I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 71, New World
Seeing the quality of the steel knives and daggers, and the fact that the Ministry of Thunder has such a powerful weapon manufacturing capability that it can even be sold for takeaway, Liu Bei began to worry about the development of the Ministry of Thunder.

Zhang Fei said disapprovingly: "Brother, you are worrying too much, let alone Lei Gong is still in Bingzhou, it has nothing to do with our Youzhou affairs.

Even if Lei Gong really wants to rebel, there is no big problem. He has already arrived on the grassland. As long as he guards the Yanmen Pass, Lei Gong will not be able to enter the big man, and can only develop outside the pass. The only people who have headaches are the Huns and Xianbei, and the Huns and Xianbei around him People are not easy to mess with.

And Mayi is a barren place, and it is impossible to support 20 of them. Lei Gong chose a place to die for himself. From my younger brother's point of view, Lei Gong in Mayi can't last for a few years. Cut off Mayi's food source again, and they will flee in all directions! "

Zhang Fei's words brightened Liu Bei's eyes and said: "I never thought that Yide would have such a strategic vision, brother Wei really didn't expect it!"

He said to Jian Yong: "I agree to do business with Lei Gong. The goods can be exchanged for money and materials, but not a grain of grain is allowed to flow into Jinmai."

Jian Yong smiled and said: "Don't worry Xuande, I will definitely bring more gold, silver and copper coins, and go to Mayi without food!"

Then he took the sweater to Liu Bei and said, "I think this dress is the best thing. It is made of wool and is called a sweater. Wearing a sweater keeps you warm and windproof. Even in snowy days, you won't be caught by the cold wind when you go out." Invasion."

Liu Bei was surprised: "It's really so warm?"

After speaking, he immediately took off his coat and put on the sweater.

Jian Yong said: "Xuande, just think of this sweater as a tight-fitting sheepskin jacket."

Liu Bei moved his body and said, "It's really tight!"

Then he went out for a while in the sweater he was wearing, and when he came back he was sweating

He laughed and said: "This sweater is much better than a sheepskin jacket, but it is too prickly. But in winter, you don't have to worry about the severe cold with this sweater. I didn't expect wool to be so effective. Xianhe ordered 10 pieces from the Ministry of Thunder. We Let’s make a copy of this sweater too!”

Jian Yong said helplessly: "Xuande, if you continue to do this, this business will not be able to continue. And you can't imitate this sweater. Lei Gongbu will give us 500 yuan for this sweater. Such a low price is no longer profitable."

"500 money!" Liu Bei was surprised.

In this era, even commoner clothes cost 300-500 yuan, and winter clothes that can resist cold and wind don't need to ask for thousands of dollars.

Liu Bei thought that this kind of sweater would cost thousands of dollars, but he didn't expect the price to be so low that it was already the same as commoner clothes.

Zhang Fei was also taken aback and said, "How does Lei Gong make money? Does he want to do good things?"

Zhang Fei doesn't know the power of industrialization. Even if Xu Wei is only the most basic handicraft industry, the sweater that has no profit in his opinion actually costs only about 100 yuan!Xu Wei can not only make money, but also earn several times!
This era is considered to be the best era for industry. If you produce a little something, you can sell it for several times the price. The cost of a sweater will not exceed 100 yuan. Old man Wang wants ten times the profit. Even so, he thinks it is cheap to sell. up.

Xu Wei, a modern person, couldn't stand it any longer, so he directly reduced it by half, but there were still several times the profit. Modern industrialists would probably be envious, because they couldn't even get [-]% of the profit.

Guan Yu, who remained silent all the time, said: "The weather is cold now, and this sweater is so cheap, it should be sold. Brother, you can get a batch and try it out."

Liu Bei thought for a while and said to Jian Yong: "Xianhe, I will give you 10 yuan. You can find a way to go to Mayi to buy some sweaters and try to see if they sell well! By the way, let's find out about Lei Gong and the others!"

Jian Yong nodded and said, "I'll do it now!"

Jian Yong followed the envoy sent by Xu Wei to go west along the Sanggan River.

After walking for a short time and arriving at the boundary of Yanmen County, they found that there was a construction site here, and these people all knew the messenger and were still greeting each other.

Jian Yong was secretly startled: "Unexpectedly, Lei Gong has expanded his territory to Juyang County!"

This is already the border of Youzhou, and he began to worry a little. The soldiers in Youzhou's fields are gone. After all, they used to be yellow scarf thieves!
Dozens of people are working hard here, and the construction site is very lively, but what they do makes Jian Yong very strange. After laying the foundation, they put 4 logs on the ground, and then connect them together, winding like four long dragons. You can't see the end at a glance.

Jian Yong asked curiously, "Why do you lay logs on the road?"

The emissary Wan Shi proudly said: "This is a wooden track, a road specially for carriages. According to our commander-in-chief Qu, this is a wooden track invented by the Qin Dynasty. The carriage can travel 600 miles a day on it. Our territory is connected Once on this wooden track, anywhere can be reached in two days."

After finishing speaking, Wan Shi also got three rail carriages, let Jian Yong sit in the first rail carriage, and his entourage sat in the back two rail carriages.

"Let you see how powerful this carriage is! Drive!"

The carriage was running on the track like lightning, and Jian Yong was surprised to find that the carriage was not only much more stable on the track, but also several times faster than ordinary carriages, not even much slower than riding a horse. It was really possible to march 600 miles a day. .

He secretly said: "This Lei Gong is not simple. Everyone knows about the wooden rails of the Qin Dynasty. Could it be that he is the son of a powerful family? But why did he want to exterminate so many powerful noble families in Wei County?"

Half a day later, they came to the vicinity of Mayi.

Jian Yong found that there is a large amount of farmland around Mayi, which is boundless at a glance, and it is estimated that it is as much as hundreds of thousands of mu.

"There are so many fields in Mayi!"

The emissary Wan Shi said proudly: "These are all reclaimed by our leader when he came to Mayi, and there are already millions of acres!
Jian Yong is not surprised by this, he knows that Lei Gong is farming, and Liu Bei has opened up 200 million mu of land in Youzhou. In terms of land reclamation, Lei Gong is not as good as Liu Bei. There are 20 people in the city, it seems that Lei Gong has not discovered his food crisis.

It's just that he wonders that there is something like a track in the fields of Mayi?

He asked curiously: "What is above the field, is it also a track?"

Wan Shi looked at the soil turtle and said: "This is an elevated canal. The water is lifted to this canal by a water truck five or six feet high, and then the water flows into the fields through these elevated canals. In this way, the fields around Mayi It can become irrigated land, as Qu Shuai said, as long as the land yields 5 stones per mu for two years, it will not be a problem, and the world of Mayi will be more fertile than Jizhou by then!"

Jian Yong was stunned by the shock. Xu Wei actually created a project similar to Zheng Guoqu in such a short period of time. You must know that the Qin Dynasty was able to rule the world at the beginning because of the millions of acres of irrigated land that Zheng Guoqu created.

Jian Yong didn't believe what Wan Shi said at all. He asked Wan Shi to stop his carriage and came to the side of the elevated canal in person, only to find that there really was a branch canal that continuously flowed water into the land. It has become a watery swamp.

Although I haven't seen the waterwheel yet, it is clear that the elevated aqueduct is really useful.

(End of this chapter)