Chapter 752 Internal Reform
During the period when the ruling department was replacing the old and new currencies, Zhou Xu was also busy leading the newly formed market supervision department to adjust the prices here.
For the people who have just escaped famine and displacement and regained jobs, the first needs they need to address are food and shelter.
But as working hours steadily increase, when food and shelter are no longer a problem for them, more needs will gradually emerge.
At this time, what they need is a market, a market where they can find and buy what they need by themselves.
Zhou Xu strongly supports this. Economic operation can help a city recover faster.
But on the other hand, it will also bring him more work.
Now that the currency has been changed, the original prices in the New World will definitely not be able to continue.
However, if merchants are allowed to set their own prices, the market will inevitably become chaotic.
The market needs a standard, which is also the fundamental reason why Zhou Xu specially set up a market supervision department to adjust and supervise prices.
Of course, he did not intend to fix all prices. After all, he knew that prices would fluctuate depending on the circumstances, so he allowed commodity prices to fluctuate by up to 30%.
In addition, if there are any new products that have not been available before, they need to be reported to the market supervision department for review. Only after the review is passed can they be sold.
Otherwise, they will be regarded as illegal goods and will be severely punished once discovered.
These are the current rules, and we will gradually adjust and supplement them based on actual conditions.
Looking at the mountain of documents in front of him, Zhou Xu felt a headache.
In addition to handling daily official duties these two days, he also has to worry about the work of the market supervision department, which has caused his work pressure to increase sharply recently, but he can do nothing about it.
This matter cannot be handed over to the people below, because the people here have no idea about the prices in the Old World.
To understand the prices on both sides and to be clear about the rules and ideas involved, the only suitable person at the moment is Zhou Xu himself.
The work came to a temporary end. Zhou Xu stretched his muscles and then asked Silk beside him.
"Speaking of which, it's been a while since we arranged the conscription. How's the conscription going? Has any report been submitted today?"
Faced with the question, Hillk thought for a moment and nodded.
"some."
As he spoke, Silk took out a document from the pile of unprocessed documents and handed it to Zhou Xu.
Because of Yan Sheng's intimidating attitude, the people here generally believe that being a soldier is not a good job, but they cannot resist the temptation of this ready-made job with free food and accommodation.
You know, at this stage there are still many people who have not escaped their refugee status and are waiting in line for help from above.
As soon as the conscription order was issued from the Great Zhou, the conscription points in various cities were quickly filled with people.
According to the Zhou Dynasty's consistent conscription tradition, they naturally do not recruit as many people as they want. To join the army, one must first pass a basic test.
Taking into account the situation of the people here and the number of soldiers that needed to be recruited this time, Zhou Xu appropriately lowered the difficulty of the test, which also allowed the troops needed in the early stage to be recruited quickly.
The local people will definitely not be allowed to serve as soldiers locally, and all of them will be transferred to other cities. The purpose is roughly the same as the previous population transfer.
The specific distribution work does not take much effort.
After all, this matter does not need to be done in great detail. Based on the existing veterans, the deficiencies can be filled with new recruits and the matter is done. It is quite easy to arrange.
After simply processing the document, Zhou Xu handed it directly to Silk.
"Silk, send a personal soldier to arrange it as quickly as possible."
Obviously, Zhou Xu wanted these new recruits to arrive as soon as possible.
According to the original procedures of their Great Zhou, these recruits should first receive concentrated training in the recruit training camp, but the conditions in the New World do not allow this at the moment, so let them report directly to the cities where they will serve, and then slowly receive training.
During this time, another document was sent over along with this one. Silk, who was next to him, took it out separately while sorting the documents.
Zhou Xu took the document and started to look through it.
This is a request letter, which simply means asking him to arrange weapons and equipment for the new recruits.
As the ordnance department is working at full speed, they do have some stock of soldier equipment at this stage, but it is far from enough to equip all the new recruits.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu simply changed his thinking.
"There should be a lot of armor and weapons that were seized earlier, and they are still piled up here. They haven't been dealt with yet, right?"
"Yes, my king."
Because there was a famine in the New World and a large amount of food was needed to stabilize the situation, later on, the transport teams were basically all busy transporting food for them, and the spoils that should have been transported back for processing were all piled here.
"That's perfect. Let's distribute these armors and weapons first and let the new recruits use them. We'll see how things turn out and then slowly upgrade their weapons and equipment."
After making this simple arrangement, Zhou Xu couldn't help but fall into deep thought again regarding the equipment issue.
[The arrangement of weapons and equipment in the future is indeed a problem. ]
In this battle, the advantage of their Great Zhou soldiers in weapons and equipment was very obvious.
Especially the weapons. As enchanted weapons, the comprehensive strength of crystal iron weapons is not comparable to that of pure iron weapons. It is also one of the key advantages that enable their Great Zhou troops to defeat the enemy.
However, unlike iron, which has abundant reserves, there is only one crystal mine that produces spar, a key material for making crystal iron weapons, and that is in the Lizardmen's homeland.
In the past, the number of soldiers in their Great Zhou was limited, so the crystal mines they needed were naturally small. But now, with the continuous expansion of territory, the number of soldiers will inevitably continue to grow in the future.
By that time, would the limited amount of aphrite still be enough? Not to mention that vein of ore might be mined out at any time.
As the supreme ruler of the Great Zhou, Zhou Xu naturally had to make plans for this matter early.
The simplest solution at the moment is to abandon the idea of equipping the entire army with crystal-iron weapons, and only provide crystal-iron weapons to elite troops, while ordinary soldiers in ordinary troops will be equipped with ordinary iron weapons.
There is actually nothing wrong with this idea.
Good weapons must be equipped with good soldiers. If the soldiers are not strong enough, they will be chopped down by the enemy as soon as they meet on the battlefield, and the crystal iron weapons will be of no use.
[Anyway, let's just make this arrangement for the weapons for now. The iron weapons in the forging department also need to be recast.]
Thanks to the book friend 'Mr. Miao's Meow' for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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