Lei Jingshi's cultivation has reached the Martial Master Realm. When he saw Ye Ming, a cold light flashed in his eyes. However, in front of Yi Xiantian, he did not dare to be presumptuous. Instead, he saluted Yi Xiantian very politely: "Mr. Yi."
Yi Xiantian asked: "We are here to take over Baoguang City. I hope you can cooperate."
"Of course." Lei Jingshi obeyed and led the two of them to the city lord's mansion. Several people came to the hall of the mansion. A pile of account books were piled haphazardly on the ground, and no one was sorting them out.
Lei Jingshi said: "All the accounts and lawsuits are here."
There are two most important things to manage a city, one is taxation and the other is public security. When there is taxation, there are accounts, and when there is public security, there are also people who violate public security, so lawsuits and prisons are inevitable.
Ye Ming randomly picked up an account book from the ground and flipped through it. Suddenly, his hand stopped and he said calmly: "Lei Jingshi, there is a problem with your Jianchi's taxes."
Lei Jingshi's expression remained unchanged: "Oh? What's the problem?"
Ye Ming: "According to the agreement, Baoguang City belongs to me after today. Therefore, Jianchi can only collect taxes before today, and taxes after today should be collected by me. But in fact, I found through the accounts that you have already collected the taxes for this year." The entire tax was collected. In other words, you collected seven months and five days more tax."
Yi Xiantian's eyes flashed and he asked, "Is this possible?"
Lei Jingshi said: "We have always collected taxes for one year. When you sell Baoguang City, you can do the same."
"How outrageous!" Yi Xiantian's face turned cold. "Jianchi must pay back taxes for seven months and seven days. It's useless no matter what you say."
Lei Jingshi complained secretly, he didn't dare to talk back to Yi Xiantian, or the other party might slap him to death. Martial Lord is far from being a Martial God. However, the overcharged tax money has already been handed over to Jianchi, how can he return it? He had no choice but to say: "Mr. Yi, I am just the city lord responsible for management, and the taxes collected are all handed over to Jianchi Warehouse. Therefore, Mr. Yi has to go to the top management of Jianchi for this matter, and I cannot make the decision."
Yi Xiantian smiled "hehe": "You Jianchi are so shameless, that's all, you can leave."
Lei Jingshi quickly led his servants and quickly left the city lord's mansion, leaving a mess everywhere.
Ye Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Master, they have collected all the taxes for the second half of the year in advance. How should Baoguang City operate?"
Yi Xiantian sighed: "It's just because Jianchi is a holy land that I dare to do this. The tax money will not come back unless we start a war with them. Now that you are the master of Baoguang City, you have to think of all this by yourself." There’s a way.”
Ye Ming sighed: "It seems that I can only continue to borrow money from the bank. I didn't expect that I was the first big customer!"
Yi Xiantian: "Baoguang City belongs to individuals. If you want to manage this city, you must have your own team. These are all things that cost money."
Ye Ming thought for a while and said: "Master, please stay in Baoguang City for the time being. I want to go to Guyang City."
Yi Xiantian seemed to know what he was thinking, and said: "It is very difficult to manage a city with hundreds of millions of people. Rather than trying to figure it out on your own, it is better to seek help from experienced people. Go ahead."
Ye Ming went to Guyang City just to find someone for help. In Guyang City, he met a few people, not to mention a few silver families. He also had a good relationship with the young marquis and hoped to get his help.
Guyang City was the capital of the Eastern Qi Dynasty, with a large population and prosperous commerce. The Dong Qi Hou Mansion is located in the center of Guyang City. Speaking of which, Ye Ming is still a guard of the Dong Qi Hou Mansion, and he still retains that status badge. With this identity, he easily entered the Marquis Mansion and met the young Marquis.
The young Marquis had just finished meeting a guest and suddenly saw Ye Ming coming. He was very happy and said with a smile: "Ye Ming, what kind of wind brings you here?"
Ye Ming hurriedly came forward to pay his respects. The young Marquis helped him up and said with a smile: "I don't need to be polite."
"Little Marquis, I have something to ask for your help." So he told me about Baoguang City.
Xiaohou Yemin was surprised and said: "The Yin-Yang Sect really handed over Baoguang City to you? The scale of Baoguang City is not smaller than that of Guyang City, and it is indeed not easy to manage. The worst thing is that you have no one under you Available, that’s troublesome.”
Ye Ming smiled bitterly: "That's why I came to ask Mr. Marquis for help."
The young Marquis asked Ye Ming to sit down and said slowly: "In the early stage, you need to establish at least three teams, one responsible for public security, one responsible for taxation, and one responsible for municipal administration. Not only does it require a large number of people, but it also costs a lot of money. big."
Ye Ming said helplessly: "There is nothing we can do about it."
The young Marquis smiled and said: "But you are looking for the right person when you come to me. I can help you solve these things in one go."
Ye Ming's eyes lit up: "What's the magic trick for Mr. Marquis?"
The young Marquis smiled and said: "The most indispensable thing in the Dong Qi Hou Mansion is people. I can help you gather three sets of teams in a short time. But these people belong to my Dong Qi Hou Mansion, and you can only rent them. In addition to In addition to their salary, they also have to pay an additional commission.”
In Shangyanshang, Ye Ming was not surprised and asked: "I wonder how much the commission is?"
"Based on the number of people, each person has ten thousand Wuzun coins per year." Xiaohouye said with a smile, "These three teams require at least one million people, totaling ten billion Wuzun coins per year."
Ye Ming breathed a sigh of relief. Ten billion Wu Zun coins were not much, and converted into Wu Zun coins, it was only ten million zero. He immediately said: "Okay, then let's meet Mr. Lao."
"Don't worry yet." The young Marquis said with a smile, "The above is just the commission. The salary of these people working under you is about ten times the commission."
Ye Ming: "There is no problem with this."
"Okay. If you agree, I will immediately recruit people from all over the place, and we will be able to recruit them all tomorrow." The young Marquis said with a smile.
In this way, the team's matter was settled. Ye Ming waited in Guyang City for a day, and led millions of people back to Baoguang City the next day. There is no other way to do this. The original managers of Baoguang City were all taken away by Jianchi. They did this obviously deliberately to cause trouble to Ye Ming and the Yin Yang Sect.
The people Xiao Houye found for Ye Ming are rich in experience and have done corresponding work in large cities. After returning to Baoguang City, it took less than a month for these people to get into their positions and put the operation of Baoguang City on the right track.
During this month, Ye Ming was running around while taking time to practice the cause and effect chapter of "Chaos Calculation Sutra". With the foundation of the Seven-Yuan Arithmetic Formation and the experience of practicing the Talisman Formation Chapter, the Cause and Effect Chapter cannot trouble him. It's just that this article is very obscure, and his progress is very slow. The so-called cause and effect is a science that reveals the laws of development of all things.
In the Talisman Array Chapter, the Talisman Array Restriction was cultivated in the body; but in the Cause and Effect Chapter, something called a "karma loop" can be condensed, which is similar to the Talisman Array, but there is a huge difference. There are restrictions in the talisman array, but there are no restrictions in the causal loop. It is just a tool for calculating cause and effect. However, like prohibitions, causal loops are also divided into small thousand causal loops, medium thousand causal loops, and large thousand causal loops.
The small thousand cause and effect loop can only calculate the cause and effect within the Tianyuan Continent; the medium thousand cause and effect loop can calculate the cause and effect of all things in the sky; and the large thousand cause and effect loop can calculate the cause and effect of the entire universe. Among them, the Small Thousand Cause and Effect Loop has eighty-one layers; the Medium Thousand Cause and Effect Loop has three thousand layers; and the Great Thousand Cause and Effect Loop has 180,000 layers.
Right now, Ye Ming has just condensed the first layer of the causal loop. The first level of causal loop can deduce some basic causal changes. For example, if he throws a stone, he can understand how the stone will behave, what reaction it will have after hitting the target, etc. before throwing the stone.
Since the cultivation of the cause and effect chapter was too difficult, and he needed a sophisticated causal link, he had no choice but to resort to the art of divine acting to deduce it. This time, he has been practicing at the third level of divine acting for five hundred years. Five hundred years is a very long time, and his causal loop has reached forty-nine levels.
When Ye Ming quit the magic of acting, he immediately felt a huge change in his body. Now he sees everything very different from before. As soon as something happens, he can use the causal loop to deduce a series of complex changes that will follow. Even if some things haven't happened yet and are just beginning to appear, he can also deduce them.
Moreover, he also discovered that the yin and yang ring does not operate independently. It is about the same size as a ring and floats above the seven-element arithmetic array. While it performs its own deductions, it can also use the powerful computing power of the seven-element arithmetic array to provide it with more accurate deduction results. In other words, as the arithmetic array improves in the future, the ability of the causal loop will also increase.
After cultivating the forty-nine layers of causality rings, Ye Ming spent another month walking around the entire Baoguang City. Some bad things that were supposed to happen were discovered by him one step ahead and solved easily. Some hidden dangers and shortcomings were also quickly pointed out by him, and his subordinates made reference to them for revision.
As the lord of a city, there are many things to manage, and these things have a good sharpening effect on the causal loop. Therefore, Ye Ming has gained a lot this month. He has gained a deeper understanding of human nature and the study of things.
At the same time, the Yin-Yang Sect branch was also officially established, and a large number of masters from the Yin-Yang Sect came. However, the sub-alms had their own affairs to do, and Ye Ming did not use them, but just maintained necessary contact with them.
A few days later, the appointment of Emperor Qinglong was finally issued, and Ye Ming received the official seal, gold book and other certificates of being the city lord. However, since this city is privately owned, not only does he receive no salary, but he also has to pay huge taxes to the Qinglong Dynasty and Dong Qi every year.
The Dong Qi Hou Mansion also sent an envoy to give Ye Ming a formal canonization. At this point, Ye Ming officially took over Baoguang City and became the lord of the city. Fu Biao and others have also arrived. They will open Tongli Bank in Baoguang City to flex their muscles.
In Ye Ming's plan, Baoguang City is the key development city of Tongli Bank. The reason is simple. He is the city lord here. Not only does he not have to pay taxes when he opens a bank, but he also does not have to spend money to rent a house. He decided to directly transform the City Lord's Mansion into Tongli Bank!