Jing Yi arranged the affairs of Yuanling County and went to Fucheng again, the shop she opened in Fucheng had a good business, in order to reduce the consumption of manpower and material resources, she was going to build a workshop for making soy sauce, hot sauce and other seasonings in Fucheng.

The workers in these workshops were all selected by Jing Yi from the old department of the Jing family to ensure their loyalty to her.

Jing Yi selected more than a dozen girls who could cook in the old department of the Jing family, and then taught them to make dim sum, and after two months of training, Jing Yi taught the girls more than a dozen ways to make pastries.

While training pastry chefs, Jing Yi bought shops in Fucheng and several surrounding counties, and after simple renovations, she was ready to open a pastry shop.

When the pastry chefs were trained and assigned to several pastry shops, Meizhou and the county pastry shops in several counties opened at the same time.

The pastries that Jingyi plans to sell are fresh and affordable, and the style of the pastries is also very novel, and the taste is naturally very delicious.

Jingyi also formulated some publicity methods, as well as free tasting activities, and soon the pastry shop opened up the situation. Novelty and delicious sweets are very popular with customers.

Jingyi has been researching spinning machines and looms in her free time, and she already has relatively successful drawings in her hands.

Under Jingyi's guidance, Yuanling County and Changning County have not only grown high-yield grain, but also planted cotton, rape flowers and other cash crops.

This year's cotton harvest is bumper, and Jingyi is ready to have people make spinning machines and weaving mechanisms, and then build a textile factory.

Now the scale of cotton cultivation is not large, first build a small textile workshop to accumulate experience, and at the same time continue to improve the loom on the basis of practice.

The farmers planted cotton and Jingyi also signed an agreement with the farmers, so the farmers were not afraid that no one would buy the cotton, and Jingyi also had a supply.

The carpenter was also bought by Jingyi, and under Jingyi's guidance, the carpenter made the spinning machine and loom that Jingyi needed according to the drawings.

Cotton has already been bought and played. After a few days of training, the female weavers also gradually mastered the use of spinning machines and looms.

Jingyi's improved loom has obviously improved a lot of efficiency, which is several times that of the old loom, and the quality of the woven cotton cloth is also much better. This all of a sudden, the cost of cotton cloth has been reduced.

Lu Tingjie looked at the newly woven cotton cloth and admired Jingyi even more, "Yiyi, with this loom, the cloth woven by a female worker is equivalent to that woven by several female workers before, which is obviously much faster." And this cotton cloth feels smooth, soft and strong, and this loom that you improved is really good. ”

Jing Yi said: "In this way, the cost of cotton cloth will be reduced, and the price will be reduced a lot." In the future, more people will be able to afford cotton cloth to make clothes. However, the scale of cotton cultivation needs to be expanded, and now only a small part of the fields in two counties are still too little cotton.

Cotton can not only be spun and weave, but also made cotton clothes, quilts and so on. This year, the soldiers in the barracks are barely equipped with cotton clothes, but many soldiers are still wearing old cotton clothes, and every soldier must be given new cotton clothes before the winter next year to ensure that every soldier has new cotton clothes to wear. ”

Lu Tingjie said: "The fields in Yuanling County and Changning County are limited, and it is impossible to grow a variety of cotton. Do you think you can take down the other counties around it? ”

Jing Yi said: "Winter will pass soon, we have to expand our territory before next year's spring ploughing." We arrested the people sent by Xue Wanhe, Xue Wanhe must have suspected us. So we don't have to hide it, just take Meizhou Mansion and control all the officials in Meizhou Mansion, so that we can hide it from the capital for a while. ”

Lu Tingjie also felt that the time was ripe for them to take control of Meizhou Mansion, "Yiyi, I agree with your idea. Spring ploughing is very important to us, our army is growing rapidly, it is a little difficult to feed the food needed by the army in just two counties, if we control Meizhou Mansion, then we can let the people of Meizhou Mansion grow high-yield grain, and it will be no problem to support more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops at that time. ”

The two of them saw the textile workshop and just returned to the small courtyard, and Cangyue brought back a major news, "Miss, there was a rebellion in Gyeongju Mansion, and the Taishou of Gyeongju Mansion rebelled with the local garrison, and Gyeongju Taishou established himself as the king." ”

Jing Yi and Lu Tingjie glanced at each other when they heard the news.

Jing Yi smiled and said, "This news is really timely. This Gyeongju Mansion is next to Xuzhou, there is a peasant rebellion in Xuzhou, and there is a rebellion of local officials in Gyeongju, which can be said to cut off the connection between Meizhou Mansion and the capital, which is more beneficial to us, and our plan can be advanced. ”

Lu Tingjie said: "Now that there are frequent rebellions in various parts of the Wing Country, it is a good time for us to fish in troubled waters. We need to hurry up and expand our territory. ”

Jing Yi called Li Yi and asked him to go to the military camp to find his second uncle, Ding Baishan, Yue Changqing and others, and then sent a book to Song Yuancheng and asked him to come into the city. My grandfather also asked someone to pick him up.

Lin Zhuocheng, Ding Baishan, Yue Changqing and others rode fast horses to Jingyi's small courtyard, and Old Man Liu arrived almost at the same time. Not long after, Song Yuancheng also arrived on a fast horse.

After everyone gathered, Jing Yi told the situation of Gyeongju and Xuzhou, "Now these two state capitals have been chaotic, Gyeongju is no longer under the control of Yiguo, although Xuzhou is suppressed by the army of Yiguo, but it will not be able to completely quell the riot for a while."

Gyeongju rebellion, the Yiguo court will definitely send troops to quell the rebellion, these two state capitals can attract most of the troops of the Yiguo, as long as we don't make a big move here, it is estimated that no one will pay attention to us. Therefore, we must quickly occupy and control Meizhou Mansion with lightning speed. In this way, when we plough in spring next year, we can do it casually in the entire territory of Meizhou Prefecture. ”

Old Man Liu listened to his granddaughter's thoughts, touched his beard and said, "It's really time to act." Our army is growing too fast, and Yuanling County and Changning County alone are not enough to support the expenses of these hundreds of thousands of troops. If we control the entire Meizhou Mansion, then we will not have so many scruples about continuing to expand the army in the next step. ”

Lin Zhuocheng said: "The recruits we recruited have been training, and they haven't been on the battlefield once, so it's time to take them out to experience actual combat." ”

Jing Yi said: "Although we want to occupy the capital city, there will be no large-scale battles. Song Yuancheng, now is the time for the Wind Squad to fight. I will personally take you to disguise yourself and sneak into the city first, and at night the soldiers will divide into several ways to control a few city gates first.

Uncle, you led the troops to follow us, lurking outside the city, and when we took the city gates, you led the troops to take our place. Then the Wind Squad quickly and secretly controlled the homes of various officials in Meizhou Mansion in several ways, and controlled these officials in our hands. ”

Jing Yi told the specific plan, and everyone felt that it was perfect when they heard it, so they acted according to Jing Yi's plan.

(End of chapter)