I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 113, undercurrents surging

In the third year of Zhongping (186), in July, Mayi.

The whole Mayi is preparing for war. The bustling Mayi has disappeared, and the streets are full of marching soldiers, but there is a murderous air.

Zhen An, who came to Mayi again, saw that Mayi was very helpless when he saw soldiers everywhere. He was going to fight and naturally he couldn't do business.

These businessmen are particularly sensitive to such things. Now that the Hu merchants in Mayi have basically run away, they are afraid that Xu Wei will anger them.Most of the merchants of the Han Dynasty also left. They were worried that He Lianzhen would break through Mayi, and then they would be plundered by Xianbei people to eat wind and sand on the grassland.In this case, everyone can only fly separately in the face of disaster.

Zhen An didn't want to come to Mayi at this time, but he had to. After all, when he suggested to the Zhen family to open up the business channel in Mayi, the Zhen family had already made a lot of preparations, even buying food. The loss of the family is great, and he can't afford to go around, so he has to take the risk and come here again when the Xianbei people are about to attack Mayi.

But in this situation, let alone buying grain, Mayi may not even be able to get the 10 bolts of woolen cloth that were originally agreed upon.The only way Zhen An could think of to stop the loss was to use Xu Wei's method of turning wool into woolen cloth, so that he would not only have no faults but also merit.

So when Xu Wei met him, he asked, "Shuai Qu, do you have any plans to escape back to Dahan? My Zhen family can help Dashuai go back to Dahan!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "A traitor like me can also go back to the big man?"

Zhen An said: "There are tens of thousands of people in the whole Han Dynasty, and if Qu Shuai doesn't say anything, who knows that you are Lei Gong!"

Xu Wei said: "Then what should I do with my 30 people, let them become slaves of the Xianbei people!"

Seeing that Xu Wei could not be persuaded, Zhen An changed his mind and said, "Shuai Qu, it is too unsafe for the textile factory to be located outside Mayi City. The war will destroy all these workshops. Has Shuai Qu ever thought that the textile factory can actually be located near Yanmen Pass?" Inside, this is not only safe, but also convenient for transportation, as long as Qu Shuai agrees, our Zhen family can help Qu Shuai break through the official obstacles. Guaranteed not to let Qu Shuai suffer."

In fact, the Zhen family also wanted to make wool cloth by themselves, but it was difficult for them to buy wool, and the second was that they did not know how to process the wool and spin it into yarn. The Zhen family had experimented in Jizhou and found that they made a wool by themselves Cloth, not only the color quality is not as good as Mayi, but also the manufacturing price is higher than the selling price of Mayi. It can be said that it is not as good as buying.In such a situation, the Zhen family would naturally not waste their money on building a textile factory.

Zhen An felt that Xu Wei could not be persuaded to flee to Dahan, but persuading Xu Wei to get the textile factory to Dahan was also a great achievement.

Xu Wei said indifferently: "You are not optimistic about Ma Yi's future either?"

Xu Wei is not stupid. He really brought the textile factory to Yanmen Pass. The textile factory still has its own business, and the technology of wool cloth is not very high-end technology. As long as experienced weavers have a look at the process, they can basically copy it out. Yes, his eyes are everywhere here in Mayi, so he can naturally protect the technology of the wool spinning industry, but he can't control it when he goes to Dahan.

Just like the briquette stove in Mayi and the tools for making honeycomb briquettes are inventions that are easy to understand at a glance. They are an invention of ideas. Now only the barbarians on the grassland come to Mayi to buy them, and basically the merchants in the Han Dynasty will not buy them again. Because there are already many local workshops on how to make briquette stoves and briquette tools, and Xu Wei didn't get a penny of patent fees.

Of course, briquettes and briquettes stoves can’t make a lot of money, so Xu Wei doesn’t care if they are copied, but now the textile factory is a pillar industry that Xu Wei recognizes. If the technology spreads now, Xu Wei will suffer a lot. You must know that the current wool cloth can be used as money in many places. Even Xu Wei cannot afford to lose such a money printing machine industry.

Xu Wei can guarantee that his textile factory has really gone to the sphere of influence of the Zhen family, and soon the Zhen family will open a textile machine 10 times larger than his own, and even water spinning opportunities will bloom everywhere in Dahan, and he will have nowhere by then to reason.

Zhen An smiled wryly and said, "Shuai Qu, you are also a battle-hardened man, do you think Ma Yi can survive under the 10 cavalry of the Xianbei people?"

Xu Wei said: "I also have an army of 10, why can't I win? If Helian dares to come to Mayi, I will cut off his dog's head!"

But it is clear that Zhen An did not believe Xu Wei. After all, in this era, the Han people have psychological advantages over any Hu people, but not against the Xianbei people.

After all, the Han army was defeated by the Xianbei a few years ago, and under the intrusion of the Xianbei these years, it was even more exhausted. In everyone's opinion, the cavalry of the Xianbei was the same level as the elite of the Han army.

Most of the 10 troops that Xu Wei summoned were farmers who had just put down their hoes. He even saw that most of these militiamen were wearing rattan armor. The army of the Xianbei can defeat the iron cavalry of the Xianbei people.

Zhen An didn't believe it, and Xu Wei couldn't help it. He didn't continue to entangle Zhen An on this issue.Instead, he said: "Is there a way for the shopkeeper to buy 2 pieces of silk and come to Mayi? These silks don't want to be beautiful, but to be thick and durable! Money is not a problem. I can exchange it with gold, but the time must be fast, and it must be in Helian Lead the troops south, preferably within a month!"

Xu Wei remembered that silk was used as inner armor in many novels. It seemed that this could be used to defend against long arrows, and even if it was shot, the arrow could be pulled out easily because it was wrapped in silk, and the injury would not be too serious, but Xu Wei wanted to When making silk inner armor, it was discovered that there were only more than 3000 bolts of silk in the whole Mayi, which was not enough to make inner armor for a 10 army.

Although Zhen An didn't know why Xu Wei bought so much silk at this time, but when he heard that Xu Wei wanted to pay the bill in gold, he immediately said: "Time is too tight, I can only try my best!"

Mayi, the coal mine!

There are 3 horse thieves captured by Xu Wei at the beginning. Most of them were placed in various mines by Xu Wei. It can be said that Mayi is the most dangerous and they have done the hardest work.

But these horse thieves didn't have much heart to resist. First, Xu Wei agreed with them that they would be free after three years of work. Second, Xu Wei treated them very well. Not only could they eat three meals a day, And there is also a monthly salary of 100 yuan, which is the 100 yuan monthly salary that makes these horse bandits believe that Xu Wei will let them go.

With hope, their will to resist is naturally not strong!Therefore, there is only a group of soldiers guarding these mines.

The news that the Xianbei people were going to attack Mayi also spread to the mine, and everyone was a little frightened. The hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry made the whole Mayi feel a heavy sense of depression.

(End of this chapter)