Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 48
Chapter 491 million taels not for sale
Just as the two were about to kneel down and salute, the First Prince whispered: "Don't be too polite, hurry up and find a secret room, and then call your family over to inquire."

The two later found out that the middle-aged man was Xiao Nonggeng, the general of the Military Aircraft Department, and when Dug told the whole story, Xiao Nonggeng questioned: "Since Brother Su is the son-in-law of the Qinglang Kingdom Master’s second son, why didn’t he follow him and divide his parents to attack the Daqing Kingdom, but broke with his parents and came to help us?”

"That's because after the second son lived in the Daqing Kingdom for a year, he saw the prosperity of the Daqing Kingdom, and he was heartbroken to the kindness and virtue of the two young masters. He didn't want the people of the two countries to fall into war. Besides, Qinglang The country has gone through years of wars and its national strength is empty, how can it win against the rich and prosperous Daqing country?"

"Oh, there's some truth to that, too."

The eldest prince said: "He said that our army should focus on defending Wanquan Mountain and Shuangzi Mountain. These two places are the gateways from the Northland to the Daqing Kingdom. If you station heavy troops in one of these places, you can stop the Northland's attack. They It is to borrow the troops of other two countries, at most 7 to [-] people. If they attack Wanquan Mountain, if they are blocked by a large army, they will return in vain. If they attack Shuangzi Mountain, the army of Wanquan Mountain will take the opportunity to attack them. Fengcheng, the capital city with weak defensive forces, and the rest are dangerous mountain roads, which are not conducive to the passage of a large number of troops and logistics vehicles, so only a small number of troops are needed to be on guard..."

After finishing the official business, the eldest prince asked about the relationship between Liu Tao and Jin Yang. Liu Tao bluntly said that they were "baby relatives". He and Xiao Nonggeng admired Liu Tao's courage and praised the two for their careful thinking.

When asked about their purpose of buying Prince Gan's Mansion, the two did not hide anything, and they talked about their lofty ambition to make a lot of money.Before they left, Xiao Nonggeng handed Liu Tao a bronze medal with a tiger with wings embossed on it. Look for him everywhere, on the ground in the capital, as long as you are an official of the imperial court, there is no one who does not know this thing, and this bronze medal still has a certain amount of gold."

Xiao Nonggeng gave Dahu an opportunity to go back to the north to meet his son-in-law recently, and told him that the general he relied on was him, and he was interested in the Qinglang country intelligence machine he brought back, and reported to the son-in-law, Da Qing The country is recruiting soldiers and preparing to annex the Qinglang country next year.

Xiao Nonggeng led Dahu to the mansion. It was to deal with the lies that Dahu told his son-in-law, and to prevent being exposed by the enemy's scouts. He flaunted in his mansion for a few days, and was sent back to the Northland by Xiao Nonggeng. up.

He didn't ride the two horses away this time. The two of them liked the two horses very much. At that time, horse riders didn't pay much attention to shoes, so things happened from time to time when the horses fell off and were dragged to death by the horses. The key is Because flat shoes have no heels, it is easy to get your feet into the stirrups when you fall off the horse.The cavalry boots specially invented by Liu Tao can effectively prevent such accidents, and can also secretly insert daggers into the boots.

Jin Yang thought of iron-toed miner's boots, which are necessary protection equipment for miners working underground, and can resist [-]-jin lumpy objects from hitting the toes and the soles of the feet.In fact, an iron plate with the same shape as the boot head is fixed between the two layers of leather on the front of the boots. This iron plate can resist several times of vigorous cutting by ordinary cavalry weapons.

Once, during Liu Tao and Jin Yang's sparring with wooden swords, Liu Tao used the head of his boot to block Jin Yang's wooden sword, and took the opportunity to send the wooden sword in his hand to stab Jin Yang's left rib.This made Jin Yang think of another magical function of the boot toe, which is to use it as a weapon to resist another kind of weapon of the enemy, so that when the enemy is kicked by the weapon, there is no time to dodge the close enemy's weapon. The enemy was too late to draw back his weapon to block, causing the door to open wide and was killed.

This kind of iron-toed cavalry boots is not suitable for infantry because they increase the weight of the shoes when they walk. Cavalry is different. Cavalry spends most of their time on horseback with their feet inserted in stirrups. Don't dislike it, let alone have a life-saving weapon when facing the enemy.

With all the ovens in place, the output of crispy rice can reach [-] catties a day and one night, [-] cows have produced milk, and the production of toffee and nougat has an output of [-] to [-] catties a day, which can be matched with crispy rice The grapes have been transplanted this year, and in order to strengthen the seedlings, the grapes are not allowed to bear fruit.With the increase of sewing machines one by one, the first batch of half-heeled boots were also mass-produced, and the days of making a lot of money came back.

This time, the packaging of crispy rice and boots was reformed, and Liu Tao tried to promote her own brand.She chose a thin tung oil cloth to make a simple leather pocket, and used a sewing machine to sew a cartoon icon of a cow's head on it like embroidery, which played the role of a trademark and made people know that it was produced in Jinfu. There is only a pair of finely crafted ladies leather boots in a leather pocket.This kind of cloth pocket is convenient for customers to put shoes on. The same cloth pocket is filled with crispy rice and sewed on with a sewing machine. It can not only guarantee the quality of crispy rice within ten days, but also give it as a gift.

Leather pockets no longer contain shoes and crispy rice, and people are reluctant to throw them away, and then they can be used as convenience bags for shopping.For a while, many such bags appeared in the streets and alleys, which made the shops bewildered.

Later, Mrs. Jia heard from Wu Chenxi, who is in charge of leather goods processing and sales, that the shoemaking workshop in Prince Gan’s Mansion completes fifty pairs of half-heeled leather boots every day. The home is so popular that it is almost sold out.The quality of the boots is much better than ours, and the slim shape is most suitable for women.

In order to let Mr. Jia intervene, Wu Chenxi specially brought a pair of women's boots in a leather pocket to show him.

Those boots are pointed, and a woman can definitely show her femininity and fragility when she puts them on. Mrs. Jia couldn't put it down when she saw them: "Ah, they are so beautiful, are... are these stitches made by Jin Yang's so-called sewing machine?" , why is it so neat?"

"Hey, my lord, now all these ladies have recognized his products, and called our round-toed boots "catfish heads". As for the shoes, I’m afraid they won’t be easy to sell even if the price is greatly reduced in the future?”

"Well, this is really a big problem. We have to ask them to sell us a few sewing machines. Didn't they say they can make four, so let them sell us two. You will contact them tomorrow, if you disagree. If so, you can unite some people in the industry to make trouble, they have no backer in the capital, and they can't resist us!"

Sure enough, Wu Chenxi visited the mansion the next day, and proudly conveyed Mrs. Jia's intentions, and offered a price of ten taels of silver for the sewing machines, which must be given to two.

He thought that the price of ten taels of iron sewing machine was high enough, but he didn't know that the two of them looked at him like idiots, and Liu Tao said first: "Don't talk about ten taels of silver, you just add Three zeros are useless!"

"Add three zeros and don't sell it, 1 taels?" Wu Chenxi could stuff a fist into his open mouth.

(End of this chapter)