"Transportation, the weight of cement is not light, to transport so much cement to the county, the cost is not small." Zhao Yuan said.

"It's true, millions of catties of cement, it really costs a lot to transport it to the county, and it will have to be transported farther in the future, Brother Atom, do you have a good way?" Zhang Xucong asked.

"If we don't want to share the profits of transportation, then we have to set up our own transportation network." Zhao Yuan said.

"Transportation network?"

"It's to set up a huge transport caravan, all over the place, like the network, to communicate with each other."

"How many people are there?"

"It must be indispensable, and there must be a special escort team to follow."

"Isn't that a dart game?"

"Unlike the dart board, the network will be very large, and it will be able to transport everything other than cement."

In this era of inconvenient transportation, the transportation of goods is definitely a headache for all businesses, the road is difficult to walk, there are many bandits, the official card, all kinds of difficulties make the cost of goods account for at least half of the transportation, and some low-value goods that are far away cannot make money at all.

"Brother Atom, what you said is not a trivial matter, can we do it?" Zhang Xucong thought for a while and asked suspiciously.

"We can spread it out near Danling first, and when the cement business is done, the business of the transportation team will also follow." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Maybe it's because he's idle now, Zhao Yuan is starting to find something to do.

Once the transportation network is established, it will not only facilitate the transportation of goods, but also transmit information, especially when the great change in the north is very close.

"Okay, how much do you need to contribute?" Zhang Xucong and the others discussed it in a whisper, and decided to get involved, after all, this is obviously a deal that will not lose money.

With the initial success of the cement business, Zhao Yuan also gave Zhang Xucong and several people greater confidence.

"It's nothing more than recruiting people, buying livestock and cars, and expanding the number of guards." Zhao Yuan said to a few people.

"Okay, Brother Atom, you can do it, the dividends of the cement workshop are counted in the money we invested." Zhang Xucong said.

Several people were implicated this time, and they didn't have much money on them, and they were all people who were more hedonistic, and the money in their hands would not be spent for the transport caravan that Zhao Yuan suggested to establish.

"Yes, the deposit received today is a large amount." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

Cement is not cheap.

Because of the production capacity, it is very difficult for the cement workshop to obtain a larger profit at once, but today's situation has given several people great confidence, and several people are very supportive of Zhao Yuan's proposal to continue to invest profits in the sales and transportation of the cement workshop.

After reaching a consensus, the next thing is simple, in terms of personnel, there are a lot of people who can be mobilized in several companies that are doing business within the scope of Shudi, although Zhang Xucong, Wang Pinxuan and Ran Yanbo are almost idlers now, but there is no problem at all to transfer a few people to help.

Not to mention Wan Yunjun's side, the soap workshop basically has to transport raw materials and finished products back and forth every day, and it has a very large transportation team, especially with the spread of the soap workshop in the entire Shu region, with the support of several companies, a preliminary soap and soap industry chain has been formed, affecting all aspects.

The small transport team led by Wan Yan, who went to deliver goods to Zhao Yuan's small supermarket in Gray Yuan Town, was drunk when Zhao Yuan proposed to set up a transport caravan, Wan Yunjun drunkenly proposed it and joined the upcoming transport caravan.

"Once you are so familiar with it, it will be easy to find someone to recruit, by the way, what about the Wanyan steward who delivered goods to my small shop last time in Gray Plains Town, the second brother?" Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

In a few words, the establishment of the professional transport team was determined, and the next thing was to find a person who was specifically responsible, it happened that Wan Yan was on the county side, Wan Yunjun strongly supported the spirit and sent Qian Hu to find Wan Yan, the last time he went to Gray Yuan Town to deliver goods, Zhao Yuan was deeply impressed by this Wan Yan, if there is no problem, he will be responsible for the transport team in the future.

"Brother Atom, you want to be the shopkeeper, then you have to plan carefully." After listening to Zhao Yuan's thoughts, Zhang Xucong said.

"A few brothers help find some skilled hands, you don't think that I can't go back home like I was busy in the cement workshop a few months ago." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Okay, it's hard to say anything else, but it's just a transport team, not as demanding as the workers in the cement workshop, it's easy to find, and it's easy to solve the problem of transporting livestock." Wang Pinxuan said with a smile.

In terms of livestock, it is obvious that Wang Pinxuan is more familiar, because of the relationship between the military, he is clear about the distribution of livestock used as foot force under Shudi, and with the previous relationship, it is not too easy to buy some for the transport team.

"Wan Yan is coming...... Sit...... bar. Without waiting for a while, Qian Hu took Wan Yan to the small courtyard, Wan Yunjun finished speaking to him vaguely, he couldn't hold it anymore, and softened on the chair.

"Yes." Wan Yan said very little, and sat down on the stool in a proper manner.

"Long time no see, Steward Rock." Zhao Yuan waited for Wan Yan to sit down and said hello.

"Hello Boss Zhao."

"That's right, we are going to set up a caravan specializing in the transportation of goods, and the rock steward has been doing this for so many years, I don't know what you think?" Zhao Yuan asked with a smile.

"Do you want to be external? This is not easy, Boss Zhao, Second Young Master, and a few others, our Shu is mountainous, not only the roads are difficult, but now there are many bandits, it is not easy to make a caravan specializing in transporting goods. Wan Yan said.

The transportation team, to put it bluntly, is to do logistics, and in this era, large-scale logistics is mainly official grain storage, transportation and transshipment, and more emphasis is placed on waterways. Some large trading houses built their own caravans mainly to meet the transportation of their own goods.

"In the early stage, we are mainly responsible for transporting the cement produced by our cement workshop, and the external transportation will be carried out after the conditions permit, but the personnel structure must be prepared first."

"The problem of a large number of bandits, we have a special escort team to protect it, and this is not a big problem."

"The road is difficult, this is indeed a big problem, there is no way to solve it in the short term, but the rock manager may not know, our cement has another great use, that is, it is used to repair roads, and the main roads will slowly become cement roads in the future, which is very smooth and as hard as stones." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Wait, Brother Atom, we still have to build roads?" Zhang Xucong frowned and asked.

"To be precise, it's not us who repair, but all the big businesses in Shu who want to take this cement road to repair together." Zhao Yuan said after selling it.

All along, Zhao Yuan always wanted to hide himself and hide his differences, but now that the situation has reached this point, many things have to change a little.

With the progress of cement sales, the larger and larger scale of production is bound to fall into the eyes of many people with a heart, and they can't hide if they want to, so they can only take the initiative to face it, unlike leaving their hometowns and displacement, so they will be able to unite the forces now, first secretly unite and form a strong protective wall for themselves.

And the cement road is the opportunity that Zhao Yuan thought of.