Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

I really want to have a heavy rain and experience the heart-breaking feeling of the end of the autumn rain, at least until the middle and end of autumn such as dew and autumnal equinox.

……

Of course, for this matter, Zhang Yan took the initiative to ask his own system as soon as he found out.But for some reason, the system that knew everything about him and talked endlessly to him before seemed a little silent this time.

In desperation, Zhang Yan could only guess by himself.

Either this heavy rain originated from the original spectacle, that is, because the sundial and the Lujiang waterway have the functions of reducing the impact of disasters and increasing food production respectively, which led to a sudden rainstorm that directly killed the raging locust plague... …

Either this heavy rain already existed.

In the correct historical development process, it is probably because of such a heavy rain that Zhang Yan has never heard of such a severe locust plague in Lujiang:

"What about the locust plague?"

……

"Quieted by heavy rain."

……

"What about the heavy rain?"

……

"After the locust plague is quelled, it will stop."

Just like the "cow eating grass" in later generations, since Zhang Yan did not have an accurate news channel to confirm this matter, he could only guess secretly that it was because of this reason that the incident a few days ago heavy rain.

As for further research...he doesn't have that ability anymore.

Anyway, the positive significance of this rain on Lujiang River was far greater than the negative significance. After much deliberation and no results, Zhang Yan put this matter aside.

……

For him now, there are still many things in Lujiang that he needs to be busy with.

Instead of getting entangled in these things, it is better to think about how to deal with the locusts' counterattack.

Yes, although the locust plague is over, it is not completely over.

Most of the adult locusts were completely killed by the heavy rain, but the eggs that were born before were still in good condition.

If there were no accidents, the locust eggs would break out of the ground and form a new round of large-scale disasters as long as they were lurking underground for ten to fifteen days.

……

"Applications for expanding the scale of poultry farming, as well as applications for free-range and mixed poultry?"

"This thing is kind of interesting."

Taking out another copy from the pile of documents on the table, Zhang Yan only glanced at the title this time, and his attention was instantly attracted.

……

At first glance, this is a request to expand the existing breeding grounds in Lujiang, and to continue to increase the scale of poultry farming, mainly ducks.

And the person who made this request is also very interesting——

His surname is neither Qiao nor Zhou, but "Mi" of a rather rare surname in Lujiang "Xuzhou Mijia".

You must know that Zhang Yan, if not nepotism, has at least promoted many acquaintances when it comes to breeding.

After all, there is no other way, the entire Lujiang scholars have a total of one stone, and the Qiao family and the Zhou family have at least eight buckets, or even eight and a half buckets.

As mentioned before, for the high-level and decision-makers, Zhang Yan tried his best to maintain the style of blooming everywhere, and the talents from all over the country did not have any obvious tendency.

However, for a business establishment like "Farm Factory Director", the proportion of local family members is very large.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhang Yan looked at it for the first time, he found that the applicant for this application seemed to be slightly different from most people——

It was clear that this person was the scholars of the Mi family from Xuzhou who followed Mi Fang after he went south to Lujiang.

As for these scholars, it is not clear to Zhang Yan whether they migrated and settled here because they wanted to help Mi Fang, or because of the big library.

He only knows one thing, that is, according to the current rating standards, this person should belong to him.

Now that they have said that they are their own people, in terms of many things, these guys will naturally be more inclined to Zhang Yan.

……

Taking this incident as an example, anyone with some common sense in agriculture will know that in half a month at most, Lujiang will usher in another small-scale plague of locusts.

Only this time, the main force of the locust plague was not those zombies with teeth and claws that turned into insects, but nymphs that had just hatched.

Even if this incident hadn't happened, as the prefect of Lujiang, Zhang Yan would definitely have dealt with all these nymphs.

It is precisely because of this that the scholar from the Mi family paid attention to the expansion.

……

Different from the previous situation, the nymphs are actually non-toxic because the internal organs have not yet fully developed. That is to say, no matter how many these new generation locusts are, they can be used as food for chickens and ducks. Provides plenty of protein.

Such things as chickens... To be honest, although Lujiang has them, the total number is actually not too many.

In the plain area of ​​Lujiang where every inch of land is precious, there are not so many plots suitable for chicken farms. The people here have never had the habit of raising chickens on a large scale before, and most of them are used as stones for their own consumption. Up to three or five are raised every year.

Ducks are completely different.

Lujiang is located between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, and its water network is extremely developed.The common people not only have the habit of raising ducks, but also have the habit of eating ducks on a large scale.

Market behavior has always been like this. As long as there is a market and demand, there must be development.

After Zhang Yan mentioned it at the beginning, there were not a few combined chicken farms that could provide a large amount of chicken manure. On the contrary, large duck farms that produced seedlings in this country and were raised by the common people opened up and down the Lujiang River. yes.

Compared with the chicken farm, this thing is also simple.

A small area is isolated by fences, nets and the like, and there is no need to worry about keeping some ducks and the like in it.

And now, there are too many ducks in Lujiang to an outrageous state.

It was so much that, as long as Zhang Yan sold all the ducks ruthlessly, the price of ducks in the entire Eastern Han Dynasty would collapse in an instant.

PS: I thought, this adds up to six or seven chapters.

Chapter 18 Industrial Development and Family Change in the Post-Disaster Era

Zhang Yan hadn't noticed before that Lujiang had developed to such a degree before he knew it.

But since the Mi family businessman brought up this matter today, he is also happy to push the boat forward and further expand this type of industry.

After all, this is extremely beneficial to both of them, and it is a proper win-win situation.

……

For the Mi family, even though they were in the echelon of the five wealthy merchants in the late Han Dynasty, wealthy merchants are also different from wealthy merchants.

The Mi family, the Chen family, and the Zhen family in Hebei, etc., although each claims that their family's business is all over the world and all-encompassing, but in the final analysis, just like Huawei's basic communication industry, or KFC's real estate business, these families They all have their own basic set.

Take his Mi family as an example. It was recorded in the history books that the head of the Mi family, Mi Zhu, was an ancestral breeder, with thousands of children and guests, and a fortune of billions. What kind of concept is this?

This means that the Mi family's wealth is not like a nouveau riche who has caught up with some kind of trend, but is relying on basic trade step by step, constantly buying and selling to balance the market price, and this is how it is now more than one trillion yuan family property.

Perhaps for some people, this information can only show that the Mi family is indeed very rich, and the origin of the family property is fairly correct.

As for Zhang Yan, this sentence recorded in "Three Kingdoms Mi Zhu Biography" also reminded Zhang Yan that most of the Mi family's industries should be in the middle and upper reaches of the entire industry chain.

Only in this way can his Mi family be able to continuously increase the family's wealth to the terrifying status it is today through the accumulation of time.

You know, there used to be a view in the business field that the closer your industry is to the middle and lower reaches of the overall industry, the higher the profit margin of this part of the industry and the greater the risk.

And when the industry is located in the upper reaches of the industry, the overall profit margin may not be high, but when the number increases to a certain level, the word "making money" can almost be said to be a certainty.

Just like cloth is to clothing, steel is to armor.

Perhaps the profit margin of the arms trade is five times, or even ten times that of the steel trade... But so what?

The era is divided into peace and war. In war years, arms dealers make money, but in peace years, it is not uncommon for eight out of ten arms dealers in the world to starve to death.

In contrast, "steel" is much more stable.

Perhaps one day, the demand for sword armor will be saturated, and the Chinese regime may no longer need this kind of thing within three to five years...but steel is different.

Even if Emperor Qinshihuang Yingzheng melted the world's military and military to cast twelve bronze men, then you can't even refuse to use the bronze utensils for plowing the fields, can you?

Taking a step back, even if you, Qin Shihuang, let everyone in the world use wood to plan food in the soil, you still have to use the bronze tripod for sacrifices, right?

As long as civilization continues, it will be difficult for these businessmen in the upper reaches of the industry to starve to death.

……

All in all, for the Mi family, their basic base is industries that tend to be in the middle and upper reaches of the entire industry, such as steel, cloth and even grain.

To put it mildly, the wealth of the Mi family is under a steady growth trend. To put it bluntly, they simply do not have the ability to get involved in those downstream industries with extremely high profits.

When they were in Xuzhou, although they also had some commodities of their own, most of the profits of the whole family were realized by trading in bulk commodities.

This time, this is an opportunity for these retainers who followed Mi Fang to "expand the territory".

It is an opportunity for the Mi family's industry to spread to more fields, and it is also an opportunity for the Mi family to be divided into two, to take root and sprout in the land of Huaxia, and blossom.

Contrary to what many people imagined, for Huaxia's aristocratic families, they actually do not reject the appearance of "separation".

Many people's impressions of the battles between the families after the division came from Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, but you must know that before Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, the relationship between the two was very good!

Even when Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor and was attacked by many princes, Yuan Shao, the head of the family, never said anything about cleaning up his family.

Not to mention looking at the entire Yuan family as a perspective, comparing the Yuan family before and after the separation, it is obvious that after the separation, their power is several tenths higher than before.

For the aristocratic family, the separation of the family is like the separation of the queen ant's nest, which means that the power of the family has developed to the extreme in a certain area, and it is still increasing.

The most notable example of this is the Wei family, which is also one of the five wealthy merchants.

Among the top five wealthy merchants in the world, according to their wealth ranking, the wealth of the Zhen family in Hebei can be regarded as second to none, but when it comes to social status, I am afraid that the remaining four are tied together, which is not enough to compete with the Wei family.

The detached status of the Wei family, on the one hand, comes from his large number of in-laws in the upper class; Composition, scattered in the Central Plains.

Among them, as the main family, the most famous one is naturally the Hedong Wei family who married Cai Yan as his daughter-in-law.

In addition to Hedong, there are dozens of large and small guards distributed in Hedong, Hanoi and other places.

Later, when Cao Cao failed to offer his sword and returned to his hometown Chenliu to start an incident, it was Chen Liuwei's family who helped Cao Cao gather together his initial 3000 people.

……

It can be seen from the high status of the Wei family in the merchant family that any large family, whether it is a rich family that has accumulated wealth or a family that has inherited a long bloodline, after they develop to a certain level, They will all face the issue of family separation that has to be considered.