The Three Kingdoms: A vicious plan was offered, and Liu Bei was stunned!

Chapter 320: A large sum of money for acres of mulberry forest, Tao was shocked and exclaimed that he was incompetent

Tao Shao, the head of the Tao family, was so excited that he took the initiative to cooperate with Luo Yuan and Wu Jin. Naturally, he wanted to maintain a good relationship with Luo Yuan.

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It would be best to occupy a position on Luo Yuan's side. It is normal for the gentry to bet on both sides. In this way, no matter who wins or loses in the end, or who becomes the emperor, it will not affect the status of the gentry.

This is the operating model summed up by the gentry after the establishment of the aristocratic families. When one branch declines, the other branch prospers. The family can always be preserved, and the gentry will never die out.

This pattern continued until the Tang Dynasty. Later, there was a scholar in the Tang Dynasty. Brother Huang Chao fought from south to north and from north to south.
This eliminated most of the gentry and opened a new chapter in Chinese history. However, after the gentry, another group of scholar-officials emerged. They used Confucianism to rule China and enslave China. After the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains completely declined.

When Tao Shao came, he knew that Luo Yuan would definitely not refuse to cooperate with him. Wu Jin could bring huge benefits to Jiangling. On the one hand, it needed countless workers, and on the other hand, Wu Jin was a high-end luxury product.

Since silk was first discovered in the Central Plains, the Wu and Yue regions have been the main silk producing areas. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Wu brocades made by Yue women were the highest-end gifts at the time.

The silk from Bashu is a bit backward and cannot be compared with Wu brocade at all.

This is a state gift that only princes and emperors can use!
Luo Yuan attaches great importance to people's livelihood, so how could he not care about Wu Jin? However, Luo Yuan's handwriting made Tao Shao numb with shock. One hundred thousand acres?
The Tao family has been in Dongwu for hundreds of years and only has 30,000 mulberry trees in the forest!

Luo Yuan’s move was enough to offset hundreds of years of their hard work and development. Is this Jiang Ling’s strength?
Tao Shao felt pressured, as he had never run an industry on such a large scale.

"My Lord, this is too much!"

"Are you having trouble?"

Is it because of insufficient technology, insufficient manpower, or lack of factory buildings?
Are these problems?

Luo Yuan cares a lot about silk. If Hubei can produce silk, it can become the key industry in Jiangling area. On the surface, the war is about the army, but in fact, it is about money, food and financial resources.

Whoever has the harder and bigger fist is the most powerful.

I still think that with a large army and brave generals, we can unify the world. That's all dreaming.

Tao Shao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He felt very stressed. He had never operated an industry on such a large scale!
The Tao family doesn't have that much money to invest.
Not everyone is as wealthy as Luo Yuan.

But since Luo Yuan had asked, how could Tao Shao not say, "Your Majesty, calm down. One hundred thousand mu of mulberry forest is really too much. My family's craftsmen can't take care of it all. If no one takes care of the mulberry forest, it will become wild trees and it will be ineffective to raise silkworms. Do you know how much silk can be produced from one hundred thousand mu of mulberry forest?"

Do I need to know?

Isn’t that all your business?”

Luo Yuan smiled and said, "You are a professional. Is it appropriate for you to ask me about this? I don't care. If you want to do it, it must be on this scale. It's not even enough. Jiangling must have 100,000 rolls of silk a year!"

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the silk production in the Central Plains was amazing, with hundreds of thousands of pieces of silk produced each year.

Tao Shao kowtowed quickly and asked, "One hundred thousand horses?"

Kill me and see if you can get 100,000 pieces of silk: "Please spare my life, sir, this is impossible."

Luo Yuan was depressed and couldn't help saying: "You talk nicely, but you always ask for mercy, which makes me feel like I love killing people!"

Just talk, we are not talking about cooperation, I am not asking for your head.

Laozi has a good reputation and people say he is kind!

Are you fucking trying to ruin my reputation?
Tao Shao looked at Luo Yuan with a pitiful look on his face, looking for him as pitiful as a puppy. This time, Tao Shao was muttering in his heart that it was a mistake for him to come to Luo Yuan today.

You shouldn't have come!
I regretted it very much. Isn't this just asking for trouble? I couldn't help but wonder if Luo Yuan did it on purpose. He knew he couldn't do it, but he still made such an excessive request. Was he deliberately making things difficult for me so that I could exploit his family later?

After taking a sip of tea, Luo Yuan said, "Tell me about your difficulties. It's just business. You won't do it if there are difficulties? You should have the will to create difficulties even if there are none. This is the spirit of Jiang Ling. Do you understand?"

"But we can't make things difficult for you. After all, you are from Jiangdong. Can Sun Quan help you solve these problems?"

Luo Yuan knocked on the table and asked Tao Shao to speak properly. If this matter was not accomplished, it would affect his reputation and even Jiangling's investment promotion work.

After all, Tao Shao was the first family to actively seek cooperation with him, and the other party had the technology.

Luo Yuan was familiar with this routine.

The nobles were seeking benefits, so Luo Yuan set his sights on their technology.

Sericulture, silk, since we can do silk, then the textile industry is also possible, so why not set up a textile college?
The right approach is to let those who have mastered the family skills pass on the skills to more people.

Luo Yuan didn't even care about the little bit of profit from silk.

Culture and spirit are the essence of a nation, and advanced technology can give birth to countless new industries, which are the key to the prosperity of the entire world.

How dare you treat technology as a family heirloom and monopolize it?
These technologies belong to all mankind.

Now, from the Han people's point of view, only those within the Han territory are human beings, and the others are just barbarians and mixed Hu people. Those people are not considered human beings.

There is a kind of livestock.

"Your Excellency's meaning is..." Tao Shao trembled with fear, somewhat unable to believe it.

Don't you really want to deal with yourself?

"Speak, I'm very busy. Spring plowing is about to start and there are a lot of things to do in the General's Mansion. Do I have time to talk to you about something?"

"Yes Yes!'

Seeing that Luo Yuan was getting angry, Tao Shao felt relieved immediately. This meant that Luo Yuan was really talking about silk and had no intention of using silk to cheat his family.

"My Lord, a hundred thousand acres of mulberry forest would require three to five thousand people just to look after it. As for picking mulberry leaves, even more people would be needed. There would be at least twenty thousand silkworm-raising craftsmen, and countless women would be needed to boil cocoons and reel in silk. A hundred thousand acres of mulberry forest would probably require forty to fifty thousand people."

"Forty or fifty thousand?"

"Just a little, not too much!"

"Oh shit, I knew there was something to be done!"

What is this? Isn't this just about employment? Jiangling has a population of 600,000, and 200,000 of them are enough to farm the land. What about the rest?
Luo Yuanke was very worried. Now they had to rely on various large projects to maintain a stable population, but this was not a long-term solution. The projects would be completed one day and would still require long-term work.

The silk industry is good. It is a luxury product with huge profits, enough to support workers in the entire industry chain.

He solved the problem of 40,000 to 50,000 workers at once. Tao Shao is a good foreign investor.

Luo Yuan asked, "How about 200,000 mu of mulberry forest?"

"Ah..." Tao Shao shook his body, gritted his teeth and shook his head: "I really can't do this!"

(End of this chapter)