Building roads is something Zhang Ming insists on doing.

If you want to be rich, build roads.

What's more, in order to rule these places, Zhang Ming also had to repair the roads.

In the past, if the official document arrived in half a month, but now the road has been repaired, the horse is galloping, and it can be delivered in two days, so it will naturally be different in terms of governance.

Now that the money village is going to expand, there is no way to provide funds to Zhang Ming in the short term.

Qianzhuang needs to go deep into all the counties and counties of Xuzhou, Jizhou and Merge Prefecture, and a large amount of capital is needed in a short period of time.

Zhang Ming still insisted on starting construction.

In the second month, a sum of money came from Fusang, and it was all used by Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming insisted on building roads, resulting in some financial constraints.

Tian Feng can only save and save, barely surviving.

Fortunately, everything is progressing steadily.

More than a month has passed, and there is less than a month left before the marquis ceremony.

Many people came to Beiping City to prepare.

Zhang Ming invited some celebrities, and even many influential figures in Jingzhou sent invitations, as for whether they came or not, Zhang Ming didn't care.

And there were few princes left, and Zhang Ming sent out invitations.

"Chen Yang, how are you preparing?"

Approaching the ceremony, Zhang Ming finally found Chen Yang to understand the situation.

"Lord, in a few days, you still need to go to the drill in person, we plan to drill it three times."

Then Chen Yang introduced the process to Zhang Ming.

"The whole process takes five hours, which is too much, and if you can't do it in two hours, you can simplify the sacrifice."

In later generations, the military parade lasted only one or two hours, five hours, and many people could not support it.

"Lord, the sacrifice of genius is the most important, we have looked through a lot of classics, combined with the process arranged by the emperor's sacrifice genius."

The whole festival takes three hours, which is really tedious.

Zhang Ming originally wanted to save most of the things, but he still gave in and followed the thinking of the ancients.

"Then it will be divided into two days, one day for the day of worship and one day for the military parade."

In the military parade, Zhang Ming only selected ten teams, one with 2,000 people, for a total of 20,000 people.

Everything went according to plan.

A few days later, Zhang Ming had his first rehearsal.

His clothes were dressed very solemnly.

put on a python robe that only the prince wears.

What will happen when everyone sees it, Zhang Ming doesn't care, he just wants to wear it like this.

Trespass is definitely trespassing, and there may be many people who criticize Zhang Ming, but he doesn't care at all.

He even dared to sacrifice to the heavens that symbolized the Son of Heaven, what is it to wear a python robe.

Two days later, Sun Ce and Cao Ang arrived.

That's right, this time Sun Ce personally came to congratulate Zhang Ming, and Cao Cao sent his eldest son Cao Ang.

Zhang Ming greeted him at the gate of the city, mainly to greet Sun Ce, because he was also a county marquis.

"Wu Hou."

"Liaohou."

The two sides saluted each other in a matter-of-fact manner.

After the etiquette, Zhang Ming didn't have so many rules.

"Bo Fu, you are welcome to come to Youzhou again, but your master is far away in Bingzhou, and he will not be able to come back in a short time."

"It's a pity."

"Gongzi Cao Ang, I heard that you are now the son of Wei Hou."

"Don't dare, I've seen Liaohou."

Cao Ang's identity is a little shorter, and he has to salute Zhang Ming respectfully.

Zhang Ming led them into the city.

This Sun Ce was the first time to come to Beiping City, and he was very shocked.

And Cao Ang has been here before, and he will also be shocked, the change is too fast.

Zhang Ming received them, and entertained the two of them at the Protector General's Mansion in the evening.

Tian Feng accompanies him.

"Two, I won't talk about any identity issues today, I'm a guest from afar, I'll have fun."

Zhang Ming toasted the two of them.

A few while having a drink, then began to eat dishes.

Sit and chat.

A few people didn't talk about tax cuts.

Halfway through the meal, Sun Ce took the initiative to say: "Liaohou, this time, I originally had something to ask for, but I didn't expect Liaohou to be generous and start a large-scale road repair." ”

On the way here, Sun Ce received a message from Zhang Ming about raising funds to build the road.

Therefore, Sun Ce is also very difficult to speak.

However, Sun Ce couldn't help but say it.

"Wu Hou, the relationship between our two families is here, although it is said."

Sun Ce sighed and said: "I am incompetent, the people are not able to make a living, and the people are poor, I wanted to borrow a sum of money from Liaohou to develop agriculture and let the people live a stable life, but now Liaohou needs to raise funds everywhere to build roads." ”

Zhang Ming nodded, now he really can't come up with much money to lend him.

Zhang Ming took a bite of the dish, and then said, "There are other ways to speed up the efficiency of farmland reclamation." ”

Sun Ce's eyes lit up, and he said eagerly: "What can be done?" ”

"I've developed something that can greatly improve the efficiency of arable land, ten times more than before, which is not cheap, but the most important thing is that the technology is too simple, once exposed, it is easy to be imitated, and I am still secretly using it at this time."

Zhang Ming said very bluntly, he just asked for money.

Sun Ce suddenly didn't know how to answer.

Zhang Ming is going to sell it, but he doesn't have much money.

Sun Ce came to Zhang Ming to borrow money because he was poor.

However, Zhang Ming's words made them very tempted.

Especially Cao Ang, who presided over Tuntian, knew the difficulty of Tuntian.

If it can be increased tenfold, won't his 150,000 people be used as 1.5 million people?

This made it difficult for Cao Ang to refuse.

If there is such a thing, they have to scrape together money to buy it.

Now, manpower is the most scarce, if it can really be efficient?

Sun Ce and Cao Ang were skeptical, but they didn't dare to disbelieve it.

"Liaohou, what are the restrictions?" Cao Ang asked.

"Yes, but the efficiency gains are real, and I'm using them on a large scale right now."

"If I take you to see it, as long as it can improve so much efficiency, then you will have to pay a large amount of patent fees anyway, otherwise I will continue to hide it, strictly control it, and it will not be leaked out for at least two years."

What Zhang Ming said is the Quyuan plow, which requires the help of animal power.

It depends on the place by more than ten times, but there is a general increase of seven or eight times.

Sun Ce and Cao Ang were very embarrassed.

They don't understand what the royalties are, but as long as they read them, they have to pay for them.

According to Zhang Ming, it is very easy to imitate.

And Zhang Ming, anyway, as long as this thing is used on a large scale, it can't be hidden, so it's better to sell it now at a good price.

The two were very hesitant.

Instead, Sun Ce asked, "Liaohou, how much money do you need?" ”

"Eight million for one person."

Tian Feng, who was accompanying him on the side, was very helpless, this Zhang Ming also came up with any tricks in order to repair the road.

Eight million is a lot of money, and both of them hesitated.

Cao Ang picked up the wine glass and took a sip, silent.

"Let's go have tea together."

After eating almost enough, Zhang Ming proposed to go to the side to make tea.

When he came to the tea house, Zhang Ming made tea and gave it to everyone.

Cao Ang drank a cup of tea and said, "Liaohou, if we buy it, how much can we make in a year?" ”

The price is expensive, and it can't be pitted by Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming said: "Benhou can make more than 100,000 a year. ”

It is not a problem to make a hundred thousand curved ploughs, but it is even more difficult to have ploughing oxen.

Zhang Ming got a lot from the grassland, and he also raised a lot.

In addition, Zhang Ming also has some horses instead, but the war horses are not good, so he can only use horses.