Chapter 241 Huge Profits (Xie Xiaoying's Family Has Xiaomi Rewards)

PS: This chapter has been updated for rewards, and the bottom 2 chapters will remain unchanged.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Ouyang Shuo and his party arrived at Gushan Town.

Led by Lei Fan, the leader of the Thunder and Lightning tribe, eleven tribe leaders greeted Ouyang Shuo respectfully. Lei Fan is also the candidate for the chief officer of Gushan Town elected by the tribal alliance.

After a short contact, Ouyang Shuo discovered that Lei Fan was extraordinary.

It is reported that Lei Fan took over as the leader of the Thunder Tribe at the age of 24, and it has been ten years since then, and he has a high prestige in the tribe. Not only that, but the leaders of other tribes also respect Lei Fan.

Compared with the conservative leader of the Xuanniao tribe, Shi Xiong, Lei Fan is much more open-minded and has a more unique vision. This time the thunder and lightning tribe descended the mountain, which was also the result of Lei Fan's push.

Lei Fan has long realized that Shanman wants to live a better life, and integrating into the Han people is the best choice.

Tian Wenjing visited the Thunder Tribe, and the two hit it off.

After a brief meeting, Ouyang Shuo changed the name of Gushan Town to Gushan County, and formally appointed Lei Fan as the magistrate of Gushan County, with the authority to appoint officials at all levels below the county magistrate.

That night, Ouyang Shuo met Lei Fan alone, and the two had an in-depth conversation.

Ouyang Shuo promised that the base camp would provide Gushan County with a batch of grain for free. The task of Gushan County is to build the city wall and strengthen the city's defense;

Given that the population of Gushan County has exceeded 30,000, and there is still nearly a year before the first rice harvest in the coming year, it is expected that the grain demand will exceed 10 million units.

With such a huge demand for food, the base camp naturally cannot provide all of it for free. According to Ouyang Shuo's proposal, the Shanman borrowed grain from the Material Reserve Department, and then resupplied to the Material Reserve Department after the first rice harvest in the next year.

In addition, Lei Fan's more important task is to continue to promote Shanhai County's mountain barbarian policy, contact more mountain barbarian tribes to go down the mountain, and settle in Gushan County. Shanhai County will always come.

The mountain barbarians in the south were basically exhausted.

To contact the mountain man, one must either go deep into the forest or go north. In any case, Lei Fan can play a more important role than the Xuanniao tribe. As the leader of a large mountain tribe, he maintained contact with other large mountain tribes. It is undoubtedly the most effective to radiate the four directions through the large mountain tribe.

In fact, with the reorganization of Gushan County, the Xuanniao tribe's status in Ouyang Shuo's heart declined further and further. Their only role is to assist in the mining of the Wolf Mountain Mine.

As for other mountain barbarian affairs, because the Xuanniao tribe is only a medium-sized tribe with limited vision and contacts, it can no longer provide Tian Wenjing with much help.

As for the other small and medium-sized tribes that did not agree to go down the mountain, Ouyang Shuo had already decided to ignore them and let them fend for themselves.

Early the next morning, Ouyang Shuo led his troops to leave and returned to Shanhai County that night. Ouyang Shuo hurried back because tomorrow was the Mid-Autumn Festival and he couldn't be absent.

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October 4th of the first year of Gaia, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Southwest University Hall, Falling Star Island.

The moon and stars are thin and everything is quiet. Jiang Shang sits alone on the stone in front of the courtyard, nostalgic for the moon, and expresses his grief.

The Si people have passed away, but the bright moon will last forever, unchanged from ancient times. Thousands of achievements are all paid for.

"Master, these are mooncakes sent by the Hou Mansion." The servant held a box of delicate mooncakes in his hand.

"Yeah." Jiang Shang's expression moved slightly, and he once again recovered the ancient well.

The young servant didn't dare to be abrupt, put the mooncake aside, and stepped back quietly.

After the servant left, Jiang Shang picked up a piece of mooncake and muttered to himself, "Have you still not given up?"

The moon is speechless, and the people are speechless. The breeze blows, and a lake of blue waves rises.

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Hou Mansion, the back garden.

After the family dinner, Ouyang Shuo invited everyone to watch the moon in the back garden.

The cool autumn wind brings the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus. Holding a bouquet of sweet-scented osmanthus in her hand, Binger ran up to Zisu, and said crisply, "Sister Zisu, Binger wants to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake."

Zisu nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, tomorrow I will ask Aunt Wang to make sweet-scented osmanthus cake for the young lady."

Ouyang Shuo looked at this scene amusedly, he hadn't felt so relaxed for a long time.

Recently, territorial affairs kept him busy. The situation outside the territory is also changing.

The last attempt to kill and break the army ended in a big defeat. The strange thing is that after Sha Pojun returned, no news came to Ouyang Shuo's ears, as if nothing came to him.

After being tested, Di Chen and the others will be more cautious. If it was said that they gave up their plot against Shanhai County, they wouldn't believe it even if they killed Ouyang Shuo. Future storms will only become more secretive and more intense.

Ouyang Shuo gradually felt powerless with regard to territorial affairs. He tried his best to plan everything for Shanhai County, and at the same time he had to carefully maintain the operation of the alliance, exhausted physically and mentally.

With more and more subordinate territories, Ouyang Shuo needed a great talent who could take over the overall situation for him. Jiang Shang, who lived in seclusion on Falling Star Island, was undoubtedly the right candidate, but it was a pity that things didn't go his way.

"Brother, eat mooncakes." Bing'er held a piece of mooncake and handed it to Ouyang Shuo.

"Be good, baby!" Ouyang Shuo took the mooncake, smiled slightly, and let all his worries go away.

The wind has no worries, and the people have no worries. The moonlight is like a silver screen, flashing pieces of light.

"Mu, I have received letters from some old classmates these days." Song Jia said suddenly.

"Old classmate? How do they know your ID?"

"Yes, most of them are junior high school classmates. I suspect that Ruan Ping should have leaked it. On the eve of emigration, he made connections among his classmates. I heard that he has attracted many people to settle in his territory."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, and immediately guessed the intention: "They want to join the Dongli Sword Sect?"

"Not bad, what do you think?" Song Jia would still ask for Ouyang Shuo's opinion on important matters.

"Welcome, just remember to be careful." Ouyang Shuo had nothing to do.

"Yes." Song Jia naturally knew how to measure.

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After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the food crisis broke out completely, and the price of food rose to 30 copper coins per unit.

The lords had to tighten their belts to live, and the major grain merchants in Wangcheng made a lot of money.

The end of October is the day when the second season of rice is harvested. No need to be reminded, everyone knows that in late October, food prices will definitely drop.

October is the most difficult month to become a Lord player.

Many territories have been pushed to the edge of a cliff. The territorial funds have long been exhausted, and the limited resources have been sold off. There is no other way. In desperation, some lords were desperate and began to smuggle valuable weapons and equipment to adventure players to collect funds and buy life-saving food.

A large number of weapons and equipment flowed into the market, and major guilds waited for the opportunity to start buying them.

Compared with lord players, adventure players are not affected by food prices at all. Adventure players are not like lords. They have a large number of people who need to be fed. They can eat enough for one person, and the whole family has no worries.

In desperation, some lords began to raise taxes on their territories. Not only that, but they also resell the food bought at high prices from the market to the people in the territory, causing complaints.

In Shanhai County, the price of grain at grain shops has been maintained at 11 copper coins per unit.

Lords suffer from high food prices because they need to stabilize food prices in their territories. If the price of food in the territory rises along with the market, it will not only be a huge blow to the hearts of the people, but it will also easily lead to riots in the territory. Naturally, the surplus grain in the hands of the farmers would not be sold to the territory so happily, but would be hoarded.

Therefore, the lord had to pay for it himself to make up the difference in food prices.

All the allies of the Shanhai League also turned on the red light.

At the end of September, Ouyang Shuo injected capital into each branch of the Universal Bank once, which was regarded as an emergency.

Mulan County and Heishi County, which have just been promoted to county seats, are not bad, with a small population, and they can barely survive. Tianshuang Town, which is still in the third-level township, has no worries because the branch has just been established and has sufficient funds.

The hardest ones are Luofeng County and Xunlong County. They have to repay the loan to the Four Seas Bank every month. They are already struggling, and it is really miserable to be tossed about by the price of food.

Equally unbearable, there is the stubborn stone county. The Four Seas Bank did not set up a branch in Wanshi County, and it is quite remarkable that it has survived entirely on its own.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, て砆 finally couldn't take it anymore and asked Ouyang Shuo for help.

Ouyang Shuo no longer hesitated, sold out the 60 million units of food that he had hoarded, deducted 10% transaction tax and losses, and took out 161,000 gold coins at one time.

Including Ouyang Shuo's original remaining funds, he has a full 177,000 gold coins in his storage bag.

Ouyang Shuo made a decisive decision and injected 40,000 gold coins into the headquarters of the Universal Bank, and 2,000 gold coins into each of the five branches including the Luofeng County branch, with a total investment of 50,000 gold coins.

The headquarters of the Four Seas Bank was injected with 40,000 gold coins at one time, and it began to show the atmosphere of a central bank.

With the operation of the Four Seas Bank, people's ideas have gradually changed, and they are used to depositing surplus money in the bank, which not only preserves value, but also earns interest, killing two birds with one stone.

According to Yingyou, the deposits absorbed by the Four Seas Bank reached 5,000 gold coins in September.

According to Ouyang Shuo's plan, this will be the last time he will inject capital into the major branches. From then on, the headquarters of the Universal Bank will be responsible for the allocation of funds for each branch, and Ouyang Shuo will no longer intervene.

In addition, the Wanshi County Sub-branch of Sihai Bank also opened smoothly, with an initial reserve of 5,000 gold coins.

After such operations, Ouyang Shuo still had 122,000 gold coins left in his hand.

According to Ouyang Shuo's plan, 100,000 gold coins were listed as unusable funds, which he prepared for the anniversary auction three months later.

Compared with the first systematic auction, the annual auction will be even grander, and some rare treasures will also come out, so Ouyang Shuo naturally doesn't want to miss it.

If you want to make a difference in the anniversary auction, you must prepare more abundant funds. If it wasn't for the food crisis, Ouyang Shuo would even reserve more funds to prepare for any eventuality that would have drained the liquidity of other territories.