Chapter 343 Business atmosphere

187 BC was destined to be an extraordinary year.

In the spring of that year, the Han Dynasty first launched an attack, recruiting 500,000 infantry and 80,000 cavalry to conquer Hetao. After several months of fierce fighting, it finally expelled the Huns and recaptured Jiuyuan County, which was rich in water and grass.

Just when the Han army launched a large-scale campaign against the Huns and was unable to look south for a short time, the Chu army pretended to be Linjiang and suddenly sent troops to attack the two counties of Bashu. Due to the empty defense of the Han army and the powerful forces of Bashu, the Chu army was unstoppable and swept over more than 20 counties of Bashu in less than two months.

However, when the Chu army took advantage of the situation to go north and prepare to attack Hanzhong County, it was hit by the Han army head-on. Bai Mo, the Asian Cemetery of the Han Kingdom, successfully delayed the pace of the Chu army's advance with the steep Jinniu Road, and also won time for the arrival of Han reinforcements. In the end, the Chu army could only give up Hanzhong County.

In addition, Han Xin returned in Huainan without success, but the Chu army destroyed Linjiang Kingdom on the way back to Jiangdong.

A few days after the destruction of Linjiang Kingdom, Xiang Zhuang issued an edict to demote Linjiang King Gongwei to Wushangting Marquis with a fief of 300 stones, and moved his family to Ziling to raise him. Since Xiang Zhuang implemented the new title system, the Chu nobles had lost their fiefdoms. As for the fiefs of titles, such as Wushangting Marquis, the three hundred stones of Wushangting Marquis were distributed uniformly by the Lingyin Mansion.

But don’t underestimate Xiang Zhuang’s move, at least there are two invisible benefits.

The first advantage is to kill the possible division invisibly. It can be foreseen that with the deepening of the unified war, more and more nobles will be awarded titles through military merits. When the world is unified, the number of nobles in Chu will reach a peak. If they are given a real vassal, thousands of countries will appear in the territory of the Great Chu Empire!

At that time, Xiang Zhuang would have to run away from his own affairs like Liu Bang in history to eliminate the dangers of major bans. In the end, he would have to kill his ministers one by one like Liu Bang, who would disobey his conscience. Once a certain minister resisted, he would have to fight another small-scale war of unification and the people of the world would have to suffer.

Moreover, even if you kill these ministers, the matter is not over.

When the central government is strong, most of the remaining countries in the country cannot become a big problem, but once the central government shows weakness, these countries in the country will immediately become a major concern. This history has repeatedly proved that whether it is the Seven Kings Rebellion of the Western Han Dynasty or the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Western Jin Dynasty, the fundamental reason is the feudal system.

Xiangzhuang abolished the fief of the nobles and converted the fiefs of the nobles into money and grain and distributed them uniformly to the treasury, which fundamentally eliminated the possibility of the country's division due to the feudal system. According to the current title system, the nobles of the Chu State's honorary and relatives may be richer than the nobles in history, but they had no one in their hands, so what would they do to rebel?

The second advantage is to promote the development of industry and commerce in Chu State and alleviate the phenomenon of land annexation.

Looking at the history of China, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, except for the Song Dynasty that was destroyed by foreign invasions, all the other Han Dynasty were destroyed by mob resistance caused by land annexation. The Song Dynasty is an exception. There has been almost no large-scale mob resistance in both the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty.

The reason why the Song Dynasty did not have a mob resistance was because the land was not serious, and the fundamental reason why the land was not serious was that developed industry and commerce had swallowed up a large amount of hot money from gentry. Compared with purchasing land as a landlord, the gentry class of the Song Dynasty was more willing to spend money like soil and live an elegant and luxurious life.

To apply modern terms, the thousands of gentry gathered in Bianjing are like a huge domestic demand-driven engine, driving the industrial and commercial craze of the Song Dynasty forward and develop vigorously. While greatly enriching material and contributing to the accumulation of tuition, it also brings extravagance to the gentry class of the Song Dynasty, which forms a benign imperial ring.

So some people say that the Song Dynasty was the richest and most prosperous dynasty in Chinese history.

Unfortunately, since the Song Dynasty, Taizu of Song Dynasty, has pursued the national policy of using culture to build military affairs. Although this has eliminated the harm of military personnel interfering in politics and armed separatism to a certain extent, it has fundamentally weakened the combat effectiveness of the Song army. Think about it, can it be possible to let a scholar who is not divided and does not have diligent limbs lead troops to fight?

In the end, the richest Han dynasty in history died under the iron hoof of the Mongols!

Xiang Zhuang now wants to follow the example of the Song Dynasty and also create such a strong domestic demand-driven engine for Da Chu to drive the booming development of industry and commerce in the entire Chu State. This domestic demand-driven engine is the nobles gathered in the city of Ziling. To be precise, it is the huge financial resources held by these nobles.

From the moment, the effect is quite good.

Especially after the Chu army returned to China with victorious victory, the country became poor, and half of the assets accumulated over ten years were immediately gone. The mountains of gold, silk, and cotton cloth piled up in Taicang were almost empty. However, the nobles of the nobles became rich overnight, especially the Chu army soldiers and their families who were expeditioning to Bashu, and their families, and their pockets were instantly bloated!

The merchants in Ziling ushered in an unprecedented golden period!

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On Ziling Street, dozens of Bashu tyrants, including Mrs. Qin, Tang Tong, etc., were strolling.

The Chu army expeditioned to Bashu and received strong support from hundreds of Bashu tyrants, but the most powerful ones were dozens of powerful people led by the Qin family and the Tang family. The Chu army returned to Jiangdong, and these dozens of Bashu tyrants were also invited to accompany them. Xiangzhuang hoped that they could experience the commercial atmosphere of Ziling.

Xiang Zhuang knew very well that if Chu wanted to digest Bashu, it was inseparable from the strong support of these Bashu tyrants.

If you want to get the strong support of the powerful Bashu, you must strengthen the commercial connection between Jiangdong and Bashu. Then, the dozens of Bashu tyrants led by Mrs. Qin and the Tang family will be the bridge between Jiangdong and Bashu.

Walking among the bustling crowds, feeling the hustle and bustle of peddlers, looking up at the wine houses, chess houses, restaurants and even prostitutes on the street, Tang Tong and more than a dozen Bashu tyrants felt that they had entered heaven, and their eyes were not enough to see them. There was no need to say that this Ziling City was really too prosperous and too lively.

However, Mrs. Qin, who is tall and graceful, also attracted a lot of attention.

When passing by a winery, more than a dozen big-headed soldiers who were drinking inside suddenly danced and whistled to Mrs. Qin and her party passing by the window. Several bold words were even spoken in their mouths, but Mrs. Qin was not angry, and even threw her charming eyes at the dozen big-headed soldiers, which immediately caused a lot of cheers.

A big-headed soldier actually chased out of the wine, and wanted to come forward to touch Mrs. Qin's pretty face, but was kicked by Mrs. Qin. The big-headed soldier in the wine and the pedestrians on the street burst into laughter. Mrs. Qin patted her hands and said in a charming voice: "I want to hit me, you are not strong enough, boy."

The big head soldier was so embarrassed that his face turned red, and he ran away like a silence with his head down.

After a storm, Mrs. Qin and her party continued to lie forward. After walking less than two streets, several groups of drunk Chu soldiers were successively drunk. Mrs. Qin and Tang Tong had the most keen sense of business. The two had already smelled a strong business opportunity. Tang Tong turned his head and said to Mrs. Qin, "Madam, have you discovered it?"

"Discovered." Mrs. Qin nodded and said, "The most important thing the Chu soldiers did after winning the battle was to drink and drink wildly! Most of the bounties they received were to enter the wine house. I heard that the white wine in Ziling City had already been sold out, and even the newly brewed water wine was almost in short supply."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Qin's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up. She thought of an excellent way to make money, which is to set up a winemaking workshop in Bashu, brew a large amount of liquor, and then transport it to Ziling for sale! The liquor is expensive, and a jar of ten kilograms of liquor can be sold for two gold coins in Ziling, while Bashu is a large granary, and the grain is cheap!

The process of brewing liquor is a problem, but this is not difficult for Mrs. Qin. She plans to go to the palace tonight to ask the King of Chu for the order and allow her to prepare liquor in Bashu. She still has this confidence. When the Chu army passed through Yiling Road without bloodshed, the King of Chu promised her. Now it is time for the King of Chu to fulfill her promise.

However, what Tang Tong discovered was another business opportunity, that is, the best-selling cotton cloth!

Just now, Tang Tong found at least dozens of big-headed soldiers carrying one or several pieces of cotton under their armpits, and even some small schools hire cars to buy cotton. Obviously, these big-headed soldiers bought cotton for their wives and concubines, or simply planned to use cotton as a betrothal gift to marry and take concubines.

Since cotton was introduced to Jiangdong more than ten years ago, it has become popular because cotton has better warm-keeping performance than linen and silk, and is much cheaper than silk. Now, cotton has long replaced kudzu and hemp and has become the first choice for small-scale families and small peasants in Jiangdong.

When Tang Tong first saw cotton cloth in a shop, he was so stupid. The smoothness and delicateness of cotton cloth were second only to silk, but it was far more warmer than silk. The price of cotton cloth was less than half that of silk. Kaed cloth, linen cloth and cotton cloth were simply slag. There was such cloth in this world? The clothes I had worn for the first half of my life were really useless.

Tang Tong has already understood that the biggest condition for growing cotton is sufficient light!

In Tangtong's hometown in Brazil, there is no other benefit to the major dams, which is that they are full of light all year round and are very suitable for growing cotton. He has already thought about it and bought a few trucks of cotton seeds to try it. Once the trial planting is successful, they will plant in large quantities. In just a few years, their Tang family will become a wealthy man in the entire Ba County and even the entire Sichuan.

The other dozens of Bashu tyrants also had their own discoveries, and some even had the idea of ​​prostitutes.

At this moment, almost all the powerful people of Bashu were glad that they had the right choice. If Bashu was still under the rule of the Han Dynasty, how could they have the chance to show their skills?

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