Chapter 1532 The Order of the Jiange
In the past few days, another caravan came from Chengdu, because for Chuanshu, which had no commodity sales channels for a long time, the opening made by Feiqian was like being pulled out of a dam, with a bang. The needs that have been accumulated for many years poured out.
It would be fine if Sichuan and Shu were a region lacking in products. The problem is that since the Qin Dynasty, because of Dujiangyan, Sichuan and Shu have always been a land of fish and rice, rich in products, copper mines, salt mines, cinnabar mines, etc. Originally, they had been supplying Guanzhong Sanfu, but when Liu Yan came, he took the initiative to cut off the road to and from Guanzhong for his own political purposes. In the end, he could only rely on the more difficult road to find his appetite. The smaller Jingzhou sells commodity goods.
If you think about it casually, you know, how can Jingzhou''s physique be able to eat the amount of goods that Sichuan and Shu originally supplied to the Guanzhong area? Therefore, a large number of goods are produced and hoarded, but they cannot be sold. Now that Feiqian provides a channel that is almost unlimited, how can people like Chuanshu not be crazy?
Those who transported to Langzhong also transported to Chengdu, Sichuan, and central Sichuan. Near Jiange, almost all warehouses were full of goods, or bags of grain and grass, or batches of silk cloth. Or some objects packed in long square wooden boxes.
This kind of long, square wooden box is extremely heavy, and it takes at least four people to move it, and it seems to be very expensive. There are soldiers watching and guarding when getting on and off the car. Once when loading and unloading, someone accidentally dropped a wooden box and it fell to the ground and cracked. Gululu rolled out a lot of weapons and leather armor tied with linen and hay ropes, which made many people suddenly realize that these wooden boxes were packed with What is armor...
Perhaps because of the good trade profits, even the food of the bitter hahas who transported these items is much better than before. At least some oily flowers can be seen on the soup bucket, and sometimes white Raw fat meat foam, although the black flour pancakes are still black flour pancakes, but you can eat as much as you can. As long as you can travel more, the shopkeeper of the caravan will not be stingy with a few baskets of black flour pancakes.
Li Hui stood outside the largest inn in Jiange, watching the constant flow of vehicles and coolies, and some shopkeepers gathered together, seeming to be talking and communicating some information about the products, smiling and obviously very excited.
"General..." Li Hui''s guard saw that Li Hui had been standing still for some time, and he didn''t know whether Li Hui was going to stop or continue walking, so he hesitated and said, "We are now..."
"Oh," Li Hui came back to his senses, and responded, "Let''s go, let''s go!"
Along the main street, about 300 steps forward, there is a stone road to the right. Turning inward is the administrative area of ??Jiange pass, including Jiange government office and some public warehouses and armories. A road, so under the archway at the corner, there was a soldier of Wu on duty. When he saw Li Hui and others coming, he yelled: "Who is here?"
Li Hui came here this time, and he didn''t say hello in advance. Besides, Mianzhu is in a state of ruins, the entire city has not been repaired halfway, and there is no decent political organization, so Li Hui came all the way, and naturally no one knows. .
"Yizhou Gongcao Li, come to visit General Zhang." Li Hui said calmly, and lifted the robe that covered the outside, revealing a corner of the ribbon.
In the Han Dynasty, one of the representatives of identity was the seal, and the other was the ribbon. Ribbons are tied around the waist. Ribbons of different colors and specifications represent different levels of official positions. Although it is not difficult to fake, in the Han Dynasty, unless they were bold, ordinary people would not dare to fake. That''s all, so when the soldiers on duty saw Li Hui revealing his identity, they moved away from the horse and let Li Hui and his party turn into the archway.
Arrived in front of the Jiange government office, he swung his saddle and got off his horse.
Cough cough, the movement of throwing the saddle and dismounting from the horse, if it is a tall horse, it is more or less chic, but if it is a Mongolian horse or a Yundian horse, this, if it is taller, it may not be possible to pull the foot down. It''s on the ground, what else is there to throw...
It’s not that Li Hui doesn’t want tall horses, the key is that there aren’t any. Ever since Liu Yan cut off the supply chain in Chuanshu, there have been no new products for so many years. Even if there are some stocks, how can it be Li Hui’s turn?
Just like Li Hui, although there were forty or fifty guards with him, there were actually only ten short-legged horses of this kind, and the rest had two legs, and they couldn''t all be matched. The degree of lack among Sichuan and Shu.
Although Li Hui has revealed his identity, he still can''t bring a large number of people directly into the Jiange Mansion, unless he does it directly. The things in his life have gradually taken shape, so when facing the guards at the gate of the Jiange Mansion Yamen to prevent Li Hui from bringing more people in, he was not angry, and even didn''t have any extra emotions, so he asked his subordinates to He stayed outside the government office, and then just led three or four people into the side door.
Normally, there are four main gates of the government office, two larger ones are in the center, and the other two are smaller ones on the left and right sides of the gate. The two big doors are usually not open, like in movies and TV shows, the four doors are opened at any time, no matter who they are, ordinary people can also walk in the middle, in the middle, or on both sides The situation of walking on both sides basically did not exist in feudal society. Just like Li Hui, who came to visit suddenly, before the Lord Jiange gave the order to open the main door to greet him, he could only go through the side door, which is the smaller door on both sides of the door. It is impossible to go directly to the middle one, let alone Needless to say, those ordinary officials or ordinary people who don''t even have official positions.
Li Hui was waiting in the front yard. Zhang Yi, the general of Jiange, was also a little surprised after receiving the news in the government office.
Li Hui is here?
What is Li Hui doing here?
Zhang Yi''s gaze became colder.
As Qianwei Zhang, Zhang Yi’s Zhang family is not small in Sichuan, among other things, just a dozen Zhuangzi, large and small, around Qianwei in western Sichuan, can pull out nearly 10,000 people!
Combined with the various relationships with the surrounding forces over the years, it is not an exaggeration to say that if there is any movement in Qiangwei Zhang, the entire western Sichuan will be moved.
"How many people are here?" Zhang Yi asked.
"More than forty people..." The confidant guard on the side replied, "The four who came in with him, the rest are outside the courtyard..."
"Hey," Zhang Yi smiled, patted the table, and said, "Looking at this courage... Come on! Let''s go, come with me! If you don''t see each other, won''t you make me look down upon you?"
When the two parties met, they didn''t start to fight with each other. On the contrary, they had proper etiquette.
"Thousands of clouds are guarding the sword gate, and thousands of mountains are chaotic and straight to Chang''an. General Zhang, this sword pavilion with thousands of mountains and winding mountain roads has a unique scenery..." Li Hui said with a smile. I saw a lot of scenery along the way! And it goes directly to Chang''an!
Zhang Yi grinned, and laughed twice, but there was no smile at all in his eyes, only a cold light, "Brother Li was joking, how can Jiange compare to the beautiful mountains and forests in Nanzhong?" My uncle did this a lot in Nanzhong!
Li Hui''s uncle is Cuan Xi, who has been a powerful man in the Nanzhong area for generations and has a large number of trilogy. In fact, smuggling has not been done less, and it has gained enough benefits from trade with ethnic minorities. In history, even when Zhuge went to Yunnan in the south, he was recruited as a subordinate, from the official to the leader. After Zhuge Liang finally quelled the Nanzhong Rebellion, he promoted Cuan Xi, Zhu Ti, and Meng Yan as local officials. Until the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains civil strife, the conflict between the local tyrants and the Jin Dynasty, and the tyrants became increasingly acute , while the powerful surnames such as the Meng family perished one after another. The Cuan family took advantage of the situation and rose to dominate Nanzhong, ruling the whole of Yunnan, Sichuan, and parts of Guizhou for more than 400 years.
Li Hui laughed.
Zhang Yi also laughed. It''s just that the two seem to be laughing happily, but their hostility is actually getting stronger.
Li Hui fumbled from the belt leather pouch, then took out a copper seal, threw it on the table, and said with a smile: "General, wait and see..."
Zhang Yi stared at Li Hui, and reached out to take the copper seal after a while. He opened it and took a breath, because there were also four large characters engraved on the copper seal, "Jiange Order Seal".
Because of the chaotic political structure of the court system and local princes, there have been many situations in many places outside of Sichuan and Shu where many people hold an official position at the same time, such as Qingzhou Governor, Yuzhou Governor, etc., even in the late Three Kingdoms period, It is also a common thing, for example, Zhuge is still a Marquis of Wuxiang, and Wuxiang is in the state of Wei.
As far as Chuan Shu is concerned, there is basically no such thing at this moment. Zhang Yi himself is the Jiange Token, so he naturally has a "Jiange Token Seal" in his hand, and then suddenly saw the second one, of course he was shocked. Even the shelf that was originally on it collapsed all of a sudden.
Zhang Yi immediately jumped up, pointed at Li Hui, and was about to say something when he saw Li Hui stretch out his palm to signal, "Brother Zhang, please be safe and don''t be impatient...Dangtang Qiang is Zhang''s family, and he is still a little afraid." Is it raining?"
Zhang Yi might not be willing to listen to comforting Zhang Yi alone, but after hearing Li Hui talk about Qian being the Zhang family, Zhang Yi tried his best to control his emotions, held the new "Jiange Order Seal" tightly, and sat down again. Come down, and then put the "Jiange Lingyin" on the table heavily, "Brother Li, please tell me something!"
"This seal was given by Mr. Liu Shijun..." Li Hui stroked his beard and said with a slight smile.
Zhang Yi rolled his eyes. Nonsense, when Li Hui took it out, Zhang Yi guessed it, but soon, what Li Hui said attracted Zhang Yi''s attention.
"When I was young, I left Nanzhong for the first time and went to the land of Sichuan and Sichuan. I saw scales of buildings, criss-cross streets, crowded with merchants, and it was extremely prosperous. It was like going to heaven..." Li Hui chuckled, "Now, Sichuan How much is the land of Shu? Brother Zhang, do you think so?"
Zhang Yi was silent for a moment, and the "Jiange Token Seal" he was holding tightly could not help but loosen, and said: "Brother Li has something to say, you might as well say it directly."
"It''s admirable that the Qianwei Zhang family has established a foundation in western Sichuan for four generations..." Li Hui said slowly, "However, Brother Zhang, don''t Sichuan and Sichuan feel too crowded now?"
Zhang Yi frowned tightly, pondering.
"On the first day, you will grow hair, and on the second day, you will be full of chestnuts. Without clothes and brown, how can you die?" Li Hui slowly recited a line of poetry, then knocked on the table, looked at Zhang Yi, with a half-smile Said, "There is no tea and no wine, why do you drink?"
Zhang Yi was speechless, and after a while he laughed loudly and said, "Brother Li taught you a lesson! It''s someone who lost his manners! Come here, prepare the banquet!"
After giving orders to his servants, Zhang Yi looked at the bronze seal in his hand, then pushed it towards Li Hui, and said, "...What orders do you have for Mr. Liu?"
"One grain and one grain, you can''t leave the customs!" Li Hui said with a smile.
"Huh?!" Zhang Yi raised his eyebrows again, then looked at Li Hui, and suddenly rolled his eyes, "What if... it''s not food?"
Li Hui laughed loudly, "A certain one only asks about food and grass, and the others don''t care!"
Zhang Yi''s face calmed down, he shook his head, clicked his tongue, muttered something in a low voice, finally sighed, and said: "It''s a pity..."
What a pity?
Naturally, it is a pity that the way of making money from grain and grass has been cut off. Grain and grass are the most hoarded commodities in Sichuan and Shu, and General Zhengxi gave a very high price. If they don''t make grain and grass, they will naturally lose a lot of profit.
Of course, the profits of other items are not low, but they are not as high as grain.
It’s just that grain and grass are prohibited…
Zhang Yi thought about it, and finally decided to compromise.
Qianwei Zhang, the main force is naturally around Qianwei, and there is still some distance from the fertile areas in Chengdu in central Sichuan. This time Liu Bei cleaned up the big clans in central Sichuan who tended to conquer the west general Feiqian, and deprived Liu Zhang and Pang Xi of others. Some of the industrial fields in the country naturally have a lot of space for wine, which naturally attracts the covetousness of many surrounding people, and Qianwei Zhang is no exception. Therefore, to a certain extent, Qianwei Zhang does not want to turn against Liu Bei. For the sake of going to Chuanzhong, if you can compromise, you will compromise.
Does Liu Bei mean that only grain and grass are prohibited?
of course not!
Originally, Liu Bei asked Li Hui to come. The original intention was to let Li Hui and Zhang Yi fight. No matter whether Li Hui wins or loses the fight, Liu Bei will not lose.
If Li Hui wins, as a fringe force in Sichuan and Sichuan whose family has some strength in Nanzhong, it is basically very difficult to expand through the Jiange. Naturally, Liu Bei does not have to worry too much about Li Hui becoming Zhang Yi''s second; It doesn''t matter if you lose. On the one hand, the operation of the Jiange line will naturally be delayed during the battle. On the other hand, it is equivalent to buying Liu Bei a certain amount of time, and at the same time providing a good excuse. , and even join hands with Liu Qi of Jingzhou to directly deal with the Qianwei Zhang family.
However, it is clear that Li Hui has his own plans. Anyway, the guarantee he made with Liu Bei also meant that no grain or grain would be allowed to leave Jiange Pass. As for other items, did Li Hui guarantee it?
In other words, since Li Hui set foot in the chaotic political arena of Sichuan and Shu, there was Li Hui''s own plan. Pang Xi, Liu Bei, and even Zhang Yi in front of him are just one step after another for Li Hui.
"Why should it be a pity?" Li Hui smiled and knocked on the table. The profit of grain and grass is indeed too high. ?”
(end of this chapter)