Chapter Sixty-Nine: Extravagance
There are not a few wealthy families in Luxi City, they have a lot of wealth, but like Pixiu, they can only enter and exit, but Wang Hong does not have this habit.
In order to quickly control the city, Wang Hong took out a lot of silver, first used the Keqing token, and purchased hundreds of management slaves through the money building.
Most of them were appointed to the surrounding towns and villages to serve as town guards or other important positions, and a few remained in the city to assist him in various chores.
The stronger forces in Luxi City are basically entrenched in the city, and they don't pay much attention to the surrounding towns, so Wang Hong's actions did not stimulate them.
As for those clan forces in the countryside, although they are stubborn, their own strength is limited, and no one dares to offend him, the city lord, on the surface.
This world is not the same as the ancient times of the previous life, the saying that the imperial power does not go to the countryside does not exist at all, who really dares to make trouble in the countryside, then wait for the strong to come to the door to slaughter the whole clan!
Even if it is these forces in Luxi City, there are only three that can really make Wang Honggao take a look, the Songbai Sword Sect, the Luxi Wu Clan, and the Four Seasons Villa.
These three families all have innate martial artists to support the scene, even if Wang Hong can kill these three people, he also has to consider the attitude of the Yunzhou Federation.
Such forces already have a place in the federation, even if they have little say.
But Wang Hong's city is mainly too much, and it is easy to cause the small forces in the federation to die and the fox to die.
It's not a big problem to change to normal times, but now that it is the invasion of Guizhou, even in order to appease these people, Wang Hong has to go back to Mingcheng in a gloomy manner.
Of course, if you want to make trouble to this extent, unless Wang Hong kills a local congenital, according to their status in the federation, no matter how much they cry, no one cares.
After all, Wang Hong's background is placed there, even if he doesn't count other identities, the name of the Poison Sect Wei Xiang alone can suppress a large group of people.
Therefore, the three strongest local forces kept silent, and the other forces did not dare to blow up any more stabs.
These small families who are not in the stream can't even enter the gate of the federation, and Wang Hong will not have much trouble if he slaughters their entire clan.
In the early years, when the Tiannan royal family ruled Yunzhou, the law could still bind the strong and officials, but now the power of the federation is obviously insufficient, or they don't want to take care of small forces and commoners.
As long as the city lord appointed by the federation is strong enough and is not afraid of being counterattacked by the local forces, the power is simply amazing, and he has the right to kill the local people.
Of course, those rural clans were not willing to give up power, and they wanted to secretly make a stumbling block for the people sent by Wang Hong, so that these people could not stay in the local area.
But Wang Hong's next big move made these rural clans completely lose the courage to fight.
The 3,000 tons of frozen meat he purchased at one time are still about one-sixth of them, that is, one million catties.
At present, he can't trade with those Mingcheng butchers, and the meat business in Luxi City is too small for Wang Hong to look down on at all.
Therefore, instead of occupying the cold storage and consuming electricity, Wang Hong simply distributed it to all the people in Luxi as a greeting gift.
Regardless of the old or the young, whether rich or poor, each person was given five catties of frozen meat, and the people sent by Wang Hong personally distributed it.
Although Lucy is relatively rich by smuggling business, it is only the patent of the upper class, and ordinary people still rarely encounter meat once a year.
The matter of flesh has not yet subsided, and Wang Hong has come up with a more ruthless conspiracy.
At the end of the year, eight of the 24 townships and towns under the jurisdiction of Luxi will be exempted from all agricultural taxes, eight half taxes, and eight full taxes, and the specific standards will be determined by the work efficiency of the personnel assigned by Wang Hong.
As soon as this regulation was promulgated, the entire Luxi was fried, and the rural clans, not to mention the stumbling blocks, all tried their best to cooperate with the subordinate officials.
Even if some people don't want their power to be damaged, they can't resist the will of the entire clan.
What's more, the implicit content of tax exemption is not as simple as it seems.
Either Wang Hong has strong enough power in the federation to get those big lords to agree to tax exemption.
Either Wang Hong has to pay more than 200,000 taels of silver for a subsidy in order not to be held accountable by the top at the end of the year.
Either way, this means that the forces behind the new city lord are definitely not something they can resist, even if they resist secretly!
The group of people who sold the money building to Wang Hong, although their own strength is average, their management ability is very good.
Coupled with the cooperation of the local clans, in just over a month, they initially mastered the towns and villages in Luxi.
The first step was completed, and with the support of more than 100,000 people, Wang Hong was even more bold in doing things.
In the second month of serving as the city lord, he proposed to build a new Luxi City, and the location of the city was actually in the Yila Pass on the border between Yunzhou and Pugan Kingdom!
The territorial concept of this realm is similar to that of the ancient Xia Kingdom of the Earth Star, most of which are bounded by mountains and rivers, and the actual demarcation line is very vague.
A place like the Ira Pass has little contention in itself, and in the past, both sides would deliberately avoid it so as not to cause accidental conflicts.
Now that Wang Hong wants to build a city in this place, it can't be said that he crossed the line, but the Modai County of Pugan Kingdom on the opposite side also has a reason to find trouble with Luxi City.
However, the benefits are also obvious, once the city is established in the Yila Pass, the more than 600 square kilometers of land between the west city and the new city will be peaceful.
There are many small rivers passing through this area, and even if it is roughly developed, Luxi City can have more than two or three hundred thousand acres of high-quality arable land.
Although Wang Hong's plan was risky, the local forces in Luxi City almost unanimously supported it.
Because once a new city was established in the Irashan Pass, then the initiative for the smuggling business between the two countries was completely in their hands.
Smugglers in the northern part of Pugan were unable to transport them back to China through the Yila Pass, even if they bought large quantities of goods in Yunzhou.
There are 100,000 mountains between Pugan and Tiannan, and there are only two trade routes that can supply vehicles through, and the Tianling Pass in the south is relatively spacious, but the garrison is extremely strict.
The Ila Pass Road in the north is far away, and the surrounding counties have little production, so the federation is too lazy to garrison troops here, and only pays attention to the issue of the city lord.
However, for businessmen, as long as they can make money, all difficulties are not a problem.
In the past, there were many merchants on both sides of the river, smuggling across the Ila Pass.
But the cities on both sides of the mountain pass are old smugglers, and the price will naturally be wide-mouthed.
This makes many foreign businessmen take a long detour and sneak into the mainland to buy goods, and they don't want to be eaten up by local forces.
In the past, the people of Luxi City could not do anything, and the area near the Ila Pass was vast and there were many rivers, so it was impossible to monitor it closely.
As for going to the mountain pass to block people, the local forces in Luxi City really don't dare to do it.
The division of that place is very vague, if you dare to go there to block people, the masters of Pugan will dare to ambush you in turn, and when the time comes, they will not dare to avenge the dead.
So now that Wang Hong wants to build a city in Yila Pass, the local forces are naturally very welcome.