MTL - Daily Life In Qin Dynasty-Chapter 121 Snitch?

  Chapter 121 Small report?

  Hanzhong has a special terrain.

  This place is mixed between Xianyang and Bashu.

  Among them, Xianyang, as the capital of the Qin State, enjoyed prosperous commerce and economy.

   As the granary of the Qin State, Bashu has a vast land and abundant resources, cheap grain prices and high output.

   These two places, regardless of whether Hanzhong is adjacent to any of them, can get opportunities for rapid development.

  But now Hanzhong is mixed between the two places, but the local development is extremely poor. The reason is that there are huge obstacles between Hanzhong, Xianyang and Bashu.

   To the north of Hanzhong is the Qinling Mountains, which cuts off the connection between Xianyang and Hanzhong.

  To the south of Hanzhong are two big mountains, Daba and Micang, which cut off the connection between Bashu and Hanzhong.

The three mountains present a tendency to attack, completely cutting off the connection between Hanzhong County and other places. Even though Hanzhong's own resources are not bad, if there is no external stimulation, it is difficult to develop rapidly by relying on the local resources alone. It is even more difficult.

  Although now on the Qinling Mountains, there is already a prototype of a "Shu Road" opened up by the Qin State.

   But that's just a narrow path.

  From the prototype of this "Shu Road", if goods are transported in large quantities, maybe three to four thousand catties of commercial goods will have to use more than a dozen horse-drawn carts, and it will take ten and a half months to enter Hanzhong from Xianyang.

  This kind of transport capacity is not directly proportional to the time and energy consumed.

  For most businessmen, it is a loss-making business.

   This "Shu Road" prototype, every year only when the Qin State transports grain from Bashu, it will spare no effort to use a large army to clear the way, cut down trees when encountering trees, and move stones when encountering stones.

  But this is obviously not enough for Mo Jun.

  What he needs is not a narrow path, but a road to the sky that is enough for a large-scale caravan to pass quickly and smoothly.

   And not just one.

  In Mo Jun's plan, the 'Tongtian Avenue' he wants to build should connect the entire Bashu and Xianyang, and use Hanzhong as the transportation center to turn the rich resources of the two places into a boost.

   "Gunpowder (fire sulfur stone) and cement are already available. It is not difficult to simply build roads, but..."

  Jun Mo took out a scroll of animal skins, and when he opened it, it showed a map of the Qinling Mountains.

   Now 'cement' has been manufactured by Mo Jun, and it has begun to be put into large-scale production.

   And this world already has gunpowder.

  With these two things, it is not very difficult to build roads from the Qinling Mountains.

   Now the only problem is mainly time.

no doubt.

  The plan of "digging mountains and digging roads" formulated by Mr. Mo is an extremely huge amount of work.

  If the size of the [Xiongide Mo Chamber of Commerce] alone, it may not be impossible to complete, but the construction period is a bit too long.

  The best way is to find someone to cooperate with.

   Speaking of cooperation.

  The first person Mo Jun thought of was naturally Ying Zheng.

  As the current king of Qin, Ying Zheng can provide too much help to Mo Jun in this kind of big project.

  However, Ying Zheng's flaws are also obvious, that is, he is too poor.

  Mr. Mo, as the current internal history of Qin State, knows more about Qin State's financial situation than Ying Zheng.

  For expenditures other than the normal expenditure of the court like the current one, Ying Zheng can provide all kinds of manpower and material resources, but he can't provide money.

  So in order to relieve his pressure, Mo Jun had to find a way to find a few wealthy 'shareholders'.

   "My lord, an urgent letter from Xianyang."

  Just as Mo Jun was thinking, Hei Yu suddenly appeared quietly and handed over a roll of bamboo slips at the same time.

  Mr. Mo opened the scroll and took a look.

   found that there was no substantive content in it, it was just an imperial edict calling him into the palace urgently by Ying Zheng.

  However, the fact that Mr. Mo was specially summoned to enter the palace already explained a lot of problems.

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   Two days later.

  In Xianyang Palace.

  Ying Zheng on the throne wears a crown and black clothes. His eyes were deep and cold, from high to low, looking down at the ministers below.

  Long time.

  Just listen to him slowly say: "The three-day period has come, do you have a good plan?"

  Under the throne.

  There are only seven or eight ministers, and the leader is none other than Chang Wenjun "Xiong Dian".

  Facing Ying Zheng's inquiry, Chang Wenjun and the ministers behind him all lowered their heads, speechless.

  Chang Wenjun also worshiped one of the nine ministers in Qin State, and he was called "Shaofu".

   There are two functions:

  One, in charge of the taxation of mountains, seas, ponds and official handicrafts operated by the royal family.

  Second, responsible for managing the royal family's private wealth and solving life affairs.

  The position of "Shaofu" seems to have ordinary rights in the Jiuqing, but because it is in charge of all royal family and official affairs, and can go directly to Tianting, its real power is not trivial.

  Generally speaking.

  This position can only be occupied by people who are trusted by the king.

   Zeng Changwenjun, as a "family relative from Chu State", won the trust of Yingzheng, so he promoted Changwenjun to this position.

  However, since the last "Nanjun Conspiracy" happened, Yingzheng has begun to limit Changwenjun's rights intentionally or unintentionally.

  Now Chang Wenjun, the "Shaofu", has basically lost the second right of "managing the royal family's private wealth and solving daily affairs", leaving only the first function.

   But not long ago.

  The first function in charge of Chang Wenjun also had problems.

   "Xiong Qing, as the "Shaofu", you are in charge of the taxation of Daqin's mountains, seas, pools, and lakes. Now that the Qin State's salt mines are dry and there is a shortage of salt, do you have any countermeasures?"

   "Sir, there is nothing you can do."

   Facing Ying Zheng's inquiry, Chang Wenjun was silent for a long time, and finally only uttered five words.

  This time, it’s really not that Chang Wenjun intentionally tripped up Yingzheng. After all, now that Yingzheng is in power, if anyone wants to imitate the previous Zhisu Neishi at this time, they are really looking for a dead end.

  But the matter of salt and grain has been a big unsolvable problem for all dynasties since ancient times.

  The number of salt mines in Qin State is limited.

  Not long ago, two salt mines dried up at the same time. Now unless a new 'salt mine' can be found again, even if the gods descend to earth, there is no way to solve the predicament Qin is facing now.

  Ying Zheng also knew this, but Chang Wenjun's answer was obviously not what Ying Zheng wanted.

   "Trash, what use does the widow want you, the 'Shao Fu'?"

  Ying Zheng's eyes were cold, looking at Changwen Lord Xiong Dian below, the dissatisfaction in his eyes became deeper and deeper.

   As the saying goes, when you like someone, his farts are delicious. But when you hate someone, he looks like he's eating **** when he eats.

   Today's Chang Wenjun is probably in such a situation.

  Before the Nanjun incident, Yingzheng had always been very tolerant of Changpingjun and Changwenjun brothers. Even after the Lai Ai incident was over, he once thought of giving the position of Great Qin Youxiang to Changpingjun.

   But now, no matter what the two brothers did, it would only make him feel irritated in Ying Zheng's eyes.

  Chang Wenjun obviously knew this too.

  So facing Ying Zheng's harsh criticism and reprimand, he decisively chose to remain silent.

  Anyway, the drying up of the salt mine is completely helpless. Even Yingzheng can't just give up his official position as a "shaofu" because of this incident, right?

  He can't be as unlucky as his predecessor Zhi Awanaishi.

   Could it be that hateful bastard, can he still solve the problem of the salt mine drying up together?

   What a joke.

Moreover.

  That guy can't protect himself now, how could he still have the time to take care of this matter.

  Looking at a group of ministers below with the attitude of 'a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water', Ying Zheng's eyes became colder and colder.

   Right now.

  Suddenly the voice of a guard came from outside the palace.

   "Your Majesty, Lord Shengping seeks to see you."

  Hearing the guard's voice, Ying Zheng first glanced at Chang Wenjun below, only to see that Chang Wenjun's whole body shook suddenly after hearing Mo Jun's arrival, and then his eyes seemed to light up.

   Seeing him like this, Ying Zheng became more and more disgusted in his heart, but he said calmly on the surface: "Xuan!"

   "Here!"

  The guard responded, then walked out of the palace and brought Mo Jun in.

  When Mr. Mo just walked in, he felt that the atmosphere in the palace seemed a bit oppressive. Ying Zheng on the throne was expressionless, and several ministers below bowed their heads and were speechless.

   Only Chang Wenjun, who was at the front, looked at him a little strangely, faintly, with a bit of malicious excitement.

   "Chen Mojun, see Your Majesty."

   Seeing Mo Jun's arrival, Ying Zheng's icy face softened a little, and he said gently, "Mo Qing is free."

   "Thank you, my lord."

   Jun Mo thanked him, then straightened up, and looked at Ying Zheng above with a slightly questioning look.

   So far, Mo Jun still doesn't know the real reason why Ying Zheng called him back to Xianyang in an urgent letter.

  After arriving in Xianyang, Mo Jun naturally learned about the drying up of two salt mines in Qin State through his own eyes and ears in the court.

  But this has little to do with Mo Jun.

  The responsibility of governing Su Neishi is mainly to manage private finances such as grain tax and commercial tax.

  The salt and iron (bronze) of the Qin State are all government-run, and under normal circumstances, they are managed by the Shaofu, which is in charge of the royal family.

  So when there is a problem in the salt mine, the first person to look for is not Zhi Su Nei Shi, but Shao Fu.

   Unless it is said that the Shaofu cannot come up with a solution, then Ying Zheng will call a group of ministers to hold a big court meeting to discuss and solve the problem together.

  But if it is the Grand Court Meeting, there cannot be only so few people here today.

  Felt Mo Jun's eyes.

  Ying Zheng didn't let it go, and said directly: "Qing Mo, someone sued the widow that you oppressed the people in Hanzhong County, bought and sold the people's property by force, and slaughtered the people. Is there such a thing?"

  After listening to Ying Zheng's words, Mo Jun suddenly realized.

   It took a long time.

   It turned out that it was because of this incident that I hurriedly called myself back!

  Mr. Mo glanced at Mr. Chang Wen next to him, and saw that although Mr. Chang Wen had a calm expression at this moment, if you observe carefully, you will find that there is obviously a little more complacency in his eyes.

   Obviously, this guy has clearly told Mo Jun that he is the one who made the report, what can you do to me?

  Mr. Mo took a deep look at him.

  Then decisively bowed to Ying Zheng, and said firmly: "Report to the king, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it."

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  (end of this chapter)