Mythical Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1907: Chapter 1742: Piercing the Window Paper

However, after quickly glancing over the other civil officials under Liu Bei, he found that they all wore expressions of ”I knew it would be like this.” The other civil officials were already aware.

None of the people under Liu Bei were afraid; after all, Chen Xi had been doing this for so many years, Liu Bei’s strength increased day by day, and besides, they weren’t blind. Chen Xi’s guidelines were impeccable; even if something minor was missing, they would undoubtedly notice before it became a major issue.

Of course, this method might lead to dependency, but they were prepared to accept that. Moreover, Xun Yu was ready to merge, so it was irrelevant, and Zhou Yu was attentively listening, absorbing the information, intending to use it as reference later. Chen Xi’s practical skills were definitely worth it.

”Jia Wenhe, you are in charge of animal husbandry and related upstream and downstream industries, like wool spinning, meat materials, feed, good breeds, and large ranches on the grasslands. All of these are yours,” Chen Xi said to Jia Xu with a cheerful smile.

”I knew long ago that when you asked me to handle livestock management, you didn’t have good intentions,” replied Jia Xu, too lazy to say anything else, addressing Chen Xi with displeasure.

Chen Xi wasn’t bothered by Jia Xu’s words trying to block him. He simply smiled and said, ”The reason for letting you do this is primarily because you’re good at it. Besides, you have three sons, don’t you? Oh, and you have a disciple. I think they all have great potential.”

Jia Xu was uninterested in engaging with Chen Xi, as he realized when he first took over the livestock management that he would eventually fall into this trap.

”Haha, don’t worry. You only need to manage twenty large ranches; other places will surely have people raising cattle and sheep,” said Chen Xi with a smile, ”There’s plenty of manpower, unlike last time, and it won’t be a loss.”

Jia Xu glanced at Chen Xi and silently accepted the task. Later, he would incorporate all the people previously under Chen Xi’s charge for animal husbandry into his team.

”Brother Wen Ruo, you can directly copy the system on your side, and the method can be identical to ours, but you need to recruit your own manpower,” Chen Xi said to Xun Yu, who nodded in agreement, acknowledging that it was how it should be.

”Let’s be clear, neither meat prices nor other prices can be manipulated; they must stay within appropriate ranges,” Chen Xi warned, even though he trusted that Xun Yu wouldn’t cause chaos.

”As for Gongjin, horses can indeed be raised in the south,” Chen Xi paused for a moment and then continued, ”I also have the methods...”

Before Chen Xi could finish, Zhou Yu interrupted him, ”The grasslands in the north belonging to Bofu are yours, slaves of the miscellaneous Hun are included, and previous materials will adjust the price difference. The rest of it trades for the southern horse raising land and methods you mentioned, along with other suitable resources.”

Chen Xi searched around, found a scroll, and tossed it to Zhou Yu, ”It has six circles drawn on it, within those circles you can find the horse farms you’re looking for, and in the corner circle, you can find wild horses.”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu’s pupils immediately contracted. Regardless of how Chen Xi obtained this information, it meant he was more familiar with their governing region than they were themselves, which was certainly not good news.

”Don’t look at me like that; you should look at Chen Changwen. During the Chu State’s struggle for dominance over the Central Plains, warhorses were also necessary. Though chariots required oxen, horses were equally indispensable. The Chen Family has records of these horse farms,” Chen Xi gestured with open hands, indicating there was no need for much apprehension.

[I’m so stupid...] Zhou Yu lowered his head, speechless. Back then, as a Kingdom of Ten Thousand Chariots, Chu State possessed numerous war horses, and couldn’t have bought them all from the north; they must have raised them themselves. This clearly meant horse farms existed in the south.

”...” Chen Qun curled his lips, looked up at the top of the tent, and honestly, he was unaware their family had such records. But even if they did, it wasn’t surprising. Back when they harvested the essence of entire civilizations, the Chen Family’s great predecessor, Qi State, had surely been delighted with it.

However, only God knows where such things are buried, possibly encountered by chance but elusive in times of need, depending just on luck.

”Changwen, does your family have such records?” Xun Yu inquired.

”Probably,” Chen Qun forced a bitter smile, then nodded.

”Shame you were preempted by Chen Zichuan; when you have the time, organize the classic books of your main family to avoid being unaware of what you possess.” Xun Yu sighed.

With helplessness, Chen Qun agreed, but as for organizing family classics — what a joke. The Xun Family’s handwritten notes of Xunzi are in the Chen Family’s possession, just stashed in forgotten corners. Seen during childhood, it’s a say; how does one even begin to organize that?

”By the way, later you should have the craftsmen under your jurisdiction come over to be ranked,” Chen Xi suddenly shifted topics, addressing Zhou Yu and Xun Yu, ”This will facilitate management, so there’s no blind searching for craftsmen of required skill levels, improving efficiency.”

”That shouldn’t be a big problem, but I have heard that the craftsmen rating system over there has been criticized multiple times by the craftsmen themselves,” Xun Yu nodded, but spoke with some skepticism.

”Oh, there was no choice; it was halfway prepared before being disrupted to engage Yuan Gonglu, then a lot of scholars were taken from Yuzhou, and upon their return, it was just a mess causing dizziness,” Chen Xi recalled those hectic times with resignation.