Yu Xinzhi and Liu Yongsheng left happily.

Zhang Song and Song Pei sat opposite each other, drinking new tea brewed with boiling water.

It is said that it is tea, but it is actually made from the leaves of a plant whose name Zhang Song does not know at all, although it is not as good as real tea, but it is better than nothing.

In the ear room on the right side of the hall, Xiaoli and Liu Yi didn't know what they were doing, the two of them muttered for a long time, and the two boys who were watching Xiaoli and Liu Yi on the side were Zhong Gui's younger brother and Fan Xin's younger brother, and the two boys followed Xiaoli and Liu Yi very patiently.

After Liu Yi arrived in Qingsong Valley, he became much happier, his body gradually improved, and his face began to become ruddy. Liu Yi is outgoing and generous, and is very popular with Fan Xin, Zhong Gui and Yuan Shi. The relationship between his friends is very close, especially with Xiaoli.

Among the adults, the blacksmith who is most in love with Liu Yi is the blacksmith, as long as he is idle, the blacksmith will come to see Liu Yi, so that Father Zhong and Father Fan laughed and asked the blacksmith to adopt Liu Yi as a son. The blacksmith was not annoyed when he heard this, but came more often.

It's just that Zhang Song knows that in addition to the fate, there is another important reason why the blacksmith is diligent, and what he values is a special talent of Liu Yi.

Thinking of this, Zhang Song suddenly thought of something to ask Liu Yi.

"Liu Yi, come here, I have something to ask you."

"Okay." Liu Yan walked quickly to Zhang Song, "Big brother, what do you want to ask?" ”

"What did the blacksmith get from taking you to prospecting for the past few days?"

"Brother Hui, the mountains around Qingsong Valley have basically been traveled, and the iron ore has not been found anywhere else except for the last place, and the limestone you gave me, I found that there is a lot of it, and there is also a place for copper mines, but it is far from here." Liu Yan tilted his head and thought for a while, and reported to Zhang Song carefully.

"Where's the coal?"

Liu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood again, and said: "You said graphite, no, the place you found last time was not graphite at all, but I heard people say before that there is near Yongping County." ”

"Isn't there around Green Pine Valley?"

Liu Yan shook his head and said, "No." ”

Zhang Song was a little disappointed in his heart, if he wanted to buy coal, it would increase a lot of costs, which was not conducive to the development of iron smelting. Of course, there is no way to do this, but fortunately, if Yongping County is laid down in the future, the situation will be much better.

"Okay, there's nothing else to do, you can go play first." Zhang affectionately touched Liu Yi's head and said.

Liu Yu answered, and then went into the right ear room.

"Lord, Liu Yi is so young, and his ability to recognize stones is so high, it's incredible!" Song Pei sighed.

"yes!"

Not only was Song Pei surprised, but Zhang Song was also very surprised when he heard about Liu Yi's special ability. He remembered all the stones that Liu Yi had seen, and no matter how long it was, he could distinguish whether the two stones were different.

This is a good material for a natural geologist, and this is the first thought that Zhang Song had after knowing Liu Yi's ability. Teaching him about geology and training him to be his own geologist was the second thought that followed.

However, Zhang Song quickly dispelled this idea, some of the geological knowledge that Zhang Song knew was only seen on the Internet in his previous life, just some scratching the surface, and if he rashly taught Liu Yi, it was likely to mislead him, so it was better to let him develop on his own.

"It's no wonder that the blacksmith loves Liu Yi so much, ore is indispensable for iron smelting."

The blacksmith took a fancy to Liu Yi's ability, and one of the purposes of often coming to Liu Yi was to get Liu Yi's help to explore ore.

Fortunately, although the blacksmith was eager to explore ores, he also really liked Liu Yi, so he would not excessively squeeze Liu Yi's talent for exploration, so Zhang Song did not interfere much, but secretly instructed the blacksmith a few words.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the house, and Father Fan and Father Zhong each carried a table of eight immortals and walked towards the house. Zhang Song and Song Pei hurriedly got up and helped Father Fan and Father Zhong remove the Eight Immortals table.

"It's been made so quickly! It's very good, Uncle Fan's skills don't have to be said. ”

Zhang let go of his hand and touched the familiar table of eight immortals, looked around the table carefully, and admired it sincerely.

"I was very busy during this time, and I only found time to make these two, and I began to want to send one to my wife, but I was afraid that my wife would not be used to it, so I brought both of them to the house and distributed them by the lord."

"Just put it at home, and make it for them when you need other habits in the valley. By the way, how much did the unicycle do? ”

"I've only made a dozen or so cars now, and I don't have many people to help, so I'm making progress a little slower."

"Uncle has already done it very quickly, and in the future, when he has manpower, assign some to his uncle and let them do some simple carpentry, so that you can be more efficient."

"That's a good feeling, it's really hard to do much now that there is a shortage of manpower."

"One more thing is that in a few days, the ironworks will start and the wheelbarrows will soon be put into use. The wheels of the unicycle need to be done more, the wheels are easy to break, and they may need to be replaced frequently. ”

Transporting iron ore by wheelbarrow is the best option in this valley where there are no wide roads, but the amount of damage to the wooden wheels must be considerable when the volume of transportation is significant.

"Okay, I'll make more wheels when I go back." Father Fan agreed.

"Lord, is the ironwork going to start soon?" Father Zhong asked.

"It should be the next few days, the blast furnace has been built, just wait for it to dry and it can be put into use, and the air row should be almost done in the past few days, soon!"

"Oh." Father Zhong looked a little wistful.

"What's wrong? Uncle, is there something wrong? Zhang Song asked with concern.

"There's nothing else to do, it's just shochu." Father Zhong said with a wry smile.

"Is there something wrong with the brewing of shochu?"

"There is nothing wrong with the brewing of soju, but there is a problem with the trading of soju, and this wine is not easy to sell!"

"Not easy to sell?" Zhang Song was a little puzzled, "Our wine should be the best wine in the world, it's easy to sell, how can it be difficult to sell?" ”

"My lord, that's right." Seeing that Zhang Song was puzzled, and Father Zhong couldn't explain clearly for a long time, he interjected, "Our wine is indeed the best wine in the world, but it is indeed not easy to sell." You see, if this wine is sold cheaply, then we will not make any money, but if it is sold at a high price, everyone will prefer to drink their own wine, so that the sales will be much less, and we will not make much money. ”

Zhang Song was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then realized that he had made another mistake of taking it for granted, thinking that commerce was invincible, ignoring that the Western Jin Dynasty was a typical natural economy. What is the natural economy, that is, the vast majority of daily necessities are produced by themselves, without the need for exchange.

Take wine as an example, many people will make wine, your wine is good, but it is expensive, people can't afford it, and people will make their own wine, if you don't buy yours, your wine will naturally not be sold.

Zhang Song remembered the opium trade and the Opium War in the history books of his previous life, and the British also wanted to conduct normal trade with China, and happily transported a large number of cotton cloth, wool products and other industrial products, hoping to dump them to China and make a lot of money.

However, China's natural economy gave the British a blow, although his cloth, wool products and other cheap, but the Chinese have no money to buy, and the Chinese themselves can produce, although the quality can not be British products, in terms of labor is also British products expensive, but spend more artificial fear of what, the important thing is that there is no need to spend money to buy ah.

In this way, the British found that there were not many people to buy its industry in China, and there was no market. On the contrary, the British had no resistance to Chinese porcelain and tea, and China made a lot of silver from the British every year.

As soon as the British saw that their silver was earned by the Chinese, and they did not earn a single wool, they were anxious, so they thought of the immoral idea of selling addicted opium to China, and used it to earn a large amount of silver from China.

Thinking that the British have no market for cheap industrial products in China, which is in the natural economy, it is normal that he can't sell this kind of soju, Zhang Song was relieved.

The natural economy kills people, but the soju still has to be sold, Zhang Song bent his fingers, tapped the table of the eight immortals, and kept thinking about the possible sales of soju.

"Since we can't sell it in Yongping, then we sell it to the merchants of the Western Regions."

"No, my lord, the trade routes in the Western Regions are now blocked, and they are controlled by thieves." Song Pei smiled bitterly.

"If it's winter, it's good, in winter, the Huns and Xianbei in the north need this kind of liquor from us." Father Fan sighed.

"How about the capital, will there be a market?" Zhang Song asked.

"There's chaos in the capital, and there may not be many people who have the heart to drink." Song said.

The few roads he could think of didn't work, and Zhang Song couldn't help but have a headache, and he rubbed his head with his hand.

"Lord, do you think this wine should continue to be brewed?" Seeing Zhang Song's worried appearance, Father Zhong asked cautiously.

"Uncle, let's do it, soju will continue to be brewed, but according to the sales volume, not too much, the brewed ones should be sealed and preserved, and there will definitely be a market in winter."

"Okay! I understand. Father Zhong replied suspiciously.

"The lord plans to start pacifying the thieves in Yongping County in the near future, once the thieves are pacified, as soon as the trade route opens, there will naturally be a market for soju." Song Pei said with a smile.

"Really?" Father Fan and Father Zhong exclaimed at the same time, "That's really good!" ”

Zhang Song smiled and nodded. Liu Yi and Xiaoli in the ear room heard it and ran out, looking at Zhang Song with bright eyes.

"Big brother, the first thing to do is to destroy the Flying Dragon Thief, the Flying Dragon Thief is the most hateful." Xiaoli and Liu Yi said in unison.

Song Pei, Fan Father and Zhong Father laughed when they heard this.

"It's true, the Flying Dragon Thieves are the most evildoers, and they will not be destroyed!" Seeing the adults laughing, Xiaoli was a little anxious and said it out loud.

Zhang Song smiled, patted Xiaoli and Liu Yi on the shoulders, and comforted softly: "Don't worry, the flying dragon thieves will be pacified in the end, but you have to eat one bite at a time, things have to come step by step, and you can't be in a hurry." ”