Chapter 170: There is a great horror in birth, old age, sickness and death

Gao Jie, the paperwork of the cloud scroll arrived in Yushan City on the third day after the expedited delivery of the eight hundred miles.

The reason for their first-level mobilization is simple - to do it all in one battle.

Gao Jie said in the document that the march in the grassland desert was too difficult, and it was already good for an army with heavy weapons to be able to walk 30 miles a day.

They had to trek for two months to get to their current territory, and if this battle did not inflict heavy losses on Jiannu, and when his army returned to Lantian City, the Jiannu cavalry would be able to return here, then all the results of this march would be in vain.

Gao Jie also said that only once they would Jiannu, beaten to death, and beaten painfully, they could have a longer memory and dare not easily set foot in my blue field boundary.

It's not just as simple as facing Jiannu.

The further east, the closer the Mongols here became to Jiannu, and there was almost no possibility of restraint.

Therefore, it is very important to clear a vast no-man's land here and declare the presence of Lantian in order to control the region.

At the same time, he found that the land here is very suitable for farming, the water network is everywhere, and the land is black and oily, which is better than the Tianzihao field in Guanzhong, and there are as many as 560,000 mu.

So, along with the paperwork, he also sent a piece of black clay.

He also hoped that Yushan Academy would be able to send agricultural experts to the battlefield as soon as possible to survey the land here, and if it was really good farmland, he would be ready to establish a large farm here with Zhang Guozhu.

After reading the various reasons that Gao Jie said in the document, Yun Zhao was immediately relieved.

For an army composed of pure farmers, even when they are fighting, they still think about the few acres of land at home.

Now, seeing a large area of black land that can be used to extract oil, for them, this is a real treasure, and it is a priceless treasure.

This mentality of theirs is easy to understand.

In the case of the extremely tight land in Guanzhong, wherever crops can be grown, the people of Guanzhong basically do not waste it, even if the land is in the high mountains or other difficult places.

The black earth on the plains—

"Tell Gao Jie, let him shut his foul mouth, what is 600,000 acres of black land, after we clean up Jiannu, the black soil there is more than 100 times larger than the black land he found.

I now want him to quickly engage Jiannu, and after repelling Yue Tuo, he will go home, the roads on the grassland are not smooth, the march is difficult, and the supplies cannot keep up, this cannot be changed, and it is not a good choice to fight Jiannu here.

After we take Shanhaiguan, it will be the time for him to lead a large army to fight a decisive battle with Jiannu. ”

After Yun Zhao gave a new order to Liucheng, Liucheng formed a document again and sent an eight-hundred-mile expedited.

Lantian City's first-level combat readiness is naturally going to be canceled, Gao Jie, a loser, now has enabled the first-level combat readiness, and the accumulation of Lantian City over the years will be exhausted by his battle, completely draining Lantian City's war potential.

This is extremely unfavorable for the army to set out from Lantian City in the future, sweep Datong, Xuanfu, and even the capital.

Yun Zhao hated it when others were talking to him about the geographical discoveries of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that he's arrogant, it's that the earth-shattering geographical discoveries discovered by these people are nothing more than the most ordinary common sense for him.

The black soil of the Northeast?

Yun Zhao has not only been there, seen it, but also eaten the high-quality rice produced there for many years, where not only rice is produced, but also coal and oil, knowing so much, is Yun Zhao proud?

Tell him about the black land, where did Gao Jie get his qualifications?

As a person in a higher position, in fact, he does not attach so much importance to the national opinion, and if he values it, it must be for other purposes, not for a purely racial concept.

All people are composed of two legs, hands and a head, and there is not much difference in appearance, the only difference is in the contents of the head.

Therefore, killing is the second, and the heart is punished.

Of course, if you don't have patience, then it's best to do the murderous thing together to save trouble.

Yun Zhao's merchant conference was held very quickly, mainly because the pig was about to go to Lantian City, so before the number of people could be gathered, Yun Zhao's conference was held in Yushan City in a hurry.

The meeting was actually very simple, everyone got together, Yun Zhao read out the decision of Lantian County, and then sent it to all the businessmen attending the meeting to draw up the details.

The details were quickly drawn up within two days, and Yun Zhao and the others read it and felt that there was no major fallacy, so they read it out again at the meeting, and a new bill was formed.

However, the definition of private property is already a major problem, and the main controversy is what constitutes private property and how the law should guarantee it.

and the question of the inheritance of private property, whether or not to collect taxes, these priorities are all left for discussion at the next merchants' meeting.

Therefore, this conference only clarified one theme - businessmen have private property! It needs to be protected by the law.

He believed that the law needed to be perfected little by little, and that it was not the spirit of the law overnight.

After the end of the meeting, the secretarial group of the Conference was not disbanded.

The businessmen who participated in the meeting naturally formed a group, and they had the right to send the results of their discussions to the secretary group for the record, and the secretary group must be questioned by the businessmen at any time.

At the same time, the secretarial team also has the power to ask the businessmen to experiment with these suggestions on themselves to see if they are representative.

Yun Zhao believed that this kind of discussion would continue for a long time to come, and eventually become a game between the government and the merchants.

In short, the status of the merchants in Guanzhong has been significantly improved after this conference.

The first of them: All the people of Lantian County have the right to do business legally, and the Ming Dynasty's regulations prohibiting the people from leaving their hometowns to do business were abolished, and these traveling merchants were no longer treated as prisoners.

The second rule, allowing merchants to wear silk yarn and silk cloth, is the first time that the official answer that they have been explicitly told that they can wear silk yarn and silk cloth, although few people follow it now.

Third, merchants with conditions are encouraged to participate in overseas trade, and of course, they must pay no less taxes.

Article 4: All the representatives of these businessmen who come to attend the meeting are official stores, and they have the right to convene the businessmen of the bank to invest in the government-run business, including tea, salt, iron, medical halls, pharmacies, water conservancy, bridges, and other industries.

Do not participate in the operation, but can share dividends from it.

Article 4 is actually the most important, in the case that it is not possible to determine that the property of the merchant is private property, the investment in the government is undoubtedly the private property that has been clearly defined.

It is also because of their participation in this meeting hosted by the highest official in Lantian that these businessmen consider themselves leaders in the industry, and while Yunzhao gives them these glorious conveniences, they also have the obligation to urge the merchants in the industry to pay taxes in full.

In view of Lantian County's past of talking about things, businessmen were extremely interested in investing in those government-run economic activities, especially tea, salt, and iron.

Compared with the price of salt in the whole world, the price of salt in Lantian County is the lowest, and there is no sea salt here, but all salt collected from Qinghai Salt Lake.

The salt here is called green salt, which is translucent and free of impurities, and is the best table salt in the world.

The salt pond there was originally controlled by the Tibetans and Mongols, and in order to recapture the salt road, Yunhu once personally walked through Qinghai...... Then, that year, he brought back countless lumps of salt, and the caravans never encountered any hindrance.

The salt is in the natural salt pond, and the crystallized salt pieces are cut into pieces with a knife, and they can be sold on the back of a camel and brought back to Guanzhong, which is all the cost of producing salt in Lantian County.

Therefore, Lantian County can supply salt to the people of Guanzhong at a very low price.

In order not to make the merchants profitable, just like buying grain, the people need to take the household registration book to the salt warehouse to buy salt, and it should not exceed five catties at a time.

The low price and large quantity of table salt soon gave rise to many industries, the most important of which was salted food.

As a result, pickled pork, salted mutton, beef, salted vegetables, and salted fish have become the most popular goods trafficked from Guanzhong to Shuzhong and even Yunnan and Guizhou.

The salt pond in Qinghai, Yun Zhao also knows, according to his previous memory, the salt there is enough for the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat for a thousand years.

Since it was enough to eat for a thousand years, Yun Zhao was ready to carry out predatory exploitation of the salt ponds there, anyway, if the salt was dug up, after the lake flooded, there would be countless salts left.

Therefore, he decided to absorb the capital of the common people and build a large road from the silver factory to Yanchi, so as to prepare for the future entry of the army into Wusizang.

It takes a lot of money...... Yun Zhao couldn't take it out for a while.

The same is true for tea.

Although Guanzhong is not the largest tea producing area, it needs money to develop Hanzhong, which is the traditional production area of tea, and Yun Zhao is also ready to call on the people of Hanzhong to cultivate more tea trees in addition to cultivation - unfortunately, he still has no money.

The sale of tea has never been a thing, whether it is the Tibetans, the Mongols, or the people of the Western Regions, their thirst for tea is almost endless.

Therefore, Yun Zhao also took out the tea and let the businessmen participate in the shares.

As for iron, there is no shortage in Lantian County - one hundred and ten large chimneys emit poisonous gas into the sky day and night, and the amount of steel produced almost accounts for more than seventy percent of the iron production of the Ming Dynasty.

The problem is that these steel mills are like giant beasts that have devoured countless iron ores, and now they are still hungry, and Yun Zhao needs to build a road to the iron ore mines in Qilian Mountain - he has no money.

If the steel in Lantian County is dumped at a low price, it is not polite to say that the iron factories in the rest of Daming will be closed, which is also what Yun Zhao likes to see.

As for the medical hall and the medicine hall, Yun Zhao doesn't think that these two things can be left to the people to prepare for themselves, there are too many things attached to these two, and private individuals can't and shouldn't bear them.

In the future, the main objects of the "Health Management Regulations" that Yunzhao will do are medical centers and pharmacies.

In other words, the government should control the people's life, old age, sickness, and death!

And you can't take advantage of these trades.

Of course, this is a national policy that Yun Zhao must implement in the future.

This is not a great cause that he can accomplish alone, at least, he is ready to start fighting for this goal from himself.