As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water, relying on the grassland, you naturally have to find a way to eat livestock!

And then, why was Genghis Khan so bullish in later generations, the breakthrough feat of the Mongolian cavalry in the era of cold weapons could not be replicated even in the era of hot weapons before Wang Hou's crossing, and one of the magic weapons was this milk powder!

And the more he went deep into the grassland, the more Wang Hou learned that some of the real situation of the grassland, like before, he thought that nomads were big fish and meat all day long, that was outrageously wrong, dairy products were the main food of nomads in the past, and the herdsmen who raised hundreds of sheep may not be able to eat one a year.

And, although nomadism requires ten times more land than farming, in reality, nomads have always had a surplus of dairy products!

Because it is said that farming depends on the sky to eat, nomadism is actually more dependent on the sky than farming, about two or three dairy sheep produce enough milk to feed a person, but a white plague can wipe out six or seven percent of a tribe's livestock, how many animals you raise can be regarded as enough, so no matter which tribe, the tribe's livestock herd is doing its best, raising as much as you can, even if the milk you produce is not finished, you have to keep it.

And then it comes to the second point, reserves!

The steppe nomads of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties lived well, because the Song Dynasty began, there was an iron pot, and the Mongolians boiled milk and tofu in later generations, that is, they used the iron pot to boil the fresh cow and goat milk little by little until it was viscous, and then put it in the wooden lattice to dry and harden, but in this era there was not even an iron pot, the heat conduction of the urn was much worse than that of the iron tools, and the grassland was also notoriously short of fuel, so in the same time, the nomads could not reserve much dairy products.

In this case, there will be a lot of room for Wang Hou to operate!

"Sugar and salt can be kept fresh and preserved! What you drank just now is not fresh milk, but my special milk powder in Liaodong, fresh cow and goat milk is put in an iron pot, boiled with sugar until it is viscous, and then dried and ground into powder! It's this milk powder! ”

"In addition, I want to tell you the bad news, the milk powder you just drank is not fresh, but made by someone at this time last year!"

Looking at Wang Hou's evil smile, the faces of many rich grandsons in Liaodong couldn't help but change slightly, and the dairy products that had been aged for a year were also taken out for the big guys to drink, didn't this deliberately trap them! You can't drink it badly!

But it was the bearded man from Kangju in the Western Regions who was the first to react, full of excitement, and he shouted loudly.

"Your Excellency General, what do you mean, this milk powder can be stored for a year and will not be bad!"

"More than a year, the most one bag, this seat has been put for three years, and you can still drink it!"

Now, more and more people are coming back to their senses! The advantage of farming people over nomads is not only that there is more grain production on arable land and less land to feed more people, but more importantly, the grain that has been laid down is properly stored and can be stored for many years, just like the grain stored in Luocang during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, and even the Tang Dynasty can still eat it more than 20 years after the founding of the country.

But nomad, you have been carrying bags of milk for more than 20 years? It's broken in two or three days!

But now, Wang Hou's milk powder can still be eaten after three years, which means that dairy products can also be used as a food commodity for large-scale long-distance sales, which is simply a new challenge to the existing food types of the Han Empire.

And this thing provides much more energy than the same unit of corn, Genghis Khan marched tens of thousands of miles, the Mongolian army is carrying milk powder in the skin bag, carrying meat floss to serve as military food, when hungry, a little milk powder and hydration, and then soaked in meat floss, swelling out is a meal.

The grasslands can also be turned into grain export destinations!

Compared with this milk powder, the shock of wool to the merchants is much second, after all, a long time ago, Wang Hou has made cotton to impact the old Han Empire textile market, although wool is a new industry, it is not unusual.

"General, you recruited us and others, are you the two industries of investors?"

also saw the huge benefits in it, his eyes lit up, and the old man Tian Yutian played the role of this nursery again, and shouted loudly, who knows, Wang Hou, who heard this, shook his head heavily.

"What I want you to invest in is this city that I built together with the Xianbei people!"

"This ......"

Listening to Wang Hou's words, Tian Sui froze in amazement, but when he said this, Wang Hou became excited, and his tone was extremely fast as a machine gun to explain his grand plan.

"It is agreed with Kebi that the construction of the city is completely undertaken by Liaodong! The cost of their land and the construction of this city is collected from you, but not in vain! Today, each person will occupy as much stake as he contributes to the amount of food! The construction of the milk powder factory and the woolen factory, as well as the annual income of the city's tax revenue, this seat will reach 30%, in addition to leaving a certain percentage of the operating city, the rest is distributed to everyone as dividends! ”

"In addition, the materials produced in Prairie City are only sold to shareholders, and the materials are also allocated according to the investment amount, and then purchased by foreign businessmen!"

As soon as these two conditions came out, the eyes of many big businessmen present obviously lit up, the former is to treat the city as a big shop, although it seems that only three percent is a little less, but it is the output of the joint efforts of monopoly Xianbei and Liaodong! A year is no less!

The second is a complete monopoly! Milk powder can only be sold by those who participate in the shares, and they are the first dealers, although milk powder is not as indispensable as salt, but it also has the taste of the small salt merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations!

However, before the businessmen finished weighing, Wang Hou's next sentence made everyone gasp.

"The third point, the management of this grassland city is half of my Liaodong and Xianbei people to manage, the management of the grassland city, the government does not care about the slightest, and the shareholders' meeting elects nine directors to manage, this city does not belong to the Han government, it belongs to the shareholders!"

"You can raise an army, and you have the right to declare war on the tribes who dare to offend the trade routes! Finally, although the city is governed by the laws of the Han Dynasty, when the board of directors and the law conflict, the board of directors will decide according to the opinions of the board of directors, and when there is a conflict between the general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors, the opinions of the general meeting of shareholders will prevail! ”

This Timo's is more than the second emperor of Huan Ling's selling official beards, which is equivalent to the big guy spending money to build a country! Listening to Wang Hou's announcement, it should be a businessman from Jingzhou who Wang Hou didn't know couldn't help but say in a lost voice.

"Isn't the general afraid of the businessmen rebelling when the merchants form an army?"

"First of all! This is a money-making job, and Lao Tzu will also invest in shares! ”

"Secondly!"

With a smile on his face, Wang Hou replied to him, but he also spit out his heart-wrenching words.

"To form this grassland city, there must be at least hundreds of shareholders, if everyone thinks it should be reversed! Then it's the other way around! ”。

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar everywhere in the entire banquet hall, even Xu Shu and Wu Qiu Jian couldn't help but show a look of horror, but after reacting for a while, Xu Shu couldn't help but nod secretly, as for Tian Sui, Gao Tie, Chen Duan, Zhuge Rui, these rebellious businessmen from the high families of the family, they were full of fanaticism.

The existence of Prairie City is equivalent to taking back the political status that merchants gradually lost after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! At least on the grassland, the big guy no longer has to look at the rotten faces of the scholars on the land!