Take the mall to Datang

"I see." Li Chengqian said.

"His Royal Highness, the autumn harvest can be put into use directly in the warehouse. Now the surrounding roads are being repaired, and now there is only a convoy for transportation. Another problem is that the sale of corn is a problem. If the imperial court buys it, it will be a lot of money, so the money is ten thousand. You must not default." Yuan Shan reminded.

"Don't worry, I know this matter well." Li Chengqian said.

Holding iron ore means he has a bottom line. Li Chengqian is not short of money now, otherwise he would not have invested 80 yuan to build a five-star hotel...

Chapter 367 Development of Animal Husbandry Program

For the corn project, Yuan Shan is acting as a middleman. According to the theoretical output, this autumn harvest is quite busy.

The banquet ended successfully, and after bidding farewell to the prince and others, Yuan Shan returned to Yuan's Manor.

This day is also busy enough. A pharmacy opened. I didn’t expect all the wealthy businessmen to come, and they also talked about the corn project. became the focus.

There is no need to worry about selling grain, but so much grain is not guaranteed. How to digest the corn has become a problem. So when the businessmen were meeting, Yuanshan proposed a "plan for the development of animal husbandry", such as raising livestock, pigs and horses. Cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc.

Moreover, it is a large-scale farming, and the consumed corn will be converted into meat. This is one of the methods, and under Yuan Shan's instigation, the businessmen decided to try raising some chickens first. Yuan Shan's purpose is very simple. In order to prevent locusts, the feathers from chickens can also be used as fertilizer to increase food production. Good fluff can be used to make pillows, clothes, quilts and other products, as well as feather dusters and feather shuttlecocks.

For this reason, Yuanshan also needs to plan the development of this industry. The retting of chicken feathers for fertilizer can be directly put in the fertilizer workshop, but the production time of this kind of fertilizer will be longer, and some knowledge still needs to be popularized.

So I spent one night writing and drawing on paper, and then called Tian Da to come over and give these things to him. The Yuan family now has a lot of chickens. It is very easy to make some chicken feather fertilizer first, so let’s do it first. test.

The scale of the Yuan family's breeding factory has been expanding, because it has to feed thousands of people. Except for rice and noodles, the vegetables are provided by the Yuan family. The super-large vegetable garden has to transport two pigs every day, and the chicken is supplied every time. It looks like two or three hundred chickens, and it is a bit difficult for the Yuan family to supply these now.

A large part of the vegetables are collected from the farmers’ homes, so that over time, the vegetable gardens planted in San, Si, and Wuli Villages are all purchased by Tian Da, which also drives the enthusiasm of the farmers to grow vegetables and raise livestock. There are still very few people raising pigs like this.

For example, the Lizheng family of the three Zhuangzi was instructed by Yuan Shan to raise sows. Yuan’s family collected as much as they could, and asked them to encourage villagers to raise sows. They also proposed a subsidy plan for sows. Every family that supplies piglets will give a subsidy of consistent money for each sow, but even so, there are still not many farmers raising sows, so the number of piglets that can be purchased every year is only four to five hundred. It was not much different from the piglets bred in the Yuanjia farm.

"Yuanshan, you didn't rest." Li Xiuning came to the study and said.

Just now Yuanshan asked Caiyi to go to rest, he didn't expect that there would be so many people and it was Li Xiuning, he thought that it's not good for the princess of the Tang Dynasty to come here in the middle of the night.

"It's Your Royal Highness, I still have some things to do. Do you have anything to do?" Yuan Shan said.

"It's just right that I can't sleep at night. Go for a walk in the yard. If you see the lights on in the study, come over and have a look." Li Xiuning said.

"Oh." Yuan Shan said.

"The opening of the pharmacy went smoothly today." Li Xiuning asked.

"It's going well, thank you Princess for your concern." Yuan Shan said.

"Call me Xiuning when there is no one else, I don't know that you are not sure about being a princess at all." Li Xiuning said.

"Husband, it's time to rest." While the two were talking, Dugu Ruolan pushed the door and walked in, before the voice came.

When she came in, she saw two people and said, "The princess is here too."

The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Yuan Shan immediately said: "The princess and I were talking about something, and just after finishing talking, I realized that it's so late and it's time to rest, so I'll go back."

As he said that, Yuan Shan acted and began to tidy up the things on the table. It seemed that it was the same thing, and he finished it in three or two strokes, and said, "Let's go, the study room is about to turn off the lights."

Li Xiuning and Dugu Ruolan left the room first, the kerosene lamp was hung very high in the study, Yuan Shan had to use a wooden pole to pick the kerosene lamp off before turning it off, and Yuan Shan also came out from the study up.

Yuan Shan walked back to the inner courtyard naturally, and returned to the room. As for what Li Xiuning and Dugu Ruolan said outside, he didn't know and didn't want to know. It felt weird, but as a guest invited by Dugu Ruolan, he couldn't say anything.

Li Xiuning's status is really special, and I think it's better not to provoke them easily. The Yuan family has so many rooms and you can stay as long as you want, and recently this Li Xiuning goes to work in the pharmacy every day. From a certain point of view, she is also a member of the Yuan family. She is a pharmaceutical worker, and since she has no wages, she still has the most basic guarantee of living, such as accommodation.

Besides, there is a shortage of people at home now, and he is very welcome to have someone to help him...

In this way, the hot day is almost over, and the popsicle and shaved ice business in Chang'an City is about to enter the off-season, but the sales of Coca-Cola have not decreased. Many wealthy merchants will come to the store to order when they hold banquets, which has gradually become a common practice. a habit.

The appearance of the Xuejia Mall diverted many people from the Hepingfang Mall. This also made the mall that had to queue to enter open to the public, allowing people to enter anytime and anywhere.

The recent production progress of Yuanjia's workshop is very fast, and the bearings promised to be made have also been handed over. Now the production part is the carriage bearings that Yuanjia intends to use for itself. At the same time, two new steam engine boilers have been produced, and the supporting production The equipment is also about to be completed. Speaking of which, the speed of the military inspection is quite fast.

How long will it take to deliver the two boilers first? With these two new boilers, the time to complete the assembly of the new steam engine will not be far away. There are also accessories made by the blacksmiths in Chang'an City. Just put them together. .

It is also the order of the Yuan family. The income of the blacksmiths this year is two or three times that of usual. As long as the manufactured products meet the standards, each component will pay a relatively high fee for the blacksmiths. Yuan Shan is still very willing in this regard. costly.

The money of the Yuan family has promoted the development of the industry. The current production mode of blacksmiths and carpenters has also changed a lot. In order to earn more money, the process of making standard parts has been carefully considered. The birth of the workshop also indicates that the industry in development.

The Building Materials Chamber of Commerce now has another headache, which is to find a carpenter to build a carriage. However, the carpenters in Chang'an and even the surrounding counties don't have time. After inquiring, they found out that most of them have taken over the carpentry work of the Yuan family, and they are also building carriages. , but they are only responsible for the production of some accessories.

The things of each family are different, and there are a few workshops where people only go to the Yuanjia workshop to be responsible for the assembly work. Anyway, a Yuanjia has messed up the entire carpentry industry. Sorry, I don’t have time to order a carriage.

Chapter 368 Fifteen Thousand Horses

One and a half months later, Datang No. 1 civilian hospital was officially in operation. Compared with the opening of the pharmacy, the opening of the medical center was very low-key, because there are too few doctors in the medical center. There are only fifty doctors who have passed the training in such a large medical center. There are ten doctors and 30 nurses. There are not many people left after being assigned by various departments. Moreover, there are five resident doctors in Sun Simiao's medical laboratory.

The doctors in the inpatient department used to be assigned to actual doctors. Although there are not many people there, they have to manage them. There are only ten nurses in the inpatient department. Together, these 20 people have to be in charge of a place as large as a building. It can be considered very large. Even if there are no patients now, it will take some time to improve the hospitalization workflow.

In addition, the logistics department of the medical center and the pharmacy all need personnel arrangements, so the real medical centers are basically doctors. As for the remaining nurses, there are registration windows, guidance desks, and full-time nurses in the operating room. , there will be no one.

Doctors are assigned to departments in shifts. According to the requirements of the medical center, the working hours of each doctor should not exceed eight hours, and there are doctors on duty at night, which also takes up some resources.

After the operation of the whole medical clinic, I feel that there is not much pressure, but there are still many people who come here because of the name, and most of them are for Sun Simiao, a genius doctor, but they are destined to disappoint them. Now Sun Simiao is here. While managing the medical center, the main job is to conduct academic research.

People who come to the medical center for treatment will watch it on the side with the billboards for common diseases if they are not in a hurry. The person who invites to interpret the content of the billboard will also explain the process of treating diseases in different departments in the medical hall to the patients who seek medical treatment.

One week after the operation of the medical center, the number of patients in the medical center began to increase, but the traffic problem was quickly reflected. This distance is still a bit far away. It is still very difficult for ordinary people to come to the medical center. After all, there are There are not many people in ox carts and horse carts.

So the preparations for the Datang transportation plan began, and more than 300 Yuanjia carriages have now been assembled, but this is far from enough.

Two months after the opening of the medical center, in the last few days of summer, the caravan brought by Ma Zhou and Yan Bei came back from Turkic. This caravan did not go to Chang'an, but detoured from the side, because the size of the caravan was a bit surprising. If they go to Chang'an, it may cause quite a stir. The businessmen are very low-key in this kind of matter, and they don't want to cause trouble for themselves.

As a result, when they arrived around Chang'an, the caravans left with the goods they had harvested this time. The largest team was the team led by Ma Zhou and Yan Bei, and soldiers in disguise all returned to Yuan's house.

Yuan Shan had been waiting here at the racecourse long after he got the notice, and the horse team came over in a short time, and there were so many horses that Yuan Shan couldn't count them with his eyes.

"Master, we are back." Yan Bei said.

After Ma Zhou got off his horse, he said to Yuan Shan, "This is the account book for this transaction. I bought [-] horses and [-] sheep."

"Thank you." Yuan Shan said.

The [-] horses and [-] sheep more than expected should be exchanged with the goods shipped over. Yuan Shan knew these things very well, and he would be able to understand the details of the transaction after checking the accounts later. With [-] horses, Yuan Shan knew that the traffic problem of the hospital could be solved, but the Yuan family would have to spend money in it again.

These are not good war horses, they have to go through training, so it takes a lot of money to train war horses, and the main purpose of buying horses this time is to "lend money" to the Beiya Army, but this "loan" is not money but horses.

Lease and enlistment are different concepts. The imperial court of the Beiya army can use half the price of normal horses for long-term lease. The fodder for the horses is provided by the imperial court. The dead and injured war horses need to be compensated. If the war horse does not die, the court will earn money. If the war damages too much, the court will have to pay more money.

In any case, it is not a loss, and the lease time is limited. In the past, when there were no horseshoes, the speed of battle damage and consumption of horses was very fast. Since the horseshoes are used, there are very few things about training battle damage, unless there is an unexpected situation. .

The first batch of war horses leased by the Beiya army was [-] horses. The one-year lease is only five guan for each horse, which is not too cheap. As for fodder, that is another matter. Horses need to meet the rental price for three years, and then each horse needs to pay ten more strings, but there is also a tax exemption according to the number of horses leased.

If the court wants to buy it directly, it will be calculated according to the market price. The average price of Chang'an horses is about 35 yuan.