Zhang Yangquan looked around the two of them, then carefully examined Yang Ying for a moment, asked her a few questions, and saw that she responded appropriately and thoughtfully, and was very satisfied.
"Okay, I'll leave the management of the restaurant to you. I will transfer the monkey to the Qianhu Station as soon as possible and won't let you separate."
Yang Ying shook his head and said seriously: "The military advisor misunderstood. Although Hou Baisi and I live together, we sleep in separate rooms. There is no special relationship."
The monkey looked happy: "Thank you so much, military advisor."
Zhang Yangquan just thought that Yang Ying was tender-faced and didn't say anything. He smiled and said, "Do you want me to find you another helper?"
Yang Ying raised his chin and said: "No need, although my daughter is a widow, she is not inferior to others. If she cannot run the restaurant well, she is willing to be punished!"
Zhang Yangquan couldn't help but glance at the monkey, and he was quite worried about him. Marrying such a strong woman would make your married life worrying!
In the afternoon of that day, the construction of kilns, textile workshops, and private schools began at the same time. Suddenly, the village became extremely busy again.
That night, Hu Guangcao also came to the door and said that the original blacksmith workshop was not big enough and he hoped to expand it.
The blacksmith workshop has an unparalleled status in Zhang Yangquan's heart. Now it can refine swords and guns, and in the future it can also refine artillery and muskets.
If you can find coal mines, you can even refine it into coke and burn it into cement.
He immediately agreed to Hu Guangcao's request and asked him to make all the remaining iron in the village into long spears.
Unconsciously, Longtanzhai began to transform into a production base.
In less than half a month, the kilns and textile workshops were set up, and Geng Si brought more than a hundred secretly recruited soldiers to the village every day.
"Military, military advisor, the leader of the stronghold said that these soldiers are not... not very reliable, and there may be... tricks inside... No, we can't let them leave the stronghold!" Geng Si stammered.
Zhang Yangquan felt a chill in his heart. If he thought carefully, he might have been sent by Zhang Mingjian and Huang Boyan to let them know that the village's secret recruitment of troops was indeed a hidden danger.
He immediately nodded in agreement and asked Xu Baisheng, who was in charge of training, to pay more attention to these new recruits.
That morning, as soon as Zhang Yangquan sent monkeys to sell two shops on Beimen Street, Xu Baisheng came to the meeting hall.
"What's the matter, Xu Baihu, is something wrong?"
Xu Baisheng raised his hands and said: "Military advisor, my subordinates found a spy among the recruits!"
"Who sent it?"
"Ma'an Village."
Zhang Yangquan was stunned and asked in surprise: "What are you doing here?"
"Assassinate you."
Zhang Yangquan was silent for a while and said: "Why did Ma'an Village send people to kill me?"
Xu Baisheng said: "When they went down the mountain to do business recently, they were killed several times by our army, so they wanted revenge."
Zhang Yangquan snorted secretly and said: "Send someone to ask the second village leader to come back and ask her to bring five hundred brothers to wipe out all the mountain villages in the northern suburbs."
Xu Baisheng nodded in agreement.
"By the way, let me tell everyone that the village has to elect a commander, but everyone's credit is not enough. Let them give me more credit for this mission of wiping out the bandits!"
Xu Baisheng asked: "Should we call all hundred households to participate in the suppression of bandits?"
Zhang Yangquan thought for a while and said: "Currently, only Shanzhu has enough merit to be promoted to captain of a thousand, so let him alone guard Jiangdu, and the rest can follow the second village leader to make meritorious deeds!"
"Get the order!"
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Amidst the busyness, Jiangdu City has entered February, the weather is getting warmer and everything is recovering.
The recruitment order has been issued for almost a month, and the number of defenders in the four gates is increasing.
Two of the three shops in Longtanzhai have been opened, but there is still no news from Taizhou.
Qin Lingsi suppressed the bandits very smoothly. All the centurions and ten-capurions were promoted based on merit. They were all brave and strong, and they had high fighting spirit in order to compete for merit.
There are some small villages surrounding Longtan Village, which are not as powerful as the previous Longtan Village, let alone compared with the current Longtan Village.
Within a month, all bandits and thieves in the northern suburbs were wiped out, and a lot of loot was also seized.
Li Er, Zhao Desheng, Xu Baisheng, Monkey, and Shanzhu were promoted to the Five Thousand Households. Among them, Shanzhu relied on his previous achievements, and Li Er, Xu Baisheng, and Zhao Desheng were all promoted to Thousand Households because of their bravery in the battle against bandits.
Monkey relied on his outstanding eloquence to persuade a village to surrender and also occupied a seat.
Of course, the name "Five Thousand Households" is internally called, without the Thousand Households gold medal and the approval of the General Manager's Office, and it is still called "Hundred Households" externally.
On this day, a burst of firecrackers suddenly sounded on Beimen Street. The people on the street looked at the sound and saw another shop opened on the east side of the street.
The name of the shop was "Qin Ji Porcelain Shop", and many people turned their attention to the west side of the street.
A Qinji Restaurant opened there half a month ago, and a Qinji Cloth Shop opened three days ago.
Someone commented: "It seems that a giant businessman named Qin has arrived in Jiangdu City. He opened three shops in less than five days. This is really extraordinary!"
"Maybe they were originally big businessmen in the west or south of the city. I heard that business there was getting harder and harder, so many businessmen went to the north of the city!"
It is the middle of Youshi, and the sky is dark. Although Qinji Restaurant has just opened, business is extremely prosperous, and there is an endless stream of customers coming in and out.
On the city wall, Qin Lingjun glanced at Zhang Yangquan beside him and said with a smile: "You still have a way to let them eat for free for three days, and business will be booming all of a sudden!"
Zhang Yangquan sighed: "The masters in our village are better at their craftsmanship, otherwise it will be useless to eat for ten days."
Qin Lingjun glanced at him sideways and said with a half-smile, "I heard that many people came to see the beauty. You really have a good eye for choosing such a beautiful shopkeeper!"
Zhang Yangquan said hurriedly: "She recommended herself, not me!"
Qin Lingjun did not comment and did not ask further questions.
The two of them walked down the city wall together and came to the restaurant. Yang Ying, who was settling accounts at the counter, saw the two of them and hurried over to greet them.
"Master of the Dazhai, military advisor, the revenue of these two days has made up for the investment of the first three days!" Today she was wearing a green skirt and a blue jacket, showing off her plump figure.
Qin Lingjun nodded and asked, "How much profit can you make every day?"
Yang Ying said: "Today's revenue is about one hundred taels, minus the cost, the profit is about forty taels."
Qin Lingjun was quite satisfied. As a result, he could earn more than a thousand taels a month from the restaurant alone. He said happily: "Work hard. If you are willing, I can let your son come to accompany you!"
Yang Ying shook his head and said: "No need, he can just stay in the village. If the leader of the village wants to reward his subordinates, the subordinates will have a ruthless request!"
"You said."
Yang Xing said: "I hope my Lin'er can study in Taigong He's private school!"
Qin Lingjun had already heard about the private school from Zhang Yangquan and said strangely: "You can just let him go, why do you need to ask me?"
Yang Ying sighed and said: "I took him to see Taigong He, but unfortunately Lin'er couldn't speak and offended the old man, so I didn't want to take him in!"
Qin Lingjun said: "Okay, I promise you this."
Yang Ying said happily: "Thank you very much, Master of Dazhai. Would you like to have a meal here with the military advisor?"
Qin Lingjun waved her hand and said: "We ate at Qianhu Restaurant, you can go and do it yourself." She and Zhang Yangquan left the restaurant together.
The two then went to the cloth shop and porcelain shop. The cloth shop had already started operating. Since the textile workshop in the village had just been established not long ago, it sold a small variety of cloths and the business was deserted.
The porcelain shop was different. Although it had just opened, there were not many porcelains in it, but the pieces were exquisite and attracted many customers. Some people bought several pieces on the spot, and the business was much better than that of the cloth shop.
Qin Lingjun picked up a piece of porcelain and looked at it for a while, then praised: "This Shu Ting is indeed a talent!"
Zhang Yangquan said with a smile: "Our village has indeed hidden a lot of talents. If not for the sudden changes in Taizhou, they would have been almost buried."
Qin Lingjun thought that if the store opened so smoothly, the pressure on the counterfeit food would be greatly relieved. The top priority was to train the 10,000 soldiers into elite soldiers as soon as possible.
So he put down the porcelain and said: "Let's go back and have another evening training tonight."
Zhang Yangquan twitched the corner of his mouth and hesitated for a while, but still did not object.
When I participated in military training, I always hoped that the instructors would be merciful and not train too hard. Now that I am the commander-in-chief, what I want is to help the soldiers develop combat effectiveness as soon as possible.
Alas, depending on the location, the perspective of thinking about things is indeed different.