Traveling Through Land Reclamation: Farmers' Women Can't Be Dizzled

Chapter 322 Development

  Lu Tingjie did not expect Jing Yi to be so capable that she could not only get food but salt as well.

  You should know that not only are food prices skyrocketing in Yiguo, but even salt prices are the same. People think of food as their paradise, and people need food, but they cannot live without salt. So salt was needed everywhere, and this also gave Jing Yi and the others a good chance to make money.

  Some salt merchants will not pursue the source of salt as long as they can get it.

  Since the salt produced by Jingyi and the others was better than the coarse salt bought by ordinary people in the market, and it was inexpensive, making it very popular.

  Only the sale of salt caused a steady stream of money to flow into Jing Yi's pocket. It didn't take long for Jing Yi to collect a large sum of money.

  Seeing such a large amount of money, Jing Yi thought to himself, no wonder the imperial palace wanted to control salt and iron, the salt trade was really too profitable.

  The salt fields by the sea had expanded rapidly, and the salt-making workshop had to be expanded to compensate for the speed of salt drying.

  The secret guards sent by Jing Yi contacted the old troops of the Jing family scattered everywhere. Many returning veterans were discovered by the people sent by Jing Yi. Jing Yi selected some loyal and reliable people and sent them to the other side of the mountain Salt Pans and salt workshops had increased the manpower. In this way, salt production increases rapidly.

  Lin Zhuocheng, as the highest officer of the border guard, was entitled to recruit troops, but there was also a limit on the number of troops. In the past, it was impossible to recruit too many soldiers.First, due to the limited number of imperial palaces, no imperial palace would allocate so much military salary to support more troops.

  Now Lin Zhuocheng did not rely on the imperial palace to recruit soldiers, as long as he did not gather all the soldiers and did not ask for food and salaries from the imperial palace, either, it was hard for outsiders to find that the number of soldiers exceeded the limit.

  In recent years, there have been frequent disasters in the Yi Kingdom region, either droughts or insect disasters, coupled with man-made disasters, the lives of ordinary people have become increasingly difficult. In order to survive, many people had to leave their homes and flee to the south where there was still plenty of rain.

  Now that Yuanling County had been flooded with many disaster victims, as long as they had enough food to eat, most of them were willing to become soldiers.

  Lin Zhuocheng's recruitment was not only based on the applicant's physical condition, but also the applicant's family status. Lin Zhuocheng, who was the only child in the family or had a wife and child, generally did not recruit. Even if he recruited people who had concerns, there would not be too many people, and it would not have much impact on the family if they left as soldiers.

  Jing Yi also secretly provided food for his uncle, enough for him to support the army.

  Moreover, the few people recruited by Lin Zhuocheng, Jing Yi, would also be separated.

  Some of the old Jing family came to join Jing Yi, and most of them had served in the army. Jing Yi made arrangements for these people.

  Jing Yi chose some strong young and middle-aged warriors to form a special operations team, he named the team the Storm Team, and moved Song Yuancheng back from the salt workshop.

  Qiao Hong studied with Song Yuancheng, and he was already used to the affairs of the salt fields and salt workshops, and Jing Yi was relieved to let him handle the affairs there.

  Jing Yi moved Song Yuancheng back to being the leader of the blast team, and then began training the team. Song Yuancheng would lead the training even when he was not around.

  In the past few years, Song Yuancheng had followed Jing Yi and learned a lot from Jing Yi, his martial arts had not only improved greatly, but even his knowledge could not be compared to ordinary people.

  Song Yuancheng's knowledge was not limited to that learned from books by present-day writers, and there were many things that could not be learned from books. For example, some tactical strategies, some investigative skills, some makeup skills, some killing methods, and so on.

  Everyone in the Storm Troop was first loyal to Jing Yi and the one who wholeheartedly followed Jing Yi. These people also swore allegiance, swearing allegiance to Jingyi to death.

  The ancients attached great importance to curses and vows, and most people would not easily break vows. Jing Yi was quite relieved by the loyalty of the members of the Storm Troop.

  Jing Yi put a lot of effort into training the Storm Troops, gradually honing these players from physical fitness to fighting skills. Team members exercise a lot every day, Jing Yi specifically formulates a diet for team members to ensure that each team member absorbs enough nutrients and calories each day.

  In addition to military training, Jing Yi also taught each student how to read and write, taught them to read simple ancient maps, taught them to use sign language, and so on.

  Jing Yi would also provide ideological education to team members from time to time, telling them what kind of person to be loyal to and what kind of person to beat.

  To protect the security of your Homeland and your family, you must fight to repel invaders who are trying to destroy your Homeland and enslave yourself and your family.

  The youngest team member was eighteen years old, and the oldest was only twenty-three years old. After the training period, everyone admired Jing Yi. In the hearts of the team members, their oldest women were like gods, there was no oldest woman who could not do it, and the oldest women's literature and martial arts were the best.

  People adored the strong, and Jing Yi's strength made them ignore Jing Yi's female identity.

  Jing Yi was also increasingly establishing his own prestige, and even nurturing a group of loyal subordinates.

  Lin Zhuocheng and Lu Tingjie knew each other from the beginning, and now they were supporters of Jingyi, and gradually completed some people and things that were not harmonious in Yuanling County.

  Other than training the blast team, Jing Yi had not forgotten the pool of recruits her uncle had recruited.

  In order for these newly recruited soldiers to be unaffected by the veterans, Lin Zhuo placed the recruits in separate camps, so that Jing Yi could also train these recruits from time to time. Even if there were spies among the veterans, it was difficult to get news from the recruits.

  Lin Zhuocheng slowly put away the restless people among the veterans.

  After several months of hard work, Lin Zhuocheng's new barracks also trained well, and the recruits made great progress. And Jing Yi's trump card explosion team had made rapid progress. The players have improved tremendously in terms of physical fitness and skill. Moreover, the players had developed a tacit understanding under Jing Yi's deliberate training.

  This was also the initial goal of Jingyi's training. Furthermore, Jing Yi would conduct more in-depth training on the members of the blast team, so that they could become the actual trump cards in his hands.

  In the second half of the year, because Jingyi gave Lu Tingjie high-yielding grain seeds to share with ordinary people to plant, she said, the grain harvest in Yuanling County this year was much higher than in previous years.

  Many disaster victims have been resettled in recent months. The fields opened by the victims had produced good harvests, and could also be self-sufficient, so Lu Tingjie did not need to help them.

  Yuanling County experienced a great harvest, and Lu Tingjie had appropriately reduced or exempted taxes, so the lives of ordinary people this year were much easier. Some of the starving survivors who fled to Yuanling County no longer wanted to leave here, and decided to take root here and settle down.

  People were very grateful to Lu Tingjie, and everyone felt like they had met a good official.