The envoy sent by Lu Su stayed in Xuzhou for three days, and after three days of discussions, the two sides reached a consensus on taxation. Then the envoy presented a set of eighteen weapons and a cannon as a gift, and by the way, promoted his own products. All the generals came to experiment with the weapons sent by the Xuzhou envoy, and they were all full of praise, Cao Cao was happy to order thousands of spears at one time, and ordered swords and other cold weapons to add up to nearly 7,000 pieces.

This is definitely the first big order in Xuzhou!

After ordering so many at one time, Xuzhou Commercial Bank reduced many of their fees. Although it was sold to Cao Cao at a very cheap price for the first time, this single business was enough to feed the Juye Cold Weapon Factory. Even nearly 10,000 pieces of weapons, Juye Cold Weapons could not be manufactured in one factory, and the Cold Weapons Manufacturing Factory had to open another branch in Changyi City, and the two cities used it to pay for orders from Yanzhou.

Cao Cao purchased these weapons, not to equip his soldiers, but to equip all of them to those above the rank of general. Although Cao Cao wanted to buy more of these sharp weapons, Yanzhou had been war-torn for a long time, and the treasury was empty, so he simply didn't have enough money, so he could only buy so much and use it first.

In August, when the envoy returned from Yanzhou, he brought good news from Yanzhou. Due to the love of Cao Cao and others, Xuzhou's weapons soon spread in Xuchang, and those big families had money, and they all wanted to buy cheap swords that could blow their hair and break their hair.

So after nearly half a month of discussion, Lu Su decided to take the lead in establishing eight Xuzhou commercial banks in Yanzhou. In some of the larger counties, there are two or three firms, and in the ordinary small counties, there is one firm.

Moreover, if these commercial banks are doing well, they can continue to open subordinate commercial banks in their subordinate counties. In this way, Xuzhou Commercial Bank can slowly spread to every county in Yanzhou to make Yanzhou's money.

After the envoy went to Yanzhou, he heard that Cao Cao was equipped with new weapons, and Yuan Shu, a local tyrant who claimed to be emperor in Huainan, came to buy nearly 10,000 weapons, nearly 1,000 big bows and nearly 100 artillery pieces to arm himself. Huainan is another big order, and it is Peng Chengguo and Xiapi that supply Huainan.

The production capacity of these two counties also had to go north to take care of Qingzhou in the north, so Guangling and Suzhou could only send the weapons produced from the Yangtze River to Huainan.

The envoy went to Qingzhou, Yuan Tan was a fan of Tao Ying, and when he saw that Tao Ying had invented something good, how could he let it go? So Yuan Tan customized nearly 3,000 weapons. Xuzhou does not border Qingzhou, so Tao Ying had to have people transport it from the sea to Qingdao County, and then from Qingdao County to Qingzhou.

This is undoubtedly not a big increase in costs, but his biggest threat now is Lu Bu, Liu Ye's suggestion is not to set up a trading house on Lu Bu's territory, so that Lu Bu can't buy sophisticated equipment, and when the time comes, he will cry to death.

Originally, Lu Su was also ready to continue to go south and promote weapons to Huiji County and Danyang Sun Ce, but with so many orders, the workers of the weapons manufacturing factory could not catch up at all, and finally Lu Su had to give up.

Time passed day by day, in order to be able to make weapons as soon as possible, the cold weapon manufacturing company had to recruit craftsmen throughout Xuzhou. There are not many masters who can forge swords, and this craft is passed down from master to apprentice, not to outsiders. So Sun Shao had to spend a lot of money to hire them as teachers, and then promised to solve the problem of compilation for them, and then let them take their apprentices to build weapons together.

With the establishment of the factory, Tao should imitate the state-owned enterprise system of later generations, and give every worker who works in the factory into the establishment, so that they will be paid a salary in the future, and they will be given a pension when they are old.

This system attracts a lot of poor people, and once selected for recruitment, there is also social housing. However, the welfare housing is reserved for those teachers with good skills and high ratings, and other workers can only live in the staff dormitory. In this era, everything is lacking, but fortunately, the most important thing is people.

In the Pengcheng generation, there were many homeless people due to the war, so when the cold weapons factory began to recruit workers, it recruited nearly 7,000 people in less than a week.

This is a huge number, and Pengcheng is planned to become a super metropolis, so it is impossible to keep so many people here, so it will not be a lot of gold and silver to be demolished in the future. So Tao Ying moved the cold weapon manufacturing factory to Xiao County next to Pengcheng, anyway, Xiao County is very close to Pengcheng, and the waterway and land route are particularly convenient.

Enough workers have been recruited, and the factory has not yet been built. So Tao Ying asked the workers to cut down wood to build it, and Tao Ying chose the site of the Pengcheng branch of the cold weapon manufacturing factory near both sides of the canal, and the workers began to build the factory. With the passage of time, factories in Changyi, Juye, Xiapi, Tancheng, Guangling, Jiangdu and Suzhou have been established one after another.

Each factory needs to recruit nearly five or six thousand workers, which greatly satisfies many employment problems in the city. With the start of construction of the cold weapons factory, the firearms factory soon selected a site and began to build. In these two factories, the firearms manufacturing plant needs a little less workers, because they have fewer orders.

Yuan Shu was the first to customize his own artillery, others didn't know the power of this artillery, and the cannon was extremely expensive, so it was sold very little.

But in order to be able to avoid being out of stock when others need it in the future, Tao Ying still let people rush to make it. Xuzhou soon became the steel capital, with nearly 10,000 workers in two factories in a single city. In the whole of Xuzhou, there are nearly 100,000 people, this is a huge mouth, workers need wages, but Xuzhou has not been able to have so much money to pay them at this time, which can be very bad for Tao Ying.

Tao Ying called a meeting of various departments, and in the end, Zhang Zhao suggested that they could pay with grain, which happened to be enough to pay their salaries this year. However, with the construction of agricultural factories, many craftsmen were required to make various agricultural tools such as fertilizers and iron plows. If you need a craftsman, you have to pay a salary, where does the salary come from?

If the things are not sold for the time being, there is no money to pay salaries, so they can only tear down the east wall and make up the west wall. And after everything was paid, there was not even much left of the military rations for the war.

In the most difficult period of entrepreneurship, in order to survive this period, Liu Ye suggested the establishment of a military reclamation group. Now, in the past three years, there has been basically no war in Xuzhou, and Xuzhou does not want to launch an attack on anyone. But Xuzhou has nearly 100,000 military horses, many of which are stationed on the border.

As we all know, many of the border areas are fertile land, but because wars often occur, few people go to farm. So since Xuzhou has stationed soldiers and horses there, why don't you let the idle soldiers go to reclaim the land to grow food? And with the supply of fertilizer and farm tools produced in Xuzhou, the grain production will be twice as high as in other places.

After Liu Ye's suggestion was adopted by Tao Ying, Tao Ying asked the military department to set up a new frontier military reclamation group, and the troops stationed in the frontier must reclaim fertile land and cultivate the land, and hand over part of the grain and grass obtained to the Xuzhou treasury, and keep the rest as military rations.