Chapter 550 Mayor Dagu

Good soon realized the change in the wind. Although he was an outsider, he had invested a lot in intelligence.

The silver gentlemen were rich and powerful, and they often used money to smash their way out.

In the final analysis, they did business to make money, and they would do it even if they lost money.

It was indeed a dimensionality reduction attack.

It was just... Good smiled lightly, laughing at these gentlemen who didn't understand human nature.

No, it's not that they didn't understand, they might just be disdainful of thinking from the perspective of the poor.

Is the food in the silver grain shop unsafe?

Is safety something that the poor consider?

Ten years ago, they had to eat tree bark and grass roots for several months every year. Now they eat rice and grains. You tell me it's unsafe?

What a joke. The potential customers of the silver grain store are all poor people and civilians. There are not many who read newspapers.

With that money, you can hire a few people to spread rumors, which is more effective than publishing soft articles in newspapers.

A group of masters who don't even eat brown rice, how can they know what the people below think?

And even if they react, what does it matter? I don't make money by selling grain.

Lower the price, lower the price again, ordinary people will only vote with their feet in front of the price.

Good quickly threw this matter aside, he was not concerned about a few old guys without pattern.

The grain business was a hit, and the cotton business was next.

This is the innate skill of Tool Mo. Most of the cash crops in the New World are cotton. This thing looks inconspicuous, but it is an extremely important material.

Of course, the cotton business has never been worried about selling, and there are many people doing this business.

Relying on local relationships, the silver gentleman can directly contact some farmers to purchase, then process the finished products locally, and finally transport them to the local market for sale.

This business has expanded little by little, but it represents the efforts of the silver gentleman.

Finally, Dagu officially took office, and all departments at all levels in Pulan City hung new signs, and the business of the silver gentlemen also improved.

Just as Good imagined, facing low prices, no public opinion war is effective.

Who cares about your public opinion when you can't even fill your stomach?

The silver grain business remained calm, opening one or two new stores every week, and gradually gained some fame.

Some minor troubles were settled by themselves without having to bring them to Dagu.

It was precisely because of these troublemakers from the colonies that the price of grain did not rise when the new city was established, and the situation was stable.

As soon as Dagu took office, he first reorganized governments at all levels.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the reform, he cut off some bloated institutions and streamlined the staff.

He also recruited a group of low-level officials from the school through a small-scale examination to fill the grassroots.

After a little running-in, before the counterattack of others came, he announced the construction of a new city.

Pulan City itself is just a border city, and its scale is definitely not large.

Since the Great Xia Empire settled here, the scale of the city has been expanding every year.

The growth rate is fast. In the early days, a large number of factories were built directly outside the city, but now they are all in the inner city.

Chaos and congestion have become the norm in the capital.

For this era, this may be the norm, a deformed expression of prosperity.

However, this undoubtedly affected the development of the city.

Seeing that the scale of Pulan City continued to expand, the government had already had a plan to rationally plan the new city.

Especially His Majesty the Emperor, who had already had opinions.

So the second thing Dagu did when he took office was to announce the construction of a new city.

As soon as the news came out, the storm that had been brewing died down instantly.

The benefits of building a new city were so great that no one was in the mood to compete for the little bit of profit, and they all set their eyes on this big piece of fat.

The land price in Pulan City rose three times a day because of this, and all kinds of news were flying around in the market.

The outside world was still speculating on the direction of the new city, but Dagu already had an idea.

Standing in front of the map, he looked at the south of Pulan City, which was a traditional farmland area that once supplied most of the food rations of the imperial capital.

However, with the development of the transportation industry, the importance of the grain production area near the imperial capital has gradually declined.

The income from farming is no longer as good as the income from building houses and opening factories.

"We'll choose this place. Let the designers come up with a plan quickly. The design margin should be large and take into account future development.

Sewers, underground parking lots, and public transportation facilities should all have margins. Give me a rough design plan first."

These designers were all recruited by him from school, and they are absolutely rich in theoretical knowledge.

As for practical experience, there are no designers in the world who have experience in designing new-era cities.

When the secretary took the mayor's order to gather people, Dagu ordered again: "First, expropriate the land, calculate a reasonable price, and replace part of the land or houses in other places. This must be completed before the design drawings are finalized."

As for nail households, there are no nail households in the empire.

This is not an era of human rights. Let alone compensation, you have to accept forced expropriation without compensation.

For the rulers, demolition is indeed not difficult.

This is the first time that Mayor Dagu has served as a civil affairs official, but he has experienced it before.

After forming a secretariat, he was able to cope with it.

In fact, what the superiors have to do is not to do it themselves, but to make reasonable allocations and perform their duties.

The government is a machine. When it works as a whole, as long as there is a correct goal, the result will be good.

Moreover, Dagu has strong means and is in the imperial capital, the most authoritative place in the empire.

Any opposition is vulnerable. No matter whether he is right or wrong, you have to do it first.

After the first version of the city design was finalized, Dagu looked at it and felt that there was no big problem. After a slight modification, he took the city design into the palace.

As the mayor, he is, in a sense, an extension of the emperor's will.

When it comes to the imperial capital, the mayor cannot act arbitrarily.

Soon, Derek began to study the latest design.

He took a rough look and found that the designers were very bold and avant-garde.

The highest building is 30 floors, the main road is six lanes, and there are even ring roads and elevated roads.

All kinds of novel theories are stuffed into this design.

Theory must be put into practice after all. With a collection of highly intelligent talents in a country, their design is definitely the most advanced and reasonable at present.

Even Derek could not find any obvious mistakes.

If you really think that a time traveler can make arbitrary comments, it is an insult to the achievements of the empire's cultural and educational construction.

With Derek's knowledge in his previous life, he really doesn't understand architectural design.

But it doesn't matter, he has no problem with the design idea, nor the rationality of the design.

"It's just a little conservative, but it's perfect to be able to achieve this level."