Chapter 1331
"Our shop is mainly engaged in salt and grain." Ying Yi said very carefully: "Salt and grain are fundamental needs and cannot be indulged. Encourage commoners to open shops - food, clothing, housing and transportation, everything is fine."
"I don't care how to operate here, you can set aside a small valley as a dedicated area for commercial transactions, and concentrate all the shops in Together, or others, it’s okay to come here anyway.”
“There are more than 20,000 commoners in Crescent Moon Valley, which is not a small number. There is business...and then..."
Speaking of this, Ying Yi suddenly remembered something and said: "Taxes, business taxes!"
Ming Dynasty's business has been Extremely developed, but the official Great Ming, but a poor one. The wealthy private merchants have inexhaustible gold and silver mountains, but the Imperial Court is so poor that they can't even pay millions of military salaries. Ying Yi recalled a saying that Ming Dynasty's taxes were unbalanced.
All the taxes are concentrated on the commoners who farm the crops, while the businessmen who make a fortune are almost free from the taxes.
The government and businessmen colluded, robbed and betrayed the interests of the country, and the phrase 'competing for profit with the people' made Chongzhen, the emperor, wear patched clothes.
In order to prevent microscopic and gradual progress, Ying Yi immediately thought of business tax!
Set the rules at the smallest moments so that they won't be difficult to do later.
"Commercial tax?" Sun Xiucai showed a trace of confusion: "Sir, is it necessary?"
"Of course it is necessary." Ying Yi did not elaborate, but said: "Taxation It must be collected, and business tax is even more to be collected, but how to determine the regulations, you should think about it after you go down. You should follow this line of thinking: the more you earn, the more you receive, the less you earn, the less you receive.”
Xiuscai doesn't have a deep understanding of this aspect. It's just his habitual thinking that makes him feel that this tax collection method is quite different from the past. But since it was Ying Yi's order, he would do it.
"The shop is over, the only thing left is to engage in breeding." Ying Yi said: "It is imperative to encourage commoners to breed six animals. Not only should we encourage commoners to breed, but we also have to raise them ourselves. Eating food alone is not enough, nutrition can’t keep up, 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 commoners. But this is not a long-term solution, more than three thousand soldiers and horses, eat a day Ten pigs are also common, and they can’t afford consumption if they are not raised much. You recruit a group of people who are good at raising them to raise pigs, sheep and cattle. When the commoners migrate in, they bring their families and some livestock in, too. We pay to buy cubs and focus on breeding."
He added: "Although there is little arable land in this mountain, it is not difficult to raise livestock. Encircle a hillside and stock it."
Although the food that people eat is tight these days, Ying Yi has thought farther. Farming in the mountains is not good, but farming is okay. There is no need to use grain to feed livestock, how convenient is stocking? As long as the Beast invasion is prevented, the rest is not a problem.
Ying Yi didn't think about it earlier, but when she was training the army, she experienced it too deeply. If there is no meat to eat, we can only eat grain, but the oil and water in the grain is insufficient, so we need to make up for it. The soldiers had been training for a day, and their physical strength was huge. All of them became big-bellied men, and the food consumed had already exceeded Ying Yi's expectations.
Ying Yi felt that this was not the way to go. She had to add meat. On the one hand, the consumption of food is slowed down, and on the other hand, eating meat increases the strength, which is conducive to the training of the army. Crescent Valley raises more livestock, which is also a good thing for commoners.
At this time, Lian Biao came back, followed by also several craftsmen.
"Sir!"
Ying Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Sit down and talk."
These craftsmen Ying Yi looked at The eyes are familiar, I have seen it in Bibo Valley. Because he is good at making weapons, he was transferred by a scholar to guide the making of guns.
In front of Ying Yi, they were very reserved, trembling with fear.
"I heard that you found a piece of redwood, which means that the preparation of the gun barrel is completely fine, right?" Ying Yi asked.
One of the craftsmen hurriedly said: "Sir, red ridge wood is a good material for making rods, only slightly worse than beef tendon wood, citrus wood, etc. However, due to the urgency of time, the first batch of gun rods may not be made well enough. , the quantity will definitely not be bad."
Ying Yi nodded: "For the time being, don't consider the quality, as long as you can pass it. But after this batch, you must pay attention to the quality."
"Don't worry, my lord." The craftsman nodded again and again.
Ying Yi said: "You don't have to be so cautious. Nearly 1,000 gun heads have been produced in Bibo Valley, and there are quite a few gun barrels here. You can transport the barrels there. You are all in this area. Expert, how to do it better, faster, and more convenient, I will leave it to you. It can be completed in a day, and the gun-barrel show here said that it takes five days at most. Then I will give a deadline-in ten days, I want to see the finished product long spear, can it be done?"
The headed craftsman thought about it. Thinking, confirmed: "Sir, the villain needs 200 people to help."
Ying Yi waved his hand: "How many people are needed, tell Xiucai. Right now, Crescent Moon Valley lacks everything except labor. "
Scholar nodded: "If two hundred people are not enough, five hundred or one thousand is not a problem." God."
"Okay." Ying Yi clapped his hands: "Then it's settled."
The matter of weapons is considered settled. After sending away a few craftsmen, Ying Yi and Xiucai went to try on the rattan clothes.
The source of the spiritual sense of rattan clothing is a woman named Zhou E. The first set of rattan clothes was also woven and cut by Zhou E. Xiucai led the way in front and passed through several valleys before arriving at the valley where Zhou E lived.
More than 20,000 commoners In this crescent valley, there are more than ten valleys, there are thousands of commoners in the big ones, and hundreds of households in the small ones. Either live in a cave on the cliff, or in a small wood house leaning against the mountain.
To avoid taking up too much space, it is very crowded and messy.
Children frolicking, pigs and dogs howling, women doing laundry in the mountain stream that ran through the valley, and more lazy commoners doing nothing.
"It's much better now." Xiucai said: "A lot of the labor force has been utilized. Earlier, this place was more like a big tomb. The commoners were lazy to the point of despair, feeling that death qi was heavy. Now I finally have some vitality."
Ying Yi said with a smile: "This is all your credit."
The scholar hurriedly humbled: "It's all adults' ideas, it belongs to you. The subordinates dare not take credit. The county magistrate has also helped a lot, otherwise the subordinates would not know where to start at first."
Ying Yi voted slightly.
Sun Xiucai is only a scholar after all and has no experience in managing commoners. When encountering a problem, I listened to Ying Yi's to ask Ji Zhengxian Zun, and this was gradually implemented. Otherwise, he might also be at a loss.
"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 the thorn vine was soaked in the pool. To tell the truth, the air in the valley has a strange smell of rot. The root is here. A mountain stream descends, and many water pools are opened along the stream in each valley, and there are thorn vines soaking in them. This smell is emitted from the water pools.
"The water in this mountain stream is getting less and less," Xiu Cai showed a trace of concern: "I don't know when the flow will stop, when the time comes there will be big trouble."