After achieving a great victory over Liu Li's coalition army, Liu Jing suggested to Bailijian that the number of soldiers could be appropriately expanded. But Bai Lijian did not agree.

Now there are 20 guards in the cottage, that is, the law enforcement team that will be established, 80 horse bandits, that is, cavalry teams, 30 archers, and 70 infantry teams, a total of 200 people, almost all of them are fully equipped. After several battlefield experiences, it can be regarded as a veteran team.

In addition, there are 100 reserve troops, 20 special teams, 20 sentinels, and a total of 340 combat teams. If it continues to increase, there will be fewer people to work.

Now it is time for the cottage to be withdrawn from the war and specially engaged in construction, and it is enough for the soldiers to maintain a certain deterrent. The infantry and archers kept their homes, and the cavalry went out to raid, and it was not suitable for the time being to increase the number of troops until they encountered a stronger opponent.

In recent times, Bailijian has spent all his energy on internal affairs. In addition to the establishment of patrols and law enforcement teams, Bailijian has also set up a special academy to make it mandatory for all children over the age of six and under the age of 18, both male and female, to study in private schools, otherwise their families will be deducted from their work.

Since the establishment of the work division system, the enthusiasm of the whole cottage has been unprecedentedly improved, and after tasting the sweetness of buying items by work points, it has been out of control. If you really get points deducted for not sending your children to school, it will be a big loss.

The dean of the college is Du Xi, Bai Lijian and Liu Jing are part-time teachers, and Du Zhong also occasionally takes care of it, but it is mainly Du Xi who teaches it.

This is the project that Bailijian focuses on, and learning culture is the most important thing for the whole cottage for a long time in the future, and no difficulty can prevent the continuation of this project.

In the final analysis, there is still too little talent in the cottage, so while tapping the internal potential, Bailijian also deliberately issued an announcement to recruit talents, but anyone who has a skill can come to the cottage to eat, and if there is a real ability, you can get higher treatment.

When the notice first came out, many people laughed at Tianluo Village, which was obviously a bandit's nest, and actually wanted to recruit talents, it is estimated that no one was willing to come, after all, not everyone was willing to fall into the grass.

Of course, Bai Lijian did not sit back and wait for the arrival of talents, and deliberately let Li Lingfeng out, and let him help find capable people around him. Bailijian gives a wide range, such as those who can do handicrafts, those who can farm, and some brave and famous, all of which are within the scope of talents. Of course, Bai Lijian also specially instructed that there are two kinds of people who need special attention, one is the blacksmith and the other is the scholar, once there is a discovery, no matter what means are used, they must invite people back.

In addition to setting up an academy, the most important thing in the cottage is salt production. The salt production work, which had been interrupted by the war, has resumed, and the efficiency of salt production has also increased greatly due to the increase in manpower, and the amount of salt stored in the warehouse is visibly increasing.

When there is so much salt that it can't be consumed internally, it's time to put salt sales on the agenda.

The first thing Bai Lijian thought of was the large and small cottages in the entire Helan Mountain. They had to go out to raid to get a small amount of salt, but it was not enough. If salt could be exchanged for the looting supplies, it would definitely be a profitable deal.

As soon as the news of the sale of salt in Tianwolf Village was released, all large and small cottages flocked to it. First, they can be familiar with Tianluo Village, and second, their demand for salt is too great.

In the face of such a huge demand, Bai Lijian and Liu Jing were also unexpected. With the current salt reserves of the cottage, there is simply not enough supply. However, in the face of various cottages that urgently need salt, Bailijian did not want to refuse directly, so he could only change the way he sold it.

What Bai Lijian and Liu Jing agreed before was to barter, first, to reduce the salt stock, and second, to increase the material reserves of the cottage in case of emergency. But now seeing that everyone is so crazy, Baili is determined to change the sales method to buy gold and silver jewelry.

There is no shortage of gold, silver and jewelry, and they usually have no place to use them, at most they secretly send people to the nearby big cities to purchase some daily necessities. So for those cottages, this is undoubtedly a great thing. Exchanging useless gold, silver and jewelry for life-saving salt, although it is more expensive than purchasing it from the big city, it is better because of the proximity, the convenience of purchasing, and more importantly, the relationship with Tianluo Village can be good, which is what they can't ask for.

Liu Jing was very puzzled by Bailijian's behavior of not exchanging salt for supplies, obviously the cottage is not rich in supplies now, and it is useless to ask for some gold, silver and jewelry to come back.

"Teacher, how do you think those cottage supplies will be?" Bai Lijian didn't explain directly to Liu Jing, but just asked rhetorically.

Liu Jing shook her head.

"Then once they run out of supplies and can't survive, who will we sell our salt to?"

"They can go out and grab it."

"But if they can't get enough supplies and it's hard to survive, how can they come and buy salt? Will they hate us and think that we have taken away the supplies they need to survive? ”

"Then you can't let them exchange gold and silver, why do we need so much gold and silver jewelry?"

"Teacher, do you think they will have a lot of gold and silver?"

"What do you mean?"

"Although we seem to have suffered a loss in the early stage, once those cottages have given us all the gold and silver jewelry accumulated over the years, do they have to find a way to get more gold and silver jewelry next? What do you think they will do if they can't grab gold and silver jewelry anymore? ”

Liu Jing nodded and said, "They will offer to exchange materials for them!" ”

"That's right!" Bai Lijian smiled: "But I won't agree." ”

"Why?"

"I will use the gold and silver and jewelry in our hands to buy their supplies, so that they will have gold and silver and jewelry to buy our salt."

"Why all the trouble?"

"Teacher, there's a lot of attention to this. We can judge the strength of each cottage by the amount of salt purchased by each cottage. If a cottage is too strong, we can sell them more salt, or spend more money to buy their supplies, so that we can indirectly weaken their strength. We have the final say on buying and selling, and the power to speak is always in our hands, which is what I value the most. ”