At the beginning of July, the first comprehensive store opened in Weihai Mazi Erdun, selling grain, garments, salt, ironware, tobacco, tea, the structure is like the supply and marketing cooperatives in the eighties, each counter is a person, and there is a shopkeeper and two cashiers, this shopkeeper is Li Ranzhu, in a short time she straightened out the messy preparations, basically met Liu Minyou's requirements.

People trust this semi-official store very much, all the goods in it are clearly priced, and there are fair scales at the door, so buyers can verify by themselves without worrying about being slaughtered, so business is very hot on the opening day, and the business of other similar stores has plummeted.

The price of grain in the comprehensive store is the same as that of the other two grain stores in the dungeon, and the salt is bought directly from some tun households, which is almost unprofitable. It is very difficult to earn salt silver by the sea, Shandong coastal private salt is everywhere, after the middle of the century, the Ming court has changed the salt law to the ticket salt law in the remote and coastal areas, reducing the procedures, directly selling salt with tickets, including some areas of Wendeng, but here is not like the mainland, there is the sea on three sides, the price of private salt is very low, and there are many of them for their own use, so there is still little effect. Many households in Weihai are boiling salt by themselves, and the two of them think about it, and they don't make this money in Mazidun for the time being, and the selling price is basically the same as that of private salt, which only plays a role in attracting customers and letting them consume other things by the way.

They don't have to worry about the sales of tobacco, there are many people in the Wendeng area who grow tobacco, and there are more smokers, men, women and children, all because it is generally believed that it can drive away cold and dehumidification, coupled with the addictive nature of tobacco, the popularity of the north is extremely fast, and Liu Minyou has even seen a doll a few years old smoking with a pipe.

In Fujian and other places in the south, tobacco is made into shredded tobacco. It is more convenient to smoke with a pipe, the technology in the north is poorer, most of them are still made into pieces of tobacco leaves, and the price of tobacco in the south is more expensive, Liu Minyou's current source of goods is also bought from Dengzhou, although he opposes smoking, but he can't convince others. In the end, he had to stipulate that no smoking should be allowed under the age of 10, and he was not optimistic about the results.

There are also some shops in Mazi Erdun. Most of them are the industries of the local snakes in Weihai, and there are also some officials and gentry in Ninghai Prefecture, and the same is true for Wendeng Ying. After Zhou Hongmo left, Chen Xin sent people to take over several official shops, and the two shops opened by Zhou Hongmo's relatives were still retained, because Chen Xin also needed Zhou Hongmo to take care of the shops in Linqing.

As soon as the comprehensive store opened, these shops were a little nervous, involving the same products, they were scared, Chen Xin is now in the limelight, just made a great contribution to the king of diligence, no one wants to offend him because of business. Ask people everywhere about their intentions.

Liu Min made it clear to the people who came to inquire about the news that he only sold these few goods, and did not fight price wars with other shops, so that most of the stores were relieved and did not close a large number of them.

Liu Minyou is full of confidence in the competitiveness of integrated stores. The consumer groups of Mazi Erdun are mainly three types of people. The first is the army, including part of the army and all the sailors, the second is the workshop and the fake money workshop, these people have a good income, and the third type is the peasant households, and now the first batch of peasant households in Mazi Erdun have been divided into land. Twenty acres per household, the population is smaller, in addition to their own use after the surplus, when they want to buy goods, they need to exchange the grain for silver consumption, which is usually to be exploited twice, one is the grain store to buy are used to weigh, blatantly eat a piece, and then pay when the silver is often very inferior, according to Huang Anshou of the fake money workshop, there are more than 40 kinds of fake silver with a name, unless it is a dumping shop of the familiar hands, ordinary people can not distinguish this much.

Therefore, Liu Minyou believes that the most important thing is the credit process, the comprehensive store is officially opened by Wendengying, at least in terms of credit will be much higher than the general store, farmers can exchange grain for money here, and then immediately consume in the comprehensive store, reducing exploitation, even if only from the perspective of interests, farmers will definitely choose here.

This model can not only prevent the outflow of food, but also pull other consumer goods, and wait until the farmers get used to this mode of exchange, and then issue the internal currency through the guò general store, and the farmers can save it, and these currencies can be bought at the general store, or exchanged for the equivalent of huàn silver taels at the store, so that other shops will also accept this currency.

At that time, the wages of the army and the workshops were changed to this currency, and the initial internal financial structure was realized in this way, and after a certain amount of dù was expanded, the savings business was launched, and this part of the financial function was separated from the general stores.

For these farmers and artisans who do not travel far away, they have to deal with land and daily necessities stores, as long as the comprehensive store credit is sufficient, even paper money can be issued.

On the army side, the second group of troops returning from Tianjin arrived in Weihai, mainly training teams and 1,000 slender men, who had already undergone basic training in Tianjin. Before Zhu Daichun could take a breath, Chen Xin immediately deployed a new task with him, the most important thing was the recruitment of new recruits. Including the corresponding regulations for the preparation of peasants and soldiers, Chen Xin's requirements were to simplify the banner orders and drum trumpets, and the command of the company was mainly based on passwords and marching drums.

In addition to the peasants, a new round of recruitment of new recruits for the battalion has begun, and the Wendeng battalion has 2,000 officers and men, and more than 100 officers and men will be transferred into the peasant and soldier system, and Chen Xin plans to bring the number of regular soldiers in the Wendeng battalion to 4,000, with a difference of 2,000.

After Liu Minyou's battle of the Four Cities, his support for the army increased, and the civil affairs system formulated a corresponding policy, and the families of soldiers who were not bachelors could give priority to the distribution of land. Wendeng Camp is famous all over the world, with beautiful military uniforms and generous treatment, which is the dream of young people in the tunhu, coupled with the stimulation of the land policy, almost all young and strong men have signed up to participate in the selection,

It turned out that there were nearly 10,000 households in Wendeng Camp and Mazi Erdun, and in addition to the 1,000 slender men recruited in Tianjin, there was only a shortage of 1,000 people, and the competition would be very fierce.

Chen Xin also signed an order for the promotion of officers, and the nuclear work of the Wendeng battalion had already been completed in Tianjin, and except for some of the personnel who were transferred to the training team and the peasant and soldier system, everything else was basically subject to the approval of the chief officer. A large number of non-commissioned officers and excellent soldiers have been promoted, because of the large number of recruits, and many grassroots officers have been temporarily transferred to the training team, who will lead the training and then directly belong to their headquarters.

The establishment of the Wenden War Barracks remained basically unchanged, except that the two divisions of each thousand headquarters were changed to three divisions, and the number of cavalry was increased to 400, and the other establishments were slightly increased.

The military academy is basically an empty shell at present, and Chen Xin first learned the model of the Soviet Union before World War II, and added a deputy post above the flag corps as a reserve for officers to expand the army in the future. With one reserve officer at each level, plus the peasant and soldier system, Chen Xin has an additional invisible army that can be mobilized quickly.

There are still some men and horses in Tianjin who have not returned, and the various adjustments of the Wendeng battalion have not yet been fully implemented, and the personnel are dismantled everywhere, some have been transferred to the training team to bring new recruits, some have participated in the experiments of peasants and soldiers, and there is also a firearms detachment that has been borrowed to the workshop to help test flintlock guns, and the artillerymen have followed Tang Kun and the two experts to learn the operation specifications of cannons.

On 10 July, the actual commander of the three guards and officials above the level of knowledge were all called to Weihai for a meeting, and Chen Xin invited them to watch a drill in the Wendeng camp, in which the soldiers of a division performed marching, deploying, attacking, and pursuing, and Chen Xin's trick was also with Qi Jiguang, who had conducted a military exercise of tens of thousands of people in Jizhen, and also invited representatives of various Mongolian ministries to visit, just like the observers invited for the exercise, showing some muscles, and the Mongolian tribes were frightened and silent after seeing it, and it was a very successful strategic deterrent.

As soon as a group of guards came up, they were shocked by the volley of more than a hundred firearms teams, and then they were also frightened by the fierce murderous aura of the killer team.

Chen Xin showed the stick, and then took them to the conference room, which was chaired by Song Wenxian, and Liu Minyou also attended, so that the people of the guards knew him, clarified to them the new performance indicators, and most importantly, the clearing of the wasteland, and asked them to provide a suitable port for each. As for the benefits they swallowed, they did not move too much, the hidden fields were not pursued, the enslaved military households were not cleaned up, and the shops were not forced to give up, and the status quo was basically maintained.

After the meeting ended that day, Chen Xin went home, in the afternoon, the commanders and acquaintances of the guards came one after another to show their loyalty, and they all sent some benefits, Chen Xin drank tea in the study for an afternoon, got a few hundred taels of silver, and there were shops in each acropolis, and there were hundreds of acres of mature fields, Yang Yunnong was the most straightforward, and gave Chen Xin the fields east of the Mazidun Qincun River. The poor guards also wanted to marry their daughters to Chen Xin as concubines, but he refused them one by one.

When Jing Haiwei's command left, Chen Xin calculated that there should be no more, and then he went out slowly, Nie Hong and Hai Gouzi immediately followed behind, Chen Xin smiled and waved his hand: "I'll go to Mr. Liu next door, what are you doing." ”

The two had to stay away, and when Chen Xin entered Liu Minyou's courtyard, they stood at the door again as a door god, and the elderly military household guarding the door took Chen Xin to the study, and Liu Minyou sat in it with a haggard face.

Chen Xin laughed and said, "Brother Liu also drank tea all afternoon? ”

He looked up at Chen Xin's radiant appearance, and complained: "What's the point of dealing with these people, you have to give gifts in life and death, and then it's all some fleshy flattery, complaining around the bend, it's nothing more than that I'm embarrassed to move their interests, I am tired when I listen to it, and only you are willing to eat all day long." ”

Chen Xin looked left and right and asked, "How many gifts have you received, if you don't want it, just give it to me, just as your travel expenses in Jiangnan." ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said, "I don't know, there are some pearls, and I don't know whether they are good or bad." ”

"For your concubine, she hasn't come back yet?"

"I'm busy working in the shop, and now I have to work overtime, and I only have to go to your house to eat today."

Chen Xin smiled: "Your little concubine has married for nothing, have you lived together?" ”

Liu Minyou glanced at him and said something else, "When are we going to Jiangnan?" ”

"I'll leave the day after tomorrow, it turns out that you can't wait to go to the Qinglou." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. ).rt