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Ouyang Shuo suppressed his desire for talents and continued to adjust the territory's plan.
"The territory's biggest financial problem is that we're over-reliant on the Wolf Mountain Mine and the Northern Twilight Saltworks. Due to the steady flow of funds from these two industries, the territory lacks the motivation to develop other industries. With the rapid expansion of the territory and army, the funds provided by these two industries are somewhat insufficient.
"Whether it's the Wolf Mountain Mine or the Northern Twilight Saltworks, their scale and profits have long reached their peak, and there's no more potential to be excavated. For the long term, we must boost other industries. Apart from the established core industry — the military industry — the territory's specialties, the Three Flower Wine and Colorful Silk, are both high-profit products. Unfortunately, they haven't received enough attention and are still in a half-dead state. In fact, the territory's specialties have much more potential than the Wolf Mountain Mine and the Northern Twilight Saltworks since they have unlimited possibilities. "
Ouyang Shuo's words were self-criticism, but also a disguised criticism of the work of the finance bureau. Whether it was the Three Flower Wine or the Colorful Silk, Ouyang Shuo had already handed them over to the finance bureau to manage. Unfortunately, the finance bureau's steps weren't big enough and were too conservative.
Ouyang Shuo used his eyes to stop Ying You from asking for forgiveness and said, "I've decided to set up an industry division in the finance bureau to be responsible for the Three Flower Wine, the Colorful Silk, and the White Hair Tea. At the same time, I'll take out 5,000 gold coins to support the expansion of these three industries. The specific plan includes the construction of a large winemaking workshop in the western suburbs, the Three Flower Wine, with a monthly output of at least 500,000 units, and the expansion of the mulberry fields to at least 10,000 mu. The White Hair Tea is affected by the geographical location and has a lot of uncertainty. "
As the Three Flower Wine gradually opened up the market in Dali, the price of each unit had risen to 2 silver coins, and the net profit was 150 copper coins. If the Three Flower Wine could achieve the expected output, the monthly profit would reach 7,500 gold coins. If the scale was expanded in the future, the profit would become even higher.
After the Three Flower Wine was completed, a large number of refugees would be employed.
According to the Textile Association's President, Ying Cui, silkworms could be raised four times a year in the Lianzhou Basin. One mu of mulberry could produce 90 units of cocoons, and on average, three units of cocoons could be used to produce one unit of silk, and five units of silk could be used to weave one bolt of silk.
In other words, one mu of mulberry could produce six bolts of Colorful Silk. In the market, a bolt of colorful silk was sold for 1 gold coin. After deducting 10% of the transaction tax and the cost of production, the net profit was 4 gold coins.
If the mulberry field reached ten thousand mu, the quarterly profit would be 40000 gold coins, and the annual profit would be 160,000 gold coins.
According to Ouyang Shuo's plan, once the Three Flowers Winery and Mulberry Gardens were in place, it would be equivalent to building another Wolf Mountain Mine and Northern Twilight Saltworks, doubling their profits.
The industrial plan proposed by Ouyang Shuo was very inspiring.
Even so, Ouyang Shuo wasn't satisfied and set his sights on his core industry — the military industry. After removing the iron ore shackles, the production of the three major military workshops had increased, but the speed of increase was still not enough to satisfy Ouyang Shuo. If the weapons and equipment couldn't satisfy the demand, how could they carry out the arms trade?
Ouyang Shuo looked at the President of the Falling Moon Society, Sun Xiaoyue, and said, "The three major military workshops in the Eastern District will be open to the blacksmiths, carpenters, and tailors of the Falling Moon Society. The prerequisite was that the members of the three workshops had to sign a confidentiality agreement. I hope the guild will take the lead in organizing this work. "
Sun Xiaoyue was attending the meeting as a consultant, so it wasn't appropriate for her to say much. She only nodded to indicate that there was no problem.
After three months of hard work, the Falling Moon Society had successfully upgraded the guild token to the Silver rank. The maximum number of members was increased to 10000, and at the same time, a guild special feature was added.
After Ouyang Shuo received the news, he immediately contacted his aunt and sent a large number of life profession players recruited by Snow Rose to Shanhai County.
In a short period of time, the number of members of the Falling Moon Society had exceeded 2000, and it was still growing.
The proportion of the players in the population of Shanhai County had started to increase rapidly. In order to balance the development of the territory, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to divert some of the life profession players to Pool and Friendship County.
As for Beihai County, it was temporarily not open to the players.
This was because the life profession players usually brought along their families and settled down in Shanhai County.
There were pros and cons to this. The players were all youngsters, and their family members could be roughly divided into three groups: elders, peers, and juniors.
The elders were their parents and even their grandfathers. They were all experienced elders. This group of people would either choose to fish, cook, or enjoy their lives wholeheartedly. Otherwise, they would have been hired by Southwest University to serve as a teacher at the grass-roots level and make use of their talents. They belonged to the most stable group.
The peers were the brothers and sisters of the players, and they were all youngsters. Some of these people were also life profession players, but they were not very talented. Most of them were adventurous players.
They belonged to the most unstable group.
Because of this, Ouyang Shuo ordered that the Disciplinary Office would be opened to the bailiffs, and the government clinic would be opened to the healers. Song Jia's Eastern Fence Sword Faction would recruit chivalrous players.
The Taoist players also had a place to go, which was the Qingyang Temple in the western suburbs.
As for the strategists and generals, they were the most miserable group. Because the Shanhai County military had temporarily not opened to the players, they had no way to join.
The last group were the juniors, which were the children. These kids, like Bing'er, had to go to the virtual classroom every day. When they were not going to school, they would run around and play in the territory. It brought a touch of childishness to the dull territory.
As Shanhai County became more and more open, the players felt more and more like Shanhai County. They began to truly see themselves as a part of Shanhai County, and not as an outsider.
After Ouyang Shuo proposed a clear plan for the territory's army, subsidiary territory, structure, and industry, he finally said, "I hope that all of you will work together to implement the plan."
"Yes!" The ministers saluted.
At this point, Ouyang Shuo's one-man show officially came to an end.
Just as Ouyang Shuo was planning a grand blueprint for the territory, far away in Duanren Town by East La Lake, a big event that could affect the future of Lian Zhou Basin happened.
Duanren Town, Lord's Mansion.
"What did you say? Say it again?" Domineering Blade couldn't believe it.
"Sir, it's absolutely true. The mountain barbarian tribe that cooperated with us found a gold mine in the forest. The mountain barbarians don't know gold mining and refining technology, so they want to cooperate with us. "
"Good!" Domineering Blade slammed the table and stood up. He paced back and forth in the meeting hall, trying hard to calm down. He looked up at the sky and sighed. "God has not forsaken me!"
In the last territory war, Duanren Town suffered a great defeat. The army was almost wiped out, and the territory's liquid funds were also used up because of the three teleportation fees.
In order to raise funds and rebuild an army, Domineering Blade almost sold off all the territory's resources. During that period, Domineering Blade was on tenterhooks all day, afraid that the army of Shanhai County would attack him when he woke up. Fortunately, Shanhai County's attention was diverted by Tianfeng County, and Ouyang Shuo couldn't spare any attention to the east, so Duanren Town escaped the disaster.
When it rains, it pours. At this time, the price of grain suddenly rose, and Duanren Town immediately fell into a food crisis. Domineering Blade almost fell into despair when he saw that he wouldn't be able to feed them.
There was a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel.
The gold mine was undoubtedly the best gift God had given to Domineering Blade, allowing him to come back from the dead.
"I won't let you off!" Domineering Blade swore in his heart.
In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo walked out of the Marquis's Mansion and arrived at the sacrificial area on the east side of the mansion.
The sacrificial area was very spacious. To the north was the Heaven Sacrificial Plaza that covered an area of a hundred hectares. It took up two-thirds of the area.
The Heaven Sacrificial Plaza was paved with bluestone, and there were exquisite railings made of marble.
There was a tall platform in the center of the plaza, and a Shang Cauldron was placed on top of it. Other than that, there were no decorations on the Heaven Sacrificial Plaza.
There were three sacrificial buildings behind the Heaven Sacrificial Plaza. The one in the middle was the Yellow Emperor Temple. There were two new temples on both sides of the Yellow Emperor Temple. They were the basic buildings of a tier-three county, the Confucian Temple and the Martial Temple.
Ouyang Shuo walked into the Confucian Temple. The temple had five courtyards with red walls and yellow tiles, including the De Pei Tian Dao Guan Archway, Wan Ren Palace Wall, Ling Xing Gate, Pan Chi, Dacheng Gate, Dacheng Hall, Minglun Hall, Zun Scripture Pavilion, and other buildings.
The Confucian Temple worshiped the sages of the liberal arts. Confucius was the first sage, and his first disciple Yan Yuan was the second sage. There were ten philosophers, seventy-two sages, and twenty-two sages. Apart from the twenty-two sages, the rest were all disciples of Confucius.
The ten philosophers had statues, while the seventy-two sages only had portraits. They were able to receive incense offerings.
In the game, Gaia had made some changes to the Confucian Temple. Apart from keeping Confucius as the first sage, the ten philosophers and the seventy-two sages had been replaced with sages, making the Confucian Temple more worthy of its name.
Shanhai County's Fan Zhongyan was listed as one of the seventy-two sages.
The only benefit of being listed as a sage in the Confucian Temple was that if they died in the game, they could be revived in the Confucian Temple, granting them the same immortality as the players.
Ouyang Shuo took out an Incense Essence Pill and heard the system notification.
"System notification: Player" Wuyi "has an Incense Essence Pill, would you like to use it?
"Use it!"
With a whoosh, the Incense Essence Pills turned into rays of white light and entered the statue of the virtuous minister.
"System notification: The statue of the sage has been nourished by the Incense Essence Pill. The Confucian Temple has gained a new building property: [Statecraft] (Increases the rate of the officials breaking through bottlenecks by 30%)."
As expected of the Confucian Temple, the new building property was clearly made for the officials. (To be continued.)
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