Chapter 229: Accumulate Grain and Build High Walls

The finished clothing, besides being distributed to the bandits below to wear, didn't worry about having no sales. This was not the assembly line production of the previous life that could produce a lot every day.

These were all handmade jobs, and the speed couldn't be fast. In this way, it could also form a good cycle.

Moreover, the piece-rate mode could be adopted. You take the materials home to do it, and when you finish it according to the size, you bring it back to exchange for money.

If you are lazy, you naturally won't get much silver, and if you are diligent, you can get quite a bit more.

For diligent people, this earns more than the free food every day.

On the surface, it was just changing a welfare treatment, but in fact, it could save Yangguangzhai quite a bit of expenditure, and even earn some money by relying on clothing?!

"This plan is feasible!"

Feng Chunsheng thought, his eyes gradually brightening. As long as there was no problem with the jobs, this matter was naturally reliable.

"What other problems? Let's solve them all at once!" Jiang Jinshi tapped the table lightly.

"There is also the matter of taxation! What should we do?" Feng Chunsheng was very worried now. In his view, Shixian Mountain could hardly supply the expenditure of the whole team.

Although he heard that the Xinyue Chamber of Commerce could make money, he didn't know the profit in it for the time being.

If Yangguangzhai couldn't support it, it would inevitably lead to heavy taxes, and the commoners would still suffer. This was not what he wanted to see.

"Taxation..." Jiang Jinshi was silent for a long time before saying slowly: "Forget it this year, let's collect it next year!"

Feng Chunsheng's eyes brightened, "Then how much to collect?"

"Let's negotiate this later. My idea is to have heavy commercial taxes and light agricultural taxes!" Jiang Jinshi naturally knew that heavy agricultural taxes would crush the commoners, so he wouldn't make mistakes in this regard, but the specific amount still had to be negotiated.

"Good! Then I can rest assured!" Feng Chunsheng nodded repeatedly, his eyes a bit red.

"Next is the most important thing. I don't know if the Great Chief has decided on the flag?"

The captains couldn't get a word in before, but they understood this. They said their thoughts one after another.

Luo Feng bowed to Jiang Jinshi: "Big Brother's surname is Jiang, so the flag should naturally be 'Jiang'!"

"Not appropriate, not appropriate. In my opinion, the word 'Yang' is not bad!" Xiexiezi obviously had his own insights.

"Why not call it 'Guang'? The 'Guang' of Yangguangzhai, I believe in light!" Huang Yan raised his hand, looking like a primary school student in Jiang Jinshi's eyes.

Feng Chunsheng thought for a while before saying: "In this old man's opinion, why not call it 'Kun'! When the Da Qian dynasty was established, it used this to imply that this was God's will! Why don't we go the opposite way and use 'Kun' as the flag, implying thick virtue to carry things!"

"You have many words, I listen to you!" Zhang Honghong gave Feng Chunsheng a thumbs up.

Xiao Chunqiu smiled and shook his head: "Don't you see Big Brother's smile? Obviously, he had already thought about it!"

"Hahaha!" Jiang Jinshi laughed loudly: "That's right! I had already thought about it!"

"What flag?" Everyone was very excited. You must know that this was a flag. Perhaps everyone sitting here would have a chance to leave their names in history!

"Ming!"

"Hiss! This word 'Ming'... what is the implication?"

Feng Chunsheng kept stroking his goat beard, thinking about the meaning.

"Yangguangzhai is 'Sun', Xinyue Chamber of Commerce is 'Moon', combined together is 'Ming'!"

Jiang Jinshi looked at Li Xinyue beside him. He had already thought about this for a long time, rather than a whim.

"Moreover, both the sun and the moon are the most yang and fire things, symbolizing that the appearance of our Ming army is in accordance with the Tao of Heaven! There is also the meaning of clear politics in it!"

"It is even more to convey a message to the commoners that light will definitely defeat darkness!"

This part of the thought and intention, Jiang Jinshi completely copied the Ming Dynasty of his previous life.

Obviously, Li Xinyue understood the situation and tacitly looked at Jiang Jinshi.

"Accumulate grain?"

"Build high walls!" Jiang Jinshi successfully matched the code with Li Xinyue!

As for the last sentence, neither of them said it, but they knew it very well in their hearts.

"Okay! This flag is really not bad!" Feng Chunsheng tasted it carefully and nodded repeatedly. It was much better than his "Kun".

Jiang Jinshi actually wanted to complain. If he really used the word "Kun" as a flag, wouldn't it become a group of "Kun Army"? This didn't sound serious!

"Good! From now on, we are people with a flag. We must make some flags to insert on the city wall!" Nie Fengyun thought it was majestic just by thinking about it.

"No!" Jiang Jinshi immediately spoke, and then explained: "Now we are weak, this matter cannot be publicized! We must wait for a suitable opportunity!"

Luo Feng nodded in agreement, "I think so too. There are not enough people for the time being! It's not the time to make enemies on all sides!"

"Then when is the suitable opportunity?" Nie Fengyun scratched his head, always feeling why everyone was human, but their brains were better than his.

Jiang Jinshi narrowed his eyes, "Wait for the news of the war on the front line! For the time being, we will accelerate development, recruit enough manpower, and then fight a hard battle!"

Everyone looked at each other and nodded tacitly!

In their view, what they were going to fight was definitely the Zhenbei Army of Da Qian. This was indeed a hard battle.

Only Jiang Jinshi knew clearly in his heart that what he was going to fight was the Xiongnu!

The weather was getting colder and colder, and the Xiongnu would only become more crazy. The Zhenbei Army lacked grain and grass, and it was not enough to resist the crazy Xiongnu, not to mention that Wei Xikang also said he wanted to take the initiative to attack.

If the front line was defeated and the Xiongnu rushed to the hinterland of Beijiang, that would be the darkest moment for the commoners of Beijiang.

At this moment, Jiang Jinshi led the Ming army to stand up, so the Ming army was not the bandits reviled by everyone, but the savior born in accordance with the times, the chosen one.

Only in this way could the commoners of Beijiang turn their hearts to the Ming army!

"Good!

"How many men do we have for now?" Jiang Jinshi could actually see this through the system, but he still asked symbolically.

After all, his current system mission required occupying a commandery and recruiting 50,000 men.

He already had the commandery, but he was still short on the 50,000 men!

Regarding Jiang Jinshi's question, Feng Chunsheng didn't even need to check the register and immediately replied: "There are 10,000 surrendered troops from Guangwu City, though registration is not yet complete, and 3,500 surrendered troops outside Panjiang City, all of whom have been entered into the register.

Furthermore, adding the 10,000 surrendered troops from the three medium-sized cities including Panjiang City, plus the 6,000 Ming Army soldiers, and the 3,500 men recruited in the last half-month, that makes a total of 33,000 men!"

Hearing this number, Jiang Jinshi frowned quite noticeably: "I see that the number of people coming to join every day is still quite high; it shouldn't be a problem to make up 50,000, right?"

Feng Chunsheng nodded affirmatively: "No problem, but it's impossible to have any more than that! If it weren't for our Yangguangzhai's good reputation and the decent military pay, we wouldn't even have been able to scrape this many together!"

"Normal! Aren't those surrendered troops coming here precisely for that?"