Chapter 1161: Focus on Development

In a blink of an eye, Qin Tian has been the mayor of Heiyang City for three months.

Heiyang City is now much more prosperous than it was three months ago, mainly due to the emergence of refined salt.

Generally speaking, ordinary people eat sand salt, which is mixed with sand. The poorer ones even use salt cloth.

The price of sand salt is ten copper coins per catty.

Better than sand salt is green salt, which costs one hundred copper coins per catty.

The best is refined salt, which is extremely rare and only the rich and powerful can afford it. The price of refined salt is eight hundred copper coins per catty, which is quite expensive.

Since Qin Tian produced refined salt, the entire salt mountain has been blocked and Long Tiejiang is in charge of it personally.

In two months, a total of more than one million catties of refined salt were produced.

So much refined salt cannot be digested by Heiyang City alone. After all, there are only 100,000 people in the entire Heiyang City, and only a few thousand people can afford refined salt.

Even if these thousands of people consume ten catties a year, how much is the total consumption in a year?

Therefore, Qin Tian ordered people to spread the news to the surrounding cities that Heiyang City had a large amount of refined salt for sale, and the price was very low, only 300 copper coins per catty.

At first, many merchants thought it was false news.

But some merchants came with doubts, and then to their surprise, the news released by Heiyang City was indeed true. For a while, this group of merchants purchased 300,000 catties of refined salt and took it away.

Then, the news spread, and more and more merchants rushed to Heiyang City. The million catties of refined salt were completely sold out in less than ten days, earning Heiyang City 300 million copper coins.

By the way, the main currency in this world is copper coins. One thousand copper coins can be exchanged for one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold.

In other words, this million catties of refined salt brought Heiyang City 300,000 taels of income.

You must know that last year, the total tax revenue of Heiyang City was only more than 100,000 silver taels.

Such a high profit made Long Tiejiang crazy, and he immediately asked Qin Tian to send more people to mine the salt mine.

However, the number of city guards is limited.

So, Qin Tian ordered Xu Huan to post a notice to recruit poor people to mine salt.

The monthly salary was 300 copper coins.

Don't underestimate the purchasing power of 300 copper coins. After all, millet is only two copper coins per catty, and 300 copper coins are enough for a family of three for a month.

So, as soon as the notice appeared, there were many people who responded.

Finally, Xu Huan recruited 3,000 people in one breath and sent them to the mine.

With the addition of these 3,000 people.

The output of refined salt increased several times, and the daily output reached about 150,000 catties.

As the saying goes, money is the courage of heroes.

After the City Lord's Mansion had money, Qin Tian also prepared to build the city, mainly because the environment in the city was too bad.

So, he allocated 50,000 taels of silver to another civil official Gao Yun, asking him to gather workers to rebuild Heiyang City. This work was naturally not enough to rely on the manpower of the City Lord's Mansion.

So, he could only recruit workers from outside.

Now, the residents in the city are happy.

Two months later, Heiyang City has been completely renewed.

The salt production of the salt field has reached 200,000 catties per day, and 6 million catties per month, and there is no worry about sales, and the monthly income is 1.8 million silver taels.

Silver taels will not produce anything if they are kept in the warehouse. Only when they are spent can they play their greatest role.

So, Qin Tian announced a decision.

It is to raise the salaries of civil and military officials and soldiers.

The original salary of the city guards was 500 copper coins, and sometimes they were deducted by their superiors.

Now, Qin Tian directly raised the salary of the city guards to 800 copper coins.

Suddenly, all the city guards were grateful to Qin Tian.

As for the salary of civil officials and military generals, Qin Tian also doubled them.

People's hearts are united, so it is time to expand their own strength.

Three days later, Qin Tian decided to recruit soldiers, and the number of recruits was 3,000. After all, there were only more than 20,000 Qingzhuang in the entire Heiyang City, and he could not recruit too many.

Qin Tian specifically ordered people to indicate the salary in the recruitment notice.

As soon as the announcement came out, countless young men were excited and responded in droves.

Therefore, in less than half a day, 3,000 people were recruited, and those who did not respond were very regretful.

After the recruitment was over and the training was arranged, Qin Tian established a weapons department.

Because he found that the weapons at that time were also quite backward, with the drawings he drew, the weapons department produced 100 crossbows in less than three days.

After testing, the power of this crossbow could not even be resisted by three-star warriors.

And there were not many three-star warriors. Under Qin Tian's command, the number of three-star warriors did not exceed 20.

There were two four-star warriors.

There was only one five-star warrior, Long Tiejiang.

At the same time, Qin Tian was also practicing the martial arts of this world.

Although his energy and soul were sealed, his knowledge was still there. With the skills he obtained from Long Tiejiang, he had practiced to the level of a nine-star warrior in just a few months, which was the limit of this world.

He kept this secret from the outside.

At the same time, the people he sent to inquire around also sent back the news.

First, it was Cang Yue City. The city lord was a member of the Celestial Clan. The spies did not find out the specific situation of the other party.

Secondly, it was Zhou Xing City, 1,800 miles northwest. When Qin Tian learned the name of the city lord, he was very surprised, because the city lord of that city was actually Jia Yu.

Qin Tian couldn't help but sneer when he knew this news.

Later, more news about Zhou Xing City came. After Jia Yu became the city lord, the first thing he did was to recruit soldiers and expand the 3,000 city guards to 10,000.

It is a typical case of wasting money to expand the army without developing the economy. He soon found that it was not easy to support 10,000 people.

In desperation, he chose to attack another city, Hanjiang City.

With the lord of Hanjiang City guarding the city gate tightly, Jia Yu had to withdraw his troops after spending half a month without taking the city. However, when withdrawing his troops, in order to vent his anger, he ordered his men to slaughter tens of thousands of lords under Hanjiang City.

The wealth obtained by robbing the village could not last long.

Now, his soldiers have not received salary for a month.

The soldiers who could not get salary were also restless and began to do whatever they wanted in the city. Jia Yu could only turn a blind eye to this. Who made him unable to pay salary?

After understanding these situations, Qin Tian had an idea.

After ordering people to speed up the production of bows and crossbows, he also made bed crossbows at the same time.

Two months later, Qin Tian sent troops, leaving 1,000 to guard the city, and personally led 5,000 troops to Zhoutian City.

Zhoutian City, City Lord's Mansion.

Jia Yu was playing with the woman presented by his subordinates. His soul and energy were sealed, and his temptation to beauty was reduced to the freezing point.

Suddenly, a general came to the door to report, bringing a message: "The Lord of Heiyang City, Qin Tian, ​​personally led 5,000 troops to attack!

"What, it turned out to be that kid!"

Jia Yu was stunned at first, then laughed angrily: "I didn't go to trouble him, but he dared to take the initiative to deliver it to the door. Pass my order, gather the army, and take the initiative to fight!"

He decided to teach Qin Tian a profound lesson, and it would be best to kill him and eliminate him. (To be continued)