Chapter 246 Kingly Way (500 Monthly Pass)

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On October 12th of the first year of Gaia, Ouyang Shuo arrived in Beihai County with his personal guards. It has been more than half a year since the establishment of Beihai County, and this is the first time for Ouyang Shuo to come here.

The light boat meanders along the canyon. Looking up, the rock walls on both sides are steep, there is nothing but moss, and there is a dead silence. Above the cliff, a skyline was exposed, and the blue sky was faintly visible.

The rushing river slapped the rock wall, making a clattering sound and splashing water.

Suddenly, there was a sharp turn, and a erected skyline suddenly appeared in front of him. The light boat passed through the skyline, and the eyes suddenly opened up, the sun was shining brightly, and the sky was high and the earth was wide. The coastline in the distance is clearly visible, with the sound of rumbling waves, and a pair of seabirds flying across the sky, bringing vitality.

The struggle between narrowness and openness, between life and death, is so abrupt and harmonious that Ouyang Shuo can't help feeling the mighty power and uncanny craftsmanship of nature.

At the river, beside the sea, a majestic city stands between the sky and the earth, suppressing all directions.

Beihai County Magistrate Gu Xiuwen and Beihai Fleet Commander Pei Donglai, along with a group of civil and military officials, waited at the pier early to welcome Ouyang Shuo's arrival.

The light boat stopped slowly, and Ouyang Shuo, accompanied by his personal guards, got off the boat.

"Greetings!" All the officials bowed and saluted.

Ouyang Shuo nodded and said, "You are all ministers of the humerus. Beihai County has such a large scale, and you all have contributed a lot. This Marquis did not come here to show merit, so let's all go away!"

"Here!" All the officials did not dare to be negligent, and they all resigned, leaving only Gu Xiuwen and Pei Donglai behind.

Ouyang Shuo was not in a hurry to enter the city, he smiled and said to Gu Pei and the two, "How about it? Let's go for a walk with Benhou!"

Actually, Gu Xiuwen and Pei Donglai didn't know much about Ouyang Shuo's reason for coming.

Last night, the two received an urgent letter from their secretary Lang Bai Nanpu, saying that Junhou would come to Beihai County tomorrow morning, but the specific matters were not explained in the urgent letter.

The two had no objection to Ouyang Shuo's proposal, and said in unison: "Here!"

The three of them walked along the river bank towards the sea, with the guards following far behind.

While walking, Ouyang Shuo looked at Gu Xiuwen and asked, "Xiuwen, how is Beihai County doing?"

Since the capture of Tianfeng County and other five territories, Ouyang Shuo has canceled the arrangement of the chief officers of the subordinate territories to come to the base camp to report on their work every month, and changed it to report on their work every six months.

Therefore, Ouyang Shuo hadn't seen his competent general for a while.

Gu Xiuwen was stunned, and bowed again: "I would like to report to you, Your Majesty..."

"Hey," Ouyang Shuo waved his hand, "This is not a palace, so you don't have to be so restrained in your writing." The reason why Ouyang Shuo didn't rush to the county government office was because he didn't want to be too serious about it.

Gu Xiuwen nodded, began to pick out important matters, and reported to Ouyang Shuo one by one.

At the military and political meeting last month, Ouyang Shuo proposed a large-scale industrial development plan. After the meeting, the secretarial office compiled Ouyang Shuo's speech into official documents and distributed them to all the affiliated territories.

The chief officials of the affiliated territories understood and began to think about the unique industrial planning of the territories.

In this regard, Beihai County is at a disadvantage. As the saying goes, it is difficult to develop other industries except fishery and salt industry in Beihai County, and the industrial organization is very single.

Needless to say, the salt industry has already reached the bottleneck due to the limited beach area.

The fishing industry is also not optimistic. Fishermen who go fishing are not only afraid of encountering bad weather, but also worry about encountering pirates. They are extremely unstable and can only fish in the cruising waters of the North Sea Fleet.

It is estimated that it will take half a month before Beihai County can be promoted to a third-level county. However, Yushui County came from behind and was successfully promoted to a third-level county last week.

Although there is a factor of mountain barbarian migration, Gu Xiuwen is still not convinced. As the first subsidiary territory of Shanhai Territory, Gu Xiuwen has always regarded Beihai County as the benchmark of subsidiary territories.

In order to catch up with Yushui County, Gu Xiuwen recently discussed with Pei Donglai to launch a military operation to eradicate pirates as soon as possible, increase the population of Beihai County, and promote early; at the same time, it also clears obstacles for fishermen to go fishing.

Pei Donglai had this intention long ago, and the two hit it off immediately.

For some reason, after hitting a wall one after another, the Black Shark pirates backed down. For a long time recently, they haven't sent any scouting ships to monitor the movement in Beihai County.

It was unavoidable that problems would arise, so Gu Xiuwen and Pei Donglai invited Ouyang Shuo together, hoping to approve the military operations of the North Sea Fleet as soon as possible.

Hearing that the two went back and forth and returned to the matter of exterminating pirates, Ouyang Shuo shook his head amusedly: "You guys don't need to sing double reeds in front of Ben Hou. The recent war in the interior has indeed affected the matter of exterminating pirates. With the Eishi Ridge and Zhennan Pass have been captured one after another, and the inland war has come to an end. This Marquis came here to discuss with you the matter of exterminating the black shark pirates on Yue'er Island."

The two were overjoyed when they heard the words.

While speaking, he has come to the beach. The water is very clear and the beach is free of rubbish.

In reality, it has long been difficult to see such a clean beach, and Ouyang Shuo had the urge to go into the sea. He thought, next time he has time, he can bring Binger to the beach to play.

"Xiuwen!" Ouyang Shuo called out.

"exist!"

"You help Ben Hou do one thing, build a wooden hut near the beach. Next time you have time, Ben Hou will bring Bing'er here for vacation, so there will be a place to stay." Ouyang Shuo ordered.

Even though he was a lord, Ouyang Shuo didn't want to be trapped by military and political affairs all the time, he had to rest when he should rest, and enjoy when he should enjoy.

"Here!" Gu Xiuwen replied solemnly, and he had already made up his mind to build the wooden hut beautifully, so as to ensure that Junhou and the third lady had a comfortable living environment.

"Let's go, go back to the county government office." Ouyang Shuo was ready to go back home after his eye addiction was over.

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Beihai County Government, Chamber of Commerce.

Ouyang Shuo meditated on the stone tablet in his mind, and the white stone tablet slowly rose from the floor of the meeting hall. On the front of the stele, the three seal characters of Beihai County are shining brightly.

He pressed his right hand on the front of the stone tablet and meditated on the attached village, and the system prompt sounded immediately.

"System prompt: Beihai County is a second-level county seat, and has three affiliated village places. Do you want to use it?"

"use!"

"System prompt: The village establishment token of Beihai County is a silver-level token, and the village establishment tokens of the affiliated villages will be automatically downgraded to a black iron-level token. Do you want to separate immediately?"

"Separation!"

Three black lights shot out from the stone tablet, and slowly landed on Ouyang Shuo's hands, turning into three black iron grade village building tokens. Ouyang Shuo took the opportunity to check the attributes of the village building token.

[Name]: Village Building Order (Black Iron Level)

[Features]: The rate of attracting refugees increases by 25%, the rate of attracting special talents increases by 10%, the output of crops increases by 25%, the skill proficiency of production residents increases by 10%, and the level of soldiers increases by 10%.

[Evaluation]: Unique item, cannot be dropped, cannot be traded.

The characteristics of the black iron level village building token are only half of the gold level, which is a lot lower. Ouyang Shuo didn't mind either, and put the three village building tokens in his storage bag, it's better than nothing.

"Your Majesty wants to establish a subsidiary territory?" Gu Xiuwen, who was standing aside, asked.

Only then did Ouyang Shuo remember that he was a little embarrassed that he hadn't explained the [Fusion Token] to Gu Xiuwen. He still remembered that Gu Xiuwen asked for instructions twice whether to allow Beihai County to establish a subsidiary territory, but he refused both times.

"Xiuwen, there is something that Benhou wants to tell you." Ouyang Shuo paused, and then said: "Beihai County still needs to concentrate on developing the headquarters, so there is no need to build the next level. It's a subordinate territory. These three village building tokens have other uses for this Marquis."

Gu Xiuwen's face paled in an instant, thinking that Ouyang Shuo was dissatisfied with the development of Beihai County, and that's why he did this.

"My minister is terrified. I have failed the entrustment of the lord, please punish me!" Gu Xiuwen half-kneeled on the ground, terrified.

Ouyang Shuo shook his head, that's what's wrong with a scholar, he has too many thoughts and likes to figure things out by himself. If it was Zhao Dexian or Zhao Dewang, they would definitely not act like this, but would directly ask the reason.

"Get up, don't misunderstand. The Marquis' arrangement is not dissatisfied with you. It is just an overall arrangement based on the overall planning of the territory. Beihai County is close to the sea, and it is supposed to gather and develop. This is the right way." Ou Yangshuo had no choice but to explain, and he didn't want to leave any grudges in this lover's heart.

"Here!" Gu Xiuwen's face softened, and he was always relieved.

It's no wonder that Gu Xiuwen was so nervous, it was actually the recent period of time when seeing Beihai County being overtaken by Yushui County made Gu Xiuwen, who has always been competitive, forge a knot in his heart. It has been found that until now, there are some jitters.

Ouyang Shuo also noticed that Gu Xiuwen's mentality was a little out of balance. It is difficult for outsiders to persuade this kind of thing; the more you persuade, it may deepen the knot in your heart, and you can only rely on him to adjust himself.

As a lord, Ouyang Shuo naturally couldn't favor any side. Whether it was Yushui County, Beihai County, or even Youyi County, the palms and backs of his hands were full of flesh. Whichever developed well was a good thing.

It would be a good thing if the competition among the subordinate territories could be controlled within a controllable range, and Ouyang Shuo would not intervene. Of course, if any chief officer of a subsidiary territory crossed the boundary due to competition and did something out of the ordinary, Ouyang Shuo would definitely not be relentless and would definitely punish him severely.

With the increase of subordinate territories, coupled with the growing strength of the subordinate territories, how to balance the resource allocation and personnel layout among the territories is a profound art.

The reason why Ouyang Shuo was in a hurry to build Tianhai Road was to strengthen the centralization of power and strengthen the base camp's control over the subordinate territories so as not to escape from his own control.

In this regard, Ouyang Shuo is still immature, he can only take one step, watch one step, take his time.

In fact, Ouyang Shuo lacked such a teacher to teach him the ways of an emperor. Both Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing are somewhat lacking in this aspect, and they are not enough to be teachers.