He immediately asked, "Is there enough housing on the farm?" Sun Huaizong said: "There are only seven or eight empty rooms in the farm, which is not enough to live in." Fang Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Is the granary empty?" Sun Huaizong said: "Most of the granaries are empty, and only two granaries have grain, one is for rations, and the other is for next year's seeds. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Okay, the empty room is for the girls to live in, and the boys are all sleeping in the granary, you send someone to repair the leaky places, and then buy more bedding and clothes, let people boil more hot water, and let them take a bath and change into clean clothes." Anyway, it's not too cold in the early autumn, so let them be wronged first, and then they should live in a collective dormitory. "What is a dormitory?" Sun Huaizong was a little puzzled. "A dormitory is a house where a lot of people live together." Fang Xiaoyu glanced at Sun Huaizong with a very uneducated expression.

Sun Huaizong was busy looking for someone to prepare, and Lin Feng and the others didn't arrive until it was almost dark. It turned out that there were too many children and they walked slowly, which was why it dragged on for so long. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Sun Huaizong immediately instructed the house slaves to put the hot water buckets in several large rooms and let the children go to take a bath and change clothes. The older children were busy with the house slaves, and soon bathed the younger children, and they bathed themselves, and by the time they were all done, it was already two hours later. Sun Huaizong instructed them to bring them food, and after eating, he arranged a place to stay, and did not settle down until midnight.

Sun Huaizong asked Fang Xiaoyu tentatively: "Young Master, what are you looking for so many children for?" Do you want to keep some house slaves for yourself? Fang Xiaoyu said: "It's not a house slave, it's a brother." They are all orphans and helpless, if I help them now, they will be really intimate with me, with so many caring brothers, how will you help our Fang family in the future. ”

Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, Sun Huaizong was excited for a while, yes, if the young master grows up and has so many brothers with one heart and one mind around him, who can stop the world from being big. "The young master is really far-sighted." Sun Huaizong sincerely patted a sycophant.

"If only you understood." Fang Xiaoyu comfortably accepted this sycophant and said, "So in the future, you will help me hire teachers to teach them cultural knowledge?" I don't need cannon fodder to rush into battle, I need a real right-hand man when I take power in the future. Sun Huaizong nodded and said that he had written it down. Master, it's late at night, do you go back to sleep or sleep here. Sun Huaizong asked.

"I don't care where you sleep, anyway, I'm going to sleep in the granary today." Fang Xiaoyu stretched his waist and said to Sun Huaizong as he walked towards the granary: "Go to bed early, you have to get up early tomorrow." After speaking, Fang Xiaoyu didn't wait for Sun Huaizong to speak, and had already walked into the granary quickly. Sun Huaizong looked at Fang Xiaoyu's disappearing figure in a daze, smacked his mouth twice but didn't say anything, and suddenly a bright smile appeared on his face: "This little young master, it's really amazing." After saying that, he shook his head, turned and walked away.

The more than 130 children rested for a few days, Fang Xiaoyu asked Sun Huaizong to find them a literacy teacher, so that those children under the age of ten could read, and there were more than 40 children over the age of ten, half of whom were girls, for girls, Fang Xiaoyu thought that if he had an army in the future, these girls could be doctors, nurses, telegraph operators or confidential secretaries, so in addition to literacy, he also specially invited two old doctors for them to teach medical knowledge. The remaining dozen or so boys were much harder, Fang Xiaoyu asked them to exercise with him in the morning, read with everyone in the afternoon, and give them military lessons in the evening.

In order to train them into future generals and soldiers, Fang Xiaoyu used all the things he learned in his second uncle's army, of course, the difficulty was reduced to a tolerable level, after all, they were still a group of half-grown children, even so, these guys who practiced were eager to die, but when they saw Fang Xiaoyu, who was only ten years old, training with them, they could only grit their teeth and persevere, and such days had been half a month.

In the past half a month, Fang Xiaoyu almost ate and lived with them, while Sun Huaizong took the house slaves of the farm to build a few houses first, let the boys move in, and then began to trim the terraces and dig ditches.

Fang Xiaoyu, as a descendant of the Fang family, naturally can't always stay in Lanting Villa, the New Year is coming, Fang Xiaoyu is going back to worship his ancestors, before leaving, Fang Xiaoyu instructed Sun Huaizong to take care of their daily life and diet, and the matter of training and reading was handed over to Lin Feng, the eldest. Now in Lanting Villa, Sun Huaizong has become the chief manager here, and Lin Feng is in charge of those orphans.

Seeing that everything was in order, Fang Xiaoyu took the guards home. Fang Xiaoyu, who entered the city, did not go home directly, but went to the money village to exchange some of the banknotes for silver coins. Now Fang Xiaoyu's 50,000 yuan supported by his eldest brother is only more than 70,000 yuan, and this money is enough, but now that he wants to establish his own team, Lin Feng and their more than 100 people need to eat and hire teachers to educate them, and the funds are relatively tight, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to find some ways to make money.

To make money, we naturally have to think of ways from the three aspects of industry, agriculture and business, agriculture itself is already planning, but agriculture is relatively slow to make money, and business makes money quickly but needs sales channels, and they are completely blank in this regard, and there are these channels at home, but if they use their sales channels to engage in business, they are not in trouble with their uncle who is doing business. The only thing that can be used in the last place is industry.

Heavy industry naturally does not need to be discussed, not to mention that there is no condition now, that is, there is a condition that also belongs to the industry with large investment and slow results, the most profitable is light industry, not only quick results, but also can use the sales network at home, but also provides a source of goods for the family, which is a win-win situation.

In order to be able to get the things needed for light industry from Xiao Feng, it is necessary to upgrade Xiao Feng to level 1 and open the light industry equipment warehouse, and according to Xiao Feng, the agricultural equipment warehouse is already too crowded and must be expanded, so the first thing Fang Xiaoyu did after entering the city was to exchange silver coins.

The monetary system of the Lanfang Empire is divided into paper money and auxiliary currency, paper money is divided into ten thousand, five thousand, one thousand, five hundred, four kinds, and the auxiliary currency has a silver coin with a face value of one hundred yuan and six copper coins of ten yuan, one yuan, five jiao, one jiao, five cents, and one cent. Upgrading chips is naturally the best gold, but gold is a national reserve, not circulating in the market, and it is easy to get it, so you can only retreat to silver coins. A silver coin of one hundred dollars weighed ten grams, of which seven grams of silver. If you want to make up enough for a kilogram of silver, you need one hundred and forty-three silver coins, and Fang Xiaoyu spent fifteen thousand in exchange for one hundred and fifty silver coins.

It was already evening when he returned home, and the three grandfathers had not come back yet, Fang Xiaoyu finished dinner, met the uncles first, and then came to the small courtyard where his mother lived.

"Mom, I'm back." Fang Xiaoyu shouted when he entered the house, but when he raised his eyes, he found a graceful and luxurious woman in her thirties sitting with her mother Xiao Yunting and laughing affectionately.

Xiao Yunting saw Fang Xiaoyu come in and said, "Why are you so frizzy, you still don't pay a salute when you see the guests here, this is the eldest young grandmother of the Xia family." Fang Xiaoyu understood as soon as he heard it, it turned out that this was Liu Aiping, the eldest young grandmother of the Xia family who had traveled to the Western Continent for three years, and he hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "I have seen the eldest young grandmother." ”

"Grandma Da Young is my good friend, you will be called Aunt Ping in the future." Xiao Yunting pointed at Fang Xiaoyu and said to Liu Aiping: "This is my unsuccessful son, Xiaoyu." Liu Aiping said with a smile: "I have long heard that there is such a prodigy in the Fang family, but unfortunately I have never seen it, but today I have to have a good experience." Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly got up and said humbly.

Mother Xiao Yunting smiled and said humbly: "What a prodigy, you can't listen to the nonsense of people outside, those people can say ten when they hear it." Fang Xiaoyu answered: "I heard that Aunt Ping traveled to the Western Continent, is there anything new?" ”

Liu Aiping traveled to the Western Continent, Fang Xiaoyu wanted to know the situation of the Western Continent very much, because the news of the Lanfang Empire was relatively closed, and he knew very little about the Western Continent, Fang Xiaoyu was worried that the current relationship between the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent was like the relationship between China and Europe in the early nineteenth century.

Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's question, Liu Aiping became interested: "Yes, I have been going for more than three years, and I just came back at the beginning of the month." There are a lot of new things in the Western Continent, especially a machine invented by the Saar Empire more than 30 years ago called the steam engine, which is interesting, I heard that they can use this thing to drive the textile machine to weave cloth, and can also use it to pump water from the coal mine. I saw a guy that was installed on a well to draw water, and it was tall and big, and it was like thunder, and it was soothing, but it was very fast. ”

Sure enough, Fang Xiaoyu sighed secretly in his heart, now the entire Eastern Continent is still the world of handicraft industry, if the rapid development of the steam engine in the Western Continent will trigger the first industrial revolution, then he will be very passive, fortunately, the steam engine has only been invented for more than 30 years, and his time is still relatively rich.

Fang Xiaoyu hurriedly asked again: "Aunt Ping, I am very interested in these new things, I wonder if there are any pictures or materials in Lu Dao for me to see." Liu Aiping said: "There is no information, but a painter brought by my aunt has painted all these new things, you can go and see them when you have time." Hearing Liu Aiping's words, Fang Xiaoyu was a little excited, first learned about the development of the Western Continent, and also made himself feel a little bottom. He quickly promised, "I'll go when I have time." ”

At this time, her mother Xiao Yunting smiled and said: "You just came back, go back early to rest, don't run around these days." Fang Xiaoyu listened to his mother's words and nodded, and gave a salute to retire. Liu Aiping said with a smile: "I don't know when Lu Dao Xiaoyu will go to my aunt's house to play." Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "I'll go to visit Aunt Ping tomorrow." "It's good." Liu Aiping nodded.

Watching Fang Xiaoyu walk out of the yard, Xiao Yunting smiled and said to Liu Aiping: "What do you think of my son?" Liu Aiping smiled: "Very good, it seems that Xiao Yun has a lifelong dependence." Xiao Yunting said: "I'll just say it, I'll go talk to a few masters tomorrow." Liu Aiping said: "Don't tell Xiaoyu first, just let them have more contact, maybe we don't have to worry about it." Xiao Yunting nodded: "Well, it's really early now, let's book the family affairs first, and then announce it when the two children grow up." ”