366 Touring Lianzhou (1/2)

The next day, the members of the alliance left Shanhai City one by one.

Before they left, Ouyang Shuo prepared a small gift for each of them.

Ouyang Shuo hoped that such an alliance gathering would become a yearly occurrence. Moreover, he wished for the gathering next year to take place in other territories, not just in Shanhai City.

The members would take turns to hold it.

After most of the members left, only Xie Siyun and Lin Jing stayed. Shanhai Alliance and War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group still had a big business deal to complete.

As the Dragon and Tiger Legions were formed, the military had eliminated another huge batch of equipment. Including the equipment that they cleared out from the battlefield of the Battle of Lianzhou, they pretty much had a mountain of equipment.

The Combat Logistics Department calculated that they had over a hundred thousand weapons and ninety thousand sets of armor.

If they sold these equipment for a gold a piece, they could pocket two hundred thousand gold. Needless to say, amongst all the items, there were still a few elite items.

A rough estimation would place the value of this batch of equipment at three hundred thousand gold.

As the main sales merchant of Shanhai City, the War-Snow Rose Mercenary Group would naturally make a killing. As the sum was too enormous, they only took half of the profits.

With that, through selling this set of equipment alone, Ouyang Shuo could earn back three hundred thousand gold. In truth, this sum was similar to the profits the four military workshops earned.

They needed to replace the eliminated equipment with better ones, and the elite ones did not appear from thin air. The four workshops needed to make them.

The military industry started to shine and become one of the most profitable industries in the territory.

This base of cash was the sole reason he possessed the confidence of acquiring the Rattlesnake Mercenary Group.

For the financial income of the second month, Ouyang Shuo had instructed the Financial Department to not keep a single gold and transfer it all into the territory.

As the Lianzhou Prefecture was being built, many large-scale projects began at the same time.

The Construction Division considered the building of the outer city of Shanhai City, the construction of the Mulan Stronghold, the roadworks and the building of Shenjuan City the four big projects.

Each project cost no less than 230 thousand gold.

Amongst these projects, the construction of the outer city formed a bottomless pit. According to Wei Ran, this historical megacity would take an entire year just to form its structure.

According to estimations, the completed Shanhai City could hold more than five million people.

The Shanhai House would mainly spend their gold on basic public facilities like roads, ports, distribution centers, bridges, parks, temples, drum towers, schools and more.

Based on this alone, the construction costs would reach more than two hundred thousand gold.

Out of this sum, the Lord's Manor would subsidise a portion, while Shanhai House paid for the rest.

In order to raise funds, Wei Ran sold land!

Wei Ran inspired Shenjuan House prefect Shen Zhui to use a similar method to raise funds when building Shenjuan City. Shenjuan City was split into inner and outer city.

The House Office would build all of the inner city, while the outer city would be mostly sold.

The Lord’s Manor would pay for the Mulan Stronghold and the road networks.

Needless to say, the roads belonged to public facilities of the Lianzhou Prefecture. The Mulan Stronghold was purely a military stronghold, so it would not allow commoners to invest and involve themselves.

Based on the estimation, the road network needed half a year to be built, and it would cost a hundred thousand gold. The Mulan Stronghold would take three more months, and the cost of production would be seventy thousand gold.

Basically, the future half year or more of financial income from the Lianzhou Prefecture would be invested into construction projects.

If he added the other medium-scale projects, as well as the huge military expenditure, then Ouyang Shuo would not be able to keep a single cent from the income in the 2nd year of Gaia.

Who knows, Ouyang Shuo would probably need to think of a way to raise money to make up for financial deficits.

Gaia 2nd year would become the most crucial year in the construction of Lianzhou Prefecture.

Ouyang Shuo was looking forward to Lianzhou Prefecture's economy flourishing and becoming a stable and strong shield. At the same time, it would become a reliable backbone of the territory.

That afternoon, Ouyang Shuo was in the reading room. He personally met Du Ruhui, Cobra, and Viper, as well as the three heads of the Military Intelligence Division.

Songsan would be removed from his position and appointed as deputy secretary. At the same time, he would still be the leader of the special operations team.

Cobra would leave the special forces training camp and officially take up the role of secretary.

The reason Ouyang Shuo planned it this way was to control and restrict Cobra. The three team leaders in the division were all people he highly trusted.

For Cobra to do anything funny in the Military Intelligence Division was near impossible.

Even in the future, when rattlesnake members joined the division, their positions would still be lower than the three team leaders.

Ouyang Shuo personally oversaw the organization of the Military Intelligence Division. Temporarily, it would only have three teams; this would not change in the short term.

In this time, Ouyang Shuo hoped that Songsan, Lengqian, and Lei Xun could quickly grow under Cobra's leadership.

With that, the Military Intelligence Division still remained under his control.