October.

October 1 is the first year of the year.

That is, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The city is much more lively than in the past, and when Lu Zuojian meets, most of them will smile and say to each other: "It's okay on the new day."

It's similar to the New Year's greetings in later generations.

In the staggered alternating Lilu, peach charms have been changed in front of every house.

On the board are written 'Shen Di' and 'Yu Lei'.

The door of Ji Heng's house was closed, and the excitement outside had nothing to do with him.

He sat alone in the small courtyard, looking at the colorful leaves, not affected by the atmosphere of the 'New Year', and did not feel lonely at all.

He was used to enjoying solitude.

He took out a pot of sealed wine and placed it in the well, and poured himself a copper jue, the wine was very cold, but after drinking, it had a different taste, he pillowed his head with one hand, held the copper jue in the other, looked at the sky indifferently, and his mind drifted away with the clouds above.

I don't know how long it has been.

In this silent house, a 'creak' of the door suddenly sounded, waking up Ji Heng, who was in the middle of a fugue.

He frowned.

Fusu walked in with a smile on his face, followed by an official eunuch who was carrying a small bamboo basket in his hand.

Fusu arched his hand and said, "I've seen Mr. Ji." ”

"Zhengdan is fine."

Ji Heng glanced at it lightly, and it was also a symbolic return salute.

Fusu said: "I know that Mr. Ji is basically single, so I specially brought some food from the palace." ”

After speaking.

Fusu waved his hand.

Wei Sheng hurriedly put the bamboo basket on the table.

Looking at the things in the bamboo basket, Ji Heng's eyes showed a strange color: "Cool skin? ”

Fusu was taken aback and wondered, "Mr. Ji knows about this?" ”

Ji Heng's eyes showed a strange look.

This thing was actually very common in later generations, but in the Qin Dynasty, Liangpi was listed as a tribute.

Ji Heng said: "I've heard of it." ”

"Mr. Ji is really well-informed, and I only learned about this thing in the past few years." Fusu smiled bitterly, then raised his hand and motioned for Wei Sheng to step back.

Ji Heng did not refuse.

He has been in the Qin Dynasty for so long, and he really hasn't had a chance to eat it.

Just when Ji Heng tasted the cold skin, Fusu said in a deep voice: "Mr. Ji, most of the salt and iron merchants in Guanzhong have handed over the salt ponds and mines, and the imperial court has also sent people to take over in the past few days. ”

"However, there are still a few who don't know the times."

"In the end, the imperial court did not continue to appease, and the merchants were brought to justice according to the law."

Fusu was a little apprehensive in his heart.

This is his order.

He also did not consult Ji Heng.

Ji Heng peeled a few pieces of garlic, slapped it hard, and then threw it into the pottery bowl, stirring it and said: "How the court does it, don't tell me, I only play the role of 'making suggestions', you can decide how to do it yourself." ”

Fusu bowed his head slightly and said, "Fusu remembers." ”

"After the salt and iron were recovered, there were actually quite a lot of objections in the local area, but it did not affect stability."

"So I didn't care."

"After the situation in Guanzhong stabilized, His Majesty also ordered this morning to pass this law to the whole country, and with the transmission speed of the Great Qin documents, it can basically be spread throughout within a month."

Speaking of which.

Fu Su sighed lightly and said with emotion: "In the past thirty years, I seem to be a prudent business, but in fact I have no achievements, and now I have participated in the matter of salt and iron, so I have really done something useful to Daqin, at least I can collect some more business taxes for Daqin and buy more time." ”

"I'm not a completely useless person."

"Huh."

Hear the words.

Ji Heng shook his head and said, "You are too optimistic. ”

"The matter of salt and iron has only just begun."

"Kanto is different from Guanzhong, Guanzhong can be controlled in a very small range, but not necessarily in Kanto."

"Is there a follow-up to Salt and Iron?" Fusu was taken aback, and he said in a condensed voice: "But Mr. Ji, didn't you say before that you only need to manage Guanzhong?" The Kanto region will press itself down, so why change its tone now? ”

Fusu had a bad feeling in his heart.

Ji Heng sucked the last bit of cold skin in the bowl into his mouth, and then said: "Kanto is just a general name, and it is not really a monolith, there will indeed be some movement on the Kanto side, and that is the time to really test Daqin." ”

Fusu said: "Dare to ask Mr. Ji, what will happen in Kanto?" ”

Ji Heng glanced at Fusu lightly, and said coldly: "It's going to be messy." ”

"Chaos?" Fusu's face froze.

Ji Heng said lightly: "Kanto is roughly composed of six places, and the merchants are in most areas, and they are all under the status, but there is one place that is different. ”

Hear the words.

"Qi Di!" Fusu immediately understood.

Ji Heng nodded and said: "After Guan Zhong changed the law, Qi land commerce and trade were extremely developed, so it invisibly raised the status of merchants, after the Great Qin destroyed Qi, it was true that most of the nobles and Haoqiang of Qi were moved to Guanzhong, but merchants were actually very little implicated. ”

"Merchants are profitable."

"There are many mountains and seas in the same land."

"Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea."

"The Qi people have already formed a lot of interest groups in the salt and iron business, and now that the imperial court is re-entering the 'official mountains and seas', it is undoubtedly competing with them for profit, how can these people be indifferent?"

"Therefore, Qi Di is destined to have an accident!"

"I know that in the past few days, I have seen most of the merchants honestly succumbing, and I have a lot of ideas in my heart, and even want the imperial court to rely on the gourd to control grain, land, and the loan money that was very popular among the nobles in the past."

"But I'll tell you."

"People can only do what they can."

Fusu lowered his head, but he didn't dare to look at Ji Heng.

He did have the idea.

Even, this time, he also had the intention of asking, but now when he heard Ji Heng's words, he didn't dare to speak again, so he pretended to ponder for a while, and opened his mouth to ask: "If a rebellion really breaks out in Qidi, how should the imperial court deal with it?" ”

Ji Heng sneered and said, "If there is a local rebellion, the imperial court should naturally go to quell the chaos, is there anything else to think about?" ”

"If the imperial court participates, won't it ruin the plan?" Fusu's face was solemn.

Ji Heng helped his forehead, rubbed his temples again, and didn't know whether to say that Fusu was naïve, or whether to say that Fusu was simple, shook his head and said: "The court is the court, you are you, you just need to stare at Guanzhong now, as for the affairs of the world, it is decided by the first emperor." ”

"Even if the Kanto region is in chaos, what can you do?"

"It's not your turn to counterinsurgency."

"You need to understand that the beginning is hard."

"Shang Jia is already the best breaking point in Daqin, if even Shang Jia can't change it."

"That basically declares that Daqin is 'dead'!"

"It's just not in the ground yet!"

Ji Heng's tone became serious, even a little dignified.

It was the first time Fusu had seen Ji Heng so serious.

It's just that he is still a little suspicious in his heart, how bad is the impact of the Shangjia rebellion?

He asked, "Please elaborate, sir." ”

Ji Heng sat on his exclusive recliner, glanced at Fusu with a cold gaze, and said in a deep voice: "Shang Jia is indeed not important, but the restoration forces behind Shang Jia are very important, and the rebellion in Kanto will not be the rebellion of Kidney Shang Jia, but the rebellion of the restoration forces of the Six Kingdoms." ”

"You need to understand the reasoning."

"The reason why we chose to use salt and iron as a breakthrough this time."

"Actually, I'm taking the opportunity to test it."

"The monopoly of salt and iron originated from Guan Zhong's 'Guanshan Hai', and there are many people in the world who know about it, so Daqin's sudden promotion of 'Guanshan Hai' will not cause too many objections, most of them will only think that the imperial court is short of money, and they want to learn Guan Zhong's method and rely on the monopoly of salt and iron to make profits."

"When the officials of the Kwantung region get the relevant documents, after a little comparison, they will definitely be able to see that the measures of the imperial court are similar to the law of Guan Zhong."

"And it's all intentional."

"The purpose is to let the nobles and officials of the Kwantung region relax their vigilance against the imperial court, so that they have a preconceived idea that the imperial court's finances may be facing difficulties, and they urgently need to rely on this way of fishing with all their resources to make a lot of money from the world."

"And it can only touch salt and iron."

"There is a precedent."

"That's how Guan Zhong's method of change is done, and Da Qin can only follow the path ahead for now."

"Second, after Guan Zhong changed the law, the Qi State will decline, which will undoubtedly make the remnants of the Six Kingdoms excited, thinking that Daqin will not be like this, and it will also invisibly reduce the will of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms to rebel, so that they subconsciously want to delay for a while longer."

"Three."

"None of the other ways to break the game will work."

"Land, grain, loans, etc., there are too many rentiers involved, including the vast majority of nobles, powerful and officials in the world, which is not at all something that Great Qin can move at the moment, and he can't even touch it, once he touches it, he is killing himself."

"Anger the vast majority of rentiers in the world."

"It's self-isolation."

"And the situation in Great Qin is already very dangerous, and if you don't make changes, it will slowly die like a tree trunk off the ground, so Great Qin must make changes."

"In the 'Shinong Industry and Commerce' divided by Guan Zhong, Daqin is the only one who can move, and the only one who dares to move is Shang."

"The peddlers have no effect on the situation."

"Moving land, grain, and loans that are deeply tied to nobles, heroes, and officials is undoubtedly setting yourself on fire."

"Therefore, Daqin can only choose to move the salt and iron merchants!"

"Salt and iron are relatively in the position of the upper and lower in the world's commodities, and the value is not as high as that of the land, population, and loan money, but it is more profitable than the lowest peddlers and pawns, but it takes a lot of time to go to business and operate, and it is necessary to levy half of the tax, so it is not valued by the aristocratic officials."

"But salt and iron are necessary for the world."

"So it's the most appropriate way to break the game at the moment."

Fusu nodded secretly.

Hearing Ji Heng's explanation, he suddenly realized why Ji Heng chose to move 'salt and iron' instead of moving fields, grain, etc.

Everything is weighed against the pros and cons.

"Since salt and iron are not up or down in the world's commodities, why do you think that Mr. may trigger the Kanto Rebellion?" Fusu asked.

He looked puzzled.

Ji Heng poured himself a bronze jue of wine.

Gulp it down.

A refreshing chill welled up in his heart, and Ji Heng said coldly: "That's actually just a speculation. ”

"Five-five."

"But Daqin can't lose, let alone lose."

"So once you lose, it also means Great Qin"

Ji Heng shook his head, and said in a voice with indignation: "The qi is exhausted, and it is doomed to death!" ”

(End of chapter)