265 Decision, the emergence of the industrial structure

The division of labor and cooperation between villages and towns was difficult to resolve for a while, and the meeting was suspended. Dozens of core players from one town and three villages came out of the meeting hall and went for a walk and rest in the courtyard of the loft in the Executive Yuan of Xiaobai Town. While resting in the courtyard, core players from each village also gathered together to discuss the bottom line of their own villages, and fortunately they occupied a favorable position in the negotiations half an hour later.

Jianba is a representative figure of Xiaobai Town's industry and commercial interests. From the perspective of simple industries and commercial interests, he is not willing to divide the interests of Xiaobai Town into other villages under his jurisdiction. Even if one town and three villages have been merged, it does not mean that the interests can be transferred free of charge. Unless the villages under his jurisdiction are willing to transfer the same interests to Xiaobai Town, he naturally agrees to transfer the interests to the villages under his jurisdiction.

Therefore, Jianba had a strong resistance to Tianbao's suggestion that "the production division of iron weapons will be dominated by the Hubao Village." He would never agree with this suggestion of division of labor in industrial areas.

Zhan Xiaobai, Jianba, Qiushui, Afei and others walked together to discuss what happened at the meeting just now. The industry and business of Xiaobai Town are mainly managed by Zhan Xiaobai and Jianba. Qiushui and Afei only manage military affairs and rarely interfere in this matter, so they rarely express their opinions on this matter.

Zhan Xiaobai knew some of the Jianba’s thoughts and asked: “Swordba, what do you think about the division of labor in this industry?”

Jianba shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's difficult. The iron production in Xiaobai Town must not be transferred to Hubao Village, otherwise it will be equivalent to destroying our pillar industries. Similarly, Hubao Village cannot transfer their NPC blacksmiths to our town, otherwise they will lose the greatest industrial interests. The negotiations collapsed and the split between our four villages and towns would be a big deal. I haven't thought of any way to solve this problem yet. Xiaobai, how do you think of how to solve this problem?"

Zhan Xiaobai nodded. Interest issues have always been a headache. He didn't know the difficulties. He said: "This time I have summoned core players from the three villages to our town to discuss industrial division of labor. There are only three goals: interests, integration, and avoid internal competition and efforts to expand outward. How do you think about how these three goals can be achieved?"

Qiu Shui smiled and said, "Our town and three villages have just merged, but the relationship between the four villages and towns is not stable. The interests are the best fusion agent to make the four villages and towns completely together. Our goal is to integrate the interests of one town and three villages as much as possible, rather than creating divisions and conflicts. Hubao Village has made great sacrifices for us. We cannot steal all their jobs, which will make the hearts of Hubao Village cold. Now we are planning to unify Wuwei County and give Hubao Village benefits as a reward. This is a must. Wutong Village has always been our brother village and needs to get some rewards. Moxiao Village has not made much contribution, but it is necessary to stand on our side at this critical moment and give appropriate encouragement. The combination of one town and three villages is far greater than that of four separate villages and towns."

Zhan Xiaobai nodded. Qiu Shui's opinion was quite pertinent, so he turned to look at A Fei again.

A Fei curled his lips and said, "Whatever, now, whether it is the industry in Hubao Village or Moxiao Village, it will be the industry of the elder brother in the end. As long as the benefits of the big head belong to the elder brother, everything else doesn't matter."

Obviously, Qiu Shui agreed, while A Fei held no objection, and advocated appropriately giving up part of the interests to the villages under the jurisdiction of the three Xiaobai Towns.

Zhan Xiaobai looked at Jianba again.

Jianba was silent for a while and said the last bottom line he agreed with: "In addition to the four core main industries of weapons, equipment, medicines, horses, and raw materials, other sub-industries are transferred to the three villages, and I have no objection."

Zhan Xiaobai thought for a while and said, "Give me the account book and I'll see which industries are more suitable to transfer them."

Jianba took out a town account book from his private secret warehouse in the wing room. This account book is one of the top core secrets of Xiaobai Town and is usually kept by the deputy mayor. However, Li Asan, deputy mayor of Xiaobai Town, cannot handle so many affairs, so Jianba has always controlled it. Jianba handed over the account book to Zhan Xiaobai.

The town account book is a hodgepodge, which records a large amount of financial data, including detailed statistics on all industries in Xiaobai Town.

Zhan Xiaobai flipped to the account book about industry page to view it.

Xiaobai Town has many industries and is also very complex.

Military industry: weapons and equipment, medicines, horses, weapons research institutes, ships, cars,...

Supporting industries: leather making, tendons, bones, glue, wood, mining, herbs, feeding horses, beans, wheat and grains, sewing, smelting, jewelry,...

Sub-industry: wine, tea, salt, cloth, clothing, decorations, groceries, fishing, manors, fruit and meat, etc.

Xiaobai Town has now expanded to more than 5,100 NPC population, including 1 master (book), 5 master craftsmen (cross master, pharmacist, iron tool master, papermaking, art), about 1,300 senior NPC craftsmen, 200 fierce blood soldiers, more than 100 special NPCs, and the remaining 3,500 people are apprentices and junior craftsmen, and are working hard to move towards senior craftsmen.

Such a huge group of high-end craftsmen, not to mention the uniqueness of Liangzhou, is extremely rare even among the player villages all over the world. The high-end products of Xiaobai Town have been sold to more than half of the villages in Wuwei County, accounting for nearly one-tenth of the high-end products of the villages in Wuwei County.

Among the 1,300 high-level craftsmen, subdivided into:

There are about 600 high-end iron, wood, and cobblers, and they can produce most weapons and armor from level 20 to level 40.

There are more than 200 senior pharmacists, and their products are mainly advanced drugs such as Jinchuang Pharmaceutical, Marine San, Huili Dan.

More than 100 senior and unique skills craftsmen: 10 large-scale weapon craftsmen, 40 senior crossbow craftsmen, and more than 50 research and design institutes...

More than 400 senior craftsmen in various categories: 40 senior tailors, 13 senior stonemasons, 4 senior butchers, 40 senior tea farmers, 13 senior silkworm girls, 13 senior farmers, 4 senior livestock breeding farmers, 4 senior grooms, 4 senior...

Such a group of senior NPC craftsmen, coupled with the newly added large number of apprentices and junior NPC craftsmen, have a very terrifying production capacity - of course, the premise of all this must be that there is sufficient supply of raw materials, and without the supply of raw materials, there is no bubble to increase one.

Xiaobai Town has extremely outstanding advantages in weapons and weapons production capacity and medicine production capacity. However, production in other aspects also consumes a lot of NPC human resources, such as manors, fruits, wine and meat, collection, sewing, stonemasons, butchers, etc. These are industries that cannot be missing in a village but have not had high returns, and some population is wasted.

If these industries are transferred to the villages under their jurisdiction, Xiaobai Town will concentrate the human resources advantages of NPC craftsmen in its core industries and will achieve greater gains.

After reading the general picture, Zhan Xiaobai knew it, and made up his mind and made a decision: "Transfer some supporting industries, sub-industry, and industries with low efficiency to the villages under his jurisdiction, and Xiaobai Town concentrated NPC population resources to develop core military industry."

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While Zhan Xiaobai and others were deciding on the industrial strategy of Xiaobai Town, the core players of the other three villages were also discussing what industries their village needed.

The basic situations of the three major villages are different, so their requirements are also different.

The core players of Wutong Village actually have no requirements. They all know that Xiaobai Town has been continuously providing benefits to Wutong Village. Even if they don’t want anything, Xiaobai will stuff a lot of things into their pockets. So they are very relaxed in this meeting, just cooperate with Xiaobai’s decision and strive to ensure the success of this meeting.

The core players of Tiger and Leopard Village have set their sights on important industries, especially iron tools. Others can be concessions, but iron tools cannot be given up. Without iron tools, Tiger and Leopard Village is equivalent to being abandoned.

The core players of Moxiao Village care about a lot, such as Xiaobai’s opinion on their Moxiao Village. How can Moxiao Village rule Wuwei County with Xiaobai Town in the future? They lack enthusiasm in industrial division of labor, and it doesn’t matter if they can get the best, and it doesn’t matter if they can’t get it. They are even more concerned. What if the meeting breaks down? What will happen? What will be the consequences and impact?

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Half an hour later, dozens of core players from one town and three villages who had "rest" returned to the negotiating table in the conference hall to discuss the matter of division of labor in the industry.

However, Zhan Xiaobai did not give them the chance to speak first this time, but directly set the tone. No matter what, Zhan Xiaobai is the only leader of this meeting. No one dares to oppose his intention to set the tone for this meeting.

Zhan Xiaobai said to the players present: "Let's do this, before the negotiation, I will set two principles first. 1. For industries that are not controversial among the four villages and towns, immediately carry out division of labor and cooperation. 2. For industries with strong controversy, temporarily put changes and maintain the status quo. Okay, let's do it according to the above principles. In order to set an example, a batch of profitable industries in my Xiaobai Town will be transferred to you, including several larger industries, more than ten minor industries, and nearly 200 senior craftsmen. Okay, let's start talking now."

Everyone was stunned,

None of them expected that Zhan Xiaobai's words would destroy all the factors that might cause the split of the conference - they would execute immediately without disputes, and they would hold them down for controversy - the talks would only succeed without failure.

Jianba smiled, and he didn't expect Zhan Xiaobai to use this trick to directly destroy the direct conflict of interest between one town and three villages. He also destroyed a big stone in his heart.

Tian Bao, opposite the negotiating table, opened his mouth and couldn't say a word. Because he knew that Xiaobai's meaning was very clear--the iron industry is too controversial and it is easy to have conflicts of interest. So I simply don't talk about the division of labor in this industry, but only talk about cooperation in other aspects. This seems... not bad. At least Hubao Village has not lost the major core industrial interests.

As soon as Zhan Xiaobai's two principles were released, the various concerns and doubts in the hearts of the core players of the three villages immediately disappeared, and they took the courage to discuss the issue of division of labor and cooperation. Division of labor and cooperation has now become a major issue of the transfer of secondary senior NPC craftsmen in Xiaobai Town to the three villages under their jurisdiction.

Dozens of senior herbal farmers, mulberry farmers, silkworm girls, fruit farmers, tea farmers, bean farmers, poultry breeding, fishermen, butchers, wine brewing, went to Wutong Village and vigorously developed the manor industry.

Dozens of senior craftsmen in leather, jewelry, decoration, stonemason, smelting, etc. went to Hubao Village. These craftsmen are of high value, and Hubao Village is also quite satisfied. As a thank you, Heihu gave back several precious senior blacksmiths to Xiaobai Town.

The remaining dozens of senior craftsmen of various types, such as textiles, cloths, sewing, clothing, groceries, etc., were taken away by Mo Xiaocun.

The senior craftsmen from Xiaobai Town went to the three major villages. In exchange, the three major villages also transferred a lot of senior craftsmen from military industry to Xiaobai Town. In addition, the three villages also needed to supply various essential products to Xiaobai Town. Of course, some craftsmen were also transferred between the three major villages. Wutong Village was mainly farmers, Hubao Village was mainly secondary military products, and Moxiao Village was mainly comprehensive and miscellaneous products.

This result is not only satisfactory for the three major villages, but also for Xiaobai Town.

After the initial adjustment of the industrial layout of one town and three villages, a new pattern that satisfies Zhan Xiaobai has emerged. Xiaobai Town has become a core village with military industry as the main focus, Wutong Village is the main supply village for agricultural products such as herbs, forages, and miscellaneous grains. Hubao Village is the supply village for semi-finished iron ingots, secondary military products, and supporting products. Moxiao Village is the supply village for clothing and other comprehensive miscellaneous products.

Xiaobai Town has initially stripped of its side business and concentrated all the NPC craftsmen to master the core military industry. This industrial structure will not only be the internal structure of Xiaobai Town in the future, but also become a model pattern for Xiaobai Town to unify Wuwei County, and will gradually be improved in the Wuwei County Unification War.

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The first square table meeting of the main members of the village circle in Xiaobai Town ended successfully. The core players of the three major villages returned to the village with the desired results.

When the players in Xiaobai Town were sending the players of Moxiao Village back, Zhan Xiaobai chatted with Moxiaofeng for a while and asked Moxiaofeng to do something secret: secretly provoking conflicts in the villages around Jiang's village, causing strong external military pressure to Jiang's village.

Mo Xiaofeng didn't understand what Zhan Xiaobai was going to do, and Zhan Xiaobai didn't say it. However, Mo Xiaofeng decided to do it according to Zhan Xiaobai's wishes. For Mo Xiaocun, it would be no problem to mess with Jiang's village secretly.
Chapter completed!