This night. On the top of Longshan Mountain, there was singing and dancing. Wei Cheng's arrival gave the villagers a reason to take a holiday. Every household took out tables, chairs and benches and set up a banquet for hundreds of families in the square.
The carnival lasted until early morning. Wei Cheng was drunk a lot, but Xu Chu finally carried him back to the thatched cottage.
Yes, although from the bottom of the mountain, Longshan has turned into a dark steel fortress, everything on the mountain has basically remained unchanged.
Especially on the highest slope of Longshan Mountain. The thatched cottage where Wei Cheng first lived was cleaned every day by dedicated people, and even the water in the water tank in the yard was changed every day.
The next day. Wei Cheng slept until three o'clock in the morning before waking up groggily while rubbing his temples. Hao Niang had already prepared a bowl of hangover soup. After drinking it, she felt warm and sweaty. After taking a hot bath, she recovered.
Down the hillside, Longshan's militia team was conducting daily drills. Xu Chu, Dian Wei, and Hao Zhao were also there, following the instructions of the militia captain and taking the trouble to wave the spears in their hands.
Outside the yard, Cai Yan and his daughters had already had lunch and were chatting and laughing while doing their homework in the sun. When Aunt Manhua learned that her daughter Xiaohua was studying and learning to read at Heluo College, she was filled with gratitude. For them, reading was the exclusive preserve of aristocratic families. When would it be their turn?
Now that her daughter has the opportunity to read and write, she is even happier than Wei Cheng giving her countless gold and silver treasures.
"Master!"
"Haha, Aunt Manhua and a few other aunts, long time no see." Wei Cheng had a certain attitude of being a friend of women. He sat down next to Cai Yan and chatted with the women.
Liu He, who was sitting aside, looked curiously at Wei Cheng, who was chatting with the women about gossip. This prince, who was considered unparalleled in the world today, now looked like a peasant, wearing coarse linen clothes, eating simple meals, and chatting about shame. Talk about dead people.
"...Aunt Manhua, I've told you before, just keep a few boars for breeding, and kill the rest. If you keep them like this for about half a year, if you eat that meat again, it will definitely make your eyes light up. ." Liu He's cheeks were slightly hot behind his golden tassel mask. How could this 'boar' sound like a 'princess'?
Wei Cheng took a sip of the porridge and said: "As for the postpartum care of sows, I will send you a book later. It's time for you to read and learn to read. If this pig is raised well, the contribution will be made later. It's a good thing that will benefit the future." Everyone covered their mouths and laughed secretly. When did they have so much knowledge about raising a pig? They all thought Wei Cheng was just joking with Aunt Manhua.
Only Liu He had a solemn look on his face and seemed to be thinking more deeply than the others. Had brunch.
Wei Cheng came to the village and found Hao Dadao who was assigning tasks in the official room. Hao Dadao seemed to have known that Wei Cheng was back for a long time, and had already ordered people to prepare scented tea and cakes.
"Sir, this is the list of all the accounts of the smelting plant in the past six months, and this, this is the supply list that Mr. Tian sent someone some time ago." After Wei Cheng took it, he first put it on the table aside. He said with a smile: "I will leave these to you from now on, so I won't read them. I can rest assured that you will do your work." Hao Dadao smiled flattered, respectfully picked up the teapot, poured tea, and said: " Young Master can ignore other accounts, but Young Master had better take a look at the second supply list." Wei Cheng heard this and asked curiously: "Why, is there any problem?" Hao Dadao put down the teapot, nodded and said, "Others It's not bad, but since last month, the demand for iron tires has increased by more than ten times. I asked people to check where they were going and found that many of the merchants who picked up the goods were from Luoyang." Wei Cheng looked on. He moved, then nodded with a smile and said: "I know what you are worried about. Luoyang is nothing more than Dong Zhuo's people. Of course, all the iron tire transactions are with my acquiescence. Mr. Tian is only responsible for signing. Don't worry about this. ." Hao Dadao looked puzzled and reminded: "Master, that Dong Zhuo is... well, I don't want to talk too much, but I just heard people say that he is not a good person. We sold our iron tires to him, Is it really okay?" Wei Cheng consoled him: "Uncle Dadao, the fact that you can think of this proves that your ability is also improving, which is very good. However, sometimes you should not just look at a problem from one side. Dong Zhuo is really ambitious, but Others may not be better than him." Hao Dashao frowned, obviously not going around the corner, and wanted to say that he might as well not sell to anyone, but he laughed at himself thinking about it.
Seeing this, Wei Cheng stood up and said: "You don't have to worry about this. For now, there will be people in Anyi who will weigh the pros and cons of selling the iron tires to whom. Your worries are not wrong, but this is not what you should consider." What you should consider is how to increase production." Hao Dadao laughed awkwardly,
"I'm worrying too much." Wei Cheng waved his hand nonchalantly and motioned for him to take him to the smelting plant to have a look.
However, Wei Cheng couldn't help but have an extra thought in his mind. If Hao Dadao thinks this way, does it mean that other people will also think this way? Maybe people in the world will think that he is having an affair with Dong Zhuo and selling his iron tires to him, is he aiding the evil?
Wei Cheng frowned slightly and planned to go back and discuss the matter with Tian Feng and Xun Yu. ···Big river, Chuanziba Ferry.
This was originally a small fishing village, but now it no longer looks like a fishing village. The fishermen here were drafted into an army to transport goods from across the river.
"General, this batch has a total of 3,600 pieces of iron tires, which is much lower than the 8,000 pieces we expected." A middle-aged man dressed as a scholar stood on the bow of the ship and said to the man in uniform on the shore.
This man was none other than Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Niu Fu.
"Why is there such a big difference? Is Wei's out of stock?" Niu Fu asked with a frown. The scribe jumped out of the boat, bowed respectfully, and then said helplessly: "It's not that the Wei family is out of stock, but the price of iron tires in Hedong has more than tripled, and the grain we brought can only be exchanged for so much."
"What, the price has increased again?" Niu Fu's eyes widened and he said angrily: "This is the second time the price has increased in the past half month. This Wei family is simply greedy." After hearing this, the scribe came up. Taking a step forward, he raised his hand and said, "The general doesn't know something. It's really not Wei's fault that the price of iron tires has increased. The reason why the price suddenly increased so much is because someone is maliciously driving up the price."
"Oh?" The scribe looked toward the southeast and said in a deep voice: "According to the information I have obtained, I can be sure that there are at least three waves of people rushing to buy iron tires. One of them can definitely be Yuan Shao and his like, and another group The men and horses should be from the Huangfu family in the North." Niu Fu was stunned.
"What about another wave of people?" The scribe frowned, sighed, and said, "This last wave of people is very scattered, but has a clear purpose. I suspect they are people from the Sun-Liu Alliance, and only they can do this. The demand is huge, it's just..." Niu Fu urged: "It's just something, you should tell me quickly." The scribe said uncertainly: "It's just that there are a few people among them. I heard their tone and accent, they are a bit... The smell over there in Yanzhou, the Sun-Liu Alliance is in Jingzhou, seems to have nothing to do with Yanzhou." Niu Fu was startled when he heard this.
"Are you sure?" The scribe quickly bowed his hands and said,
"I'm absolutely sure. General, you should know that my Zhou family is considered a famous family in Yanzhou."
