After prying Huaxia's orbit out of the reincarnation of reincarnation, where long divisions must unite and long divisions must divide, Chen Xi seldom has the idea of quick success and quick gain anymore. Slow down, work slowly, and work carefully. Anyway, Hua Xia has jumped out of Little Jiuzhou.
The circle is no longer in the previous reincarnation.
No matter whether you walk fast or slow on the road ahead, as long as you don't go back, you will only get closer and closer to success, so Chen Xi's mentality is very calm.
Before the liberation, Chen Xi would definitely have the idea of quick success and quick profit when faced with the situation in northern Shaanxi and other places in later generations, but now, Chen Xi can face this reality squarely.
"Then let's go down this road?" Liu Bei had no purpose. He just took Chen Xi out to relax and prevent Chen Xi from immersing himself in boring self-blame.
Even though Chen Xi's self-adjustment ability is very good, for Liu Bei, if this kind of thing can be avoided, it is better to avoid it and take it out to relax. Chen Xi doesn't work anyway, he just has fun and has a relaxed mentality, so he can work for a longer time.
live.
In this wave, Liu Bei is really in the atmosphere, and the issue of service life still needs to be considered.
"Let's go, just go and see how the construction is going in the other direction of the Northland that this road leads to." Chen Xi said calmly.
In later generations, the Loess Plateau belonged to Yongzhou and Bingzhou respectively during this period. Needless to say, the areas close to Bingzhou were basically absorbed by large pastures.
For those who have not been sucked away, Chen Xi has no good solution. He can only follow the second plan, which is to carve out a place suitable for establishing counties in the complex terrain, absorb the mountainous population, and make the opponent move out of the Loess Plateau. As for
The effect, I just went to see it this time.
"The construction of the Northland Ranch is very good." Liu Bei said thoughtfully. After all, he personally went to the Northland Ranch once. Liu Bei has a really good sense of the place. He has the ability to raise troops on a large scale.
Providing meat and milk is a very important job.
It is precisely because it is too important that Liu Bei will evaluate the bureaucrats arranged there and need to rotate them periodically. Because it is too important, it not only solves the local food problem, but also maintains national stability and is an important support for military strength.
"If you really want to say it, it's okay." Chen Xi thought for a while and said. He didn't think of anything else, but the big-antlered deer raised by Jiang Qi, the red deer raised by Liu Ru and so on.
"Although you have built these things, I always feel that you still look down on them the least." Liu Bei said quietly.
"Ah, that's not true. I rarely look down on others." Chen Xi shook his head and said.
"That probably means that in your eyes, what they did did not reach the limit of what you want." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi's clear eyes and said with a smile. Chen Xi was speechless.
"You guys, I don't know if it's because you are arrogant or because you put yourself before others." Liu Bei said with a smile, but he really had nothing to say to Chen Xi.
"It doesn't count, because there is indeed room for growth." Chen Xi scratched his head and said. Animal husbandry was almost the only industry in the Han Dynasty that could be comparable to China in the industrial era of later generations, because compared with the capital that later generations could invest, this
You can beat your chest and guarantee that the times will be ten times better!
Although even if ten times the grassland of later generations was invested, the output would only be about one-tenth or two-tenths. Of course, we have to admit that this scale is already very scary in this era.
"That's the room for growth you think." Liu Bei said helplessly, "Although it's a good thing to push yourself and others, you really can't think that everyone has your ability."
"I don't, and I don't have this hope either." Chen Xi denied it very formally.
"If you say no, then there is none, but I still want to make a digression. Before you said it, I haven't noticed that in fact, any large ranch has the operational functions of a county. The entire Northland
Counties all revolve around large pastures. Even if there is no bureaucracy in the Northland, the large pastures can still revitalize the Northland counties, right?" Liu Bei suddenly said.
Liu Bei didn't pay attention to this before, but after Chen Xi mentioned that these executive-level bureaucrats were replaced by managers of state-owned factories and mines, Liu Bei discovered this fact. The dozen or so large ranches in the north had already covered their functions.
the county where they are located.
"Ah, yes, the ranchers of the Beidi Ranch have a clear salary, with a rank of two thousand dan. Moreover, the Beidi Ranch has a captain, and the captain is Jianggong and Guanneihou, with a rank of two thousand dan." Chen Xi
He nodded and said, this is actually a very clear configuration of a large county.
"Then there is no county guard in Beidi County itself?" Liu Bei asked with some confusion.
"There are no county guards and no captains, only part-time bureaucrats in name. In fact, Beidi County itself was in a state of desolation before. It was only after the establishment of the large ranch that it became as prosperous as when we visited it the year before last.
Those people are basically ranch workers and their families, and the consumption of these people later created other links." Chen Xi explained.
There are not even people. The official positions and titles are all nonsense. Not to mention that the Northland was an empty city at the beginning, it was not much different. When Jiang Qi took the Northland ranch away, there would naturally be people, and then people from other places would be attracted to come and settle.
Finally, there was a seemingly prosperous county town.
At this time, it is actually possible to establish a bureaucracy with the new county as the core, but Chen Xi purely wants to save trouble. Since it can run without those people anyway, it is better not to add entities and give more beef to those administrators.
They just continue to work as before.
After all, two thousand cows are eaten in a year, so it's not too much to ask you to do other jobs part-time.
"That's it." Liu Bei expressed his understanding. Although he vaguely felt that this management method was a bit weird, he recalled that when he went to the Northland the year before last, there was no problem with the operation there, so he didn't think too much about it. There were fewer bureaucrats and fewer officials.
It would be good to give out salaries to a few people.
"Because of the dilapidated border counties, many counties in the Yanbian area were not specially built. They first had state-owned factories and mines. Later, as the operations of state-owned factories and mines developed, the absorbed population established new living areas on their own, and finally formed
County government." Chen Xi said calmly, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
In fact, this kind of trivial matter is an important part of destroying the personal restraint of the clan, and it is also a way to destroy the absolute authority of the bureaucracy. No matter how you say it, factory and mine managers are still somewhat different from the bureaucracy in this era.
In this way, factory and mine managers continue to promote construction and build a new city in the wilderness. Then the bureaucrats are never in place. Instead, they continue to operate it. In the end, they also serve as the bureaucracy. This in itself is destroying the authority of the bureaucracy.
Just like Liu Bang's descendants wanted to cleanse Liu Bang, but a group of cheerful old guys around them said, come on, come on, you have never seen your great ancestor, but we have, so you can just whitewash some unimportant details.
That’s all, bragging about these things that are fake at first glance, I’m afraid I’m not blind!
So we can only let it go and let the gangsters be gangsters.
In the same way, the general environment of factories and mines is there. If you understand more, it will be impossible to create any sacredness. From the perspective of the industrial structure, the bureaucracy also belongs to the tertiary industry. In terms of specificity, it is probably
This service industry has relatively strong functional sources.
However, Chen Xi didn't bother to explain this kind of thing. If he wanted to change this era, it would be unrealistic for Chen Xi alone. Wang Mang's steps were too big and he would be gone immediately, so he had to be more realistic and start directly with those who can be easily touched.
If you can't touch it easily, leave a seed.
Anyway, times are developing, and you never know when the time will come when these seeds will take root, sprout, and grow into giant trees in the sky.
"Oh, so that's it." Liu Bei nodded. Although Chen Xi didn't explain the reason, he thought from the perspective of human relations and felt that the owners of state-owned factories, mines, and large ranches had finally managed to pull up a piece of white land and achieve prosperity.
county government, and then a group of new people were parachuted in to take over all positions in the county government.
This cannot be justified no matter how you say it, so even if it is against the rules, it is better to not assign a position and let the other party take it concurrently than to seize power by parachute.
"But if we want to deal with Jizhou this time, I'm afraid the major counties in the north will also need to make some moves, and the same goes for the Smelting Department." Chen Xi thought for a while and said.
"Transfer those personnel from their original management positions in state-owned factories and mines, and then take up positions such as county guards that they previously held concurrently?" Liu Bei understood Chen Xi's intention in an instant, but his expression was obviously hesitant, "In this case, isn't it a bit confusing?
owe?"
"Ah, let's talk about it later. After all, they only held part-time positions before and there was no clear statement. Now they have given the seal and ribbon, which is a new way to join the job. It's just a pity." There was obvious hesitation on Chen Xi's face.
.
During this period, Chen Xi carefully selected the owners of the large ranches in the north...
Well, they are important livestock industry talents that Liu Yan searched all over the country and begged his grandfather and grandmother from all over the country. The most suitable occupation for these people is to serve as managers of the country's large-scale animal husbandry industry. If they want to be officials, these people will not
It cannot be considered excellent.
Just like Jiang Qi and Liu Ru, neither of them actually want to be officials, because they are not good at managing people. Even their own ranches are managed by their subordinates. Their position is more equivalent to that of the general manager.
work.
Management is not good, but their technical ability is very strong, so strong that the senior management can be replaced, but the chief engineer cannot be replaced, so it is nonsense to let these two people become officials.
In the same way, the nominal administrators of the thirteen early large ranches were basically such technical talents. They might know management, but management was definitely not what they were best at.
"Then you can send the documents to them and let them recommend it." Liu Bei said nonchalantly. Since he didn't want them to leave, he just wouldn't give it to them.
When Chen Xi heard this, he glanced at Liu Bei angrily, "You think this kind of thing, I can't think of it. The problem is that there are official fans among them. If Chen Xi gives a recommendation letter, the other party must be determined to become an official. The problem is that Chen Xi doesn't want to
Let these professionals become officials.
If you run to become an official, but then you fail to resist the temptation and are ruined, isn't this a huge defeat?
Although Chen Xi complains every day that the ranch is not as good as he thought, he can honestly say that those who can achieve this level in this era are already very good.
The simplest answer is that if you let three or four of these thirteen people go to serve as officials, and then ask Liu Yan to find a few more replacement roles, Liu Yan can't find any.
At this level, it's basically a carrot and a pit, so Chen Xi doesn't want to let him go.
"At this time, it's up to me." Liu Bei said confidently, "Adjust their empty positions so that they have the ability to control local bureaucrats, and then let them recommend local bureaucrats. Of course, they will not recommend them.
If so, I can accept it and let him take on concurrent roles, so that I can save face and dignity, and the official fans will also be satisfied."
"..." Chen Xi had nothing to say. This really meant that he didn't treat the local county-level officials as human beings. Chen Xi thought that although he was sometimes a bit inappropriate, he could ignore Liu Bei's imperial iron fist when necessary.
The rules of play are still very different.
In fact, Chen Xi had a misunderstanding. Liu Bei did not ignore the county-level bureaucrats, but simply figured it out. Or, more directly, Liu Bei was thinking about the problem from the perspective of selling an official position and winning a title.
Compared with Chen Xi, who had to look forward and backward, Liu Bei didn't have to think about these messy things at all. The ranchers took over the county, and the cattle and sheep were raised by these ranchers.
A county-level bureaucrat's position only cost between one million and ten million during the reign of Emperor Ling. Counties such as Beidi and Jiuyuan, which had no oil and water and were so dilapidated that they had no population and no need to plunder, put a price on it.
, and no one bought it.
Now there is a big boss who has a net worth of one million cattle and sheep, with a total value of more than one billion, and a continuous output, supplying meat and dairy products to the people in the north. He wants to take over this kind of county that had no oil and water before, and
It basically guarantees that there will be no messing around.
What else is there to say? Emperor Ling knew how to deal with it. Of course he would give it. Even during the reign of Emperor Ling, he would be willing to do such a good thing, buy one and get three free.
What, you want Jiuyuan County to be the county governor and produce hundreds of thousands of sheep meat, thousands of horses, thousands of cattle, and dairy products worth hundreds of millions every year?
What else is there to say? The Sheriff of Jiuyuan County will arrange it for you today. If you give me more, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Shuofang, and Yanmen can arrange it for you.
Liu Bei's way of thinking is also the same. Although it is not good to accept private teachings, the other party has given enough. Anyway, in reality, this group of people has actually been managing for several years, and there have been some random disasters. Now they
If you want it, just give it to them.
So compared to Chen Xi's complicated way of thinking, Liu Bei is simple. Can the math problems that the late Emperor can solve clearly still stump me?
"Isn't this solved? What's the point of struggling?" Liu Bei said nonchalantly. The math problems are simple and easy to understand and can be solved easily. There's nothing to be embarrassed about.
"I just feel like I'm treating middle-level bureaucrats inappropriately." Chen Xi said quietly, "But let's leave it at that. At least it's a solution. Let's leave it at that."
Liu Bei didn't take it to heart at all when he heard this. He didn't think there was any problem with doing so. Selling an official position and winning a title was certainly not a good thing, but if he had a scale in his mind as a reference, he would naturally know what the border counties of Jiuyuan and Yunzhong were like.
What level is it?
"Brother, are you also going to Niyang for inspection?" Just when Chen Xi poked his head out of the house and looked around, the vehicle frame that was originally several miles away in front of Chen Xi and his party was moved by Chen Xi and his party because of the noon break.
After catching up, the other party saw Chen Xi and greeted him from a distance.
"Ah, yes, let's go to Niyang and have a look." Chen Xi said with a smile, "Brother, are you going there too? I see you brought a lot of goods."
"Go and have a look. I heard there are some cheap fruit products over there." The middle-aged man who looked a bit rich said cheerfully, and he didn't care about exposing his own information. After all, this trip was just an inspection. What is the result?
, no one knows.
"Go together, go together." Chen Xi ran out of the carriage, then jumped down and greeted the other side, "I also do some preserved fruit business here, maybe I have bought and sold the preserved fruits produced here.
, By the way, what kind of preserved fruit can I get?"
"Brother, why do you make preserved fruit? We are from Wudu, Liangzhou, and our surname is Li Mingjun. Our parents didn't give us a name like this, and we don't need it. We run around here and there, and we work so hard that we die." Li Jun said boldly.
, and there is no feeling that being without words means being inferior.
Then, just when Chen Xi was about to say that he made Changchu and persimmon cakes, Liu Bei got out of the car, glanced at Li Jun, and said hello to Li Jun, "Ah, Li Jun, long time no see, you are unexpectedly
Now that you’re in business, aren’t you talking about returning to Liangzhou to become an instructor?”
What does it mean that your friend not only doesn't help you cover up, but also deliberately lets you cheat on you? Now, Liu Bei can't do any private interviews on private servers, because he himself doesn't know how many people he can know, and how many people there are.
know him.
"Ah? Ah!" Li Jun was shocked, "Lieutenant, why are you here?"
"Come with the guy next to you who is out to relax." Liu Bei greeted Li Jun. He didn't have any special feelings about Li Jun knowing him. The people who knew him were much older, and the people he knew were also much older. By the way,
When you hear the name Li Jun, you know it was named by Liu Bei.
There are no words, how could he come up with such a handsome name? Of course it was Liu Bei, because this one is called Li Laoer, that one is called Li Laosan, and there are many Li Laosan, so he couldn't tell them apart, so he gave them to him by himself.
The guys came up with names.
Of course, the people who Liu Bei can name are veterans who have very good records on the battlefield. Just like the Li Jun in front of him, he is actually a disabled person. When fighting abroad, his leg was broken, and he practiced Qi to become a powerful vitality.
Let him save his life.
"Chen Hou?" Li Jun's brain speed reached 100 miles, and he quickly reacted and replied quickly. Chen Xi waved his hand resentfully, indicating that it was indeed him. There was no way he could keep a low profile when he was out with Liu Bei, so he paid a private visit incognito? Bailong
Fish suit? Are you kidding? He was recognized on the spot.
What's more, Liu Bei never hides the fact that he knows the locals. As long as people come out, Liu Bei will say hello and will never turn a blind eye.
"Uh, but I do have a preserved fruit business. I bought a lot of persimmon cakes and cantaloupe cakes." Chen Xi said very seriously. He was not joking, but the purchases were really good, especially the
Persimmon cake.
Compared to something like Chang Chu, which is really hard to produce these days, the output of persimmons is quite reliable at any time. In addition, the shelf life of persimmon cakes is very good, the icing content is very high, and they can even be sold to Rome.
Therefore, persimmon processing can be considered a pretty good industry.
I have to mention here that the added value of the persimmon industry is actually not high. It is the kind of thing that is hung up by coconuts and beaten. Because the persimmon industry chain process is too short and there are too few add-ons. In addition, the historical research and development efforts have not been sufficient, which led Chen Xi to
There are too few that can be copied.
Just like the total value of the banana industry can reach hundreds of billions, coconuts can reach hundreds of billions, and persimmons are only tens of billions, but even so, luxury goods such as perfume can still be hoisted up, so Chen Xi still engaged in persimmon-related products.
Industry, after all, such a simple and profitable job, of course cannot be ignored.
However, in two years this business will only be open to the inside and not to the outside world, because the persimmon-eating Romans transplanted the persimmon trees to Spain in the past two years. It is estimated that in a few years, Rome will be able to produce and sell its own persimmons.
, after all, there is really no technical difficulty in this thing.
Even if there were, it would be basically impossible to stop the research of a powerful empire like Rome.
Li Jun's mouth twitched when he heard this, but he remained silent in the end. How many properties did Chen Xi have under his name, let alone Li Jun? Liu Ye couldn't figure it out, but if the other party said there was, then there must be.
"Can it be cheaper?" Li Jun suddenly regained consciousness for a moment and asked a question.
"Ah, if you want to get cheaper, I suggest you go to Xinzhou to grow melons. The land there is cheap, the lighting is suitable, the quality of the melons is good, and the melon growing business is very good." Chen Xi was asked by Li Jun for a moment, and then said that the God of Wealth will give it to you.
It points to a clear road. The eastern road from Xinzhou to Chang'an has just been built. If you go to plant melons, the melons will remain sweet. Whether you plant cantaloupe or watermelon, you will not suffer any loss.
In the past, planting in places with a suitable climate in the Western Regions would definitely be a loss, but now the roads that have been built since the time when Cao Cao was in charge of Yongzhou have been completely connected to the eastern part of the Western Regions. After planting, they can be transported directly to Chang'an, as long as the frame
It won't take more than a few days to get the horses and horses ready.
The shelf life of melons after picking, let alone the shelf life, has not passed. As the capital of the Han Dynasty, Chang'an's consumption power is exploding. As long as it is transported there, it will definitely be digested. This business is definitely profitable, because now
The first melon eater has not yet appeared.
In addition, all melons pay attention to climatic conditions. If the seeds are the same, the watermelons planted in Weiyang Palace may not be able to grow beyond the area in Xinzhou under Sima Lang. It can be said that this is simply a Tianhu start, absolutely stable.
If you want to make a business without losing money, the God of Wealth will show you the way.
"This?" Li Jun was a little confused, "Even if this melon is ripe, it will cost a lot of money to transport it to Chang'an. It's such a long distance, no, no, the freight is too expensive."
This is the problem. In normal perception, the freight for this distance will be more expensive than the fruit itself, but in reality, the logistics industry, as the blood that runs through all core industries, is the basis for revitalizing various places.
Isn't it that Chen Xi is working hard on infrastructure construction just to wait for the logistics industry to develop so that materials from various places can be distributed to various places at the right price?
The logistics industry has developed to such a crazy level that there may even be price inversion operations that are considered normal logic.
For example, you buy a set of kitchenware at a low price through coupons, discounts, and various other messy activities. The quality of the kitchenware itself is normal and qualified, but the cost is only about ten yuan. Then the store will give it to you from the south.
Send it to the north and finally to your hometown.
Apart from anything else, there is a question as to whether the ten yuan you pay is enough to transport things from the south to the north.
That's all, there are even more crazy things. When the store is in high demand, you can buy small items for one dollar and have them mailed to your home. If you think about it carefully at that time, you don't even know the shipping price, let alone the items you buy.
He ran somewhere.
This is where it gets really crazy. However, this kind of thing seems very normal in later generations. Northerners spend more than ten yuan to buy small items from the south and have them mailed to their homes. Southerners spend more than ten yuan to buy small items from the north.
Mailing it to your home is so sparse and common that everyone is used to it.
But in fact, if you really have to calculate it piece by piece, the logistics cost alone is enough to drive people crazy.
This is also the reason why Chen Xi sent things to Huangfu Song and directly put together the orders manually at the end. This is because the logistics industry must have scale to dilute freight rates. Obviously, if Xinzhou engages in agricultural products on a large scale and relies on the Western Region Channel
, can significantly reduce freight rates.
After all, Jian Yong has been engaged in logistics in the past few years, and ordering and resource integration are the key. If Li Jun wants to ride on the wind and help Jian Yong do the ordering now, he will be able to take off by taking a free ride.
It's possible. As for getting rich suddenly, it's not impossible.
It's just that such sudden wealth requires capital, and Li Jun's capital, judging from his current situation, is not thin, but it is definitely not thick, so Chen Xi has encountered a guide, but how to go depends on Li Jun himself.
idea.
"Let me ask one thing, what if I grow melons in Jincheng area?" Li Jun thought about it and said with some embarrassment. He really didn't know what to do when he came to Xinzhou.
"Jincheng can't grow cantaloupe, it can only grow watermelon." Chen Xi said with a smile, and then Li Jun asked again, but Chen Xi didn't answer anymore. The God of Wealth still needs to be reserved.
Seeing that Chen Xi didn't say anything, Li Jun didn't ask for anything extravagantly. Instead, he looked for the dried meat, preserved fruits, and cans he had brought with him from the bicycle rack. Since he met them, he wanted to treat the two of them to a meal.
"Come on, come on, have a taste. If it were anyone else, I wouldn't dare to take it out, but you two are different. Have a taste." Li Jun took a big spoon and scooped out a big spoon from an earthen pot and took it with him.
Chen Xi and Liu Bei each received a bowl of juicy apple flesh and candied dates. At this time of year, the apples and dates had not yet come down.
