Han Zhuo came from afar, and after being polite to Yang Zhao for a while, he went to the post house to rest.

Yang Zhao sent Han Zhuo to the post house first, and when he returned to the government office, he opened Kong Rong's letter to him.

The content of the letter is actually very simple.

Not long ago, Lu Zhi gave Kong Rong a letter, saying that his student went to Zhuo County in Youzhou to be the county magistrate, and asked Kong Rong to take care of one or two, and Lu Zhi's letter also wrote Yang Zhao's merits and abilities.

After Kong Rong was a Confucian saint, Lu Zhi was one of the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty, and their relationship was relatively good, Yang Zhao was not surprised and continued to watch.

The next content is that Kong Rong used a kind of elder's tone to tell Yang Zhao to work hard in Liangxiang, and if he makes merits in the future, he will help Yang Zhao ask for merit and so on.

It's all polite words, and they don't make much sense.

"That's it?"

Yang Zhao finished reading it and put it aside casually.

Thinking that his name has been passed on to Kong Rong, it is a good thing.

The next day.

Han Zhuo didn't stay in Liangxiang, took away the thieves from Evil Wolf Mountain, and went back to Zhuo County, as for the fate of those bandits, it was not within Yang Zhao's consideration.

Now Yang Zhao is thinking about how to strengthen the tribe, leaving Luoyang and coming to Liangxiang, which is the starting point of his development plan.

To be precise, it is an attempt to see if you have the ability to govern one side and lead the way through the troubled times.

After sending Han Zhuo away, Yang Zhao had nothing else to do and continued to deal with various government affairs.

"County magistrate, it's not good!"

Fang Rui suddenly ran in and said anxiously: "Something happened to Yecheng!" ”

They are in the good township of Youzhou, what does the accident in Yecheng have to do with the good township?

Yang Zhao asked curiously, "What's wrong?" ”

Fang Rui said: "Jizhou assassinated Shi Wang Fen, the rebellion was exposed, and he was arrested a month ago!" ”

They rose from Jizhou, strictly speaking, the first person to help Yang Zhao was Wang Fen, and then met Lu Zhi, so that there is today.

Wang Fen can be regarded as one of Yang Zhao's Bole.

Hearing this, Yang Zhao thought of a historical event.

Wang Fen was fooled by Chen Yi, the son of the late Taifu, and the warlock Xiangkai, and then plotted with Xu You and others in Nanyang, abolished Liu Hong, established the Marquis of Hefei as the emperor, and almost involved Cao Cao, but the result was naturally a failure.

This incident still happened.

"What should we do?"

Fang Rui could remember that Wang Fen took good care of Yang Zhao at that time, and rushed over immediately when he got the news.

Yang Zhao said helplessly: "What else can I do?" This is a rebellion, not an ordinary crime, and besides, I can't help Wang Zhijun, if I do, maybe I will be guilty of the same crime as Wang Zhijun! ”

This is also a fact.

Fang Rui hesitated for a while, and put this matter down for the time being, feeling a little pity in his heart.

Yang Zhao asked, "Senior brother, what have they been doing lately?" Except for Jian Xianhe, the three of them are often absent from the government office. ”

Fang Rui responded: "The county magistrate agreed to the county lieutenant to open up the wasteland in the northwest, and now he should be busy cultivating the fields and raising soldiers with the fields." ”

This is also Liu Bei's helpless move.

After more than 800 new expeditions, although they were very happy, the problem of raising soldiers in the follow-up was also a headache for them, not only money, but also food.

"We will also recruit a new batch of troops in the future, and the money and materials needed to raise soldiers are also a lot!"

Yang Zhao thought for a while and said, "Senior Brother's Tuntian may be useful. ”

Fang Rui asked, "Do we want to also Tuntian?" ”

Now the spring ploughing season has come to an end.

Mobilize all your forces, speed up the land reclamation, and maybe catch up with farming.

Yang Zhao thought about it and said, "Let's go out of the city and have a look." ”

If there is a need, Tuntian will still be indispensable in the future, as a traverser, I don't know much about how to Tuntian, now you can steal the teacher, find Liu Bei to steal the teacher.

Outside the city of Liangxiang, in the northwest.

A large piece of wasteland, which was taken by Liu Bei with more than 900 parts, was almost reclaimed and cultivated.

This is unowned wasteland, and you won't have a problem cultivating it.

In the past, there were bandits who made trouble, this side is close to the Evil Wolf Mountain, and no people have dared to come to open up the wasteland, but now that the bandits have been solved, Liu Bei is the first to focus here

"Senior brother is here!"

Liu Bei, who was working as an overseer near the field, urged the soldiers to plow, and when he saw Yang Zhao's figure approaching, he walked over.

Yang Zhao looked at it for a while and said: "Senior brother's consideration is really thoughtful, after the harvest, there is basically no need to worry about the grain in the second half of this year and the first half of next year." ”

Liu Bei smiled: "Thank you, junior brother, for letting me reclaim the wasteland here, junior brother is here, do you also want to tuntian?" ”

"It means so, but ......"

Yang Zhao glanced at the fields around him, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The wasteland here has been almost reclaimed by Senior Brother, and only this side has the most wasteland outside Liangxiang City, so I have to find another way." ”

Zhang Fei raised his head, pointed to the southwest, and said, "County magistrate, there is still a piece of wasteland there, just at the foot of the mountain. ”

Yang Zhao looked at it, there was really a place, but it looked desolate over there, there was not much grass at the foot of the mountain, and there were few trees on the mountain, so it should be a barren land.

"That place, you can't farm."

Liu Bei had already inspected it, shook his head and said, "There is a poisonous salt mountain over there, and it can't grow crops." ”

"Poison Salt Mountain?"

Yang Zhao was a little surprised.

That's not poisonous salt, it's a salt mine.

It's just that ancient people didn't know how to make salt, didn't know how to filter and other means, and the salt from this salt mine would not be used, and some people would not be good for their health if they tried to eat it.

Over time, it became a poisonous salt.

Yang Zhao thought of another one, the ancient historical event about salt and iron.

Salt is the most important material in ancient times, and it is also one of the financial sources of the imperial court.

However, in ancient times, salt not only tasted salty, it was troublesome to make, it was not purified, and the cost was extremely high.

The salt that can be used is either sea salt, or some well salt, similar to the salt mines in Yanshan, they dare not eat it for fear of poisoning, and the other salt production is not high, most of them are controlled in the hands of the family, resulting in ridiculously high salt prices.

The profits behind making and selling salt are ridiculously high.

In each dynasty, as long as there was a problem with the finances of the imperial court, it would carry out reforms on salt and iron.

For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, Huan Kuan's "Treatise on Salt and Iron" has a description of this.

Getting a usable salt mine is not much different from having a mine at home.

Thinking of so much, Yang Zhao's eyes lit up!

He thought of the next important step in the future development process about the source of money for raising soldiers, this poisonous salt mountain, will be his own in the future!

Liu Bei didn't know what Yang Zhao was thinking about, and explained: "This is the Poisonous Salt Mountain, if the junior brother needs to find wasteland elsewhere, I really can't make room here." ”

He didn't want to give a piece of the wasteland here to Yang Zhao.

Everyone is selfish, and Liu Bei is no exception.

Yang Zhao shook his head slightly and said, "No need, I don't need Tuntian now, Fang Rui, let's go!" ”

Under Liu Bei's puzzled gaze, he took Shang Rui to the bottom of the poisonous salt mountain.