Three Kingdoms: My Wife Is Diao Chan

Chapter 233
Chapter 234
When Liu Daer arrived at Yiji's house, Yiji had already left and left a letter for Liu Daer.

In the letter, Yi Ji told Liu Bei that when he was young, he came to his fellow villager Liu Biao and worked hard for Jingzhou all his life. Now that Liu Biao is dead and Jingzhou is stable, he has nothing to worry about.

Yi Ji also told Liu Bei that he had lived in Xiangyang for many years, and this time he planned to go to Xiangyang to visit his old friends, then go to rebury Liu Qi, and finally return to his hometown in the north.

After reading the letter, Liu Daer sighed, knowing that the matter was irreversible.

Yiji left Jiangling and traveled north in a carriage, intending to arrive at Xiangyang before the New Year's Eve.

Before he reached Bian County, someone was waiting for him on the road.

"I am following the orders of my son, and I am waiting for you here, sir."

"What is the name of your master, why did you send you to wait here?"

"My son has heard of Mr.'s name for a long time, and heard that he is going north, so he specially ordered the young man to send a horse to him to relieve him from the exhaustion of the journey. As for the status of the master, he is also the young master of the prime minister's residence."

"Cao Chong?"

When Yi Ji heard about the young master of the prime minister's mansion, he immediately understood who it was. He had been under Liu Da'er for many days, and he knew exactly what Cao Chong did to Liu Da'er.

"Tell your son, Yiji will not be rewarded for no merit..."

Yi Ji resigned because he was disheartened. In addition, he didn't have a good impression of Lao Cao, and he didn't want to have anything to do with Cao Chong, so he immediately refused.

However, Yiji found that the person who delivered the carriage had left and left the carriage on the side of the road.

Yi Ji shook his head, and thought to himself, forget it, it's just a carriage, and it doesn't look luxurious.

It's just that when he opened the curtain casually, a wave of heat hit his face!

The carriage was indeed not a luxurious one, it was just a random one pulled from Cao Ren's residence, but a coal stove was installed inside the carriage.

As soon as Yiji left Jiangling City, the school affairs office passed the news to Cao Chong.

Cao Chong sent Yi Ji a carriage for no other purpose, but to make a good relationship first, so that he can win him over later.

At the same time that Yiji was heading north by car, Cao Chong also led a group of people south to Xudu.

As the New Year is approaching, Xiahouba, Xiahoushang, Cao Yan, Cao Tai and other families in Xudu went back together, plus Liu Ba, Zhen Mi and Wen Jiao all stayed in Luoyang.

Liu Ba was an official of the prime minister's mansion, he went to Luoyang and stayed there by himself, Cao Chong took him back to meet with Lao Cao this time, followed a procedure, and he will stay in Luoyang completely to serve in the future.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the whole area is covered with silver. Fortunately, there is a carriage equipped with a coal stove, so the journey is more comfortable.

Since there is no beautiful woman to accompany him this time, Cao Chong decided to invite Cao Yan and Cao Tai to fight the landlord together in order to avoid the loneliness of the journey.

Cao Chong, Cao Yan, and Cao Tai played cards along the way while discussing the regulation of the school administration.

The scale of the school affairs office is getting bigger and bigger, and the personnel are getting more and more complicated. The previous simple management model is somewhat inadequate.

In order to avoid management chaos, Cao Chong, Cao Yan, and Zhou Buyi have always wanted to formulate a strict management system for the school affairs office. It just so happened that they were on the road now, so they discussed it together.

Cao Chong returned to Xudu this time, and planned to stay until the Lantern Festival before returning to Luoyang.

Anyway, there is nothing to do in winter, and the county government has no official duties. Cao Cao decided to use this time to sort out his property accounts.

There are many industries under Cao Chong's name, and they are also very profitable, but most of them were started by Cao Chong on a whim, lacking a strict development plan, and the management and accounts are in a mess.

Cao Chong's industries and shops obviously have the advanced characteristics of later generations, but the various supporting measures of this era obviously cannot keep up.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when bamboo slips and wooden slips were popular, Cao Chong certainly could not formulate a complete accounting system for his own industries and shops.

Fortunately, Cao Chong can now produce large quantities of paper and pencils cheaply, which brings great convenience to Cao Chong. Now Cao Chong is waiting for the system to set up printing techniques for himself.

With cheap paper and pens, Cao Chong plans to take advantage of this annual vacation to develop a unified account management system for his industries and stores.

At the same time, Cao Chong also planned to train a large number of arithmetic talents. Regardless of his own industry or the construction of Luoyang, there was a huge demand gap for middle and lower-level accounting officials.

It takes a long time to cultivate high-end talents, but low-end talents who only need to be able to write and do arithmetic can be quickly cultivated. Cao Chong plans to get a batch of urgent needs first.

The Luoyang construction site recruited 99 workers, [-] of whom could not read. This phenomenon has caused Cao Chong and Xia Houshang headaches for a long time. Luoyang urgently needs a group of talents who can write and count to help manage the construction site.

After Cao Chong returned to Xudu, Fazheng was the person he saw the most. Salt was the most important of all Cao Chong's industries.

The news that Fazheng brought to Cao Chong was not optimistic.

Almost all local officials and gentry families are extremely opposed to the new salt policy, and some people in the court have already started to propose the abolition of the new salt policy, even Lao Cao's coercion is useless.

"Young master, hundreds of officials in the court resisted, and the subordinate Salt Administration Bureau is just a display; due to the collective opposition of the gentry and local officials, the price of salt in almost all counties is now rising."

Fazheng's new official position is the supervisor of the Salt Administration.

After Cao Chong proposed a new salt administration last time, Lao Cao established the Dahan Salt Administration Office under the name of the Shaofu Supervisor. Of course, all officials have nothing to do with the Shaofu Supervisor.

Cao Chong already knew about this matter from Lao Cao, and Lao Cao had instructed Cao Chong to suspend the dumping of salt in Jingzhou and Jiangnan, and hoard a large amount of salt.

Lao Cao was very concerned about the establishment of the Salt Administration, and regarded it as a key point in competing for interests with the imperial civil servants.

Lao Cao hoarded a large amount of salt to deal with the current situation of rising salt prices.

"Actually, the key to the implementation of the salt policy lies in the control of the output of salt. The aristocrats dare to raise the price of salt unscrupulously because they control the output of most of the world's salt." Cao Chong said indifferently.

"Currently, the salt production capacity I have is insufficient. Let them be arrogant for a few days. I have improved the efficiency of salt production. As long as the big salt mine starts mining, the salt production controlled by me alone can supply the entire Central Plains. I Look at how arrogant they were back then."

After Cao Chong finished speaking, he asked Fazheng: "How is the preparation for the classification of salt?"

"Samples have been collected across the country, and they can be divided in detail after a year." Fazheng replied.

"Young master, why do you have to set the Hedong Pond salt as middle-grade? It's hard to find a better salt than the Hedong Pond salt, and the table salt you make from mineral salt is nothing more than that."

"That was in the past. In the future, using mineral salt to make table salt will not only be efficient, but also of good quality!" Cao Chong replied with a smile.

After answering Fazheng's question, Cao Chong also felt a little heartbroken: One thousand health points!The system is not ordinary black!
(End of this chapter)