One hundred and fifty thousand!

Through a period of hard study recently, Dongzhu already knows what the concept of ten hundred thousand is, which is also where she is a little confused.

Earlier, when they were in the tribe, they were taught by their parents to know how to count at a very young age in order to manage the herd of cows, horses and sheep, but when they arrived in Xixian County, everyone here was a master of mathematics, and the addition and subtraction of millions of numbers came casually, and her heart and eyes were so sensitive that she was unbelievable as a northern barbarian.

- Why are the people of Xixian so smart?

After easily accepting the fact that the people around her were smarter than herself, Dongzhu found that she had become smarter than before when she came to Xixian County, and she was very good at calculating numbers, but at this moment, after hearing the huge numbers reported by Pei Qing, she still felt unable to breathe.

"If the sheep of our tribe are so ...... able to give birth," she said suffocatingly, "how rich you must be!" ”

Pei Qing quietly observed the child's face, and said lightly: "Only chickens can give birth to this, and cattle, sheep and horses don't have this fertility, but ...... Do you want your tribe to raise chickens? You can first learn how to raise eggs in Xixian County, and learn to buy eggs and hatch them yourself. ”

Dongzhu didn't know that she had been developed into a potential customer of the breeding industry in the former county, and she was now full of the number of 150,000, which shocked her so much that she couldn't be rational and calm.

"I'm not leaving, and I'm not going back to the tribe," she tried to calm down and told Pei Qing, "My brother is missing, he should have been the current tribal leader, my uncle Steel Blade usurped his place, I can't go back until my brother returns to the tribe, otherwise he will be sold." ”

Pei Qing let out a soft "oh" and touched her head compassionately: "Poor child." ”

Dongzhu avoided her jade hand in annoyance and protested: "I'm already a big girl, and I can ride a horse and herd sheep by myself in the tribe!" ”

Pei Qing took the opportunity to hint: "So powerful? So can you raise chickens? I think it's a lot harder to raise chickens than sheep, and you've never done it before, right? ”

Dongzhu said unhappily: "I have picked up duck eggs laid by wild ducks by the lake, and I don't think it's difficult. ”

So Pei Qing teased her vaguely: "The chicks were hatched by you yourself, do you want to raise them?" ”

Of course Dongzhu wants to!

That's 150,000 chickens a year...... How satisfying it would be to see that kind of scene!

"That's great." Everything was ready, Pei Qing happily handed the child a book, "This is the "Breeder Breeding Manual", how about we learn together?" ”

In this way, Dongzhu, who was born as a nomad, began to work as a farm administrator in Xixian County.

Starting size: 500 egg breeders, 500 broiler breeders.

In the days when Dongzhu was working hard to engage in artificial incubation, the river in Xixian County finally began to be excavated.

Zeng Qiang has moved out of the cotton field dormitory, and now he lives in a shack by the river, soaking on the construction site every day, and providing Pei Qing with no less than 50 loads of river mud every day.

In the past, there was a great shortage of labor, and those who came to apply for the job of digging rivers were all people who took time off to work part-time in between farming, as well as women and children of the old and young - the strong laborers were either farming, mining, or running business, and those who stayed naturally had to take on more work.

Fortunately, the dredging work of the former river is not tight, and the Ruiwang Mansion does not allow workers to overwork, and the work is called after digging a certain amount of river mud every day.

In fact, Pei Qing took the dug river mud as a general equivalent and exchanged it for quartz sand.

Quartz sand is the main raw material for making glass, which generally comes from sea sand, but Xixian County is not close to the sea, so this mineral deposit can only rely on the system to exchange.

The exchanged materials are now piled up in the glass workshop in the county seat, and there are several glass craftsmen in the workshop, who were newly hired by the Huang family caravan for Pei Qing.

After all, only the palace can afford to use glass, and the craftsmen are strictly controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Therefore, the price of glaze far more than pearl jade is very rare in this dynasty, so rare that the common people have never heard of it.

Of course, its price is also something that ordinary people dare not hear.

Not to mention the remote Ruiwang Mansion, even the palace in the capital has few glazed ware, they are all in the palace!

In the Tang Dynasty of the previous dynasty, the ceramic industry was greatly developed, and celadon in the south and white porcelain in the north became the first choice for daily containers.

The court used more gold and silver utensils, and the glazed ware also increased, and in the Tang Dynasty Yuan Zhen's "Song of Colored Glass" described "colored with cold ice, nothing separated from the dust" conveyed the attractive style of the glaze as brilliant as jade at that time.

"Shi Ya" said: Mu Lin, exile, or glass. The one who is said to be a displacer, in other words, is a wall displacement. "Salt and Iron" said: Zhang Hongzhao jasper, coral, and displacement, salty is a national treasure.

The former dynasty and the Tang Dynasty regarded the glaze as a precious thing at the level of a national treasure, and this dynasty inherited the will of the previous dynasty, and naturally it is also very rare glaze, but the strange thing is that they are the same as the previous dynasty, but the most admired is the extraterritorial glaze from the Western Regions, although the local glaze production is there, but it is too scarce.

Pei Qing wanted to make glass, so he naturally took a fancy to its huge profits.

The production of local glass requires a series of ingredients such as quarrying, smelting, adding soda ash, plant ash, and lead dan, and through complex processes such as melting, molding, and annealing, which is more expensive than porcelain.

However, the process in Pei Qing's hands is much better than the glass process under today's productivity conditions, which is enough to be called high-quality and inexpensive.

What's more, the glass making process of cash, not to mention the luminous glass in the "grape wine luminous glass", even the jade cabbage can be imitated with glass.

Therefore, for a while, Pei Qing went to the glass workshop the most.

The workshop is a cement factory built after demolishing 20 broken houses, which is set up in different workshops, which are carried out in the melting furnace, and the prepared raw materials are heated at high temperature to form a uniform bubble-free glass liquid, and then the melted glass liquid is transformed into solid products with a fixed shape...... It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do.

Just crushing all the raw materials takes a lot of effort.

In view of this situation, Pei Qing informed Zeng Qiang and asked him to think of building several hydraulic mills while repairing the river, not only for public use, but also for civilian use.

Water projects are underway, glass making is also underway, and the sheep that have been brought back are already grazing sheepherds.

After doing so many things, more than half a month has passed in a hurry, but Pei Qing muttered a little in her heart: Why does it take so long for the mutual market? The border trade of the Huang family caravan is not over yet?