On April 30th, it was time to sell sea salt again, and the monthly net income of Beimu Salt Farm was 3,600 gold coins.
Another pillar industry of the territory, the Wolf Mountain Mine, became the primary industry of the territory in one fell swoop, as the number of miners increased to 5,000 in April, and the monthly net income reached 8,500 gold coins, far surpassing the Beimu Saltworks.
In addition to the 900 gold coins left over from before, Ouyang Shuo held 13,000 gold coins in cash. This amount of money seems very large, but after deducting daily expenses, there are not so many funds that can actually be used.
Ouyang Shuo directly allocated 5,000 gold coins to the Finance Department for fiscal expenses of the territory.
The first is military spending. With the expansion of the size of the army, military expenditures have increased sharply, and the monthly military pay alone is a large expense.
Since the territory's economy became more prosperous, Ouyang Shuo directly increased the monthly subsidy standard for soldiers by ten times. The first-rank soldiers can get ten silver coins a month in military pay, and so on, and the ninth-rank soldiers can get ninety silver coins a month in military pay. Huo Chang has one gold coin per month, squad leader has five gold coins per month, and Yingzheng has twenty gold coins per month.
Taking the cavalry battalion as an example, the average rank of soldiers is the fourth rank, and the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is 180 gold coins. Adding fifty fire chiefs, five squadron leaders, and a battalion commander, the monthly salary of the cavalry battalion is 275 gold coins. For four regular battalions, the monthly salary is 1,100 gold coins. Coupled with the consumption of food, grass, weapons and equipment, the monthly military expenditure is close to 1400 gold coins.
Second is government spending. With the replenishment of grassroots government officials in various departments and agencies, government expenditures are also considerable. The monthly salary of grassroots government officials is one gold coin, the monthly salary of the director is ten gold coins, and the monthly salary of the director is twenty-five gold coins. Coupled with the consumption of office supplies such as pens, ink, paper and inkstones and other expenses, the monthly government expenditure is close to 500 gold coins.
Then there is public spending. Because of the need to raise funds for the system auction, the construction department has not yet paid wages for the completed four major infrastructure projects, the city wall and moat project, the territory renewal project, the friendship town wall project, and the road project. The average daily salary of a craftsman is 100 copper coins, and the labor expenditure of the four major infrastructure projects reaches 1,000 gold coins.
Of course, engineering expenses are one-time expenses, not every month.
In addition, major collection sites such as logging camps, quarries, and mining sites, military industries such as Jiafang Division, Bow and Crossbow Division, and weapon workshops, and industries belonging to the territory such as brick kilns, pottery factories, shipyards, and ranches , with the rapid expansion of the scale, the monthly salary expenditure has reached more than 1,500 gold coins.
Especially in the military industry like Jiafangsi, all the recruits are precious skilled talents, and the wages are low. Thirty silver coins per month for apprentices, one gold coin per month for junior skilled personnel, five gold coins per month for intermediate skilled personnel, and ten gold coins per month for advanced skilled personnel.
Finally, there is another big item, that is, basic welfare expenses. The basic benefits include 100 units of food coupons, 20 units of meat coupons, a fur, a set of ordinary linen clothes, and a 20 silver coin voucher, which is about 32 silver coins when converted. Although a large part of these funds are left-handed and right-handed for the Finance Department, each refugee still consumes about 15 silver coins. The base camp generates 75 refugees every day, which is 1125 silver coins, and about 340 gold coins a month. If the three subsidiary territories are added, it will cost thousands of gold coins a month.
The above are only the five most important expenditures, and do not include other fiscal expenditures such as education expenditures and public health expenditures. The fiscal revenue in April was less than 1,000 gold coins. If it weren't for the support of Beimu Saltworks and Langshan Mine, the Finance Department would have been unable to support it.
These fiscal expenditures have been looming since the privatization was implemented in February. Let’s not talk about it in February. The privatization had just started. At that time, the scale was not as large as it is now, so there was basically no feeling. In March, the financial crisis had gradually become apparent, but at that time Ouyang Shuo kept suppressing this matter in order to raise funds for the auction.
By April, the territory's financial situation began to improve, and there were no major additional expenses. It was only then that Ouyang Shuo began to gradually normalize these expenses, and at the same time made up for the expenses owed in the previous two months in one go.
It can be said that the privatization of Shanhai Town will be completely completed only in April. In the first two months, there were still many shadows of the planned economy in it. Without the support of the Langshan Mine, Ouyang Shuo would not have the confidence to promote this matter relying on the industry of the Beimu Saltworks alone.
Now the salary level of all kinds of personnel in Shanhai Town is already relatively close to the salary level of Wangcheng. What is the background? This is the bottom line. While other territories are still eating from the big pot, Shanhai Town has already begun to implement a privatization strategy. When more than 80% of the territory can only maintain food and clothing, the income of the residents of Shanhai Town has been equal to that of Wangcheng.
Of course, Ouyang Shuo did this not only to hide wealth from the people. The deeper purpose is to take advantage of Shanhai Town's huge advantages in the early stage to increase the income of residents and at the same time increase the consumption level of the territory, thereby stimulating the rapid development of the territory's economy. Only when everyone has spare money in their hands, will they be willing to buy meat, wear new clothes, go to restaurants, and buy jewelry for the women at home.
All of these are complementary. Today's huge investment is for tomorrow's greater return. Only by making the cake bigger can we really increase the territorial tax. Ouyang Shuo's ultimate goal is that even if there are no industries like Beimu Saltworks and Langshan Mine in the future, the tax revenue from the territory alone will be enough to support huge financial expenditures and support a huge army.
In any case, the golden rooster that lays eggs will always be exhausted one day. There will always be a day when the Langshan Mine will be hollowed out, and the income of the Beimu Salt Farm will become negligible in the future. People without long-term considerations must have short-term worries, Ouyang Shuo does not want to be a short-sighted lord who only lies on the gold mountain and counts money.
After excluding the funds allocated to the Finance Department, Ouyang Shuo still has 8000 gold coins in his hand, which is still a huge sum of money. Of course, he wasn't going to leave this fund idle.
Ouyang Shuo rushed to the mid-level market, and first spent 200 gold coins to buy a high-level market architectural blueprint, preparing to upgrade the market to high-level and open a platform for negotiation and cooperation. Only after opening this negotiation and cooperation platform can Shanhai Town conduct weapons and equipment transactions with Bai Hua and other allies.
Next, Ouyang Shuo clicked on the column of special items and retrieved the cheats. In addition to leaving 3000 gold coins as a spare, he planned to use the remaining 4800 gold coins to hoard authentic cheats.
There are countless cheats below King level on the market, regardless of whether they are true or false, on average a bronze-level cheat book costs 50 silver coins, a black iron-level cheat book costs 2 gold coins, a silver-level cheat book costs 10 gold coins, and a gold-level cheat book costs 50 gold coins. The "Yue Nv Sword Manual" that Ouyang Shuo gave to Song Jia before is a gold-level authentic cheat book.
As for cheat books above the gold level, they are very rare. King-level cheats occasionally appear, but emperor-level cheats basically don't exist. As for god-level cheats and holy-level cheats, it is impossible to buy them through the market.
Ouyang Shuo's hoarding of authentic cheat books is naturally a high-quality one, so he only pays attention to gold-level cheat books. To his surprise, when he was collecting genuine gold-level cheats, he was lucky enough to come across a royal-level marksmanship cheat "Yang Family Spear Classic", which costs 1,000 gold coins.
Ouyang Shuo bought it without hesitation, and checked the properties of the cheat book.
[Name]: "Yang Family Spear Classic" (imperial-level exercises)
[Routine]: Big Flower Gun/Flower Gun/Seventeen Battle Gun/Army Battle Gun/Pear Blossom Eight Mother Gun/Chen War Gun/Little Flower Gun
[Skills]: White Snake Spits Letters/Swallows Capture Nest/Dragon Comes Out of Water/Blue Dragon Lands/Oolong Swings Tail/Carp Unhooks/Yasha Explores the Sea/Evil Tiger Pounces on Deer/Child Hugs Heart/Flame Piercing Clouds/Oolong Enters Cave/Evil Wolf Grilled Heart/Tie Niu Farmland, etc.
[Trick]: Throat lock gun / carbine gun
[Weapon]: Yang Family Pear Spear
[Comment]: Yang Jiaqiang, whose full name is Yang Jiali Huaqiang, is said to be the spear technique created by Yang Miaozhen, the wife of Li Quan, the leader of the Red Coat Army in the late Southern Song Dynasty. The Yang family's marksmanship ruled the world, the front hand was straight and the back hand was tough, and both hands were up and down. Going like an arrow and returning like a thread, with quick hands and quick eyes piercing people's faces. Dancing with flower guns, dazzled. Throat lock gun, ghosts and gods are unstoppable. Back to the carbine, the gods are hard to guard against. The strange mang turned over, the pear blossoms covered the top, and the oolong turned the river out of the beach. The embroidered girl traveled to the sun and the moon, and Jinmenshi started to rob Zhongwan. If you want to ask the gun's name and surname, Qilang and Eight Tigers guard the border.
Yang Jiaqiang is considered the number one spear in the martial arts world, because it sways like a pear flower when dancing, so it is also known as the pear flower gun. Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty pointed out in "Ji Xiao Xin Shu": "The Yang family gun is unpredictable and deified, and the world respects it." After getting this secret book, Ouyang Shuo finally had the secret book of marksmanship that he majored in.
Emperor-level cheats are already extremely rare. In the previous life, there were not a few god-level cheats published in all these years. As for the holy-level cheats, they are even more legendary, and no one can see them.
It is not an easy matter to master the real emperor-level cheats. When the ancients practiced spears, they started to lay the foundation at an early age, and after many years of hard work, and with the guidance of famous teachers, they could master it. Players are just using virtual network technology to play tricks. If Ouyang Shuo didn't have the foundation of nearly four months of hard training on the big guns, he might not even be able to get in.
Except for "Yang Family Spear Classic", which is the only emperor-level cheat book, Ouyang Shuo has never encountered a satisfactory authentic cheat book, not even a king-level cheat book.
In desperation, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to use the remaining 3,800 gold coins to buy seventy-six authentic gold-level cheat books, and almost wiped out all genuine cheat books on the market.