Chapter 476: Three Hundred Miles a Day
Time transition, mid-July.

The fields everywhere in Guanzhong are golden. In some areas, the seeds were sown early and there is sufficient sunshine, so the harvest has already begun.

At Chiyang Bridge, the team heading north crossed the bridge in an orderly manner.

Xu Si was the first to cross the bridge. He stood at the north of Zhuma Bridge and looked at the golden fields on both sides of the canal. He felt at peace.

The bumper harvest in Guanzhong this year means that the pressure on grain transportation from Jingzhou can finally be reduced next year.

After Liu Qi took over Nanjun again, the first thing he did was to collect grain from all over Jingzhou and transport it to Nanxiang via the Han River.

Even Huang Zu and the four counties in southern Jing did not dare to make things difficult for Liu Qi with regard to food.

If Liu Qi cannot gather enough food, then after the autumn harvest, the soldiers from Guanzhong may come to Jingzhou to stay overnight and eat.

Previously, during the reign of Liu Biao, grain prices in Jingzhou remained stable.

But since the Grand Marshal came to Jingzhou, Jingzhou's grain has been continuously shipped out, and the average price of grain has increased by nearly half. It takes more than three hundred coins to buy one stone of grain.

The rise in grain prices was not only due to insufficient grain reserves, but also due to the influx of money from Guanzhong into Jingzhou.

The arrival of Guanzhong coins also accelerated the depreciation of inferior and ancient coins in various places in Jingzhou.

Instead, various places began to use bad money and ancient coins for transactions, and stored the Guanzhong coins with better quality.

With the same face value, Guanzhong coins are more popular in actual trade and buying and selling, and even have a premium.

Xu Si came to Guanzhong with the intention of emulating Hebei and establishing a Jingzhou trading house in Chang'an.

If this matter is accomplished, it will directly affect the ownership of the four counties in southern Jing and Jiangxia.

Xu Si couldn't say he hated this kind of fence-sitter, but he couldn't say he liked him either.

When Xu Si was standing still to look at the harvest scene in the distance, Liu Ba followed the team across the bridge and rode closer: "Zhizhong, why are you so happy?"

"The weather has been fine recently, which means the autumn harvest in the three prefectures will not be affected by rain. We are so happy, and I believe the Grand Marshal is also in the same mood."

Xu Si originally only had a smile on his face, but now his smile was so wide that his teeth were showing: "If the Grand Marshal is happy, our request will be easily fulfilled."

He came to Guanzhong to establish a trading house in Jingzhou, but he also came to ask for an official position.

At present, the post of Governor of Jingzhou is vacant. After Liu Qi took office in Nanjun, he only served as the prefect of Nanjun concurrently in the capacity of General Fubo.

From the beginning to the end, after Liu Biao's death, Liu Qi took over as General Zhennan and Governor of Jingzhou; after Liu Qi was driven away, the positions of Governor of Jingzhou and Governor of Jingzhou remained vacant.

However, the Jingzhou provincial government always existed and local scholars were elected to serve.

However, the person in charge of the governor changed back and forth. When Liu Qi returned to Nanjun again, Xu Si was appointed as the governor, and the situation was finally stabilized.

Xu Si chatted with Liu Ba, and the four counties in southern Jing also reorganized into a state, but it had nothing to do with Liu Ba.

Liu Ba was the prime minister of the Kingdom of Changsha. The Jingnan Prefecture was led by Huan Jie and established under the order of the Jiangdong court.

While the two were chatting, Huan Jie also rode his horse closer.

Huan Jie and Liu Ba were not very afraid of coming to Guanzhong. They saw that Lu Su, Guo Jia and others only shaved their heads, and Chen Qun had been active for a long time.

Although Chen Qun did not enter the officialdom, who dares to say that this person has no connection with Cao Cao?
Since the Grand Marshal came into being, there has been no sign of him actively persecuting or killing scholars.

Even the unfortunate scholars in Taiyuan and Hedong counties rebelled collectively, which was worthy of their death.

Even so, the Grand Marshal still couldn't bear to severely punish or eliminate these scholars, but instead put them into the Death Squad and gave them a chance to restore their families.

Female members of the family were demoted to slavery, and it was also stipulated that they could redeem themselves after the expiration of their lease, or they could redeem themselves by paying a mortgage in installments.

In short, they would often deliberately let you go when they could have strangled you to death. This magnanimous mind naturally encouraged the courage of Liu Ba and Huan Jie.

Besides, the four counties in southern Jing are relatively independent. Under the influence of these two people, they can also change their flags from the Jiangdong court and return to the rule of the Grand Marshal.

The nearly two million men and women in the four counties of southern Jing are their confidence.

The carriages are light and the roads are smooth. The road conditions in Guanzhong are incomparable to those in Jingzhou. Only the Jingyu Chidao can barely be compared to the Qinzhidao under our feet.

The rainfall in Guanzhong is not as frequent as in Jingzhou, and the growth of grass and trees is also stable, unlike the crazy growth of grass and trees in Jingzhou.

There is no wide and solid road network in the entire south of the Yangtze River.

After two years of repair and maintenance, the Qin Straight Road has now been well planned with villages and communities along the way, and post houses and military stations connected front and back.

Walking on the Qin Straight Road, Xu Si and others had an illusion that when the world was not in chaos, there was also such an orderly scene within the eight passes of Luoyang.

Along the way, everyone stopped talking and focused on feeling the atmosphere of this peaceful world.

Huan Jie abandoned his horse and rode in a carriage to conceive of writing. Whenever he stopped to rest, he would pick up a pen and write, to record his experiences and observations during his mission to Guanzhong, so that his descendants could read and study them in the future.

It was almost dusk when the entire team arrived at Ganquanzhong Township, having changed post horses twice along the way.

It was the first time for many people to travel such a long distance by horse or carriage. They set out from the north bank of the Wei River in the early morning and stayed overnight in Ganquan at dusk.

The only time they could eat some dry food, drink some tea and take a short rest was when they changed the post horses along the way. The rest of the time they had to either ride horses or take a car.

For many people, the experience of traveling 300 miles in a day by land was the first time in their lives.

They were drifting downstream on the river, and it was not uncommon for them to travel 300 miles a day, nor did they feel any obvious change in the route.

On this Qinzhi Road, there is a post station every thirty miles and a military station every fifty miles.

Each post station had more than fifty spare public horses, and they could replace forty horses every time they arrived at a post station.

In this way, by constantly replacing the tired horses along the way, the carriage was able to travel 300 miles a day... a feat.

For the people of Jingzhou, traveling 300 miles a day by land is truly a feat.

The scale of Nanxiang arsenal was constantly growing, and there was the Dan River waterway between Guanzhong and Nanxiang, which was a sword hanging over the heads of the people of Jingzhou.

It could fall at any time, leaving countless people in Jingzhou broken up and reduced to rabble and slaves.

Nanxiang and Xiangyang had access to the Han River for water transport. When Qin and Chu were fighting for the land of Nanyang, although there was a huge Nanshan Mountain between them, the Qin army was still able to control Nanyang and Nanjun.

This is the reason. The route for the Qin army's support is unobstructed. If the Qin army defends the front line, it is only a matter of time before the Qin army in Guanzhong arrives. There are no obstacles on the road.

The experience of riding 300 miles in one day made Liu Ba unable to sleep at night.

He bathed when he passed Shangyi, bathed when he left Lantian, and was arranged to bathe when he arrived at Chang'an University.

When they crossed the Wei River and stayed overnight in Pingling on the north bank, the local inn also arranged for them to take a hot bath.

Today, we rode from Pingling at dawn and stayed overnight in Ganquanzhong Township, where we were forced to take a bath.

Liu Ba was tired from the journey and could fall asleep as soon as he lay down. After taking a hot bath, he felt refreshed, but he couldn't help feeling worried about the long journey from Jingzhou.

The life of ordinary people in Jingzhou was just like that, so Liu Ba would not be overly inclined towards the people or think from their perspective.

Facts have proved that when you consider things for the vast majority of the people, even if they benefit, it is difficult for them to give you positive feedback.

Because the people are very stupid and can be easily deceived.

Only the well-dressed families in various places can represent the local men and women.

Liu Ba was deeply worried about the well-dressed people in Jingzhou.

He simply couldn't find a point of force to counter and check the new dynasty in Guanzhong.

This extreme passivity will definitely bring heavy oppression.

Even if it were not oppression, it would not gain the respect of the new dynasty in Guanzhong.

If they are not respected, aren't they the same as ordinary men and women, being treated like cattle and horses?
(End of this chapter)