Taking the coconut water handed over by his subordinates, Yuan Shu drank it all. Smack your mouth, yes, it's really better than honey.

"Yuan Hao, have the craftsmen in Yangzhou achieved any results recently?"

Tian Feng said: "The soap and cement mentioned by the lord have been preliminarily developed and can now be put into production. ”

Yuan Shu nodded: "Now that the people of Yangzhou are also rich, presumably the sales of things like soap will not be bad." Wholesale it to merchants at a low price and let them sell it. In addition, a batch of soaps is created and sold at a high price, and the specific price is about the same as perfume. ”

Soap is a daily necessities, and if it is sold at a low price, people will definitely be willing to buy it, and it can be regarded as a large amount of income.

And soap is even more not. As hot as perfume, as hot as soap. This era is not the next generation, and there are many men who use perfume. For example, Xun Yu has a good name for Liuxiang Xun Ling, and according to legend, the place where he once sat has a fragrance for several days.

There are many rich people in Yangzhou now. Perfume and soap are Yuan Shu's monopoly industry, and as long as the price is not too excessive, these big tyrants must be very happy to buy it.

The Zhen family relies on half of the profits from perfume and mirrors, and the family business has nearly doubled in the past year, which is enough to see how profitable this thing is.

Tian Feng nodded solemnly, even if he was not as good at economics as Yuan Shu, but as soon as he thought of perfume, he understood that this thing represented that Yangzhou could have at least more than one percent of his income, and he felt excited when he thought about it.

Unexpectedly, these craftsmen could create so much wealth, Tian Feng suddenly understood why Yuan Shu attached so much importance to craftsmen.

"Since the cement has been developed, it should be put into production as soon as possible. Remember, the production of this thing must be kept secret, and it is absolutely not allowed to be sold, and it must only be owned and used by my Yangzhou government. The cement produced was first used to strengthen roads and border checkpoints, as well as the walls of cities. ”

Although he was very happy that the craftsmen were able to produce cement under the information he provided, Yuan Shu sighed lightly in his heart, he was born at the wrong time!

Cement is an artifact. If nothing else, if you use cement when building the city wall, it is really strong, and you can easily build a towering city wall, which can be called an artifact.

If it was a normal ancient world, relying on cement and then developing gunpowder, Yuan Shu would basically be able to sweep the world.

It's a pity that this world is a world full of combat power, in terms of the defense of the city wall, although the materials are also very important, but the more important thing is to rely on the cloud of the army.

Otherwise, just relying on the fragile city wall, Dian Wei would be destroyed with an axe, how could a mere tiger prison stop the Kwantung princes?

But even so, if the city wall is reinforced with cement, the defensive power of the city wall can definitely be increased by a few percent, but it is not as rebellious as Yuan Shu expected at the beginning.

This thing is not too big for improving the combat power of Yuan Shu's command, but it is still an out-and-out artifact for road construction and water conservancy construction.

And gunpowder, this thing Yuan Shu was temporarily abandoned. In this world, this thing is really not very useful in combat except for bombing mountains and building roads.

"My lord, although this thing is very convenient for building roads and bridges, it is difficult for horses to run on it, and it is easy to damage the hooves. It's not suitable for us to transfer the cavalry army! ”

Tian Feng pointed out one of the major shortcomings of the cement road.

Yuan Shu smiled and said, "It's okay, wouldn't it be nice to add horseshoes to the horses?" Wait a minute, I'll give you a drawing, and let the blacksmiths build a batch of horseshoes according to the drawings and nail them to the hooves of our army. ”

Is that a problem? After a little thought, Yuan Shu gave a solution.

The three treasures of the cavalry, the saddle, the horseshoe and the stirrups. Originally, Yuan Shu still wanted to put it on the cavalry under his command. It turned out to be useless at all.

The bravery of individuals in this world is somewhat excessive, and there is no need to resort to saddles and stirrups at all. And the horseshoe, there is nothing that can damage the terrain of the horse's hooves too much, even if there is, when the real battle comes, under the cloud qi bonus, the horses' hooves are stronger than iron one by one, which is completely unnecessary.

So Yuan Shu has never made these things out. Where in the south how many cavalry are used? Even if he came out, it would only be cheaper for those northern princes and alien races, and Yuan Shu would definitely not do this kind of stupid thing for the enemy.

But now that the concrete road has been completed, in order to facilitate the usual march, it is better to load the horseshoe.

With the cement road, Yuan Shu began to look at Shu and think about bicycles and tricycles. If these things can be drummed out, then Yuan Shu probably won't have to worry about logistics anymore.

But in order to make these things, the first thing to solve is the problem of rubber. Yuan Shu remembered that there seemed to be no rubber trees in ancient China, and this thing seemed to have been imported from the West.

What should I do? Without Zhang Butcher, wouldn't he be able to eat pork? Wouldn't there be no other substitute for the rubber tree?

There are no rubber trees in China, but there are eucommia trees! Although eucommia gum may be worse than rubber, it is good to be able to use it!

Yuan Shu doesn't need the kind of tires that can carry sports cars and the like, he just needs to be able to support carriages and bicycles.

"Yuan Hao, next you go and help me search for eucommia trees, and plant them on a large scale in the plantations under the command of the Yangzhou government. In addition, how is the cotton that you were assigned to be responsible for, that is, the white stacks? ”

Tian Feng said: "We tried to weave cloth with cotton according to what the lord said, and it was very successful. This kind of cloth is more comfortable and less expensive than the cloth made of hemp, and the people of Jiangdong are very fond of this cloth. ”

"We've planted a lot of cotton this year, and we've got half a horse of cotton per person on average, and now we've sold most of it."

Yuan Shu nodded: "Food, clothing, housing and transportation, this is the key, we must pay attention to it." The improvement of textile machines should not be stopped, as well as waterwheels, hydraulic looms, etc., must be continuously improved and researched, and popularized as much as possible. There are many rivers in Jiangdong, and it is a pity that such a good resource is not wasted. ”

The popularity of cotton cloth is inevitable, after all, cotton cloth is more comfortable and cheaper than linen cloth. Although the cloth made of silk is more comfortable, the price is too expensive for the common people to afford. As for wool, don't think about it yourself in the south.

There are many rivers in Jiangdong, and the water resources are very rich, such as the waterwheel used for irrigation, the water mill used for processing grain, pounding pulp, crushed ore, etc., and the hydraulic blast device water drain used for iron smelting, etc., Yuan Shu asked the craftsmen under his command to improve and build.

These are some hydraulic machinery that the Han Dynasty already has, and Jiangdong has these things, but the technology is immature and not popular.

For most of the next six months, Yuan Shu did not have any battle plan, and devoted himself to the development of internal affairs, wanting to raise the productivity under his command to a higher level.