Chapter 148: Establishment of Shanghai County
Zhen Yi didn't care much about the agent paper and printing, nor did he see it.
However, when he saw the paper sample that Lu Bu took out, Zhen Yi's eyes immediately lit up.
The quality of this paper is more than twice as good as the paper on the market now!
Once made, it will definitely be sold at a good price.
There is also the movable type printing technique mentioned by Lu Bu. As long as the template can be made, the printing efficiency can be several times higher than it is now.
The printing cost will also drop significantly!
These two types of transactions are definitely huge profits!
You know, what Lu Bu gave him was exclusive agency rights.
Regarding the improvements in papermaking and printing, Lu Bu specifically discussed with Professor Su that the best solution suitable for this period.
There are people in Lu Bu's hands, and the Zhen family has sales channels, and cooperation between the two parties is a win-win situation.
For the Zhen family, opening up a clan in the south can not only avoid the upcoming risks.
With the few exclusive agency rights given to him by Lu Bu, the development of the branch tribe can be not weaker than that of the main tribe.
Even with the development of time, it will be better than the main tribe!
For Lu Bu, just a few businesses now are enough for his current expansion and consumption.
Anyway, time is enough, and other things are done step by step.
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From now on, it will take less than five years to the eighteen princes of the 18th vassals to attack Dong Zhuo.
In the past five years, Lu Bu is preparing to focus on developing business.
Of course, agriculture is also a top priority.
Because whether it is to look at the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the key factors that support a war is food.
There are many battles that can be captured after another ten days and a half months of siege, but it is because of insufficient food that we have to retreat.
So in the past four years, you must hoard enough food.
But at present, although Lu Bu is the prefect of Wujun, he does not have his own land.
Large tracts of land are in the hands of the four major families, and it is difficult to move them at present.
Although you can buy grain with money, if the grain output does not increase, you can't buy much even if you want to!
It’s better to have your own land!
Although the large area of land is in the hands of the four major families, it should be possible to reclaim a piece of land by itself.
At present, Lu Bu is optimistic about one place, that is Shanghai!
Shanghai was later an international metropolis, the largest city in China and the second largest city in Asia.
Of course, in later generations, some areas of Shanghai were transformed through land reclamation.
The current area is incomparable to Shanghai in later generations.
There are still some saline-alkali land in Shanghai that cannot be cultivated, but there are still a lot of fertile land that can be cultivated.
Why was Shanghai the largest city in China in later generations?
There may be many reasons, but a superior geographical location is an important reason.
In the past four years, Lu Bu is preparing to break out of the territory of the four major families and focus on developing Shanghai as his own rear and base.
It seems that Shanghai did not have an advantage in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but in Lu Bu's opinion, Shanghai's location was still quite good.
Because he can develop a navy in Shanghai, build a wharf, and develop a navy of a certain scale. When attacking the Central Plains, he can attack from the sea without realizing it!
For this reason, it is necessary to develop Shanghai.
Thinking of all this, Lu Bu called Xun Yu and sent someone to inform Haiyan, Yuquan and Lou County, to prepare to go to the site to inspect the terrain in person.
Lu Bu brought Xun Yu, Dian Wei and a hundred members of the guard team and started to set off.
At noon, we finally arrived at the junction of the three counties. Haiyan, the county magistrate of Quan and Lou County, had already been waiting here.
After Lu Bu conducted field investigations of the terrain, he found that the location of Shanghai in later generations was located, but there were a few small fishing villages, and the rest were wasteland, and no one could cultivate them at all.
This saves him a lot of trouble.
So Lu Bu announced on the spot that he would separate the wasteland and establish a Shanghai county.
This place originally belonged to Haiyan, and was built on the territory of the three counties of Quan and Lou County.
Lu Bu did this, which was equivalent to splitting a piece from the territory of these three counties, which was also the purpose of Lu Bu calling the county magistrates of the three counties.
Fortunately, this place was completely wasteland, and the magistrates of the three counties had nothing to worry about, so they quickly agreed.
After all this, there was no such thing as these three county magistrates, and Lu Bu asked them to go back.
Then Lu Bu said to Xun Yu who followed him: "Wenruo, I plan to let you be the magistrate of Shanghai County and develop this place. What do you think?"
Looking at this barren land, Xun Yu couldn't help but feel speechless.
You fooled me from Luoyang, just to let me reclaim wasteland?
After a while, Xun Yu said, "The Prefect, I am afraid that Xun Yu will disappoint the Prefect!"
Lu Bu couldn't help laughing and said, "Wenruo, don't look at the desolate place now! But this prefect dares to say that in ten years, this place will surely become the largest city in the entire Han Dynasty!"
Looking at the wasteland in front of him, Xun Yu could not imagine what the largest city of the Han Dynasty looked like, and he couldn't help but curl his lips.
Lu Bu couldn't help laughing and said, "Wenruo, this is the case, first of all, I'm going to build a salt drying field nearby. This is the sample, you can take a look first."
Lu Bu handed Xun Yu a paper bag. After Xun Yu's eyes lit up after seeing the fine salt and tasted the fine salt, he immediately discovered the huge profit inside.
"Wenruo, I will use 30% of the profits of this salt drying farm to develop Shanghai County for you! At the same time, I will divide 30,000 troops into three batches, and each batch of 10,000 people will take turns to assist you in developing Shanghai County. Do you have confidence now?"
Now there are people and money, so you must have confidence!
Besides, Xun Yu also felt that he would feel very accomplished when he created a city from scratch.
After thinking for a while, Xun Yu said, "Lord, I want to dry the salt farm for 70% of the profit!"
Lu Bu couldn't help but laugh and said, "70% is absolutely not possible, too much! This prefect doesn't just want to develop this place, there are too many places that require money! You can give you 40% at most. How about it? If you think you can't do it, then I'll let Wenhe do this!"
Xun Yu immediately said, "Okay, 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40% of the 40%
Seeing Xun Yu agreeing, Lu Bu felt relieved.
In fact, Lu Bu felt that Xun Yu was arguing for doing this.
However, his subordinates are short of talents now, and only Xun Yu can do this.
It’s not impossible for Jia Xu, but Jia Xu has other work to do.
Jia Xu's work is mainly about intelligence work, which Xun Yu cannot do.
Chapter completed!