The widest place in Longquan Mountain is more than 40 miles from east to west, and the narrow place is twenty miles, and the north to south is four hundred miles, wrapping around the east side of the Chengdu Plain.

Qingcheng Mountain to the west is much higher and has a much larger depth, but the gentle slopes that were easy to develop in the late Han Dynasty were similar to Longquan Mountain.

In just a few days, Li Su traveled around the famous mountains around the Chengdu Plain from Nan'an to Chengdu, from Du'an to Mianzhu, and also went deep into the people to feel the vitality in full swing.

Longquan Mountain, which was cut off and bald, has been replanted and grafted at least 10 million mu of mulberry trees (more than 3 million mu of modern times). The scale of Qingcheng Mountain is similar. Even the children who were idle and had nothing to do have started to learn to pick leaves and raise silkworms.

Many wealthy families have learned to raise chickens in mulberry forests to drive away pests and diseases, and also used the remaining silkworm pupae to supplement feed after selling silk. For a time, the private chicken farming industry around Chengdu was at least several times more prosperous than in previous years. It was Li Su who cared for Zhuge Jin and should pay attention to promoting the people that the cocoons can be eaten directly by fire, which reduced some waste.

Of course, it is impossible to completely use all the silkworm pupa for people to eat. First of all, the chickens must be raised, otherwise the pests and diseases of mulberry trees will not be able to handle. Secondly, the shelf life of the silkworm pupa is not long after being dried. People can't finish eating it and can only taste it. The part that is not fresh after being left for a long time must be fed to the chicken, otherwise it will cause bad food.

Li Su personally visited the fields and asked about the yield. From the basic data of a tree that can raise silkworms in three seasons a year, the yield per quarter is six baskets, and then the density, average tree age, and detailed statistics are carried out at each layer.

Finally, it was finally calculated that after all these mulberry forests matured, the output was enough to feed the planned 100,000 brocade looms, and even 20 to 30% of the surplus.

The planned annual output of 100,000 brocade machines is 500,000 pieces of brocade. In other words, if all these mulberry silkworms are used well, they can produce 60 to 700,000 pieces.

The reason why people who plant mulberry trees "overheat in investment" in mulberry trees is because after the popularization of hydraulic silk reeling machines, the price of silkworm harvesting on the market has suddenly increased in the past two years, and how much they have been collected. Moreover, people have a three to five-year maturity lag period for planting trees, and no one has "big data" to calculate whether it is oversupply in a few years.

After all, Li Su also watched many programs from the Agricultural Station in his previous life. He knew that countless vegetable farmers lost money because of the loss incidents caused by "I saw that pumpkins are very expensive this year and that I would plant pumpkins next year, and that I would plant winter melons next year after I saw that winter melons are very expensive next year." Therefore, they are very vigilant about such overheating investment in agricultural overheating.

After visiting for a while, he couldn't help but ask Zhuge Jin: "Since it was called by the government, we must also make plans. You see, according to this trend, in two years, these additional sericulture mulberry-supplying hydraulic silk reeling workshops in Dujiangyan will be saturated.

Three years later, the government workshop will not be able to collect these goods. At that time, the people will either return to the state of hand-made silk reeling and work inefficiently, or they will sell silkworm cocoons at a low price. If we want the people to trust, we should tell them the risks in advance.

Otherwise, the cocoon will hurt the farmers, and the people will think that we are hoarding goods like those unscrupulous merchants, and deliberately put on a big deal to buy them, luring everyone to plant them and then stop them, and come to reduce the price. This will damage the king's prestige."

In fact, Li Su's way of giving extra farming to the people is already very benevolent. But after all, Liu Bei has not yet been elected as emperor and needs to invite people to buy people's hearts. Li Su and wealthy businessmen such as the Zhen family, as a relative of the foreigners, have made too much money, and they also have to show their benevolence and righteousness. Therefore, it is better to keep the market prices of silkworms, silk and brocade in each stage, stable, and it is also conducive to mobilizing the people in the future.

Zhuge Jin deduced it according to Li Su's model and found that it would indeed be acquisition saturation in 195 and structurally unsalable in 196.

Zhuge Jin couldn't help but sigh: "You are so amazing. This can be considered so far. We have never thought of calculating the farmers and governing the country. We always feel that the people will adjust themselves."

Li Su: "It is time for the people to adjust, but that kind of adjustment is accompanied by waste. Most of the people are ignorant. We can remind them as well. But this time it is not a big deal. We will use idle soldiers to dig mountains and split canals next year in Nan'an. After the repair, we can add a lot of water truck workshops, which is enough to digest the extra production capacity.

At that time, the cocoons are not enough, but when you plan again, you must calculate clearly that the planting area in Emei Mountain must not exceed that in Qingcheng Mountain, as that is just enough."

Zhuge Jin smiled proudly: "I will try my best to remind Chen Fujun, but I can't control the specifics."

Nan'an County is from Jianwei County and is the territory of the prefect Chen Shi.

After inspecting the surrounding counties, Li Su realized that in his farming plan, the silkworm breeding and silk reeling links were well prepared, and finally waited for the investment in private brocade looms to accelerate. It would be better to invest in the remaining 80,000 crossbow looms within three years, or even a little more.

After all, there will be a hydraulic workshop base in Nan'an County in the future, and the raw materials will be produced more, and the terminals will also be mobilized. At that time, the peasants in Jianwei County will also develop the good habit of working overtime to make money - this is nothing wrong. Although overtime is hard, the wages are made by piece-based people, and they are not earned by Li Su.

The government and the businessmen are nothing more than making a difference in selling semi-finished silk and collecting some patent fees and taxes. The big part is still the hard money of the people.

After finishing the inspection, Li Su analyzed to Zhuge Jin: "After all, the business atmosphere among the people is not strong enough, and it has not reached the level that ordinary people are willing to join the daily trade. If everyone knows how to improve efficiency and save time to do the work with the most added value.

Everyone sells the cocoons to the official workshop, then buys the reeled silk from the official workshop and returns the brocade to the official businessmen who buy it in a guaranteed manner. Private investment is at least twice as fast as it is now. As a county magistrate, you should find one or two counties and pilot it next year to allow all people to integrate into the 'commodity trading' and don't do your own."

Zhuge Jin also felt that Li Su’s ideals were very good, but he could not imagine how to encourage the people and turn them into keen on mutual communication.

"The idea is very good, but how can I achieve it?"

"There must be a solution. Let me think about how to proceed step by step." Li Su fell into deep thought.

The reason why Li Su dared to make this suggestion was because based on his later experience, he always felt that Chengdu was in a feudal era and had a very strong commercial atmosphere, and he had such development potential.

Historically, teahouses and bathhouses were everywhere in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the way people live together has been different from other places since ancient times - Li Su has observed this point today.

Li Su followed Liu Bei in Hebei for many years in his early years. He knew that in the rural areas of Hebei, dozens of houses were built together in a small village, and then the fields that each household had to plant were outside the village. The fields were far away from the houses, and it took several miles to get up and farm every day.

In the rural areas of Shu County, people's houses do not like to occupy good plains and land. Instead, they are either next to bamboo forests, or in small plots that are not very flat and not suitable for cultivation, so they build houses according to local conditions. Therefore, the farmers in Shu County live next to their own fields and go to the center of the village or town when they have to go to the market.

This is related to the peaceful customs of Shu since ancient times and the prosperity of the people. It not only saves high-quality arable land, but also does not have to worry about "hiding horse bandits and robbers who are robbed and killed because of the scattered people." And the villages with strong folk customs are crowded with walls outside, which is completely safe to consider.

In fact, this is the main reason why leisure commercial facilities such as teahouses and bathhouses in Chengdu are everywhere in later generations. Teahouses in Chengdu in the Ming and Qing dynasties not only provide people with tea, but also provide people with hot water for a long time to ensure that you have hot water to wash your face, hands or drink when you go there.

Because the farmers in Chengdu who were going to the market went to the village and town, they were too far away from their houses, so they had no place to ask for hot water and had to go to the teahouse. If it were rural Hebei, the house was in the village and town, and they just went back to their own homes, so there would be no need for so many "commercial infrastructure".

Li Su has been governing Sichuan for several years. When he saw the current lifestyle of people in Pi County, Chengdu, and Duan'an, he sometimes felt that it was quite painful. There were no teahouses, no bathhouses, and he was still scattered. As a result, everyone was in a mess when they went to the market. The poor people who had no place in the town reduced the number of times they went to the market. How could this commercial civilization be encouraged?

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Especially in ancient times, there were no thermos cups and no thermos bottles. It was a waste for each household to burn hot water by themselves. If it was too hot, it would cool down quickly. Burning every household means that each household would make a fire. It would be better to pay a portion of the firewood to the teahouse and bathhouse and buy hot water, which is efficient and encourages business transaction habits.

It is such a good place for public security, but the business atmosphere is not strong, which is too wasteful.

Now that Li Su is about to enter the third year of governing Shu, he feels that he can take action on the link of "cultivating a business atmosphere", so that his Shujin economy can be completely revitalized and all people can participate in the social division of labor, so that they will not feel that the transaction of "selling silkworms and buying silk and then selling brocade" is too cumbersome.

The large-scale division of labor in socialization requires multiple transactions in all links of the industrial chain!

After thoroughly understanding these principles, Li Su painted a cake for Zhuge Jin: "After the spring of next year, we will first build a group of my fiefdom, Pi County and Du'an County. The government organized the big households in each village to open teahouses and bathhouses in village markets. If you don't drink tea, you won't ask the people to collect tea money, and you will collect firewood.

For example, if a person burns the hot water needed for one day at his home, he needs to waste one fifth of the load of firewood by himself. Fifty households need hot water in a concentrated manner. If the supply is provided in different times, a total of three loads of firewood is only saved by 70% compared to each household who boils water by himself.

Let each household pay one tenth of the load of firewood per day, or three pounds per month. Then go to the teahouse and bathhouse in the middle of the village to provide him with hot water. Each household also has a good time. Today, these ten households use water at Chen, Shen, another ten households use water at Mao, Wei, and ten households use water at Si, You. The water-burning stove in the teahouse bathhouse can always be burned, saving firewood, and the people will also benefit.

Let the people develop the habit of going to the teahouse and bathhouse in the market every day. Those who want to drink tea can pay or give them their own tea leaves. If they want to drink hot tea, they will give them 20% more than the tea leaves they use. For example, if they drink one pound and give them two taels more. As the hard money and profits of the teahouse shopkeeper and the client, let the client help prepare tea.

When it comes to the season for collecting silkworm cocoons, you can even cook cocoons in the teahouse and bathhouse to boil them in hot water. After cooking, they can trade them there. The villagers come forward to negotiate with the government to buy silkworm cocoons and remove silk. If the poor people feel that the cash flow is not enough, they can make the big businessmen running teahouses quicken the black wooden boards and take white stone powder sticks to keep them on credit. Anyway, they are all acquaintances in the same village and they will not run away."

After hearing this, Zhuge Jin felt that Li Su's outline of the commercial society is quite simple and harmonious, but he was a little worried: "Everything else is good, but I'm afraid that the general's reputation will be damaged by that time."

Li Su: "What's the matter with my reputation?"

Zhuge Jin: "When gentry and bureaucrats in other counties and even other states heard this kind of style of governing Shu, they may rumor that the generals 'he is extravagant, and they make tea and bathe, and tempt the people under their rule to also make tea and bathe.' This is simply corrupting the customs of the people and is contrary to simplicity."
Chapter completed!