At noon, Ouyang Shuo held a banquet in honor of Xie Siyun and his party at the Lord's Mansion. He had already received a reply from Sun Xiaoyue, and he knew that in the afternoon, Sun Xiaoyue would lead a group of players and teleport them to Shanhai County.
The players brought by Sun Xiaoyue are divided into two parts.
The most important thing, of course, is the team of experts that Ouyang Shuo has been looking forward to. There are a total of 30 experts, involving various majors such as shipbuilding, metallurgy, economics, chemistry, medicine, machinery, engineering, and agriculture.
Thirty top experts, including their relatives, totaled 150 people. Each expert is assigned to a courtyard covering an area of 2,000 square meters.
The second part is the members of the [Luoyuehui], and they also take care of their families.
Before the deadline, [Luoyuehui] had a total of 400 members. When Sun Xiaoyue announced that Shanhai County was willing to accept members of the [Luoyuehui], 350 people were willing to settle in Shanhai County on the spot.
The remaining 50 people have already gained a firm foothold in Wangcheng and are unwilling to move their positions. As the saying goes, those who have different ways, do not conspire with each other, and those who are unwilling to go, are all cleared by Sun Xiaoyue to go out to the meeting.
[Luoyuehui]members, including families and children, total 1850 people. Adding in the 150 members of the expert team, the total number of players teleported from Dali was 2,000.
[Luoyue Club] has six core members, namely Alchemist Autumn Leaves, Bridge Designer Wu Chi, Municipal Engineer Drawing Pad, Map Surveyor Nine-Dash Line, and Sun Xiaoyue's former roommates Qin Ruo and Pan Qiaoqiao. As for the boyfriends of the two, because they are combat occupations, they are only classified as ordinary members.
The core members were placed in the official residence area by Ouyang Shuo, each assigned a courtyard covering an area of 1,000 square meters. The remaining members of the [Luoyuehui] were housed in residential areas, and each was given a set of ordinary courtyards.
Since Sun Xiaoyue settled in Shanhai County, she could no longer teleport back to Dali. In addition, the headquarters of Lingxi Studio's peripheral guild [Qingfeng Pavilion] is in Dali, so Ouyang Shuo simply asked her to withdraw [Luoyuehui] from Dali.
In this way, [Luoyuehui] became the first player guild to settle in Shanhai County, and it may be the only player guild.
According to Ouyang Shuo's plan, the professional players recruited by Shangxue Meigui who are willing to settle down in Shanhai County will also be included in the [Luoyue Club] for unified management.
Sun Xiaoyue came from Dali this time, and she also brought the gift that Cui Fu entrusted her to Yingyou.
The gifts were packed in two large wooden boxes, one box was filled with jewelry and clothes that Yingyou usually used; the other box was full of gold coins, a total of 10,000 pieces.
According to Cui Fu's account, the 10,000 gold coins are pocket money for Yingyou. Sure enough, it is a big business group, and its wealth is not comparable to that of the current Shanhai County.
Yingyou did not keep the 10,000 gold coins sent by her family, but deposited them in the Four Seas Bank. This has also become the largest deposit business since the establishment of the Four Seas Bank.
Seeing her sister increase her deposit by 10,000 gold coins all at once, Qinger, a small money fan, secretly envied her, and didn't know when she would be able to have such a large deposit.
In fact, with the profitability of the garment workshop, it will be a matter of time to save enough 10,000 gold coins.
Yingyou deposits the money in the Four Seas Bank, and can get 100 gold coins in interest every month, which is enough for daily expenses.
Four Seas Bank obtained this deposit, as long as it was loaned out in time, it could earn at least 300 gold coins in interest per month, and the calculation was still compound interest. One in and one out, at least 200 gold coins per month.
This is how the Universal Bank makes money.
Yingyou's deposit can be regarded as a solution to Shanhai County's urgent need.
Originally, Ouyang Shuo planned to transfer a certain amount of funds to the Four Seas Bank among the funds at the end of June to increase the reserve of the Four Seas Bank. It's a pity that a big purchase will consume all the funds.
With the rapid development of the territory's economy, the demand for loans has expanded rapidly. The 1,350 gold coins deposited in mid-May have almost been exhausted, and they can only rely on the deposits of retail investors to maintain their lending business.
The Four Seas Bank has this deposit, which is enough to support it for a long time.
In addition to the two boxes of gifts, Cui Fu also brought a cooperation document, as long as Ouyang Shuo agrees, it will take effect immediately. It was agreed in the document that Cui's Chamber of Commerce became the sole agent of Shanhai County in Dali, responsible for selling Shanhai County's special products and other materials.
Since the system was updated, the market transaction tax has been reduced to 10%, which is the same as the transaction tax charged for selling special products in grocery stores. This also means that the advantage of exclusive sales of specialty products in grocery stores will no longer exist. It is better to place orders through super trading platforms. After all, the market of super trading platforms is countless times larger than the grocery store system.
In return, the Cui Chamber of Commerce pays Shanhai County an agency fee of 2% of the total annual transaction amount every year. At the same time, Cui's Chamber of Commerce can also collect various rare materials for Shanhai County and become Shanhai County's purchasing agent in Dali Mansion.
The business experience of Cui's Chamber of Commerce is to break up the bulk materials purchased from Shanhai County through their countless shops in Dali, and change from wholesale to retail, and earn the difference from it.
This is a win-win cooperation, Ouyang Shuo agreed directly without hesitation.
In the future, Shanhai County will sell supplies through the super trading platform. After placing the order, the Cui Chamber of Commerce will take the order by default. Only when Cui's Chamber of Commerce refuses to bid can it be freely circulated in the market.
Of course, if the Cui Chamber of Commerce often refuses to take orders, it will affect the basis of cooperation between the two parties, this agency model will be challenged, and the cooperation will not continue.
In the afternoon, taking advantage of the time between the settlement of these people, Ouyang Shuo and Xie Siyun had an in-depth conversation on the cooperation between Shanhai County and Shangxue Meigui Mercenary Group.
The two parties signed a memorandum of cooperation, and Shanhai County and Shangxue Meigui mercenary united into a strategic partnership.
The Shangxue Rose Mercenary Corps has the first right to buy weapons and equipment in Shanhai County, and enjoys a 10% discount at the same time. In return, Shangxue Meigui's mercenary group will find excellent life professional players for Shanhai County in Jianye for a long time, and recruit them to settle in Shanhai County.
Because the two parties are still in their infancy, there is no way to talk about further cooperation, only adapting to the situation.
The Shangxue Rose Mercenary Corps was the first faction to receive coupons from Shanhai County. Even members of the Shanhai League and Tianshuang Town did not receive such treatment, which shows Ouyang Shuo's thirst for talents.
Of course, the factor of my aunt Lin Jing cannot be ruled out. After all, it is a family, and the financial strength of the guild cannot be compared with that of the territory.
There is a reason why Ouyang Shuo is willing to spend a lot of money to attract professional players.
Compared with the skilled talents among the aboriginal groups, players have many inherent advantages.
There is no qualification requirement for a player to take office. When creating a character, the system will automatically give the player a certain talent potential, waiting for the player to develop.
This is actually the same concept as the talent of combat professions. It's just that one is used for combat and the other is used for production, with different focuses.
Therefore, the life occupations among the player group are much larger than the base of aboriginal skilled talents. Skilled talents among the aborigines can only rely on luck and wait for the refugees to refresh. And players can just recruit directly, the efficiency of the two is naturally incomparable.
Second, compared with the aborigines, it is less difficult for players to break through the bottleneck, and it is easier to cultivate high-skilled talents above the master level. This is also related to the preference of the system. In the future, professional life players will shine brightly in this field.
Of course, players also have flaws.
First, many players can't bear the hardships and waste their talents in vain. Take a tailor as an example, if you don’t get needled more than a dozen times a day, you are not considered a qualified tailor. Compared with blacksmiths and craftsmen, tailoring is already considered a relatively easy occupation. In reality, pampered players, how can they suffer this hardship.
Second, players all start as apprentices, which requires a relatively long training period. Just like Sun Xiaoyue's career as an architect, she studied in architecture school for two full months before being promoted to an intermediate architect. The further you go, the longer it will take, which requires constant investment and enough patience.
Therefore, only those professional players who really have great perseverance, can bear hardships, and endure loneliness can become true masters in the future. Most people will be reduced to chicken ribs in the process.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Xie Siyun and her aunt returned to Jianye.
In the evening, Ouyang Shuo specially hosted a banquet for the expert group at Sangu Restaurant.
At the banquet, Ouyang Shuo announced the arrangements for the experts. Thirty experts were all employed by Lianzhou College as professors. The monthly salary is 10 gold coins, which is equivalent to the first-level salary of the director of the government department.
While completing teaching tasks, experts can serve as consultants in government departments according to their majors and preferences; or set up research institutes to engage in scientific research.
Agricultural experts can be hired as consultants of the Department of Agriculture to guide the Department of Agriculture to improve water conservancy facilities; guide farmers to improve planting methods to increase crop yields; teach pest control methods to reduce crop losses, etc.
Economic experts can be employed as consultants of the Finance Department to guide the Finance Department, combine the actual situation of the territory, use modern economics knowledge, improve the tax system, formulate more targeted economic stimulus policies, and so on.
Engineering experts can be employed as consultants of the construction department to guide the construction department to develop more advanced tools or mechanical equipment, reduce the labor intensity of craftsmen, improve construction efficiency, and so on.
Mechanical experts can be employed as consultants of the Combat Readiness Department to guide the Combat Readiness Department in developing siege equipment, improving existing ladders, fierce fire oil tanks, etc.
Metallurgical experts can be hired as consultants of the Material Reserve Department to guide the Material Reserve Department to improve the refining level of gold ore in the Langshan Mine, the smelting level of various iron ores, upgrade the smelting furnace, and so on.
In short, this group of experts is a huge treasure. Although they cannot subvert the system's restrictions on the technology tree, they can use their knowledge to fine-tune or upgrade various industries in the territory.
Of course, the premise of everything is to let these experts integrate into the territory, truly understand the current situation of the research territory, and then formulate targeted transformation plans according to local conditions.
If experts in agriculture, economics, engineering, machinery, and metallurgy are just icing on the cake, then Ouyang Shuo's core needs are to build warships driven by steam engines and guns and artillery.
This plan involves many fields and requires the cooperation of many experts. In addition, Liu Mo, an expert in thermal weapons, and the participation of various departments such as the alchemy workshop and the weapon workshop, can it be realized.