Chapter 83
Ye Bai walked into the 'Finance Department'. Of course, to be precise, it was currently an office with a desk, papers and a safe.
After the territory is upgraded to the town level, a more complex financial system begins to emerge. As the lord, Ye Bai needs to prepare the monthly salary of the territory within seven days after the upgrade and put it in the safe in this room. Then, when the time comes, it will be automatically distributed to the villagers doing the corresponding work.
From this perspective, the whole thing is still very "game-like". Compared to the actual management of a medieval territory, all finances have become simplified and transparent. As a lord, you only need to set wages and taxes, and everything will be done automatically. It is impossible for someone in the middle to embezzle or accept bribes.
If we have to give a rationale for this setting, it can be said that the Tree of Creation is handling it... I guess.
After all, the Tree of Creation takes into account the territory's technology and policies, so it should not be a problem to also take into account a banking system.
“Crack—”
Ye Bai sat down at the desk in his office, and a brand new territory finance page appeared in front of him, divided into two major sections: expenditure and income.
In terms of expenditure, it consists of three major items: wages, raw materials and expenses.
These are all simplified accounting entries. What Ye Bai needs to adjust are mainly salary levels. Each profession in the territory has a clear system evaluation value based on the industry and level, and the lord can adjust its level. There are a total of five levels.
For non-military units, different salary levels will affect work efficiency and output levels, namely:
Lowest (60%), Lower (80%), Normal (100%), Higher (120%), Highest (140%).
The territory will supply basic survival supplies - water and food - according to the population, and pay wages to working residents, who can then use the wages to purchase entertainment and luxury items in the territory.
At the same time, the monthly salaries of ordinary workers, professionals, and military units in the territory are also different. There is a clear difference in income between the former and the latter due to the gap in technical levels.
The average monthly salary for non-professionals in the territory is around 30 to 50 copper coins, depending on the industry.
The ordinary salary of the lord's personal guard is 3 silver coins per month, but because they are the lord's personal guards, they are equivalent to complete private soldiers. Ye Bai can also do it according to his mood, but it is generally at this price.
As for the salary of junior military units, it was paid last month, 1 silver coin per month.
However, the salary in the military system is relatively more complicated than that of other professions. Since ancient times, raising soldiers has been the most expensive. After level 20, the basic salary increases by 1 silver coin for every five levels of personal level increase, and can be increased to a maximum of 5 gold coins. There are also additional merits in battle, combat rewards, injury pensions, etc., which are all additional financial expenditures. However, with the system calculation, Ye Bai only needs to pay the bills every month.
This is still a primary military unit from level 20 to 40. When it reaches level 40, Ye Bai will be able to obtain advanced military technology and transfer to advanced military. The salary of each soldier will be 10 silver coins. At the same time, the salary will increase by 10 silver coins for every 5 levels increase. The highest basic salary can reach 50 silver coins.
As for the ultimate soldier type corresponding to level 60, the basic salary is 1 gold coin, and there is no additional reward for level increase, because the combat power of level 60 is the upper limit of the territory that can cultivate ordinary NPCs, in other words, the potential ceiling. Only NPCs with special combat talents can continue to upgrade.
Thinking of this, Ye Bai finally remembered Felix, whom he had thrown into the blacksmith shop.
That is a standard combat talent, but it is very troublesome to carry out a personal mission. However, Ye Bai has completed Dilina's personal mission, and now there is a vacancy to take on Felix's mission, so it doesn't hurt to find out.
And because there are too many things to do, several special talents among the refugees have not opened the blind boxes yet. They will open them together after they finish dealing with the finances.
Ye Bai is not short of money at the moment. After purchasing goods from the traveling merchant last time, he still has 10 gold coins, 23 silver coins, and 55 copper coins. He left 1 gold coin in the merchant guild in the territory as a trade supplement. Then he challenged 3 BOSSes and 6 players in a row, and gained 30 gold coins and 45 silver coins. Currently, he has a total of 39 gold coins, 68 silver coins, and 55 copper coins.
Due to the large-scale construction, there are currently no unemployed people in Baiye Town. There are 142 ordinary workers other than the current professionals in the territory. The system quickly calculated the monthly salary for ordinary workers based on their different occupations, which is 51 silver and 23 bronze.
Needless to say, the wealthy lords directly raised them to the highest level, which means that the ordinary salary was doubled, which was only a little more than 1 gold coin. The effect of this was to increase work efficiency by 140%. This was not just as simple as speeding up productivity, but also accelerated the acquisition of skill proficiency, allowing professionals to appear faster.
When it comes to life professionals, their salaries are much higher than those of ordinary workers.
The salary of primary life professionals also has a systematic algorithm, which is determined by skill proficiency and output. The basic salary for three levels of proficiency is 1 to 3 silver coins. Like military units, there will be rewards for additional output outside of tasks.
There are currently 6 people working in the Ye Bai Territory. Among them, the herbalist Lucy, the tailor Calvin, the blacksmith Wade, and the hunter Sean, who were trained by the territory themselves, are all junior professionals. Their combined salary is more than 5 silver coins. Lucy has reached the second level of proficiency as an herbalist and has the highest salary.
Once they become mid-level professionals, their basic salary will be similar to that of high-level soldiers, ranging from 10 to 30 silver coins, while the monthly salary of high-level professionals will increase to 50 to 80 silver coins.
Carly, the current senior professional, can finally receive her first salary of 60 silver coins as her territory is upgraded to town level.
Ye Bai waved his hand and set the highest salary for the five professionals as compensation for their previous work.
In this way, the salary of professionals is as high as more than one gold coin.
Finally, Ye Bai's gaze fell on the name of Dilina, the unique [Sewing Master] in the territory.
Salary: 1 gold coin, 35% profit share of the tailor shop (locked)
This was the contract that Dilina signed with Ye Bai after she was upgraded. Ye Bai breathed a sigh of relief with gratitude - it can only be said that completing a personal task is different.
If the master tailor was offered double wages, even a wealthy man like Ye Bai would be stretched.
Normally, as the top professional, the master level is also a respected figure in the main city. The basic price for letting the other party stay in the territory is 5 to 10 gold coins, and if a master wants to take action, even the lord has to pay extra.
Now Dilina only needs a monthly salary of 1 gold coin and 40% profit dividends, which undoubtedly relieves Ye Bai's great financial pressure.
Of course, if Baiye Town develops into Baiye City in the future and obtains more equipment blueprints for production, Dilina's dividends will be very considerable, far exceeding the monthly salary of 5 to 10 gold coins. Now she is like making a long-term investment in Ye Bai.
After the adjustment, Ye Bai needs to pay a total of 5 gold coins, 24 silver coins and 23 copper coins for the first month's salary.
Of the other two expenses, the territory can be self-sufficient in raw materials, and only some special materials need to be imported, such as the bat wings needed for night clothes, knotty wood needed for energy crossbows, etc. Ye Bai has reserved 2 gold coins as the purchase limit for this expense, which is definitely more than enough.
The rest is expenses. The bulk of the expenses are currently for the maintenance of business buildings and public facilities within the territory, such as the material and manpower consumption of bathhouses and general schools. Because the territory itself has a supply of materials, the total cost is less than 50 silver coins per month.
[Are you sure you want to apply the current financial spending plan? Please put enough money in the safe.]
Following this prompt, the safe next to Ye Bai made a "click" sound and the door opened automatically.
Ye Bai followed the instructions and took out 10 gold coins from his pocket and put them in.
As if verifying that the weight was sufficient, Ye Bai withdrew his hand and the safe door automatically closed slowly.
[Current fiscal plans have been applied.]
After the fiscal plan is released, it cannot be changed before the wages under this plan are paid. Any changes will have to wait until next month.
Ye Bai opened the income page next to it. Fiscal revenue was also divided into three major items: taxes, operating income, and trade income.
Taxes are levied based on population and are related to the houses where people live.
In terms of taxation, Ye Bai has always been a well-deserved good lord, collecting taxes at the lowest rate. Now in the level 4 territory, the residents all live in spacious courtyards, and each person only has to pay a minimum tax of 8 copper coins per month. Currently, the total tax for all residents in the town is only 17 silver and 44 copper coins.
However, when a noble comes to stay, whether he rents or buys a country villa specially maintained in the territory, he will pay Ye Bai at least 5 to 10 silver coins in rent or property tax every month.
Excluding taxes, the territory's income mainly comes from operating income and trade income.
Operating income mainly comes from consumer items in the territory, such as income from theaters, craft shops, furniture factories, fabrics, taverns and other buildings.
Trade is the income from selling trade goods in other territories of the Merchant Guild. There are two high-end tailor shops, and trade income is expected to become the mainstay of White Night Town's income.
Ye Bai estimated based on the current output value of the territory. According to the current situation, by the next fiscal month, the territory's income should be able to recover most of the expenditure.
However, there are currently no numbers in the trade income column. After upgrading to White Night Town, no foreign caravans have come to trade.
However, among the operating income, only the tavern had just earned a dozen copper coins, and this number was still fluctuating in the single digits...
Seeing this, Ye Bai glanced out the window. The sun had not yet set, but some villagers were already running to the pub to drink after work.
Damn it, she, the lord, hasn’t even finished get off work yet!
The unbalanced Ye Bai immediately formulated a 20% overtime strategy, which was set to be cancelled after 3 days. These 3 days were almost the days when the general school was completed. By then, the residents would finish their daytime work, have a meal, and start their evening self-study class. Perfect!
After doing all this, Ye Bai stood up and left the 'Finance Department', passing by the 'Public Security Department' and 'Foreign Affairs Department' next door.
At present, there is nothing that needs special management in these two areas. Ye Bai appointed his personal guard Blaise as the "security captain" of the territory, and set Carrie as the diplomatic representative to handle the security and diplomatic affairs of the territory when she is away. However, because other lords have not yet reached the level of diplomacy, this situation will basically not be encountered.
Feeling as lonely as snow, Ye Bai walked out of the mayor's office and went to the blacksmith shop in the industrial area, looking for Felix who she had almost forgotten.
"Hello, Lord!"
"Greetings, Lord!"
While responding to the villagers' greetings, Ye Bai walked all the way to the door of the blacksmith shop.
Before she went in, she saw the door of the blacksmith shop suddenly opened from the inside. Wade, who had trained his muscles from blacksmithing, walked out carrying an unconscious red-haired boy on his back, with an anxious look on his face.
When Wade found someone standing at the door, he saw that it was Ye Bai and was stunned:
"My Lord, why are you here?"
"What happened to him?" Because of the conspicuous hair color, Ye Bai quickly recognized that the person carried by Wade was Felix, whom he was looking for.
"Oh!" Wade reacted and hurriedly explained to Ye Bai, "Felix was looking at the fire when he suddenly fainted. Luckily he didn't fall into the stove. I was just about to take him to the herbalist's shop to see Pharmacist Lucy."
Ye Bai used an Insight on Felix, then his expression became thoughtful, and he said to Wade: "Come on, I'll go with you."
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