The journey was quite stable. Although there were no stations on this broken road, Chen Xi was not really stupid. There would be a village every other section of the road.

The distance between any two villages is relatively far away, but if the carriages run all the way, you can encounter six or seven villages in a day. This distance is just enough for those caravans who take land to rest. It can be said that as long as there is no blizzard in winter, you can basically go to the next place in one day.

This is also the case. These villages have some extra houses. Unlike the special nature of the inn, these houses are for caravans to live in. The prices are quite cheap, but they can basically be fully occupied every day in winter, so they are quite profitable.

As for the ownership of these inns, they are naturally official. After all, the entire village was moved by Chen Xi, and all the houses were built directly from the beginning. Chen Xi made these things from the beginning.

However, the money earned in this way has basically not been reflected in the account book. Most of them will be asked for things for local people, such as sweeping snow, removing ice, ensuring road access, and ensuring the cleanliness and hygiene of the homestay in summer, and then spending all the money.

This broken homestay doesn't seem to make much money, but it seems that the people in the village can have one or two thousand more money in a year, and it seems that they can subsidize their lives.

As for tax collection, this kind of thing is really calculated. If it is too tiny, it is not realistic. However, each place is almost the same as the next one, but some villages still make more money, while some villages make less money. Chen Xi does not want to make any comments on this.

But overall, with such subsidies, you can live better, and it also makes Chen Xi more clear about the work that can be provided by the village. What kind of ghosts is for the people? Therefore, the next direction of development is low-level manufacturing in rural areas that requires a large amount of labor, or low-level workshops in rural areas.

In short, just stuff people in. Chen Xi can understand it anyway. During the slack season in feudal society, labor was really worthless.

Therefore, the wages of rural manufacturing can fall to a level that is not considered as work, but rather the level of food, drink, and income subsidies. I won’t consider it for now. It’s a level of two or three thousand people a year. As long as you can take care of food, drink and farming, you can go home and farm safely during the busy farming period, the people of this era seem to be willing.

Thinking of this, Chen Xi felt that his cost could be discounted, which would give him room for profit and exploitation. The main reason was that after Chen Xi came out to see more than a dozen villages, he found that the salary he thought was actually too high.

When I go out to sweep the snow in the middle of winter, the village chief commander, and the whole village will go out together to help me eat and drink. If the food is better, I will pay wages and do five cents. After all, there are really no entertainment activities in this era. Group activities to sweep the snow is also considered an activity.

This was asked by Liu Bei himself, just like Chen Xi guessed that Liu Bei really knows at least two or three militias in every village, and these two or three militias have been on the battlefield, either retired after they get old or retired due to injuries.

But no matter what the reason is, Chen Xi’s usual arrangement is to treat regular soldiers, and those who have no other bad deeds will be treated well if they join the war and have no other bad deeds.

The militia captain, the low-level manager of the factory and mine, and the government yamen runners, there are many positions and they can be arranged. For example, the militia captains in various villages are basically the routine arrangements after the team leader retires from the army. After all, there is a militia captain who has seen blood. If something happens, he will never tremble when he deals with it.

After all, there are more beasts than people these days. Tigers, leopards and jackals are often hungry in winter. People always bring young and strong people to wear weapons and equipment to deal with this kind of thing.

"Duke Xuande, what do you think of seeing these people?" Chen Xi poured a bowl of rice wine for Liu Bei and Jian Yong. This was the gift given to Liu Bei by the team that came before. The other party did not know Chen Xi or Liu Tong, but he knew Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also knew each other.

Especially when Liu Bei asked him, when you were discharged from the army, you said that your third son was about to be born. How is the third son like now? The team slapped his thighs and looked like he felt a liver pain. He thought the third son should be a son, but he was still a daughter. Fortunately, he can afford to support him these days, and the fourth son is considered a son, which is too shameless.

Liu Bei laughed when he heard this. When he turned around, the team leader brought his three or four-year-old son over. Liu Bei touched him and gave him a piece of candy. Then in the evening, the team leader brought a jar of wine, saying that he didn't expect that the Taiwei would still know him for so many years. This was the wine from his house, brewed by his own home. Then Liu Bei accepted it without saying anything.

"He definitely didn't know that I knew him." Liu Bei said with a smile, "Actually, I not only know him, but also his two deputys. When he was in the northern border, he also killed two Huns."

"Those who were injured and retired?" Chen Xi raised his eyebrows and asked. It was different from killing ordinary macaques. When the Han Dynasty calculated the merits, five or six were counted. Killing the Huns is one counted as one. Killing two Huns on the battlefield, and with the great victory in the Northern Frontier, the team started with a level five title.

Based on the delayed retirement time of the fifth-level title, judging from the age of that guy, he should not be able to retire now. This guy has obviously retired for several years, so he can only retire with injuries.

"Well, the injury has been relieved, but it seems that I have been well-raised in the past few years, so it is no longer obvious." Liu Bei nodded, "This guy should have been a big family before he was released."

"Yes, 550 acres of land." Chen Xi nodded, "It must be enough to support a family. A fake militia captain. Originally, this kind of person should be the village chief when he came back."

"He said that their village chief works better than him, so he stepped down and became the militia captain." Liu Bei said with a smile, "But I am very pleased to see this scene. This is an old man who participated in the Battle of Jizhou."

"Xiliang Iron Cavalry?" Chen Xi raised his eyebrows and asked.

"You guy obviously didn't know anything at the beginning, but you guessed everything you talked about later." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi angrily and said.

"If you can get here, it means that your hometown is here." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "And we started in Mount Tai. Only the Xiliang Iron Cavalry can follow the past."

"When he was at his highest, he had a ninth-level title." Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "Later, because he could not cover up his captives, he was deprived of his title, but I don't think he cared much about these things."

"This kind of thing is inevitable." Chen Xi nodded and stopped asking questions. With Chen Xi's understanding of Liu Bei, Liu Bei might have recalled everything about that guy.

"Does Xianhe have any thoughts?" Chen Xi looked at Jian Yong and asked. Although Han Xin and Bai Qi were also with these three, they obviously didn't want to interrupt. Of course, Bai Qi and Han Xin really didn't know what to say about Liu Bei's amazing facial memory ability.

They also knew very well how perverted Liu Bei's ability was in military terms.

"Do we really want to build urban-rural transportation lines in such places?" Jian Yong sighed and said, "It will be a loss to run this route."

"You have to run away for me even if you lose your money." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "If you set up logistics and transportation lines in various prefectures and counties, you can make some money while making money, but you can't just consider making money in some things."

Some things will indeed lose, but from the perspective of the overall situation, even if they lose, they have to do it.

"What I am thinking about is how much I will lose." Jian Yong sighed and said. It is enough to open a line in such a place, and even a line will lose.

It’s nothing to lose a lot of money on a road, but since he left the essence of Guanzhong Road, Jian Yong has been thinking that there should be so many such places on the land of the Han Dynasty. With Chen Xi’s previous plan, all the places need to be done, so there are too many places that have lost money.

"I can't lose much." Chen Xi thought about it, it seemed that it was just horse raising, frame traffic, and fixed asset losses. According to the current situation, drivers only needed one or two, and they lost 100 million yuan a day. In this case, this kind of rural road traffic would require 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, and they would lose 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a day.

OK, Wu'an Jun has been sprinkling water for a year and a half, and he can afford to lose money. He will throw money aside first. In the case of the essence area, this kind of transportation can make money, and there is no problem at all with the official responsibility of diverting some materials to transport them.

However, overall, I have thought too much about the balance of income and expenditure, but it is meaningful for other industries. Besides, this is just now, and there will be more opportunities in the future. This is a sunrise industry. Take your time and it’s nothing to lose.

"It will cost almost one billion yuan a year." Jian Yong said with a headache.

"You have calculated these things now, but the calculations are very accurate." Chen Xi said curiously.

"I have been learning these things in the past two years, and I have started to investigate the village paths so I won't be confused." Jian Yong rolled his eyes and said.

"I've lost so much." The three of them looked surprised.

"In fact, it can't be calculated like this. This is just a link. Overall, it may not be a loss." Chen Xi thought about it and said, because this thing was done in conjunction with the next five-year plan. When the rural workshop is started, this thing will be very useful.

More importantly, when the people have extra money, they want to go to the county town, and the pressure on the transportation network will also increase.
Chapter completed!