After discovering that the local "Xianxu" children's education in Huaizhong City was unexpectedly developed, businessmen from the Qi State walking on both sides of the Huaishui River gathered in Huaizhong City for a meeting.
Originally, the Qi people did not have a special venue in Huaizhong City, but for this reason, several wealthy businessmen took the lead and spent huge sums of money to build a "Qiancheng Guild Hall" in the east city of Huaizhong City, which was obviously modeled after the "Jiangyin Guild Hall".
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"Qiancheng Guild Hall" has two meanings. First, the local officials and merchants of Qi State who came from the south were mostly based in Qi State's Qiancheng Yi; secondly, it showed that Qi State started out as "Qiancheng princes".
As for now, Qi is truly a "great nation of ten thousand chariots"!
The Gao family of Qiancheng Yi was the first owner and director of the "Qiancheng Guild Hall".
The reason why the merchants from Qi State who came to the south were mainly from Qiancheng Yi is also related to the distribution of industrial giants in Qi State.
Starting from both sides of the Zi River in Qi State, if you want to go to the southern region where the geographical conditions are quite complicated, you can only go by boat or horse.
Of course, it can also be organized into a large number of civilians, carried on the shoulders, and can also be used as a transportation vehicle.
But compared to animals, manpower is obviously inferior.
Therefore, families who came out from Qi State to do large-scale business often had fiefdoms or fiefs, which were mainly used for grazing. Qiancheng Yi was one of the three large-scale horse breeding areas in Qi State.
Being able to organize horse teams and convoys to transport materials thousands of miles away for trade is an ability that can only be possessed by a horse breeding land like Qianchengyi.
In the Qiancheng Guild Hall in Dongcheng, an old man from the Qiancheng Gao family invited fellow villagers to have tea. This was the last batch of tea in Jiangyin last year. Even in the eyes of the senior officials of Huaizhong City, it was already a crappy product, but in the eyes of the Gao family,
This is still a pretty good drink.
"In the past, my ancestors received the blessings of elders in Maiqiu. Today, I am brave enough to consider myself an elder and wish you all the best."
Holding a cup and offering a toast to the guests around you, it is regarded as replacing wine with tea.
"good."
After everyone returned the gift, they relaxed and tasted the hot tea in their cups.
There has been a lot of excitement outside Huaizhong City in the past few days. The local spring plowing is very different from that in Qi, and the farm tools are extremely strange, complex, and large-scale.
Especially wheeled heavy plows, with a few oxen pulling them in front, are as efficient as dozens of serfs.
As for the seeder with its own soil covering function, this was the first time Qi Ren had seen it. He originally wanted to order it, but when he thought that his hometown mainly made profits from animal husbandry, he gave up the idea.
Bringing such advanced farming technology back to Qi was tantamount to "capitalizing the enemy" for the government and business groups in Qianchengyi.
The pastoral forces headed by the Gao family are mainly located to the north of Jishui, while the agricultural area is in Zishui. Although there are also old nobles lingering in the middle, generally speaking, the mainstay of the Gao family's interests are horses and chariots.
The main interests of the Zishui nobles are food and weapons.
Introducing more advanced agricultural technology back to the country will have no benefit to the mountains of Qi State north of Jishui, except to make Zishui more powerful and further release more young and strong labor to arm the country.
Now, after Qiancheng Gao has inspected Huaizhong City, he has unprecedented confidence in the future of Huaizhong City.
If you do some calculations, you can clearly see the situation ten years from now.
Regardless of whether the princes are willing or not, based on the current situation of Huaizhong City, there will be at least 20,000 "scholars" of the right age in ten years.
Twenty thousand or one hundred people manage a county, which is the scale of two hundred counties.
How many counties are there in the entire Qi State?
Huaizhong City's "severe punishments" are supported by a large number of vested interests. After the backward forces are annexed, if they want to resist, they must first kill these vested interests.
Different from the past, there are a lot of vested interests this time, especially low-level warriors and civilians. All barbarians and barbarians who have broken away from the original vassal order can start a new life under the new system of Huaizhong City.
After transforming from an animal into a human being, who would want to be an animal again?
"I have visited Cai Mei and Yun Zhenlu several times. I can conclude that Wu Jie will definitely attack Chu when autumn comes. Wu Jie is now strong and Chu is weak. If Wu Jie's troops approach the Han River, both sides of the Huai River will be Wu Jie's possession."
Everyone didn't listen and were not surprised, because this was a very simple truth.
In the past, if such a regional force suddenly appeared, it might have asked the alliance leader to call for a siege.
However, the international situation has been changing rapidly in the past few years. The country that is in the limelight is Wu, and it is also the country that can fight the most.
The sequelae of King Wu Wei caused many traditional rules to be basically invalidated, and even the great demon's feat of wiping out the Yue Kingdom before his death still deeply shocked the princes of all countries.
As a native of Qi State, the Qianchengyi government and merchant group knew very well that at that time Qi State was planning to send troops directly and find an excuse to pass through Lu State and attack Biyang City.
The State of Lu wanted to use the road, so they attacked and forced Yangcheng. The reason was to restore the state of Xue.
The State of Lu did not use the road, so it used this as an excuse to launch a war against Lu.
However, the large construction site of Biyang State's Second Ring Road was still there at that time. With rich experience, Biyang Ziyubao was able to integrate his forces to assist Lu State.
To fight another "Resist Qi and Aid Lu", the morale, resources, troops, and experience at that time were all sufficient.
It is nothing more than a shortcoming, going to the Lu State to pay bad debts, directly dragging the power of the Qi State to death near the Qilu Great Wall.
As long as the war remains in a stalemate and drags on for a year, won't Wu Jia be able to find suitable weather to send troops within a year?
After analyzing the international situation at the time, Qi's senior officials gave up on this extremely tempting idea.
Times have changed, and looking back at the past, I feel somewhat reluctant. After all, who could have imagined at that time that there would be a big flood right after summer?
The construction period of several months is enough for Biyang City to become a large city and a fortified city in the Huaisi region.
"I heard about the commotion in Jingman. With Wu Jie's strength, how can he use his strength in all directions?"
"That's right. Beyond the Nanton Kingdom, there are Huaishang, Huaizhong, Huaixia, Rugou, Yingwei, Biyang, Jiangyang, Leiyi, Luyi and other places, all of which are places where a lot of money is spent. Nowadays,
Wu Jie is short of people and food. Even if he is an unparalleled cook, how can he cook without rice?"
"Since the autumn harvest last year, the Jingman tribes have been suppressed by Wu Jie, and the various tribes are deeply resentful. We have only been in Huaihe for more than a month, and we heard about the riots in Huainan. The big ones were seven or eight, and thousands of people were gathered; the small ones were dozens, and hundreds of people were gathered.
The barbarian chiefs clamored for 'death and life revenge', which means they must be avenged."
Someone expressed worry, "If we can't quickly put down the riots in Jingman and make the Yingchao comfortable, we will not be able to accept it. If this continues, how can there be peace in the land of Huaizhong?"
As soon as the conversation started, all the people in Qi were talking about it.
There is no objection to investing in Huaizhong City. You must invest.
Not looking at other specialties, just focusing on the two precious silks "Red Clouds and Purple Sky" is enough to make the official and business groups in Qiancheng Yi go crazy for them.
What's more, the carriages, ceramics, pearls, glass, purple sand, iron armor, arrows, etc. in Huaizhong City are either of high quality or cheap. For a force like them, it is simply wonderful.
Qiancheng Yi is located in the north of Jishui and adjacent to Luoshui. The clans that have been united to advance and retreat together for many years are on both sides of Luoshui.
This time, the Gao family took the lead in investing in Huaizhong City and climbing on Li Jie. In addition to making profits, they also wanted to expand reproduction.
As for the Luoshui power, which is based on animal husbandry, the way to expand reproduction is obviously to increase the land for horse breeding.
The Gao family and other families on both sides of the river are eyeing their old rival Chang Di.
To be precise, it is "Suanmao", a branch of Changdi.
This Changdi branch has been expelled from both sides of Jishui by Qi State, and only a small branch is still north of Jishui and south of Luoshui.
The idea of the Qianchengyi government and merchant group is to eat up this isolated Di tribe.
It's just that it's one thing to treat Rong Di as a beast. If you really treat Rong Di as a beast, you are asking for trouble.
Although Shanhou left a small force in the north of Jishui, his own strength was still able to spread on a large scale to Luoshui and to the south of Yan State.
Although the Jin State broke the backbone of the Beidi Alliance, it was not completely eliminated. Otherwise, the Xianyu people would not have been able to go to Shijiazhuang to prepare for the founding of the country.
The Beidi Alliance was disintegrated by the Jin State's "peaceful evolution" method. After that, the various tribes in Beidi had little contact with each other. Facing any big princes, they could only fight to the death.
But the weak will be weak, unable to defeat a big vassal country, and they still have the ability to extort small countries in the region and the border clans of big countries.
Therefore, even if the official and merchant groups in Qiancheng City wanted to eat up the small part of Shanhao in the north of Jishui, they had to give priority to another issue.
If Dan hides the whole clan and takes revenge, how can Qiancheng Yi resist alone?
Of course, if I can't resist, I can definitely call the king to save me, but when the post-war bonus comes, it doesn't mean that your family in Qianchengyi has to eat alone. It must be that everyone who sees it has a share, and then rewards will be given based on merit.
If Qiancheng Yi wants to live alone now, he must have the ability and determination to conquer Duhu on his own. Qiancheng Yi's own strength alone is definitely not enough. The total amount of spears, arrows, and armor is far from enough.
Purchasing from various companies in Linzi or Zishui will definitely alarm the senior officials of Qi State. Only by purchasing from the international market can we remain unnoticed.
As a result, in fact, Qianchengyi Guanshui Group, or Qi State's Luoshui forces, have few targets to choose from. If there is also a credibility issue, then in the current international market, it is obvious that only Li Jie can
One family is what the Luoshui forces can consider.