Later, the one who killed King Sima Jiong of Qi was Sima Yi of Changsha. Now both of them are visiting Jicheng, which is really interesting.

"His Royal Highness of Qi did not bring any records or not?" Sima Ji originally thought it was a huge group of people, but found that Sima Ji had no officials accompanying him except for the five hundred vassal troops and a few female relatives.

"I don't need to bring anything when I came to the Yan King's fiefdom. If I knew that there was such peace in Yan State, even the vassal army would not take it!" Sima Jiong praised his actions and saw with a smile, and hid the fact that he had brought some of his confidants, but he had just entered Yan State.

"So that's it!" Sima Ji said openly, "This easily makes me feel that my level of governing the country is still very high! Governor Xu Meng and Nei Shi Fan Zhao always think that I don't care about the people's strength."

"I dare not agree with this point. If I am the lord of the country, I will naturally have to act arbitrarily." Sima Ji looked at the vassal kings, including Sima Ji, and said, "The Analects of Confucius says that this is the case."

Just one sentence made Sima Jishen agree and looked at Changsha King Sima Yi in a vague way. If he remembered correctly, Sima Jiong later seized power and was very authoritarian in Luoyang. Just like the current Grand Marshal Yang Jun, he was finally killed by Changsha King Sima Yi. Is it true that his personality determines his destiny?

Sima Ji, the King of Fan Yang and King Changsha, already knew about the purpose of Sima Yi, and soon he felt that the purpose of King Qi seemed to be related to the salt drying field. Although there was no clear statement, the general direction was the same as Sima Yi and Sima Su.

Sima Ji actually underestimated the salt and iron franchise. From the beginning of his salt drying field, it shows that the entire coastline of Dajin can actually be built into a salt drying field anytime and anywhere. What is the impact afterwards? What is the gain or loss? It is difficult to estimate at present.

Sang Hongyang created a salt and iron franchise, but it supported Emperor Wu of Han's many years of war, supported the central government's financial power in ancient China, and made China better at centralization than any civilization. Other civilizations expanded their territory for thousands of miles during their prosperous periods, and survived when they were weak. The basic foundation of China's dynasties was not small.

However, the centralization power supported by the salt and iron franchise is so powerful that the idle business model cannot pose a challenge to the central authority. The general germination of capitalism cannot grow at all and can never develop to the point of challenging centralization, because compared with the centralization power, including fiscal power, it is too weak, and it can only develop unless the entire court has been attacked.

However, if there is anything good about capitalism, Sima Ji looked down on those who went to ancient times to advocate capitalism. In his opinion, even the separation of three powers was bullshit. Only two powers were divided into two types, one was power, and the other was money. The separation of three powers was to continuously weaken the power of the regime, and ignore the money that represents capital in another kind of power.

The power of the regime is becoming weaker and weaker, and it is also hindering each other. Rich people can still hide behind the scenes through capital. Seeing that the regime has nothing to do with them, the end result is that money ultimately manages power. It is actually quite difficult to manage money. The former is too easy to hide themselves.

Considering that power is invisible and not only the royal family is not easy to inherit, money can be easily passed down from generation to generation. Sima Ji of course chose to help the court build centralization, and even find ways to make the imperial power stronger.

It is no wonder that Luoyang attaches so much importance to it. Sima Ji circled nearly 20 kilometers of Changtan at one time. After roughly calculating how many months it was put into production, he transported tens of thousands of stones of sea salt. He directly asked the salt from other sources in Youzhou to say goodbye.

You should know that Youzhou, including two counties with a capitulated state, has less than 100,000 households. Tens of thousands of stones of sea salt is a very terrifying number. Moreover, with the warmth of the weather, it seems that the speed of salt drying can be accelerated. It is useless to be unwilling to accept it. The Changlu Salt Field, the four major salt fields in China in later generations, is in Peiping County under the jurisdiction of King Yan. King Yan only encircled a small long beach, which is not comparable to the salt drying field with an annual output of millions of tons in later generations.

In front of the four vassal kings, a layer of silver-white ground salt fields and light blue sky formed a unique scene on the surface of the long, wide and flat mud beach. A few people walked along the way and could see many uncut bushes. Of course, after they were opened up from the salt drying ground, these bushes were dead. Now they were just a layer of undecayed landscape wrapped in salt. In another year or two, these bushes would naturally be destroyed.

"I have never seen such a scene before!" Sima Jiong said for a long time without saying a word, "It's very magnificent, and I can't think of anything to describe it for the time being."

For a time, Sima Jiong was a little envious of Yan State. Although the household registration was insufficient and the climate was not good, it was better than the local area. Although the household registration in Qi State was very concentrated, the area was not small. Moreover, when it was divided, it was not close to the sea. It could not be said that it was close to the beach, but the beach happened to be another ban, and even the Donglai State not far away were all beaches. Donglai State was the original King of Liaodong, Sima Jiong's dissatisfaction brother.

"People can be born slowly, but you can't." Sima Ji was also very proud, but he still pretended to be extremely painful on the surface, "In fact, I have also discovered a disadvantage, and now I regret this move."

"What drawbacks did the King of Yan find?" King Sima Yi of Changsha came back to his senses and asked, "The salt field is endless, what drawbacks are there?" Sima Yi was wondering in his heart. This was obviously a money tree. Even if Sima Ji had taken back the court in the past few months, Sima Ji had pretended a lot. Could it be that King Yan was whining in front of me?

Why are you so smart? Sima Ji would be embarrassed if he knew that Changsha King thought so. He was indeed whining without hesitation, saying, "The sea water enters the field, and I have discovered a lot of arable land. This year, the seeds have not sprouted. I think it is the sea water that can no longer be cultivated. But now it is only three months, so it is impossible to see how much land cannot be cultivated. If the time goes by, it may be impossible to farm along the coast of Beiping County in the future."

"Hmm?" Sima Yi stood on the beach and looked inland. He was flat. He believed in Sima Ji's words. It should be easy for such a flat land to penetrate the sea water. Of course, it is very flat. This is the most suitable place for salt drying in China.

Sima Jiong balanced a little bit and comforted him, "Qingxuan, there are gains and losses. Maybe even Beiping County will not be able to farm in the future, but you should also look at it. After all, this place may be very important to me, Jin."
Chapter completed!