After seeing the quality of the steel knives and daggers, and the fact that the Lei Gong Department had such a strong weapon manufacturing capability, and could even now sell them for takeout, Liu Bei began to worry about the development and growth of the Lei Gong Department.
Zhang Fei said disapprovingly: "Brother, you are worrying too much. Forget about mentioning that Lei Gong is still in Bingzhou and has nothing to do with our Youzhou affairs.
Even if Lei Gong really wants to rebel, what's the big deal? He's already on the grassland. As long as he guards Yanmen Pass, Lei Gong can't enter the Han Dynasty and can only develop outside the pass. The Huns and Xianbei people who have a headache are also the Huns and Xianbei people around him.
People are not easy to mess with.
And Mayi is a desolate place, and it is impossible to feed him 200,000 people. Lei Gong chose a place to die for himself. From my point of view, Lei Gong in Mayi will not be able to hold on for a few years. When all their money and food are used up, the court will
If we cut off Mayi's food source, they will flee in all directions!"
Zhang Fei's words made Liu Bei's eyes light up and he said: "I didn't expect Yide to have such a strategic vision. It's really unexpected for me!"
He said to Jian Yong: "I agree to do business with Lei Gong. All goods can be exchanged for money and materials, but not a grain of grain is allowed to flow into Mayi."
Jian Yong smiled and said: "Don't worry Xuande, I will definitely be able to bring more gold, silver and copper coins and not bring food to Mayi!"
Then he took the sweater to Liu Bei and said: "I think this piece of clothing is the best thing. It is called a sweater when it is knitted with wool. Wearing a sweater will keep you warm and windproof. Even if it is snowing, you will not be affected by the cold wind when you go out."
Invasion."
Liu Bei was surprised and said: "Is it really that warm?"
After saying that, he immediately took off his coat and put on this sweater.
Jian Yong said: "Xuande, just think of this sweater as a tight-fitting sheepskin jacket."
Liu Bei moved his body and said, "It's really tight!"
Then he wore this sweater and walked around outside for a while, and when he came back he was sweating.
He smiled and said: "This sweater is much better than a sheepskin jacket, but it's too scratchy. But in winter, you don't have to worry about the cold with this sweater. I didn't expect that wool can have such an effect. Xianhe ordered 10 pieces from the Lei Gong Department, and we
Come and copy this sweater too!”
Jian Yong said helplessly: "Xuande, if you keep doing this, you won't be able to continue this business. And you can't imitate this sweater. Lei Gongbu gave us this sweater for 500 yuan a piece. There is no profit at such a low price."
"500 yuan!" Liu Bei was surprised.
In this era, even common clothes cost 300-500 yuan, but winter clothes that can withstand the cold wind cost only a few thousand yuan, so there is no need to ask.
Liu Bei thought that this kind of sweater would cost thousands of dollars, but he didn't expect that the price was so low that it was the same as a commoner's sweater.
Zhang Fei was also shocked and said: "How does this Thunder Lord make money? Does he want to do good things?"
Zhang Fei didn't know the power of industrialization. Even though Xu Wei was just a rudimentary handicraft industry, the sweater that he thought was no longer profitable actually cost only about 100 yuan! Not only could Xu Wei make money, but he could also make it several times!
This era is considered the best era for industry. If you produce something, you can sell it for several times the price. The cost of a sweater will not exceed 100 yuan. Old man Wang wants ten times the profit. Even so, he thinks it is cheap.
Already.
Xu Wei, a modern man, couldn't stand it any longer, so he cut it by half, but he still had several times the profit. Modern industrialists would probably be jealous to death because they couldn't even get 5% of the profit.
Guan Yu, who had never spoken, said: "It's cold now, and these sweaters are so cheap, they should be sold. Brother, I can make a batch and try them out."
Liu Bei thought for a while and said to Jian Yong: "Xianhe, I'll give you 100,000 yuan. You can find a way to go to Mayi to buy some sweaters to try and see if they sell well! By the way, let's inquire about Lei Gong and his friends!"
Jian Yong nodded and said, "I'll do it right away!"
Jian Yong followed the envoy sent by Xu Wei and headed west along the Sanggan River.
After walking not long after arriving at the boundary of Yanmen County, I found that there was a construction site here, and these people all knew the envoy and were still saying hello to each other.
Jian Yong was secretly shocked: "I didn't expect that Lei Gong had expanded his territory to Juyang County!"
This is already the border of Youzhou, and he is starting to get a little worried about the soldiers stationed in Youzhou. After all, they were once Yellow Turban thieves!
Dozens of people are working hard here, and the construction site is very lively. But what they do makes Jian Yong very strange. After laying the foundation, they put 4 pieces of wood on the ground, and then connected them together, winding like four long dragons.
The end is as far as the eye can see.
Jian Yong asked curiously: "Why do we need to lay wood on the road?"
The envoy Wan Shi proudly said: "This is a wooden track, a road specially used for carriages. According to our commander Qu, this is a wooden track invented by the Qin Dynasty. Carriages can travel up to 600 miles a day on it. Our territory is connected."
After boarding this wooden track, you can reach anywhere within two days."
After finishing speaking, Wan Shi also got three rail carriages and asked Jian Yong to sit on the first rail carriage, and his entourage sat on the two following rail carriages.
"Let me show you how powerful this carriage is! Drive it!"
The carriage was running on the track like lightning. Jian Yong was surprised to find that the carriage was not only much more stable on the track, but also several times faster than ordinary carriages. It was not even much slower than riding a horse. It was really possible to march 600 miles in one day.
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He thought to himself: "This Thunder Lord is not simple. Even Mu Guichidao of the Qin Dynasty knows it. Is he a descendant of a powerful noble family? But why did he want to exterminate so many powerful noble families in Wei County?"
Half a day later, they arrived near Mayi.
Jian Yong discovered that there was a large amount of farmland surrounding Mayi. It was boundless at a glance, estimated to be hundreds of thousands of acres.
"Mayi actually has so many fields!"
The envoy Wan Shi said proudly: "These were reclaimed by our leaders when they came to Mayi. They already cover millions of acres!
Jian Yong was not surprised by this. He knew that Lei Gong was working in the field, and Liu Bei had opened up 2 million acres of land in Youzhou. In terms of land reclamation, Lei Gong was not as good as Liu Bei. He was a little happy in his heart. It was impossible to feed horses on these hundreds of acres of land.
There are 200,000 people in the city. It seems that Lei Gong has not realized his food crisis yet.
But he was surprised that the fields in Mayi also had something like tracks?
He asked curiously: "What is that thing above this field? Is it also a track?"
Wan Shi said as if he was looking at a rustic: "This is an elevated canal. Water is lifted to this canal through a five or six-foot-high water tanker. The water then flows into the fields through these elevated canals. In this way, the fields around Mayi are
It can be turned into irrigated land. Our Qushuai said that as long as it is cultivated for two years and the yield is 5 shi per mu, it will not be a problem. By then, the world in Mayi will be more fertile than Jizhou!"
Jian Yong was shocked and dumbfounded. Xu Wei actually built a project similar to Zheng Guo Canal in such a short period of time. You must know that the Qin Dynasty was able to dominate the world because of the millions of acres of irrigated land created by Zheng Guo Canal.
Jian Yong didn't believe what Wan Shi said at all. He asked Wan Shi to stop the carriage and went to the elevated water channel in person. He found that there was actually a branch channel that continuously flowed water into the land. The newly reclaimed land had already
It turned into a watery swamp.
Although we haven't seen the waterwheel yet, it is obvious that this elevated water channel is really useful.