Star Tycoon

Chapter 148 Willing to admit defeat
Tian Ersan arrived in the city with a huge sum of 13860 yuan in his pocket.

"Build residential houses!"

The wealth he had plundered from the entire village quickly vanished into the distance like flowing water.

All the able-bodied people went to work together, and the wood, mud, and stones needed to build the house were all flown in from the city warehouses.

Tian Ersan stood nearby, looking at the villagers who weren't very enthusiastic about working, and then at the warehouse in the distance.

"It seems that when constructing buildings, priority should be given to using warehouse resources rather than unharvested resources in resource fields."

This isn't a good thing, but the impact isn't too significant.

If one person needs 72 hours to work in a residential building, it will be much faster if more than 20 people work together.

Once five people have been relocated, the construction of the next house will proceed much faster.

"Theoretically, there should be an upper limit, which is the maximum number of people that a building can accommodate during construction."

"Also, we need to build more farmland. Each household typically consumes 10 to 20 catties of grain. Currently, we consume several hundred catties of grain per day. When we have 50 households, we will definitely need to build more farmland."

"We need to have production capacity, but we also need people to do the work, otherwise we can't get the goods to the warehouse."

"Don't worry about the food problem for now; the most important thing is taxation!"

"I have no income for the next six months, and I'm relying on these new families to support me."

"If we don't build more stations, we won't even be able to raise enough money for the transportation."

The first house was quickly built, and five people came out of it: two parents, two young men, and a girl.

Fu Xue Niu consumes 12 jin of grain per day and produces 12 copper coins per day. He cannot serve as a soldier, but he is a skilled worker and craftsman. He will not run away.

Yin Xiaojuan consumes 10 jin of grain per day and produces 8 copper coins per day. She cannot serve in the army, but she is capable of working and will not run away.

Fu Weiru consumes 8 jin of grain per day and produces 4 copper coins per day. He can serve as a soldier, do manual labor, or be a craftsman. He will not run away.
Fu Weigong consumes 8 jin of grain per day and produces 4 copper coins per day. He can serve as a soldier, do manual labor, or be a craftsman. He will not run away.
After becoming a servant, one consumes 4 catties of grain per day and produces 1 copper coin per day. One cannot serve as a soldier, does not work, and will not run away.

"A four-man team with one player!" Tian Ersan exclaimed, "Great! Excellent! You're all talented!"

The two middle-aged couples in their forties and fifties and the two young men in their twenties all smiled.

Sixteen-year-old Fu Weihou blushed slightly and tried to say, "I'm not bad looking, and I can do a lot of things for my lord..."

Tian Ersan glanced at her and said, "Shut up! Useless woman!"

The young, beautiful, and fair-skinned Empress Fu lowered her head in shame, not daring to utter another word in rebuttal.

The unpleasant feeling from being scolded earlier has been transferred to someone else. Tian Ersan is no longer sad and has forgotten about being scolded.

"Keep building! Build another house!"

13860 can build four rooms, and even more if you include taxes!

"Five people + 29 incomes!"

“5田3土5木2石30天就是……按照木头150，每个民房需要5方木头来算就是三十间。”

"Thirty houses should cost 90000 copper coins. Can I build that many with my 13860 copper coins?"

This is not only a mathematical problem, but also a moral, human, and legal one.

The law mainly focuses on whether it can support an additional 150 people.

People in the city can't go outside the city to collect grain. Can the twenty-odd people outside support the consumption of two hundred people at that time?

Soon, a second house appeared, and this time eight people came out of the five houses, including grandparents and children.

The larger the population, the more taxes are paid, and the more capable the men are.

The Cheng family paid 17 in taxes, while the four families that Tian Ersan attracted by spending 12,000 all paid at least 25.
Fu family: 5 people, 29 taxes

Yin family: 8 people, 36 taxes

Cao family: 25 taxes for six people

Liu family: Nine people, 35 taxes

125 per day!

The four families consumed more than 400 jin of grain. Tian Ersan knew this, but still chose to continue increasing the population.

When Fu Weihou wasn't working, he would eat. Luckily, there was still sparrow meat in the warehouse. He would eat the meat while watching others work, and his loyalty would quickly reach its maximum.

“My lord, it’s not easy for you to manage so many of us outside, but once the administrative hall is built, we can come in here to sleep just like you, and the copper coins we spend will decrease as the administrative hall’s level increases.”

Tian Ersan quickly looked toward the governing hall in the buildable building.

[Government Hall] The place where various decrees are issued. It requires 10000 copper coins and 100 cubic meters of various resources to build. It takes 1000 hours to build.

Currently, we are lacking in various resources, with iron being the most scarce.

Tian Ersan quickly made a clearer choice.

"Taxation for six months!"

Copper coins +22500!!
The faces of the twenty or thirty people instantly fell.

The neighborhood was eerily quiet.

Tian Ersan was already used to this kind of thing and could face it calmly.

The shortage of iron is too great. We can slowly accumulate 100 cubic meters, but right now we have the time, not the money.

Iron ore fields are too expensive, costing 2,000 copper coins each. Right now, I only need to collect 100 cubic meters a month, so there's no need to rush.

“Build four iron mines.”

Six months' worth of tax revenue was quickly gone, with nearly half gone. Ten thousand needed to be set aside for building the government building, leaving only 4500 for other expenses. "Build houses!"
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3000!

"Build five farmlands!"
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500!

I'm out of money again...

Tian Ersan realized that building a structure would require a lot of stone.

But a stone quarry costs a thousand...

Despite his gritted teeth, Tian Ersan built one, turning the stone material field from two to three.

After the new house was built, Tian Ersan levied six months' worth of taxes on the Lin family members who came out of the house.

+5400!

"Build houses!!"
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3000!

"Taxation! Six months!"

+4500!

"Build houses!"

"Build houses!"
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3000!
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3000!

There are 10900 copper coins remaining, of which 10,000 cannot be spent, leaving only 900 copper coins usable.

At this point, the total population had reached 64, which is 64 people if we only count the main population, not counting the accompanying people.

The two newly arrived households quickly emerged from the courtyard, which dispelled Tian Ersan's ambition to continue collecting taxes.

The two households consisted of fifteen people, all women, all of whom did not pay taxes, work, or run away, but were eligible to join the army...

Tian Ersan was very confused. "Why are they all women?"

The newly emerged, elegant old woman with a full head of silver hair, who looked to be in her sixties, said, "You're levying taxes too harshly. No men want to come here anymore; it's just us old women, daughters-in-law, and young wives left."

Seriously? They just turned on you like that…

Seeing these "three-no" personnel, Tian Ersan, true to his word, stopped collecting taxes.

"Okay, I admit my mistake. I won't charge you any taxes. I'm leaving."

Tian Ersan quickly took Pan Shouzhen, Fu Weihou, and the newly joined She Jinhua, Chai Meirong, and Mu Xiuying out.

The last two families, totaling 15 people, all died without a male heir; they were all mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters-in-law.

After Tian Ersan went out, he looked at the household registration book.

Pan Shouzhen ran a barbershop in the county to support her two sons, but it's currently closed.
The Fu family of five ran an inconspicuous street-front restaurant in their own house. Fu Weihou graduated from high school, and his two older brothers graduated from university. The restaurant is currently closed.

She Jinhua, 60 years old, is a retired female teacher from No. 1 Middle School.

Chai Meirong, 29 years old, with a university degree, is a civil servant and female judge.

Mu Xiuying, 17 years old, female high school student.

Tian Ersan looked at the pretty high school girl and the young married woman, and then at the two household registration books containing fifteen people.

"How did the men in your family die?"

She Jinhua replied, "All eight men in my family were policemen, and they all died one after another over the past twenty years."

What the hell!

What the hell!

Did they really follow the example of the Yang family's female generals?

Is that really such nonsense?
Fortunately, there is no story of the Yang family women generals in this world, otherwise Tian Ersan would not dare to give them names randomly.

Tian Ersan himself was an orphan randomly assigned by the system, so he was already indifferent to this kind of thing, but at this moment he still felt very damned.

"Then you should go back and find someone yourselves. Don't wait until you get here to find out, otherwise it will be really hard to explain."

"It's best not to make a fuss about it now, and don't come here to contact me. Let's talk about it in a few days. In the meantime, you should study mechanical design, manufacturing and automation. I'm not going to go into that field for now."

They all nodded in agreement, as they were all capable of continuing their studies.

Pan Shouzhen said, "I don't want to study that anymore. I want to study fashion design—to design beautiful and sexy lingerie for you, Mr. Tian, ​​to admire!"

Tian Ersan got angry just looking at this useless woman. Not only did she not pay taxes, but she also wasted the labor force!
"Studying fashion design is fine! But go back and behave yourself!"

Tian Ersan scolded them a few times, and soon had Li Chuhong drive the women home.

Li Chuhong went out the most, often visiting clothing factories and canneries, and also going to the old street to interact with the street office director and various officials.

After everyone left, Tian Ersan continued working in his office.

Let's talk about the rest in June!
Tian Ersan still did not regret what he had done.

If we hadn't developed this area in advance, we probably wouldn't have been able to build any houses now, let alone a government building.

The ability to build the government building in June is closely related to the early collection of taxes.

It's May 1st now, and six months from now it will be November 1st. At that time, tax payment for all personnel will be restored, and public morale will generally rise to over 80%.

Everything will be back to full value by Chinese New Year.

"Let's not increase the population for now, let's focus on upgrading technology and buildings first."

(End of this chapter)