Pioneering

Chapter 149 Development and Incoming Calls

In the palace of Chang'an City, Zhong Ming was lying on a recliner, listening to Kesalina's report.

"Xarina, how are the preparations for the court wizard and the Martial Arts Knights going?"

Kesha Lina cheered up when she heard the words, and said with a smile on her face: "There are currently 9765 registered wizard talents, including 6421 with low-level affinity talents, 2611 with medium-level affinity talents, and 733 with high-level affinity talents. Super 1 person."

"The 300 martial arts talents you selected from the 20 million recruits, after three months of training and elimination, there are still 11 people left."

As she spoke, she waved her small fists, feeling quite excited.

Kesha Lina has a kind of obsession with expanding force, maybe because of the experience of being robbed by robbers?

"The elimination rate of knights is much lower than I expected," Zhong Ming said, tapping the smooth and bright purple-red tabletop with five fingers of his right hand in turn, turning his head and squinting at the blue sun outside the window,
"Notify Salt, let him increase the intensity of training by 10%, and control the number of knights to [-].

Those who were eliminated were arranged to serve as middle and low-level officers in the new army as before.

Forget it, I'll go by myself, and I haven't shown up at the barracks for two days. "

That's right, the instructor of the new army is the great devil Sart who accidentally came to the material world from the hell of jealousy.

Having been a mid-level officer in the Hell Legion for thousands of years, he was able to meticulously complete the training plan arranged by Zhong Ming.

Really. Devil instructor!

Of course he has changed his image, otherwise Shanna would have to be frightened by him.

The reason why the No. [-] Extraordinary Knights choose to teach martial arts instead of knights is that the upper limit of martial arts is obviously higher than that of knights, and the second is that Zhong Ming, who has not given up martial arts, also has the idea of ​​​​experimental deduction of martial arts skills.

Feeling the touch of the sun, Zhong Ming pondered for a while and said, "Asha can't afford so many wizards at the moment.

We vigorously cultivate wizard seedlings with high-level affinity talents and above, and strive to cultivate a group of magic power backbones in the kingdom.

For the rest, arrange them to study government affairs and legal codes, and give them complete meditation methods after passing the final exam, so as to train them in the direction of qualified officials. "

"I will be named as the principal of the School of Wizardry and School of Government Affairs." Zhong Ming added.

The resources for wizard practice are much more advanced and rare than martial arts and knights. The magic stones, magic crystals, extraordinary medicinal materials, extraordinary metals... and other resources in the territory of Assia really cannot support nearly ten thousand wizards.

It is also a bit difficult to raise hundreds of wizards.

Even for martial arts practice, at present, the No. [-] Martial Arts Knights Squad doesn't have much use for martial arts auxiliary medicine.

The medicinal materials that Zhong Ming carried with him from the Great Yan Dynasty grew at an astonishing speed under the wanton planting and reproduction, and even under the environment of rich spiritual power created by using divine power to mobilize authority.

But for the tens of thousands of martial arts practitioners, there is still not enough supply for a year or a half.

"How is the road repair going?" Zhong Ming then asked.

Kesalina took a look at the paper in her hand and said, "Ming, the main roads in the central province are basically completed, with a total of more than 4000 kilometers of cement roads built.

Next, should we continue to build secondary main roads in the central provinces, or build main roads in other provinces? "

"How many skilled construction workers are there now?"

The term "worker" was also brought by Zhong Ming, and the word "worker" was also used to refer to the employed.

"Currently, a total of 470 million construction workers are recruited, and there are more than 260 million skilled construction workers now," Kesha Lina said in a slightly dissatisfied tone,

"Ming, why do you recruit those women and old people? These people eat more and work less. It's a waste of food and gold coins."

It seems that Kesha Lina is not happy with these old and weak women and children rubbing against Zhong Ming's benefits.

Zhong Ming looked at her as a housekeeper, and Shana nodded in agreement, and laughed a little dumbfounded.

Sure enough, the position of the buttocks has changed, and the way of thinking will also change rapidly, which is a bit like a short-sighted capitalist.

Isn't it a characteristic of early capitalists to only pay attention to production efficiency and ignore the consumer market?

"Honey, what is our purpose? Is it just to build roads?" Zhong Ming put his hands on her shoulders, looked at her, and said,

"Our goal is to ease the currency, stimulate market circulation, and prevent Asshai from regressing back to a state of barter civilization, not to build roads.

The more people who work, the more people get paid, and the more people have food.

With food to eat and energy exhausted, these civilians don't have the courage and strength to cause trouble for me.

Besides, under Yige's abandonment of the old and vulgar customs, the new Yasha didn't have many old people.

Women and young children do less work, so they get less under the performance system. "

Kesha Lina looked at Zhong Ming's handsome face that exuded some kind of strange divinity from a close distance, her pretty face couldn't help flushing, she turned her head away, and said, "Whatever you say makes sense."

"Then let's disperse these 260 million people to other provinces, bring the old with the new, and train the new workers recruited locally.

45 people were lost in the Eastern Province,..."

"For the rest of the women and unskilled workers, the textile factory over there is almost completed. Let the women be recruited as textile workers, and the unskilled workers can be sent to the cement factory."

Kesha Lena roughly calculated the cost, and said with a serious expression: "Ming, if you continue to build roads like this, we can barely afford the money, and our food may not be enough!"

"Is that so?" Zhong Ming turned his head and asked Shana.

Now Kesha Lena manages the accounts of Zhong Ming's monetary expenditure and income, and Shana manages the accounts of Zhong Ming's grain expenditure and storage.

After the two girls got to know each other now, unexpectedly there was no Shura field, but they quickly became good girlfriends who talked about everything.

When Shana heard Zhong Ming's question, she nodded and said:

"The standing army currently consumes 1.5kg of grain, 0.1kg of meat, and some vegetables per person per day;
No. 7 Extraordinary Knights currently consumes 3kg of food, 0.5kg of meat, [-] eggs, and [-]L of milk per person per day. This is not counting the expenditure on medicinal materials;
The daily consumption of construction workers is half that of the standing army;
In total, we consume about 879 million kg of grain and 86.5 kg of meat every day.

This amount is astonishing. Even if we took over most of the food stocks of the Yige nobles, if we don't expand the number of construction workers, we can barely last for two years;
If we continue to expand, we are afraid that after the road is built, the food stock will be completely consumed!
In case of natural disasters or war, we have no defense ability at all. "

Shana looked up at Zhong Ming, frowned slightly, and dissuaded: "Ming, why don't we..."

"Wait." Zhong Ming reached out his hand to signal Shana to pause, and connected the "phone" from the far north.

"Hey, can you hear me?"

(End of this chapter)