Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

After Jiang Wan gave the order, he put aside the matters at hand for the time being.

Although Jiangling City and Gongan County are only separated by a wall, they are very different.

Gong'an was a new county founded by Xuande Gong. The city was small and the walls were low. It could even be said that it was basically a large military camp at the beginning.

With subsequent changes, refugees were attracted to reclaim wasteland, and the original scrawled military camp gradually turned into the small county town it is now.

Sun Qian had done city planning for the public security at that time, but what happened next was beyond almost everyone's expectations.

A small light curtain spreads out in the sky. Through this thing, you can know the rise and fall of thousands of years, develop craftsmanship, and improve yourself.

Nowadays, Jingzhou is connected to the north of Hanzhong and Bashu to the west, and the goods in Jiangling are constantly turning over.

Jiang Wan once lamented that Jiangling might be the strongest city in the world, but now he lamented that this city seemed a bit small.

The wharf outside Jiangling City has been expanded twice this year. Especially since October, the number of cargo ships traveling to and from Jiangling City has suddenly increased.

Jiang Wan is now in charge of Jingnan affairs and naturally knows this well:

It was mentioned in Yizhou official documents that after obtaining the method of making sugar, Kong Ming promised huge profits and personally led the gathered people to open fields for planting sugar cane in Nanguang.

This batch of sugar cane was harvested in September, and Chengdu's sucrose production increased more than ten times.

Chengdu official market began to sell large quantities of cane sugar, which quickly flowed into Jiangling, and was then taken to Jiangdong by Jiangling merchants.

As a result, a large number of merchants heard the news, and thousands of merchant ships from Jiangdong moved upstream, all eager to get this sweet thing back to sell.

There are also countless spies mixed in, hoping for this sucrose method.

Jiang Wan was so excited that he sighed:

The victory in the Battle of Jingxiang did not receive personal congratulations from Sun Hou. Instead, Sun's spies couldn't wait to spill the sugar when they heard about it.

Sun Hou, please think about it. Otherwise, why don't you just donate Jiangdong to do business?

However, these merchants stopped when they arrived at Jiangling, not because they were afraid of the strong water ahead, but because they saw the notice posted by Jiang Wan in Jiangling City.

It should be said that Mi Zhu and Liu Ba had anticipated this situation a long time ago, so they opened an official market in Jiangling City to sell cane sugar.

It is also because of the opening of this official market that the prosperity of Jiangling City has reached a new level, and the dock outside the city has more than doubled.

Jiang Wan happened to bump into Zhou Qun when he went out, so he simply took Zhou Zhongzhi out for a walk.

Zhou Qun's ancestral home was Langzhong. In addition to being quite accomplished in astronomy, he was also Liu Zhang's nominal teacher, so he seemed to be quite a gentleman.

Nowadays, Zhou Qun handles the affairs of Liu Zhang's General Zhenwei's mansion in his spare time, and when he is busy, he also helps Jiang Wan and handles Jiangling affairs.

As for the other general in Zhenwei's house, named Chang Yu, he is usually very busy. He has to constantly run in and out to contact the miserable people who have been bullied by Liu Bei's "tyranny". They unite together and lead only Prime Minister Cao's army. As soon as they arrived, they set things right and took back the land that belonged to them!

Zhang Yu enjoyed these things, and therefore called himself Liu Zhang's confidant. He was too lazy to pay attention to Zhou Qun, who had no sense of existence, let alone what Zhou Qunping did.

"How could Gong Yan be so elegant today?"

Zhou Qun was slightly curious as he was being pulled away.

"I just feel a little emotional and invite Zhongzhi to travel with me."

Jiang Wan laughed, slowed down after leaving the government office, and asked:

"Are the golden tickets from General Zhenwei's mansion enough?"

This golden ticket is a new thing created by Liu Ba.

Now that Yizhou is stable, there is no need for emergency measures such as directing a hundred coins, but Liu Ba has a new idea after referring to the theory of currency.

Nowadays, if merchants want to buy cane sugar in Jiangling, they can only exchange materials for gold tickets, and then use the gold tickets to buy what they need at the official market.

The Golden Ticket was created by Liu Ba, who commissioned Kong Ming to secretly set up a paper workshop in Chengdu. The paper was made using a method of mixing leather paper with rice paper made in later generations, mixed with hibiscus petals as the main material, and supplemented by several unknown auxiliary materials. Finally, it was made into a paper. A special paper with a special color, gorgeous appearance, smooth feel and excellent toughness.

After several months of making this special paper, this secret paper workshop secretly withdrew again, and handed over the papermaking method to Xuande Gong himself to seal it to ensure that no one could imitate the paper within a few years.

Cut it out and write it with gold and ink, then stamp it with the seal of Duke Xuande. This is a golden ticket, which can be used to buy cane sugar, white sugar, Sichuan brocade, silk cloth and other specialties.

All the materials collected by the official market of Jiangling City with gold tickets were also transported to Jingbei.

As General Zhenwei, Liu Zhang was specially given a portion of the golden tickets by Liu Bei, which were used as payment for the previous list, allowing Liu Zhang to exchange for sucrose.

Zhou Qun smiled and said:

"No matter how much General Zhenwei squanders cane sugar, he is still only one person. The gift from Xuande is completely enough."

Jiang Wan nodded, in his opinion it should be the same.

After all, the lord has not been greedy for Liu Zhang's private treasury. With his strong financial resources, there is no problem at all in living his life comfortably.

The two walked slowly along the street, looking at the scenery and chatting about interests other than official duties, such as arithmetic.

It is not easy to promote arithmetic, so Kong Ming and Liu Bei chatted again and again, and finally decided to promote it among officials first and not force it for the time being.

But Jiang Wan had seen the light curtain and knew the importance of arithmetic. Zhou Qun himself had certain attainments in astronomy and had a solid foundation in arithmetic, so the two of them had a lively conversation for a while.

But soon the two of them saw the person with better arithmetic skills:

A group of merchants squatted at the gate of the official market, trying to figure out which materials could be more cost-effective in exchange for gold tickets.

This requires first calculating the approximate cost of a golden ticket, then taking into account the size of the chartered ship and daily consumption of different materials, and then calculating the money paid to the laborers and the prices at which the gold ticket exchange items are sold in different places.

The two people watched with interest for a while before being driven away by the merchant.

"Arithmetic is really a matter of application."

Jiang Wan patted the city wall and sighed.

He and Zhou Qun didn't need to eavesdrop on the business secrets of the merchants. It happened that the official market was near the city gate, so they simply walked up the city wall.

Zhou Qun stood aside, instead of lamenting about arithmetic, he brought up another topic.

"Does Gong Yan have some hidden worries?"

At this time, there were no outsiders around, so Jiang Wan said directly:

"The war will start again next year. Zhong Zhi can go back and inform General Zhenwei."

Zhou Qun stretched out his head and looked at the bustling Jiangling below, but could see no sign of war at all:

"where?"

Jiang Wan looked at Gong'an County from a distance. Just as Jiangling City under his feet had become a strong city in the world, Gong'an County had also become a craftsmanship county.

Under Mrs. Huang's handiwork, water-powered eight-oxen crossbows are scattered along the coast of the county. All kinds of raw materials are piled in the east part of the county. The west workshop of Gong'an County is adjacent, and the small high chimneys of the blacksmith's workshop are closely adjacent to each other.

This is a city scenery that Jiang Wan has never seen before, but he also knows that the master craftsmen of Gong'an County now stay in Jiangling City and generally do not leave the city easily unless necessary.

This order was issued by Jiang Wan himself, in order to prevent Jiangdong from making a sudden attack, and if he wanted to make the city of public security, a city of craftsmanship, shine again...

"where?"

Jiang Wan looked toward the east in the direction of Jiangxia, feeling a little absent-minded for a moment:

"Guanzhong, Jingbei, here, Jingnan, the war breaks out."

Zhou Qun returned to General Zhenwei's Mansion and, following Jiang Wan's order, told Liu Zhang the news in full.

I thought that General Zhenwei would be shocked, but unexpectedly he just said impatiently:

"Why did you stop? Don't stop playing music and dancing!"

As a result, the dancing and music in the hall continued as before, and the chilling atmosphere brought by the news Zhou Qun brought back quickly disappeared.

"This news is not important to me, General."

Liu Zhang shook his head and leaned on the couch. The look on his face was extremely calm. He was really enjoying it with his heart:

"Remember to inform Yu Nanhe completely."

"Just say you didn't overhear it."

Nanhe is the name of Changyu.

Zhou Qun sighed, feeling that Changyu would have no time to spare during the New Year.