Although Zhang Yang's attitude on all-purpose medicament was awe-inspiring, from another perspective, Jinwu Business Group could also make a terrifying amount of money in the theater of operations in the future even if it was only one gold coin per vial. In Taixia Country, very few major clans could make hundreds of millions of gold coins a year like Zhang Yang.
Additionally, it was only in the theater of operations. With the arrival of the holy war, the market of all-purpose medicament in Taixia Country would grow larger and larger. If it continued in this way, Zhang family would be the richest family in the country in a few years …
The officials of Peacewest Farming Administration were very sensitive about figures and money. At this moment, after calculating the future income of Jinwu Business Group from all-purpose medicament in Taixia Country, all of them changed their eye light towards Zhang Yang. Everybody was watching Zhang Yang and Zhang Tie like seeing a rising top major clan in Taixia Country. After Zhang Tie took the post of Weiji General in the theater of operations and was going to unite with Lord Guangnan's Mansion by marriage, Zhang family was becoming more and more like a top major clan in Taixia Country in terms of money, power, influence and manpower, which was really eye-catching …
"Well, now that Jinwu Business Group has such a thought, Mr. Lu, you will be in charge of the cooperation with Jinwu Business Group from now on …" Zhang Tie fixed this thing the moment Zhang Yang expressed his opinion.
"All the corps in the theater of operations are longing for all-purpose medicament. This humble official will definitely assign capable officials to accompany the CEO of Jinwu Business Group to investigate across the theater of operations and coordinate with the local authorities so as to settle the production bases of all-purpose medicament as soon as possible so as to solve the emergency in the theater of operations …" Lu Yanyu stood up as he said solemnly.
Zhang Tie nodded. Lu Yanyu then sat down once again. After that, Zhang Tie fixated onto Li Tao, "Li Tao …"
"Yes, sir!" After hearing Zhang Tie's call, Li Tao sprung up from the chair at once like having a spring installed under his butt.
"Although you're a general of my clan, as the old saying goes, one should not avoid one's kin to recommend a virtuous person. In Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, it was you who built the first fiery oil production base in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory. Now, all the fiery oil production bases in Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory are built by you. Across Taixia Country, nobody else knows fiery oil production bases better than you!"
"This is all because of the lord's trust and nurture!"
"Because you're trustworthy and worth cultivating. I'm going to appoint you as the supervisor of Weiji General's Mansion and fully responsible for the production of Fiery Oil within the four provinces. There are over 10 billion mu of official fields in the four provinces. All the official fields across the four provinces will be planted with corns in February this year and be reaped in June. I need you to ensure that at least 200 production bases of Fiery Oil within the four provinces will start to produce Fiery Oil so as to meet the demand of all corps in the theater of operations. Can you do that?"
Li Tao's face blushed abnormally. After taking in a deep breath, he chested out and said, "This humble man would like to make a military pledge and promise to accomplish the task assigned by the lord!"
"Well, I will allocate an airboat for you to travel across the four provinces and prefectures. Additionally, I will allocate 20 bodyguards to you. Here's my token arrow. With this token arrow, you could kill all the Weiji envoys in the theater of operations first …" Zhang Tie said in a muffled voice as he drew out a token arrow from the table. Before Zhang Tie's order, a bodyguard behind him had walked over here and taken Zhang Tie's token arrow. Closely after that, he gave it to Li Tao.
Li Tao bowed as he raised his hands high above his head and took Zhang Tie's token arrow respectfully. After that, he watched Zhang Tie and asked loudly, "This humble man has one more question. Across Taixia Country, the production of Fiery Oil is exclusively owned by the lord. Besides the lord, nobody else could produce Fiery Oil in Taixia Country. How to divide the ownership of the production bases of Fiery Oil in the theater of operations of Peacewest Military Region and the price of Fiery Oil in the future?"
After hearing Li Tao's question, all the officials of Peacewest Farming Administration pricked up their ears.
After thinking about it for a short while, Zhang Tie made a decision, "The ownership of all the Fiery Oil bases will be divided into 10 parts. Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory will only take 3 parts. The remaining 7 parts will be distributed to the officials and commoners who are still sticking to the theater of operations as rewards. Concretely, local officials in the Fiery Oil bases could hold 3 parts; civilian major clans could hold 3 parts; stewards and workers in the Fiery Oil bases could hold 1 part. The purchase price of Fiery Oil should not be higher than 60% of the selling price of Fiery Oil in the provinces outside the theater of operations!"
Many officials in Taixia Country came from major clans. Therefore, there was no rule in Taixia Country that officials' clans were forbidden from doing business. When Zhang Tie said that local officials on all levels could hold 3 parts of the shares of all the production bases of Fiery Oil, all the officials' eyes in the lobby turned bright at once.
In Taixia Country, corruption and seeking personal benefits at the expense of the public were all felonies of embezzlement. Therefore, few officials dared embezzle money casually and make money for their family members by taking advantage of their power. In this way, although officials had a good salary, most of the officials were not rich, not to mention luxurious; even senior officials like Mr. Lu had at least 1,000 servants of his family members. No matter how high their salary was, they had to spend a lot of money. On average, officials' family members could not match those major clans across the provinces and prefectures in terms of wealth.
Everybody in the world knew the benefits of Fiery Oil. Otherwise, why would major clans across Taixia Country scramble for it? It meant that Weiji General wanted to gift money to officials in the theater of operations by allowing officials to hold 3 parts of the shares of Fiery Oil. Of course, all the officials at present were moved by such a reasonable and legal wealth. Additionally, all the officials at present held important positions in the Peacewest Farming Administration and were all smart. The moment they heard Zhang Tie's words, they had known that Zhang Tie wanted to gift money to them.
After hearing Zhang Tie's words, all the officials at present almost had the same whim — — Lord General, you should reduce the purchase price of Fiery Oil by 80%.
At the sight of the looks of all the officials at present, Lu Yanyu let out a sigh inside, 'Even without my help, given Weiji General's shrewdness, wealth, power, benevolence and authority, being trusted by the commander-in-chief and not being greedy for money and power, it's very easy for him to take over the entire Peacewest Farming Administration. The commander-in-chief is really awesome …'
After hearing that Zhang Tie had delegated such an important task to Li Tao in the blink of an eye, it was a bit exaggerated to say that Li Tao's fame would be immortalized in the annals of history. However, given Li Tao's meritorious deeds of producing fiery oil, he would definitely leave a mark in the annals of history across provinces, prefectures even within the territory of a protectorate general. All the people from Youzhou Province and Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory were watching Zhang Tie with gleaming eyes as they pricked up their ears and listened to Zhang Tie's arrangement …
(To be continued.)
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