"Okay, then choose a place as a market. When I have cloth, I will send someone to Xinye to promote it. Merchants from the north will naturally come to Fangling to buy cloth." Guan Ping said with a smile.

Xinye’s characteristic is Mi’s wine, which has been sold to East Asia and is a well-known trademark.

The merchants from north to south of Xinye gathered together. Since the north was short of cloth, if Fangling could produce cheaper and quality cloth, and Xinye was not far from Fangling, the merchants would definitely be willing to come to Fangling to buy cloth.

As Li Zhong said, this saves the labor cost of selling cloth.

As for where the market is located, it is of course a good ferry, and there is also a large piece of flat land near the ferry.

Since it is a market that sells cloth, it may form a small town.

Moreover, if the cloth business is too large and there is too much capital, you need to be careful to prevent someone from peeping. It is best to set up a township chief and recruit yamen runners for management.

Moreover, it is best to set up a military camp nearby.

Fire, theft and warlords are there.

As for the location of the market, Guan Ping immediately had a goal, so he first sent a civil servant to serve as the township chief and sent more minor officials to assist in construction and management.

In addition, factories were set up in nine counties, warships were built, recruiting and training recruits, and the construction of civilian troops in Fangling County was in full swing all of a sudden.

Let’s share the matter first. After a few days, Guan Ping will go to the market to take a look.

That morning, Guan Ping learned about it and came to the front yard of the prefect's yamen. In the front yard, there were a few miserable mountain people standing.

Guan Ping recognized one of them, the mountain man surnamed Zhang, whom he met while hunting that day. Among the mountain man, there was an old man with gray hair.

The old man was wearing a commoner's brown clothes and cloth shoes. The clothes were covered with pudding, which was very shabby. However, his eyes were extremely energetic and had the temperament of a scholar.

Guan Ping speculated that this person might be a secluded poor man.

"I have met the prefect." The mountain man Guan Ping knew immediately took the lead in salute after seeing Guan Ping. Guan Ping smiled and helped the old man up, then said, "I dare to ask the old man's name."

"Report to the adults, villain Zhang Bang." The old man replied respectfully.

Then Guan Ping talked with the old man and learned that the old man was indeed a poor man. Because of the government's excessive tax collection, he led the Zhang family to hide from the mountains, and his surname was one after another, so he became the size of thirty-two families.

Last time, Zhang Bang sent several mountain people down the mountain to sell fur and medicinal materials and met Guan Ping. These mountain people told Zhang Bang what Guan Ping said.

Seeing that life in the mountains was really hard and knew who Guan Yu was, Zhang Bang led people down the mountain to join. Currently, thirty-two families are gathered outside the city.

"From then on, my Zhang family has entrusted it to the prefect." Zhang Bang bowed respectfully and said.

"Mr. I am the prefect. Protecting the country and protecting the people is the responsibility, and I am unshirkable." Guan Ping helped Zhang Bang up and said generously, and then said with a kind look: "Sir, don't worry, there are many deserts outside the city. I will send someone to choose a wasteland and arrange for you to cultivate. Thirty-two households can be grouped into one li, and the old man will be the village chief."

"Thank you, Lord Prefect." Zhang Bang is a twilight old man. He doesn't care whether he is a village chief or not. Guan Ping's attitude is what he cares about, so he said gratefully.

Because this was the first group of black-dog mountain people who came down the mountain to join Guan Ping, Guan Ping attached great importance to it and asked Sun Gan to help him choose a piece of wasteland and arrange for the Zhang clan to settle down.

He also sent troops to help build the house. As for the others, the Zhang clan members dealt with it themselves. When they went down the mountain, they brought food, oxen, farm tools, and only the lack of food, clothing, housing and transportation was the only place to live.

Guan Ping did this very well. The government sent people to the mountains to promote it, and many mountain people went down the mountain to join Guan Ping.

As the number of accumulation becomes large, the population of Fangling County under Guanping is increasing slowly.

After a few more days, Guan Ping had time to go to the market with Li Zhong, the businessman. Zhou Xiong led his personal soldiers to protect Guan Ping.

As for the matter in the county, it was handed over to Sun Gan and Yiji to deal with it.

There were five businessmen at the beginning, and Guan Ping hoped to go out for 30% of his business. The other four went to other county towns to help with the factory. Only Li Zhong stayed in Fangling and became Guan Ping's business consultant.

It is early spring now. Although the cold winter has passed, the cold weather is still there and the weather is very cold. But in spring, there is plenty of rain. It just rained yesterday. The mountain road was difficult to walk. After it rained, it was even more muddy and walked south.

Guan Ping, Li Zhong, Zhou Xiong and a few others rode horses and walked carefully across the mountain road.

This road is muddy and difficult to walk on, but the road is quite wide. Guan Ping set out from Xinye to Fangling, and he walked this road.

But in winter, the road is dry and solid. Now the weather is raining a lot.

This was the first time Guan Ping took such a road, and his eyebrows were frowning deeply. From the morning to noon, Guan Ping and his group walked dozens of miles of mountain road.

The personal soldiers chose a place, surrounded the cloth and laid branches on the ground. Outside the surrounding, the personal soldiers buried pots and made rice. Inside the surrounding, Guan Ping and Li Zhong sat on a small stool together.

There was not even a wooden board during this trip. There was muddy land under your feet and branches were laid. The stool was also unstable and it was very uncomfortable to sit.

Guan Ping was very worried about such a road and said to Li Zhong: "This road is too difficult to walk. In the future, when the factory produces cloth, it also needs to be transported from various counties to markets for sale. Such a road will greatly affect the transportation of cloth."

Li Zhong nodded and bowed and said, "What the prefect said is very true."

This road actually seriously affected Fangling's commercial activities. Fangling produces fur and medicinal materials, which will delay the itinerary and increase the cost due to the road.

In addition, Fangling area is a remote mountainous area, so not many people are willing to come to Fangling area for commercial activities.

Even if Guan Ping set up the factory, he still needs to transport the cloth to the market beside the Hanshui River for sale, so that the merchants will be willing to come. Otherwise, who would be willing to walk more than a hundred miles of mountain roads to the county town to buy cloth?

Guan Ping recorded the matter and immediately sent a accompanying official back to Fangling and told Sun Gan that Yiji would build roads. Only the government will do such things.

If the government does not have enough manpower, then let the army help.

Anyway, Guan Ping was the prefect of Fangling, who was responsible for military and political affairs. Of course, if the army was asked for help, it would affect the training of soldiers. But as the saying goes, if you want to be rich, you must first build roads.

In the face of wealth and strong soldiers, Guan Ping first chose to build roads and be prosperous.

Besides, it shouldn't take too long to build a road. By the way, building a road is also a physical task, which can cultivate the physical strength of the soldiers.

This incident was just a small episode. On that day, Guan Ping and his group did not finish the mountain road and then set up camp in the mountains. In the evening of the next day, Guan Ping and his group had barely arrived at the market.

This is a small plain, with a large plain, and even a county town can be established.

The south of the plain is full of mountains and steep mountains, and the north is the Han River. The water flows in this section of the Han River are relatively gentle. The terrain of the plain is low on one side of the river bank and high on the other side of the mountain.

The market was built in the center of the small plain. At present, some houses have been built in this market, mainly warehouses and yamen.

In the future, inns, hotels and other facilities will be established to provide businessmen with a place to stay.

There is a ship business next to the market, and the ship business is building warships. This is what Guan Ping started to do when he pacified Fangling County.

As a navy army.

But now, the warships were not able to build several, but Guan Ping had already chosen the candidates for the navy, namely Liao Hua and Ding Feng.

The camps of these two people are arranged on the left and right sides of the market. While they are training on a daily basis, they are also responsible for protecting the safety of the market.

Guan Ping also considered selecting naval generals. He had not many generals under his command, and the rest were not suitable for naval generals for various reasons.

Ding Feng was from Yangzhou and later became the right Sima of the Eastern Wu, and had the attributes of a navy general.

Liao Hua is from Zhonglu, Xiangyang. Although he is very fat, he is good at water. In fact, the Jingzhou naval army can do it. He also has the attributes of a naval general under his influence.

Currently, the two men have 2,000 people under their command. Guan Ping’s plan is to expand the military power of his generals to 4,000 within two or three years.

That is to establish a scale of eight or nine thousand naval forces.

If the navy and infantry, which totals 30,000 to 40,000, has a size of that, its small fist will be a little bigger and it can show its muscles.

It seems that you can try it too if you attack Xiangyang in the east?

Anyway, whether Guan Ping studies water wheels, plows, Mi Liquor, or runs a factory, it is all for the purpose of enriching the country and strengthening the people. Isn’t it just to raise more troops, make the troops strong, and then expand his territory?

There is only one purpose.

It is to conquer Yizhou and Jingzhou according to Longzhong's correct ideas.

The reason why Guan Ping came here was not only to watch the market, but also to see the meaning of Liao Hua and Ding Feng, two veteran generals who had a long standby time.

Guan Ping first visited the market. Guan Ping set up a township chief in the market. In the future, this area may be a small town-sized place.

The township chief has a pavilion chief and a yamen runner under his command.

The township chief is Qian Sheng, an official in his thirties. He enthusiastically took Guan Ping to visit the market, but it is very deserted at present, with only a huge warehouse and a few buildings, so there is really nothing to visit.

Guan Ping also stayed here at night and had a rare fish.

Of course, there are also mountain streams and rivers in the deep mountains, but there are too many fish and thorns. Guan Ping ate pork most of the time in Fangling.

It was rare to come to the Han River and have a delicious meal of fish soup. There were two thousand soldiers stationed on the left and right here, so there was nothing to worry about.

At night, Guan Ping slept peacefully.

It’s just by the Han River that sounds loud. It’s more difficult to sleep in this place.

The next morning, Guan Ping woke up. The breakfast was rice porridge, eggs, and grilled fish. After eating and drinking, Guan Ping sat in the village chief's yamen and sent someone to invite Liao Hua and Ding Feng over.

Speaking of which, I haven't seen each other for a while, I don't know how this guy has lived.
Chapter completed!