The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

In this way, not only the profit earned is greatly improved.Even the number of times the two parties trade in it has increased, and the trade can earn more money.

Chapter 191 Worried About Iron

A trade between two states and counties can bring thousands of gold to the Mi family.

In the past, the trade was once or twice a month, but now it has become three times.

Although half of the profit will be divided by Liu Zheng, the Mi family is actually more profitable than before when they operated the trade between the two places alone.

And after there is no risk, the Mi family's trade in these two places is much more at ease, and there is no longer any need to worry about the goods being robbed.

When Mi Fang brought someone to Mingyue Village to give more than 700 gold as the first month's income of the cooperation, Liu Zheng smiled when he saw the money in front of him.

More than 700 gold is not a small amount. Although Liu Zheng now has tens of thousands of people under his jurisdiction and has a huge cottage, it is also not a small amount for Liu Zheng and the others.

Even from Cai Mao, Huang Zu and others, it can be seen that even for a family like them, it would be a pain for Cai Mao, Huang Zu and others to spend one or two thousand gold.

But now Liu Zheng has transferred more than 700 gold in one month, and he only needs to give him three months to earn it, which he had robbed for a long time before.

No wonder, these businessmen are making a lot of money.Doing business at this time is indeed a huge profit.

But after getting the money, Liu Zheng didn't take all of it, but took out part of it and returned it to Mi Fang.

Liu Zheng returned the two hundred gold to Mi Fang, and when she handed it to Mi Fang, Mi Fang was stunned.

"He's handsome, this is"

Mi Fang didn't understand Liu Zheng's intention. ,

Liu Zheng didn't say much, but directly expressed his request to Mi Fang.

"Brother Mi Fang, what do you think of my cottage?"

"Beautiful mountains and clear waters, it is a good place for self-cultivation."

Mi Fang replied.

"Indeed, it's a pity that there is a lack of necessary items for soldiers and horses here, such as iron and pig iron. I lack a lot of pig iron here. Not only are the weapons and equipment in the hands of my men and horses unable to forge by themselves, but also many farm tools used by the common people. nothing."

In the past few months, Liu Zheng has been busy with the affairs of the army. In fact, the soldiers and horses under his command and the army equipment are still good. Compared with the previous Yellow Turban Army, they have been greatly improved.

But it was still not enough. For one thing, the equipment cast by the imperial court was not wear-resistant and could only be used for a limited number of times. Especially after several battles, the blade was completely chipped.

It can only be rebuilt. Fortunately, Liu Zheng has the blacksmiths brought over from Wancheng. Although there is only one old blacksmith, the dozens of helpers he has trained can also help.

Therefore, after reforging, the weapons and agricultural implements reforged by Liu Zheng are much better than those bought by the imperial court.

In fact, there is no other way. Liu Zheng's weapons are all smuggled items bought from the imperial court through merchants. Weapons are not allowed to be bought and sold. Those that can be sold to Liu Zheng are all defective products.

Such things are naturally not suitable for use, so they can only be forged by themselves. Instead of spending a lot of money to buy defective products eliminated by the army, it is better to forge them by themselves.

The most embarrassing thing about forging by yourself is the lack of pig iron, and it is the lack of a large amount of pig iron.

Because the high-quality weapons that Liu Zheng pursued, refined iron after hundreds of refinements, would consume a lot of pig iron to forge a weapon.

This made Liu Zheng's lack of pig iron in the first place become even more lacking. ,

In the past, Liu Zheng could go to Cai Mao to buy some pig iron, but now he is too far away from Cai Mao's Xiangyang, even if he goes to Cai Mao, he may not be able to buy it from Cai Mao.

A few days ago, Liu Zheng bought some from Lu Jun.

But Lu Jun was just a small county magistrate after all, and Yichun County didn't have much pig iron, and they couldn't sell all of them to Liu Zheng.

It can relieve Liu Zheng's immediate needs, but he can't fully satisfy Liu Zheng.

So Liu Zheng set his sights on Mi Fang.

The Mi family is considered a wealthy family in the Xuzhou area, and their businesses spread across Xuzhou and Yangzhou. It is also possible for the Mi family to collect pig iron or discarded ironware in these two states and counties, and then Liu Zheng can return them to the furnace and rebuild them.

When the time comes, one hundred steels will be tempered, and the weapons produced will definitely be ten times more powerful than the current weapons.

The generals have stronger generals, and they can be sure of victory in the battle. At the same time, the soldiers have stronger weapons, and they can also quickly defeat the opponent while fighting.

"It turns out that Qu Shuai just needs pig iron."

"This matter is easy to handle. Our Mi family is in the salt and iron business, and there are still a lot of ironware that survive. If Qu Shuai needs it, I can mobilize three thousand catties of pig iron."

"Three thousand catties?"

When Liu Zheng heard it, he couldn't help laughing.

Mi Fang underestimated what he meant by a large amount of pig iron.

The amount of pig iron he studied in Wancheng before was not a small amount of pig iron. After ten catties of pig iron and repeated tempering, the steel that Liu Zheng could finally use was less than two catties.

And to forge a weapon, at least two catties of this hundred-smelt steel is needed.

And Liu Zheng's soldiers are about 20 people. If all of them are equipped with this kind of equipment, they may need at least [-] pig iron!

This does not include the pig iron needed for Liu Zheng's farm tools.

"Why, isn't three thousand enough?"

Mi Fang looked at Liu Zheng, saw Liu Zheng's contemptuous smile, and immediately asked a question.

"It's not enough, but it's just a drop in the ocean, far from enough."

"Ah? How much pig iron does Qu Shuai need?"

"One hundred thousand catties first."

Liu Zheng didn't say 20, but compressed his expectations.

In fact, one hundred thousand catties is not much. If you convert it, it is actually only fifty tons of iron.

But for Mi Fang now, [-] jin is a terrible figure.

After hearing Liu Zheng speak, Mi Fang was immediately surprised.

"One hundred thousand catties!!!"

"Qu Shuai, what do you need so much pig iron for?"

"What else can I do, of course it is to forge weapons and agricultural tools."

"That's too much, 5 catties can equip an army of [-] people."

"One hundred thousand is too little for me, otherwise why would I ask your Mi family for help? I guess you are the only ones who can help me get so much pig iron."

Liu Zheng puts his hope on Mi Fang.

Mi Fang couldn't reply to Liu Zheng because of the huge amount.

"Well, Shuai Qu, this matter is too big, I can't decide, can you allow me to report to my brother."

"No problem, you didn't come this time. I also wanted to go to Xuzhou to talk to your brother in person. Since you go back and tell your brother, it will save me a long journey."

Chapter 192 Cai Yao's Thoughts

The reason why Liu Zheng didn't find someone to buy pig iron before was actually because he had no money for the time being.

Can't afford to buy that much.

Now that he has the money sent by Mi Fang here, he will discuss cooperation with the Mi family. In terms of price, the Mi family will give him some discounts, a way to get the best of both worlds.

Ask Liu Zheng to bring up the plan to buy pig iron on a large scale.In addition, if a business family like the Mi family came forward to buy pig iron, it would also be able to deceive people's eyes and ears, if Liu Zheng went to buy it himself.

Even if it is a channel, he may not be able to find much, and even if he can find it, it is impossible to buy tens of thousands of catties of pig iron at one time.

With the help of the Mi family, Liu Zheng was able to obtain a large amount of pig iron in a short period of time.

After Mi Fang's people left, Liu Zheng planned to go to the school to see the one hundred students he had recruited. As the principal, he naturally wanted to get close to these people. After all, these people graduated from the school in the future, but The backbone of Liu Zheng's command.

But as soon as he walked out of the reception hall, a woman walked up to him.

Liu Zheng took a closer look and found that it was Cai Yao.

Cai Yao, a woman, since she came to Yichun from Wancheng with Liu Zheng, has been quite interested in Yichun, a small marginal city, especially the beautiful scenery here, which makes Cai Yao, who rarely goes out for sightseeing, very interested.

He had been playing in the mountains around Yichun for several days, but Liu Zheng didn't have time to take care of her for a while, so he sent a few people to guard her to protect her safety, and then let her play around here.

Originally, Liu Zheng hadn't seen this woman for several days, but who knew that she suddenly appeared today.

"Hey, I heard sister Mu Yu say, what kind of school did you set up here? Is it true?"

As soon as Cai Yao came forward, she directly questioned Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng thought he would have something to do when he came to see him, but it turned out that he was only asking about opening a school, so he answered her straight away.

"Yeah, what's the matter? Girl, don't you want to study in this school of mine? If you don't, you can't do it. In my school, only men are accepted, not women."

Liu Zheng looked at Cai Yao. Although Cai Mao looked only ten years old, she was very slim and graceful, which really made people think about it.

If Liu Zheng didn't know that this girl is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he would really have the idea of ​​arresting her as Mrs. Yazhai.

"What do you think about men and women? What do you think?"

"Even if you accept a girl, you are over your age."

Liu Zheng continued to shake his head.

"Idiot, I want to be a professor in your school!"

"What?"

Liu Zheng was taken aback by Cai Yao's answer, as if he didn't understand.

In fact, he heard it, but he was frightened by Cai Yao's words.She is a girl who is only nine years old and a daughter, and her martial arts are like that of a three-legged cat. How can she be a professor in a school?

"You heard me right, I said I'm going to be a professor in your school, otherwise I'd be too boring in this cottage."

"Boring, don't you like to hang out? Have you finished all the scenery of Mingyue Village?"

"Hmph, there was something new in the beginning, but after a long walk in this ghost place, I lost interest at all."

"If you don't arrange some things for me to do, I will be bored to death here. I can't always eat and drink for free at your place."

"It's not like eating and drinking for free. After all, your elder brother left so much money before, enough for me to support you for decades."

"So you've been willing to support me for decades, that's good, then I'm not in a hurry to go back."

When Cai Yao heard what Liu Zheng said, she smiled slightly, looked at Liu Zheng brightly and said something.

"Come on, I'll keep you here, your brother won't kill me yet."

"Hmph, my elder brother doesn't know that. He thinks I belong to you now. It's all your bad idea. It's okay now. Now I don't have the face to go back."

"Haha, isn't that just right, since you can't go back, you can stay and be my Mrs. Yazhai."

Liu Zheng looked at Cai Yao jokingly.

When Liu Zheng said this, Cai Yao immediately blushed, and immediately lowered her head, not daring to look directly into Liu Zheng's eyes.

"You guys will make fun of me, don't interrupt the business, I'm going to be a professor in the school, do you agree?"

Cai Yao changed the subject, returned to talking about becoming a professor in the school, and brought it up again. Only then did Liu Zheng realize that what Cai Yao said just now did not seem to be a joke, but she really planned to become a professor in the school.

"Are you really going to be a professor in the school?"

Liu Zheng asked again affirmatively, wanting to make sure whether Cai Yao really had this idea.

"Of course, otherwise, why would I come to you?"

"Then what do you want to teach? Your martial arts are mediocre, and you have no experience in marching and fighting?"

Liu Zheng really couldn't imagine what Cai Yao could teach.

But Cai Yao immediately refuted Liu Zheng unconvinced.

"Who told you that I'm going to teach them martial arts? Can't I teach them? Although my martial arts are really not very good, but anyway, I have been proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics since I was a child. I have read Confucius and Mencius and studied Sun Tzu's soldiers and horses. I will teach you Those little dolls are still fine."

Cai Yao spoke to Liu Zheng dissatisfied, which made Liu Zheng look up to Cai Yao a few more times. He originally thought that this girl was just a reckless woman, but he did not expect that she was still a cultured woman.

But thinking about it, women at this time are not as harsh as later generations are to that person. Although it is said that a woman's lack of talent is virtue, but in the Three Kingdoms period, there were still many talented women, such as Huang Yueying, Cai Wenji and others.

And Cai Yao's uncle is Huang Chengyan, a well-known scholar in Jingzhou. His attainments are quite high.

Cai Yao has been nurtured in such an environment since she was a child, so she naturally has a lot of attainments. Although she is not as good as everyone in the world, she is somewhat better than Liu Zheng's current students here.

There is no problem in being a teacher to these students.

Furthermore, having a female teacher can also mobilize some enthusiasm for these students.

Thinking of this, Liu Zheng already agreed to add Cai Yao to the school.