In the eyes of many people, doing business is selling things, but it is not like this. It is business that can be bought and sold. Huo Hai has to do a lot of things to make money from others and strengthen his own strength. Then he needs a lot of raw materials to make products. In addition to selling some Heishanzhai's output, these stores purchase various raw materials, publish various recruitment information, or help Huo Hai collect local information, which is the most important business of these stores.

Only people like Huo Hai who come from later generations know the importance of information.

What we need to talk about for a meal is definitely not just salt. Cattle and sheep-skin goods are also supplies that Huo Hai needs for a long time and a large amount of time, because this is Hebei, and there is no warm enough clothes here, which will freeze people to death and will greatly restrict the production of the people here.

For example, now, when it snows heavily, it is difficult for everyone to go outside to chop firewood and find dead grass to feed cattle and horses. That is, there are not many cattle and horses in the village now, and they can live by relying on some grain and bran. There are really thousands or tens of thousands of heads. The fodder needed to be consumed every day is amazing. A large number of people need to go to the mountains to harvest. Without clothes to keep warm, they will be frostbite.

Pottery, iron, and copycats can be manufactured in large quantities and batches, which is lower than the cost of supporting a group of people by Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang and others to make them by themselves, and the output is much higher.

In this regard, before Huo Hai spoke to the two of them, they took the initiative to give a price that was much more concession, because they were looking forward to how much Huo Hai could grow and grow in the future? They were not even worried about Huo Hai's entanglement with the Taiping Sect.

If Taiping Sect really succeeded, they would definitely occupy an important position under the new system. This is a very common method of betting on both sides by aristocratic families and even some powerful people in this era.

Even if the Taiping Sect fails to succeed in the end, as long as the Taiping Sect is launched, the losses they both will definitely suffer will be minimal, because the Taiping Sect will not compete for the Zhang and Su families that cooperate with themselves.

For similar investments, if they were in troubled times, the two of them might invest in more masters, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei in history, but they have all received funding from their two families.

Beer is also easy to get drunk because it was brewed by Huo Hai himself with barley, and the degree is several times higher than the Ha beer he brought with him, reaching about ten degrees.

So, in the end, the two were carried down to rest. However, Chu Yan, who had a high alcohol tolerance and had a rare drink, sat on the table and did not get up after they were sent away, and grabbed Huo Haidao, "Sir, planning for my Heishan Village has indeed made us smooth sailing and growing rapidly. However, Heishan Village belongs to the Taiping Cult. Our Taiping Cult has what we need to do. You cannot make the decision for us!"

"Is that so? But what I want to do does not conflict with what you want to do!" Huo Hai sat down and looked at Chu Yan and said.

"We want to rebel, overthrow the foolish monarch Liu Hong, and save the suffering people all over the world. But sir, you just want to save the people in the village, just want to protect yourself." Chu Yan said generously.

Huo Hai raised his eyebrows and looked at Chu Yan's face with a few pockmarks. He didn't expect that this kid would still have the whole world!

"Are you sure, I'll explain it to you clearly, do you understand?" Huo Hai said seriously.

After hearing what he said, Wang Dang and Du Chang, who had not left on the side, immediately showed a look of anticipation, wanting to listen to Huo Hai's speech.

"Why do you think that if the current emperor is overthrown, the world will definitely be better?" Huo Hai first asked everyone a question.

Obviously, Chu Yan couldn't answer the correct answer to this question, but he had a fanatical belief in Zhang Jiao and said, "A great wise and good teacher must be more capable of governing the world than that foolish monarch."

Huo Hai smiled and shook his head, "Do you want to jump ten feet high, lift ten thousand pounds, or fly in the air?"

Chu Yan didn't know what Huo Hai meant, so he answered Huo Hai, "I want to."

"Then can you do it?" Huo Hai asked again.

Chu Yan shook her head and said, "No."

"Zhang Jiao's current situation is that he wants to manage the country and the people well, but he can't do it. It's as difficult as if you want to jump ten feet high and lift ten thousand pounds and fly in the air." Huo Hai used the simplest metaphor and told Chu Yan in a simple way.

"Why do you think that great wise men and good teachers can't do it?" Chu Yan said dissatisfied.

"By his subordinates, there are not many scholars, and he cannot get the support of the aristocrats who have mastered knowledge and production technology. Take you as an example. Can you calculate how much food do you eat in the more than 20,000 people in Black Mountain eat in a day? Can you calculate how much land they need to plant to support themselves? Can you take them to plant good fields?

I guess you can't. Look at the people in the parody. No one organizes them. They are just a mess. They don't know what they should do and can't think of a way to solve their own difficulties.

Most of the leaders of Taiping Cult elsewhere are not as good as you. They don’t know the big words, can’t manage the people well, and can’t manage production well. How can they govern the country?

Of course, this is not the most critical. The most critical part is the strategy you use to encourage the people, attack counties, and encircle more people to rob more places. In the end, all prefectures and counties are captured and the rule of the court collapsed.

Do you know what the consequences will be if the people across the country don’t farm and follow you to rebel?

By the second year, when people want to farm, they probably don’t have any grain to plant. When the crops grow and can be eaten in the second year, more than half of the people may have starved to death. Do you know what these hungry people will do before they starve to death? You should know.

They will lose their minds and continue to rob those who have food in their hands, and they are not afraid of death. The final result will be even more terrifying than half of death. A situation of one or two of them may occur. Who will bear the consequences? Who will bear the responsibility?"

Huo Hai's speech was very simple and easy to understand. After he finished speaking, Chu Yan was stunned and kept fantasizing about the consequences of not farming for a year. The more he thought about it, the more terrifying he felt.

When everyone farms, there are so many people who have no food to eat and everyone does not farm. Then isn’t this world a hell on earth?

It’s so scary to think about it!

"Young Master is the top wise man in the world. Even if you are your brother, you dare to question him... Alas..." Chu Yu sighed and asked Huo Hai with his eyes. She felt that she should tell her brother that Huo Hai was from the sky.

After all, he is the creditor of Heishan Village and the commander of Jifeng Camp. Although both Jifeng Camp are more willing to listen to Huo Hai, as one of the core figures of the Jifeng Camp, he should be consistent with Huo Hai's ideas and maintain unity.

Huo Hai knew what she meant. After thinking about it, he nodded to Chu Yu, and pointed at Chu Yan and said, "From tomorrow, teach him how to write and arithmetic. One hour before going to bed every day, you can't sleep without learning enough. Chu Yu, you supervise."

"Me, why am I learning that thing?" Chu Yan grabbed her scalp and wondered.

For him, reading and literacy can make him feel uncomfortable than practicing the stone lock for half an hour.

"Don't you care about the world? Do you still want to save more people?" Huo Hai asked Chu Yan.

"Save the people, I just need to have martial arts skills!" Chu Yan clenched his fists and said.

"How many people can be killed with martial arts? How many people can be saved? If you really want to go to the battlefield in the future, you can't even understand a more complicated military order and convey it. How many people do you think you can lead?"

Huo Hai asked a series of questions, and Chu Yan was stunned. At this time, he realized that the reason why those great gentry were able to hold high positions was not without reason. They could manage thousands or even tens of thousands of people under their jurisdiction to focus on production. There was no obstacle to communication with the imperial court's government orders. This was the shortcomings of the Taiping Cult. Huo Hai was helping them make up for their shortcomings.

Chu Yan, who figured this out, finally knew why Zhang Bao handed over the commander's order to Huo Hai, and he might not even have the qualifications to be a commander of the small party.

"From today on, I will study hard. Sister, let's go and study here." Chu Yan is not a petty person. After he figured out the matter, he was impatient to do it.

However, with his current level, he has not yet reached the level of being able to understand a certain book, and he has to start with the most basic literacy. Therefore, Chu Yu could only teach him Chinese pinyin first, and all the sergeants and above in the infantry battalion and the wind battalion were also studied at the same time.

You are not afraid of ruthless rebels, but you are afraid of thieves being educated. In history, those who have successfully rebels are either educated people or continue to learn during the rebellion to make themselves more educated.

Huo Hai has done what he should do, so he can only wait for the result next. No one asked him to save more people, or to solve all the problems of this era.

Just like now, he doesn't know some changes outside Montenegro.

In Zhangjiao, Guangzong County, he was taking a silk book that recorded all the things Huo Hai did in Heishan Village and watching carefully. Before his case, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were looking at him nervously.

After he put down the silk book, Zhang Liang asked him impatiently, "Is it him?"

"It's roughly nothing wrong." Zhang Jiao looked up at the Heavenly Dao.

"That……"

Zhang Liang wanted to speak but stopped, but Zhang Jiao showed a relieved expression and said, "This is our fate. I will see him once before the uprising."

"What should we do now?" Zhang Bao said openly.

Since you have embarked on the road to confront heaven, you need to be firmer. How can those who cherish their lives achieve great things?

"Satisfies him, let him let go of whatever he wants to do." Zhang Jiao looked at Zhang Bao and said.

"He seems to be more interested in attracting the people and doing business. There are now more than 20,000 people in Heishan who have no food to eat to do things with him. Moreover, he has already established relationships with the Zhen family, the Guo family, the Zhang family and the Su family. These are all northern merchant families." Zhang Baodao.

"Can business save the people?" Zhang Liang frowned.

He is not like Zhang Jiao, who has absolute belief in some tips in "Taiping Qingling", nor has he met Huo Hai himself like Zhang Bao. He currently has more doubts about Huo Hai.

"More than 20,000 elderly, weak, women and children who have no food to eat have gathered. It has been two months since I have not starved to death. This is a skill that we cannot achieve." Zhang Baodao.

"I want to see how capable he is." Zhang Liang said dissatisfied. After he decided to go back, he mobilized all the people in his jurisdiction who had no food to go to Heishan.
Chapter completed!