"Mr. Zhong?"

Fusu whispered a few times, remembering the name.

His mantle continued to dig on the ground as he asked, "Mr. Ji, what do I need to prepare for you?" ”

"A bag of sand? A bag of salt? ”

Ji Heng took a sip of wine, glanced at Fusu with a slightly different expression, shook his head, and said with a smile: "There is no need to prepare these things, the merchants they are proficient in the way of business." ”

"They understand it just a little bit of it."

Hear the words.

Fusu's face froze.

Immediately figured out the reason, the reason why Ji Heng spoke so thoroughly that day was only because he and Hu Hai didn't know how to do business, so they deliberately talked about it so carefully, but they didn't understand, it didn't mean that the businessmen didn't understand.

That's the guy who eats at the merchants.

How could they not be able to think clearly?

"It's Fusu who is too worried." Fusu smiled bitterly.

Ji Heng retracted his gaze, protected the wine jug on his chest, thought about it in his mind for a while, and said slowly: "You said earlier that you have found all the information of the merchants, can there be any bribery and collusion between officials and businessmen?" ”

Fusu pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"Not a lot."

"Almost every businessman has had money dealings with officials."

Ji Heng sneered and said, "Then the matter will be easy to do, according to the information found, arrest them one by one, and bring all these corrupt and bribery officials to justice." ”

Fusu was stunned for a moment, his face puzzled.

He knew that these officials were unforgivable and would definitely be investigated and punished, but wasn't it a matter of salt and iron now? How did it suddenly become a punishment officer?

Fusu hesitated: "Mr. Ji, isn't it time to solve the matter of salt and iron first?" If you rashly attack the corrupt and bribed-taking officials, I am afraid that the businessmen will find out, isn't this just a surprise to the snake? ”

"Surprise the snake?" Ji Heng sneered and said disdainfully: "Can the snake run, can the merchant run?" ”

"I can't." Fusuliso replied.

"If you can't, then just cut the grass." A cold color flashed in Ji Heng's eyes, and he didn't care: "Shang Jia has been too comfortable all these years, it's time to make them nervous, the tighter Shang Jia's strings are, the more beneficial it will be for us to negotiate later." ”

"Also."

"Officials, don't catch it all in one go."

"Slow down a bit."

"Leave a few small fish and shrimp, and let them secretly leak the situation of the official's accident to these businessmen, so that these businessmen will be impatient first."

"At the same time."

"At the same time as the officials are arrested, go and control all the major salt ponds, salt wells, and iron mines in Guanzhong, only allow them to enter and leave, and no one is allowed to pass on the message, everything is waiting for the news of Xianyang."

Fusu's heart moved slightly.

He vaguely guessed Ji Heng's thoughts.

Ji Heng deliberately wanted to make Shang Jia feel anxious and panicked.

The businessman's family has a big business, and the foundation of the clan is in Guanzhong, even if he wants to run, there is nowhere to run, and even if people can run away, what about the money? What about their inheritance?

Merchants seek profit.

Are they willing to leave empty-handed?

And the imperial court kept staring, and Shang Jia could only wait anxiously.

Fusu bowed and said, "Fusu understands, and when he goes back, he will send someone to do it." ”

"Nothing will go wrong."

Seeing Fusu put the hammer down, Ji Heng frowned, and said unhappily: "Hoe the ground, hoe the ground, don't do these vain ceremonies, there is no point." ”

Fusu looked embarrassed.

He didn't want to hoe the ground at all, and he didn't have any interest, the height of the hammer was only a dozen inches, and he used it to hoe the ground, but he had to bend his waist very low, and he really couldn't bear it.

The back is tired.

Ji Heng directly ignored it and continued: "In addition, go and check the conflicts between these big salt merchants and big iron kings in Guanzhong and other merchants in the past, and now in Guanzhong, salt and iron are controlled by four or five families, and it is impossible for those who competed with these merchants to disappear for no reason." ”

"Find these people as soon as possible."

"And bring it back to Xianyang."

Hear the words.

Fusu frowned.

He had read the information of the major merchants and knew some of them.

Most of the merchants who failed to compete with the current salt merchants and iron merchants are now serving in Lishan, and most of them have become prisoners, some have been punished with 'kun', some have been tortured, some have been punished with slashing, and some have been punished with 黓.

Is it really appropriate to bring these people back to Xianyang?

And

What good can these prisoners do?

He was a little puzzled.

Fusu finally asked, "Mr. Ji, why is this?" Most of these Jia people have been reduced to prisoners and have been subjected to corporal punishment, so what is the point of bringing them back now? ”

Ji Heng glanced at Fusu lightly, and said indifferently: "It doesn't make sense, the main thing is deterrence." ”

"Since you have found out about the collusion between officials and businessmen, you should know that businessmen cannot afford to make a profit, how can they give money to officials in vain?"

Fusu was stunned.

Then a flash of realization was revealed.

Looked at.

Ji Heng chuckled: "Now you figured it out, right?" ”

"These businessmen in Guanzhong have monopolized the salt and iron in Guanzhong in only ten years, do you really think that this can be done from scratch?"

"The officials in the shadows are the fundamental!"

Fusu's heart sank.

He just has a relatively one-sided and superficial understanding of some things, but he doesn't know right from wrong, Ji Heng said it so clearly, how could he really not understand?

Fusu said: "I know." ”

"Anything else?"

Fusu looked at Ji Heng.

Ji Heng's eyes closed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, and after being silent for a while, he said slowly: "Finally. . Maybe it's a confession from an official. ”

Fusu nodded.

He didn't ask any more why.

Ji Heng must have his own reasons for arranging this.

Ji Heng lazily moved his body, let himself lie on the recliner relatively comfortably, glanced at the small amount of uncultivated land, and said disdainfully: "If the capital of Qiandu is as inkbloated as you, I am afraid that I will starve to death a long time ago." ”

Fusu's face was slightly embarrassed.

He wouldn't have cultivated the land, if it weren't for Ji Heng's insistent request, he wouldn't have moved at all, and now Ji Heng obviously wanted to finish the remaining small piece by himself.

Although there was some resistance in my heart, I could only continue to hoe.

Seeing that Fusu's movements were a little more diligent, Ji Heng nodded with satisfaction, and lay on the chair leisurely, drinking wine and basking in the sun, very comfortable.

Less than a quarter of an hour.

Fusu couldn't straighten his waist a little.

After the reclamation of that side of the land was completed, he immediately threw the shackle on the ground, and went to the side quite embarrassed, supporting his waist with both hands.

Drops of sweat on his cheeks.

"Are you tired?" Ji Heng asked.

"Tired." Fusu said without thinking, and after speaking, he raised his arm and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, his hair and beard were stuck together now.

Ji Heng said lightly: "I think it's okay." ”

"What you are cultivating right now is only two zhang square, but the local Qianshou is cultivating dozens or hundreds of acres, and their hard work is far greater than yours."

"In the midst of this hard work, they also have to serve as conscripts."

"Even in most years, when I can't maintain my own food and clothing, I have to pay a lot of land rent."

"This is the living situation of the people at the bottom today."

Fusu was silent.

The hand wiping the sweat also quietly stopped.

Ji Heng slowly stood up, took a rotten seedling in his hand, and said slowly: "Reading thousands of books, it is better to travel thousands of miles, travel thousands of miles, it is better to read countless people, you are from a luxurious background, you come to eat and drink, you have no worries about food and clothing, and what you see every day are all children of nobles, princes and ministers." ”

"But it's not enough to only see the upper echelons."

"It's like this vegetable seedling."

"From above, it's still full of life, but what if you look down?"

"It has long been exhausted and weak."

"Today's Great Qin is like this wild vegetable seedling, it looks like it looks like it on the top, but it is only on the top, and the bottom is actually rotten and out of shape."

"If the skin doesn't exist, the hair will be attached?"

Ji Heng went to a vegetable field reclaimed by Fusu, planted the vegetable seedling that had obviously rotted, and then put it together a little with soil.

Thereafter.

Ji Heng planted other vegetable seedlings one after another.

Looking at the vegetable seedlings that seemed to be falling at any time, Fusu wondered: "Can this seedling live?" ”

Ji Heng glanced back and said expressionlessly: "I don't know, but as long as the roots are not completely dead, maybe there is a chance to live." ”

"But whether you can survive or not, we will know in a few days."

"If it's dead."

"That's the only way to pull out a new one."

"If the roots are not dead, they can live," Fusu muttered softly.

After all the vegetable seedlings were planted, Ji Heng continued: "After everything is arranged, invite those merchants to the mansion that the merchants are familiar with." ”

"In the name of the eldest son."

Hearing Ji Heng's words, Fusu suddenly came back to his senses and wondered: "In my name?" ”

Ji Heng stood tall and said with a smile: "You are in charge of these things, naturally in your name, but before that, don't easily reveal your identity." ”

"After all."

"As the eldest son of Great Qin, there is always a sense of mystery."

"By the way, the eldest son can also take a look, in the eyes of these big businessmen, what is your price."

Hear the words.

Fusu's face was different, and he said curiously: "Don't they still want to buy me?" ”

"Who knows?" Ji Heng chuckled and said, "In the eyes of businessmen, they have always been able to communicate with money. ”

Fusu couldn't help laughing.

He actually didn't think that he would come forward in person, but when he heard Ji Heng's words, he suddenly became interested, he really wanted to see if these businessmen dared to offer themselves a price, and how much they would offer.

Ji Heng didn't pay any more attention to Fusu.

He was fetching water from a well with a jiegao.

This is called watering and fertilizing.

Ji Heng knew that the well water did not have the effect of fertilization, it was just simple watering, and the real effect was manure, and now Daqin's composting technology is quite mature.

But he didn't have that.

Looking at Ji Heng's skillful movements, Fusu's eyes showed a strange color.

"Xunzi Fuguo": Covering the surface acres, thorny grass and growing grains, and manure fields are the things of farmers.

At present, Ji Heng seems to have really become a farmer.

There is no pretense at all.

After looking at it for a while, Fusu showed a touch of admiration in his eyes, because Ji Heng was really planting vegetables with his heart, without any perfunctory, he saluted Ji Heng and slowly retreated.

Ji Heng can indulge in the field.

He can't.

He still has a lot to do.

(End of chapter)