"Our shop mainly deals in salt and grain." Ying Yi said carefully: "Salt and grain are fundamental needs and cannot be indulged. We must grasp it for the time being. At the same time, we must encourage the people to open shops - food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything is fine."

"I don't care about how to operate it. You can allocate a small valley as a special area for commercial transactions, gather all the stores together, or other things, anyway, anyway, it's convenient."

"There are more than 20,000 people in Crescent Valley, not a small number, and there are demands in all aspects. If there is demand, there will be transactions, and there will be business...and then..."

Speaking of this, Ying Yi suddenly remembered something and said, "Tax, commercial tax!"

The business of the Ming Dynasty was extremely developed, but the Ming Dynasty officials were poor. The wealthy merchants in the folk had to spend all their money, but the court was so poor that they could not even get millions of taels of military pay. Ying Yi remembered a saying that the tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty was unbalanced.

All taxes are concentrated on ordinary people who are farming, while those businessmen who are making a fortune are almost out of taxation.

Officials and businessmen colluded, robbed, and sold out the interests of the country. The words "fight for profit with the people" made Chongzhen, the emperor, wear patched clothes.

To prevent problems from abruptly, Ying Yi immediately thought of commercial tax!

Set rules at the most subtle moments to avoid difficulties in the future.

"Business tax?" Sun Xiucai showed a hint of confusion: "Sir, is it necessary?"

"Of course it's necessary." Ying Yi did not say in detail, but said: "Taxes must be collected, and commercial taxes must be collected, but how should the charter be determined? You should think about it first after you go down. Follow this idea: the more you earn, the more you earn, the less you earn, the less you earn."

The scholar did not have a deep understanding of this aspect, but his previous inertial thinking made him feel that this method of collecting taxes was quite different from the past. But since it was Ying Yi's instructions, he would do it.

"After talking about the store, the only one left is to breed." Ying Yi said: "It is imperative to encourage the people to breed six animals. Not only should we encourage the people to breed, we should raise them ourselves. The army cannot eat food alone, the nutrition cannot keep up, the physical strength is too slow, and the training process is delayed. When I come back this time, I plan to buy some pigs and sheep from the people. But this is not a long-term solution. More than 3,000 soldiers and horses are easy to eat ten pigs a day, and not many breeding cannot withstand consumption. You recruit a group of people who are good at breeding, specializing in pigs, sheep and cattle. When the people move in, they bring their families and some livestock in. We pay for the cubs and breed them in a concentrated manner."

He also said: "Although there is little farming land in this mountain, it is not difficult to raise livestock. If you circle a hillside, you can just stock it up."

Although even the food that people eat is tight now, Ying Yi has already thought it further. Farming in the mountains is not good, but breeding is still OK. There is no need to use grain to feed animals. How convenient is it to stock it? As long as the invasion of wild animals is prevented, everything else is not a problem.

Ying Yi had never thought about it earlier, but when training the army, he had too deep experience. Without meat, he could only eat food, but the amount of food was insufficient, so he needed to make up for it. The soldiers had a huge physical energy consumption for one day of training, and they all became big-bellied men. The food consumed had begun to exceed Ying Yi's expectations.

Ying Yi felt that this was not a solution, and he had to supplement meat. First, it would slow down food consumption, and second, it would increase his energy in eating meat, which would be beneficial to the military's training. Raising livestock in Crescent Valley is also a good thing for the people.

At this time, Lian Biao came back, and there were several craftsmen following him.

"grown ups!"

Ying Yi waved his hand and smiled, "Everyone sits down and talks."

Ying Yi looked familiar with these craftsmen and had seen them in Bibogu. Because they were good at making weapons, they were transferred by scholars to guide making guns.

In front of Ying Yi, they were all very reserved and trembling.

"I heard you found a piece of red ridge, which means that the preparation of the gun is completely fine, right?" Ying Yi asked.

One of the craftsmen hurriedly said: "Sir, red-edged wood is a good material for making rods, which is only slightly worse than beef tendon wood, citrus wood, etc. However, because of the urgent time, the first batch of gun rods may not be well-made, and the quantity will definitely not be bad."

Ying Yi nodded: "I don't consider the quality for the time being, as long as it's acceptable. But after this batch, quality must be paid attention to."

"Don't worry, sir." The craftsman bowed repeatedly.

Ying Yi said: "Don't be so reserved. The gun tips in Bibo Valley have produced nearly a thousand, and there are already many gun sticks here. You can transport the poles. You are all experts in this field. How to do better, faster and more convenient? I will give it to you all. In a word, I only want the finished product."

He also said: "In the Bibo Valley, the first batch of gun heads can be completed in up to six days. The gun bar scholar here said that it is up to five days. Then I will give a deadline - in ten days, I will see the finished spear. Can it be done?"

The craftsman in charge thought about it and said, "Sir, the villain needs two hundred people to help."

Ying Yi waved his hand: "How many people are needed? Tell the scholar. Now Crescent Valley lacks everything, but it doesn't lack labor."

The scholar nodded: "If two hundred people are not enough, five hundred or one thousand is not a problem."

The craftsman said, "If there are five hundred people, it will only take eight days to start tomorrow."

"Okay." Ying Yi clapped his hands: "That's it."

The matter of weapons was settled. After sending away several craftsmen, Ying Yi and the scholar went to try out the rattan clothes.

The inspiration for the rattan jacket was a woman named Zhou E. The first set of rattan jacket was also woven and cut by Zhou E. The scholar led the way in front and passed through several valleys before he arrived at the valley where Zhou E lived.

More than 20,000 people are in this Crescent Valley, more than ten valleys, the big ones include thousands of households and the small ones are hundreds of households. They either live in caves on the cliff or in small wooden houses.

We must try our best to avoid occupying more land, so it is very crowded and messy.

There were children playing, pigs and dogs howling, women washing clothes in mountain streams passing through the valley, and more lazy people were doing nothing.

"It's much better now." The scholar said: "Many labor force has been used. Earlier, it was more like a big tomb. The people were lazy and desperate, feeling dead. Now they are finally a little energetic."

Ying Yi smiled and said, "This is all your credit."

The scholar hurriedly said modestly: "It's all the ideas of the adults, and my subordinates dare not take credit. The county magistrate also helped a lot, otherwise my subordinates wouldn't know where to start at first."

Ying Yi nodded slightly.

After all, Sun Xiucai was just a scholar and had no experience in governing the people. When he encountered problems, he would listen to Ying Yi's advice to Zhengxianzun, and then he gradually started to use it. Otherwise, he would have been confused.

"That's Zhou E."

From a distance, I saw a woman stirring in a pool by a mountain stream with a wooden fork. Ying Yi knew that what was soaked in the pool was thorny vines. To be honest, the air in the valley had a strange smell of rottenness. The root of the source was here. When a mountain stream came down, many pools of water bloomed along each valley, and thorny vines were soaked in it. The smell was emitted from the pool.
Chapter completed!