Compared with the previous villages, the township territory interface has undergone some very interesting changes.
The biggest change is that the basic buildings that were put in a pile before are divided into five categories: basic buildings, agricultural buildings, commercial buildings, cultural buildings, and military buildings.
After being upgraded to a township, all walks of life such as agriculture, commerce, cultural industries, and the military must be clearly separated for more orderly planning. To this end, the lord needs to formulate more detailed industry management regulations and establish a more complete administrative system.
And this step, Ouyang Shuo started to implement it in the village stage. It is no exaggeration to say that the current administrative structure of Shanhai Village is sufficient to handle the entire township stage, if he does not have greater ambitions.
At present, in more than 80% of the villages, the administrative structure of the entire territory relies on the village chief, plus one or two deputy village chiefs, to maintain the operation of the territory.
This extremely primitive administrative structure was barely feasible in the village stage. After all, there are only so many affairs at the village level. As long as the village head is diligent, plus one or two capable deputy village heads, it can still be managed. Not all territories are like the monster Shanhai Village. At the village level, relatively complete industries have been gradually established, from salt industry, fishery, to animal husbandry, industry and commerce. .
Most of the lords are able to get the basic buildings needed for upgrading, and they are about to burn incense. Where there is extra financial and material resources, they can develop other industries.
This is also the purpose of setting the four indexes in the conditions needed to upgrade towns. The system is to hope that the lords will lay a solid foundation for their territories before upgrading their territories to townships, and don't wait until they are upgraded to townships to make up for it.
Another change is that in the column of territorial resources, the specific statistics of various resource units have been canceled, and various collection sites have been replaced.
This is also an important symbol of upgrading from a village to a town. It reminds all lords that if you go to the township level and pay attention to information such as how many units of wood and how many units of stone are in the territory, then you are not a qualified lord.
At this time, the lord should have a broader view of the overall situation and control the overall situation. As a town mayor, you need to pay attention to the resource storage capacity of the major collection sites and make long-term plans.
Take Shanhai Town as an example. It is backed by mountains and has a large forest next to it. Whether it is stone, ore or wood resources are very rich, there is no need to worry about territorial resources in a short period of time.
This is the advantage of the basin. Apart from the relative shortage of timber, the reserves of basic resources are very rich. More advanced gold and silver mines and diamond mines depend on your character and are not so easy to find.
Apart from these changes, Ouyang Shuo also focused on new basic buildings. Although there are eight new buildings in the first-level towns, he has already built all these buildings in the third-level villages, and now there are only two buildings left, the cemetery and the orchard, which do not require architectural drawings.
But this does not mean that Shanhai Town can sit back and relax in terms of basic construction. To upgrade from a village to a town, there are four village-level buildings that need to be upgraded. They are village-level toilets, village-level granaries, village-level ancestral halls, and village-level private schools. The upgrade of these buildings is the same as the upgrade of the previous barracks. You need to buy the upgrade blueprint, and the price is ten times that of the previous one.
After checking the properties of the territory, Ouyang Shuo had time to seriously look at the upgraded Lord's Mansion.
The lord's mansion at the town level has finally changed from a courtyard house to a house with two front and rear entrances. The front yard is where the administrative agencies work, and the back yard is the inner house where the lord and his family live.
The furniture in the entire yard has been upgraded to another level, starting to feel like a wealthy home. Most importantly, the new Lord's Mansion is no longer the previous wooden structure, but a more masonry building.
The layout of the front yard is basically equivalent to the lord's mansion in a third-level village. The main hall of the lobby is still a meeting hall, and there are two large offices on each side of the main hall. Next to the main hall on the west side is the mayor's office. The inner one is the office of the Financial Secretary. The two rooms on the east side are the offices of the Administration Department and the Material Reserve Department.
In the wing rooms on the east and west sides of the front yard, in addition to a separate dining room, there are five official buildings for the heads of various departments and offices to rest and live in. The main entrance of the front yard has become more majestic, and there is a dedicated gatekeeper on duty. On both sides of the main entrance are the utility room, the kitchen and the living quarters of the handymen.
Passing through the back door of the meeting hall is the inner courtyard. The first thing that catches the eye is a small garden. Rockery, flowing water, swimming fish and birds, everything is included. Small but complete.
The gravel path through the garden is the main hall of the inner house. The main hall is naturally the living room for entertaining guests. Next to the living room on the west side is a separate study room, next to the study room is Ouyang Shuo's bedroom.
On the east side of the living room, there are two bedrooms, which Ouyang Shuo intends to leave for the two sisters Yingyou and Qing'er to live in. There are ear rooms on the east and west sides of the inner courtyard, where maids and servants live. Ouyang Shuo was going to recruit two maids for the two sisters to take care of their daily life.
After visiting the inner courtyard, when we returned to the meeting room of the front courtyard, the chief officials of all divisions and offices had already arrived, preparing to attend the first enlarged meeting of Shanhai Town.
Ouyang Shuo greeted everyone with a smile, and after sitting down, he said, "The subject of today's discussion, I have already explained yesterday. After the territory is upgraded to a first-level township, what should we do next? I believe everyone here , I have more or less ideas and plans. This time I am not going to sing a one-man show, but concentrate on being a listener. Let's start reporting from the Financial Secretary!"
The first one to be named, Cui Yingyou was well prepared, obviously well prepared. Qian Lifei, the newly appointed assistant to the Financial Secretary, stood behind her in an orderly manner.
Yingyou sorted out her thoughts, and then said calmly: "At this stage, the fiscal revenue of the territory mainly includes the income from the sale of real estate, the output of the Beimu Saltworks, and taxation. Among them, the income from the sale of real estate basically turns to Low-interest loans and vouchers issued by the territory are used to write off. Therefore, there is no obvious income on the books, and this is a long-term process of recovering interest."
"As the gold industry of the territory, the Beimu Salt Farm sold sea salt only once yesterday, and there will be no more output in a short time. Finally, there is taxation. This piece has just started because of privatization. Needless to say, the agricultural tax has not yet been collected. Time. Commercial tax, there are only a few limited shops such as carpentry workshops, blacksmith shops, and tailor shops, and the tax revenue is limited."
"Let's talk about the financial expenditure of the territory again. It mainly includes four major parts: salary expenditure, engineering cost expenditure, industrial support expenditure and military expenditure. Salary expenditure includes the salaries of government officials and the wages of major collection sites and salt workers. They are fixed. expenditure."
"The most important part of the project cost is the city wall project and its supporting inland river excavation project. The project takes a long time and requires more than 1,000 laborers. In addition, the industry support expenditure, including weapon workshops, brewing workshops and pastures. It is in the incubation stage, and requires continuous investment from the territory, and there is no benefit for the time being. Finally, the independent accounting of military expenditure is also a large expense."
"It can be seen that the financial situation of the territory is not optimistic, and it is obviously unable to make ends meet. The reason why it can survive now is entirely due to the system rewards in the early stage and the unfixed income from eliminating the bandit camps to maintain the operation of the territory."
"Therefore, the next step of the Financial Secretary's work goal is to reverse this decline. To ensure that the territory's finances can operate normally without additional income and maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure. To maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure, it is obvious to cut expenses. It will not work. Therefore, the most important thing is to increase fiscal revenue. For this reason, the Financial Secretary has proposed two main measures to expand the scale of Beimu Salt Works and further stimulate the development of industry and commerce.”
"Beimu Saltworks is the financial pillar of the territory. Expanding its scale can quickly increase fiscal revenue and have an immediate effect. However, there are advantages and disadvantages. A single fiscal revenue is not conducive to the healthy development of the territory, and the ability to resist risks is also weak. Very weak."
"Therefore, the main goal of the Financial Secretary is to boost the industrial and commercial development of the territory. For this reason, the Financial Secretary suggested that a separate support fund be allocated to encourage more skilled personnel to open shops or workshops. On a town-level scale, individual Blacksmith shops, tailor shops, or carpentry workshops can no longer meet the demand. It is completely possible to have multiple blooms to promote commercial competition and prosperity in the territory."
After carefully listening to the Financial Secretary's report, Ouyang Shuo nodded in satisfaction and said with a smile, "Very well, it seems that the Financial Secretary's work ideas are still very clear. I basically agree with the report just now. However, if we want to stimulate the economy To implement the policy, we must first reform the system.”
"For this reason, I decided to upgrade the Financial Secretary to the Financial Department, which consists of the Taxation Department and the Commercial Department. The former Financial Secretary, Cui Yingyou, served as the Director of the Financial Department and the Director of the Commercial Department. Qian Lifei, the former Assistant to the Financial Secretary, was promoted to Director of the Taxation Department. The specific economic stimulus policies will be implemented by the newly established Commercial Department.”
After the Financial Secretary is upgraded, he will be on the same level as the Administration Department and the Material Reserve Department in terms of administrative level, which is conducive to the work of the Finance Department.
Qian Lifei, Cui Yingyou's disciple, has been promoted two levels in just a few days, from an ordinary clerk to an assistant to the director, and now he is in charge of the tax department alone. This also fully exposed the lack of talents in Shanhai Town, and many positions had to be fostered.
Of course, this is also related to Ouyang Shuo's rapidly expanding ambitions. You know, this kind of administrative structure is enough to support the territory at the county level, but it was created by him at the town level.