Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 516 In such a prairie, a sheep is hard to find

There is indeed a market for mercenaries. Now Wang Hou really needs a large number of mercenaries to help him, but the Han Empire cannot continue to be in chaos forever. Now that Wang Hou has conquered the entire grassland, his work is wasted.

In addition to mercenaries, and then cattle and sheep!When people mentioned Inner Mongolia in later generations, everyone’s first impression was roasted whole sheep, mutton in hand, and shabu-shabu. In later generations, there were more than 1 cows and [-] to [-] sheep. This standard, an average shepherd’s family has at least seven or eight One cow, five or six hundred sheep, according to the standards of later generations, every household is half a million rich.

The problem is that the market for cattle and sheep in this era is really limited!
Let’s talk about cattle first. Beef is really unaffordable in this era. Cattle are used to plow the fields. Liaodong indeed includes the land of Gongsun’s family that was recently conquered by Wang Hou. The total population is only a little over 20. Excluding workers and soldiers , merchants, there are only 20 farmers. In this era of productivity, [-] people are enough to raise a cow to plow the field. Even if Wang Hou develops self-cultivation farmers, if he is richer, ten people can have a cow, [-] cows, and the Liaodong market will be capped.

Besides, sheep, fish and sheep are fresh, and Wang Hou in Xudu was still thinking about boiled mutton. It is said that the later Song Dynasty imported tens of thousands of mutton sheep from the old enemy Liao people and Jin people every year. Even Su Dongpo was greedy because he couldn't eat mutton. The newly invented Dongpo pork seems to sell well!But after some market research, it turns out that this is not the case at all!

Those who can eat mutton are only rice bug prodigals like Wang Hou!The world is not peaceful, and ordinary people have to work hard to cut a piece of mutton during the New Year, and the market demand is not big enough.

And there is no refrigerated transportation these days, so let the sheep enter the customs via the Youzhou route!It's Wang Hou's deadly rival, Tian Yu, who can only take the Qingzhou route, and now he is okay with Wang Hou, but once he dies in the future, the trade outside the Great Wall will still be cut off.

Therefore, Wang Hou still had to make an idea to make it easy to transport, and to allow the unique goods of these nomads outside the Great Wall to come.

Speaking of sheep, Wang Hou was the first to think of the famous sheep cannibalism incident when the British capital exploded.

The British landlords are ruthless enough, and other countries have come up with bills to liberate the serfs, and the British landlords directly drove away the serfs who were farming on the land!And raising sheep is not for food!The wool is shaved, spun into wool, and sold to France and India to make money.

Later generations, Wang Hou's mother knits a sweater when she has nothing to do in winter, which shows that wool is a bestseller!

If you help these Wuhuan people engage in the wool textile industry, sell wool to the customs on a large scale while grazing, and make a fortune, let alone attack the Han land, I am afraid that the Wuhuan people will have to defend the Han with their lives. The land, the big gold master, is a big market.

Only communication, commerce, and related interests can hold these horseback girls who are galloping wildly on the grassland.

However, Wang Hou has been disappointed in the past few days. He went to eight tribes in a row. Like a pervert, a sheep touched it. He searched dozens of sheep and wiped off the smell of sheep. There are no sheep with particularly soft hair?

No wonder the ancient Chinese did not promote wool spinning. It turns out that there are different breeds of sheep!He pulled a hand of hard wool and a hand of sheep dung eggs, Wang Hou angrily vented his anger on the sheep, curled his foot on the sheep's buttocks, and the unlucky sheep meowed and shook. He went out with his buttocks bouncing.

Seeing Wang Hou's panic-stricken appearance, and following him for three days, Li Fu collapsed, full of helplessness, and Li Fu followed behind with a heavy fist.

"My lord! What kind of sheep are you looking for?"

"Even if the Great Emperor sends an oracle, you should communicate with your subordinates, and your subordinates will lead someone to find it for you!"

Also!

Wang Hou was crazy on his own, he had a flash of light in his head, and immediately jumped out to look for it, but he forgot about it. Seeing the wrinkles on Li Fu's forehead, he gestured happily.

"It is a kind of sheep with very long and soft wool. The wool can be cut down and can be carded into threads like cotton. Whoever finds a pair of this kind of sheep, I will reward him with four hundred Officer Shi!"

This request is a bit strange!But there is one condition!It's better than following others to go crazy and toss the walls of the grassland. As soon as Wang Hou finished speaking, Li Fu immediately clasped his fists and bowed heavily.

"Xiaguan understands! Please go back to Jinzhou and wait for the state shepherd to wait. Even if I build it myself, I will send the sheep to the state shepherd!"

"Forehead……"

Looking at Li Fu's bearded face, and then at the beard under the sheep's face, Wang Hou suddenly felt that he was said to be quite worthy.

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Don't say it, it's good to be a high official!He tossed and tossed by himself for three days, and tossed and tossed five or six tribes. Seeing all the Wuhuan people was so frightened that his heart turned cold, but he didn't toss. It took him a day in Jinzhou, and Li Fu really found this There was more than one breeding sheep. A large group of bleating sheep filled Wang Hou's backyard.

"Zhou Mu, look, is it this kind of sheep? And not only the sheep, but even the sheep breeder, the person who can comb this kind of wool into thread has found you!"

It was really Wang Hou who showed his face in front of the sheep, squatting in front of the sheep, Li Fu happily held his fists and begged.

This kid was quite interesting, after he finished slapping his face, he didn't forget to pull out the real hero, stretched out his hand, and pulled out Li Hu, a shy Xianbei boy who was squatting on his back, who was rather listless.

"Zhou Mu, this kid found it!"

To be honest, it is still different from the big Australian sheep and Western big sheep in Wang Hou’s memory. The wool is not so thick or rice, but it is really long. If you go up and grab it, it is really soft and the wool that costs more than 100 yuan in later generations The feel of the shirt is similar.

It seems that his development of Wuhuan's textile industry is not serious, there is a show, it's like watching a baby, with dark circles under his eyes. Pleasant Goat touched it several times, and he asked excitedly again.

"Which tribe are these soft-wool sheep? Recruit them to Jinzhou! The local herdsmen want to use them!"

"This!"

At the mention of this, both Li Fu and Li Hu couldn't help being stuck there again, holding back for a while, and then Li Fu fisted helplessly.

"Zhou Mu, this sheep is not produced in Liaodong, nor is it on the Xianbei grassland. This sheep is raised by the Qiang people. This man is called Aba. When Li Hu and his tribe nomadized to Xiqiang, they clashed with the local Qiang people. Grab it during the war!"

"Forehead……"

The corner of Wang Hou's mouth couldn't help twitching there again, he looked like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so overjoyed!One sees sheep today, and one wants to build a textile factory tomorrow. It seems that nothing is so easy to accomplish overnight! "

But opportunities are really for those who are prepared. Just when Wang Hou was depressed, Li Hu, who was originally dull, suddenly knelt down on the ground with his fists clasped heavily, kowtowed, and muttered Jurchen language.

"Zhou Mu, Li Huyan, if Zhou Mu wants such fine-wool sheep, he is willing to take people out of Xiqiang to snatch the sheep back for Zhou Mu!"

(End of this chapter)