The big man has a living father

Chapter 45 Black and White Bear
More than two hundred soldiers and their relatives and families were to be assembled.

This news was soon put in front of Huo Qubing.

So, Huo Hai was waiting for everyone to gather, but Huo Qubing arrived first before anyone else.

"Second brother, what are you waiting for here?"

Huo Hai: "I'll wait for your troops to gather."

Two hundred people gathered and took their families with them. Are they planning a rebellion? Huo Qubing: "You want to kill people?"

Huo Hai thought about it and realized that there was no one so annoying that he had to be cut off: "Not yet."

Huo Qubing: "Since you are not going to kill anyone, why did you gather so many people? What do you want to do? Aren't you afraid that you will be surrounded by the Imperial Guards before you even walk two miles?"

Huo Hai: "I'll take them to dinner."

Huo Qubing was confused now: "Eat?"

Huo Hai explained the whole story.

Huo Qubing: "Are you sure that your...project can make them money?"

Huo Hai said seriously: "Absolutely no problem. Although Your Majesty wants to take the lion's share, I can only give them a little bit, but the dividends will definitely not be low. They are all original shareholders. In the future, any one of them will be a wealthy man in Chang'an City."

Seeing that Huo Hai had no intention of cheating them, Huo Qubing did not ask any more questions: "By the way, I have been teaching my soldiers to read recently, but a large number of them find it very difficult to learn. I find it difficult for them to find the rules and methods of learning. Do you have any ideas?"

Huo Hai was puzzled: "Rules? Methods?"

After thinking for a while, Huo Hai realized that what they were learning now was Cangjie script, and it was in seal script, and there was no pinyin. It was rote memorization, and the learning difficulty was extremely high.

So, should pinyin be released first or should primers be released first?
Or... can we go out together?

Huo Hai: "Yes, there is a way. Is it urgent?"

Huo Qubing: "It's not urgent, but it's not completely unurgent either."

"Okay, I'll give it to you before the Spring Festival." Huo Hai waved his hand.

Huo Qubing was suspicious: "Spring Festival?"

Huo Hai thought about it for a while. It seems that the Spring Festival was changed in modern times. What was it called before? New Year's Day?
"New Year's Day for you?"

Huo Qubing: "New Year's Day?"

Huo Hai: "I'll give it to you before the New Year."

Huo Qubing nodded: "How can we wait that long? Maybe within a month."

"One more thing, when was your birthday?"

Eh? Don't you care whether you agree or not? But this thing is not difficult, so Huo Hai didn't think much about it.

But the issue of birthdays made Huo Hai scratch his head. His mother could not read, and when he came here, his previous life had disappeared. Moreover, his previous life had never been educated and knew nothing, let alone birthdays.

Huo Qubing: "You don't know, right? This is easy. Just make sure the end of the year is your birthday."

Huo Hai smiled and said, "How about December 28th? Two days earlier."

If I celebrate my birthday on the Chinese New Year, wouldn’t I have to miss out on a big meal? Not worth it!
Huo Qubing smiled and said, "Do you want a coming-of-age gift? Although you are not yet twenty, you have already entered the officialdom, so you can just be considered as a coming-of-age gift."

Huo Hai became interested when he heard it: "It's true!"

"There is an animal in Shu, it's black and white, it looks like a bear and a cat! I want one as a pet... a pair, a pair!"

Huo Hai was afraid that Huo Qubing's men would capture two adults, so he gestured to compare their lengths and said, "One this big will do."

Huo Qubing touched his chin and nodded: "Simple."

……

After Huo Qubing knew the whole story, the two hundred soldiers and their wives and children, a total of six hundred people, were assembled.

You know, some soldiers didn’t have children yet, so some of them were asked to bring two. Anyway, a total of 600 people were gathered.

A large group of 600 people set off following Huo Hai's car.

Steelmaking has already started in recent days.

The first batch of bricks were not used to build houses, but to build a brick factory.

With the establishment of a brick factory, the kiln firing speed increased greatly, and then blast furnaces were built.

If this happened in modern times, it would be impossible to build so many buildings so quickly without tens of millions of dollars.

But now, there are more than 10,000 young and strong laborers here, and they are the kind that are willing to work hard and complete the assigned tasks quickly.

Huo Hai's followers had already learned how to make miniaturized equipment, and they also obtained Huo Hai's large-scale design drawings. With these people, they quickly put the equipment into production.

Of course, the quality of the products in the early stage was unstable, and the yield rate was only 30%.

But fortunately, the foundation has been established and can be improved slowly.

However, the molten iron produced by a blast furnace, even a Song-style blast furnace, is no joke. Each time it is produced, it can produce raw materials for thirty cars. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of manpower on the car manufacturing side. The new apprentices have not yet learned the craft, and the original casting method is too poor. It is too late to cast in one piece, so the only way is to use the forging method.

This speed is very slow. Even if the large parts are cast, the production of small parts is also very slow.

So only seven cars were built in total. Fortunately, the apprentice was also a blacksmith and was able to get the hang of it quickly.

Huo Hai also took away all seven cars and let the children sit in them.

Both the soldiers and the women were shocked as they had never seen a car that could carry more than twenty children.

Huo Hai's new cars, which had no roofs, quickly attracted the attention of passers-by as they drove through the city.

"Isn't that Mr. Huo?"

"This car...hiss, how can it carry so many people? How heavy must it be?!"

"This car has four wheels, which is different from the common horse-drawn carriage."

"There are carriages with four wheels, but these wheels seem to be different. Isn't this the key to load-bearing?!"

"This horse can actually pull without any effort? If it is used to pull food, wouldn't it be able to pull several times more than it does now?"

The starting and ending points are several times larger. It can only carry twenty children because the carriage is only that big. It is different when carrying inanimate objects.

In this era, nothing is more expensive than transportation.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a king who had to pull a very heavy object back to the capital from hundreds of miles away. He could only build a special vehicle with special wheels, so he made wheels out of bronze and iron.

As a result, because the vehicle could not bear the load, a wheel was damaged every two miles and a new one had to be replaced.

Considering the manpower required to stabilize the goods, the manpower required to change the wheels, and the food these people need to eat during the long transportation process, it actually cost hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to transport a single item hundreds of miles!

The Han Dynasty often built palaces, and huge logs were pulled from Shu, Chu and other places to Chang'an. The transportation cost of each log was thousands of strings of cash.

Poor vehicle quality, poor axle load-bearing capacity and poor wheel wear resistance are the biggest factors restricting business.

At this time, in the mausoleum town of Chang'an, those big families and those people who had been doing business all year round saw Huo Hai's car and the terrifying load-bearing capacity, and business ideas popped up in their minds one after another like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

"Second Master Huo, are you selling this car?"

"Second Master Huo! Second Master Huo!"

Huo Hai was like a rich will-o'-the-wisp who had to step on the gas when he saw a crowd of people on the street while driving a cannon car, and he pulled the matching bell: "Be careful of a car crash!"

"How much are you prepared to pay for it?"

Someone compared the numbers.

Huo Hai: "Let me guess with you?"

That person: "Five hundred strings of cash!"

Five hundred strings of cash? The cost is four strings of cash!
Huo Hai laughed: "Am I the kind of person who drives up prices? I'll sell this car for fifty strings of cash."

"But if you're in a hurry, you'll have to pay more."

That person: "Then where can I buy it, Mr. Huo?"

Huo Hai: "When Huo's car dealership opens, it means that sales will begin."

"Come on, make way. We are in a hurry to have lunch. If we go too late, we won't be able to eat anything. Make way!"

Two hundred soldiers went straight forward to clear the way, and the team moved faster.

Huo Hai wanted to go to the north of the city. Although there were many neighborhoods in the north of the city, the residential areas were very small, so there were actually a lot of farmland on both sides of the highway from the neighborhoods to the Wei River.

The western part belonged to Princess Wei Chang and other princesses, while the eastern part belonged to Shanglin Garden.

Now, the large area near the Wei River has been taken over by Huo Hai. Currently, Bu Shi arranges for the old and weak Xiongnu who returned from the south to live here.

Then we started to enclose the pasture and build pens for cattle and sheep.

Because the cattle and sheep in Liu Che's hands were currently scattered in imperial farms throughout the capital, he had to wait until Bu Shi had planned the cattle and sheep pens before he could send the Xiongnu women to drive the cattle and sheep over.

Many people knew about this, including the soldiers.

The highest ranking officer among the 200 soldiers was one of Huo Qubing's personal soldiers, named Tian Jue. Tian Jue said, "Second Master, are we going to the cattle and sheep farm? Are we going to eat dairy products for a month? It's too late to do it now."

"Or do you want us to share the Huns' food?"

Huo Hai rolled his eyes: "I am the one who pays to support the Xiongnu people. It would be better to eat my brother's food in the Huo Mansion than to eat theirs."

Tian Jue scratched his head: "Where are we going then?"

Huo Hai said happily: "Of course it's in His Majesty's land in the north of the city. There's food there."

Tian Jue's eyes widened: "Are we going to steal His Majesty's food?"

Is this a capital crime?
Huo Hai whipped his horse whip and said, "Don't worry, the guards will definitely beg you to eat."

(End of this chapter)