I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 583, cottage cotton cloth

Relying on the family's influence in Xuzhou, the Chen family quickly helped Chen Deng become Wang Lei's subordinate official, and Chen Gui also warned Chen Deng not to think about his career within 10 years, and to assist Wang Lei with peace of mind.

He knew that although his family was down and out, if he appeared in front of Xu Wei, he would definitely suffer disaster.Now that their Chen family has entered the officialdom, this is already a huge victory. They have been lurking for a generation, and they will come out after Xu Wei.

After Chen Deng's ability became Wang Lei's subordinate officer, he immediately stood out and helped Wang Lei clean up the city destroyed by the war in Xuwei, repair water conservancy facilities, and restore Xuzhou's agricultural production. Wang Lei quickly discovered that Chen Deng was proficient in everything about government affairs. Wang Lei, the governor of Xuzhou, was more than half of his worries, and now he has become Wang Lei's confidant counselor, so he was brought to Ji County by Wang Lei.

Hearing Chen Deng's words, Wang Lei had no choice but to smile bitterly and said: "Who made us in Xuzhou still at the forefront of dealing with big men? The ruling party also worried that the factories that spent huge sums of money to build would be destroyed by the war. In addition, those in Yanzhou, Sili, and Xiliang The governor shouted that our states and counties are sucking their blood, and now the government is trying to find a way to balance the development gap between counties and counties!"

Mi Zhu said angrily: "Our Xuzhou is also being sucked blood by other states and counties, especially Qingzhou. You must know that our Xuzhou had a population of more than 300 million, but because of the Cao thief, most of the population moved to Qingzhou. Now the population is only [-] million. There are millions left."

Mi Zhu, the biggest wealthy merchant in Xuzhou, is also down and out just like the Chen family. After all, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao even cheated the rich and powerful families in Xuzhou, and Mi Zhu's merchant family is the most valuable fat pig in their eyes. Fortunately, Mi Zhu understood the truth of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, and kept some of his family property and caravan in Hebei and Jiangnan. It was because of the family property in these two places that the Mi family did not completely decline.

But even after Mi Zhu's hard work these years, the Mi family's business has not recovered to [-]% of its heyday. After all, the merchants in Hebei have become stronger with the support of Xu Wei, and Mi Zhu's competitive pressure in Hebei is extremely strong, let alone he is still After being severely injured by the princes like Cao Cao, although everyone sympathized with Mi Zhu's experience, they still beat Mi Zhu hard.This means that corruption has a talent for doing business, and this is the only way to survive this catastrophe.

After Daqian took over Xuzhou last year, Hua Lan felt that the pressure of doing business in Hebei was too great, so he returned to his hometown immediately and invested a huge amount of money, wanting to rebuild his own business kingdom, and Wang Lei also wanted Xuzhou to recover quickly Yuan Qi, there is such a big businessman investing in Xuzhou, which naturally attracted Wang Lei's attention.

Wang Lei also tried his best to help Mi Zhu's factory in Xuzhou, and Mi Zhu did not disappoint Wang Lei. In the first year, he invested hundreds of millions of dollars to build a factory in Xuzhou. It can be said that the two parties can be regarded as allies now.

Hearing this, Wang Lei said helplessly: "There is a shortage of people everywhere now. If we are not on the front line here, I am afraid that we will receive even less support!"

Chen Deng said in relief: "It's not that we have nothing to gain. During this year, we have continuously absorbed the population of Jiujiang County and Lujiang County. Now the population of the entire Guangling County has increased by 10. It is said that now Liu Bei is trying to find a way to reduce the population. The inflow of population has already moved all the people from the north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yangtze River!"

Now all places are trying to find ways to compete for the population, and the states that are working hard are also strictly guarding against such things. Even the states and counties that absorb the population cannot do too much. Originally, Wang Lei was also worried about the lack of population in Xuzhou. But at this time, Chen Deng thought of a good way for Wang Lei. Xuzhou can't absorb the people of the big gang now, but no one will take care of the people of the big man on the opposite side.

And the method Chen Deng gave is also extremely simple, that is, the people who fled from Dahan to Dagan, as long as they come to Xuzhou, each household can get 10 shi of grain for settlement, and Xu Wei will build a house for each household. , Hundred acres of land!

This naturally caused a commotion among the people in the entire Han Dynasty. It doesn’t matter what the land is. After more than ten years of fighting for hegemony, there are fewer people and the land is barren. Now which princes want to compete for the hearts of the people and don’t give them land, but they really give food It had never happened before, and the people in Jiujiang County and Lujiang County had already suffered from military disasters at that time, and the people's homes had long been out of food. Now that they heard the news, they immediately ran towards Xuzhou.

Chen Deng also took advantage of their family's relationship in Jiujiang County and Lujiang County to spread such news wantonly, and immediately absorbed a large number of people from Jiujiang County and Lujiang County into Xuzhou.And Chen Deng was valued by Wang Lei by relying on these 10 people.

But Wang Lei still had no choice but to say: "There are too few people, and it is difficult to do anything. You must know that Xuzhou used to have a population of more than 400 million, but now it is only 100% of the population. Now I divide [-] acres of land for each household in Xuzhou, and there are still a lot of people. The fertile land has no one to till it.”

Chen Deng and Mi Zhu felt distressed when they heard this, because a large part of the land Wang Lei mentioned belonged to them, but now it has nothing to do with them.

After recovering his mood, Mi Zhu immediately said to Wang Lei: "Inspector Wang, in fact, there are few people and there are few people! Xuzhou's environment is unique, the land is flat and fertile, and it is close to the sea. It can connect the entire rich and prosperous prefectures and counties by sea. In Guangling There is also an extremely large fishing ground in the county, all of which are the rich capital of Xuzhou! As long as there is a pillar industry, Xuzhou will soon develop."

Wang Lei immediately asked, "Brother Mi, is there any way you can teach me?"

Mi Zhu said with a smile: "There is no shortage of food in Dagan. Farming does not make money at all, but planting cash crops is different. I thought of a method that has the best of three things to speed up the development of Xuzhou!"

Wang Lei asked, "What method?"

Mi Zhu said: "Recently, a very popular cloth called cotton cloth has been released in our Dagan. I wonder if Governor Wang knows about it?"

Wang Lei nodded and said: "Of course I know. It is said that it came from the Western Regions. A piece of cotton cloth costs more than 3000 yuan, and the top-quality cotton cloth exceeds [-] yuan. It is not much worse than the top Shu brocade of the big man. Wanli just came to me to work, the price is reasonable, and it is also very comfortable to wear, suitable for summer, and it is worthy of the high price!"

But at this time Mi Zhu smiled and said: "Wang Cishi, you were deceived by the merchants in Xiliang. The cotton cloth a few years ago may have something to do with countries in the Western Regions, but the merchants in Xiliang saw the price of cotton cloth so high. I found a way to introduce cotton planting from the Western Regions, and planted it in Dunhuang, and my textile industry is unparalleled in the world. As long as I change the machine a little, the cotton cloth made in Xiliang is better than that of the Western Regions. Cotton cloth is basically spun in Xiliang! And the so-called high-quality cotton cloth worth ten thousand dollars is made by Xiliang craftsmen."

(End of this chapter)