Hope Town.
During this morning, the residents of Hope Town were exploring the transformed territory. Everything in the territory seemed so familiar to them.
While the residents of the entire territory were experimenting with the functions of new buildings and exploring new things in the territory, Zhou Bai was busy convening a meeting of relevant personnel.
The content of the meeting included the number of staff members that the territory plans to recruit for the Lord's Mansion, job changes, the number of soldiers to be recruited, personal startup projects, and the direction of territory development in the next month.
In the office.
All the people who are qualified to enter this office have smiles on their faces. After all, today is the first day to enter the town.
When good things happen, your mood will unconsciously become better, and you will feel like you are walking with the wind.
After finding a seat with a name tag on it and sitting down, I naturally greeted the people around me and the atmosphere became comfortable.
Zhou Bai, who was sitting in the main seat, looked at this scene, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously. No matter when, people would yearn for a peaceful and warm environment, which was heartwarming to watch.
Gradually, everyone sat down.
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In fact, Zhou Bai didn't call many people this time. They were basically the main responsible persons of various departments and several military officers.
As for the others, they still have to work in their respective positions! Later, they will also be able to learn a small part of the meeting content.
The main personnel are as follows.
Military Administration: Bayer
Business Administration Office: Locke
Personnel Management Office: Rao Jiayu
Financial Management Office: Ding Qiurou
Education Administration Office: Jin Lecheng
Urban Construction Management Office: Bi Jiamu, Turles, Song Wenli
Public Security Administration: Heidi
Military personnel: Zhou Zhengping, Li Xingteng, Heidi, Alick, Cao Jingshan, O'Neill, Lucas, Daniel
Goblin Chieftains: Mills, Smoor
Blacksmith: Harrison, Yu Xiaoxiao
After counting the number of people and making sure everyone was present, Zhou Bai spoke, "Let's start the meeting!"
As he spoke, Zhou Bai directly distributed the paper version of today's main meeting content.
Each person received one copy and started reading immediately.
Everyone is very clear about their own tasks, but not about others. By looking at the content of the meeting, one can also have a general idea of the territory's recent progress.
After reading it, everyone's eyes moved slightly.
There are still many things to do in the territory next!
But this also means that I hope the town will become better with everyone's efforts.
When I thought of this, I instantly felt full of joy.
Soon, ranked
She was also the first person to classify and register the residents of the territory. With this, plus her subsequent efforts, her contribution has reached the requirements of a department head, and she has officially taken office this time.
Especially during the period before it was promoted to a small town, the flow of people was complicated and a large number of people poured in, but Rao Jiayu still managed to arrange everything in an orderly manner without any trouble, and her work ability was undoubtedly revealed.
"I have already made a table of the number of people each department needs to recruit, and I have also arranged the exam time. If you think it's okay, I will announce it after the meeting."
After Rao Jiayu finished speaking, the sound of people flipping through documents was heard at the scene.
"Why is there no recruitment information for soldiers?" After confirming that everyone else had no problem, Bayer asked.
"Because of this, I need to ask the mayor what he thinks." Rao Jiayu said directly, "Currently, the number of registered soldiers has reached 5,000. We have learned that the ratio of soldiers in a general territory is 20% of the territory's basic population. There is no requirement for village-level territories, it depends on ability, but at the town level, everyone seems to have stricter requirements. Our territory is a level 1 town, and according to the ratio, it should be 4,000 soldiers. We have exceeded it. Should we still recruit according to the plan of 2,000 people?"
After Rao Jiayu finished speaking, she looked at Ding Qiurou who was standing beside her.
Ding Qiurou is currently the head of the Financial Management Office and has just taken up the position. Previously, she was a warehouse manager attached to the Financial Management Office.
While the staff of the Financial Management Office were working hard to compete for the position of person in charge, Ding Qiurou was the first to reach the highest contribution level and got the position of person in charge thanks to her excellent logistical performance in handling idle items in the warehouse during territory wars, beast tides and daily life.
She also took the initiative to raise this question with Rao Jiayu.
Following Rao Jiayu's words, Ding Qiurou said directly: "If there are 7,000 soldiers, the basic salary and benefits per month will reach five-digit gold coins, which is several times higher than normal."
Speaking of which, the territory's military expenditure has always been the bulk of the territory's fiscal revenue.
She had anticipated this, but after actually taking over, she discovered that Hope Town's military spending had been overloaded.
In other words, we hope that the town has a strong ability to make money, so it can support itself and still have enough capacity to spare.
That is why the staff of the Financial Management Office ignored the proportion.
Especially this time, although the gold weapons and purple equipment were all made by themselves, which reduced a lot of costs, it was still a large expense. Many materials were directly in short supply, and large amounts of supplements had to be made from other territories.
If Hope Town continues to expand on this scale, future military expenditures will reach a terrifying number.
Although she also knew that Zhou Bai was willing to invest a lot of money in military expenses, it would not be good to spend too much.
Because she knew that as the soldiers' levels increased, the money and resources consumed would only increase.
She was afraid that if the children were raised too well in the beginning and did not meet the requirements later, some people would be dissatisfied.
She had to consider humanity for her daughter.
Especially with the large number of soldiers from Banes and Fasal villages joining in, she was afraid that the military camp would become out of control.
In addition, if the town wants to move forward in the future, it will need to prepare as much funding as possible.
After hearing Ding Qiurou's words, everyone at the scene was shocked.
They thought about hoping the town would invest in military spending, but they really didn't expect it to be so high.
If this were placed in other territories, it would indeed be possible to support countless more soldiers? ?
Lucas and O'Neill both felt that it would be a good idea to recruit more people from their own territories. Then they would not have to recruit soldiers, but could form their own team, just like Antonio of the Beast Mercenaries.
When the time comes to fight, take them out.
It saves money and has sufficient combat effectiveness.
If the orcs knew what they were thinking, they would probably "thank" them.
Zhou Bai looked at everyone's thoughtful eyes and said directly: "We will still recruit 2,000 people as planned. However, after this recruitment, the next recruitment will be in the Level 2 town. During this period, we will work hard to improve the overall combat capability of the army."
There's no way. The current crisis in this world is just her speculation.
The reason why she didn't reveal it was that she wanted to make sure first before saying it.
Anyway, when it comes to the territory’s military strength, I hope the small town will not suffer any loss no matter when and where.
This territory war actually demonstrated the military strength of Hope Town.
If Wolfe didn't resort to such shady methods, the Hope Town would definitely be able to capture Fasal Village.
As for the issue of excessive military investment, Zhou Bai actually didn't think it was high because the income from the territory was not bad.
For example, the territory’s commercial taxes, factory investment income, cement revenue, holiday villas, hotels, public building revenue, etc. are all big items.
In the future, with the development of Hope Town, these revenues will only increase.
She knew her mother was reminding her and taking this opportunity to show the territory's investment in the soldiers, to win their hearts, or to pay attention to them.
Indeed, Bayer, Zhou Zhengping, Li Xingteng and others all got it and kept it in mind.
After hearing what Zhou Bai said, Ding Qiurou paid attention to the expressions of others, then nodded and said, "Got it, I'm fine."
"Well, go on." Zhou Bai looked at Rao Jiayu and said.
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Personal startup project.
When this item came out, many people couldn't help but sit up straight.
Then O'Neal is
"Let me speak first!" O'Neal said, and then told him about his plan to go back to the territory to recruit people. Of course, he did not directly say that he wanted to recruit people as free labor, but he said to increase the income of his fellow tribesmen and let them live a good life.
Zhou Bai listened without thinking too much. The life of ordinary orcs in the orc territory was indeed rather rough. Besides, O'Neill and his men had done it once before, so it was normal for them to do it again this time.
So Zhou Bai agreed directly, but he didn't expect that a big incident would happen later.
After getting his consent, O'Neal winked at Lucas happily.
"Mr. Mayor, we, the goblin clan, hope to find minerals for our territory in the area where Hope Town is located. We hope you can mobilize people to protect us." The goblin chief, Mills, said sincerely.
In fact, during the time they joined Hope Town, Hope Town never asked them what kind of ore to look for. All they saw was Hope Town trading with other territories and with some of the inventory they had.
As for the goblins, they lived a free life in Hope Town, and the goblins took different career paths according to their developed talents.
Hope Town has been making them successful.
As Hope Town grows, the territory will need more and more mineral resources. There are still many goblins in their goblin clan who have a talent for minerals, and they can't let them waste their time in Hope Town forever.
They are very willing to send these goblins out to search for these minerals for Hope Town and contribute their own strength to Hope Town.
Zhou Bai was a little surprised when he heard this. "Are you really willing?"
It must be said that Zhou Bai was very tempted by this proposal, but seeing that the goblins had always wanted to escape the fate of being used as mining slaves, she did not want to force them, because there were still many territories rich in ore, and she hoped that the town could buy it if it had money.
But one bad thing is that the ore purchased by Hope Town will be recorded, so some of the weapons developed by Hope Town will be easily known to others.
If you can find the ore yourself, the concealment will be much better, such as the tungsten ore that was excavated near the town of Benguela last time.
That invention was a huge military advancement for the town of Hope.
Hearing Zhou Bai's excitement, they still respected their feelings. The goblin leaders Mills and Smoor both smiled and nodded without hesitation, "Of course they are willing. They are very happy to contribute to the territory!"
Now, all the goblins, whether old, young, or young people in between, regard Hope Town as their home. How could they not be willing to contribute to it?
"Then how many people do you need and where they need to go? Bayer will arrange it when the time comes." Zhou Bai directly handed the task to Bayer. Bayer was the head of the territory's military administration office, and this matter was originally his responsibility.
Bayer accepted the offer immediately.
The other people at the scene were touched when watching this interaction.
The goblins really know how to repay kindness! Some people's views on the goblins are also changing unconsciously.
Harrison is one of them. He had already changed his opinion of the goblins, and now he has a good impression of them. He no longer simply regards them as trash as before.
Harrison couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He really changed a lot under the influence of Hope Town!
Thinking of this, Harrison immediately stood up and pulled his apprentice Yu Xiaoxiao along.
"What I'm reporting back is a hot weapon. My apprentice and I have manufactured the gun, and we are now able to mass-produce it! My apprentice deserves the greatest credit. She designed the entire thing, and I just refined it." Harrison puffed out his chest as he spoke.
Since he was able to refine it, he was very powerful.
Yu Xiaoxiao, a socially anxious person standing nearby, was pulled to stand out. She felt very bad, but thinking that she couldn't lose face for her master, she had no choice but to stand there.
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhou Bai and other Blue Star residents were shocked when they learned the inside story.
"Really? You've got the guns out?"
"Can you shoot?"
"Have you experimented?"
"Is it the gun I know?"
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Li Xingteng, Cao Jingshan and others asked excitedly, and Zhou Zhengping couldn't hold back any more.
Speaking of which, Zhou Zhengping is a military enthusiast and regularly watches military programs, especially those about military weapons.
He also paid a lot of attention to guns. Of course, he couldn't touch a real gun, but he could still touch a fake gun.
Now that we hear there are real guns, isn’t that exciting?
It can be said that all men cannot escape their love for guns.
Of course, women are no exception. Ding Qiurou, Rao Jiayu and Song Wenli are also very curious and yearning.
The look in his eyes when he looked at Yu Xiaoxiao was different again.
Being able to design a gun, he is truly a role model for our generation!
Seeing their excitement, the others almost guessed that it must be a good thing.
But they couldn't imagine what it was like.
Gun? Like a rifle?
The others also cast curious glances at Harrison.
Harrison quickly took out a finished gun, with 100 bullets nearby, and gave it to Zhou Bai, "This is our
When everyone saw the black gun,
They could feel a strong change in energy from the gun.
"Is this a platinum-level weapon?" Heidi
She was already very familiar with the energy fluctuations of gold-grade weapons, so she figured it out as soon as she felt it. Moreover, this platinum weapon was infinitely close to a diamond weapon, and its damage value was probably not inferior to that of a platinum weapon.
Because the bullets that come with this gun are actually platinum weapons.
Harrison raised his chin, "Yes, a platinum-level weapon."
He is a mid-level blacksmith who can make platinum-grade weapons. He is so awesome.
Of course, he is now a high-level blacksmith, and he has been upgraded as soon as this weapon was made.
Thinking about it, he continued: "I am now a senior blacksmith and can make platinum-level weapons. My apprentice Yu Xiaoxiao is now a mid-level blacksmith. Her future achievements will only be higher than mine."
Social phobia·Yu Xiaoxiao: "..."
——Master, please spare me.
"Awesome!" Li Xingteng gave a thumbs up to the two of them, especially Yu Xiaoxiao.
He knew very well that Harrison, the blacksmith from Stan Continent, could not have created guns and bullets out of thin air. Yu Xiaoxiao's contribution must account for at least half, without any concession.
Yu Xiao shyly nodded to everyone.
Others also noticed the shyness in her character and silently looked away so as not to put pressure on her.
Zhou Bai had already taken the gun at this time.
The moment my fingers touched it, I seemed to feel the coldness of the gun.
Then, the data identified by the system appeared in front of him.
[Item: Gun]
[Level: Platinum Weapon]
[Introduction: Increases damage by 40%. When used with bullets, the damage is unpredictable and depends on the user.]
"Thank you for your gifts." Zhou Bai let out a long sigh and thanked them sincerely.
This gift is truly precious.
"Didn't they say it could be mass-produced? Has it been produced? Can we use or buy the others?" Li Xingteng asked anxiously.
Others were also looking on eagerly.
Harrison said directly:
Harrison meant that last sentence.
This bullet can be said to be a nightmare for professionals. If they hide in a corner and are shot secretly, professionals at the intermediate level and below will most likely be killed in one shot, so there is a suggestion to keep it safe.
As for whether further construction will be needed in the future, it depends on the Lord's intention.
Zhou Bai immediately understood what Harrison meant. "Leave it to me later! I'll manage it."
This kind of thing is not suitable to be shown in front of people for the time being.
She is ready to accumulate slowly and wait for the right moment to make a splash.
The next moment, Zhou Bai asked Bayer to draft a magic contract and asked everyone present to sign it.
No one dared to object to this.
They also knew that guns were definitely secret weapons for their territory.
Everyone's hearts were still pounding at this time. They knew very well what such a weapon meant to Hope Town.
Hope Town seems to be becoming a little bit awesome.
At this time, everyone didn't know that their lord, Zhou Bai, was not satisfied with the existence of guns. She had decided to let Harrison and others study gunpowder in secret while chatting with them in private.
The remaining black stones brought back from Fasal Village will be an object of their research.
Let’s not talk about this for now. Zhou Bai asked everyone to continue.
And there is still one person left for this project.
Song Wenli spoke silently under the gaze of everyone.
Then the next project was brought up.
"Recently, more and more shells have been exchanged for orders with our cement factory. Our cement reserves are quite large. Should we continue to reserve them? Or release some of them?" Song Wenli looked at Zhou Bai.
The output of cement is simply too huge.
So they sold a lot, but also kept some for themselves.
What we are considering now is whether we need to cash in our cement reserves.
"Let's move the surplus to the warehouse! In the next few days, there may be many people who want to buy this cement. We can then ask someone to work with our construction team to sell it to them." Zhou Bai said directly.
Many territories had already used cement before the territory war, and it should be gradually taking effect, with orders only coming in continuously.
If there is no shortage of shells, other Blue Star territories will also produce cement. In order to avoid being seized by others in the market and to ensure the safety of other territories, I hope that more cement will be released from the town!
"Okay." Song Wenli listened and felt relieved.
Having said this, let’s move on to the next item.
This is also the most important item of this meeting!
Everyone's eyes turned to Zhou Bai.
What does their mayor (lord) think?
Three in one～
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