Chapter 621: A street in the Holy Arms Court is enough to shock the entire Thousand River Valley
The first financial meeting held in the Holy Armament Court was not held randomly. It was prepared.
First, there is the special status of Langsand County.
Although South Mound County's own tax revenue was less than 2,000 gold pounds, in just three months, they provided Horn with a profit of 3,000 gold pounds on the premise that the wool was not saturated.
Since these people's main occupation was farmers, they did not always have time to spend on spinning.
Therefore, in one year, relying on this wool fabric production chain, Horn's garment workshop in Langsand County is expected to earn an annual income of about 9,000-10,000 gold pounds.
This income is almost the same as the sugar and grain trade.
Counting Langsand County's original tax revenue of 20,000 to 30,000 gold pounds, and including the wool production chain and sugar and grain trade lines, it is estimated that the annual income of a county can reach about 50,000 gold pounds.
Secondly, as the immediate superior of all grassroots monks, Horn is not only a religious leader, but also the center of local rural administration.
Although the funds that Meliati can mobilize include income from all areas except Langsander County.
But not all the money has to be transported to Hotam County and then shipped back when needed. That would be too much of a loss.
Therefore, after the priests received the tax, they would collect it into the treasury of the county seat and rely on the double-entry accounting method to connect with the east and west tribunes.
Sheriffs can only use duties and excise taxes in urban areas collected directly by township sheriffs.
If Meliaty wanted the Sheriff to do something, she would give the Sheriff a note and ask the Sheriff to take the note to the Chief Priest and ask for it.
But the problem is that the chief priest was appointed by Horn. Although the chief priest cannot refuse Meliaty's order, if Horn gives you a message and puts you in a difficult position, just say it is uncomfortable or not.
Therefore, in order to eliminate internal friction, Horn also hopes to form a reliable budget system and have adequate planning for future finances.
If you want to ensure reliable and efficient finances, you have to spend your money wisely.
Both parties gather together and decide on priority spending areas based on future development directions. Both parties must have a clear idea of how much they can spend and how much they can give.
It just so happened that Meliaty was supposed to visit the Holy Armament Court and ran into a financial meeting within the Holy Armament Court, so let's just do it together.
After putting away several briefing papers, Horn walked out of the room while wearing a jacket and taking the schedule.
"Petier, call the groom over. Let's go to the Mechanical Palace to see what happened to Shilov's new peat extraction technique."
"Okay." Pelletier quickly walked to a corner of the room. Among the ten brass pipes, he found the stable one, opened the lid, signed the note saying the carriage was ready, and threw it in.
By the time Horn and Pettier walked downstairs, the Holy Gun Cavalry in charge of security and an unpretentious carriage were parked in the back alley of the Holy See Building.
The wheels rolled along the road of bricks and mortar, and soon they came to the central street from the dark alley.
Horn lifted a corner of the car curtain and looked out the window.
With the establishment of the Sacred Axis, a large number of alchemists, witch doctors and sorcerers came to the Holy Artium along the Ibe River.
With their help, the construction speed of the entire Holy Arms Court was as fast as a miracle.
Coming out of the official residence square, the first thing you can see from Central Street is the 45-meter-high Gothic-style clock tower surrounded by thin columns and pointed arches.
Its dial is about 4 meters in diameter, with a copper ring on the outside, mosaic-style colored glass on the inside, and a circle of yellow fluorite behind the glass.
In this way, even at night, people can judge the time through the different colors of fluorite on the hands and scales.
This thing looks high-tech, but inside it is driven by a set of heavy hammers weighing hundreds of kilograms. Every week, more than a dozen workers must turn the winch to lift the heavy hammers.
Looking from both sides through Central Street, the few storefronts that were originally there have now been filled up. With the establishment of the Holy Monarchy of the Thousand Valleys, the Holy Arms Court and Langsander County quickly became the promised land for refugees and laborers.
It just so happened that the mortar road between the Holy Armory and Fort Joan of Arc was completed, and almost every week seven to eight hundred refugees migrated from Black Snake Bay or other places.
Regardless of whether they are coming from the Nauan River or the Ibe River, their unified route is to disembark at Joan of Arc and then go to the Holy Arms along the Mortar Road.
Some found jobs in the Fort Joan workshop area or in adobe kilns in the countryside and stayed, while others simply worked as builders and porters at the docks.
It is estimated that just over 2,000 people actually arrive at Qiumu Island in Daze Township every month.
Especially in the Poisonous Swamp in Lujiao Township, a large number of local farmers were moved to Daze Township.
Because with the completion of dredging of the two rivers, Poison Witch Swamp is very likely to become a lake area and form a new tributary.
So Horn proposed demolishing and returning houses and farmland, and immigrated a full 6,000 farmers living in Poisonous Swamp to the countryside of Qiumu Island.
This resulted in a population of more than 30,000 people gathering on Qiumu Island, while the population of the Sacred Arms Court surged from 11,000 to 19,000 in half a year.
Because Qiugu Island is a mortar producing area, the price of mortar is low.
In order to supplement municipal revenue and provide jobs, Witte frantically built four-story Insula apartments on the outskirts.
In fact, in Horn's opinion, this kind of Insula apartment is basically the same as the technical level of self-built houses in rural areas, or even worse.
At least self-built houses in rural areas will also have reinforced steel bars and poured concrete columns. The house designed by Witte has a foundation of only one meter, the walls are exposed and unpainted, and the floors are made of wooden boards.
The last time Horne went to inspect, people on the third floor could hear clearly when walking on the first floor.
Correspondingly, 20 construction workers can build such an Insula apartment in two months.
In four months, Witte built a total of 110 Insurra apartments, which can accommodate approximately 6,000 people.
Although the quality of the house is poor, the price of each room is about 8 gold pounds. If an ordinary laborer buys it, it will take five or six years, and if it is a craftsman, it will only take two or three years.
Even if you can't afford it, it doesn't matter. You can rent it for 15 dinars per month. Each room can accommodate two to three people, which averages out to 5 dinars per month.
Nowadays, the minimum daily salary in the Sacred Arms Court is 1 dinar, and 5 dinars per month is almost one-sixth of the income.
And if you rent it for 7 consecutive years, you can buy the house directly by paying a low purchase tax.
Therefore, these Insulas are actually full and can provide a stable income of about 150 gold pounds to the Holy Armament City Hall every month.
A series of workshops such as mortar workshops, orichalcum workshops, water power and gear spinning machines provided a wealth of secondary industry jobs and immigrated a large number of people.
Coupled with the special status of this place as an administrative center, the tertiary industry will naturally be enriched.
There are job opportunities everywhere in the Holy Armory, including postmen who deliver letters, newsboys who sell newspapers, cleaners who sweep the streets, and plumbers who maintain drainage and public water sources.
Cooks, barbers, scribes, coachmen... no matter how bad they are, they can't do anything well and can't do anything well. Aren't there still construction workers?
It is only natural that the number and types of shops on both sides of Central Street have increased.
In fact, it is not just the refugees at the bottom. Recently, a group of Kush knights from Yibe Township, Jinhe Township, have begun to look for land and farms near the city.
After all, the old grandmother of the Alco family can see how horribly the land prices here will increase once the river dredging project in South Mound County is completed and wool spinning thread can go directly to Qiumu Island.
As the carriage passed the narrow wooden bridge, Horn poked his head half out of the window, and the walls of the Mechanical Palace on the mound and the leather cannon turrets on the four corners came into view.
(End of chapter)