No one can get around things related to food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Holding such a thing in hand will make everyone feel at ease. However, the reason why these northern aristocratic families who hold wool in their hands have not been able to promote wool to be used all over the world is because there is not enough wool!
Is this a reason? Of course it is, the Hu people on the prairie only have so many sheep, and there are so many people in the Central Plains. It is strange that the wool produced by two to three million sheep is constantly in supply. That is why some aristocratic families later scolded the Hu people for not even having sheep.
We know how to raise sheep, but if we can’t give up the grassland, we have to raise sheep!
Therefore, the northern grasslands have not yet been conquered. The grasslands that were previously thought to have no output at all and had no meaning in occupying them have now been labeled by a large group of aristocratic families as raising sheep, producing wool, and eating mutton.
In addition, Jia Xu organized a large group of people to prepare for Ma Zheng. Logically speaking, the situation in the late Han Dynasty was better than that in the early Tang Dynasty. Chen Xi's Ma Zheng at least did not have to worry about the barbarians from the grassland. The Turks in the early Tang Dynasty were simply ferocious.
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But even so, during the Zhenguan period, the Tang Dynasty's horse administration had 400,000 war horses and more than one million pack horses. Chen Xi roughly made a charter for Jia Xu to play. It is estimated that based on the current situation, the grasslands will all be occupied, and he can play for fifty or sixty years.
Tens of thousands of war horses and millions of pack horses are no problem.
Of course, when talking about horse politics in the Han and Tang Dynasties, we have to mention a dynasty that played to death. This dynasty was called the Song Dynasty. They also followed the Tang Dynasty in playing horse politics. The horse politics system in the Tang Dynasty was very sound, although the Song Dynasty no longer exists.
There are sixteen states in Yanyun, but there are many places in the Central Plains where you can play horse politics.
Although Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures is the best choice, it doesn't matter if it is gone. You can still play elsewhere. After all, Fusang can play cavalry with a horse with a shoulder height of one meter.
The local horses in the Central Plains, such as Hequ horses, Datong horses, and Kazakh horses, are not less than 1.3 meters tall even if they are free-range. As a result, the Song Dynasty imitated the horse administration of the Tang Dynasty, and they actually played so well that people couldn't bear to look at it. Of course I am talking about this
At some point, we must admit that the Song Dynasty was really rich!
There is a very famous record in the history of the Song Dynasty: "Raozhou had 562 females and males, of which 5 out of 300 died, and 27 out of 20 became mature."
What does this mean? It's actually very simple. After raising 562 high-quality stallions, 315 died, and the remaining 247 stallions can produce ponies.
There are twenty-seven horses, um, the breeding rate is less than 5%...
However, even with such a low breeding rate, the horse politics of the Song Dynasty continued until the fall of the Song Dynasty. By the way, five percent was considered high before. It was not uncommon for horses to die from the epidemic in such and such areas, so it is said that there were no cavalry in the Song Dynasty.
This is really a problem of the Song Dynasty itself.
In short, before the Northern Huns and Hu people were killed, Chen Xi was already studying the grassland map. How many horses, sheep, and cattle were raised. Chen Xi also had an estimate in mind. Anyway, Chen Xi was not prepared for the prairie.
It was given to the barbarians.
Of course, in those areas of Western Siberia that are frozen for nine months a year and even permafrost, Chen Xi would not go out of his way to enclose the land. At most, he would leave behind a legend from ancient times.
As for the occupation, come on, God has a good life. If you Hu people can survive there, Chen Xi doesn't mind you living in those places forever.
Anyway, not to mention this era, even in later generations, there are not many human beings who can live in the lowest temperature of minus 70 degrees all year round. What's more, it is winter for nine months of the year, or even longer. If the Hu people have the ability to live there,
There, Chen Xi can guarantee that as long as they don't cause trouble, the Han Dynasty will never beat them.
Of course, although Chen Xi has already made detailed plans for these things, some still need to be inspected on the spot. For example, the limit number of grazing cattle determined by later generations on the grassland must be inspected on the spot now.
By the way, Chen Xi has always felt that simply raising cattle and sheep and living in pursuit of water and grass is completely unreliable. Planting grass, adding green fodder, and raising them in captivity is the way to go. As for the lack of exercise for cattle and sheep, and the lack of delicious meat, forget it!
In this era of 200 AD, people who can eat meat live a very good life. Who cares about these things, but war horses cannot lack exercise. After all, in the era of cold weapons, the national strength of any country can be directly combined with the elite
The number of cavalry equals the number.
Therefore, Chen Xi's rough plan for the future of the grassland has basically become the government's pasture. Since we can't farm in this poor place, we should use it to raise livestock.
By the way, Chen Xi also thought about it. He went back to the chamber of commerce during this period and spent tens of millions or more than 100 million dollars to raise money. He singled out all the families who wanted to kill the barbarians. Well, the representative cookie donated it.
He recently obtained a huge amount of money through deception.
Although they have bad motives, what Chen Xi looks at is behavior, and when it comes to whether they are good people or not, Chen Xi always ignores their intentions.
So even if the motives are bad, for the sake of this group of people working so hard, they can go back and turn this grassland that no one wanted before into a state-owned ranch. They can allocate some places to these aristocratic families, and then take this group of people with them.
Family members play super large ranch together.
Although recycling in all producing countries is definitely lower than the market price, other aspects of policy support can be provided, or financial support can be provided if there is an accident.
Anyway, Chen Xi will definitely not give others the opportunity to destroy prices. He has seized the northern grassland, a cattle and sheep production area. Even if it is subcontracted, he must not let these bastards enter the market to cause trouble. In Chen Xi's opinion, these things must be managed by the government.
Unified adjustment.
At this point, Chen Xi had to try some new ways of playing, such as turning certain aristocratic families into units under the government. Of course, for such units, if nothing happens, they will be their own people. If something happens, they will be kicked out. This department is all
Temporary department.
In short, after the battle between Yuan and Liu opened the curtain on the whole world, Chen Xi settled down for a while and found a lot of ways to play.
Administrative intervention, policy support and subsidies, monopoly, entry barriers, regional separation protection, price protection, closed loans, etc. After Chen Xi went back and looked through many things that he had learned but had no chance to use, he found that there was actually too much to play with.
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There are so many things that can be played, and there is also a supporting dynasty that can be called the largest empire on earth at the moment. I would be sorry if I don’t play all the things that can be played. Anyway, there is a root of natural economy growing here, even if it collapses.
, and there is no chance of any trouble.
After roughly determining the cards in his hand, Chen Xi basically determined what he wanted to do in the next few years, such as social changes and so on. He should take his time. When Chen Xi figured this out, he knew he couldn't rush it.
, anyway, you can’t take too big a step.
"Sweater? I'll get 80,000 sets here."
to tens of thousands of pieces.
It’s not that tens of thousands of sweaters can’t be made every year, but it’s just because Cao Cao was short of money before, and sweaters are currently easy to sell. If you send them back to the Chamber of Commerce, you can get cash instantly, so why sell them on credit?
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"Well, this is a bit much, I'll give you some cotton clothes." Chen Xi scratched his head, Xun Yu was really rude, he just asked casually, saying that there shouldn't be such a big gap, you know, even Zhou Yu
I had packed my winter clothes for the trip north, so Xun Yu would not forget them.
"If you don't charge me, I'll get 50,000 pieces." Zhou Yu looked at Chen Xi and said.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't go too far. I'll charge you the cost price. Forget it. Since we are all serving the country, I won't argue with you." Chen Xi said angrily, "Kong Ming, the official sent to You
When will the supplies from Zhoushanggu arrive?"
"My lord, I came first, and now the batch of supplies has arrived." Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, "It should be delivered in about one day. After all, there is no official way outside the Great Wall, and Mi Changshi will need to come.
It takes a lot of time.”
"Hey, we are obviously blackmailing you, and you haven't refused. There must be some trap for us to jump into." Zhou Yu's words were nonsense in themselves, but Chen Xi didn't expect that Chen Xi actually didn't refuse.
"Do you want love?" Chen Xi said angrily, "Seeing that we are all on the same front, I will help you out." Then he turned around and asked Guo Jia, who had run out and brought Lu Xun back, "What do you want to eat in the morning? Salty."
Fish tofu soup?”
Chen Xi's words moved so fast that both Zhou Yu and Xun Yu didn't know how to answer the conversation. They were still talking about business while they were talking about eating.
"Sweet sweet-scented osmanthus tofu." Guo Jia gave Lu Xun a look, and Lu Xun immediately said. Lu Xun himself was sent by Liu Bei to have breakfast for the group of advisers who had been playing battle flag deduction all night long.
"Eating so early?" Cheng Yu said puzzledly. As someone who eats two meals during the day and some late-night snacks at night, Cheng Yu couldn't understand eating at dawn in the morning.
"Everything is ready here. What's for lunch?" Chen Xi asked again.
"Salted fish soup and fish and beef buns." Lu Xun replied.
"Oh, it's okay. I'll give you a copy here. We might want to talk. By the way, send someone to the rear to contact us and send us 80,000 sweaters and 50,000 cotton-padded clothes." Chen Xi patted Lu Xun's head.
He said, "This is my apprentice. How about it?"
Lu Xun's character was a little out of touch after being taught by Chen Xi, but he himself was smart and thought very rigorously, so after Chen Xi opened his mouth, he formally gave everyone a gift.
"Yes, there are already fluctuations in spiritual talent in my body, but it's not yet time." Zhou Yu was the first to speak.
"He is indeed a talented person." Xun Yu stared at it for a long time before he said.
"Bo Yan, you go first." Chen Xi was very satisfied with Zhou Yu and Xun Yu's evaluation, while Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang looked solemn. Lu Xun had actually come this far. If nothing else, Lu Xun would probably take the initiative when he was fifteen or sixteen years old.
Awaken your own talents.
After sending Lu Xun away, Chen Xi brought back the original topic again, "If you don't want it, forget it. It's worth millions anyway."
"Zichuan, do you really want to give it to the two of them?" Liu Ye sent a message to Chen Xi and said, more than 100,000 yuan of winter clothes, but dozens of cars, just to give it to the other party, Liu Ye felt a little distressed, although when Chen Xi was crazy, he almost
Tens of millions of dollars are gone.
"If you don't give it to them, how can you let them know that this thing is better than linen? There has been less of it in the past two years. In two years, it won't even take two years. Wool and cotton will be able to supply some places next year." Chen Xi sent a message to Liu Ye.
Said, "Prepare in advance. It is said to be several million dollars, but the real cost is less than one million dollars. It is just an investment to open the market in advance."
"The problem is, if you open the market like this, we won't do business, and it will still be cheaper for the Chamber of Commerce and others." Liu Ye continued to send a message to Chen Xi.
"Oh, we are here to collect taxes. Those people from Jiangdong will definitely come to buy when we go back. Besides, the tax will be higher when the transaction volume is large. If I have money, I can let them move around, which will make it easier for the people to build in the future.
There are too many places, so I'd better prepare early." Chen Xi was also helpless. He was already very powerful, but when it came to infrastructure construction, the money was gone.
"Forget it, it's useless to tell you this. It would be good to let Xun Yu raise sheep and Zhou Yu raise horses in South China, don't you think?" Chen Xi sent a message to Liu Ye and said jokingly.
Cao Cao is short of money. Although he has money banks, even if Cao Cao is stupid, he will not have money without making money. So after confirming that wool is profitable, Cao Cao, who has no shortage of war horses, will definitely raise sheep on the grassland. Chen Xi will collect the wool and sell it
Wool, let Cao Cao spin and knit.
In this way, after the battle in Saibei, there will be a stage of dividing the spoils no matter what. Although the three parties will have a battle sooner or later, at least at this time, Chen Xi is not ready to take over the entire Central Plains.
Well, in fact, Chen Xi is not yet ready to fully occupy the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty and allow all regions to develop in a balanced manner. Although it is possible to say that getting rich first will lead to getting rich later, the southeast has reached the level of developed countries, and the central part has reached the level of developing countries.
In terms of standards, the west is just underdeveloped and so on, which is really bad.
To be honest, this is also one of the biggest shortcomings of a country with a vast territory. If it really comes to that, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Chen Xi to step down.
Therefore, Chen Xi would rather seek stability than speed in this regard. Anyway, now he has a solution. Although it is impossible to smooth things over, it can be relatively fair.
Since Chen Xi is not going to take action next year, he must not do it and then fall out after defeating the Xiongnu. Furthermore, it means that the spoils must be divided.
Chen Xi can guarantee that Liu Bei can get the biggest part by relying on his strength, but Sun Ce, who is located in the southeast, may not have much strength in this battle, but if he really doesn't get anything, that is absolutely impossible.
So Chen Xi thought about this aspect when he saw Zhou Yu, and finally thought about it and came up with a horse-raising plan in the south.
By the way, this plan is not nonsense, but a real plan with the ability to be implemented. Horses can actually be raised in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River, and Yangtze River. Horses can also be raised in Wuling County in the southwest of Jingzhou, and there are considerable records in history.
For example, Chu and Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period had done this, and they were well raised, but Chen Xi was certain that Zhou Yu definitely did not have this ability.
