After the meal was ready and the wine was warm, everyone sat down around the two low tables, with seven or eight people at each table. Liu An sent some food to Cui's room and sat down as well.

He first raised his glass to everyone present, then recognized everyone's hard work and ability, and then invited everyone to eat food and drink.

After drinking for a while, Liu An asked everyone: "Do you have any suggestions regarding the future development of the manor?"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. No one dared to speak first. Liu Bei, who seemed to be the first person besides Liu An, stood up first and said:

"Uncle, the manor is now in dire straits and is waiting to be renovated. Although the people have food to eat, they do not have stable financial income. I think that the way to long-term development is to trade with the outside world and establish stable trade routes."

"Xuande's words are reasonable, but where do the trade goods come from?"

"There are many people in the border counties and even beyond the Great Wall. My uncle can buy horses, cattle and sheep from the border counties and sell them to the inland. The inland lacks horses, cattle and sheep, and the price is much higher than in the border counties. And the price of grain and cloth in the inland is lower than that in the border counties."

Counties, come and go again and again, and earn the difference in price, and merchants from the north and south all follow this path."

"Well..." Liu An always thought of relying on the system and making money by selling system prizes, but he never thought of a serious way to make money.

After thinking for a while, Liu And said: "It's feasible. But this matter needs to wait for a while. The manor is still under construction and the fields have not been cultivated. Taking away a large number of young merchants at once will delay the progress of the manor construction and farming. In addition to

In addition, we also have to look for sources of cloth. If we buy cloth at the market price and sell it in the North, we will lose more than we gain."

Liu An didn't plan to sell the grain to the border. He didn't think it was enough to feed the victims, so how could he send it to the border to sell it?

Liu An looked at Liu Bei, the most powerful person present, and said: "Xuande, you are well-connected all over the world, and I will leave it to you to find the source of goods. But even if you find food that is cheaper than the Zhen family, you cannot use it for business. You have to buy it all."

Come down and stay in the village."

"promise!"

Then Liu An looked at the others and asked, "Do you have any suggestions?"

"I think that one more person should be assigned to manage the mulberry farming. There are many things in the fields, and there are hundreds of people cultivating the fields. I am stupid, and it is really... beyond my capabilities!" Qu Ze stood up and said with shame.

Seeing that Qu Ze didn't seem to be faking it, Liu An said, "Feng Yan, you and Qu Ze are jointly responsible for the field affairs."

"No!" Feng Yan responded.

"Is there anything else?" Liu An asked again.

Zuo Wei stood up and said: "I think that the training of patrol teams should be strengthened. Weak bodies and weak armed forces cannot protect the safety of the manor."

Liu An thought the same thing. Now that everyone in the village had enough to eat, they could really start training, so he agreed and let Zuo Wei take full responsibility.

At this time Wang Chi stood up and said: "I think that all the land in the manor should be divided according to regions. Specifically, how much land is used for farming, how much is occupied for housing, and how much is occupied by livestock farms? Where should it be divided? It cannot be done as it is now.

This continues without a plan.”

"It makes sense, let me think about it..." Liu An agreed with Wang Chi's proposal and began to think about how to divide it specifically.

This matter can only be done by himself, and cannot be done by others. No one else can see how many seeds, fertilizers, and animals are in the inventory.

After thinking for a long time, Liu An picked up a branch, drew a frame of the manor on the ground, then pointed to a place and said to Wang Chi:

"In the mountainous area here, a 10-acre plot is designated for planting fruit trees, the next 170 acres is used for farming, and the next 20 acres is used to build a livestock farm."

At this time, half of the manor was zoned out. Liu An pointed to the upper part of the livestock farm and said:

"Forty acres of land will be allocated here to build a horse racing farm, and the rest will be used as a residential area. If we still cannot accommodate everyone, we will buy land and build private houses outside the manor."

Wang Chi looked at it and saw that the location divided by Liu An happened to match the area currently occupied by the manor. There was no conflict, so he responded: "No!"

When Liu An asked again, no one suggested it, so he looked at Wang Chi and asked, "How is the construction of the grain store going?"

Wang Chi stood up and said: "Back to the owner of the village, the grain shop was built yesterday, and people have been arranged to start selling rice at market prices today."

Since the inner circle of Liu's Manor was built, all the people in the village have called themselves people of Liu's Manor, and Liu An's title has gradually become unified as the owner of the village.

"Very good!" Liu An praised.

Afterwards, Liu An told everyone about his plans to leave for Zhongshan again tomorrow.

Originally, he was waiting for Liu Ming to come back, but now that the novice protection period has expired, he needs a reasonable reason to take out the rare items.

Since Liu Ming has returned today and the next crop planting will have to wait for more than twenty days, he plans to leave tomorrow for another trip to Zhongshan.

After some discussion, Liu An decided that Liu Bei, Liu Ming, Chen Zhao, Wei Chuan, Guo Hai, and four other dead men would follow his plan to go south to Zhongshan early tomorrow morning.

After everything was taken care of, it was time for everyone to eat and drink, and they got to know each other a lot.

Later, Liu An also shared the duck wings extracted today with everyone. Liu An personally felt that the duck wings could not be bought at a high price. Instead of going to the trouble of selling them, he might as well eat them himself.

Of course, Liu An did not forget to give his mother two pairs of duck wings, and he divided the rest between them.

Everyone was full of praise for the duck wings, and they kept chewing the meat attached to the bones while screaming the spicy shush.

After drinking and eating, it was just dusk. Liu An watched everyone get on the carriage and return to the manor. He also said goodbye to Liu Ming and Liu Bei, and then prepared to go to his mother's house to explain to him about his plan to go south tomorrow.

But at this moment, I heard the system prompt tone.

[Ding——Main mission: Complete the task of running the first grain shop in the manor, and you will be rewarded with 20 manor contribution points.

Publish the main task: run the first cloth shop in the manor. It is required to complete at least 20 pieces of cloth transactions, and the completion reward is 20 manor contribution points.]

Cloth shop?

This task cannot be completed for the time being. Most of the people in the village have no money. Only the 23 people can earn some wages every day. They can barely eat. How can they have money to buy cloth?

Putting the main mission aside for the time being, Liu An looked at the 26 contribution points he currently had. After thinking about it, he decided to wait until he had accumulated 50 points to participate in ten consecutive draws on the manor lottery board.

After closing the system panel, Liu An knocked on Cui's door.

Today, the wooden house is still under construction, and Mrs. Cui still lives in the earth house. However, Liu An said that he would have extra meals here, so he asked the people who were building the house to go back first.

Mrs. Cui opened the door and let Liu An in.

He turned around and picked up the needle and thread on the bed. He asked Liu An to sit on the bed and mend the loose thread on his clothes.

She just heard the conversation outside the house and knew that her son was leaving tomorrow. Liu An was now wearing the same suit he bought more than ten days ago.

The thread was not loosened before, and my son is going to travel far tomorrow, so it is always right to check again.

After repairing a few places, Cui saw that other places were in good condition, so she picked up a luggage and handed it to Liu Andao:

"There are clean clothes inside for my mother. You can bring a change of clothes with you. Last time I went out, I didn't even have a change of clothes, but this time I can't wrong my son anymore."
Chapter completed!