The winter in Liaodong Road comes a little earlier than that in Chang'an City.

Seeing that Chang'an City had just begun to cool down, the first snow in the 17th year of Zhenguan has arrived.

The white snowflakes are beautiful on the earth, floating around the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps.

"Zheng Hua, it snows today, do you still have to go to work?"

In Yangjia Village, Yang Yang saw Zheng Hua wearing a large cotton coat and heading towards the Corps' garrison, and couldn't help but ask.

"Village Chief, I heard that the rice wine produced in the Liaodong rice wine workshop is very good at Shiweiren and Jingleren. A small jar of two kilograms of rice wine can be exchanged for several high-quality animal skins. Nowadays, many businesses are queuing up at the entrance of the workshop, waiting to buy rice wine. So even if it snows, I have to go to the workshop to help quickly, so that I can't delay the production of rice wine."

Zheng Hua immediately had two more sons this year. He was only twenty-one years old and immediately felt that the burden on his body had become much heavier.

So after the rice planted was harvested, he immediately took two slaves to the Liaodong rice wine workshop as a helper, leaving his wife to take care of the children at home.

This Liaodong rice wine workshop is the winemaking workshop that was just built in the second half of this year. It is the first workshop in the Chuwangfu to support the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps and the third factory under the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps.

The cement workshops and blue brick workshops in front are all workshops with very mature technology. Without the help of the Chu Prince Mansion, Xue Rengui can find a suitable craftsman to build them himself, and even the patent fee for cement is not required.

But the winemaking workshop is different!

If it is just traditional, it is fine, but the difficulty is not very high. Xue Rengui can find craftsmen at any time.

But the high wine workshop is different.

Except for Atatu, who created a Baiyunbian in Yuzhang County, Hongzhou, which can be regarded as a high-level wine, the others are considered one, which is not as good as the burning knife of the King of Chu Mansion.

The winter in Liaodong Road is very cold. Not to mention others, even Xue Rengui himself likes to drink the burning knife.

However, not only is the long journey from Chang'an City to Liaodong Road, it is easy to break it because most of the roads are by land and the transportation volume is relatively limited.

However, the Liaodong Production and Construction Corps is now cultivating a large number of fertile fields to plant rice, and this year there will be a bumper harvest of rice.

Xue Rengui naturally would not dislike too much food, but it can be foreseen that there will be more food next year.

The Liaodong Production and Construction Corps itself cannot eat so much food, but if it is just selling grain, even if the rice price in Liaodong City is 20% or 30% higher than that in Chang'an City, the money a family can earn is very limited.

Because the Tang Dynasty's grain has been in a bumper state in recent years, the overall grain price is not high.

So after predicting this situation, Xue Rengui decisively began to plan a winemaking workshop and specially invited Li Kuan to arrange craftsmen to come and take charge.

This led to the additional helping income from farmers like Zhenghua.

"That's true. I heard that Governor Xue attaches great importance to the construction of Liaodong rice wine workshops. Now it has finally been put into production smoothly. We must let it play its due role."

As the village chief of Yangjia Village, Yang Yang was well-versed in the information about the Corps' garrison.

"Looking at this winter, the first snow has fallen. It is estimated that in another month, the road will be completely blocked with heavy snow. It will be very troublesome to travel. The winemaking workshop will start construction for at most another month, so it would be a pity even if it wasted a day."

"Then go, the wife at home is taken care of by me, and nothing will happen!"

As the commander of the sergeant, Yang Yang received three more female slaves than Zheng Hua, but he worked hard every day and just gave birth to a daughter this year, so he was so precious that he looked like Li Kuan, and he had a daughter slave again.

So after he took his servants to harvest the rice and sold the excess rice, he began to stay at home with his daughter.

My daughter, who had just become a full moon, could not have any interaction at all, but Yang Yang felt very satisfied.

"Okay! When I was off work, I brought a bottle of Liaodong rice wine back. When the road was blocked with heavy snow, I would take a few pheasants and wild boars, which would be used to make wine!"

After Zheng Hua finished speaking, he led two servants to the station of the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps.

...

"Rengui, the caravan has brought back several more carriages today. The money of these Hu people is really easy to make."

Li Xueyan held a piece of purple marten in her hand and gently stroked it.

Such a high-quality purple marten fur is placed in Chang'an City, and there are not many gold coins, so you can buy it even if you don't think so.

But in the hands of the Marines, only a jar of Liaodong rice wine is needed.

No wonder when the caravan returned from transporting the skins for the first time, a bunch of merchants came to Liaodong City, wanting to buy rice wine from Liaodong rice wine workshop.

"So what the prince said is right. No matter where you are, as long as you find the entry point, you can make the people rich. For example, Liaodong Road, in the past, the people of Guanzhong Road would not consider this bitter and cold place. But since this year's bumper grain harvest, I think the attraction here has suddenly increased.

Safety is guaranteed and food is guaranteed. Except for the colder winter, this place is not worse than Guanzhong Road. I guess the farmers who are willing to join our Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps next year will increase by at least 30%.

Although Xue Rengui had tens of thousands of subordinates in his hands, throwing these tens of thousands of yuan into Liaodong Road would be like no one.

Even if the area is now concentrated near the station, it has only formed several small towns, far from reaching the level of population saturation.

According to the big cake painted by Li Kuan for Xue Rengui, the crop area planted by the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps must exceed that of Guanzhong Road and must be able to directly feed half of the population of the Tang Dynasty.

Now it's still far from this goal.

"I also drank Liaodong rice wine. Although the taste is very sharp, it is still worse than the roasted knife. The jars of these wines are also very ordinary. Who knows that they are so popular in the eyes of the Marine and Shiwei people. Especially when I heard that some Marine tribes living in the mountains and forests are even willing to trade a tiger skin for two jars of rice wine, it is too exaggerated.

However, if you simply transport the leather to Chang'an City for sale, I think it's a pity. If you can find the right craftsman and directly process the leather into finished products at the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps station, then the profit will definitely double.

Of course, we can also imitate the Tang Dynasty Trading Center in Chang'an and build a Liaodong leather trading center near the base, so that more people can actively transport the animal skins. After purchasing and processing, we can transport them back to Chang'an City for sale.

At that time, our Liaodong Production and Construction Corps will not need the court to allocate funds, and will directly achieve self-sufficiency. It can also reclaim more land and plant more food, so as to achieve the 'small goal' set by the prince as soon as possible."

Speaking of this, Li Xueyan couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with Li Kuan's younger brother.

The grain planting area of ​​the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps did not reach 10 million mu, so the governor Xue Rengui was not allowed to leave Liaodong.

Isn’t this a force to force people to do it!

Ten million acres, how easy is it?

So the small goal is not small at all.

"Well, with you, my good wife, I finally sorted out the matters of the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps, so I don't have to be busy every day."

If he accidentally got a handful of dog food to the maid standing next to him.

"If I had half of Li Kuan's ability, you wouldn't have to be so busy this year. It was also a workshop, a group of people paving the roads, and a caravan was needed to raise a caravan to make money for the corps. I see that you are tired of having several white hair grows out."

"It's better to have white hair than those who don't even have hair? Look at Mao Sheng from the cement workshop, who is only in his thirties, his hair on his forehead has fallen out, his head is bald, and he looks like he's a monk from afar."

"How could you make fun of others like this!"

The couple chatted there like this.

After a year of construction, the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps has begun to take shape and will soon be completely on track.

By then, the Tang Dynasty will have completely gained a foothold in Liaodong.

Going to Liaodong can make a lot of money.

This is the easiest way to attract the flow of people to Liaodong.

Even if you just go to the Liaodong Road Production and Construction Corps to be a farmer and plant 100 acres of rice, you can earn a lot of money in a year.

Because the rice yield here is a few percent higher than in other places, and in order to increase farmers' income, Xue Rengui asked the winery workshop to purchase the extra rice produced by farmers in the Corps at a price higher than 30% of the market price.

Anyway, one pound of rice wine consumes two pounds of rice. Even if the price of rice doubles, the cost of making wine is very low.

However, a pound of rice wine can be exchanged for a gold coin or even more expensive animal skin from the hands of the militarists. The profit in it is definitely higher than the money you get.

...

"Langjun, in the past few days, people from the North Goguryeo have entered our Liaodong Road from the Yalu River, and there are more and more trends. Should we stop them?"

In the domestic city, Cheng Chuliang sat on a grandma chair with a big sword, holding a roast lamb leg in his hand, and ate with relish.

An aide next to him was reporting to him.

As a domestic city garrison, Cheng Chuliang lived a comfortable life this year.

Whether it is the Marine people in the north or the Northern Goguryeo people in the east, they were just taught a lesson by the Tang Dynasty last year and are now as obedient as their grandson.

Every day, he not only trained his soldiers, but also hunted everywhere under the name of patrol.

A paid trip.

"Why should we stop these Goguryeo people who are willing to come to our Tang Dynasty. I want as much as I have. As long as it is not the kind of old, weak, sick and disabled, we will arrange them to Liaodong City, and then Xue Rengui will consider whether to leave them in the Production and Construction Corps or send them to Shuozhou to plant cotton."

Northern Goguryeo under King Gaozang was the most barren piece of land among all the areas of Goguryeo back then.

Here, winter comes very early, not only the temperature is very low, but also lacks fertile land. It is generally all kinds of mountains, which is in sharp contrast with Liaodong Road opposite the Yalu River.

At that time, King Gaozang took over a lot of people and followed him to the north. Later, under the deliberate arrangement of Li Kuan, King Gaozang's Northern Goguryeo and Gao Jianwu's Southern Goguryeo, as well as the Goguryeo Kingdom that Yoon Gaisuwen insisted, formed a three-legged situation.

Whoever has more power than the sum of the other two families, Cheng Chuliang, who is stationed in the domestic city and Pyongyang's navy will help the other two countries.

Anyway, you have to live in peace, there is no problem.

There is no problem for you to compete for territory.

But if anyone wants to unify the Three Kingdoms, then I feel embarrassed and don’t even think about it.

Therefore, the small Korean Peninsula now has five countries, namely Goguryeo, Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje, as well as the enclaves occupied by the Japanese, and the leased land occupied by the Tang Dynasty Navy, forming a super complex situation.

Jin Shengman, who had an idea in his mind, saw that the Tang Dynasty naval commander actually sold a large number of weapons to Nangoguryeo to defend against Silla's attack, immediately extinguished his idea of ​​continuing to move south.

So a relatively strange and peaceful situation is now maintained on the Korean Peninsula.

However, no matter how calm the situation was and after being damaged by war, the grain output in Goguryeo, north and south, and the living standards of the people decreased significantly.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be any situation when the surface of the Yalu River freezes, people from North Goguryeo will escape to the domestic city.

"General, if this is the case, it would be better for us to simply arrange some people who escaped from Beigoguryeo to go back and let them promote it. They said that the domestic city will treat every person who comes to the trap and provide everyone with food, clothing and housing. At that time, there will definitely be a large number of people who come to the trap."
To be continued...