Chapter 104: Barracks
A few flavors lived in Zhongxiang City and opened the door quietly.
Xu Jiao didn't do any publicity, but not long after the store opened, curious people came in and walked around.
"Boss, what are you selling?"
On the first day of opening, Xu Jiao went to the store as usual to work, after all, it was her own achievement.
Although the people of Zhong Xiangcheng knew about the princess, no one had seen it, so Xu Jiao's appearance here would not cause any disturbance.
When Xu Jiao heard that someone had finally entered the store, she was much more excited this time than when she was in Qi Kingdom, probably because these were her own people.
"We sell salt, you come and see?"
After speaking, Xu Jiao put out all the three kinds of salt without waiting for him to refuse.
"These two are more expensive, this best one is called snowflake salt, and one or two snowflake salts cost 80 taels of silver. This is the second-class salt in our store, one or two second-class salt, one or two silver. Xu Jiao took the lead in introducing two expensive ones.
When the people heard this, they wanted to take the road and fled, and their expressions were shocked.
"Don't worry, this is our third-class salt, and it is also a special benefit for the people."
"Benefits?" The person was aroused by this curiosity, generally speaking, welfare, it should not be so expensive, but the first two are so expensive, even if this is a welfare, how cheap can it be?
"Yes, welfare." Xu Jiao nodded and said, "This third-class salt only sells for two hundred wen per catty." ”
The person who was about to run away after listening to it stopped, he also had a little spare money in his hand to come out to hang out at this time, if it was only two hundred yuan, he could still afford the money.
"Then, the boss will give me a pound of third-class salt?" He still couldn't believe that salt was such a valuable thing, especially this kind of thing that he had never seen before, and it was only sold for two hundred wen, and he was afraid that the boss was joking with him.
Who knew that Xu Jiao's face did not change color, so he wrapped a catty, handed out the goods with one hand, and spread it out with the other: "Chenghui, two hundred Wen." ”
Is it true?
How could he still encounter such a good thing?
He counted the money that was left on him, and there was a full tael of silver that he could use.
"Boss, give me another four catties, and I'll give you a tael of silver."
Xu Jiao took the money and quickly handed him the rest of the salt.
The man took it in ecstasy, and when he went out to the store, he was almost dancing at the door.
His family lives near here, and several people who pass by are neighbors, and they all come up to him curiously and ask, "What's wrong with you?" How did it get like this? ”
He didn't hide his selfishness, and his cheeks grinned to the root of his ears: "This shop has very good salt, I bought five catties, and it only cost one or two silver." ”
In order to ensure the authenticity of his words, he also deliberately opened a packet of salt to show them.
Looking at it this way, even passers-by were attracted by this salt.
Xu Jiao's shop became popular in an instant, but fortunately, she just came to experience it today, and now someone from the house has already come to replace her.
When she was in Qi State, she did it herself, but now there is no need, anyway, in her own territory, she can do whatever she wants.
So what's next?
She doesn't want to go back to the house, if she goes back to the house now, she will definitely be arrested by Master Yan to go to class, she can pretend to be busy with government affairs outside, Master Yan won't say much about her.
Then go to the barracks and have a look!
Didn't she assign a task to General Lin Hai before, asking him to expand the army to 20,000?
Now should also be the time to take a look, these people will be her direct troops in the future.
Outside the barracks, it was a big difference from before she left.
The outside of the previous barracks was still a little shabby, after all, Zhong Xiang had no money at that time, and the money given by Xu Jiao was first used on the soldiers, so naturally he didn't have the time to care about whether these buildings were beautiful.
The barracks in front of you now should be carefully repaired, and it is not the same as before.
General Lin Hai should have rebuilt a gate, and an extra layer of fence was added to the gate.
Two stone lions sit at the gate, guarding the 20,000-strong barracks.
The walls on all sides are also rebuilt of blue bricks, about two zhang high, and they are very magnificent.
"Her Royal Highness the princess is here?"
Today's shift at the gate happened to be Wu Hai's team, who were very familiar with Xu Jiaoke, and opened the door and fence with their hands and feet.
Although they were excited, they did not forget to salute.
Xu Jiao raised her hand and signaled that they didn't have to be polite.
"I'm here to see General Lin Hai to see how the recruits are training, so you can send someone to take me there."
Everyone wanted to lead the way for the princess, and one of the smartest jumped out first.
"I'll show the princess."
Xu Jiao nodded in agreement.
General Lin Hai is training new recruits on the training ground, in his opinion, this batch of recruits is much happier than the previous soldiers, every meal has vegetables, meat, and new clothes, even if they come, this military camp was specially renovated for a while.
Now they are all blue brick houses with good roofs.
It's like when they first followed the princess to Zhongxiang, the houses here were all leaky, and the beds had collapsed a lot, if it wasn't for the princess giving money, quilts and clothes, they didn't know how much they would freeze to death.
A familiar voice sounded behind him.
"General Lin, are you busy?" Xu Jiao saw Lin Hai under the leadership of the soldiers, General Lin Hai was still so dedicated to training the soldiers, staring at everyone with a pair of eagle eyes, making people dare not make any small movements.
"Your Royal Highness, why are you here?" General Lin Hai was a little surprised, His Highness had not taken the initiative to visit him after coming back for so long, not because he didn't want to, but because he really couldn't leave.
Expanding to 20,000 people, even if all the talented captains and squad leaders were training recruits together, it was a little too busy.
"Can't I come?" Xu Jiao deliberately replied to him, and for a while, he actually stopped General Lin Hai.
"That's not what the minister meant, but he saw you for a while and didn't react."
Xu Jiao didn't bother with him, it was originally a joke.
The soldiers on the training ground were training to run with weights, and Xu Jiao stepped forward and looked carefully.
It is true that they are all strong young people, and there is no situation of indiscriminate filling.
And looking at this momentum, they all ran hard one by one, and she didn't see a single lazy one for a long time, which is a very terrible data in the base of 20,000 people.
"General Lin has trained well, there are so many people, none of them are cheating and cheating, the general has a really good eye for people." Xu Jiao's heartfelt compliment.
Who knew that Lin Hai shook his head, where are there no sneaky and slippery people, they dare not have them.
"The princess has won the prize, and when they first came, there were many people who cheated and cheated. The minister asked the old soldier to keep an eye on them, but if he caught a lazy man, that person had no meat to eat for a day, and his meat was given to the old soldier who found him. Therefore, the veterans also have the strength to arrest people, and the recruits have suffered a few times, and they gradually dare not be lazy. ”