Chapter Nineteen, Cities
Li Xukong obtained Ning Yue's suggestion and after implementing military farming and business operations in Ganzhou, he issued another decision to raise economic taxes, ordering every town and village in Ganzhou to jointly choose to raise white-toothed beasts and pig-toothed beasts.
The ordinary people were hesitant when this government order was issued, but Ning Yue's garrison had already prepared a plan to raise meat, and the army spread across Ganzhou took action quickly.
Not much time had Ning Yue's garrison seized almost all the tasks of each town. Outside the garrison camps everywhere, many white-toothed beasts were sent to feed them.
As for the pig beasts, these ferocious beasts will naturally not be raised by civilians. Ning Yue ignored Li Xukong's actions and, from the Nanhuang Mountain, a large number of pig beasts were supplemented with adult bodies and young people from Tianlang Sect, and started raising them.
With these disciples of the Tianlang Sect who sincerely surrendered, Ning Yue was not worried about the failure of the breeding plan, and then focused on the matters of expanding and reorganizing the army.
At this time, Ning Yue had extremely sufficient financial resources, and the products produced by the four major food groups were in short supply. The subsequent raising of carnivorous monsters in the dark also made him very profitable. In addition, the large amount of grain stored in the farms everywhere became a powerful economic pillar for expanding and consolidating the army.
After Ning Yue and many confidants discussed, this time, he secretly expanded his army to tens of thousands of people, and first mainly added some non-combat types of soldiers.
Most of this group of soldiers were divided into logistics, responsible for breeding, farming, food processing and production, and even full-time sales positions. They were considered to be specializing in classifying the garrison troops and separating these non-combat troops.
In addition, Ning Yue also took the opportunity to reorganize and train tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, and build them with powerful financial resources, expanding the elite cavalry that escaped from the Cloud Leopard Cavalry to a scale of nearly 20,000 cavalry, all of which were equipped with neat and unified bronze horse mounts.
In addition, the infantry elite army also selected 60,000 elite soldiers, and they trained every day, equipped with extremely complete weapons and equipment from head to toe, almost every elite soldier was built to the teeth.
There are 20,000 soldiers who are selected as reserve troops. They usually work with non-combat troops, and more often they start training so that every soldier can become a qualified alternate soldier.
After a few months, Ning Yue's garrison had already built the entire Ganzhou into an iron barrel.
When he was free, Ning Yue's Qiankun Sect began to recruit disciples and selected loyal disciples from them to cultivate them, which was also used as a backup force for the garrison.
Ning Yue became more and more prosperous, but at this time he found that the expanding food processing factory seemed to have reached a bottleneck, and the profits created over a period of time did not increase at all compared to the same period.
Ning Yue couldn't help but feel confused. He has been involved in the processing of these modern foods. He knew that the four major groups were not waiting for the market to be saturated and continued to expand the types of products of their main products, but now it seems that there is no effect.
Luo Yaoji came to Ning Yue at the right time to report, and she also discovered the problem of food processing and sales. After research, she found the crux of it.
"So you said that the sales volume has not increased much now, because Ganzhou itself is backward and the route of traveling merchants is too simple?"
Ning Yue looked at the information sent by Luo Yaoji, and couldn't help but look up at the woman who was used to being cold and asked.
"That's right." Luo Yaoji replied with affirmative expression: "I originally thought that Ganzhou encouraged businessmen, and the number of businessmen that was more than ten times more than originally could be revitalized in Ganzhou. But later I found that Ganzhou's own business discovery was actually extremely slow. It was all because of the fact that the previous prosperity was achieved by relying on several groups to raise the level."
"So?" Ning Yue knew that Luo Yaoji was prepared and couldn't help asking for advice humbly.
Luo Yaoji seemed to be familiar with Ning Yue's preference for speaking with sufficient data, and gave it to Ning Yue. At the same time, she opened the large Ganzhou map hanging on the wall, stood under the map, prepared a little before she spoke out her point of view.
"After I came into contact with some businessmen, I learned that there are few such large cities in Ganzhou except Qianyuan City and Jichuan City. Therefore, it is difficult for those local towns in Ganzhou to gather more people, support commercial circulation, and limit the scale in which businesses can continue to expand."
Ning Yue looked at the information in his hand carefully and asked directly without raising his head: "So you mean that Ganzhou has restricted the development of business due to its own reasons. If these problems can be solved, can it increase the trade volume?"
Luo Yaoji nodded confidently and replied: "The conclusion I came to in my analysis is that. If you want to increase the trade volume, you must have large trading cities in Ganzhou and Jiaduo. Only in this way can you attract caravans from surrounding areas and stimulate a steady increase in trade volume."
Ning Yue pondered for a moment, looked at Luo Yaoji extremely seriously, and said, "Since you have such an analysis, I will support your proposal. From now on, you can expand the original city at several large military farms controlled by our garrison, force the surrounding population to move into the city, and create a large enough trade city according to your analysis."
Luo Yaoji didn't expect that Ning Yue just listened to her analysis, and followed her analysis orders with courage. A wave of water flowing in her eyes couldn't help but rippling. She lowered her head and smiled. When she looked up again, her expression was full of confidence.
"Since the adults believe me, I will definitely do this."
Luo Yaoji received the order and, according to Ning Yue's suggestion, chose several suitable grounds in the garrison's control area and began to build a suitable trading city.
Li Xukong was also secretly paying attention to Ning Yue. After finding that the garrison began to expand some cities, he was extremely puzzled and felt that Ning Yue's actions this time were extremely strange.
Li Xukong could not understand the reason for Ning Yue to expand the city. He felt that there was no difference between cities and villages and towns, and the population was the same, so how could it have any impact on trade?
In short, this time Li Xukong still did not interfere with Ning Yue's attempts in the change, and bet his sights on other places.
With the foundation of tens of thousands of troops, Luo Yaoji completed Ning Yue's order very quickly.
Just a few months later, several large cities appeared in Ganzhou.
Some of these cities expanded the original big cities, while others simply combined several villages from military farms to build new big cities, and concentrated all the population into the city.
At this time, Li Xukong was surprised to find that after the emergence of these large cities, the economic strength of the entire Ganzhou increased by more than several times.
This reality made Li Xukong amazed. When he mentioned Ning Yue again, he always had a commercial genius in his mouth.
Chapter completed!