Li Jing predicts that this year, after the Wumart department store is fully rolled out in the south of the Yangtze River, every prefecture and county that can take water transportation will open one, and the sales volume can reach 10 million taels, and the annual profit will not be less than 3 million taels. Food and clothing, metal products, coal, and seafood, as the most important commodities, are supplied by the Li family themselves, and other miscellaneous commodities adopt the agency sales cooperation sharing model, that is, the store model. Work directly with local producers. There is no middleman to make the difference, and more discounts can be given to consumers.

The bulk of food products are grains and edible oils. This part of Li Jing is already ready to be imported from the South Seas, the Mekong River Basin and Luzon are the largest rice producing areas in this era, enough to meet the sales of Wushang, palm oil is also ready to set up factories in Luzon, crushed on the spot, and the Spaniards provide raw materials.

The cost of sea freight is the lowest, and the subsequent shipyards on Nanao Island will focus on the production of large cargo sea vessels. The northern coast will use clandestine methods and smuggling methods to contact local forces (mainly gangs of smuggler salt) to transport grain and cooking oil to the north.

At the same time, Li Jing went back this time to persuade the senior brother to go to the north to build a salt and rice road, as long as he was a believer, he could purchase Li Jing's iron and steel tools, weapons, rice and salt at a low price (Li Jing was going to dry sea salt in Taiwan and process it into refined salt). Believers are graded and lower-level believers are developed, and they can take the goods from the upper family, but the price increase at each level shall not exceed half percent. Then go down to the house and go to the next house.

Each level of believers is a one-line connection, binding believers with economic interests. As the drought and natural disasters continue to intensify in the north, the only way to survive is to join the salt rice road. Even the more believers you develop, the more income you can bring.

Before Li Jing left, he was called by his grandfather to go there, there is a township examination for the imperial examination this year, and there will be an examination for the imperial examination next year.

Township Examination Ming Dynasty every three years in the provinces and provincial capitals (including the capital) held an examination, because it is held in autumn and August, so it is also called Qiu Yu (闱, examination room). The examiner was appointed by the emperor. After the examination, the main and deputy lists are released, and the main list is called the lifter, the first name is Xie (jiè) yuan, and the second to tenth name is "Yayuan".

The examination, the Ming Dynasty held an examination every three years in the capital, because it was held in the spring, so it is also called the spring. The examination was presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and the emperor appointed the chief and vice presidents, and the people of the provinces and the supervisors of the country could take the examination, and 300 were admitted as tributes, and the first was called Huiyuan.

Li Jing was originally a showman, and he could take a shortcut here, and an excellent showman could be sent to Guozijian as a prisoner, and the prisoner was qualified to directly participate in the examination, so he skipped the hurdle of lifting people. How did you get it at home and what path Li Jing took, but Li Jing didn't know. Qin Liangyu's father, Qin Kui, is Sui Gongsheng, and Xiucai directly escorted him to Beijing Guozijian to study.

Grandpa's meaning, regardless of whether Li Jing read the book seriously or not, suggested that he go to Beijing for reference, this year because the Son of Heaven has newly ascended the throne and everything is complicated, so the Spring Festival will be postponed to June, and now it is only February, and there are still a few months to go, and it just so happens that the whole family is going to send my sister to Beijing to draft girls. So Li Jing also has to go.

Li Jing came out of his grandfather, and the military department came with an order, ordering Li Jing, the town guard of Nanao Town, the capital of Fujian and Guangdong, to recruit 5,000 battalions of soldiers on the spot. At the same time, some of the naval warships of Fujian and Guangdong provinces were allocated over, and at the same time, some civilian ships were allocated to be responsible for deploying defenses at Yingkou to ensure that the army's baggage was transported to the mouth of the Liaohe River and then transferred to Liaoshen. Li Jing was asked to arrive at Yingkou no later than the end of May.

Li Jing simply asked the third uncle to recruit 7,000 people. went to the Ma'anshan camp for training, and directly replenished the 8,500 troops in a town. These people train first. However, Li Jing got 30% of the silver given by the imperial court. The rest was floated away. Li Jing decided to recruit 1,500 soldiers, exactly thirty percent. He is already worthy of the imperial court if he does not eat empty salaries, and the remaining 5,500 people are directly supplemented into Nanao Town in the form of family members. In the future, the battalion of Nanao Town will be 1,500 people. Li Jing's private family has 8,500 people.

At the same time, Li Jing also sent his subordinates to Xiangxi Phoenix Town, Xiangxi Town, to recruit 8,500 town soldiers, and prepared to ship all of them to Nanao Island to plan the establishment of a second town.

Before Li Jing left, Qin Liangyu came to see Li Jing off, and the two talked secretly at the dock for an hour. This time, all the Shu brocade brought by Qin Liangyu has been directly bought by Wumart, saving her the trouble of selling it herself along the way. Qin Liangyu also saw that Sichuan was about to be in chaos. Li Jing and Qin Liangyu were ready to take the opportunity to get their hands on the main sand gold producing areas. Sichuan's sand gold is mainly produced in the south of the Yangtze River, in the mountainous areas of western Sichuan and in the Daba Mountains in northern Sichuan. Basically, it is not in the stone pillar control area.

In addition, there is an asphalt mine with huge reserves in the upper reaches of the Jialing River in northern Sichuan, and Li Jing and Qin Liangyu have negotiated, and the follow-up stone pillar can do timber, sand gold and asphalt business with Li Jing. When Li Jing comes back from Nanao Island, Qin Liangyu will lead the remaining 6,000 stone pillar soldiers, and Li Jing's currently trained 3,000 people to set off with Li Jing's family, and go north by sea, Qin Liangyu will go ashore in Tanggu, Tianjin, and go directly to Tongzhou to report to the Ministry of War, Li Jing's family will go to the capital, and Li Jing will personally lead the troops to Yingkou to arrange defense.

After negotiating all the matters, Li Jing took the four maids and the red lady, sat on the Black Pearl, and sailed directly to Nanao Island.

The red lady saw such a beautiful sailboat for the first time, with snow-white sails and hull, streamlined waterline, indescribably beautiful, like a beautiful white swan floating on the water. After boarding the boat from the stern, entering the living room, everything in it has never been seen by the red lady, walnut decoration, light floor, leather sofa, Li Jing took her to the bedroom, and saw the snow-white duck down bedding. The soft and fluffy pillows, especially the snow-white bathroom and toilet, make the red lady look stupid. For the first time, I had a serious inferiority complex, and it turned out that I was born poor. The world of the rich does not understand itself.

When it was dark, the boat had already left the mouth of the Yangtze River and was turning south, and this season was three days away from Nanao Island, but Li Jing decided to lead Keelung to stop halfway, he wanted to see what his grandfather asked the fourth uncle to go to Keelung Wu Fort, which was in charge of the construction, and what it was like now.

In the evening, Li Jing prepared a candlelight dinner to entertain the little sister. In the sea-view restaurant in the bottom warehouse, the cyborg maids are constantly serving wine and food. Li Jing and the red lady chatted while eating.

"Senior sister, you came here to find me this time. Does Uncle Shi know about this?"

"Senior brother, I came by myself, it has nothing to do with the master, I need your help."

"Senior sister came to smash the scene when we first met, you are not afraid that I will really turn my face, and besides, you don't know that I know your identity."

"Hmph, junior brother, for the sake of the bouquet, that mink fur is almost worth the equipment I want, since you don't care about money so much, friends have the friendship of wealth, not to mention that you and I are in the same family, you might as well give it to me if you spend it on those women."

"Senior sister, although you look good, you really don't have to worry about your eyebrows, but you are too self-righteous, I have other benefits for holding the red flower oiran, do you think I am idle, but senior sister, you don't want to be a thief such a promising career, what are you doing here."

The red lady looked at Li Jing suspiciously, her whole body tensed, and she couldn't help but be on guard.