Chapter 337 The most cost-effective management method

Lan Feng was silent for a long time.

People who have absolute power don't like people under their control to do things that surprise them. Lan Feng felt the surprise deeply this time.

He searched for all kinds of countermeasures in his mind, he imagined himself as a cloud, imagining what the cloud would do when it encountered such a thing. It's a pity that what Yun Duo can do, he may not dare to do.

"Then it's up to you to come forward and organize a ...... Well, it's called the Exit Management Office", and finally remembered an institution he had seen before, Lan Feng said while recalling: "All my monks and mortals in Shangying Town must also wear the badge of Shangying Town, and those who do not have the badge of Shangying Town are all forbidden...... Well, leaving the country without permission.

Well, this badge is not issued to everyone, we have to strictly review the person who applies for it, and only if the review is passed, can we issue them the badge of Shangying Town, and allow them to leave the country through the teleportation array or viaduct.

Also, the teleportation array must be strictly guarded, and the viaduct ...... Where we can't get involved at the approach bridge, we will set up another audit checkpoint outside the approach bridge, and we must strictly review the people who leave and enter the country......"

Lan Feng chattered and said a lot. He listed almost all the precautions imaginable, then waved his hand and added weakly: "...... I don't know what a blessing or a curse. ”

When the clouds arrived in Jieyang Town, it was already a month later...... Oh, and since the Great Apocalypse, the settlements in the forest have taken in nearby refugees and upgraded their populations and defenses, so that the small settlements that used to be called towns can now be called cities or castles. It is now known as Jieyang City, but in the concept of clouds, this is still the town where he was born.

During the construction of the road by Yunduo, Jieyang City was attacked by three small-scale beast tides, two of which were sent by monks from Moyunling to support the local defenders of the city, so that Jieyang City held on to the situation under many crises. Today, it has grown into a small city of 30,000 people, and the architectural layout has changed from what it used to be.

Due to the local guard...... Well, now it should be called the city lord, because the local city lord finally came out of Moyunling, his plan to build the city more or less continued the style of Moyunling, the entire town residents are not scattered on the fields, but build a tall walled wall, and place all the residents in the city for protection.

Because of the concentration of people living in the city, the peasants in the city were far away from their fields, so the roads had to be hardened in advance, and a network of roads leading to the fields and forests had to be built, and of course, Hot Wheelers became popular on a small scale.

Jieyang City completed the construction of the road network so quickly, and the main force was naturally the monks. And Jieyang City itself is not a town rich in products, hiring monks to build roads is a big expense, this expense Jieyang City itself cannot pay, and the person who pays this money is Yunduo.

Nian Zai was born here, although the people in this place of origin are not very friendly, but they are also oppressed by the pressure of life. Yun Duo is not a person who holds grudges, and when the city lord of Jieyang City took office, he took the initiative to say that he was willing to bear the cost of road repair, and this cost did not need to be repaid afterwards.

Other people's money is not spent in vain, so Jieyang City has become the first town in several nearby settlements to complete the construction of the road network. Therefore, Jieyang City became the most attractive town for the exiled people after the incident, and the original natives in the forest were abandoned, and after the incident, they either went to Jieyang City or settled in Jieyin City.

In the past, Jieyang City was mainly gathered, and its own farmland was only a small part, and the food grown could not even be self-sufficient, so the demand for roads outside Jieyang City was the most urgent. They had to have a road to Blue Jade City so that the inhabitants could buy food and sell their collected herbs.

After the construction of the road network was completed, the new city owner was still unsatisfied, so he continued to rebuild Jieyang City, until the arrival of the clouds, the civil construction team formed by the monks of Moyunling was still working, so that the whole city was like a big construction site.

This professional team used wood-based spells to plant third-order poison ivy around the collection area, and then used this poison ivy to protect all mortal activity areas, while the soil monks transformed the soil a lot, leveled the land, set up spiritual field planting areas, and planted a large number of local specialty medicinal herbs. In this way, the characteristic products of Jieyang City have made leaps and bounds compared with the past.

This time, the exit of the viaduct road starting from Moyunling was set up in the town center square. Three patrol cars went straight to the center of the square from the approach bridge. The city lord of Jieyang City, who had been notified, had already been waiting at the entrance of the bridge, meeting each other, and the other party hurriedly asked, "Master, hasn't the battle in Moyunling subsided yet?"

Yun Duo nodded: "It shouldn't have subsided yet, you see, there are not many vehicles coming and going, which means that everyone is not afraid to travel with confidence." ”

Or their own intimateness. During his time in Shangying Town, Lan Feng never asked about the battle of Moyunling from beginning to end. However, since the departure of the Mystic Law Heavenly Monarch, the battle has leveled off. Now it is not so much that there is still a fierce battle, but that the two sides have turned into a standoff, with skirmishes occurring from time to time and large battles occurring from time to time...... Alas, the monsters can't fight anymore.

The city lord of Jieyang City let out a sigh of relief, and then said, "Since the master can leave the battlefield and come to me, presumably the battle situation is in favor of our Moyunling?"

Yun Duo nodded: "The demon beasts are weak in attacking, in the same way, we have more than enough defense, and the attack is weak, and now the two sides are in such a stalemate for the time being, but the demon beasts will have to withdraw sooner or later, I estimate that they won't last long, maybe today, maybe tomorrow will retreat." ”

The city lord of Jieyang is happy. Leaning slightly, he bowed and saluted: "Master, please go this way......

The central location of the city has not changed much, the original town has become the inner fortress of the city, I have rebuilt the city wall, and then the outermost city has added the second ring city and the third ring city.

My ancestor used to live in his own house, or did he go to my place to rest?"

Yun Duo waved his hand: "Go to you, my former home...... Ha, it's not a good place, if that empty room can be allocated, whoever needs it, give it to whomever you want...... I brought the personnel who built the teleportation array, and I heard that you want to move the teleportation array to a different location?"

This Qi Refining Stage cultivator from the Iris Valley replied humbly while leading the way in front of him: "Yes, yes, City Lord, the teleportation array was set up in the City Lord's mansion before, and at the beginning, there were still few people coming and going, but there was nothing to hinder it. Now there are hundreds of people riding the teleportation array every day, and people come and go, so that I don't even have a quiet place to cultivate.

Therefore, I applied to rebuild the teleportation array last month, and I want to set up the teleportation array in the central square. ”

Yun Duo laughed, and then asked kindly, "You haven't contacted your family yet?"

The managers of Jieyang City and Jieyin Mansion all went out from Moyunling. These managers were basically hopeless Qi Refining Stage cultivators, and they used a contract method to manage these two settlements.

Since this kind of cultivator has no hope of advancing and seeing that his lifespan is approaching, the cultivation materials they have accumulated are basically not accumulated for themselves, and most of them want to leave the accumulated wealth to their heirs.

Yun Duo knew this acting city lord of Jieyang City, and only from his appearance, the other party looked like an old man in his sixties and seventies, with gray hair and wrinkles on his forehead. It is said that this person has a maximum of about ten years to live. When this person came to Jieyang City, he thought that if he was closer to the river, his communication jade might be able to contact his family on the south bank of the river......

Thinking of this, Yun Duo immediately added: "Next month, Moyunling will hold a discussion meeting, and the leaders of several settlements in Moyunling will gather for a while...... Oh, and it's not a big deal, just get to know each other.

In addition, I will inform you in advance, but you are to keep what I am going to say in absolute secrecy and not to the outside world.

First: Not long ago, a canopy rose on the surface of the great river, which separated the north and south banks, making both sides of the moat. We've sent people to investigate, and we've lost a few men for that. According to our current speculation, the Sky Canopy Array is very difficult to destroy, and it may be a rare light spell. ”

The old city advocate had a wide mouth, and the white-haired head was speechless for a long time. After a long time, a cloudy tear flowed down from the corner of his eye, he slowly wiped away this tear, and said slowly: "So, we can't be buried in our hometown in this life?"

Yun Duo nodded: "This ...... Please relax and adapt to the great changes.

The second point I want to make next is that when we explored the Great Array of Light Curtains, we found that a large number of demon beasts were retreating, and at the same time, the monks on the other side of the river did not seem to be in a hurry to break the canopy. Also, perhaps they also felt that there was a need for the existence of the canopy. So, you know?

I guess the purpose of the demon beasts in building a light curtain array to isolate the north and the south is to take advantage of the demon beasts' new Heavenly Monarch to succeed to the throne, so that the Miaofa Heavenly Monarch can win a respite to consolidate his cultivation. And the monks on the south bank, those people in our homeland, our teachers, probably want to get rid of the trouble completely - in their opinion, the Demon Beast Forest is a big trouble...... So, you know?

The respite of the monsters is our danger, and we can't predict whether they will attack us monks, or all humans...... I once made an agreement with a demon beast Heavenly Monarch, and although this agreement has nothing to do with Jieyang City and Jieyin Mansion, you must also know that I agree to do business with demon beasts, and allow them to use the genius earth treasures they have collected to barter in Moyun Ridge - this is the third point.

This transaction is only valid in Moyunling in the short term, and if you go to Moyunling in the future, if you see a demon beast walking on the street, don't be surprised, don't shout and kill, just pretend not to see it. ”

The white-haired old city lord immediately asked: "Then, if we see demon beasts near Jieyang City in the future, can't we do it?"

Yun Duo laughed: "It's just an agreement, the agreement stipulates that the safety of both parties will be guaranteed during the transaction, but this is a matter of Blue Jade City, in the future, you should fight and kill, and it will not hinder it." ”

After a pause, Yun Duo sneered and added: "Look, a deal has been reached, but aren't the monsters still attacking the city?" So this agreement is limited to the trading period, the other party comes to trade, and we receive it normally;

The old city lord sighed: "That's ...... It's okay, Uncle Shi, so I'll rest assured.

After all, since I was born, the shemales have had a vendetta against each other, and suddenly I was asked to treat them as friends, and I would never be able to do this. But if it's just during the trading with each other, I can understand this. After all, the genius earth treasures they brought, even if they were the feather scale armor that fell off their bodies, saved us the hard work of collecting. ”

The old city lord's cloudy eyes moved, and he immediately said, "Master, if you let the demon beasts come and go between the cities, let them freely and from time to time spy on our virtual and real ......?"

Yun Duo laughed: "It's narrow-minded for you to think so." You see, war is not only about life, it's about material – a lot of it.

What are they trying to do with us? Do they occupy our Moyun Ridge, Moyun Ridge is the territory of Moyun Dapeng, and they can't take it away.

Then the only purpose is to rob, but if the cost of robbery is far worse than casually coming to Moyunling and exchanging the materials you need at will, who is willing to spend a huge price of lives and huge amounts of materials to start this war?"

Of course, what Yunduo is talking about here is an inevitable situation under rational thinking, but in a powerful society, monarchs are not all rational thinking.

In the former case, it can also be said that "the soldiers do not return to the border that the caravan is able to cross." So even if the reality of Moyunling is spied on, what is so terrible?

And in the case of the latter irrational thinking, it is actually easy to deal with – just follow the example of neutral Switzerland.

During World War II, Switzerland was a completely open state policy, and spies from any country could walk around the country at will. Therefore, the Germans in Switzerland knew it perfectly, but Germany did not dare to do it. Just because Switzerland is a soldier for all, every family has a few barns for a few men. Even every man has more than one barn, and every family is a small arsenal.

How can such a country do it?

If you really want to make a move, although the other party has few people, can you bear the casualties of the other side?

So, don't always worry about people knowing what you are. It is not terrible for others to know your reality and reality, and it is known that there are at least two ways to crack it, and it just so happens that Moyunling has adopted both methods.

chatting all the way, everyone came to the city lord's mansion, and the monks were not so polite, not to mention that the city lord was his own family. Therefore, the accompanying construction personnel began to work without stopping.

Yun Duo observed the situation of Jieyang City all the way, and praised all the way: "You have done a good job here, the number of mortals is comparable to Moyunling, oh, there are so many women, not like Moyunling, it looks like a singles city." ”

The old city lord responded with a smile: "Uncle Shi, this is not my credit, I am different from Moyunling here." Moyunling is a new city built from scratch, and there are almost no old residents. I was originally a mature settlement here, and there were many original residents, and after the cataclysm, I knew that this place was safe. Relatives and friends of the old residents dragged their families to gather here, no, so many people gathered at once.

As for saying that there are many women here...... Alas, cataclysm, men have always died more when cataclysms have occurred. Because men are the force of resistance, no matter what kind of enemy they encounter, they must be the first to attack. And women can have children, they can take care of the housework, and they are more obedient, so after each catastrophe, there are always more women than men, which is customary. ”

"That's different, Moyunling is that there are more men than women. ”

"It's different, Uncle Shi, in detail, Moyunling has not suffered any disasters, the population is mainly supported by immigrants, and those who dare to go out into the world must be more men and fewer women, and in ordinary families, women will not be allowed to go out......, right?

"So, even out your woman with me?"

"This ......"

"Moyunling is ready to increase the number of settlements – farmers who are far away from the farmland will spend most of the day on the road, so I am ready to build small settlements.

Now that mortals have a spirit stone wooden warehouse, small-scale beast tides can fight independently. With the communicator, you can also call others, and you are no longer alone. So I'm going to set up some small settlements around medium-sized settlements. This kind of small settlement is not guarded by monks, so mortals can pick up the spirit stone and wooden barn and protect their homeland by themselves.

In this way, in the event of a catastrophe that they cannot resist, they can call in the monks of the medium-sized settlements for support, and in normal times they will cultivate and collect their own taxes, and as for taxes, I am not prepared to collect much tax, as long as the management costs are greatly reduced, I will not lose.

Well, when it comes to taxation, I would like to inform you that I have decided that in the future we will not tax the peasants, because this method of taxation is too costly and easy to breed all kinds of trouble. I decided to only tax transactions.

In the future, special markets will be built in each settlement, and all transactions will need to be concluded in the market, and we will only need to set up a manager of the peculiar market, who will calculate and collect taxes on the merchants.

We only charge transaction tax, no ding tax, no land tax, no mining tax, no mountain tax...... In this way, the personnel who can collect taxes are minimized, and the cost of officials is minimized.

For the farmers, the burden is also greatly reduced, because they grow their own crops and do not have to pay taxes as long as there are no produce to sell. This means that you and your family don't have to pay taxes on the agricultural materials you need to feed and clothe yourself.

Of course, for us, because we don't have to go door-to-door to collect taxes, we don't need so many officials, just one or two people. We can even get rid of the matter of market management -- let businessmen come forward to be tax contractors, contract the market by themselves, and bear the responsibility for operation and development by themselves.

In this way, we can reduce the amount of official salaries that need to be paid to a minimum. We're spending less, much less. Although the tax is a little less, our income and our remaining money will be more than the greatly reduced expenditure.

Our income is higher, and so is the income of our farmers. Because feeding themselves and their families no longer has to pay taxes, they will devote more energy to growing their families. More households, more transactions, more taxes for us.

But now the population is a bottleneck, especially female mortals. Nowadays, there are more men and fewer women in Moyunling City, which is understandable, and in the process of immigration, it is always easy for strong men to survive, so Moyunling needs to absorb a large number of women.

This time, I plan to recruit redundant female mortals from Jieyin Mansion and Jieyang City to go to Moyunling, and at the same time release a long-term mission to find surviving mortals. Tell the monks in the city to let them go out and look for mortals who are hiding: for every male mortal they find, they will be rewarded with 500 spirit stones, and if a female mortal is of reproductive age, it will be worth 1,000 spirit stones.

Also, for the mortal people under the jurisdiction of Jieyang City, we will use a reward policy to allow them to immigrate to Moyunling - don't tell me that this is your city, Jieyang City does not produce much, and it cannot accommodate so many people. Besides, in such a small city, the population increases, and the defense force must increase, and the aura here cannot accommodate too many monks.

We have to develop central cities, which are non-negotiable. Only when the central city is well developed can we improve our overall level......"

Yun Duo paused, and added in a heavy tone: "We have no backup, the canopy has been raised, and the people on the south bank of the Great River may not be happy to see us in the future, we must improve our own level."

Now there are about 30,000 households in Jieyang City, I will take 10,000 first, 5,000 men and 5,000 women, and I will pay you 3,000 spirit stones for each man and woman, so that you have a total of 30 million lower grade spirit stones, these 30 million lower grade spirit stones, if you want to change them to Zhuji Dan, I can give you this concession.

Now, one Zhuji Dan in Moyun Ridge is worth about three million lower grade spirit stones, I allow you to exchange it for ten Zhuji Dan, how about you give it a go, swallow it together with five or six Zhuji Dan, and see if you can build a foundation?"

The old city lord stood up with a swish, and his eyes showed a fanatical light, but after a while, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and he sat down softly, and whispered: "At my age, even if the foundation is built, what can I do? At most, this life is just dangling in the early stage of foundation building." ”

"However, your lifespan can be increased by at least a hundred years, and what will happen in a hundred years, no one knows. Maybe the canopy will dissipate in a hundred years, so that you can return to the south bank of the river and see your relatives and family, as well as your own brothers. ”

The old city lord sighed faintly: "Okay, Uncle Shi, I am willing to give it a try. But...... I need a Dharma Protector, and I am willing to hire a Dharma Protector with 10 million lower grade spirit stones. In addition......"

The old city lord paused, and immediately shook his head lightly: "...... Forget it. I originally wanted to move to Moyunling to stay away from danger in order to cherish my life after building the foundation. But then I thought: even if my life span is longer after the foundation is built, I ...... here Alas, after all, there is no big future for advancement, so it is better to stay in Jieyang City. ”

The old city lord stomped his foot: "Then give it a fight - there are about 19,000 women of childbearing age in my Jieyin City, I ...... A total of 24,000 mortals were supported in Moyunling, including 7,000 men and 17,000 women. ”

After a pause, the old lord added: "I also know of some hidden settlements nearby, and I have sent all the monks out, and the women who are lacking are replenished from the newly searched immigrants.

In addition, the bounty given by the ancestor was also very high, 1,500 spirit stones, enough for those mortals to take the teleportation array, venture to the realm where the Golden Gate belongs, and then buy women from near the Golden Gate to return here. ”

The old city lord gritted his teeth and said: "The city lord subsidizes my spirit stones, I only need one-third, and the rest, give each adult strong man a thousand spirit stones, let them go to the Golden Gate by themselves, and find a way to buy women of childbearing age from the Golden Gate realm - they want to marry their own wives, then they can figure it out themselves, I will provide them with funds, what else are they not happy about?"

But the old city lord immediately shook his head again: "No, a thousand spirit stones are given to them, what should they do if they take the spirit stones and run away, what if they are robbed?"

The people are stupid and don't have a long-term vision, in case they are instigated by others and feel that it is very unsafe to stay in the demon beast forest with so many spirit stones, maybe they will take this batch of spirit stones and settle down at the Golden Gate. In this way, we lost the spirit stones, but we got nothing. ”

"Well, then give them fifty spirit stones, fifty spirit stones are enough to buy a woman of childbearing age, I remember that five gold coins can buy a young girl...... Tell those people that once they return to Jieyang City with their wives, I will subsidize the settlement fee of 950 spirit stones......"

After the old lord nodded, the migration began. Fortunately, the road had been repaired to Jieyang City, and after Yun Duo sent a message back, the replacement monk set off quickly and arrived at Jieyang City in less than half a day. Immediately afterwards, the road construction monks, who had been busy in the field for a month, began to return, taking the first batch of immigrants from Jieyang City with them along the way.

Subsequently, the local wealthy families began to drive their own spiritual stone carts to Moyunling to migrate, while the less wealthy immigrants dragged their families and people on foot to the viaduct and marched towards Blue Jade City.

Fortunately, there was a lot of traffic on the bridge at this time, so they didn't have to worry about the dangers on the road. And this experience of walking through the viaduct on foot also made them understand the safety of the viaduct. Thereupon......

Yun Duo stayed in Jieyin City for a few days, sent away several groups of immigrants, and only then went to Jieyin Mansion after releasing the task of developing a demon pill power car to Moyunling.

During this period, Grandpa Yun, who still lived in Jieyang City, although he heard that monks had come from Moyunling, he wanted to get close to these monks and inquire about the news of Yunduo. It's a pity that he and Yun Duo are now people from the two worlds of Xianfan.

When the monks of Iris Valley came to Jieyang City, they did not avoid their identities, Grandpa Yun knew that this group of people came from the sect of Yunduo, but except for the previous Bi Xun, there would not be any monk who would talk about the internal secrets of his sect in front of Grandpa Yun and a mortal.

Therefore, Grandpa Yun still doesn't know that the city lord of Moyunling, Qingyun Zhenren, is the original Yun Duo of his family...... Of course, because of Bi Xun's blind worries, Grandpa Yun knew that Yun Duo's Taoist name was Qingzhu, but there are too many people with the same name and surname in this world, for example, there are more than a dozen people in the town called Ergouzi. Grandpa Yun wasn't sure that this Qingyun was Bi Qingyun.

Besides, when most monks talk about clouds nowadays, who will directly call them "Qingzhu Zhenren"? They mostly call Yunduo the lord of the valley, the son, or simply call them the ancestor, the ancestor of the uncle, and so on. Besides, the monks called each other, and it was only when the monks chatted with each other. Grandpa Yun is a mortal, how could the monk let him get close?

As a result, Grandpa Yun only knows that Yun Duo is also one of the participating team members, and he has no idea whether Yun Duo is still alive now.

Grandpa Yun, who was dazed and ignorant, was still unaware of the existence of Yun Duo until he left Jieyang City. However, he didn't give up, and every time he saw someone from Moyunling, he stepped forward to talk to him, asking if the other party knew of a monk named "Qingzhu". But because Grandpa Yun is illiterate, he only knows the pronunciation of the word "Qingqi".

These things are not clear, Grandpa Yun does not understand the internal hierarchy of the monks, and he does not even know the difference between the status of the original guardian Bi Xun and Yun Duo in Jieyang City. So, how could the monk have the patience to listen to the chatter of a mortal old man?......

Ten days later, the viaduct was repaired to Jieyinfu.

After the catastrophe, the city of Jieyin Mansion almost maintained its original appearance, because there was a separate courtyard of the Xuantian Gate in the city, so the monks who contracted the management of the city of Jieyin Mansion after the catastrophe were basically the monks who built the foundation of the Xuantian Gate. Because of the support of the other courtyard, it has attracted a lot of high-level monks. If there were no clouds to build the Blue Jade City, it could even become the center of the monks' activities after the cataclysm.

It's a pity that the Blue Jade City has already been built.

Now, living in this city, in addition to the five old foundation building monks from the Xuantian Gate main gate, there are also three foundation building monks who have defected from other sects, as well as more than thirty Qi refining period monks.

Everyone is an acquaintance, and the city lord of Jieyin Mansion complained when he saw Yun Duo's face, and this old foundation building monk didn't have much scruples when he spoke because he was similar to Yun Duo's cultivation.

"Lord Shaogu, the Moyun Ridge in the Jieyin Mansion is too far away, although we have eight foundation building period monks here, but after all, the defense force is weak, after the catastrophe, we have suffered two demon beast sieges, losing nearly 10,000 people, two Qi refining period monks fell, and one foundation building period monk was seriously injured, and his cultivation has not yet recovered.

Young Valley Lord, since your teleportation array can teleport to mortals, I don't know if you can modify it so that it can also teleport monks. It would be better if we could teleport the monks, and if we were in a critical situation here, we could call for help from you immediately...... Alas, it's a terrible situation right now, and it feels like we're completely alone. ”

Yun Duo and the others retreated left and right, and confessed to the other party: "You are all foundation building period monks, and you must have your own relatives and friends in Moyunling, and you know the news that you should know—we are indeed alone."

The canopy has been raised, and we have tried it in various ways, but the monks on both sides of the strait cannot pass through it, so that we have fallen into this forsaken land before the canopy is removed. ”

The city lord nodded, and said frankly: "I originally followed Zhou Rong's little son, and later built a foundation in Moyunling, so I came to contract the city management of Jieyin Mansion. Young man Zhou Rong has already told me the situation, he said...... The city lord asked all the monks to change their mentality, calm down, and manage Moyunling well. ”

Yun Duo nodded: "That's right. Next, we will manage Moyunling well, and for this reason, I announce two orders......"

Regarding the matter of immigrating to Moyunling, Jieyin did not have any major objections. As for tax administration...... Although the city has been contracted by the monks, it stands to reason that Yunduo has no right to interfere with the specific strategies of the people, but Yunduo's proposal is too operational.

"This way...... We have one hundred and thirty-five settlements here, each with at least five officials, and more than three hundred officials and more than five hundred miscellaneous servants in the city. In the end, we couldn't collect the money, and the people were still complaining.

If this method is implemented......"

"In addition to eating, ordinary people also need clothing, salt, condiments, pots and pans and other daily necessities...... In short, it is impossible for a mortal person not to buy things and not to sell food. As long as they trade, we can collect taxes. The collection of this tax only requires a municipal official or a tax collector to sit in the market. ”

"But...... There are more than 100 settlements here, and it is also unrealistic to let the people there go to the city and go to the fixed market in the city to buy and sell things. ”

"The same method, similar to the method of the tax contractor - the establishment of a fixed tax shop. We may allow shops to be opened by those who are permitted by us, and each settlement may be opened by two or three tax collectors. These licensed tax contractors have to promise to pay us a fixed amount of tax every year, and then we will issue a business license to operate.

You are not allowed to operate without a license, so those who have a license will automatically help you regulate the free trade around the shop. Of course, they don't want to interfere with the small transactions, and I guess you don't want to care about it......"

The biggest drawback of Jieyin Mansion is that it is too far away from Blue Jade City, and if something happens, it is completely isolated. And Jieyin Mansion requires the opening of the teleportation array, which can also be achieved.

Originally, teleportation arrays could not be used in the abandoned forest, on the one hand, because they were worried that demon beasts would use teleportation arrays to raid human cities, and on the other hand, it might be that there was a rift in the space near Akutagawa, so that the teleporters would be torn apart during the teleportation process. And the latter, after going to Akutagawa, Yun Duo already had this guess.

If the curtain rises today, the original fear of demon beasts attacking the inland is no longer possible. As for the problem of the free space crack of Akutagawa, as long as it does not cross Akutagawa during the teleportation process, it is estimated that there will be no problem - this point, the teleportation array has been running so far, and its safety has been proven.

The teleportation array made by the clouds is actually just borrowing the name "mail teleportation array". In fact, the so-called mail teleportation array is very different from the conventional teleportation array in the real sense.

Comparatively speaking, the mail teleportation array is a little more complicated, because the clouds add a lot of protection to the mail teleportation array - mortals are more fragile and must add more protection in order to prevent the tearing force of space from tearing them apart during the teleportation process.

This kind of protection, when the monks take the mail teleportation array, is instead transformed into a hidden killing machine - if the aura on the teleported object exceeds the standard, it will use the spatial pulling force to detonate the dantian and the sea of knowledge on the monk's body during the teleportation process.

In addition, the "mail transmission array" in the Moyunling area cannot be seamlessly connected with the mail transmission array in the outside world, which means that they are the local area network of the monster forest, not the wide area network. There is even a one-to-one link required during the teleportation process, such as the Shangying Town Spirit Stone Mine Teleportation Array that Lan Feng needs.

What the Underworld needs is a regular teleportation array. As a result, the amount of work is very large, and the materials required are also expensive. That is, only a super sect like Xuantianmen can afford it. And the clouds presided over the iris valley...... Well, the main thing is that Yun Duo has gained a lot of materials that can build a teleportation array in Akutagawa, so that he can be so wealthy.

Of course, even if there was no shortage of materials, the time it would take to build this teleportation array would have been a long one. Fortunately, now that the battle in Blue Jade City has entered a state of confrontation, Yun Duo is not in such a hurry to go back, so everyone is stationed in Jieyin Mansion.

Since then, the construction of the road has not stopped. From Jieyin Mansion as the center, the road network needs to radiate out to the surrounding towns, and these detailed roads need to be polished.

Fortunately, village-level roads and bridge decks do not need to be so wide and do not need to be so strong, as long as such roads can protect the safety of ordinary people, they can meet the needs of mortals. In this way, the small-scale road construction team only has five or six monks, and the requirements for road construction time are not high, and they are sent out as a sect reward task, and many monks are willing to do things.

The work of road construction, for the earth monks, can not only exercise the proficiency of spells, but also exercise the recovery ability of the aura, plus the reward is not low, one month is enough to get a year's cost, so the clouds are well planned, and the elevated road network continues to extend around.

That's right, the elevated road network. The elevated road does not occupy land resources, and because the elevated road is in mid-air, it is impossible for monsters walking on the ground to attack, so it is very popular with mortal people. And the construction of this kind of elevated road is nothing more than a little more aura for the monks, and the cost does not increase much. Therefore, the road network of clouds is all elevated.

The construction of the road network was accompanied by the reform of the system, and each upper and lower approach bridge was spontaneously formed into a market, and the guards stationed at the approach bridge took on the tax task by the way, and the bonded merchant paid an extra salary for this, but because it was a part-time tax supervisor, the bonded merchant did not pay much.

However, in this way, the administrative department of the clouds did not need to send officials to collect taxes from door to door, and the income of the guide pass guard increased, making the guide pass guard one of the most popular jobs among mortals. The monks, on the other hand, were not very fond of mundane work, so they gradually withdrew from this work.

In the end, in all the cities under the jurisdiction of Moyunling, mortal things were borne by mortals, and monks only assumed the duty of shelter, and thus enjoyed the worship of mortals. The secular government began to separate from the monastic class......

Sitting in the clouds of the underworld, one order after another was issued. Since then, although the war in the Moyunling area has continued for more than ten years, various new regulations have begun to be implemented gradually, and the rapid economic recovery after the war has become active...... Of course, this is years later.

It's still the streets of the past, or the houses of the past, and most of the people who live in the city of Jieyin Mansion are also those citizens in the past.

Comparatively speaking, Jieyin was the area of the cities on the north shore that suffered the least war losses. At the beginning, after the citizens received the news of the large-scale evacuation of the monks, before they had time to organize and prepare to flee, the clouds had already sent monks to take over the city, so the aborigines of the city were intact.

However, it is not the same as it used to be. In the past, the Jieyin Mansion continued to send a large amount of materials to Fenglingdu, and these material resources were continuously transported to the south bank and to the entire Xiuzhen world. Nowadays, the shops in the city can only sell to the remnants of the monks in the Demon Beast Forest, and the sales channels have been greatly reduced, and the prosperity of the past is no longer there.

The clouds followed the sparse flow of people into a shop.

He had been to this shop before, and he had sold his first printed talisman to this shop, and at that time, several sisters were still around, but now, everyone has gone their separate ways.

People have to grow up after all, and perhaps, this separation is the price of growth.

The owner of the shop is still the middle-aged monk from before, but the boss no longer recognizes the clouds in front of him—which is understandable. At that time, Yunduo was a mortal child, and now, he is a young monk. The image gap between the clouds when I was a child and the clouds now is too big.

Picking up a few talismans casually, Yun Duo asked the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, what is the best talisman to sell in the store today?"

Although the shopkeeper didn't recognize the clouds, he also felt that the clouds were extraordinary—the monks in the city, although their cultivation was high and low, but everyone's faces had a kind of "I don't know how it would be tomorrow", only the clouds looked calm, and the expression on their faces was not worried about the future situation at all.

The shopkeeper replied respectfully: "Master, the best thing to sell in the shop today is a talisman, and a low-grade spirit stone can be sold for a dozen or 12 pieces, but this is our selling price...... Hey, now the small shop can only do some small profit business, so the fixed talisman starts to buy from twenty, and every twenty pieces of a low-grade spirit stone. ”

Yun Duo was taken aback: "So cheap?"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid the Venerable Master doesn't know that now the small shop can be maintained, and it is mostly bought by mortals, and the favorite among mortals are the fixation talisman and the vajra talisman.

The immobilization talisman is mainly used to immobilize the demon beast, and the vajra talisman is used to protect itself, as for the demon beast that is fixed, hehe, even if it is a mortal, who doesn't have a few spirit stones and wooden warehouses in their hands now?

As for the cheapness of these talismans, haha, the Venerable Master should also know that now that the method of making talismans has been innovated, the guardian of the Yin Mansion comes from Moyunling, and the group of monks from Moyunling are from the Xuantianmen Iris Valley. As for the monks of the Iris Valley......

Haha, the Venerable Master is also a monk, so you should know that more than ten years ago, they implemented a new process that could make spiritual runes in large quantities from utensils.

Hehe, originally Irisa Valley did everything possible to keep their production utensils secret, but what time is it now? There are so many monks cultivated by Irisa Valley, and the method of printing talismans is not a clever alchemy technique, so now, who doesn't carry a few magic weapons that can print talismans.

There are more such magic weapons, and there are more people doing this work, so the price of the talisman has naturally fallen sharply, and now that we have cut off contact with the south bank, we can't sell anything, so the talisman here naturally can't be sold at any price.

Alas, nowadays, the price of the rune is a little higher than the price of the rune paper, so that mortals can afford it. Alas, what a world. ”

The clouds also sighed softly, randomly, and a shout came from his ears: "Shopkeeper, come a thousand mid-level flame explosion talismans......"

The shopkeeper shook his head with a chuckle, and sneered at Yun Duo: "You see, now, even the mid-level Flame Burst Talisman is purchased in thousands, how could there be such a phenomenon in the past?"

The shopkeeper walked towards the new customer and said to himself, "...... Put it aside. A fourth-grade talisman maker can draw three or four mid-level spirit runes in a day, which is already the limit. Back then, if you wanted to buy a thousand, you had to go to the auction house, or the mega store on the South Bank.

Nowadays, in addition to the fact that the high-grade spirit runes cannot be made on a large scale and have to be drawn by hand, the middle-grade spirit runes are like Chinese cabbage, which is really cheap and heart-wrenching. ”

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he turned around and nodded at the clouds, and began to greet the new guest. The clouds slowly turned around and nodded lightly at the new customer who had just spoken. The latter suddenly saw the clouds, and was also stunned, opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and forgot to return the gift, and the clouds didn't care, and then walked out of the store.

The monk Yun Duo who came in just now had met, and he had met with Yun Duo on behalf of Qingguo Zhenren, who had rebelled from the Xuantian Gate, and the two sides had reached some secret deals afterwards.

Afterwards, Moyunling never found the so-called "Demon Gate" monks wandering around, but this time they came to Jieyin Mansion, but found their existence in the city.

The Demon Monk obviously didn't expect to encounter Yun Duo on the street, so soon after Yun Duo went out, he hurried out of the shop to chase after him. Turning a street corner, I found the cloud standing on the corner with his hands behind his back, and the street where the cloud was located was empty, and there was no figure in sight.

The other party panicked, and subconsciously covered his waist with his right hand, but he heard Yun Duo wave his hand carelessly: "Don't be nervous, this is my city, how can I rob in this city?"

The other party quietly rolled his eyes: Ahhhh When monks go to rob others, do they most like this kind of environment in which "no one is seen left and right, and no blood is seen when they beat people"? If they don't rob on their own territory, do they have to go to other people's territory to rob?

Seeing the other party's nervousness, Yun Duo chuckled: "We are really not from the same channel, what I just said was a joke." You can rest assured, I need a credible environment, and the circulation of goods needs to be safe, so I must maintain stability and fair ......."

Yun Duo stopped the topic in a hurry, and he hooked his hand at the other party, signaling the other party to follow.

(End of chapter)