Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

And the Mi family is the same.

After hundreds of years of accumulation, the current wealth of the Mi family is no weaker than that of any one of the five wealthy merchants.If it weren't for this, Mi Zhu would not have prepared a dowry of 20 billion yuan for Mi Zhu's younger sister Mi Zhen when she married Liu Bei.

The internal and external scholars and retainers of the Mi family came to Lujiang with Mi Fang, out of this kind of thinking, they wanted to establish a branch in Lujiang, and then seek a breakthrough.

In the past, the Mi family had been entrenched in Xuzhou for so many years, and the market in Xuzhou had already been divided up by the Mi and Chen families.

In addition, Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, was conservative and always aimed at self-sufficiency. It cannot be said that there is no chance for the Mi family to expand their industries, it can only be said that they are negligible.

But on the Lujiang side...it's different.

Leaving aside the fact that Lujiang's population has grown by more than one-third in the past two years, it is the highest in China...just talking about the chaotic and complicated market environment, the Mi family can't help but want to double the profits.

Take this duck as an example. Everyone knows that he makes money.

But making money is not the same as making money. The same thing can play different tricks in the hands of different people.

In the hands of ordinary farmers, ducks are nothing more than meat. At most, they are rich families who can use fish and shrimp for farming. They may be able to develop added value such as duck eggs, but they are limited to This is it.

But once this breeding becomes large-scale, in the eyes of people with sufficient family resources like the Mi family, it is far more than just selling meat to make money.

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As early as when Zhang Yan first arrived in Lujiang, Lujiang was still under the threat of many mountains and mountains. At the same time, some basic industries such as breeding and smelting were actually very weak, and it could be said that there was nothing to do .

At that time, Zhang Yan did not have as much working capital as he does now, let alone these profitable projects.

Therefore, when promoting breeding, he had to choose to cooperate with the local wealthy family.

That is to say, he provides seedlings as the government, and at the same time hires workers to work in the name of the government, and the aristocratic family contributes money to build farms and pastures to reduce the government's financial pressure.

In the process of cooperation, Zhang Yan unconsciously taught these "ancients" a lot of modern breeding concepts and some special ways to realize the value of commodities.

After coming and going, those aristocratic families who cooperated with the government learned more or less.

Things like farming and breeding... the aristocratic family actually disdains to do it.

Whether it is the prosperous Qiao family or other families in Lujiang, they are more inclined to the traditional scholarly family, and they are somewhat dismissive of this kind of business behavior.

And the demand is here, if you don't go, someone will always go.

Within a few days, the group of Mi family members who followed Mi Fang filled up the vacancy.

Dirty farming?

Businessmen don't mind this.

As long as you can let me earn money, let alone being messy, even if you let him turn around and tear up Li, Yi, and Chunqiu, these guys won't have any burdens.

On the contrary, it was the lucrative jobs that Zhang Yan mentioned from time to time, which made these "profit-seeking" businessmen full of interest.

Killing the extra ducks and drying them to make smoked ducks or cured ducks is already a pediatric level operation for these Mi family businessmen.

Under Zhang Yan's suggestion, even the merchants of Mi's family have begun to try to collect duck feathers, and use down instead of cotton wool to make a light, convenient, and very warm clothing.

Perhaps in a short period of time, this kind of duck down products can only be enjoyed by the upper class in Lujiang, such as aristocratic families, wealthy businessmen or officials...

But it works somehow!

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As long as the existing cotton wool products can be replaced, the prices of winter necessities such as cotton coats and quilts will inevitably drop to a certain extent after the production volume increases.

And through such subtle changes, the Mi family's industry is gradually moving from the upstream of the industry to the direction of people's livelihood.

Like this time, the one who took the initiative to apply to Zhang Yan to take advantage of this opportunity to expand the size of the duck farm in Lujiang was the person in charge of the Mi family in this industry.

"Expand the scale... sure!"

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"Free-range poultry... Although the efficiency of this may not be as good as standardized farming, it is not impossible to consider using these poultry to deal with scattered locusts."

"This is also accurate!"

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"And mixed breeding?"

"Can this thing be mixed with other poultry and livestock?"

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"Oh, it's a rice field mixed with ducks, that's fine."

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After quickly writing down a few comments, Zhang Yan picked up the report and looked at it. After hesitating for a while, he did not put it back where it was, but put it aside alone, intending to hand it to Kuai Qi for him to pay attention to it. Take a look at this.

Expanding the scale of farming is naturally a good thing for Zhang Yan.

Seedlings, fodder, and land are all paid by the Mi family. If the land in the hands of the Mi family is not enough and they need to occupy additional land, they have to buy or rent it from Zhang Yan, which is another considerable income.

As early as a year ago, Zhang Yan found out the population of Lujiang, and after calculating the land in Lujiang, he immediately completed the publicization of all unowned land, and continued to buy land from poor families every year. The appearance of fighting to the end with the land annexation.

The Mi family wants to expand the scale of breeding at this time, which can not only solve the problem of locust nymph recovery that Zhang Yan needs to face most now, but also save him extra money, and even make money...

Don't say that Zhang Yan refused such a thing, he wished for more, the more the better.

But this matter is not only as simple as it seems on the surface, but actually involves many more groups than many people imagined. The reason why Zhang Yan asked Kuai Qi to pay attention to this matter is also because of this.

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"Let him expand the number by [-]% first, first use a few large-scale free-range farms to enclose the periphery of the Lujiang River, and try to clean up the young nymphs as soon as they hatch... "

"As for the application for mass production of duck down products?"

"Hehe, this guy is a little impatient."

"It's still the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. How can I use these down jackets, duvets and the like... Doesn't this smother everyone to death?"

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"However, we can start preparing for production first... One autumn rain and one cold, if the weather in Jiangdong is cold, it would be unreasonable."

"Just taking advantage of the fact that there is not such a big demand now, a batch of down-filled fabrics are produced in advance, so as to save the impromptu production in winter, and all kinds of confusion are prone to occur in the busy schedule."

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Joyfully put the official document aside, Zhang Yan put down the pen and paper in his hand, stretched vigorously, and then lay limply on the ground, closing his eyes slightly.

The Marquis Mansion of the Kingdom of Wan was his territory, so the room was naturally well carpeted, so even if he lay on the ground and laid it out to rot, there would not be much dust on his body.

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What?You said that the behavior of the Mi family will affect the interests of local businessmen?

That's none of Zhang Yan's business...

A large part of the local merchants in Lujiang, or the entire Jiangdong business system, is controlled by the four families of Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang in Wujun.

These four families are like local snakes in Jiangdong, using Wu County as their nest, and extending their tentacles into all accessible places in Yangzhou.

Zhang Yan had already discussed with the people under his command that among the six counties in Jiangdong, Lujiang and Yuzhang were in the fourth war and were always invaded by foreign enemies. Under the control of Shanyue forces.

In this case, Zhou Yu's uncle Zhou Shang, and the current Danyang prefect Zhou Xin can all be counted as vacant posts, without any actual rights at all.

Different from these two counties that have been tortured by bandits, along Danyang and further east, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, there is another county that is not under the control of the big man. This kind of accident, the conscription and taxation are not even thought about.

This somewhat alternative city is the businessman's paradise "Wu County" located in the northeast corner of Jiangdong.

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Why is Wu County called a paradise for businessmen?

In addition to the fact that this place is located near the capital of the Wu state and the trade was extremely developed, there is another very important reason, that is, this city is actually ruled indirectly by a large number of merchants, and it is a thoroughly "" Commercial City".

Xu Gong, the prefect of Wu County, was put down by the four major local business families on his first day in office. There were 10 people in the whole Wu County, and no one listened to him at all.

Then = this forced Xu Gong to seek refuge with Yan Baihu, the leader of the Shanyue bandit, and thus saved a bit of face from those merchants, barely maintaining a cooperative relationship.

If it is said that in this era, most places in China are still in the traditional feudal society, where the emperor acts on behalf of the heavens and protects the people, then Wu County has undoubtedly "leaded" other places in the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, and entered the Evil era of "capitalism".

At this time, the big men did not actually have the concept of capitalism. Those big businessmen and big capitalists often carried out their activities as aristocratic families.

But it is their behavior of intervening in policies with a large amount of family resources, and even wantonly playing with power, which makes Zhang Yan look like the America controlled by the consortium after 2000, and even gave birth to a kind of American orthodox Just the illusion of the big man.

This naturally makes a "fighter" who is young and young extremely conflicted.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Yan approved the application of the Mi family to expand production without any hesitation, and also planned to let Kuai Qi pay attention to it. Once those "local snakes" want to use outside tricks, let them feel the state capital. The power of the iron fist of doctrine.

In his eyes, the Mi family, which was already on the same path as him, was still a family, but since they were in a cooperative relationship with him, they could represent the interests of state-owned capital to a certain extent.

State-owned capital is also state-owned. It is better to use the money in his hands than in the hands of those black-hearted businessmen.

Supporting state-owned capital groups and suppressing those big capitalists who only know how to exploit the people, Zhang Yan only felt that he was doing this thing neatly, openly, and clearly.

PS: Help, the more recent titles are written, the more they look like official reports, and I feel like I'm about to lose shape!

Chapter 19 Ancient Rituals and Meetings

"Master, wake up, it's time for us to go!"

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In a daze, Zhang Yan only felt a pair of warm palms caressing his face, and the temperature of his fingertips soon made him wake up a lot.

Then, a familiar "master" woke him up from his sleep.

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"Well, it's Ye'er..."

"What time is it now?"

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Dazedly sitting up with the help of the other party, Zhang Yan first yawned subconsciously, and then looked around, his eyes were still somewhat dull as if he had just woken up from a nap.

He just lay on the ground and wanted to rest for a while, but for some reason, he just fell asleep like this.

Moreover, it was this short nap that made Zhang Yan have a somewhat absurd dream:

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[Locust plagues occurred in five cities including Lujiang, the grain production was greatly affected that year, and the security in the territory was reduced]