Chapter 132: The Salt Quotation System
"Shu County!"
Li Si opened his mouth and said.
Hearing this, Ying Zheng's face changed suddenly.
All right.
Sichuan's pimple does produce grain.
Li Bing, the Taishou of the Qin Dynasty, built a famous water conservancy project here, which has continued to later generations and is still in use.
This hydraulic project.
The Chengdu Plain has become a thousand miles of fertile land.
And the fertile red earth of the Sichuan Plain.
It's full of nutrients again.
Enough for this crop to thrive successfully.
Plus, in the current Daqin.
The Bashu area is less developed.
The population is not too large either.
This makes it.
Fertile land.
Smaller population.
Plus a good climate.
make local food production.
It can be said that it is quite high.
Grain production is high.
Naturally, there will be more food.
The problem, however, is this.
Grain from Shu County.
Although much.
Although here inside the granary.
A large amount of grain and grass was stored.
The problem, however, is this.
Grain here.
But it can't be used.
It's not that the first emperor was reluctant.
In other words, the local magistrates blocked the delivery of grain.
It's because.
This place.
It's not easy to walk.
Shu County is a very suitable place for secession.
Here, there are mountains all around.
In the middle is the basin.
There are very few roads out of Shu.
This can be seen from the difficulties of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in history.
Moreover, there are few roads.
The problem is that the road is not easy to follow.
The road is not easy to walk, which leads to the cost of grain transportation rising sharply.
Therefore, the current Great Qin has no way to transport grain from Shu County.
So much so that when he heard Li Si's proposal, Ying Zheng immediately put on a straight face.
"What's the solution? If the grain in Shu County could be transported out, I would have shipped it out in large quantities a long time ago! ”
Yes, if the rice of the country of abundance could be transported, Ying Zheng would have already ordered the large amount of grain stored there over the years to be transported to Guanzhong.
Where will it remain today?
When Li Si heard this, he spread his hands to win the political road.
"But Your Majesty, apart from here, the minister really can't think of when he can transport grain? If it is to transport grain from Guanzhong, the minister thinks that it can be, but after this is transported, the granary in Guanzhong will be empty......"
"The granary in Guanzhong is empty, Your Majesty, if something happens, the imperial court suddenly wants to use troops, or Guanzhong, what natural disaster happens, but what should I do?"
"This ......"
Li Si's words made Ying Zheng's face change suddenly.
Indeed, this question has to be considered.
Thinking of this, Ying Zheng couldn't help frowning, and then, with a long sigh.
"However, if this is the case, what should the people of Kanto do?"
"Your Majesty, you can only suffer the people a little longer......"
Lees said.
Suffer the people.
This is probably a more classic rhetoric.
At this moment, it was proposed by Lis.
The courtiers agreed.
"Your Majesty, for today's plan, this is the only way, not to mention, the nineteenth prince in the Kanto disaster relief, by those places to lend grain to the people, has solved most of the people's disaster, now, the problem is not big, the court is not to allocate food, probably there is no problem......"
"That's all there is to it!"
Ying Zheng nodded and agreed to Li Si's approach.
There is no way around it.
After all, he has no food.
What else can I do?
Winning politics is an emperor through the ages.
However, no matter how awesome he is.
Can he still conjure food out of space?
Unlikely!
So, that's all there is to it!
A few days later.
Ying Zheng's edict was sent to Ying Changsheng.
I saw the edict issued by Ying Zheng.
Win Changsheng's face changed immediately.
Yingzheng didn't even give him food!
How good is that?
Wang Jian on the side, after reading the edict, couldn't help frowning.
Immediately, he sighed.
"Nineteen sons, the drought over the years, disasters, the people, are all like this, this year by the nineteen sons here to personally relieve the disaster, the people have been much stronger than in previous years, the nineteen sons do not have to blame themselves too much, after all, the court also has the difficulties of the court, we also tried our best, isn't ......"
"Alas!"
Ying Changsheng sighed.
Then he secretly made up his mind in his heart.
Next year, we must promote all the sweet potatoes and potatoes to Daqin.
At that time, there will no longer be the present, this kind of dilemma.
However, although there are potatoes next year, there are also sweet potatoes.
But Win Changsheng still wants to solve it, and the drought they are facing at the moment is only seen, Win Changsheng frowned, and after thinking for a while.
Immediately, he slapped his thigh and said.
"I've got a way!"
"What is the solution of the nineteenth prince?"
Wang Jian immediately looked at Ying Changsheng and said in surprise.
"I have a way to solve the food problem!"
Ying Changsheng said.
Wang Jian chuckled lightly and said to win immortality.
"Nineteen princes, now there is no food in the imperial court, could it be that you can conjure up food out of thin air?"
"Well, of course not!"
Ying Changsheng nodded.
He really can't.
He's not a god.
and they can't call the wind and the rain.
How can you conjure food out of space?
The so-called method of winning Changsheng is very simple.
He had already read the edict of winning the government.
Winning Zheng has already explained in the edict.
At the moment, it is not that there is no food.
The real problem is.
There is food.
However, there is no way to win the government.
Bring the grain, transport it out.
Transported to Kanto for Win Changsheng.
That's the problem.
Transporting grain, which is indeed more difficult to transport.
It's not just the moment.
Even in the future, this will be the case, unless there is a transformative technological development that greatly improves the efficiency of transportation, otherwise, this will always be a problem that plagues the Great Qin court.
However, for such a question.
Win Changsheng has a relatively simple method, and now Daqin can implement it.
This method was not figured out by Win Changsheng himself.
Moreover, he got the method from the official means of transporting grain in the Song and Ming dynasties!
That is, the salt introduction system of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty!
During the Song and Ming dynasties, it was necessary to deal with the nomads in the north.
The defenders of the Great Wall are short of food.
Under such circumstances, if the imperial court organizes the transportation of grain, the cost is too high and not cost-effective, and it is not an easy thing to organize the transportation of grain.
Therefore, some clever ministers have proposed such a solution.
Salt citation!
This method is actually very simple.
It is nothing more than asking the private merchants to transport grain to the Great Wall.
Then, the local army showed them the salt leads.
With this salt introduction, they can obtain a part of the salt industry franchise.
In this way, you can mobilize private businessmen to transport grain at a very low cost without spending a penny!
At the moment, Win Changsheng is to take this method!