Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Zhao Sheng is just like this. He must share the benefits with his own people. At present, he is still in the stage of making friends and it is difficult to distinguish between friends and enemies, but Zhao Sheng is observing the people around him very cautiously.

Zhao Long recruited several skilled fighters from his former military service, including a man named Shan Ning, who was about thirty years old and had extremely high martial arts skills.

It is said that Shan Ning once killed more than 50 people on the battlefield alone, but later fainted due to injuries and exhaustion. Fortunately, Zhao Long carried him back from the battlefield.

After retiring, he worked as a handyman in a wealthy family. When he heard Zhao Long say that a local man with good character needed a security guard, he followed without hesitation.

Ma Biao and Wei Wu were from the same village. After retiring, they farmed at home. Wei Wu originally had a wife and children, but when he returned, there was only an empty house and two new graves.

Although Zhao Bang's surname is Zhao, he has nothing to do with Zhao Long. It was when Ma Yun heard that Zhao Long was recruiting people that he brought a few strong laborers who could not survive and met Zhao Bang by chance and found Shigang Village together.

At first glance, these people seemed pretty good, but among the people brought by Jack Ma, there was a young man named Ma Tun. Zhao Sheng observed him several times and always felt that there seemed to be something hidden behind this man's eyes.

On the other hand, Zhao Bing was timid by nature. If he were to be a guard, something would happen sooner or later. He wouldn't rebel, but there was a high chance that he would run away and wet his pants out of fear.

Therefore, Mr. Zhao specifically asked Zhao Long to pay attention to the people brought by Ma Yun, especially Ma Tun, who made people feel uneasy.

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Sheng welcomed another winter in Shigang Village. This year, not only will every household in Shigang Village not suffer from the cold or hunger, but every household will also have a month's supply of compressed biscuits in stock.

Perhaps people nowadays don’t think there’s anything good about stockpiling compressed biscuits.

But in that war-torn era, the people depended on the weather for their livelihood, so who wouldn't want to have food reserves at home? Compressed biscuits are a type of food reserve that is easy to carry, small in size, and easy to store.

Including the present Zhao County, the rear government also stored food rations for nearly 10,000 people for one month.

Zhao Sheng originally developed these compressed biscuits for the Prince of Dingzhou. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhao Sheng to complete the production of compressed biscuits with his existing scale.

The base for producing this food is also located in Dingzhou County.

"We, the Handan clan, should have relocated our reserve forces to Daming Prefecture. Why are so many of our industries now located in Dingzhou?"

The annual Zhao clan elders hold a meeting in Zhaojiazhuang.

In the ancestral hall, representatives from each branch were discussing the same issue, which was that many of the industries originally in Zhao County had moved to Dingzhou County, which was close to the border and unsafe for industrial development. They were therefore quite puzzled!

The newly appointed head of the family, Zhao Changsheng, is about to become the patriarch of the Zhao County branch of the Handan family. If he cannot explain today why the family business is close to the border, it may pose a threat to him in the future.

He first bowed and greeted everyone, then calmed down a bit before saying, "Over the past year, new members have joined our clan, bringing with them two major technologies and five industries. This has allowed our lineage to earn far more in a single year than we did in the previous ten years."

His words caused an uproar in the room. The speed at which he was making money was truly astonishing. However, Zhao Changsheng continued:

"Although soybean oil is a new product, it is also a long-standing product. People are quite accepting of it. The key is that our product is twice as much as before, which means that our soybean oil costs have been reduced and our profits have doubled. This means that soybean oil will flood the merchants in my Great Zhou."

As an alternative to lard, soybean oil was initially acceptable to people. After all, the ancients would mix many kinds of beans together to extract oil, simply to use it as fuel for lighting.

Little do people know that some beans are inedible, and their oils are also inedible. Zhao Sheng subdivides beans into categories such as soybeans, red beans, black beans, etc., and tries to avoid those beans that are inedible when purchasing.

This makes their soybean oil taste purer, and Mr. Zhao promises that their soybean oil is not only edible but also beneficial to the body.

Of course, there are some shady operations involved, such as bribing some eloquent itinerant doctors, brainwashing and bribery. No matter which method is used, it can provide good publicity for Zhaoxian soybean oil.

Especially the protein meat that came later, they were able to compare its nutritional value with that of eggs, which is even more amazing than the young lady on a certain video in later generations.

The ancients valued honesty and credibility. If these itinerant doctors pretended to be masters of traditional Chinese medicine and said how great these foods were, in this era, almost everyone would believe them.

Later, Zhao County began to produce a large number of ready-to-eat foods, which were actually a bit like the pickled foods of later generations, but with many delicious ingredients added to them.

But many people don’t know that Mr. Zhao had added glutamate to the food at that time, which made the food extremely delicious.

Moreover, Mr. Zhao only extracts glutamate solution and mixes it with food, which is enough to make the food more fresh.

Zhao Changsheng's speech roughly meant that many of the ways to make the most money are at the border, especially for some foods, exporting to the six countries is the best choice.

In particular, the Youfu biscuits were exported to the north in exchange for a large number of cattle and sheep, which almost doubled the profits of the Zhao family in Zhao County. Moreover, now the task of purchasing compressed biscuits for military reserves has been entirely handed over to them, which is another immeasurable wealth.

After hearing Zhao Changsheng's report, the elders from all over the Zhao family in the ancestral hall looked at each other in bewilderment, especially the Zhao family elders from Daming Prefecture, who tried their best to build the new factory in their area.

When he expressed his thoughts, the elders of Zhao County laughed.

"I say to all the elders of the clan, you used to look down on Zhao County because the soil in Zhao County wasn't well utilized. The young people who came this time said, 'How can a place where dragons rise be mediocre?' The mistake is that the later generations are ignorant of it!"

After the Zhao County elder finished speaking, he glanced at the elders who came from Daming Prefecture. Over the years, if the Zhao clan ancestral hall was not here in Zhaojiazhuang, these people probably would not have come to take a look.

Zhao County was developing well, and business was already expanding towards Dingzhou County, which made him very happy. The elders from Daming Prefecture had come here to fight for a place in the industry for them, but now it seemed there was no chance, so they still had to get the distribution rights.

So Zhao Changsheng and others started a debate with the elders of Daming Prefecture on regional distribution.

Finally, Zhao Changsheng offered to open a grain and oil shop in Daming Prefecture as a joint venture between the Zhao families in the two places in exchange for the production methods of tofu and bean sprouts. Only then did he give up.

Zhao Sheng didn't know all this. He was originally invited, but he refused to show up. After all, he was now a deceased prince, and showing up would only bring danger.

In the Zhenda compound, everyone thought that Zhao Sheng rarely went out alone for safety reasons. Zhao Zhen also thought so. Secondly, this brother who came along halfway gave her a full sense of security.

Of course, she has saved a lot of small amounts of money now, just to have some security so that she doesn't have to worry about having no money when fleeing famine in the future.