Author: big bell

To form a caravan, you must have people who are good at exploring the market and a escort team.

For Da Qin, which had suppressed business for a long time, it was not easy to find people who were good at opening up the market, but Li Zhao didn't worry about this. Since Gao Fugui was put in charge of the caravan, he let him look for it.

As for the escort team, this is very simple. There are hundreds of escort teams in Chang'an Township, so sending one or two hundred is not a problem.

This matter was initially decided, so Li Zhao let Gao Fugui do it.

After doing all this, he asked Ah Chao to find some literate people with experience in making firearms among the craftsmen, and prepare to set up a manufacturing school.

In the future, using agricultural machinery or even manufacturing agricultural machinery if conditions permit will require professional knowledge, and this professional knowledge can only be learned in school.

It is necessary to open manufacturing schools to teach manufacturing knowledge.

And it is very important. Although Li Zhao will be a little busier if he has one more thing to do, there is no other way. In the initial stage of starting a business, being busy is inevitable.

Moreover, agricultural machinery is only one aspect. When the conditions for machinery manufacturing are mature, he will also prepare to manufacture more things, such as textile machines and bicycles.

Clothing, food, housing and transportation are necessities in human life. Clothing comes from many sources, but in the era when men farmed and women weaved, they were often obtained by spinning.

Most of the textiles in this era were artificial, relying entirely on human power. Textile machines were relatively backward and naturally not very efficient.

Since commerce is to develop, industrial development is necessary. The prosperity of general commerce cannot be without the driving force of industry. Textile can be the beginning.

Li Zhao's idea is very simple, which is to use textile machines to improve the efficiency of textiles, thereby reducing the cost of clothing and making it affordable for everyone.

For food, with the existence of hybrid rice, it should be able to solve the problem of food and clothing within two years. After all, the Qin Dynasty only has a population of 20 million. It is enough to produce two crops of high-quality rice per year, plus a yield of more than ten shi per mu.

Living is also a way to make money. Mr. Shen is making cement and bricks. When these things are found to be good things, they must be in hot demand again.

With a wall made of cement, even if there are continuous heavy rains and strong winds, it will not be damaged at all. Of course, when conditions are ripe in the future, he will also prepare to manufacture steel and add steel to the building, which will be even better.

OK, the current means of travel are generally horses and carriages, but for ordinary people, horses are expensive and cannot be bought at all. Naturally, walking has become a daily routine, but if bicycles are manufactured, it will be different.

It speeds up their pace of life and is definitely a convenience.

Li Zhao thought about it and became more certain about the necessity of opening a manufacturing school.

Manufacturing is nothing more than smelting iron, then performing various operations on the iron to obtain components, which are then assembled to become a machine.

After the manufacturing school is built, he is also planning to get the necessary things for manufacturing machinery so that students can conduct on-site operations while learning, which will help them become familiar with it faster.

To make a machine, in addition to the necessary processes, you must also have auxiliary equipment, such as lathes, milling machines, planers, grinders, drilling, stamping, etc. It is currently difficult to manufacture these auxiliary machines, but you can start from

You can buy it in department stores, and the crafting secrets can also be bought in stores.

So, all this is no longer a problem.

Getting rich is only a matter of time. With these things, he can foresee that within five years, he will become the richest man in Xianyang, and he will not give in to the wealthy businessmen of the six countries.

As for whether his craftsmanship will be stolen by others, he is not worried. These craftsmen are all people from the iron smelting base and are slaves of Chang'an Township. There are very few people who believe that they have bad intentions. Even if they have bad intentions, , being in such a secret place in the base is equivalent to being physically isolated, making it impossible to spread the word.

Even if there is a chance to spread the word, what can be spread? The manufacturing of machinery is about specialization, that is, if one person builds a kind of component, it will be useless if it is spread out.

Therefore, Li Zhao is very reassured about this aspect, but what he is less confident about is the manufacturing of cement. Cement will be a revolution in the construction industry and will definitely become a lootable item, which will naturally lead to some people looking at it with eager eyes.

Once the cement formula is leaked, it will have a great impact on the cement workshop. It will be difficult to monopolize the industry. Therefore, when he handed over the cement formula to Mr. Shen, he sent someone to secretly observe whether Mr. Shen had any second thoughts and observed it for a period of time. There was nothing abnormal, so he was relieved. Of course, he also reminded Mr. Shen that if the secret was leaked, the consequences would be serious. Of course Mr. Shen knew the severity, he was a reliable person.

Two days later, Ah Chao brought back thirty craftsmen, and the manufacturing school began.

Li Zhao became very busy, teaching two classes of students in the morning, and writing and drawing in the afternoon, but no one knew what he was drawing.

If you look closely, you will find that it is a blueprint that covers the entire desk, with some things drawn crookedly on it.

If you take a closer look, you will vaguely feel that the things in this painting are somewhat familiar, as if they are very similar to the layout of Afang Palace.
Chapter completed!