Jiang Chuan finally analyzed it, and felt that Bai Jinxiu might have misunderstood what he meant, and couldn't help but cry and laugh. To tell the truth, he saw everything Bai Jinxiu did in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, but his current feeling for her is only from feeling that this girl is a little biao to the extent that this girl is not bad, far from talking about anything else.

Could it be that his recent behavior caused the girl to misunderstand?

Do you really have to sacrifice your own ** for my grand ambition? Jiang Chuan fell into deep thought, locked himself in the study and didn't come out for a day.

Of course, he was actually working hard in the study, writing down all his ideas and ideas about the Black Ice Terrace. Since using the goose pen, Jiang Chuan has begun to like the feeling of writing again, and the speed of writing has also accelerated a lot.

When he put down the pen, he found that he had written more than a dozen pieces of paper at the end of the day, and there were traces of smearing and modification in many places.

"Qi Xuan, come in." Jiang Chuan stretched and called out the door.

With the rapid increase in the number of troops and population under his command, there are more affairs of all kinds. And these affairs naturally lead to a lot of paperwork.

And to be able to do paperwork competently, you must be able to read and hyphenate words. But though there are many people in this valley, there are very few who can read and write.

After calculation, at present, Jiang Chuan knows that there are no more than ten people who can read and hyphenate, including himself, Liu Ji and Bai Jinxiu's master and servant, and Qi Xuan.

After a period of observation, Qi Xuan, a girl, was meticulous and never talked much, so Jiang Chuan made her his secretary, specializing in helping him sort out and receive various documents, and the chores in her hands were handed over to other maids.

Qi Xuan was born in an official family, with a family history and literacy, so the basic work of sorting out documents was not difficult for her at all, so she quickly got started. Egawa is also satisfied with her work.

After Qi Xuan's sorting and classification, Jiang Chuan found that his efficiency in consulting various documents and documents had improved a lot, so he relied on her even more.

When Liu Ji saw it, he envied Jiang Chuan several times, complained bitterly in front of Jiang Chuan, and asked Jiang Chuan to find some clerical officials for himself so that he could share his workload.

Jiang Chuan knew that his side was in charge of the overall situation, focusing on the military, while Liu Ji's side was more cumbersome and complicated in terms of civil affairs, so the amount of writing work must be more.

Every now and then, Jiang Chuan only smiled bitterly. Because he also had nowhere to find a reader. Although the fortress base can train a large number of soldiers and craftsmen, it cannot provide a reader.

This also made Jiang Chuan realize that he must find a way to attract more talents as soon as possible. But he also knew that this kind of thing was not urgent at the moment.

The king must choose the minister, and the talent must also choose the lord and the matter, and everyone chooses each other. Although he is now temporarily gaining a foothold in this world, he is far from being famous.

Therefore, it is unlikely that any scholar will go all the way to this ravine to join him, and he will bow his head.

Liu Ji's talent was also picked up by himself by mistake, which is an example.

Therefore, in order to increase visibility, on the one hand, you have to send job advertisements, and on the other hand, you need to have enough strength to attract talents.

And the latter, of course, is fundamental.

Therefore, the current situation of talent shortage will not change for a while and a half.

Fortunately, Jiang Chuan and Liu Ji's public houses are basically separated by a conference hall, so letting Qi Xuan run back and forth on both sides can be regarded as sharing some of the workload for Liu Ji.

Talents, talents, Jiang Chuan pondered this problem as soon as he was free during this time, but there was still no good way to think about it.

He now knows how difficult it is to be an entrepreneur. Although he has the golden thigh of the fortress base, there are still some difficulties that need to be experienced, and it is impossible to sweep the world so easily.

Moreover, as the army system becomes larger and larger, the daily maintenance costs of the fortress base have also begun to remain high, and the various materials produced in the base field can only have a slight surplus after being sold in addition to supplying daily consumption.

Although a large amount of food is produced in the base field, in addition to satisfying the consumption of the base itself, this food needs to be exchanged for the real world to supplement the existing people in the valley.

You must know that at present, more than 20,000 people have not paid grain and taxes, and basically all rations and materials are provided by Jiangchuan.

Fortunately, there are more than 200,000 stones, grains and grass seized after the last attack on Liaoyang, otherwise Jiang Chuan is really not sure that he can rely on the grain produced by the base to support the needs of these two or thirty thousand people and two or thirty thousand troops for three years.

Although the wasteland in the valley is being cultivated, it will take at least three years for the land to become fertile land and produce food.

Moreover, as the population of the people increased, even if all the wasteland in the valley was reclaimed, it would not be enough to distribute.

Therefore, this kind of base subsidy reality situation will continue for two or three years. If you want to improve the situation as soon as possible, you need to expand outward and seize more cities, so that there can be more land to distribute to the people.

And during this period of time, the Qing army seems to have been completely frightened by themselves, and they can't shrink back, and even those who came out to fight the grass valley are basically gone.

Moreover, according to the scouts' report, the Qing army mobilized a lot of troops from the north to strengthen the defense of the three cities in southern Liaoning: Liaoyang, Gaizhou, and Guangning.

Liaoyang is in the south, Gaizhou is in the northeast, and Quang Ninh is in the northwest, and the distance between the three cities is less than a hundred li, forming a triangle. These three cities are horns with each other, one city facing the enemy, and the other two cities can support each other at any time.

At present, if you want to attack a city, your own forces are somewhat insufficient. Moreover, in order to attack one city, it is necessary to have enough troops to intercept the reinforcements of the other two cities, which requires more troops.

And even if these cities were conquered, it would take a lot of scholars to serve as officials to govern. This brings us back to the issue of talent.

If you want to recruit readers, you must poach people from Daming. If you want to poach people, you have to advertise. To advertise, there must be channels.

And the laying of this channel is about to fall on the black ice platform that is about to be built.

Therefore, this is also an important reason why he is in a hurry to build a black ice platform.

"General." Qi Xuan floated in silently and bowed slightly to Jiang Chuan.

"Here, you sort out and copy these manuscripts, archive the original manuscripts, and send a copy to the military advisor after the transcription is completed." Jiang Chuan smiled and pointed to the manuscript on the table.

"No!" Qi Xuan came to the front of the case and began to sort out the manuscripts, his eyes swept over, and after a while, there was a look of surprise and confusion in his eyes, looking at Jiang Chuan, and then at the manuscripts, the look of surprise on his face was even greater.

Jiang Chuan was drinking water with a teacup, but he didn't notice Qi Xuan's gaze.

In the manuscripts he just wrote, he listed almost all of his knowledge of intelligence work, divided them into categories, and because of his language habits, he used a lot of modern vocabulary.

And one more thing, he is used to using simplified characters. In the past, Jiang Chuan tried his best to use traditional Chinese characters, but after all, he couldn't write a lot of traditional Chinese characters, plus he was used to simplified Chinese characters, so there were a lot of simplified Chinese characters on this manuscript.

These simplified Chinese characters are what made Qi Xuan frown and wonder.