Three Kingdoms: Jiuyuan Tiger

Chapter 31 The Way to Make Money
Lu Bu divided the newly recruited [-] soldiers into three, and assigned [-] soldiers to Qin Qiong and Zhang Liao each. The remaining [-] soldiers were temporarily led by Gao Shun as Xiangping's garrison.

Today is the day when Lu Bu trains the soldiers of the Huben Camp.

Lu Bu got up early, and Dian Wei got up earlier than Lu Bu. When Lu Bu got up, Dian Wei was already practicing halberds in the courtyard.

After that, Dian Wei practiced Bajiquan with Lu Bu, and the two walked towards the school ground together.

Walking on the streets of Xiangping City, Lu Bu was a little hungry.

How much Lu Bu wanted to order a takeaway or something. In his previous life, Lu Bu seldom ordered takeaway because of the shortage of funds.

In this day and age, Lu Bu is rich, but it is a pity that it will take hundreds of years for the food delivery industry to appear...

At this time, Lu Bu couldn't even order food, let alone order food.

It's not yet dawn, but just now there was a glimmer of light, not to mention people on the streets of Xiangping City, not even a dog!
Where can I go to buy food?
So Lu Bu endured his hunger and brought Dian Wei to the school field outside the city.

The sobbing horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Huben Battalion quickly assembled and stood in line meticulously.

Seeing this, Lu Bu nodded in satisfaction. Discipline has begun to take shape!
Since it is the severe winter season, the quagmire and pits in Lu Bu's training plan cannot be arranged, so Lu Bu instructed Dian Wei to take the soldiers of the Huben Camp to run around the school field. Of course, it is not ordinary running, but carrying sandbags run.

Seeing the young men in the Huben Camp running one by one with high spirits, Lu Bu put on the sandbag with a smile and joined the army of running circles.

When the soldiers saw Lu Bu being so approachable and a "virtuous corporal", they were all flattered to use their breastfeeding strength and walk like flying!

Lü Bu smiled, and accelerated his pace. Not to be outdone, the boys from the Huben camp quickly followed in Lv Bu's footsteps.

Most of the soldiers in the Huben Camp were from poor backgrounds. These days, no one with two sons in his family would let his son hang his head on the waistband of his trousers to join the army and fight.

Born in poverty, they have to go to the mountains to cut firewood every day to subsidize their families. Otherwise, what do they live on?
In addition, there are no cars, no trains, and no planes these days. The only means of transportation are horses and donkeys. However, given their family conditions, they cannot afford a donkey, let alone a horse.

So their means of transportation are their legs!

With the physical fitness of the soldiers, Lu Bu really didn't let them down at first!

It wasn't until Lu Bu accelerated his march that he gradually left these energetic young men behind.

In the end, only Dian Wei followed Lu Bu like a shadow and ran the whole distance.

After the first training session, Lu Bu instructed Dian Wei to take the soldiers to do some simple push-ups, pull-ups and so on.

Lu Bu also built a lot of stone locks for the soldiers of Huben Camp, all of which were used as barbells for them to hold to train their strength.

The Huben Battalion will be Lu Bu's personal guards, and these soldiers will be the earliest veterans of the Huben Battalion. Lu Bu will naturally treat them strictly.

After training the soldiers of the Huben Camp all morning, Lu Bu ordered Dian Wei to stay in the school grounds and continue training with them, while Lu Bu returned to Xiangping City.

With the two tasks of recruiting soldiers and making weapons, the money in Lu Bu's treasury was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, Lu Bu copied Gongsun Du's house, which avoided the embarrassing situation of being stretched.

But according to the development of this consumption rate, and then sit and eat like this, sooner or later Lu Bu will become a pauper.

Moreover, after the beginning of spring, Wuhuan will definitely invade Liaodong. By that time, the medical treatment and compensation for the soldiers who died in battle will be a huge expense.

The most terrible thing is that fighting Wuhuan can't achieve the effect of fighting Wuhuan. Even if he defeats Wuhuan's cavalry, all he can get is weapons and horses.

It is true that war horses are good horses, but Wuhuan's weapons can only be melted and rebuilt, and are of little use.

Want to take gold and silver from them?That's a bit too much thinking, at best, I can get some food and grass, and the amount is not too much...

So finding a way to get rich has become a top priority.

Lu Bu wanted to repeat the old trick and send troops to plunder the gold and silver of the big clans, but it would never work in Liaodong.

Firstly, the people in Xiangping City are quite poor, and secondly, most of the rich families in Xiangping City have already had their homes confiscated by Lu Bu.

Lu Bu sat in the study, tapping the table with his fingers, constantly thinking about how to find a way to make a fortune in his mind.

There are a lot of mineral resources in Liaodong, but mining is a problem, and there is no profit in a short period of time.

In addition to mines, Lu Bu can also sell war horses. Liaodong's war horses are famous all over the world.

It's a pity that first of all, Lu Bu doesn't have a good next family who can eat the war horse. Secondly, as Lu Bu is the governor of Liaodong, if someone participates in the reselling of the war horse, then Lu Bu will have to go around without eating!
And even if it could be sold, Lu Bu didn't want to sell Liaodong's war horses. After all, in the Central Plains, cavalry can be said to be the killer weapon of this era.

Lu Bu would never do such a thing as selling war horses for money!

Emmm, it smells so good!
War horses can't be sold, so what else can you do to make money?You can't just sit and eat here, right?

In this way, Lu Bu spent the whole morning thinking hard in his study, until at noon, the soldiers knocked on the door and brought food to Lu Bu.

Lu Bu looked at the food and wine on the table, and slapped his head violently: "Wine making!"

For the wine of this era, Lu Bu has been unable to complain, what is this?
It is not like rice wine if it is called rice wine, it is not liquor if it is called baijiu, and it is even less like beer.

The feeling for Lu Bu is that drinking this stuff is like mixing distiller's lees with water. Is that something for people to drink?
When mentioning wine making, Lu Bu thought of sugar and salt making again. It seems that there are many ways to make money!

There is nothing to pay attention to in the production of wine and sugar, but the production of salt is not so easy.

During the Western Han Dynasty, in order to increase fiscal revenue and crack down on industrial and commercial persons, Emperor Wu implemented the monopoly of salt and iron by the state.

Emperor Wu also set up an administrative agency to manage salt and iron affairs. In the middle of the court, he set up a salt and iron minister under the Dasinong to take charge of the national salt and iron business, and set up salt officials or iron officials in local counties to manage the production and sales of salt and iron.

Selling private salt at this time, if someone catches you or actually beats you, you will lose your head!

Although the investigation and punishment of private salt was not so strict at this time, Lu Bu still didn't want to take the risk.

Although gold and silver are good, there must be life flowers, right?
Honestly producing wine and sugar can also achieve the effect of making a fortune. As for the salt production, it is useful to secretly make something for yourself!
Even if the salt made by oneself is not as excellent as that of later generations, it is still much better than the salt circulating in this era.

The salt in this era is very rough, and Lu Bu always feels that it is not for human consumption...

Now that I have figured out the way to get rich, let alone the process of distillation and purification, I have to find the next home first.

Otherwise, even if you make wine and sugar, you will spend a lot of money and no one will buy it?
Therefore, Lu Bu had to make a small amount first, come up with something similar to a sample, and then wait for the next home to be found, and the next home had to pay a deposit before it could be mass-produced.

　One more!Thank you Brother Death God for your reward!Thanks to my brother with the tail number 5513 for the reward, I'm clapping my fists!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)