The topography of Hanzhong is special.

This place is sandwiched between Xianyang and Bashu.

Among them, Xianyang, as the capital of Qin, was prosperous in commerce and economy.

As the granary of Qin, Bashu has a large land and abundant resources, cheap grain prices and high output.

These two places, whether Hanzhong is adjacent to either of them, can get the opportunity for rapid development.

But now Hanzhong is sandwiched between the two places, and the local development is extremely poor, and the reason is that Hanzhong is separated from Xianyang and Bashu, and there are huge obstacles.

To the north of Hanzhong is the Qinling Mountains, which cut off the connection between Xianyang and Hanzhong.

To the south of Hanzhong are two mountains, the bus and the rice warehouse, which cut off the connection between Bashu and Hanzhong.

Even though Hanzhong's own resources are not bad, if there is no external stimulation, it is even more difficult to rely on the resources owned by the local area to develop rapidly.

Although now above the Qinling Mountains, there is already a prototype of the 'Shu Road' opened up by the Qin State.

But that's just a trail.

From the prototype of this 'Shu Road', if the goods are transported in large quantities, maybe three or four thousand catties of commercial goods will have to use more than a dozen carriages, and it will take ten days and half a month to enter Hanzhong from Xianyang.

Such capacity is not proportional to the time and energy consumed.

For most businessmen, it's all about buying and selling at a loss.

The prototype of this 'Shu Road', every year only when the Qin State transports grain from Bashu, it will use the army to open the road at all costs, cut down trees when encountering trees, and move stones when encountering stones.

But this is obviously far from enough for Mo Jun.

What he needed was not a small path, but a thoroughfare road that would allow a super-large caravan to pass quickly and smoothly.

And it's not just one.

In Mojun's plan, the 'Tongtian Road' he wants to build should connect the entire Bashu and Xianyang, and use Hanzhong as the transportation center to help the rich resources of the two places.

"Gunpowder (fire sulfur stone) and cement are already available, and it is not difficult to build a road alone, but it is ······"

Mo Jun took out a scroll of animal skins, and when he opened it, it depicted a map of the Qinling Mountains.

Now 'cement' has been manufactured by Mojun and has begun to be put into large-scale production.

And this world originally had gunpowder.

With these two things, it is not very difficult to build a road from the Qinling Mountains.

The only problem now is mainly time.

No doubt.

The plan of 'opening mountains and digging roads' formulated by Mo Jun is an extremely huge amount of work.

If the volume of the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] alone, it may not be impossible to complete, but this construction period will inevitably drag on for too long.

The best way to do this is to find someone to work with.

Speaking of collaboration.

The first person Mo Jun thought of was naturally Yingzheng.

As the current King of Qin, in such a big project, Ying Zheng can provide too much help to Mo Jun.

However, Yingzheng's flaw is also obvious, that is, he is too poor.

Mo Jun is the current internal history of the Qin State, and what kind of financial situation the Qin State is, he knows better than Yingzheng.

For expenses other than the normal expenses of the imperial court like now, Ying Zheng can contribute all kinds of manpower and material resources, but he can't take out the money.

So in order to alleviate his pressure, Mo Jun had to find a way to find a few rich 'shareholders'.

"My lord, there is an urgent letter from Xianyang."

Just as Mo Jun was thinking, Hei Yu suddenly appeared silently, and at the same time handed over a roll of bamboo slips.

Mo Jun opened the scroll and glanced at it.

found that there was no substantive content in it, just an edict from Yingzheng to urgently summon him to the palace.

However, the fact that Mo Jun needs to be specially summoned into the palace has already explained a lot of problems.

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Two days later.

Inside the Xianyang Palace.

The Ying Zheng on the throne wears a crown on his head and is dressed in a dark robe. His gaze was deep and cold, looking down at the ministers below.

Long.

I only heard him say slowly: "The three-day period has arrived, do you have a good plan?" ”

Under the throne.

There are only seven or eight ministers, and the leader is none other than Chang Wenjun "Xiong Dian".

In the face of Ying Zheng's inquiry, Chang Wenjun and the ministers behind him lowered their heads and were speechless.

Chang Wenjun also worshiped one of the nine kings in the Qin State, and was the "Shaofu".

There are two functions:

1. In charge of the taxes of the mountains and seas and ponds operated by the royal family and the official handicrafts.

Second, he is responsible for managing the private wealth of the royal family and solving the affairs of life.

The power of the position of 'Shaofu' in Jiuqing seems ordinary, but because it is in charge of all royal and official affairs, it can go directly to the heavens, so its real power is not trivial.

Generally speaking.

It was a position that only those who had the king's great trust could sit in.

Once Chang Wenjun, as a 'relative of Chu Abroad', won the trust of Yingzheng, so he promoted Chang Wenjun to this position.

However, since the last 'Nanjun rebellion' incident, Yingzheng has begun to restrict Chang Wenjun's rights intentionally or unintentionally.

Now Chang Wenjun, the 'Shaofu', has basically lost the second right to "manage the private wealth of the royal family and solve the affairs of life", and only the first function remains.

But not so long ago.

The first function that Chang Wenjun was in charge also went awry.

"Xiong Qing, as a 'Shaofu', you are in charge of the tax of the Great Qin Mountains and Seas, but now that the salt mines of the Qin State have dried up and there is a shortage of salt, do you have a countermeasure?"

"Minister, there is nothing you can do."

In the face of Ying Zheng's inquiry, Chang Wenjun was silent for a long time, and finally only said five words.

It's really not Chang Wenjun who deliberately made a stumbling block for Yingzheng this time, after all, now that Yingzheng is in power, if there are still people who want to imitate the previous Zhisu Neishi, it is really asking for a dead end.

However, the matter of salt and grain, since ancient times, has been a major unsolvable problem for all dynasties.

The Qin State Salt Mine was already limited in quantity.

Not long ago, two salt mines dried up at the same time, and now unless a new 'salt mine' can be found again, even if the gods descend to earth, there is no way to solve the dilemma that the Qin State is facing now.

Ying Zheng also knows this, but Chang Wenjun's answer is obviously not what Ying Zheng wants.

"Waste, what's the use of the widow asking you to be a 'young man'?"

Ying Zheng's eyes were cold, looking at Chang Wenjun Xiong Tong below, the dissatisfaction in his eyes became deeper and deeper.

As the saying goes, when you like someone, his fart is fragrant. But when you hate someone, they eat like they're eating.

Today's Chang Wenjun is probably in such a situation.

Before the Nanjun incident, Ying Zheng had always been very tolerant of the two brothers of Changping Jun and Chang Wenjun, and even after the incident of Chang Yu, he once thought of giving the position of the right prime minister of Great Qin to Changping Jun.

But now, no matter what these two brothers do, in the eyes of Yingzheng, it will only make him feel irritable.

Chang Wenjun obviously knows this.

So in the face of Ying Zheng's harsh criticism and reprimand, he decisively chose to remain silent.

Anyway, the salt mine has dried up, and it is completely a helpless thing, even Yingzheng can't remiss his official position as 'Shaofu' because of this matter, right?

He can't be as unlucky as the previous Zhisu Neishi.

Could it be that hateful bastard who can still solve the dry salt mine together?

Are you kidding.

Besides.

That guy can't protect himself now, how can he still have the kung fu to take care of this.

Looking at the group of ministers below, it was completely an attitude of 'dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water', and Ying Zheng's eyes became more and more cold.

At this very moment.

Suddenly the voice of the guards came from outside the palace.

"Your Majesty, Shengping Jun asks to see you."

Hearing the voice of the guard, Ying Zheng first glanced at Chang Wenjun below, only to see that after Chang Wenjun below heard Mo Jun's arrival, his whole body suddenly shook, and then his eyes seemed to light up.

Seeing him like this, Ying Zheng's heart became more and more disgusted, but on the surface he still said calmly: "Xuan! ”

"Whoa!"

The guards answered, and then walked out of the palace and brought Mo Jun in.

When Mo Jun just walked in, he felt that the atmosphere in the palace seemed to be a little depressing, the Ying Zheng on the throne was expressionless, and several ministers below bowed their heads and were speechless.

Only Chang Wenjun, who was at the front, looked at him a little strangely, faintly, with a bit of malicious excitement.

"Minister, see the king."

Seeing Mo Jun coming, Ying Zheng's cold face also eased a little, and said gently: "Mo Qing is exempt." ”

"Thank you, the king."

Mo Jun thanked him, then straightened up and looked at Ying Zheng above with a slightly inquiring look.

So far, Mo Jun still doesn't know the real reason why Ying Zheng urgently summoned him to return to Xianyang.

After coming to Xianyang, Mo Jun naturally learned about the drying up of two salt mines in the Qin State through his ears and eyes in the court.

But this has little to do with Mo Jun.

The main responsibility of the governor is to take charge of private finances such as grain tax and commercial tax.

The salt and iron (bronze) of the Qin State belonged to the official camp, and under normal circumstances, it was managed by the Shaofu, which was in charge of the royal family's operation.

Therefore, if there is a problem in the salt mine, the first person to look for is not to treat Su Neishi, but to Shaofu.

Unless it is said that Shaofu can't come up with a solution, then Yingzheng will convene the ministers and hold a big court meeting to discuss and solve the problem together.

But if it is a big court, the people who come here today cannot be so much.

Feel Mo Jun's eyes.

Yingzheng didn't sell Guan Zi, and said directly: "Mo Qing, someone sued the widow, you bullied the people in Hanzhong County, forcibly bought and sold the people's land, and also disregarded people's lives and slaughtered Li Min. Is there such a thing? ”

After listening to Ying Zheng's words, Mo Jun suddenly realized.

It took a long time.

It turns out that I urgently summoned myself back because of this incident!

Mo Jun glanced at Chang Wenjun next to him, and saw that although Chang Wenjun's expression was calm at this moment, if he looked closely, he would find that there was obviously a little more smug in his eyes.

Obviously, this guy has clearly told Mo Jun that he is the one who made the small report, what can you do with me?

Mo Jun looked at him deeply.

Then he decisively hugged his hand and saluted Yingzheng, and said with a firm face: "Back to the king, there is no such thing." ”

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(End of chapter)