320 Black hearted Prefec (1/2)

As the Lord's Manor expanded, Cui Yingyu and Qing'er also obtained their individual courtyards. Ouyang Shuo even arranged for Bing’er to stay alone to develop her independence. Zisu would personally take care of her.

Although the Lord's Manor had expanded once again, they continued the dining tradition. No matter how busy Cui Yingyu and Qing'er were, they would rush to the main courtyard to eat with Ouyang Shuo.

Ouyang Shuo made such arrangements because he did not want distance to affect their relationship.

Compared to Cui Yingyu, who the rumors affected, Qing'er was doing well. Her garment workshop had expanded once more, and it had become the largest workshop in Shanhai City. At this stage, just the tailors alone reached hundreds of people.

The orders the workshop accepted was not limited to the Financial Department welfare packages, as they took orders from commoners, the various settlements, and even the Chamber of Commerces.

For the next step, Qing'er wanted to bring in some weaving machines to build a large scale weaving workshop to solve the problem of material supply. In addition to the large scale garment shop, they basically covered the entire industry process.

In the future, Qing'er was even prepared to rent a large area in the west to set up mulberry gardens and cotton gardens to solve the problem of source materials.

Qing'er was personally in charge of the tailor shop, the designs, and the high class customizations.

She had used the industry chain theory that Ouyang Shuo had taught her to perfection.

As the industry expanded, Qing'er's profits kept increasing. She had achieved her dream of being rich. Her personal assets had reached ten thousand gold, which made her one of the rich people in the territory.

Ouyang Shuo had never expected her to possess such a talent.

However, she was still lacking in a certain aspect. Due to her complete obsession with money, she had neglected her skills. Although she was the first talent to become a master, she was not the first to become a grandmaster.

Even if you did not mention the grandmaster blacksmith Wanghao, even the master level shipbuilder Zheng Dahai was on the verge of a breakthrough after building the Dragon Head.

Regarding this matter, Ouyang Shuo especially looked for Qing'er and described the problem to her. He really did not want to see her talent in tailoring wasted for nothing.

As for the effect of his words, only time would tell.

The progress of the garment workshop basically mirrored the expansion and growth of the shops in Shanhai City.

After privatization, the first batch of workshop and shop owners basically got rich if nothing special happened.

As the quantity of wealth increased, the amount of merchants also followed.

Firstly, they had higher requirements for living conditions. The merchants were not happy with the small courtyards built by the Construction Division. Instead, they wanted to buy land and build their own villas and mansions.

To say the least, they were envious of the official residence area.

Luckily, the Shanhai City planning was done, and the Construction Division worked together with the Shanhai House to choose a piece of land that wealthy merchants could loan. This would allow the merchants to build their houses.

In the plans of the Shanhai City region, the core area where the Lianzhou Lord's Manor was located was known as the imperial city. Outside of that was the inner city, which included the area inside of the city wall of Qiushui County and Friendship County.

The region outside the city walls were known as the outer city.

The outer city took up 600 square kilometers, the size of eight Chang An cities. Shanhai House could afford to use such a huge region freely.

Purely from renting land, Shanhai House earned 50 thousand gold, and this earning continued to increase.

Apart from the merchants, the commercial ability of the soldier's families could not be neglected.

As time went on, the generals and the people in the army all married. Their large salary ensured that their families could live a rich life.

For the families of the soldiers, the territory gave them preferential treatment.

Shanhai House similarly planned a bigger region in the outer city for the housing of the soldiers' families. Their living conditions were much higher than normal commoners and they had more complete facilities.

Of course, one needed to pay for it and the sales price was not cheap. Through this method, Shanhai House prefect Wei Ran had wiped away all the hard earned salary of the soldiers.

Because of that, the soldiers termed him as the black hearted prefect and some of them even made noises at the Military Affairs Department.

The military affairs director Du Ruhui felt helpless. After all, Wei Ran was making logical and correct decisions. Furthermore, the splitting of duties and power meant that although he was the military affairs director, he had no power over Wei Ran.

When Ouyang Shuo heard about this matter, he just laughed it off. He did not expect for Wei Ran to have such an economic mind and replicate the modern housing industry in Shanhai City.

Apart from lending out land to let the rich build their mansions, Wei Ran eagerly tried to persuade the various Chamber of Commerces to buy land and build various workshops.

The Cui Chamber of Commerce were the first. With a price of 20 thousand gold, they bought a piece of land along Friendship River. Hequanji was not far behind and with a price of 30 thousand gold, they bought an even bigger piece of land.