my wonderful zoo

Chapter 141 Income Generation
Sun Zheng and Lai Qingyun were so shocked that they were speechless when they saw six thousand strong war horses growing in the newly built simple stables overnight.

"Captain..., how many more... horses can you bring out?"

Chen Xun felt very happy. With the harvest of these [-] horses, he had already made a lot of money from this trip north: "Many, many, many, many more horses. Our Chen family army will never be short of horses again in the future."

"Can one person have two horses?" Sun Zheng asked.

"One person and three horses are fine, but can you afford them?" Chen Xun rolled his eyes.

"That's right, these horses eat much more than people." Sun Zheng sighed with some pity.

"If we occupy the grasslands in the north, we won't be afraid that we won't be able to support them." Lai Qingyun was not discouraged.

"Okay, now you have to train the [-] infantrymen who are going north this time to learn to ride horses as soon as possible." Chen Xun interrupted the two people's fantasy: "They are not required to be able to fight on horses, they only need to be able to ride on horseback. Don't Just drop it halfway."

"Don't worry, our Chen Jiajun recruits have all experienced horses, and they will be able to complete the training soon." Sun Zheng patted his chest to assure himself, and then asked: "What about the harness?"

Chen Jiajun's recruits will be trained to ride horses during the recruit training, which lasts from three to ten days. In addition to allowing them to briefly understand the use of horses, they also select those with horse fighting talents.

Those soldiers who can learn quickly and ride well will be selected to join the cavalry army.If there are not enough horses, they will be written down first and priority will be given to recruiting them when the horse army expands in the future.

"There is no harness, you can make simple ones out of cloth, and train first." Chen Xun shook his head.

"This, the simple one is much less effective." Sun Zheng thought for a moment and asked, "Can I go and grab it?"

Naturally, the people who were robbed could only be the Song court officials and the gentry and wealthy merchants. Where did ordinary people get this thing?

"It's best if you can buy it. There are still a lot of horse gear among the people. If you really can't survive, just grab it." Chen Xun replied.

This answer basically complies with Sun Zheng's request. It is estimated that Sun Zheng will definitely choose to rob first. It will save trouble to rob more and buy without capital.

"Then leave it to me." Sun Zheng immediately left the stable after saying that.

These horses have no harness and cannot be ridden by novices. Forced training will only cause the recruits to fall and get injured or even die.

With nothing to do, Chen Xun rode on Xiao Hei, took Lang Qing with him, put Meng Gu on his shoulder, and drove around Kaifeng under the protection of two squads of personal guards.

The area around Chen Jiajun's camp is still very popular. Local people come and go, and most of them don't have any worries on their faces, and some of them are even smiling.

It seems that the arrival of Chen Jiajun has completely revitalized the economy of this area, making everyone's life much easier.

The Chen Jiajun built vigorously around the camp and recruited many local people to work as laborers. They paid daily and purchased various raw materials. Most of the people who dealt with the Chen Jiajun had some extra money in their hands after more than half a month.

Just like the common people resting next to Chen Xun, they were pulling carts filled with straw, which they planned to sell to Chen Jiajun.

Chen Jiajun purchased these straws to feed horses. Cut them into half-inch lengths and cook them with bran, beans and some refined grains to become nutritious horse feed.

Boiling, this process is specially emphasized by Chen Xun. High temperature can not only kill parasites and bacteria in hay and straw, but also make this mixed feed easier to digest and absorb.

"This Chen Jiajun is such a good soldier that he actually spends money to buy our straw." The old farmer resting on the roadside chatted with his companions.

"Yes, these straws used to be used for cooking, but now they can be sold for money." Another old farmer agreed. "The main thing is that Chen Jiajun is kind. Otherwise, they would just go to the fields and pull them. Who would dare to stop them?"

"I heard that the Chen family's army has compensated the fields occupied by the Jian army camp, and promised that these fields will be returned to the landlords after the army withdraws, which is equivalent to earning a land price for nothing." Someone said the gossip he had heard.

"Hey, that will only benefit the landowners. The tenants have been planting in vain for a whole season, and they have been ruined before harvesting." An old farmer speculated.

"Don't talk nonsense. I heard that compensation is given directly to the people who use the land, that is, to whoever cultivates the land, not to the landlord." Another person said.

"That's right, the land that my aunt's second nephew rented from a landlord was occupied by a military camp. Those soldiers directly compensated the eldest nephew." After the old farmer finished speaking, he added mysteriously: "I also heard that , the landlord is robbing the tenants of their compensation, and as long as the tenants complain to Chen Jiajun, the landlord's house will be confiscated."

"Really? Whose house was ransacked?"

"The Zhao family in the south of the city was ruined a few days ago."

"I heard before that the army robbed their home, so that was the reason."

……

Chen Xun was speechless. No wonder Sun Zheng and Lai Qingyun never mentioned the lack of money to him.

It turns out that they have already started to generate income here.

This is the advantage of having a "barrel of a gun". As long as you have soldiers in your hands, you are not afraid of running out of money.

However, I have to remind them later that revenue generation is revenue generation, and publicity work must be done well to avoid damaging Chen Jiajun's reputation among the people.

Chen Xun did not intend to organize their income-generating activities. He was not a pedantic person. If the Chen family army wanted to develop, there would inevitably be class sacrifices.

As long as you find good excuses and don't kill indiscriminately, Chen Xun will accept it.

Money is something external to the body. If you don’t take it with you in life, you won’t take it with you in death. Chen Xun believes that those wealthy households who are “income-generated” will definitely be able to figure this out.

This world is like a dark forest, where the weak eat the strong, the small fish eat the shrimps, and the big fish eat the small fish.

In the past, when the Chen Jiajun didn't come, these big and wealthy households exploited the common people and fed themselves well. Now that the big fish like the Chen Jiajun has come, they naturally have to be aware of being "eaten".

After resting for a while, the people resting nearby changed several times. Chen Xun heard no new gossip, so he got up and continued towards the Yellow River (Huaihe River).

When he came to the Yellow River, Chen Xun looked at the endless river surface and sighed in his heart that the water volume of the Yellow River in this era is really huge.

The spring floods have begun. The water from the Yellow River and the Huai River have submerged all the fields on both sides of the Huai River. The previous dams of the Huai River are no longer visible. The river water is trapped by the natural terrain on both sides and does not continue to wreak havoc on the surrounding areas.

However, Chen Xun believes that as summer enters and the amount of water in the upstream increases, water damage will definitely occur here.

It was definitely too late to build the dam now, and Chen Xun did not have the manpower and material resources, so he could only try his best to move the people away from the low-lying areas and leave these low-lying areas to the Yellow River.

(End of this chapter)