Chapter Seventy-Five: The Arrival of the Wealthy Merchant
Emperor Ling sold officials, Zhang Rang and others took bribes, these funds are enough for Tang Quan to feed hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention that the population of Chengyang County now has 1.5 million, the people have arable land, the rich give up the land to do business, hundreds of large and small workshops and factories began to produce some products ahead of this era, and even steam engines were used in production. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Machine-made fabrics, standard white paper, movable type printing, fresh soaps, all kinds of delicacies, ironworks, chemical plants, coal mines, iron mines, etc., all appear where Tang Quan can reach out.
In a word, Tang Quan's favorite thing to say to others is: labor and management are afraid of a bird, his main purpose is still not to compete for hegemony, watching the development of steam engines become more and more advanced, Tang Quan even wants to make a steam train track on his own territory to play, but that thing needs more manpower, and the factory also needs more, for a while and a half, he has no choice, only to wait for the expansion of the territory, and then he will create a national train network in this era to ensure that everyone travels more conveniently.
The wealth of Chengyang County is spread in the surrounding counties, and everyone who has been to Chengyang is amazed that this place and the chaotic scene outside are two worlds, Chengyang's cloth is constantly dumped outside, but Chengyang's paper is only enough to print books and newspapers, and other basic living products in Chengyang are also sold to the surrounding counties, but the production capacity is still very low and there is no large-scale sales.
"Report ......"
On this day, Tang Quan was convening officials at all levels in Chengyang County to explain the production development of the next year, and suddenly a small school came in to report:
"General Qiyu, Jizhou Zhongshan wealthy businessman Zhen Yan, Xuzhou wealthy businessman Mi Zhu, Jiangdong wealthy businessman Lu Su asked to see."
"Huh......"
Tang Quan was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect these three people to come to Chengyang County at this time, he touched his chin and said to the people present:
"Everyone, go down, continue to develop industry and agriculture according to my plan, don't stop the construction of canals and reservoirs, gradually expand the hardening of roads to nearby official roads, and continue to expand production investment in our government-run cement plants, don't be afraid of spending money, I'm afraid that we can't keep up, go down."
A group of officials left, and Tang Quan said to the colonel:
"Let them go to the side hall, they must have asked for something when they come to me at this time."
The little colonel left, Tang Quan whispered a few words and walked to the side hall, in the side hall at the moment sat three men, none of them seemed to be very old, but they all looked extremely shrewd.
Tang Quan glanced at the people, then walked to a Taishi chair in the center, sat down, and said:
"You have been waiting for a long time, I don't know what is the important matter for you wealthy businessmen to come to my general's mansion?"
At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no tables, chairs and no big beds, and the carpenter teacher in Chengyang County was the person Tang Quan entered into his memory, so the tables, chairs and benches had been spread out around, and he was not used to kneeling in the place where he was.
The three people standing in the side hall bowed deeply to Tang Quan and then introduced themselves, one of them was a burly and stable face is Jiangdong Linhuai Lusu, the group face is Xuzhou Mizhu, and the last heroic man is Jizhou Zhen Yan.
Tang Quan motioned for the three of them to sit down, it is said that these three people are all talents, and Lu Su is the future governor of Wu State, but Tang Quan doesn't care at all, don't underestimate his current army of 30,000 people, in addition to half-day training every day, there is also an hour of cultural knowledge learning and half an hour of military command application learning in the afternoon;
For this ancient way of strategic warfare, it is not unusual for military lecturers to instill enough military strategies and different analytical skills, and the military confrontation at the end of each month allows soldiers to understand what it is like to command and be commanded, while taking into account the improvement of their military capabilities.
Why build such an army? Because these 30,000 people are the leaders and commanders of Tang Quan's future troops, it is necessary to create a unit that is educated, qualified, combat-effective, and imposing, so that the combat strength of the troops will not decline during the rapid expansion of the army.
With such an army, does Tang Quan still care about any military advisors and generals? Tang Quan has four low-orbit military satellites in the sky above his head, he doesn't need to strategize, he doesn't have to think too much about strategy, and the talents of this era are available in his eyes.
Seeing the three wealthy merchants, Tang Quan was only treated as a businessman, and he was in control of the army as a hussar general, even Dong Zhuo, who was arrogant and domineering in Luoyang, would not offend him.
Lu Su and others are also observing Tang Quan, Tang Quan's reputation was rumored all over the world six years ago, but six years have passed, Tang Taishou is now a hussar general, but he still looks in his twenties, which also makes many people think that he has good health skills.
Lu Su and the others sat down and felt the feeling of the seat relaxing their knees, and then they hugged their fists and said:
"Su and others are small people who should not bother the general in vain, but we have no choice, the general also knows that we are businessmen, and originally planned to come here to buy some special products and sell them to various places, but the workshops around the country refused to provide products to us, saying that the general has ordered the goods to meet only Chengyang for the time being, and then the surrounding counties, even if it is ten times the price, we dare not supply it in large quantities, so we met the general, mainly to ask the general to provide goods and wait with us."
Chengyang shops are operated by businessmen alone, but the price is guided by the government, but the manufacturer is a joint venture, the government occupies 60%, and the businessman only has four layers of shares.
No external sales, not because I don't want to, but because the production capacity is not enough, and now there is chaos in various places, and there will never be factories in places that Tang Quan can't control, looking at the three depressed businessmen, Tang Quan smiled and said:
"You're right, all the stores in Chengyang are under the government's control, or I am controlling them, as for the lack of export sales, the production capacity is insufficient, and you can't buy it if you want to;
However, I have heard that the three of them are rich people from all over the world, if you are interested in investing, this general is very interested, such as winemaking, mineral acquisition and war horse acquisition, these things are the next development of my general's mansion, I don't know if you are interested? ”
"Winemaking?" Lu Su's eyes lit up.
"Mineral acquisition?" Mi Zhu almost jumped up.
"War horses?" Zhen Yan directly thought that Zhongshan was not far from Yanmen.
The wealth and IQ of the three wealthy businessmen are not low, and as soon as they heard Tang Quan's words, they each felt their own business opportunities, and at the same time sensed that this was also the first bait that Tang Quan threw out.
Tang Quan also saw the decision made by these three people, the 10,000 war horses of that year, although they developed in horse farms in various places, have not increased much until now, there is no northern prairie here, and the horses raised are only getting worse and worse, and there is no top war horse at all.
And he has long had the idea of making wine, and small workshops are also producing, but large-scale production requires manpower and sales, even if he continues to instill memory production talents, but this kind of large-scale expansion to the whole country, it is best to have the original network of people.