Prince Yue's Mansion!
Sun Cheng, the chief strategist of Prince Yue's Mansion, who was also from the orphanage, was reporting to Ying Mu about the current recruitment work.
"Your Highness, the recruitment for the new city has been completed. A total of 1,000 people have been recruited, including 500 commoners, 73 blacksmiths, 122 carpenters, 18 pharmacists, 107 bricklayers, and 180 craftsmen.”
"Yes, I know. Just arrange for them to be on the list of the second batch of people to set off.”
Ying Mu ordered without any care after hearing this.
Then, he seemed to have thought of something and reminded,"Oh right, tell Zhao Ting to have the Yue Royal Guards protect these 1,000 citizens well. There must not be any casualties on the way to the Pearl River Delta region, understand?”
"This subordinate understands. I will inform Commander Zhao later!”
Sun Cheng immediately replied after hearing Ying Mu's instructions.
He didn't know why Ying Mu valued these 1,000 people so much.
However, since Ying Mu had given such an order, these subordinates could only obediently obey.
After Ying Mu finished speaking, Sun Cheng didn't leave immediately.
He looked like he wanted to say something but hesitated. It was as if he wanted to say something but could not say it.
"Is there anything else?"
Ying Mu couldn't help but raise his head and ask when he saw this.
Hearing Ying Mu's question, Sun Cheng hesitated for a moment. Then, he gritted his teeth and asked,""Please forgive me, Your Highness. I have never understood why Your Highness would use such a large sum of money to recruit commoners to build a city.”
This question had been stuck in Sun Cheng's heart for a long time.
He thought for a long time, but he still couldn't understand why Ying Mu did this.
After all, in his understanding, it was completely natural for a monarch to recruit commoners to build a city. There was no need to give any money to the recruited commoners.
Why did Ying Mu have to pay the people and use money to recruit them to build the city?
Wasn't this money without anywhere to spend it?
Of course, it would be fine if the Imperial Residence was rich. As long as Ying Mu was happy, it would be fine.
However, there was not much wealth in the Prince Yue's estate.
Even Sun Cheng doubted whether the Prince's mansion could afford to pay the commoners for half a year.
This made Sun Cheng puzzled.
After all, he was a strategist.
He was also the chief strategist of the Prince Yue Manor (Sun Cheng thought so himself).
He didn't even know Ying Mu's most basic thoughts. He didn't even understand the true intention of Ying Mu's decree.
This was no ordinary failure.
He felt that…If he did not get an answer to this question, he would probably not be able to sleep tonight.
It was too torturous.
Hearing Sun Cheng's question, Ying Mu gave him a strange look and said,""Isn't it normal to recruit people to work and pay them some wages? What's there to be puzzled about?”
Sun Cheng paused when he heard that. He felt like he was going crazy.
Recruit people to work and pay them.
This was indeed a matter of course.
The key was…Ying Mu wasn't an ordinary person.
He was the King of Yue conferred by Great Qin, the ruler of this land.
If he wanted to build a city, he could just directly recruit laborers. Why would he need to pay for them?
Moreover, the wages Ying Mu gave them were far higher than normal.
This was abnormal!
However, when he saw Ying Mu's genuine expression, Sun Cheng didn't know what to say. He could only bitterly say,"If an ordinary person were to recruit commoners to work, they would definitely need to pay wages. However, Your Highness is different.”
"Why is this king different?"
"Because Your Highness is the ruler of Yue. If you want to build a city, you can recruit labor instead of using money to recruit people like ordinary merchants.”
"Oh, so that's what you think.”
Ying Mu looked at Sun Cheng with disappointment.
He felt that this Level Two Advisor that the system had given him for free was so stupid.
He had not avoided Sun Cheng at all during this period of time.
Most of the work was done by Sun Cheng.
In the end, this guy in front of him actually said that he did not understand it at all.
This was really a waste of the word "strategist".
Didn't Ying Mu know that he could use the 'corvee' method to force the people to build cities in the Pearl River Delta?
How was this possible?
After all, Ying Mu, who had experienced the explosive era of e-commerce in the future, knew better than anyone else in this era how the word "free prostitute" was written.
However, Ying Mu thought for a moment.
In the end, he gave up on using the "corvee" method to get free sex.
The reason was simple.
Because he had seen further, he knew that if he wanted to take something, he had to give it first.
Moreover, the people of this era were already poor enough.
Ying Mu was too embarrassed to continue squeezing them.
Therefore, Ying Mu not only used labor to build the city, but also used money to recruit people.
They even doubled the wages for building the city according to the market price.
Apart from the high wages, Ying Mu also promised to give the recruits the right to cultivate the royal fields.
He even secretly sent people to guide the fishing boats.
In simple words, he told the people at the bottom about the various benefits and profits that the participants and the city builders could obtain during the construction of the new city.
For example, the qualifications to cultivate the royal land, the various reward policies of the royal residence, the business opportunities during the construction of the new city, the skyrocketing property prices after the new city was built, the qualifications to live in the city in the future, and so on.
It was also because of the guidance of these fishing boats that the work of building a city became a hot topic.
Countless people in Yan County had fought to get a city building job.
There were even people who offered to work for free for the Imperial Residence.
He wanted to get a job building a city.
All of this was planned and directed by Ying Mu in secret.
Of course, he was only responsible for talking. The work was done by Sun Cheng and Zhao Ting.
However, what Ying Mu didn't expect was that even though he had already made it so obvious, Sun Cheng still didn't get it. He was still struggling with the issue of why he had to pay the people to build the city.
This caused Ying Mu to feel extremely disappointed.
To be honest, if it wasn't for his own child's fault, he would have probably fired this guy directly if it was a tool he had summoned from the system.
However, how should he explain this matter?
Ying Mu thought for a moment, but he didn't directly explain the issue of paying the commoners. Instead, he asked,"What do you think the people of Yan County would think if they were to recruit laborers to build the city?”
"What would you think?"
Sun Cheng was stunned when he heard this question.
He had never thought about this question before. He just felt that it was natural for the monarch to recruit labor.
"He should be avoiding it, right?"
Sun Cheng replied.
After all, the commoners were not stupid. If they had no choice, who would be willing to go to the corvee?
"Is that all?"
Ying Mu shook his head. He was once again slightly disappointed in his first strategist.
He didn't expect this guy to understand it himself, so he said directly,"In fact, I can indeed recruit the people to build a city in the Pearl River, but how many people can there be in the entire Yan County?”
"There are more than 30,000 people in Yan County, and many of them are newly surrendered mountain people. If we forcefully recruit them, not only will it not help much in building the city, but it will also cause instability in the people's hearts.”
"This can be said to be a loss that outweighs the gain. It will also have a great impact on the later stages of the migration.”
Ying Mu spoke indifferently, explaining why he didn't need to use the method of conscription to recruit the people to build the city.
The entire Yan County had a population of just over 30,000.
Conscription.
At most, they could recruit three to five thousand people.
Compared to Li Xin's army, this number of people was not even a fraction of what they needed. It was not of much help to the development of the Pearl River.
Moreover, the recruitment of corvee would definitely cause the people of Yan County to be unstable. It would also make the people of Yan County fear the Pearl River like a tiger and unwilling to go.
"However, what if we use money to recruit people to build a city?”
"Not only will these commoners not complain, but they will also fight to be the first to go.”
"Once the people of Yan County see the situation in the Pearl River and know that there are millions of acres of fertile land waiting to be developed, combined with the favorable conditions offered by the Prince's mansion, do you think they will be tempted?”
"As long as we let the first 1,000 people benefit and let them earn a lot of money in the Pearl River, what do you think the other people will think when they return home?”
"In other words, we only need to pay a little bit of money to win the hearts of the people and make the people of Yan County and even the people of other counties willingly move to the Pearl River.”
"Do you think we've made a loss or a profit?”
What was money?
To Ying Mu, money was just a pile of scrap metal. He could have as much as he wanted!
Really, this was not a joke, but the literal meaning.
Because in ancient times, as long as you had ores, copper, and iron, you could make your own money.
Of course, the prerequisite was that the imperial court would not find out.
Otherwise, he would definitely be beheaded.
In theory, Ying Mu could make as many copper coins as there were copper mines in the entire Yue Land.
Even as a vassal state of Ying Mu, Yue had its own rights to coin.
Not only could they create coins that belonged to their own vassal states, but they could also secretly create coins that belonged to Great Qin.
Therefore, he was short of money.
Ying Mu had never been worried.
The reason why he didn't coin coins on a large scale was because he had a huge amount of money.
It was nothing more than taking into account the economic situation of Vietnam and preparing to gradually forge coins in conjunction with the economic development of Vietnam to prevent inflation.
Of course, this was not the most important thing.
Most importantly…Ying Mu hadn't thought of how to add anti-counterfeit when he was coining coins to prevent people from making fake coins in his territory and taking advantage of him.
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