At noon, Ouyang Shuo hosted a banquet to entertain Xie Siyun and the others at the Lord's Mansion. He had already received Sun Xiaoyue's reply and knew that Sun Xiaoyue would lead a group of players to Shanhai County in the afternoon.
The players that Sun Xiaoyue brought were divided into two groups.
The most important group was, of course, the expert team that Ouyang Shuo had been looking forward to. There were a total of 30 experts, ranging from shipbuilding, metallurgy, economics, chemistry, medicine, machinery, engineering, agriculture, and other specialties.
The 30 top experts, including their relatives, totaled 150 people. Each expert was assigned a courtyard that covered an area of 2,000 square meters.
The second group was the members of the Falling Moon Society, who also brought their families.
Before the deadline, the Falling Moon Society had a total of 400 members. When Sun Xiaoyue announced that Shanhai County was willing to accept the members of the Falling Moon Society, 350 people were willing to settle down in Shanhai County.
The remaining 50 people had already established themselves in the capital and were unwilling to move. As the saying went, those who were unwilling to go were all sent away by Sun Xiaoyue.
The members of the Falling Moon Society had a total of 1,850 people with their families. Together with the 150 experts, there were a total of 2,000 players teleported from Dali.
The six core members of the Falling Moon Society were the alchemist Autumn Leaf, the bridge designer Five Feet, the municipal engineer Drawing Board, the cartographer Nine-Dash Line, and Sun Xiaoyue's former roommates Qin Ruo and Pan Qiaoqiao. As for their boyfriends, because they were combat professionals, they were only classified as ordinary members.
The core members were settled in the official residence area by Ouyang Shuo, and each of them was assigned a courtyard that covered an area of 1,000 square meters. The remaining members of the Falling Moon Society were settled in the residential area, and each of them was given an ordinary courtyard.
Since Sun Xiaoyue settled in Shanhai County, she couldn't teleport back to Dali. In addition, the headquarters of the Breeze Pavilion, a peripheral guild of Spirit Rhino Studio, was in Dali, so Ouyang Shuo simply asked her to withdraw the Falling Moon Society from Dali.
As a result, the Falling Moon Society became the first and possibly the only player guild to settle down in Shanhai County.
Ouyang Shuo planned to take all the professional players recruited by Snow Rose who were willing to settle down in Shanhai County into the Falling Moon Society for unified management.
This time, Sun Xiaoyue rushed over from Dali with the gift that the Cui residence entrusted her to deliver to Ying You.
The gifts were packed in two big wooden boxes. One box was filled with the jewelry and clothes that Ying You usually used. The other box was filled with gold coins, a total of 10000.
According to the Cui residence, these 10000 gold coins were pocket money for Ying You. It was indeed a large business group. Its wealth was not something that the current Shanhai County could compare to.
Ying You did not keep the 10000 gold coins sent by her family, but deposited it in the Bank of the Four Seas. This also became the largest deposit business since the establishment of the Bank of the Four Seas.
Seeing that her elder sister's savings had increased by 10000 gold coins, the little money grubber Qing 'er was inwardly envious. She wondered when she would be able to accumulate so much money.
In fact, with the workshop's profitability, it was only a matter of time before they accumulated 10000 gold coins.
Ying You deposited her money into the Bank of the Four Seas. Every month, she could earn 100 gold coins in interest, which was enough for her daily expenses.
If the Bank of the Four Seas obtained this deposit, as long as it was lent out in a timely manner, it would be able to earn at least 300 gold coins in interest each month. Moreover, it was a compound interest. With one deposit and one loan, they would be able to earn at least 200 gold coins per month.
This was how the Bank of the Four Seas made money.
Ying You's deposit could be considered to have solved Shanhai County's urgent need.
Ouyang Shuo had originally planned to transfer a sum of money from the funds at the end of June to the Bank of the Four Seas to increase its reserve fund. Unfortunately, the large purchase had depleted all of the funds.
With the rapid development of the territory's economy, the demand for loans had skyrocketed. The 1,350 gold coins deposited in mid-May had almost been used up. They could only rely on the deposits of individual investors to maintain their lending business.
With this deposit, the Bank of the Four Seas would be able to sustain itself for a long time.
Other than the two boxes of gifts, the Cui residence had also brought a contract. As long as Ouyang Shuo agreed, it would take effect immediately. The contract stipulated that the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce would be the sole agent of Shanhai County in Dali. They would be responsible for the sale of Shanhai County's specialties and other goods.
After the system update, the market transaction tax had been reduced to 10%, which was the same as the transaction tax collected by the grocery store. This also meant that the grocery store's exclusive advantage in selling specialties would no longer exist. It would be better to place orders through the super trading platform. After all, the super trading platform's market was countless times larger than the grocery store's system.
In return, the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce would pay Shanhai County an agency fee of 2% of the total annual transaction volume. At the same time, the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce could also collect all kinds of rare goods for Shanhai County and become Shanhai County's agent in the Supreme Court.
The Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce's business model was to break up the bulk goods purchased from Shanhai County into parts through their countless shops in Dali. From wholesale to retail, they would earn a profit from the price difference.
This was a win-win cooperation. Ouyang Shuo agreed without hesitation.
In the future, Shanhai County would sell its goods through the super trading platform. After placing orders, the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce would take the orders. Only when the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce refused to take the orders would they be able to circulate freely in the market.
Of course, if the Cui Family's Chamber of Commerce refused to take the orders, it would affect the basis of the cooperation between the two parties. This agency model would be challenged, and the cooperation would not continue.
In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo and Xie Siyun took the opportunity to have an in-depth discussion about the cooperation between Shanhai County and the Snow Rose Mercenary Group.
The two parties signed a memorandum of understanding. Shanhai County and the Snow Rose Mercenary Group had become strategic partners.
The Snow Rose Mercenary Group would have the priority to purchase weapons and equipment from Shanhai County. At the same time, they would enjoy a 10% discount. In return, the Snow Rose Mercenary Group would look for outstanding Life Profession players in Jianye County and recruit them to settle down in Shanhai County.
Since both parties were still in the initial stage, there was no way to talk about further cooperation. They could only adapt to the situation.
The Snow Rose Mercenary Group was the first force to receive a discount from Shanhai County. Even the members of the Shanhai Alliance and Heavenly Frost Town didn't receive such treatment. This showed Ouyang Shuo's desire for talents.
Of course, he couldn't rule out the possibility of Lin Jing. After all, they were a family. Moreover, the financial strength of a guild couldn't be compared to a territory.
There was a reason why Ouyang Shuo was willing to pay such a high price to recruit Life Profession players.
Compared to the skilled natives, the players had many innate advantages.
First, there was no qualification requirement for a player to take up a profession. When creating a character, the system would automatically give the player a certain amount of talent potential, waiting for the player to develop it.
It was the same concept as the talent potential of a combat profession. The only difference was that one was used for combat, while the other was used for production.
Therefore, the number of Life Professions among the players was much higher than the number of skilled natives. The skilled natives could only rely on luck and wait for the refugees to respawn. On the other hand, the players could directly recruit them. The efficiency of the two was naturally incomparable.
Secondly, compared to the natives, it was easier for the players to break through bottlenecks. It was easier for them to cultivate high-level skilled people who were above the Master level. This was also related to the system's preference. In the future, Life Profession players would shine in this field.
Of course, the players also had their flaws.
Firstly, many players couldn't bear the hardships and wasted their talent. For example, a tailor couldn't be considered a qualified tailor if he didn't get pricked by needles at least a dozen times a day. Compared to blacksmiths and craftsmen, tailoring was considered a relatively easy profession. How could the pampered players in real life bear the hardships?
Secondly, the players all started as apprentices, which required a long period of training. For example, Sun Xiaoyue's architect profession took her two months of study in an architecture school to become an intermediate architect. The higher the level, the longer the time needed. This required continuous dedication and patience.
Therefore, only the Life Profession players who had great perseverance, could bear the hardships, and could endure loneliness could become true Masters in the future. Most people would be reduced to chicken ribs in the process.
At five in the afternoon, Xie Siyun and her aunt returned to Jianye.
In the evening, Ouyang Shuo held a banquet to entertain the experts at Sangu Restaurant.
At the banquet, Ouyang Shuo announced the arrangements for the experts. All 30 experts were hired by Lianzhou College as professors. The monthly salary was 10 gold coins, which was equivalent to the salary of a director in a government department.
While completing their teaching tasks, the experts could either work as consultants in the government department or set up a research institute to tackle scientific research problems according to their specialties and preferences.
Agriculture experts could be hired as consultants to the Department of Agriculture to guide the Department of Agriculture to improve water facilities, guide farmers to improve their planting methods to increase crop yields, teach pest control methods to reduce crop losses, and so on.
Economics experts could be hired as consultants to the Department of Finance to guide the Department of Finance to improve the tax system and formulate more targeted economic stimulus policies.
Engineering experts could be hired as consultants to guide the Department of Construction to develop more advanced tools or mechanical equipment, reduce the labor intensity of the craftsmen, improve construction efficiency, and so on.
Mechanics experts could be hired as consultants to guide the Department of Combat Readiness to research and develop siege weapons, improve existing ladders, and Fierce Fire Oil Tanks, and so on.
Metallurgy experts could be hired as consultants to guide the Department of Resource Reserve to improve the refining level of gold ores in the Wolf Mountain Mine, the smelting level of various iron ores, and the upgrading of smelting furnaces.
In short, these experts were a huge treasure. Although they couldn't overturn the system's restrictions on the technology tree, they could use their knowledge to fine-tune or upgrade the various industries in the territory.
Of course, the prerequisite for all of this was to integrate these experts into the territory, understand the current situation of the territory, and then formulate a targeted transformation plan according to the local conditions.
If agriculture, economics, engineering, machinery, and metallurgy experts were just the icing on the cake, then Ouyang Shuo's core requirement was to build warships and guns that could be driven by steam engines.
This plan involved many fields and required the cooperation of many experts. With the participation of Liu Mo, a firearms expert, alchemy workshops, weapons workshops, and other departments, it could only be realized. (To be continued.)
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