In his opinion, a certain doctrine will not work, the landlord class and the private economy are indispensable strata of this society, and he is not aimed at all the landlord class, as long as these landlords obey his management and pay taxes according to the regulations, then they can survive in the jurisdiction of the Xingtianjun, and he mainly deals with certain privileged strata that have become obstacles to social development. As for some small landlords or merchants, as long as it does not affect the purpose he wants to achieve, he can get his protection at all.

This point has begun to manifest itself in the local area after the ninth year of Chongzhen, and some businessmen who had already fled from the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army also began to gradually return to the area controlled by the Xingtian Army and start their business again.

For them, the Xingtianjun will tax them according to one out of twenty, which seems to be a bit harsh compared to the imperial court's tax exemption measures for merchants, but as long as they are well managed, the interests of merchants will not be affected, but because of the fairness of the market, merchants can still get huge profits.

In this way, it gradually changed the single economic model of the Xingtian Army at the beginning, so that the economic activities in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army were also active during the year, and the merchants entered the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army to do business and establish workshops, and it was inevitable to employ people, while providing tax sources and enriching local commodities for the Xingtian Army, it also found a way to channel the surplus labor force in the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army.

Looking at the bustling streets of Yangcheng County, Xiao Tianjian rode on a horse and asked Fu Deming, who was walking beside him: "Mr. Fu has run Yangcheng County well in the past few months, and if it goes on like this, it looks like it should be more prosperous than Yangcheng County before!" ”

Fu Deming said to Xiao Tianjian with some pride: "Not bad! In the past few months, the wine shops and teahouses in the county town have begun to gradually recover, the fastest development is still a variety of workshops, some businessmen have run back, in the city to re-buy land to build houses and start trading, we are this month alone, in the city in the city to collect nearly 5,000 taels of tax silver, and then there will be more and more such tax silver.

It's a pity that at present, the connection between the inside and outside of our jurisdiction is not smooth, and in addition to the waterway in and out of the ancient town, the other local governments are very strict, so that many businessmen who want to come in cannot enter our jurisdiction to do business!

If this is not the case, Yangcheng County will be much more prosperous, but this is also a matter of no choice, the imperial court can't sit idly by and ignore us! This matter can't be rushed! ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded and said: "I'm not too worried about this, businessmen are profit-seeking, and they will always find their own way, as long as we can earn profits for them, then they won't care if we are thieves or not, and sooner or later they will deal with us."

By the way, let's not talk about this for now, how is the situation in Yangcheng Tiezuo now? ”

Fu Deming immediately replied: "Yangcheng Iron is basically in production now!" Zhang Chao transferred a group of blacksmiths from the craftsman battalion, plus the newly recruited blacksmiths, there are more than 300 people, and the construction has started, and the batch of weapons given to Li Zicheng by the general a few days ago are all placed here to build, but the arquebus is also made of iron from Shuangfeng Village, and the rest of the things can be shipped to them within a month! ”

"So what does Mr. Fu think about my support for Li Zicheng?" Xiao Tianjian rode on the horse and turned his head to look at Fu Deming and asked him.

"I think the general is doing the right thing, and it should be so! We now want iron materials and craftsmen, and we need craftsmen and craftsmen, and we will definitely not be able to meet our production capacity by making some iron nails and reselling farm tools! The craftsmen are also very idle, and now that we have such a large business, why don't we do it?

What's more, the biggest advantage of the general doing this is to make Li Zicheng stronger, and more to contain the official and military forces in Shaanxi, and the provincial officials and troops are thinking about coming to us for trouble if they have nothing to do! This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, and how can there be dissatisfaction with lowly duties? Fu Deming had a much wider vision than Feng Gouzi, and immediately figured out why Xiao Tianjian treated Li Zicheng like this, so he did not resist Xiao Tianjian's decision.

"By the way, I have received an order from the general, and I will discuss in Lotus Village on the tenth day of the first month, I don't know what the general is going to do this time? Can you tell us a little bit about the humble position first? Fu Deming suddenly asked Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian smiled and said: "I came this time to discuss this matter with Mr. Fu first, Mr. Fu don't worry, we have time to talk about this, let's go to Yangcheng Tiezuo first!" ”

While speaking, Xiao Tianjian and Fu Deming and others came to a large iron work that had just been built in Yangcheng County, this iron work was built on the ruins of a rich family in the city, close to the north gate of Yangcheng, whether it was feeding or shipping is very convenient, before entering the iron work, you can see the dozen or so large chimneys erected in the iron work, each big chimney has an iron furnace under it, which is specially used to melt pig iron, and there are dozens of small furnaces for those blacksmiths to use.

The scale of the iron work is quite large, there are nearly 300 blacksmiths working here, and there are small shacks everywhere, and there is constantly the sound of tinkling iron, and the sound of whirring wind, and the sound of the trumpets of craftsmen when they carry heavy objects.

Xiao Tianjian himself couldn't believe his eyes, a few months ago, this place was still a ruin, but now it is a row of workshops, although it looks very simple, but the production contained in it is very huge, almost a feeling of an industrial area in the future, but it lacks some necessary machinery.

After Xiao Tianjian walked into the iron work, he saw a lively scene, hundreds of craftsmen sweated like rain in various sheds to build all kinds of weapons, a piece of crude iron billet was sent into various sheds, after the craftsmen forged, made into a variety of knives and guns, and then packed in a unified box, sealed and stored.

The whole process has obviously begun to accept the impact of the assembly line operation that Shuangfeng Zhai has already implemented, the craftsmen are divided into three classes according to their skill level, according to their different levels, arrange to give them a variety of work suitable for them to do, so that although there will be a slightly mediocre situation in product quality, it is not easy to appear high-quality products, but the benefits are very obvious, through such assembly operations, the overall quality of the product has been guaranteed, and the product shape created is unified. The quality is not inferior, and more importantly, it gives full play to the level of each blacksmith, which greatly improves the speed of production.

For example, a knife starts from the blank, first beats into a blank, and then hands it over to the next step for fine building, and finally hands it over to the grinding craftsman for unified polishing, and the production of a knife is at least three times faster than the previous one craftsman to do the whole process, and the output is naturally increased by more than three times.

After Xiao Tianjian personally tried the newly created blade, he nodded with satisfaction and said, "It seems that the knife produced here is not much worse than that of Shuangfeng Village, and it should be able to meet Li Zicheng's requirements!" ”

Fu Deming also picked up a newly built spear and looked at it, and then said with a smile: "Hehe! After Li Zicheng and their orders were now, the craftsmen in our shed were all in motion, but the quality of the things built here is still a little different from that of Shuangfeng Village, at least this kind of spear head is not the kind of three-edged thorn that our Xingtian Army specially uses! ”

They both looked at each other and laughed.

After sitting in Fu Deming's humble temporary civil affairs office, Xiao Tianjian asked Tietou to hang a hand-drawn map on the wall.

Fu Deming stood in front of the map with a teacup, waiting for Xiao Tianjian to explain his thoughts and arrangements.

Xiao Tianjian also sorted out his thoughts in front of the map, and said to Fu Deming: "After our efforts, now our autumn harvest is about to be harvested, so the dilemma of food in this catastrophic year is basically over!"

In this way, we are now well-fed, and it is time for these idle howling fellows to move their muscles! I don't know if Mr. Fu thinks he can use soldiers? ”

Fu Deming held the teacup and nodded: "That's true, Luo Li's brothers are really anxious during this time, hehe!" But I don't know where the general is going to use troops this time? Does the general want to fight Zezhou? ”

Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said: "Zezhou is already a dead dog, whether to fight or not is ours sooner or later!" Now the outside of Zezhou is basically our territory, where is just a lonely city, there is no point in fighting him, it's just a waste of troops! This time I didn't think so little! I'm going to fight Gao Ping! ”

After Fu Deming heard this, he immediately laughed, put down the teacup and stroked his palms and smiled: "Okay!" It's good to hit Gao Ping! After laying down Gaoping, we will choke Zezhou's throat, and Zezhou will naturally be self-defeating at that time! It's a great move! In this way, we will control the entire southeast of Jindong in our hands! However, Gaoping is only a small place, with our troops, we don't need to use great efforts at all, we should be able to take it, and the government is busy during this time, even if we take Gaoping, the Shanxi government has nothing to do with us! From a humble point of view, I'm afraid the general won't have such a small appetite this time! Could it be that the general still wants to fight Lu'an Mansion next? ”

Xiao Tianjian nodded and smiled: "Hehe! Mr. Fu is getting to know me better and better! But this time, I am afraid that the gentleman could not guess my thoughts!

Laying down Gaoping is just the first step, it's just a practice! I want to make a big move next, but it's not to fight Lu'anfu! Rather, lead your troops to this place! With that, he tapped his finger heavily under the map.

Fu Deming leaned over to the map and looked at Xiao Tianjian's fingers, but his brows immediately twisted together, and he exclaimed, "Henan? Is the general going to lead his troops to Henan? ”

Xiao Tianjian turned around and returned to the table, sat down slowly, nodded and said, "Yes!" I'm going to Henan! ”