"Since my elder brother is going to be the prefect of Dongjun sooner or later, according to my opinion, it is better to recruit some young and strong people from Dongjun first..."

Cao Hong interrupted at this time.

Chen Gong immediately opposed: "No. The area around Luoyang was plundered by Dong thieves and plundered by the princes. Those who fled and fled, and those who forced the enlistment were not many young and strong. If they were recruited from Dongjun again, it would not be a good thing, but a bad thing. If Cao Gong wanted to take over Dongjun in the future, he would definitely be opposed by the people."

Cao Mengde nodded: "What Brother Gongtai said is not bad."

Then he said to Cao Ren and Cao Hong: "Don't mention the forced recruitment, but you must do it if you inform the recruitment of troops. But voluntarily, you can recruit as much as you can."

Cao Ren agreed and said, "Brother said it is reasonable. I brought five hundred soldiers from Chenliu, plus hundreds of them in this city, only more than a thousand. If I can recruit three thousand and train them strictly, even if tens of thousands of soldiers come to attack, I can defend them."

Cao Mengde stroked his beard with satisfaction and smiled: "That's exactly that."

Then he looked at Zhao Yu: "What does Mr. Zhao think?"

Zhao Yu quickly waved his hand: "Recruiting troops and training troops is not my business."

Cao Mengde was helpless.

But I heard Zhao Yu turn the word, "However, recruiting troops to train troops requires money and food. I have two ways to do this."

"oh?!"

Cao Mengde was overjoyed: "Sir, please teach me!"

Zhao Yu smiled slightly: "This is what I have to do with Mr. Gongtai before. But the bet is put behind. The way I want to give Meng De is easy to come up with."

As he spoke, Zhao Yu turned his palm open, and first a bright mirror appeared on the desk in front of him, and then a piece of snow-white soap also appeared on the desk.

These two objects immediately attracted the attention of the four people present.

Cao Mengde walked out of the case, came to him, picked up the mirror, looked at him, and said in surprise: "What kind of treasure mirror is this, so clear!"

Zhao Yu smiled and said, "Be careful. This thing is not as good as a bronze mirror without falling."

Then he said to Cao Mengde: "Meng De should know that you and I have been wandering around the county town these days. I occasionally ask Brother Mengde to pay for some messy items. I also ask Brother Mengde to search for things like water jade, cinnabar, feldstone and other things. This is how this mirror comes from."

Water jade is the name of crystal in this era. As for cinnabar, that is, cinnabar, it can extract mercury and so on.

The four of them surrounded and passed the mirror the size of a palm, making them amazing.

Cao Mengde said: "It turned out to be made of water jade cinnabar? Could it be a method of immortals?"

Zhao Yu laughed: "Where is the method of immortals? When I was doing the first piece, I did use magic power. But later I figured out the method and could be mass-made by following the steps of the method. Meng De, how valuable is this mirror?"

"At least ten thousand yuan! Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to buy it!" Cao Mengde was also a profiteer, and his eyes lit up and he shouted loudly.

Chen Gong nodded repeatedly: "That's right, that's right. It only takes hundreds or thousands of yuan to raise three or five thousand soldiers for a year, it's not a problem."

Cao Mengde took the mirror from Cao Hong's hand: "I thought Mr. Zhao wanted these things to practice immortal skills, but I didn't expect it to be for me, Cao Mengde's great cause. Thank you so much for your hard work!"

Zhao Yu smiled and said, "This is nothing. There are more good things in the future. Don't be surprised then."

Then he said, "Don't just look in the mirror, look at this piece of soap."

The four of them only turned their eyes to the snow-white soap.

"Soap?"

Cao Mengde picked it up and didn't see the reason.

Zhao Yu shouted to the outside of the door: "Come here, bring a basin of water in."

When the waiter brought the water, Zhao Yu asked Cao Mengde to make his hands dirty and oily. After he was washed, the effect of the soap immediately appeared.

"I asked Meng De to prepare lard and alkali for me to make soap. This thing is best for removing oil and dirt. Like a mirror, if petals are added when it is made, it will also have a fragrance. Once it is promoted, it will definitely be loved by the big family. As for the big family, these days, the big family will have money and food."

Cao Mengde put down the soap, tidy up his clothes, and bowed to the end: "Sir, it's really my timely rain!"

"Hey, I said not to be polite to me, you are here again!" Zhao Yu helped Cao Mengde up: "Hey, this is the formula and manufacturing process. If you go find someone to do it yourself, I won't care."

He took out two more pieces of paper and threw it to Cao Mengde like he threw garbage: "I don't like you most, I'll leave."

He left in a flash.

Cao Mengde held the recipe tightly and was stunned for a long time.

Chen Gong said to the side: "My Chen Gongtai was indeed blind and misunderstood Mr. Zhao. It shouldn't be. Ming Gong, Mr. Zhao is such a strange man! With these two recipes, there is no shortage of money and food!"

Cao Mengde sighed: "If I can meet Mr. Zhao, it is like Ji Fa meeting Jiang Shang."

Then hand the recipe to Cao Hong: "Zi Lian, you can handle this matter throughout the whole process and there must be no mistakes."

Cao Hong quickly took the recipe and put it in his arms like a baby: "Brother, don't worry! I will immediately call the craftsmen to study the recipe and make sure that the things are made in the shortest time."

"Yes." Cao Mengde nodded, pondered for a moment, and said to Cao Ren: "Zixiao, please invite Wei Zixu quickly..."

Before he finished speaking, Cao Mengde was stunned again, and then said depressedly: "Zi Xu is dead, I have lost my friend..."

Then he said, "Zi Lian, I asked you to send your son Xu's body back to Chenliu, has it been done?"

Cao Hong said seriously: "I asked my son to go with him, and now he has returned to his hometown."

"Oh..." Cao Mengde suddenly suffered a great loss of interest and fell down, sighing repeatedly: "I am recruiting troops to raise money, but Zixu will still support me... I just thought that Zixu was a big merchant, and I will definitely be able to hand over this matter to him, and I remembered that he had died in battle..."

He looked up again: "Zi Xu Youzi, how old is this year?"

Cao Hong said: "Zi Xu Zi Ming Zhen, Gang and Guan."

"Okay. You arrange the craftsmen to study the formula, and then go to Chenliu in person to invite Wei Zhen." Cao Mengde made a decision immediately.

"Yes, brother."

The person Cao Mengde lamented was Wei Zizi, who sponsored him to rebel against Dong, whose courtesy name was Zixu and Chenliu. Unfortunately, Wei Zizi's life was short, and just before, he died in Xingyang in the war to pursue Dong Zhuo. Cao Mengde was then ambushed and defeated by Xu Rong.

Wei Zi was a great merchant in Chenliu. He had a wealthy family and could fund Cao Mengde to recruit thousands of troops at one time. Cao Mengde got the recipe, and the first thing he thought of was to give it to Wei Zi to manage it. But he suddenly remembered that Wei Zi was dead, so sadness came from his heart.

Speaking of which, Cao Mengde is also a person with a temperament. He said he was suspicious, which person who was superior was not suspicious? If he was not suspicious, he had been killed by his subordinates. The so-called suspicion is not required, but it is all about the skill of his subordinates. If he did not doubt, he would be unstable.

Cao Mengde himself was a little literary and elegant, and he often cried, but of course he was not as good as Liu Bei. Liu Bei cried when he remembered it.

At this time, Wei Zi was dead. What Cao Mengde thought of was to compensate his son Wei Zhen and immediately take action.

"Zi Xiao, I will give you all the recruitment and training."

Seeing that Cao Mengde was not very excited, Cao Ren nodded and agreed, and then stepped aside with Chen Gong and Cao Hong.

Zhao Yu hummed an unknown song and returned to the yard.

The old mother at home was cooking, and Zhao Yu suddenly became interested and hurried into the kitchen. He didn't care about the old mother's horrified gaze. He turned his hands to take out many ingredients such as peppers, pulled the old mother, and taught her to cook step by step.

So lunch finally had a bit of modern flavor.

Zhao Yu didn't care about his appetite, but it was better to be able to eat better than to eat casually. Before coming to this time and space, Zhao Yu made some preparations. There is a world of Chaos Pearl, what can't be done well?

And now, he has three meals a day, not two meals a day.

Habit problem.

As Zhao Yu himself said, he has not really been idle these days except for strolling and chatting with Cao Mengde.

When you have time, you will enter the small world of Chaos Beads and cause trouble in it.

For example, burning glass and making soap are all by-products in this process.

In ancient times, as written in novels, they often started with glass and soap. Although it was a bit cliché, it was a shortcut. Zhao Yu didn't need to start a business or something. But if these things were given to Cao Mengde, they should still be helpful to him. Whether it was firing glass or making soap, Zhao Yu knew that books were not read for nothing.

However, even if you know, it took Zhao Yu a lot of time to truly explore the craftsmanship and conform to this era.

Fortunately, the time flow rate in the Chaos Pearl small world is different from that outside, and there is a twenty-fold difference. So although it only took a few days outside, Zhao Yu has actually achieved a lot of results inside.

When burning glass, mana was used at the beginning. Later, I gradually explored and figured out the craftsmanship. I could still burn without using mana. As for soap, it was much simpler.

But things like this are just some details.

What Zhao Yu really experimented in the small world was steel forging and crop cultivation.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and this is impossible to avoid. We must let Cao Mengde unify the world as soon as possible, complete Zhao Yu's purpose as soon as possible, break the so-called three-legged stalemate, eliminate the so-called Five Barbarians' invasion of China, thereby stirring up time and space, and allow Zhao Yu to understand that the cultivation and improvement of crops, that is, transforming agriculture in this era, is Zhao Yu's first choice.

When Zhao Yu came, he did not prepare the seeds of modern time and space. He directly asked Cao Mengde to provide some grain seeds and cultivate and improve them in the small world of Chaos Pearl.

In the small world of Chaos Pearl, the time flow rate is different, and there is enough time to improve and cultivate. In the small world, the abundant primordial qi is the most suitable for improvement. Now it is quite eye-catching, and the improved grains are much higher than modern yields. However, they are not very stable and need to be further cultivated for several generations to stabilize.

As for steel, in this era, it is related to arms and is also extremely important.

Zhao Yu knew how to make steel, but he also needed to find a method suitable for the productivity of this era before he could use it.

These two things are exactly what Zhao Yu intends to bet with Chen Gong. No matter which one is something that can have a huge impact on Yu Tianxia, ​​so Chen Gong will definitely lose!

In addition to these, Zhao Yu will do more experiments in the future. In general, he will use all means to help Cao Mengde wipe out the world and use all means to transform history.
Chapter completed!