Chapter 122:
After visiting the business district of the three major departments, Lomo and Barron came to the political hall of Sachs City together.
For this inspection by Lomo, Old Pope led the heads of the civil affairs department to wait here early.
Luo Mo looked at Pop with a very warm smile on his face, and even hugged Pop. This made Pop a little flattered and overjoyed.
Looking at Pop's slowly growing gray hair and the dark circles under his eyes caused by a long period of sleep deprivation, Luo Mo smiled and said, "Pop, you really worked hard." Luo Mo
knew that from Sacheng to the dock, these two Although Old Barron was leading the construction of this major project, the former mayor of Shaker Town was actually the commander-in-chief.
After all, Barron has been a servant of the Saldin Manor since he was a child, and he was only the housekeeper of the Saldin Manor two years ago. At that time, the scale of the manor was very small, and Barron's responsibility was nothing more than taking the farmers to work in the fields and taking care of the food, drink, and urination of the Lomo family.
The manor has grown so fast in the past two years, and the number of people in the manor has also grown exponentially. Barron has long become powerless. He had no clue about building docks and cities.
Therefore, most of what he does is auxiliary work such as cargo management or finance. The entire project was actually managed by Pop.
As the leader of a town, Pope led the townspeople through an extremely difficult period. After Romo killed Baron Nora, he resolutely led the villagers to defect to the Saldin Manor. It is enough to prove that Pope has authority, vision, and courage, and is an excellent leader.
Lomo actually admires Pope very much. In terms of ability, he should be the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Barron should be the deputy minister.
However, at present, the two people are discussing with each other, the division of labor is clear, and there is no obvious contradiction. More importantly, Lomo obviously trusts Barron more, so Lomo does not intend to change this harmonious working atmosphere for the time being.
At this moment, people from the civil affairs department began to introduce the recent work results to Luomo.
The first is the newly opened industrial and social sector. During this period, under the guidance of Lomo, the working community opened oil refining workshops, sugar making workshops, clothing workshops, and various handicraft workshops.
These workshops not only use the original production techniques of this world, but also include some ideas unique to Lomo. For example, the various women's clothing styles produced by clothing workshops received detailed guidance from Lomo.
Today, they produce tutu skirts, new maid uniforms, hip-covering skirts, and various stockings designed and named by Lomo himself, all of which are sold to all parts of the north in the fleets of various trading companies.
And these styles are surprisingly popular. Some styles are even more popular than alchemy products.
This unexpectedly brought a lot of income to the Saldin estate. In some quarters, the revenue from alchemical products even reached 10%.
But Lomo doesn't think this kind of profit can last.
Unlike alchemical products, these daily necessities are replicable. A style can be popular for a month or two at most before many copies appear.
After all, in this era, those lords and businessmen don't tell you about copyright awareness. If you want to dominate one family, you can only subdue them by force.
All Lomo can do is slowly introduce new products to lead the fashion and build the Saldin brand.
Because of the impressive results brought about by the hot sales of the clothing, the president of the trading company held his head high when reporting, and even his voice was much louder.
This president is called Linton, a native farmer of Sardin Manor. He has applied to join the militia twice before, but was eliminated both times. In desperation, he entered the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
As a soldier who had been eliminated, Linton now made some achievements, and he suddenly felt proud.
Luo Mo praised him a lot, which made him even more ecstatic. He secretly wanted to go back and show off to the friends who had joined the knights.
After the workers' club finished speaking, the farmers' club's speech followed. This department has always been the core department of the manor. At first, Barron was fully responsible, but now a former Shaker Town citizen was promoted to take over fully.
The person in charge is named John, and he has in-depth research on farming.
Now that there are more fields, the original irrigation method developed by Lomo is no longer applicable, and Lomo's focus is no longer on farming.
As a farming expert, John not only brought new methods of drilling irrigation wells, but was also unique in reclaiming farmland, making and selecting farm tools, cultivating and screening seeds, and even feeding cattle.
In terms of farming methods after land reclamation, John changed from the original single-round farming and took fertile land as the main purpose. The method of intercropping grains and beans is implemented, planting wheat in the ditch and planting soybeans or cotton on the ridge land. After harvesting, leave the branches and stems, then apply green manure, rotate the furrows and ridges, and spread manure.
This method can not only increase the current year's production, but also keep the land fertile for the next year.
Nowadays, the weather is favorable, and the income per acre of land has increased by 20% compared to when Lomo personally took charge.
This made Luo Mo couldn't help but sigh, professional people do professional things. As long as we can promote talents in an eclectic way and establish a good promotion system, we won't have to worry about not having talents at our disposal.
Today, Linton from the trading company and John from the farming company are both young people and have now taken the position of president. In terms of seniority and closeness to Lomo, they are not enough to reach this position.
But because of their outstanding abilities, their salaries are now higher than ordinary soldiers of the Knights, which will undoubtedly give more incentives to those who are capable.
After the farm cooperative ended, the trading company began to report again.
The trading company was originally divided into two parts. One part was the internal trading company, which was the small shop that Lomo authorized Barron to start in the manor. There are also some foreign trading companies. That is the Saldin House opened in the city of Volo.
Now that Sacheng's commercial activities have begun, it will slowly become the third and most important part of the trading company.
This department not only involves various internal or external sales channels. It also involves external relations with various lords and nobles, as well as safety issues during the transportation of goods.
Therefore, Luomo is personally responsible for many matters of the trading company, with Barron assisting him.
This also took away a lot of Luomo's energy. I just couldn't find the right person to take charge.
Of course, for this kind of large-scale business activities, there are no ready-made talents in the bankers, so they can only be cultivated slowly.
At present, Luomo has targeted several people under the trading company, but they are only in the training stage.
The affairs of the trading company involve some confidential time in dealing with nobles, and are not suitable to be carried out in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Therefore, I only mentioned it briefly and skipped it.
In addition to these major departments, there are also reports from a series of departments such as the warehouse management department, transportation department, engineering department, and security department.
In addition, due to swallowing up the mineral deposits of Viscount Charles, Lady Salome and Baron Pedi in the south, Lomo also set up a special resources department. Not only are these mines integrated, but land resources are also incorporated into them.
The establishment of these departments made Luomo feel that his manor was becoming more and more like a small economy, and its development was becoming more and more standardized. It was no longer the rough and simple small manor it once was.
Everything is developing for the better. After discussing these details, Pope once again summarized the current situation of the manor to Romo:
"So far, there are three mines in the manor. The people in the mines have been reorganized and mining is under steady progress. There is one dock and there are currently thirty ships. Among them, there are three large merchant ships, fifteen medium merchant ships, and twelve small transport ships. ship. A total of 33,642 acres of fields were reclaimed on the south bank, with food crops accounting for 30%, cash crops of various colors accounting for 20%, fruit trees and fruit vines accounting for 10%, and herb fields accounting for 20%. There are also Twenty percent of the land is to be developed, of which 10% is for the use of the military. Combined, the south bank and the north bank have a population of 4,232, with a total of 1,930 households." Luo Mo nodded slightly
. Express appreciation and recognition for the achievements of the civil affairs department.
Due to the construction of the wharf and Sa city, the pace of reclaiming wasteland has temporarily slowed down, but even so, another 10,000 acres have been reclaimed, which is far beyond his expectations.
He listened to Pope and Barron's division of fields for planting products, pondered for a while, and said: "As for cash crops, try to plant cotton and soybeans. In addition, all newly cultivated fields will be used as grain fields." Pope heard that
Lomo He immediately reacted to the order and said, "What do you mean, sir, to give priority to ensuring basic survival needs?" "Yes."
Luo Mo nodded and said, "The current situation is still not optimistic. We must first ensure self-sufficiency and We need to feed these thousands of people. As for making money, leave it to magic products and the commercial tax that will be implemented in Sa City in the future." "
Understood, sir." The two leaders, Pope and Barron, bowed together and responded.
After inspecting the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Lomo did not make too many remarks. Today's Ministry of Civil Affairs is very motivated and does not need his encouragement.
So he said a few simple words and left from the political hall.
Barron followed him, and the master and servant once again inspected the leisure area in West City.
Xicheng served as a temporary resting place for traders, and many hotels and taverns were opened. There are also dance halls and clubs run by various chambers of commerce.
Of course, brothels are also a must. The practitioners there are mainly registered and recruited by bankers on a voluntary basis.
As for casinos, Lomo has not opened one. He is very disgusted with this bad habit. Indulging in gambling can easily lead to corruption of people's will and the mentality of getting something for nothing.
It's okay for outside businessmen, but it wouldn't be good if your own bankers were also contaminated.
Since most of the traders traveling to and from Sachs City are people who are not short of money, the income from the entertainment industry in Sachs City is also very high. At this time, people were coming and going on the street, which was a lively scene.
When passing by a brothel, Romo met Baron Petty, who was staggering and walked out with the support of a woman.
After a series of events that had happened before, Baron Pedi seemed to have deeply felt the dangers of the world. As if he had changed into a different person, he began to be free and easy and play with the world.
Relying on the previous agreement with Romo, he also opened a shop in Sa City, selling only some daily magic supplies provided to him by Sardin's workshop.
For example, styling water that can shape hair into any shape; fluorescent water that can be dropped on a stone to make it glow continuously and serve as a portable light source; desiccant that can be applied to an object to prevent it from getting wet even if it is immersed in water. etc.
With this kind of purchase channel, Baron Pedi's small shop is doing well even though it doesn't have much business.
Therefore, he didn't even go back to the manor very often. When he had nothing to do, he would run to the west of Sacheng, brag with his friends, have fun with girls, and spend every day eating and drinking.
When he met Romo at this moment, Baron Pedi immediately threw away the woman next to him, walked up to Romo, saluted like a subordinate to his superior, and said with a smile: "Lord Saldin, why do you have the leisure to hang out here today? Let's go, I Invite you to drink."
Luo Mo shook his head and smiled: "Forget it about drinking. The city of Sa is newly built and many things are inextricably linked. How can you, Baron Peidi, live a comfortable life?" Baron Peidi saw Luo Mo refuse
. , San San shrank his hands and said with an apologetic smile: "That's it, that's it."
Luo Mo was too lazy to talk nonsense with him and said goodbye to him: "Baron Pedi, please help yourself. If you feel that there is something wrong in Sa City, you are welcome to tell me. Opinions. If you have any ideas or requests, you can also submit them to me."
After saying this, Luo Mo turned and left.
Baron Pedi watched Luo Mo leave, thinking about what Luo Mo had just said. He rubbed his head, as if he really had something to tell Luo Mo, but he couldn't remember it for the moment.
After thinking about it, I just felt that my head was a little buzzing and I was feeling a little drunk. The woman behind him immediately came up to support him.
Baron Petty took his daughter in his arms, pinched her buttocks, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered what he wanted to say to Romo.
He immediately pushed the woman away again, took a few steps to catch up with Romo, and said, "Lord Saldin, I have something to tell you." Romo turned his head and
looked at this dandy noble, feeling a little impatient in his heart, but Still asking in a deep voice: "What's the matter?"
Baron Pedi immediately said: "Last time you bought me a shadow weapon, which is exactly the same as your own. Do you remember?"
Luo Mo thought about it and said: "Of course Remember."
Baron Peidi said: "I have a noble friend who also has such a weapon in his home, a shadow type. He heard that I sold the weapon for 500 gold coins, and he was very excited and wanted me to ask. Please tell me if you are also interested in his sword."
"Of course you are," Luo Mo said immediately.
He has always been thinking about the lost weapons of his ancestors. When Baron Pedi mentioned this, he was very excited.
The Ice Phantom has really improved him too much. If there is another shadow weapon like the Soul-Splitting Great Sword, plus the one he got from Baron Pedi, wouldn't it be possible to synthesize it? Have you released a high-quality weapon?
"Then are you free now?" Baron Pedi asked: "If you are free, I will take you to see my friend." "Is
he in the city at the moment?" Luo Mo asked.
"Yes, he is now working as a teller in my store." Baron Petty replied.
"Then lead the way."
At that moment, Baron Peidi led Romo back to the north of the city and came to the magic shop opened by Baron Pedi.
Lomo walked in and saw a young man standing behind the counter, holding a quill and writing something.
He has black hair, a tall figure, and a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his thin face, giving him a gentle and elegant temperament.
When the young man saw Lomo and others arriving, he raised his head, pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, bowed and said, "Young Byron Walker, pay your respects to Lord Saldin." "Have you seen me before?
" Luo Mo was suddenly confused.
The young man smiled slightly and said: "The only person in this city who can make my boss have such a humble attitude is the respected Lord Saldin."
(End of Chapter)