Shuntian Prefecture, within the Huai Hua Alley.
A few mule carts were parked at the entrance of the small courtyard.
Uncle Ma's family was moving the furniture into the car. It was not until noon that they packed their bags and took one last look at the home they had lived in for five years.
Su Ce waved at Uncle Ma's family and watched them leave under the warm spring sun.
After this farewell, they would never meet again.
The house next door was also three yards deep, separated from Su Ce's courtyard by a wall in the middle.
Su Ce returned to the small courtyard and took out a sheet of Xuan paper. He laid it flat on the stone table and began to draw.
After the two courtyards were connected, he had to open a door from the middle, but Su Ce gave up on this idea.
He planned to open the middle wall and connect the two houses together.
In this way, the front yard had six rooms facing east and west, and the backyard was empty. After the front yard was large, some rockery screens could be repaired, and the backyard could be divided into an empty space to grow bamboo, grass, and green vegetables.
Most importantly, after the mansion expanded, the system would reward him and upgrade him.
Just as he was sitting on the stone table and planning seriously, Zhu Houzhao came in a hurry.
"Brother Ce, Brother Ce, good news! Good news!"
Su Ce smiled and said," Let me guess. Did the imperial court really abolish the opening system?"”
Zhu Houzhao widened his eyes in shock and gave a thumbs up.""Brother Ce, you're amazing, you guessed it right!”
"To tell you the truth, I heard about it too.”
"I heard that our Crown Prince displayed his might at the Heaven Tribute Hall today. He was simply three heroes fighting against Lu Bu.”
"The Crown Prince used the data of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Household, and the Ministry of Soldiers to render all the officials of the six ministries speechless!”
" I don't even dare to imagine how wise and mighty our crown prince is. After his impassioned, reasonable, and well-founded words were spoken, the departments of the six ministries immediately knelt down before the crown prince. Then, the Kaizhong system was ousted, and the imperial court switched to courier stations to transport grain to the nine borders!”
Su Ce turned his head and covered his mouth as he chuckled.
"Brother Ce, what's wrong? Cough again?"
Su Ce tried his best to hold back his laughter. He could only nod in pain."Yes."
"Take care of your body."
On the roof, Wei Hongying's face was flushed red. She almost burst out laughing.
Crown Prince, you're really something!
In the future, if you find out that this sickly person knows your identity as the Crown Prince, I wonder if you will feel embarrassed when you think back to what you said today!
"Right, I brought the person you wanted. They are all reliable and capable people."
"Come in."
Zhu Houzhao shouted, and the Imperial Army of the Eastern Palace walked in.
"Brother Ce, tell me, what do you want them for?”
Su Ce handed the blueprint he had just drawn to Zhu Houzhao and said,""Let them follow this blueprint and connect these two courtyards.”
"Did you hear that? Do you know how to read blueprints? Take it and get to work!"
The Imperial Army soldiers had resentful looks on their faces. They had never thought that they would one day take on the role of carpenters.
However, they did not dare to complain. They took the blueprints and began to repair the walls between the two houses.
"Brother Ce, now that Kaizhong has been replaced by the Jiangnan courier station, the problem of grain transportation has been solved. What should we do next?" Zhu Houzhao asked impatiently.”
"I thought about it last night," Su Ce said."The relay station can actually increase the income of the imperial court.”
"For example, there are many empty rooms in the relay station that can be used as a temporary resting place for the merchants and tourists along the way.”
"Oh," Zhu Houzhao said,"Isn't this stealing business from the mansion?" He might even be impeached by the civil officials for fighting for benefits with the people. Brother Ce, you don't understand how annoying those civil officials are. If he succeeds, he won't earn this bit of money.”
Su Ce nodded and didn't insist. He continued,""What kind of letters do you send?"
It was also the prototype of express delivery in the future. Anyway, there were many idle people in the courier station, so it was not impossible to let them take on a part of the express delivery function.
"Ah?"
"What kind of letters do you exchange? Wasn't this just running errands? They wouldn't be able to earn much. Besides, who would be willing to use the relay station?”
Su Ce said," That might not be the case. There are countless people traveling to and fro to take the business examination. During the holidays, they can't go back. They can also send letters and items to express their longing." This was not considered competing with the people for profit. When neighbors went out, they would ask someone to bring some letters or something. A portion of the people in the courier station could earn some money by doing these things.”
Zhu Houzhao said,"Okay, but this matter is not urgent. Let's think about it later."”
"Yes."
Su Ce had only suggested this idea and hadn't considered its feasibility. He was just saying it.
Back to the main topic.
" After the opening system is replaced by the relay station," Su Ce said seriously." If I'm not wrong, in the future, before the official policy of the court is officially issued, many big merchants and dignitaries will compete to sell salt to small merchants and commoners.”
This was easy to understand.
Every big merchant and dignitary was most concerned about the adjustment of national policies.
They would know about every policy adjustment in advance through various channels to avoid risks.
Although the imperial court had temporarily covered up the news of the abolition of the open system, and these things were only covered up for the lower class of people, they had ways to get information from the big merchants and bureaucrats.
This was the time they needed.
During this lead time, they could come up with a series of countermeasures to deal with the risks.
Therefore, before the ordinary people knew about it, there was a high chance that they would sell the salt in their hands at a low price and transfer the risk to the ordinary people.
Of course, in order to achieve the change from 'high probability' to 'certainty,' an invisible hand pushing the waves was needed.
How could he block them?
That was to create the illusion that the imperial court was also short of salt and production.
Naturally, these things could only be released to the officials.
The self-proclaimed " smart " people would definitely speed up the sale of salt.
Because it was difficult to exchange salt for salt, it was not to the point that it could not be exchanged. Once they sensed that they might not be able to exchange for salt in the future, would they still hold a piece of waste paper in their hands?
At that time, they would definitely try their best to sell the salt in their hands at a low price.
This was the second step of Su Ce's plan, and it was also a very crucial step.
When he told Zhu Houzhao about the plan, Zhu Houzhao was confused.
"Brother Ce, aren't you harming the civilians?" he asked in confusion.”
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