The heavy snow is depressing and even a little desperate. On the sixth day of Zhao Xing's arrival in the surrendered city, he finally stopped, as if forced by the monstrous power of Lord Taifu, and finally reluctantly retreated north.

Old people often say: snow is not cold, snow is cold.

In the past few days, the temperature outside the city has indeed turned into ice and dropped into a column of urine, but the temperature in the city has become more enthusiastic because of the arrival of relief materials delivered from all over the Jin Kingdom.

Although Lord Taifu only showed up on the first day of arriving at the surrendered city, and the next day he led his men and horses north, the promise he made in public was seriously implemented by the government.

These herdsmen, who have been living on the grasslands, had to take great risks if they wanted to exchange a jar of salt from the Han people when they had not opened a mutual market before, and even secretly crossed the Great Wall and secretly traded with merchants on the black market. In this unprotected trade, herders are often the ones who suffer, paying two to three times more than they normally would in exchange for a jar of salted salt.

Although they knew that they had been slaughtered by black-hearted Han merchants, the herdsmen still risked being caught by the Han army guarding the pass every year, exchanging the northern specialties of leather, beasts, precious medicinal herbs, gold, silver and jewelry for salt that was barely enough for their own consumption. The reason is very simple, if you don't eat salt for three days, you will feel that you have no energy in your body, and you can't even eat anything.

Salt is really an indispensable necessity for herders. The story about Salt is full of sadness and tears.

However, this somewhat bleak situation became history after the establishment of the Yansheng clan. Because they were also citizens of the Jin Kingdom, and in Wuyuan, Yunzhong and Dingxiang counties, the holy places for the people of the three ethnic groups to live were specially demarcated, so the herdsmen either went to it themselves or asked someone to buy it, and they could get relatively cheap salt back.

The relatively cheap price is compared with the past, and the price of salt for the Yansheng people is the same as that of the Han people in the Jin Kingdom, but it does not mean that the current salty salt is as cheap as white water. Even the Han people of the Jin Kingdom really don't feel burdened when it comes to eating salt, and the cost of eating salt for a year is still a major expense.

In view of the above reasons, when the herdsmen in the surrendered cities saw that the government had sent whole bags of salt to every household, they suddenly had a feeling of being reincarnated. When did the Jin Kingdom become rich enough to distribute the whole bag of salt to its people? Before Chinese New Year's Eve, the free shopping vouchers issued by the Taifu Mansion were still tightly held in the hands of the herdsmen, and this was another whole bag of salt sent to the door!

The huge sense of happiness instantly shattered the thoughts of the Yansheng people who had some inferiority complex and sensitivity because they lived in the surrendered city.

In other words, from the day Zhao Xing arrived at the surrendered city, some city names with a sense of historical humiliation became history, and "Fengxue City" will become a holy city in the minds of the Yansheng people, and from then on it will stand proudly in the north of the Jin Kingdom and even the Han Empire, just like its new name with perseverance and perseverance, defending the northern territory of the Han Celestial Empire for generations.

"Each household seized the time to skin the frozen horses, cattle and sheep for meat, and salted them with salt distributed by the government. Again, you must not be stingy with salt and make sure that the meat is marinated thoroughly. Salt used to be expensive, but it won't be long before it's cheaper and you can buy it casually. If anyone makes a mistake and secretly leaves the salt and lets the meat rot of the livestock, there will be a time for you to cry!" Yan Xi, the patriarch who stayed in Fengxue City, tirelessly went door to door to carry out policy propaganda, for fear that his people would do stupid things for a while.

Yan Xi's patience and meticulousness still played an obvious role. Although some herders secretly hid some salt in their homes, they still honestly began to marinate meat products on a large scale, after all, this matter is not a boring move, these marinated meat can not be eaten by their own family anyway, most of it has to be sold to the government in exchange for other production materials and even horse breeds.

In order to ensure the taste of the cured meat, Zhao Xing also sent some pepper and ginger, garlic and other condiments to each family, and asked the newly established Shangdang Canning Factory to send technicians to guide the herdsmen in curing meat. These meticulous and intimate arrangements once again made the herdsmen feel the warmth of the Jin Kingdom and Zhao Taifu, and their sense of identity with the Yansheng people and the Jin Kingdom in their hearts will naturally be imperceptibly improved.

There are reporters with strong professionalism, following the footsteps of Master Taifu all the way to the north, and making a series of reports on what they saw and heard along the road and how Zhao Xing organized officers and soldiers to rescue herdsmen, so that the people in the south who are concerned about this matter can understand the progress of the fight against the snow disaster in a timely manner. Another advantage of such a report is that the people who have selflessly donated money and property can also know what kind of effect their kind actions have played through the daily newspaper, which is the benign interaction mentioned by Zhao Xing.

For the people of the Jin Kingdom, truthfully reporting the situation of the snow disaster can carry out positive interactions, but for forces outside the Jin Kingdom, this is not necessarily the case.

The first person to discover that he could take advantage of the heavy snow in the north of the Jin Kingdom to play on the topic was the deputy of the Dasi Nong in charge of the army, horses, money and grain in the central court of the Han Dynasty, that is, the Dasi Nong Cheng Chen Qun. Chen Qun is keenly aware that a huge snowstorm in the north will inevitably freeze to death of many livestock, and if such losses are to be reduced, the frozen livestock must be properly disposed of.

In icy and snowy weather, frozen livestock can be kept for a long time. But judging from the season, it is clear that the weather will be very warm after this snow in the north, and if the frozen livestock is not treated, then they can only watch them rot and deteriorate, and even cause disasters and pestilences.

With Chen Qun's knowledge and understanding of Zhao Xing, this person would definitely not allow such a thing to happen, so how to dispose of livestock carcasses became a top priority. Chen Qun really couldn't think of a simpler and easier way to do it than salt, so he immediately reported his speculation to Liu Bei, and suggested that the Anyi salt pond controlled by the imperial court immediately reduce production and take the opportunity to increase prices, and use this as a means to force the Jin state to open up some technologies and goods that were not open to the imperial court.

As the reports of "Jin Bao" continued to spread to the south, Liu Bei also kept an eye on Zhao Xing's every move, and was also thinking about how to profit from this sudden snow disaster. After listening to Chen Qun's suggestion, Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to discuss the matter.

Zhuge Liang said: "What Changwen (Chen Qunzi) said is feasible, but it should not be too explicit, so as not to make Zhao Xing angry and angry, and wait for an opportunity to retaliate in the future." The Jin Kingdom Commodity Exhibition will open in May, and there will be a big change at that time, and the imperial court must not miss this opportunity. ”

Since even Zhuge Liang felt that it was feasible, Liu Bei privately suggested to the emperor to reduce the supply of salt from Anyi Salt Pond to the north, and take advantage of the opportunity of the need for a large amount of salt in the north to raise the price of salt by fifty percent.

Emperor Liu Wei was very interested in this method of increasing the income of the imperial family and suppressing Zhao Xing, so he happily adopted Liu Bei's suggestion, raised the price of the salt pond by fifty percent for an inexplicable reason, and deliberately reduced the supply to Jin, Liang, and Youzhou.

The reason for the royal announcement of the price increase is: the land of Hedong is adjacent to Shangdang County, the richest place in the Jin Kingdom, and prices have soared in recent years, and the income of the people of Anyi Salt Pond has gradually exceeded their means, and their lives are difficult, so they have to raise prices and improve the living conditions of the salt people.

This reason, no matter how you look at it, has the style of the Zhao family, and I don't know which one of the lack of virtue came up with it!