sweeping the world

Chapter 76 Ran Min's Actions

Do you know how many counties Hou Zhao has?There are so many that even Shihu himself may not remember clearly.

In the post-Zhao regime, there are twelve states at one level, which are Jizhou, Bingzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Sizhou, Yongzhou, Qinzhou, Xuzhou, Liangzhou, parts of Jingzhou, and parts of Youzhou. .

Each state has at least ten counties, and some larger states even have [-] or [-] counties. It is not like the administrative level of the county as it was during the Han Dynasty.

In addition, because the Hu people don't know how to govern the country...or because Shi Zhao wanted the Central Plains to become a huge pasture, they adopted a strategy of reducing the number of people in most places.What do you mean?It is to concentrate the population in the more important states and make those unimportant states sparsely populated.

In fact, Qingzhou is not bad if you think about it carefully. If it were in Sizhou or Youzhou, the population of the whole state really does not know if there are 10 people. Anyway, there are Hu people and Jin people in Qingzhou combined. Four and a half million (the data is not reliable).

In the whole of Hou Zhao, the relatively prosperous place was in Jizhou, probably because the capital of Hou Zhao, Xiangguo (Yecheng), was in Jizhou.

Speaking of the prosperity of Xiangguo, who is it for? Zhang Shi has been in Xiangguo for nearly a month and a half, and he has no sense of where the so-called prosperity of the capital is reflected.

Xiangguo is the capital!But on the streets of this capital city, it is very frequent and common to see corpses.What corpse?There are all kinds of fighting with weapons, and there are skinny and hungry people.Although both Hu people and Jin people have corpses on the streets, but after all, Jin people are the majority...

"Wang Cong, are you from an aristocratic family?" Zhang Shi didn't deliberately choose to be on the side of the road when he walked. corset?
The clothes Wang Cong wears are also the styles of the Han Dynasty. In fact, if the time is "moved" hundreds of years later, the clothes are the warrior uniforms of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but they are really different from the current Jin people's styles.

Jin people like to be suave and suave, with double-breasted, waist-tied, and wide sleeves... Of course, this is something that people with status and status can afford to wear, and ordinary people probably can't even afford a piece of cloth.

Zhang Shi and others came here with a mission, representing the Han tribe, wearing styles different from those of the Jin people, and hanging swords or knives on their waists. Whether it is from the costume or the mental outlook, it looks like it is not Jin people.In this way, although they still have some troubles in Xiangguo, they will not be harassed by ordinary Hu people.

"Returning to the management, although Cong is the Wang family, but... it's just a distant offshoot." Wang Cong was a little gloomy, maybe he felt that his face was wrong, he adjusted it and turned into a wry smile: "If not, I won't be left behind."

Zhang Shi simply nodded. Those Jin people who lived in the Central Plains, those who were taken in by the Han, who didn't have their own stories?It's meaningless to be miserable, it's just to increase your negative emotions.Since they were accepted into the Ministry of Han, and they could still be entrusted with important tasks by Liu Yan, they should be thinking about how to get things done, and then get a new life.

Xiangguo is a little better than other cities in that it doesn't look so dilapidated, and the pedestrians on the streets seem more popular.There are too many people. If you observe carefully, the Caucasian Caucasian people show the arrogance of being a "nation" no matter where they are. No matter what kind of clothes they wear or who they face, they are all The arrogant expression of "I am the best in the world".

Who looks the most cautious on the street?There is no doubt that it will be from Jin.Whether these Jin people are rich or poor, whether they are slaves or officials, they basically walk as close as possible to the side of the street, and they often look around when they walk. terrified.

That's right, except for a few Jin people, most Jin people are not as good as wild animals in the post-Zhao regime. Even if they are killed, it is just a matter of the murderer paying a few sheepskins. In the fear of insecurity?
This time, Zhang Shi, Wang Cong and the others were going to meet a man from Jin with a little status, and that man's name was Jiang Gan.

This Jiang Gan has the same surname and name as the Jiang Gan of the Three Kingdoms, but they are definitely not the same person.He is a retainer in Ran Min's residence. (Note: Because it is easy to identify, I directly call him Ran Min, but at this stage it should actually be called Ran Min)

Zhang Shi had inquired about Jiang Gan, and the news he found out was that Jiang Gan, Zhang Gan, Xiao Quan, Miao Song, Liu Yi and others were all Ran Min's confidantes, and they were considered to be relatively important members of the shogunate built by Ran Min. figure.

Ran Min's status in Hou Zhao is not low, it should be said that he and Li Nong get along best in the martial arts.They can affect the state affairs of Hou Zhao in certain matters, but it is nonsense to say how much Shi Hu trusts.

In fact, when history reached the Jin Dynasty, it returned to the appearance of the Spring and Autumn Period. Various dignitaries and even large households recruited followers and trilogy.

What is Wushi San?This thing was popular among some celebrities at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is equivalent to a different kind of drug. The celebrities believed that obeying Wushi Powder can strengthen the body, and it seems to have the effect of relaxing the mind?

Zhang Shi had originally given up contacting Ran Min, and started with those Korean and Chinese officials who were more greedy for money, but yesterday he was suddenly greeted, saying that a man named Jiang Gan had made an appointment to meet him.

The civil servants of the post-Zhao regime didn’t have much power, especially after Zhang Bin’s generation of scholars were damned dead, and Shi Hu didn’t like Confucian scholars at all. There's not much we can do.

Naturally, Jiang Qian did not openly leave a post or report the name of the Xiucheng Hou family. He believed that someone from the Han tribe would definitely find out.

Xiu Chenghou is Ran Min's title, and Ran Min is now an official of Beizhong Lang, and has the title of Guerrilla General.In fact, the official positions of Hou Zhao were a bit chaotic. It was common for a person to hold several positions. The more prominent a person was, the more official hats he had on his head. For example, Yao Yizhong was the governor of ten counties and six barbarians and the champion general.

What made Ran Min interested in contacting the Han tribe?Probably a few days ago, news came back from Gaomi County in Qingzhou that Yao Yizhong's son Yao Yimai led an army to conquer a new tribe, but he was defeated twice in a row. The [-] people who had been convened at one time fell apart in two battles.

Ran Min will not be interested in things like emerging tribes, defeating Yao Yimai, etc. New tribes appear every day in the land of the Central Plains, and then old tribes will be destroyed, and there will be new tribes. What is worth paying attention to?The only thing they paid attention to was that they accidentally discovered from Gui County that the Han Dynasty produced weapons and salt. It seems that the quantity is not small?
Weapons, even if the imperial court does not have a large scale in the production of weapons, a new local tribe can sell them outside besides arming themselves?

In addition to weapons, there is even salt?Do you know what is called the "Government of Salt and Iron"?Oh, yes, Hu people don't know what the government of salt and iron is. If they did, they wouldn't govern the country so badly.However, Ran Min understands, and understands very well, that is the foundation of a country, which can make a country prosperous or weak.

Ran Min knew that among those great Confucians in the court, there must be some who knew what the government of salt and iron was, but the people sent by the Han Ministry firmly blocked the mouths of those great Confucians with gold, and the Confucians would hold off until they were full. Reporting time.He wanted to take advantage of those great scholars before they changed their words, so that his initially dismissive behavior would change...

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