Chapter 31 Financial Crisis
In the next few days, there was a wave of upgrades in the entire Luoshen Village. From players to NPCs, everyone was leveling crazily.
However, Huangfu Chaobo didn't have time to practice leveling, because the village was running out of money. In fact, it wasn't that there was running out of money, but according to the current popular saying, the village's funds were in a financial deficit. I don't know the reason, but since the grain was planted at the beginning of the month, there have been no refugees in Luoshen Village to vote. On the contrary, because the three bow and arrow makers taught by Zhang An sent one person to Zongheng Village two days ago, the population of Luoshen Village has not increased. Instead, with the addition of Huangfu Chaobo himself, there are now only 80 people. The three of them don't need daily wages, but the others do. Among them, Zhang's father and son, Chen Jing, Zhao Carpenter, Sun Tailor, Qian Blacksmith, and Zhang Dazhang are paid ten coppers a day. The female villager Mrs. Li in the shop gets five coppers a day, and Zhang An teaches two bows and arrows. Maker apprentices Wu Fan and Zhou Ping each have five coppers per day, and ten militiamen each have five coppers per day. These people need a wage of one hundred and forty-five coppers per day. The rest are ordinary villagers, with forty logging 1. Six people helped Carpenter Zhao build a house, and 20 people quarried stones. Each of these sixty-six people needed to pay two coppers a day, a total of one hundred and thirty-two coppers, and the two sides together needed two hundred and seventy-seven Copper, these are the money that must be spent every day. There are also some unfixed expenses, such as the daily purchase of various raw materials, which are not counted in it, but the current income of Luoshen Village is indeed pitifully small. The main source of income is the income from the martial arts gym, but the game has only been started for more than a month now, and there are not many players who can collect dozens of coppers to learn skills, not to mention, not all players will come to learn guns Most of the players are learning sword art, some players want to learn sword art, and some players are preparing to learn bow and arrow, a long-range attack method. So now when the income of the martial arts gym is high, there are more than a hundred coppers, and when it is low, it is only a few dozen coppers, which cannot cover the expenditure in the village at all. In addition, a few pieces of equipment are sold in the shops in the village every day, and there are dozens of coppers in income, but it is useless for the expenses in the village. Therefore, now Luoshen Village urgently needs to establish a stable income channel, otherwise, within a month, Luoshen Village will become the first bankrupt village in the game. Some people may not believe it, but the actual situation is indeed the case. The reason is that Luoshen Village is developing too fast. In today's words, the pace is too fast. Take Zongheng Village as an example. Although Zongheng Village is not much better than Luoshen Village in terms of scale and number of villagers, after two months of development, Zongheng Village has reached its current scale step by step. footprints, but Luoshen Village is different. It took less than ten days to reach the current scale, and it can be said that the foundation is not stable. And the most important point is the number of players. Although Luoshen is developing very rapidly, the number of players is far from the size of his own village. You must know that the largest source of funds for the development of player villages now lies in the players in the village. Domestic consumption, various weapons and equipment, and food are the basis for supporting the development of the player village at present, but the number of players in Luoshen Village is far from enough, so the consumption ability is far from the ability to support the development of the village. This is the biggest shortcoming of Luoshen Village. Don't underestimate the spending power of players. Even if a player only spends ten coppers a month in the village, what about a hundred players, a thousand players, or even thousands of players like Zongheng Village? In this way, the consumption generated by the huge player group is enough to support the normal development of a village. But Luoshen Village does not have it. It only has hundreds of players, and a large part of them are relatively low-level players, so the spending power is even lower.
Huangfu Chaobo sat in the administrative hall and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't come up with any good solution. In the end, he had no choice but to call Zhang Xuan and Chen Jing.
Be prepared to brainstorm ideas.
Soon the two came to the administrative hall. After listening to Huangfu Chaobo's words, both of them fell into silence for a while. After a long time, Henry Zhang said: "Master, the only way out now is to find a way on the fish."
"Oh, what does Mr. Zhang mean?" Huangfu Chaobo said with a blank expression;
"The two brothers Zhang and Da can catch more than 100 units of fish every day, and the daily consumption is basically those below the high-quality level. Since the village does not need to consume so much, then we can find one or several restaurants in Changshe City to provide them daily. To them, even if the price is slightly worse, it can provide a fixed income for the village, so it should be much better. According to the current market price, a unit of high-quality fish is 10 Copper, even if we can sell it at the price of 5 coppers, we can still earn 250 to 300 coppers a day. It’s just that we don’t have a familiar restaurant in Changshe City, so we need to find it carefully. If it doesn’t work, we can only Arrange people to go to the market in the city to sell it by yourself. Although the price will be a little higher, but the market has rent, we still need to arrange people to guard there every day, and the daily quantity cannot be stable. It's a lot of trouble." Henry Zhang expressed his thoughts in one breath, and then waited for Huangfu Chaobo to make a decision.
After hearing what Henry Zhang said, Huangfu Chaobo turned his head and looked at Chen Jing. Chen Jing knew that Huangfu Chaobo wanted to ask about his situation in Changshe City, so he stood up and said, "The restaurants in Changshe City are better. Basically, they have their own fixed supply channels, and the demand for fish is not that great. Therefore, if you want to find a way from this aspect, you still need to search carefully. For this matter, you can only arrange people to go to the city to search slowly. .”
Huangfu Chaobo thought so, but apart from the NPCs in the city, the player village basically has no consumer demand for fish now. Thinking of this, he said helplessly: "This can only be done by Boyang. You are a resident of Changshe City. You are relatively clear about the situation in the city. In the past few days, you can take one or two people to search in Changshe City to see if you can find the restaurant you need. It doesn’t matter even if the quantity is small. If possible, try It’s best to find a few more. As for the price, you can decide for yourself.”
"Yes," Chen Jing clasped his fists in response, and after a moment of silence, he continued, "Actually, son, isn't Brother Boming a hunter? In fact, you can let him lead people into the mountains to hunt some prey every day. Add some meat to the village, and if possible, the excess meat can also be sold to restaurants in the city."
When Huangfu Chaobo heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said, "That's right, someone, call Zhang An here..."
Zhang An, who came in a hurry, listened to Huangfu Chaobo's question, and after thinking about it, he said that his hunter profession was different from that of the fishermen of the two brothers Zhang Dazhang. Similarly, hunters hunt entirely by luck, and the value of the various prey they hunt will be different. It is possible that what they hunt today is an ordinary goat, and what they hunt tomorrow is a precious tiger, so I want to rely on a single It is basically impossible for hunters to increase the income of the village. However, hunters can indeed bring meat, which can save some food in the village and increase the satisfaction of villagers in the village. Another point is that meat saves food more than fish. If five catties of fish are needed to cover one catty of grain, one catty of high-quality meat is enough to cover one catty of grain, and even the worst-quality low-quality meat can be equivalent to three catties of one catty of grain. Hearing Zhang An's words, Huangfu Chaobo's heart suddenly became cold, but thinking about it, but Zhang An's words also reminded him that Zhang An can indeed arrange a part of the time for hunting every day. You can also provide some meat for the village. It seems that the income of the village has to be allocated to the sale of fish. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo didn't think too much, and Henry Zhang immediately arranged to select two more active villagers from among the villagers, and asked Chen Jing to lead them to Changshe County to find ways to sell fish, while the others followed suit step by step busy with their own affairs.
After Henry Zhang brought the villagers of Liangmin, Chen Jing took the two of them to pack some fish that had been scaled off, killed and cleaned, and went to Changshe County to find a market. After Chen Jing was sent away, Zhang An was also arranged to lead the militia to practice leveling, while hunting in the mountains and forests around Luoshen Village, while Huangfu Chaobo himself stayed in the village, while arranging the construction of the village with Henry Zhang. While stepping up his proficiency in throwing spears.
On this day, because Chen Jing was not in the village, all the martial arts halls in the village were free. After Huangfu Chaobo practiced throwing guns in the martial arts hall for a day, seeing that it was getting late, he tidied up the martial arts hall and returned to the administrative hall . Not long after returning to the administrative hall, I heard some voices from Zhang An outside. Looking up, I saw Zhang An leading a few militiamen into the administrative hall with happy faces. As soon as they entered the gate, they rushed Huangfu Chaobo said loudly: "Young master, young master, come and see, we have gained a lot today!"
Huangfu Chaobo looked behind him, and saw a few militiamen coming in carrying a few goats. He was about to say what is good about hunting a few goats, and then looked behind, Huo, good guy, the few behind A militiaman came in with a long line of lambs, there were about a dozen of them, big and small. All of a sudden, the sound of "baa baa baa" sounded one after another in the administrative hall.