White, the baby's eyes are a crystal white snow.

There is no snow in Saibei, Helan Mountain is bitterly cold, and it falls intermittently after October every year, and it does not melt until the next day when spring is very long.

During the years in Biansai, he experienced countless snowy days, the most dangerous one was to follow the Liangjiazi to ride to pursue the Huns who spied into the fortress, out of the Great Wall for more than 100 miles, the sky was heavy snow, and he almost did not return.

The most recent one was last year, protecting the regent's eldest son, Po Lu, who was hiding in the vast border of Tibet, and the heavy snow covered their tracks, and also put a group of exiles in trouble.

After so many years of dealing with snow, it can be said that he has a lot of experience, and what to pay attention to when marching in the snow can be thought of in an instant.

But the temperature was cold at the moment, but it was far from snowing, and a large patch of white flowers appeared in front of him, like snow rather than snow, and his mount even licked it happily......

The spear in his hand stabbed deeply, hard to the touch, and after pulling it out, he brought the tip of the spear to his mouth, and there was a deep blood groove on it, scratches left by countless scrapes of hard bones, dried blood of enemies, and white particles......

After he licked one, it was bitter and salty.

"Salt."

Guan Ying told the more than 3,000 cavalry behind him: "It's the solution to the pool!" ”

The lake area in front of them is the famous Jiechi.

This is the salt pond with the longest history in the Central Plains, in the place of deep water, surrounded by reed wetlands, waterfowl and migratory birds gather, and there are thousands of acres of silver, vast and vast. In the dry place, the brine salt in the water is condensed and precipitated, and the shape of the salt flower is crystal clear, with thousands of shapes, and finally it is cemented into a salt pile, one after another, which looks like a snow-capped mountain from afar.

The two infants brought from Saibei, the five hundred lord Zhou Bo and the military judge were still arguing about a very stupid question:

"The flower horse pond is bigger."

"No, it's the solution pool that is bigger."

The two of them are honest people on weekdays, and they don't say much, but today they quarrel over which salt pond is bigger, and in the end, the military judge pointed to the map obtained from the "Feather Wing Battalion" and pointed to Xie Chi and said:

"This pond is more than 50 miles long, six or seven miles wide, and 100 miles in circumference, and Huama Pond, all the ponds add up to 10,000 acres in size!"

This salt pond is thousands of years, the starting point of the salt trade in the entire Central Plains, before the prosperity of sea salt and well salt, this is almost the largest and most convenient source, Tang Yao, the reason why the Xia Dynasty built the capital in Hedong, is probably to take salt nearby, after all, salt and grain are just needed, not to eat will get sick and weak.

Because of the high winds and strong sunshine in the pond, the salts are always precipitated every year, and all the locals need to do is break them into pieces and put them in sacks......

During the Qin Dynasty, a big salt official was also set up here, but at present, the salt mining point occupied by them is only empty with some abandoned tools.

"The soldiers are in chaos, do you think the salt workers have dispersed?"

Guan Ying didn't care, as a force at the forefront of Han Xin's army after crossing the river, they just passed by Jiechi, the real purpose was to cut off the road from Anyi to Puban and Longmen, Han Xin wanted to use superior forces to eat the 30,000 troops of the Zhao and Wei coalition forces in two places in one go!

"This battle is not about attacking the ground, but about attacking people!"

But the cavalry thought simply, when they followed the Jiechi, came to Yishi County on the main road, only to find that the thousands of salt workers in the Quanjiechi were concentrated here, this group of people worked all year round, their skin was tanned, like black worker ants on the snow, and they were also holding weapons, not chopping wood for soldiers and unveiling poles for flags, but arsenal-shaped ......

Guan Ying also thought that they were accomplices of the Wei army, but this group of people was very happy to see the arrival of the Qin cavalry, and they also waved the Qin flag.

The baby was still cautious, but the other party immediately sent someone to negotiate, it was an old man wearing Confucian clothes and a side note crown on his head, and he showed his identity as soon as he came: the head of the wanderers of the feather wing battalion, Li Shiqi.

"I was ordered by the regent to cross the river and return to Hedong a month ago, and I have been waiting here for a long time."

Li Shiqi pointed to the thousands of salt workers behind him, as well as a man who came out and bowed down to Guan Ying and said with a smile:

"The head of the Yi family had no choice but to form a salt worker to defend himself because of the group of thieves, and now he has killed the cronies sent by Zhang Er to monitor, and he is willing to return to the Duke of Xia!"

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"This is not the first choice that the Yi clan has made."

The next day, when the well-fed Guan Ying and his cavalry left to attack the next county, Yiping stood on the city wall and sighed.

His ancestor was a native of the late Spring and Autumn Period, named Yidun. Yi Dun was originally a native of Lu, and when his livelihood was difficult, he heard the news that Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li gave up his official business and became rich quickly, so he "asked for skills". Fan Li told him that "if the son wants to get rich quickly, he should be a female animal."

So Yidun traveled thousands of miles to Xihe, big cattle and sheep, and later came to Hedong to start a jewelry business, and finally after completing the primitive accumulation, he made a big deal with the rising Jinqing Wei family at that time - Yidun handed over a huge amount of money every year, contracted a corner of the pond, and obtained the right to mine salt.

He asked people to dig ditches, improved them, and led the brine from the depths of the water to a shallow place, accelerated the precipitation, and doubled the salt obtained every year, and then relied on the trade network accumulated over the years of business to sell the salt to Qin, Zhao, Han, Chengzhou, and even Chu.

So within ten years, the Yi family became as famous as Tao Zhugong, and his descendants also took root here, and for generations they controlled the majority of the world's salt trade, and even the county seat near the salt pond that flourished because of the salt trade was named after their family.

Ten generations have passed, this kind of contracting system came to an end seventy years ago, after the Qin State finally occupied Anyi, although the Yi clan had a good relationship with Qin decades in advance, and even invested in the return of Qin Xiangong to the country, but the Qin State has practiced the law of business martingale, and will never allow the salt industry to break away from the control of the government, and the salt pond was soon nationalized, and the government sent a salt official to serve as a minister.

But the airborne bureaucrats really couldn't do a good job, and the output in the first few years of the Yanchi reform was extremely low, and finally the Hedong County government had to adopt a compromise approach: the Yi family succeeded the salt officials for generations, so to speak, this family is the ruler behind the local area......

After the death of the first emperor, the turmoil struck again, Zhao Cheng opened and closed the Jinliang, and the six ** teams drove in.

As the head of this generation, Yiping decisively adopted a self-preservation strategy, he sent all the local Qin officials away, and mobilized all walks of life who have been friends with the Yi family for ten generations, issued arsenals of weapons, and armed the salt workers.

In the end, under the persuasion of Li Shiqi's strategist, Zhang Er agreed to let Yiping be the local county doctor.

Yiping knew very well that this situation could not last long, and the Qin army would come back sooner or later...... He didn't do anything before, and even tried to protect the local Qin officials, it is based on this view that Yiping has been looking for the next opportunity to change camps, which coincides with Li Shiqi......

"Mr. Li, what kind of person is Xia Gong?"

Li Shiqi was also leaving, going to the next lobbying location, Yiping asked: "I heard that when the Duke of Xia was the county punctual in Jiaodong, he had greatly promoted the merchants, so that the thirteen merchants in Qidi ran their own business, and the government organized a trading company to govern and collect taxes. ”

Yiping has been famous for Heifu for a long time, and since the future of Hedong will be decided by Xia Gong, the fate of his family in the future has also come to a fork in the road......

Therefore, it is very important whether this Xia Gong's policy is biased towards Shang Yang or Guan Zhong.

Li Shiqi stroked his beard and said, "Xia Gong, he is a hero who does great things. ”

"How so?"

"Outsiders often say that he is not like Qin Shi Huang, broad-minded, not specialized in law, but absorbing the strengths of others, and even able to give Confucian real power, it seems that he wants to do the politics of a saint, but after a detailed discussion with him, he found that he is the kind of sage who is discerning and insists on the world......

Heifu's refusal to feudalism disappointed Li Shiqi, but he was still running - the ideals of Confucianism could be put aside, but the ideals of Gaoyang drunkards and the world's greatness had to be realized.

"I'm just a businessman, not like Mr. Li, looking at the world."

Yiping smiled: "My eyes are only at my feet, this hundred miles of land......"

"The south wind is three scents, which can relieve the warmth of our people! When the south wind blows, you can fufu the wealth of our people! ”

He grew up eating the salt of the Jiechi, he loved the land, and he knew where the foundation of his prosperity came from.

"After Hedong is pacified, I hope that Mr. Li can recommend the villain, so that I can meet the regent, and the villain does not ask for much......"

He stretched out his little thumb and said with a smile: "I just want to be like the ancestors, and contract this small pond in this county." ”

……

At this moment, in Pusaka, more than 100 miles west of Yishi County, a one-sided slaughter war has come to an end.

As the county guard of Hedong, he was a step late, he stood on the chariot and came to a messy battlefield, where there were corpses of Wei soldiers with missing heads, and from his position, he could also see the Jingguan high on the riverbank, and the Xihe division who was laughing and scolding with blood on everyone's hands, frowned.

"Rui Cheng beheaded eight thousand, and almost no one escaped."

"Kasaka beheaded 15,000 and left not a single prisoner......"

And the one who killed the Wei people at the forefront was undoubtedly the division of Xihe under Dong Peng, as the commander Han Xin had a laissez-faire attitude towards this approach, because this point was determined by the regency - this battle was mainly to attack people!

Xihe was happy, but in Quji's view, this was just a turn of hatred, back to the original starting point.

But he muttered: "But it can't be done again, Wu Anjun beheaded the world, and indeed destroyed the power of the six countries, but it also accumulated the resentment of the world for Qin, and the six countries are all enemies." ”

"And now the regent has set the name for the three armies, and what he pursues is to set one, not the revenge of the Xihe people against the six countries, and then let the other generation kill them like this, is it to force the soldiers of the six countries to stand opposite our army and fight to the death?"

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PS: The system is stuck, and I didn't send a repeat???