When Wang Ling arrived at Jiankun, he met with Jiankun's commander. The main purpose was not to let the leaders of Jiankun's tribe misunderstand the General of the Cavalry, thinking that the Taiyuan smuggling was the meaning of the General of the Cavalry, and at the same time, it was also to warn Jiankun and just stay honestly. Don't mess around. If you stretch your claws at any time, you not only want to cut your claws, but even have to cut your heads!
For the northern part of the Mo, the strategy of the General of the Cavalry was relatively clear. He carried out semi-cultivation and semi-grassing in mild climates, while the rest were mainly nomadic, and minerals were explored and developed.
Under the guidance of such a policy, Mobei focuses on indirect control rather than direct consequences.
Of course, the Jiankun Kingdom is one of the indirect control. Relatively speaking, these Jiankun people, especially the Poshihe tribe, the Xubuju tribe, the Shuqiang, the Southern Xiongnu, etc., are the best candidates, and they naturally become the tentacles of Fei Qian's indirect control extending to the desert.
The tribes have deep conflicts and often have blood debts. Until modern times, there were cases of massacre of the whole family, snatching cattle, sheep, and livestock, and bullying women and children among the grassland tribes. Slavery even continued until the time of the new order was determined. But even so, there were still some brainless nomadic descendants who were attracted by those who had ulterior motives to promote great nomadic heroes, and then they felt that the nomadic era was their glory...
Not to mention that most of the people of these nomadic peoples are barbaric, without culture, and without much understanding of the world. To put it simply, short-sighted is not a derogatory term, only a few people can see it far-reachingly.
For example, it is Poshi He Yuanshen.
Although Poshi Ha Yuanshen felt that the conditions proposed by Wang Ling were quite good, he always felt that there might be some problems.
Of course, the more important reason is that the General of the Cavalry is indeed very strong.
In history, Jiankun Kingdom was submerged under a small ice river, silently.
This is true in most nomadic peoples in the northern desert.
Most of the time, due to innate shortcomings, the peak of the nomadic peoples is before the hot weapons, and then there is nothing else to transform...
The Western Regions Protectorate is actually an excellent innovation.
It’s a pity that after the Western Regions Protectorate, the Han Dynasty could not learn from it. Perhaps it was because the Western Regions Protectorate did not bring more benefits, or perhaps it was because the court officials at that time were contempt and short-sighted about the marginal areas.
Now, the Northern Region Protectorate, promoted by the General of the Cavalry, has invisibly expanded this system and expanded the frontier of the Han Kingdom into the desert.
Although this jurisdiction model is not very perfect, it is already a very excellent system under relatively backward transportation and communication conditions.
This kind of jurisdiction of the Protectorate is not a simple ban, but this kind of management is effective. Taking the Protectorate of the Western Regions as an example, since the Han Dynasty, the Protectorate of the Western Regions, the Chief Secretary of the Western Regions, the Wuji School Commander, etc., and the Anxi Protectorate and Beiting Protectorate, etc., were appointed as the commander of the Western Regions, and the Protectorate of the North and South.
Even in the midst of chaos in the Central Plains, the Western Regions are often guarded by officials and soldiers sent by the Central Plains dynasty to prevent nomadic countries from coming from the north or northwest from taking advantage of the situation.
If we pay attention to it, the Central Plains dynasty could not control the time of the Western Regions, it would probably be a coward to the Song Dynasty. However, if the Khitan Liao was regarded as part of the Chinese nation, then the Chinese rule and management of the Western Regions would be quite long.
The Western Regions Protectorate also has some problems, such as poor control ability, poor connection with the central dynasty, etc., especially the profits of commerce are often swallowed up by middlemen, resulting in the central dynasty rarely benefiting from it, so they ignore the Western Regions.
Now, when Feiqian, who knows the importance of commerce and trade, is vigorously promoting commerce, there is really no one in Jiankun Kingdom that can resist this temptation.
Poshi Heyuan convened the heads and discussed for a day or two, but did not finally discuss one. He could only agree to Wang Ling’s conditions first, and then send someone to the Yunzhong Market that Wang Ling said to be.
In the cloud.
Rabbits are born with a skill when digging holes.
So what's the problem with the full science and technology tree points in the Greater China Xiaxia infrastructure?
Yunzhong was once abandoned by the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, when Zhao Yun marched into Changshan and established the Northern Region Protectorate, Yunzhong was reclaimed, and then the abandoned city was repaired, replanned, and resettled the population.
In the north of Yunzhong City, the stone bridge in the outer moat in the north of the city is starting from the point of the north, extending four or five hundred steps north. It is a trading market for the nomadic tribes in Jiankun or the North Desert. It is called Beiqiao City.
This main street has two secondary streets with east-west horizontal directions, which temporarily form a one-dimensional and two-dimensional layout. According to subsequent development, it can also be expanded. Basic shops and stores have been built on both sides of the street. If there is a demand in the future, they can be demolished and rebuilt to build more luxurious restaurants or large shops.
When it was initially built, some people thought that the cloud was so remote, how could there be so many businesses and so many merchants coming?
Even Xinpi felt that he was doing a bit big. After all, many times, when they were trading with nomadic people, they often just built a circle of straw sheds in a certain place in the wild...
This Yunzhong Beiqiao City has a long-term construction, not only with decent streets, but also with supporting mule and horse shops, cart shops, stations, cargo warehouses, and even supporting water supply and sewage channels!
In comparison, the original Yunzhong County Town was a little more simple.
After all, Yunzhong was just used as a transit station before.
Xinpi was wandering around the mall.
The mall is a building surrounded by high walls, with two-story buildings as the main body, as well as warehouses for storing and loading and unloading spaces. At the same time, behind the building, there are functional houses such as guard barracks and kitchens.
This is Yunzhong Market as a garrison point in case of extreme circumstances.
The mall is mainly made of brick and stone structure, with iron bars wrapped around the gate. It is also planned to build another tower in the corners of the high walls around the mall. In this way, even if there is a riot, it will not be able to get in for a while. If the tower in the mall is built and the sentry towers in the streets are combined, small-scale riots will not cause much wind and waves at all. And large-scale riots, not to mention the guards of Yunzhongcheng who are close to Chi Chi, and the soldiers from Changshan Base Camp...
As for daily public security inspections, they have been in place recently.
The inspection garage was not in the mall, so Xinpi arranged it on the other side of Beiqiao City, thus forming three points with Yunzhongcheng and the mall, which are mutually supportive.
Xin Pi inspected the mall and specially inspected the setting facilities of the wells and warehouses. He also knocked on the high walls and saw the strength of the composite walls with soil and blue bricks. He walked out of the mall with satisfaction and said to Dai Si, the magistrate of Yunzhong County, and said, "It's done well."
Yunzhong County Magistrate Dai Si immediately laughed so hard that he couldn't close his legs.
Dai Si was born in a poor family and was originally just a minor official in the army. Later, because he was serious and responsible in work, he was quite proficient in arithmetic, so he stayed here as a transit official position in Yunzhongcheng. In a sense, Yunzhongcheng, including this Beiqiao City, was built by Dai Si himself.
Xinpi turned out of the mall and arrived on the street.
At this moment, in Beiqiao City, shops have begun to prepare in the most conspicuous place on the Cross Street.
The mules and horses pulling the cart, the busy guys, and the voices of people and horses from time to time make the newly built market look a little lively.
The first shop to settle in is of course the third one, "Salt and Iron Tea".
These three are sold at half-official nature.
That is, the commercial indicia opened in the Dahan Chamber of Commerce, and then each company bids for this monopoly. It is divided into three-year periods and five-year periods, and the prices are naturally different. This is somewhat like the dealer system in later generations.
In the grassland and desert, people need to eat salt, and livestock need to eat salt, so there are not only high-quality fine salt, but also ordinary coarse salt, and even worse brick salt, which is the bitter and braised hard block, like a stone.
This kind of bitter salt will definitely cause problems if people eat too much, but the digestive system of livestock is different from that of humans, so for these large and small animals, it is a supreme delicacy. Otherwise, these cattle and sheep would have to go to saline and alkaline land to lick the soil...
If you look at a pack of salt alone, it is indeed not much, but this is a necessity. Although there is indeed not much money earned for each pack of salt, as people in the desert come to buy it, it will accumulate a lot.
Xinpi walked into the salt shop.
The shopkeeper of the salt shop was checking the goods. He recognized Dai Si, but did not know Xinpi. However, seeing Dai Si following Xinpi, he knew that a big man had arrived, so he immediately stepped forward to say hello.
Xinpi nodded, didn't say anything, but walked into the store and asked about the price of salt of each grade.
The salt that was common in the market in later generations was called snow salt in the Han Dynasty. It is a top-notch quality and the price is a hundred times that of ordinary salt.
Then the next level is called green salt. The color is slightly worse, but it does not have much bitter taste. It is the salt used by ordinary children of the gentry and wealthy families in daily life.
Further down, there is coarse salt. The color is yellow and black, the taste is also average. It is common to have bitter and astringent things, which are the salt used by ordinary people, and it is the most abundant salt product.
Then again, there is stone salt and mixed mud and sand, which not only has a serious bitter braised smell, but also a fishy smell of mud and sand. It is generally used for livestock, but if the poor people cannot afford coarse salt, they will also buy this kind of salt.
"Buy two servings of all four kinds of salt." Xinpi ordered.
The shopkeeper immediately stepped forward and smiled, "The noble man is joking. It is the honor of the noble man to come to our store. How can he let the noble man spend money? What does the noble man want to make this coarse salt? It is not delicious, so who should go and get a box of high-end snow salt... It's a little bit of a word, it doesn't mean to respect it...
Yes, the snow salt now has exclusive packaging, just like the ginseng from later generations. The thick painted wooden box is covered with moisture-proof oil paper, and even withered flowers and painted on the wooden box. Each box is sold in small boxes, regardless of weight.
Xinpi waved his hand, "No need. Buy all four things, this is for the customs inspection, not for me."
"For the inspection?" The shopkeeper has never heard of this word.
Xinpi smiled and refused to explain to the shopkeeper at all. He turned around and looked at the four kinds of salt he bought under his command. After paying, he ignored the shopkeeper's refusal and walked out of the shopkeeper.
"This is the new rule of the Han Chamber of Commerce..." Xinpi walked forward and said to Dai Si, "You will receive relevant documents in a few days... You use inferior products as good people and bully the market. Is this kind of thing not uncommon?"
Dai Si was stunned, and then his eyes turned to the salt held by Xinpi's follower, and he suddenly felt a little thoughtful.
『One file, one file, one file." Xinpi said with a smile, "In the early days, in order to attract customers, there must be good goods. However, there are too many people in the future, so they mostly buy them mixed together, and even get the waiting goods to sell them for money...』
Dai Si suddenly realized, turned around and looked at the salt shop, and suddenly felt that this kid was going to be in trouble.
Or, if you want to be clever, you will be in trouble.
The question is how many businessmen are not sloppy?
In order to attract business, I used good goods in the early stages, and then waited for a while and started to sell some inferior products. Just like in the later generations, some mobile phone screens of some brands were often several suppliers. Although they all claimed the same to the outside world, there were actually some invisible indicators that were not consistent, and naturally the cost and price were not the same.
The same is true for the salt shop here. The current sales must be official salt, but there may be salt from different regions in the future...
Like the salt shop, among other shops, Xinpi also purchased corresponding goods, cloth, tea, etc. Some are expensive and some are cheap.
These things will be used as temporary inspection standards for the Dahan Chamber of Commerce.
The General of the Cavalry also issued an order, saying that in the future, he would make corresponding regulations on some commonly used goods for the public and determine the specific level.
"This place will become an important commercial county in the northern desert..." Xinpi said to Dai Si, "You must do things well and not slacken."
Dai Si naturally called it yes.
Xinpi walked out, but after walking for a while, he stopped, looked around, and then said to Dai Si: "In addition, some sheds can be built near the street of the store so that these stores can place some goods... These Beimo people may not be able to understand the words, nor can they understand what the store is calling... If the goods are placed there, Beimo people will know what they sell."
There is no way, the language is not clear, it is just that troublesome.
Of course, after getting familiar with it, there will be no problem in this regard.
But at the beginning, these nomadic peoples may not be able to recognize the difference between the characters "Salt" and "Wine". Although they could smell it, if they only faced Chinese characters, they would be blind. Just like when the Han people in later generations faced Miao or Tibetan, the Miao and Tibetans also felt that their words were written very clearly. Why were the Han people just blind and didn't even recognize such a big difference?
Dai Si was stunned for a moment, then reacted and repeatedly claimed that he was.
Xinpi walked around again, and he was still positive about the market situation. Although there are not many shops available at present, and they are not even as good as ordinary county towns in the Han area, and there is a lack of products, these are not a problem. With enough profits, those merchants will flock to turn the Beiqiao Market here in Yunzhong into the largest market in the Beimo area.
The gathering of merchants will bring about various changes.
It is not only the changes in the market, but also for the Han people, especially for the nomadic peoples in the desert.
This is very interesting.
This is also something Xinpi has been summarizing since he arrived in the Northern Region.
When he was in Shandong, Xinpi was the same as most of the gentry children in Shandong. He believed that the Northern Desert had nothing, and was a face-saving project by Emperor Xiaowu. He was the kind of person who could not get any benefits by spending money. His family was destroyed, and the people were killed or injured, and he did not get control of the desert. Not long after, he changed from the Huns to the Xianbei. The Han people still could not enter the desert, or it was useless.
However, this concept was changed after Xinpi arrived in Guanzhong.
The Western Regions, the Northern Regions, or the rumored Southern Regions, and the Eastern Regions may also be in the future. While the General of the Cavalry built a huge framework, he also allowed everyone in this framework to feel new changes.
Everyone, Han people, Western Qiang people, Southern Xiongnu people, and these people from the North Desert today.
This is an open article.
No one can refuse, and no one can resist.
Xinpi had no doubt at all. No matter whether it was the Jiankun people, Rouran people, or the Beimo people in other small tribes, as long as they arrived here in Yunzhong and experienced the convenience of the market, no one would refuse it.
Of course, there may be some people who are not open to their eyes to make their ideas here. After all, the market here is a semi-open model, which is also an innovation of the cavalry and an experiment.
But it doesn't matter. There are already many military academies in the Northern Region Protectorate Palace complaining that it is not as easy as it was in the early years. It is no longer easy to accumulate some military merits to provide benefits to yourself and your family.
This is an inevitable process. If you want military merit, you can only obtain it in increasingly remote and marginal areas. If you can obtain military merits in the mainland every day, it means that officials like Xinpi who govern the internal affairs are unqualified.
Therefore, if someone dares to pay attention to this place, I believe that many people in the Northern Region Protectorate will scream happily, and even fight and grab the mission to go out...
Xinpi thought, then smiled on her face.
No matter when, it is always a pleasant thing to have a group of military academy soldiers who can reassure and trust them.
Xinpi stood at the northernmost end of the North Bridge Market, stopped and looked into the distance.
At his feet, there was a tangent on the ground.
Behind him was the street pavement of stone slabs and gravel, with ditches covered under the bluestone slabs, and transplanted trees on both sides of the road. In front of him, it was ordinary, but passed through a simple and compact dirt road.
And further ahead is the temporary road where the passing vehicles and people step out...
In the future, this road will continue to be repaired, and then go deep into the desert along the exchanges of merchants.