Crossing the wasteland: Farming and peasant girls can't be provoked

Chapter 337 Planning ahead
After Jingyi arranged the affairs in Yuanling County, she went to Fucheng again. The shop she opened in Fucheng was doing very well. In order to reduce the consumption of manpower and material resources, she planned to build a workshop in Fucheng to make soy sauce, hot sauce and other seasonings.

The workers in these workshops were selected by Jing Yi from the old department of the Jing family and promised to be loyal to her.

Jing Yi selected more than a dozen girls who could cook from the old department of the Jing family, and then taught them how to make pastries. After two months of training, Jing Yi taught the girls more than a dozen methods of making pastries.

While training pastry chefs, Jing Yi bought shops in Fucheng and several surrounding counties, and prepared to open pastry shops after simple decoration.

After the pastry chefs are trained and assigned to several pastry shops, the pastry shops in Meizhou Prefecture and several counties will open at the same time.

The cakes that Jing Yi plans to sell are fresh and affordable, and the styles of the cakes are also very novel, and the taste is naturally delicious.

Jing Yi formulated some publicity methods, as well as free tasting activities, and soon the pastry shop opened up.The novel and delicious pastries are very popular among guests.

Jing Yi has been researching spinning machines and looms in her spare time, and she already has relatively successful blueprints in her hands.

Under Jing Yi's guidance, Yuanling County and Changning County not only grow high-yield grain, but also cash crops such as cotton and rapeseed.

This year's cotton harvest is bumper, and Jing Yi plans to let people make spinning machines and looms, and then build a textile factory.

The Qingzhou rebellion, the Yiguo court will definitely send troops to counter the rebellion, these two state capitals can attract most of Yiguo's troops, as long as we don't make a big noise here, no one will pay attention to us.Therefore, we must quickly occupy and control Meizhou Mansion with lightning speed.In this way, we can use it freely in the entire Meizhou Prefecture during the spring plowing next year. "

The two of them watched the textile workshop and just returned to the small courtyard when Cang Yue brought back a big news, "Miss, there was a rebellion in Gyeongju Prefecture. The prefect of Gyeongju Prefecture joined forces with the local garrison to rebel, and the prefect of Gyeongju Province has become king on his own." .”

The carpenter was also bought by Jing Yi. Under Jing Yi's guidance, the carpenter made the spinning machine and loom that Jing Yi needed according to the drawings.

Cotton is not only used for spinning and weaving, but also for making cotton clothes and quilts.This year the soldiers in the barracks barely have enough cotton-padded clothes, but many soldiers are still wearing old cotton-padded clothes. Before winter next year, every soldier must be given new cotton-padded clothes to ensure that every soldier has new cotton-padded clothes to wear. "

Jing Yi said: "Winter will be over soon, we need to expand our territory before next year's spring plowing. We arrested the people sent by Xue Wanhe, Xue Wanhe must have suspected us. So we don't have to Hidden and tucked away, take down the Meizhou Mansion directly, and control all the officials in the Meizhou Mansion, so that you can hide it from the capital for a while."

After all the people were gathered, Jing Yi talked about the situation of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, "These two state capitals are in chaos now, and Qingzhou is no longer under the control of Yiguo. Although Xuzhou is suppressed by Yiguo's army, But the riots could not be completely quelled for a while.

Jing Yi and Lu Tingjie looked at each other when they heard the news.

Jing Yi smiled and said: "This news is really timely. Qingzhou is next to Xuzhou. There was a peasant riot in Xuzhou, and a rebellion by local officials in Qingzhou. This can be said to have cut off the connection between Meizhou and the capital. Contact, it will be more beneficial to us, and our plan can be advanced."

The farmers planted cotton because Jing Yi signed an agreement with the farmers, so the farmers were not afraid that no one would buy the cotton, and Jing Yi also had a source of supply.

Jing Yi called Li Yi and asked him to go to the barracks to find the second uncle, Ding Baishan, Yue Changqing and others, and then sent a letter to Song Yuancheng to let him come to the city.Grandpa also asked someone to pick him up.

Lu Tingjie said: "Yuanling County and Changning County have limited fields, so it is impossible to grow cotton. Do you want to take down the other surrounding counties?"

Jingyi's improved loom has significantly improved efficiency, which is several times that of the original old loom, and the quality of the cotton weaves is also much better.This immediately reduced the cost of cotton cloth.

Lu Tingjie said: "Now that there are frequent rebellions in Yiguo, it is a good time for us to fish in troubled waters. We also have to seize the time to expand the territory."

Lu Tingjie also felt that the time was ripe for them to control the Meizhou government, "Yiyi, I agree with your idea. Spring plowing is very important to us. Our army is growing rapidly. It is difficult to provide food for the army with only two counties. If we control the Meizhou Prefecture, then we can let the people of the entire Meizhou Prefecture grow high-yielding grain, and it will be no problem to support an army of more than 20 to [-] people."

At present, the scale of cotton cultivation is not large. First, build a small textile workshop to accumulate experience, and at the same time continue to improve the loom on the basis of practice.

Mr. Liu stroked his beard after listening to his granddaughter's thoughts, and said, "It is indeed time to act. Our army has grown too fast, and Yuanling County and Changning County alone are not enough to support the 10,000+ army expenditure. If we control the entire Meizhou Mansion, then we don’t have so many scruples about continuing to expand the army in the next step.”

Jing Yi said: "In this way, the cost of cotton cloth will be lowered, and the selling price will also drop a lot. In the future, more ordinary people will be able to afford cotton cloth to make clothes. However, the scale of cotton planting It has to be expanded, and now only a small part of the fields in two counties are planted with cotton, which is still too little.

The cotton has already been purchased and ready to be played.After a few days of training, the female textile workers also gradually mastered the use of spinning machines and looms.

Looking at the newly woven cotton cloth, Lu Tingjie's admiration for Jing Yi deepened, "Yiyi, with this loom, the cloth woven by one female worker is equivalent to that of the previous female workers, which is obviously much faster. And The cotton feels smooth, soft and strong, and the loom you have improved is very good."

Lin Zhuocheng, Ding Baishan, Yue Changqing and others rode fast horses to Jingyi's small courtyard, and Mr. Liu arrived almost at the same time.Not long after, Song Yuancheng also arrived on a fast horse.

Lin Zhuocheng said: "The recruits we have recruited have been training. They haven't been on the battlefield yet. It's time to take them out to experience actual combat."

Jing Yi said: "Although we are going to occupy Fucheng, there will not be a large-scale battle. Song Yuancheng, it is time for the Gale Squad to fight. I will personally lead you to sneak into Fucheng in disguise, and divide the troops into groups at night First control a few city gates.

Uncle, you lead your troops to follow us and lurk outside the city. After we take down the city gate, you lead your troops to take over from us.Then the Storm Squad divided into several groups to quickly and secretly control the homes of various officials in Meizhou Prefecture, and control these officials in our hands. "

Jing Yi explained the specific plan again, and everyone thought it was perfect, so they acted according to Jing Yi's plan.

(End of this chapter)