What Cao Xuan wants is not for these guys under him to follow him with all his heart, nor does he want to tie them all to his big ship.

However, Cao Xing knew that it would not be long before the world was in turmoil, and the princes from all walks of life were divided, and if he wanted to make a living in this troubled era, he not only needed to rely on personal strength, but also relied on the power of the public.

Cao Xing asked himself that he treated his subordinates well, but his subordinates must at least abide by the most basic principle, that is, to maintain the most basic loyalty, not to Qin Duchu, if their secret recipe is leaked to outsiders, then it will be an immeasurable loss for Cao Xing.

Two hours later, Cao Xuan sat in the restaurant, while Liu Wan and Chen Hu trotted in.

Liu Wan handed over a list to Cao Xing's hands: "Owner, according to your requirements, we have found enough people, there are just a hundred people, all of them are strong young men!" ”

Cao Xuan nodded, and asked them to go back to prepare first, and then the next day Cao Xuan took them to his home, and the first thing he did was to tear down the old wall and build a new one, and expand his mansion.

More than 100 people brought in by the new people, under the supervision of Che Wu and Chen Hu, began to dismantle the old wall and form a new wall, and it only took a week for the new wall to be built.

Now the courtyard of the Cao family looks a bit like a thorough square, twenty meters long and twenty meters wide, and there is a full area of 400 square meters inside, accommodating nearly 200 of them, and there is no big problem.

Cao Xuan distributed all the new more than 100 people according to the proportion, he asked Liu Wan to take away 20 people, and those 20 people all acted as the guys of the Hantian Restaurant, and he also helped sell soap, and he allocated a sum of money to let Liu Wan directly find a decent store, and his soap, the shop was opened.

Then Cao Xing allocated another twenty people to Che Wu and Chen Hu, and now that the yard has been expanded, patrols have also been strengthened, no one has brought more than ten people each, and the security in this courtyard must be ensured every day.

The patrol work is either not an accident, but a big incident will happen, so Cao Xing gives each patrol team member, the daily salary is settled according to six yuan, and the two leaders of Che Wu and Chen Hu have reached ten yuan, because there are many people, so there is no need to stay there all the time, even if everyone is a patrol team, they can also rest in shifts. It only takes half of the time a month, which should be a very good treatment.

The rest of the people, this is all into the workshop of cold spirits and soap, Cao Xuan wants to expand his two things again.

In this way, another half a month has passed, and since that incident, the popularity of Hantian Restaurant has risen to a new level in Bianyun County, and the number of people who come to eat and drink has become more numerous.

On this day, Cao Xuan stood outside his yard, the north wind blew through the fallen leaves, blowing up a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, Cao Xuan looked into the distance for a long time.

A piece of clothing was draped on Cao Xing's body, and Cao Xing looked back and saw that it was Chen Hu.

"Big brother, it's cold, let's add an extra piece of clothing!"

Cao Xuan smiled, he looked at this boundless place, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart, the land of Huaxia is really vast, and around his yard, there is such a large wasteland.

"Huzi, no one cares about this wasteland anyway, what if we use it to reclaim food!"

Chen Hu looked at this wasteland, nodded and said: "Big brother, I think it's okay, we are all from farmers, I estimate that this wasteland, together is almost a hundred acres of land, if all of it is used to grow grain, our grain does not need to be purchased from outside, we can be self-sufficient!" ”

Cao Xuan nodded, in fact, his thoughts were similar to Chen Hu's.

Although Cao Xing used to operate cold spirits and make soap, it seems that he made a lot of silver taels, if in the words of later generations, money is king, but Cao Xuan also has to face the reality.

In ancient times, the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business was implemented, and Cao Xing introduced many novel things, which attracted people's huge attention, so he could obtain huge profits from them.

The reason why Shang Ying put forward the idea of valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce was not because Shang Ying had no foresight, but in ancient times, grain was a huge economic pillar of a country, and if there was no food, there would be no food, and even if it was gold in his hand, it would not have much effect.

Therefore, according to the times, this national policy set by Shang Ying was right.

Therefore, Cao Xing must prepare enough food and grass to feed himself and his subordinates in order to meet the next troubled times.

"Huzi, you go to the government tomorrow to buy ten ploughing cattle, remember to bring a little more money in case you need it!"

The ploughing cattle are also extremely precious in ancient times, because the cattle can bring great convenience to the farmers and can cultivate farm work, so they are often valued in ancient times, and the ploughing cattle are all managed by the government, so Cao Xing wants to get more cattle, and he must apply to the government, but Cao Xing wants too much at one time, and he is afraid that the government will not give it, so he said that Chen Hu will bring enough silver, and it is a big deal to bribe the government a little at that time, but in any case, he must get all the stone skin ploughing cattle.

Cao Xuan explained all this clearly to Chen Hu, and Chen Hu also nodded and said that even if he went to buy farming cattle from the government tomorrow and the government was unwilling to sell them, he would definitely not be angry and would definitely restrain himself.

Cao Xuan nodded, but just as Chen Hu was about to leave, Cao Xuan suddenly stopped him.

"Huzi, you are a blacksmith, I don't know if you know some carpenters!"

Chen Hu thought for a moment, then nodded, and Cao Xuan asked him to bring a few more carpenters back tomorrow.

Chen Hu usually fights and kills, and the reason why Cao Xuan let him do these things alone this time is also to deliberately cultivate his ability, but what Cao Xuan didn't expect was that at noon the next day, Chen Hu really brought him ten ploughing cattle and brought three carpenters.

"Big brother, I went to the government to buy ploughing cattle, originally the official heard that I wanted to buy ten ploughing cattle, and he was a little reluctant, but when the county man came, I explained the reason to him, and he directly asked me to register, and then left ten ploughing cattle to me, and did not ask me for money!"

Looking at these ten ploughing cattle, most of them are three or four years old, which can be regarded as young and strong ploughing cattle, Cao Xing also felt very surprised, Chen Hu went out to do things so smoothly, in other words, is that county Cheng also a little more generous?

However, Cao Xuan didn't think about it so much, remembered this incident, and thought that he might have to thank the county man in person if he had the opportunity in the future.

Now that the ploughing cattle were available, Cao Xuan instructed Chen Hu to lead them to the cowshed outside and raise them temporarily, and then met with three carpenters.

The three carpenters were an old man and two young men, one of whom was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the other who looked to be only about ten years old.

After a brief greeting, Cao Xuan knew that the old man's surname was Ma, and everyone called him Ma Bo, and Cao Xuan was not hypocritical, so he called the old man Ma Bo directly.

Ma Bo told Cao Xing that in fact, their ancestors were not from Bingzhou, but from Yongzhou, but they came to Bingzhou with the changes of the times, but since the Yellow Turban Uprising, Bingzhou has become extremely depressed, and few people are building farm tools or building wooden houses, and the work is not easy to do, and he is ready to return to Yongzhou with his two nephews recently.

Cao Xuan nodded, did not immediately speak, but handed a picture to Ma Bo, Ma Bo and his two nephews, looking at the words on it, it was a little novel at first, but after Cao Xuan slowly explained, Ma Bo's eyes gradually had a hint of brilliance.

"Cao Xiaoyou, I can see this thing of yours, it is also a kind of agricultural tool used to plough and turn the soil, but it is different from the coupling plough we usually build, can you explain in detail, the structure of this thing, I can also make it!"

In ancient China, in order to make it convenient to cultivate land, people produced agricultural tools early on, and in the Three Kingdoms period, most of us used things like coupling plows.

However, Cao Xing also went to the field to see this kind of thing, and if he wanted to use this kind of coupling plough to work, he needed three oxen and two people to control it, and both the manpower and material resources spent were a little large, so Cao Xing remembered that there was a thing called Quyuan plow in history.

Quyuan plough appeared at the end of the Tang Dynasty, only one person and one ox can be easily operated, and Cao Xing remembered that in the history books also mentioned, Quyuan plough can easily change the direction, making farming more convenient, so as to greatly save manpower and material resources.

Cao Xing drew Qu Yuanli according to the way he remembered, but it was a little difficult for Ma Bo to ask Cao Xing like this, and Cao Xing could only smile in the end, like Ma Bo said.

"This thing is also an idea of mine, a conjecture of mine, whether it is practical or not to know if it is really practical to try, it is better to know if Ma Bo is willing to go to the ground with me, research and manufacture at the same time, and see if this thing can be created!"

Cao Xuan originally thought that after Ma Bo heard this, he should make some requests to him, such as price increases, etc., but he didn't expect Ma Bo to just hesitate for a moment, and then nodded immediately.

After all, the Quyuan plough is also formed by a wooden structure, Cao Xing remembers its general structure, plus the effects described, Cao He and Ma Bo thought about it in the field for three days, and finally made this thing.

Cao Xing asked Che Wu to directly pull out a batch of cattle and let him give it a try, and sure enough, it was very convenient to cultivate the fields.

"Ma Bo, with this zigzag plow, I believe that agriculture will also undergo a huge transformation, and you have created a great contribution to the people of this era!"