"Since the eldest brother will be the Taishou of Dongjun sooner or later, in my opinion, it is better to recruit some young people from Dongjun first..."

Cao Hong interjected at this time.

Chen Gong immediately objected: "No, no, no." The area around Luoyang was searched by Dong thieves again, and was looted by the princes again, and the escapes were scattered, and the forced levies were forcibly recruited, and there were few young and strong people who were forcibly recruited. If you recruit troops from Dongjun again, it will not be a good thing, but a bad thing. In the future, if Cao Gong wants to enter the Eastern County, he will definitely be opposed by the people. ”

Cao Mengde bowed his head: "What Brother Gongtai said is not bad. ”

Then he said to Cao Ren and Cao Hong: "Don't mention the matter of forced conscription, but you must also do it to recruit soldiers." But voluntarily. How much can be raised. ”

Cao Ren echoed: "Big brother is reasonable. I brought 500 soldiers and horses from Chenliu, plus hundreds in this city, but there are only more than 1,000 numbers, if I can raise 3,000 and train them strictly, even if tens of thousands of thieves come to attack, they can defend it. ”

Cao Mengde stroked his beard with satisfaction and said with a smile: "That's right." ”

Then he looked at Zhao Yu: "What does Mr. Zhao think?"

Zhao Yu hurriedly waved his hand: "Recruitment and training is none of my business." ”

Cao Mengde was helpless.

But I heard Zhao Yu say: "However, recruiting and training soldiers requires money and food." I have two ways to do this. ”

"Oh?!"

Cao Mengde was overjoyed: "Please teach me, sir!"

Zhao Yu smiled slightly: "I made a bet with Mr. Gongtai before, and it has something to do with it." But the bet is put later. The method I wanted to give Meng De was easily conceived. ”

As he spoke, Zhao Yu's palm opened, and first a bright mirror appeared on the table in front of him, and then a piece of snow-white soap also appeared on the desk.

These two objects immediately attracted the attention of the four people present.

Cao Mengde walked out of the desk, came to the front, picked up the mirror, looked at himself, and exclaimed: "What kind of treasure mirror is this, so clear!"

Zhao Yu smiled: "Be careful. This thing doesn't fall and can't compare to a bronze mirror. ”

Then he said to Cao Mengde: "Meng De should know that these days you and I are wandering around the county, and I occasionally ask Brother Meng De to pay for some messy things." He also asked Brother Meng De to search for things like water jade, dansha, and feldspar. That's how this mirror came about. ”

Water jade is the name given to crystal in this era, and as for dansha, that is, cinnabar, mercury can be refined. And so on are all related materials.

The four of them gathered around and passed this palm-sized mirror back and forth, looking at it in amazement.

Cao Mengde said: "It turned out to be made of water jade dansha?

Zhao Yu laughed: "Where is the immortal method." When I made the first block, I did use mana. But then I figured out a method, and as long as I followed the method steps, I could manufacture it in batches. Mengde, how much do you think this mirror is worth?"

"At least 10,000 dollars! Otherwise, don't even think about buying it!" Cao Mengde was also a profiteer, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly shouted loudly.

On the side, Chen Gong nodded again and again: "Yes, yes." It is not a problem to get hundreds or thousands of dollars and raise three or five thousand soldiers and horses for a year. ”

Cao Mengde took the mirror from Cao Hong's hand: "I thought that Mr. Zhao wanted these things to cultivate the immortal law, but I didn't expect it to be for my Cao Mengde's great cause." What a hard sir!"

Zhao Yu smiled: "It's nothing. In the future, there will be more good things, don't be surprised. ”

Then he said, "Don't just look in the mirror, look at this piece of soap." ”

The four of them set their eyes on the snow-white soap.

"Soap?"

Cao Mengde picked it up, but he didn't see the reason.

Zhao Yu shouted outside the door: "Come on, come in with a basin of water." ”

Waiting for the waiter to bring water, Zhao Yu asked Cao Mengde to make his hands dirty and oily, and then let him wash them, and the effect of the soap was immediately revealed.

"I asked Meng De to prepare the lard for me, as well as the alkali, and groped to make soap. This thing is the best at removing oil. Just like a mirror, if you add flower petals when you make it, it will have a fragrance. Once it is popularized, it will definitely be liked by large families. Eat big households, these days, big families have money and food. ”

Cao Mengde put down the soap, straightened his clothes tightly, and bowed to the end: "Mr. is really my timely rain!"

"Hey, I said don't be polite to me, you're here again!" Zhao Yu flicked his sleeves and helped Cao Mengde up: "Na, this is the formula and manufacturing process, you take it and find someone to do it yourself, I don't care." ”

took out two more pieces of paper and threw them to Cao Mengde like garbage: "I can't get used to you like this, I'm leaving." ”

Slipped away with a cigarette.

Cao Mengde clutched the formula tightly and was stunned for a long time.

Chen Gong said on the side: "I, Chen Gongtai, am really blind, and I actually misunderstood Mr. Zhao, which really shouldn't be." Ming Gong, Mr. Zhao is really a strange man! With these two formulas, there is no shortage of money and food!"

Cao Mengde sighed: "I can meet Mr. Zhao, just like Ji Fa meets Jiang Shang." ”

Then handed the formula to Cao Hong: "Zilian, you handle this matter throughout the process, and there must be no mistakes." ”

Cao Hong hurriedly took the formula and put it in his arms like a baby: "Big brother, don't worry! I will go down and immediately gather craftsmen to study the formula to ensure that things are made in the shortest possible time." ”

"Hmm. Cao Mengde nodded, pondered for a moment, and said to Cao Ren: "Zixiao, you quickly invite Wei Zixu here..."

Before he finished speaking, Cao Mengde was stunned again, and then said in frustration: "Zixu is dead, I lost my friend..."

Then he said: "Zilian, I asked you to send Zixu's body back to Chenliu, have you done it?"

Cao Hong said: "I let my son and relatives go, and at this time I should return to my hometown." ”

"Hey..."Cao Mengde was suddenly disappointed, sat down, and sighed again and again: "I recruited troops, or Zixu funded... I just thought that Zixu is a big businessman, and it must be appropriate to leave this matter to him, but I remembered that he had died in battle..."

He looked up again: "Zi Xu Youzi, how old is this year?"

Cao Hong said: "Zi Xu Zi is famous, just crowned. ”

"Good. You arranged for the craftsman to study the formula, and then went to Chen Liu in person to invite Wei Zhen. Cao Mengde immediately made a decision.

"Yes, big brother. ”

The person Cao Mengde lamented was Wei Zi, Wei Zi, Zi Xu, and Chen Liuren, who funded him to raise troops against Dong. It's a pity that Wei Zi's life was short, just before, in the war to pursue Dong Zhuo, Yu Xingyang was killed. Then Cao Mengde was ambushed and defeated by Xu Rong.

Wei Zi is a big businessman who stays in Chen, and his family is rich, and he can fund Cao Mengde to raise thousands of soldiers and horses at one time. When Cao Mengde got the formula, the first thing he thought of was to hand it over to Weizi to manage, but he instantly remembered that Weizi was dead, so he felt sad from his heart.

Speaking of which, Cao Mengde is also a lover. said that he was suspicious, which superior was not suspicious? If he is not suspicious, he has already been played to death by his subordinates. The so-called suspicious people don't need it, it's all face work, if you don't suspect it, your subordinates will be unstable.

Cao Mengde himself is a bit literate and young, and he is also a man of temperament. also often cries, of course, not as good as Liu Bei. Liu Bei cried when he remembered it.

At this time, Wei Zi was dead, and Cao Mengde thought of compensating his son Wei Zhen and immediately took action.

"Zixiao, recruit and train soldiers, and I'll leave it all to you. ”

Cao Ren saw that Cao Mengde was not in high spirits, and after nodding his head, he retired with Chen Gong Cao Hong and left.

Zhao Yu hummed an unknown song and went all the way back to the courtyard.

The old mother at home was cooking, Zhao Yu suddenly became interested, and hurriedly walked into the kitchen, not caring about the old mother's frightened gaze, turning over and taking out a lot of ingredients and condiments such as chili peppers, pulling the old mother, and teaching her to cook by hand.

So lunch finally has a bit of a modern taste.

Zhao Yu didn't care about the appetite, but it was better to be able to eat better than to eat casually. Before coming to this time and space, Zhao Yu had made some preparations. There is a world of chaos beads, what is not ready to do?

And now, he's eating three meals a day. Instead of two meals a day.

Habit issues.

As Zhao Yu himself said, in the past few days, except for hanging out and chatting with Cao Mengde, in fact, he has not really been idle.

When you have time, you enter the small world of Chaos Beads and make trouble inside.

For example, burning glass and making soap are all by-products of this process.

In ancient times, as written, they often started with glass and soap. It's a bit cliché, but it's a shortcut. Zhao Yu doesn't need to start a family or anything. But these things, handed over to Cao Mengde, should still be there for him. Whether it is firing glass or making soap, Zhao Yu knows that books are not read in vain.

However, if you know, you know, to really explore the process and conform to this era, even Zhao Yu took a lot of time.

Fortunately, the time flow rate of the Chaos Bead Small World was different from the outside, with a difference of twenty times. So don't look outside, it's only been a few days, in fact, inside, Zhao Yu has already achieved a lot of results.

Burning glass, in the beginning, also used mana. Later, I gradually explored and figured out all the processes, and I could fire them without mana. As for soap, it's much simpler.

But something like this, just a side story.

What Zhao Yu really experimented in the small world was steel forging and the cultivation of crops.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and this cannot be bypassed. To let Cao Mengde dominate the world as soon as possible, complete Zhao Yu's goal as soon as possible, break the so-called three-legged stand, and put an end to the so-called five chaotic China, so as to stir up time and space, so that Zhao Yu can understand, then the cultivation and improvement of crops, that is, the transformation of agriculture in this era, is Zhao Yu's first choice.

When Zhao Yu came, he did not prepare the seeds of modern time and space. He directly asked Cao Mengde to provide some grain seeds and cultivate and improve them in the Chaos Bead Small World.

The small world of Chaos Beads has a different speed of time, so there is enough time to improve and cultivate, and secondly, the small world has abundant Yuan Qi, which is the most suitable for improvement. Now it is quite impressive, and the improved grain yield is much higher than that of modern times. However, it is not stable yet, and it will take several generations to continue to cultivate it.

As for steel, in this day and age, it's about armaments. It is also extremely important.

Zhao Yu knows how to make steel, but he also needs to find a method suitable for the productivity of this era before he can use it.

These two things are exactly what Zhao Yu intends to bet with Chen Gong. No matter which one it is, it is something that can have a huge impact on the world, so Chen Gong is decided!

In addition to these, Zhao Yu will do more experiments in the future, in general, it is to use all methods to help Cao Mengde sweep the world and use all methods to transform history.

And Zhao Yu will definitely not go into battle in person if he has no choice. As soon as he falls, he is a monk, if he is determined to kill, what Yuan Shao Dong Zhuo, what Liu Bei and Sun Jian, which one can escape? Maybe there are some obsessive-compulsive disorders in it, I always feel that this historical matter needs to be changed by historical people, so that it will be as Zhao Yu intended.