"But in practical terms, don't we have no money? Without the four billion dollars that Chen Zichuan lent us, wouldn't we have run out of money now? "Cao Hong is a dead pick, he doesn't know what it means to break even, he only understands whether he has money or not, generally speaking, this belongs to the iron rooster who only gets in and can't get out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"On the contrary, this state is actually the maximization of profits, the meaning of saving money all the time is at most to prevent some unexpected situations, and the meaning of breaking even is to continue to use money to make money, and then create greater benefits, and the stall will get bigger and bigger." Liu Ba glanced at Cao Hong and said, if there is no money or anything, it is enough to make money, and there is no future for a dead pick like Cao Hong.

"In that case, without this money, wouldn't we be able to do nothing but watch?" Zhang Xiu was also nervous, he was still waiting for the expansion, pulling up his Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and finally relying on the two hundred people that Huaxiong did not give him to train a batch of double talents, Zhang Xiu was still waiting for the money to expand his army.

"Not really, I already accounted for every expenditure at the beginning of the year, and I still have a good idea of when and what to allocate to it." Liu Ba smiled and said, "I don't have any money this time just because, I just happened to have a loan, and I just used it to spend." ”

After that, Liu Ba explained the whole process to everyone as simply and straightforwardly as possible, of course, after speaking, most people on the field were confused, they just thought that Liu Ba was so powerful or something, and those who could understand clearly knew how fast the country's strength would recover in this case, and looked at Liu Ba and was obviously convinced.

After all, there is no point in saving money, but turning it into a physical object, and it is more valuable if it can continuously bring benefits.

"Speaking of which, at this rate, do we have any hope of catching up with Captain Liu?" Chen Qun asked with a little curiosity, although his intuition was that it was impossible, but he was still interested in asking a question or two, after all, if professionals are willing to answer, it is good to eliminate doubts.

"Not at all." Liu Ba's face trembled and said, "Not to mention that Chen Hou's methods are similar to those I use now, but they are more clever than me, just in terms of time, the other party implemented this way a long time earlier than us, and back then, Chen Hou's situation was equivalent to someone who had always lent money for construction, and now it is even more incomprehensible." ”

Liu Ba has learned a lot of things, so he also knows what is going on with Chen Xi's current state, Chen Xi himself has become a credit principal, as long as Chen Xi's own credit system does not collapse, whether it is using fields or copper mines as collateral, as long as the current system does not collapse, money is just a number for this guy.

In addition, compared with Cao Cao's side, which is still working hard to improve the upstream and downstream industries, Liu Bei's side has basically completed the construction, in this case, even if Chen Xi does not make a fuss about his own credit system, the anti-risk ability of his own complete industrial chain is enough for Chen Xi to extract funds in it for other places.

This is also why for a period of time, Liu Ba always wanted to hang his own industry under Chen Xi's industrial chain, but unfortunately he was kicked out by Chen Xi every time, Liu Ba was also very irritable, his back was against the big tree to enjoy the shade, but he was always kicked by the big tree.

"Okay, Zichu, the appropriation is still managed by you, and according to the decision of all of us at that time, we will start to build the infrastructure under our rule." Although Cao Cao roughly understood what was going on, and knew that Chen Xi basically didn't have to compete in this regard, Cao Cao was still extremely entangled when he heard Liu Ba say it with his own ears.

"The cement manufacturing plant arranged by Chen Hou has already started, and the cement produced every day is enough for us to use, and it is also a little rich, and at the same time, I have already obtained raw materials here, but if I want to copy it, it will probably take until next year." Liu Ba said helplessly.

First of all, there is a problem of materials, this has been solved, the ratio of materials is still a problem, and finally there is a problem of firing, whether it is temperature, or other special requirements need to be verified many times, in short, this is a very headache.

According to Liu Ba's estimate, according to the time it takes to fire a furnace, it is already a miracle that it can be replicated in the next few months, and if you are lucky, it is estimated that it will not appear until next year, and if you are unlucky, it will take even more time.

Speaking of which, Chen Xi only knew the material at the beginning, and then let people fire it according to this material, in short, it was only after burning for a long time that the finished product appeared, and if Cao Cao could copy it within a year, Chen Xi was not surprised, but at that time, the world was one, and this kind of thing Liu Bei would directly provide to Cao Cao.

"Will it be replicated next year?" Cao Cao was silent for a while, and then spoke, "Mobilize a group of craftsmen to start researching and see if you can succeed in a short period of time, as for the firing kiln, one is not enough to build two, and two is not enough to build three." ”

Liu Ba nodded, in his opinion, there was no need to invest in this aspect, but since Cao Cao wanted to increase investment in this, Liu Ba didn't mind, that is, it cost some money.

"What is the state of the westbound highway now?" Cao Cao continued to ask.

"This matter is supervised by me, the more than 100,000 captives of Zahu may be extremely humble because the north has been completely wiped out by us, and the work is far harder than normal captives, at this rate, we will be able to repair to the Western Regions by the end of the year." Du Xi glanced at the construction period he had calculated and said.

"That's good, we have to build another road from Chang'an to Hanzhong, Liu Jiyu can still cut the ridge into a road, we can do the same." Cao Cao didn't take it to heart as Guo Jia guessed at the time, he had a lot of things, who had the heart to care about those captives.

As for Du Xian, he divided the Zahu captives into more than 40 teams, each team of 300 people, which was used as a sign and the approved road conditions on the other hand, and was divided into 40 sections to explore and build at the same time, and directly built the road that merchants who used to walk in the Western Regions into a national highway with twelve drivers.

"It's fine." Du Xun nodded, this kind of thing is not difficult, but in the concept of these people, such a thing as cutting off mountains has an impact on the feng shui leyline, so before doing this thing, you need to find a group of masters who understand the feng shui of the earth vein, just like what Liu Zhang did at the beginning, and study it carefully, which mountain can be cut and which mountain can't be cut.

"Changwen, how is the investigation of the matter explained to you?" Cao Cao turned to Chen Qun and asked, "What is our West?" ”

"There is already a part of the eyebrows, there are countries west of the Western Regions, and there are many countries, I have read a large number of classics and basically determined that there are countries west of the Western Regions that are comparable to our Han family." Chen Qun said slowly.

"Zixu, after the road from Chang'an to Dawan and then to Congling is completed, how long will it take us to get from Chang'an to Congling." Cao Cao said slowly, he had already guessed.

"After the road is built, although it is thousands of miles away from Chang'an to Lingling, if you march with cavalry, the speed will be less than a month to arrive." Du Xun was silent for a while and replied, he also understood the situation.

"Less than a month? If food and supplies are to be delivered, will it take within a month? Cao Cao smiled bitterly in his heart, he had basically determined what Chen Xi wanted to do, to fight the Central Plains and compete with the big powers?

"Actually, if you really want to talk about distance, because we don't build roads by ourselves, unless it's a natural desert, we can't build roads there, if we really talk about distance, I'm afraid it's only eight thousand miles, and our current cavalry is far faster than it used to be." Du Xun was also extremely sighing at this time.

The others also nodded silently when they heard Du Xi's words, if the urgent report of the fast horse could travel 800 miles a day, and the cavalry regiment of one man and three horses could travel 300 miles a day, then now the urgent report of the fast horse can travel 45,000 miles a day, and more than 200 miles per hour.

As for the cavalry regiment with one person and three horses, now, after all, it can't be compared with the kind of emergency report that travels day and night, but there is absolutely no problem with traveling thousands of miles a day, and it is not a joke at all to say that you can put a large army across eight thousand miles.

Counting the urgent report, counting the dispatch of troops, the army can be put into the green ridge within twenty days, which is far from the standard of the empire, the emergency report plus the time required to send troops, and the standard of increasing the army to arrive at the place of the accident for more than three months to reach the extreme wall of the empire.

Of course, it is definitely nonsense to ask for one person and three horses for each person, but even if it is an ordinary pack horse, according to the current situation, there is no problem with two hundred miles a day, and according to this calculation, even if it arrives at the Green Ridge, it will only be a month and a half, and there is still half the time.

"I see, no wonder Chen Zichuan wants to build a ranch in the north, his goal is to fight out?" Cao Cao said with a sigh on his face, "The road plus the number of animal power, plus the number of good breeds, it turns out that we now have the capital to go out." ”

In the past, both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty stopped at the Green Ridge, and its biggest problem was the difficulty of the deployment of troops, for the Han Dynasty, the opponents there were not unable to defeat, but the loss caused by the delivery of troops there was too much to bear.

Therefore, no emperor was willing to fight a war of little significance in such a distant place as a last resort.

For example, Chen Xi's current method is to forcibly shorten the distance between the two sides, and the difficulty of troop deployment has dropped to such an extent, not to mention that the animal power and all aspects have been greatly improved, even if there is no such terrible improvement, with the heart of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he will forcibly take the Western Regions.

This is the will to expand the territory flowing in the blood of the Han family, so at the moment when this looming rule, Cao Cao understood that Chen Xi's goal was not to continue to play the game of dynasty life and death in this small pond in China, but to fight out and let the world verify their glory.