With more than 5 million taels of silver in his hand, Jiangchuan had enough confidence to recruit soldiers.

Of course, he did not plan to run the more than 100 stores on hand himself, but planned to sell all these shops through bidding.

The target is these shops, and the bidding object is naturally those merchants in Datong City.

Those businessmen have already established a good cooperative relationship with Jiang Chuan. They found that it was still very beneficial to cooperate with this young marquis, firstly, this man did not have the kind of thinking of the rulers of previous dynasties who valued agriculture and suppressed business, but attached great importance to businessmen. Second, the tax rate levied on businessmen is not high, and he has a clear attitude towards protecting the legitimate interests of businessmen.

That's the obvious reason.

Of course, the more important and deeper reason is that there are many people among these businessmen who are sharp-eyed and long-sighted.

They naturally understand what the situation is like today. The troubled times have come, and the princes with soldiers in their hands have become the most important investment objects.

The future lord of the world will inevitably arise among these princes. Even if there is no situation of great unification at that time, but a situation of division and division of various countries, then these princes will all be the lords of one country in the future.

Befriending them now and losing the appropriate benefits is for the greater and more long-term benefits of the future.

Anyone who can become a big businessman has naturally heard the story of Fan Li and Lü Buwei. In the hearts of many businessmen, these two are the highest goals of businessmen, and they are the idols and role models of businessmen.

And Jiangchuan is undoubtedly one of the objects of investment by these Datong businessmen, and it is a major object. Maybe they will invest in Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and other princes in the future.

This is all a normal phenomenon, and people who speculate in stocks know the truth that diversifying risks and not putting all eggs in the same basket.

The businessmen understand this truth, and Jiang Chuan understands this truth even more.

He gave these shops to these merchants through bidding, and firstly, he also gave back to these merchants for their investment, so that they could see that it was absolutely profitable to invest in themselves. There are not only long-term benefits, but also immediate practical benefits.

These shops are all mature shops, and they are all mature shops that have been run by those people who have been cleaned up by Jiang Chuan for many years. This is still on the surface, and there are related import and export channels and customer resources that extend behind it, which are the most valuable things.

Although with the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, many of these resources could no longer be used. But the surplus value is still meant to be objective.

Although Jiang Chuan understands this truth, he doesn't know how to do business, and he is not good at business. What's more, he doesn't have the energy to do these things.

Instead of doing it yourself, it's better to leave these shops to a professional to do.

Jiang Chuan wrote a letter to Bai Jinxiu, asking her to let the news out and see how those businessmen reacted. If the merchants were interested, they could even send troops to escort them to Quang Ninh to see for themselves.

At the same time, Jiang Chuan also wrote a letter to Liu Ji, asking him to close down the shops of those who had been liquidated in Liaoyang, and to start a clean-up operation in Liaoyang.

Liu Ji looks conservative and steady, but he is actually a staunch Han nationalist, and he hates these unscrupulous businessmen who are treason and seek glory as much as he is, and even more so.

Jiang Chuan also passed from a harmonious society of national unity, and for Liu Ji, all foreign races at this time belonged to the barbarian state. Adultery and barbarism and betrayal of Chinese orthodoxy are great sins.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan was not worried about the strength of Liu Ji's clean-up operation in Liaoyang.

At the same time, in the letter, Jiang Chuan also explained one thing, that is, the matter of keeping hair and making it easy to wear.

The cities of Liaodong have been occupied by the Tatars for many years. Under the threat of the butcher's knife of the Tartars, all the people were forced to shave off the Han Chinese hair bun and keep the ugly money rat tail.

Now that the three cities of southern Liaoning have been recovered by themselves, there is no doubt that they must restore the Chinese clothes.

Of course, if your hair is shaved so short, it will take a long time to keep it in a bun like before. Hair can grow slowly, but the crown must be changed immediately.

The reason why this matter was not done at the beginning of the city was that there were too many complicated things, and secondly, it was also due to the instability of the people, so it has not been started.

Now Jiang Chuan has just used thunderbolt means to deal with a large number of wealthy businessmen who are lackeys for the Tartars, and it is the time when the majesty is flourishing. At this time, it is just right to announce that it is easy to keep your hair and wear it.

In the letter, Jiang Chuan asked Liu Ji to grasp the opportunity to announce the change of hair and clothes.

After the letters to Bai Jinxiu and Liu Ji were sent, Jiang Chuan asked Sima Muyi of the Chinese army to draft two orders.

The first is the conscription order: whether in the city or in the countryside, any young and strong man between the ages of 16 and 30, who has no disability and is of normal mind, can sign up to join the army.

Those who successfully join the army will be issued by the government with a glorious military family card hanging on the door of their homes, and the whole family will be exempted from conscription for one year, and all kinds of taxes will be reduced by half every year.

Moreover, those who join the army will receive a military salary of one or two or five dollars per month per person, and all food and lodging will be included. If there is a military merit, there will be another reward, and the title will be awarded according to the military merit.

This trick was actually learned by Jiang Chuan from Shang Ying.

In the past, Shang Ying changed the law and implemented reward farming warfare in the Qin State. Anyone who has made military merits or is skilled in farming can be awarded knighthood.

It is precisely because of this that everyone in the Qin State at that time was warlike, everyone yearned for war, and everyone on the battlefield competed for the first, which turned from a poor barbarian country in a corner and despised by the six Kwantung countries to the strongest Warring States step by step, and finally unified Liuhe.

At that time, there were as many as 20 titles in the Qin State: 1 Gongshi; 2. Upper construction; 3. Tyrants; 4. Not more; 5 doctors; 6. Doctor Guan; 7. Doctor; 8. Bus; 9. Five Doctors; 10. Left Shu long; 11. Right skull length; 12. Left more; 13. Medium change; 14. Right more; 15. Less on the top; 16. Great manufacturing; 17. The head of the car; 18. The length of the house; 19. Guannei Hou; 20. Che Hou.

Of these twenty titles, 1 to 4 are equivalent to scholars; 5 to 9 is equivalent to a doctor; 10 to 18 is equivalent to qing; The last two levels are equivalent to the princes.

The names of these titles seemed to Jiang Chuan to be strange and complicated, and it was difficult to understand.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan decided to use the military rank system of the modern army as a blueprint, and combined with some realistic situations to reformulate a military rank system that is more suitable for this time and space.

When the time comes, when a soldier is commended for his military merits, he may be awarded the corresponding military rank according to his military merits.

Behind each rank there are corresponding benefits and corresponding positions.

The military rank system is a complex system that cannot be decided by patting the head. Jiang Chuan plans to make a framework by himself, and then discuss and improve it with Liu Ji and Hu Zongxian before it is officially promulgated.