Chapter 130 Busy

"Do you know the details of the engagement?" Finally knowing some news, Zhao Ta hurriedly asked. (Please remember Novel.com)

"Lord Wang, the little one just listened to the words of the merchants who came and went by sea, and I really don't know the details," Cheng Xishou shook his head and said.

"Oh, now that Liaodong is turbulent and the land route is cut off, it is difficult for Goryeo's ginseng, Beizhu, and Harrier Eagle to enter our country, you can take a trip to Goryeo when you return from Fusang, the Jurchens are poor, they will inevitably go to Goryeo to trade, and the price will be very cheap, let's buy some, as long as it can be shipped back, it will be more than ten times the profit" Zhao Ta was a little disappointed, but he also saw a business opportunity.

"The prince is a holy order, we will charge more when we return next year" Cheng Xishou is also happy, although this prince is small, it seems that he is not a layman in business.

"I'm afraid it's too late at that time, when you go, you can send someone to Goryeo to buy what you need, and when you return from Fuso, the goods are ready there, and you can return to China quickly, otherwise it will be delayed until July and August, and there will be a storm on the sea, so it will be dangerous, so it is better not to do this business," Zhao said with a smile.

"What the prince said is that the little one has been taught," Cheng Xishou hurriedly replied.

"Don't be restrained, I don't know much about this, and I want you experts to arrange, but next year our fireworks workshop needs a large amount of sulfur, you must transport some back from Fusang, if the price of copper is right, you can also buy some back, and arrange for people in Goryeo to investigate the situation in Liaodong to see how they win or lose, and we can also make a small fortune from it" Zhao Tan said with a smile.

Next, Zhao Ta asked about the fleet and business, and Cheng Xishou also talked about what he had seen and heard in a foreign country, and the atmosphere became warmer, "See, bring me the things I prepared for the shopkeeper Cheng"

"Yes, Lord Wang" saw that he agreed, took a delicate box and handed it to Zhao Ta.

"Shopkeeper Cheng, you walk on the sea all year round, these two gadgets may be used" Zhao Ta opened the box, took out the objects inside and said: "This is a clairvoyant mirror, which can look at the distant scenery, and this is a north arrow, which can distinguish the direction" said and handed it to him.

"Lord Xie" Cheng Xishou said flatteredly, he took it and said, fiddling with it but not knowing how to use it.

"Xifu, you take Cheng's shopkeeper out of the house, teach him how to use it" Zhao Ta smiled and called Xifu, and asked him to lead Cheng Xishou to study, not much effort, Cheng Xishou came back, and knelt down when he entered the house, "Thank you for the prince's generous gift, these two things can be said to be life-saving treasures, and the small one will be loyal to repay the prince."

"Shopkeeper Cheng, don't be polite, I have already ordered to go down and let people order three big ships of 2,000 Hu, you can go to sea on a new ship next year, as long as you do your best, I will not treat you badly" Zhao Ta helped him up and said. (Baidu search)

"It's hard to repay the kindness of the prince to the little broken bones, I heard that the prince's house has run a school, and my two boys have reached the age of entering school, and I also ask the prince to take them in, so that they can grow some skills" Cheng Xishou said, the prince said everything to this point, how can he let the prince rest assured, simply sent his son as a hostage.

Next, Zhao Ta met with the leaders of the three caravans of Sun Erqian, Liu Song, and Zhang Qu respectively, and according to their performance, they scolded and scolded the award, and the award was coerced and lured, and then they were assigned tasks for next year, and they must unscrupulously get back 500 horses that meet the standards of war horses in the palace, and those who have been sterilized cannot be wanted

In the next few days, Zhao Tan was busy meeting with the owners and managers of the shops and restaurants scattered all over the country, organizing them to visit and study, so that they could see the good situation in the house, understand the current tasks, and understand the hard work of the prince.

After sending these peripheral personnel, it is already the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, there are already regulations in the house, everyone in the house has already received welfare bonuses, and the workshops have also paid off the wages and rewards for the workers, and they have taken annual leave to go home for the New Year, but this year is special that the members of the society responsible for maintaining law and order in previous years have also taken a holiday this time, and the personal guards of the palace have taken over. Zhao Ta also went to various Zhuangzi to visit the poor and ask about the suffering, visited the scholars, hermits, and old cadres who lived here, and sent them condolences.

After all this, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and all the people in the royal mansion gathered together to celebrate the Spring Festival, but this year there was more than a family. These days, he has attended almost all meetings as the teacher of the prince, participated in various activities in the house, as the principal of the house, watching him command Ruoding, and take care of all the affairs of the house in an orderly manner, not like a child at all, and all people dare not treat him as a child, and now looking at his students 'respect and inferiority' and the children of the house to play and play together, he suddenly felt that he didn't know how to look at the prince, he thought that Huang Jingchen had talked to him, I feel that I have understood a lot again, and it seems that I should put myself in the right position, and I should make some adjustments to my education methods. ,

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After the Spring Festival, Zhao Ta first went to Beifu to personally preside over the gun ceremony for the recruits, and then bombed them all to the big field in the northwest of the racecourse to shoot live ammunition, equestrian training went, now there are more people, and the training in the house does not recruit the 'wolf', and now that there are more people, secrecy is also an important aspect, and he doesn't want them to be in the daylight. Gao Pet is now learning literature with Wang Ye every day, and his butt is itching and he can't sit still, Zhao Ta simply gave him the title of the head of the head of the Sheding, and went to train the Sheding, he was born in a family of military generals, and followed He Qufei to learn a belly of theories, just to teach the Sheding to arrange troops, even if it is an internship.

Zhao Ta took the time to take stock of his belongings, and now the gold, silver and copper coins plus fixed assets have accumulated nearly 10 million yuan, and the grain is more than 50,000 stones, which can be regarded as a rich party. But he went into his private warehouse and went around, and then his face was gloomy, the military workshop only produced more than 500 muskets in more than a year, and he trained the seed troops to scrap more than 50 guns, and the rest happened to be all equipped for the recruits, the inventory was almost zero, and the accumulated bullets were only more than 10,000 rounds, and it was estimated that the recruits would bottom out after training.

After the formation of the personal guard, Zhao Ta also made a report, asking for the distribution of weapons and armor according to the establishment, and the military department was not bad, and allocated weapons and armor to him according to the highest configuration, but Zhao Ta was deflated when he saw it, everything was good, but unfortunately he couldn't use it. The length of the weapon is to be short, the short one is mainly the ring head long knife and the short axe, the long style is mainly the big gun, iron axe, iron rod, iron hammer, long-range weapons are of course mainly bows and crossbows, and there are more styles of arrows, Zhao Ta was stunned and didn't recognize it. A is infantry armor, that is, scale armor, iron, strong is strong enough, the weight is not light, there are more than 50 catties, this has to be worn to pursue the enemy, you don't need the enemy to fight if you can't run ten miles, you are tired to death, no wonder how many victories in the Song Dynasty have been defeated, it is rare to be able to completely annihilate the enemy. The harness was not given at all, and the forbidden army and horse army did not have horses to ride, and that thing was not in stock.

Looking at these things, Zhao Ta was deflated, the clothes were still wearable, the clothes and armor saddles were now seriously insufficient, and it was only enough to maintain the normal training of the whole city, and the clothes and hats required for the follow-up were not small. It is necessary to build a leather quilt factory so that the supply can be guaranteed and there will be accumulation. The smelter's refined iron output has now reached a bottleneck, seriously affecting military production, if you rely on purchasing supplements, and worry that the quality is not up to standard, affecting the quality of munitions, and the subsequent short blades, the production of sabers need a large amount of refined iron, this also has to be expanded, increase manpower, can not wait, who knows when the war broke out.

In addition, bullets also need a lot of copper, sulfur, and fire salt, which are all money-burning things, and they must be purchased in large quantities, and a certain amount of inventory must be maintained, at least to withstand the consumption of a medium-intensity war... Whether to build artillery, whether to make machine guns, whether to form special forces, and train intelligence personnel, Zhao Ta has a large list of things to do, everything must be done, and it must be done.

The military is the top priority at present, just like the 'Songun politics' in North Korea, Cho Ta and the general managers of the two major companies held a meeting, and under the condition of maintaining normal production, they should give priority to the supply of production materials for the gun factory, and at the same time transfer a group of outstanding craftsmen from the machinery workshop to strengthen the productivity of the gun factory, and the vacancies here will be filled by the students who graduated from the school. At the same time, the gun workshop had been trial-producing revolvers, and began to produce them normally, and then found a few good hands from among the craftsmen to assist the prince in developing new weapons.

As for the relatively simple production process of bullets, it mainly relies on the production of fireworks workshops, and Zhao Ta required them to achieve an annual production capacity of 200,000 rounds of ammunition to ensure the needs of training and inventory. The tannery was also immediately put on the agenda, building a factory to recruit workers, requiring it to be put into operation in the middle of the year, and by the end of the year 500 pairs of saddles and leather armor were produced for the use of the guards.

Of course, the economic aspect can not be relaxed, this is a strong guarantee of the military, due to the emergence of the 'cottage version' of agricultural machinery, resulting in the unsalable situation of agricultural machinery workshop products, Zhao Ta decided to change the strategy, take the method of price reduction promotion, regain the market, and squeeze out those cottage products.

The glass workshop improves the process, appropriately increases the manpower, and uses mold blowing, which can not only simplify the process, but also reduce the dependence on technology, and can greatly increase the output, but strictly control the domestic sales, most of the products are used for export trade, and maintain high profits. The winery's wine is not worried about selling now, and it is also necessary to increase production, use these two profiteering products to subsidize the losses of the workshop, maintain military production, and feed his seed army.

During the day, he had to attend classes, and at night he had to hold meetings to arrange and supervise production to deal with the big and small things in the house, and he had to review the training plan of the recruits, worry about their military training, and train the guards.

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