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July 12, 202 B.C., this day is known as the beginning of the final battle of the new Great Qin Empire led and led by Zhang Jiashi. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A few years before this date, Zhang Jiashi went out of Liaodong in April 208 BC, and experienced the battle of western Liaoning, the battle of Jixian, and the battle of Julu.

However, after the Battle of Julu, Zhang Jiashi, who had originally become a new general of the Great Qin Empire in a series of battles such as the Battle of Yongxian and the Battle of the Great Wall, became an emerging force that could not be ignored by the heroes of the world.

For a period of time after the Battle of Julu, Zhang Jiashi did not directly participate in the war. However, with the surrender of Wang Li and others, and Zhang Jiashi himself as the son-in-law of Yingzheng, the first emperor of the Great Qin Empire, Zhang Jiashi was taken refuge by most of the remnants of the officers and soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army. and got Jiuyuan County and a large area of Hebei to the east of Yunzhong County.

In April 207 BC, Zhang Jiashi, who had been resting for a while, led his army from the area of Yunzhong County, across the shallows in the upper reaches of the river, and launched an offensive against Shangjun, which opened the prelude to the battle to capture Guanzhong.

Under the struggle of Zhang Jiashi and the army, Zhang Jiashi announced the ownership of the Guanzhong region after obtaining Xianyang and the surrounding areas.

In the ensuing two major battles of Hangu Pass and Wuguan, the New Qin army under Zhang Jiashi defeated Xiang Yu and Liu Bang successively, expelling their military forces from the range that could threaten the Guanzhong region.

These two operations were of considerable significance, because they also announced that Zhang Jiashi's rule in the Guanzhong region had become more solid.

In the corresponding incident of supporting his eldest son, the third emperor of the current Great Qin Empire, Zhang Jiashi forced Ziying to rebel, and then killed a large number of Great Qin Empire clans who opposed him and Ying, officially announcing that the Great Qin Empire had entered the Ying (Zhang) era at this time.

Although, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the current Emperor Ying of the Great Qin Empire is more of a puppet, and Zhang Jiashi is the one who really controls the highest power of the Great Qin Empire. But even Chen Ping and others can't deny one thing, that is, if Zhang Jiashi is really interested in that position, within Zhang Jiashi's control, no one can stop Zhang Jiashi from sitting in that position.

But they know one thing better, that is, Zhang Jiashi did not show much interest in that position, and in terms of Zhang Jiashi's regent, even if Zhang Jiashi did not ascend the throne and become emperor, he can be regarded as the real uncrowned king of the Great Qin Empire, no, it should be said that he is the uncrowned emperor, because Zhang Jiashi's current rights are no different from a real emperor.

In the following period, Zhang Jiashi did not plan to directly send troops to Kwantung, but personally led a small part of his troops to launch an offensive against the Hanzhong region while recuperating for a period of time again.

The Battle of Hanzhong ended with a great victory for Zhang Jiashi and the surrender of the Li family of Shu County.

Although it was an unexpected surprise that the Li family of Shu County had surrendered, and the Li family was willing to send hostages and marry Zhang Jiashi, Mengwu's death in the Battle of Hanzhong became a knot that Zhang Jiashi could not change for a long time.

After a long period of reorganization of the troops and the development of national strength, Zhang Jiashi launched the first Eastern Crusade.

In this Eastern Crusade, Zhang Jiashi successively obtained a large area of land in Hebei and Sanchuan County, which was one of the key points in the world, and officially grasped the dominance that the Great Qin Empire could obtain in the subsequent war of peace and rebellion.

Several princes and kings like Han Guang and Zang Di who were divided by Xiang Yu in the Rongyang Alliance either became the souls of the dead on the battlefield, or became a general under Zhang Jiashi, and the death or surrender of these people, although it did not directly change the influence of the general trend of the world, but also greatly dealt a blow to the power of the anti-Qin forces in the world.

Before the Second Eastern Crusade, Zhang Jiashi successively sent small units to launch an offensive or recovery work in the area of Ba County and Qianzhong County.

Although Zhang Jiashi didn't get too many battle reports for the means of this operation, he himself vaguely felt that the actions of Ah Mian, Li Shuang and others must have made many indigenous people unlucky.

Although Zhang Jiashi still couldn't accept such a thing easily, for him, he was used to being a ruler, and some things were better to acquiesce.

For Zhang Jiashi, the reunification of the Great Qin Empire allowed all the people in the world to get a peaceful and prosperous environment again, and that was a really important place.

Some of the methods are certainly unsightly, but Zhang Jiashi gradually recognized the description of things in this regard. That is, the state under the heavens is not completely above board, and some are just various means implemented for the sake of ruling power.

The sentence that Bai Qi said made Zhang Jiashi very silent, because Zhang Jiashi thought that this sentence was completely irrefutable:

History is written by the victors, and for the loser, even if he is really above board, as long as he really fails, then everything he does is to go against the sky.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhang Jiashi said that he was quite silent.

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After gradually pacifying Ba County and gradually improving the situation in Qianzhong County, Zhang Jiashi took the lead in planning the Second Eastern Crusade.

Before Zhang Jiashi decided on the official plan for the Second Crusade, there were two more controversial and most feasible plans for the Second Crusade.

The first plan was to use the three regions of Sanchuan County, Handan County, and Julu County (now merged into Zhao County) to launch an offensive against the territory east of Qidi and Wei Land.

The second is Zhang Jiashi's battle plan for the Second Eastern Crusade: "Go south to Nanyang County and Nanjun to launch an offensive against Zhang Han, Liu Bang and other rebellious princes."

Zhang Jiashi was originally quite moved by the first plan, because for Zhang Jiashi, the first plan can bring more economic benefits and improve national strength. After all, the foundation of the development of these areas can be regarded as dwarfing many areas in the areas controlled by Zhang Jiashi.

But Zhang Jiashi finally chose the second option. Because Qi and Chu were fighting fiercely at that time, in order to avoid too much stimulation of the Qi army and the Chu army, forcing these two countries that were fighting happily to form an alliance because of the pressure of the Great Qin Empire's army, making the battle situation unpredictable, Zhang Jiashi finally chose to attack Nanyang County and Nanjun This battle plan.

For Zhang Jiashi, the battle plan for attacking Nanyang County and Nanjun is also very difficult and variable. But God was clearly on his side at this time.

After Zhang Jiashi launched a fierce attack on Zhang Han's troops, Tu Sui also launched an offensive against Liu Bang, who was attacking Changsha County, at the same time.

If it weren't for Tu Sui and one of the largest main forces of the Great Qin Empire under his command, Zhang Jiashi would most likely have faced a completely different situation.

It can also be said that Tu Sui and the Southern Expeditionary Corps that went north determined the victory trend of the Second Eastern Expedition to a large extent.

At the very least, if it weren't for Tu Sui and the Southern Expeditionary Army, I am afraid that Zhang Jiashi would have wanted to solve Liu Bang, who had vaguely become one of the most rebellious princes, so easily, and there would not have been such a quick result.

After forcing Liu Bang to kill himself at Wujiang, although the Second Eastern Crusade was not yet completely victorious, it had already announced that the Great Qin Empire had won the victory.

And time passed quickly, and in the Third Crusade to the present, Zhang Jiashi only needed to defeat the remnants of Xiang Yu's Chu army, and there were no large-scale opponents in the sphere of influence that the Great Qin Empire once ruled.

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If Zhang Jiashi wants to do these things, it is obviously not enough to rely on military victories alone.

War is not only about winning or losing on the battlefield, but also about the all-round contrast between the national strengths of each other.

Before Zhang Jiashi launched the western expedition to Liaoxi and officially announced the involvement of the Liaodong Army in the chaos of the world, Liaodong County, the Korean region and the Kyushu Island region of Japan had gradually become grain production bases under the development of Zhang Jiashi.

Among them, Liaodong County was the leader, and under the condition of renovation on the basis of the previous governance of the Yan State and the Great Qin Empire, Liaodong County became a large-scale agricultural base with the Liaohe River as the main body.

Although the development of the DPRK region is not yet perfect, for Zhang Jiashi, the DPRK region has been able to export materials on a small scale is the best result in a short period of time.

It can be said that the grain output with Liaodong County as the core and the Korean region as the auxiliary became one of the biggest dependencies of Zhang Jiashi's early operations.

At the same time, Zhang Jiashi also vigorously developed commerce, and the senior management headed by himself established a set of benchmark methods in Liaodong County to attach importance to commercial development, which supported the important foundation of Liaodong County and the subsequent commercial output value chain.

In particular, Zhang Jiashi himself, after gradually relaxing the monopoly position of the salt industry and beekeeping operations, has also received strong support for the development of many corresponding industries.

Among them, focusing on the salt industry, Zhang Jiashi did not hide his personal interests, but taught the more advanced way of salt production from the sea.

In the original history of Zhang Jiashi, salt production was a rather slow development technology:

Historically, it was used to make salt by frying in a pan.

Human beings first collected brine and salt that existed in nature, including natural brine and rock salt on the surface and salt naturally crystallized in coastal depressions, for consumption. More than 5,000 years ago, China began to scrape the salty soil on the seashore and pour it with brine and frying salt. In areas where there is natural brine, the production method of "burning charcoal first, splashing it with salt well water, and scraping the salt" was adopted. At the end of the Warring States Period, Sichuan began to dig wells, draw brine, and fry salt. Qi Guanzhong (B.C. ~ 645 B.C.) implemented the policy of "Guanshan Hai", that is, salt was made by the government and the people, and all products were uniformly distributed by the government. However, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, except for the 139 years from the third year of Emperor Wen of Sui (583) to the tenth year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (722), when the beaches, salt wells, and salt lakes of the whole country were opened, and the people were allowed to freely produce and sell them, in order to increase financial revenue, most of the other dynasties implemented the monopoly system, controlled the production and marketing of salt with strict punishment and strict laws, and forced salt households to produce salt through the formation of forced labor. Although during the Sui and Tang dynasties, Shanxi lake salt production has formed a new process of "reclamation and watering", and during the Song and Yuan dynasties, Fujian sea salt production has partially adopted the salt drying method, but the production scale is small, the tools and equipment are simple, and there is only simple cooperation between producers, and it has been staying in a small production state of one household.

In the late Qing Dynasty, salt people in Zhangwan, Nancheng Qingshan and other places in Ningde experimented with the technology of drying and brining salt. In the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), Fuding Ye Liyi and others built a garden in Wendu, Qinyu to make salt, first using wooden boards to dry salt, the quantity is small and the quality is inferior, and then the Zhejiang master was hired to teach the salt-making skills. In the 50s, Ningde and Fuding salt areas reformed the salt-making process and built the Nachao project, which was abundant in brine sources. In the early 60s, Ningde Sandu Salt Farm used the thin and diligent salt production process, and the upper and lower processes of pumping water to make brine and brine crystallization were closely linked to improve the yield and quality of salt. Increase the output of raw salt by expanding the crystallization tank and brine evaporation tank. In the late 70s, the open-pit brine well was changed to a masonry and covered brine well. Zhuo Xuesheng has successfully developed a DC electric axial flow pump to solve the operation method of traditional water treading truck to pump brine. By the end of the 80s, salt production in eastern Fujian was basically mechanized.

The situation is different for well salt. In Sichuan, Zhuo tube wells appeared in the Song Dynasty, and drill bits ("round blade" files) were used to sink wells for the first time. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the handmade machinery was gradually completed, the division of labor and cooperation was gradually clarified, and commercial capital was increasingly transformed into industrial capital. With the inflow of nomads, the labor market gradually took shape, and by the Qianlong (1736~1795) and Jiaqing (1796~1820) years of the Qing Dynasty, the Zigong salt industry had entered the stage of capitalist factory handicrafts. After 1835, black brine wells, rock salt wells, and deep natural gas wells were drilled one after another, which provided abundant raw materials and energy for the salt industry. The natural dissolution and leaching cavity of the rock salt well, the water injection of one well, and the brine production of multiple wells have contributed to the union of the relevant well households and greatly promoted the development of the handicraft industry in the salt area.

Zhang Jiashi's salt method is not too advanced in many aspects, and even the salt tablets contained a lot of impurities, and Zhang Jiashi was more able to obtain coarse salt or fine salt with relatively high purity through grinding and purification of some simple instruments.

It's not that Zhang Jiashi didn't plan to improve his skills in this area, but after synthesizing the reality and the corresponding description of Tiangong Kaiwu, Zhang Jiashi, who thought that it was still necessary to improve the output first, finally gave up the relatively advanced salt production technology that could not be realized for the time being.

In order to avoid some problems, Zhang Jiashi finally took control of several large salt farms located on the Liaodong Peninsula in his own hands.

After all, salt is a necessity, and in many cases there will still be hoarding, and Zhang Jiashi controlled several large salt farms in his own hands, mainly to avoid this kind of problem.

Although the comparison between the expenditure and profit of the salt industry is not a windfall profit, after removing the expenditure in many aspects, the profit of salt is very high, which is also the focus of Zhang Jiashi's plan in his hands in many cases.

Because although Zhang Jiashi is not a rich country now, relatively speaking, there are really few people who are richer than Zhang Jiashi on the surface, and there are really few people in the Great Qin Empire.