I joined the army for my father, and I took Hua Mulan to build infrastructure.

Dou Nichang suddenly asked: "Ye Nan, I heard that you want to do business with Uncle Dang's stove. Why, do you still want to be a merchant? In Wei State, the status of merchants is not very good at the moment."

At this time, Wei State was not yet the powerful empire that unified the north and opened up the Silk Road. Business was in its infancy, and important resources were still controlled by major families, so Dou Nichang asked this question.

Ye Nan smiled and said: "Auntie, don't look down on businessmen. The development of a country is still inseparable from these businessmen."

Dou Nichang smiled slightly and said: "I don't look down on businessmen, because our emperor's family is the businessman who controls the lifeline of Wei the most."

Ye Nan understands this very well. Food, cloth, ironware, and coarse salt are all in the hands of the emperor's family, secretly and overtly.

"Auntie, I'm afraid it's not good to have a monopoly. Are you busy enough?" Ye Nan asked.

Dou Nichang said: "Monopoly? This word is used very well. It does have shortcomings, but compared with the advantages, these shortcomings are not worth mentioning."

"Why?" Ye Nan is very worried about the emperor's family controlling these businesses. Even when he does business, he still has to look at the emperor's face, which is very annoying...

To put it mildly, it is greed.

But Dou Nichang gave a different answer. She said: "Throughout ancient and modern times, businessmen have played an indispensable role in history. They have advantages, but they also have shortcomings. They are selfish and greedy. , and even during natural disasters, they dared to raise the price of food countless times, which greatly enriched the country.

Why does our Wei clan want to control the lifeblood of food in our hands?

That is to prevent such situations from happening, so that food prices will not be controlled by profiteers, causing the common people to be unable to afford food.

In the event of a natural disaster, our Wei State can guarantee that no one will starve to death! "

Ye Nan was in awe, this is state-owned!

Interestingly, in history, a natural disaster actually occurred during the Tuoba Si period of the Northern Wei Dynasty. There was no harvest in a certain area. Tuoba Si immediately allocated food for disaster relief. At the same time, he arranged for the victims to go to unaffected areas to eat, and ordered the local people to eat every day. Every household must use excess food to feed the people affected by the disaster.

Judging from the final result, no one really starved to death, otherwise where would his title of benevolent king come from?

How could any natural disaster in ancient times not kill anyone?

But the Northern Wei Dynasty did it. It did something that no other dynasty had ever done. It was truly a country of miracles.

Although Ye Nan didn't know these things, he was greatly shocked. It turned out that the emperor's family's intention was here, so it would be fine, it should be.

Dou Nichang looked at the admiring Ye Nan and smiled and said: "I have already mentioned it to His Majesty. You can do business, but you have to do it with our Wei clan. For the stove business, you will get one percent of the shares for every sale. If you produce one, I will give you the corresponding money as a reward for the rare items you tinkered with."

An uncontrollable smile appeared on Ye Nan's face. This was equivalent to doing nothing and getting a share of the Emperor's family just by lying down. This was a good deal!

She shouted: "Long live the Queen Mother! Long live the Emperor!"

It woke up Tuoba Xiang who was dozing off...

She was not interested in what Ye Nan and Dou Nichang were talking about, and she didn't even have time to interrupt, so she fell asleep leaning on Dou Nichang's lap.

After muttering something, Tuoba Xiang began to fall asleep again.

Ye Nan covered his mouth and asked: "Auntie, what are you going to do with the coal emperor? Or sell it for money? Can I take another share?"

Dou Nichang said angrily: "Well, you greedy little devil, don't think about this matter for now. Everything will have to wait until our Wei State develops. By then, there will be a turn for the better, and it's not too late." , you should go back."

Ye Nan could only stand up and reluctantly left the range of the stove, saying: "Okay, I'm leaving then. Auntie, please pay attention to ventilation and open some windows when you sleep at night."

Dou Nichang smiled and said: "I remember, go ahead, wait and see, do you have anything else to say?" Ye Nan rubbed his little hands, and then said shyly: "Auntie, there are only ten stoves in total. They were all sent to the palace. Can you, can you give me one? I can't sleep without a stove at night."

Dou Nichang couldn't help laughing when she saw Ye Nan's serious look, and said: "Okay, okay, just take one back to keep warm. You can't let our hero freeze, right?"

"Okay! Long live the Queen Mother, then Ye Nan is gone."

"Go ahead and take your time on the road."

Tuoba Xiang stood up sleepily and said, "What happened?"

Dou Nichang smiled and said: "A great event that created the world."

Tuoba Xiang:? ? ?

As for Ye Nan, she ran out of the palace with the stove in a flash. If the emperor saw her, he would have to confiscate her crime tools and stove.

Next time I will definitely not look for the evil-faced emperor. I will go directly to my Aunt Dou to see how you can trick me. Humph!

Ye Nan happily assembled the stove again in his tent. After a while, smoke started to float on the top of the tent.

Sitting on the small bench, Ye Nan narrowed his eyes comfortably. It was a good day to have a stove to survive the winter.

At night, the people who were trapped in the camp and went out to explore coal reserves came back in twos and threes. They gathered in Ye Nan's tent and boasted about their achievements.

Nangong Zheng said proudly: "General, you don't know how amazing the reserves are around Pingcheng, there are more than 20 places! This is still a land with a radius of dozens of miles. If you cover hundreds of miles, I'm afraid, There are no less than a hundred places!”

Ye Nan glanced at Nangong Zheng and said: "This general said that it can be used for thousands of years. Now do you believe it? Are you convinced?"

Nangong Zheng clasped his fists and said, "I accept it! How dare you refuse to accept it? I'm just curious, how do you know this thing can burn?"

"This, it seems that when I was young, I caught birds in the mountains and roasted them with these coals." Ye Nan said perfunctorily. Although it is true that the birds were roasted, firewood was used... …

Everyone had to admire their general, he was really not afraid of death when he was young.

Wait, the general seems to be under twenty years old. Where did he get to be young?

Isn't it now?

Yes, the General is pretending again.

Dang Bo coughed to attract everyone's attention, and then slowly said: "Everyone knows what I do at home, and I learned from my father about prospecting for mineral veins in the early years. Do you know what I discovered around Pingcheng? "

Ye Nan squinted his eyes and said, "If you dare to imitate Nangong Zheng again, I will drag him out and chop him down!"

"Hahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.

Then Uncle Dang said mysteriously: "There are five iron mines, three copper mines, and one mountain. I suspect there is a gold mine. I found traces of gold sand in the fine sand at the bottom of the river."

A group of people swallowed their saliva. Is this something we can know?

You might as well not say it, it belongs to the Emperor's family, we can only watch it!

Thank you Yu Ruyi for your reward, thank you 2024..._Cb for your monthly vote, 哐哐哐!