The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

During Liu Tao's absence, he was Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, and he followed the original plan to complete it.Thanks to an excellent assistant like Xun Yu, everything went smoothly.

"Great, now we can start trying to burn porcelain!" Liu Tao said with a smile. Porcelain, tea, silk and rhubarb seem to be the flagship products of China's foreign trade.

Especially exquisite porcelain is definitely the best decoration to enhance the style of life.However, as far as the Eastern Han Dynasty is concerned, he does not guarantee whether there are porcelains in the true sense. Anyway, he has paid a little attention to the Bingzhou, Youzhou and Sizhou areas, no!

It may have appeared, but it has not been popularized. Technology itself is like this these days, and some good things are hidden.

For example, the columbine car, which was recorded in Cui Shi's "Politics" 20 years ago.Liu Tao remembers that it can be traced back to the 2nd century BC.But that is just a record, but it has not been popularized. Most people sow seeds, but they still plant them slowly by hand.

Like the keel waterwheel, Liu Tao tried to let the craftsmen try to restore it. After all, it is not difficult to find the article. The key is how to let the craftsmen unleash their creativity, restore it, and see if it can be further improved is the key to the problem .

The columbine cart, which is related to farming, has not yet been popularized. The flashy things like porcelain should be popularized faster, but in fact it is not.

For example, colored porcelain, blue and white porcelain, etc., even ordinary white porcelain, did not seem to appear.In fact, there are really conditions, Liu Tao even plans to burn all the colored glaze.

Anyway, if the requirement is high temperature, in Yunzhong, peat and coal resources have been found in various counties one after another.

"My brother Yu thinks that we can try the production on a small scale, and then look at the sales situation, and then increase the scale." Lu Yan took advantage of the situation to suggest, which is actually what Xun Yu meant.

Porcelain is not such necessities as grain, cloth and salt.According to Liu Tao's idea, it can be a luxury item, a decoration, or a container.It is used to improve the quality of life and cultural heritage.

As literati, both Xun Yu and Lu Yan are somewhat interested in this thing, but they also know that it is not suitable to waste too much energy on it. After all, in terms of practicality, it is not even comparable to paper and printing.

"Indeed, before the technology is mature, there is no need for large-scale production..." Liu Tao also recognized this. He was so fancy about this thing at first, mainly thinking about whether it could be sent to the grasslands or the Western Regions, or even Jingzhou or Xuzhou. , change some money.

After all, Ma Teng now "on the surface" respects him as the main one. Depending on the situation in the future, he can be considered to help reopen the Western Regions.However, there is a very serious problem that needs to be solved during the period, that is, to subdue or eliminate the Southern Huns, so as not to get in the way.

At the same time, the area of ​​the Hetao Plain should of course be used if possible, as it is too wasteful to be treated as a happy horse and pasture.At first he thought so, but later he realized that the Southern Huns had also started farming, and their living habits had begun to change towards the Han people in many places.

Maybe it's because we've been together for too long, or because we're surrounded by Han Chinese civilization and influenced by such an atmosphere, so the assimilation trend is more serious.Perhaps it is precisely because of this background that Liu Yuan, Liu Bao's son, was able to successfully establish Zhao Han?

Defeat Xihe County and Shang County, then we can almost communicate with Beidi and Anding County, that is to say, we can get in touch with Ma Teng faster... There is no need to go around a long way, and it will delay more than a dozen day's journey.

"There is another piece of news..." Lu Yan suddenly added at this time, "In the Yinshan Mountains of Beiyu County, iron ore was discovered!"

The so-called iron ore here refers to shallow iron ore, which is more convenient to mine.There are more or less similar things in all counties, but the difficulty of mining, and some reasons that have been mined in history, there is no value in continuing to mine.

Liu Tao still knew about this, so he was very excited when he heard the words, and even asked with some uncertainty: "Really?"

"Yes, an iron mine has indeed been discovered, and the output is not bad, and we are planning to start mining." Lu Yan replied affirmatively.

"People must be arranged to mine, and the big battle is logistics. Weapons and armor, horses, food, and even salt are indispensable. The population in Yunzhong is small, and outside the Great Wall, I thought the war potential was not high..." Liu Tao sighed.

If we want to increase our war potential, we must take down Dingxiang County and Yanmen County. If this is not safe, we have to take down Taiyuan County and connect Taihang Mountain, so that we may have the potential to fight.

"The new season of grain is about to start harvesting. Judging from the current data, according to the farming model provided by my brother, the yield is higher, and the damage to the soil is also the lowest. It is almost possible to avoid fallow." Lu Yan continued to report, " The magistrates/heads of the counties have been invited to look at this point, and everyone is very relieved and hopes that it can be promoted next year.”

"After the promotion, the food in the cloud will not be a problem." Liu Tao said with emotion, there may even be surplus food, which can be used to support other counties, and the price of food in Bingzhou is a bit high.

However, considering that Wuyuan County and Yanmen County are both military towns, there are probably not many ordinary people.For the wealthy gentry, they have enough food for themselves, so there is no need to sell it to these two counties.

"In other words, when will we find a way to take away the military power of the two counties... Is there any way?" Liu Tao seems to have left this as an issue before leaving, and he doesn't know if he has come to a conclusion in the past four months. .

"There is a method. It is nothing more than taking advantage of the Hu people's attack, temporarily taking over the military power as General Zhenbei, and then... never returning it!" Lu Yan replied immediately.

Well...it turns out that Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou's trick, and he didn't create it himself?Liu Tao couldn't help complaining in his heart.

Strictly speaking, the two counties are both military towns, and Yunzhong used to be the same, but Liu Hong resettled the position of prefect in order to make money.Of course, no one has ever bought the prefects of Wuyuan and Yanmen from the setting up to the present.My position as the prefect of the cloud is almost like dealing with goods, and it happens that no one wants it, so I throw it to myself... Thinking about it, I suddenly feel offended.

"So what is most lacking now?" Liu Tao asked.

"Lack of people!" Lu Yan replied frankly, "The situation is spreading too much, and there is a shortage of talents of all kinds, and labor is also lacking!"

Chapter 360 Here Comes the Reward

The lack of people here in Yunzhong County is not a matter of a day or two.As far as the current potential of Yunzhong County is concerned, it is not a big problem to support another 10 people.In particular, recruit a few thousand more soldiers, so that this place can be better defended.

Just to be honest, this military expenditure still seems a bit large.Sure enough, if there are conditions, I still think of a way to destroy Bu Dugen and Ke Bi Neng...

"Speaking of..." Thinking of this, Liu Tao seemed to think of something, "Has the second border trade already been carried out? Budugen didn't send some slaves?"

"It is estimated that we are still stockpiling armaments before we can attack Ke Bineng's Ministry. As long as we can't fight, it will not be so easy to obtain prisoners of war." Lu Yan shook his head and replied.

After thinking about it, he and Xun Yu expressed their concerns by the way: "If our side continues to prosper, it is estimated that they will attack our side first. Even if the border trade can bring them more benefits, they will not directly rob convenient."

"That is to say, the so-called war is not about benefits, but also costs. If you attack us, the benefits you get are more than the price you have to pay for attacking us. Then unless Budugen has a problem with his head, he will not Will attack us. The only result of attacking us is that even if we can gain some benefits, Ke Bi Neng will take the opportunity to snatch us away." Liu Tao is not worried about this.

It's just that when it's time to call, he will naturally not be polite.It's just that compared with Bu Dugen or Ke Bineng, Xihe County and Shang County are more valuable for strategy.

"It's a hidden danger after all to be company with bad neighbors, brother must not slack off." Lu Yan reminded.

"Of course I know, the problem is as you said, we have too few people..." Liu Tao sighed, "I can't personally supervise the battle at the front line, and I can't really think that with a few thousand cavalry, I can fight in the grassland. Can't you make great progress?"

Seeing that the food problem has basically been solved, and even the problem of weapons and equipment can be solved one after another.In terms of problematic population, we can no longer rely on Zhang Yan for blood transfusions, right?

After a few more days, the harvest season began, and Yunzhong County still had a bumper harvest, and the output far exceeded previous ones.Knowing the harvest situation here, all the counties are very interested and want to learn new farming techniques.

"Didn't my brother say in the past that the gentry are actually eager to reduce grain production, so they can control the price of food?" Zhang Fei looked at so many gentry coming to visit, he didn't understand, so he asked Liu Tao.

"If the commercial roads are blocked, and everyone's output is similar, and the price of food can be easily controlled, they are of course eager for a reduction in food production; but the reduction in production also has the risk of reducing production, that is, they may also be in danger of food shortage.

Now that the business is smooth, and the grain production in the cloud may overflow in the future, they know that they can't control the grain price, so the only way is to produce more grain, and then transport it to other places, and sell it with small profits in exchange for profits. "Liu Tao probably understood what they were thinking.

Of course, there will be risks, but it is better than throwing food in your own hands, or working hard for a year, harvesting more food, and the result is not more than before.

Of course, in order to avoid risks, you can also give up farming and grow hemp and other cash crops instead.By selling high-value cash crops in exchange for more funds to pay taxes, the rest can be exchanged for some food.

Even the surplus grain will be used to make wine, which will further drive the wine making industry.After all, compared with purely selling grain, selling wine is more profitable.However, this thing can limit the unlimited expansion of the brewing industry through taxation.

"I didn't expect that there are so many ways to govern this thing. I thought it would be good as long as the people live and work in peace and contentment, and don't pick up things on the road..." Zhang Fei said with emotion.

According to his understanding, the magistrates of the counties in Zhuo County are almost all like this.Even the county guards are muddling along, and most of the time they don't think about how to make Zhuo County develop better and more prosperous. Perhaps in their view, as long as the law and order are handled well, taxes are collected regularly, and the rest is left to the counties to develop spontaneously. up.

The so-called shepherd's side is actually nothing more than managing the law and order of one side, and then regularly collecting taxes and collecting corvee from the above.As for how to improve the breed of livestock, how to make the livestock eat fatter in winter and not freeze to death... These are not in the scope of their consideration, that is what the host (His Majesty) needs to consider.

"No way..." Liu Tao patted him on the shoulder, "I manage Yunzhong County as my home base. I don't worry about it, who will worry about it?!"

"Oh..." When Liu Tao said that, Zhang Fei thought about it and thought it was the same.As the actual controller of Yunzhong County, it is only natural for Liu Tao to think about these issues and do these things.

"Besides, for ordinary county magistrates, when they first take office, they need certain experience and means to successfully control power. Otherwise, the county magistrate, county lieutenant, and those who are engaged in it can make him empty.

After taking control of the county seat, the feelings of the gentry must also be considered.If something goes wrong, the official position that he finally obtained may be lost.It is too difficult to become an official, and the local gentry is too powerful. It is not that they do not want to reform, but that reform is very difficult and the failure rate is also very high! "Liu Tao thought for a while before explaining further.

Let’s just talk about the assessment of the big man, as long as the people live and work in peace and contentment, the urban and rural areas are prosperous, the people don’t pick up things on the road, and they don’t close their doors at night, then they are almost considered excellent.

It's so convenient to be able to get promoted after so many years, why risk getting fired and meddling in your own business?

In other words, the evaluation system for officials has its own problems.Basically, it's just a general 'appearance', and no specific data or even statistics are needed at all.