Three Kingdoms: Becoming Cao Cao's Chief Adviser at the Start

A year later, Xun Yu wrote: "Your Majesty, the construction of the new city is beginning to take shape! The steel, glass, dock, sealing, oil refining and other processes are all in place, and the manpower is fully equipped, ready to start!

Cao Yang was overjoyed immediately after receiving the report.

Half a year later, Xun Yu wrote: "Your Majesty, the large port built under Zhou Yu's supervision has been completed, and it is bigger than the Roman port of Alexandria! The key point is that many cargo ships and warships built by Sun Ce have also been launched. Success, ready to travel between the two places and deliver goods in bulk!

Another half a year later, Xun Yu wrote again: "Your Majesty, the asphalt has been mass-produced, and now it has been mixed with rock asphalt, which is extremely stable. It is being built from Xincheng to Mulu City in the north, but this is a long way. I am afraid it will take ten years. Long!""

When Cao Yang saw the letter, he couldn't help but sighed "707": "Sure enough, with today's technology, manpower and material resources, it is really difficult to build roads on a large scale! Thousands of years of accumulation , it can't be made up overnight!

However, thanks to the appearance of the Great Wei Ship, shipping is completely alive!

Because the sea transportation has been strengthened, from Xincheng Port, to Alexandria Port, or the ports around Yangzhou, there is an endless stream of ships along the way.

As Xun Yu expected, the new city has indeed become a central link, a central city!

However, Zhou Yu is still a little uncertain about Xun Yu: "I said Wen Ruo, now this new city is over thirty miles from east to west and more than 50 miles from north to south, so don't you want to expand it? There is still nothing to repair the city wall. Signs? What's this for? Without walls, it's not safe!"

Xun Yu smiled slightly: "What do you want to do with the city wall? Your navy is also stationed here, and there are my 100,000 troops stationed around all the time. Who dares to make waves? 35

Zhou Yu frowned: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, but I'm afraid of what happens! If someone colludes internally and externally, and a large number of troops attack, then we will fall into a passive situation! At that time, if there is any key person, we will be there. Hijacked in the chaos, such a large site is not easy to find! If there are secret passages or something, I am afraid it will be a bad thing!

Xun Yu nodded: "That's what Gong Jin said, but I have already greeted the nobles in the southern part of Kushuang, prohibiting anyone from raising soldiers, and set up a mechanism for rewarding reports with huge sums of money, it should be a problem. Not much.

Zhou Yu didn't take it seriously when he saw that he was already prepared.

"Speaking of which, in the blink of an eye, we've been here for three years!" Zhou Yu suddenly sighed.

Xun Yu nodded and said with emotion: "Yes, it's been three years, and I haven't gone back for three years. I really miss the homeland of Great Wei!"

Zhou Yu laughed: "You tied yourself too tightly! Now the Xincheng area is so safe, His Majesty has said, you can go back whenever you want, and I'll show you here, what are you afraid of?"

Xun Yu nodded: "In the past, it wasn't that the craftsmanship requested by His Majesty didn't work, and I was too embarrassed to go back. Now that the road has been built, I can also give His Majesty an explanation! If so, then I will go back. !

Zhou Yu nodded: "Go, I'm here, don't worry!

Xun Yu then set off and left his new city.

After leaving the city, Xun Yu took a cargo ship and left the port.

The cargo ship was just about to return to Yangzhou, and it was full of supplies, which pushed the ship down a lot, and it was about to reach the waterline.

Xun Yu walked on the boat for a while, and saw that there were some merchants on it, all sitting beside their own goods, and all of them were talking loudly.

These people are people who often go in and out of the port, and they are very familiar with Zhou Yu, but they have never met Xun Yu, who has always been in the city and is busy supervising various craftsmanship.

Xun Yu listened to their chat quietly, a satisfied expression gradually appeared on his face.

"This time, I brought the best tobacco leaves from Rome, and I went to Dawei, and it was a big sale!"

"Roman tobacco leaves? I heard that smoking a sip can make a person happy for a day! Isn't that expensive?

"Actually, it's just dry tobacco, it's just that the tobacco leaves taste really good, it's really fragrant, it's not pungent, piercing the lungs, it's too fake to have a happy day, but it's really pleasant to smoke after a meal! The price... 1 Two hundred gold, do you think it is expensive?"

"Robbery! One or two hundred gold! You are trying to get rich!"

"Haha, I've already gotten rich! However, I didn't do such a high price, it's just that there are too few tobacco leaves, otherwise I can sell small profits but quick turnover! This stuff is very popular in Rome, and I have to sell one or two. To about ten gold!

"Speaking of this small profit but quick turnover, the good things from Dawei's side are really gratifying! Recently, some new glasses have been released, which are beautiful, and the nobles in Rome like these things!

"I heard that something called blue-and-white porcelain has appeared in the southern part of the Great Wei Dynasty recently. It is extremely beautiful and the price is outrageous. A piece of blue-and-white porcelain costs thousands of gold! I wonder if I can try my luck this time and buy some to go back and watch. , or hand over at a high price! 99

"Blue and white porcelain? I've seen it once!" A businessman suddenly showed a nostalgic look, "That kind of porcelain is indeed the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! The color is mellow, and it makes people fascinated at first glance! Hey? His cup! That cup It is blue and white porcelain! 35

The businessman suddenly pointed at the wine glass in Xun Yu's hand and became excited.0

Others immediately gathered around, watching carefully, and occasionally tsk tsk in amazement.

"This texture is indeed a rare treasure, and it is indeed worth a thousand pieces of gold! 99

"Green glaze on a white background, bright color, never seen such a wonderful treasure!"

Someone even asked flatteringly: "This old man, do you sell this cup? Where can you buy this thing?

Xun Yu smiled: "My cup was given by the imperial court, not bought by me. As for where to buy it, you can ask Zhou Gongjin when you come back, or go to Yangzhou to ask Sun Ce when you arrive in Yangzhou. them.

"The Governor and General Sun are very busy people. They are busy supervising the construction of ships every day on 1.4. How can they pay attention to us! The merchants sighed immediately.

Xun Yu couldn't help it either. He was in Xincheng, and he only paid attention to asphalt, steel, glass, etc. But he didn't pay attention to the new blue and white porcelain. Last year, a messenger came and said that the cup was specially given to him by the emperor, but it was just amazing. I didn't think much about it.

Unexpectedly, I only learned today that the price of this blue and white porcelain is as expensive as a thousand gold!

"I can't believe that the cup I drink is so valuable! It turns out that I have been living the life of a rich man!"

Xun Yu couldn't help but smile helplessly.

However, since it can make money so much, why is the imperial court so mysterious about this thing?

The merchants don't know where they buy their goods? Strange thing!.