Chapter 155: Making Money
Three days later, Er Dongjie bid farewell to Fang Yingying and returned to the Western Camp.
When he left, although he forced himself to smile, he could not hide his worries and sadness in his heart. His face turned older for just a few days.
In the past few days, Xu Haifeng and his first counselor did not waste time.
First, Yu Zhebe and Jiang Kongming rode together on dark clouds to travel dozens of miles around Wolong City during these days. They cooperated tacitly and successfully completed the exploration of nearby terrain.
If they were able to complete such a large area scan in just a few days, and only used two people and one horse, I'm afraid that the only one in the world could do it.
With the speed and endurance of the dark clouds, they were able to travel around most of the land on this land within three days.
Zhebi's clairvoyance can see the surrounding terrain clearly with a glance. His terrifying eyesight is not inferior to that of a telescope. This special ability greatly reduces their workload.
Similarly, Jiang Kongming's mind reading technique was constantly used, keeping everything Zhebo saw in mind. Only his ability to remember all this complicated picture and put it into a topographic map in his mind.
Zhebe's excellent equestrian skills ensure the safety of this trip.
After three days, when they came back, Jiang Kongming immediately directed the skilled craftsmen to shape the topographic map in their minds with mud embryos in a certain proportion. So a perfect sand table appeared in front of Xu Haifeng.
Even Xu Haifeng was amazed at the sight of the double-player one-horse combination with such high work efficiency.
Since he had figured out the specific terrain around him and Er Dongjie had left, Jiang Kongming's plans for a long time were launched vigorously on this land centered on Wolong City.
In recent times, we must reject hundreds of thousands of Caesars' army outside the border, and in the distance, we want to achieve a generation of hegemony.
To achieve these two goals, it is impossible to achieve without strong economic strength.
So where does the money come from?
Although Wolong City is majestic and has a wealthy family, it is impossible to support such huge military expenses with the power of this city.
The silver reserved in Wolong City can only be used as start-up capital.
Under the instigation of Jiang Kongming, Xu Haifeng lowered his figure and sought help from the three major families that followed him.
But beyond his expectations, when he just mentioned this matter briefly, he immediately received strong help from the three parties involved. In the following period, various sources of material resources from the three major families continued to enter Wolong City. It was not until Jiang Kongming raised an objection that he gradually transferred to the Taihang Mountains south of Wolong City.
Just relying solely on the assistance of others is never the best solution to the problem.
Moreover, it cannot guarantee self-sufficiency and putting the economic lifeline to others is not something Xu Haifeng is willing to see, nor is it something that Jiang Kongming can accept.
Therefore, under the guidance of Jiang Kongming, two technologies that surpass the level of contemporary science and technology were developed.
The first one is wine - the high-concentration white wine. The white wine made by distillation is far more than that of contemporary fine wine. Although it is not as exaggerated as Zuiyue Liquor, its strong nature is extremely rare.
Almost as soon as Er Dongjie left, Jiang Kongming led a soldier from the Black Flag Army and requisitioned a large piece of farmland and houses in the western suburbs of Wolong City to build a winery.
Of course, he paid ten times the compensation for those who had been expropriated. Such a move immediately caused a sensation in the city.
Not only did no one accuse him of oppressing good people anymore, but other farmers in the suburbs were eagerly hoping that he would come to collect his own fields.
After enclosing land, Jiang Kongming built two wineries. With the massive collection of books in his memory, he easily found a way to make high-quality liquor. He just encountered a little trouble when he was doing the specific move.
After all, this work is a brand new industry, and no one in the Han Dynasty knows it. If you want to cultivate everything from scratch, it will be hard and hard to achieve half the result with twice the effort.
Fortunately, there are people in the place where there are people, there will be no shortage of good wine brewing experts. Xu Haifeng paid a lot of money and hired many people who knew this craft. Although their skills are poor, the finished product produced is really not enough. Fortunately, they are in this industry after all, and they are a little familiar with the process. After Jiang Kongming's guidance, they quickly got to know it.
The so-called practice makes perfect. After a month, they were able to quickly master this novel process. At this time, Jiang Kongming introduced the concept of assembly line and produced more wine.
According to Jiang Kongming's request, their three factories were working hard, and all workers worked overtime. The first three-shift system that appeared in the world was staged openly here.
Until the war that swept the entire continent a year later began, these three factories never stopped.
As for the other thing, it is weapons and armor. Ten weapons and ten pairs of armor made of the best earth steel were introduced with the guidance of Jiang Kongming, and modern design concepts were introduced. These ten sets of equipment looked magnificent, noble and elegant. It is even more rare that their weight is not heavy, and their actual function is exactly matched with their appearance. It is simply made specifically for those high-ranking officials and nobles with great lords.
Things are good, but they have to be circulated and transported out to get the material and food they need.
If we only want to build a commercial network to the entire continent based on Xu Haifeng's connections, we are afraid that the war will be over by that time.
Fortunately, at this time, the three major families had no choice but to extend a helping hand. With the help of the three families, even if Xu Haifeng's arch rival, the Cheng family, had no difficulty in making things difficult before they broke up. Instead, they had to pretend to provide him with various conveniences.
As a result, a small half of the liquor was continuously delivered to all parts of the country through the commercial network of the three major families.
Of course, Jiang Kongming made these things, in addition to wanting to make money from the country, he also turned his attention to Caesar and the Huns.
Since the Hun general Maimati escorted 5,000 war horses to Wolong City, Jiang Kongming gave a batch of good liquor and sent a message to Hami Tsui, hoping to give him a convenient door. As for the money he succeeded, he should give him 10% of his dry shares.
Hami Tsai was pondering for a long time and went to the palace to meet Maodun Shanyu.
With a big stroke of his pen, the Xiongnu border opened a door to facilitate the Black Flag Army, and even 10% of the dry stocks were not needed.
As for Caesar, a month later, the beautiful Catherine sent the two thousand war horses that redeemed her brother.
Jiang Kongming and his brother and sister had a long conversation. After they came out, a smuggling line to Caesar was opened. With the full escort of the second family of Caesar, this line remained unobstructed before the war.
Whether it was the Caesar Empire in the West or the Huns, the overlords of the grasslands in the north, their men loved these high-concentration liquors very much, and for a while, there were countless orders.
Under the requirement that Jiang Kongming only needs quantity and quality, although the production of liquor is rising steadily, it is still in short supply.
If the wine brings them huge profits, then the money sold by those sets of equipment can only be described as robbery.
Ever since Adity showed off her face in Caesar's dance, she immediately attracted the envious eyes of countless nobles. While the iron was hot, Catherine announced under the guidance of Jiang Kongming that due to the difficulty in making and the scarcity of materials, the Rhine family could only make one set a month. So at a large auction held by her, the price of this set of equipment sold made Jiang Kongming laugh in her sleep.
Xu Haifeng once suggested that the requirements could be lowered, and such output could be increased several times.
Jiang Kongming scoffed at this. A real rich man would not look at the price of goods, but pursue the strangeness and rareness of goods. If he knew that this thing was unparalleled in the world, it would be the only one, and the price would be dozens or even hundreds of times the actual price of the goods.
In fact, whether it was the Han court, the Cheng family led by Cheng Xuanfeng, the Huns who dominated the grassland, or the Atis brother and sister, they knew that Xu Haifeng did this to accumulate more money and food, and prepare more financial resources and food in the future when he fought against the Caesars.
Although they were very concerned about the almost invincible combat power of the Black Flag Army, everyone had the same idea. In this upcoming battle, no one was optimistic about Xu Haifeng, who was at an absolute disadvantage.
In the war of cold weapons, the role of absolute numbers of people is crucial.
Even the most optimistic person in the world, even in the face of dozens of times the gap in military strength, he dare not say that he is determined to win.
What's more, those dozens of times the enemy were not a group of mobs, but an elite corps that had been through war.
The reason why they spared no effort to support Xu Haifeng was that they hoped that Xu Haifeng would last longer in that war.
Emperor Xian of Han hoped that Xu Haifeng could support the Han army to defeat the Huns.
The Huns hoped that General Xu could support the Huns' Iron Cavalry to destroy Liu and destroy Cheng.
The Cheng family hoped that General Xu could support the destruction of the Liu family, the Cheng family defeated the Huns and established their unparalleled achievements.
The Ades brothers and sisters hoped that the Black Flag Army could do their best to destroy the army loyal to Caesar. Only when their strength was stronger would they destroy more enemies.
If the Cheng family was a time bomb in the Liu Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, then Atis was a cancer on the body of Caesar and the biggest unstable factor of the Caesar.
In this way, with each person's ulterior motive, a large amount of money flowed into Xu Haifeng's pocket through various channels, providing him with unimaginable money and material.
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Chapter completed!