At the intersection of Mashan Township, three dogs followed behind Yang Xi.

"Childe, wait a minute!" Sangou stopped, pinched his left hand on his mouth, and a whistle came from afar.

As the whistle fell, several figures appeared beside Yang Xi one after another.

There were three people in total, and it was the three people who were entrusted by the three elders in the Huangju Pavilion that day to tie up Yang Xi, plus the three dogs, and these four people gathered.

Yang Xi saw them, but he was not surprised.

He even nodded after scanning and said, "Yes, yes, it seems that the training task given to you by Sangou is not lazy." ”

The sharp-beaked monkey who yelled that day said, "Childe! You can rest assured, you have a lot of adults, we collided with you like that time, you are kind enough to take me and other such unsuccessful bastards, Gongzi Gaoyi, I have nothing to repay in this life, Gongzi but there are orders, where do you dare to be lazy. ”

"Raippi! Although you are a bit of a scoundrel, my son knows that you have a good brain, but you don't know much. Today, my son will take you to the outside world to see the world. Three dogs, let's walk, you explain to them. ”

Saying that, Yang Xi didn't need them to lead the way, so he walked straight to the county seat of Exian County.

There is no such thing as getting lost, there is only one official road, which is equivalent to our current national highway and provincial highway, and the other small roads are very small, and they can't get off at all, and the official road can barely walk, but it is only slightly wider.

On the official road of this small county, the carriage is very reluctant, and it is almost the same as walking the animals.

Yang Xi thought as he walked, if these official roads were to be converted into roads and paved with cement, he didn't know how long it would take.

In fact, according to the calculation at this time, from Mashan Township to Exian County, it is only 100 miles, and it is more than half a day's walk, and it has arrived. This is mainly due to the solid foot strength of Yang Xi and his party of five.

Seeing the head of Exian County from a distance, Yang Xi shook his head, thinking that this was indeed the case.

It's not that the three dogs and four people have never been to Exian, on the contrary, they often come. But every time I come, I always feel a sense of awe when I see the city wall three or four feet high.

Yang Xi didn't think so, but he was observing, this city of the Han Dynasty was really as majestic as recorded.

"This wall is only eight meters high, and it is piled up with rammed earth, to put it bluntly, it is adobe bricks, and the root of the outer wall is oblique, and the ground is at least 50 degrees oblique. No wonder others can actually attack the city. And this city doesn't even have a moat, it's too unusual. ”

It can only be said that the strategic location of Exian is not important, or that the Han Dynasty lasted too long, so long that it felt that such a remote town no longer needed to be defended.

Even the guards at the city gate did not react at all when they saw the crowd of people coming in and out. Several people seemed to be chatting in a circle, laughing from time to time.

Entering the market is the market, some peasant families, sitting on the ground, that is their melon and fruit stalls.

As for the regular shops, there are some, but they are generally not bustling and basically deserted.

"Three dogs! The house that your big dog bought for us, where is it, we will go directly. ”

He really didn't have the heart to wander around in a small town like this.

"Childe! The house is on the east wall, only thirty zhang away from the city wall, which was bought according to the requirements of the son, and has the appearance of 800 square meters. The price is a bit expensive, spending 10,000 yuan. ”

"10,000 yuan is a bit expensive, the house in Xiangyang, it is estimated that it is at this price now, but it doesn't matter, if you want to do a big thing, why do you care about a little money."

Yang Xi wants this house, naturally he has his intentions.

Sangou opened the door, but Yang Xi found that although the area of this house was 800 square meters, after entering the door, there was an empty yard, and there were only seven or eight real houses.

"Three dogs! Rascally! The four of you, clean up this place, one room for each of you, and we'll work here from now on. ”

Yang Xi asked for a study and a bedroom, and he can be regarded as a person with a room. He bought the house, but not for real living, and the next day he told the three dogs to go to the city and buy pigeons.

The pigeon is almost the most common and accessible bird in the human world.

Yang Xi divided the house into two parts, a front yard, which was specially used to meet guests or something, in case something happened, it was okay in the front yard. The door to the backyard was kept closed for a long time, and two large wooden cages were made in the backyard for domesticating pigeons.

The carrier pigeon is a breed that is derived, developed and bred from the pigeons that are commonly seen in life. It has been domesticated by ordinary pigeons, extracted from its superior performance and cultivated to become carrier pigeons, carrier pigeons because pigeons have a natural instinct to return home, after breeding, development, use it to transmit information.

The special task battalion, the function of Yang Xi's plan, is to use intelligence, but the timeliness of intelligence is a big problem. At this time, there were indeed carrier pigeons, but they were not used in the military. It is said that when Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions, he used pigeons to convey information, but this is only a rumor.

What Yang Xi wants to do is to use carrier pigeons as a normalized information transmission tool.

What's more, because carrier pigeons can't convey much information, the information is relatively simple, and a few simple words are written on paper, so the amount of information is not large. Yang Xi is different, he plans to make a codebook himself. Only the people of the special mission camp can have a code book, on which various symbols indicate different meanings, and if other people get carrier pigeons and get information, they will not understand it at all.

The symbols on the codebook can also be adjusted. It's like the telegraph--- Melbourne code.

There are also some skills in raising pigeons, as for this, it is necessary for the three dogs to slowly explore.

Yang Xi stayed here for three days, spent a full three taels of silver, and bought himself a few sets of decent clothes. The clothes of the Han Dynasty mainly include robes, shirts (straight single clothes), shirts (short clothes), and skirts. In the Han Dynasty, because the weaving and embroidery industry was very developed, wealthy families could wear beautiful clothes made of silk and satin. Ordinary people wear short clothes and trousers, and poor people wear short brown (short clothes made of coarse cloth). The women of the Han Dynasty wore two-piece dresses and robes, and there were many styles of skirts, the most famous being the "Liuxian Skirt".

At this time, the silk silk satin was made of pure mulberry silk fabrics and some other silk materials, and Yang Xi bought mostly silk clothes, he didn't want people to feel that he was a nouveau riche, so he deliberately chose a gray-blue robe, brown robe and single clothes.

The point is, he ordered a few pairs of shorts, which is indispensable. At this time, cotton was available, but due to the backward spinning process and the lack of cotton planting, Yang Xi had no way to buy cotton pants.

Three days later, Roland, who had been invited a long time ago, arrived, and couldn't help laughing when he saw Yang Xi's dress.

When Roland entered the city today, he was naturally dressed decently, wearing a red robe, which looked particularly eye-catching.

"Brother Luo! Don't laugh! Let's get down to business, take me to the horse market today, and if you wear better, you can't lose face. ”

"Haha! It's easy to say, let me tell you something, there are a few good stallions in the horse market today, but the price is not low, and I don't have enough money. ”

"Half a year's savings are all with me, it's enough! Let's go! ”

The two did not greet each other, laughing all the way, the big dog and the third dog followed behind, and the two brothers also talked and laughed. What shocked the big dog was that his third brother, his current force, even if he was two of himself, was not an opponent, and unconsciously, he was quite disappointed in his heart.

The horse market in Exian County is next to the market, and there are not many horse dealers, just three or four, and the total number of horses is only more than ten. Yang Xi took a look, these horses are definitely not good breeds, typical southwest horses, should be from Yunnan, Guizhou.

But now with his own conditions, he can't buy a big Wanliang horse.

Roland introduced himself to a middle-aged man named Fei Ma, this person's surname is Fei, because he is still famous for selling horses, everyone he knows gives him the nickname Fei Ma, and his real name is estimated that he doesn't mention it himself.

Yang Xi spent thirty taels of silver to buy five southwest horses, the price was not expensive, and the price of a good horse at that time was about ten taels.

There are five horses, but there are two tall stallions, and the other three are used by Yang Xi to breed, since they are developing in the Three Kingdoms, they must make long-term plans.

Yang Xi agreed with Fermat that in the past three months, he would bring three horses from Xiling to him, and the price would still be calculated as such, and let him connect with Sangou.

Yang Xi has never learned to ride a horse, so naturally he will not be ugly here, so he asked Fei Ma to arrange for someone to help him lead the horse to his newly bought house, and naturally someone took it back to the Chenhe factory.

After doing these things, Yang Xi still had less than five taels of silver left on his body. This is the working capital of the entire Chenhe factory.

Fortunately, the Bailai people from Zhushan Pavilion are still in the first month of training, otherwise the wages will be urgent.

Fortunately, Sangou went to buy pigeons, but he didn't spend too much money. Next, Sangou's task is to continue to pick up newcomers from the Chenhe factory and come to this house for special training, and Yang Xi has also been guiding here.

Yang Xi occasionally returns to the Chenhe factory for a break to develop some new products, and has made some advanced agricultural tools, such as foot threshing machines, keel waterwheels, etc.

The keel waterwheel has appeared in the north at this time, but it is not in the south, and it is an irrigation tool that drives the water from low to high, also known as overturning.

When Emperor Ling built the palace garden, this kind of overturned car was made, but Emperor Ling did not think of using it for agricultural irrigation.

With the efforts of the Chenhe factory, these advanced tools have been promoted in Exian County, but the biggest beneficiary is Roland.

At this time, the Luo family also developed rapidly with the development of the Chenhe factory. As a landlord, Luo Lan's enthusiasm for land far exceeded that of Yang Xi, and after he had money, he spent most of it on the purchase of fields, and with the support of Yang Xi's tools, he even expanded the purchase of fields to Qixiang to the east.

Of course, these things also take time, and such a peaceful development has been going on for another year.

It wasn't until a year later, in the second year of Zhongping, that the development of this accumulated strength was finally hindered due to the emergence of an incident. Yang Xi was a little anxious, there was not much time left for him to gain a firm foothold, if in 190, Liu Biao came to Jingzhou and immediately cleared all forces, if he couldn't resist at that time, he would be killed by others.