Three Kingdoms

Sometimes, if you just look at a single, disconnected thing, you may have questions and feel strange, why? How could such a thing happen? Isn't it supposed to be like that? Are those who make mistakes so stupid?

But in fact, all resentment must have its source and will not arise out of thin air.

Time is continuous. This thing is not like human beings deliberately dividing one second, one minute and one hour for their own cognition, but it is continuous. As far as time itself is concerned, there is no quantitative unit. Just like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, we can take out a part of it and observe it, but we cannot say that the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers can be divided into endless equal parts by this small part that is observed...

Can't tell the difference.

Therefore, when dealing with things in Taiyuan, you must stand higher to see more clearly.

The word Taiyuan, in the Han Dynasty, was not just a county, but also referred to Taiyuan County.

During the Western Han Dynasty, Taiyuan County became an important border town in the north due to its special geographical location and important strategic position. Although Taiyuan County has gone through many administrative changes such as Korea, Dai State, Taiyuan State, Taiyuan County, etc., for this area, its importance in the Sanjin area has always remained.

Taiyuan's economy has never been bad. Especially in handicrafts.

Taiyuan has salt and iron.

According to "Hanshu Geography", during the Western Han Dynasty, there was a "salt official" in Jinyang of Taiyuan County and an "iron official" in Daling, who fully controlled and was responsible for the production and sales of salt and iron in Taiyuan County. Although there is no sea salt in Taiyuan, the industry of processing pool salt and brine salt still exists. As for the salt industry, the production level of the Han Dynasty must not have good technology and production efficiency, which will inevitably lead to the need for a large number of manpower.

The same is true for iron. Mining and metallurgy also require a lot of manpower.

At the same time, Taiyuan originally also made copper. Bronze mirrors, bronze tripods, bronze bells, other bronze utensils, and even bronze swords were originally quite mature industries in Taiyuan. This means that the smelting, shaping, sculpture, casting and trimming of bronzes all have a complete set of processes and division of labor in Taiyuan. These industries also require a lot of manual labor.

But now, the massive import of Qinghai salt has caused Taiyuan's original salt industry to bear the brunt of the huge impact. In addition, those who have eaten Qinghai Lake salt have no interest in the salty and bitter salt brine. As long as the price is not much different, most people will choose to buy lake salt instead of salt brine.

The processing of salt brine is not only time-consuming, laborious and firewood, but more importantly, it consumes a lot of manpower. Therefore, when Fei Qian opened the Western Region and opened up the Silk Road, the original price of salt brine in Taiyuan suddenly collapsed, and the declining salt industry led to the salt brine. The mainly handicraftsmen lost their jobs. The most important thing was that these local squires, who had been fattened by eating salt, suddenly suffered a huge impact!

Likewise, there are iron and copper industries.

Copper production in Shandong is better. After all, everyone knows that copper ore is equivalent to money and will not be sold easily. However, Shandong's iron-making industry has been defeated by Feiqian's higher-level metallurgical technology. This is the same as the salt industry. As long as you have used good-quality ironware and the price is reasonable, you will definitely not want to go there. Use relatively "inferior" products.

Taiyuan is closer than Shandong, so the impact will certainly be greater.

Of course, there are still small metallurgical workshops that do sewing and mending, but the problem is that no matter what dynasty or generation it is, the metallurgical industry does not make big money from sewing, so those who originally mined ores are fine, but those who originally relied on smelting The local gentry who made their fortune by making ironware, a gentry industry, naturally suffered a heavy blow.

Is this dimensionality reduction attack on the salt industry, iron industry, etc. completed in one day?

Obviously not.

Even if Fei Qian is a god, it is impossible to arrange everything in an instant. Even if Fei Qian can change the world with a wave of his hand, it still requires CD time. Do you need to get some blue ones...

Then during the process of these changes, what were these country squires and noble families doing?

Nothing was done.

Perhaps a small number of people have noticed something is wrong and have changed careers and are out of the danger zone, but most of the rural gentlemen and families who are engaged in these old industries and use old technologies will wait until the new wave surges and knocks them down. Kneel down on the beach and cry bitterly, spit on, curse, and even resent.

Whose fault is this?

It's like seeing a Venus flytrap, and then lamenting how such a benzene fly would fall into a trap, turning around and seeing a mousetrap, and joking about how stupid the mouse must be to fall into this trap, and then seeing the animal trap He just laughed and said that there are beasts that can't see such an obvious thing? Then these people saw the sign "Flash Flood Danger, No Entry"——

Um……

Is it impossible to survive in Taiyuan?

Obviously not, agriculture and animal husbandry are still liberalized.

Even if you don't want to engage in those basic industries, in terms of handicrafts, pottery and brewing, jade making, lacquer making, etc. are all possible.

Take the ceramics industry for example. Pots, pots, basins, cups, stoves, etc. made of clay are very popular among the people. After all, not all people can afford copper or iron items as daily utensils. Although the profit of these items is meager, the demand is not small. After all, these clay utensils are easily broken if not careful, while metal utensils are usually dropped a few times, and most of them will not cause any damage except for some marks.

At the same time, because the custom of heavy burials in the Han Dynasty will not be reduced for a while, a lot of pottery is used for burials. The demand was extremely high, such as daily utensils such as clay stoves, wells, dowry boxes, and even complete sets of buildings. They were all consumables and were buried underground with their owners. These pottery products used for burials are also a very important product type. In addition, the pottery industry can also bake building materials, such as Qin bricks and Han tiles, simple pattern slab tiles, tube tiles, etc., complex pattern tiles, All sales are good.

It's just that the price is lower and the profit is thinner.

If you want a higher price, you can also innovate some new shapes and patterns on clay vessels. After all, technology is based on changing shells. Colorful patterns are definitely more expensive than plain and simple ones...

But creating new forms and patterns requires a lot of brainpower!

There are also lacquerware, jadeware, etc., which are similar. Ordinary profits are thin, and it takes a lot of brains to innovate. So overall, even if Taiyuan is hit by dimensionality reduction in some industries, it is not completely unviable. If you want to live well, you need to work harder than before.

But some people are not good at it. They think, why should they work hard? They could live a good and prosperous life before, so why are they struggling now?

This must be Qiusi's fault.

They have been doing this for generations, and they all live very well. But now that Hussar has come, they can no longer survive. Isn't it the fault of Hussar? The Hussar caused their industry to collapse, their income to decrease, their ability to continue to eat and drink, and their ability to enjoy various banquets.

Some people are discerning, but there are also some people who will only focus on one thing, not making connections, and unwilling to use their brains to think about problems.

As a result, those who harbored great resentment towards Qiusi were naturally the same people who had made huge profits from the salt and iron industries in Taiyuan. And among these people, basically they are all from Taiyuan’s wealthy families. Because it is very simple, small squires and small nobles cannot get involved in the salt and iron industry, which is originally a huge profit.

Among them, of course, there is the Taiyuan Wang family.

And Wen's.

Wang Huai, the Wang family, is currently hunting in the suburbs of Taiyuan.

Logically speaking, hunting is not suitable in spring.

But Wang Huai doesn't care, or in other words, he doesn't care about anything at all. He just wants to be happy. As for the rest...

The harvest is not good today.

If Wang Huai came alone, he would probably encounter some hares, pheasants and the like. As for whether he could shoot them, that is another matter. But Wang Huai came in a large group, so those small animals listened When there is a disturbance, you have to avoid it early. As for the big animals, if you finally encounter a black bear, they have already been blown into the sky...

Tigers and leopards are smarter than bears. Unless they are really anxious, they usually avoid people when they see them. There are many more tender, smaller, and risk-free prey in the mountains, so why bother with a hairless beast?

Most of the people who have trouble with Twolegs are the Twolegs themselves.

For example, now Wang Huai feels that Zhang Wan is having trouble with him...

Wang Huai's hunting, in addition to real hunting, can also be used to cover his behavior of meeting other people outside the city. Anyway, it's just hunting. Wang Huai doesn't know about other things. I don't know. I'm sorry. Never done it.

Wang Huai was sitting on a rock with a bow and arrow in his hand.

Zhang Wan stood bowed aside, with some scars on his face and a flattering smile.

"Did you really meet a hussar?" Wang Huai frowned and lost an arrow in his hand. He was holding it back and forth as if unconsciously, "How can there be cavalry in the stone ridge?" 』

The smuggling routes have all been investigated in advance. I was arrested once before in Yinshan Mountain. It is close to Yinshan Mountain and the risk is relatively high, which is understandable.

But the problem is that Shiling is close to Taiyuan, and it is a new road that has never been discovered before. How come we met the Hussars?

Faced with Wang Huai's suspicious gaze, Zhang Wan swore to the sky that he had really met the Hussar and the Five Elements Thunder Clouds, and described it in detail.

Wang Huai was shocked and angry after hearing this. What is surprising is that Zhang Wan may indeed have met the Qiaoqi people. If Zhang Wan did not lie, the possibility of Zhang Wan lying is not high, because Wang Huai only needs to send someone to Zhang Wan to find a few people to ask privately to know the truth. What made Zhang Wan angry was that he actually messed up the matter. His smuggling was blocked twice, his soldiers were defeated, and his goods were ruined!

Not only did this not make any money, but I also lost money in it. How much is this? !

At the same time, there is also a hidden influence, that is, smuggling is carried out by both parties, and the degree of trust is not high in the first place. Once Wang's side runs out of goods, the Hu people will think that there is a problem on Wang's side and want to restore it. The original contact may become troublesome again!

"Let me ask you," Wang Huai came closer and asked in a low voice, "That guy... have you written new marks?" 』

Zhang Wan nodded hurriedly, "Everything has been changed, everything has been changed. After I received your order, I changed everything..."

"I...didn't my order tell you to change it after you get there?" Wang Huai stared and said, "Who told you to change it before setting off?" 』

Zhang Wan was stunned, he couldn't admit that he was troublesome, "Huh?" This...I received the order and asked me to change it? 』

Wang Huai stared at Zhang Wan and suddenly smiled, "So, I didn't make it clear... I don't blame you?" Haha, I don’t blame you..."

Zhang Wan also hurriedly laughed with him, "I didn't hear you clearly. Next time, next time, you must pay attention, pay attention..." This time Zhang Wan came. On the one hand, of course he had to explain the death of someone and the loss of goods. On the other hand, he He wants some money so he can reunite his men.

"Next time... Haha, that's okay..." Wang Huai nodded, holding the arrow again, picking it up, and took a look at it, as if watching the arrow go straight. It's not the same, "I know about this matter. You go back first. If there is anything else... I will arrange for someone to send it to you..."

"My Healing Game"

Zhang Wan quickly thanked him profusely, then nodded and bowed to say goodbye.

Wang Huai nodded obediently.

This seems to be normal. Zhang Wan failed and asked for money, food and materials. It was impossible for Wang Huai to carry these materials with him while hunting. If he wanted to send them, of course he would have to wait until later.

But the problem is that Zhang Wan failed twice...

And next time?

Zhang Wan was walking in front, and suddenly he felt a little wary, as if he was being stared at by some wild beast. When he turned around, he saw that Wang Huai, who had just been sitting on the stone, had stood up, holding a bow and arrow in both hands, and was shooting at him. Aim for yourself!

Zhang Wan subconsciously wanted to scream and run away, but Wang Huai over there had already loosened his hand holding the bowstring...

"Boom!" 』

"Whoosh!" 』

"puff! 』

"ah……"

Zhang Wan looked up to the sky and fell.

Wang Huai put away his bow, looked at Zhang Wan's fallen figure coldly, pointed, "Go and have a look... If he's not dead, just give him another blow..."

"yes! ” Wang Huai’s guard pulled out his dagger and walked forward.

"Oh, by the way, the arrow is lost over there, don't touch it..." Wang Huai ordered as if he remembered something again.

The guard nodded to express his understanding and immediately moved forward.

After a while, the guard waved his hand and said, "He's dead!" Young Master is good at archery! 』

Wang Huai nodded, "Let's go!" Back to the city! 』

He picked up the bow, put the quiver on his back, and headed to where the horses were tied.

In his quiver, there seemed to be one or two arrows that were slightly different in color from the others...

When they arrived near the city gate, Wang Huai and others met Wen who was about to leave the city.

Wang Huai glanced around and saw Wen and his entourage, including people and cars, and a lot of luggage, as if they were moving away for a long trip.

"Haha, isn't this Brother Wang Xian?" ” Mr. Wen greeted loudly, “Are you back from hunting? 』

Wang Huai smiled, pretending not to notice anything, and then motioned for a guard to deliver a hare to Wen's people, "Brother Wen, where are you going?" What have Brother Wen been busy with these past two days? Why don't you go hunting with your younger brother? 』

Mr. Wen laughed, "Oh, something happened at home... Next time, I will go hunting with my brothers next time..."

The two chatted for a while and then separated.

Then the two of them were far away, and they laughed secretly.

In life, who doesn’t sometimes smile at others and sometimes give others a smile.

Wang Huai knew in his heart that Mr. Wen was in a hurry to leave, either because he heard some rumors, or because he wanted to leave this whirlpool?

But there are some things that you can avoid if you want to avoid them?

Wang Huai sneered, returned to his home, and then said in a deep voice: "Go and invite the seventh uncle." 』

After a while, the seventh uncle came. Wang Huai asked everyone else to leave, and then whispered: "Something happened over there at Shiling..."

"What? ” The seventh uncle frowned.

Wang Huaijiang told the general situation, "How come the hussars and horses...appeared over the stone ridge?" 』

The seventh uncle didn't know why, but he knew that in this way, all smuggling routes would be broken, and his own way of making money would be cut off. He glanced at Wang Huai with some dissatisfaction, "How can these damn... how can they be so disrespectful?" careful……"

Wang Huai nodded and said, "So I killed him." Something went wrong, once or twice, haha, I'm still thinking about the next time... Why do I keep such a person? 』

"You killed?" Uncle Seventh raised his eyebrows, "You didn't leave anything behind, right?" 』

Wang Huai smiled and took out an arrow from the quiver on the side, "I used this arrow to kill..."

Uncle Seven took it in his hand and looked at it, "Oh!" Haha... But how could you miss his arrow? 』

"Didn't we hunt together the first two times..." Wang Huai said with a smile, "That fool's aim was bad and he couldn't hit... I deliberately took him in circles several times, and his servants couldn't find anything left behind." The arrow was lost..."

The seventh uncle's eyebrows moved, he took a deep look at Wang Huai, and then said with a smile: "Then since you have arranged it...why do you want me to come?" 』

Wang Huai said with a smile: "There are only a few of my men...Although I have killed Zhang Wan, but the other people...if the Qiao cavalry found the village in Shiling first..."

"Well..." Uncle Seven pondered, then looked at Wang Huai and said, "What do you mean..."

"No, no, I listen to my uncle..." Wang Huai said, "Aren't the things I do all taught by my uncle... It's just that damn Zhang Wan. He didn't do what his uncle told him. He changed his mind in the village..."

The seventh uncle was stunned for a moment, and then his brows stood up.

Not much to say about other factors. If you change the mark outside, the most people who know about it is a convoy of people, but if you change it inside the village...

Then everyone in the village might know.

What was the mark originally, and what was the mark later...

These people in the village were not recruited by Wang Huai, most of them were from the seventh uncle.

If all of them were silenced, the losses would be huge.

The problem is that Uncle Seventh himself cannot guarantee that these people can speak strictly.

Those who sell their lives for money will eventually sell the lives of others for money.

"Uncle..." Wang Huai looked at it, and then threw out another message, "I just came back and met Mr. Wen... The boy packed up his belongings and left the city. It is obvious that he will not come back in the short term..."

Wen Shizi left the city, it can be said that he went home to see the chrysanthemums, to go home to do errands, etc., but it can also be said that after he committed a crime, he had something in his heart, and then...

Afraid of crime and absconded.