Technology is a cumulative process, knowing that the direction is right, how can you give up because of temporary failures and difficulties?

Lu Wu didn't want to make any big moves, he was just making the necessary accumulation.

As mentioned earlier, it is difficult to train various craftsmen, and the resources required are huge.

Lü Wu was not naïve enough to think that he would be able to train a sufficient number of craftsmen in a short period of time, but he just needed to have a plan and gradually accumulate the number in batches.

Actually, there is another way!

He was able to buy craftsmen from outside.

At present, most of the craftsmen are "domestic", and the number of craftsmen in the name of the monarch is the largest.

The monarch would even set up various workshops and entrust them to someone to manage and run them.

The number of craftsmen who belong to the free body is very scarce, and their living space is actually not large.

The reason is fairly simple.

The vast majority of those who have money and a desire to shop will be aristocrats.

And the aristocracy has its own territory, there will definitely be all kinds of talents, and most of the things they want are self-sufficient, and if they are not enough, they will also purchase from the same nobles.

Free craftsmen, who do not produce much and are not qualified to participate in the aristocratic trade, will also choose the shops run by the great nobles if they have the money and the willingness to buy things (generally referred to as the freedmen).

At the beginning, Lu Wu wanted to engage in all kinds of roadside stalls, mainly because he didn't know the social ecology and environment of the Spring and Autumn Period, so he had that kind of "ahead" idea.

Now that he knows who the rich and eager people are, he has long given up the idea of setting up a stall.

And every time he thinks about it, he will be a little embarrassed.

Difficult to train craftsmen in large quantities?

Lu Wu's choice was to pick some half-sized and small clever young men from among the people and follow those craftsmen.

He was still observing and thinking about whether he could write any textbooks.

As soon as the idea arose, he snuffed out himself.

It may not be difficult to write a book, but it is just communication and observation, and the knowledge that has been summarized is recorded in words.

The point is, words know them, they don't know words!

If you teach children to read and write in order to train craftsmen, you will definitely go crazy.

With the current financial resources of the old Lu family, it can't be done.

Well, the truth pales in comparison.

It takes a lot of time to teach by hand, and it usually takes a long time.

Lü Wu summoned his retainers and asked, "Where can I buy them if there is a shortage of craftsmen?" ”

Several retainers looked at each other for a moment.

They must have a supportive attitude towards Lu Wu's desire to buy a craftsman.

It's just that although the craftsman is also a kind of slave, there are almost no nobles who are willing to sell.

"Lord, the battle of the conquest is to be won." Yu Xian said bluntly: "There is nothing to buy." ”

Going into battle with the army, if you are lucky, you will come across the capital of a small country, and it is the fastest way to get it by killing it and capturing a batch of people in a targeted manner.

If you go to attack other nobles, you can also grab a batch, but it is not the turn of the old Lu family to fight.

Lu Wu looked at the rest of the retainers.

They echoed Yu Xian's opinion.

Wei Rui, who was more active, said: "The Lord may be able to find Han and Wei? ”

There is an in-law relationship, and Lu Wu's side is in the construction period, so he can indeed seek the help of the Han family and the Wei family.

Lu Wu hesitated.

The things to be engaged in are of a confidential nature, and various craftsmen have been borrowed, and since they are borrowed, they must have been repaid one day.

"Yes." Lu Wu asked again: "How much do you need?" ”

The craftsmen he borrowed could do a lot of things, and the craftsmen in his own family devoted themselves to projects that needed to be kept secret.

Yu Xian immediately came to his senses.

He was responsible for the construction of many construction projects, and he had been troubled by the lack of enough craftsmen and the tools needed to build them in time, so he quoted a number.

Lü Wu put the proposals of several retainers into words.

After all, a good memory is better than a bad pen.

Spring ploughing has passed, and it's time to take a break.

Han and Wei would have been happy to lend craftsmen if they hadn't done any major development or engineering construction.

Otherwise, the craftsman is idle.

The aristocrats who have a good relationship borrow things and people from each other, in fact, very frequently.

Whether or not you want interest on something will be agreed in advance.

Borrowing people can save food consumption and increase the proficiency of craftsmen's skills, so that they will not have no work for a long time, and their skills will be unfamiliar.

Lu Wu specially sent someone back to the old feudal lord to let Han Yan and Wei Han write a good letter to their families, and then selected the retainers to go to the Han family and the Wei family

They weren't writing about a plea for help, just some common words.

Lu Wu's request for help needs to be handled by his retainers.

The two ladies already knew what Lu Wu wanted to do, they were well-educated women, and they also attached great importance to the construction of their husband's territory, and they not only did not object to the husband's finding his maiden family to borrow someone, but also felt very faced.

However, after Zhao Yu, who was his wife, found out, he was a little depressed for several days.

She also wanted to help, but Zhao obviously couldn't do much now.

On the side of the old feudal collar, Lu Wu was just paying attention to it, and he was more focused on the new feudal collar.

He asked Zhuo to accompany him and went into the mountain to check it out.

The mountains are generally not very steep, and some of the mountains are more like a large uplift, and there are no trees, and they are covered with dense meadows.

That's why Zhuo says it's suitable for grazing.

Actually, right?

In the future, this area will be used as a horse breeding farm by more than one strength, and many excellent war horses have been cultivated successively.

Lu Wu checked it out, and the idea of building a horse farm must be there, but the foundation is limited, coupled with the lack of financial resources, it is necessary to divide the area for sheep grazing more realistically.

He also went to check the coal mountains and iron ore areas that should be visited.

In general, coal is really everywhere, and if there is the ability to dig down, it is inexhaustible in terms of current consumption; Only two iron ores have been found, but it is impossible to judge the quality of the iron ore.

They also found nice clay.

Others didn't know the use of limestone, and Lu Wu had a new surprise after discovering it.

The "yin" city here has been cleared out, and the farming area has been sown.

After Lu Wu came out of the mountains, he held a banquet to entertain several nobles who came in person.

As for the rest of the families who did not come in person, but sent people to help, he also instructed his retainers to prepare gifts and let them take them back.

It was the current custom for the surrounding nobles to come to help.

It's probably a kind of meaning of watching and helping each other.

The nobles around this "yin" land, those who are attached to the Wei clan will be the natural allies of the old Lu family, and to a certain extent, they are also willing to form a friendship with Lu Wu, hoping to gain something.

The "yin" city that has been cleared out can accommodate more than 6,000 people if you squeeze it out, and it is okay to squeeze tens of thousands of people if you are not too particular.

There was no absolute security in the wilderness, and before the surrounding village system was established, Lü Wu concentrated all the slaves in it.

Arrange for the samurai to take care of the city.

The subjects and the original inhabitants of the "yin" land dwelt in the camps outside the city.

After the banquet, Lu Wu specially left Liang Xi.

They are no longer of the same class.

Liang Qi became extremely respectful in his behavior.

Lü Wu left Liang Zhu just to ask about the Hu people in the north, how many tribes there were, and what specialties existed.

In fact, this kind of behavior is very impolite.

Liang Zhu also had no obligation to inform Lu Wu of that information.

Just a not a true aristocracy.

The other is very eager to continue to cooperate with the other party, or to maintain a friendly relationship, and the communication seems to be smooth.

The old Lu family has been hunting wild people in the wilderness since last year, and after having a new fief, the operation naturally continued.

When Lü Wu inquired about the news of the Hu people, he mainly sought trade channels.

If Hu people are really easy to bully, it's not that they can't be bullied.