Modern people who traveled through the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 291 The Steam Engine

Zhao Han went to the back kitchen to cook lunch for Cheng Chuxue and the others. After eating, the three of them went out to fish on the deck. The three of them felt that it was boring to play in Hainan for five days, so the three of them went back to Xingyang Mansion.

As soon as Li Lizhi and Cheng Chuxue returned to Xingyang Mansion, they were taken away by Zhao Wenwen. Zhao Wenwen planned to open a store with Li Lizhi and the others. Now that there is a lot of wool in Xingyang Mansion, Zhao Wenwen planned to open a sweater store. It happened that it was winter. The sweater business is sure to do well.

Zhao Han didn't care about them, let them do whatever they wanted, as long as they were happy, Zhao Han asked Ma Yi to ask about the current state of Xingyang Mansion.

Ma Yi said with a wry smile: "Even if you don't look for me, young master, I will still look for you. Now that Xingyang Mansion is in chaos, there are so many things that need you to make up your mind."

Zhao Han thought to himself, why did he mess up after walking for five days?Zhao Han asked: "What's going on? Tell me about it."

Ma Yi took out his notebook and said: "The first is the problem of population. The captives you brought back from Turkic and Tuyuhun, young master, amounted to more than 20 people. Including the slaves you bought before, young master, there are almost 30 people now. , At most 5 people are enough to build roads and build houses, and the rest of the people can only idle every day, and the food consumption is extremely large, what do you think, young master? We can’t support these people for nothing, right?”

Zhao Han thought this was indeed a problem, no matter how much food he had, he couldn't support these people in vain?Zhao Han said: "The slaves I bought, you can arrange them to work if there is a shortage of people. As for the Turks and Tuyuhun people, you can go to the human tooth market and sell them. It's useless to keep them anyway. What else? thing?"

Ma Yi wrote down this matter and continued: "There is also the problem of iron mines. The supply of iron in Xingyang Mansion is somewhat insufficient. Although you have improved the iron-making technology, young master, you still cannot keep up with the amount of iron used."

Zhao Han decided to exchange the system for an iron-making factory. His own development is a bit big. Iron consumption is indeed a trouble, so he should exchange for an iron-making factory to completely solve the problem of insufficient iron.

Zhao Han said: "I know about this. Tomorrow I will build an iron-making workshop and completely reform the iron-making technology. What else can I do?"

Ma Yi continued: "The third is the problem of vegetables. Now that Xingyang Prefecture has built greenhouses, there are a lot of vegetables, and there are also greenhouses in other areas, so the price keeps falling. What do you think about this, young master? "

Zhao Han smiled and said: "It's simple. You post an announcement saying that we will buy a large number of vegetables at the market price, and then go to the dark guard to find ten people. I will give them a space ring each. Put the harvested vegetables in the space ring, and then follow the merchants to other countries to eat and eat vegetables? Don’t forget that other countries don’t have greenhouses in winter, so this can be regarded as an income. Which ten people do you tell, sell the vegetables? The money spent on vegetables is buying other countries’ special products, no matter what.”

Ma Yi nodded, thinking that this method is good, it solves the problem of a lot of vegetables and can make money, this method is good.

Zhao Han continued to ask: "Is there anything that can't be solved? Anyway, I'm fine today, so let's solve it together."

Ma Yi said with a smile: "Another thing is that the supply of coal is a bit insufficient. This year, most of the Tang Dynasty uses the coal stove made by you, young master, for heating, so coal has become a hot commodity. The price has increased by [-]% recently. That's it. , The coal was robbed as soon as it arrived at the store.”

"You should go to Chen Yuan for this matter. He should know that there are no coal mines near Chang'an. As long as you find someone, you can arrange for them to mine. There is nothing else to do?" Zhao Han asked.

Ma Yi shook his head and said: "It's okay, there are still some minor matters, I can take care of this, so I won't trouble you, young master."

Zhao Han exchanged ten space rings from the system and gave them to Ma Yi, let him go to work. After Ma Yi left with the rings, Zhao Han took out the walkie-talkie and asked the special forces to come over. He wanted to give them a task.

After Xue Rengui and the others came over, Xue Rengui stood up and shouted: "Report to the commander, all 30 special forces are here, please give the task to the commander."

Zhao Han asked with a smile: "Why did you become the captain again?"

Xue Rengui smiled honestly, and was embarrassed to say, Yan San'er stood up and said: "The last time we attacked Wang Ting, thanks to Brother Xue's advice, we easily captured Wang Ting and captured the Shaboluo family alive, so we decided to let Xue Rengui The eldest brother will continue to be the team leader, and we all obey him."

Zhao Han smiled and said: "I don't care who is the captain, you can decide for yourself. I asked you to come here today because I have something for you to do. I got a gold mine when I attacked Jieli Khan. Map, this gold mine is in the Tuyuhun area, you secretly go to the gold mine to find someone to mine this gold mine for me, no one can tell this, especially Your Majesty, now Tuyuhun belongs to Datang, if you let His Majesty know, He will definitely snatch this gold mine, so you must keep it a secret, understand?"

"Yes." The 30 people shouted in unison: "I promise to complete the task."

Zhao Han handed the translated map to Xue Rengui and said: "You start today, don't be idle when you go, see if there are other minerals around, if there are, please tell me on the walkie-talkie, there are other mines Tell me about it right away, remember to pay attention to safety, 30 of you are worth more than that gold mine."

Xue Rengui nodded, and then went back with the others to pack up their things and set off immediately. As soon as they left, Chen Yuan's distraught voice came from the intercom, and Chen Yuan shouted: "Zhao Han, do you think I'm not busy enough? Go out and look for coal mines, you can do it yourself."

Zhao Han asked curiously: "Aren't you a teacher? What are you busy with? I don't have time to go out. I'll leave it to you."

Chen Yuan said unhappily: "I said that you are really good at being a hands-off shopkeeper? Don't you know that I am researching steam engines recently? Now it is the most critical time, but you let me do other things?"

Zhao Han shouted: "I said you have nothing to do in your spare time, right? There are blueprints in the steam engine system, you won't exchange one? Why are you doing research on your own? Hurry up and find me a coal mine, that's the big deal , or coal would be out of stock.”

Chen Yuan said with a smirk: "Do you know how many exchange points are needed to exchange for a blueprint of a steam engine? 1000 million exchange points, and 3000 million exchange points are required to exchange for a steam engine. Are you sure you want to exchange?"

As soon as Zhao Han heard that it was so expensive, Zhao Han hurriedly shouted: "Forget it, you should study it, but it's not too late, right? Let's go to the coal mine first, this is the most important thing now, and the steam engine also needs it. Coal."

(End of this chapter)