The negotiations were fruitless, and the Heavenly Blade Alliance members left on bad terms, returning to their own territories.
Black Cloak, who was forced to the cliff, decided to go all out. He wrote a letter to Di Chen, promising that as long as Di Chen was willing to send troops, Eternal Night Town would be Handan County's vassal.
Handan County, Lord's Mansion.
Di Chen handed Black Cloak's letter to Peerless Elegance, "What do you think?"
Peerless Elegance took the letter and scanned it. She frowned, "This Lord called Black Cloak's intention is obvious. He wants to use us to protect his territory."
"That's right. But this is also an opportunity for us, a chance to control Shanhai County, isn't it? As long as we set this trap, we can do whatever we want. "Di Chen was very insightful.
"The situation is unclear, and we can't act rashly. If we provoke a lion, we must have the confidence to kill it. Otherwise, we will be bitten or even eaten by the lion. "Peerless Elegance's attitude was unclear.
Di Chen frowned, "You mean, we should work together with the Yan Huang Alliance?" Handan County's military strength was not enough to fight Shanhai County, let alone kill them. As for Eternal Night Town, it was not within Di Chen's consideration.
Peerless Elegance shook her head, "No. If we work together with the Yan Huang Alliance, then it may become an all-out war between the Yan Huang Alliance and the Shan Hai Alliance. Now is not the time to have a direct conflict with the Shan Hai Alliance. If the sandpiper and the clam fight, it will only benefit the fisherman. "
"Then what do you mean?" Di Chen did not understand.
"It's simple. We can't be the first bird to stand out. We have to find someone else." Peerless Elegance's expression was cold.
"Military Kill Ripper?"
"That's right! Military Kill Ripper had long held a grudge against Say Wuyi. If he introduced Black Cloak to Military Kill Ripper, the two of them would definitely hit it off. This way, Handan County would be able to stay out of the conflict and advance and retreat as they pleased. No matter if it succeeds or not, there would be no loss. If it succeeds, it would be great. If it fails, we can use this opportunity to find out more about Shanhai County. "Peerless Elegance's tactic of killing with a borrowed knife was perfect.
"Excellent!" Di Chen was overjoyed. "We have to plan this well. Otherwise, we will be able to deal with it."
Peerless Elegance remained silent.
On the 30th of August, Shanhai County earned 8,500 gold coins for the second half of the month. Together with the 4,500 gold coins that the First Brigade had seized from the bandits, and the subtraction fee, they had a total of 11500 gold coins left. The finance department sent an official with 4000 gold coins to Heaven Frost Town to set up a branch of the Bank of the Four Seas there.
Ouyang Shuo kept 1000 gold coins as a reserve and allocated the remaining 6500 gold coins to the treasury. As the various projects came to an end, the project expenses must be paid in time. The amount of money allocated was far from enough. Ouyang Shuo was still hoping that after suppressing the bandits in the east, he would be able to seize a sum of money to subsidize the finance bureau.
According to the final calculations, the construction of the Southwest University China Hall alone cost 2000 gold coins. The five bridges in the city cost 500 gold coins. The roads in the city cost even more, and they were still unfinished. The total investment was definitely no less than 5000 gold coins. As for the three river-crossing bridges that connected Shanhai County, Pool Water County, and Youyi County, the total investment was 1500 gold coins. However, it did not need to be paid now.
As the brewery and the silkworm breeding scale expanded, the financial income was getting more and more substantial. It could already bring in 500 gold coins every month. The interest income of the Bank of the Four Seas was also gradually increasing. With the benefits stacked, Shanhai County's financial income was getting better, and it needed less and less special subsidies. If not for that, the income from the Wolf Mountain Mine and the North Twilight Saltworks would not have been able to support the rapid expansion of Shanhai County.
The construction cost of this round of infrastructure in Shanhai County had already exceeded 10000 gold coins. Ouyang Shuo was still planning to start planning the official road outside the city after the construction of the infrastructure in the city had come to an end. The construction of the official road was a bottomless pit. An ordinary territory would not be able to afford it.
1st of September, Gaia Year, it was the start of school again.
"World Announcement: Summer vacation has ended. Virtual classes will be officially opened. Students of appropriate age can freely choose whether to attend school or not. They can freely choose their own study time, progress, and subjects. Every subject will have an assessment. Students who pass the assessment will receive the corresponding credits. The level of the credits will affect the student's achievement rating. Please explore the specific content on your own. "
Because the player's body would be frozen in reality, it was equivalent to time being paused. If the student was unwilling to attend school, it would not affect the progress of their studies. Therefore, the federal government did not force students to study in virtual classes. Moreover, from primary school to university, the credit system was adopted. Students had a lot of freedom to choose.
The virtual class was similar to the mission space of the scenario mission. However, the time flow was the same as on the main map. There was no acceleration effect.
Ouyang Shuo planned learning tasks for Bing'er. In the morning, she would learn about science and culture in the virtual class, and in the afternoon, she would be taught by a teacher at the Lord's Mansion. He had already realized that the little girl had begun to enter a rebellious phase. He had to discipline and restrain her. Otherwise, he did not know how rebellious she would be when she grew up.
Ouyang Shuo did not expect Bing'er to achieve anything when she grew up. He only wanted her to learn about Sinology so that she could learn from it and develop a correct outlook on life and values.
On the same day, Song Jia selected 500 in-name disciples from nearly a thousand applicants. The overall design of the Eastern Fence Sword Faction had been completed. The Construction Department had arranged for craftsmen to rush to Lonely Peak to start the construction of the Eastern Fence Sword Faction. Because of the rugged mountain road, the construction was very difficult. Zhao Dewang estimated that it would take at least a month to complete the construction of the Eastern Fence Sword Faction.
In desperation, Song Jia temporarily requisitioned a large courtyard in the official residence area to accommodate the 500 in-name disciples and teach them the mental cultivation method.
Song Jia was very scary when she was serious. This girl had now regarded herself as the head of the faction. As long as it was related to the establishment of the faction, she would ask about it one by one and strictly control it.
In addition to wealth, there were some specific issues to deal with when establishing a faction. First, she had to design the faction's system and level. According to the status and level of the disciples, she had to design the faction's clothing. Second, she had to prepare a batch of weapons for the disciples, mainly swords and some hidden weapons.
The most important thing was to solve the faction's source of income. Whether it was the daily expenses of the faction or the customized clothing and weapons, they all needed a large amount of money to support. Especially the weapons. A good fine iron sword would cost at least 3 gold coins. If each of the 500 in-name disciples had a sword, it would be 1,500 gold coins.
In ancient times, some factions owned large tracts of land at the foot of the mountain, which were uniformly handed over to the tenant farmers to farm, and the factions relied on the rent to maintain their daily expenses; some owned restaurants, inns, brothels, and other industries in the city, and sent outer disciples to manage them, and the profits would be handed over to the faction; some had water transportation or salt sales, which were very profitable businesses. Even worse, such as the Beggar Gang, through the begging of the disciples at the bottom level, they also had a considerable income. In the worst case, if they really had nothing, they could only do some shady business of "robbing the rich to help the poor".
What about the Eastern Fence Sword Faction? Farmland could be reclaimed at the foot of Lonely Peak Mountain, but no farmer would be willing to be a tenant farmer. Because there were large areas of wasteland in Shanhai County waiting to be reclaimed, unless there was something wrong with their brain, who would want to be a tenant farmer? As for the shops, almost all the shops in Shanhai County had owners, so it was very difficult to enter. Moreover, running a shop required capital and talents, which the Eastern Fence Sword Faction had neither. As for water transportation and salt sales, they were all controlled by the government, and Ouyang Shuo would not set a precedent for Song Jia.
When things came to this, Song Jia found that it was so difficult to run a sect. In desperation, Song Jia could only use the big trick of "robbing the rich to help the poor", and robbed the 1000 gold coins from Ouyang Shuo's storage pouch.
After all, Song Jia was from the Song family financial group, and she was very financially minded.
She knew that this 1000 gold coins could not be spent in this way, otherwise, she could not ask Ouyang Shuo for money every time. The secret books were bought by Ouyang Shuo, the site of the sect was chosen by Ouyang Shuo, the recruitment of nominal disciples was issued in the name of the Lord's Mansion, the construction of the sect was also commissioned by Ouyang Shuo, and the construction cost was also paid by Ouyang Shuo. If this went on, not to mention helping Ouyang Shuo, it would be completely troublesome, and Song Jia herself would feel very guilty.
After thinking about it, Song Jia really came up with a good idea.
As the saying goes, rely on the mountain, rely on the water, draw water.
If she wanted to make money, she had to think about Lonely Peak Mountain, and nothing else was reliable. The natural environment of Lonely Peak Platform was extremely suitable for the growth of medicinal herbs. Whether it was medicinal herbs that liked yin or yang, they could all find suitable habitats. If she could build a medicinal herb garden on the mountain, then she would be rolling in money.
As for the sales of medicinal herbs, she did not need to worry about it, the Official Clinic would not refuse anyone.
After listening to Song Jia's idea, Ouyang Shuo was very supportive of her decision, and personally took her to visit Doctor Song of the Official Clinic as well as the territory's medicinal herb garden manager, and asked them to arrange people to guide them on how to build a medicinal herb garden on the mountain.
Because the territory's medicinal herb garden was a basic building, it was built in the western suburbs outside the city. The natural environment was harsh, and the growth of medicinal herbs was very poor. It simply could not meet the needs of the Official Clinic for medicinal herbs. Doctor Song had long complained about this, and now that he heard there was such a place, he naturally fully supported it.
In addition, Ouyang Shuo also specially looked for Tian Wenjing, and asked him to contact the mountain barbarians, and let them collect some medicinal herb seeds or seedlings, and give them to Song Jia, so that she could complete the artificial planting on the mountain.
Ouyang Shuo used a lot of resources of the territory, and was determined to help Song Jia build a medicinal herb garden on Lonely Peak Platform that covered an area of more than 1000 mu. (To be continued.)
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