Wizard Lords: Building an Empire starts from the panel

In addition to food production for territorial development, the second thing Li Wei thought about was population reproduction and talent cultivation.

“Grandpa Pedro, I don’t know how long this war will last, and I can’t tell when I will come back next time.

If there is a bumper harvest in our territory during the summer harvest in July and the food supply is sufficient, you will issue a decree through the Government Affairs Department.

First of all, the Monterey family encourages the people under its rule to have more children. Pregnant women who are obviously pregnant can register their information at the Government Affairs Department and receive three silver coins as maternity subsidies for twelve consecutive months.

Pregnant women can receive ten silver coins as a one-time subsidy when giving birth, and they can receive another ten silver coins after successfully giving birth to a baby.

Second, young children who have not yet started losing their teeth can also register their information at the Government Affairs Department and receive one silver coin every month as a child care subsidy.

In addition, Grandpa Pedro, please recruit some doctors and midwives with experience in delivering babies, train some assistants, and try to increase the success rate of maternal delivery in our territory. "

Pedro couldn't help but said: "Baron, are we spending too much money? We don't have that much money?"

Li Wei also calculated that if each family gave birth to a baby every year, if Li Wei did this, it would be equivalent to returning a quarter of the total fiscal revenue of the entire territory to the family that gave birth to the baby.

Of course, this fiscal revenue refers to the income method before the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure in General Li Wei's territory.

Taking Montenegro as an example, if Levi had not set up any extraordinary equipment flow workshop or engaged in agricultural innovation, he would have followed the previous business model.

The financial revenue of the Monterey family in Montenegro is mainly agricultural taxes. After that, all industries involving the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation will be scratched by Master Li Wei.

For example, you can only grind wheat into wheat flour through Master Li Wei's mill; you can only buy fabrics purchased by Master Li Wei to make clothes; you need to pay an additional mining fee to Master Li Wei for the wood and stone used to build the house.

Then supplemented by some miscellaneous taxes and fees.

Most of the surplus value created by Levi's subjects became the financial income of the Monterey family.

To use a layman's analogy, suppose that the gross product value created by all the citizens of Montenegro Territory in a year is 30,000 gold coins, but the citizens may only get less than 20,000 gold coins, most of which is used to maintain their survival. The most basic expenses required, the wealth at one's disposal is very limited.

Most of the remaining more than 10,000 gold coins were exploited by Master Li Wei in various ways.

Levi's idea is to make the cake under the Monterey family bigger so that he can get more profits.

"The bandit" once said, "How much money does a poor man have?"

Therefore, increasing the intensity of exploitation is not included in Levi's plan at all.

If the subjects are exploited like slaves, who will have the energy to practice? Where did Livy go to recruit troops? Will the citizens run away?

As for how to make the cake bigger?

One is to improve quantity, and the other is to improve quality.

To increase the quantity is to find ways to increase the population and encourage births.

Anyway, the greater the number of subjects under the Monterey family's rule, the more people working for Li Wei, and the more generous benefits Li Wei would receive.

Improving quality means finding ways to increase “GDP per capita”

From agricultural reform, upgrading steel workshops to extraordinary equipment assembly line workshops, these efforts are all aimed at improving the production level of the territory under Monterey's rule.

How many coins can be dug out of the soil just by relying on primitive and backward farming techniques?

Levi believes that this year's total fiscal revenue will definitely make a qualitative leap compared to last year.

Maybe the fiscal expenditure is higher than the fiscal revenue, but as long as it can get on the fast track of development, Mr. Levi will not hesitate to borrow money to survive.

"Grandpa Pedro, you don't need to worry about money. I will raise enough gold coins. If it doesn't work, I can also ask Marquis Ashan for a loan. In short, as long as the population increases, you will not be afraid of spending money.

In addition, I need you to recruit a few teachers to set up a small-scale cultural training class, which only needs to teach basic writing and arithmetic.

After all, our stall will get bigger and bigger in the future, and we will need some manpower to manage the territory.

At this stage, the students enrolled in the cultural training class are mainly loyal and reliable servants within the family, and veterans of the private army who were injured in the last war but still have basic mobility. "

"This is not difficult, Lord Baron. If the training scale is less than 200 people, I think it will only take three months and gold coins to complete."

Levi nodded with satisfaction and asked tentatively:

"What if I want to hold a martial arts training class? There are only fifty or sixty people in our Monterey family's private army who have reached the third level, which is too few!"

"Lord Baron, this is really not worthwhile!

There are only a few thousand practicing citizens in the territory. It is considered good to be able to produce fifty or sixty third-level regular soldiers. If someone without talent wants to forcefully push to the third level, the cost will be too high and it is completely uneconomical. !

I think you should promulgate policies to encourage the people under your command to take the initiative in cultivation. Then give appropriate rewards to talented young people, so the cost will be much smaller. "

"Grandpa Pedro, can you tell us in detail?"

"I think you can appropriately improve the treatment of our Monterey family's private army, especially the third-level regular soldiers, and then announce it together with the recruitment threshold.

In this way, not only will our Monterey family private army be more convinced of you, but it will also encourage those civilians to practice hard.

Secondly, a small amount of rewards can be given to martial arts cultivators who have reached the second level and above before the age of fifteen, and they can be recruited into the private army as reserve soldiers.

Before the age of eighteen, their salary will be paid according to the standard of second-level senior auxiliary soldiers. If they can break through to the second-level senior auxiliary before the age of eighteen, they will be officially admitted.

I think in this way, those young people who have talents but whose families are too poor to pay for training will not be held back. "

"Grandpa Pedro, then do as you say!"

In fact, Li Wei originally had a very radical plan in mind, which was to open a martial arts school that could accommodate all school-age teenagers in the territory.

Humans cannot practice formally before they are twelve years old, and they can only do some simple basic exercises at most. Levi originally wanted to promote the most basic and simplest version of the foundation building tutorial in his own territory.

Then young people who are over 12 years old can enter the martial arts academy established by the Monterey family. Not only does it cost no money to enter the martial arts academy, but it also provides three meals a day. In this way, the enrollment rate of the people under the rule will be high.

The martial arts academy conducts an internal assessment every year. Those who do not meet the standards will be sent home after registration. This process will eliminate a large number of students.

Especially in the first-year assessment, those who are not suitable for cultivation will basically be singled out.

By eliminating them layer by layer like this, you can always find real gold in the sand, and even the students who are eliminated in the middle can still serve as the basic force of the family's private army.

But in this case, the spread of the business would be too big, and as old Pedro said, it would be uneconomical, and Monterey's finances could not afford it.