Many ants actually have the habit of growing mushrooms, they will use all kinds of leaves, or insect corpses as fertilizer, and then get some fungal mycelium to put on it, in the relatively suitable conditions of the ground, just suitable for the growth of these fungi.

Of course, for relatively large ants such as gold-eating ants, this kind of nutrition can only barely allow them to complete the energy requirements in the early stage of growth. When they have enough hunting ability, they still have to fight the insects around them to meet their needs.

And what Shi Lei wants to do is just to achieve this first step, to ensure that the future queens will not be consumed because of the wrong way to open the base, or the wrong choice to send troops, and the energy cannot keep up.

This kind of thing is of course not difficult for Shi Lei, although he is not from an agricultural background, and his experience in farming is basically equivalent to nothing, but coincidentally, he really knows a little about growing mushrooms.

Or because of his work in his previous life, in order to solve the problems of many disabled people who have difficulty in finding employment or have poor ability to make a living, Shi Lei once participated in the organization of family-based mushroom cultivation skills training for the disabled.

It can be regarded as opening up a new source of income for them, and it does not require a lot of labor, which is suitable for these people with physical disabilities.

With such an accumulation of knowledge, it is natural to do these things that require much less to introduce mycelium. During the training, Shi Lei did not follow the practice.

In addition, Shi Lei also thought about whether he could teach this craft to the farmers at home, and it was a good technique that could increase income.

After satisfactorily confirming that the preparations were in place, Shi Lei carried a few bags of golden sand and ran to find the blacksmith uncle.

As soon as he threw away his pocket and shouted, Shi Lei hurriedly ran away, otherwise he would have listened to the unpleasant shouting of the blacksmith uncle.

As for the iron ore and the ant alloy, which is likely to expand production, they have not yet been implemented, so they will not have to deal with the blacksmith uncle, otherwise he will definitely not be able to settle down to escort the caravan.

The speed of preparation for this caravan is much faster than the first trip, and most of the items are directly produced in Yizhou, at most a few farmers can be left over there to give a technical guidance.

And this time, most of the things I brought over were more delicate, and they were all relatively lightweight. The main ones are bamboo silk fans with complex craftsmanship, finely carved Wailang inkstones, and various ingenious stationery supplies.

Of course, there is also the elegant folding fan that is going to be grandly launched on this trip, the gentleman and the scribes, the sharp weapon used to show their demeanor (outfit).

In order to win this market in one fell swoop, and at the same time position it at the high-end, Shi Lei gave a lot of ideas.

It is only said that there are several kinds of bamboos such as palm bamboo, Xiangfei bamboo, Merlot bamboo, etc.; In order to highlight the quality, specially purchased wenge, rosewood and even ebony; There are also more advanced ivory, tortoiseshell, and even white jade.

There are also different materials such as rice paper, cold gold paper, sprinkled gold paper, silk and silk, and so on.

With different grades of fan bones, it constitutes a product echelon with a variety of patterns that can meet the needs of various levels of consumption.

Of course, it is necessary to give full play to the exquisite craftsmanship of the bankers, what carving, hollowing and other effects, all add to it. Anyway, how advanced, how complicated, how to come. When such a thing is taken out, others will know it at a glance.

Even in order to meet the needs of some local tyrants, Shi Lei broke his blood and got all the gold fans out, but he didn't believe those guys, and he couldn't find anything that made him happy.

This satisfied the thirst of the dull hair, and made it pass the addiction of knocking gold, because it needed to make gold dust, which naturally cheapened this greedy little guy. It is also because of this that it has the motivation to participate in the digging of the pit honestly.

Well, the little money of the local tyrants is about to come to a certain bowl.

As for the folding fans that followed the caravan last time and went to Yizhou, they are now all collected by Shi Lei.

Shi Lei pondered it, there were too many good things launched on that trip, and this kind of promising industry in Shi Lei's opinion must not be simply launched.

Everything else still has a technical threshold, and it's definitely not that easy to imitate. But folding fans are different.

A good folding fan is naturally not something that ordinary craftsmen can make, but those made of ordinary bamboo paper and slightly stronger hands-on ability can fool one by themselves.

If this thing is rotten on the street, how can it be positioned as high-end, and the key is how to make so much money.

Of course, these folding fans in the collection are not only because they are the first batch to appear, which is more commemorative, but more importantly, Shi Lei told the housekeeper that he used the resources at hand to contact a few more famous literati and ink writers, so that they could leave their ink treasures on the fan surface.

This value is naturally different, not only to enhance the cultural connotation of the folding fan itself, but more importantly, these have become good treasures that can be heirlooms.

Especially a few characters who are still familiar to later generations, leaving such a fan with complete signatures and seals, which one is estimated to be enough for future generations to change a few villas.

At the same time, it is also a good advertising effect. Shi Lei has already arranged that after this batch of new and more delicate folding fans are sent over, he will definitely select several different ones and send them to the great writers, some of which will be collected or sold, and some of which will of course be kept in their hands.

This is all a live advertisement, and with the celebrity effect, folding fans will naturally become a fad. Thinking of these, Shi Lei seems to have seen a bright money scene.

The caravan is carrying more light things this time, and it can invest more energy in escorting. The dealers carried a box of folding fans on their backs, and they did not delay them from fighting with knives.

And there are many middle-aged farmers who are ready to go out to make snacks, and Shi Lei is not worried about their safety at all.

As for letting Uncle Blacksmith follow, it was purely a combat habit, and without a fierce general, he always felt that something was missing.

As for the team escorting aquarium fish, they have already set off by water. Uncle Butler carefully selected a lot of guards with excellent water resistance, and also equipped them with a lot of crossbows.

Shi Lei was bleeding heavily, and each of the guards was equipped with a water-splitting Emei thorn made of magic gold, or an armor-piercing cone that was not afraid of water, so that they could deal with possible water fights.

It's going to make these guys so beautiful. After feeling the extraordinaryness of the magic gold weapon, these guards really have to sleep with these guys in their arms, and they are closer than any treasure they have seen.

Seeing the caravan leave the field of vision, Shi Lei turned around and went back, of course, to greet the housekeeper uncle.

"There's a new queen over there, so I'll have to keep an eye on it, hopefully expanding the production of magic gold."

Hearing this, the housekeeper uncle was even more excited than Shi Lei, and almost grabbed Shi Lei to make him explain clearly.