After resting for two or three days, Liu Tao also began to return to work. It's important to ask what's going on in the cloud over the last few months, and then start to pick up the work.

By the way, use the 'gift of the earth dragon' to moisten the land in Yunzhong County, so that the crops can grow faster and better.

"Within the boundaries of Keiling County, kaolin was discovered?" If other news is more general, then this news has obviously attracted his attention, and it is highly concerned.

I thought this thing was only available in Jingdezhen, or concentrated over there, but I didn't expect it to be in the Inner Mongolia region here, and I could still find this thing.

"Yes, this is the result of looking everywhere according to the introduction and description of some resources left by my brother, taking advantage of the slack time in the farm. It was found that there was a large amount of kaolin storage in Jiling County (later Qingshuihe County). In addition, some can also be found in the Yinshan Mountains, but the mining difficulty is relatively high. Lu Yan replied.

During the time Liu Tao left, he was Xiao Gui Cao Sui, and if he had any plan, he would complete it according to this plan. Thanks to an excellent assistant like Xun Yu, everything went smoothly.

"Great, so you can start trying to burn porcelain!" Liu Tao said with a smile, porcelain, tea, silk and rhubarb seem to be the fist products of China's foreign trade.

In particular, fine porcelain is definitely the best decoration to enhance the style of life. However, as far as the Eastern Han Dynasty is concerned, porcelain in the true sense of the word...... In the end, he doesn't guarantee whether there is any, anyway, he has paid a little attention to the Bingzhou, Youzhou and Sizhou regions, no!

Maybe it's already there, but it's not popular, and the technology itself is like that in these years, and some good things are hidden.

For example, the cocoon car, which was recorded in Cui Wei's "Political Commentary" twenty years ago. Liu Tao remembers dating back to the 2nd century B.C. But that is only a record, but it has not been popularized, and most people still plant seeds slowly with their hands.

Like the keel waterwheel, Liu Tao tried to get the craftsman to try to restore it, after all, it was not difficult to find the article, the key was how to let the craftsman use his creativity, restore it, and see if it could be further improved.

The tool related to farming, such as the cocoon car, has not yet been popularized, and the popularization of porcelain, which is flashy, should be faster, but in fact it is not.

For example, colored porcelain, blue and white porcelain, even ordinary white porcelain, it seems that none of them can appear. In fact, there are really conditions, Liu Tao even plans to burn all the glass.

Anyway, if the requirement is high temperature, here in the clouds, in the counties, peat and coal resources have been found one after another.

"Brother Yu thinks that you can try to make it on a small scale, and then look at the sales situation, and then increase the scale." Lu Yan took the opportunity to suggest, this is actually what Xun Yu meant.

Porcelain is not a necessity for grain, cloth, and salt. According to Liu Tao's conception, it can be a luxury product, a decoration, or a container. It is used to improve the quality of life and cultural heritage.

As literati, Xun Yu and Lu Yan are both interested in this thing, but they also know that they are not suitable for this, and they waste too much energy, after all, in terms of practicality, it is not even as good as paper and printing.

"Indeed, before the technology is mature, there is no need for large-scale ......production," Liu Tao also agreed, he initially took a fancy to this thing, mainly thinking about whether it could be sent to the grassland or the Western Regions, or even Jingzhou or Xuzhou, in exchange for some money.

After all, now that Ma Tengdu respects him 'on the surface', depending on the situation in the future, he can consider asking him to help reopen the Western Regions. However, there was a very serious problem that needed to be solved during this period, that is, to subdue or eliminate the Southern Xiongnu, so as to save trouble.

At the same time, the area of the Hetao Plain, of course, should be used if it can, and it is too wasteful to be used as a running valley and pasture. At first, he thought so, but later learned that the Southern Xiongnu had actually begun to farm, and their living habits had begun to change to the Han people in many places.

Maybe it's because they've been together for too long, or because they're surrounded by Han civilization, they're affected by such an atmosphere, so the trend of assimilation is more serious. Perhaps it is precisely because of this background that Liu Bao's son Liu Yuan can successfully establish Zhao Han, right?

If Xihe County and Shangjun are defeated, then they will almost be able to communicate with Beidi and Anding Counties, which means that they can get in touch with Ma Teng faster...... The main thing is that there is no need to go around in a big circle and then pass, so you have to delay the journey for more than ten days.

"There is another piece of news......" Lu Yan suddenly added at this time, "In the Yinshan Mountains of Beiyu County, iron ore has been discovered!" ”

The iron ore he refers to here refers to the shallow iron ore, which is a type that is more convenient to mine. In fact, there are more or less similar things in various counties, but the difficulty of mining, as well as some historical reasons, there is no value in continuing to mine.

This Liu Tao still knew, so he was also very excited when he heard this, and even asked with some uncertainty: "Really?" ”

"Yes, an iron ore mine has been discovered, the production is okay, and I am planning to start mining." Lu Yan replied affirmatively.

"People must be arranged to mine, and the big battle is logistics. Weapons, armor, horses, food, grass, and even salt are indispensable. The population in the clouds is small, and outside the Great Wall, I originally thought that the war potential was not high......" Liu Tao sighed.

If you want to enhance the war potential, you have to beat Dingxiang County and Yanmen County, if this is not safe, you have to beat Taiyuan County, connect Taihang Mountain, maybe there is the potential to fight.

"The new crop is about to be harvested, and from the current data, according to the cultivation model provided by my brother, the yield is higher, and the damage to the soil is minimal, and it is almost impossible to do it without fallow." Lu Yan continued to report, "This point has been asked to come and see the county magistrates/governors, and everyone is very relieved, and I hope it can be promoted next year." ”

"After the promotion, the food in the cloud will not be a problem." Liu Tao sighed that there can even be surplus grain, which can support other counties, and the price of grain in the prefecture is a little high.

However, considering the relationship between Wuyuan County and Yanmen County as military towns, it is estimated that there are not many ordinary people. If the gentry and wealthy families are concerned, they themselves have enough food to eat, and there is no need to sell them to these two counties.

"In other words, when will we find a way to take away the military power of the two counties...... Is there any way not to? Liu Tao seems to have left this as an issue before leaving, and I don't know if there is a conclusion in the past four months.

"There is a way, it is nothing more than to take advantage of the Hu people's attack, as the general of Zhenbei, to temporarily take over the military power, and then ...... Never returned! Lu Yan immediately replied.

All right...... It turns out that Liu Bei's trick of borrowing Jingzhou is not his originality? Liu Tao couldn't help but complain in his heart.

Strictly speaking, the two counties are military towns, and they were also in Yunzhong before, but Liu Hong re-established the position of Taishou in order to make money. Of course, from the setting to the present, no one has bought the Taishou of Wuyuan and Yanmen. The position of being too guarded in the cloud is almost also handling goods, and no one wants it, so he throws it to himself...... Think about it and suddenly feel offended.

"So what is most lacking now?" Liu Tao asked.

"Lack of people!" Lu Yan replied frankly, "The situation is too big, there is a shortage of all kinds of talents, and there is also a shortage of labor!" ”