Chapter 188: Making Money, Spending Money
"Han Kang, how is the trade situation of the Tianjian Chamber of Commerce in the past few days?" After settling the military affairs, Lu Shuang asked Han Kang, who was in charge of the Chamber of Commerce.
"According to the orders of the lord, the weapons transported to Jizhou, a total of 100,000 pieces of iron weapons and 30,000 pieces of fine iron weapons, have been sold as of yesterday's report, and it is expected that they will make a profit of more than 40,000 gold when they are all sold." Han Kang replied.
"Okay, in this way, part of the equipment we have accumulated in the warehouse has finally been emptied, and we have made a lot of money with profits, and the sale of arms in the future will be a very important part of Feitian City's financial income." During the period of game update, hundreds of thousands of pieces of equipment were piled up in the entire territory, and several officials in the territory were very worried about this at that time, afraid that they would not be able to sell it and owe their employees' wages, but now it was an important means for Lu Shuang to make money.
"Huang Shi, what is the production capacity of the intermediate blacksmith shops and high-level blacksmith shops in the entire territory now? It refers to the private sector of individuals, not our government. Lu Shuang asked.
Huang Shi is one of the vice premiers, responsible for the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and the manufacturing industry in the territory is also under his control, for how many production units, Huang Shi can be said to be familiar with the heart, said: "Back to the lord, there are currently a total of 321 private intermediate blacksmith shops in the territory, basically every township has an intermediate blacksmith shop, and there are only 72 private high-level blacksmith shops. Although the number is not very large, since the staff in the blacksmith shop is at least a junior blacksmith, there are many products produced every day, which are registered in the booklet of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Among them, the intermediate blacksmith shop can produce an average of 800 pieces of iron weapons per day, and the high-level blacksmith shop can produce 500 pieces of fine iron weapons. ”
"That's okay. Huang Shi, wait a minute, you ask someone from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to send a notice to these intermediate and high-level private production units, saying that our government will help purchase some of the products, depending on their production capacity, if you want to cooperate with us, you can register with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. ”
"Not only the blacksmith shop, but all other products with export advantages can be considered, but the government will not buy everything, not all of them, so it is best to make a list or something, everything according to the rules and regulations, according to the process. As for the purchase price, because the price in the territory is much lower than that outside, we can increase the purchase price a little, anyway, we can make a lot of money from selling it, and the private units can also sell their products, which is a good thing for both parties. ”
Lu Shuang has learned some knowledge about economics, and he himself is more disgusted with the laissez-faire economy, and subjectively prefers China's economic system with public ownership as the main body and the common development of multiple ownership systems.
Then Lu Shuang made observations from his previous visit to Xiapi and asked Cao Lao, Huang Shi and Han Kang to discuss a plan, a sales plan for NPCs. At present, in the game, in addition to the lords who have invested a lot of money to maintain the normal operation of the territory, only those high-level NPCs are most willing to spend money, especially the landlords and merchants, whose love for luxury goods is no less than that of the rich in reality, which also makes Lu Shuang set his sights on them.
However, although there are some rare occupations in the territory that can produce luxury goods or high-end products, Lu Shuang is not very interested in these, and the territory has only been established for a few months, so it can only be said that everyone can have food and clothing, and there are still very few rich people, and the demand for luxury goods is not large, so these producers have to transform to produce low-end products, resulting in the fact that there are few luxury goods in the warehouse of Feitian City now, and it takes a period of accumulation.
The Tianjian Chamber of Commerce has several king-level merchants, and can dispatch several caravans at the same time, which will inject vitality into the economy of Feitian City, and can also purchase local specialties and advantageous products from all over the world.
The development of the Chamber of Commerce also led to the birth and development of the dart bureau, in the case of the hopelessness of transferring to the general, Lu Shuang chose to transfer some NPCs to martial artists or rangers, so that they could join the dart bureau of Feitian City to escort the caravan's travel and increase the employment meeting. Although the Zhaoxian Pavilion will not say that it often refreshes the king-level combat professions, there are still some intermediate or high-level martial arts rangers, and the army is not a suitable place for them, and the dart game can just let them show their role, after all, the caravan travel is to face the possibility of being robbed, without a strong strength escort, it is easy to be robbed, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there are many people who fall into the grass.
In addition to the martial artists and rangers of the dart bureau, in fact, the caravan also has soldiers to follow, because the goods transported by the Tianjian Chamber of Commerce to various places every time are very valuable, and it is inevitable that some people will covet them, and they must be fully protected. Whether it is a person in the dart bureau or a soldier in the army, they can enjoy the equipment support given by Feitian City, the martial artist and the ranger are already very strong in a single battle, plus high-quality equipment, and even the possibility of completing the challenge of skipping the level, so unless there is a king-level combat class, it is difficult to threaten the goods.
Considering that the map is expanded by a thousand times, and that each location is far from each other, it will definitely be a joke to move at the speed of movement in reality, so the movement speed of all units has been increased, and if you keep moving in the same state for a long time, you will get more speed bonuses. For example, a caravan can only travel 20 miles an hour to pull goods in an ox cart, and after a day of walking, this speed will increase by 30 miles, and the longer it walks, the greater the bonus, and the same is true for ships and horses, which is considered an effective compensation mechanism.
At the plenary meeting once a week, there are still many departments that have something to report, and there are also many problems that need to be solved, such as the household department, the official department, the ritual department, the criminal department, the military department, etc., Lu Shuang deeply realized that being a lord is not an easy job, after all, he is responsible for nearly three million people, and this pressure alone is uncomfortable.
"Is there anything else you'd like to mention?" Lu Shuang saw that the meeting was almost over, and finally asked again, and he slipped away if there was no one.
"My lord, the lower officials have something to report." Huang Shi stood up and said.
"Well, Huang Shi, you can say it." Lu Shuang gestured.
"Recently, Xia Guan and Premier Cao (Cao Lao) verified the financial expenditure in the last few months, and found that we have at least 100,000 gold left in Feitian City every month, and sometimes even more, and now the available liquidity is as much as 500,000 gold. Xia Guan believes that since this money is placed here without a penny of interest, it is better to use part of it to make money, which is very beneficial to the territory. ”
Lu Shuang nodded, he had thought about this matter before, although there was 100,000 gold left in the treasury every month, which was equivalent to an extra billion RMB in his pocket, for him personally, it would not be long before he could become the richest man in China or even Asia. But for the territory, too much left is not necessarily a good thing, because it shows that there are still many aspects of the territory that have not invested enough money. As a lord, as long as the territory develops well, Lu Shuang's money will naturally not be able to run away, and if the development slows down, it may have a great impact on the territory. Of course, this does not mean that Lu Shuang cannot have no money leftover, nor does it have to run a fiscal deficit and issue treasury bonds, but it must be more reasonable and moderate.
"Then Huang Shi, do you have any suggestions? Or if others think that their department or department does not have enough money to spend, as long as the reasons are sufficient and reasonable, I will consider allocating funds. ”
Lu Shuang's words caused the others to laugh, ordinary lords would want to "squeeze employees" and minimize unnecessary expenses, Lu Shuang was good, feeling that he had nowhere to spend his money.
"My lord, the lower official has three suggestions. The first is to build water conservancy projects, the lower officials sent people to the fields in the valley to investigate, and found that many fields have the problem of difficult irrigation, and in the rainy season they are flooded because of the low-lying terrain, and the people of the water conservancy department of the Ministry of Industry have considered that if a canal or reservoir is built in these unfavorable places, it can well reduce the reduction in production caused by drought and flood, so that there will be no more 'bad years' in the territory. ”
"The second is to demarcate shipping lanes and strengthen the connection between the islands. At present, there are 600,000 residents living on the island, mainly engaged in fishing and agricultural production, due to temperature and precipitation, the tropical fruits here grow well, but because there is no special shipping channel, and the islands are very scattered, this batch of fruits cannot be sold in time, resulting in unnecessary waste. Xia Guan suggested strengthening the links between the islands, especially the logistics links, so that the east and west could communicate with each other. ”
"The third is to update the equipment of soldiers and set up units specializing in the research and development and production of new types of equipment. Although the equipment of the soldiers of Flying Sky City can be called luxurious, the same equipment will not reflect the special characteristics of a certain class. For example, an archer can only wear chain mail at most, and armor above the plate will affect the performance of the archer, but if you don't pay attention to the armor, it will increase the casualties of the archer. After the life talents reach the king level, they have the ability to independently research and develop, and the lower officials suggested that these king-level talents should be gathered together to develop new types of equipment suitable for different arms of the army to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. ”
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Huang Shi's three suggestions, in fact, are within the scope of the work of the Ministry of Industry, compared with other departments, the Ministry of Industry is simply a money-swallowing machine, each point listed by Huang Shi requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to complete, Lu Shuang began to worry about his own purse.
Needless to say, there are so many residents and soldiers in Feitian City, if there is a drought or flood disaster on any day or year, resulting in a reduction in grain production, it will have a great impact on the territory. It's just that listening to the meaning of Huang Shi's words, it is to build water conservancy measures on a large scale, and Lu Shuang has not seen the budget yet, so he does not dare to package a ticket to support this project.
The second point actually has a certain relationship with logistics, just imagine online shopping in reality, if there is no express delivery of this fast logistics method, there will be no rise of online shopping, and it will not drive so much economic development. There is an old saying that to develop the economy, we must first build roads, and demarcating waterways and increasing the number of ships are also equivalent to building roads.
Where there is a transaction, there is a tax.
As for the third point, Lu Shuang is not good at evaluating its quality, it is a fact that the soldiers of Flying City are well-equipped, and even if they continue to use it, they will not be eliminated. However, Lu Shuang pays more attention to the second half of what Huang Shi said, research and development of new equipment, if many king-level talents or even emperor-level talents gather together to develop new equipment, it is estimated that gold-level equipment will be no problem. And the Ancient Ingot Knife and Obsidian Battle Armor are both silver-level equipment, which is much worse than the gold-level equipment, if you really develop more suitable gold-level equipment, it is more practical than spending money to buy drawings.
"Huang Shi, there is nothing wrong with the points you raised, but how much you will invest at that time will have to wait for me to read the detailed plan and budget before I can give you an answer, but now I can give you a prepared answer, these three points are accurate." 2k reading web