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"Of course, how can my general treat Mr. badly?"

"By the way, when I entered the city gate, I found that the city wall was a bit wrong. Could it be that they are also using this material to strengthen the city wall?"

Mi Zhu suddenly remembered the new things he saw before entering the city gate. He didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now that he thinks about it, he suddenly understands a lot.

"Look, sir, this is the refined salt you need." The soldier pointed to the neatly stacked wooden barrels in the warehouse and said, "Each wooden barrel is a stone of refined salt. Now you can send someone to check it. There are three thousand stones here."

"Just these wooden barrels, I'm afraid they can be sold for a lot of money. Is Liaoxi so rich?" Mi Zhu sent someone to count the refined salt, and then pointed to another row of warehouses and asked, "Excuse me, Mr. Bing, what is the price in these warehouses?" What are you pretending to be?"

"It's all refined salt. In addition, we are still building warehouses. There is too much refined salt and we don't have enough space. But fortunately, the husband has vacated half of the warehouse for us today."

"My God, are these warehouses full of refined salt? Isn't there tens of thousands of stones? This may not be all the refined salt in western Liaoning. This..."

Mi Zhu was shocked once, and soon, he rejoiced how correct his choice of coming to Liaoxi was.

In order to hold onto this partner of the Mi family, Chen Feng had to reveal some details about himself. Now Liaoxi mainly relies on selling refined salt and ironware.

The products are relatively monotonous. If Chen Feng is given another six months, he is confident to add more products, but the premise is that a big business like Mi's can continue to cooperate with him.

The business in Liaoxi began to get on the right track, but the wheel of history gradually deviated from the predetermined track. While other princes were still busy fighting for each other, Chen Feng was already accumulating his own wealth.

Chapter 81 Expansion of the Army 1

"Sleeping until you wake up naturally, counting money until your hands cramp, what do you think of such a life?"

Chen Feng stretched himself. After finally waiting for the caravan business to get on the right track, he is now busy opening up other sources of income, while Jia Xu next to him is constantly reading the information brought back by the caravan.

"I don't know, anyway, this kind of life has nothing to do with you."

Jia Xu knew that Chen Feng was an ambitious person, and all these outward signs of laziness were just a disguise. This man was full of desire to conquer the outside world.

"The restaurants in Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Qingzhou are already open."

Jia Xu took a few pieces of information and said: "Business is booming, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as making money every day when there is no war. I have to say that you have a good eye for things, and our intelligence network has already begun to be formed.

Restaurants in Jingzhou and Jiangdong have also opened restaurants, but they have not yet formed a scale. The restaurants in Yanzhou and Yuzhou have just started, and it is estimated that they will not have any effect for the time being.

After all, it is on Cao Cao's territory, so you must be careful, but the spies you arranged are already lurking in Xuchang.

These tribes on the prairie are very welcome to our caravan. Now they hardly need cavalry protection. This is the grazing place of the nearby tribes they brought back. Maps and other information from various places have been contacted by the caravan on the Yanmen side. The nomadic tribes on the other side of the river.

Among these nomadic tribes, the one who favored us the most was Qin Hu. The vast majority of them were Han Chinese, who were rejected by other tribes in the grassland.

In addition, we have the same language, so our caravans usually go to trade with them first.

By the way, what do you think about the situation in Liaodong that I mentioned to you last time? The Gongsun family in Liaodong should not be underestimated. They have been able to stand here for so many years without falling, and they are still very powerful. "

"It's not time yet, so don't move them for now."

Chen Feng narrowed his eyes, then picked up the map and said, "Next year at the latest, Liaodong must be captured.

How can you allow others to sleep soundly next to the couch? How about your inquiries about the situation of the Black Mountain Army?Didn't you always want to get those refugees from Montenegro? "

"Until our grain and grass reserves have not reached the predetermined target, I do not recommend recruiting the Black Mountain Army for the time being."

Jia Xu nodded, and then said with a smile: "However, we can impress them first, Zhang Yan from Montenegro has limited abilities, and he probably won't be able to last for a few years.

The big ship sent by Mi Zhu has arrived. He is very shrewd and knows what we need. This time, he sent three ships at once. He probably spent a lot of money. It seems that we have a reliable business partner. "

"Big boat, that's also called a big boat, ah, people who have never seen the world..."

"Can't a ship that can carry goods worth tens of stones be called a big ship?"

Jia Xu heard that the other party was making fun of him, but he just had a good temper: "Or, do you want to get the warships of the Jingzhou Navy?"

"In comparison, I value the craftsmen sent by Mi Zhu more. Those hundreds of people are all good shipbuilders."

Chen Feng shook his head, he felt dizzy after drawing for a long time: "With these craftsmen here, we can build boats by ourselves, anyway, there are many forests nearby and enough wood.

Let's use the existing boats too. Except for the fishing boats, all the rest are used to transport goods, which will save a lot of trouble. "

"The caravans who came back recently brought back whole bales of wool. They said that you deliberately ordered them, so what do you want to do?"

Jia Xu was curious about many of Chen Feng's actions and decisions, but Chen Feng refused to explain them to him, so sometimes he could only reason by himself, but he couldn't get any results.

"Make clothes for you."

"Then you have been letting the cavalry go out to shoot birds, and at the same time let the caravans buy poultry. What are you collecting so many feathers for?"

"Make clothes for you."

"And this, you send someone to spread the news that there is a huge reward for those who can provide cotton seeds, don't tell me that you are looking for this kind of flower for the purpose of,,,,,,"

"Make clothes for you."

"Okay, let's change the subject." Jia Xu wasn't sure if Chen Feng was making fun of himself again, as a top counselor, sometimes he really couldn't do anything about Chen Feng.

"According to the drawings you provided, we now have more than a dozen lathes, yes, they are lathes, and the number is still increasing."

Jia Xu pointed to various achievements and said, "The quality of the weapons and shields we made is far superior to that of other princes' armies. Are you really planning to sell them now?"

"Of course you have to keep good things for yourself, but you can consider inferior ones."

Chen Feng is not satisfied with the current production of military equipment. After satisfying the needs of his lieutenants, a large amount of equipment is still produced. In order to stimulate the economic development in his territory, he now only chooses to sell these equipment.

On the other side of Qingzhou, Yuan Tan had no choice but to retreat to his own territory because he lost the wind in the turmoil of fighting for power and profit.

Although Cao Cao had no intention of attacking him, there were always a lot of small fights.In order to ensure that the west of Liaoning would not be affected by the flames of war, Chen Feng decided to sell weapons, shields and other supplies to Yuan Tan.

"Time is still too tight, and the family is not strong. Alas, I deserve to be tired."

While complaining about himself, Chen Feng pretended to be working hard and beat his legs: "How many people are there in Liaoxi now?"

"About 12 people."

Jia Xu gave a relatively conservative figure.

"At the beginning, we migrated nearly 6 people from Liyang, plus more than [-] local people in western Liaoning. Later, refugees from other parts of Youzhou also migrated after hearing about our policies. This number is still increasing."

"It's far from enough." Chen Feng is very concerned about the population. In this era, the most precious resource is people, but he only has such a large land in Liaoxi, and it is difficult to support more people.

"If you want to get more people, you have two choices." Jia Xu put forward his own idea: "Continue to recruit, or expand your territory."

"It was impossible to expand the territory a few years ago, and there were only so many troops." Chen Feng knew his weight now. There were only more than 7000 infantry and more than [-] cavalry. With this little force, it might not be enough to defend the city, let alone Not to mention going out to attack the territory.

"I didn't come to western Liaoning to farm the land."

After thinking for a long time, Chen Feng finally made up his mind: "Expanding the territory is a matter of time, so the army must expand. I plan to recruit 1 troops from the refugees, and expand the cavalry to 3000. In addition, I will start training the navy. Just set [-] people."