He sighed after closing the forum and looking at the village in front of him that was still crude despite some construction.
The newly built Huangshan Village has a weak foundation, with zero taxes, grain, and minerals.
These require Xiaojing to fill in the resources for development.
Until now, the village can still develop because of the resources Xiao Jing obtained from the 'Pre-Qin Secret Realm'.
Otherwise, just the cost of paying for those 100 units of warriors would make him worry to death.
After all, as puppet soldiers, although the terracotta soldiers do not need food, the salary they require is extremely high. 200 yuan a week, for 100 units of terracotta soldiers, the weekly salary expenditure is 20,000 yuan, which is equivalent to 2 taels of gold.
The 5 taels of gold he has on hand can only last for 2 weeks, or even less than 2 weeks. After all, next week, the secret realm will produce 100 units of terracotta soldiers for him.
By then there will be 200 units of terracotta soldiers, and the pressure on salary expenses will be even greater.
Therefore, after clearing out the horse bandits, the first priority before him was to 'make money'.
At present, Barren Mountain Village has just developed, and there is still a long way to go before collecting taxes, so other means must be used.
Among them, Xiao Jing placed high hopes on the drawings of the 'junior store'.
Although it is called a shop, after carefully reading the functional description of the shop drawings, it is based on his modern understanding.
This store is not a store, it is clearly an online shopping within a certain area on Blue Star.
The feature of 'Hundred Miles of Merchant' can link the area within a hundred miles with the territory where shops are built, and determine the buying and selling intentions of sellers and buyers.
The primary store has its own altar, and you can pay to deliver the goods. You can simply put them in place, skip the logistics, and trade directly.
This is also an important reason why he attaches great importance to that junior store.
"Money! Money!"
Xiao Jing sighed inwardly, called Guo Yun, took out the drawings of the junior store, and said solemnly.
"Mr. Guo, this is a drawing of a low-level store. It can trade with surrounding villages and towns, which will be of great help to the development of our village."
Um? ! ! !
When Guo Yun heard this, a trace of surprise suddenly appeared on his wrinkled face.
"Is this the rumored blueprint of great power that the family regards as a foundation?"
He carefully took over the drawings of the junior store, feeling a little admiration in his heart. He did not expect that the village chief only went out to suppress bandits, and he obtained an extremely rare drawing on the market.
"I didn't expect that this little old man would actually come into contact with the architectural drawings that are rumored to have magical powers today!"
After sighing, Guo Yun solemnly promised, "Don't worry, village chief, I will personally supervise the construction of this building! This shop will be built within two days!"
"Guo Laode is highly respected, so I can rest assured."
Xiao Jing thought for a while and hesitated, but still took out the blueprint of the Yellow Turban Barracks.
It would be a lie to say that this Yellow Turban barracks is not attractive to him right now.
After all, the 'rapid formation of soldiers' feature can train villagers into first-level soldiers, which can be called 'violent soldiers'.
Being able to quickly own a first-level army is very tempting!
"Mr. Guo, look at this Yellow Turban Barracks..."
Guo Yun took the drawing and only glanced at it twice before his expression changed drastically. He waved his hands in horror and said: "Village chief, this, this is absolutely unacceptable..."
Seeing the doubtful look on Xiao Jing's face, Guo Yun explained with a wry smile.
"The name is Yellow Turban, but it is actually the evil way. The village chief must not be tainted by this Yellow Turban evil way!"
"My lord, being deep in the mountains, you may not know much about the situation outside, but we and other refugees have experienced the Yellow Turban Disaster before."
"The Taiping Taoist is very good at bewitching. He confuses the villagers and gathers the people to harass all directions. Before I came to the village, I had already heard the news that those Taoists had rebelled and were gathering the villagers from all over to attack. In Shanwu County, the court has issued an order to arrest these Taoists, and there may be an announcement soon..."
"Sir, this architectural drawing may be of temporary benefit, but if it is built, it will definitely be targeted by the court, and the gain will outweigh the loss..."
When Xiao Jing heard this, he thought a little.
Of course he knew about the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but he didn’t know the exact year.
Now that he learned the news about Taiping Road from Guo Yun, he confirmed that the time was just before the outbreak of the Yellow Turbans.
After all, before the Yellow Turban outbreak, the Yellow Turban was called Taipingdao, and after the outbreak, it was called the Yellow Turban.
"What Mr. Guo said makes sense. I will trade this drawing to others after the shop is built!"
Xiao Jing nodded and took back the Yellow Turban barracks blueprint.
Just as Guo Yung breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Xiao Jing ask again: "Mr. Guo said that the Yellow Turbans want to gather troops to capture Shanwu City. According to Mr. Guo, do the Yellow Turbans have the strength to capture Shanwu City?"
That's right, after hearing what Guo Yun said about the Yellow Turbans gathering troops to attack the city, Xiao Jing had an idea in his heart and set his sights on the 'Shanwu City'.
After all, under normal circumstances, his strength is not strong and his background is almost non-existent. Even if he obtains meritorious service in the Yellow Turbans, it is difficult to obtain amazing rewards in the court controlled by the Ten Constant Attendants and aristocratic families. It is better to take advantage of the Yellow Turbans to capture the good people. After Wucheng was defeated, Shanwu City was captured again, and Shanwu City was secretly controlled...
After frowning and thinking for a while, Guo Yun hesitated and said,
"As far as I know, it's unlikely..."
He added:
"As a border town, Shanwu County's strength should not be underestimated. As far as I know, there are more than 3,000 first- and second-level county soldiers, and most of the Yellow Turbans are civilians, so their strength is very low. No matter how useless the county magistrate is, he will not be unable to defend it. Let’s live in Shanwu City!”
More than 3,000 first- and second-level county soldiers? ! !
Xiao Jing clicked his tongue a little. Is this the strength of the local tyrants? A small county town has so many troops.
With a long sigh, he gave up his thoughts for the time being, "The plan for Shanwu County requires long-term planning. Now it is better to develop the village first!"
…
Time flew by.
Two days later, the high-end store in Huangshan Village was successfully constructed.
Xiao Jing has been paying attention to the construction of low-end shops in the past two days, so he got the news as soon as the construction was successful.
With a little excitement, Xiao Jing stepped into this antique shop.
The furnishings in the shop are extremely simple, with just a counter, and behind the counter is a circular Pixiu altar.
[Shop Counter]: Can establish contact with gathering places within a hundred miles of the village
[Shop Primary Altar]: Used to transfer transaction items (tax: 20% of transaction price)
Ignoring the properties of the counter and altar, Xiao Jing came to the counter and clicked on the shop's sub-panel.
[Building]: Primary store
[Quality]: Third-rate (yellow)
[Tradable objects]: Shanwu City, Tam Tribe
[Whether trading items can be transferred]: Yes
[Transaction tax]: 2% (levied by Shanwucheng when trading with Shanwucheng), 0% (Tam tribe)
[Item transfer fee]: 20%
[Product]: None
The shop panel clearly shows two nearby trading gathering places.
Unsurprisingly, one is Shanwu Castle.
The other one was a bit unexpected, but within Xiao Jing's expectation. It was a tribe named 'Tamu' among the nearby alien tribes.
However, it was somewhat beyond Xiao Jing's expectation that there were only two trading partners within the effective scope of the primary store (a radius of one hundred miles) that met the conditions.
Not too much, but too little.
After all, there are countless villages and towns in a radius of one hundred miles, but only Shanwu City has low-level shops, which is enough to show how precious this kind of architectural drawings are.
At this moment, the two trading objects on this panel are constantly beating.
