Chapter 337 The most cost-saving management method

Lan Feng remained silent for a long time.

People with absolute power do not like the people under their control and do things that surprise them. Lan Feng deeply felt the surprise this time.

He was searching for various countermeasures in his mind. He imagined himself as Yun Duo and imagined what would happen if Yun Duo encountered such a thing. Unfortunately, he might not dare to do what Yun Duo could do.

"Then you will come forward and organize a... well, just call the exit management office." Finally, I remembered an institution I had met before. Lan Feng recalled and said: "All monks and mortals in Shangying Town must also wear the Ying Town badge. Anyone who does not have the Yingying Town badge is prohibited... Well, leaving the country without permission.

Well, this badge is not issued to everyone. We must strictly review the person who applies. Only when the review is passed can they be issued the badge of Shangying Town, allowing them to go out through the teleportation array or viaduct.

Also, the teleportation array must be strictly checked, and the viaduct... We cannot get involved in the access bridge. We will set up another review checkpoint outside the access bridge, and those who leave and enter the country must be strictly reviewed..."

Lan Feng was nagging and said a lot. He listed almost all the precautions he could imagine, then waved his hand and added weakly: "...unknown good and bad luck."

It was already a month after Yunduo arrived in Jieyang Town... Oh, since the disaster, the settlements in the forest have gathered nearby refugees and upgraded their population and defenses. Therefore, the small settlements that used to be called towns can now be called cities or castles. This place is now called Jieyang City, but in the concept of Yunduo, it is still the small town where he was born.

During the Yunduo Road construction, Jieyang City suffered three small-scale beast tides attacks, two of which were dispatched by Moyunling to support the local guardians, which allowed Jieyang City to remain in danger. Now, it has developed into a small city with 30,000 people, and the architectural pattern has changed from the past.

Thanks to the local protection... well, now I should be called the city lord. Since the local city lord finally came out of Moyunling, his city building plan somewhat continued the style of Moyunling. The entire town residents were not scattered in the fields, but built tall building-style city walls to resettle all residents in the city for protection.

Because everyone lives in a concentrated manner, the farmers in the city are far away from their own fields, so the roads have to be hardened in advance and a road network leading to farmland and forests has been built. Of course, the hot wheels have become popular on a small scale.

After Jieyang City completed the road network so quickly, the main force was naturally monks. Jieyang City itself is not a town with abundant resources. Hiring monks to build roads is a huge expense. Jieyang City itself cannot pay for this expense, and the person who paid the money was Yun Duo.

Nian was born here. Although the people of this place were not very friendly, they were also oppressed by the pressure of life. Yun Duo is not a revenge. When the lord of Jieyang City took office, he took the initiative to say that he was willing to bear the cost of road construction, and the cost was not required to be repaid afterwards.

Other people's money is not spent, so Jieyang City became the first town to complete the road network construction among several nearby settlements. Therefore, Jieyang City became the most attractive town to exiled people after the incident, abandoning the original natives in the forest. After the incident, they either went to Jieyang City or settled in Jieyin City.

Jieyang City used to focus on collection, and its own farmland was only a small part, and the grain planted could not even be self-sufficient. Therefore, the demand for roads outside Jieyang City was the most urgent. They had to have a road leading to Lanyu City to facilitate residents to buy food and sell their own collection herbs.

After the road network was completed, the new city lord was still unsatisfied, so he continued to renovate Jieyang City. Until Yunduo arrived, the civil engineering team formed by the monks of Moyunling were still under construction, so that the entire city was like a large construction site.

This professional team used wood-type spells to plant third-level poisonous ivy around the collection area, and then used this poisonous ivy to protect all mortal activity areas. The soil-type monks transformed a large number of soil, leveled the land, set up spiritual field planting areas, and planted a large number of local specialty medicinal materials. In this way, the special products of Jieyang City have made a leap forward compared to the past.

This time, the exit of the viaduct road with Moyunling as the starting point was set up in the town center square. Three patrol vehicles went straight from the access bridge to the center of the square. The lord of Jieyang City who received the notification had already been waiting at the access bridge entrance and met each other. The other party hurriedly asked: "Master, has the battle in Moyunling not yet calmed?"

Yun Duo nodded: "It shouldn't be calmed down yet. Look, there are not many vehicles coming and going, which means that everyone is not afraid to travel with confidence."

He is still caring about his own people. During his time in Shangying Town, Lan Feng never asked about the battle in Moyunling from beginning to end. However, since the departure of the Miaofa Heavenly Lord, where the battle has slowed down. Now it is not as good as saying that the two sides have entered a confrontation, small-scale conflicts occur from time to time, and large-scale battles... Alas, the monsters can no longer fight.

The city lord of Jieyang City breathed a long sigh, and then said, "Since the master can leave the battlefield and come to me, I guess the battle situation will be beneficial to our Moyunling?"

Yun Duo nodded: "The monsters are weak in attack. Similarly, we have more defense and less in attack. Now the two sides are in such a stalemate, but the monsters are going to retreat sooner or later. I guess they won't last long, maybe they will retreat today or tomorrow."

The Lord of Jieyang was happy. He leaned a little and bowed to salute: "Master, please go here...

There was no major change in the center of this city. The original town became the inner castle of the city. I rebuilt the city wall and then added the Second Ring City and Third Ring City at the outer end.

When my master’s previous home, I specially kept it for me. Should my master stay at my own home or go to my place to rest?"

Yun Duo waved his hand: "Go to your place, my former home... Haha, it's not a good place. If that empty room can be allocated, whoever needs it, I will give it to anyone... I brought the personnel who built the teleportation array. I heard that you want to move the teleportation array to another position?"

This Qi Refining Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation Cultivation, who was leading the way forward, humbly replied: "Yes, yes, city lord, the teleportation array was set up in the city lord's mansion in the past. At first, there were few people coming and going, so there was no way to get in the way. Now there are hundreds of people riding the teleportation array every day, and people are coming and going, which makes me not even able to practice.

So, I applied to rebuild the teleportation array last month and wanted to set up the teleportation array in the central square. It is not my business that anyone comes and goes, so I can have peace and quiet."

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

The managers of Jieyang City and Jieyin Mansion all came from Moyunling. These managers are basically advanced and hopeless Qi Refining cultivators. They use contracting methods to manage these two settlements.

Since this type of monk has no hope of advancement, as his life expectancy is approaching, the cultivation materials they have accumulated are basically not accumulated for themselves. Most of them want to leave the accumulated wealth to their heirs.

Yun Duo knew the acting city lord of Jieyang City. Judging from his appearance, he looked like a man in his sixties or seventies. He was gray-haired and his forehead was covered with wrinkles. It is said that this person's lifespan was at most about ten years. When this person came to Jieyang City, he thought that he would be closer to the river and that his communication slip might be able to contact his family on the south bank of the river...

Thinking of this, Yunduo immediately added: "Next month Moyunling will hold a conference on Taoism, and the leaders of several settlements in Moyunling will gather... Oh, there is nothing big, just get to know each other.

In addition, I want to notify you in advance, but you must keep the next thing I will say absolutely confidential and will not be circulated.

First: Not long ago, a sky curtain rose on the surface of the river. This sky curtain isolated the north and south sides, making the two sides a natural barrier. We have sent people to explore it and lost several people for this. According to our current speculation, the sky curtain formation is difficult to destroy, and it may be a rare light-type spell."

The old city lord opened his mouth wide, and his white haired head was speechless for a long time. After a long time, a drop of turbid tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes. He slowly wiped off the tears and said slowly: "Then, can't we be buried in our hometown in this life?"

Yunduo nodded: "This... please relax and adapt to the great changes.

The second point I want to say next is: When we were exploring the light curtain array, we found that a large number of monsters were retreating. At the same time, the monks on the other side of the river did not seem to be eager to break the sky. Also, maybe they also felt that the sky curtain was necessary. So, do you understand?

I guess the purpose of the monsters to build a light curtain array to isolate the north and south is to take advantage of the new Heavenly Lord of the monsters to succeed to the throne, so that the Heavenly Lord of the Miaofa will win a breather to consolidate his cultivation. And the monks on the South Bank, the people in our homeland, our masters, probably want to completely get rid of the trouble - in their opinion, the forest of monsters is a big trouble... So, do you know?

The respite of monsters is our danger. We can't predict whether they will attack us monks or attack all humans... I once reached an agreement with a monster's Heavenly Lord. Although this agreement has nothing to do with Jieyang City and Jieyin Mansion, you should also know - I agree to do business with monsters and allow them to exchange things for things in Moyun Ridge with the genius treasures they have collected - this is the third point.

This transaction is only valid in Moyunling in the short term. In the future, if you go to Moyunling, if you see monsters walking on the street, don’t be surprised. Don’t shout and kill, just pretend that you didn’t see it.”

The white-haired old city lord immediately asked: "So, in the future, if we see monsters near Jieyang City, can't we take action?"

Yun Duo laughed: "It's just an agreement. The agreement stipulates that both parties will be safe during the transaction period, but this is Lan Yucheng's business. In the future, you will fight and kill, and it will not hinder."

After pausing for a while, Yunduo sneered and added: 'Look, the deal has been reached, but aren't the monsters still siege the city? So this agreement is limited to the transaction period, when the other party comes to the transaction, we will receive it normally; after the transaction is completed, the other party leaves the city, if you want to do it, I will not interfere, you understand?"

The old city lord sighed: "That's it... it's good, Uncle Master, I'll feel at ease like this.

After all, since I was born, the shemale and demons have fought each other, and suddenly asked me to treat them as friends. I absolutely can't do this. But if it was just during the transaction between each other, I can understand this. After all, the genius treasures they brought, even the feather scales that fell off their bodies, would save us from the hard work of collecting them."

The old city lord's turbid eyes moved for a moment and immediately said, "Master, if you let the monsters come and go to the city, let them be free and spy on our reality from time to time..."

Yun Duo laughed: "You think so, it's narrow-minded. You have to know that war not only consumes life, but also consumes materials - a large amount of materials.

They worked hard to fight us, what are they trying to do? Do they occupy our Moyun Ridge? Moyun Ridge is the territory of Moyun Dapeng, and they cannot take over.

Then the only purpose is to rob, but if the cost of robbery is far less than a casual visit to Moyunling and exchange the materials needed at will. Who is willing to spend a huge price of life and huge amounts of materials to launch this war?"

Of course, what Yun Duo is talking about here is an inevitable situation under rational thinking, but in a powerful society, the monarchs do not all think rationally.

For the former situation, it can also be said that "the soldiers will not come back if the border line that the caravan can pass through." So even if the reality of Moyun Ridge is spying on, what's so scary?

And the latter irrational thinking situation is actually easy to deal with - just take the approach that the neutral country, Switzerland, used.

During World War II, Switzerland was a fully open national policy, and spies from any country could walk freely within the country. Therefore, the Germans in Switzerland knew everything, but Germany did not dare to take action. Just because Switzerland is a soldier for all the people, each family has a few wooden warehouses. Even each man has more than one wooden warehouse, and each family has a small arsenal.

How can such a country take action?

If you really want to start, although the other party has few people in the country, can you bear the casualties of your party?

So, don’t always worry that others know your reality. It is not terrible for others to know your reality. There are at least two ways to crack it now, and Moyunling just happened to have adopted both methods.

As we chatted all the way, everyone came to the city lord's mansion. The monks did not have so many politeness, let alone the city lord was his own family. Therefore, the accompanying construction workers started working without stopping.

Yunduo observed the situation in Jieyang City all the way and praised it all the way: "You are doing a good job here. The number of mortals is comparable to that of Moyunling. Oh, there are so many women, unlike Moyunling, which looks like a single city."

The old city lord smiled and replied: "Uncle Master, this is not my credit. My place is different from Moyunling. Moyunling is a new city built from scratch, with almost no old residents. My place was originally a mature settlement with many original residents. After the catastrophe, I knew it was safe. The relatives and friends of the old residents brought their families to gather here. So, so many people gathered in an instant.

As for the many women here... Alas, disasters, men always die more when disasters occur. Because men are the force of resistance, no matter what kind of enemy they encounter, the first one must attack men. Women can have children and do housework, and they are more obedient, so after each disaster, there are always more women left than men. This is the routine."

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

"It's different. Uncle Master, if you talk about it in detail, Moyunling has not suffered any disasters. The population mainly depends on immigration to support the number. Those who dare to go out to explore the world must have more men and fewer women. In ordinary families, women will not let women go out to explore, right? So..."

"So, even the woman here with me?"

"this……"

“Moyunling is preparing to increase the number of settlements – if the farmer is far from the farmland, most of the day is wasted on the road, so I am preparing to build a small settlement.

Nowadays, mortals have spiritual stone wooden warehouses, and small-scale beast tides can fight independently. With communicators, they can also call others and no longer be isolated and helpless. So I plan to set up some small settlements around the medium-sized settlements. This small settlement is not protected by monks, so mortals can pick up the spiritual stone wooden warehouse and protect their homes by themselves.

In this way, when encountering a catastrophe that they cannot resist, they can call for support from monks in medium-sized settlements, and they usually plant and collect it themselves. As for taxes, I am not planning to collect much tax. As long as the management cost is greatly reduced, I will not lose.

Well, when it comes to taxation, I just want to notify you - I decided that we will not tax farmers in the future, because this taxation method is too expensive and it is easy to cause various troubles. I decided to only tax transactions.

In the future, each settlement will build a special market, and all transactions will need to be reached within the market. We only need to set up a odor market manager, who will calculate and tax the merchants.

We only collect transaction taxes, no Dingkou tax, no land tax, mine tax, mountain and lake tax... so that the tax collectors can be minimized and the cost of officials can be minimized.

For farmers, their burden is greatly reduced because they grow and harvest themselves, and as long as there is no agricultural product for sale, they do not have to pay taxes. This means that the agricultural supplies needed for food and clothing and warmth are not required to pay taxes to us.

Of course, for us, because we don’t need to urge taxes from door to door, we don’t need so many officials, just one or two people. We can even get rid of market management - let merchants come forward to be tax collectors, contract the market themselves, and bear the business and development themselves.

In this way, we can reduce the salaries of officials we need to pay to the minimum amount. Our expenses are less, greatly reduced. Although we have less taxes, we will have more money left over compared to the greatly reduced expenditure items.

Our income is higher, and the farmers' income is higher. Because we no longer need to pay taxes for feeding ourselves and our family, they will devote more energy to developing the family. More families and more transactions will bring us more taxes.

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

This time I am going to absorb the excess female mortals in Jieyin Prefecture and Jieyang City to Moyun Ridge, and at the same time I have issued a long-term mission to find surviving mortals. You tell the monks in the city to let them go out to find mortals who are hiding: for every male mortal is found, a reward of 500 low-grade spirit stones; if a female mortal is at the age of childbirth, it is worth 1,000 low-grade spirit stones.

Also, for the mortals under 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 cannot accommodate so many people. Besides, in such a small city, the defense power must be increased with more population, but the spiritual energy here cannot accommodate too many monks.

We must develop a central city, and there is no room for negotiation. Only when the central city develops well can we improve our overall level..."

Yun Duo paused and added in a heavy tone: "We have no support, the sky has risen, and people on the south bank of the Great River may not be happy to see us in the future. We must improve our own standards.

There are about 30,000 households in Jieyang City now. I will take away 10,000 first, 5,000 male and 5,000 female. I will pay you three thousand lower-grade spirit stones for each male and female. In this way, you will have a total income of 30 million lower-grade spirit stones. If you want to exchange these 30 million lower-grade spirit stones for Foundation Building Pill, I can give you this license.

Now, a foundation-building pill in Moyun Ridge is worth about three million low-grade spirit stones. I allow you to exchange for ten foundation-building pills. How about it? Take a try and swallow it with five or six foundation-building pills to see if you can build a foundation?"

The old city lord stood up and saw a fanatical light in his eyes, but after a while, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed. He sat down gently and whispered: "What can I do if I am at this age? At most, I will only wander in the early stage of foundation building in my life."

"However, your life span can be increased by at least a hundred years. No one knows what will happen in a hundred years. Maybe the sky curtain will dissipate within a hundred years, so that you can return to the south bank of the Great River again, and see your relatives and family, as well as your fellow disciples."

The old city lord sighed quietly: 'Okay, Uncle Master, I'm willing to give it a try. But... I need a guardian, I'm willing to hire a guardian with tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones. In addition..."

The old city lord paused for a moment and immediately shook his head gently: "...Forget it. I originally wanted to build the foundation, in order to cherish my life, to move to Moyun Ridge to stay away from danger. But I thought: Even if my life span is longer after building the foundation, I... Alas, after all, there is no big future for advancement, so why not stay in Jieyang City."

The old city lord stomped his feet and said, "Then let's take a try. I have about 19,000 women of childbearing age in Jieyin City. I... support a total of 24,000 mortals in Moyun Ridge, including 7,000 men and 17,000 women."
To be continued...