Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

It was more than 20 days after Lin Xiaoyue came to Sangguo Town that the sugar was produced.

After the first batch of sugar cane was successfully produced, Lin Xiaoyue asked Ergou to take care of the transportation of the sugar and sell it at Pinqu Pavilion. At the same time, he also asked him to go back, as some things still needed to be arranged by him personally.

This includes recruiting more staff, and this time the recruits will be needed to build workshops, make sugar, package and transport it in Sangguo Town, so the manpower required should be no less than 200 people.

It’s not that Lin Xiaoyue didn’t consider recruiting directly from Sangguo Town nearby, but Lin Xiaoyue always remembered her original intention of hiring people, which was to find a way out for retired soldiers.

The next step is to form a caravan. Currently, the transportation of sugar back and forth also requires specialized personnel. Instead of looking for a ready-made caravan outside, it is more mature and has more experience in road conditions and problems that may occur along the way.

However, considering that sugarcane will become a big fat piece of meat that others will envy, it will probably attract the jealousy of many merchants who want to get a piece of the pie. The quality of the hired caravans varies greatly, and if they encounter robbery during transportation, losing the goods is a small matter. If someone takes advantage of the loophole and mixes something into the sugar, causing people to get sick after eating it, that would be a big deal.

After careful consideration, Lin Xiaoyue decided that she still needed to establish her own caravan for safety reasons. According to conservative estimates, she would need at least a hundred people in the early stages.

In this way, when the caravan is set up, it will not only transport sugar cane, but also travel back and forth between Wanbao Town and Yongzhou City to replenish stocks. There will be no need for a production team. After the products are made, people can be assigned to transport the goods.

Therefore, there are still great benefits to establishing your own caravan.

As for running further in the future, or expanding more business channels, and slowly adding new manpower, there is no need to build too big a plate for the time being, it is better to be steady and conservative.

Although Ergou wanted to stay on the battlefield, Lin Xiaoyue explained that people were needed in the rear and all external affairs had been left to him to be responsible for. It would not be appropriate for Xiaocao to go back and take over, so she simply asked him to go back and finish the tasks assigned to him before coming back.

After explaining the situation to Ergou, he also knew that it was not that Lin Xiaoyue disliked him, but that he was more needed in the rear. He hesitated for a long time before hesitatingly agreeing.

He also said that once those things were dealt with, he would come as soon as possible to fight alongside everyone.

In order to appease him, everyone responded and cheered him up. However, Lin Xiaoyue pursed her lips, thinking that maybe by the time he had arranged these things, the war might be over.

But no matter how much I think about it, I certainly can't say it out loud honestly, I can only keep it in my mind.

Lin Xiaoyue has been following the sugarcane production for more than twenty days. Now everything is progressing in an orderly manner and she can finally spare some time.

When she calmed down, she realized that Tiansheng had been silent for such a long time. It was too quiet.

Is this the calm before the storm???

Otherwise, losing a pass would not be a trivial matter for a country, such as reducing its land area. It would be a slap in the face of the royal aristocracy, and sparks would fly as they were pressed to the ground. Can the people in Tiansheng really keep calm?

She didn't believe it anyway.

She was so busy before that Tiansheng was as quiet as a chicken. She was too lazy to pay attention to the situation over there. Now that she has withdrawn her hand, she feels that the silence is too strange. She always feels that she smells a conspiracy.

Lin Xiaoyue was indeed right.

How could Tiansheng be so magnanimous as to not pursue or care about the loss of a pass? In fact, they had already taken action from many aspects, trying to regain ground from other places in Dayuan, but Lin Xiaoyue was focused on sugar production, and those annoying things didn't come to her, so she naturally didn't pay attention.

For example, Tiansheng contacted the rebel general Qian Hui and asked him to lead people to find a way to steal the secret recipe of gunpowder.

Qian Hui, Tiansheng's secret agent planted in Dayuan, would not have been exposed so quickly if not for the emergence of gunpowder, causing Tiansheng's decades of hard work to be destroyed in an instant.

Qian Hui is now trying to break out of Dayuan and return to Tiansheng. However, after his identity in Dayuan was exposed, there were wanted posters everywhere, so it was not easy for him to cross the border.

After he fell from the top and became the target of everyone's condemnation, and even the Mu family that he had worked so hard to support collapsed, Qian Hui lost a powerful supporter in Dayuan.

If he hadn't blossomed more and not hung on just one tree in the Mu family, he would probably have nowhere to live now except hiding in the mountains.

A few days ago, he received a pigeon message from Tiansheng, asking him to find a way to steal the gunpowder formula. Stealing is easy to say, the formula is tightly controlled by the dog emperor of Dayuan, and he can't even get a crack.

He finally learned from the person who sold him the information that the powerful gunpowder weapons were actually made by farmers in a small border town. He thought about it and realized that the military settlement nearby should have been his downline, but the weird thing was that it was just like the Mu family, and was taken over by someone. He was... furious.

After much deliberation, he decided to personally lead his men to sneak into the farmer's house and use various tortures to force those people to spit out the recipe.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that someone had predicted his prediction and everything was ready, just waiting for him to fall into the trap.

Of course, Lin Xiaoyue, who was far away outside Sangguo Town, didn't know that the protective measures she had taken in advance would soon come in handy.

These are all later stories, so we won’t discuss them here for now.

In addition to using the secret agent Qian Hui, Tiansheng also joined forces with the Kingdom of Jin to launch surprise attacks on many passes in Dayuan, trying to find the weak points and thus tear open a gap so that the coalition forces of the two countries can quickly invade.

They were unwilling to believe that Dayuan was really helped by God and obtained a powerful weapon.

In their impoverished imagination, such a powerful weapon would be time-consuming and laborious to make. To capture Sangguo Town, they should have emptied Dayuan's heavy weapons.

Even if there is any surplus, it should be stretched to the limit.

As long as the two countries launch surprise attacks on multiple passes at the same time, Dayuan’s military support will be insufficient and the disadvantages of the shortage of gunpowder weapons will inevitably be exposed.

The new emperor of Tiansheng voluntarily used Sangguo Town to test the military strength of Dayuan, as a small price to be paid in advance for the subsequent pacification of Dayuan.

Thinking of dividing Dayuan's land and all its resources with the Kingdom of Jin, the new Emperor Tiansheng felt very excited and no longer worried about losing a pass.

Therefore, although Lin Xiaoyue's side was calm, the battles at other passes were in full swing. However, she was oblivious to the outside world and was only focused on the process of making sugar cane.

It's just that, since the other person didn't come to harass her, she felt that the other person was planning something bad. Instead of waiting for the other person to call her, she might as well take the initiative.