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"Gong Kai, Zheng Yue, you go and bring the lord's gold." Jiang Ming instructed the two people on the side.

"Yes." The two got up and went to the side hall behind the screen and took out two boxes. When I opened it, it was all gold.

"My lord, this is 150 taels of gold. Last time, the territory borrowed 150 taels of private money from you, and now it is returned in full. Jiang Ming pointed to the gold in the box and said. Nowadays, money and objects are real things, no longer a string of numbers.

Deng Yi did not shirk and directly put in the storage ring. He spent more than 300 taels of gold for the territory before and after, and the last time he bought the cheats territory, the money was not enough, Deng Yi took out the last 150 taels of gold. At that time, Jiang Ming said that this was a territory loan, but he didn't expect him to take it seriously, and he really paid it back to him at this time.

There are a number of obvious restrictions placed on lord players. It is not allowed to use the money of the territory to buy private goods for oneself, and the restriction of the lord's maximum salary is a very intuitive restriction. This is also the reason why Jiang Ming divided this matter so clearly.

"In the future, the lord will continue to pay back the money he spent for the territory in the past." Seeing that the lord accepted the gold, Jiang Ming said confidently. He is now the deputy mayor of Xiaoyao Town, and he is also in charge of the affairs of the town, including finances.

Because of sufficient financial support, Xiaoyao Town has developed steadily and rapidly in the past two years. However, Deng Yi changed his previous strategy of overall balanced development and began to shift in two directions.

The first is food production. The number of people engaged in food cultivation is close to 40 per cent of the total population. Another 30 percent of the population is engaged in vegetable cultivation and livestock and poultry breeding. This ratio is a slight surplus in the ordinary territory where the grain production is enough for the territory to consume. It stands to reason that there is a 50% increase in production by the "earth spirit", and Xiaoyao can completely reduce 20% of the population to engage in other production.

But Deng Yi did not dare to do so, because at the beginning of the following year, near the beginning of spring, a typhoon raged over the island. Dozens of houses were destroyed, the few vegetables of the season were destroyed, and 13 unfortunate lords were killed. The direct economic loss is more than ten taels of gold.

It can only be said that it is fortunate that this typhoon came early. If it is two or three months late, when the grain crops are all planted and the growth is gratifying, the result can be imagined! As the saying goes, if you have surplus food in your hands, you don't panic, and the territory must have enough food reserves before Deng Yi can rest assured.

Due to the increase in production of the "Earth Spirit", Deng Yi and they put some thought into this. Increased the tax on plantations in the realm to 33%. At first, the people expressed their dissatisfaction with this, but after the patient and meticulous explanations of Jiang Ming and others, they all accepted it happily.

Because 33% of the tax is just the extra harvest of the "Earth Spirit" trait. Taxes and "Earth Spirit" bonuses aside, it is equivalent to the fact that the subjects are completely exempt from taxes for farming in ordinary fields, and their actual income has increased slightly, and they will eventually be able to accept the change in taxes.

This measure not only provided the territory with a large amount of grain reserves, but also saved the territory a large amount of money for the purchase of grain. This is one of Jiang Ming's confidences.

The second is the manufacture of ironware. The ore yield of the vein is constant. Excessive mining can damage the veins, and this kind of killing of chickens and eggs is not advisable. Undermining will result in waste, which is equally undesirable.

In order to make full and effective use of iron ore resources, Deng Yi began to train a large number of blacksmiths, and at the same time assigned a large number of laborers to mine iron ore.

At present, there are three blacksmiths who are proficient in the realm, and their job is still to study more advanced blacksmithing techniques and develop more sophisticated weapons and utensils. There are 226 blacksmiths who know the realm, and 755 blacksmiths who know a little bit about the realm, and their task is to refine all the mined iron ore into various weapons and tools.

With 1,000 ore miners and nearly 1,000 blacksmiths, the small iron ore vein was finally saturated.

Except for a small portion of the iron produced for consumption in the territory, the rest was sold to general stores. Even if the purchase price of the grocery store is two to three percent lower than the market price, it is not hesitant. Because the grocery store is the only sales outlet in Xiaoyao Town, there is no other way than to knock out the teeth and swallow it in the stomach, and if you want to develop the territory, this loss must be eaten.

Considering the cost of transportation and production efficiency, Jiang Ming proposed that the blacksmith shop be built near the ore vein. Deng Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately agreed. Not only was a huge blacksmith factory built that could accommodate nearly a thousand blacksmiths, but a private house was built nearby for blacksmiths and miners and their families to live in. In this way, the production cost has been reduced by nearly 30%.

On average, each blacksmith can craft two pieces of iron per day, and each piece of iron can net about 150 copper coins in addition to various costs. Thousands of blacksmiths can generate nearly 1,000 taels of gold for the territory every year. This is Jiang Ming's greatest confidence, otherwise if he wants to repay Deng Yi's private money, he doesn't know when he will go.

Deng Yi just smiled slightly when he heard Jiang Ming's words, and didn't pay much attention to it. He can't use this money now, and it is undoubtedly the best to use it for territorial construction.

"Lord, what to do with the seized materials?" Shu Lingwei asked again.

"The road from the port to the town was not repaired. Running horses is barely possible, but running carriages is probably a little inconvenient. It will take a lot of effort to transport 100,000 kilograms of materials. Xia Yu said. 1 iron ingot is 10 catties, 10,000 is 50,000 kilograms, plus 50,000 kilograms of grain, exactly 100,000 kilograms of materials.

At first, it was for the convenience of transporting supplies. It took Deng Yi two years to take advantage of the slack season to gather thousands of laborers and hundreds of prisoners to build a 6-meter-wide slate road leading to the mining area with 30-centimeter-thick stone slabs, with a total length of 43 kilometers.

This is also the only official road that Xiaoyao Town has built now. Ground has not yet been laid on several other roads, although they are planned.

"Han Cong, has the road to the port been investigated?" Deng Yi asked. The direction of the road is related to the feng shui pattern of the territory, and it cannot be fooled, and it must be investigated by Han Cong himself to rest assured.

"Lord, Cong has already investigated clearly, and drew a drawing and handed it to Brother Jiang Ming. The total length of the road is 36 kilometers, which should have been 34 kilometers, but in order not to destroy the feng shui pattern and avoid some special places, a little detour was deliberately made. Han Cong said.

"Well done, thank you!" Deng Yi praised.

Although Han Cong did not hold any management positions and his identity was still a civilian, his status in Xiaoyao Town was very high, and everyone respected him very much from the bottom of their hearts.

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