Chapter 468 Fishing Law Enforcement
When Xu Huang arrived at the shogunate and waited for the message, Hei Xiong had already finished dealing with the official documents in the morning and went to Baie Valley in Dongxiang.

Xu Huang and other officials waiting to be received had to gather in a car and head east to Baie Valley.

Outside Baie Valley, an earthen rampart and a fence at the gate pavilion close off the valley, and fences and hedges are also erected on the hillsides and rivers on both sides.

There must be beacon towers and enemy towers on high places, leaving no blind spots for sneaking.

The gate pavilion stands in the main road, with a stream and a river on the side.

Stone embankments were built upstream of the river to form two water ponds. The two ponds put together look like a gourd, and the gourd pond is where the geese play.

When Xu Huang arrived at the gate pavilion of Baie Valley, he saw that there were also conscripted soldiers and civilians working in the mountains downstream of the gate pavilion to collect stones.

Xu Huang was good at commanding the army, and at Cao Cao's call, he also learned about military settlements and water conservancy knowledge.

He observed carefully and found that the survey of the downstream had been completed long ago, and wooden stakes had been driven into the river to build a larger water dam.

This is no longer an ordinary water weir. An ordinary water weir is only three to five feet above the ground. Looking at the survey and wooden piles here, it looks more like a dam.

After the dam is built, the water level will rise and spread to both sides and upstream, inevitably forming a long and narrow valley lake.

Thinking of this, Xu Huang instinctively began to observe the height of the nearby terrain.

I increasingly feel that this dam project may seem small in scale, but it is very labor-intensive.

The wider the valley is and the more water it can store, the thicker the dam will have to become as it is built.

Only a dam that is thick enough can withstand the pressure of water flow.

But what is the purpose of building a dam here to store water?
Xu Huang had no idea and could only blame it on rumors, thinking that it might be that the Grand Marshal wanted to raise geese.

In White Goose Valley, Black Bear and Zhen Mi had lunch together.

He could experiment on himself and Zhen Mi at will, but now he didn't dare to test them casually.

Therefore, the two of them have been eating a normal diet recently, except that Zhen Mi is guaranteed to eat some pork tenderloin every day.

Today's lunch was no exception. The two of them sat side by side at the table, with a Tai Chi Yin-Yang hot pot in the middle, one containing mushroom soup and the other spicy cumin ginger soup.

Zhen Mi eats light mushroom soup. This way of eating vegetables has a long history and is the way Zhen Mi is most familiar with.

She ate easily, and then helped Black Bear cook some vegetables. She said, "The Hebei Trading House has already started construction. The person in charge of the construction is called Cui Lin. He sent someone to deliver a visiting card and a gift list the day before yesterday. The gifts are very valuable, no less than three million."

"Since he gave it to you, you should accept it."

Black Bear tore up the wheat cake and put it into the mushroom soup, stirring it, and said, "You are also the hostess, and it costs a lot to support so many people. If you accept things from others, help them if you can. It's better for him to ask you for help than to ask others."

"Yes, I am worried that Cui Lin will ask something difficult to do."

Zhen Mi was always worried after she became pregnant. At this moment, she said, "Yuan Shang is always smart. I am worried that he has guessed the truth. I don't want to trouble you, but my father and brother died when I was young. I only have my mother and nephews at home. My sisters take care of them all the time. If my sisters' families are ruined because of me, I will feel guilty."

"Don't worry. There are so many people in the Cui family. Cui Lin won't say anything nonsense."

Black Bear picked up a soaked wheat cake and chewed it, staring at the pot: "I didn't kill Cui Zhouping, and Cui Zhouping went to work safely. I think the people of Hebei can also feel my kindness. They should be able to figure out these bottom lines. Now that Cao Cao's power has been revived, they have no room for bargaining."

Driving Cui Zhouping out was a last resort. This man was too good at stirring up trouble and was determined to unite with Hebei scholars to stage a coup.

As long as Cui Zhouping remains in the central government, Yuan Shang will always regard Guanzhong as his mortal enemy.

Only after Cui Zhouping was transferred away did Yuan Shang dare to continue to contact Guanzhong, and the excess Shu brocade looted from Shuzhong had the opportunity to be dumped in Hebei.

In exchange for gold to be minted into gold coins, plus direct 100-cent and 50-cent coins, the tight demand for currency in Shu could be immediately alleviated.

Now the shogunate continued to send money to Shuzhong, and there were three ways to mobilize materials in Shuzhong: one was the savings in the government warehouse, one was money purchase and employment, and the other was apportionment. The objects of this apportionment were often barbarians and mountain people, and the apportioned materials were local specialties or human resources.

The most important of these is currency, which restricts the development of Shuzhong.

With gold coins as a support, the acceptance and exchange of 100-cent and 50-cent notes will be stable, which will naturally alleviate the problems in Shu.

Only with sufficient gold reserves can the copper-cast Zhibai coins be promoted on a large scale. This is a kind of confidence.

Although this kind of confidence was unnecessary in the eyes of people like Zhuge Liang, in their eyes, as long as the government recognized the Zhibai coins when collecting taxes, these people would dare to mint the Zhibai coins in a smaller size, making them the same size as the Wuzhu coins.

How should I put it? Black Bear always feels that someone will mess up Zhibaiqian in the future.

The current currency is gold and copper coins. Silver is a precious metal, but its circulation is very small. Many people know about gold but not silver.

When silver circulates in large quantities, it will disrupt the monetary system.

At present, it is better to hoard as much gold as possible and bury it yourself than to be buried in the ground piecemeal by piece by others.

The huge amount of gold reserves itself is a deterrent, and he doesn't mind building a wonder with gold bricks like the Skull's Nest to deter all parties.

Such abundant financial reserves will naturally increase the pressure on the rebels.

Black Bear comforted Zhen Mi, saying that there are not many secrets in this world that can be completely hidden.

If there was any sign of trouble, any reliable clues pointing to Zhen Mi, the people of Hebei would have reacted violently long ago.

If Cui Lin wants to visit, then let him come. Zhen Mi won’t see him anyway, and there will be female officials to receive him.

If you have any requests, the female official will convey them.

Zhen Mi will help if she can. If she can't, the gift list of three million is left here. I will help you solve your problem next time.

It can also be said that Cui Lin sent a gift list of three million yuan to Dongxiang and came here to pay homage.

This in itself was a talisman that enabled Cui Lin to successfully build the Hebei Trading House.

If anyone dares to cause trouble for Cui Lin or the construction site, Zhen Mi will intervene and support Cui Lin.

Apart from anything else, the members of the fleet were distributed throughout the three prefectures, and Zhen Mi had plenty of power.

Those who came from the fleet, including the 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers who later came, identified more with the familiar Zhen Mi.

Others like Ma Yun, or the one who married into the Yuan family, were all trophies in their eyes.

How can it make sense to let the spoils of war ride on your head and give orders?
In other words, Zhen Mi has a quiet personality and is not interested in outside affairs.

Otherwise, in Ganquan and Chang'an, anyone who wanted to get something done had to give gifts to Zhen Mi.

I can't guarantee that you will succeed, but at least I can prevent you from getting into trouble.

It was because of this quiet posture that Black Bear developed a bit of evil taste and encouraged her to make money and show her presence.

It would be a waste if you don’t take the money from people in Hebei.

After lunch, Black Bear finally found time to meet Xu Huang and his group.

There is not much to say about Xu Huang. He went to Shuzhong and Hanzhong to maintain military discipline. If he did a good job, he would have a future; if he did not, he would lose his head. There is nothing much to say in detail.

This is a choice between running over and getting your head, or killing someone to get promoted, when you have the power to kill under military law.

(End of this chapter)