Although Zheng Huchen had already decided that His Majesty summoned him to attack Quanzhou, he unexpectedly talked about selling private salt for a long time. Speaking of which, this is really a waste of time. He has channels, organized, profitable, and the support of the emperor, so this work is not difficult to carry out. As long as he uses some heart, he will definitely occupy the private salt market in coastal prefectures and counties quickly. The difficulty is how to take these chickens and dogs and thieves under his command and become a helper for restoring the country.

However, the conditions given by Your Majesty this time were also very generous. He only increased the price of salt from the officialdom twice, and the remaining profits were all attributed to those private salt dealers. The Affairs Bureau could withdraw 30% from it as funds. Zheng Huchen calculated that the price of salt from the officialdom was at most ten cents per kilogram, and His Majesty would increase the price of salt from it to 30 cents per kilogram. The salt on the market was already a hundred cents per kilogram, and the price in remote areas was even higher. Sixty cents per kilogram is always easy to sell. They could draw nearly ten cents from it. According to Your Majesty's algorithm, he could make hundreds of thousands of kilograms a year.

But don't underestimate this money. The General's Mansion spends only one hundred million guan a year. This money is enough to maintain the operation of the small yamen of the Affairs Bureau, and it eats very well. The remaining money can recruit more people and build a more stringent intelligence network. Therefore, Zheng Huchen is still very motivated to do this. What makes him a little embarrassed is that in these days, the Affairs Bureau has placed its main strength on Xingchao and the coastal states in order to assist His Majesty in winning the Battle of Yashan. Naturally, the intelligence in Quanzhou is lacking.

However, Your Majesty had asked to grasp the economic situation of the major economic and trade areas along the coast, so Zheng Huchen had not handed in a blank paper. When he came, he asked his subordinates to sort out all the information about Quanzhou for nearly two years and brought it together. As for Your Majesty's question, Zheng Huchen naturally knew everything and told Your Majesty what he knew. The two talked until noon, and when they saw lunch, he stood up and left, and obeyed the order to transfer the elite forces of the Affairs Bureau to Quanzhou, and strive to cooperate with Your Majesty in this battle...

Zhao Bing did not obtain more valuable things from Zheng Huchen. What he knows is that Quanzhou has risen again since its founding and has gradually become a major overseas trade port in China. It not only has convenient transportation to Japan and Goryeo, but also has frequent trade exchanges with Southeast Asia, South Asia and the west, and its overseas transportation conditions are better than other ports. The court established the Maritime Bureau here to manage foreign merchants from various countries, and has become a large profit and tax owner of the court, etc., and there is no detailed thing.

"Oh, this guy is worry-free. I just have to turn it over by myself!" Zhao Bing looked at the two large boxes of papers on the ground and frowned. He couldn't finish reading so many things in two or three days, and he had to stay up late again. Thinking about the tight time and facing such a large amount of work, he simply asked someone to move all the things to the west attic, where there was a spacious stall, and he asked people to deliver the meal there and start working immediately.

Of course, the important task is to know the city defense situation in Quanzhou. Although the materials have been classified, most of these materials involve economic aspects and most of the urban defense facilities are passed by. This requires Zhao Bing to select useful things from them. He found that the city in Quanzhou was not demolished during the large-scale city destruction movement after the Mongols conquered Jiangnan after the Mongols conquered Jiangnan. It was still intact and repaired, which shows the importance of the Yuan government to this place.

Like many large prefecture cities and city cities in ancient China, Quanzhou already had Yacheng and Zicheng during the Tang Dynasty. After the Five Dynasties, Luocheng was built, and there were three walls. Yacheng was directly west of the north of Zicheng, and it was located in the state offices of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it was rectangular. Zicheng was also rectangular, with one gate on each side of the city wall. There were moats outside Zicheng. There were also moats inside the city, commonly known as Bagua Valley. Due to the repeated expansion and construction of cities, Quanzhou formed a city with seven gates, the south was the largest, and the city was irregular in shape according to the terrain and the city development at that time, and it looked like a carp, and was also commonly known as Carp City. Quanzhou was planted with thorns in the city, so it was also called "Thorn City".

Quanzhou had a city wall during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. During the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the city was square with four gates and surrounded by three miles. During the Baoda period of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Jiedushi Liu extended the city to twenty miles, 18 feet high, and opened seven gates. During the Tianyou period of the Song Dynasty, the governor Wang Yanbin expanded the city in the west and expanded the city to the east and west. During the Gande period, the Jiedushi Chen Hongjin expanded the city in the northeast. In the second year of Xuanhe, the county magistrate 6 Zao built a brick city, which was more than two meters high and two meters wide, and was converted into outer brick and inner stone. There were repairs between Shaoxing, Chunxi and Jiading. In the third year of Shaoding, the county magistrate You Jiugong built the urn city of each gate, and built 438 meters of yicheng outside the southern city, with a circumference of twenty miles.

Because the city walls are curved, the moat is also curved. The roads in the city are winding from south to north, roughly straight passages, and from east to west, it is also considered straight passages, which generally forms a cross traffic avenue. However, the roads in all aspects are not direct, all are curved, and there are water systems in the east and west directions, and there is a moat water surrounding the inner city. Most commercial streets are in the southeast. There is Longtou Mountain in the northeast city, and there is a large number of vacant land to build residential houses. In the past century, the city and outside the city have been occupied by houses and are dense, without any spare space.

Among the residents of Quanzhou, there are a large number of foreign expatriates, including Arabs, Persians, European Christians, Jews, Indians, African blacks and other races. These foreigners or related things were named Fan or Fan by Quanzhou people. These foreign expatriates also intermarried with the Han and southern Fujian ethnic groups in Quanzhou and reproduced. The mixed-race Fan and Han people were called Bannan Fan by Quanzhou people. Because foreigners in the Song Dynasty were not allowed to live in the city, they mostly lived in the area from the south gate of Nanchengwai Town to Tonghuaimen, forming many large-scale Fan settlement areas, which were called Fanfang and Fanxiang.

There is Jinjiang flowing through the west of Quanzhou City and facing the sea in the south, so there are many ports. The four major ports in the bay are Fashi Port, Houzhu Port, Luoyang Port, and Fengjiang Port. In addition, there are Chongwu, Xiutu, Shihu, Fengjiang Port and other ports. The most famous is Houzhu Port, commonly known as Quanzhou Port, also known as the Shitong Port. Because this place not only has convenient transportation to Japan in the east and Goryeo, it also has frequent trade exchanges with Southeast Asia, South Asia and its west, and its overseas transportation conditions are better than other ports. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, it has gradually become a major overseas trade port in China.
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