"But in reality, aren't we not having money? Without the 4 billion yuan loan from Chen Zichuan, shouldn't we have no money now?" Cao Hong was a stingy person. He didn't understand what balance of income and expenditure means. He only knew that he had money but no money. Generally speaking, this rooster who only entered and did not leave. .

"On the contrary, this state is actually maximizing profits. The meaning of saving money is to be at most guard against certain unexpected situations. The meaning of balance between income and expenditure is to constantly make money with money, and then create greater benefits, and the stall will become bigger and bigger." Liu Ba glanced at Cao Hong and said, "If you don't have money or something, you'll make money again. If you are stingy like Cao Hong, you will have no future."

"If this happens, we can't do anything without this money, we can only do it?" Zhang Xiu was also nervous. He was still waiting to expand and pull up his Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Finally, relying on the two hundred people that Hua Xiong did not give him to train a batch of double talents. Zhang Xiu was still waiting to expand his army.

"This is not the case. At the beginning of the year, I had already calculated each expenditure. I still know what time to make an allocation." Liu Ba smiled and said, "I didn't have money this time because I happened to have a loan, so I just spent it."

After that, Liu Ba explained the entire process to everyone as simply and bluntly as possible. Of course, after saying that, most people on the field were confused, just thinking that Liu Ba was so powerful, and those who could understand clearly knew how quickly the country's strength would recover under this situation. He was obviously convinced to look at Liu Ba.

After all, it doesn’t make sense to save money, but instead turns it into a physical object, and it is more valuable if it can continuously bring benefits.

"As for this speed, do we have any hope of catching up with Taiwei Liu?" Chen Qun asked curiously. Although he felt that there was no possibility, he was still interested in asking questions. After all, if professionals are willing to answer, it would be better to clear up their doubts.

"It's absolutely impossible." Liu Ba said with a trembling face, "Not mentioning that Chen Hou's technique is similar to what I use now, but it's more skillful than me. Just talking about time, the other party implemented this way a long time ago. Moreover, at that time, Chen Hou's situation was equivalent to someone who had been borrowing money for construction, and it's even more unsolvable until now."

Because Liu Ba learned a lot, he knew what Chen Xi’s current state was. Chen Xi himself has become a credit principal. As long as Chen Xi’s own credit system has not collapsed, whether it is using fields or copper ore as collateral, as long as the current system has not collapsed, money is just a number for this guy.

In addition, compared with Cao Cao's efforts to improve the upstream and downstream industries, Liu Bei's side has basically completed construction. In this case, even if Chen Xi does not use his own credit system to make a fuss, the risk resistance of his complete industrial chain is enough for Chen Xi to withdraw funds from it for other places.

This is why for a while, Liu Ba always wanted to put his own industry under the industrial chain built by Chen Xi. Unfortunately, Chen Xi kicked out every time. Liu Ba was also very irritable. He leaned against a big tree and enjoyed the cool air, but he was always kicked by a big tree.

"Okay, Zichu, you will manage the funding matters. According to the decisions of all of us at that time, we will start to build the infrastructure under our rule." Although Cao Cao roughly understood what was going on and knew that Chen Xi had basically no competition in this regard, Cao Cao was still extremely confused when he heard Liu Ba say it with his own ears.

"The cement manufacturing plant arranged by Chen Hou has started construction. The cement produced every day is enough for us to use, and it is a little rich. At the same time, I have obtained the raw materials, but if I want to copy it, it will probably take next year." Liu Ba said helplessly.

First, there is a material problem, this has been solved, and the material ratio is still a problem, and finally the fire problem is a problem. Whether it is temperature or other special requirements, it requires multiple verifications. In short, this is a very headache.

Liu Ba estimated that according to the time it took to burn a furnace, it would be a miracle to be able to be copied in the next few months. If you are lucky, it would probably not happen until next year. If you are not lucky, it would take more time.

Speaking of which, Chen Xi only knew the materials and then asked someone to burn them according to the materials. In short, it took a long time to burn them to be considered a finished product. If Cao Cao could copy them within a year, Chen Xi was not surprised. However, at that time, the world would be unified, and Liu Bei would directly provide this kind of thing to Cao Cao.

"Can you not be able to copy it next year?" Cao Cao was silent for a while, and then said, "Mobilize a group of craftsmen to start researching to see if it can be successful in a short period of time. As for the firing kilns, one is not enough to build two, and two is not enough to build three."

Liu Ba nodded. In his opinion, there was actually no need for investment in this regard, but since Cao Cao wanted to increase investment in this area, Liu Ba didn't mind, that was, he just spent some money.

"How is the road heading west now?" Cao Cao continued to ask.

"This matter is supervised by me. The more than 100,000 prisoners of Zahu may be extremely humble because the north was completely wiped out by us. Their work is far more hard than normal prisoners. At this speed, we can build to the Western Regions by the end of the year." Du Xi glanced at the calculated construction period and said.

"That's good. We have to build another road from Chang'an to Hanzhong. Even if Liu Jiyu can cut the ridge into the road, we can do this." Cao Cao did not take it seriously as Guo Jia guessed at the time. He had a lot of things, and who had the heart to take care of the captives.

As for Du Xi, the prisoners of Zahu were divided into more than 40 teams, each with 300 people. On one hand, they were used as signs and to determine the road conditions. They were divided into forty sections while exploring and building, and directly built the road that merchants who were traveling in the Western Regions used to be the national highway where the twelve lords walked together.

"Okay." Du Xi nodded. This kind of thing is not difficult, but in the concept of these people, cutting off mountains and rivers has an impact on Feng Shui and Earth Veins. Therefore, before doing this, we need to find a group of experts who understand Feng Shui and Geography, just like what Liu Zhang did at the beginning, and study it carefully. Which mountain can be cut and which mountain cannot be cut.

"Long article, how did the matter assigned to you investigate?" Cao Cao turned his head and asked Chen Qun, "What is our West?"

"I have already had some of the highlights. There are countries west of the Western Regions, and there are many countries. I have read a lot of classics and have basically confirmed that there are countries west of the Western Regions that are comparable to our Han Dynasty." Chen Qun said slowly.

"Zixu, after the road from Chang'an to Dayuan and then to Pamirs is completed, how long will it take for us to go from Chang'an to Pamirs?" Cao Cao said slowly, he had already guessed.

"After the road is completed, it is thousands of miles away from Chang'an to Pamir Mountain, but if you advance with cavalry, you may be able to reach it in less than term." Du Xi replied in silence for a while, and he also understood the situation.

"Is it less than term? If food supplies and other materials are to be transported, will it take within a month?" Cao Cao smiled bitterly in his heart. He had basically determined what Chen Xi wanted to do, to fight the Central Plains and compete with the great powers?

"In fact, if we really want to say distance, we don't detour the roads ourselves. Unless it is a natural desert, we cannot build the roads there. If we really say distances, it may be only eight thousand miles, and our current cavalry is far faster than before." Du Xi also sighed incredibly at this time.

When others heard Du Xi's words, they nodded silently. If the urgent report that the fast horse was once urgent and could travel 800 miles a day, and the cavalry regiment with one man and three horses could travel 300 miles a day, then the urgent report that the fast horse was now urgent and might travel 4,000 miles a day, and it would be more than 200 miles an hour.

As for the cavalry regiment with one man and three horses, now, it cannot be compared with the urgent report of the same day and night, but there is absolutely no problem in traveling thousands of miles a day. It is not a joke to say that you can send a large army by throwing a large army through eight thousand miles apart.

Including the urgent reports and the dispatch of troops, the army can be sent to the Pamir Mountains within 20 days. According to the imperial standards, the emergency reports and the time required to send troops is still far behind. The standard of increasing the army to arrive at the place where the accident took more than three months before reaching the extreme wall of the empire.

Of course, it is definitely nonsense to ask everyone for three horses, but even ordinary pack horses, according to the current situation, there is no problem with two hundred miles a day. According to this calculation, it will only be one and a half months before even reaching the Palacio, and there is still half time left.

"So that's it. No wonder Chen Zichuan wants to build a ranch in the north. Is his goal to fight?" Cao Cao said with a sigh. "With the road plus the number of animal power and the number of good varieties, we already have the capital to fight."

Once, both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty stopped at the Pamir Mountains. The biggest problem was the difficulty of deploying troops. For the Han Dynasty, the opponents there were not that they could not defeat them, but that the losses caused by putting troops there were too unbearable.

Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, no emperor was willing to fight a war of little significance in such a distant place.

For example, Chen Xi's current tricks are to force the distance between the two sides, and the difficulty of deploying troops has dropped to this level. Not to mention that the animal power has been greatly improved in all aspects, even if it is not so terrible, the Han emperor will also be able to defeat the Western Regions.
Chapter completed!