Peach Fortune Ring

Jiang Kui's return made Song Yan very happy, and rewarded the entire caravan.

What made him even more excited was that the merchants who accompanied him all needed to buy paper.

To this end, Song Yan personally interviewed these merchants, and sold 200 million sheets of plain white paper and 2200 sheets of inkstone paper to each merchant, for a total of 110 million sheets of plain white paper and [-] million sheets of inkstone paper.

The income reached 300 million yuan.

However, after satisfying these merchants, Song Yan made a request that if he wanted to trade next time, he would have to exchange for grain, and each liter of corn could be exchanged for five sheets of plain white paper.

After the sales of paper opened up in Chu State, Song Yan ordered Jiang Kui to take the caravan to Qin State, and at the same time arranged two other caravans to Yan State and Zhao State.

After the caravan set off, Song Yan further expanded the paper mill, because the current paper mill can only support the sales in Chu, and if the sales in Yan and Zhao are opened, the output will not be able to keep up with the sales.

Chapter 282 Immortal Brewing

The city lord's mansion, the meeting hall.

The high-level meeting of Qi State was held again.

Compared with the first high-level meeting, some newcomers were added this time. First, Gu Min joined with [-] soldiers, followed by Hetai, the governor of Yi'an County, and General Yexian, who was guarding the city. Fan Gongsun Shouxin, the governor of the county, and Miao Peng, the general who guards the city.

After Song Yan looked around at everyone, he said loudly: "Today, we have gathered everyone to announce two things. However, before announcing those two things, I want to inform everyone of a good news, that is, the paper produced by us is in the market. The state of Chu has caused a huge stir, and so far we have received 3700 million dollars just for the paper."

Hearing the figure of 3700 million yuan, Gu Min, Meng Bozhao and others didn't feel anything, but Song Xiu, Shen Du, Hetai and others who were in charge of internal affairs were extremely shocked.

You know, the annual tax revenue of a middle county is only about 1000 million yuan.

3700 million yuan is already comparable to the annual tax revenue of the three counties.

Song Yan continued: "At present, the paper mill is expanding rapidly, but the guard work must be done well. After all, money is touching. Who knows if other countries will send people to steal our papermaking technology." Speaking of this, Song Yan Looking at Meng Bozhao: "General Meng."

"Subordinates are here."

"From now on, he dispatched [-] troops to watch over the paper mill for me."

"Please don't worry, General, the subordinates must take good care of the paper factory." Meng Bozhao said excitedly. The paper factory is now the chicken that lays golden eggs in Qi State. Song Yan handed over the paper factory to him to take care of him. .

After talking about the paper mill, Song Yan changed his subject: "The first thing I want to announce today is to reduce taxes. From now on, the agricultural tax will be reduced from [-]% to [-]%."

"General, is [-]% too low?" Shen Du reminded.

"It's not low. Over the past few decades, there have been many wars in the mainland of China, and the life of the common people is not easy. As far as I know, more than half of the common people can't even eat enough. They can't even eat enough. Where did they get the energy to work!

Of course, this agricultural tax is not reduced for free. There must be an additional condition. The common people who want to reduce the tax must reclaim three acres of wasteland for the country. If the reclaimed wasteland is willing, the common people can grow it Grain will enjoy tax exemption for three years.

After three years, the tax is [-]%. "

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up. This tax exemption method will definitely greatly increase the enthusiasm of the common people. Then, at the same time, after three years, the country will have an additional million mu of fertile land.

"The general is wise!"

"The general has a vision!"

Everyone quickly flattered.

Song Yan waved his hand and began to talk about the second thing: "Then, the second thing is to build a school, funded by the state, to build a school in each county within the three counties, and anyone who reaches the age of seven can come to the school for free to study three years.

If the grades are excellent, they can enter the prefectural schools of the three counties. Once they pass the examination, they are eligible to serve as local officials. "

There are really too few scholars in this world, and those who can afford to read are the children of powerful families. It can be said that most common people are illiterate.

This is also the reason why Song Yan established the school.

Except for Meng Bozhao and Shendu Songxiu, the others were all enslaved by Song Yan with puppet powers. Naturally, they would not object to his opinion, so the matter of building the school was decided soon.

The general's two orders quickly spread among the civilians in the three counties.

When they learned that as long as three acres of wasteland were excavated, their own good land tax could be reduced to [-]%, everyone went crazy with joy, and they went to the government to register, expressing their willingness to open up wasteland.

While the land reclamation business was booming, the construction of schools was also proceeding in an orderly manner under the auspices of the government.

At the same time, Zhao Guo also learned that Gu Min defected to Qi State, and that Yi'an County and Fan County fell into the hands of Qi State.

For a moment, the whole country was alarmed, Zhao Guo in the palace threw several wine glasses in a row, and even raised a sword to kill a concubine in anger.

In addition, the name of Song Yan, the great general of Qi State, also spread in Zhao State.

According to the information obtained by the spies, the reason for the two defections was that Song Yan had a meeting with the chief generals of the two armies as well as the senior officers of the army.

The fact that the two armies of the Zhao State turned against each other just by negotiating is unbelievable to people, but such a thing just happened.

Therefore, spies from various countries also spread the news to their respective countries.

For a while, Song Yan became popular in the mainland of China.

Although Zhao Wang was angry, he did not continue to send troops to attack Song Yan. Who knows if the soldiers sent this time would be bewitched by him again, and then defected to Qi State. Besides, without counting the auxiliary soldiers, Zhao State There are only 20 soldiers available for battle. Now that more than 5 people have been abducted by Song Yan, there are only 14 left, and 10 people will be used to garrison the various counties and cities. Therefore, there are only 4 available soldiers. people.

Can more than 4 people deal with Qi, which has more than 5 soldiers and horses?

Zhao Wang is not confident.

Three months passed like this.

The sale of paper has been fully opened in the mainland of China. Every day, caravans go to Linshui County to transport paper to other countries.

Because Song Yan exchanged the money for buying paper for food, so after the end of March, the food in the treasury of the three counties has piled up like a mountain, and it will not be a problem for a hundred thousand troops to eat for five or six years.

Seeing so much grain, Song Yan had a new idea, which was to make wine, high-grade liquor.

The drinks in this world are not only cloudy in color, but also have extremely low alcohol content, not even comparable to the alcohol content of beer in the real world.

After writing the brewing steps and the tools needed to Song Xiu, the brewing was handed over to him.

Song Xiu lived up to his expectations. In less than half a month, high-grade baijiu with a color as clear as water was brewed.

Anyway, there was not enough food in the treasury, so with a wave of his hand, Song Yan set aside half of it for wine making.

After the high-grade liquor was produced, Song Yan did not plan to sell it wholesale.

Instead, it is intended to be used to develop a chain of restaurants.

So, half a month later, three restaurants named Tianxialou opened in Yi'an County, Fan County, and Linshui County at the same time.

Tianxialou's dishes are not much different from other restaurants, but the price of his wine is extremely expensive, a small bottle costs [-] yuan, and a jar costs [-] yuan. It is said that this kind of wine called Xianren brewed by Qi Created by General Song Yan of the country.

Because of tax cuts and the construction of a school, General Song's prestige in the three counties was extremely high, and many people even paid tribute to his longevity position at home.

Therefore, upon hearing that the Immortal Brew was invented by the Great General, anyone who has spare money should go to Tianxialou to taste it.