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Chapter 172 Saltworks Auction (2)

"Brother Zun's body, will it still not be good?"

"Oh, according to the will of my Majesty, my brother should have come to Chengdu to visit Zifeng three months ago. But... well, he has been lying in bed for more than two months. Several doctors have visited him, and they all say that there is little hope. Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo

"Zhong Si asks to express his grief."

In a private room on the second floor of the auction house, Guan Yi looked at the hypocritical Bu Chan and felt disgusted.

In February of this year, Bu Xie, the governor of Xiling in Eastern Wu, could not afford to get sick. Guan Yi, as a time traveler, knew that Bu Xie could not get up this time. This summer is fast, and in winter is slow, Bu Xie will go to see him. As for Bu Chan, who is crying in front of Guan Yi, hehe, this guy is thinking about how to steal his nephew's property and get the position of Xiling governor.

Therefore, Guan Yi just comforted Bu Chan lightly and then talked about other things.

"There are actually forty-one salt farms on my Dahan side. In addition to the Zigong Salt Farm controlled by my Fuxing Society, there are five salt farms that have not been included in this auction."

Sure enough, once Guan Yi did not mention Bu Xie's affairs, Bu Chan would not want to pretend to be sad.

"What does Zifeng want to tell me?"

"Well, two of these five salt fields are my Majesty's private money, and two of them belong to the prince of my country. I am leaving this last one for Xi, Ling, Du, and the governor!"

It is very clear and realistic. This salt field is not left to you by Bu Chan, nor is it from Bu Xie. Whoever is the governor of Xiling is the owner of this salt field!

Bu Chan was abolished, and he could understand this sentence. So after his eyes turned, he said irrelevantly: "Last month, I went to Jianye in my country and met Prime Minister Puyang and General Zhang Zuo. I each gave 10 million to these two people!" - Brother, I had planned to bribe the power of the Eastern Wu, so I had a great hope of becoming the governor of Xiling.

"My salt field is located in Badong County, only more than 60 miles away from the Yangtze River. Now there are more than 20 salt wells. The daily salt output is more than 200 stones." - Brother, my salt field is very close to the Yangtze River and is also very close to your Xiling station. It is specially prepared for you.

"For six or seven years, Xiling and Fuling have a mutual benefit, and a mutual defeat will be achieved if they fight. There is no need to emphasize the alliance between the two sides." - As long as I become the governor of Xiling, I didn't say anything, the goods of Fuxing Society and the fleet of Mijia Trading Society will still be unobstructed in Xiling.

"My great man has suffered this great disaster. His combat power is seriously damaged and his manpower is seriously insufficient. I need to be supplemented urgently." - I am not going to ask you to buy this salt farm in MB, but just to ensure the smooth business road? It is important to know that the money for buying a road with smooth business road is the exclusive monopoly of toothpaste and toothbrush. I have given you that thing. If you want a new salt farm, you have to bring out the things!

"Well... My Dawu really needs a strong ally like the Dahan. My Bu family also needs an ally like the Dasima. So, after I took over the Bu family management, I sponsored the Dasima's grain for three million stones and delivered in ten years." - My Bu family has a lot of money, but I also know that you are not interested in money when you sell the salt farm like this. I also know that you are a grain reserve madman. I will give you grain. 300,000 stones per year, lasting for ten years.

Is Guan Yi short of food? To be honest, it is really a bit short of food. A battle to save the national fortunes cost the food reserved by the Fuxing Society for many years. Although the house was confiscated millions of stones, it was really not enough compared to what he was about to do. Then the problem arises. He thinks that millions of stones of grain is not enough. How could he care about your Bu family’s 300,000 stones of grain per year?

Besides, it is May 264 AD. In more than two months, the emperor of your Eastern Wu will die. After the deposed prince Sun Hao, the son of Sun Hao, took office, came to power, the first thing was to clean up you, the remnants of the King of Lu. Ten years? You can give me food at most five or six years at most, and then be the three tribes of Yi. Who should I ask for the food behind?

In short, Guan Yi only temporarily handed over the salt farm to Buchan's management - using the Bu family's funds to improve the production technology of the salt farm, expand its production scale, and allow him to introduce workers from Dongwu - and then after a few years, after the Bu family was destroyed, he naturally took it back.

Although Guan Yi's move is already ruthless and cruel, how can he kill a sucker like Bu Chan? He must kill this guy so that he can't be worthy of the audience.

"Zhongsi, after all, I am the Grand Sima of Kaifu now, and I am not the prefect of Fuling County who was poor and bad in the past. The Chengdu plain is known as the country of Tianfu." - I don't lack food, I don't accept the conditions you just now!

"Hey, Zifeng, let's open the skylight and say something. In recent years, the Anlu salt farm in Jiangxia has almost dried up, and no new large salt mines have been found in Jingzhou... Anyway, I'm going to make a decision on that salt farm! What do you want?" - I won't speak to you anymore, just say, what do you want?

It's so rude, without any stubbornness at all. Don't you all look very coquettish when you talk to someone like you who has not yet entered the substantive stage and has revealed all your trump cards. There is really no need to turn the bush.

"Okay, two. First, I want the veterans of Wunan Army, the amount is 2,000. When I sent them here, I also had their families."

I have to say that Guan Yi tasted the sweetness of using Wunan Army as an instructor. Next, he was preparing to expand the scale of Fuxing Academy. When General Jiang Wei treated every officer of his mobile army as a treasure, hesitantly refused to release it, Wunan Veteran was really a good choice.

"Hiss~~~ Zifeng, I'll tell you the truth. My Bu family has a total of five or six hundred soldiers, and the number of veterans is even smaller. These two thousand people really can't be produced."

"If you don't have enough family, go and discuss with other families! Teng family, Luo family, Kan family, Shi family, Lu family... Generally speaking, you can collude with the aristocratic families in your Wu Kingdom based on Jingzhou! I don't believe that your Bu family will swallow the Wunan Army."

"...Okay. I agree with you this one. What about the next one? It should be noted that the price my Bu family has to pay is extremely high!"

"Hehehe, the next one is to reduce your losses. It's the aristocratic families just now, and I'm not familiar with them. When you go back and collude with them, you will make it clear to them that after I sell the salt farm, I will come to them with a lot of money to buy food! Then they will not be allowed to raise prices collectively!"

Yes, the time traveler is a habit of spending money with the left hand and the right hand. When he has a lot of money in his hand, he will not let the money be held in his hand for a long time - if the money is not spent, it is not money!

The people in the Shu Han people's current list have been forced to the brink of life and death. Whether it is to appease the people out of public interest, let the people recuperate, or to gain fame for him, Guan Dasima, in the autumn of the second year of Yanxing, he would be exempted from duty in Shu Han!

In any case, he must be exempted from tax for at least one year. He who was already overwhelmed with a little breath. Otherwise, he, the Sima of the Guan Dynasty, would not need the Shu Han family to launch a rebellion to fight him. The uprising of the lower-class people would be enough to kill him and destroy him.

But there are tax exemptions here, and there are still people who have to continue to pay wages to officials at all levels! And these days, the wages of officials at all levels are not directly paid, but are directly linked to the weight of the grain. In actual operations, half of the food and copper coins must be paid.

How many officials in Shu Han are there now? A total of 40,000 people! More than those in Cao Wei (more than 30,000) and Eastern Wu (more than 20,000). Some of these 40,000 people have an annual salary of 10,000 shi - such as the Sima of Guan, and some have only 100 shi - such as a county magistrate of Xia County. Although in any era, in the entire bureaucratic system, middle and low-level officials always account for the vast majority. But even if the average annual salary of each official is 500 shi, plus the salary of the prince, the Shu Han government will issue 10 million shi of grain and 1 billion yuan a year!

(Guan Yi: Why are there so many officials from MBs? No way, when I free up next year, I will have to lay off employees! Well? You said that layoffs will start this year? That's right, all the salt farms have been sold out. The officials at all levels of the Siyan School Office and the huge number of mine soldiers and more than 5,000 people can be cut off!)

In addition to the salaries of officials, Shu Han also had an outrageously high military-civilian army that needed support. Although after this war between the Han and Wei, the current army of Shu Han had been reduced to about 90,000 (35,000 Mobile Corps, 15,000 Hanzhong Corps, 15,000 Hanlin, 15,000 Chengdu Fuling, 10,000 private soldiers in Zigong Fuling, 7,000 Yong'an Corps, and 8,000 Nanzhong Corps). Moreover, the salary of soldiers was much lower than that of officials, and the average annual salary was about 60 stones. But roughly, it was almost three million stones of grain and 300 million yuan!

Moreover, the salary of officials can be paid on site. The places where soldiers are stationed are generally remote borders and are far away from the grain-producing areas. Therefore, you have to count the losses on the road - and due to the terrain of Shu Han, the losses in grain transportation were the largest among the Three Kingdoms.

In addition, although the Chengdu Plain is a country where water and droughts come from the heavenly palace, large-scale agricultural disasters rarely occur. However, in any case, the national treasury must have at least a certain amount of reserve grain in the country's treasury.

After all, it would be a joke if the treasury had no 20 million stones of grain and 2 billion yuan of reserves before the autumn harvest this year, tax exemption would be a joke.
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