On the way back, they still spent the night in the wild, but Ye Xing asked everyone to go to the towns along the way to buy various foods, and did not let the special training team members go hunting in the mountains and forests.
Along the way, the nutrition and taste of the food were excellent, allowing everyone to enjoy the return journey, but there was no lack of necessary training.
It took 20 days to return to the barracks in Donghai City. Of course, it was so slow because Ye Xing wanted to train their abilities specially, and these 20 days were systematic and specialized training, which allowed them to learn from each other and fight against each other. They collaborate with each other, and at the same time their personal abilities are consolidated and improved.
Before the special training, they still had good skills, but now they are among the real masters. The ordinary masters are far from their opponents, because their various methods are endless, and they are by no means comparable to the so-called warriors.
Returning to the barracks outside Donghai City, Li Qifeng asked the people in the camp to prepare a grand dinner for the return of the special training personnel. Wine and food filled the barracks. All the personnel had a great meal and fell drunk on the ground. .
The next day, Ye Xing asked the special training personnel to receive their salaries and subsidies, and then go home for 15 days off.
Ye Xing and Li Qifeng discussed for a whole day, reached a consensus on the details of the pension plan for death, disability, and retired personnel, as well as some salaries and subsidies for active soldiers, and reported them to the city lord.
The pension plan is extremely generous, completely unexpected, and unimaginably good. There are a few main points:
1. Dead soldiers are declared martyrs and their families are given a one-time salary of 20 years as a pension. The family members are exempt from all taxes for 20 years. Minor children enjoy food subsidies until they reach adulthood at the age of 16. Parents enjoy life-long food subsidies.
2. Disabled soldiers who are unable to work can enjoy a lifetime salary, or receive a salary for 30 years at a time, and are exempt from all taxes during their lifetime.
3. Retired soldiers will receive half of their service salary for life, or receive 15 years of salary at a time, and will be exempt from all taxes during their lifetime.
4. Soldiers in service receive a monthly salary and are exempt from all taxes. Minor children enjoy food subsidies until they reach adulthood at the age of 16.
City Lord Li Xuantong frowned, stared at the two of them and said:
"There are currently 2,000 city guards, and this expenditure can still be supported. However, if we expand the army in the future, this expenditure will be a huge amount. Donghai County's financial resources cannot support it at all. By then, all this will become a laughing stock. Moreover, it is not possible to end up breaking trust with the people and making people laugh at it."
Ye Xing explained, "Master, money can be solved in several ways. As we say, use the people for the people, whoever our city guards are protecting should pay the city guard fees! The merchants in Donghai County need the city guards. For protection, you will naturally have to pay taxes.”
"And I have many ways to make money so that the income of the City Guards can be completely supported, and it is much higher than the income of ordinary people. In this way, the City Guards will have combat effectiveness and be a force in our hands."
"We can expand our army to fight against bandits and pirates, and provide protection for caravans. This should be done for a fee, so that we have a basic income guarantee."
"As long as it is managed properly, the City Guard becomes a professional team and can solve the salary problem by itself. The City Guard is not a burden but a source of income for us. And high income and high pensions are what attract talented people to join our City Guard. The fundamental method of military affairs.”
"The City Guards are the bodyguards of the people of Donghai County. They are soldiers who protect their families and the country. They protect their own homes and their relatives. This way they will have faith and become more effective in fighting."
"And don't rush to expand the army now, but do your best to publicize the status of the City Guards, so that the people of the whole county will envy and love the City Guards, who are their own patron saints! The City Guards are the elite! In this way, it only takes a short time. The army will have a high status, and it will be easy to expand the army in the future."
"Next, we will do our best to streamline the city guards. The capable ones will be promoted and the mediocre ones will be removed. Only 1,000 elites will be needed to make Donghai County worry-free."
Li Xuantong nodded, and the three of them discussed some details. It was not until night that the two of them left the city lord's mansion.
The next day, the county guard issued the "Donghai County Guards Regulations", which listed the responsibilities, establishment, treatment, and requirements of the city guards.
The "Regulations" were posted in various towns in Donghai County in the form of law, causing a great sensation.
Forget about the first few clauses of the regulations, the last few clauses are pension clauses that have never been there before. It is this that has attracted everyone's attention in the past few days.
The immediate implementation of the pension plan gave great comfort to the families of the injured and injured soldiers. More importantly, it made countless people enthusiastic about the City Guards. For the first time, they wanted to become a City Guards rather than becoming a businessman.
In the past, only unemployed refugees or poor children were willing to join the city guard, but now it is fundamentally different. Even children from rich families are eager to try and look forward to it.
This trend immediately echoed throughout Donghai County, and people in every corner were talking about this topic.
When Ye Xing saw so many people discussing this matter, he suddenly had an inspiration and wanted to do something immediately, so he didn't go back to Xingchen Villa at all and stayed in a shop in the city. He just asked Ye Qingyan to bring a pair of birds Return to Xingchen Villa.
Let Mu Sheng and Lin Wen immediately prepare two large rooms, then invite ten carpenters to immediately make a movable type printing machine, carve thousands of woodcut characters of different sizes, and arrange them in one room.
Ye Xing immediately founded a newspaper "Donghai County News", decided to publish an issue every three days, and recruited 20 talented people in the county;
Each person is responsible for a column that comprehensively introduces various situations in Donghai County. In addition to business information, there is also a column for the City Guards, which introduces one content in each issue. Each column must indicate the author, make the author famous, and receive royalties.
Ye Xing has been in the city. In order to complete the newspaper, he also asked his master to publish all the various decrees of Donghai County in the "Donghai County Newspaper" and asked his master to write the masthead.
Ye Xing hired workers, who were previously stereotype printing workers. Ye Xing paid 10 times the salary for movable type typesetting and printing, and hired a painter to do layout design.
Ye Xing asked Xingchen Textile to buy 10 front-page advertisements on the front page of Donghai County News at a cost of 100 taels per issue;
In order to accomplish this, Ye Xing lived in a shop in the city for seven days. He, Mu Sheng, and Lin Wen basically worked day and night to produce the first issue of Donghai County News.
This first issue of the newspaper was printed in 1,000 copies, all of which were given to wealthy families and shops in the city.
This was the first time this happened. People in the whole city went crazy and rushed to buy the 10-cent newspaper. It was only noon, and Ye Xing quickly printed 1,000 more copies, and then printed more in the evening. 1000 copies.
Early the next morning, everything was gone again. Ye Xing estimated that after excluding all costs, he made 80 taels in one fell swoop.
Mu Sheng and Lin Wen estimated that if there were enough advertisements, they could earn hundreds of taels a day. Their eyes shone.
Earning a lifetime's worth of money in one day is so scary, so cute, and so awesome.
Ye Xingquan was handed over to Mu Sheng and Lin Wen. As for the cotton sales, they would gradually be handed over to others. Anyway, the newspaper came out every three days, and the content was all written by invited writers. The two of them only had to be responsible for the arrangements. .
"Donghae County Newspaper" needs to become a powerful tool in one's hands. Many people now do not realize the guiding role of newspapers;
But Ye Xing understands, so he must succeed and occupy the core of all public opinions in Donghai County.
Whatever you think of, you must do it, and if you do it, you must do your best. This is Ye Xing's way of doing things;
He immediately hired several writers to write a few love stories and romantic novels as serialized content of entertainment columns, and occupied a large page. In order to attract female readers, small advertisements were added in the middle of the newspaper to provide news for several nearby people. Each store will advertise for free for several periods.
Only by the third issue, the printing volume exploded to 10,000 copies, the store became the headquarters of "Donghae Gun Newspaper", and all the cotton cloth was sold by others.
Moreover, Mu Sheng and Lin Wen were so busy that they didn't know what to do, but they were all happy and excited. Their income of hundreds of taels per issue, ah, it was terrible.
The two of them also believed that Ye Xing was a super genius and could just wave his hand when making money.
"Donghae County News" has immediately become a must-have item in the hands of all wealthy families and business owners. If you can't buy this newspaper every other day, it is a bit looked down upon.
Ye Xing asked Lin Wen to organize children to sell newspapers along the street, allowing them to earn 2 cents per copy. Sales immediately increased, and soon exceeded 30,000 copies per issue, and the children in the city even got a small job.
Ye Xing gave Mu Sheng and Lin Wen full responsibility while he returned to Xingchen Villa.
