Since Qi State valued Guan Zhong and established the "official mountains and seas" method, all countries have followed suit, mostly set up as official camps, and were uniformly mined and sold by the government.

The so-called Guanshan refers to the fact that the things in the mountains are all states. If you find minerals, you must be enclosed and collected and owned. If you want to dig, you must obtain official permission. The big one belongs to the country and the small one belongs to yourself.

The same is true for Guanhai. The things in rivers, lakes and seas are all from the country. If you find that there is salt production, you will immediately circle it and take it back to the country as soon as possible.

After Shang Yang's reforms, Qin State also copied this, and some salt officials were involved in salt affairs.

If the people get some natural salt at the foot of the mountain by the lake, the salt officials will certainly turn a blind eye. However, if someone makes private salt for sale among the people, it is illegal and no one can do it.

Although the price of salt is not particularly high, who does not need salt to cook? If you eat too much salt without salt, the birds will fade out of your mouth.

Therefore, monopolizing the salt industry and selling official salt earns a lot of money, which is a big income for the treasury in a year!

This is also the reason why Fusu did not find a salt lake to tinker with. He could not interfere rashly in this kind of thing. It would be better for Ying Zheng to send someone to do it.

Now, in addition to collecting natural salt, Qin will also adopt a relatively primitive salt cooking method. This method is costly, cost both people and firewood, and has a low yield.

Fusu is preparing to build a salt field to test the salt drying method, and use the sun in the sky to dry the salt out.

This method may take a little longer, but the advantage is that it is low cost and more salt production. After the salt farm is built, it will continue to produce energy sources, which is enough to greatly increase the salt production of Qin.

When the coastal countries become part of the Qin territory in the future, more and larger salt fields can be built in coastal areas.

Even though the salt price will drop by then, the people will no longer be reluctant to buy salt. In general, the treasury will still be more abundant.

With the imperial edict issued by Ying Zheng, the salt official in charge of the matter led his men to the salt lake without stopping.

Compared to the outsider Fusu, the salt official knew the location of the Qin salt production area and quickly arrived at the location of the salt lake. He organized people to surround the lake and build a salt field, and his actions were very fast.

There is no way, the king has an order, so we can't delay making bacon and sausages in Yunyang County. No matter how they try the method, they have to make the first batch of new salt before the New Year!

In order to ensure that the salt can be taken out, the salt officer finished a salt lake and arranged the construction of the salt farm. He also went to another salt production site and set up a salt farm semicolon so that the eggs would not be thrown away in the same basket and could not produce any results in the end.

Although the new salt was not produced, Ying Zheng was optimistic about waiting for the results to come out. After all, Fusu can even make paper, let alone just improve the method of salt making!

Since the matters in Yunyang Academy can give Fusu an inspiration, Ying Zheng further relaxed the traffic control in Yunyang County and allowed more different regions to go to Yunyang Academy to borrow books and give lectures.

Generally speaking, the Qin State does not allow ordinary people to run around. You have to stay wherever you have a place. Only when the superiors recruit people can they accurately gather them together.

Now if you have some knowledge and want to improve yourself or share it with others, you can go to the government office to get a pass to Yunyang Academy.

As the number of clerks who went to Yunyang for official script training gradually increased, local government offices gradually had a collection of books. Although there were not many, it was better than none.

These books that were taken to various places by private servants or private people are like newly sown seeds. Although they may not sprout or grow up, they may also thrive into towering trees.

This is only part of the influence of Yunyang Academy.

At the beginning of September, Fusu received news from the academy that a group of people came from the academy, most of whom were middle-aged and elderly people, and their conversation was extraordinary. They knew each other and all the things they brought out were extended or criticized in the content of the lectures before the academy. No matter how they looked, they seemed to be ruining the situation.

The school received these people politely, but couldn't help but guess their origins and intentions. The more I thought about it, the more I felt uneasy, so I sent a message to ask Fusu to make up my mind.

There are two very old people among these people. Look at it, they should be eighty years old. A man of such an old age suddenly came to Yunyang County from another place, and he thought it was so weird.

Fusu didn't expect that there was such a person, but seeing that the school said that he had lived in the school, he was not in a hurry. He found a day to make an appointment with his classmates and Li You and Wang Li to go for a walk in Yunyang County.

Wang Li and the others were very curious about Yunyang County: In this small county, they first made compost and new plows, and then made bamboo paper and straw paper!

I heard that the textbooks used for basic courses in Imperial College were compiled by Yunyang Academy. They read them roughly and found that they were easy to understand and covered in a wide range. Learning them all can be considered literacy.

They have participated in physical training at IUC for more than a month, so it is good to be able to go out for some breathing.

So on September 9th, when the sunny day of the wind, Fusu took Li You and the others out of the city and went out of the city smoothly to Yunyang County.

It happened that the court was not there this day, and all the officials went home to rest. Ying Zheng finished reading the news from all sides and went to the Imperial College to read it in boredom.

When I walked to the teaching area, all the classes were teaching in an orderly manner. No one even noticed Ying Zheng was inspecting outside. He seemed to be focused and serious.

Ying Zheng was very satisfied. Thinking that Fusu would not have to attend classes for the first two months, he should practice riding and archery on the school ground, he turned to the school ground.

Unexpectedly, Ying Zheng led the people to the schoolyard, but it was empty inside and could not be seen by half a figure. Still, a school official saw Ying Zheng coming from afar and hurried over to pay homage.

Ying Zheng glanced at the empty school ground and asked the school official: "Where is Fusu?"

The school official explained carefully: "Today, the young master and his friends left the city and went to Yunyang County."

Logically speaking, the school’s courses should be arranged by teachers, but Fusu is obviously different. In the Imperial College, he speaks more effectively than anyone else. He proposed to leave the city and no one would object.

Everyone thought that Ying Zheng didn't care about the affairs of the school. This time it was just a small group activity, so no one thought of telling Ying Zheng and skipping class to Yunyang County.

No one would have thought that the first time he skipped class, he would run into Ying Zheng's whim to visit the Imperial College.

Ying Zheng's expression on his face showed no joy or anger, so he waved his hand to let the school official retreat and went straight back to the palace.

Of course Fusu didn't know that he was caught skipping class. He followed Li You on the left and Wang Li on the right, all of whom were acquaintances.

Li You has always been taciturn, but Wang Li is a good person. He has never been idle all the way and talks to Fusu about Yunyang County in Xianyang City.

This is the first time Fusu has heard these legendary stories in Yunyang County that are becoming more and more bizarre than others. He feels it is quite fresh and listens with relish along the way.

When we arrived in Yunyang County, the energetic young people became completely active and treated this trip to Yunyang County as an autumn trip.

Yunyang County is not big, and the news spreads very quickly. When the people heard that Fusu came back, they all came out to greet him.

Fusu got off his horse outside the village and asked the people from the village to take their horses to the stable to keep them, while he was chatting with the villagers who had been disagreeing for a long time.

Wang Li was a bad guy. He also talked to the people enthusiastically. After getting along with the people, he asked, "Does your family really have a portrait of Li You?"

The news that Li You was worshipped by the people of Yunyang County as the founder of the castrated pigs had spread in Xianyang. Wang Li was very curious about this and wanted to see it with his own eyes.

When the other teenagers heard this question, they secretly looked at Li You with a dark face and pricked up their ears to listen to the people's answers.

When it comes to this matter, the people talk too much, and talk about the benefits and necessities of posting images to them—

"Of course, my house is still attached."

"Since my family posted a picture, everything is getting better. My wife who has not given birth to a baby for three years has given birth to a big fat boy!"

"The same is true for my family. Not only are the pigs growing well, but the population has also become more prosperous. I heard that many people from other places are coming to us for portraits!"

"I have a distant relative who cannot have a child in my family. I heard that after I posted it, I actually ran to my house and secretly uncovered the painting and ran away!"

"It's okay, it's no big deal. The manager said that if the old one is broken, I'll print new ones to us this year!"

The eyes of others looking at Li You were even more complicated: I didn’t expect that you would not only castrate pigs, but also give birth to children!

I usually see you being serious and taciturn, but I think you are not easy to get close to. As a result, you are so kind and friendly in the hearts of the people in Yunyang County!

Wang Li was not worried about the trouble when he watched the fun, and even proposed to go to the homes of the people closest to see the portrait with his own eyes.

Li You: "…"

Li You became even more silent.

The initiator Fusu said to Li You with a guilty look on his face: "Senior Brother, isn't you unhappy if I made this portrait?"

What can Li You say when facing Fusu's apologetic eyes?

Li You could only say: "No, I'm not unhappy." If the people hadn't asked first, Fusu wouldn't have made this portrait, and Fusu didn't do it on purpose.

Fusu stopped Wang Li from taking other people to the people's house to see the portraits in a timely manner, and led a group of people to walk towards Mount Saga in a mighty manner.

Not far away, a half-aged man with a book boy looked from a distance for a long time. When he saw Fusu and the others heading to the school, he turned around and disappeared into the bamboo forest.

The book boy ran back to the guesthouse of the school palace and told the two old men who were sitting playing chess about what they had just heard, saying that the young master Fusu was surrounded by the people as soon as he got off the car, and the group talked and laughed for a long time.

He didn't dare to get too close, not knowing what they were saying, but it did seem to be similar to the rumors. The young master Fusu was very popular with the people of Yunyang County and treated the people as well as the arrogant as those royal families before.

The two old men were wearing brown clothes and straw sandals, and looked very poor.

The reason why they were able to live in the guest house in this outfit was because they took out the knowledge that made the academy feel useful.

The people in the Academy did not look down on them because of their poverty. Instead, they regarded them as guests of honor and allowed them to move into the guest house of the Academy with peace of mind.

Yunyang Academy has put on such a posture. No wonder so many people quickly took out their unique skills to share with the people of Yunyang.

Will this young master Fusu be different from the powerful and powerful countries they have met before?

The two old men looked at the chessboard and sighed in their hearts.

The world is in turmoil and the people are uneasy. No matter where they go, they see the faces of the people full of suffering.

In contrast, the people of Yunyang County seem to live outside the world. No matter where they go, their faces are full of smiles and their eyes are shining brightly.

Did their lives be easy?

No, they work every day at sunrise and work in the fields until they spend the whole month. They never relax in the fields, weeding and catching insects, and have to often go to work in the county.

People from other places, because they learned the method of fertilizing fields, they were preparing to take turns on the land and plant the second crop immediately after the autumn harvest.

At the same time, they also raise pigs, chickens, and ducks in every household. When they are free, they rush to work as assistants in various workshops, never letting themselves be really idle.

When the imperial court recruits soldiers, the male soldiers in their family still have to go to the army according to regulations.

It can be said that they have to do more things in the year than the people elsewhere.

But the people of Yunyang County are different from those of many places, and their eyes are filled with unconcealed brilliance.

That is the eyes that only people who are full of expectations and hope for the future will have.

It was precisely those pairs of eyes that made them choose to stay here.

At least they wanted to figure out how the light in the eyes of these people came from.

The author has something to say:

Fu Xiaosu: Although I don’t know who you are!

Fu Xiaosu: But, I've come...

Ying Zheng: My son is disobedient and dares to skip class!

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