In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Bufan finished practicing martial arts as usual, found Shi Wengong and Su Ding, and took them to the stable in Juxianzhuang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When he bought Juxian Village, there were still fifty horses, except for a few main personnel in the village, there were still forty-four horses, Zhao Bufan wanted to form a horse team, so he took Shi Wengong and Su Ding over to have a look and discuss this matter.

The stables of Juxian Village are very large, located at the back of the apricot orchard, there is no problem with raising 200 horses, and there is an open space for horses to run, which were built by the previous owner, but unfortunately there are only more than 40 horses here, most of the stables are empty, and there are only ten horsemen who are guarded, and the previous owner did not take them away.

Walking in the aisle of the stable, Zhao Bufan looked at each horse next to each other, and there was not much joy on his face.

He grabbed the forage in the manger, took a cursory look, shook his head and sighed: "Of the forty-four horses, thirty of them can only be used for pulling goods and transportation, and only fourteen can be used as war horses.

Shi Wengong and Su Ding didn't say a word, and followed him quietly.

Zhao Bufan walked into the stable slowly, and while gently combing the mane of the black horse in front of him, he asked lightly: "Do you know the current price of horses?"

Shi Wengong thought for a moment.

"Back to the owner, if it is an ordinary horse pulling goods and traveling, then the price is from ten to thirty, if it is an ordinary war horse, it is about fifty to eighty, and the excellent war horse is around one hundred, as for BMW, it is possible to meet but not to find, and there is no accurate price, from thousands to hundreds of thousands!"

"It's too expensive!" Zhao Bufan sighed softly, he knew that the war horse was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive.

Since the establishment of Emperor Taizu, the sixteen states of Youyun and the northern grasslands have not been recovered, and the ancient Liangzhou and Hetao areas in the northwest have also been divided by the Western Xia and Liao, which directly led to the Great Song Dynasty not having excellent horse-producing land, half of which relied on the purchase and half of the marginal small areas to produce horses, resulting in a shortage of supply.

Reclaim the mountains and rivers!

This is the lifelong dream of several emperors in the early Song Dynasty, especially for the sixteen states of Youyun, which is a dream of longing, but in the end no one succeeded, and the Northern Expedition in the early Song Dynasty was all a feather return. Extending to this day, the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty are more mediocre than the other, and they have long forgotten their original aspirations, only seeking a corner of peace and enjoying glory and wealth.

This kind of thinking directly led them to focus on building infantry defense, ignoring the need for cavalry, and not spending manpower and material resources to change the status quo, so that the war horses of the Great Song Dynasty became fewer and more expensive, and almost became a luxury.

Su Ding didn't talk much, and when he saw Zhao Bufan sighing at the high cost of the Great Song Dynasty's war horses, he said softly: "Owner, it is a great loss to buy horses in the hands of horse merchants in the Great Song Dynasty. But I also know that there is a way to buy a horse, and the price is half lower, but this road violates the laws of the Great Song Dynasty!"

"What way?" Zhao Bufan instantly came to his senses, in this troubled world, if he has any scruples about anything, it is better to just eat and wait for death.

"The smugglers of the Great Golden Kingdom!" Su Ding whispered.

Zhao Bufan had never heard of this, and he was full of doubts.

"The horse smugglers of the Jin Kingdom, how did they pass through the Liao Kingdom, and how did they send the horses over?"

"From the sea, they were transported from the north along the coast, without passing through the Liao country!" replied Su Ding.

Zhao Bufan felt even more strange, and said in confusion: "The two countries of Jin and Song are currently on good terms, and there is no reason why the people of the Jin Kingdom are not allowed to sell horses, why is it smuggling?

"Because the people of Jin don't want money, they want to exchange salt and iron!"

Su Ding's words instantly made Zhao Bufan understand, he was very clear about the content of the contract between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, one of which was that it was not allowed to trade salt and iron with the Jin State, etc., with the policy of the Great Song Dynasty, it was absolutely obedient to the word, and the Jin State was established at the beginning of the war, and the Liao State was in urgent need of these materials, so he could only come to the Great Song Dynasty to smuggle.

Zhao Bufan's mind turned, and he instantly began to weigh the pros and cons in his heart: "The Jin State is a great threat, but the biggest problem facing the Great Song Dynasty is the internal after all, if I don't exchange with the Jin State, those courtiers will also secretly try to exchange in order to make profits, and I need to strengthen myself now, if I don't eat this piece of cake, I will have to spend several times the price to buy a horse, and at the same time, I can't stop the Jin State from secretly obtaining strategic materials, which is equivalent to a loss at both ends." No, this piece of cake not only has to be eaten, but also eaten fiercely, the Jin country needs strategic materials such as salt and iron, and I need war horses, salt and iron will not be used up after all, but without war horses, I will be in a passive situation on the battlefield in the future!"

Thinking about this problem, Zhao Bufan quickly made a decision.

"Su Ding, how about the actual price of the horse merchant of Jinguo?"

"It's a good deal, the Jinguo horse dealers are equivalent to cheap sales, five times cheaper than the usual price of war horses, they urgently need these materials, so there is very little choice!"

After receiving a positive answer, Zhao Bufan had a plan in his heart, but he didn't rush to say to Shi Wengong and Su Ding, and quickly left the stable with the two.

When he returned to the apricot garden, Zhao Bufan instructed the two of them: "You can recruit some good hands now, you can choose from the tenants, you can also find people you know, as long as you feel credible, and the martial arts are okay, then you can recruit them, you only need twenty people in the Jianma Hall for the time being, each with a horse, when it's okay, you can mention their martial arts as appropriate, and I will be of great use after a while." ”

"Yes!" Shi Wengong and Su Dinglang responded.

Zhao Bufan separated from the two of them, and then did not rest, and immediately went out of the city to find He Daye.

I inquired all the way and walked several miles before I found him in the fields of the West Village.

"Ohno, come here!"

He Daye stood in the field with bare legs, holding a cloth ruler in his hand, carefully checking the size of the land with several tenants, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Zhao Bufan, and walked over happily.

"Owner, what's so urgent, why don't you send someone to call me back, why don't you come here in person!"

"I want to ask you something!" Zhao Bufan shouted loudly.

"Okay!" He Daye leaned down, washed his hands with the water from the field, and trotted to Zhao Bufan. "What does the owner want to ask?"

Zhao Bufan saw that there were more people around him, so he pulled him forward for a distance, and then asked in a low voice: "Daye, what do our households in Juxianzhuang do on weekdays in addition to farming?

He Daye smiled and nodded: "Of course there is, except for the households living in Juxian Village, every household in the West Village and the East Village has pear trees, and the tenants can sell some pears to supplement their families, and the Yali pears in Dacheng County seem to be quite famous, it is said that the government will collect some Yali pears every year and present them to the palace!"

"Ya pear?"

Zhao Bufan frowned, and thought to himself: Yali pear is good, but this specialty does not seem to be very suitable, with the current transportation conditions, the cost is too high, it cannot be sold in a large area, and it cannot be sold at a high price, the profit is too thin, it is really not cost-effective.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything else besides pears?"

"Yes! There are many! Women will also weave some cloth at home, raise silkworms, feed some poultry, and so on!" He Daye replied casually.

Zhao Bufan was stunned suddenly: "Wait! What did you just say?"

"I said that women will also weave some cloth at home!" He Daye looked at Zhao Bufan suspiciously, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Zhao Bufan waved his hand: "The next sentence!"

"Feed some poultry?"

"The previous sentence!"

"Raising silkworms?"

"That's it!That's it!" Zhao Bufan waved his hand suddenly, his face full of solemnity.

"You said that all the people here raise silkworms?"

He Daye nodded affirmatively: "Yes, every family raises silk in the yard, and when it raises silk, it will be sold in the city!"

"What do they feed them with?"

"Of course, we use mulberry leaves, otherwise what else do we use?"

The more Zhao Bufan listened, the more excited he became, and he hurriedly asked, "Where did the mulberry leaves come from?"

He Daye looked at her in surprise and pointed to the hillside in the distance: "Aren't all mulberry trees? At least half of the hillsides within the scope of Juxianzhuang are wild mulberry trees, although the tenants can't raise a lot, but for them, it is also a profit." ”

In an instant, Zhao Bufan's troubled problem was finally solved, and he finally thought of what to do at the beginning.

Barely hesitating for a moment, he said directly to He Daye: "Ohno, no matter what method you use, you will find the twenty people who raise silkworms best among the tenants, and then the twenty people who are the most powerful in weaving fabrics, and I will definitely see them tomorrow morning!"

"Okay!" He Daye didn't ask much, and agreed to come down.

Zhao Bufan didn't delay him anymore and returned to Xingyuan to practice alone.

Early the next morning, He Daye brought forty women to the apricot orchard, both old and young, all with doubts on their faces.

Zhao Bufan saw them in the front yard, and didn't explain much at all, and said directly: "I want to build a textile workshop, and you twenty spinning fabrics will form a large group in the future, four groups, and only need to work hard to think about how to improve textile technology, improve the quality of textile fabrics, and reduce the cost of textile consumption." I will give you two salaries a month, and if you do the best, you will be promoted to the leader of the group, manage four people, and pay you four times a month. The best people can become big team leaders, eight dollars a month. As long as you do well and can continue to achieve results, there is no upper limit on the salary increase, and additional rewards will be given. ”

"Huh!"

The audience was in an uproar, with such generous conditions, how could they not be moved, which could improve the living quality of their whole family by two or three grades.

Only one of the older women hesitated, and suddenly asked, "Master, I don't know how long we have to do every day?"

Zhao Bufan looked at her and asked in surprise, "Why are you asking this?"

"I ......" The woman was a little stumbling, and she held back in the eyes of everyone for a long time before she mustered up the courage to say: "I used to stay in a small workshop in the city, and I could only rest for two hours a day, and I was working all the other time.

Zhao Bufan smiled faintly: "You only need to study the way to improve textile technology, will set a general goal for you, every day only requires you to do five hours in the workshop, the rest of the hours are allocated by yourself, there can be eight days a month do not need to work in the workshop, but if you do not act, then deduct the salary, if there are technical achievements, then according to the actual role of the division of grades, rewards from consistent to 10,000. ”

The woman was elated: "Does the owner mean that as long as we can make the cloth woven better, more economical and labor-saving, and faster, then we will have an additional reward, up to 10,000 yuan?"

"Yes! I, Zhao Bufan, will never break my word!"

As he spoke, he looked at the other twenty women.

"It's the same with you, but you're raising silkworms, and what you have to do is to try to raise silkworms well, and try to breed better silkworms, so that they don't get sick, and they can spit out more and better raw silk, and everything else is the same as the people in their weaving workshops. ”

Dozens of women smiled happily, and they couldn't stop smiling, and in their opinion, this was simply a good thing that fell from the sky, and they kept thanking each other.