Huatingqian immediately began to summon craftsmen in the city to start construction. In order to attract more people, he specifically raised the labor price by 30%.
In this regard, Wang Qizhi didn't say much. After all, life was not easy for the people. If you give more, you should give more as a good deed.
By distributing money and executing those who committed crimes, Jiefanying established a high prestige among the people, so there was a response in front of Huating. Seven to eight hundred craftsmen in the city actively came to build Jiefanying Camp station.
Just when Jiefan camp was preparing to build the camp, another good news came. Erdan sent someone to release a hundred thousand taels of silver notes. Wang Qizhi couldn't be happy about this, because he hadn't done it yet. It was too late to tell Erdan, since this guy knew it, he would definitely not be able to hide it from Wang Xuan.
Don't look at Wang Xuanming's slogan of restoring Dayuan, but in fact he is just using it as an excuse to win people's hearts, so as to unify the world and ascend to the throne.
Now that the emperor is dead, Wang Qizhi's identity will naturally be revealed. Now the whole world knows the fact that His Royal Highness is still alive. After Wang Xuan unifies southern Xinjiang, he may take action against Jie Fanying and Wang Qizhi, so he cannot sit back and wait for death. The strength of the Jiefan camp must be expanded so that Wang Xuan does not dare to take action easily.
Regarding the one hundred thousand taels of silver notes, Wang Qizhi naturally guessed that it was Wang Xuan's handiwork. He wanted to use it to win over the hearts of the people in Jiefanying. The former naturally accepted it without politeness. Now Jiefanying is short of money, so don't waste it. No, but he did not make the matter public to avoid falling into Wang Xuan's scheme.
In the next few days, Huatingqian hired several cooks in the city, and ordered a large amount of food from major shops, including grain, meat, various fruits, vegetables, wine, everything. It's as rich as a restaurant.
Hua Tingqian knew in his heart that only by treating these craftsmen better would they work with all their heart.
These meals can keep these craftsmen well-fed, but there is a limited amount of wine. You can drink less in the morning and noon, and you can drink as much as you like when working in the afternoon to prevent these craftsmen from drinking too much and delaying their business.
Wang Qizhi decided to wait until the remaining brothers from the Jiefan camp arrived here, then he would hold a meeting to discuss the candidates for the next general. Then he would go into seclusion and prepare to break through to Danzhongtian.
After that incident, all the people in Jiefan Camp did not dare to bully the nearby people, paid for meals, and did not disturb the lives of nearby people except for daily patrols, which made them think highly of Jiefan Camp.
Since the Jiefan camp had just been stationed in the city and only accepted some relatively simple tasks, which were not enough to cover the expenses of the brothers, Wang Qizhi decided to appropriately charge some fees from the people and treat them as taxes.
The money paid by these people is not a lot, less than one-tenth of the tax revenue in Miao territory. The average person is only twenty copper coins per month. The tax revenue of the entire city is only more than 2,000 taels of silver per month, which is just enough to relieve the trouble. The camp provides food for more than 20,000 people. Even if this amount of money is just a drizzle to ordinary people, it is at most a meal. It is much better than the extortionate expropriation of the three sects before, so they are naturally willing to accept it.
Besides, using twenty copper coins to obtain the protection of such a powerful sect from nearby bandits was a really good deal.
The local wealthy gentry even felt that it was too shameful to pay such a small amount of tax. In order to show favor to this huge sect, they were willing to pay an extra thousand taels of silver every month. Unexpectedly, Wang Qi refused, because these wealthy gentry stuck their butts out. Then you know what the hell, Jiefanying really accepted the money, and the economic situation was solved, but they took advantage of it to do whatever they wanted. As the saying goes, taking advantage of others is short-handed, and eating people is short-handed. Then these gentry and local tyrants will take advantage of this matter. Well, Jiefan camp really has nothing to do with them.
At the same time, Wang Qizhi sent people to tell these local tyrants and gentry to be more honest and not to violate the rules established by Jiefan Camp, otherwise they would not be blamed for being ruthless.
When the local tycoons and gentry learned about this, they felt a little angry and cursed these bumpkins for being ignorant, but they had no choice but to accept it silently as their arms couldn't twist their thighs.
In order to provide Jiefanying with more financial resources, Wang Qizhi sent people to purchase many shops in the city and sent some people to do business.
Of course, when acquiring these shops, they did not resort to extortion. Instead, they gave reasonable prices to allow these people to sell their shops voluntarily.
Wang Qizhi also decided that when Jie Fanying had enough money in the future, he would build Chengjun City into a big city so that more people could come to settle and more merchants would come to do business. In this way, they would have more money. Good development.
At this moment, Sun Xiangman came to Wang Qizhi with a drawing and said, "Qizhi, this is the construction drawing of the garrison. I want you to take a look at it. If you are not satisfied with anything, let the guy in front of Huating edit a bit."
Wang Qizhi looked at the drawing carefully. According to the drawing above, it can be seen that the original city wall next to the station has been demolished.
Next is the overall layout of the station. At the front, close to the original station, is a martial arts practice ground that can accommodate more than 20,000 people. According to the original plan, it was paved with blue bricks. However, now that funds are limited, we have to compact it first. The land was scraped together, and when I got rich, it wouldn't be too late to replace it with green bricks.
Further back, in the middle is a main hall, used for holding important meetings, with a twelve-story pavilion on each side for future generals, deputy generals and elders.
The middle part is a huge garden, filled with flowers, plants, various trees, and many pavilions. The environment is very beautiful and can be used by the brothers of Jiefang Camp.
Further back is a huge canteen, covering an extremely large area, about a hundred meters long and dozens of meters wide. It is divided into three floors and can accommodate more than 20,000 people eating together.
In order to save land, Huatingqian also took great pains to build 20 high-rise buildings. Each pavilion can be divided into 12 floors, with ten rooms on each floor, and each room can accommodate ten people. In this way, these 20 floors It can accommodate more than 20,000 people and even has room to spare.
Just these ten pavilions cost almost five to sixty thousand taels of silver, but everyone had no objections. If they wanted the brothers to live better, they would have to spend more money.
Huayuan felt that there would be new people joining Jiefan Camp in the future, so he also left a small amount of open space at the end to leave room for future construction.
Finally, the entire sect is surrounded by a city wall and connected to the original city wall, so that the construction of the garrison is completed.
The cost of building these buildings, plus the wages of the craftsmen, left hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
