At the same time, surrounding counties began to send their own students to take over local positions.

Of course, many positions cost money.

Even if you become rich by being famous, you can't afford everything.

But he can rely on the name of the county governor to install cronies.

Then we will continue to operate Taihang Mountain, which can probably accommodate another 1 million people.

One million people was enough. You must know that after Cao Cao destroyed Yuan Shao, he found that there were still 300,000 households in Jizhou, and he was very happy, thinking that this was indeed a big state.

How many people are there in 300,000 households? Even if there are seven people in one household, there are only two to three million people.

Of course there must be hidden populations among them.

But 300,000 households are the population that Cao Cao can directly tax and conscript.

The strength of Taihang has been proven by history. Even Yuan Shao could not defeat it, let alone other princes.

Cao Cao was not much better than Yuan Shao. After Yuan Shao's death, it would take many years and Yuan Shao's sons had to wait for civil strife before Hebei could be pacified.

It can be said that it was a narrow victory.

This resulted in the subsequent inability to conquer Jiangnan, and the defeat of Chibi was not accidental.

Cao Cao sent 150,000 troops, and he also had 80,000 troops on the opposite side, and he had an absolute advantage in naval forces.

It’s not as disparity as the 800,000 versus 50,000 in the novel.

It is impossible to defeat Jiangnan without the advantage of naval forces.

For reference, when the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, it was only after the navy overran the Southern Song Dynasty that it was resolved.

What's more, Wen Rensheng's cottage was built very solidly.

Of course, there are also disadvantages to base areas in the mountains.

That's because Wenrensheng's internal scheduling is slow.

To this end, Wen Rensheng built a wooden track in the mountain.

Plant trees at the same time and cut them down at the same time. Cut down as many trees as you plant.

When reclaiming land in the mountains, he certainly knew to maintain water, soil and trees, otherwise he would wait for flash floods to erupt.

Transportation is carried out by wooden rails. In fact, wooden rails already existed in the Qin Dynasty.

However, after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, people later abandoned this technology.

Because maintenance is difficult.

Replacing wood is laborious.

The construction of wooden rails is naturally slow, and it will not be possible to build all the rails in a while.

However, you can build it in a nearby valley first, which can greatly increase the speed of material exchange.

Of course, this kind of construction will definitely be slow.

Mountain development has outstanding advantages and disadvantages.

Easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Every time we attack, it is also difficult to transport our own food and grass.

It's like a small version of Shu.

Commercial transportation and commercial economic development within the valley are also very difficult.

Difficult to trade with each other.

So there is an upper limit to the potential.

Once there is peace, mountainous areas will quickly become depressions in economic competition, or areas near the sea that are easy to attack and difficult to defend, making it easier to develop the economy.

This has advantages and disadvantages, it just depends on the weather.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yan finally chose to join Cao Cao.

He has a clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of mountains.

You can resist for a while, but you cannot resist for a lifetime.

This understanding preceded the Shu Kingdom for decades.

But for Wen Rensheng, this was enough.

With his meticulous operations, the resources provided by the Taihang Mountains are sufficient.

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It just kept developing and the court had no time to take care of it and banned it, but there will still be foreign enemies.

Qinghe County in Jizhou, the county governor was bought by Wen Rensheng with money.

There was a Cui family in Qinghe.

They had been interested in Wen Rensheng's brewing business before.

I have wanted to acquire technology several times.

None of them succeeded.

Wen Rensheng knew how to guard against spies.

There are all kinds of means and all kinds of internal education.

It is not easy to deal with the espionage methods of ancient people.

One is personal espionage, and the other is system defense. How can individuals fight against the system?

The preventive espionage behavior established by Wen Rensheng basically uses modern means to adapt to local conditions.

The first is internal education, and then the establishment of Baojia, where everyone is registered.

If a stranger enters, you must register, and if you find a stranger, report it to the local security guard.

Report at all levels.

In fact, Shang Yang did this, and ended up trapping himself in a cocoon, and in the end he couldn't escape even if he wanted to.

If you take a closer look at the content of his reforms, you will see that it is a typical example of the unified dynasty's extreme suppression of the people. It is no wonder that people who know him deeply do not think he is a good person...

But his method is indeed very easy to guard against spies.

Especially now that we are a feudal small-peasant society with a very small floating population.

Only specialized business sectors have mobility.

Others remain stationary all year round and can be easily discovered by strangers.

Therefore, the Cui family of Qinghe never succeeded.

Instead, many people were lost.

This night.

In a study room in the Cui family manor.

"This Taihang Mountain man is ambitious and plotting to rebel. We are in its hinterland and will bear the brunt of it. We must make plans in advance." The head of the Cui family said worriedly.

Coveting the wine industry is just the introduction.

When they later discovered how powerful the other party was, they became worried.

"I once asked several traveling businessmen, and they all said that the Taihang Mountain people are very powerful, with 20,000 elite soldiers. How can we provoke them? Don't bother with their winery anymore, as long as we still have more than 100,000 soldiers.

With acres of fertile land and endless children, why worry about the family’s decline?” The old man at home shook his head.

Everyone also nodded.

After all, they are landlords, scholars, and nobles, but not capitalists.

Not kidnapped by profits yet.

Just like Mi Zhu was the richest man in Xuzhou, the Chen Deng family did not bother them.

Because the two are not on the same level of competition, although the former's industrial profits are high, only middle- and lower-status merchants serve as bureaucrats and cannot get high positions.

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Wen Rensheng didn't touch their land, so they couldn't feel the pain, so naturally they didn't want to be enemies with such ambitious people who wanted to separate one side from another.

On the contrary, the best policy is to try to ease the relationship as much as possible and wait until an emergency occurs to decide whether to surrender based on the direction of the wind.

Just like they will choose between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the future.

The head of the family shook his head and said: "Old lady, you should go and rest first."

After seeing the old man off, he said to everyone: "You don't understand. I have seen the methods of this Taihang Mountain man in depth. He doesn't reject anyone who comes, and everyone teaches him."

Some people were surprised and said: "Isn't that similar to Confucius? There is no distinction between teaching."

"Oh, but he taught those mud-legged people how to run a business and how to work. If the people in our manor also learned what he did, they would definitely not farm on our land and would go to him one after another. This is
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