"What? You're going out again? "Xiao Yingniang is dissatisfied, she has only been back for two days, and this year is over.

"But," Zhiwen said, "Chinese New Year's Eve is either on the road or in Zhangjiakou." ”

"It can't be two days late, let's have a good New Year's eve and then leave, can't we?" Xiao Yingniang persuaded bitterly.

"No, Aunt Song." Zhiwen patiently explained that he also wanted to be lazy, but it was more important to get down to business.

"Brother Zhou said, we have delayed too much time, we must strive to invite the big shopkeepers of Zhangjiakou before the Lantern Festival, so that they can see and see the sweaters, so that they can sell a batch before the spring flowers bloom, if you start after the year, it will be too late, then only after the autumn next year can we sell sweaters, we have to make a lot of less silver."

"Then..., isn't it Zhou Gongzi's escort and Si Cha to send the invitation? What are you making a fuss about? Xiao Yingniang was still unwilling.

Zhiwen smiled bitterly, "Aunt Song, the first time we cooperate, we still have to show something, we can't let Brother Zhou do everything, right?" ”

Xiao Yingniang was silent and reluctantly agreed.

The more important factor Zhiwen did not say, one is to take the opportunity to go out of the customs, looking for a way to collect wool, large-scale production is imminent, a stable supply channel is essential, although there is still a lot of wool in the system warehouse, but it can't be almost finished and then look for it.

The other is the issue of food.

At present, Zhou Chengyun and Zhiwen are not satisfied with the production of sweaters, and the only way to expand the scale is to increase the number of people.

People don't have to worry, there are many refugees who fled from the north of Shaanxi and Hexi, although a group of them were taken away by Jiannu in Shuntian, but even one percent of them could not be occupied.

There are still a large number of refugees scattered throughout the western part of Jinxi, as long as there is food, a little recruitment, will definitely gather the clouds.

Zhou Chengyun means that more than 10,000 people will be recruited as soon as possible, and after short-term training, they can knit sweaters and spin woolen fabrics, so that they can impact the market with a large number of goods in a very short period of time and form a first-mover competitive advantage.

If there really are so many people, although there is a lot of food in Zhiwen's system warehouse, it can only last for more than a month at most, and he must find another way.

It happened that Sicha was going to Zhangjiakou, and Zhiwen hit the idea on the eight major grain merchants in northern Shanxi there.

According to Zhou Chengyun's analysis, Jiannu entered the Kou this time, looted a large amount of property, and was about to return north in a few days, eager to exchange the "useless" things such as gold and silver treasures in his hands for food and ordnance in order to strengthen himself.

And the people who helped Jiannu were undoubtedly the eight families led by the Fan family, who must have been buying grain on a large scale at this time.

"Aren't they grain merchants? Do you want to buy from someone else? Zhiwen asked curiously.

"They don't produce food, so of course they have to buy it." Zhou Chengyun explained.

It's just that these eight families have strong financial resources and do not need to purchase them themselves, on the contrary, because their purchase price is one to three percent higher than the market price, a large number of grain merchants send the goods to Zhangjiakou and sell them to them.

Wouldn't this be a great opportunity for Zhiwen.

Taking away the rations of 10,000 people from these people's hands will not be too difficult for Zhiwen, and he can also hit the other party, which can be regarded as the interest paid in advance for their sins.

"Brother Zhou, I'll find a way to solve the problem." Zhiwen promised Zhou Chengyun that this was originally the trade union's job, "If you should recruit people, you can recruit people, and you can hold it." ”

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Chengyun knew that the Yan family's money and food must have been pocketed by this kid, which made him feel a little relieved, and he was still clear about Yan Xiucheng's family background.

Even if there are tens of thousands of people now, there will be no problem in the short term.

Zhiwen took the initiative to take care of the food, but he did not refuse.

It's just that Zhou Chengyun thinks that if you want to solve the food problem, you still have to find Huguang merchants, which is the granary of the world, which is why he asked Sicha to invite the shopkeepers of the southern departments in Zhangjiakou, and there are Huguang merchants in it.

Nominally, the trading company does not care about the recruitment and food issues, but the stakes are very high, and Zhou Chengyun does not care about it.

"Brother, I'm going with you this time." It was easy to appease Xiao Yingniang, and Nan Nan jumped out again.

"It's a border plug there, it's very dangerous, obedient, just in the mountains and Aunt Song and they will celebrate the New Year, and my brother will definitely be able to come back before the Lantern Festival."

"Nope! It's because of the danger that I'm with you. Nannan's tone was firm.

After Zhiwen and the others fled back to the cottage from Jingshi, although they behaved carelessly when they talked to them, Nan Nan still heard the sword light and sword shadow and many crises from it, and saw Zhou Chengyun's arrow wound, which made her heart tremble.

She is such a brother, and the impression of her grandfather has faded in her mind and she can't remember it.

As soon as she thought that this time the separation was likely to be a farewell, Nan Nan couldn't stop being afraid, if she never saw her brother again from now on, what would she do?

No, she can't let her brother go out alone, she has to go with her, even if she dies, she has to die together.

This is what Nan Nan thinks at the moment.

Zhiwen read the slightest uncompromising firmness in her eyes, and knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only give in, "Okay, let's go together with brothers and sisters." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he stabbed the hornet's nest, Xiaoying, Niuniu, Kewang and others opened their mouths one after another, and they all wanted to follow.

Zhiwen raised his hand to make a surrender gesture, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"Xiaoying, if you want to go, you have to get Aunt Song's consent first." Sent one.

"Niu Niu, you... If you want to go, go for it. "This girl is alone, and as her cousin, she can be regarded as a parent, so let's bring it with her.

"Dazhu, you have to stay and train with Dingguo, besides, don't you want to learn arrows from the third child." Send another one.

"Xiao Jie, you..."

"Zhiwen, I didn't say I was going, I'll stay and recruit people." Before Zhiwen finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiao Jie.

Zhiwen nodded at him gratefully, Xiao Jie is just worry-free.

The next things are also very headaches, such as recruiting people, where to recruit refugees, what treatment to give, etc., but these things are no longer difficult for Li Zhi, Song Xiance has also started, and there is no problem in finding a few mountain people to help.

Zhiwen's only request was that the newly recruited refugees should not enter Zhuolu Mountain, and let them all establish themselves outside the pass.

What he needs to do is to keep enough grain, wool, miscanthus salt, firewood and other materials, the pass and warehouse have not yet been built, but there are a few caves near the top of the mountain, because of the high terrain, they are quite dry, suitable for storing things.

Similarly, a large area from below the cave to the top of the mountain has become a forbidden area, which is guarded by the clan.

The top of the mountain is the place where the wool is washed, and the dozens of guards of the captive Yanjia Village are guarded here, and they will do the wool washing in the future, according to Zhiwen, this is called labor reform.

Washing wool was so smelly, at first the refugees were willing to do it for food, but later they had a little more money, so no one came to do it, and it was a last resort to use prisoners, which is why Zhiwen didn't kill them at that time.

But now Zhiwen feels that the benefits have come, and the wool washing has become completely closed, and it is even more difficult for the formula and process to leak out.

It's just that the hands of this wool washing manpower will soon be insufficient, so I have to find another way.

The biggest headache should be the problem of fields.

If you want to recruit people to grow grain, it is necessary to allocate the land in Zhuolu Mountain, and how to divide it, how to divide more and how little it is a great test for people.

Chinese people have always suffered from widowhood and unevenness, and if each family is divided into the same according to the number of households, it is the most worry-free method, but it is also the most unscientific.

A small number of people may not be able to plant so much land, and a large number of people will not be able to plant enough.

If it is divided according to the number of people, the number of fields in each family is more or less, and I am afraid that it will be even more troublesome.

"Let each family report the number by themselves, and plant as much as they can." After thinking about it, Zhiwen felt that it was better to adopt the method of volunteering and semi-coercion, and each family would plant as many kinds as they could, and there would be no complaints.

"But there can be no abandoned fields." Zhiwen then explained to Li Zhi that the phenomenon of a lion opening his mouth and taking down the land first, but not planting, is never allowed.

"What if someone doesn't want to farm?" Li Zhi asked.

This is very possible, after all, the mountains are barren, and everyone knows that they are planting sweet potatoes and potatoes, two things that everyone has never seen (Zhiwen They are not allowed to grow other grains now), get up early and work hard all season, and it is likely that they have not earned much money and food for their work.

"No, each family should plant at least five acres of land." Zhiwen said categorically, this is the lower limit.

Grain is fundamental, it is a sharp weapon to stabilize people's hearts and attract manpower, that is, to distribute the remuneration for spinning and weaving, and for a long time to come, it will also be based on grain.

Even if Zhiwen is not very sure about the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes now, and he doesn't know how much grain Zhuolu Mountain can grow, he must do this thing first.

"Each family cannot plant more than 15 acres of land." Zhiwen added that this is the upper limit, "At least one person in each household must participate in the work of spinning and weaving. ”

It cannot be ruled out that some families have a deep-rooted love for the land and only want to farm and do not want to work, so it will not work.

The ideal state in Zhiwen's heart is that men farm the land, and women and children work, then the food, sweaters, wool and cloth are guaranteed, after all, these people can be regarded as skilled workers, much better than the newly recruited people.

"How do you collect the rent?" Li Zhi asked.

Rent? Zhiwen shook his head, "Lao Li, we are not the rightful owners of Zhuolu Mountain, so it is not good to collect rent so openly and spread it." ”

"No more rent?" Li Zhi was surprised, even if they didn't have the title deed of Zhuolu Mountain, they were the de facto masters here, and the refugees also followed them here, and the seeds were also provided by them, and it was natural for Li Zhi to collect rent.

If they don't collect rent, they will work hard to divide the land and seeds, what are they trying to do?

"Well, the rent is gone, but the seeds can't be provided for free." Zhiwen said, "Thirty percent of their harvest will be counted as seed fees, this is the first time, you can take credit first, and you can exchange it for grain later." ”

Hearing this, Li Zhiquite had a feeling of being teased by Zhiwen, the rent was exchanged for the seed fee, isn't it just a change of name, but thirty percent is not high, the mountain people will not have an opinion, as for whether the grain paid is rent or seed fee, who cares?

Zhiwen didn't speak, and he didn't intend to explain the difference between seed fees and rents, and when the time came, they would understand.

When he was in Hexi before, he and Xiaojie didn't find much grain, so Zhiwen didn't store this grain in the system warehouse.

And the amount of grain seized by Yanjia Village was too much, so he put it into the system warehouse at that time, and he was a little strange at that time, even if the varieties were the same as those in the system, these grains were not merged together, but displayed separately, and the color was still black and white.

After the long journey, and the subsequent trip to Beijing, Zhiwen did not pay much attention to it, until he took the sweet potatoes and potatoes to Li Zhi two days ago, he accidentally discovered that the seized batch of grain was all normal in color, including sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and other crops that were not in the system, and other original grains had been merged together.

From the perspective of time, it should be a change from a month to a month and a half after entering the warehouse, and seeing this scene, Zhiwen couldn't help but have a bold conjecture.

Perhaps, the real role of the system is not to burst the grain, but... Explosive seeds!