Mercenaries do have a market, and now Wang Hou does need a large number of mercenaries to help him, but the Han Empire cannot be chaotic forever, once the world is peaceful, the demand for mercenaries declines, and the grassland of the border fortress has to go back to the old way, even if Wang Hou conquers the entire grassland now, he is busy in vain.

Except for the mercenaries, and then the cattle and sheep! When Inner Mongolia is mentioned in later generations, everyone's first impression is that the whole sheep is roasted, the mutton is hand-handled, the shabu-shabu, there are more than 10,000 cattle in later generations, and 1,000 to 1,51 sheep, this standard, the average herdsman family has at least seven or eight cows, five or six hundred sheep, according to the standards of later generations, every household is half a million dollars.

The problem is that the market for cattle and sheep in this era is really limited!

Let's talk about cattle first, this era really can't afford to eat beef, cattle are used to plough the fields, Liaodong does add the land of the Gongsun family that was recently conquered by Wang Hou, the total population is only more than 200,000, except for workers, soldiers, merchants, and 100,000 farmers, the productivity of this era, twenty people raise a cow to plough the field, even if Wang Hou develops self-farming, and then he is richer, ten people a cow, 10,000 cattle, and the Liaodong market is also capped.

Let's talk about sheep, fish and sheep are fresh, in Xudu Wang Hou is also worried about shabu mutton, the later Song Dynasty is said to import tens of thousands of meat sheep to the old enemy Liao Jin people every year, and even Su Dongpo is because he can't eat mutton, he can't be greedy, so he invented Dongpo meat, it looks like sheep is very easy to sell! But after some market research, it is not the case at all!

Those who can eat mutton are also rice worms like Wang Hou! The world is not peaceful, and ordinary people have to make a lot of effort to cut a piece of mutton during the New Year, and the market demand is not big enough.

And there is no cold and fresh transportation in these years, so the sheep will enter the customs by the Youzhou route! It is his Wang Hou's sworn enemy Tian Yu, who can only take the Qingzhou route, and now he Wang Hou is okay, but once he gaba in the future, the trade outside the Saiwai will still be cut off.

Therefore, Wang Hou still had to make the idea that it was easy to transport, and that it could allow these goods unique to the nomads outside the Saiwai to come.

Speaking of sheep, Wang Hou first thought of the sheep cannibalism incident that was famous when the British's capital exploded.

The British landlords were ruthless enough, and other countries even came up with a bill to emancipate the serfs, and the British landlords directly drove away the serfs who farmed on the land! And sheep are not raised for food! The wool is shaved, spun into yarn, sold to France and sold to India to make money.

In the future, when Wang Hou and his mother were in winter, they knitted a sweater when they had nothing to do, which shows the best-selling wool!

If you help these Wuhuan people to engage in the wool textile industry, grazing at the same time, sell wool yarn to the Guannai on a large scale, and make a fortune, not to mention that although they go to attack the Han land, I am afraid that the Wuhuan people will have to maintain the Han land, a big money market.

Only exchanges, trade, and interests can lead these horseback ladies galloping on the grassland.

However, in the past few days, Wang Hou has been disappointed, and he has walked eight tribes in a row, and he has touched one sheep after another like a pervert, and searched for dozens of sheep to wipe the smell of sheep, but there is no sheep with particularly fine hair in Wang Hou's impression?

No wonder the ancient Chinese did not promote wool weaving, it turns out that the sheep breed is different! Pulling a hand of hard wool and a hand of sheep dung and eggs, Wang Hou was angry at the sheep, and rolled his foot on the sheep's buttocks, and the unlucky sheep that rolled up meowed and shook his buttocks and went out.

Seeing Wang Hou's angry appearance, Li Fu collapsed after following him for three days, full of helplessness, and Li Fu followed him with a heavy fist behind his back.

"Lord! What kind of sheep are you looking for? ”

"Even if the Emperor Taiyi sends down some oracle, you can also talk to your subordinates, and your subordinates will bring someone to find it for you!"

Also!

Wang Hou is a person who is crazy, he has a flash of inspiration in his head, and immediately jumped out to find it, but he forgot about this stubble, looking at the wrinkles in Li Fu's head, he was enthusiastic.

"It's a kind of sheep with a particularly long wool and a particularly soft wool, the wool is reduced, and it can be combed into threads like cotton, that kind of sheep, no matter who finds a pair for this seat, this seat will reward him with a 400 stone official!"

That's a bit of a strange request! But there is one condition! It's better than following people to go crazy and tossing the whole grassland wall, as soon as Wang Hou finished speaking, Li Fu immediately hugged his fists and bowed heavily.

"Xia Guan understands! Please go back to Jinzhou and wait, even if the lower official makes it himself, he will send the sheep to the state pastor! ”

"Forehead ......"

looked at Li Fu's beard, and then looked at the beard under the sheep's face, Wang Hou suddenly felt that he was quite worthy of being said.

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Don't say it, it's good to be a big official! He tossed around for three days, tossed five or six tribes, and saw that the Wuhuan people were so frightened that their hearts were cold, and they didn't toss in a day, and Li Fu really found this kind of sheep in Jinzhou for a day, and there was more than one, and a large group of bleating and bleating filled Wang Hou's backyard.

"See, is it this kind of sheep? And it's not just sheep, even sheep keepers, people who can comb this kind of wool into threads, and the officials have also found it for you! ”

It was really Wang Hou who showed his face in front of him, squatting in front of the sheep, and Li Fu happily hugged his fists and invited.

This kid is quite interesting, his face is finished, he didn't forget to pull out the real hero, stretched out his hand, and dragged out the shy and humble young man Li Hu, who was squatting behind his head and was quite wilting.

"Governor Mu, this kid found it!"

To be honest, it is still different from the Australian sheep and Western sheep in Wang Hou's memory, the wool is not so thick and rice, but it is really long.

It seems that his development of the Wuhuan textile industry is not yellow, there is a play, it is really like watching a baby with a dark circle under his eyes Pleasant Goat touched it several times, and he asked excitedly.

"Which tribe raised soft-haired sheep to recruit them to Jinzhou! The state pastor wants to reuse them! ”

"This!"

At the mention of this, both Li Fu and Li Hu couldn't help but get stuck there, holding back for a while, Li Fu had no choice but to hold his fist.

"Zhou Mu, this sheep is not from our Liaodong, and there is no one on the Xianbei grassland, this sheep is raised by the Qiang people, this person is called Aba, it is Li Hu and his tribe when they were nomadic to the West Qiang, they clashed with the local Qiang people, and they were robbed of it when they were fighting!"

"Forehead ......"

The corners of Wang Hou's mouth couldn't help twitching there, he was like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so happy! Now I see the sheep, and tomorrow I want to build a textile factory, it seems that everything is not so easy to achieve overnight! ”。

But the opportunity is really for those who are prepared, just when Wang Hou was depressed, Li Hu, who was originally wooden, suddenly knelt on the ground with a heavy fist, kowtowed, and muttered a lot of Jurchen words.

"State pastor, Li Huyan, if the state pastor wants such fine wool sheep, he is willing to take people out of Xiqiang and snatch the sheep back for the state pastor!"