The people of Taiyuan Mansion, in addition to being panicked, let the people secretly guess in their hearts...

Could it be that something big happened in Taiyuan Mansion?

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Finally, a well-informed person spread the news that the local government in Taiyuan is ready to organize a large number of people to kill locusts!!

It is said that this proposal was made by the minister of the Qincha and Shen Yili, and the prefect Liu An and other local officials expressed their full support...

Although a small number of other officials expressed doubts, all of them were forcibly suppressed by Liu An, the prefect of Taiyuan.

In the face of all these sudden changes, all of a sudden, the emotions of doubt, anxiety, and hesitation began to spread in various states, counties, towns, and villages...

The government is now preparing to vigorously kill the locusts, but if the locust god comes to retaliate again next year, what should be done?

The people originally planned to go to the nearby towns and villages to ask the famous clan elders and squires about countermeasures, but the clan elders and squires were all "politely" invited away by the government first...

Seeing that the world was useless, the people wanted to go to the hosts of nearby temples and Taoist temples to seek spiritual answers, but unfortunately, those gods, witches, monks and Taoists were also invited in advance by the locust temple.

The people have been closed several times...

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He Shen, who has been paying attention to the reactions of the people, learned through various channels that the emotions of the people in Taiyuan Mansion are now.

In the face of the panic of the people, the other officials were very panicked, but He Shen didn't care...

In He Shen's view, in the territory of Taiyuan Mansion, even if people are uneasy, it is a manifestation of vitality and the embodiment of the will of the people...

It was better than the numbness, and even death-like despair he had seen a few days ago.

Since He Shen inspected the disaster area twice, it has been seven days now, and the clan elders and squires from all over Taiyuan Mansion have now gathered in the yamen of the Taiyuan Prefect, waiting for the summons of this unique Qincha...

However, Heshen's side was not in a hurry to meet them.

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Because, Heshen is preparing more important things.

There is always a prioritization of things.

It can even be said that whether or not the disaster relief efforts in Taiyuan and even in Shaanxi Province can be successful in the end depends to a large extent on this.

That was the meeting with the merchants of Taiyuan, to be precise, with the merchants of Qin.

Yes, compared to those clan elders and squires, He Shen attaches more importance to these Qin merchants...

Whether in ancient times or in modern times, Qin Shang was not very famous, and not many people even knew...

However, who knows, for thousands of years, Qin Shang has been one of the top ten merchants in the world...

Shaanxi is the land of Qin, and the people of Shaanxi are also the land of the Tang Dynasty...

They not only have the spirit of coexistence of "supporting the old Qin and going to the national disaster together", but also have the courage of the Tang Dynasty and the coming of all nations...

In addition to the great reputation of the Qin Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, there are also Shaanxi people who trade all over the world, balancing the commerce of various places, and Shaanxi Qin merchants are well-deserved big businessmen in the world...

The Qin Shang dynasty first began in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, flourished in the Qin Dynasty, flourished in the Han and Tang dynasties, and declined in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

As everyone knows, the Jin merchants and Hui merchants are the heads of the merchant gangs, and they have endured in the long history, but who knows that the Qin merchants in Shaanxi are no worse than the Jin merchants and Hui merchants...

Shaanxi merchants, that is, Qin merchants, are the top ten business gangs in the world, they are rich in the world, the business in the world, and the business has its own foundation, most of which belong to the Jin, Hui, and Qin...

The reason why Jin merchants and Hui merchants are famous all over the world, and their influence is overwhelming businessmen from all over the world, in addition to their own strength, but also because they can publicize and are keen to publicize their influence...

The Qin merchants in Shaanxi are rarely seen in the public eye, or deliberately keep a low profile, which is also in line with the characteristics of Shaanxi people, low-key and introverted.

Compared with the Jin merchants who "connect the world, benefit and righteousness, and benefit first and righteousness later", as well as the benefits of ten thousand goods, sit and strategize, and return a hundred times, "thick and straight, loyalty, righteousness, benevolence and bravery, is the spirit of Qin merchants".

Relying on the three hardness of people, goods, and temper, Shaanxi Qin merchants walked out of the grassland, went to the northeast, and went down to Yunnan, west Xinjiang, east Shandong, east and west, north and south of the commercial trade channel.

Unlike Jin merchants and Hui merchants who like to do business, most Shaanxi people do business, and they are helpless...

Since the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River has been diverted, and there have been many natural and man-made disasters in Shaanxi Province, resulting in the displacement of people.

Earthquakes, floods and droughts, coupled with extreme weather, have led to very little harvest, so a large part of Shaanxi people are also helpless to do business.

But as long as you can eat and drink enough, your wife and children are hot on the kang, who wants to leave your hometown, travel tens of thousands of miles, and earn a little bit of silver...

The ancient business road was extremely difficult, and ordinary people couldn't bear this hardship...

Shaanxi people are able to endure hardships and walk on their shoulders and feet, so that the business can be done all over the world, and there are Shaanxi people everywhere...

Once upon a time, "Eight thousand miles of Qinchuan are dusty, and 30 million lazy people sing Qin dialect," has become a classic sentence that many people ridicule and satirize Shaanxi people who don't know how to do business.

A large number of people think that the temper of Shaanxi people is "cold and stubborn".

However, who knows, the muffled voice of Shaanxi people made a fortune...

Shaanxi people sell the good things from the east to the west, the good things from the west to the east, the good things from the south to the north, and the good things from the north to the south...

The Qin merchants traveled long distances and carried out cross-regional trafficking, and opened their businesses all over the country...

The rise of the Qin merchants was due to a policy of Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the ages who swept away the six countries, unified the sea, created the imperial system, strengthened the central rule, wrote the same text, the same track, the same wheel, unified the text and currency, and ordered the rich people of the world to move to the national city of Xianyang.

In ancient times, it was a dynasty that emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, and although the rich people in the world were very rich, their status was still humble on the bright side...

The rich people with huge wealth are very hostile to Chaoyan...

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor in history, would never allow merchants to live in a place they could not see and endanger his empire, so he ordered them to be relocated to the capital.

Historical records record: "After the unification of Qin, Qin Shi Huang "migrated the world's rich to 120,000 households in Xianyang", "collected the world's soldiers, gathered Xianyang, sold Fengdi, cast as the twelve golden people, and weakened the people of the world...

Xianyang is the capital of the Qin state, and Qin Shi Huang stands in the imperial palace, so he can observe the every move of the Xianyang people without worrying that someone will plot against his empire.

Of course, there is another reason why Qin Shi Huang did this, that is, to make the resources in the hands of merchants better used by the state.

Silver is a relatively important thing for the country.

If the country does not have enough silver, that is, the liquid money that the world recognizes, then the country will soon perish.

Although, it is ironic that the state of Qin, which has made so many preparations, has been since the death of the first emperor, the second ...

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However, the rich people of the world gathered in one city, and the ideas of merchants collided and contended here, which greatly promoted the prosperity of the way of businessmen.

This is also the main reason why Shaanxi merchants call themselves Qin merchants...

Han Cheng Qin system...

After the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was established, and it inherited the system created by the Qin Dynasty in many aspects such as politics, economy, military, and law.

The position of Shaanxi merchants in the Han Dynasty was very important...

In the Han Dynasty, the merchants in Shaanxi took the advantage of Chang'an City, and Yiyue became the first merchant gang in the world!

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions, and the Qin merchants followed, which was the first exchange between the Central Plains and the Western Regions...

The starting point of the Silk Road is Chang'an, and the Shaanxi people started from Chang'an City, passed through Fufeng, Lanzhou, Hexi Corridor, and entered Qinghai, Tibet, and Xinjiang......

They sold the products of the Central Plains, especially silk, to the Western Regions, and the products of the Western Regions to the interior of the Central Plains, thus promoting economic and trade development.

This is the Qin merchants of Shaanxi, the merchant gang who single-handedly founded the Silk Road...

When the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, the Qin merchants of Shaanxi were even more merchants of all countries, and the name of the Tang Dynasty was spread all over the world...

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In the Ming Dynasty, the Qin merchants of Shaanxi, although they were weak...

However, with the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's policy of "opening salt and tea and horse trade", the Qin merchants in Shaanxi came to life again...

The Qin merchants of Shaanxi set out from Xi'an, passed through Sanyuan, Tongchuan, Yan'an, Yulin, Inner Mongolia, and Zhangjiakou, and sold goods from the mainland.

The Ming Dynasty's policy of "opening salt to China and tea and horse trade" was established by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, when the Ming Dynasty was first established, he felt that although the remnants of the Mongol forces and the Warat, Uighur, Dangxiangqiang, Khotan, and Turkic tribes had been driven by him to the northernmost part of Asia, they might still counterattack Hebei and the Central Plains at any time......

In order to ensure the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up border towns in the nine armies for defense.

So, here's the problem, so many border guard towns need a lot of logistical supplies, and it's really troublesome to supply the imperial court, and, because of the distance, there is also a lack of heart...

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang established the national policy of "opening salt in China", which means that the state calls on businessmen to sell grain to the military town through the border to obtain salt introduction.

Then the merchant used salt to buy salt and sell it to the designated place, so that the problem of grain at the border was solved, and the merchant made money again...

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By the Qing Dynasty, the situation had changed again...

In order to win over the Mongolian tribes, the Manchu royal family imitated the Ming Dynasty's "salt opening, tea and horse trade", and called on merchants from all over the world to send grain, tea, salt and other daily necessities to the Mongolian tribes, so as to obtain salt introduction...

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The world knows that Yangzhou salt merchants.

However, the real rise of Yangzhou salt merchants was after the decline of the Qin merchants in Shaanxi...

After the Sui and Tang dynasties, Yangzhou was located at the hub of the Grand Canal, which was the transportation hub of water and land transportation in the country in the era of water transportation, and was also the main distribution center of salt transportation.