After returning from Jianning Guard City, Yang Zhengshan summoned Yang Mingwu back from Sanshan Fortress.
"How is the situation over at Sanshan Fortress?"
In the study of the official office, Yang Zhengshan asked.
"Replying to your lordship, the autumn harvest at Sanshan Fortress has been progressing fairly smoothly. It's just that this year's yield is too low, so everyone is worried!" Yang Mingwu replied.
Yang Zhengshan slightly nodded. He also understood what everyone was worried about.
As he saw it, there were currently three key problems he needed to solve.
First was storing a large number of grain, to ensure the future rations of all the military households in the four tun fortresses.
This problem was easy to solve. Zhou Lan had given him three thousand taels of silver, and Yang Family Village had grain. He could purchase grain from Yang Family Village. If Yang Family Village did not have enough grain, he could also buy grain from the villages around Yang Family Village.
The second problem was to find the military households a money-making path, so they could still have some income during the cold winter.
Linguan Fortress relied on needlework to add to its income, but Yinghe Fortress, Sanshan Fortress, and Xiangyuan Fortress could not.
Because there was only so much needlework they could receive within Pass City. Linguan Fortress alone could already meet the market's demand. If the other tun fortresses also made cloth shoes, it would probably be very hard to sell them.
As for other cities, they were too far away, travel was inconvenient, the market was too small, and demand was not great. Even if they did this business, the profit would likely be so meager it could be ignored.
Regarding this problem, Yang Zhengshan currently had some ideas, but he still needed to