The newly arrived people in Jiangyin are all quite stable, and they don't have any acclimatization. Those who should be dissatisfied have all accepted it.
"Big Lushi" Shagua and his apprentices started a new period of busy work. It was difficult to take care of the pregnant young mare and young female donkey. This winter, they must not be allowed to freeze to death.
As for other large animals, Shagua was not interested at all, because the important task assigned to him by Shou Li was to expand the number of mules and horses.
"Director, what should I do with the whale meat?"
"Didn't those six people want to be exchanged?"
"The six people exchanged the pearls of the Chao Kingdom. What is the use of the pearls?"
"Too."
Shagua doesn't think pearls are of any use. There are so many pearls in Jiangyin. Just like glass, you can actually get as much as you want.
It's just that Jiangyin City has never sold pearls to outsiders, but used them to offset tribute.
The items that offset the tribute are mainly glass, porcelain, "Big Red 01", "Big Purple 01", white sand and linen, pearls, corals and the like.
There is a small lake for water storage in "Dongxi" east of Qiubei in Jiangyin-eup. In the shallow pond, a large number of pearl mussels are artificially cultured.
However, the scale was not large enough in the early days, and collecting wild river mussels was also quite troublesome. To select high-quality pearl mussels, you must first pass training.
It’s just that the overall cost of pearl farming is not high. The fertilizer used to regulate pearl mussels is mainly poultry feces, such as chicken feces and duck feces. Pearls can be as big as soybeans in one year, which are used to feed aunts.
Su Wanggong is a good addition, which is quite acceptable.
The truly decent pearl is still a piece of clam shell that Li Jie placed in Baisha Village. The quantity is very small, but after all, it is a two-year-old pearl, the size is quite decent, and the gloss is also excellent.
The best pearls produced now are the pearl clams that Li Jie first tested the waters with.
The technology of pearl farming is not difficult. When Li Jie was working as a foreman, he once took a job in Taihu Lake. Later, the boss ran away with his sister-in-law. The landlady was more generous and gave Li Jie 50 acres of pearl pond.
untie.
If all the pearl mussels hadn't died due to eutrophication in the pond after a month of raising them, Li Jie personally felt that he would have made a fortune.
A little bit less lucky.
But fortunately, at least now I don’t have to worry about pearls. The pearl powder that wives use to paste their faces, Commissioner Li estimates that it can be used by the next generation...
This somewhat led Shagua to despise pearls. Even though pearls are actually quite valuable, they just don’t despise them.
How can something that Li disdains be a good thing?
"Special brave man" is extremely loyal!
As a result, the six of them now want to exchange pearls from relatives in the Chao Kingdom for whale meat?!
Daydreaming!
"Then... Director, if you don't accept pearls, what will you accept?"
"Buy some slaves."
"That's fine."
There are a lot of slaves in the breeding center, but these slaves are not really slaves, they are just slaves legally and have no right to freedom in life.
After more than a year of training and training, as long as you have strong learning ability and can quickly become a "Lushi", then deregistration is just around the corner.
Seventy-eight percent of the apprentices Shagua brought to Huaizhong this time were slaves, and they were all relatively young, around eleven or twelve years old.
Most of them are prisoners of war, mainly Huai Yi and Bird Yi, and there are also a small number of "Shaye" savages who are disobedient to discipline. Some of them are young people collected by Yinxiang himself in the slave market.
If nothing goes wrong, these young slaves will support Shagua's dream in the future and make a big difference!
As a "special brave man" and the director of the breeding center, Shagua is willing to dedicate his heart to his great cause!
After planning the livestock pens for next year in advance, Shagua went to report to Li Jie.
"Gua, if you have any requests for next year, just ask for them."
"Shou Li, the breeding farm in Huaizhong City is still short of mares and ponies. I wonder if I can purchase some to expand the stables?"
"When you were in Jiangyin, didn't you go shopping in Suzhou?"
"The horse market in Gusu has been closed. All the big businessmen are buying horses, but no one is selling them."
"Um?!"
Hearing the news, Li Jie was immediately shocked: "This is about to start a fucking fight."
Sometimes wars include not only foreign wars, but also civil wars.
For example, the Dou clan of Chu State had fought with the king before, so it was not a big deal at all.
When the old monster was alive, especially when he was a prince, he would always say goodbye to the people in the country.
I once had a fight with the boss of Wuhu in Gu Ouze. How big was the scale?
The Prince of Wu and the Five Lakes bosses both pulled out more than 30,000 troops. Then the Prince of Wu directly recruited a group of savages from Ju Quze to work together, and then... then there were no Wuhu bosses anymore.
From then on, there was one more Gu surname in the state of Wu.
The Juchu clan has a unified surname. Although it has branches and some have become officials and generals, they still go by "Juqu".
Although if there is a civil war in Wu State now, it may not be comparable in scale to the old monster, but the degree of destruction may be even worse.
After all, when the old monster was still the prince of King Wu, he was fighting in the wilderness and the Zhongjiang River Basin. No matter how much damage was done, it was just destroying nature, which was nothing.
But now that they are competing in Gusu, once there is a toss, the whole Wangji area will be boiling, and who knows how much Wu Guo's hundreds of years of accumulation will be defeated.
But it doesn’t matter if it’s really Li Jie. Anyway, he wants to change his hometown to run the business. In this ghost place of Jiangnan, no matter how fertile the land is and how high the yield per mu is, what’s the use of being unstable?
Jiangbei and Huaizhong are a bit thin, but there are always some, and they are definitely yours, no one dares to steal them from you.
"It doesn't matter. This time I go to Zheng State and I will help you buy some mares. How many do you want?"
“The more, the merrier.”
"Oh! You can still use idioms."
Commissioner Li patted Shagua on the shoulder and said, "Shagua raises horses, the more the merrier."
"good!"
When he saw his boss praising his progress again, Shagua was... so proud!
"Then I will try my best to choose good horses for you when I go to Zheng State. However, the number of horses sold in winter will not be too many, thousands or hundreds, and I will try to have more than five hundred horses."
"Hey Hey Hey……"
As soon as he heard that there was a pony, he felt like a special brave man and laughed happily.
"Zi Yue" from Jiangyin City is the favorite pony of Lord Dalu Shi. It is smart and can run fast. The babies born in the future will definitely be very smart.
"Whatever is missing or needed, just ask for it!"
"yes!"
In the entire Yinxiang system, the most reliable subordinate unit is the breeding center.
Shagua is indeed a bit dull, but he is not impetuous in his work, he is quite imaginative at critical moments, and most importantly, he is stable enough.
In this regard, my uncle Shang Wuji never expected to be able to compare with Sha Gua in his life.
It's a pity that this boy has no interest in getting married. Originally, Li Jie planned to find Yun Zhenlu or Gong Shuqin to ask for a little girl to come over and deal with the marriage casually.
Just like Chen An, a typical "marriage" tool, he won over Dr. Shang Cai, a bad old man, and made him think that his Cai family had been exposed to the armed forces of Yinxiang.
Before setting off, Li Jie arranged the boat and prepared to enter Zheng State via Yingshui River.
In addition to the five hundred crocodile men, there was also a caravan responsible for purchasing.
The leader of the caravan is Wu Chan, and the main purchasing targets for this winter trip north are large livestock and people.
Now the actual people in power in Zheng State are quite in awe of Li Jie. After all, Zheng Shuang, the king of Zheng State, is still in Gusu and will not die. Zheng Chengzi will only pray for the emperor to raise him in Gusu.
He will be fat and fat for nothing, and he will die of old age in a few decades.
In this case, the future king of the Zheng Kingdom may be him, whoever Zheng Chengzi said will be who he is.
The biggest variable is obviously the king Zheng Shuang.
Li Jie is one of the few people who can easily change this variable in this region.
There is no need to use even the few, because only Li Jie can easily affect the national situation of Zheng.
Therefore, whether it was Li Jie's personal force value or Li Jie's political influence, Zheng Chengzi was forced to be in favor with Li Jie instead of being hostile.
Based on this interest relationship, Li Jie asked Wu Chan to purchase in Zheng State with confidence. If nothing else happened, all the counties and counties in Zheng State would cooperate with this large-scale purchase of Wu Chan.
"General, I'm going to Zheng to buy horses this time. I don't know how to pay for it?"
"You don't have to worry about this, I've already prepared it."
"yes!"
Wu Chan was actually just asking casually, seemingly to remind Li Jie, but in fact it was so that he could speak to Li Jie to show off his presence and increase his sense of presence.
At the beginning, he was just a country bumpkin in Macheng. The number of livestock in his hands, including sheep, was only three to five hundred.
He is a small second-level dealer with a small scale and weak strength.
But things are different now. Wu Chan knows very well that he is now one of the top international brokers in the Jianghuai region!
The merchants who had some friendship with him in Zhuma City in the past were all gathered around him now. There were five or six families who had taken refuge in the clan, and the total assets added up, the number of horses alone exceeded 6,000.
This does not include pigs, sheep, fields, population, etc.
Generally speaking, the Wuzhi in Zhuma City has really been established, and the Wushi in other countries may not be able to kick them away in the future.
After setting foot on Wu Zhou, Wu Chan secretly vowed that this time, he would become famous in Zheng State!