As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chen Mao said, "At the shipyard, the construction of two large ships started at the same time, and the progress is rapid. If the materials and sails are available in time, it is estimated that the trial voyage will be completed in mid-November."

Jiang Ran was a little surprised, she had been waiting for the big ship for a long time.

Although Feng Lingliang can also sail, it is only a boat, too small to hold anything.

Long voyages for fishing require medium and large vessels.

"Well, very good, continue to supervise the Chuanfang side. The iron ore side will follow Lin Jiaqing's plan." Jiang Ran looked at Tian Jing, "I would like to trouble General Tian to lead the troops to take all the acacias in Zhenyuan Town Take it back, and in addition, order all the gates in Zhenyuan Town to close within three days, and those who do not obey will be arrested and imprisoned and all property will be confiscated.”

Upon hearing this, Lin Sha and the others saluted with a smile, "Your Excellency, the County Lord, is wise."

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Today, Suling County borders Zhuoli County, Lingqiao Town and Beiyuan Town in the north, Suyuanhai in the south, Zeyan County and Shijin Town in the west, and Wulianqingshan in the east.

Jiang Ran placed the police stele in the north of Xinheng Town, so that he would not have to worry about threats from the north for a year. However, Fenghuang Town and Zhenyuan Town were exposed to various forces. If an enemy invaded, it would be difficult to defend and attack.

The cities of the three towns were not very secure in the first place, and they were dilapidated in this war and needed to be rebuilt.

"The repair is very simple." Chen Mao said, "But since this war, many problems have been exposed. These two low and dilapidated walls can't stop the enemy at all. Therefore, this subordinate has the courage to ask the county lord for more approval. Yinjin, my subordinates want to overthrow these city walls and redo them, and along the way of the city walls, my subordinates want to build some defensive facilities such as arrow towers to strengthen our border defense line at Suling!"

After becoming the chief of the Ministry of Industry, Chen Mao had the momentum to attack the infrastructure madman, and Jiang Ran blinked.

However, this is a big project, and it must be done. Of course, Jiang Ran will not refuse, "Then how much money do you need?"

Chen Mao had planned it long ago. Hearing what the lord said meant that he was ready to agree, so he immediately took out the budget memorial from his cuff and presented it respectfully.

"I plan to hire at least 1000 people to repair at least the western wall before the cold winter."

To the west is the west of Fenghuang and Zhenyuan.

The severe cold and permafrost, the temperature drops rapidly, which is not suitable for construction, and there are only two or three months before the coldest December and January.

The city wall is 20 meters high with crenels, the female wall is 1.5 meters high, 8 meters wide at the bottom, and 4 meters wide at the top. After all, it is a county-level territory. Chen Mao strives for a solemn, tall, majestic and simple city wall that can protect Suling County like a copper wall and iron wall. people.

Building a city and an arrow tower requires a lot of manpower, materials and funds.

Jiang Ran looked at it, and the total budget given by Chen Mao was [-] gold dollars plus [-] crystals.

As for why the gold dollars and the crystals were taken out separately, Chen Mao explained with the blueprints that the one hundred thousand gold dollars were ordinary labor costs and cement masonry and other material costs, which were settled when due.

Cuijing is mainly used to build arrow towers, and it is necessary to purchase a batch of powerful crossbow catapults. Each arrow tower also needs to install a bronze bell and Liuyun lamp.

Bronze bells and Liuyun lamps are fine, but the crossbow and catapults are not available in Suling. Either spend time researching them, or ask for territories outside to buy a batch.

The cost of this defense project is not low for Suling County.

Wu Yun managed the fund warehouse, and Jiang Ran circulated the memorial to Wu Yun.

He took it in bewilderment, and when he saw the budget above, his eyes suddenly widened like brass bells, "So much?!"

As the head of the household department, Wu Yun is very concerned about the income and expenditure in the territory.

The three towns of Xinheng were annexed. Although they collected a lot of money, it also cost a lot of money to reward the officers, stabilize the people's hearts, and rebuild the destroyed buildings.

Suhong College also needs to spend a lot of money, and the food for the demon spirits is even more expensive!
In addition, the salary of the officials must be paid, the lord is too generous, the official's salary is not low - although as an official, he is very happy because of the high salary, and he works very hard every day.

Cough cough, but in short, at present, there is not much income in the territory.

The ice ganoderma lucidum, one of the new projects, has temporarily stopped planting because of the hot weather.The output of Lingzhu is mainly concentrated in spring, and it can't make a lot of money now.

tax……

Qiu Baishui had just drawn up an outline of the fishing tax in Suling, and it has not yet been implemented in the future. As for the land tax, the lord ordered the land tax for wasteland to be reduced or exempted.

It is said that the lord is also a self-willed lord when he has money. Although he cares about the people, he doesn't care about it like this. He will have to persuade him a little bit in the future.

Therefore, the income of the current territory mainly comes from the sale of paper, seafood, chocolate and salt.

However, the expenditure is still far greater than the income, so when will the money from the house raid be used?

Doesn't this save effort?
Wu Yun secretly glanced at the expressionless county head, and his body trembled.

But the lord will definitely agree to this defense project. Of course, Wu Yun knows that this is not a trivial matter, and of course he is not opposed to it, it's just...he thinks that this expenditure can be reduced by a little bit.

Wu Yundao, "Subordinates suggest that Mr. Chen can hire young and middle-aged men from the three towns of Fenghuang. First, it can save some employment fees. Second, they won't have so much thought of rebelling if they have someone to do it."

The young and middle-aged people in Suling Town basically have jobs, and the per capita income of young and middle-aged people can reach 50 silver dollars a day, far exceeding the average income of the three towns of Xinheng, Fenghuang, and Zhenyuan.

What Wu Yun meant was to ask Chen Mao to find people from the other three towns to work, and the labor cost could be reduced by at least one-third.

"In addition, I remember that there is a section of river in Fenghuang Town, which seems to be called Xixi River. Speaking of it, it still comes from Mingyun Mountain with our Lang River, but unlike the Lang River, the Xixi River is rich in sand and stones, so the sand We can also directly send people to dig stones, saving transportation costs and some material costs.”

Wu Yun's mouth was like a river, so he cut off part of the funds.

The more Chen Mao heard it, the darker his face became, and now Wu Yun was getting more and more stingy with money.

But he didn't refute it. Wu Yun's suggestion was indeed a good one.

In the end, Wu Yun reduced the funds to [-] gold dollars plus [-] crystals.

The defense project on Chen Mao's side was about to start in the next month at the latest, and Jiang Ran selected someone from the Ministry of Officials to supervise the funds and construction progress.

At the same time, Jiang Ran lamented that the population of Suling Town was still too small.

If the people want to live and work in peace and contentment, and the population of the territory grows, it is still necessary to promote population integration and turn wars into jades.

Right now, except for Qiu Baishui as the mouthpiece, all the officials from the six ministries have gone to town and to the countryside.

Lin Sha was in charge of arranging new officials, Chen Mao was in charge of city wall affairs, Wu Yun was in charge of population counting and fiddle with funds; Yang Guiying took aptitude crystals to find young people with talent for cultivation and educated the people at the same time; someone else's home.