After all, the freight is still relatively average, and if the freight soars due to special circumstances, Zhang Jiashi does not need to think about what to do for the time being.

In areas farther from the ocean, Zhang plans to develop a salt production method based on salt ponds and well salt development.

Although the cost of developing inland salt ponds and salt pans is higher in many respects than the lower cost of sea salt. But once you remove the factor of high shipping costs. On average, the cost of selling these salts will be correspondingly lower.

People in the interior want to eat salt, and in ancient times there has always been a problem of relatively high prices. Strictly speaking, this issue is not a corresponding market law that a country can forcibly interfere with. Under such circumstances, Zhang Jiashi planned to integrate the overall production situation after the corresponding basis for salt production in the interior had been developed, and formalize the corresponding adjustment of salt sales in the Great Qin Empire.

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The other two grain-producing areas that Zhang Jiashi was temporarily unable to recover were the Huaihe River region based on the Huai River basin, and the Jiangdong region of the Chu State.

The development of the Huaihe region was relatively slow, and the real time for the overall development of the Huaihe River was after the Battle of Yanying, and the Chu State was forced to move its capital to Yingchen (Huaiyang).

After the loss of the Jianghan Plain, the Yingchen area, as an important area in the Huaihe River Basin, has not had a high grain output in this area. After King Xiang of Chu moved his capital to Yingchen, and because this area was still relatively far away from Jiangdong, King Xiang of Chu Qingxiang could only develop the Huai River area and supply Yingchen and the corresponding region's grain consumption on the spot.

However, in 263 BC, after King Chu Kaolie succeeded to the throne, the state of Chu moved its capital from Yingchen to Shouchun.

First, because the prestige of the Qin army gradually oppressed Yingchen, whose strategic depth was too small, and secondly, because the development of the Huaihe region was relatively slow, and in these decades, it was necessary for the Chu State to transport a lot of grain from the Jiangdong region to maintain the corresponding consumption.

Therefore, this is likely to be one of the main reasons why King Chukaoli moved the capital shortly after he ascended the throne.

Of course, the state of Chu did not give up on the development of the Huai River region. There is a corresponding record that explains one point: in the thirty-sixth year of King Xiang of Chu (263 BC), King Xiang of Chu fell ill, and Xiong Wan fled back to Chu. In the autumn of the same year, King Chu Qingxiang died, and Xiong Wan ascended the throne as King Chu Kaolie. After King Chu Kaoli ascended the throne, Huang Xie served as Ling Yin. The twelve counties of Huaibei were given to him, and he was called Chun Shenjun.

That is to say. King Chu Kaoli did not give up the development foundation of the Huaishui area, but hoped that Chun Shenjun, who was Ling Yin, could continue to consolidate or even improve the development foundation of this area.

Of course, such an arrangement can only be regarded as cheaper for the Qin State.

There are corresponding records that in 230 BC, the Qin army had already conquered the Huaiyang region. However, the reliability of such information is not high.

The corresponding information used as an auxiliary reference is the route of Li Xin's attack on Chu: first to the south to attack Pingyu County, in present-day Zhumadian City, Henan, then to the north to attack Yan (Yanling County, Xuchang, Henan), and then to the southeast to attack Ying (Yingchen, in present-day Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan). Finally, head west to Chengfu (Pingdingshan City, Henan Province).

If Li Xin's marching and combat route is taken as the benchmark, Ying Chen at that time should have been the base camp of the Chang Wenjun brothers who had already rebelled.

In other words, the area of Yingchen must have been occupied by the Qin State before this period of time.

There is also corresponding information that the Chang Wenjun brothers were arranged by the then Qin Wang Yingzheng to pacify the people in the Huaishang region before Li Xin.

But there is one treatment that shows: 224 BC, (the twenty-third year of the reign of King Qin). The king of Qin once again ordered Wang Jian to be recruited, forcibly used him, and sent him to attack the state of Chu. He captured the land south of Chen County to Pingyu County and captured the king of Chu. In April, Chang Wenjun died.

The biggest problem with this information is that Pingyu is actually in the north of Chen County (Yingchen). This means that at that time, Chang Wenjun was very likely to sit in Yingchen again, and was defeated by Wang Qian, who went all the way south from Pingyu, defeated Xiang Yan, attacked Shouchun, and captured the king of Chu. This is also more in line with Wang Qian's route trajectory in attacking Chu State.

Therefore, after Wang Jian went south, the Qin State at that time officially consolidated its rule over the Huaishang region, and the development results of the Chu State in the Huaishang region were more inherited by the Qin State.

Zhang Jiashi is very interested in the development of the Huai River basin, because compared with the river water and river water, the Huai River can be regarded as a relatively "obedient" river. Under such circumstances, the resumption of the development of the Huaihe region was a very favorable factor for Zhang Jiashi to consolidate the rule of the Chu region.

However, apart from the political problems, Zhang Jiashi does not think that the development of the Huai River has more practical benefits, because the restoration of the Huai River basin still requires considerable investment of manpower, material resources and energy, which is also something that Zhang Jiashi lacks at present.

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The last key area that Zhang Jiashi hopes to develop is the Jiangdong Plain.

The Koto Plain can be said to be a real land of fish and rice with a dense water network.

This area was developed much earlier than the Huai River Basin:

There is corresponding information that the first generation of monarchs of Wu was Wu Taibo, the eldest son of Gu Gong's father, the leader of the Zhou tribe surnamed Ji (that is, King Taiwang of Zhou), and the uncle of King Wen of Zhou. Because King Tai of Zhou wanted to pass on the throne to his young son Ji Li and his son Ji Chang (i.e., King Wen of Zhou), Tai Bo and Zhong Yong gave way to their third brother Ji Li, and fled to Jingman, calling Wu Wu. Wu Taibo was regarded as the ancestor of the Eastern Wu culture by later generations.

After King Wu of Zhou defeated King Yin, he looked for the descendants of Taibo and Zhongyong and found Zhou Zhang. At this time, Zhou Zhang was already Wu Jun, and he was still sealed in Wu. He also sealed Zhou Zhang's brother Yu Zhong at the former site of the summer capital in the north of Zhou, which is Yu Zhong, ranking among the princes.

This may be one of the sources of the origin of the state of Wu that can be found, and it also shows that at least during this period, the Jiangdong area was not a sparsely populated area, but had begun to be developed accordingly.

The border of Wu is located in the southern part of the Yangtze River in present-day Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and the northern part of Zhejiang around Taihu Lake, and the Taihu Lake basin is the core of Wu State. The capital was located in Meili (now Meicun, Wuxi) in the early period and Wu (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) in the later period, and was one of the most powerful vassal states in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period.

In 584 B.C., the exiled doctor of Chu State, Shen Gong Wuchen, resented the general of Chu State and fled to Jin State, where Jin sent envoys to Wu State and taught Wu State the art of using soldiers and the method of chariot warfare, and let his son be the pedestrian official of Wu State, and Wu State began to interact with the Central Plains countries from then on. The state of Wu began to send troops to conquer the state of Chu.

At the same time, it is very likely that Zianti introduced the relatively advanced farming technology of the Central Plains into Wu, formalized the farming system of Wu, and laid the foundation for becoming a powerful country.

In 512 B.C., "Historical Records, Volume 31, Wu Taibo's Family No. 1" recorded that Wu Wang Lu, Zixu and Bo Yao would attack Chu, pull Shu, and kill the second son of Wu. Guangmou wanted to enter Ying, and the general Sun Wu said: "The people work, but they can't, wait for it." ”

Four years, cut Chu, take six and li. Five years, cut over, defeated. In six years, Chu's envoy Chang Nang Vava Wu. Attacking it, the Chu army was defeated in Yuzhang, and the nest of Chu was returned.

In 506 B.C., "Historical Records, Volume 31, Wu Taibo's Family No. 1" recorded: In the ninth year, Wu Wang Lu invited Wu Zixu and Sun Wu to say: "The words of the first son are not entered, what is the result today?" The second son said to him: "Chu generals are often greedy, and Tang and Cai are resentful." If the king wants to make a big attack, he will win Tang and Cai Naike. ”

He Lu from it, Xi Xingshi, and Tang, Cai Xi and Chu, as for Han Shui. Chu also sent troops to reject Wu and sandwiched Chen. Wu Wang's brother-in-law? If you want to fight, you want to fight. The husband said: "The king is already a subordinate soldier, and the soldiers are profit-oriented, so what else should be done?" So he attacked Chu with 5,000 men, and the Chu soldiers were defeated and left. So the king of Wu pursued him with his army.

Compared with Zhiying, five battles, Chu five defeats. King Chu Zhao died out of Ying, Ben Yun. Brother Yun wanted to kill King Zhao, and King Zhao and Duke Yun followed. And Wu Bing entered Ying. Zixu and Bo Yao whipped the corpse of the king to avenge their father.

These circumstances show that Wu already has a sufficient foundation to support a large army in the face of a large country like Chu, and its agricultural level is also very advanced, and even thanks to the water conservancy system around Taihu Lake, it has developed a better paddy field network than the Central Plains.

It can be said that this place can be regarded as a unique place that Zhang Jiashi has to think of.

But Zhang Jiashi has no plans to develop this area in the short term, mainly because the anti-Qin forces in this area seem to be quite deep.

This is also a matter of no choice, after all, the people who followed Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's uprising were mainly the children from this area, if the anti-Qin forces in this area were not large, I am afraid that Xiang Liang would not be able to find a few people to form troops.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi was concerned about the special situation of this place, and in the end he could only continue to let Li Mian serve as the Taishou of Wu County, hoping to use a more gentle strategy to recover the hearts of the people in this area.

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What Zhang Jiashi didn't expect was that although Li Mian's ability was good, he could not achieve satisfactory results until he was transferred to the county guard of Qi County in 196 BC.

At the end of the 50-year period of the first land reform, a major anti-Qin uprising broke out again in the region...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. Chapter 4 The Development of the Empire (II) Website: .>