The big man has a living father

Chapter 86: If you want to be rich, build more roads
Huo Hai had already thought about the arrangements for Yang Liancheng a long time ago.

First of all, the research conducted by these retainers is not very formal. Although the position of retainer is normal for that era, it also means that these people are actually Huo Hai's "private soldiers".

In order to allow the concept of research and development to penetrate into the organization, they must be given a position.

Of course, it is not necessarily an official establishment or a clerk establishment. Huo Hai is preparing for the research institute establishment.

However, Liu Che might not agree with this matter, so he could only say it first.

The appearance of Chen An was a pure unexpected surprise.

The skills in the hands of Lu Ban's descendants are far more advanced than those in the hands of ordinary craftsmen of the same era.

It is much easier to improve from being good to being better than to go from not knowing to being good.

Moreover, the promotion of simplified Chinese characters in the military is now going very smoothly. The next step is to spread it on a large scale among young and middle-aged people.

By that time, there will be more people who can read, and among them, those who are born with engineering thinking and those who are born smart, no matter how small the proportion is, their number will definitely increase. These people will be the seed students of these schools in the future.

What Yang Liancheng, the future vice president of the institute, has to do is to think about how to summarize the knowledge researched by so many people in the institute to facilitate education.

What Chen An needs to do is to train a large number of high-level workers with technical skills to supply the upcoming huge development market.

Originally, Huo Hai was planning to let Iron Man Tang Si'er take Chen An's position, but seeing how well Tang Si'er taught his apprentice Luo Sijie, he decided to let him focus on his research, as his level of teaching apprentices was too poor.

Or it would be more reliable to wait for Chen An to train a large number of middle and senior talents in various trades, and then let these people among his retainers train them into top talents and carry out the last step.

After all, it doesn’t matter even if the disciples don’t know how to take apprentices. After undergoing systematic scientific learning, these people will naturally master the learning methods, and when the time comes, they will know how to take the initiative to learn if they don’t understand something.

The appearance of Chen An also accelerated Huo Hai's plan.

Huo Hai really wanted to build a house and live in Chang'an County, but now he has changed his mind.

On the one hand, there is still a possibility of flooding in the Wei River, and Liu Che has already discussed with Huo Hai to take over the land on the north bank and then expand the northern suburbs of Chang'an. At that time, large-scale industry will be developed in the north to establish residential areas for ordinary people.

On the other hand, current technology still has room for improvement, and Huo Hai doesn't want to tear down and rebuild his mansion every few days.

Therefore, the plan to move to a new city where life is more convenient has to be postponed.

Since he was not in a hurry to build his own house, Huo Hai focused on further accelerating the process of industrialization, and the prerequisite for industrialization was the improvement of productivity and the further enrichment of products.

Training workers first becomes the primary goal.

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Huo Hai has been at home these two days and has not gone anywhere, but Chang'an has changed.

After Huo Hai started smoking bacon that day, the bacon became popular in a small area.

But everyone is waiting. It is impossible for Mr. Huo to say that smoked meat can be preserved longer, right? We have to wait and see.

Many people have bacon that has been pickled for more than five days at home and has not yet been eaten. It may go bad, so they can only choose to trust Huo Hai and try their best.

As a result, after two days, the meat these people smoked did not go bad!
Everyone passed the news to each other, and soon the reputation of bacon spread.

Before, people didn’t dare to kill pigs at will because they were afraid that the pigs would go bad if they couldn’t finish eating them.

Now that we have a method for making bacon, many people in Chang'an County have started to smoke bacon.

At this moment, Chang'an was filled with smoke and fire.

Some smart people have already started building smoking bases to directly produce bacon. After all, many people don't have the space or conditions to smoke meat at home.

The air quality in Chang'an has deteriorated in the past two days, and Huo Hai is fully responsible. Because of the deterioration of the air quality, Huo Hai simply did not go out and stayed at home to relax.

Huo Hai was playing with the bronze cart made by Yang Liancheng while observing its structure: "This technology is quite impressive. It's a four-wheeled cart that can also turn."

In other words, the technology used by Yang Liancheng to make the bronze cart is basically similar to the mechanical structure of the cart that Huo Hai asked Tang Sier to study.

If Yang Liancheng had helped earlier, it wouldn't have taken so long to make the car.

Yang Liancheng has a lot of these little things.

"Should we let Yang Liancheng lead the team to study springs and clockwork? And try to make a mechanical clock?"

Huo Hai was playing with the car when Huangfu Hua called out from outside the door: "Sir, the Marquis of Pingyang is here!"

Cao Xiang walked into the courtyard with a loud laugh. He saw Huo Hai was not wearing a coat, but a colorful underwear that was different from others. He was wearing shorts and summer clogs. He was lying on the table and pushing the bronze carriage.

Is it so extravagant to install floor heating?

Cao Xiang: "Hey Huo Hai, why are you playing with this kind of childish stuff at home? Come on, I'll buy you a drink."

Huo Hai shook his head and didn't want to go: "It's too far from Xishi, I won't go."

Before, when they were in the Prince's Palace, which was not far from the drinking place, Huo Hai was of course willing to go. But now that it was in Ling County, which was so far away from the city, Huo Hai didn't want to go anymore.

Cao Xiang: "Who goes to the West Market these days? Let's go drink in your place."

Huo Hai shook his head: "That's even farther, I won't go."

Cao Xiang raised his head and laughed twice: "Oh! There's money to be made!"

After saying this, Cao Xiang lowered his head, saw that there was no one in front of the table, and turned his head left and right to look around.

Then he saw Huo Hai had already handed over the clothes and was standing by the door: "Let's go! What are you standing there for? Can you be more efficient?"

Cao Xiang scratched his head: "Hey, you are a guy who doesn't do anything without profit!"

Cao Xiang took Huo Hai in the same car. Huo Hai started eating walnuts as soon as he got in the car: "You can buy this thing too?"

Zhang Qian brought it back from the Western Regions. It should now only be grown and sold in Longxi.

Taking a look at the walnuts in Huo Hai's hand, Cao Xiang said, "I didn't buy this. Li Gan gave it to me."

Li Gan, that's normal. When the first batch of walnuts are planted, no one else can eat them. They all belong to the local tyrants in Longxi.

Cao Xiang chuckled: "Li Gan will be here soon."

Huo Hai was suspicious: "Does the money-making matter have anything to do with the Li family?"

Cao Xiang: "To be precise, many nobles and wealthy people are here today."

When we arrived, it was just as Cao Xiang had said, there was a large group of people there.

Some of them have been seen in the court, and some have not been seen in the court.

Because there are royal family members present today, the clothes they wear are more particular. Some of them, such as Li Gan, can be seen at a glance as not being nobles but quite wealthy.

In total, there were about twenty people.

When a group of people saw Cao Xiang bringing Huo Hai here, they immediately welcomed Huo Hai in.

"Master Huo, please come in!"

"Lieutenant Huo, I've been looking for you for a long time!"

"Second Master Huo..."

Huo Hai knew that if someone showed kindness to you without any reason, the person was either a traitor or a thief.

Especially these people, each of them is a noble.

Such as King Zhongshan Liu Sheng, Marquis Pinggao Liu Guang, and some nobles who were deposed in recent years, such as Chen He.

Speaking of which, Chen He is Chen Zhang's younger brother. Now Chen Zhang is Huo Qubing's nominal stepfather. When he sees Chen He, he has to call him uncle, but Huo Hai pretends not to know him.

Chen He was a descendant of the founding prime minister Chen Ping, and was originally the direct heir to the title.

As a result, this guy stole someone else's wife when he was young, his fiefdom was abolished, and his title was removed.

Because Chen Zhang had a secret lifelong agreement with Wei Shaoer, Liu Che conferred the title of marquis on Chen Zhang for the sake of Huo Qubing's face.

The Chen family was able to regain their title, but the title was no longer the original one.

The Chen family depended on Chen Zhang for survival.

Everyone knew that Chen He came today, representing Chen Zhang.

Huo Hai even saw Wei Qing's son Wei Kang.

In other words, today's incident is equivalent to the Wei family also coming.

Huo Hai was curious. What money-making projects did they have that required such a big fuss?
Isn’t King Zhongshan Liu Sheng the ancestor of Emperor Zhaolie? He should have been in Hebei, but he actually came to Chang'an.

And there is Liu Guang, who was originally a member of Xiang Yu's royal family, and now he has also come.

This large group of new and old aristocrats have agreed to start a project to make a lot of money?
How big is the project?

A group of people stood together and greeted each other. Cao Xiang said, "Everyone, please take a seat."

"I heard that King Zhongshan brought his newly selected dancers. Let's all enjoy them. Hahahaha!"

Everyone started joking, and Huo Hai realized that King Zhongshan particularly liked watching dancing.

It seems that this "after a lifetime of hard work, you still can't relax and relax? Continue to play music and dance" is in Liu Bei's genes.

Cao Xiang extended his hand to the seat of honor: "Uncle, go and sit down."

Liu Sheng waved his hand and said, "You are all from Chang'an. I am from another place. Why should I sit in the main seat?"

Although Liu Sheng also grew up in the palace, he doesn't want to sit in a high position in Chang'an now.

Liu Sheng looked around and said, "Liu Guang, you go sit in the main seat."

With a royal family member in front of him, Liu Guang, who was a fake surnamed Liu, dared not sit in a high position. He waved his hand hurriedly: "Why should I sit in a high position? Although I have a high title, I think Lord Xiao is more respected and virtuous among those present. So Lord Xiao should take the seat."

This Mr. Xiao is Xiao Guang, a descendant of Xiao He.

The Xiao family has inherited the title of Marquis of Ling, but... no great nobleman was spared from being demoted during the reign of Emperor Wu, and Xiao Guang's elder brother Xiao Sheng also fell.

Although Xiao Sheng is incompetent, Xiao Guang is capable. Xiao Guang came to Chang'an and started to operate.

I heard that Liu Che was considering restoring Xiao Guang's title.

But it was not like Chen Zhang who conferred another title, but rather restored the title of Marquis of Ying.

It must be said that Xiao Guang was really capable. He took care of everything in Chang'an quietly, and the key was that he did not arouse Liu Che's dislike for him. He was indeed a man of high moral character and respect. However, Xiao Guang was not very old, only in his twenties.

Xiao Guang was no fool: "Everyone present here is either a noble or an official. How can a commoner like me sit in a high position? The local officials are here, so please ask Lord Huo, the Second Lieutenant of Chang'an, to sit in the main seat."

A group of people were pushing and shoving each other, just wanting Huo Hai to sit there. The key was to make Huo Hai feel that he had to sit there. After all, everyone had already refused, and it would not be appropriate to find excuses to ask those who had already refused to sit there.

But they still underestimated Huo Hai.

Huo Hai would never sit in the main seat. Who knows how many troubles there might be.

If something happens and Liu Che investigates it, whoever is sitting in the main seat will be the one who made the idea and will be blamed.

If the relationship is not strong enough, you may be punished. It's not just a slap on the hand, but a demotion. If you don't have a title, you may even have your younger brother punished.

Huo Hai: "Me? How about this, my Wei and Huo families are of the same blood. Today my uncle's son is here, how can I, Huo Hai, sit in the main seat? Why not let Wei Kang sit? Although Wei Kang is younger than me, he is the son of the general after all. In the court, all officials follow the general's lead, so let's do the same outside the court."

Wei Kang nodded and said, "If you guys don't want to sit down, I'll go sit down."

(End of this chapter)