Chapter 78 - Farmer's Market
Translator: TeamTWO
Editor: Jun
Today was the first day of school for Bing'er. After hanging up, Ouyang Shuo washed hurriedly and then took Bing'er to eat breakfast downstairs. They finally got to school before 9 AM.
Soon after he returned from school, the game cabin ordered by Sun Xiaoyue arrived and was installed in her bedroom. So it was ok to start playing games tonight.
Ouyang Shuo logged in the game again at 8 PM. He practiced spearmanship and the Eight Extreme Fist for two hours, as usual. When he passed the general store last night during the Lantern Festival, he suddenly realized that he had never walked in it since it was built. That was kind of delinquent.
The general store was one of the several Basic Shops not seen much yet. The shopkeeper was the Basic Salesman Li Fugui. The middle-aged shopkeeper was startled a lot at the sight of Ouyang Shuo, and said incoherently, "The coming of you, lord, makes the small store shine. Come in, please."
The store sold daily used goods such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc. None of them could be produced in the territory except salt. It was just the magic goods shelf on the back of salesman that made the general store conjure those goods seemingly out of nothing.
The shelves, similar to markets in function, could support remote businesses and transfers. The shelf would upgrade as the trading amounts reached a certain scale, and salesmen and the general stores would follow up to a higher grade.
Faced with Ouyang Shuo's visit, Fugui couldn't help to expose himself totally and expose the secrets of the general store unreservedly.
"My Lord, the general store actually has a hiding function." Fugui said mystically.
"Oh? What is the function?"
"In the general store, you can only buy, but notcan't sell. The only exception is local products. If one sort of goods was adopted as a territory specialty, it could be sold via the general store, with transaction tax only at 10%.
"特产？"欧阳朔眉头一皱，不知道桂林三花酒算不算山海镇的特产，毕竟九座王城是没有桂林府的。看来还得抽时间去酿酒作坊看一看三花酒研制的怎么样了，试一试总没错的。
"The specialty?" Ouyang Shuo frowned ,with no idea of whether the Guilin three flowers wind belonged to the Shanhai Township or not. Afterwards, there was no Guilin department in the Nine Dynasty. It seemed that he had to find time to see how the three flowers wind went in wind workshop. Just having a try wouldn't make a mistake.
"Right."
"Well, I know. I will keep my ear out for this." Ouyang Shuo nodded.
离开杂货铺之后，欧阳朔走进中级市场。他要选购一批蔬菜种子，为建设菜地做准备。古代春天能够种植的蔬菜非常之多，为了最大限度地丰富居民的菜篮子，他每一样都没有拉下，什么大蒜、白菜、黄瓜、茄子、菠菜、莴笋、胡萝卜、辣椒、南瓜、四季豆、番茄、西葫芦以及大葱等十几种。
Ouyang Shuo walked to the Intermediate Market after leaving the general store. He was going to buy some vegetable seeds to prepare for vegetable garden construction. There were many kinds of vegetables that could be planted in Spring in the ancient. He didn't fall one sort of vegetable in order to enrich villagers' baskets. He bought dozens of kinds of vegetables, such as garlic, cabbage, cucumber, eggplant, spinach, lettuce carrot, pepper, pumpkin, kidney bean, tomato, and zucchini, etc.
Then he bought some seeds of common medicines to prepare for the herbal garden construction. Because many medicines had to be transplanted from wilderness, the construction of herbal garden was more difficult than that of vegetable garden.
He just knew that so many goods couldn't be supplied sufficiently in the territory when visiting the general store. Needless to say, he had even felt proud of his already building of perfect industry before. Taking this opportunity, he spent 30 gold coins to buy the
After coming back from the market, Ouyang Shuo gathered Sun Yannong, Du Xiaolan, and Zhao Dewang in his office, explaining his vegetable-baskets plan to them.
"The vegetables will be planted in concentrated locations, so the Agriculture Division should reclaim 200-acres of farmlands to plant all sorts of vegetables. The Resource Division should have vegetable stalls ready. The Construction Divisionshould cooperate with the Resource Division to build a vinegar-making workshop, sauce making workshop and tofu making workshop to enrich residents' spices and subsidiary foodstuffs.
The three secretaries agreed with no objections.
"My Lord, after the three workshops operate officially, would we set up relative shops for selling?" Du Xiaolan asked.
It was an instant inspiration triggered by Xiaolan's question. Ouyang Shuo said excitingly, "No need. We just can't build a new shop for new kinds of goods as the goods are abundant all the time. That is not reasonable. In my opinion, we simply construct a large-scale farming market. Then we can sell agriculture products such as vegetables, fruits, fish, eggs, spices, subsidiary foodstuffs, etc. Basically all the stuff in the farming market.
Xiaolan got excited and said, "My Lord, this is indeed a great idea. In this way, not only is it convenvient for the residents, but we can also buy all the things in one place. The Resource Division can manage them easier and reduce dispatched personnel.
Ouyang Shuo shook his head. "Not only that. It is also convenient for the Taxation Division to levy taxes intensively. More importantly, the farming market will provide a selling platform for individual households and then stimulate the territory's economy further. People who raise chickens and ducks and can't resume them all can sell the rest of them in the farming market to earn more money. When they get benefits from this, without our prompting, they will expand their breeding scale. Then, we will relax the restriction in farming products like vegetables, fruits, and tofu etc for individual household to support their developing.
The three persons nodded and they were all convinced by their Lord's foresight.
"The reason why we demand intensive planting is not for battling interests with villagers. For the sake of integrated planning, there will be vegetable fields everywhere if we don't control that. That is not good for the city plan. So only when some residents settle in the city suburb, can we relax the restriction on vegetables and fruits." Added Ouyang Shuo.
Sun Yanshuo nodded, with the doubt in his mind dissipated.
"Just leave the task of farming market construction to the Construction Division. Though I know that the rampart and the moat projects are entering a critical period, we still have to transfer craftsmen to build the farming market, including the three workshops mentioned before." Ouyang Shuo said to Dewang at last.
"My Lord, take it easy. I guarantee that I will fulfill my mission." Dewang said loudly.
"Well, go ahead!" Ouyang Shuo ended the conversion.
下午两点，欧阳朔正在办公室翻阅行政署制定的《关于各司政务人员编制以及薪酬体系规划》，门房来报："大人，武馆林越馆主求见！"
At 2 PM, Ouyang Shuo was reading "" formulated by the Administration Department, while the gatekeeper came and reported. "My Lord, the curator of the dojo is requesting an interview!"
"Send him in."
Ouyang Shuo was very polite to this boxing master. He poured tea to him personally, said smilingly, "This is a new tea for this year, please taste it."
Lin Yue picked up the cup and drank a mouthful of it. "Good tea!" Putting down the cup lightly, Lin Yue said in embarrassment, "To tell you quite honestly, my lord, I came here for one thing which I need your help on."
"You are welcome, Mr. Lin, anything not against my principles. You have shown kindness to me in teaching me skills and I will not decline. Just tell me." How could Ouyang Shuo miss the opportunity to make them closer?
"The fact is that my five apprentices all finished their apprenticeships and I want to find jobs for them in the army. I hope the lord can help."
Ouyang Shuo was silent for a while, moved by Lin Yue's character. It was easy for him to arrange his apprentices places in the army. In addition, it was not against his principles. But he didn't do that and instead laid down to beg Ouyang Shuo. Such a clear attitude towards work and life really made Ouyang Shuo convinced.
"Apprentices in the dojo all learn Tai Chi from Mr. Lin. It would be great if they could join the army. I guarantee that they can serve as sergeants once they enter the army. If they perform well, they can be promoted to be lieutenants or captains." Ouyang Shuo said as he nodded.
"Thank you very much, lord." It absolutely indicated the lord's affirmation of him. How could he be unhappy?
After Lin Yue's departure, Ouyang Shuo managed to visit the military camp. Now the military camp had upgraded to advanced barracks, which were both nicer in space and facility than the intermediate military camp.
After promoting to a grade 2 town, the Shanhai territory didn't hurry to enlarge the army scale, remaining the scale of a Cavalry Squadron and an Infantry Squadron. That was not because he didn't want it to be enlarged, but due to the lack of a general. If he enlarged the army scale blindly, there would be no one leading them.
Ouyang Shuo found Zhao Sihu and told him the arrangement of the Dojo disciple. According to him, the 5 dojo disciples would serve as sergeants in the infantry.
Si Hu nodded. He had passed the Class Change Chamber in advanced Barracks and upgraded to a basic officer. He was just thinking about the people serving as sergeants, and this was exactly an instant help.
Name: Zhao Sihu (Black Iron level)
Identity: Captain in the Infantry Squadron of Shanhai Town
Occupation: Basic Officer
Loyalty: 85
Command: 80
Force: 95
Intelligence: 60
Politics: 30
Cultivation Method: None
Equipment: Delicate Falchion, Golden Leather Armour, Delicate Shield
Evaluation: Born from grass, getting through blood and fire. Solider rank 9, turn to general.
It could be seen that officers like Zhao Sihu who transferred from solider ranking 9 was worse than a basic officer like Lin Yi. Which made them distinguished most was cultivation method.