After leaving the Heifu Mansion, Ba Zhong couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"I never thought that it would be tempted by millions of huge profits, but it still didn't work."

Just now, Ba Zhong proposed that Heifu share the method of making brown sugar with Ba Shi, plant sugarcane in Shuzhong, extract sugar and sell it in all directions, and the profits will be divided in half.

This is a temptation that ordinary people can never refuse, the king of a thousand times, the prince of ten thousand families, the king of a hundred rooms, is still poor, and people's desire for money is never enough.

But after thinking for a while, Heifu personally poured two glasses of water, one was a faint boiled water, and the other was a sweet honey water, and sent them to Ba Zhong's case.

"I don't know if Brother Ba has ever discovered that honey is indeed sweet and delicious when it enters the water, but if you drink too much, you will get tired easily."

"White water, on the other hand, is bland, but it can be drunk every day, and it is not boring to die."

"Therefore, the ancients said that the friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, and the friendship of villains is sweet (lǐ); The gentleman is indifferent, and the villain is willing to be rejected. If friends are simply in harmony with each other, they will abandon each other when they encounter poverty and calamity. Those who travel by nature can tolerate each other in the face of poverty and evil. ”

"Three years ago, I crossed the same boat with my brother, ate salt from the same earthen pot, was trapped in the lonely city of Yidao, and ventured to Wuluo Zhongli Mountain. Therefore, Heifu hopes that between you and me, there can be more sincerity and less entanglement of interests! It's still a gentleman's friendship as light as water! ”

Heifu's attitude was resolute, Ba Zhong was a little disappointed, and thought that Heifu was stingy and unwilling to share, and suddenly there was a sense of shame that his hot face was pasted on his cold ass, but unexpectedly, Heifu said again:

"But then again, the world is so big, and there are so many living beings, how can one person take advantage of it?"

"The method of making brown sugar, since the monarch wants to get it, how can I hide my secrets? I'll write back now and ask the Anlu Sugar Mill to send a craftsman to Ba County to pass on this method to Ba Shire. ”

"Bashi can grow sugarcane in a suitable place in Shu, boil sugar and sell it, and the profits obtained do not have to be divided with me, it should be my birthday gift to my mother!"

The turning point came too quickly, Ba Zhong didn't expect it, and couldn't help but be stunned in place.

He has been in business for ten years, but he knows that the bustle of the world is for profit, the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the people of the world are running for their own interests.

But like Heifu, who pushes away the fat that comes to his mouth and threatens to share trade secrets without concealment, there is no other!

Is it true that as he said, money is something outside the body, and only friendship is valued?

He made only one request.

"The sugar of Bashu is not allowed to leave Bashu, the three counties of Dongting!"

Thinking back to what happened just now, Ba Zhong sighed, shook his head and sighed.

"Heifu, Heifu, I never thought that you would be so generous and so careful!"

Although it seems that their family got what they wanted without paying any price, only Ba Zhong himself understands the joys and hardships.

He drank sweet sugar water, but his mouth was bitter, because he didn't get what he really wanted.

Although Ba Shi seems to be honored, in fact, in the context of the emperor's emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business, he is still a despised merchant and a barbarian discriminated against by the Guanzhong people. It's one thing to be dominant in Ba County, but when you arrive in Xianyang, you have to shrink your head and be a man.

Coupled with the burning of his eyebrows, Ba Shi urgently needs to become friends with the close ministers of the Son of Heaven, so that he can say a word for his family in times of crisis.

But Hefu pushed the huge profits, and let Ba Shi owe him a big favor first.

"Either way."

Ba Zhong could only say to himself helplessly: "Anyway, no matter how I struggle, there is no way to change that matter, since I can't reach a villain friendship, then I can only try my best to maintain this 'light as water' friendship!" ”

……

"Zuo Shuchang, why do you want to teach the method of sugar making to the Ba people in vain!"

Hiko had already woken up, but Heifu told him not to show up, and only stayed indoors, and listened to the general idea. As soon as Ba Zhong left, Yan came out, and thinking of the profits that Heifu had pushed away, this small Anlu trader who suddenly became rich was so distressed that he stomped his feet.

"According to him, the annual profit is not less than one million, which is much more cost-effective than Zuo Shuchang asking people to go to Nanchang to plant sugarcane!"

Heifu touched his chin and thought about the problem, and asked him rhetorically: "Cousin, let me ask you, how much money can Ba Shi earn a year from dansha, well salt, and servants?" ”

Yan was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "People in the world often speculate, and they all think that the annual profit is not less than tens of millions. ”

"However, in this case, the profit of brown sugar is only a drop in the bucket, how can Ba Widow Qing be eye-catching?"

Yan was puzzled: "Didn't Zuo Shuchang say that brown sugar may be able to be compared with salt, iron, grain, etc., in the future, and become a bulk trade?" ”

"That was a long time later, even if it was a long-term vision of the mother and son of the Ba widow, and wanted to occupy a corner of the brown sugar market in advance, just contact me slowly, why be so impatient? Ba Zhong's proposal is not to sell brown sugar at all, but to change the way to send me money and bribe! ”

Ba Zhong seems to be hiding something, and behaves anxiously, since Yan got into a lawsuit, he has always wanted to help, so that Heifu owes him family favors, and seems to have other plans.

Heff would rather not want the patent money than get involved in something he can't grasp.

Yan still couldn't figure it out: "Didn't Zuo Shuchang still negotiate with Wu Shiyan and sell him 2,000 catties of brown sugar next year?" What is the difference between Uzl and Pasteur? ”

Of course, it is different, the Wu clan is in Guanzhong, and every move is under the control of the government, it is an official merchant licensed by Qin Shi Huang, and Heifu wholesales brown sugar to them and sells it abroad in exchange for livestock, which is equivalent to contributing to the country.

Ba Shi is different, he still earns money for his own family, is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and his influence is getting bigger and bigger. According to Heifu's understanding of the emperor, he would not tolerate such a rich and rival large industrial and commercial owner in the border county for a long time, and the good days of the Ba clan may soon come to an end.

"Besides, can one person take all the benefits of the world? Don't be too greedy, think long-term in business. ”

Hefu didn't feel that he was at a loss: "What seems to be profitable, maybe tomorrow will cost me." And I seem to be at a loss, but after a few years, ten years, I will make a steady profit! ”

Growing sugarcane for a year, making brown sugar for a year, and when Pasteur finishes these and really starts to make a profit, maybe Heifu will even make white sugar rock sugar. At that time, the sugarcane and brown sugar produced in Shu County not only did not constitute competition, but became a steady stream of materials for Heifu's optimized products, and could cultivate the habit of eating sugar in Bashu people, so why not?

Thinking of this, Heifu couldn't help but yawn, and this matter ended here, he asked Hiko to return to Nanshi quickly, and asked Sangmu to close the door......

What they didn't know was that from the afternoon when Wu Shiyan took Mai and Shi Ershi to visit, to Ba Zhong leaving here with regret on his face, and then to Yan rushing to Nanshi, throughout the whole process, someone has been secretly spying on Heifu's portal!

……

In the early morning of the next day, in the Zhangtai Palace, the emperor, who got up early to work, quietly listened to the recent situation and behavior of Ba Zhong, the son of Ba widow Qing, reported by the "pedestrians" under the pawn, and only said three words lightly.

"I know."

Next, the emperor asked Zhao Gao, who was waiting outside and was also listening to the emperor's attitude, to enter and ask him to draft the edict on his behalf.

"When he was filial piety, Shang Jun had the method of "Lai Min", and when King Zhao, Fan Ju had the technique of "attacking people". These are all immigrants to Qin, and Guanzhong is also strong. ”

"Today's next has been set in one, but Guanzhong, Bashu people are lacking, the garden of the forest, vast hundreds of miles, but the acres of land are less than 12, and the number of fields is less than 100,000. In the land of Bashu, the materials and treasures of Xuze, famous mountains and rivers cannot be used all. ”

"And the counties of Shandong, the soil is narrow and the people, the rich are even strange, the poor have no place to stand, and the merchants are treacherous and treacherous, so the land is not enough to give birth to its people!"

"Today, the widow wants to damage its surplus and follow its insufficiency, so that Shandong is rich and 120,000 households, migrating to Xianyang, Guanzhong, and Bashu! In this way, the land of Shandong Qianshou can also be filled with Guanzhong Bashu, strong and weak branches and leaves, respect and humility, and everything has its place! ”

This is the great migration that the emperor has been planning for a long time in his heart, as the edict said, moving the rich families of the hometown of the Six Kingdoms to the capital, and monitoring them with the Qin people, can not only reduce the resistance of the Six Kingdoms, but also develop the vast and sparsely populated Bashu, which is a clever move for the strong and weak branches!

120,000 families who were selected as wealthy families, and 600,000 remnants of the Six Kingdoms, were about to leave their homeland and come to a strange land after the emperor's edict was issued, losing the wealth and social relations of the past ten or dozens of generations, and everything began again......

But it was not only the people of the Six Nations who were forcibly relocated.

Zhao Gao noticed that on the long list, the name of Bajun Bashi suddenly appeared.

"The widow of Ba County, Qing mother and son, moved to Xianyang to live!"

Although the emperor praised the widow Qing and made her a virgin, the widow Qing also reciprocated and contributed a lot of money to help the emperor complete the cause of unification, but it did not prevent him from doing anything to this family.

At this moment, the emperor no longer needed to rely on Ba Shi to stabilize Bazhong. In his opinion, Ba County, which does not have a widow Qing, is more convenient for the court to rule than Ba County, which has a widow Qing!

"What a pity!"

After being ordered to draft the edict and walking out of the emperor's bedroom, Zhao Gao put his hands behind his back and looked at Zhonglang Hu Linghefu, who still knew nothing about this matter and stood straight outside the hall, and said secretly:

"Just one step away, you will disobey the emperor's heart!"