Chapter 42 Making Money and Buying Horses
The monsters in the dungeon, only the first layer will run out, and the second layer and above will not leave, and will only stay on that floor.
The monsters on the first layer have been killed, so naturally there will be no such thing as running out.
He Hui had already ordered people to rush to work overnight to build a city wall outside the dungeon and connect it to the prosperous city.
At the same time, because of the reason for the dungeon, and the construction acceleration has now begun.
On top of the original expansion plan, He Hui added a few more strokes to expand the city again.
This time, Fancheng really became a big city with three walls.
The first city wall was renovated from the original earthen wall of the city.
The second wall, which is still under construction, is separated from the first by a large distance, and there are many streets in between.
In general, the area has been planned, just waiting for the population to move over.
As for the third wall, it is still under construction, and the primary purpose is to include the underground city.
In the future, if you send soldiers to guard the town, you don't have to worry about the monsters attacking the people when they move to live in the outer city.
The monsters on the first layer can basically be said to be vulnerable, and it is more than enough to send a hundred soldiers to defend it.
With the expansion of Fancheng again, the labor force naturally needed more, but fortunately, there were five thousand new barbarians, from which three thousand were taken away for recruit training, and the other two thousand were all joined in the construction.
Fancheng's current class of troops is infantry.
The second is ranged soldiers, archers and crossbowmen.
Among them, the infantry is the largest, which has expanded from the original two thousand to three thousand.
Five hundred crossbowmen and one thousand archers.
The other 500 people were all thrown into the city management force of Fancheng.
For such a city, five hundred men in the management force is sufficient, and there is not much need to increase it in the future.
These people have also been carefully selected, and at the same time, they have undergone Yue Feng's strict training, and their combat effectiveness is strong, and their loyalty is also extremely high.
The security of the prosperous city is handed over to them, which is also reassuring enough.
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Fancheng is very close to the Putuo River, and the east and south are close to the sea.
It's just that the navigation industry in this world is not well developed, and no one even knows whether there are other human beings on the other side of the sea.
Of course, He Huan doesn't care about these now.
He's thinking about money now.
He Huan wants to buy horses, but there are no horses in the south, so if you want to buy them, you can only go to the north.
However, according to the current situation, it may not be too easy to go to the Northland to buy horses.
Li Xian has ceded the land as king.
What is the purpose of buying a horse?
Naturally, it was to train cavalry.
Would Li Xian be stupid enough to use his own things to make others more powerful?
Apparently impossible.
It's just that He Huan doesn't know about the battle between the eldest prince and Li Bu now, and Li Xian has now hated the eldest prince to death.
Now if he goes to the north to buy horses, with the identity of He Huan's sixth prince, Li Xian will definitely not be able to sell it.
However, He Huan didn't want to go to the north to buy horses, in addition to that, there was also a horse-producing land in the Great Xia Empire.
That is Ganzhou, which is located in the northwest.
There are two large states in the northwest of the Great Xia Empire, one of which is Fengzhou, the fief of the king of Fengxi, the younger brother of the current emperor.
And below Fengzhou, is Ganzhou, where He Huan wants to buy horses.
Ganzhou is far from Yuezhou, but there is a direct line, and that is the Putuo River.
The Putuo River, like the Yangtze River in the previous life, spanned the entire Great Xia Empire, dividing it into two and dividing Yuezhou.
Take a boat all the way to the west, and then when you reach Mocheng, enter the branch of the Putuo River and go all the way north to reach Ganzhou.
If you want to go to Fengzhou, then after arriving in Ganzhou, you can go by land.
If the northern land is the first horse-producing land of the Great Xia Empire, then Ganzhou must be the second.
Although it is not as good as the number of horses in the Northland, this is the only place where He Hui can buy horses.
He Huan bought horses, naturally wanting to train cavalry.
In this era of cold weapons, among the arms, the cavalry was the most powerful at the beginning.
When the time comes, equip the cavalry with powerful bows and crossbows, and melee and long-range will not be a problem.
Moreover, the cavalry is highly mobile and more suitable for charging, and with a cavalry unit, the military strength of Fancheng will become stronger.
Fancheng now has food, and having food is equivalent to being rich.
But you can't always use food for everything, and sooner or later you will run out of food, so if you want to get more money, you need to find other ways.
It just so happens that Yuezhou is close to the sea, and He Huan can now think of the fastest way to get money, which is to sell salt.
Salt in this world, just like some dynasties in previous lives, is judged by whether a place is rich or not, and whether the people of that place can afford to eat salt.
And then how many people can afford to eat salt.
Salt is the equivalent of a luxury, not to say particularly expensive, but definitely not cheap.
In the Great Xia Empire, salt belonged to a government-owned enterprise, and selling salt without permission was a big crime, and it was punishable by death.
As the sixth prince and the lord of Yuezhou, He Huan is naturally reasonable and reasonable to run the salt business, and it is even more legal.
He immediately summoned Wang Xiu and told him about this idea, and Wang Xiu also agreed.
However, he looked a little embarrassed and said: "My lord, the salt merchants in Yuezhou have always been carried out by Yangcheng, and we suddenly sell salt too, will Liu Wei ...... there?" ”
He Huan said directly: "Then you go and say hello first, he won't have any dissatisfaction with this kind of thing, Fancheng now needs a lot of manpower and material resources, and these are inseparable from money."
They don't give us money, can't we make money ourselves? ”
He Huan, as a prince, what's wrong with selling salt?
To put it mildly, as a prince, he has been reduced to the point that he has to sell salt to support himself, which is already very disgraceful, right?
So what else do they want?
He Hui only felt that Wang Xiu was thinking too much, and there was nothing to worry about at all about this kind of thing.
If Liu Wei dares to have any dissatisfaction, it is a big deal to directly use the identity of the prince to press over, and I don't believe that he dares to say anything.
Coupled with his recent appearance, He Huan believes that once he says this idea, Liu Wei will definitely support it.
Not to mention that he will leave all the salt management to himself, at least he will not oppose it.
In fact, Yangcheng actually belongs to the jurisdiction of Yuezhou, but maybe Liu Wei did not sincerely recognize He Harmony as the master.
Therefore, the function of double speed does not cover Yangcheng, but only works in Fancheng.
If he really believes that He Harmony is the master, Yangcheng will also become under He Harmony's rule, then the double speed will also cover there.
"In this way, the old minister will do it." Wang Xiu said.
In fact, Wang Xiu was not exactly referring to Liu Wei, the owner of Yangcheng, but the family of Yangcheng.
Salt is an official camp Yes, although Liu Wei is the master, it is those families who are really operating.
can only say that even if you are an official, in the face of the family, sometimes you are powerless.
He Huan suddenly had the idea of salt now, and he was undoubtedly robbing money from those families and sucking blood from them.
The family is naturally inferior to He Harmony in terms of identity, but they have been entrenched here for a long time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the head snakes of the land.
If it was some trivial matter, if Liu Wei said it, they would definitely agree, after all, he was a prince, and he had to give face no matter how he said it.
But when it comes to serious interest issues, the family is not easy to mess with.
It is even possible for many great families to unite and pry into an empire.
He Huan is just the master of Fancheng now, if the families of Yangcheng unite, it may be impossible to kill him, but it is still easy to disgust you behind your back.
He Hui obviously didn't think of this yet, but was bent on getting the money first, and then going to buy a horse.
He said directly: "You first establish a salt transportation department in Fancheng, and immediately send someone to start making salt, Liu Wei doesn't need to be in a hurry." ”
"Yes!" Wang Xiu received the order, and he already had a plan in his heart.
Since the lord has entrusted me with all this matter, then I will do it well!
If those families are really so short-sighted, then they can only use thunder methods!
Wang Xiu was ruthless in his heart, and at the same time thought, "This is also an opportunity to test Liu Wei, if he cooperates, it can be regarded as showing his loyalty to the lord, if he does not cooperate...... Hum! ”
Wang Xiu snorted coldly in his heart, He Huan's trust in him made him full of enthusiasm.
Not to mention that he is an enemy of Liu Wei, even if Liu Wei is standing in front of him now, he dares to rush up for He Harmony!