(PS: My monthly votes broke 400 last night. I updated it in the morning.)
Ouyang Shuo's strategy for the surrounding territories could be summed up as Gu rearing.
Ouyang Shuo had long since regarded Lianzhou Basin as his. He would not allow anyone to touch it. The other player territories in Lianzhou Basin were not on the same level as Shanhai County.
Since conquering other players' territories would cause them to lose their most important growth potential, Ouyang Shuo was not in a hurry. He waited for these territories to develop on their own. These territories were like blood-generating machines that Ouyang Shuo had set up. These territories were like blood-generating machines that Ouyang Shuo had set up, continuously bringing refugees to Lianzhou Basin.
Ouyang Shuo would only make a move when these territories bordered Shanhai County and could spy on Shanhai County's secrets. He would cleanly clear them out of Lianzhou Basin.
To protect Shanhai County's secrets, Ouyang Shuo had to create a vacuum between Shanhai County and the other players' territories to prevent the infiltration of other players' territories.
This vacuum was like a container for Gu rearing, blocking the sight of the Gu worms and their owners.
Of course, to be a Gu rearer, one had to possess absolute strength and powerful Gu rearing methods. Otherwise, not only would one be nurturing a tiger, but one might also die from the backlash of the Gu worms. At the very least, the newly established Heavenly Saber Union would not agree to Ouyang Shuo being a Gu rearer in Lianzhou Basin.
Without a doubt, Ouyang Shuo had once again rejected Beihai County's application to build a subsidiary territory.
As for the financial allocation that Beihai County had applied for to build the city walls, they could only obtain the profits from the Wolf Mountain Mine and the Northern Twilight Salt Field in the first half of June.
Shanhai County was making money fast and spending it even faster.
Ouyang Shuo wrote his opinion in red ink on Gu Xiuwen's official letter. The amount of the financial allocation was set at 500 gold coins, and Beihai County would handle the rest.
Following this, Clerk Bai Nanpu would circulate the letter to the relevant departments according to Ouyang Shuo's comments and hand it over to the director or bureau chief to handle.
Now, Ouyang Shuo no longer needed to run to his subordinates' offices or call them over to his office to give instructions. At the county level, Ouyang Shuo was putting in a lot of effort to implement a more standardized and orderly administrative system, and to standardize the process of handling affairs.
Take this matter for example. After Ouyang Shuo had commented, Bai Nanpu had passed on Ouyang Shuo's opinion to Finance Director Cui Yingyou. Cui Yingyou would naturally arrange for people to collect the income from the first half of June before allocating funds to Beihai County.
After settling the matters in Beihai County, Ouyang Shuo picked up the official letter sent by Zhao Dexian, the chief official of Pool Town.
In his official letter, Zhao Dexian mentioned that the construction of the mountain barbarian settlement had already been completed, and that the small mountain barbarian tribe had already moved to the settlement. The relevant living materials and farming tools had also been delivered.
Tian Wenjing still had a way. After the settlement was built, Tian Wenjing immediately organized the mountain barbarian tribes and arranged for a group of tribesmen to visit the settlement under the guise of a public tour.
He saw the neat rows of green brick courtyards, the mountains of grain in the warehouse, the chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry in the courtyards, the cages of vegetables, and the vast fields outside the settlement …
All of this shocked the visiting barbarians.
Compared to the bitter days in the mountains, the settlement in front of them was like a paradise on earth.
Not only that, Zhao Dexian had fully understood Ouyang Shuo's intentions. According to the standards of the mountain barbarians, under the guidance of the tribe's shamans, they had built a very imposing ancestral temple.
All of this was very tempting. On the spot, two small tribes expressed their willingness to move to Shanhai County. In addition, there was a medium-sized tribe and two small tribes who said that they would discuss with their tribesmen if they wanted to leave the mountains and settle there.
Such fruitful results made Ouyang Shuo overjoyed.
When the two small tribes left the mountains, the population of Pool Town would immediately exceed the upper limit of 10000 people. It would become the second affiliated territory after Beihai County to be upgraded to a first-class county. Not only that, the increase in the labor force would also provide a strong guarantee for the grain production in the second half of the year.
Ouyang Shuo immediately commented on the official letter, requesting the Finance Department to allocate 1000 gold coins as financial subsidy to Pool Town for the subsequent construction of the mountain barbarian settlement.
Now it seemed that among the three affiliated territories, Friendship Town was the most backward. Although they had successfully built the market, the nomadic tribe valued their green beetle horses very much and were not willing to sell them easily.
Moreover, the purchasing power of the green beetle horses was very strong. The last time the Sky Rich Tribe sold 200 green beetle horses, the resources they got in exchange were enough for their tribe to use for a long time. Moreover, it was summer and the grass was lush. It was a good time to graze. The herdsmen were not free and came to the market to trade.
Therefore, the market was very quiet and did not meet the expectations of Friendship Town's governor Zhou Haichen.
After reading Zhou Haichen's official letter, Ouyang Shuo was deep in thought.
It seemed that if he wanted to pry open the giant rock that was the nomadic tribe, it would not be enough to just rely on trade. At the crucial moment, he had to launch a military operation. It would only be effective if he used both methods at the same time.
With this thought in mind, Ouyang Shuo immediately sent official letters to the Military Department and the North City Barracks, requesting the North City Barracks to start recruiting soldiers. He wanted to expand the North City Barracks by another cavalry battalion within half a month.
As for the headquarters, Ouyang Shuo did not plan to expand the army for the time being. This way, it would not be too much of a burden on the territory's finances.
Considering that the Friendship Town's financial income was already meager, and it also had to support the City Defense Battalion and the North City Barracks, it was somewhat unable to bear the burden. Ouyang Shuo noted in the official letter that the Financial Department would give Friendship Town a financial subsidy of 1000 gold coins, mainly for military expenses and the purchase of the green beetle horses.
This way, the three subsidiary territories would consume 2500 gold coins of financial subsidy. If it were not for the Wolf Mountain Mine and the North Twilight Salt Field, the two golden chickens that laid eggs, they would not be able to survive.
Otherwise, how difficult would it be to run a territory well, especially a territory like Shanhai County that developed along with subsidiary territories?
Nowadays, many of the Level 1 towns and villages built earthen walls. The reason why they did not build stone walls like Shanhai County was not because they did not have the stones or the manpower, but because they did not have the money.
After the refugees joined the territory, they were not slaves to the lord, but people. When they first started their business, it was fine if they only took care of food. Firstly, there were few people, and secondly, the territory was poor, so the people could understand.
However, after surviving the initial stage and being promoted to a Level 1 town, if there was a lord who still wanted to continue squeezing the people, treating them as his personal property or even slaves, only giving them food to eat, clothes to wear, and wages, then it was very likely that the people would riot and kill the lord.
In his previous life, there were cases where the lord was killed by his own NPCs and replaced.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the refugees were very docile and honest. If they were not forced into a corner, they would not do such a thing. Otherwise, who would dare to be a lord if they rioted at the slightest provocation?
By the time he finished processing the official letters from the three subsidiary territories, it was close to six in the evening.
Ouyang Shuo got up, handed the official letters to the clerk, Bai Nanpu, and walked to the backyard.
"Big brother, you got off work early." In the backyard, Bing'er was playing with a picture of the swallow with Zi Su, which was the modern tangram. When she saw Ouyang Shuo, she said in surprise.
This picture of the swallow was specially made by Lu Guangzhi for Bing'er. Bing'er had seen all kinds of toys in real life, but she was also very interested in this kind of interesting intellectual game from ancient times. She was also very talented, and even Zi Su and Ban Xia could not beat her.
Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "Yes, big brother came in advance to see if our family's little pixie was obedient when big brother wasn't around."
Bing'er put down the picture of the swallow and ran over to Ouyang Shuo to be carried.
Ouyang Shuo carried her and walked to the dining hall. It was just in time for dinner. He did not know why, but after entering the game, Bing'er became more and more clingy and wanted to be carried at the slightest provocation.
Ouyang Shuo guessed that the little girl must have seen Ouyang Shuo spoiling Ying You and Qing'er, especially Qing'er. She felt that her big brother had been snatched away by others, so she constantly declared her sovereignty.
Just like in real life, a long time ago, there was a fight for the second child. The original only child, because they did not want their parents' love to be divided by their younger siblings, they did their best to oppose their parents having a second child.
Ouyang Shuo did not intervene, but just let it be. It was even more impossible for him to reduce his concern for Ying You and Qing'er because of this, but he continued to fulfill his responsibility as the big brother. Ouyang Shuo wanted Bing'er to know that love must be shared, and this was also a stage that she had to go through in her growth.
After dinner, Ouyang Shuo returned to his room and went offline.
In real life, because there was only half a month left until the official migration on the first of July, the atmosphere was a little heavy. There was hesitation about the future, and also reluctance to leave Earth.
According to news reports, some old people did not agree to migrate. First, there was still ten years before the mutation on Earth, and it was still unknown whether they could live until then. Second, they did not want to suffer. Secondly, he did not want to go through the hassle. Not to mention the interstellar journey, even arriving at Hope Planet would be a hassle.
Naturally, the federal government respected the choice of the citizens. Before leaving, they would leave enough living supplies and supporting life robots to take care of the lives of the citizens who were not willing to migrate.
In addition, some artists were also quite reluctant to leave the works of art that could not be taken away, such as ancient architecture, murals, and some intangible cultural heritage.
There was a crazy one who even declared that he wanted to live and die with art, and vowed not to migrate. For such people, the federal government did not need to be polite, and directly dragged them away. (To be continued.)
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