Liu An drove the carriage to Liu's manor.

Call Zuo Wei and Qu Ze who had watched last night, and use the Death Card respectively.

[Ding - Congratulations to the host for recruiting 10 manor dead soldiers and gaining 3 manor contribution points.]

The system prompt was something Liu An had expected, so he ignored it and selected 19 of the most powerful people among the victims to form a manor patrol team and put it in charge of Zuo Wei.

Then Liu An quietly extracted a set of precious swords and 20 repeating crossbows from the system, gave Zuo Wei two swords, and asked him to keep one for himself, and give the other to Liu Bei when Liu Bei comes back, while 20 repeating crossbows were distributed.

20 patrol officers including Zuo Wei.

The repeating crossbow provided by the system comes with a bunch of crossbow arrows, a total of 60, which is enough for the time being.

There were three swords left, and Liu An put them away himself.

The quality of this sword is obviously much better than that of a sword. Not only is it beautiful and gorgeous, its sharpness and thickness are also far from comparable to the swords given in the novice gift pack.

For agricultural matters such as reclaiming wasteland and watering, Liu An left it to Qu Ze, who was good at intelligence and politics. After using the Death Card, his intelligence had increased to 59 and his politics had also increased to 51.

When it came to building a house, Liu An called Wang Chi, who had been acting as the agent for the manor for some time, and told him to build a grain shop first. Then, the rice on the manor would be sold at market prices, and the rest would be left to him.

Afterwards, Liu An gave Guo Hai 30,000 yuan and asked him to help him return the money to Cuijiazhuang, ten miles northeast of Liujiacun.

The extra two thousand dollars will be regarded as the interest over the years, and now I no longer owe the Cui family anything.

After arranging everything, Liu An took Xue Ling and took Chen Zhao, Wei Chuan and four other young men to the city.

Arriving at the courtyard in the city, Liu An asked the four young men who had never used the death card to wait outside. Liu An and the other three entered the courtyard, extracted all the cloth and silk, and carried them to the carriage.

Then Liu An extracted twenty more war horses.

Liu An is still in the novice protection period today, so there is no need to worry about being suspected of the origin of the war horse. If he wants to sell the system items so easily after tomorrow, he will have to have purchase channels.

The twenty war horses are all stallions that have been whipped. They are larger than the horses that Liu An rented for the carriage. They are strong and have shiny hair. You can tell at a glance that they are good horses.

Maybe it's much worse than Red Rabbit's Lu, but it's also much better than the war horses you can see on the market.

After tying all twenty horses to the door frame or pillars, Liu An asked Wei Chuan to come in and watch, and the rest of them went straight to Lu's clothing store with Liu An.

A total of five pieces of silk and one hundred pieces of cloth were sold to the shopkeeper at the previous price. Liu An received a total of nearly 170,000 yuan.

Liu An waited for Chen Zhao and others to move the cloth to the backyard of the garment shop, and then asked them to return the five-horse carriage.

Although strictly speaking, the rental of the carriage is due tomorrow, but Liu An already has his own horse, why would he raise horses for others?

Later, Liu An asked the shopkeeper if he could recommend a good horse if he wanted to sell it. After the shopkeeper went to see the horse with Liu An, he reported the matter to his young master Lu Ke.

Lu Ke was overjoyed to hear this and came to Liu An's residence to check on the horses.

After seeing them, Lu Ke liked these horses very much and asked Liu An how much he would sell them for.

Liu An knew that his war horse was better than the war horses on the market, so he estimated the horse price based on his predecessor's memory and said:

"One hundred and fifty thousand horses, is that okay?"

"150,000?" Lu Ke was startled and asked Liu An angrily: "Could Mr. Liu Lang be convinced that I, Lu Ke, like these horses, so he's asking for a lot of money?"

Liu An was confused when asked. The price of a good horse in his predecessor's memory could indeed be sold for hundreds of thousands. Is 150,000 considered an exorbitant price?

So he asked in confusion: "An ordinary war horse can be sold for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. My horse is so much more powerful than ordinary war horses. How can I ask for such a high price??"

In my predecessor’s memory, I once saw others trading horses at the Chengbei Market. The transaction prices at that time were indeed very high.

The shopkeeper looked on and saw that the two had disagreements over the transaction. He quickly stepped forward to calm the atmosphere and said, "Don't be upset, Young Master. There may be a misunderstanding here."

Then he turned to Liu An and asked: "Liu Jun, who has heard that a horse can be sold for hundreds of thousands?"

"Isn't it?" Liu An felt guilty. He couldn't think that the people who bought the horses were cheated by the horse sellers, so they spent so much money, right?

"Yes, and no." The shopkeeper said with a smile: "The price of horses usually does not fluctuate much, but once a war breaks out, the price will skyrocket. At this time, as Liu Jun said, an ordinary war horse can be sold for tens of thousands, but for tens of thousands.

Tens of thousands. However, there is no war at the moment, and the price of horses is only between 10,000 and 70,000."

"Well...I see, it's Meng Lang. I hope Mr. Lu won't be surprised." Liu An apologized to Lu Ke.

The Lu family was very powerful in Zhuo County and was not something Liu An could easily offend.

Even if he didn't completely believe what the shopkeeper said, he couldn't offend the Lu family in person at this moment.

After that, Liu An and Lu Ke discussed the price again. After several exchanges, they finally sold fifteen horses to Lu Ke for 80,000 yuan each.

Liu An's war horse is not an ordinary war horse, and the price is reasonable.

Originally, Lu Ke planned to buy all twenty war horses, but Liu An insisted on keeping five, so he had to give up.

Fortunately, although the Lu family was powerful, they did not buy or sell by force, for which Liu An was secretly glad.

After the transaction between the two parties was completed, Lu Ke asked someone to take away fifteen war horses. Afterwards, Liu An collected the 1.2 million yuan and went to the market in the north of the city.

I went to the horse dealer to inquire about the current horse prices, and it turned out that it was exactly as the shopkeeper said. The price of ordinary war horses ranged from 10,000 to 70,000, while good horses were priced but not available.

In this way, Liu An felt relieved and could continue to trade with the Lu family in the future.

Then Liu An went to the market and bought five large carts that could be equipped with up to two horses, and hitched them to the remaining five horses. Then they returned to the Liu Manor.

At this time, Liu Bei fulfilled his mission and returned to the manor after completing the tasks assigned to him by Liu An.

Liu Bei spent a total of 140,000 yuan on the 350 acres of land. Including the two acres of middle land sold, there was still 66,000 yuan left. Liu An asked Liu Bei to keep it together.

At the same time, Liu An took out 1.4 million yuan from himself and gave it to Liu Bei for safekeeping.

After selling the silk cloth and war horses today, Liu An had 1.55 million in his own hands. He didn't feel safe putting it all in his hands. It would be better to put it in the small manor with the outer wall now built.

Even if it is placed in Liu Bei's hands, Liu An feels safer than himself.

How could he, a scumbag with a strength of 18, have the ability to protect so much money?

Moreover, Liu An is also planning to gradually transfer financial matters. He has limited energy alone and cannot do everything by himself.

Like a certain Shu Han prime minister, dying of exhaustion in the army was not the outcome Liu An wanted.

After buying these 350 acres of land, the nearby 400 acres of land will all become Liu An's private land. He plans to fence all 400 acres of land with walls, build fortifications, and develop within it.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the secret being leaked. Two years later, during the Yellow Turban Uprising, we can still resist the Yellow Turbans by holding on.

Now there are more than 400 young men in the manor. When the fields are finished and the construction of the manor is completed, Liu An plans to train the young men to fight in wartime and then send them to cultivate the fields when farming is busy.

Liu An informed Liu Bei of his plan and asked him to find a craftsman to arrange the matter.

He himself found Qu Ze, called him into an empty room, and told him how to grow carrots in the system.
Chapter completed!