One kick to the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 438
Referring to the organization and operation form of Huangshiya Iron Mine, Qin Yi also changed the Hedong Salt Field into a joint-stock operation.Among them, the government holds [-]% of the shares and is responsible for providing technical support for the saltworks, supervising the saltworks, and providing security protection; Haoqiang of Hedong County holds [-]% of the shares and is responsible for the specific operation and management of the saltworks.

Qin Yi set up the Salt Affairs Department in Hedong County, which was directly under the Governor's Office of Merger Prefecture.He appointed Li Su as the director of the Salt Affairs Department, but Qin Yi, an official under the Salt Affairs Department, asked Zhang Yan and Li Le to recommend them from the Black Mountain Army and the Baibo Army respectively.To put it bluntly, Li Su, the director of the Salt Affairs Department, is only the chief official of the Salt Affairs Department in name. In fact, the specific functions and powers of the Salt Affairs Department are divided by officials recommended by Zhang Yan and Li Le.

The troops responsible for protecting the salt field also consisted of half of the Black Mountain Army and half of the Baibo Army, forming a guard of about 600 people.

Qin Yi divided the government's [-]% share into three shares, the Governor's Mansion took [-]%, and the Black Mountain Army and Baibo Army each took [-]%.

Anyi County was brought down by Qin Yi, and the technology of the saltworks was also provided by Qin Yi, and it was only natural that the governor's office of Bingzhou took up [-]% of the shares. Neither Zhang Yan nor Li Le had any objections to this.

It took nearly half a month for Qin Yi to complete the reorganization of Anyi Salt Field.The organizational structure has been established, and the rules and regulations have been formulated. The next step is to see the specific operation of the saltworks.

Qin Yi is very confident in this. The technology of making refined salt is actually very simple, not as complicated as the new steel-making method. It can be said that as long as Qin Yi hands over the technology of making refined salt, even if he does nothing, the salt farm will The benefit can also immediately reach a big level.

Qin Yi's reorganization of the salt farm is only to establish the ownership of the salt farm and seek greater benefits for himself.Salt and iron are originally operated exclusively by the imperial court, but the imperial court's prestige has been greatly damaged in recent years, which has allowed local tyrants to take advantage of the loopholes. The government has only nominal property rights in both iron mines and salt farms.

After Qin Yi reorganized the Hedong salt field, he established the property rights of the Bingzhou governor's office over the salt field. At the same time, because he provided new salt production technology and salt field management methods, this also allowed the local tycoons who specifically contracted the salt field to make more profits. This It is also the basis for Qin Yi to successfully complete the reorganization of the saltworks.

During this time, Qin Yi also received news from Chang'an.Wang Yun fought several battles with the Xiliang Army, but he failed to resist the attacks of Li Que, Guo Si, and Fan Chou. Finally, after mediation by Liu Xie, Wang Yun reached an agreement with Li Que, Guo Si, and Fan Chou to seal Li Que He was Taiwei, Guo Si was Situ, Fan Chou was Shang Shuling, and he himself was changed to Sikong.

Although Wang Yun is still one of the three princes, in fact, this means that Wang Yun handed over the power of prime minister. From now on, the Chang'an court will be controlled by Li Que and Guo Si.

Qin Yi was very pleased with this result.After all, Wang Yun saved his life and did not die like in the original history.

Qin Yi was afraid that after the war in Chang'an, Li Que and Guo Si would turn around and attack Hedong County. Therefore, even after completing the reorganization of the salt field, he did not dare to rush back to Taiyuan, but stayed in Anyi for more than 20 years. sky.

Probably because Li Que and Guo Si were too busy taking over the government and didn't care about Hedong County at all; maybe only half of the county in Hedong County belonged to the Chang'an court, and Li Que and Guo Si no longer looked down on this half of the county. Anyway, Hedong County has not been attacked by the Xiliang Army.Li Que and Guo Si seemed to have acquiesced to the fact that Hedong County was completely occupied by Qin Yi.

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After everything was settled, Qin Yi asked Li Le to go back to Xihe County first and dispatch officials from the Salt Affairs Department.Zhang Yan also began to move the governorship of Hedong County from Linfen to Anyi.

Everyone else was busy, but Qin Yi didn't have much to do.On this day, he suddenly remembered something and took Liao Hua to Jie County.

Qin Yi went to Xie County to find Guan Yu's family.He remembered that Guan Yu was from Xie County.When he went to Hebei last year, he did not meet Guan Yu's family members.He also specifically asked Guan Yu, and Guan Yu said that he had killed someone in his hometown, and then fled to other places, and only secretly returned to his hometown once in these years.Later, he followed Liu Bei and wandered around, and didn't bother to go home.

After Qin Yi arrived in Xie County, he found Guan Yu's household registration at the Xie County Government Office.He asked the magistrate of Xie County to accompany him to Guan Yu's house.

When he arrived at Guan Yu's home, Qin Yi met Guan Yu's wife and his son Guan Ping.Guan Yu's home is very dilapidated. Although his wife is only in her thirties, she looks more than 40 years old.Guan Ping is only 14 years old this year, but he is already a young man.

As soon as Guan Yu's wife saw that the visitors were all in official uniforms and military uniforms, she immediately said, "My Yun Chang didn't come home."

As soon as Qin Yi heard what Guan Yu's wife said, he knew why his family was so dilapidated.It seems that Guan Yu's status as a fugitive brought a lot of trouble to his wife and son.It must be that the government often used the opportunity to inquire about Guan Yu's whereabouts to harass Guan Yu's wife and son, which made their lives so miserable.

"Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, I'm Qin Yi, governor of Bingzhou. Yun Chang and I are good friends." Qin Yi cupped his hands at Guan Yu's wife and said.

"Really? Where is Yunchang now?" Guan Yu's wife asked immediately.

"Brother Yun is already an official in Yecheng. I came this time to take my wife and son to Yecheng to reunite with Brother Yun."

Upon hearing this, Guan Yu's wife welcomed Qin Yi and others into the yard.Later, she asked Qin Yi about Guan Yu's situation in detail, and only then did she believe what Qin Yi said.

After discussing with Guan Yu's wife, Qin Yi dispatched two hundred soldiers three days later, led by a military marquis, to escort Guan Yu's wife and Guan Ping to leave their hometown and go to Yecheng to reunite with Guan Yu.

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A few days later, Zhang Yan completed the relocation of the administrative office, and Qin Yi no longer planned to stay in Hedong County.In early June, Qin Yi bid farewell to Zhang Yan and led his troops on the return journey.

It was a scorching heat, and the march was very hard. Qin Yi's army avoided the heat, and only took advantage of the cool time in the morning and evening. The marching speed was very slow.By the time he returned to Taiyuan, it was already mid-June.This is the result of Qin Yi leading all the cavalry.

At this time, the summer harvest has long since ended, and all the summer crops have sprouted.After returning to Jinyang, Qin Yi informed Xi Zhicai and the others about the progress of Hedong and his party, and immediately listened to Xi Zhicai's report on Xia Harvest.

Xi Zhicai said that the grain output in Mintun District this year is not high, [-]% lower than that of ordinary farmland.However, the main farming force in Mintun District is the Huns who moved inward. They have never been engaged in farmland farming before, and they have to learn everything. Being able to grow and harvest food is already a great achievement.

If Qin Yi hadn't dispatched new farm tools from Shangdang County, as well as some farmers who had mastered the use of new farm tools and new farming techniques to teach the Huns to grow crops, the grain output in Mintun District would have been much lower.

Qin Yi was very pleased to be able to achieve this result.This also shows that his plan of relocating the Huns to farmland is correct.

Compared with the planting results of the Huns, the grain yield harvested by the Han people outside the pass was much higher.According to the report of the Southern Xiongnu Governor's Office, the Han people who were liberated by Qin Yi from the various tribes of the Southern Xiongnu opened up nearly [-] mu of arable land outside the pass, and the grain output was only slightly lower than that of the farmland inside the pass.

The grain output of the newly reclaimed land is not as good as that of the land that has been planted for many years. This result is also expected.

If it weren't for the fact that the Han people outside the pass had enough livestock manure to use, the newly reclaimed land outside the pass would not have produced so much grain.

Although the grain output outside the customs is low, it is basically enough to support the Han people outside the customs and the people of the Southern Huns' capital, and there is only a small gap.

In the past few months, the transactions in the border market have also been carried out in full swing, especially after the harvest of summer grain, the border market has ushered in the largest transaction scale. He used the food he purchased from Pride and Power to exchange for a thousand war horses from the Huns.

The business in the border market is booming, and the taxes collected by the Shiyi Division are also very considerable.

On the second day after returning to Jinyang, Qin Yi visited Qubei, and invited Qubei to go with him, and went to Mintun District for inspection.

The Huns in Mintun District originally complained about moving inward to live in the Guan, but after the harvest of summer grain, they experienced the joy of planting with their own eyes, eating the grain they had grown, and their previous dissatisfaction disappeared.Instead, it is yearning for a new life.

Qin Yi comforted the Huns and Han people in various villages, encouraging them to help each other, learn from each other, and create a new home together.Qu Bei also imitated Qin Yi's appearance and said some scene words.

When Qin Yi and Qubei inspected a village in Yu County, they happened to meet a family of Han people who were getting married.After inquiring, Qin Yi was surprised that the son of the Han people married a Hun woman.

Turning his eyes, Qin Yi thought about it, and immediately ordered Liao Hua, who was accompanying him, to take out [-] baht and hand it over to the owner of the house as a congratulatory gift.

Then, he said something about the Han and Hungarian family, and he was in favor of intermarriage between Han and Hungarians.Because this Han family married a Xiongnu woman, they thought they would lose face, but after being tricked by Qin Yi, they suddenly felt that their face was greatly improved, and the neighbors were also jealous of this family.It is enough for them to brag about it for several lifetimes that they can get a state governor to send a congratulatory gift.

After finishing his inspection of Mintun District, on the way back to Jinyang, Qubei was full of worries and frowned.

"Chanyu, what's wrong with you? During the inspection, Qin saw you smiling all the time. Why are you so depressed now?"

Qin Yi asked Qu Bei as he rode forward.

Qubei looked up at the sky and sighed: "Qin Shijun, I can see that according to the current situation, in a few years, all of us Huns will become Han people."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Qin Yi and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I didn't realize until today that the "Yanmen Treaty" signed last year was actually a treaty that would allow our Huns to perish. The treaty. The envoy's move is to kill people with a soft knife, which is better than countless battles. Without a single soldier, invisibly, we exterminated our Huns."

Speaking of this, Qubei actually had tears in his eyes.

Qin Yi smiled slightly: "Shan Yu, Qin does not agree with your so-called extermination of the clan. It is possible to exterminate the clan, but it will never be exterminated. On the contrary, as long as you Huns strictly abide by the "Yanmen Treaty", not only will you not exterminate the species , can reproduce more and more, life is getting better and better."

Qu Bei remained silent, just wiping away tears.

Qin Yi looked ahead and said to himself: "Whether it is the Han people or the Huns, everyone has the right to pursue a better life. If Qin can bring a better life to the Huns, they will naturally support it." Qin. Qin is an ordinary person, and I don’t have much pursuit, but I can do as much as I have ability. Qin’s ideal is to let people of all ethnic groups live in peace and work together for a better life. Is this also wrong? "

Qu Bei was silent for a while, then sighed and said: "I admit that Qin Shijun's realm is several chips higher than mine. Anyway, I am just a puppet now, let you make troubles!"

After speaking, he hurried forward and walked forward.

Qin Yi stared at Qu Bei Zong's back for a while, with a playful smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)