The business names in the old city of Xifeng are still born with their natural titles and Yi Chengxing. Perhaps these two Liang Wen, Shandong, and Qian Shuhua, did not know that Wu Anping already knew about Xu Er, and was still very embarrassed to talk and laugh. However, Wu Anping obviously would not let it go. Before leaving, the business people reminded the two owners to remember to redeem Xu Er, which made the two owners blush on their faces, and they were neither crying nor laughing.

Wu Anping didn't have much disgust with these businesses.

Although these businesses are sometimes inevitably used to use some tricks, they can generally be called honest operation, and earn hard money from going out and getting in. Zhang Zhaoke took the lead in exploiting and robbing them. If they didn't use some tricks, they would have closed down long ago. How could they still be able to stay in the old city of Xifeng?

Although Wu Anping is not a good person for these people, he still admires them in his heart.

He made some requests and suggestions to the owner and shopkeeper of these businesses.

First, we cannot forget our righteousness when we see profits, we must adhere to our integrity, and we must not lose our morality. Second, it is best to raise our subordinates’ salary to the level of the new city, and we cannot be reluctant to give up. After all, only by giving up can we gain. Besides, if we don’t improve, they will not be able to recruit friends. A few of them have come to the new city these days?

The third is to suggest that they form a joint account and open a factory in Xincheng. What to produce is actually very simple. They are guarding Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia and next to Inner Mongolia. There is no shortage of cotton and leather. They can produce cotton cloth and various leather goods, and even directly produce ready-made clothes and leather jackets, and there is no problem with leather shoes. If they want to do it, the relevant equipment can be imitated by the machinery factory, and even Wu Anping can participate in the shares, but the rules must be based on Xincheng.

These owners were a little distressed and moved. Xifeng New City used a monthly salary of at least 30, which was enough for them to use three people before. However, when they saw that several factories in Wu Anping made money, they were even more eager to talk to each other. At that time, they decided to do what Wu Anping said and set up Tiancheng Company, which was both a joint shop and a factory, and they also had to make cotton, ready-made clothes, leather clothes, and leather shoes.

However, they had a request that Wu Anping would have to obtain a shareholding point, at least 40%. They had to have a relationship with Wu Anping, but this was understandable. If they really wanted to keep the God of Wealth, they could still lack money to spend?

Wu Anping thought about it, nodded in agreement with the request, and decided to invest 2 million oceans to account for 40% of the equity capital, and they will subscribe to the other 60% freely. In this way, these businesses have to spend 3 million oceans. Although they are a little short of money, they still expressed that they would raise enough money as soon as possible, and no one would pay less.

Wu Anping asked them to ask Tao Yushan to arrange the construction of Tiancheng Lianbo in Xifeng New City. As for the factory, the factory layout plan needs to be determined, and equipment is also required to be manufactured and workers are trained. The production is not available for the time being. However, the matter of hoarding raw materials can be carried out.

The matters of Xifeng Business can be handled, but Wu Anping, the town office, had to pay attention to it.

In fact, Dongzhiyuan, where Xifeng Town is located, can be said to be the most suitable place for farming in Longdong. The terrain is flat and the area is large enough. Unfortunately, the current world is not suitable for farming and can be developed very well. Dongzhiyuan covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 square kilometers. If it is fully developed into grain fields, it will be almost 3 million mu. Calculated by 300 kilograms per mu, there will be more than 400,000 tons of grain harvest per quarter. If corn is planted, the amount can be doubled.

Two seasons a year, winter wheat and summer corn, even if only two million acres are developed and some farming technologies in later generations are introduced, then there is no problem with the annual grain output exceeding one million tons, and this million tons of grain is enough to fill three million people with one year. But now the entire Dongzhiyuan grain field is only more than 500,000 acres, and the total population is only more than 100,000. Xifeng Town, a relatively most developed place, has a population of more than 40,000 even the subordinate villages.

So Xifeng Town has great development potential now, especially for the entire Dongzhiyuan. At present, part of the wasteland purchased by my uncle Du Likui has exceeded the scope of Xifeng Town, but this is not enough. It must be expanded to the entire Dongzhiyuan. Wu Anping is confident and determined to build Dongzhiyuan into a granary in the northwest next year, and Xifeng Town is the industrial and commercial center on Dongzhiyuan.

There are very few public officials in the town office, with only a few dozen formal staff members. There are one town mayor, two clerk, one secretary, one recorder, two to three people in other departments of economy, civil affairs, culture, justice, and guard. In addition, there are each guards under the town, each with a guard chief, a deputy guard chief, and two or three officers. The guard is A, but only one guard.

There are few public officials, but there are many people doing business, four to five times more than public officials. In some stocks, such as tax collection, this ratio is even dozens of times. These non-staff personnel are all stocks, and they are self-recruited, and their expenses are not included in the public account, so they usually seek income and exploit the public. These non-staff personnel are directly handled, and public officials want to be corrupt and generous, so they usually get a lot of such people around them, acting as clerks, and they are also unscrupulous thugs.

The reputation of Xifeng Town is indeed not very good. The greed and corruption of public officials is one aspect, but more because Zhang Zhaoke is really good at plundering and exploiting the place. Xifeng Town is a commercial town that can compete with Qingyang County, the "first city in Longdong", and its economic strength is naturally coveted by Zhang Zhaoke. Therefore, although it is only the towns, the tax donation is no less than that of Qingyang County. However, the strength of Xifeng Town is mainly reflected in the fact that it is a commercial circulation terminal that communicates the transaction of Ganning salt crust. In the past, merchants have quite a lot of strength. In their high-pressure policies are often not implemented, and they will still be shared by ordinary people and farmers.

This is also the reason why there are endless fertile fields outside Xifeng Town, but there are many abandoned people.

Wu Anping rectified the town company and renovated all unnecessary non-staff personnel. Each department was not allowed to recruit people by itself. However, the civil affairs, judicial and other departments that really needed manpower could add the self-recruited clerks to public office. In this way, although the staffing of the town office was doubled, the non-staff personnel were cleaned up.

Regarding the collection of tax donations, Wu Anping announced that no tax will be imposed on farmers with a land property of less than 20 acres, and for landlords, gentry, merchants and local merchants with a land property of more than 20 acres, other taxes such as military donations, captive taxes, road construction taxes, etc. In addition to the taxes stipulated in the law, Zhang Zhaoke would not agree to this, but Wu Anping announced that all the shortage taxes would be compensated by him personally, so that he would have an explanation.

Zhang Fengfu, the chief of the Cultural Division, was very happy because Wu Anping promised to fully support his rural education plan. Of course, the town office did not have such strength, but Longdong Group would vigorously subsidize. He is a follower of rural educator Yan Yangchu and has also joined the China Civilian Education Promotion Association. If Qingyang was not his hometown, he might have followed Yan Yangchu and went to Baoding, Hebei to participate in rural education experiments.

Wu Anping told Zhang Fengfu: "If you have visited Xincheng, you should know that I have built a primary school, a middle school and a technical school here, which are very large in scale. Although it has not been fully completed, education is already underway. Moreover, this kind of education is not only aimed at children and teenagers, but also literacy and technical training for adults. But these educations are still limited to the Longdong Group. It’s not that I don’t want it, but that there are not enough teachers to expand it to the whole town. I hope your rural education plan can achieve this goal."

Those who are happy will naturally be disappointed. Economic stocks account for a large proportion of these people, especially the security chiefs responsible for tax collection. Wu Anping's actions simply cut off their financial path. It is impossible not to hold a grudge. However, after all, they are not Zhang Zhaoke, and Wu Anping does not care at all.

He also opened an inspection room outside the judicial department, which was responsible for Ma Changshan, a clerk with a good reputation. He recruited all the personnel himself, or transferred them from various departments of the town office, and Wu Anping paid the office expenses himself to ensure sufficient. This inspection room was specially used to supervise the implementation of the new tax administration, and also supervise internal corruption and other behaviors. He was directly responsible to the mayor, which was considered a knife Wu Anping sacrificed.

Finally, Wu Anping announced that the salaries of all public officials in the town office will be in line with Xincheng, and the public salary will be increased by at least twice. Wu Anping said: "People who do things seriously should have good returns. If there are those who perform particularly well, I will reward a new city housing at the end of next year, but if anyone is perfunctory or even corruption, they will soon go to the small black prison in Xifeng City to retire."

Thinking of his lack of time to listen to those reports and ask for instructions, Wu Anping appointed his uncle Du Likui as the acting mayor, taking control of Xifeng in full, and decided to merge Xifeng Old Town and New Town at an appropriate time to introduce administrative power into Xifeng New Town.

My uncle actually has no formal job now, and he knows that this is related to Wu Anping's next plan, so he happily takes over. As for how to be the acting mayor, Wu Anping has discussed many administrative issues with him in private, and I believe he is still competent.

Wu Anping is still looking forward to the Xifeng Merchant Group.

Although it is called Xifeng Merchant, it is actually the city defense armed forces of Xifeng Old City. Although Wu Anping looked down on those 100 guns, he knew that these people were still a little powerful, otherwise they would not be able to deal with Fan Zhongxiu's raid. Most of these people were deserters during the chaos in the northwest. When they returned to their hometown, they had difficulty making a living, so they picked up the gun here again.

The original general office of the Xifeng Merchant Group was launched by the company in the city. It was originally a company. After Wu Anping bribed Zhang Zhaoke and got the general office, the former general office and the deputy general office returned to the company. However, the Xifeng Merchant Group did not get into chaos even though the leader was not in a row, which made Wu Anping amazed.

Wu Anping met several of the representative figures.

One of them was Jin Peng, who worked in Lu Hongtao's First Army Division of Gansu. Another was named Jin Dahu, who once served as a soldier of the Zhili warlord Wu Peifu. He fled back to Gansu in the first Zhili war. The last one was Hu Dunzi, who was born as a stonemason and was very tough.

After asking a few questions, Wu Anping realized that thanks to these three people's restraints, the 100 guns of the Xifeng Merchant Group did not lose control. However, this is mainly because Xifeng New City has enough influence. The three people told others that if they really followed Wu Anping, the situation would definitely be better than when they were controlled by the business. After all, these people are all for life.

Wu Anping inquired in detail about the situation of the business group and found that although these people had guns in their hands, they were still in good manners and rarely had any oppression of the people. They were more like bodyguards who were doing things for money, specializing in guarding the Xifeng City Defense. Unlike the police officers in the guard section of the town office, who had the opportunity to deal with ordinary people all day long.

Jin Peng was promoted to the deputy general manager. Wu Anping had no time to take charge of Xifeng Merchant Group, so he, the deputy general manager, did the work of the general manager. However, necessary control was still needed. Wu Anping decided to let them train with the five thousand people in two batches. In this way, the Xifeng Merchant Group should be assimilated after a while. After all, the people in the merchant group have experience in holding guns, which will also benefit the subsequent training.

The salary of the Xifeng Merchant Group personnel was also mentioned to 40 oceans per month, which is more than 20 yuan higher than their current, which is a surprise. However, Wu Anping also emphasized that these people are still in the inspection period, and their income will increase even if they can pass, so they have to find another high.

Wu Anping has now taken over the old city of Xifeng, and some of the decisions he made are also very targeted. As for whether it will work, it is still hard to say, but with the supervision of his uncle Du Likui, I believe that he will gradually meet his requirements.
Chapter completed!