Chapter 359: Inazuma Castle Never Sleeps
In the blink of an eye, three years passed. As the last street in Inazuma City was equipped with street lights, General Raiden announced that Inazuma City had entered the era of a city that never sleeps, and the curfew in Inazuma City was completely lifted.
It was also announced that lighting facilities will be installed in outlying islands and several other important towns.
At the same time, the Ministry of Industry also began to introduce various lamps that had been prepared long ago into the private market.
Alchemists, apprentices, workers and warriors were drawn from various machinery factories to form a lighting factory.
The lighting factory produces three types of lamps: standard headlights: generally used in ports, ships, etc. There are also a few in the shogunate, which are used to replace the lights used for night patrols.
Standard furniture lamps/street lamps : generally used for road lighting and indoor lighting, and this type of lamp is everywhere in the shogunate.
Customized lamps: Customized lamps are generally used in special places, such as the fox lamps with unique lights at Naruto-Taisha Shrine and the thunder-shaped Mie-ba lamps at the gate of the shogunate.
" After Inazuma City opened at night, the entire Inazuma City suddenly became much more prosperous. In recent years, commercial taxes have been rising steadily." The general who was shrouded in magic couldn't help but sigh when he saw the bustling night market.
"After all, everyone works during the day, and only has free time at night. Moreover, there are many people practicing martial arts in Inazuma, and most of them are energetic. Now that they have a way to vent, it is also very good."
"I think you can take 10% of the daily turnover of this food street." The general said with a smile.
"I pay taxes legally, and I pay the most. Besides, I don't have that much." Ren Lian Lingyi said confidently, "I have additional sponsorship for the extra fire brigade on this street, and the unity of strength that Tianling adheres to."
"Even those dynamic groups that maintain order are supported by me."
"That makes sense. " The general smiled and didn't take it to heart.
"What's more, the shogunate is actually the one that makes the most money. With so much land, the rent is so much every month." Ren Lian Lingyi said.
Although he collected membership fees, he also contributed real money and effort, and the shogun's shogunate directly nationalized the land.
If the general had not tipped off Ren Lian Lingyi in advance, he might have had to take the compensation and leave in disgrace.
Those nobles who bought this land at that time are now suffering from losses.
After all, no one expected the general to do this. It can only be said that the general has become more and more familiar with the operation of capital.
However, like Ren Lian Lingyi, the general has always tried his best to break the rigidity among the different classes in Inazuma.
When the two were discussing, Ren Lian Lingyi once brought up the idea of unified education.
But it was rejected by the general.
Because the shogunate simply did not have the financial and material resources to support the unified education plan mentioned by Ren Lian Lingyi.
The elite education proposed by the general was also rejected by Ren Lian Lingyi, because elite education would only increase the solidification of classes.
However, the general obviously considered things more carefully than Ren Lian Lingyi.
Because the elite education that the general was talking about was not aimed at the aristocracy and the samurai class, but directly at the entire civilian class.
She made full use of the function of big data screening to screen out talents with SSR potential throughout Inazuma, and then let those people join the shogunate through tests and training.
Then, through quiet training and appropriate resources, these people will be able to become the talents the general needs and play the role of catfish in related fields.
It can also motivate people in related fields to work together.
After some calculations, Ren Lian Lingyi discovered that the cost of doing so was surprisingly low. The biggest expense was the big data calculations for [Resurrection]. However, the energy for [Resurrection] came from the earth veins, and the maintenance of [Resurrection] was generally done by [Resurrection] itself.
The cost is very high for others, but it is almost nothing for generals with advanced permissions of [Resurrection].
The remaining resources are also very abstract, and the generals don't even need to do anything about them, let alone spend them.
It’s much better than Ren Lian Lingyi’s original plan.
But this also has problems. It would be okay if there were only one or two such people, but if there are such people in every walk of life, sooner or later the nobles would notice that something is wrong.
Then the entire plan would be targeted by the aristocratic faction within Inazuma.
After all, although the total number of Inazuma is increasing, there are only so many resources in a short period of time. If the people below come up to divide them, the original aristocratic faction will naturally get less.
This is how the conflict between the aristocratic faction and the commoner faction within the Inazuma shogunate came about.
" Let's skip this topic," said the general.
The rent from the shogunate's land plus commercial taxes together account for more than 30% of the entire food street's turnover.
The most important thing is that these are tax-free. The food street is an earlier built area that never sleeps. Before the development, this street was originally a very ordinary civilian area. Later, land was expropriated and built into a food street. It has been open for more than two years and has been prosperous for more than two years. In these two years alone, the income from this food street alone has multiplied the shogunate's treasury several times.
In fact, the vendors here seem to make a lot of money every day, but in fact they still don’t make much.
Due to the price reference for food, for every 100 Mora of gross profit they earn, the cost of raw materials is at least 20 Mora, and the maximum profit from processing skills is 15 Mora. In addition, they have to pay 5 Mora of cleaning fees and order maintenance fees to the active group (they are really cleaning and maintaining order).
Then there is the shop rent of 30 moras, of which 5 moras needs to be given to the fire brigade to prevent fires and the tenryo magyo to maintain the safety of the market.
Finally, they had to pay 11 Moras in taxes, and the remaining 14 Moras was their real profit.
Among the 11 Mora taxes, 1 Mora is given to the shrine maiden. She has to give it because the maintenance of the food court's barrier is the responsibility of the shrine maiden of Narukami Taisha Shrine. As we all know, without the shrine maiden's barrier, evil spirits and monsters will always appear.
In fact, this is a lie. This may happen in other places, but how could monsters appear in Inazuma Castle?
However, it is true that there is a barrier, and this barrier is a composite barrier. Its main function is to cooperate with the fire brigade in fire prevention.
There are also some auxiliary functions such as making people happy, improving health, and expelling evil spirits.
Well~ this is also the reason why the food world is so lively, because in addition to delicious food, it really makes people happy.
Even if you are not hungry, having a drink in the pub here is a good choice.
It is said that a certain black fox spent all his fortune here several times, and finally had to rely on joining the Yae-do of Yae Shinto and writing novels to have money to continue to live a carefree life here.
