However, before Jiang Yao could finish his sentence, he added,"Although Song Jun didn't borrow troops, he did borrow a batch of rations from Chen Jun.”
"Is that true?" Chen Wei was stunned for a moment, but then he was also delighted.
"I dare not deceive you."
" The Song King said that the Song Kingdom is willing to pay for the grain and pay of the Chen Kingdom for the sake of the former King's teachings," Jiang Yao said respectfully.”
Chen Wei clapped his hands and laughed.
The late king had been Song Jun's teacher for a period of time and was his elder.
With this layer of friendship, Song Jun would not watch helplessly as the Chen Nation was bullied by the southern barbarians.
"Physician Jiang, there's no time to lose. Quickly escort the rations to the front line and pass on my decree…" Chen Wei said anxiously.
"Ling, General Ying Xiao, guard the border and resist the southern barbarians. I will continuously provide him with food and grass.”
Chen Wei was very calm.
He knew that it was not a matter of a day or two to defeat the southern barbarians.
The 50,000 taels of gold that he had taken out from the national treasury could only last for ten days.
Fortunately, there was a large amount of grain now, which had to be transported to the front line as soon as possible.
Naturally, the task of escorting food was handed over to Jiang Yao.
Chen Wei could not trust anyone else.
"This subject will do as you say!"
Jiang Yao complained endlessly, but she could only accept the decree.
He had just returned, and before he could even sit down, he had to go to the front line again.
After Jiang Yao left with the grain, Chen Wei frowned and pondered.
Now that the urgent matter had been successfully resolved and the rations had been transported to the front line, Ying Xiao could also put in some effort in the war.
After all, the Nanman soldiers were extremely powerful, while the Chen Kingdom was weak. It would be a blessing if they could even fight to a draw.
It seemed that he had to speed up the smelting of iron and quickly produce iron armor.
Only in this way would the Chen Nation have the power to repel the Nanman army.
Although the King of Song had lent some rations to Chen Wei, he couldn't always rely on him.
The South was a vast land, and the Southern Barbarians had more than a thousand tribes. Chen Wei only wanted to protect the borders first before he wanted to annihilate the enemy.
There were not many twists and turns in a war.
Moreover, even Sun Tzu's Art of War had yet to appear.
He only relied on two things:
The first was the number of people.
The second was equipment.
As long as their numbers and equipment surpassed the enemy, they would be able to win every battle.
Chen Wei naturally did not understand the art of war, but he understood this principle.
Fighting a war was all about strength. As long as you had more people, were trained, and had good equipment, you could win.
After all, there were very few examples of winning a battle with fewer people, and those were all failures caused by the mistakes of the generals.
Although the Chen Nation did not have sufficient troops and food, the generals were talented and the soldiers had morale.
They were just waiting for Jiang Yao to transport the rations and good news.
……
With the good news brought back by Jiang Yao, the war at the front line could be expected.
Chen Wei did not dare to be negligent. He quickly steeped the soap and smelted the iron ore.
It was already very difficult to boil so much soap just by relying on the maid Kui and the maid painting.
Therefore, Chen Wei specially set up a soap company and gathered all the people in the harem.
Soap making was very simple, and anyone could easily learn it.
Chen Wei let the servants, servants, and maids go up to the stage and boil the soap.
Another three days passed.
The first batch of soap that was ready to be shipped to the market was finally successfully brewed.
Under Chen Wei's order, the entire soap shop moved out and pushed the soap into the market.
After adding some spices like pollen to the ingredients, the soap became fragrant.
Very quickly.
The news had spread throughout the entire city.
With the king's manor as a golden signboard.
Naturally, there was no need to worry about publicity.
He released some news.
He said that the king's manor was selling something called soap in the market.
This kind of thing could cleanse the human body. It could be used to wash your hands, hair, and face. After that, it could even leave a faint fragrance on your body.
A bar of soap only cost 10 taels.
As a result, it attracted the attention of all the nobles in the city.
Especially those rich women and daughters who were idle at home, they all spent money to buy soap to try it out.
For a time, soap was in the limelight.
The whole city was in an uproar, all saying that this soap fruit had a miraculous effect.
In addition, Chen Wei secretly sent people to use some hype methods.
For example:
He asked the servant of the king's manor to pretend to be a customer and spread the benefits of soap in the market…
She had the maids Kui and Hua pretend to be rich ladies and organize group purchases for the nobles…
Invest in Chen Guoxing's merchants, reach a cooperation, and let them sell the soap to other places...
One day later.
The price of soap had risen.
Chen Wei ordered the price to rise to 20 taels per piece.
Even so, there was still an endless stream of people coming to buy soap.
This was because it was not a permanent item, but a consumable item.
The soap would run out.
Moreover, because the brewing process was very primitive, the soap was consumed very quickly.
Ordinary people used it sparingly, and each piece could last about ten days.
Rich people used it even faster. Each piece could only be used for three to five days.
Chen Wei had thought that if he was willing, he could spend merit points to buy an advanced soap making book in the system store.
But even if he bought it, he couldn't do it.
That thing required some basic chemical processes to manufacture.
Now, let alone chemistry, Chen Wei had not even made the glass for test tubes. He was still far from it.
After all, chemistry required extremely precise scales and measurements.
Without test tubes, glass, utensils, and other basic tools, it was impossible to complete a chemical experiment.
Although it was a little tiring now, it was very profitable!
It was simply a bloody profit!
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