In the next two days, Lin Bei reduced the number of times he went to the blind man Li, because Lin Bei fled from the desert last time, and he felt very embarrassed when he thought about it.

Blind Li is as usual, there is no different color, he is still so concerned about the armor, with the method of pouring iron, the production speed of fish scale iron sheet is very fast, after all, it is just to melt the iron and pour it into the mold, that is, the machine bracket buckle is very troublesome, this mass production is not possible, it needs to be carefully polished by the blind Li, and then, Lin Bei asked all the blacksmiths in Xishan Township to go to the blind Li, after joining these blacksmiths, the blind Li immediately patted his chest and promised that he would definitely make the armor for Lin Bei within half a month.

It's definitely late, but there's no way, it's already the fastest speed.

The time to set off was imminent, and it was impossible for Lin Bei to delay the trip because of the armor, so Lin Bei thought of asking the blacksmiths to make armor during the trip, and in the end, a carpenter came up with a plan.

Make a big cart and use a herd of elephants to carry it, so that the blacksmiths can work on the cart, Lin Bei thought about it and thought it was feasible.

In the past, blacksmiths needed to use a hammer to forge constantly, also called hammer forging, and this method had to stand on the ground, but now, the iron pouring method replaces the hammer forging method, and there is no need for the field, as long as the furnace is moved to the car.

From Hepu to Jiaozhi, with the itinerary of the common people, it is estimated that it will be about the same in half a month, and then calculate the speed of the official army, half a month later is also the time when the official army arrives at Yanzikou, and then Linbei will be able to catch up with the big war.

On the ninth day, almost everyone was ready, and everything they needed to bring was ready, just waiting for tomorrow's departure.

On this day, Zhen Ping rushed to the township from Hepu County and asked to see Lin Bei, who asked Zhen 13 to call Zhen Ping over.

After the last time. The connection between Zhen's firm and the township has not been broken, not only has it not been broken, but it has become closer, because Zhen's has obviously been squeezed out by those powerful people in Hepu County, so it has become more disturbed on the side of Linbei, and the intensity of transmitting news is also greater than before.

Because of the news of the comptoir. Therefore, Lin Bei knows the situation in Hepu County well, and Hepu County is no longer prosperous, because there are no more people.

As soon as the common people left, there were only Haoqiang left, no one farmed, no one bought things, the life of the Haoqiang became more and more difficult, and they couldn't absorb the blood of the common people at all, these Haoqiang didn't know how many times they scolded Lin Bei. cursed Lin Bei to die, but unfortunately Lin Bei is still alive and well.

Some Haoqiang have lost confidence in Hepu County, and have begun to move, they have moved out of Hepu County, as for where they have been, I don't know, Hepu County has lost a full quarter of the people in these ten days, and Hepu may be prosperous again in the future, or it may be dilapidated from now on. But who knows that?

"Zhen Ping, let you come this time. I want to talk to you about a business. Lin Bei got straight to the point.

Business? When it comes to business, Zhen Ping's spirits are lifted, Lin Bei left Hepu County, and Zhen's family was naturally affected, and he even considered whether to move the firm to other counties, but in the end he stayed here. I have to say that Lin Bei's reasons account for the majority, he is much more proficient in news than anyone else, and now the Central Plains is in chaos, and many people say that they are going to change the dynasty and become a family of grain merchants. Zhen thinks long-term, and that is betting.

What is Betting? Naturally, it is to make friends with some more optimistic forces, if the world is really in chaos at that time, from the dragon's work, you can ensure that the Zhen family has no worries for several lifetimes, the Zhen family has always befriended the Yuan family, the Yuan family is the fourth and third princes, and the reputation is great, but the family does things, and the eggs cannot be only put in one basket, secretly the Zhen family also looks at several forces, among which Lin Bei is also one of them, and in the hearts of the Zhen people, the importance of Lin Bei's side is second only to the Yuan family, without it, Lin Bei has a dragon god identity,

Zhen Ping said in his heart: It's good to have a business, wow, business, there is a relationship, so that Lin Bei can thoroughly realize the importance of Zhen.

"Do you need food?" Zhen Ping said confidently: "Although the land of South Vietnam is chaotic now, if the adults need food, the villains will still free up some." ”

Lin Bei shook his head: "It's not a grain business. ”

"What's that business?"

"Salt."

"Salt ?!!" Zhen Ping's face changed.

Of course, this is on the surface, and there are countless people who buy and sell illegal salt in private, among which the border land is the most active, because those barbarians need salt considerably, and it is a huge profit among the huge profits.

Salt and iron grain cloth, these four are the most likely to appear in ancient times rich people's trading, cloth is slightly worse, salt and iron grain in the prosperous era profiteering, in the troubled times is a huge profit, of which salt grain is a human necessity, and iron is used to cast weapons, there is iron equipment, there is equipment to win the war, war, to put it bluntly, or a resource.

Although Zhen is a grain merchant, they will not refuse if they can do salt business, salt and grain are both human necessities, both of which are extremely profitable, of which salt is faster than grain.

"Do you want my Zhen to send salt to your adult?" Zhen Ping asked, Zhen Ping thought about it, if the adults in front of him wanted it, then they could also transport some over, but they were from a family of grain merchants, so there was not much salt, and this business was not big.

"No, I mean I want to sell you salt, what do you think of this business?"

"Your Excellency wants to sell me salt?" Zhen Ping was a little incredulous.

Outsiders may not know much about the situation in Xishan Township, but Zhen 13 lives here, so Zhen Ping knows it very well, and Zhen Ping is sure that there is no salt in Xishan Township.

"Yes, selling salt to you, how is this business?"

As long as there is profit, there is nothing that businessmen dare not do, and the benefits of salt are known to the world, Zhen Ping will of course be moved, and said: "How much salt do adults have?" ”

"As much as you want."

"If adults really have so much salt, then why don't I Zhen buy it, I don't know where the salt is?"

"Nichinan."

"Nichinan-gun?" Zhen Ping suddenly smiled bitterly, if it was someone else in front of him, Zhen Ping would whip him: "Adult, don't let the villain make this joke." ”

"I'm not joking with you, you should know that I'm about to move to Rinan County, which is close to the sea, and you won't know about Haiyan, but unfortunately, I'm going to make the method of Haiyan."

If you want to make salt in the north, you can choke on the north, but when you get to the seaside. Then Lin Bei is really good at making salt, because there is a very simple way to make salt, that is, the salt drying method.

This method of drying salt is very simple, make a few large salt pans, pour seawater into them, and wait for the sea water to dry up after the wind and sun. If you want to refine salt, you have to soak the coarse salt into brine, and then filter it several times, and finally form a better refined salt.

In this era, salt was mostly cooked by decoction, which required a large amount of firewood and grass, so the yield was not high, which was one of the reasons why the government would control the salt very tightly. Lin Bei remembered that it was not until around the Ming Dynasty that the method of drying salt would spread on a large scale.

"How do you know how to make salt?" Zhen Ping's face was extremely surprised, this was a good way to get money, and then thought that it was Rinan County, Zhen Ping was a little hesitant: "The villain of Haiyan naturally knows, but my lord, the Nanyue border is sparsely populated, and the place where Rinan County is located is even more southern." To transport salt to the Central Plains, in the meantime"

Again, that's the same sentence. This is ancient times, there is no asphalt road, look at the official road from Xishan Township to Hepu can roughly guess the road in other places, the road in Rinan County will only be worse than this road, if you want to transport it, it will be a waste of old nose strength, Zhen Ping is hesitating to do this business.

If you want to do this business. So first of all, Zhen Ping has to solve the transportation problem from Rinan County to the Central Plains, which is a long journey and requires a huge cost investment, and now it depends on whether Zhen Ping dares to invest this cost.

Why did Lin Bei find Zhen to do this salt business? Very simply, Lin Bei thinks that the Zhen family is still a good family. The cooperation has been very pleasant several times, in addition, Zhen has money, not a small money, but a lot of money, how rich is it? It may not be very vivid to say that the numbers are not very vivid, let's use an analogy, Zhen was the largest grain merchant in the Three Kingdoms period, and Zhen can be regarded as a penguin in the network world in later generations, so you can imagine Zhen's rich Cheng dù, which is not an exaggeration to describe it as a rich country.

Rinan County is too far away from the Central Plains, and there must be a way to transport salt out, except for the Zhen family, Lin Bei can't think of any family that can have such a huge amount of money to make this long-distance road comparable to the Silk Road.

If Zhen's family is willing to invest in this road, it can't be said by saying that it can't be done, and there must be profits, so Lin Bei thought of salt, hoping to impress Zhen with this lucrative business, but Lin Bei has no score, the early investment is too huge, Lin Bei doesn't know if Zhen has this kind of courage and vision, building a road may not be able to earn it back for decades, but in the long run, this road is definitely worth it, it is worth it for Zhen's, it is worth it for the whole of China, and it is even more worth it for Lin Bei.

Why is the Silk Road so famous? It is not because the Silk Road opened up the passage between the Han Dynasty and Asian and European countries, so that countries can have contacts with each other, the Han Dynasty did not have the ability to transport back from other countries, and the other countries did not have it, and they could buy it from the Han Dynasty, which greatly promoted exchanges, and this influence and caused a sensation even later generations also praised it, in the Chinese culture, the Great Wall is a symbol of stubbornness, and the Silk Road symbolizes development, both of which are equally great.

If this road can be built, then although it is not as good as the Silk Road, it must be a great project, if you use dim sum, from Vietnam in later generations through the dense forest, through Thailand, Burma, to India, Pakistan and other places, then you can make peace with the Silk Road, and sell the strange products in the seaside and forests to European countries, which may be more profitable than selling silk.

Not to mention the difficulty, of course it is very difficult, but the Silk Road is also difficult, but it can still be opened, and the farthest place to reach is Italy in the later generations, so as long as you have the heart, these are not as difficult as you imagined.

Now, it's up to Zhen Ping's choice.

Zhen Ping's face was cloudy, Zhen Ping was Zhen's big shopkeeper in the South Yue Border, Zhen Rong had instructed him before he came, he could make the decision on the South Cross Border, although this business was in the South Yue Border, but it was obviously beyond the scope of Zhen Ping's decision, but Zhen Rong was far away in the Central Plains, Zhen Ping naturally couldn't ask, Zhen Ping had to come up with an explanation now.

After a long time, Zhen Ping sighed: "My lord, the villain is really not the master of this matter, and he must return to the patriarch to know."

Lin Bei also sighed in his heart.

"But my lord." Zhen Ping continued: "In the villain's heart, he really wants to do this salt business, if not, I will send Zhen 13 to follow the adult to Rinan County, and after the adult has made the salt, I will send someone to retrieve it, my lord, is this feasible?" ”

Lin Bei became overjoyed, which shows that Zhen Ping wants to do this business, just because he doesn't believe that Lin Bei can make salt, or he doesn't believe that Lin Bei can make a lot of salt, if the round-trip freight of one or two cars is not enough, but as long as Lin Bei makes enough salt, so that Zhen Ping and Zhen think that there is still a lot of money to make after deducting the freight, then Zhen will do it.

At this moment, Lin Bei was convinced of that sentence: businessmen pursue profits. (To be continued......)

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