"Indeed! The current housing is too crowded, and some slaves live with half-elves. Although the elves don't look down on the slaves, they are generally more sophisticated, so it's inevitable..."
Discrimination exists everywhere. If you are slightly better than others, you may not show it in a particularly obvious way, but the condescension and casualness that you inadvertently reveal can indeed cause conflict.
Besides, we crammed everyone together before because there wasn't enough room, and now we need to separate them again because there's still not enough room!
"Some elves have even expressed their willingness to pay for a better living environment!"
The free facilities are indeed too crowded and lack privacy, so half-elves with a little savings want a better environment.
That....
"The housing on our territory is the first thing we need to address!" Qin Yiyi decided.
"So now, apart from the slaves, we're building collective housing with public water facilities and public restrooms. Each room will be guaranteed to be similar to a dormitory to provide accommodation. The other half-elves and outsiders already have to pay a head tax and accommodation fees. Take the elves, for example. Although they are at the bottom of the Eternal City, these elves have more savings than slaves. Now, the territory can be used to buy houses. If you want to live comfortably, you can buy a house. The price of 100 gold per house remains unchanged, but the first batch of houses can be either above or below ground, and there will be a 20% discount for full payment!"
Separate slave housing and elf housing. Slaves will be provided with free winter housing, while elves will be charged for housing. If you want to stay for free, you can stay for three months in preferential housing offered by recruiting talents from outside the territory, which means living with slaves without paying. However, after three months, or if you want to live alone in a better place now, you will have to start paying!
"I don't charge much. Rent is calculated in silver coins, and buying is calculated in gold coins. There's a 20% discount for full payment. Also, you can now freely choose any house within the territory!"
"If you don't have enough money, that's okay, you can borrow from us!"
Qin Yiyi fiddled with the few sandalwood beads she had just acquired.
His eyes rolled.
"We'll open a money exchange in the territory first. People who want to buy a house but don't have enough money will get a loan based on their collateral or an assessment of their existing assets and job. But a contract must be signed to prevent them from running away!" She will make a copy of the contract. If they run away, unless they spend their whole lives in the wild, she can find out who they are as long as they enter the territory or city. That's not a big deal.
The deer's eyes lit up.
"Then we can set the housing prices and interest rates higher! That way, we can make a lot of money by speculating and flipping the stocks!"
However, Qin Yiyi shook her head.
"Housing prices cannot be driven too high. Many people work their entire families to buy a house. If you drive them too high, interest rates will be too high, and families will be unable to repay their loans. They will have to live frugally, which will prevent the nascent commercial economy in the territory from taking off. If it doesn't take off, it's impossible for me to be the only one providing jobs in the entire territory. This will greatly reduce employment opportunities, and people will have no chance to earn money. Without money, they won't be able to repay their loans. These people will either go out to find work elsewhere to repay their debts, or they will all go to live in the wild and not repay their debts. If they don't repay their debts, you will have a lot of bad debts, and you won't have any money to collect. What's worse is that my territory's economy will be in chaos and unable to develop. Apart from slaves, the movement of other people will become faster and faster. This is not a good sign!"
Therefore, the prices of everything must be controlled. For example, she just received a call from someone who is currently recruiting distributors of electric blankets. All the money is going into this, and everyone is buying these. They won't be cold anymore, and they won't freeze to death, but they might starve to death! They might also suffer from mental breakdown due to high pollution, which could cause a riot in the territory.
Controlling prices, controlling the market, and stabilizing public sentiment are essential for sound development.
She absolutely will not allow anything in the market to be priced exorbitantly high; such a situation creates a vicious cycle.
If she wants to revitalize the economy, what she needs to do now is to divert some of the half-elfs to buy houses and encourage them to have their own place to live. In this way, the money she receives can be used for the newly built collective housing. Of course, in addition to the large dormitory-style rooms, the collective housing should also have better individual rooms.
"The construction of houses cannot be delayed! It must begin now! Another issue is security. The territory is developing rapidly and the population is large. Before, when it was all slaves, there were fewer conflicts due to my pressure and the slave status. Now, with the surge in the influx of outsiders, there will definitely be all sorts of problems. My plan is to increase mobile patrols and checkpoints, as well as security posts! We will also recruit and train a large number of security personnel to maintain the normal life of the territory!"
If robbery, arson, or even life-threatening incidents occur in a territory, that territory will rapidly decline!
Qin Yiyi was in charge of the overall direction of the territory. Sid acted very quickly as an executor. Ox-Head, Horse-Face, and Deer Antlers had also been trained over the past few months. Although they couldn't handle big matters, they followed the rules and didn't have any ulterior motives when it came to small things. In addition, although the newly selected leaders were not particularly outstanding, they were able to work diligently, which already made Qin Yiyi worry less.
The rest of the people went down, and Sid stood next to Qin Yiyi.
"My lord, please take a look at the land use plan for the territory's development, as well as the matters submitted by various departments." Sid used to call her Miss, and since the territory has been thriving, Sid still calls her Miss in private, but when discussing work, he calls her Lord.
Qin Yiyi opened the report that was presented to her and glanced at it.
"There are too many people in the territory now, how can I manage them all? If you do everything yourself, how can you distinguish between important and trivial matters?"
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