Four years later.

The southern end of the State of Chu is located in Wuyi and Wu Pass.

A convoy of more than a hundred carriages was at the gate, and the carriages were loaded with various cargoes.

Si Guanyin, who was guarding the pass, was checking a bronze medal like a bamboo joint, with fine texts on it.

"The Xia Dynasty stopped the war in Heze in the year of Heze, the month of Xiachen, and the day of Yihai, the king met in Heze, and the Wei people returned to Yuguan. The great gong Yin Xi ordered the king to gather Yin Ni to cast the gold festival for the Mo family on Si Shang. There were 150 chariots and chariots. Do not carry muskets, gunpowder, or books. They will go by themselves, and Geng Linwu, Geng Cenyang, Geng Chengyi, and Geng Changsha. Do not conquer the gold festival when they see it, and if they don't see it, they will conquer the gold festival."

This kind of gold and silver craft is monopolized by the royal family, and it is difficult for ordinary people to imitate it, but it is not difficult for the craftsmen on the Si Shang to abide by the law when they pass the customs.

Four years ago, when the Heze Alliance was held, the princes seemed to be fighting for reason, but in fact they were speaking according to their strength.

The Wei State was weak, and the Mohist family in Si Shang interfered in the return of Yu Pass, causing the King of Chu to continue to be exempted for five years. For this reason, the King of Chu ordered the Dagong Yin to cast several sets of duty-free copper festivals.

People all over the world couldn't help laughing, saying that the King of Chu bought Yuguan with tariffs. When the King of Chu heard the rumors in the court, he laughed loudly and said, "If no one dies, no swords and weapons, the Chu people have Chuguan, why laugh at me?"

In fact, that is because the Mohist school revealed that it did not want the war to continue, and it clearly expressed its attitude towards the Central Plains situation. It did not want Wei to be strong or Chu to regain Daliang, making Daliang City a thorn that could not be swallowed between Wei and Chu.

Second, the internal reforms of Chu were in extreme and fierce times, and a large number of vassals were moved to the newly opened border areas such as Cangwu and Dongting. The internal unstable were not stable. Qu, Jing and Zhaosan were extremely dissatisfied with the centralized reform of the King of Chu. The King of Chu continued to borrow a large number of loans to purchase weapons and arms.

Although Si Guanyin, who was stationed here, was not qualified to follow the king to participate in the alliance, and he did not know the various intrigues and secret battles during the alliance that day, he still knew the open origin of the bronze festival cast four years ago.

Linwu is the fief of Linwu Lord, but Linwu Pass belongs to the inner palace, is the most important trade border at the southernmost end of Chu State, and is also the southernmost end of Chu State's rule.

When the King of Chu used the Mohist family to help train the new army, he attacked Baiyue, Cangwu and other places before attacking Wang Ziding, and carried out a not-so-effective rule here, and in order to centralize power, a large number of monarchs were sealed to the border.

Now the South China Sea Chamber of Commerce in Si Shang has destroyed Yangyu, Fulou and Linwu as important transit stations. Although it is far from being a gathering of merchants, it also brings huge income to the King of Chu every year.

Goods outside the tax-free festival are subject to taxation.

Si Guanyin checked this duty-free festival, which was just a formality.

The leader of the caravan opposite habitually took out a few betel nuts and handed them over. Si Guanyin thanked him and put them in his mouth to chew.

This is a custom that came from Fulou Yangyu. It is said that it can prevent miasma and is very popular in the places where Xia and Yi live in the south of Chu.

"These people from your chamber of commerce will make a lot of money a year, right? Carrying some of your own private goods with you will also make a lot of profit."

The leader of the caravan was a man in his forties, with two fingers missing, and he should have retired from the righteous army.

Hearing Linwuguan Siguan say this, he hurriedly said, "This is unspeakable. Public is public, private is private. Not only does the Chamber of Commerce conduct strict investigations, but the people from the Supervision and Inspection Department also need to investigate. It is okay to do trade, but they use their own money to buy goods and sell goods through the Chamber of Commerce's duty-free festival, and that is to be punished. I took office because of this and was thrown to the southernmost construction port at Juli for labor..."

"This is the reason for restraint. If I don't carry private goods, I can get a lot of salary every year and live a good life. But if I carry private goods, although I get more money, I have to serve many years of labor. The original blessing has become a disaster because of uncontrollable greed... Taoism still makes sense."

The two of them used Chu Si dialect in conversation, which they could understand, but they were not authentic Chu Yin or Si Yan.

Si Guanyin laughed and said, "It's not possible to rely on self-cultivation alone. Are you still afraid of being caught by the people from the Supervision and Inspection Department..."

While speaking, several minor officials in charge of points replied: "Siguan, there are a total of 194 vehicles, including 12 vehicles that cost thirty taxes, and the rest are the cars, horses, entourages and food needed along the way."

Si Guanyin signaled that he knew it and was too lazy to check it out. He could not afford to provoke people from the Mohist Chamber of Commerce, and his internal relations were complicated. It is said that some Chu nobles invested in it. If they wanted to bribe, they would usually look for those private merchants.

So he asked in a formal manner: "There are no muskets, gunpowder and books in the car, right?"

"No, absolutely no. But there are four trains of railing guns, which are from Linwujun. We just help carry them. I wonder if Linwujun told you?"

Si Guan Yin thought to me that Linwu Jun still had to tell me that Linwu Jun’s fief is the southernmost, and there are many barbarians around him. He needs to fight for many years. The king can only turn a blind eye to this matter. Besides, it’s not that your Mo family needs a “long-term worker” in Yangyu. Linwu Jun makes a profit from this. What should I care about your affairs? It’s not good to provoke you or provoke Linwu Jun. As for the king, he is far away in Yingdu, but he can only listen to his words in the end.

He murmured in his heart, and stopped asking about these things that had little to do with his interests, and instead asked: "How are you doing when you repairing the river in Lechang Gorge?"

The name of Linwu originated from the close proximity to the upper reaches of Wujiang River.

The Wu River is the upper reaches of the Pearl River, and Lechang Gorge is the most difficult section of waterway to pass south of Linwu. Two years ago, the Mohist school began to build passes in Lechang Gorge and level the waterway.

The main labor force is still those "long-term workers", and the money given is not small every month, and you can get the land after finishing it.

Linwujun's main source of income was human trafficking. Because Linwuyi was only established for a few years, the Chu State was not many people in Chu. Originally, there were many barbarians in Cangwu. Linwujun relied on this kind of conquest to earn hundreds of gold a year and opened a gold and silver mine in Linwu. The fief of the fief was not considered a big income at all.

Linwu is both the upper reaches of the Pearl River and the upper reaches of the Xiang River. There is no canal built here, and it is an extremely critical transit station.

The Mohist family had several cities in the South China Sea, and the rebellion was basically stable.

Especially two years ago, the Mohist family in Si Shang recovered from the Central Plains War and immediately sent regular troops to arrive at the South China Sea along the coast of Yue Kingdom.

After a large number of local aristocrats, priests and other literate populations with local culture were executed by gunfire on the grounds that "it is a great sin to support one person, and there is a living sacrifice, and it is unwilling to hand over the land to return it to the people." The rebellion disappeared and was cut off from its roots.

In addition, the Mohist policy here tends to build land, and the major shareholder of the South China Sea Chamber of Commerce is the Mohist itself. On the one hand, immigrate, improve people's livelihood, and destroy local culture. It has been pacified in several years, and even recruited local soldiers.

Linwu’s special location allows Linwu to enter the Yangtze River through the Xiangjiang River; it can also enter the Pearl River through the Wujiang River; it is also an important channel in the Nanling area.

Guan Yin of Linwu knew that after the alliance four years ago, the Yue Kingdom had completely declined, and the Mohist fleet could be docked at the port of Yue Kingdom on the Yangtze River at will. All goods in the entire Vietnamese country were tax-free and passed through the Yangtze River.

However, although it is an important waterway in Chu, it is all countercurrent.

The goods on Si are mainly from Sishui to Hangou, entering the Yangtze River, part of which goes through the Yangtze River, part of which is transported to Yangyu along the Yueguo Hai'an Line, and then sold north from Yangyu and other places.

After the land reform in Yangyu, local productivity was liberated, consumption level was growing, and more specialty goods began to be imported into the State of Chu.

Once the river channel in Lechang Gorge is completed, Linwu General is an important pathway connecting the north and south, and his Linwu Pass will also rise in the water. This is what concerns his vital interests.

As for the kings and princes, everything between the princes and the kings had nothing to do with him, and this was also a standard bureaucrat after the centralized reform of the Chu State.

The construction of the border and road waterways of Lechang Gorge has not been completed at this time, but it has also taken a basic prototype. Otherwise, nearly two hundred carriages would not have come this time.

Under the tax exemption policy, it is difficult for the local handicraft industry of Chu to compete with various goods in Si. Although the Chu King centralized power to increase income and power, the Cangwu and other border areas opened have actually become dumping places for Si Shang goods, except for some dot-shaped cities distributed on both sides of the water system and on both sides of the river system.

The person who led the caravan answered the words of Linwuguan Siguan, who symbolically circled around the last few carriages to see if the goods inside were the same as those on the list.

When he saw the last few cars, Si Guan pointed at the tightly sealed box on the car with some confusion and asked, "What is it here? Can you open it and see?"

The caravan leader smiled and said, "Look at it casually. They are all tools to measure mountains and rivers."

"We giants said that the Heze Alliance four years ago? The Mo family regarded Yu as the sage. As today's chaos, the map of mountains and rivers in Jiuzhou was hidden in Luoyi and it was difficult to appear. One is to transfer trade in the future, the second is to prevent any further disasters of water and fire, and the third is to allow mountains and rivers to be managed."

"At that time, the princes asked the people of the survey team of the Mohist family to travel to various countries and not obstruct, nor could they drive them away even if they had a war. They were all asked for the letter of the alliance, and we also carried it with us, and we could check it."

Si Guan opened the box and saw that there were some strange tools inside. He didn't recognize too many of them, but he also knew that many of the Mohist skills were not something he could know, so he waved his hand and said, "Go over."
Chapter completed!