Gao Jie and Yunjuan's documents arrived at Yushan City on the third day after they were sent out at eight hundred miles.
The reason why they launched the first-level mobilization is simple - to accomplish the result in one battle.
Gao Jie said in the document that marching in the grasslands and deserts was too difficult, and it was considered good for an army carrying heavy weapons to travel thirty miles a day.
They trekked for two months to reach the current area. If this battle cannot inflict heavy losses on Jiannu, and when his army returns to Lantian City, Jiannu cavalry can return here, then , all the results gained during this march will be in vain.
Gao Jie also said that only by beating the slaves to death and painfully once can they have a longer memory and not dare to set foot on my Lantian territory easily.
It is not just as simple as facing the slaves.
The further east you go, the closer the Mongols here are to the Jiannu, and there is almost no possibility of restraint.
So, clearing out a vast no-man's land here and declaring the presence of Lantian is very important for controlling the area.
At the same time, he found that the land here was very suitable for farming. There were water networks all over the land and the land was black and oily. It was better than the Tianzihao Field in Guanzhong, and it was 500,000 to 600,000 acres.
So, when sending this document, he also sent a piece of black soil.
He also hopes that Yushan Academy can send agricultural experts to the battlefield as soon as possible to conduct on-site surveys of the land here. If it is really good farmland, he is ready to build a large farm here with Zhang Guozhu.
After reading the various reasons mentioned by Gao Jie in the document, Yun Zhao was immediately relieved.
For an army composed of pure farmers, even when fighting, they still think about the few acres of land at home.
Now, they have seen a large area of black land that can produce oil. For them, this is a real treasure and a priceless treasure.
Their mentality is easy to understand.
As the land in Guanzhong is already extremely tight, Guanzhong people basically do not waste any land that can grow crops, even if the land is in high mountains or in other difficult and dangerous places.
The black land on the plains——
“Tell Gao Jie to shut his mouth. Six hundred thousand acres of black land is nothing. Wait until we clean up the slaves. After that, the black land there was more than a hundred times larger than the black land he found.
I now want him to quickly fight Jiannu, defeat Yue Tuo, and then go home. There are no roads on the grassland. Chang's march is difficult and supplies cannot keep up. There is no way to change this. A decisive battle with Jiannu here is not a good choice.
After we take Shanhaiguan, it will be time for him to lead the army to a decisive battle with Jiannu. ."
After Yun Zhao issued new instructions to Liucheng, Liucheng formed a document again and dispatched eight hundred miles to rush.
Lantian City’s first-level combat readiness is naturallyTo be cancelled, a prodigal like Gao Jie has now activated the first level of combat readiness. Lantian City's savings over the years will be wiped out by this battle, completely draining Lantian City's war potential.
This will be extremely detrimental to the future when the army sets off from Lantian City and sweeps across Datong, Xuanfu, and even the capital.
Yun Zhao hates other people reasoning with him about the geographical discoveries of the Ming Dynasty.
This is not because he is arrogant, but because the shocking geographical discoveries made by these people are just common sense to him.
The black land in the Northeast?
Yun Zhao has not only been there, seen it, but also eaten the high-quality rice produced there for many years. It not only produces rice, but also coal and oil. Knowing so much, is Yun Zhao proud?
Tell him about the black land, where does Gao Jie have the qualifications?
As a person in power, he actually doesn’t value nationality that much. If he does, it must be for other purposes rather than purely racial concepts.
All people are composed of legs, hands and a head. There is not much difference in appearance. The only difference is what is inside the head.
So, killing is the second priority, and killing one’s heart is the top priority.
Of course, if you don’t have the patience, it would be best to do the murderous thing together to save trouble.
Yunzhao's business meeting was held in a hurry, mainly because Haechi was about to go to Lantian City. Therefore, Yun Zhao's meeting was held in Yushan City in a hurry before the number of people could be gathered.
Holding this meeting was actually very simple. Everyone got together and Yun Zhao read out Lantian County’s decision, and then sent it to all participating businessmen to work out the details.
The details were quickly drawn up within two days. Yun Zhao and others read it over and felt that there were no big fallacies, so Haechi read it out again at the meeting, a new one. The bill was formed.
However, the definition of private property is already a big trouble. The main debate is about what is private property and how the law should protect that private property.
As well as the inheritance of private property and whether to collect taxes, these issues will be discussed at the next business meeting.
So, this time the conference only clarified one theme - merchants have private property! It needs to be protected by the law.
Hie Zhi believes that the law needs to be perfected bit by bit, and that it is not the spirit of the law.
After the meeting, the meeting secretary group did not disband.
The businessmen who participated in the meeting naturally formed a group. They have the right to send their discussion results to the secretarial group for record. The secretarial group must accept inquiries from the businessmen at any time.
At the same time, the secretarial team also has the power to require merchants to test these suggestions on themselves to see if they are representative.
Yun Zhao believes that this kind of discussion will continue for a long time to come, and will eventually become a conflict between the government and business.A game between people.
In short, the status of Guanzhong merchants has been significantly improved after this conference.
The first of these: All people in Lantian County have the legal right to do business. The Ming Dynasty regulations that did not allow people to leave their hometown to do business were abolished, and these traveling merchants were no longer treated as prisoners.
The second article is that merchants are allowed to wear silk yarn and silk cloth. Although few people follow this article now, this is the first time that an official answer has been clearly told that they can wear silk yarn and silk cloth.
Article 3: Encourage qualified merchants to participate in overseas trade. Of course, they must pay no less taxes.
Article 4: All the merchant representatives who come to participate in the meeting are official stores and have the power to summon their own merchants to invest in government-run businesses, including tea, salt, and iron. , hospitals, medicine halls, water conservancy, bridges and other industries.
You don’t participate in the operation, but you can get dividends from it.
Article 4 is actually the most important. When it is impossible to determine whether the merchants’ properties are private property, participation in government-run investments is undoubtedly private property that has been clearly defined.
It is because of their participation in this meeting hosted by the highest official in Lantian that these businessmen considered themselves leaders of their industry. While Yunzhao gave them these honors and conveniences, they also urged their industry. Businesses are obliged to pay taxes in full.
Given that Lantian County has always kept its word, businessmen are extremely interested in investing in government-run economic activities, especially tea, salt, and iron.
Compared with the price of salt in the world, the price of salt in Lantian County is the lowest. Sea salt is not used here, but salt collected from Qinghai Salt Lake is used.
The salt here is called green salt. It is translucent and has no impurities. It is the best table salt in the world.
The salt pond there was originally controlled by the Wu Tibetans and the Mongols. In order to regain this salt road, Yunhu once personally traveled to Qinghai... and then brought it back that year. Countless salt blocks, and future caravans never encountered any obstacles.
The salt is in the natural salt pool. Use a knife to cut the crystallized salt blocks into pieces, put them on the back of a camel and bring them back to Guanzhong for sale. This 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 benefit merchants, just like buying grain, people need to take their household registration books to the salt warehouse to buy salt, and no more than five kilograms of salt can be purchased at a time.
The low price and large quantity of salt soon spawned many industries, the most important of which was salted food.
As a result, salted pork, salted mutton, beef, salted vegetables, and salted fish became the most popular goods trafficked from Guanzhong to Sichuan and even Yunnan and Guizhou.
Yun Zhao also knew about the salt ponds in Qinghai. According to his previous memories, the salt there was enough to feed the entire Ming Dynasty for a thousand years.
Since it is enough to last for a thousand yearsYes, Yun Zhao is planning to carry out predatory development of the salt pond there. Anyway, if the salt is dug out, countless salt will be left after the lake overflows.
Therefore, he decided to absorb the people's capital and build a road from the silver factory to the salt pond to prepare for the army to enter Uzang in the future.
This requires a lot of money... Yun Zhao can't come up with it for a while.
The same is true for tea.
Although Guanzhong is not the largest tea producing area, the development of Hanzhong requires money. It is the traditional producing area of tea. Yunzhao is also ready to call on the people of Hanzhong to plant more tea trees besides farming - unfortunately, he still has no money. .
The market for tea has never been a problem. Whether it is Uzbeans, Mongolians, or people from the Western Regions, their desire for tea is almost endless.
So, Yunzhao took out the tea leaves and let the merchants take shares.
As for iron, there is no shortage of it in Lantian County - one hundred large chimneys emit poisonous gas into the sky day and night, and the amount of steel produced accounted for more than 70% of the Ming Dynasty. Iron output.
The problem is that these steel plants are like giant beasts, devouring countless iron ore, and they are still hungry. Yun Zhao needs to build a road to the Qilian Mountain iron mines - he has no money.
If the steel in Lantian County is dumped at low prices, to put it bluntly, all the iron factories in the rest of Ming Dynasty will close down. This is what Yun Zhao likes to see.
As for medical clinics and medicine halls, Yun Zhao does not think that these two things can be left to the private sector to prepare for themselves. There are too many things attached to these two things, and private individuals cannot and should not bear them.
The "Health Management Regulations" that Yunzhao will implement in the future will mainly rely on medical clinics and medicine halls.
In other words, the government should control the people's life, old age, illness and death!
Moreover, profits cannot be made from these businesses.
Of course, this is a national policy that Yun Zhao must implement in the future.
This is not a great undertaking that he can accomplish alone. At least, he is prepared to fight for this goal starting from himself.