Xu Kuang smiled a little embarrassedly, and then took out a cigarette from the storage space.

Xu Kuang respectfully gave Wayne one, and then put one on his mouth.

Wayne stared at the cigarette roll and asked:

"What is this?".

Xu Kuang smiled:

"It's called a cigarette, and you can think of it as something that relieves psychological stress."

Wayne looked at the burning cigarette in his hand in bewilderment, he really couldn't figure out how this thing could relieve the psychological pressure.

"Uncle, I'm here to cooperate with you and sell this thing."

"Oh?".

Xu Kuang smiled:

"Hulu Town has now become a large distribution place for cotton cloth, and if you set up a tobacco monopoly here, it will be very profitable."

Although Wayne didn't know what the use of cigarettes was, he believed in Xu Kuang, because Xu Kuang's vision was too advanced, and he had never made a mistake in the arrangement in the past two years.

He looked at Xu Kuang and said with a smile:

"How to price, you name it.".

"This cigarette is divided into upper, middle and lower grades, priced at twenty, ten, and five copper coins respectively, and the purchase price I give you is twelve, six, and three copper coins respectively, what do you think?"

Wayne nodded and said to Xu Kuang:

"Yes, yes, but isn't the price a bit low?"

Xu Kuang smiled:

"It's not low, it's not low, a pack of 20 cigarettes, even if you smoke only one cigarette a day, it will take 20 days to smoke, if the stall is spread out big enough, I think the profit will not be lower than the current cotton."

Wayne nodded and said to Xu Kuang:

"Okay, just do as you say."

Xu Kuang laughed, he knew that as long as he could give a reasonable reason, Wayne would definitely help him.

Xu Kuang said to Wayne:

"Uncle, I have one more thing.".

Wayne asked:

"What's the matter?".

"The raw material of this cigarette is tobacco, and I want to grow tobacco in Hulu Town, so that you can have an extra income at that time."

Wayne frowned slightly, and he said to Xu Kuang:

"But what do the more than 200,000 people in my gourd town eat?"

Xu Kuang smiled:

"The price of tobacco is more expensive than the price of grain, before the first crop of tobacco grows, all the food needed by the people of Hulu Town will be provided by me, this is free, and we will negotiate the price of tobacco by ourselves, how about it?"

Wayne looked at the high-spirited Xu Kuang, and couldn't help but think of the embarrassment when Xu Kuang came to him more than a year ago to sell the gilded chiming clock.

"This kid ......".

Wayne no longer hesitated, and said to Xu Kuang:

"I'll listen to you, but enough food for 200,000 people is not a small amount, so when the tobacco is grown, it will be deducted from the payment for the tobacco."

Xu Kuang wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Wayne, and he said to Xu Kuang:

"If you don't agree, I won't plant it."

Xu Kuang knew that Wayne's temper could not be persuaded when it came up, so he had no choice but to agree to Wayne's request.

After the two finished talking about business, Wayne's heart moved, and he said to Xu Kuang:

"I see how tired you are, I think you should pay attention to rest, you are still young, don't spoil your body."

Xu Kuang hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, and said to Wayne:

"The younger generations should be taught."

Wayne didn't stop nagging, and said to Xu Kuang:

"You're still young, and you can't just think about your career, you also have to think about your personal emotional problems."

Xu Kuang was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Wayne, but Wayne had an old face and said directly to Xu Kuang:

"You go, I won't leave you to eat.".

Xu Kuang's face was flushed, he bowed to Wayne and said:

"Then uncle, I'll go, I'll bring some technicians who can guide your men in growing tobacco.".

Wayne responded, and Xu Kuang turned to leave.

Xu Kuang still has a lot of things at hand, how to plan the new area on the east coast is still waiting for him to make an idea, and the imitation of new weapons is also within his scope of responsibility.

There is also Taidong City, Xu Kuang transferred another 10,000 people, Lao Li grasped the military camp with one hand and government affairs with the other, and he was a little too busy, so he kept sending telegrams to ask Xu Kuang about important people.

Xu Kuang also has a headache about this, in the past two years, Mushroom Ridge has developed rapidly, and the corresponding talents are too few, and the 100,000 literate homeless people sold by the Marquis are still on the way, they are all baby bumps, so naturally they can't be treated the same as this kind of homeless people who are packaged and sold.

Xu Kuang is also preparing to set up a financial department, merge the tax bureau into the financial department, and transfer Lane to the financial department, but in this way, Lane will have three high-level responsibilities of the agriculture department, the population department, and the financial department.

Xu Kuang thought about it for a while, and was going to let Hathaway manage the Population Division, and he was called back to manage the Agriculture Division, so that the responsibilities of Mushroom Ridge at all levels would be much clearer.

Now the predicament of Mushroom Ridge is very different from the beginning, the most lacking thing in Mushroom Ridge at the beginning is money, Xu Kuang needs to seize every opportunity to make money from all aspects, but he is also lucky, with the help of his uncle Wayne, the difficulties at the beginning were quickly solved.

But now it's different, what Xu Kuang lacks is people, especially those who are good at management.

Xu Kuang thought about it, and summoned Huo Yun and Pang Yu, who were outside, back and appointed them for another purpose.

Pang Yu was arranged by Xu Kuang to the military camp and served as the chief of the general staff, second only to Zhou Jin and Xu Kuang.

Huo Yun is mainly responsible for scientific research management, and Huo Yun is responsible for the resource allocation of scientific research departments at all levels.

Xu Zheng was transferred to Taidong Town by Xu Kuang to team up with Li Yunlong.

There is no way, Xu Zheng and Xu Kuang made a big mistake, but Xu Kuang is the lord, so the pressure came to Xu Zheng.

Therefore, Xu Kuang also hopes that Xu Zheng can make a career in Taidong Town, so that Xu Kuang can have the opportunity to reappoint him.

After Xu Kuang arranged everything properly, the systems at all levels also operated more efficiently.

The main reason is that the talents under Xu Kuang's hands are too good, and they shouldn't have stayed in such a small place.

The army has nearly doubled in size in recent months, with the advent of single-cylinder tractors and vehicles of all classes based on single-cylinder tractors, which has led to a significant reduction in the number of sappers and a corresponding increase in the number of combatants.

Xu Kuangpan sat on the hillside, watching the artillery group in the distance firing, and couldn't help but nod.

The establishment of military academies has raised the training of the troops to a higher level, and the combat effectiveness has been correspondingly enhanced.

But Xu Kuang was even more worried about one thing, the war he and Zhuge Duan had predicted a year ago had not moved yet, which made Xu Kuang wonder if he was wrong.

What Xu Kuang didn't know was that in the palace at the moment, King Haldes was discussing the issue of troop dispatch plan and conscription with a group of people, and it was not difficult to analyze from the content of their discussion that if he wanted to send troops, he would have to send troops for a year or two.

It took a few months for the large-scale recruitment of the ancient army to take at least a few months, and Xu Kuang was now worried that these were also a bit redundant.