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Following Wu Qiang, the elders also opened the chatterbox.

Elder Mu Qing, who was in charge of the planning and construction of Donghai Town, first reported on his work, "In another week, the walls of Donghai Town will be completed. At the same time, four new functional buildings have already been put into use: a storeroom, a carpentry room, a tanner's workshop and a handicraft workshop. ”

There is no doubt about the role of the treasury, and neither material nor armament can be piled up in the open air at will, allowing unrelated people to access it at will. Its manager is easy to arrange, and anyone with a little financial knowledge can manage it, but at the moment, it is Elder Shui Xuan, who is in charge of the finances of Donghai Town.

The carpentry workshop can produce bows and arrows, siege and defense equipment, etc., as for furniture and daily necessities, not to mention. You must know that the long-range weapons currently used by the East China Sea Team are all low-grade goods, such as small hand crossbows sold in grocery stores, with a range of only 50 meters. The only thing that is a little better is a white ash short bow with a range of 70 meters that Huang Zhi captured from the Nanhai team, which should be produced by the Nanhai Carpentry Workshop.

In addition, if you have a blacksmith shop and a carpentry shop at the same time, Tokai Town can also produce many composite ordnance. Taking bows and arrows as an example, Donghai Town at this time was able to produce bows and arrows with iron clusters, which were much more lethal than the ordinary arrows originally sold in the grocery stores.

The tannery can produce leather equipment such as saddles and leather armor, and the immediate goal is to equip the elite villagers at the level of the captain of the town guard. Of course, this is naturally indispensable to the dream of a set of people, the East China Sea team is about to bid farewell to the era of cloth.

The Workshop is even more useful, and the special props that can carry weapons and medicines to travel through War Dreams are actually produced here. It's just that weapon bags were originally sold in grocery stores, but the medicine kit has just been launched as a new product in the workshop. In addition to this, the workshop and carpentry workshop can work together to produce better hand crossbows.

In fact, according to Elder Zhu Yan, who was in charge of manufacturing, the four types of buildings were indispensable: the blacksmith shop, the carpenter's workshop, the leather workshop, and the handicraft workshop, and many high-level ordnance could not be developed by a workshop of a single profession. With the passage of time, the level of armament in Donghai Town will inevitably continue to improve with the efforts of these four workshops.

Sima Fuqiang was quite satisfied with the efforts of the Council of Elders and the Town Guard, and he remembered that after his rank was promoted to one rank, there seemed to be a few more positions in the officials of the East China Sea Territory. took out the "Donghai Town Chronicles" and looked at it, and sure enough, there were still four blank squares waiting for the eight people in the East China Sea.

For the first time, the Lord of Donghai County rewarded the aborigines of Donghai, and the chief and deputy commanders of the town guard were awarded the Renyong Captain of the Ninth Rank and the Captain of the Congjiu Rank respectively. For the time being, the Council of Elders can only give two positions, Shui Xuan, as the chief elder, will be the Ru Lin Lang of the Ninth Grade, and Mu Qing will be awarded the Wen Lin Lang of the Nine Grades for his contribution to the construction of Donghai Town.

These villagers can produce any grassroots cadres in Donghai Town, and they already feel that it is the yin virtue accumulated by their ancestors, how could they have thought that they would be officially awarded the rank of Dongzhou Imperial Court officials, even if it is the lowest nine-grade sesame official, it is also a huge difference between the scholars and the people. At the moment, it is another statement that he has done his best to die.

"Okay, let's get back to business." After stopping a few people from continuing to show their loyalty, Sima Fuqiang began to speak his mind. "The Council of Elders has left room for a building, and now is the time to determine the type of building. I discussed it with Shixin for a long time, and I felt that we first needed a business organization that could bring wealth to us in the East China Sea quickly. ”

Profiteering is the dream goal of all businessmen, but they may not be able to find it. The real profiteering business is in the hands of the state apparatus, especially the salt and iron of the cold weapon age.

Sima Fuqiang naturally listened to Huang Zhi's suggestion and prepared to sell salt. But there is no doubt that the salt tax must be one of the main financial revenues of the Dongzhou Imperial Court, and it will definitely not be casually lowered to a place like Donghai Town that is not directly under the Imperial Court. They had been debating for a long time whether or not to make this idea public.

Because of Dong'er's existence, everything in Donghai Town should be said to be no secret to the imperial court, and openly telling the imperial court "I want to sell salt" is tantamount to a provocation.

But can this kind of thing be hidden from Dong'er? The result of the discussion between the two is naturally hidden. Since it can't be concealed, it is better to talk openly and honestly and see if there are any good ways to avoid it, which is the fundamental purpose of Sima Fuqiang's convening of this meeting.

After talking about the idea of selling salt, he first asked Dong'er who was present, "Is there a suitable functional building or special building?" ”

Dong'er shook her head, she didn't even have to look through the thick manual to give a negative answer. "Donghai Town can produce salt, but if you want to collect salt taxes yourself, it is absolutely impossible, because the imperial court does not allow it."

This result was naturally expected, and at this time it was Huang Zhi's turn to come out, "Then Miss Dong'er, how do we pay taxes to the imperial court for the salt we produce?" ”

"It's very simple, you buy salt from the imperial court by leaving the state capital. A piece of salt can be sold for five copper coins, and you can sell 100 catties of salt, and the tax for one catty of salt is 50 wen, and the batch price is 100 wen per catty, and the retail price is slightly higher. Dong'er didn't go out of her way to do her homework, and for some reason she knew so much about it, which couldn't help but make people in her dreams wonder again if she was really a person and not a computer or something.

"You can't sell salt without a salt lead?" Huang Zhi is still trying to find a loophole.

How could Dong'er not understand what he meant, "That's selling smuggled salt, as long as you can bypass the checkpoint guarded by the official army, there is naturally no problem." Anyway, I'm a herald, not a salt and iron envoy, so I don't care if you're involved in violations or not. ”

Sima Fuqiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, although he had expected this answer, but it was another thing to hear Dong'er admit it himself. If the official system of Dongzhou was strictly implemented in accordance with the Tang Dynasty, it was true that only the salt and iron envoys would take care of this matter, and although the local political axe was responsible for inspecting illegal salt, it would not arrest illegal salt across the border.

Donghai Town belongs to the autonomous territory, and there is no salt and iron envoy sent by the imperial court, so as long as Dong'er is willing to turn a blind eye, then no one cares about this matter anymore. The key to how this works is how to get the illicit salt out of the East China Sea Territory, and how to avoid local government scrutiny in other places.

"In that case, let's set up a trading house." After going around for a long time, in fact, this is what Sima Fuqiang wanted to say.

The aborigines of the East China Sea are silent about the trafficking of illicit salt, and no one dares to express their opinions. In the laws of the Eastern Continent, that's a head-scratching thing. Although in their hearts they also think this is a quick way to get money, but they dare not publicly express their support.

But when it came to the trading houses, Elder Shui Xuan had something to say, "Setting up a trading house to engage in trade is indeed a good way to increase taxes. As for what projects the firm operates, it is naturally the merchant's own business, and we only need to pay taxes. His words were full of hints.

Originally, this kind of knowing the law and breaking the law and taking risks naturally could not be led by the East China Sea officials, and Shui Xuan was just suggesting that the East China Sea team find a person who was not afraid of death to be responsible for this matter. If the caravan selling salt was caught outside the territory, that person would be responsible for it, and the town of Donghai would be disconnected from the situation.

For Shui Xuan's suggestion of becoming a country, Sima Fuqiang naturally accepted it gladly, "Then we will set up a list to recruit merchants to settle in Donghai Town, and the village chiefs here will go back and tell the villagers, just say that Donghai Town needs to recruit a person with business experience to preside over Donghai Commercial Bank, and the start-up capital will be provided by the official." As for the specific requirements, let's discuss them when they come. ”

The meeting ended with results on several items. The town guard organized fifty members of the village brave, led by the deputy commander Zhao Meng, to the camp of the bandit coalition army, on the one hand, to eliminate the evil, and on the other hand, to retrieve the wealth accumulated by the bandits, in order to supplement the military and political expenses of Donghai Town. The facilities already under construction will continue, and additional commercial banks will be built.

As for the most critical heads of the commercial banks, volunteers are recruited by the villages. Of course, the matter of trafficking in illicit salt is never mentioned to the outside world, but the dreamer himself explains it to the applicant.

By the end of the meeting, it was already dark outside the town, and the next day had passed, and the Tokai team was able to stay here for a full five days.