Urban Sims

Chapter 399
With the increase of population and the improvement of productivity, a huge problem has been placed in front of the town of Limburg.

The sales speed of products cannot keep up with the production speed of products.

There is a large backlog of commodities in warehouses, resulting in nowhere to store new products and old products rot.

For example, golden wheat bread tastes fragrant and sweet, but the shelf life is only six months.

Another product, "Brick Bread", tastes a bit unpalatable, but it can be stored for one year.

But no matter half a year or a year, in the process of cleaning up the inventory in the past few days, a total of more than 5000 tons of two types of bread were processed.

The same goes for canned meat, with more than 2000 tons thrown away.

The waste was extremely serious. Lao Sun, the person in charge of the warehouse, felt distressed and blamed himself. He even said that he did not take good care of it and put away all the good things. At the same time, he was very worried, would he be punished?

"It's okay, grandson, it's not your problem, it's the sales speed of our products, which is too slow."

Zhou Ming comforted Lao Sun and understood the root of the problem.

There is overproduction.

Bread, canned meat, and fur clothing, among the three types of commodities, except for fur clothing, which are sold cleanly, there is a backlog of other commodities.

In order to reduce waste, the operating rate of the factory had to be reduced, and the work and rest arrangement of the workers was also changed from having two days off every Friday to three days off every four days, and the eight-hour work system was still maintained.

Even so, the output of bread and canned meat still exceeds demand.

In the town hall.

"The road is mainly because of the road. Although many businessmen are willing to come to Limburg Town, the road conditions still make many businessmen give up their plans, because the farther the road is, the more dangerous and unprofitable it is. "

Zhou Ming pointed out the problem and said: "Only by building a flat, wide and relatively safe road will attract more businessmen to Limburg Town and sell more products."

"Build the road?"

Uncle Xia looked puzzled: "What kind of road will be built? Where will it be built?"

Wu Yong, the deputy mayor, also asked, "What should we do if others don't let us build the road past their gate?"

The participants raised various questions, and felt that no matter what kind of road it is, it is not so easy to repair... and will be constrained by various aspects. Even Limburg Town is willing to bear all the road repair costs.

"If this road is not built, Limburg Town may remain in this state forever without further development."

Zhou Ming said solemnly: "This road will bring us certain risks, but it can also bring huge benefits!"

Because this road is a "concrete road" that is more than 1000 miles long and directly leads to Jinyan City.

Not bad!

Cement, recently led by Zhou Ming with a research team, was successfully fired.

It is also a coincidence that he led the researchers to use several special soils to burn some high-value ceramics. As a result, after the kiln was opened, the "ceramic" was burned into a pile of powder, and water was sprinkled on the pile of powder. After that, it quickly turned into something as hard as a rock... This is a kind of cement with very good properties, not only hard, but also has a certain degree of toughness.

It can be used to build roads.

The reserves are also extremely rich.

Zhou Ming also discovered that although the metal elements in this plane are rare, most of the non-metallic compounds can retain the original physical and chemical properties, or even better.

For example, glass and cement were produced relatively easily, and ceramics were almost successfully developed.

And a piece of exquisite glass, not to mention the price in big cities, is the ex-factory price of the glass factory in Limburg Town, which reached 500 Ling coins a piece, and merchants rushed to buy it, and the supply exceeded demand.

There is also the rare large luxury vanity mirror with a length of 2 meters and a width of 0.5 meters. The price is 1 spiritual brick (1 spiritual brick = 1 spiritual coins). 100 have already been ordered.

Therefore, as long as there is a road, it means that there will be a bigger market and outlets. All industries in Limburg Town, no matter low-end or high-end, can take off at a high speed and generate a lot of money.

only……

Someone will definitely ask: Limburg Township is already very rich, if it gets richer, isn't it afraid of becoming a "fat sheep" in the eyes of other forces?

And the access target of Limburg Town is Jinyan City, which has [-] households and a population of nearly one million. If it is targeted by the high-level forces in this city and connected by cement roads, wouldn't it be courting death at high speed?
Possibly a worse road condition would be more in the interest of the town of Limburg.

Having said that, Zhou Ming's determination to build roads is not only for the purpose of increasing product sales, but also for another.

Expand the population of Limburg town.

Strive to increase the population of Limburg Town from less than 4000 to 10 within five years.

Expand the town of Limburg into a city.

The question is: within five years, how can he bring in a population of nearly [-] to the small town of Limburg.

Of course, the cement road can only be repaired there, and the work of the "immigration team" will be carried out there.

When the road was repaired to Golden Rock City, the goal of the immigration team became this city with a population of one million. Calculated at a ratio of one-tenth, it would not be any problem to get a population of 10 from Golden Rock City.

Because today's Limburg Town is already a "legendary place" famous for hundreds of miles around, it is full of wealth and opportunities everywhere, and there are hundreds of gold diggers who come here to develop every year. Not only will he not leave again, but he will bring the whole family here and register as a registered permanent residence in Limburg Town.

However, the influence of Limburg Township is still not big enough, and it does not attract many immigrants every year. Therefore, Zhou Ming needs to pass the "Linjin Road" project to make a name for himself while building the road.

Therefore, this road has many advantages, even if it has disadvantages.

Whether it will be repaired or not depends on how the decision-makers evaluate it.

However, Zhou Ming, who was the main decision-maker, still ruled out the public opinion and took the decision: Repair!
Immediately organize engineering personnel and start repairing!

There are three reasons.

One, the number of Keqing who recently joined Limburg Town has increased again, from the original two to the current seven.

Among the five newly added people, four are husband and wife combinations, both have children, and their cultivation bases are above the middle stage of Qi refining. The most powerful one is actually a strong person in the late stage of Qi refining.

Those two couples are old acquaintances of Su Yuanlong and Wang Caifeng, and their relationship is very good. Not to mention that Su Yuanlong and his wife successfully invited them over by writing a letter, the treatment level of the four of them is also reduced to 3 Lingcoins/year, which is not too much , not too little, of course Zhou Ming also promised to give them a raise in the future.

The last guest is a 28-year-old single female monk. She is not very beautiful, but she is a bit like a handsome man. She likes to dress up as a man. Others can't see the problem, her voice is thicker, and her name is very masculine: Jiang Ruonan.

Jiang Ruonan has a peculiar physique and outstanding talent. His cultivation has reached the peak in the late stage of Qi refining, and he is likely to break through to the liquid condensation stage and enter a new realm of strong men.

What surprised Zhou Ming even more was that, as the guest minister with the highest cultivation level in Limburg Township, Jiang Ruonan did not have any requirements for treatment. However, when she successfully breaks through to the condensate stage, she doesn't want a spiritual coin.

Zhou Ming was surprised by her request, and then saw the other six guest officials with strange expressions, which seemed to be hidden, and his face changed, and he guessed the key point.

"This Miss Jiang, I'm afraid she is in trouble and wants to avoid disaster here?"

"Miss Jiang's cultivation is so superb that she was forced to run away. Your enemy must have a high cultivation level, right?"

Looking at her expression, Zhou Ming really saw a trace of uneasiness and panic, so he cupped his hands and bowed: "Ms. Jiang, why don't you go to that big city and seek protection from a big force. I'm weak and weak, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist."

Jiang Ruonan blushed and faltered: "I'm only here for a short time, and I won't bring you any trouble. Besides, I've already thrown off that powerful enemy. I won't be able to find me in a while."

"And if you find it?"

Zhou Ming asked with a sullen face.

"Then I'll go by myself."

"If you leave, the strongman will get angry and retaliate? What will the people of this town do?"

Zhou Ming cupped his hands again and saluted: "Miss Jiang, I would like to offer 10 Lingcoins as expenses and money for the girl along the way."

"you……"

Jiang Ruonan pointed at Zhou Ming, his face turned red, tears welled up in his eyes, and just as he was about to say something, he just left, I don't want your filthy money, but the other two monks standing aside gave her a look.

"Crush~"

Jiang Ruonan immediately understood, pulled out the rapier from his waist, put it on Zhou Ming's neck, and said angrily: "I just want to stay with you for a few days, it is very unreasonable for you to refuse repeatedly, if you do this again ,I kill you!"

Feeling the cool sword energy coming from his neck, and the strong breath emanating from the woman in front of him, Zhou Ming was startled: this woman is in the late stage of Qi refining, and he is not yet in the middle stage of Qi refining.

This woman wants to kill herself, three or five moves at most.

And the six guests next to her didn't intend to rescue her... They were friends of this female monk.

Zhou Ming immediately changed his words, cupped his hands and said: "Miss Jiang, don't be angry. I think about it for a while and think that the girl can stay here temporarily. I will arrange for someone to settle down and entertain with all my heart, as a landlord."

"Humph~"

Jiang Ruonan put down his sword, snorted and said, "That's about the same."

After leaving the house, Zhou Ming saw a trace of shame on the faces of several guests, but he remained expressionless and had a clearer understanding of the nature of this world.

The strong are respected!
He said in his heart: "In the future, the so-called guest ministers will not be recruited if they can't be recruited. Everything depends on themselves!"

Except for the Keqing side, the strength has been greatly enhanced. The number of the village guard army has also been increased to 300 by paying high salaries and recruiting surrounding hunters, and most of them are full of crossbows. Zhou Ming The next goal is to expand the number of the Home Guard Army to 1.

The last one is related to a mysterious weapon. This weapon is a special weapon developed based on the special particles of the plane of "Lingyuan". Although each piece costs as much as 1 Lingcoins, its power, It is ten times that of the god arm crossbow.

The use requirements are not high, and monks in the early stage of Qi refining can use it.

Even, on this mysterious weapon, Zhou Ming saw that another path of peculiar technology based on "Lingyuan" may bring earth-shaking changes to this plane.

(End of this chapter)