When Zhu Bomu returned to the town with a hundred cavalrymen, the town, which originally had only 300 people, had been expanded beyond the valley, and the number of civilians had reached 2,000.
"Li Dao!" From afar, Zhu Bomu saw Li Dao who was arranging farmers to farm in the town, so he greeted him.
"My lord!" Seeing Zhu Bomu and Mu Yong come back to call him, Li Dao also jogged over.
"How are the crops in the fields?" Zhu Bomu dismounted and asked.
"In another ten days, we will be able to harvest the first 100 mu, which will be about 400 dan of grain. The remaining 900 mu will take three months. In the next harvest, we should be able to harvest 4000 dan.”
One stone was one grain, and four hundred stones was four hundred grains. However, Zhu Bomu did not intend to exchange the main grain for grains directly. He wanted to exchange the main grain for wild vegetables with the people outside the mountain. In this way, four hundred stones of rice could be exchanged for one thousand stones of wild vegetables or edible fungi in southern Yunnan.
Thinking about it, Zhu Bomu told Li Dao about his thoughts. Li Dao said that he would discuss it with the people. After asking about the farmland, Zhu Bomu turned around and asked,""How's the barn?"
The livestock house was the first building that Zhu Bomu built after upgrading the village. Because the system could produce 1,000 catties per mu for two days, Zhu Bomu was very curious about how powerful the livestock house was.
Li Dao, who was questioned by Zhu Bomu, chuckled. He understood Zhu Bomu's thoughts very well and said,""My lord's guess was right. The livestock raised in the barn grow about ten times faster than the outside world. A newborn yellow cow can grow to adulthood in less than two months.”
"But I reckon that it will consume the lifespan of the livestock.”
"It's fine. With this calculation, a 100-acre livestock house can completely house 100 cattle. We only need a year or so to develop 100 cattle into 10,000 cattle.”Zhu Bomu was very good at accounting.
"That being said, there are very few cattle in Kaihua Prefecture. Although the Qing court brought in many cattle from the north, they are expensive and are controlled by the government.”Li Dao shook his head.
Well, that's a problem, but we can buy it with weapons and chieftains. I believe it's a good deal..." Speaking of this, Zhu Bomu revealed a cold smile, and Mu Yong, who caught up, also smiled and said,"
"The chieftains have always been very dissatisfied with the Qing court. Originally, it was because they did not have enough weapons and armor to resist. Now, as long as the lord provides a large number of weapons and armor, I believe that they will be able to cause enough restraint to the Qing court in a few years.”
" No, it's not enough..." Zhu Bomu shook his head and explained,""After the Qing court entered the pass, the chieftains resisted fiercely and were killed until their vitality was greatly damaged. Even if they wanted to raise an army to resist, they probably wouldn't be able to do so.”
"My lord is right. The chieftains in the southwest are mostly from various ethnic groups, and many of them have personal grudges against each other. A single resistance is simply not enough unless a single tribe or multiple tribes raise an army.”
Li Dao had done a lot of homework and had a deep understanding of the ethnic relations between Xinan Chuan, Huguang, and Guangdong.
After Zhu Bomu heard his words, he said,""We need to support a chieftain in each prefecture and then let the chieftains swallow up some weaker chieftains.”
"As long as we find a good partner, these ambitious fellows will not be willing to be servants of the Qing court forever. Once the time is ripe, they will rise up on their own without us saying anything!”
" The timing that the lord mentioned is Yang Mubo, right?" Mu Yong was smart this time, because he could roughly find the pattern in Zhu Bomu's layout. Zhu Bomu was not angry after being exposed, he just smiled and said,""Yang Mu Bo is a good person. If it is possible in the future, I will spare his life.”
" My lord, that..." As he spoke, Mu Yong gestured to Zhu Bomu. Zhu Bomu followed his gesture and saw the young girl surrounded by the cavalrymen.
"Arrange a place for her to stay." After saying that, Zhu Bomu added,"Outside the town!"”
"Understood!" Li Dao nodded and then ordered his men to bring the young girl out of the inner town.
Zhu Bomu's territory was divided into an outer town and an inner town. From now on, the inner town would only be open to people or items produced by the system. After all, his core was here. As for the outer town, it was a place for outsiders.
For example, if he wanted to discuss matters with Yang Mubo and the others in the future, he would be in the outer town. Some of his family members would also be in the outer town, but he would also build a city wall in the outer town. Anyway, the system could build things very quickly, as long as there were enough resources.
Now, the resources that restrained Zhu Bomu were no longer wood and stone, but food and money, and these two things could only be obtained through trade.
This was also the reason why he had Li Dao establish a trade route and support the chieftains. After all, the chieftains of this era were still very rich...
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