Chapter 389 Civil Engineering, the hottest industry right now
Halkin patted his butt and stood up, looking at the surprised eyes around him. He didn't feel ashamed at all.
When he was chased to the door of his house by those gangsters, he received much more contemptuous looks than he does now.
As a new generation of Dragon Cult dwarves, Halkin is very secular and does not have the same sense of faith that the older generation of dwarves have that attaches great importance to honor.
Otherwise, he would not have chosen the business of being a businessman in the first place.
He took out the pony from the stable, but Halkin did not ride it, but led it towards the town hall.
This time after watching Dad and delivering the fine gold and mithril, he just happened to take the list of craftsmen from Ashheard Town to the Holy Forging Department.
Walking the little pony on the main road of Ashheard Town, Halkin looked around and felt that this place was completely different from the Ashheard Town he came to back then.
The original red gambling halls and technical institutes were all demolished and renovated. Some were turned into labor dormitories, while others were turned into public buildings and shops.
The rubbish and illegal construction on the side of the road were cleared away, leaving an avenue for two carriages to run parallel.
On the road, there are masonry engineering teams everywhere carrying hammers, carrying planks, and carrying mortar in iron buckets.
Halkin walked and walked, only to find that at least three of the ten houses along the road were being renovated, renovated, or demolished and rebuilt.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Stopping next to a busy construction site, Halkin couldn't help but tsk.
The construction site in front of him turned out to be the gambling house that defrauded him of all his wealth.
Times passed, and the master behind the gambling house was hanged in Castle Joan of Arc. The gangsters who controlled the gambling house collectively went to Daze Township to dig in the mud.
And what about Halkin himself? He suddenly became the director of the Holy Casting Department and was respected everywhere he went.
This fate is like a wild donkey, it won’t stop running.
Everywhere Hal Jin looked, there were engineering teams led by masons building new houses and roads.
Blocks of green and red bricks were stacked together and then reinforced with mortar, and the wooden frame poked out from the mortar.
Masons wearing open vests sit on the rafters and cover the roof panels with large slate tiles.
"Go left, go left, hey, hey, OK, OK!"
"There is still a batch of bricks and stones left. Go to the nearby villages and have a look. If you can't add more money, let them work overtime before burning. One batch came out.”
“Ouch, ouch, my leg is broken”
The mason with a ruler and ink line roared and directed the pulley crane, and occasionally a few unlucky masons came from the roof. Fall.
Several alchemist priests in the engineering team put their hands on the wall to strengthen the newly built mortar exterior wall, while the workers pushed trolleys to dump the building materials on the ground.
As the turbulent environment ends, after the harvest season, a large amount of food floods into the market, and the original tense atmosphere gradually fades.
So the reconstruction work of Ashheard Town and even the entire Kush Territory began again.
In addition to the public agitation for such a heated scene, there is also the official support of Horn.
Not only are newly built houses tax-free for three years, but there are also substantial tax incentives for various building materials.
Some relatively low-end building materials industries with convenient materials have become the first choice for extra income in major rural areas.
For example, brick kilns are almost always built in hundreds of households with good clay nearby.
In the past, a medium-sized town house cost about 5 to 20 gold pounds, but now, the maximum price does not exceed 10 gold pounds.
The most outrageous thing is that it is not just the price of building materials such as mortar that is low, but also the price of labor costs.
After the "Labor Law" is abolished, there will be no upper limit on workers' wages, and workers will not be prevented from buying better clothes.
In the early days of the abolition of the Labor Law, labor prices in the market did experience a surge.
However, as the harvest season ended and farmers entered the off-season, the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act allowed farmers to move around, causing a large number of rural youths to enter the labor industry.
As a result, the price of labor wages has plummeted, and urban residents want to take this opportunity to quickly build a new house or repair an old house, or take the opportunity to invest in a wave of houses or shops.
Some veterans of the Salvation Army or farmers who had participated in the construction of previous forts formed a civil engineering team after their return.
The masons are responsible for the design, and the civil engineering team is responsible for the main construction work. The masons who led the construction felt that they had made a profit, the farmers who worked as part-time workers felt that they had made a profit, and the citizens and the Salvation Army government who contributed money felt that they had made a profit.
The only ones who feel that they have suffered a loss are probably the old workers from before.
After bypassing a section of closed road where the mortar floor was being constructed, the town hall appeared in front of us.
The town office is a three-story building covering an area of nearly two acres.
The town hall is more than ten meters high and about ten meters long and wide. The dark orange lime walls are covered with relief panels with gear patterns.
Halkin did not take a long way to enter through the front door, but led the horse to the side door.
It was deserted under the arched door, and a lame veteran porter was taking a nap while leaning on a lounge chair. He lifted up his linen shirt to reveal his hairy belly.
But as soon as Harkin came closer, his snoring stopped immediately. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Harkin in front of him.
"Who... Mr. Halkin?"
"Go and report and ask your secretary to bring down the updated list of craftsmen. I won't go up." Hal Jin smiled and said to the veteran, "I took a nap on duty, but I caught him."
"Hey, this is not the registered population before, no one came to the town office at all, just taking a nap, ah ——" The veteran put a wooden support on his left foot and staggered towards the second floor.
The first floor of Ashhearth Town Hall is the town registration office, warehouse and night watchman's office, the second floor is the treasurer's office and court, and the third floor is the meeting hall and archives.
The entire operation of Ashheard Town basically takes place in this small space.
Although the veteran was lame in one leg, he moved very quickly. Within a few minutes, a clerk came trotting over from the stairs.
"Your Excellency Halkin, this is the list of craftsmen." The clerk, who was wearing a black tweed coat in the summer, handed out a stack of thin paper booklets. It could be seen from the short and stiff hair on his Tianling Gai that the clerk had He is a low-level monk.
"Oh." Halkin picked up the roster and glanced at it twice. After confirming that it was correct, he signed the clerk's acceptance document.
After collecting the roster, Halkin greeted the clerk and the porter, then climbed on the pony and walked towards the main entrance from the side.
There are two pedestals at the main entrance facing the street two meters away. On the pedestals, the Sphinx Huo Ge looks at the passers-by, his face full of majesty.
Almost every town hall has two statues of this kind. It is said that they are meant to show the majesty and courage of the saint-grandson like a lion.
Although there are currently eight towns in the Kush Territory, only three have actually established town halls, namely Ashheard Town, Sour Melon Town, and Clay Town.
These three towns and Fort Joan of Arc are the administrative centers of the 363 hundred-household districts in Kush.
The rest of the towns are either too small or have overlapping administrative divisions, and they are only allowed to choose their own town mayors, town sheriffs and other personnel for management.
Of course, although it is a self-election, the meaning of the Salvation Military Government is also very important.
Their elected lists need to be signed and verified by the superior town office, and they have the right to request re-election or removal of the town mayor.
The number of officials, large and small, in the town office is not large, basically maintaining between 15-25 people.
Generally, there are five main public officials including the mayor, secretary, financial officer, tax officer, and night watch captain, as well as some temporarily hired servants and clerks.
At present, these public officials are basically inherited from the previous ones or hired, so their levels vary and they have been criticized by Fort Joan of Arc.
Riding on a small pony, Halkin wandered out of Ashheard Town, but he was still thinking about other things.
According to previous news, some kind of "bureaucratic" reform may be carried out in the future.
It is said that it is for welfare. By then, these jobs in the town office may not be so easy to get into.
I heard that future salaries will be paid according to the hierarchy, so how much can I, the head of the Holy Casting Department, get?
Riding on the back of the little pony, Halkin looked ahead, his eyes unfocused, but his thoughts couldn't help but drift elsewhere.
15 gold pounds per year, or 20 gold pounds, it can’t be lower than the war monks, right?
While walking, Halkin smelled a strange smell, and it seemed that the pony under him was getting slower and slower.
Awakened from his thoughts about the future, he lowered his head suddenly and found that the little pony was trembling.
“Damn it.” After Halkin dismounted and looked at the horse manure dripping all the way, he realized, “I told you to feed hay, feed hay!”
(End of this chapter)