Chapter 170: Birth, old age, sickness, death, and death are terrible

Gao Jie and Yun Juan's documents arrived at Yushan City on the third day after they were rushed out at 800 miles.

The reason why they launched a first-level mobilization is very simple - they have achieved their best in one battle.

Gao Jie said in the document that marching in the grassland and desert was too difficult, and it would be great if the army carrying heavy weapons could walk thirty miles a day.

They traveled hard for two months before they reached their current territory. If this battle could not cause severe damage to Jiannu, and when his army returned to Lantian City, the Jiannu cavalry could return here, then all the achievements of this marching would be gone.

Gao Jie also said that only by killing Jiannu to death and hurting them once, they can gain a better memory and dare not easily set foot in the Lantian realm.

It's not just about facing Jiannu.

The easter it goes, the closer the Mongols here are to Jiannu, and there is almost no possibility of being detained.

Therefore, it is very important to clear out a vast no-man's land here and declare the presence of Lantian.

At the same time, he found that the land here is very suitable for farming, with water networks everywhere, and the land is black and oily, which is better than the Tianzi field in Guanzhong, and it has as many as 500,000 mu.

So, while delivering this document, he also sent a piece of black soil.

He also hopes that Yushan Academy can send agricultural experts to the battlefield as soon as possible to survey the land here. If it is really a good farmland, he will prepare to build a large farm here with Zhang Guozhu.

After reading the various reasons that Gao Jie mentioned in the document, Yun Zhao suddenly felt relieved.

For an army composed of pure farmers, even when they were fighting, they were still thinking about the few acres of land at home.

Now, I have seen a large area of ​​black soil that can produce oil. For them, this is a real treasure and a priceless treasure.

This mentality of theirs is easy to understand.

When the land in Guanzhong is already extremely tight, the Guanzhong people basically have no wasted places where crops can grow, even if the land is on the mountains or in other difficult places.

The black soil on the plains—

"Tell Gao Jie, let him shut his mouth, what is the 600,000 acres of black soil? After we clean up Jiannu, the black soil there is more than a hundred times larger than the black soil he discovered.

Now I want him to fight Jiannu quickly. After repelling Yuetuo, he will go home. The roads on the grassland are not smooth and the march is difficult, and the supply cannot be kept up. This cannot be changed. The decisive battle with Jiannu is not a good choice here.

After we take down Shanhaiguan, it will be the time for him to lead the army to fight against Jiannu."

After Yun Zhao issued new instructions to Liucheng, Liucheng formed a document again and sent 800 miles to rush.

The first-level combat readiness of Lantian City will naturally be cancelled. A prodigal son like Gao Jie has now activated the first-level combat readiness. The accumulation of Lantian City over the years will be completely defeated by his battle, completely consuming Lantian City's war potential.

This was extremely unfavorable for the army to set off from Lantian City and swept across Datong, Xuanfu, and even the capital.

Yun Zhao hated others' geographical discoveries about the Ming Dynasty with him.

This is not his arrogant attitude, but the shocking geographical discovery discovered by these people is just the most common sense to him.

Black soil in the northeast?

Yun Zhao has not only been there, seen it, but also ate high-quality rice produced there for many years. It not only produces rice, but also coal and oil. I know so much, is Yun Zhao proud?

Tell him about the black soil, where did Gao Jie get the qualification?

As a superior, he actually does not value national views so much. If he values ​​it, it must be for other purposes, not simply a racial concept.

Everyone is composed of legs, hands and a head. There is not much difference in appearance. The only difference is the things inside the head.

Therefore, killing people is the best, killing the heart is the best.

Of course, if you don’t have patience, it’s best to do something that kills people and save trouble.

Yun Zhao's businessmen's conference was held in a very rapid manner, mainly because Xie Zhi was about to go to Lantian City. So, without waiting for the number of people to gather, Yun Zhao's conference was held in Yushan City in a hurry.

It was actually very simple to hold this meeting. Everyone got together, Yun Zhao read out the decision of Lantian County, and then sent it to all the merchants attending the meeting to draw up the details.

The details were quickly formulated within two days. Yun Zhao and others read it and felt that there was no major fallacy, so Xie Zhi read it again at the meeting, and a new bill was formed.

However, the definition of private property is already a big problem. The main debate is what private property is and how the law should guarantee those private property.

As for the inheritance of private property, whether taxes are required, these key points will be discussed at the next merchant conference.

Therefore, this conference only clarified one theme - merchants have private property! They need to be truly protected by the law.

Xie Zhi believed that the law needs to be perfected little by little, and that it is not the spirit of the law that can be achieved overnight.

After the meeting, the meeting secretary group was not disbanded.

These merchants who participated in the meeting naturally formed a group, and they had the right to send their discussion results to the secretary group for filing, and the secretary group must accept inquiries from the merchants at any time.

At the same time, the secretary group also has the right to ask merchants to experiment with these suggestions on themselves to see if they are representative.

Yun Zhao believes that in the long time in the future, this discussion will definitely continue and eventually become a game between the government and the merchants.

In short, the status of the merchants in Guanzhong has been significantly improved after this conference.

Article 1: Any people belonging to Lantian County have the legal power to do business. They deposed the Ming Dynasty's regulations that prevented people from leaving their hometowns to do business, and no longer treated these wandering merchants as prisoners.

The second article is to allow merchants to wear silk yarn and silk cloth. Although few people follow this article, it is the first time that they have been clearly told to wear silk yarn and silk cloth.

Article 3: Encourage businessmen with conditions to participate in overseas trade. Of course, tax payments must not be less.

Article 4: All the merchant representatives who come to attend the meeting are official shops and have the right to convene their merchants to invest in official business, including tea, salt, iron, medical clinics, pharmacies, water conservancy, bridges and other industries.

If you don’t participate in the business, you can distribute dividends from it.

Article 4 is actually the most important thing. When it is impossible to determine whether the property of the merchant is private property, the investment involved in the official business is undoubtedly the private property that has been clearly defined.

It is because of participating in this meeting hosted by Lantian’s highest official that these merchants consider themselves leaders of the industry. While Yun Zhao gave them these honors and conveniences, they also have the obligation to urge merchants in the industry to pay full taxes.

Given Lantian County's usual past of keeping its word, businessmen are extremely interested in investing in those official economic activities, especially tea, salt and iron.

Compared with the salt prices in the whole world, the salt price in Lantian County is the lowest. Sea salt is not used here, but all the salt collected from Qinghai Salt Lake.

The salt here is called green salt, translucent and free of impurities, and is the best salt in the world.

The salt pond there was originally controlled by Us Tibetans and Mongolians. In order to regain the salt path, Yunhu once personally walked to Qinghai... Then, in that year, countless pieces of salt were brought back, and the caravans in the future never encountered any obstacles.

Salt is in a natural salt pond. Use a knife to cut the crystalline salt pieces into pieces, put them on the camel's back and bring them back to Guanzhong for sale. This is all the costs incurred in Lantian County's production of salt.

Therefore, Lantian County can supply salt to the people of Guanzhong at a very low price.

In order not to benefit the merchants, just like buying grain, people need to take their household registration notebooks to buy salt in the salt warehouse, and no more than five kilograms at a time.

The low-priced and large amount of salt quickly gave birth to many industries, and the most important industry was salted food.

Therefore, pickled pork, salted mutton, beef, salted vegetables, and salted fish became the most popular goods for trafficking from Guanzhong to Shuzhong and even in Yunnan and Guizhou.

Yun Zhao also knew the salt pond in Qinghai. According to his previous memory, the salt there was enough for all the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat for a thousand years.

Since it is enough to eat for a thousand years, Yun Zhao is preparing to develop the salt pond there. Anyway, after digging up all the salt, countless salt will be left after the lake floods.

Therefore, he decided to absorb the capital of the people and build a road from the silver factory to the salt pond, preparing for the future army to enter Uszang.

This requires a lot of money... Yun Zhao couldn't take it out for a while.

The same goes for tea.

Although Guanzhong is not the largest tea production area, Hanzhong development requires money, which is the traditional tea production area. Yun Zhao is also preparing to call on the Hanzhong people to make a variety of tea trees while farming - unfortunately, he still has no money.

The sales of tea have never been a matter. Whether it is the Tibetans, the Mongolians, or the Western Regions, their desire for tea is almost endless.

Therefore, Yun Zhao took out the tea and let the merchants participate in the shares.

As for iron, there is no shortage in Lantian County - hundreds of large chimneys discharge poison gas into the sky day and night, and the amount of steel produced almost accounts for more than 70% of the Ming Dynasty's iron production.

The problem is that these steel mills are like giant beasts, devouring countless iron ore. They are still hungry now. Yun Zhao needs to build a road to the Qilian Mountain iron ore - he has no money.

If the steel in Lantian County is dumped at a low price, we are welcome to say that the iron plants in other parts of the Ming Dynasty will be closed, which is also something that Yun Zhao likes to hear.

As for the clinic and the pharmacy, Yun Zhao did not think that he could make preparations for the people themselves. There were too many things to rely on in both, and private people could not and should not bear them.

The main targets of the "Sanitary Management Regulations" that Yun Zhao will do in the future are clinics and pharmacies.

In other words, the government should control the people’s life, old age, sickness, and death!

Moreover, you cannot make profits in these industries.

Of course, this is the national policy that Yun Zhao must implement in the future.

This is not a great cause that he can accomplish alone. At least, he is ready to fight for this goal from himself.
Chapter completed!