On the morning of the next day, Qin Dong summoned the main civil affairs officials and officers to learn about the development of the territory in the three months since he left, and the officials and officers arrived one after another.

After Qin Dong arrived at the official meeting hall, all the officials and officers stood up and saluted and said loudly: "Meet your lordship!" ”

"It's all free! Sit down" Qin Dong waved his hand, walked to the main seat and sat down, and after the other officials and officers sat down, he said: "I have been out for more than three months this time, and everything at home has been hard for you, and when I came back, I saw that the situation at home had changed greatly, and it was all thanks to everyone!" ”

"Your Excellency is polite, it's all about your prestige!" The crowd began to babble.

Qin Dong smiled and waited for the officials to finish speaking before saying: "Okay, let's not talk about this for now, I want to know about the specific situation in our jurisdiction, everyone can talk about it, let everyone know it, first talk about civil affairs, who will say it first?" ”

This is equivalent to a work report, the officials are all Qin Dong's subordinate officials, they are not established in the officialdom of the Xiongnu Empire, whether to go or stay is up to Qin Dong, Qin Dong is equivalent to an employer, and these officials are equivalent to employees.

After Qin Dong's words fell, the official in charge of managing the workshop stood up and said: "Honorable lord, in the past three months, our beer workshop has increased from three to nineteen, the scale has expanded more than ten times, the number of people brewing beer has increased from the original eleven to the current one hundred and twenty-two, and now the output per month has increased from the original two thousand atabi to nearly 100,000 atabi (1 atabi = 31 liters), and we have 50 atabi per barrel of beer. The price of selling to the merchant is 50 gold coins, and you can get 100,000 gold coins per month, excluding the cost of raw materials and labor. Our net income is seventy-eight thousand gold coins, and once our beer has been sold, the production has not been able to keep up with it until now, and in the last month, there have been merchants from the royal court who want to order our beer, even merchants from Rome and Ravenna, and even merchants from Carthage. The delivery deadlines of merchants in various places are scheduled to be half a year later, so I would like to ask your Excellency. Continue to increase the scale of production! ”

The officials all knew that the beer business was very red wine, and it could be seen from the increase in the number of beer workshops from three to nineteen, but they did not expect that the beer business would be so good that a barrel of cat urine could be sold for fifty gold coins? (The smell is very similar)

Peteus, Charlie Cao, Liu Yang and others all saw beer selling crazy in Constantinople. Prices have skyrocketed. Therefore, they have long known that the beer business is very good, but the officials who stayed in Pazar did not know the market of beer outside, and they thought that this business was just good, and it was not easy to feed more than 100 people, but they did not expect that they could make a net profit of more than 70,000 gold coins every month, close to 80,000 gold coins, which was simply a huge profit.

You must know that in the jurisdiction of Qin Dong, the salary of soldiers is the highest. But their salaries were only one gold coin plus one silver coin per month, and the salaries of the soldiers here were higher than those of the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. Doesn't that mean that these breweries can feed 60,000 soldiers every month?

After listening to the report of the officials of this chief official workshop, the other officials all gasped, the population of all ethnic groups in the jurisdiction of Qindong was only 130,000 people, and these beer workshops could feed half of the people, which was really surprising.

After hearing this, Qin Dong asked, "How big do you think we need to expand to barely meet the supply of merchants from all over the world?" ”

The official said, "My lord, I thought that the daily output would need to reach at least five thousand barrels to meet the needs of merchants everywhere!" ”

This production is indeed a bit high, it used to be only 2,000 barrels per month, and now it needs 5,000 barrels per day to meet the demand, which is not just a little bit bigger.

Qin Dong thought for a while and said: "This production scale can't meet this requirement in one day, let's take our time, let's do it, let's do it, you first increase the number of workshops and the number of labors by five times, and then find a way to improve the production speed, for example, there are many processes that can overlap in time, can they be carried out at the same time?" In addition, can we find a way not to let the workers be idle, but to let them have something to do all the time? Think of a way, okay? ”

"Yes, my lord!" After the official finished speaking, he sat down at Qin Dong's signal.

Qin Dong looked at the officials present and said: "The beer business is good, and it is a little unexpected to me, but this is something that makes us all happy, so let's do it, all of you colleagues have worked hard in the past few months, and the development of our jurisdiction is very good, and we have made some money, from this month, your salary will be increased by half according to the original basis, this city was born in our hands, we are its founders, we must take care of it, protect it, I hope you can continue to work hard!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" The officials said in unison.

The official in charge of farmland affairs stood up and said: "My lord, in the past three months, the crops in our farmland have grown well, and in another ten days and half a month it will be harvest time, and our farmland area has reached 90,000 mati now, and the number of farmland in the entire jurisdiction has reached 280,000 mati (Byzantine land area unit, 1 mati = 1/12 hectare, about one-third larger than one acre), counting, each person's farmland area can account for more than 2 matis, and at the same time as clearing the wasteland, we built a canal, And hired carpenters to build more than 200 large water wheels, now can basically ensure the water demand of the farmland, according to the instructions of the adults, the farmers have adopted the method of intensive cultivation, every piece of farmland, every crop is carefully cared for, so that each crop keeps the same distance between each crop, timely loosening and fertilizing, and at any time to prevent pests and diseases, according to the old farmers, today's crops are much better than their previous years, and the harvest estimate can be more than doubled! ”

Qin Dong nodded, it seems that the land reclamation is still very effective, few people here can farm in the past, the barbarians here basically live by hunting, and the population cannot grow, since Qin Dong arrived here, let the slaves who can farm teach the common people of various barbarian tribes to farm, and a lot of wasteland has been reclaimed and planted with crops, and because of the crops planted. These barbarians also stopped hunting all day long, and if they didn't hunt all the time, they wouldn't compete with other barbarians for the mountains and forests, so there was no conflict. It's a lot quieter in the territory.

Qin Dong asked again: "Then do you think that this winter, the grain we harvest will allow us to survive the winter and maintain it until the first season of grain harvest next year?" ”

The official said: "My lord, if the population in our territory does not increase, I believe we can support the grain harvest next year!" ”

A Xiongnu official got up excitedly and said, "My lord, this is amazing, there has never been a year in which we have not needed to go south to plunder to survive the winter." Well, if we don't go south to plunder, our warriors won't have to lose their lives! ”

Qin Dong thought for a while and said, "Since ancient times. We all eat food according to the sky, and if God is kind to us, we will be able to have a good harvest and spend the year in peace. If the heavens are not pleased. Angry, natural and man-made disasters, the crops in the field can not be harvested, so we must prevent natural disasters, we must be fully prepared, only our own harvest of food is not enough to let us completely rest assured that the winter, it is only September, while there is still time. The price of grain in the southern region is not high, and we must immediately send people to buy grain and come back. When the war breaks out, the price of grain will inevitably rise sharply, and we don't know if we can buy grain, so we must reserve more grain now, and we can't sell a grain of grain we grow ourselves. This matter must be done immediately! ”

"Yes, sir!" Immediately, an official came forward to agree.

There are also officials in charge of leather processing and wool weaving who came forward to report the situation of leather processing workshops and wool weaving, and now the population of Pazar is increasing, not only Qin Dong has run several large workshops as an official, but also many private workshops, in the Xiongnu Empire, there may be nothing else, but sheepskin, cowhide, wool these things will definitely not be less.

Since Qin Dong established a border free trade zone in Pazar and opened up border trade, most of the sheepskins and cowhides of the Xiongnu Empire were transported here for sale, and Qin Dong even assigned someone to set up an animal whip workshop, specializing in purchasing sheep whips, bull whips, dog whips, deer whips and other beast whips after drying and processing them into dry goods, as well as the kidneys of these animals, all made into dry goods and put into the free trade zone for sale, this business is also very good, and even merchants from the East buy a lot at a time to bring back.

Pazar and Plov now have more than 30 leather processing workshops, of which three are official workshops, all of which are the largest, and all the others are small private workshops, most of which were run by the Huns, and a small number were run by Germans and Romans.

The business of the leather processing workshop is very good, after the formation of the scale of the border free trade market, all the goods are concentrated here, so the price has risen a lot, and the Huns are rarely fooled by the shrewd Romans and Greeks from the south, in the border free trade market, the price is basically transparent, a question knows, the freedom of buying and selling, the official does not interfere with the price of the problem, but must pay taxes, and there can be no fraud.

In order to take care of the Huns and give them a sufficient source of income, Qin Dong also ordered that only the Huns were allowed to open wool textile workshops, and the wool collected by other people's pastures could only be sold to the Huns for weaving wool fabrics.

This almost formed a national monopoly, but the Xiongnu herdsmen also had competition, which wool textile fabric is of good quality, bright color, beautiful style, and the price of selling is naturally high.

The official in charge of iron ore mining and ironmaking reported that three piles of iron ore had been excavated in the past three months, and a total of 50,000 pounds of pig iron had been smelted so far, and the mining was still continuing, and the smelting of pig iron was also going on.

At the same time, a copper mine and a lead mine have also been discovered in the past few months, just at the foot of the Lila Mountain, but these two mines are at the junction, the southwest is the Germans, and the north is the territory of Qindong, if you send people to mine, you have to worry about the Germans coming to harass, after all, the Huns are powerful in the cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the infantry is not flattering, and in the mountainous areas, the Germans are not afraid of the Huns.

After Qin Dong heard about it, he immediately recruited people as officials to mine, and he could also transfer some slaves to go, in short, he would occupy it first, and then say that the existing facts would be formed, and if the Germans sent people to harass him, he would have a reason to go to war, and he was worried that there was no legitimate reason to drive the Germans in the southwest away, as long as the Germans dared to make trouble, he would dare to send troops.

Copper is a good thing in ancient times, copper ore is better than other mines, and the general reserves are relatively large, so it is most suitable to be used as a base currency, such as copper plates, copper coins, mixed with other metals can also make alloys, and gold and silver reserves in nature are much lower than copper, mining and refining are not easy.

The alloy made of copper mixed with other metals is relatively good in terms of corrosion resistance, so it can be made into weapons and utensils, and can also be made into sculptures.

There is also lead ore, lead is toxic, but its ductility is very good, the melting point is low, it is easy to refine, and the anti-corrosion performance is also very good.

After the civil affairs were finished, the officers began to talk about the training of the army in the past few months, Qin Dong's jurisdiction, not counting the army of the two centurions with private territories, Sankundo and Tinis, Qin Dong's army had a total of 3,800 people, including 1,000 archers, 900 light cavalry, 400 heavy cavalry, 500 heavy infantry, 1,000 light infantry, the blacksmith's workshop after day and night forging, and the tailor's shop finally equipped the 3,800 people after more than two months of hard work, including archers, The leather armor and helmets of the light cavalry and light infantry were made in leather workshops, and the weapons and armor and bronze helmets were the masterpieces of blacksmiths' workshops and tailors.

If you count those people and horses adapted from horse bandits, Qin Dong has an army of more than 5,300 people under his command, this cost is not small, if it was placed three months ago, he still has a lot of pressure, but now he has no pressure at all. (To be continued......)