Overlord!

To serve as the third envoy, responsible for taxation, payment, shipping, salt and iron and other state-owned workshops, the requirements for an official's talent must be extremely high, and non-prime ministers are not allowed to hold this position.

In fact, the Third Secretary is Jiangdong's Prime Minister or Finance Minister.

Sun Ce asked Zhang Zhao to recommend a capable minister to serve as the third envoy. Zhang Zhao put his hand on his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "I recommend Haiyan Changbu Stallion."

"Oh? What's the reason?" Sun Ce asked with interest.

Zhang Zhao replied: "The general once appointed Wu Fan as the sea salt chief. He wanted to master the method of drying salt on the tidal flats."

Sun Ce nodded, Sun Ce remembered this.Although Wu Fan was not a top talent, he was good at calculations, and was familiar with arithmetic, calendars and astronomy. Historically, he had accurately calculated that Guan Yu's surrender in Maicheng was a false surrender, which was not credible.Ask Sun Quan to send troops to ambush Guan Yu on his way to break out of the encirclement.Only then did Pan Zhang, Ma Zhong and others capture a large number of Jingzhou civil and military forces such as Guan Yu and Guan Ping.

The method of drying salt on the tidal flats requires extremely high climate observation of weather and rainwater, so Sun Ce appointed Wu Fan to serve as the chief of sea salt in Haiyan, and work together with the people to summarize the climate laws and improve the method of drying salt on the tidal flats.

Zhang Zhao said: "However, Wu Fan is an upright person and quite self-proclaimed. He is arrogant when he predicts the rules. If he fails to predict, he will get angry and the people will not dare to get close to him. The method of drying salt on the tidal flat has never been able to reap the full benefits."

"After three years, the meritorious officials assessed Wu Fan's political performance and was transferred to the position of Prime Minister of Juzhang County."

"Bu Zheng succeeded him as the county magistrate of Haiyan. After Bu Zheng took office, he personally visited all the salt fields and summoned local respected elders and experienced salt workers to discuss the pros and cons of drying salt on the tidal flats, as well as the laws of climate, clouds and rain. .”

"The people were all convinced, and the method of drying salt on the tidal flats was beneficial. Within two years, more than [-] acres of salt fields were opened in Haiyan County. One acre of salt fields, during the two harvest seasons of spring and summer and autumn and winter, The salt can be harvested every four or five days, producing about one stone of salt. The sea salt alone produces more than one million stones of salt a year!"

Sun Ce is overjoyed!You must know that a piece of rock salt used to cost as much as 25 yuan in the Han Dynasty.And a stone of corn often does not cost more than eighty, and does not lose thirty.In other words, one stone of salt can be exchanged for at least ten stones of grain, and at most [-] stones of grain.

The annual output of these millions of rock salts, if traded fairly, could earn tens of millions of rocks of grain and grass from Cao Cao.

Of course, Cao Cao would not allow it at all, and the people could not transport so much food.

The final result must be to make the price of salt in Jiangdong even lower, so that more people can afford salt!
In the past, a piece of rock salt cost [-] yuan, but now a piece of rock salt may only cost [-] yuan.

Any technological progress that leads to a significant increase in wealth output will ultimately benefit the people.

Sun Ce laughed and said, "Good! With this skill, Bu Zhi can be promoted to the third rank of envoy."

The Third Secretary is still a new position, a bit similar to a position of inferiority and weight, suitable for an official who has been promoted from the grassroots.As for how high the Third Secretary can be pushed in the future, it all depends on his ability to step forward.

But Sun Ce was confident in Bu Zhi.

This is Jiangdong's prime minister after Lu Xun.It was he who served as the governor of Jiaozhou, established Wu Zhonglang General, and led more than a thousand military officials to go south and take over Jiaozhou.

It only took a few thousand people to achieve a great reputation.Brothers Shi Xie have followed each other and offered orders to each other. They have been guests of the south since then.

With his ability, it is no problem to sort out the taxes and suppress those powerful people who resist the taxes.

Sun Ce was very much looking forward to him reorganizing the taxes of each county and using the past two years to completely reorganize the taxes of 110 and [-] nine counties, so that on the eve of the Battle of Guandu, Jiangdong could rule every county powerfully. , each township, complete the taxation of each township and city in the eleven counties.

The reason why taxation was implemented so slowly in Jiangdong has a lot to do with Jiangdong Tongbao. This is a new method to open up a new currency. After Jiangdong Tongbao becomes popular throughout Jiangdong, the wealth that Jiangdong can collect and mobilize will be It will achieve exponential expansion, which is unmatched by the princes of the world.

You must know that Wu County alone, with the circulation of Jiangdong Tongbao, maintained an army of nearly [-] for Sun Ce.

After all the eleven counties in Jiangdong implement Tongbao, Sun Ce's strength will increase fivefold if not tenfold.

When the time comes when the soldiers are well-prepared and equipped with sophisticated equipment, even if they only raise partial armies, they will be able to defeat the shabby and poorly equipped armies of other princes.The country's military strength is strong and it is expected that it will swallow up the powerful captives in a short time.

On the other hand, Sun Ce also hopes that Bu Zheng can standardize the current industrial and commercial tax and municipal shipping department. Industrial and commercial tax is okay, the Han Dynasty has always had tax laws in this area, and Bu Zhi can preliminarily establish it as long as it continues and improves it. Koto Law.

However, the Municipal Shipping Department was the first institution created by Sun Ce. It was intended to regulate the Maritime Silk Road and attract Hu merchants and foreign ships to the Central Plains, especially those foreign countries south of Jiaozhou, where there was a lot of gold.Countries such as Linyi even have hundreds of thousands of kilograms of gold.

As an emperor or general, you must have a broad mind and a grand ambition. If you don't give it a try, you will never know how much wealth there is in this world.

For example, because the state of Lin Yi always invaded Jiaozhou, Liu Song decided to send troops on an expedition to solve the border troubles.King Linyi heard that Liu Song really sent people to beat him, so he was frightened and quickly asked for an apology of [-] catties of gold and [-] catties of silver.

One hundred thousand gold and silver is probably a huge amount of wealth in the treasury of the Central Plains Dynasty!
However, Liu Song refused and sent troops to attack. As a result, they obtained gold, silver and other miscellaneous items, which were unfathomable and rare. They were all unnamed treasures.He also sold his gold man and got hundreds of thousands of catties of gold!
When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, there were only more than 60 kilograms of gold in the treasury.

You must know that the spoils of war can only be under-reported, not over-reported. Otherwise, will the Lord add money to make up for the shortfall?

There is a golden mountain in his country. The rocks are all red, and gold grows in them.With this unique advantage, no matter what, wealth cannot be lost.

Sun Ce did not necessarily have to use his army to plunder, but he could exchange friendly trade and rely on the Central Plains' powerful industrial output, porcelain, silk, salt and iron in exchange for massive wealth.

The arrival of ten ships from Jiaozhi, Rinan and other places was no less significant to Sun Ce than the annihilation of a group of bandits or Shangoe who had gathered tens of thousands of people to rebel.

So Sun Ce tapped his fingers on the table, thought for a while, and said: "There are a lot of materials in the government treasury, such as salt, iron, and silk, but it is difficult to directly convert them into wealth. The source is still the war in the Central Plains. Since Dong Zhuo, people Wealth and goods are blocked, business travel between cities is cut off, and all businesses between cities and towns are withered. This situation will not be restored unless it lasts for many years. However, foreign ships are not affected. You can tell the people that anyone who can attract foreign ships to Jiangdong City will benefit. The government will reward you with one piece of money and ten pieces of cloth."

The influence of Dong Zhuo's rebellion is not so easy to eliminate.

After he caused chaos to the country and the people, the urban commodity economy in the Central Plains was almost severely damaged and wiped out.

Therefore, money and goods cannot be exchanged, and cloth is used as currency.

It may be difficult for future generations to imagine how to buy a few kilograms of rice and trade it with cloth?Could it be that a small piece was cut off on site?

That's because this kind of free and prosperous market economy is completely a luxury at the moment.This era does not allow for such a high level of industrial and commercial prosperity. Since money and goods were blocked, small trade has almost become difficult to see. The occasional transactions in the city are all large transactions between powerful families.

If a small peddler is really in urgent need of some transaction, he can only barter, or if he is forced to do so, he can cut off a piece of cloth and trade with others.

Therefore, it is often seen that a household has more than a dozen pieces of cloth of different sizes, colors, and sizes stored in sewing baskets.

This is why Xiaomin's clothes are sewn together piece by piece, as if they are full of patches.

Families who can make one kind of clothes from one piece of cloth and one color are generally wealthy families.You can tell whether a person is rich or poor just by looking at their clothes.

Sun Ce said that the extra ships were not affected precisely because they sent only one shipment of goods, and Hu Shang was more willing to trade in bulk.

It was not until after several exchanges that they were willing to accept the Central Plains buying gold, jade, spices, tortoise shells, grain and other precious items from them with copper coins.

Because behind the exchange of copper coins for precious items such as gold, jade, spices and jade, there is a guarantee of the value of a large number of industrial products in the Central Plains.

After Zhang Zhao heard what Sun Ce said, he smiled and said: "General, please go to Jiankang City to have a look. There are already Hu merchant ships in the city."

Sun Ceying raised his eyebrows angrily and asked, "There are already Hu merchants operating in Jiankang City?"

Zhang Zhao nodded and said: "The Shipping Department can collect hundreds of coins every month from Chapulei area in Jiankang City, of which Hu Merchant receives about a hundred coins."

One hundred mins is already a lot, this is one hundred thousand dollars.Equivalent to more than eight hundred, at least this is two hundred ships.

On average, about six ships pass by every day.

Sun Ce asked: "Are all these ships coming from Jiaozhi?"

"It's not just Jiaozhi." Zhang Zhao immediately shook his head and said: "Jiankang has the advantage of having waterways. The waterways extend in all directions. There are Fan barbarians coming from Wuling, Hu merchants coming from overseas, and even Di people coming from Bashu. and the Qiang people.”

Sun Ce nodded and said: "I will find time to go to Jiankang City to take a look at the current shopping conditions."

After saying this, Sun Ce asked: "There are three shortcomings in the preface of Long History. There are also few people in this life, but many people who eat. How can we explain it?"

Zhang Zhao immediately said: "The rule of the world lies in having enough people at home. And the chaos lies in the freezing and wandering. If the people of the world can be happy and live well in years and not sleepy in bad years, who would want to be a robber or bandit? Disturbance.”

"In ancient times, there were four people who were the people. One was the scholar's family, and the other was the education family. The other was the farmer's family, and the other six were the millet-eating family. The first was the worker's family, and the other six were the utensil-using family. The first was the Jia's family, and the other six were the wealthy family. "

"However, since the Qing Dynasty, the four families of scholars, farmers, industry and merchants have been displaced and dispersed, and few can restore production. And those who have fled south, there are many refugees."

"The produce of one family feeds nine families. How can Jiangdong not be impoverished?"

"There are hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Central Plains who have fled to Jiangdong. In Jiangdong, they have no family property, no production, no farmland, no house, nothing. They are trapped and suffering, and they are terrified and don't know how to make a living."

"If we can make this generation take root, feel at ease, and produce safely, most of Jiangdong's difficulties will be eliminated."

Sun Ce nodded slightly, it was indeed as Zhang Zhao said, there are few producers in Jiangdong, but there are many eaters.

Especially last year's severe drought in Huainan left hundreds of thousands of refugees unable to make a living and relied on Jiangdong for survival, which greatly consumed Jiangdong's wealth.

But this is also an opportunity. Zhang Zhao said: "Cang Ci, the magistrate of Qiantang County, served as magistrate for two years. He was able to clear up the treaty and was feared and loved by the officials and the people. He attracted refugees, resettled hidden households, cracked down on powerful people, comforted business travelers, and led The people repaired the West Lake, cultivated fields and opened up wasteland, and in a few years the number of households exceeded [-], and everyone in the east of the Yangtze River admired its benefits."

"Cang Ci?" Sun Ce asked in surprise, "Is this person in my Jiangdong?"

Sun Ce remembered that this was Cao Wei's top official. It was during his tenure as the Chang'an Order that Chang'an was cut off from the livelihood of Li Jue and Guo Si, and transformed into the prosperous Guanzhong when Zhuge Liang attacked Cao Wei.

During his tenure, the population of Chang'an increased from a few hundred households to nearly [-] households.

Later, he served as the governor of Dunhuang and reopened the Silk Road.

Cao Wei was able to control the Western Regions and even established a new garrison captain. Cang Ci was responsible for [-]% of the credit.

This is indeed a good minister who develops people's livelihood, restores the population and revitalizes the economy.

Zhang Zhao nodded and said: "Cang Ci is from Huainan, so naturally he works for me in Jiangdong."

Sun Ce smiled. It seemed that his capture of Huainan had indeed had a great impact.

Then Zhang Zhao continued: "Although the Han Dynasty was late and rebelled in all directions, thanks to the general's majesty and virtue, the districts were cleared. Now the wounds of the patients have not recovered, so all the counties and counties have resettled the people and cultivated the official fields, and then they fled. Disciple, naturally return to your roots."

Official land is one of the most important resources in Sun Ce's hands.

There are approximately tens of millions of acres of official land in the eleven counties and nine counties. If the land is allocated equally, this scale will be enough to resettle 110 refugee households.

But Sun Ce has never been interested in Juntian.

It is true that the people were happy for a while when the fields were divided.

But after just over 1000 million acres of fertile land is distributed to [-] households, what will happen in the future?
What should we do with the newly acquired captives, refugees, and the new population of civilians?
Therefore, many dynasties suffered from serious annexation within 30 or [-] years after their founding, and even the land system on which they were based could be abandoned.

Sun Ce was very satisfied with Zhang Zhao's proposal. The people temporarily had no land to cultivate, so they could cultivate the official land of the government in the concession and make a living.

But if people want to truly settle down and establish a family, they still have to cultivate their own fields and clear up wasteland to save their own family property.

Of course, the refugees who live in exile can also serve as customers to farm land for the wealthy and powerful landlords. These common people are unwilling to open up wasteland, but the landlords and powerful landlords are still very interested.

Anyway, there is no need for the powerful to work personally. They are very interested in expanding the size of the land, building water conservancy facilities, improving agricultural equipment, anything that can accumulate wealth for them.

Sun Ce adopted all of Zhang Zhao's suggestions.

In July, Haiyan arrived in Jiankang from Haiyan to serve as the Third Secretary-General.

At the same time that his new official took office, the early rice harvest in Jiangdong also entered the autumn harvest season.

The first strict review of land registration and tax rectification by the Third Secretary officially kicked off in Jiangdong. (End of chapter)