"Xie Yi, it's really here. At this moment, a clear voice sounded.

"Hey, Yamauchi. Wu Feng said.

"In the past few months, the white-clothed battalion has developed well, adding more than 400 soldiers. Song Shan Nei said.

Wu Feng shook his head: "If you are a regular warrior, there are only forty more people, and nearly four hundred people can only lay a foundation or cultivate qi realm, and most of them will not be able to break through the ...... in their lifetime."

Because of the limited size of the castle, these irregular warriors could only live in the street market under the city, but their consumption demand did effectively promote the expansion of the street market.

The militia can also play a role in escorting caravans and fighting small bandits, but in real war, they are completely cannon fodder.

The common people hated the bandits, and for the sake of fame, Wu Feng did not dare to easily absorb the samurai from the captured bandits, but if they were captured, they were all handed over to the county guard Liu Junfeng for execution, which also gave the county guard who had no real power a little more face.

"After all, we have limited roots here, and it is difficult to recruit talented samurai. Song Shannei said: "You need to do a few big votes to make a reputation." ”

"The most important thing here in Hedong County is bandits, it just depends on how much we can eat. Wu Feng said with a smile: "The land of Dazhou is quite quiet, the sects and sects on the side of Daqi, the Hao clan and the Hao clan, the civil war has not stopped for a day, and the rout soldiers have fled here to become wave after wave of bandits, like leeks, cutting a stubble, and a new stubble grows again." ”

"Since ancient times, soldiers and bandits have not been separated, and it is really not easy for you to restrain this group of old soldiers so that they do not invade the people. Song Shan Nei said.

In order to restrain the soldiers from committing adultery and plunder, it is not only necessary to manage the army, but also to satisfy the soldiers in terms of treatment and rewards. As a result, you have to be smart when scaling to ensure that you have enough revenue.

Wu Feng said: "The operation of the white-clothed battalion, I look at the problem from the perspective of a businessman, and now we seem to be ordered to suppress bandits, but in fact it is more like a mercenary group." Well, get rid of the rigid management model of the regular army. It would be much better to run the army in the way of mercenaries. ”

Song Shannei: "Yes...... It is much easier for mercenaries to make money than for regular armies. In other words, your subordinates Hongmeng and Muhammad have now come to Hedong County, ready to report to you on the results of the territorial reform......"

Wu Feng heard this. A heartfelt look of joy appeared on his face.

After he told Hong Meng and a few others about the territorial policy, he was busy with various operations in Hedong and couldn't take care of it, and in the past six months, he only took time to return to Hedong County two or three times.

However, the recent results of the territorial reform of villages and towns such as Panlong Village. The sound had been heard from afar.

After discussion, Hong Meng and others invited a great Confucian of Chang'an City to write "Liuli Fu", praising the beauty of the glaze produced by the Eight Treasures Fang in Wu Feng's territory. And this great Confucian is a well-known calligrapher, so this edict has been copied one after another, and it has received the effect of expensive paper.

The first batch of glazed ware was listed in this good wind. It was sold out immediately and was well received because it was well made.

Wu Feng's order to the subordinates who remained in Lingbao was that the production of glass and glass did not have to pursue quantity first, but to ensure quality and seek the best reputation.

The technicians who guide the production of glass come from a family of glass makers who have been making glass for thousands of years, and the technicians who guide the glass producers, like Muhammad, are hired from the West.

Nowadays, in the area centered on Lingbao, a glass fever is spreading outward. The declining glass manufacturing industry has begun to awaken under this hype, and the ancient famous objects have begun to glow with new brilliance.

The magnificent glass wrench is a novelty and attraction for wealthy samurai who like to collect famous objects. Race to buy a collection with a lot of money.

At tea parties and banquets, samurai often boasted about their collections to each other. Seeing that everyone else is wearing cheesy gold and silver wrenches, flooding jade wrenches, if you suddenly shake out the glass wrenches that no one else has, you will shake your head and recite "Liuli Fu", which is extremely cultural implications. Naturally, it is better to have face.

Glass is produced as a precious product, while glass is to be popularized.

In the West, the production cost of glass is actually very low, the reason why the price is still high in Middle-earth is that the production technology is not in place, and the second is that the manufacturers and merchants sell glass at a high price because it is a novelty, and seek huge profits, which leads to the slow promotion of glass.

In Wu Feng's territory, because of the hiring of excellent technicians from the West Arctic Plain region further west of the Western Desert, although the salary is expensive, after the introduction of the most exquisite Western technology, it can greatly reduce the cost.

With this glass boom, cheap and high-quality glass has also begun to sell at the same time, Babaofang is also responsible for sending people to install glass windows for free, so it is highly praised.

The huge investment in the operation of Wu Feng's territory has already shown signs of returning to its roots, as long as the territory can return to its capital, there is no need to rely on the income of the Baiyi Battalion to subsidize the territory.

......

The next day, in the white-clothed city, Wu Feng held an evaluation meeting.

The evaluation meeting is held every two months, and the subordinates detail their contributions, and according to the established system, the success medal is converted, and those who do well are rewarded, and those who do not do well are punished.

Many major sects have to hold evaluation meetings, for example, the Qingcheng faction is known for its special love of evaluation meetings. But there are only so many people under Wu Feng's command, and he still holds the evaluation meeting on time, which means that he has a high degree of decentralization.

One hundred and forty regular samurai, divided into seven squads of twenty men each, supported by fifty militiamen. One of the teams was directly under Wu Feng, but it was handed over to the deputy commander Xin Zhizhi to command.

If there is no big battle, each team can take over tasks from the Chamber of Commerce independently, protect trade routes or fight small bandits, and even negotiate with the Chamber of Commerce independently to expand business.

It is precisely because of this system of delegating power to subordinates and allowing subordinates to compete with each other that the white-clothed battalion has developed rapidly in just half a year.

"Qin Yu, how did you do about escorting the grain and grass back to Yancang?" Wu Feng said.

"After a successful completion, I brought a batch of glass and glass with me, ready to hand them over to the local chamber of commerce for sale. Qin Yu raised his voice.

In order to satisfy Iwakura, Wu Feng took advantage of his close relationship with various chambers of commerce and his ability to purchase grain, a strategic material, at a low price, to purchase a large amount of grain and grass and send it back to Iwakura.

Although the Iwakura Hall is now allied with the Xue Yiren of Tianzi Peak, they can purchase cheap grain from Hanzhong, and the problem of food shortage has been solved, but if the grain and grass are a major event of life and death, if they rely on others, in Deng Aihou's opinion, they are not stable after all.

Purchasing grain from Hedong also has the advantage of lower freight costs. Although the Baiyi camp has limited financial resources and can not give feedback to the Iwakura Palace, for Deng Aihou, it is always good to have such a reliable grain and grass channel, which also shows Xie Yi's loyalty to him.

At the moment, Qin Yu took out the accounts, what he did, and the specific data were all clearly listed.

The clerk on one side converted these into successful medals.

"Excellent job!" Wu Feng praised.

At this time, Qin Yu said again: "Commander...... The Zephyr Chamber of Commerce wants to entrust us with a lot of money to disguise ourselves as bandits and attack the trade routes of the Tianhai Chamber of Commerce. ”

Hearing this, Wu Feng's face suddenly fell.

"It must not be done. Wu Feng said coldly.

"But in order to crack down on bandits, didn't we also cooperate with some bandits to obtain information about other bandits?" Qin Yu said.

"Compromise with a very small number of bandits and take advantage of the contradictions between bandits is to eliminate more bandits, not to turn ourselves into bandits! We are soldiers, but also a regular army!" Wu Feng angrily reprimanded: "You should have tried to say something to refuse this matter, and you shouldn't use it to tell me, how the chamber of commerce bites each other is their business, and we can't ruin our reputation because of this! This time I won't deduct your merits, and I won't take an example." ”

Qin Yu retreated.

But the advantage of clear rewards and punishments is that he will never lose the reward he deserves because of this, and the merits are there, in black and white, clearly. (To be continued.) )