King Zhou's application was approved without any suspense.

After all, throwing him into the Huang is indeed a bit too cruel.

Salt industry only.

It can be regarded as a source of livelihood for him.

Besides, if he can really develop a salt pond in Huangzhong, that would be a good thing.

At least it enriched the supply of salt in Longyou and Gansu.

Just pay your taxes.

In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a holy decree to authorize King Zhou to specialize in green salt, and the marketing scope included the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Xingdu, Longyou, Fengxiang, and the provinces along the Yellow River to Hukou. At this time, the salt industry was zoned, and where to eat what salt was prescribed, for example, the part of Guanzhong in Shaanxi Province, including Hanzhong, was to solve the salt, that is, the salt of the salt pond in Hedong.

The provinces on the right side of Longyou are spiritual salt.

That is, Wuzhong Huamachi Salt Lake, so one of the three governors of the Ming Dynasty was Huamachi.

In addition, there are some small ones, such as Lixian and Zhangxian Yanjing.

These low yields are negligible.

More than 100,000 catties a year, basically digested locally.

Roughly speaking, Shaanxi is two parts, Guanzhong eats Jieyan, Longyou eats spiritual salt, and it is a serious crime to sell salt across regions, and if the green salt of King Zhou is really developed, then it can rely on the Yellow River water transportation to drift all the way downstream, until the mouth of the pot, how much can be sold depends on the ability......

These places are not his monopoly, and the original spiritual salt and the like continue to be sold.

He's just a supplement.

"That's it!"

Yang Feng looked at the holy decree brought back by King Zhou with satisfaction.

"But Xiao Wang still has something that needs the ambassador's guidance."

King Zhou said very humbly.

He seemed to have forgotten that he had been thrown into the middle of the river, mainly because this guy was pitted.

King Zhou is also a smart man.

Know when it's time to let go of the baggage of the past......

Or from the heart.

"Your Majesty, please speak."

Yang Feng said.

He is still very satisfied with being able to get a vassal king in Qinghai, this is not a simple problem as a palace, there was originally only one Xiningwei in the entire Hehuang, and even this Xiningwei, in fact, a large part of them are Mongolians. One of the hereditary commanders of Xiningwei was the original Yuan Dynasty's Gansu Xingtai right Cheng Duoer only lost the knot, his family was later given the surname Qi, and Qi Bingzhong, who died in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, is his descendant. Now there are two more stuffed at once, or two Han guards, this is more than 10,000, plus the palace belongs, it can be said that the Huangzhong area quickly recovered sinicization.

It's the poor point.

This must be acknowledged.

After all, it is not the Tang Dynasty now, and even if Huangzhong is a rich agricultural area with a warm climate, Huangzhong is really poor at this time, so it is also appropriate to increase some sources of livelihood for them.

"Huangzhong's trade with Wu Sizang, can the ambassador give Xiao Wang a glimpse?"

King Zhou said with a smile.

"The king, the vassal fornicated with the vassal and the vassal young?"

Yang Feng also said with a smile.

"Ambassador, the emperor is far away, and I'm afraid no one will care about Xiao Wang when I get there.

Besides, Xiao Wang has three guards, nearly 20,000 households, and there must be a way to eat. The ambassador can rest assured that if Xiao Wang goes to Xining, the bank will naturally open to Xining. ”

King Zhou said.

That means we can work together.

"Okay, since the king spoke, then Yang is not good to hide, but the king has to pay attention, Xining is indeed barely livable, but if you go to Wusi to hide, it will be different, the terrain there is extremely high, in fact, the place where Xining is located, in terms of the sea level, is nearly a thousand zhang higher than the capital. Qianzhang is a hurdle, after this hurdle, those of us who live in low places, we can't stand it, we call it altitude sickness, we need an adaptation process, and dare not get sick, once sick even if it is just an ordinary cold, it is easy to lose your life.

Therefore, you can't take a bath when you walk this way.

In short, there are many taboos, and it is not a simple trip to the caravan.

The distance doesn't matter. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, even if you live in the capital, it is as easy to kill as an ordinary cold, as for the taboo of a merchant who is not easy to be in a foreign land, these are all necessary, even if there are dead people on the road, it is inevitable, which one is not a businessman with a head on his waist?"

King Zhou dealt with it suddenly.

"That's okay, there are three routes from Xining to the plateau, one to Duogandu to command the envoys, to connect Sichuan to Wusizang trade route, one to go directly, the other to the west, out of the plateau to connect with the trade route from Suzhou to India. The three roads are not easy to walk, and most of the places along the way are no-man's land, but if you can connect to India, then the profit is also huge, that is, to support the bold, starve the cowardly......"

Yang Feng then instilled in King Zhou the concept of seeking wealth and danger.

In fact, if this route is really developed, King Zhou will really be able to reap the benefits.

The key, of course, is not Uszang.

Rather, it was connected by land to India through Uszang.

Although the sea route has been developed, it must be understood that in this era, the sea route covered the coastal areas of India, and it was difficult to cover the inland areas, especially the Indus Valley, which was the core area of India. What's more, India was followed by continuous wars, and the Delhi Sultanate alone changed several dynasties, and the trade from sea to land was not as good as those ancient trade routes. After all, even in the nineteenth century, Britain controlled India, and it did not delay the trade on these ancient trade routes, in short, it was best to let him go on this road.

King Zhou finally left with a large bag of materials and a full harvest.

"There's something wrong with him!

If he doesn't want to endure hardship, he can just withdraw back to the capital when the time comes, why make himself so hard?

There are indeed more three guards, even if he can't afford to raise them, it's a big deal to ask the court to abolish them, Yun Xi will definitely be willing to give him another one guard, as long as he is willing, he can enjoy happiness in the future. The place in Xining is not good, and it is not interesting to leave it to his children and grandchildren, so he will return to the capital to be the prince of Taiping, and his descendants will be indispensable in the future.

Why torture yourself so much? ”

The little princess looked at her fifth brother's back in confusion.

"Unwilling!

How can a manly man be so unambitious?

Anyway, he is also a vassal king, since there is a fief that can be operated, even if it is poor, but as long as the land is in hand and the population is there, how can you not work hard to break out of a foundation, your father can sit on thousands of miles of rivers and mountains if he asks for food, he still has a vast fief in Hehuang, and the population of the three guards, even if he can't rule the world, he can still work hard to be a turtle country. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Don't always say my dad wants food."

The little princess protested.

"But he's the one who wants food!"

Yang Feng said.

The little princess was speechless.

But that's exactly what King Zhou thought.

The first step is to let his three guards be able to gain a foothold in Xining.

Reclamation is actually enough.

Although Huangzhong is poor, the agriculture of 20,000 households can still hold on, after all, it is convenient to irrigate, surrounded by high mountains, and the agriculture of the river valley will be very developed, that is, the arable land may be less, but with green salt, there will be a steady stream of funds, and it is not easy to do it with money in hand? Transformation can reclaim wasteland, the Ming Dynasty in the western Sichuan several guards, in the Daliang Mountain area by the high mountain meltwater, through the transformation of farmland, can be large-scale planting of rice, even if Huangzhong because of the climatic conditions can not grow rice, wheat, millet is still completely no pressure. Then he has a strong army, and the status of the vassal king is enough to give him the freedom to dominate, even if he robs the surrounding tribes.

Although the surrounding tribes were already the guards of the imperial court at this time, he was a vassal king.

As is customary, he went to control these guards.

So he is equivalent to the king of Qinghai.

First subdue these guarded tribes, and then open up trade routes, sit on agricultural areas and salt pans, and control the surrounding pastoral areas......

Altan Khan's karma!

King Zhou was obviously complacent.

Then sit on this foundation, sit in Hehuang and watch the disputes in the Central Plains, and if you have the opportunity, you will sweep Longyou, even if you can't get a peep artifact, the king is still very hopeful.

Of course, if he likes it, he will do it!

Yang Feng likes this kind of enterprising young man.

He is only in his thirties, and the future is still far away, but he still has to live for more than 30 years in history, and more than 30 years is estimated to be enough for him to dominate the plateau. In this way, the king of Zhou was completely kicked out of the Central Plains, and then he will take his migratory army and embark on a long journey to Xining, but his property in Henan will definitely be retained. Including the Jin King's industry in Taiyuan is the same, the domain has indeed changed, but other industries, especially real estate, shops, including private land purchased outside the domain, these must still be theirs.

So even though people are gone, these industries can still provide them with a lot of income.

Although the Zhou Palaces were changed to the Song Temple, the Jin Palaces were still the property of the Jin Dynasty, so Yang Feng was purging the princess and renting out this palace, after all, it was also a large place.

So far, there are no more strong vassals in the north.

Jin Tuesday Wang moved to the domain, the two kings of Qilu were a fool and a minor, although the fief of the king of Yan was still Beiping, but in fact he had not returned for many years, and he was currently concentrating on studying navigation. And holding the world map given to him by Yang Feng, he was obviously full of ambition, but he didn't seem to have that worldly desire for the affairs of Daming. After all, for a person who likes to expand his territory, looking at the place of Daming on the world map, it is inevitable that he will be like a caged beast, and he feels that he has nowhere to vent his energy.

And the Liao King and other locations are remote and cannot threaten the capital.

There is still King Qin left.

So the next one is King Qin, but this kind of thing has to find a chance, and Yang Feng still has a lot of fun to watch next, and he is not interested in harming King Qin again.

Gongin.

"All the heroes of the world are in my place! Anyway, your dad should be very excited to shout like this! ”

Yang Feng sat in his carriage and looked at the men in front of him who had entered the tribute courtyard.

Daming Hongwu 30 years of examination, officially kicked off, from all over the country gathered thousands of lifters, will start their carp jumping dragon gate here to fight, said that he has a sense of appreciating the college entrance examination army, but these lifters are a little older......

Anyway, there is no age limit.

There are all those who have been tested to Whitebeard, but not at this time.

And the examination is not only one session, those who have not been tested in previous years, can still continue to take the exam, as long as the identity of the person is admitted, there is no time limit, so in the late Ming Dynasty, more and more people participated in the examination, and the highest record was more than 5,000 people in the same exam. However, some of the exams are too many times, and there is really no hope, and usually the officials advise them not to be too persistent, and it is a big deal to give a lesson.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in fact, a large part of the county-level officials were promoted from the teachings.

During the entire Ming Dynasty in Yuncheng County, there were more magistrates from people than from Jinshi, and not only from people, but also Gongsheng, not only Jinshi.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, it was still very strict on fame.

If you want to say that there is indeed a selling official, but like me in the Qing Dynasty, there is no way to sell the official by donating a prisoner and then systematically selling the official, and the prisoners of the Ming Dynasty have no opportunity to be an official at all, so there are even prisoners who lament that they have not gotten anything for spending thousands of taels of silver. This is not a good thing, Chongzhen but as long as I have the mind of the Qing Dynasty and directly start to systematically sell officials, the Ming Dynasty may not be able to die in his hands. After all, for those rich people in the countryside, even if they can't be officials, it's worth spending a few hundred taels to buy a fame, and it looks good on the tablet after death.

It doesn't matter if troubled times are not troubled times.

The most prosperous time for my official business in the Qing Dynasty was precisely the time of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

As a result, there were so many sales, so that the fame was like a mustard, and there were many Taoist platforms like dogs, and one by one the alternate Daoists wore rented official uniforms, and they were glamorous in front of people, and when they went home, they closed the door and sat on a table with the servants and maids to drink porridge......

The father-in-law is a servant, the sister-in-law is a maid, and the brother is a long-term follower, and they are abducted and deceived together under the guise of official authority.

The official uniform has to be worn carefully, after all, it is very troublesome to get dirty in the rented one.

So, I still have to pull down my face.

It's not okay to have a good face.

I relied on selling officials in the Qing Dynasty, and I could prolong my life for decades, Chongzhen couldn't pull down, so I had to go to the coal mountain, and the taboo of being a politician is that I have to talk about dignity, and shamelessness is the basic quality of a qualified politician.

The lowest person is invincible.

The same goes for politicians.

"Wang Xiucai, I'm wondering why you disappeared, but I don't want to see you here."

Ambassador Yang, who was thinking differently, suddenly saw an acquaintance in the middle of the lift.

The missing Wang Fen.

The latter smiled awkwardly, as if he hadn't seen him.

"Wang Xiucai, Wang Fen, why are you hiding, last time in Taiyuan thanks to you for giving me ideas, why don't you come to me in the capital here, we are also old acquaintances, I don't know your ability to engage in conspiracy? What else are you going to take the test, I'll go back and tell the emperor that he will give you a jinshi directly, isn't it a jinshi!

We are all our own people, it's just a trivial matter, the second is not easy to say, and the third is a word. ”

Yang Feng continued to shout.

Those lifters looked at Wang Fen with unkind eyes one by one.

"The ambassador recognized the wrong person, this is Wang Wei, the son of Shanxi Tun, not Wang Fen, as for Taiyuan, it is impossible to talk about it, Brother Wang has been borrowing a temple in the capital to study and prepare for the exam all year round."

Another person beside Wang Fen hurriedly said.

"Naughty, he is obviously Wang Fen, when he was in Taiyuan, he gave me advice, but after the King of Jin accidentally died, he disappeared, I thought it was like the hermit in the drama, and he retired and drifted away, but I didn't expect it to be a lifter, Wang Xiucai, you just wait to be a jinshi!"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Wang Wei hurriedly lowered his head and walked into the tribute courtyard without saying a word.