Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 308
Mr. Zeng knew that his family, Zeng Tu, had been assertive since he was a child, and he never wanted to fall behind others in doing things, so he took the initiative to bring Zeng Suo to find him as soon as he talked to Zeng Suo.

But since he went to Sunjiazhuang, he has understood that what makes Sun Xin better than them is not how ambitious Sun Xin is, but the enviable factories and fields in his Sunjiazhuang. With so many factories and grain as the foundation, Sun Xin How to do it.

Sun Xin is Guangji Liang's way of becoming king slowly, and he also hopes that Zengtou City will follow such a clear path.

But Zeng Tu, the eldest son who has never been to Sun Family Village, always feels that his father's approach is too conservative. No matter how his father explains to him, he feels that the key to doing things in this world is to be brave.

Zeng Tu didn't believe that Sun Xin could achieve such a big business just relying on his ability to run factories and farms. After hearing what Zeng Suo said, he felt that Sun Xin could rely on the joint sales of medicinal materials with the three Zhuangzi in Dulong Port, and the second It turned out to be able to sell hemp yarn through the route to the north. With these two routes, his Sunjiazhuang naturally has a steady stream of fresh assets as a supplement. If they want not to be swallowed up by Sunjiazhuang, their Zengtou City must use a similar method. Expand your strength.

No matter how Mr. Zeng tried to persuade him, the eldest son, Zeng Tu, became more and more determined. He felt that Zengtou City was already strong enough, and the population under its jurisdiction was already much larger than that of Sun Xin's Dengzhou Sunjiazhuang, so there was no need to unite For other forces to protect themselves, the key is to know how Sun Xin obtained sales channels during his trip to the north?
But no matter how Zeng Tu asked, the chilled Master Zeng refused to say anything. At this time, Sun Xin came to Zengtou City.

As soon as Sun Xin appeared, Zeng Tu and Zeng Suo hurriedly chased him.

Seeing Zeng Tu and Zeng Suo's sudden enthusiasm, Sun Xin felt strange in his heart and left three points when he spoke.The two didn't like the feeling of being underestimated by Sun Xin, but they had no choice but to ask about it for the sake of Zhuangzi's development.

"Brother-in-law, I should call you brother-in-law. The fourth sister is living in your village these days?"

Sun Xin smiled and said, "I just lived in the village for half a month, but now I'm back to the Liao Kingdom."

"Oh, I went to the Liao Kingdom..." Zeng Suo pondered, and then Zeng Tu asked: "A lot of our linen yarn is sold to the Liao Kingdom, right? Is it the way of the fourth sister?"

Of course, Sun Xin would not confess his sales channels to the other party, and said vaguely: "Some of them are sent to Liao Kingdom."

Zeng Suo couldn't wait to ask: "How many catties did Liao take this year?"

Not much to say about Sun Xin, the amount that can be sold in Liao country trade in a year is about one million catties.They have already been thoroughly understood by their Dengzhou Group, and now they have started various types of round-trip trade with the Liao Kingdom, and even purchased a large amount of iron from the Liao Kingdom to supplement Dengzhou's current demand for metals.

This business is simply not something that Zengtou City in Lingzhou can do.

The trade advantage of Zengtou City is that it can enter Hebei. Yarn sales in Hebei are already very mature. They want to expand their trade, which is fundamentally different from Sun Xin’s way of expanding territory. They must take it slow. Now Sun Ji is also working hard in Hebei, but the development is very slow, and it is almost impossible to expand on a large scale without major changes.

Sun Xin's lukewarm response here made the two of them scratch their heads. At this time, Senior Official Zeng also took the opportunity to interrupt the conversation of the two of them and asked Sun Xin, "Are you coming to Zengtou City this time to discuss the matter of uniting against Liangshan?"

Sun Xin nodded, and brought up the idea that Liangshan might attack Qingzhou if it continued to expand recently. Senior official Zeng frowned: "Liangshan really has such an ambition..."

He promised to think about it. It is said that the imperial court is planning to send troops to encircle Liangshan. Liangshan must attack Qingzhou after this, but this preparation must be done.

After Sun Xin talked about the matter, he went around the factory again, and left in a hurry that afternoon.

After Sun Xin left, Zeng Daguan called Zeng Tu and Zeng Suo to him, and said earnestly: "This time I went to Sunjiazhuang and I can see it clearly. They really have skills. They can learn what they can learn and what they can't learn." Don't force yourself in the local area, with our current capital, we can't do business like others."

When Zeng Daguan spoke, his eyes were fixed on Zeng Tu and Zeng Suo, both of them nodded, but they turned away disapprovingly after watching Zeng Daguan leave.

It has been three days since Sun Xin returned to Shili Pai, and the Supervisory Council University was finally completed. Sun Xin hurriedly came to the newly built tile-roofed classroom to give the first class to the students.

"Ding ding ding ding..."

In the dormitory, the dormitory manager knocked on the piece of scrap iron donated to the university by the iron factory hanging under the beam, and the clear and bright sound instantly spread throughout the dormitory area.

"Get up, Zhu Biao, get up..."

Zhu Biao was sleepy and staring, when suddenly he felt a noise, and was irritated and wanted to keep his head down and sleep, but someone kept pushing him.

Zhu Biao couldn't sleep anymore, he threw the pillow that was stuffy on his head aside, and sat up angrily, "What are you doing again?"

After receiving the news that Sunjiazhuang University wanted to enroll students and asked supervisory committees from all over the country to send excellent students, Zhujiazhuang had a discussion and finally decided to send Zhu Biao, the youngest of the three masters of the Zhu family, to study at the Supervisory Council University. It is the two-year system of the military department.

When he came here, Zhu Biao was absolutely unwilling. He and Sun Xin had a hatred for taking his wife, although since the battle of Dulonggang, he also knew that his Zhujiazhuang could not escape the control of Sunjiazhuang. But there is still resistance in my heart.

Now he wants to be a student in Sun Xin's school, and even in the future he will be an officer under Sun Xin's army. This is undoubtedly a shame to Zhu Biao, but the elder brothers in the family take turns to persuade him, He had no way to face it, and in the end he could only reluctantly come to Sunjiazhuang to report.

Glancing at the sky outside the house, Zhu Biao said angrily, "Isn't this just after noon? It's still half an hour before class time. Why are you ringing the bell so early?"

It was Zeng Sheng who was in the same dormitory as him who pushed him out of bed. Zeng Sheng was young and nimble, and slept on Zhu Biao's upper bunk. Zhu Biao said: "It's mostly because Sun Xin is coming to give us a class in the afternoon, and the instructor wants us to gather first to give lectures."

Hearing this, Zhu Biao became even more angry.

In Zhu Biao's view, he has been humiliated by Sun Xin many times since he came to this Sunjiazhuang. At first, he wanted to apply for the infantry of Sunjiazhuang, but because his legs were a little lame, it was not obvious when he walked, but it was inevitable once he traveled long distances. It will bounce around.

After seeing his situation, Luan Tingyu, who was in charge of the allocation of apprentices, actually brushed him off from the infantry department. Even the infantry could not be enrolled in the cavalry, let alone the cavalry, so Zhu Biao was thrown to the artillery under Lu Zhishen's command. .

Zhu Biao only felt ashamed about this. He felt that he was a big man who hid behind a firearm and fired at the enemy coldly every day.
If he hadn't seen Ji Senran, a member of the Protectorate Army, he would have even suspected that Sun Xin and his officers were deliberately trying to humiliate him.

Seeing that Zeng Sheng was all dressed up, Zhu Biao also remembered the instructor's fierce face and got up quickly.

"I'm so tired in the morning, and I'm driven to school in the afternoon, what kind of life is this?"

Zhu Biao is about the same age as Sun Xin. He has just turned 30 this year, so it is just right for him to study at the University of the Supervisory Committee. In addition, in the political engineering department, there are almost 40-year-old Confucian scholars who come to study as political cadres of the supervisory committee, and Zhu Biao is considered young among them.

But Zhu Biao didn't like the Supervisory Council University either.

They said they came here to learn combat. Zhu Biao thought that after arriving at this school, he would be treated like a baby no matter what, but he didn't expect that he would be driven into this thatched farmhouse as soon as he put down his burden, and then he would be taken care of by the university. The instructor commanded to follow the farmer of Sunjiazhuang to do the hardest and most tiring farm work.

Picking sand and rocks, carrying wood, it's almost like a long-term laborer. After the farm work is finished, it's not easy to say that it's time to formally study, and these students are dragged to do some training. Those who are going forward are stupid.

In the first period of time, there was not a day when Zhu Biao didn't want to escape, and he was not born like this group of mud legs. Why should the third young master of Zhujiazhuang be so useless?

But soon he discovered that the young boy sleeping on his upper bunk was actually Zeng Sheng, the fifth son of Zengtou City.

After staying for a few more days, Zhu Biao realized that the people in the supervisory committee didn't know his identity, so he said that their dormitory had the best accommodation conditions in the entire campus. It was close to the cafeteria and there was well water when they went out. , and don't have to sleep next to the latrine, it's almost the same treatment as the women's dormitory, and the people living in their dormitory are also young masters from various forces under the Supervisory Committee.

As a result, Zhu Biao had the feeling that he was being stared at by the people of Sunjiazhuang at any time. He suddenly understood that if he performed poorly, he would not lose face alone, but the people of Zhujiazhuang.

And when he found out that Zeng Sheng, who was the first to come, had no complaints about this hard life, Zhu Biao didn't want to run away.

Zeng Sheng was a few years younger than himself, and Zengtou City, where he was born, was a much stronger existence than Zhujiazhuang, so he would accept punishment, so he had nothing to say.

On the contrary, Zhu Biao gradually became cruel. He wanted to see what kind of hardship Sun Xin was going to make him suffer. Did he really think that Zhu Biao couldn't hold on?

Having said that, Zhu Biao still felt that his legs were sore when he sat up after kicking the goose step in the morning.

Just getting up to get dressed, a fat man on the bed next to him also sat up slowly.

The fat man first smiled at Zhu Biao, and then kicked his feet.

A handsome boy who was sleeping on the bunk next to him woke up early, seeing the fat man's mouth, quickly bowed down flatteringly, picked up the fat man's cloth shoes and put them on his feet.

(End of this chapter)