Chapter Thirty-Seven: Summer Town
"Well, here are the hundred taels of gold you want, some of which are silver taels."
The two villagers of Xiaozhu Village carried a wooden box over, and when the wooden box was opened, inside was Chu Tian's favorite gold and silver, worth a total of one hundred taels of gold.
In "Lord", in order to prevent the lord from doing the tedious conversion in ancient times, one tael = 50 grams.
One hundred taels of gold is 5 kilograms. If converted into 1,000 taels of silver, it is 50 kilograms, which is equivalent to the weight of a bag of rice.
"It's only been half a day, where did you get a hundred taels of gold?"
"It's very simple, we have a rich village in Xiaozhu Village, and I embezzled the villagers' savings without permission. The reason why the interest is demanded from you is because the money bank will pay the interest to the villagers after a year. If the principal and interest cannot be repaid after one year, there is a possibility of rioting in Kozuki Village. β
"I see......"
Chu Tian was relieved, no wonder Xiaozhucun could take out a hundred taels of gold at once.
If a villager gives one tael of silver, 1,000 villagers will have a thousand taels of silver. That's the power of financing.
"Of course, 10 taels of gold are my personal investment, and the interest of 10% a year is quite cost-effective."
This guy treats cooperation between villages as a business.
Borrowing money is still secondary, and the main purpose this time is to upgrade the town and turn the small village into a vassal village as soon as possible.
The prosperity of a vassal village also counts towards the town.
"With this 100 gold, Xia Village can be upgraded to a first-class town at any time. There are four vassals in the first-class town. Once Kozuki Village is merged by Xia Town, then your lordship status will disappear. As compensation, you can put forward any conditions. If the conditions are right, I will say yes. β
Chutian went straight to the point.
The other party is an economically minded person, not a vase, and there is no need to beat around the bush.
"It's very simple, after losing my lordship, I need a job, and my salary cannot be less than ten taels of silver per month."
"It's as simple as that?"
"Hmm."
In the summer, the cold retreat turned into advance, but it made Chutian owe a favor.
To obtain a large village with a population of more than 1,000 and buildings that Xia Village does not have, you only need to pay ten taels of silver every month, and you can earn it in blood.
"Before the town's direct jurisdiction expanded to Kozuki Village, how about you still serve as the head of Kotsuki Village and take care of the town's market at the same time?"
Chutian had Li Kui as a pawn and an official to manage the market and trade.
"The village chief and the city cao are two jobs, and the salary should also be counted as two."
Xia Liang said very seriously.
"No problem."
Chu Tian agreed.
Finally, someone can help manage the market, and Chutian can be the shopkeeper again.
As long as the lord knows a little bit about everything, how to operate it specifically, the officials below will try their best to do everything for the lord, after all, their political achievements are linked to Yulu.
Chu Tian was interested in what Xia Liang had learned: "What do you do in reality?" β
"Students."
"Which university?"
"Capital University Business School."
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When "Lord" was born, the Eastern Han District was already the world's largest country in reality, and Capital University was the world's first university. It is not surprising that students who come out of the business school of Capital University are financially minded.
"Let's hurry up and upgrade to town. In the past few days, dozens of lords in the Eastern Han District have upgraded their villages one after another. When you upgrade to the town, you can see the details of Kozuki Village. β
The summer cool urges Chutian.
"Okay."
Chu Tian received a grant of one hundred taels of gold, and with confidence, he came to the core of Xia Village with Xia Liang.
Soon Xia Village will transition from a third-level village to a town.
The difference between a town and a village is that a town can have vassal villages. The higher the level, the more villages the town can control.
At the city level, you can control a certain range of towns and villages, without limiting the number, and have more influence.
"Upgrade Xia Village to Xia Town."
Chutian followed the first echelon.
The ground in Xia Village shook violently, and the territory under the jurisdiction expanded violently to the periphery!
The Lord's Mansion has also undergone earth-shaking changes, turning into a four-entry courtyard with red bricks and green tiles, which already belongs to the deep mansion compound.
Located in the Lord's Mansion, the officials of the summer cool and summer villages watched in amazement as a miracle happened.
The town-level lord's mansion has finally become magnificent, and it is very different from ordinary houses.
The Lord's Stele has become stronger, and it takes a lot of time to break it.
"Ding! Congratulations to players on becoming the 52nd lord of a first-class town in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and you will be rewarded with a gold-level recruitment order. β
"Ding! After judgment, the player's development direction of your town is a military town, and they will get a special building second-level arsenal and a third-level archery battalion. β
"Ding! Achievement system - the achievements of the 'Heroes of the Troubled Times' series are openedββ"
"The B-level achievement 'The Chief of a County' is activated, and you can get special rewards for controlling a county within two years."
"The A-level achievement 'One County Taishou' is opened, and you can get special rewards for controlling a county (country) within five years."
"The S-level achievement 'One Prince' is opened, and you can get special rewards for controlling a state within ten years."
"The SS-level achievement 'Three Points of the World' is opened, and you can control the land of the four states within twenty years, and you can get special rewards."
"The SSS-level achievement 'Unification of the Thirteen States' is opened, unifying the Eastern Han District, there is no time limit, and you can get special rewards."
Xia Village was upgraded to a first-level town, and before Chu Tian could carefully check the attributes of a first-level town, a series of achievement tasks were opened.
These achievement tasks are excessively difficult.
The simplest achievement is "the head of a county".
The land of a county in the Eastern Han District is not small at all.
The Xuzhou Thorn History Department has five counties, namely Donghai County, Guangling County, and Xiapi Kingdom, Langxie Kingdom, and Pengcheng Kingdom.
Among them, there are thirteen counties in Langya.
What is this concept? The area of a county ranges from a few thousand square kilometers to tens of thousands of square kilometers, and there is even a county of 100,000 square kilometers.
I have to say that the Eastern Han District is too big. The territory of Donghan District is 25 times the size of Dongying District, 33 times that of Annam District, and 44 times that of Goryeo District.
Just one large state can compete with a civilized region.
Regardless, this achievement series is too difficult.
Not to mention that occupying a county in Xuzhou will offend Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian, especially Zang Ba, who controls Langya State.
Achievement quests are noticeably more difficult than other quests.
It is said that in a year's time, in addition to opening the borders of the civilization zone, the princes of each of the three kingdoms will also be officially active.
Lords now default to the player lieges in their sphere of influence, but not necessarily after a year.
Xuzhou, where Chutian is located, is okay, and those lords who are in the sphere of influence of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Jian will be hell-level difficulty.
Chu Tian ignored the extremely difficult achievement task for the time being, and instead looked at the attributes of Xia Zhen and turned Xiaozhu Village into a vassal village.