Chapter 283 Promotion Task

[Hundred Schools Controversy] The plot tasks involve a wide range of areas and take a long time. Ouyang Shuo has no way to start at the moment, so he can only take one step at a time. The only thing he can do now is to order the Construction Department to open up a separate courtyard in the Southwest University Hall. As a forum for hundreds of schools, prepare for future debates.

What Ouyang Shuo cares most about right now is to advance the territory. He opened the territory operation panel, clicked Apply for Territory Upgrade, and there was a system prompt in his ear, which was nothing more than some basic condition tests.

"System prompt: Check Shanhai County's application for promotion..."

"Condition 1: The population reaches the population limit of 100,000, meeting the requirements!"

"Condition 2: All basic buildings are completed and meet the requirements!"

"Condition 3: The lord's title is at least the third-class Marquis, which meets the requirements!"

"Condition 4: The four indexes of politics, economy, culture and military are not lower than 65 points, which meets the requirements!"

"Condition 5: The core subordinate territory has reached at least the first-level county seat, which meets the requirements!"

Compared with the county stage, the basic conditions for the promotion of the county city have added a requirement for three subsidiary territories, which is tantamount to reminding the lords not to neglect the construction of the subsidiary territories during the county stage.

"System prompt: Congratulations to player Qiyue Wuyi. All the application requirements for Shanhai County have been met. Do you want to apply for promotion immediately?"

"Apply!"

"System prompt: Congratulations to the player, Qiyue Wuyi, who has successfully applied and started the task of automatically matching territories to advance."

"Task 1 [Recruit talents]: At least one historical talent is required to volunteer in the territory."

"Task 2 [Business Bank Settled]: An NPC Chamber of Commerce needs to agree to settle in the territory to prosper the economy."

"Task 3 [Cultural Event]: Hold an influential cultural event."

"Mission 4 [Legion Trial]: A division needs to pass the Legion Trial to prove its military strength."

"System prompt: Of the four promotion tasks, at least two must be completed to successfully advance; the more tasks completed, the richer the reward after promotion."

The four territory promotion tasks test the territory from the four aspects of politics, economy, culture, and military respectively, so as to prove the huge gap between the county seat and the county seat.

As the system said, when each lord applies for promotion, the matching promotion tasks are different. Overall, the tasks are all on the same level of difficulty.

There is no time limit or failure penalty for promotion tasks. If you can't complete two of them, the territory will not be able to advance and cannot reapply.

This is the greatest punishment.

Ouyang Shuo's goal is naturally to complete all four promotion tasks and get the highest promotion reward.

The next day, Ouyang Shuo summoned Fan Zhongyan, Cui Yingyou and Bai Qi to assign the task of advancing the territory. Fan Zhongyan led the administrative department and was responsible for preparing for the cultural event; Yingyou was in charge of contacting Cui's Chamber of Commerce to discuss the establishment of a branch in Shanhai County; Bai Qi was in charge of military affairs and was in charge of legion trials.

The most uncertain thing is [recruit talents], Ouyang Shuo can only inform the offices of the various royal cities, and they will be responsible for looking for historical talents, and do their best to obey the destiny.

After the apportionment is over, you stand up and say goodbye.

Before Yingyou left, she gave Ouyang Shuo a strange look, and said, "Brother, why do I feel that even your temperament has changed after you go out?"

"yes?"

"Yes, um, it has become more majestic. When I first saw her, I was really taken aback."

Ouyang Shuo nodded, knowing that the auspicious adornment of dragon and phoenix rewarded by the King of Qin was indeed working. The two characteristics of this jade pendant [deterrence] and [energy accumulation] have gradually revealed their ferocity.

Last night, when he was practicing the "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", he clearly felt that under the stimulation of the dragon and phoenix, the speed of the growth of true energy in the body was further accelerated. Within a few days, the "Huangdi Internal Classic" could be cultivated to the fifth level. According to the "Huangdi Neijing", when breaking through to the sixth floor, there will be some encounters, which are worth looking forward to.

After Yingyou left, Ouyang Shuo began to deal with the accumulated government affairs.

Secretary Lang Bai Nanpu had already sorted out the official letters according to a certain priority and put them on his desk.

Ouyang Shuo picked up an official letter, which was handed over by Gushan County Magistrate Lei Fan. Lei Fan mentioned in the official letter that the contact with the various tribes in the mountains is progressing smoothly, and that a large number of mountain barbarians will come down the mountain in the spring of the next year.

In addition, Lei Fan also specifically mentioned in the official letter that the mountain barbarians in the north seem to be a little unusual. Seeing that winter is coming, some tribes migrated abnormally to the deep mountains. I don't know the reason.

Lei Fan speculated that there must have been some major changes in the deep mountains, and he has arranged for detailed operations to go to the mountains to check. Because the matter was of great importance, Lei Fan deliberately reported the matter to the Marquis's Mansion and asked the Marquis to make a ruling.

Ouyang Shuo frowned. The Shanman tribe was an important source of infantry in Shanhai County, so no surprises could be tolerated. He approved in an official letter, requesting the Military Intelligence Department to immediately intervene in the investigation, and Tian Wenjing, Director of the Interior Department, intervened to mediate.

Putting aside his worries about the barbarians, Ouyang Shuo continued to deal with government affairs.

The official letter he is holding now is handed over by Meng Zhida, the big treasurer of the Four Seas Bank who just took office. Meng Zhida suggested in the official letter that Shanhai County issue banknotes.

In ancient China, paper money was issued during the Southern Song Dynasty, so paper money is not considered a product beyond the technology tree. In the game, if a territory wants to issue banknotes, it must meet two basic conditions.

First, the hardware facilities for printing banknotes. There must be at least a papermaking workshop and a printing workshop in the territory. Paper can also be purchased from outsiders, and printing must be done by the territory itself. In addition, professional and technical personnel who are proficient in banknote printing are also required to solve a series of problems such as banknote design and anti-counterfeiting.

Second, establish monetary credit. If the paper money issued is not recognized by the outside world, it is a piece of waste paper and has no value.

To establish monetary credit, the most important thing is to establish a sound reserve system. Taking Shanhai County as an example, if banknotes are to be issued, the first choice is naturally issued by the Four Seas Bank. In the early days, every time the Four Seas Bank issued a banknote of one hundred gold coins, it had to store a corresponding one hundred gold coins in the bank's treasury.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, it was because the imperial court issued a large number of banknotes and did not prepare enough reserves to search for the people's fat and anointment in disguise, which led to the depreciation of the banknotes and finally lost their credibility.

It's not that Ouyang Shuo didn't have plans for issuing banknotes. It's just that in his plan, at least it won't be released until the middle and late stages of the game, and it seems too early to release it now.

If it was someone else's proposal, Ouyang Shuo would naturally directly reject it. Meng Zhida is different, he is a professional financial talent, and he is a prudent person. Since he made this suggestion, he must have his consideration.

Ouyang Shuo thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "Come here!"

"Hi!" Bai Nanpu walked in.

"Treasurer Meng Zhida of the Four Seas Bank," Ouyang Shuo paused, and then said, "And Director Cui, let's discuss the matter together!"

"promise!"

Yingyou was right next door to Ouyang Shuo, and rushed over after a while: "Brother, are you looking for me?"

"Did you know about the proposal of the Four Seas Bank to issue banknotes?"

"Well, I know, shopkeeper Meng has reported it to me."

"What do you think?"

Yingyou frowned, and said carefully: "At first, when shopkeeper Meng reported to me, I thought the so-called banknotes and banknotes were the same thing. After explaining by shopkeeper Meng, I realized that it is not a concept at all. I'm not sure if it's something new, but it looks pretty good."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. Although Yingyou was trying to catch up on modern financial knowledge, when it came to currency issues, her knowledge was still a little lacking and she was uncertain.

No wonder Meng Zhida sent the official letter to Ouyang Shuo, probably because of Yingyou's instruction.

While the siblings were talking, Meng Zhida rushed over and caught a glimpse of the official letter in Ouyang Shuo's hand, and he knew it already.

"Uncle Meng, I agree to issue banknotes in principle, but in terms of time, am I pushing it later?" Ouyang Shuo always got straight to the point when discussing things.

"I think it's the right time to issue banknotes now."

"Oh? Tell me." Ouyang Shuo didn't expect Meng Zhida to be so determined, which greatly increased his interest.

"There are four reasons. First, as the territory's economy begins to prosper, the transaction amount gradually increases; for transactions between merchants, you have to bring a large amount of gold coins, which is very inconvenient to carry."

Ouyang Shuo nodded. NPCs don't have storage pouches for players. A gold coin is 20 grams of gold, and 1000 gold coins weigh 40 catties. It needs a special person to carry it.

In order to solve this problem in ancient times, bank notes came into being.

"Secondly, as the subordinate territories have been promoted to counties one after another, the trade between the territories has also begun to flourish. For example, the seafood and salt in Beihai County are sold to all parts of Tianfeng County through the Friendship River and the Yushui River; Yongye County wood, sold to Beihai County, and so on, are giving birth to the birth of banknotes."

Meng Zhida's words made Ouyang Shuo silent. The information revealed in the words was enough to arouse his vigilance. He, the lord, did not pay attention to the rise of territorial trade. It seems that the recent frequent military operations have indeed distracted him too much time and energy. If it was before, this situation would never have happened.

Fortunately, Bai Qi's arrival can free Ouyang Shuo from military affairs to the greatest extent, he now realizes that it is not too late.

"Third, the Four Seas Bank has sufficient funds and has the objective conditions to issue banknotes."

In the first ten days of October, Ouyang Shuo injected 40,000 gold coins into the headquarters of the Universal Bank at one time. This amount of money was also the basis for Meng Zhida's proposal to issue banknotes.

"Fourth, the issuance of banknotes cannot be accomplished overnight and requires a long period of preparation. Naturally, the sooner it starts, the better." Meng Zhida eloquently listed four reasons.

Ouyang Shuo nodded frequently, completely persuaded by Meng Zhida, and said, "Uncle Meng's words made me understand. If that's the case, let's do it! Tell me about your specific plan."