Chapter 353 Management
For seven days, Li Anran spent a lot of time every day to treat the old lady of the Feng family and to meet with Abramo who continued to walk the Silk Road, most of the time was spent on Liuqiu Island.
Considering the infrastructure work on the island, a lot of labor was urgently needed. Li Anran bought twenty not-so-looking maids for Su Xiaomei and Xiangling, and the others, but while being honest and having no worries about him, he also bought some Kunlun slaves.
Although Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, is the most prosperous place, there are still merchants who run slave businesses for profit in various prefectures and counties. Although the price is somewhat higher, the success is that there is no beginning or end.
In fact, when buying maids, Li Anran also came into contact with the most famous Silla maids in the Tang Dynasty. The so-called Silla refers to ancient Korea. The fame of Silla maids is not just about appearance and figure.
More importantly, Silla maids are not only hardworking and willing to endure hardships, but also honest and loyal. Of course, for those rich men, they naturally like the best Silla maids who want to look and have a good appearance.
If you want to say whether Li Anran likes such a Silla maid? That's not nonsense. Anyone who is a normal man likes it. But considering that he already has four women in the Tang Dynasty, he will not say whether he is "busy" or not, if he gets "busy" or not, if something goes wrong because of competing for favor, he will be a headache.
Therefore, when purchasing Silla maids, Li Anran, based on the principle of only seeking honesty and easy-to-use and not beauty, picked twenty "cheap" goods from all over the Tang Dynasty in one go. The best five were picked out and sent to the valley base. As for the remaining fifteen, they were placed in the villa and handed over to Xiangyun for management.
As Li Anran expected, when he brought twenty Silla maids back to the villa and handed them to Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun, the two women did not react abnormally on the surface. However, the relief and joy in their eyes could not be concealed.
This time, Silla maids bought slaves and did not spend much money. In the words of later generations, the twenty "bargains" combined together were completely cheap. But in Kunlun slaves, it really cost a lot.
But what made Li Anran happy was that the Kunlun slaves I bought this time also bought female Kunlun slaves. Although these female Kunlun slaves are only family-owned and are sold with male Kunlun slaves, having women means having an opportunity to reproduce.
When purchasing a large number of high-priced Kunlun slaves, Li Anran thought of how to make the Kunlun slaves in his hands proliferate. After all, it is not a long-term solution to buy them like this, and even if the price is not considered, safety issues need to be treated with caution.
Originally, Li Anran planned to match the Kunlun slaves under his command with some Tang Dynasty maids as wives, but considering the characteristics of black people and the guilt of pushing his family into the "fire pit" as a compatriot, he could only give up this idea in the end.
Later, Li Anran planned to buy some turtles. Since his compatriots could not cheat, there would be no guilt in cheating foreigners. Moreover, turtles also have the characteristics of turtles. After being mixed with Kunlun slaves, they might be able to cultivate some top-notch quality.
But as the saying goes, wishes are full, but reality is often very skinny.
When Li Anran went to the slave market and asked this question, she found that this Hu Ji was not only extremely expensive, but also in a state of no market price. In other words, it is difficult to buy some if you have money and want to buy some.
Take Chang'an City as an example. Although there is a saying that "the maid is as beautiful as a flower, smiling at the spring breeze, laughing at the spring breeze, dancing in the silk clothes, will you return if you are not drunk now?", most of these maids make a living by accompanying wine and performing arts, and rarely are willing to sell themselves as slaves.
Even if there is one, it is a top-quality product, and the price is much more expensive than that of Kunlun slaves. As for those "bargains", it is because of the problem of insufficient transportation costs and profits. Few people are willing to do it. After all, if you have that time, it is better to get some more profitable products.
Seeing that it was impossible to solve the problem in a while, Anran Li could only pin his hopes on Abramo who was walking on the Silk Road. After the other party returned to China, he would see if it could solve the problem of large-scale procurement of female Kunlun slaves.
Fortunately, although the problem of female Kunlun slaves has not been solved for the time being, male Kunlun slaves have bought a lot of them under the spill of money from Li Anran. In just a few days, the number of Kunlun slaves on Liuqiu Island soared to 270.
After experiencing the miracles personally, and the influence of the previous group of Kunlun slaves quickly became devout believers. Invisibly, Li Anran, the "angel" of the Tang Dynasty, had a lot of believers.
The angels here do not refer to the official positions of the Tang Dynasty or Christ, or the existence of wings in Catholicism, but are angels in Islam. This sentence is recorded in the 95th chapter of the Quran:
"You said, 'If there were many gods on the earth walking peacefully, then I would definitely descend a god from heaven to them to be a messenger.'"
And Li Anran became the god who descended from the sky as a messenger in Kunlun slave's eyes...
With more people and Li Anran provided enough tools and food, Kunlun slaves were naturally working harder and harder, while Liu Qiu’s development work was naturally getting smoother and smoother.
Although it has not been long since I brought the first Kunlun Yu to Liuqiu Island to the present, but the area that was originally encircled as an infrastructure area has formed a large-scale village.
With Li Anran's intervention, this village composed of Kunlun slaves did not have any trace of dirty, messy and poor ordinary villages in the Tang Dynasty. The flat stone roads, residential areas, farmland areas, etc. divided according to their uses are not only organized but also very exotic.
Although Li Anran was not a building design, this time, he did not ask his college friend Shi Jinshui for help. The reason why he managed this village so well was actually to borrow a city simulation game called "City of Exile".
Unlike ordinary simulated city games, the game scene of "Exile City" is not a modern city, but a group of people are exiled to a strange place and build a city from scratch.
At the beginning of the game, the characters controlled by the player have nothing but the carriage brought from their hometown. What the player has to do is to ensure that the exiles live, let them work, let them live, from the village to the city, and eventually continue as the population continues.
Although "City of Exile" is just a game, there are many settings in it and they are very gamified. But I have to admit that this game is still relatively close to reality in many aspects. Especially those experts on the Internet, they are so exaggerated that they can play the game as real as they are, and the overall planning is very reasonable.
The reason why Li Anran was able to make the Kunlun slave village on Liuqiu Island so well was that he borrowed from the masterpieces of one of the masters. Not only today's villages, but also in the future, they will develop into villages, towns, counties, and big cities. There is no need to worry about how to plan and cooperate. It can be done by copying them directly and correcting them appropriately.
What's more, unlike the hard-working NPCs in the game, with Li Anran, the "angel" on Liuqiu Island, the Kunlun slaves who have already become believers have no worries about food and clothing, and there are all kinds of tools and livestock needed to build a village.
In Li Anran's opinion, under such conditions, if he cannot manage the village well, it cannot be called incompetence, but completely demented.
After the success of Liuqiu Island, the old lady of Feng's family recovered very well. Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine were used to take two steps, coupled with modern medical concepts and the Feng family quickly got rid of the trouble. When he was in a good mood, the old lady's body was almost the same every day. In just seven days, she almost died and recovered to getting out of bed and walking slowly.
Although I still need someone to support me when I leave, and I cannot walk too frequently every day. However, this effect is enough to make the Feng family happy.
Chapter completed!