Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 501 Who dares to tamper with?

  Power is like real estate. What determines the size of power is not the size of the area occupied, but the specific location. Pingyang City is now slowly starting to turn crimson, which seems to be a sign of something.

  The technology of firing bricks reached a very mature stage in the Qin Dynasty, as did the so-called "Qin bricks and Han tiles".

  But few people really use red bricks, because in the concept of Han Dynasty people, red bricks are actually...

   Waste.

   Blue bricks, or Qin bricks, why are they blue?

  Because it is the best, it is blue. If it can be burned black, people in the Qin Dynasty probably prefer it.

The process of burning red bricks and burning blue bricks is exactly the same in the early stage, but in the later stage, the blue bricks need to be slowly drenched with water, and then the temperature of the brick kiln is lowered to reduce the high-priced iron oxide in the bricks to low-priced iron oxide, resulting in color change. It is cyan.

   Of course, in this complex process, if there is a mistake in watering or incomplete restoration, red bricks will appear.

   But for Fei Qian, this is nothing. The construction of a Pingyang city wall does not intend to be passed down through the ages. What's the difference between the blue bricks and the red bricks?

Red bricks save labor. The craftsmen who burn the bricks don’t need to take care of them all the time, and they don’t need to spray them with water at any time. They can directly burn the kiln. When the time comes, the air cooling is turned on, and the pipes are ignored. After cooling, they can be transported. And there is no problem of defective products, simple, easy, while reducing the personal risk of kiln craftsmen, it can be produced on a large scale, why not do it?

   And it can be regarded as a little bad taste of Fei Qian.

  The country of the motherland is red...

   In fact, is there a difference between red bricks and blue bricks?

  Red bricks have no technical content...

  Red bricks can also be mixed with some sundries, and it doesn’t need to be completely clay, so the manufacturing conditions are relaxed a lot...

   But the funny thing is that the brick-burning craftsmen refused to burn red bricks at first, blatantly defying orders and disrespecting!

  It is said that it will smash its own signboard, and it will make people laugh because it is not ignorant of the rules, it is not a teacher, and it is poor craftsmanship, so it would rather lose its head than destroy the signboard!

   Later, a compromise was made. Here in Pingyang City, a large amount of fired red bricks was used, and in the school palace above Taoshan, a smaller amount of fired green bricks was used. This proves that these craftsmen are really knowledgeable brickmakers, and everyone is happy.

As a result, it is said that these brick houses are all staring at the green brick-burning cave dwellings, holding back their energy to burn a few kilns of good blue bricks, so as to rectify their name. As for the ordinary red brick-burning cave dwellings, they are thrown to their apprentices. …

   But to Fei Qian, it doesn’t matter, the good bricks are used to build the city wall, and the poor ones are not wasted. They are used to build brick houses in Pingyang City, and make the best use of everything...

  It’s like the local tyrants in the Hedong area who have been borrowed a lot of supplies by Cui Hou, they still have to make the best use of everything...

Now in the area controlled by Feiqian, military control has been fully implemented, not to mention Pingyang and Beiqu, and Yong'an was actually abolished by Baibo, which is almost like a blank sheet of paper, except for Puzi County, which has not been affected in any way. However, a county is located in a marginal area, and the materials themselves are relatively poor. Therefore, the supply of materials is fully controlled and the military rationing system is implemented. Although there were some complaints at the beginning, these people soon became members of the military control system. staunch supporter.

  Chang’an’s hyperinflation, followed by large-scale minting of money, and the spread of bad money driving out good money is extremely rapid. It seems that there are people behind it who not only have no control, but also deliberately continue to promote it...

  But this matter is really a good thing for Fei Qian. Before, Huang Xu and Huang Xianliang led a group of grassroots officers to learn some words and numbers superficially, and now they have come in handy. Basically all the materials are controlled in Feiqian's barracks. The cheap people only found out when they came to Pingyang that not only Pingyang, but also Yong'an, Puzi, and Beiqu had entered the military control, and the transaction had entered the stage of bartering.

  All copper coins, including five baht coins, are out of circulation.

  Bad money drives out good money, based on information asymmetry. Only when the party accepting the bad money does not know the value of the bad money can there be a way to conduct a successful transaction. Once the other party knows the actual value of the bad money, will anyone be willing to accept it?

  Like the counterfeit money of later generations, only those who are deceived think it is real, they will accept it, otherwise, an ordinary person, who would be willing to receive counterfeit money in their hands?

   It's just that bartering has the most serious impact on commerce, but there is no better way for the time being. At least we have to wait until after the autumn harvest, when grain and grass prices are relatively stable, to make some adjustments. Now is not the time.

Du Yuan stomped over, as if the back of his **** was on fire, and after sitting in the hall, he let out a long breath: "My lord, these people from Hedong and Hanoi have always stayed here, with sad faces all day long. It's not a big deal to get together in front of the government office..." Every time they came, the eyes of those people were like pitiful puppies, staring at them full of hope, making Du Yuan, who is now The little heart of the head of logistics is somewhat overwhelmed.

   "Hahaha, don't be in a hurry..." Fei Qian said with a smile, "Wen Zheng, don't be fooled by the appearance of these people...These people only care about money, and they are still far away from the real ruin..."

When the Han Dynasty came to the period of Emperor Ling, these local gentry had already built a large number of Wubao, storing food and grass that they could not eat up and a lot of money, but now they only saw that the food and grass stored in their homes were looted by Fei Qian by means. Batch, most of the money in the family has become a pile of scrap copper, which is so sour...

  This feeling of heartache...

  However, if they can’t even afford to eat, or their homes are ruined because of this inflation, that’s not enough. With the current situation, they can still afford it.

   It's just that the natural disasters in the next few years, either drought or flood, coupled with the plague caused by the war, finally completely destroyed the economic manors of these gentry townspeople.

   "Wenzheng, you said, I have been hanging them here for so many days, why hasn't anyone risen up to pick a head and trouble us?"

Du Yuan was not polite, picked up the pitcher next to him, poured a bowl of water by himself, and said after he drank it, "This journey has been utterly miserable, and I've lost my nerve. Who dares to do anything?" Even he himself was too scared to look at the several execution grounds set up over there. Now, basically everyone in Hedong knows that Fei Qian's methods are cruel and vicious. Break ground on this monster head?

   "This..." Fei Qian scratched his head a little bit. Originally, he wanted to say that if someone dared to jump out, he would grab a few small ones and make a mess of it. By the way, it seems that it can't be done now?

   Demon King Fei dispatched...

   The folk customs of the Northland are tough...

   But having said that, why do kind people usually get bullied wherever they go?

   Don't people like kindness?

   This question is worth pondering...

  (end of this chapter)