The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 34 New Model

"As for the salt industry." Yue Wenxuan gave Qian Zhuoqun a strange smile. "The salt output of Guanhai Salt Field is not small. It is impossible for the small Dongmiaozi Village to consume it all. We must find a shipping channel."

Qian Zhuoqun was a wealthy businessman in the past, so he certainly understood the logic behind this. He quickly said, "I have the same idea, but it's just that there's chaos and turmoil outside, and I don't know where to find a buyer for the time being."

Yue Wenxuan smiled meaningfully: "I have left you a way out."

Qian Zhuoqun: “???”

Madam Gong Er suddenly woke up and said, "Master, the salt smuggler you captured alive was left behind to help us solve this problem?"

Yue Wenxuan didn't explain, walked out of the lobby with a smile, and flew into the sky in an instant.

Looking back outside the sand table, Madam Gong Er quickly sent people out, holding gongs, and walking around Dongmiaozi Village, banging them as they went: "Madam Gong Er has issued an order, everyone can farm without worry, no worries. All land taxes and miscellaneous taxes will be temporarily exempted this year... Madam Gong Er has issued an order, everyone can farm without worry... We are not bandits..."

This move was indeed very effective. Nothing could make farmers feel more at ease than tax exemption. The villagers bravely pushed open the door and found that the queen's men had not done anything out of line. They became bolder and quickly took up their hoes to turn over the fields and clear the ditches.

At the same time, Qian Zhuoqun took his men to the cellar and brought out the unlucky salt smuggler who was beaten black and blue by Zhang Dashu.

Without any need for interrogation, the salt smuggler burst into tears and confessed that Mr. Wang had two ways to sell salt. One was by land, where his team of salt smugglers would transport the salt to Jinan City for sale. Of course, this route was now blocked because the Jin army had caused chaos and the land route was completely blocked.

The other way was the sea route. Mr. Wang did not have a ship, so he could only wait for a sea merchant to come and buy the salt. At the beginning of every even-numbered month, this sea merchant would take a boat to the seashore closest to Dongmiaozi Village to collect the goods. Mr. Wang paid him 12 wen per catty of sea salt.

Knowing the shipping price makes it easier to determine the receiving price.

Qian Zhuoqun sent people to Guanhai Salt Field and announced that the price of salt would be raised to 6 cents per catty.

The salt collectors were overjoyed. They had originally hoped that the rebels would restore the government-set price of 4 cents per catty, but they did not expect the rebels to raise it to 6 cents, which was twice as much as Mr. Wang's.

The salt workers finally calmed down and became more motivated to make salt.

Dongmiaozi Village and Guanhai Salt Field have finally resumed their normal production rhythm.
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"Drip!"

A text message alert sounded on his phone. Yue Wenxuan picked up the phone and read: "Your package has been delivered to the Cainiao Station in Wangjiang Qinghuai Community. Please use the pickup code 1-4-XXXX to pick it up."

"Huh? How come there's a package? I haven't bought anything in the past few days."

Yue Wenxuan went downstairs in his pajamas and went to the Cainiao Express Station to pick up the package and take it home. It was a huge cardboard box, almost half the size of the chest of drawers at home. There was a word printed on the box: "Qiuzhi Shenguan Sculpture Co., Ltd."

The name seemed unfamiliar, and it took him several seconds to remember that a month ago, he had promoted the Mandarin Duck Squad soldiers, which had a huge sales volume. The manufacturer was called "Autumn Divine Light Sculpture Co., Ltd.". The manufacturer said they would give away a batch of models and even asked him for the delivery address.

Yue Wenxuan was looking forward to receiving some good things for a few days, but he never received any express delivery. A month passed and he had long forgotten about it, but he didn't expect that this box of gifts would awaken his dead memories.

Memory is like an ex-girlfriend: after she's been away for so long, you can hardly remember her. But when she suddenly appears in front of you, the memories will come flooding back, becoming crystal clear.

"What kind of work efficiency is this? It took you a whole month to send a gift." Yue Wenxuan complained as he unpacked the package. "With your efficiency, it's a miracle you didn't go bankrupt."

After complaining, the package was opened.

The first thing that caught his eye was a set of Mandarin Duck formation figures. Yue Wenxuan was quite satisfied with this set of soldiers. He could add another Mandarin Duck squad to the sandbox. Oh, and there were also four matching Japanese pirates. When he needed to do some dirty work, he could send these four Japanese pirates out. He wouldn't feel bad if they died.

Continue taking items out of the boxes.

As soon as the second set of models was taken out, Yue Wenxuan's eyes lit up.

Pharmaceutical Ornament Set

This is a set of pharmaceutical models, with a total of eight little figures, each responsible for a step in the pharmaceutical making process. They are small and cute.

This really made Yue Wenxuan overjoyed. This set of models is very useful and will definitely come in handy in the future.

Continue...

The third model: agricultural culture ornaments set

The fourth model: Papercraft ornaments set
The fifth set of models: Forging craft ornaments set

Yue Wenxuan was holding a few new sets of ornaments in his hands, and he was inexplicably excited: "Oh my god! This is amazing! These sets of models are simply a huge benefit for me. Qiu Zhi Shen Guang Company is awesome."

If it weren't for the limitations on his command ability, he would have wanted to put all of these into the sand table immediately, let the plastic people work hard, make the country rich and the people strong as quickly as possible, and then send a large number of troops to defeat the Jin Dynasty.

However, the limitation of leadership ability is real. Don’t even think about putting all of them into it. We can only invest selectively and in stages. So the question is, at this stage, which category should we invest in first?

Just as Yue Wenxuan was thinking this, he heard movement on the sand table. Zhang Dalang ran in from outside the village fort and stood in front of Qian Zhuoqun. "Second brother, I went to the village to ask around. There was indeed a blacksmith in Dongmiaozi Village before, but a few months ago, he went to the county town to sell kitchen knives and was caught by Jin soldiers on the way... I heard that when his wife found him, his head and body were separated..."

Qian Zhuoqun showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "What should I do? Where else can I find a blacksmith?"

Zhang Dalang said, "I'll take a group of brothers and go to the neighboring village to try our luck."

Qian Zhuoqun sighed, "That's all we can do. We must be extremely careful when we go out. Although the Jin soldiers have retreated, there are still countless bandits and thugs out there, and there are also armed gentry like Mr. Wang..."

When Yue Wenxuan heard this, his eyes lit up: It seems that I should invest in the blacksmith first.

Now there is a Qi Jiguang on the sand table who is responsible for training troops, and there are also several "fairy weapons". They all occupy a certain amount of command power, and I don’t know whether the blacksmith suit is enough to release the command power.

Yue Wenxuan could only think to himself: Blacksmiths belong to the "production unit" and not the "combat unit", so the required command ability should be relatively low, right?
Just like in the game "StarCraft", farmers only take up 1 population, while soldiers take up 2 population.

A full set of blacksmith ornaments should not be as good as the command power required for a set of Mandarin Duck Formation, right?

You’ll know after you give it a try.

Yue Wenxuan placed the entire blacksmith set, including five plastic blacksmith figurines, a furnace, anvil, blower, hammer, and so on, in the corner of the sand table...

There was no prompt about insufficient command ability, and it was actually successfully placed in.

(End of this chapter)