341 Breaking and Standing, the Worries of the Sword Tyrant (II)

Zhan Xiaobai said slowly: "The transformation of Xiaobai Town from a 'manufacturing center' to a 'technology center' is to let Xiaobai Town step to a higher level.

The NPC population of our Xiaobai Town is only 20,000, which is a very small number compared to the more than 1.5 million players and 2 million NPC population in Wuwei and Zhangye counties. We do have a huge advantage at the moment, but how long can we maintain it?

Even if the 20,000 people of Xiaobai Town are all high-level craftsmen, they work 24 hours a day, and the products they produce are very limited. So I judge that our 'manufacturing' has reached its limit and no longer has the potential to tap more. There is a problem with the root cause of the problem, and it must be radically changed. What do you think? ”

Jian Ba was stunned, Xiaobai Town's manufacturing industry has reached its limit?

He really hadn't thought about it. Normally, his energy is focused on continuously strengthening the manufacturing industry in Xiaobai Town, but he did not consider how far the manufacturing road can go.

But just because you haven't thought about it doesn't mean you can't think about it now. Zhan Xiaobai's question made Jian Ba immediately alert to the hidden danger - if Xiaobai Town's manufacturing industry really reached the peak of the limit, then after passing the peak prosperity, it would enter a period of decline. It's the natural law of how things work.

Jian Ba couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and said: "The advantages of our Xiaobai Town's manufacturing industry come from two aspects, one is the large-scale effect, and the other is the high-tech effect. When the thousands of villages in Wuwei and Zhangye County continue to upgrade to large villages, small towns, medium towns, and even large towns, the NPC population will continue to skyrocket, and more and more NPC craftsmen will ....... It is becoming more and more difficult to level up in Little White Town, and the large-scale effect is no longer significant. Eventually, the manufacturing industry in other villages will slowly catch up with us. ”

Zhan Xiaobai said: "Yes, the fat of manufacturing will eventually be slowly devoured by other villages. If the development goals do not change, Xiaobaizhen will decline from its peak, and there will be no hurry to regret it when the time comes. It is still too late, and we need to seize the opportunity to jump out of the competition in the manufacturing industry and go all out to develop in high technology. Once our Xiaobai Town becomes the technology distribution center of the entire Liangzhou, then our town will gain an unparalleled advantageous position. ”

Sword Tyrant had another question and asked, "However, our players and NPC warriors need to consume a lot of weapons and equipment every day, which have always been manufactured and supplied by our town. If we no longer focus on manufacturing, these weapons and equipment must be supplied by other villages, and even the equipment needed by the army of the Little White Alliance will be supplied by other villages. If some villages use this as a means to blackmail us and raise the price of weapons and equipment in the future, it will directly harm our security and economic interests. ”

Zhan Xiaobai shook his head and said, "No one can blackmail us in this regard." More than 2,000 villages in Wuwei County are manufacturing factories, and we can purchase the cheapest weapons and equipment from these villages, and a small number of villages cannot affect the price of weapons and equipment. Moreover, we also have NPC craftsmen in Wuwei City to produce weapons and equipment. It's double insurance,

However, in order to prevent this situation, we must strictly prevent a certain village or town from mastering exclusive special products, monopolizing the market, obtaining high profits, and endangering our interests. For this to happen, any product must be available in multiple villages. ”

Jian Ba nodded, completely agreeing with Zhan Xiaobai's opinion.

These two player bosses who have a decisive "sex" in Little White Town have established a consensus. The industrial adjustment of Xiaobai Town has begun to enter the stage of substantive "operation".

Zhan Xiaobai and Jianba temporarily put aside other affairs, visited the craftsman area of Xiaobai Town, conducted inspections, and discussed the formulation of specific adjustment policies while "touching" the bottom.

Although Zhan Xiaobai is a policy maker, he has not been in charge of the construction of Xiaobai Town for a long time, and he lacks a sense of "sexuality" about the foundation of Xiaobai Town. A few reports on Xiaobaizhen's industry alone were not enough for him to formulate the right policies.

Jianba has been in charge of specific project "operation" and is an excellent executor. However, there is an obvious difference between his thinking and Zhan Xiaobai, and he may not be able to achieve the result that Zhan Xiaobai wants. Therefore, in this kind of industrial adjustment, they must formulate policies while discussing them, and ensure that the policies achieve good results to the greatest extent.

There are a lot of craftsmen in Xiaobai Town, almost as many as 20,000. That's a staggering number. Therefore, its craftsman area is also extremely large, accounting for almost two-thirds of the location of Xiaobai Town. This is still the result of several large-scale expansions in Xiaobaizhen.

Densely packed with all kinds of workshops, one next to the other, iron armor workshop, armor workshop, bow and arrow workshop, leather armor workshop, "medicine" workshop, flour workshop ....... Between the workshops, there are wells, ditches, watchtowers, taverns, leisure courtyards, and other complete functional facilities.

After Zhan Xiaobai and Jian Ba entered the craftsman area, everywhere they saw, there were NPC craftsmen in full swing.

The NPC Workshop Owners command the beginner and intermediate NPC Craftsman Apprentices to move items between the Workshop and the Raw Material Warehouse, and they carry large quantities of wood, iron ingots, animal skins, etc. to the Beginner Workshop and process them into semi-finished products such as bow blanks, iron blocks, and leather.

These semi-finished products are then handed over to NPC master craftsmen in the advanced workshop to be processed into high-end armor, weapons, etc., and placed in batches in the finished product warehouse.

These finished weapons and equipment were transported to Xiaobai Town to be shops for players and merchants to choose from. Merchants choose a certain style, think the price is right, and place an order.

In the end, except for a small part of Xiaobai Town for its own use, most of the rest was sold to the player merchants of the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce, and the merchants transported these goods to various villages and towns throughout Wuwei County to sell. When they came back, they transported a large amount of raw materials by the way and sold them to Xiaobaizhen.

Players in Wuwei County consume these weapons and equipment, gain gains in battle, and trade with merchants. It is in this business process that huge profits are created.

It can be said that Xiaobai Town is controlling the transaction price of higher-end weapons and equipment at the level of level 30~40 in the entire Wuwei County, and the price of high-end weapons in Xiaobai Town will rise, and the rest of the villages and towns will follow suit. As soon as the price of high-end weapons in Xiaobai Town falls, the rest of the villages and towns will follow suit. (Wuwei City also has a large NPC manufacturing industry, but the trading objects are mainly between NPCs, which belongs to another commercial system.) Players who shop in this commercial system often need to pay several times the player's market price. ）

It is precisely because of the huge commercial profits involved in the players that the sword lord was hesitant at first.

The area where the reforms were carried out this time was mainly commercial, and this was precisely his sphere of influence. Any reform is a risk, and if the reform fails, the losses are enough to collapse the foundation of his painstaking management. Once the Little White Chamber of Commerce suffers unimaginable losses, then there must be someone who comes forward to bear the consequences, and this person is his sword tyrant, not anyone else. Who called him the first person in charge of the Little White Chamber of Commerce!

This reform did not touch the territory of the military power of Qiushui, Chunqiu Shaoxia, A Fei and others, and the territory of the local power of Shandan. Unless the war is lost and unrest breaks out in the territory, the three of them do not need to bear other responsibilities.

Of course, if the reform fails, Zhan Xiaobai will suffer a lot of losses. However, Zhan Xiaobai's fundamental interests are in the NPC forces, the control of the NPC army, the control of Wuwei City and Zhangye City, and the commercial losses are only partial interests. The partial interests were damaged, and only a broken arm was not enough for Zhan Xiaobai to be eliminated in this long game competition. Zhan Xiaobai is only responsible for the survival of Xiaobai Town and Xiaobai Alliance.

It can be said that among the five giants of Xiaobai Town, the only one who can't afford the failure of this reform is the sword tyrant. If you fail, you will step down, lose your original power territory, and be replaced by other high-level players in the Xiaobai Town Chamber of Commerce - of course, this decision is still in the hands of Zhan Xiaobai.

In order to persuade the sword tyrant to support this reform, Zhan Xiaobai put a lot of thought into it. At least, he can promise to ensure the long-term stability of the sword tyrant's position, even if the sword tyrant falls, he can help him up again. Sword Tyrant is well aware of this.

The NPC craftsmen couldn't help but be in awe when they saw Zhan Xiaobai and Jian Ba, and the workshop owners greeted Zhan Xiaobai and others with great respect. Many of these workshop owners are the disciples and grandchildren of Iron Soldier, Mu Dalu, 'Medicine' Master and others, and they have made a fortune with their masters, opened workshops, and become private workshop owners, employing NPC people to work in the workshop.

The NPCs in Little White Town are rich. Except for a small number of workshops in the early days that were public. In principle, almost all workshops in the later stage belong to NPCs.

Zhan Xiaobai and Jianba passed by the armor workshop area.

There are as many as 200 workshops in the armor crafting area, and various styles of wooden, leather, and iron armor can be manufactured in batches. However, the main product is the level 30~40 light infantry armor set (set: iron helmet, light armor, iron bracers, iron boots, belt, and some light armor is also equipped with heart goggles to strengthen defense. ) and the Hussar Armor Set, which can be worn by almost all light armoured troops, and has good defense.

The sound of forging and striking iron resounded throughout the area, and NPC craftsmen sweated on their hammers to build equipment. Little did they know that this was going to change.