Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2615 Arrangement, throwing the pot away

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

   But in fact, all resentment must have a source, and it will not be born 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 continuous. As far as time itself is concerned, there is no quantitative unit. Just like the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are running endlessly, you can take out a part of it to observe, but you can't say that the Yangtze River and the Yellow River are divided into endless equal parts by this small part that is being observed...

   Can't tell the difference.

   Therefore, when dealing with the affairs of Taiyuan, we must stand a little higher in order to see them more clearly.

  The word Taiyuan, in the Han Dynasty, was not just a county, but 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 undergone many administrative changes such as South Korea, Dai State, Taiyuan State, and Taiyuan County, 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 the "Hanshu·Geographical Records", during the Western Han Dynasty, there was a "salt official" in Jinyang of Taiyuan County, and an "iron official" in Daling, which 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 far as the salt industry is concerned, the production level of the Han Dynasty must not have good technology and production efficiency, which will inevitably lead to the need for a lot of manpower.

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

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

  Now, the massive import of Qinghai salt has caused the original salt industry in Taiyuan 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 brine. As long as the price difference is not much, most people will choose to buy lake salt instead of brine.

The processing of brine is not only time-consuming and laborious, but more importantly, it consumes a lot of manpower. Therefore, when Feiqian opened the Western Regions and opened up the silk business road, the original price of brine in Taiyuan suddenly collapsed, and the declining salt industry led to salt production. The industry-based handicraftsmen lost their jobs, and the most important thing was that these local gentry, who were originally rich in salt, were immediately hit hard!

   Similarly, there are iron and copper industries.

  Shandong’s copper production is better. After all, everyone knows that copper ore is equivalent to money and will not be sold easily. However, the Shandong iron industry has been defeated by Fiqian's higher-level metallurgical technology. This is the same as the salt industry. Using relatively "inferior" products.

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

Of course, there are still small metallurgical workshops that sew and mend, but the problem is that no matter which dynasty it is, the metallurgical industry does not make a lot of money by sewing, so those who originally mined ore are fine, while those who originally relied on smelting The local gentry and gentry industry that made their fortunes by making ironware naturally suffered a heavy blow.

  This kind of dimensionality reduction attack on the salt industry, iron industry, etc., was completed within a 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 needs CD time. Do you need to return some blue...

  And during the process of these changes, what are these country gentry and noble families doing?

   Did nothing.

Perhaps a small number of people noticed something was wrong and changed their careers out of the danger zone, but most of the country gentlemen who were engaged in these old industries and continued to use old technologies, waited for new waves to surge and knock them down. Kneeling on the beach, weeping, swearing, cursing, and even resenting.

   Whose fault is this?

It's like seeing a Venus flytrap, and then sighing how such benzene flies and insects would throw themselves into the trap. Turning around and seeing the mousetrap, it was a joke saying how stupid the mouse must be to fall into this trap, and then seeing the trap Just laughing, saying that there are still beasts who can't see such an obvious thing? Then these people saw the sign of "Flood Danger, Do Not Enter"—

Ok…

   Is there no way to survive in Taiyuan?

   Obviously not, agriculture and animal husbandry are still open.

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

  Take pottery as an example. Pots, pots, pots, cups, stoves, etc. made of clay are very popular among the people. After all, not all people can afford copper or iron ware as daily utensils. Although the profit of these things is meager, the demand is not small. After all, the clay utensils are easy to break if you are not careful, and the metal utensils are usually dropped a few times, and apart from some marks, most of them will be fine.

  At the same time, because the thick burial custom of the Han Dynasty will not be reduced for a while, there are also a lot of pottery used in the burial. The demand is particularly large, such as daily utensils such as stoves, wells, dowry made of clay, and even complete sets of buildings, which are all consumables and are buried underground with the owner. These pottery products used for burial are also a very important product type. In addition, the pottery industry can also fire building materials, such as Qin bricks and Han tiles, simple pattern tiles, tube tiles, etc., complex pattern tiles, All sold well.

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

  If you want a high price, you can also create some new shapes and patterns on the clay utensils. After all, technology is based on changing the shell. The colorful patterns are definitely more expensive than plain noodles...

   But creating new forms and patterns requires brains!

There are also lacquerware, jadeware, etc., which are similar. Ordinary profits are thin, so it takes a lot of brains to innovate, so on the whole, even if the land of Taiyuan has been hit by some industrial dimensionality reduction, it is not completely impossible to survive. Go on, if you want to live well, you need to work harder than before.

  But some people can't do it, they think, why should they work hard? They used to be able to live a good and nourishing life, so why bother now?

   This must be the fault of the hussars.

   Their ancestors have done this for generations, and they all lived well. Now that the hussars have come, they can't live anymore. Isn't it the hussars' fault? The hussars caused their businesses to go bankrupt, reduced their income, made it impossible for them to continue to enjoy the life of various banquets.

  Some people are sensible, but there are also some people who just stare at one thing, don't know how to connect up and down, and don't want to use their brains to think about problems.

  So, the ones who harbor great resentment towards hussars are naturally those people who originally made huge profits in the salt and iron industries in Taiyuan. And among these people, basically they are all big families from Taiyuan. Because it is very simple, small gentry and small gentry cannot get involved in the salt and iron industry that originally had huge profits.

   Among them, of course there is Taiyuan Wang.

   And Wen's.

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

  According to the truth, hunting is not suitable in spring.

  But Wang Huai doesn't care, or in other words, he doesn't want to care about anything at all, he just needs to enjoy himself, as for the others...

  The harvest is not good today.

If Wang Huai came alone, he would have encountered some hares and pheasants. As for whether he could hit them, that was another matter, but Wang Huai came with a large group of people, so those small animals listened When the wind blows and the grass is turbulent, they dodge it early, and the big animals, after finally encountering a black bear, have already been blown into the sky...

  Tigers and leopards are smarter than bears. Unless they are really impatient, they usually hide from the crowd. There are many more tender, smaller and less risky prey in the mountains, why bother with the two-legged hairless beast?

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

  For example, now Wang Huai feels that Zhang Wan is trying to make things difficult for him...

Wang Huai’s hunting, in addition to the 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, sorry never did.

  Wang Huai sat 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, holding an arrow in his hand, as if he was unconsciously pinching it back and forth, “How could there be hussars on the stone ridge?” 』

  The smuggling route has been investigated in advance. I was arrested once at Yinshan Mountain, which is close to Yinshan Mountain. 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 no one has ever discovered before. How come they also met Hushi people?

   Facing Wang Huai's suspicious gaze, Zhang Wan pointed to the sky and swore that he really met the Hushi man and also Wuxing Leiyunyun, and described it in detail.

  Wang Huai was shocked and angry when he heard this. Surprisingly, Zhang Wan may indeed have met the Hussars. 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, and then he will know the truth. What made him angry was that Zhang Wan messed up the matter. Two smugglings were blocked.

   This is not only not making money, but also losing money in it. How much is this? !

At the same time, there is also an implicit influence, that is, the smuggling is from both sides, and the original trust is not high. Once the Wang's side is out of stock, the Hu people will think that there is something wrong with the Wang's side, and they want to restore it. The original contact, I'm afraid there will be troubles again!

  『Let me ask you,』Wang Huai approached a little closer, and asked in a low voice, 『That guy...have you written a new mark? 』

  Zhang Wan nodded hurriedly, "It's all changed, it's all 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 you started?" 』

  Zhang Wan was taken aback, he couldn't admit that he found it troublesome, "Huh? This... I received the order to make me change it? 』

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

Zhang Wan also hurriedly laughed, "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, he had to explain the dead person and lost the goods, on the other hand, I want some money so that I can regroup my men.

"Next time...hehe, it's okay..." Wang Huai nodded, holding the arrow again, picked up the arrow, and aimed it in front of his eyes, as if to see if the arrow shaft was straight or not. Same, "This matter... I understand, you go back first, what else... I will arrange for someone to send it to you..."

  Zhang Wan hurriedly thanked him a thousand times, and then said goodbye with a nod and a bow.

  Wang Huai nodded with nothing to do.

   This seems to be normal. Zhang Wan failed and asked for money, food and supplies, and it was impossible for Wang Huai to carry these supplies with him when he was hunting.

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

   Is there a next time?

Zhang Wan was walking in front, and suddenly he felt alert, as if he was being stared at by some wild beast. When he turned his head suddenly, he saw Wang Huai, who had just been sitting on the rock, standing up, holding a bow and nocking an arrow in his hands, and was heading towards Aim yourself!

  Zhang Wan subconsciously wanted to scream and run away, but Wang Huai over there had already let go of the bowstring...

  『Boom! 』

  『Whoosh! 』

  『Poof! 』

"what…"

  Zhang Wan fell to the sky.

  Wang Huai retracted the bow, looked coldly at Zhang Wan's fallen figure, and pointed, "Go and have a look... If you're not dead, make another stab..."

"yes! 』Wang Huai's guard pulled out his dagger and walked forward.

  『Oh, by the way, stay that arrow over there, don’t move it...』Wang Huai ordered again as if he remembered something.

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

   After a while, the guard waved his hand, "He's dead!" My son is good at archery! 』

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

  He picked up his bow, put his quiver on his back, and went to the place where the horse was tied.

  In his quiver, it seems that one or two arrows are slightly different in color from other arrows...

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

  Wang Huai swept his eyes and saw that Wen and his party were accompanied by a car and a lot of luggage, as if they were about to move for a long journey.

  『Haha, isn’t this Brother Wang Xian? ”Wen Shizi greeted loudly, “Is this back from hunting? 』

  Wang Huai smiled, pretending not to notice anything, then motioned for a guard to deliver a hare to Wen's men, "Brother Wen, where are you going?" What has brother Wen been busy these two days? Why didn't he go hunting with his younger brother? 』

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

   The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then separated.

  Then the two moved away from each other, and each laughed secretly.

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

  Wang Huai knew in his heart that Wen's son was anxious to leave at the moment, was it because he heard some rumors or wanted to leave this vortex?

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

  Wang Huai sneered, returned to his home, and then said in a deep voice, "Go invite Seventh Uncle." 』

  After a while, the seventh uncle came, Wang Huai told everyone to back down, and then said in a low voice: "There is something wrong with Shiling..."

"what? ’ Seventh Uncle frowned.

  Wang Huai gave an overview of the situation, "Hussars and horses...why did they appear on the side of Shiling?" 』

Uncle Qi didn't know why, but he knew that all the smuggling channels were cut off, and the family's way of making money was also cut off. He glanced at Wang Huai with some dissatisfaction, and said, "These damn... how could you be so careless?" ...'

  Wang Huai nodded and said, "So I killed him. If you make a mistake, once is okay, twice, hehe, I still want to say next time... Why do you keep such a person? 』

  『You killed? Uncle Seven raised his eyebrows, "Is there nothing left behind?" 』

  Wang Huai smiled, and took out an arrow from the quiver beside him, "I killed with this arrow..."

  Seventh Uncle received it and took a look, "Oh! Haha... But, how do you have his arrows? 』

"Didn't we hunt together the first two times..." Wang Huai said with a smile, "That idiot couldn't shoot well... I deliberately led him around a few times, and his servants couldn't find the leftover arrow. arrow...」

  Seventh Uncle raised his eyebrows, took a deep look at Wang Huai, and then said with a smile, "Since you have made the arrangements... why do you want me to come?" 』

  Wang Huai said with a smile: "There are only a few of my subordinates...Although Zhang Wan is said to have been killed, the others...if the hussars find the village in Shiling first..."

  『Hmmm…』 Uncle Qi pondered, then looked at Wang Huai and said, 『You mean…』

"No, no, I listen to my uncle..." Wang Huai said, "The things I do are all taught by my uncle... It's just, it's just that **** Zhang Wan, he didn't do what his uncle told him to do. It changed in the stockade...』

  Seventh Uncle was taken aback for a moment, then raised his eyebrows.

  Not much to say about other factors, if you go outside to change the mark, at most you will know a team of people, but in the stockade to change it...

   Then a whole village may know.

   What was the mark at first, and what was the mark afterward...

  These people in the stockade were not recruited by Wang Huai, most of them were Qishugong's people.

   If all this is silenced, the loss will not be a little bit.

  The problem is that Qi Shugong 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 Wen's son... That kid packed up his clothes and left the city. Obviously he won't be back in a short time..."

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

  Absconded in fear of crime.

  (end of this chapter)