Of course, Chen Bing didn't know what Ying Zheng was thinking. He only knew that the rewards Ying Zheng gave this time were a little different.
In the past, he was just promoted according to Qin rules... In fact, after the promotion, he included rewards, such as greater power, more land and homeland. Now Shen Bing has fiefs in his hometown to collect taxes independently.
In other words, if Shen Bing retires and returns home one day, he only needs to rely on these taxes to support himself.
But this imagination is beautiful, but the reality is that all this is passing by... If there is no power, you will lose your head at any time, and you still want to live a life?
This time, it is natural to reward the title. Defeating the Huns and killing the Huns and the Khan of the Huns is almost equivalent to the battle to destroy the country.
After the first level of Jin, Shen Bing was already the leader of Zuo Shuchang.
Chen Bing didn't know what level Zuo Shuchang was. I only heard that before Shangjun's reform, Zuo Shuchang was the top of the nobles... After that, only the royal family could serve as the right Shuchang.
After the Shangjun reform, they were transformed into titles so that non-royal clans could also serve as well.
In addition, there were twenty pieces of silk and hundreds of kilograms of gold... Shen Bing did not know until this time that the so-called "gold" in the Qin Dynasty referred to copper.
This is actually easy to figure out.
There were not many metals in the Qin Dynasty. To be precise, the ancients had not yet recognized many metals, so they collectively referred to all metals as "gold".
For example, gold, platinum, red gold, and evil gold... refer to the current gold, silver, copper, and iron respectively.
Iron is called evil gold because it is brittle and easy to white.
Therefore, what is said in history, "Qin Shihuang collected the world's soldiers and cast them as the twelve golden men"... Of course, the "gold" in this is not gold, but metals including copper, bronze, and iron.
Of course, copper in this era is quite expensive, and can be used directly as currency, so the 100-pound "copper" given by Ying Zheng is quite valuable.
The more valuable silks are actually the ones.
If this thing is Sujin, which means silk without patterns and lace, it would be fine. It would be about eight or nine horses to buy a horse.
But what Ying Zheng gave was the kind with lace and pattern. These were all sewn with pure hand-made stitches and threads. Some of them took several years to make, so one could be replaced with one or even two good horses.
That is, these twenty pieces of silk... are enough to equip two cavalrymen.
Chen Bing is not very concerned about the price of these things.
But silk still aroused the interest of Shen Bing.
In fact, Chen Bing's interest was not silk itself, but the development of Jiuyuan.
As we all know, Jiuyuan is an important node in the ancient Silk Road.
The production and production of silk were monopolized by the Central Plains, so the Central Plains could almost use silk to exchange for everything needed from outside the region, and it was very cheap... Silk was very expensive, but in comparison, other things were very cheap.
It is said that when silk was spread to Rome, Roman soldiers needed to save money for seven years without eating or drinking to buy a pound.
So a large number of property and species flowed into the Central Plains along the path of thick silk.
On the other hand, Chen Bing knew from the modern knowledge system that the two cities under his jurisdiction should not form a competitive relationship but should be complementary.
For example, Yunzhongjun is suitable for the textile industry, but it is not suitable if Jiuyuan develops the textile industry again.
This does not mean that Jiuyuan does not make money by developing the textile industry.
In fact, because Chen Bing has the technological advantage, he saves a lot of labor costs and reduces the price of cloth step by step, even if Jiuyuan develops the textile industry, he can make money.
The problem is that Yunzhong County has the inherent advantages of developing the textile industry compared to Jiuyuan:
Yunzhong County is closer to the market. No matter what cloth produced in Jiuyuan, it is destined to be transported to the Central Plains... The Huns are used to wearing fur, and they still have a lot of cattle and sheep fur, so there is little demand for cloth.
Therefore, if Jiuyuan develops the textile industry, it will have a transportation cost of 200 kilometers more than Yunzhong County, which was not a small amount in ancient times.
Jiuyuan's geographical advantage lies in its important geographical location close to the back cover. The back cover goes west across the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions...that is where there is a huge demand for silk.
It is true that cloth is also needed in the Western Regions.
However, the road to the Western Regions is difficult to travel, and transporting silk under the same capacity is obviously much more cost-effective than transporting cloth... This is also one of the reasons why the Silk Road mainly transports silk. Silk has light weight, small size, convenient transportation, and high price. advantage.
So there is no need to think about it, Jiuyuan is a base for producing silk to do foreign trade business.
In addition, Chen Bing did not forget that Jiuyuan is the nickname of "Grassland Steel City". There are iron ore everywhere, as well as various non-metallic ores... The development of iron smelting industry here is to complement Yunzhong County.
So Chen Bing did not hesitate and immediately summoned Bo and a group of prospecting teams to Jiuyuan.
Of course, agriculture is also essential, such as farming and growing ramie, which are both self-sufficiency in the North and the basis for survival.
At this time, there is basically no need to worry about land. The area surrounded by two hundred kilometers from Jiuyuan to Yunzhong County is all available land.
Although some areas are deserts, as long as the water conservancy facilities are complete, they can become fertile land in time.
In addition, the horse farm can also be expanded near Jiuyuan.
Yunzhong County has limited land, so the horse farm is moved to the Jiuyuan area, so let it gallop.
But before doing all this, Chen Bing believed that the first thing to do was to build a road from Jiuyuan to Yunzhong County.
The straight line distance from Jiuyuan to Yunzhong County is actually only more than 100 kilometers.
But it needs to bypass deserts, mountains and other areas, so it will increase to 200 kilometers.
If you can cut the bend and straighten it may shorten the distance to 150 kilometers.
The reduced fifty kilometers may not seem like a big deal, but the impact is quite significant when calculated.
The first is military interests.
Fifty kilometers are a day of march for the cavalry, and two days for the infantry.
If it can shorten fifty kilometers, it means strengthening the connection between Yunzhong County and Jiuyuan County, which means that it can be defended with less force but safer.
On the other hand, with this road, the troops can also pass through it and quickly reinforce each other.
The second is the business interests.
The two cities can save a lot of freight when transporting raw materials from the Central Plains to Jiuyuan.
Among them, especially silk cocoons and silk... The northern part is located in the north with a cold climate and is not suitable for planting mulberry trees and silkworms.
If you want to do silk business, it is necessary to transport raw materials from the Central Plains.
So Chen Bing did not hesitate and immediately sent people to Yunzhong County to collect labor.
These workers will be divided into several parts and started construction of roads under the protection of the Qin army.
Chen Bing even thought about it and built a city along the road at an important node to prevent the Huns from harassing again.
Once this road is repaired, it will almost be like building a line of defense towards the Huns.
Then it will be difficult for the Huns to go south again.