Sweep the World

It cannot be said that there is no such thing as using copper money to trade these days. It can only be said that the amount is far beyond imagination, and bartering is the mainstream.

In addition, compared to copper coins with chaotic styles and different qualities, the mainstream currency is actually silk or silk, while the higher-grade currencies are silk or satin.

Cloth is the currency in circulation, which almost occupies the entire ancient history of the Chinese civilization. After all, copper money can only be used as money to be melted into tools or utensils, but people can't live without clothes. This is not incomprehensible.

Shuzhong has been a place rich in cloth since the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, especially with the highest craftsmanship of brocade or silk. That may be related to the regional plant growth environment, and it may also be caused by climate, but the cloth in Shu has always been a relatively superior product of the Chinese civilization.

Zan Jian brought a large number of cloths, mostly linen and brocade, with a small amount of silk, satin and silk.

What? Isn't silk just silk? Of course not. There are several types of silk, and there are many types of satin. There are even many types of real silk systems. How can they be the same.

The Han Dynasty did not have the craftsmanship to produce silk, and trying to find a way from the south of the Yangtze River also encountered obstacles from the elites and families, and even the amount of silk that could be purchased was not large.

"If it were converted, the value of the goods would be considerable." Lu Yi was full of excitement, and he had to be excited, nothing more than silk and satin. The most important thing was that Zan Jian also brought slaves who knew how to make silk. He looked at Liu Yan eagerly and said: "Your Majesty, I should take it anyway!"

It's not just the cargo that was transported to the next secret, but there is still a large amount of cargo on the Yangtze River that hasn't landed ashore.

If you count the cargo data in the Zan Jian newspaper, the Han Ministry will have to pay nearly 20,000 units for weapons alone, and this is only the first batch.

The price quoted by Li Shichenghan is not excessive, and it can even be said to be slightly cheaper. It is a matter of regional location. This is the case for the cloth industry in Shuzhong. Even the tea supply is not bad. The lack is related to the war. Resources.

It’s not wrong. Although Shuzhong is a mountainous area, the number of iron ore has always been a little worried.

It must be said that the development of the tea industry in Shuzhong is not a year or two. It should have been developed since the Western Han Dynasty. However, it cannot compete with the tea industry around Yingchuan in the Central Plains. However, the war in the Central Plains has been raging recently and the lives have been devastated. The tea industry in the Huaxia region has become the best in Shuzhong.

Qingzhou is too far away from the middle of Shu, and I don’t know how long it will take to use the force. The two sides have the Yangtze River as a trade channel. The establishment of trade relations is actually a pretty good thing.

[Huan Wen is already under my command, will the Eastern Jin Dynasty conquer the Han Dynasty? ] Liu Yan’s inner feeling is actually quite strange: [Shuzhong has always been weak, but there is danger of mountains and rivers...]

Liu Yan has changed a lot of history. It may be harmful to people who are familiar with history, but it doesn't matter much to him who is not familiar with Wuhuahuahua.

Obtaining cloth sources from Shu is a good choice. Accordingly, Liu Yan is more willing to export inland ships, but he must control the output of weapons and armor.

Lu Yi left when instructed. He is incredibly inclined to form a good relationship with Li's Chenghan. Trade is only one reason, and the second is that Shuzhong is too far away.

Entering the Central Plains in winter, the usual years may be time to stop, but this year is different.

Shijie Zhao State is still making relevant preparations for war even in the season of heavy snowfall, Shihu is mad, and the whole country can recruit young people to continue to gather in Yecheng.

In the history that has not been changed, this year (343 AD) is indeed the current situation of Shihu's large-scale enlistment. According to historical records, the stone tiger drew a few million dollars, and the states and counties were in extreme turmoil. About 30% of the young men who were mobilized died on the march. It was eaten by wild beasts and attrition caused by disease. Unburied corpses can be seen everywhere on the roads.

A large amount of dice is only part of the turmoil. Shihu has a clear order that three people should dedicate a car. That is equivalent to at least one horse or ox as a foot force. Furthermore, there is still cloth that needs to be borne. Those who can't come out either sell anything that can be sold to make money, and if they don't make enough money, they can only take a rope and go to the wild to find a tree to kill themselves.

The scourge of the stone tiger is far more than the Jin people of the Central Plains, the Qiang, Di, Huns... and so on. Apart from the Jie people who are harming others, one of the other ethnic groups is actually in a position of being harmed. .

"Except for the direction of Yuzhou, the border between us and Shijie is nearly two hundred miles of no man's land." Ji Chang came here specially. Any country is training horses in this winter. How can the Han army be at ease? He pointed to the hung up map and said: "The north has confirmed the occupation of the counties south of the Yellow River. Are you considering taking advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River and occupying several dangerous places on the north bank in the past?"

The north bank of the Yellow River near Qingzhou is actually not a dangerous place, it can even be said that it is a plain at all. If there is no dangerous terrain, it can only be built fortresses by mountains and rivers. Ji Chang remembers very clearly that the people directly under his army (system farmers) are experts in building fortresses.

The Han army did not want to survive in the winter. It could erode the surrounding uninhabited areas as much as possible, and build camps such as fortresses on the necessary terrain. This is one of the Han army’s winter strategies.

The footsteps on the north side of Qingzhou will stop on the Yellow River, but it is really necessary to build some "nails" on the opposite bank. After all, the ships of the Han army are sharp, and a Yellow River is not enough to form any obstacles. Instead, it is troublesome when the Yellow River freezes.

It was to prevent Shijie Zhaojun from crossing the Yellow River while the Yellow River was frozen, and those garrisoning points had to be built. The question involved was how many to build and how many troops to deploy.

"Each fortress (castle) can temporarily garrison a hundred soldiers. Then it is best to build a fortress ten miles apart." Ji Chang said with great arrogance: "So at least the direction of Jizhou, even if it is not solid, has not been conquered by Shijie Zhao Jun. The fortresses on the north bank of the Yellow River will not dare to go south. Besides...the existence of those fortresses is not only to prevent Shijie Zhao Jun from going south, but also to target Murong Yanguo in the future."

A castle in ten miles means that Liu Yan needs to build at least forty castles along the north bank of the Yellow River. That is a project that is not much less difficult than building a Great Wall.

"Is there...necessary so much?" Liu Yan is not short of resources, but the castle construction cycle is a bit pitted, and there are not so many systematic farmers to do those things. He frowned and said, "Taian, we are nowhere near the time when Shoucheng!"

Ji Chang was stunned. He looked at Liu Yan in a daze, with confusion and... how to put it, he was full of relief.

That's what it is! The Han tribe owns Qingzhou, most of Xuzhou, and part of Yanzhou. In terms of the size of the territory, the population is not small.

Ji Chang took into account the lack of population, and then Qingzhou was basically beaten, but Xuzhou seemed slightly better. According to the usual situation, no matter how defensive is in this state, at least let Qingzhou recover first, and then expand again.

"The land may not be occupied, but if you don't attack outwards, the cycle of increasing the population by relying on childbirth is too long." Liu Yan has the common problems of all modern people. Since he lives in a fast-paced society, he can't wait to be two in one second. Seconds to use. Asking him to wait for three to five years is a long time, and it is harder than death to plan one thing for ten or twenty years: "We need a large population."

In terms of military strength, as the system’s population limit reaches 25,000, Liu Yan is actually no longer worried about military power. After all, that is the 25,000 population limit that can be replenished at any time. What should worry about is the increasing consumption of resources. The larger the size, there is not enough labor to obtain the required resources.

The development of Qingzhou is not difficult. In fact, because of Liu Yan's existence of golden fingers, the Han Ministry does not need to worry about food. If a farmer in a system can deal with ten acres of land, a farmer in a system of 5,000 is 50,000 acres. That is three times a year, each time there should be about 600 kilograms of fields per mu, so the annual output is more than 800,000 shi of plant food.

The grain of more than 800,000 shi is close to 100 million jin according to the Jin Jin. The plant-based food consumed by adults is related to non-staple food. On average, an adult’s daily consumption of plant-based food is not more than one jin and five taels. That is the consumption of three meals a day. The elderly, the weak, women and children consume less food, which is about seven taels a day.

Excluding the output of systematic farmers, the annual output of plant food in the Han Dynasty should be about 2.3 million shi. Non-plant food? The whole Bohai Sea is the sea of ​​Hanbu, and the seafood production quantity can be said to be extremely terrifying.

In addition, don't forget that the Han Dynasty is not a pure farming system. The livestock is robbed in the front, and there is a lot of trade in the back. The overall quantity is actually very scary.

Liu Yan has thought about it. If the system population limit is increased in the future, it may give priority to increasing the number of system farmers. After all, the output of 5,000 system farmers accounts for one-third of the country’s plant food output. Too scary.

"Junshang has always been cultivating the confidence and confidence of the people. It has taken three years to show initial results." Ji Chang said happily: "It is true that we should not be conservative, we should be enterprising."

The strong are all created. The process of fighting is to obtain population and resources. The more and more powerful is the road to development. However, there is one thing Ji Chang needs to remind implicitly. He mentioned Shi Jie's rule over the Central Plains, thinking that even without the Han Dynasty, Shi Jie's collapse would not be too far away.

Shijie is an absolute minority ruling the majority. Throughout history, minorities dominate the majority. It can only rely on brutality and ideological castration. Fortunately, Shi Jie adopted **** brutality rather than castration of ideas. The victims may be one or two generations, but it is better to harm countless generations than castrated ideas.

When the Han tribe took the initiative to merge, what it carried out was a kind of ideological castration. The difference was that those people became Han people whether they were soul or body. It must be said that the greatness of Huaxia Civilization really lies here. You can see the alien races after they moved into the Central Plains. No matter which alien race has its own culture, it will eventually be tolerated and swallowed by Huaxia Civilization.

The self-confidence and resilience of a nation lies in integration. Liu Yan has sufficient confidence that he will do well in his own generation. What he needs is to win one victory after another and give it to the present tribe and the future citizens. Let them feel sincerely proud of being a Han.

Of course, the meal has to be eaten bite by bite. As far as Liu Yan is concerned, with new military operations, there is no need for Pengcheng, who had previously stayed as a troop trainer, to exist.

The day after Liu Yan gave the order to capture Pengcheng, Lu Yi brought Yu Yi over.

"Yu Zhigong wants to visit our army's battle against Pengcheng." Lu Yike did not directly lead Yu Yi to see Liu Yan, but first arranged in the Pian Ting to communicate with Liu Yan alone. He smiled and said: "In exchange, Yu Zhigong will help us develop a mutual market south of the Yangtze River."

"It doesn't matter." Liu Yan was talking about Yu Yi's visit to the Battle of Pengcheng. What he paid more attention to was: "Those mercenaries from various countries, they didn't make any trouble, did they?"

There were Han troops infiltrating the no-man’s land in the direction of Yanzhou, and those mercenaries from the Chaoyi Peninsula followed, and most of them were placed at some nodes as troops. This arrangement is relatively simple. The wages that should be paid have already been paid, but the mercenaries have been very idle and should find something to do. Furthermore, the competition for nodes in the no-man’s land is actually fierce.

Yes, the pre-preparation for the war in the coming year has been officially carried out. First of all, the necessary infiltration and advancement of no man's land will be carried out.

The number of Han troops passively used in the Winter War was actually not large. Except for the system troops, all the people from the Korean Peninsula were dispatched.

"Those guys are resistant to freezing. UU reading www.uukanshu.com" Lu Yi said an advantage, but then said in disgust, "It's just that the military law is too bad."

It should be said that, apart from the Han army's emphasis on military laws, only the Jin army will pay attention to military laws, and all other countries will pay a little attention to the core forces.

Liu Yan didn't talk about other gossips, and asked: "Before the beginning of the spring, can I get more mercenaries from the North Korean Peninsula?"

Lu Yi is a person in charge of diplomacy. He also knows the intentions of his monarch, and said with a smile: "There are not many young men in Goguryeo. Those in Baekje do not regard their subjects as human beings, as long as the price is sufficient. You can get more. Silla...something has happened in this country recently..."

It's funny to say that Silla was raided by Gaya, and even Kyushu and Izumo on the Japanese islands also crossed the sea and attacked the coast of Silla.

"The Queen of Silla begged him to come back to the army that came to China." Lu Yi said jokingly: "They are willing to compensate, even... willing to send the crown prince."

Silla is headed by the queen, and the crown prince is naturally a woman, so why did she send it to Liu Yan? (To be continued.)