[The Three Kingdoms] Golden Sun Exhibition chapter 183

183 – My own little Shinya (3)

It takes a lot of money for the head of a family to feed his family. The owner of one academy spends a huge amount of money to run the entire academy.

And it takes a huge amount of money for the governor of a city to rule the city.

There are times when gold is lost in boxes a day, and there are times when an entire warehouse must be used just for the sake of ‘the people’.

These are all operated through taxes, but as the lives of the people became impoverished after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were many cases where even taxes were not properly collected.

It is assumed that taxes are the power of a country, and that the number of people is directly connected to the power of the country.

correction.

Not a country.

The Central Plains Continent is all the people of one country, but the sphere of influence varies depending on who rules the region.

The country had already declined to the extent that I, implicitly, referred to the sphere of influence of Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Sun Ce as ‘nations’.

If a country resolves the current turbulent times in the distant future and is reborn as a new country, it can be summed up as ‘the whole world is in trouble’, but if a country falls and a new country is created, ‘a country falls and a new country is born.’ It can be said that the Warring States Period has returned.

In these difficult times, I decided to take care of this land where I live, Shinya.

In fact, I was already taking care of it to some extent.

As we expanded our school’s land little by little, we settled refugees and wanderers there, then pioneered the wasteland, made them residents of Jingju, and made them pay taxes.

We, who used the land, paid a land usage fee, and we – to be more precise, the Chae family – organized it and operated it by raising taxes on Yupyo, the head of Hyeongju.

But at some point, it started to get really weird.

-Xinya raises a thousand koku of rice as a tax, but why is it that less than three hundred koku is returned?

Yupyo did not invest in Shinya at all.

After Zhang Jie’s attack, it was only after learning that he regarded Shinya as a sacrifice beyond the Yangtze River to protect Yangyang that Shinya came up with a plan to survive.

For me at first.

From the middle, for the academy and the Chae family.

And now for the residents of Shinya.

Receive, I, the government.

As I lived in difficult times, I realized that if I selfishly only care about my body and my family, everything would not be okay.

Although I am not ruling a ‘country,’ I realized that developing and stabilizing the city means protecting my family and myself.

…Of course, I’m not the one to run the entire country.

However, he has the power to run this small city called Shinya.

My disciples.

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Seo Seo, and even Sima Yi, who has now entered the imperial court.

-What should we do?

-Do whatever you want!

-oh… .

With Zhuge Liang at the center, the students of our school began to develop Shinya.

We have made every effort for development by going through many petitions, such as flood control work, road maintenance, commercial investment, military supply support, supply and demand of military supplies, etc.

To develop agriculture, heavy stones were removed and wasteland was cleared.

In order to develop commerce, the commercial district was reorganized and the street gangs were driven out.

In order to develop technology, a large-scale workshop was created and engineers were hired and no support was spared.

Thanks to this development, Shinya’s population was able to continue to increase.

-They say the land in Hyeongju is good to live in. Should I just sit here?

-okay. It’s hard to live if you have to go all the way to Hyeongnamsagun. Let’s just stay here. I think the people are nice too.

-okay. It seems like everyone here is a refugee, so the territoriality would be less than in the south.

-More than anything, it is close to the capital where the Emperor resides.

-Even if you move the capital back to Luoyang, it’s relatively close, right?

-Here, it’s better than you think for a gangster, right?

Since it was already rumored that Jingju was a good place for people to live, many people began to sit in Shinya, which was like a gateway to Jingju.

-No, if you clear the wasteland, you will be given land?

-Hey, look carefully. They say it takes ten years to clear land.

-I can live here with you for the rest of my life.

-……What did you say just now?

-oh.

As Governor Moon Bing of Shinya implemented a policy of actively embracing wanderers and refugees, the population began to increase rapidly.

-Ahhh! What are you going to do! Now that I have a child, I can’t go far!

-…Let’s live here. It’s better to live here than in Jungwon, which is constantly at war.

-Thieves are running wild here too!

-It is said that General Moon Bing swept away the bandits with a single sword. At least people like us are protected here. huh?

-…I do not know. Now you take care of everything!

-Well, there was one person anyway, one more person-

-sister!! You were here! I thought you died after parting ways with Suchun… What are you doing!!!

-It’s your brother-in-law!

The people of Shinya began to increase one by one.

The problem is that a huge amount of money, money, money is needed to handle this increasing number of people.

The taxes that the people of Shinya began to pay were no more than urinating on frozen feet.

A huge amount of money was needed to rebuild the city and feed the large population.

The tax revenue is small, the government sends only a small amount of money, and the money going out is a lot, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get their hands on the academy’s money.

…So I decided to reach out to places where I could make money separately.

Where is the bag of gold I know?

There was.

There was a big box.

So I decided to touch on it.

Shinya Development Fund.

It’s a nice way to say it, but in the end, I wasted my ‘private money’.

‘Hello, my full barn.’

In order to develop Shinya, you must give up your selfishness and accept Jojo’s warm self-

“Stop! Okay, so stop talking. You didn’t actually do it.”

“…who knows if you might?”

“Yes, yes. I understand, Master. So, you are saying that you used the gold box you received as consulting fees from Cao Cao as a development fund for Shinya, right?”

“Yes. In short…I developed Shinya with my own money!”

I was confident.

No celebrity would use his or her own money to develop Shinya.

I, a half-civilian, am doing what the governor should have done. How self-sacrificing and altruistic this is!

“First of all, the reclamation and development area is your land, right?”

“…….”

“They say they reorganized the commercial district, but they kicked out the gangsters because they messed with Sima?”

“Ah, gangsters are such a mess. How can you not bear it when they touch my wife?”

“So, I told General Moon that he killed half of the gangsters.”

“I don’t regret it. I’m not ashamed of it.”

We just kicked out the scoundrels who were an obstacle to Shinya’s development.

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Whether or not they took advantage of Yeo Nam’s bandits and became the stooges of Shinya’s attack, I have no regrets.

“Then what about the workshop? I found out while organizing Shinya Castle’s expense list, that a huge amount of money was flowing into it?”

“That’s only natural. The more money you spend, the less people die!”

“Some say that Zhuge Liang is a place where he plays crafts.”

“Play? It’s a place where symbols of peace are developed for the peace and well-being of the world. Who would criticize that place as a play classroom? You can tolerate cursing me, but you can’t criticize our workshop.”

The technology created in the workshop will make their lives more convenient, enrich their lives, and protect them from enemies, so how dare they treat it as a game of crafting?

“Isn’t it a problem?”

“I didn’t say who I was.”

“Are you asking me to make a workshop for you too?”

“What did he say? He asked me to create a technique center and a strategy department. He said he would study tactics with the kids under him.”

If Zhuge Liang has a dedicated technology production workshop, then Pang Tong needs a place like a headquarters where his staff gathers.

“Hmph. It would be a big mistake to think that only human tactics are the best. One day, in the future, there may come a world where dolls made of wood and iron, not humans, rule the world. A world where one wooden doll can give the power of a thousand men.”

“That’s not the case now.”

“Yes. But it’s not just empty talk. Yes, if you have a good amount of weapons….”

ultimately.

“You can defeat the enemy without your allies dying.”

Although the enemy will also die in great numbers, with overwhelming weapons and overwhelming military power, the enemy will not even dare to go to war.

For example, let’s say that Yuan Shao defeats Cao Cao, conquers the central plains, and then comes to Xinya with a million troops.

Should we endure it with weapons, military strategy, and strategy?

‘If it’s a million, I’ll run away.’

There are things in the world that are possible and things that are impossible.

It’s as if I can’t make Shinya like Heodo with the wealth I’ve accumulated so far.

‘Jojo, what are you?’

I am also struggling to develop a small piece of land called Xinya, so how can Cao Cao feed the emperor and pay salaries to civil servants and officials?

‘Is that why you wanted Xu Zhou so much?’

Do you think that if you eat Western Zhou, you can get a huge amount of tax revenue from the people there?

Probably not.

It may have just been because of extreme filial piety that made him turn around in an instant.

He must have done such a thing because he was so angry at the thought of himself trying to laugh despite the death of his parents that he could not hold back his anger.

Whatever it is about Jo Jo, it is clear that she used the assets of the Jo family to become a mainstay of a country.

And I developed Shinya by receiving consulting fees from Jojo like I was stealing a flea’s liver.

money.

For Shinya, I needed money.

“Stand up. Don’t you know well that you suffered because you didn’t have money? How important money is.”

“Why are you using it in the name of Shinya Development Fund instead of using it for yourself?”

“Ah, is that the part you’re angry about?”

“I’m not angry. I just thought you were running.”

“Am I going to be different?”

“Yes. You seem a lot different now than when I first met you.”

“…….”

It has changed.

As Seo said, I am also aware of myself.

“Yes, things have changed a lot since I was young. However, there are some things that haven’t changed.”

Still, there are fundamentals that do not change.

“The strong will in my heart never changes. I live for myself.”

“That ‘me’ no longer has only one teacher, right?”

“…….”

It’s my first time.

Seo won the war of words against me.

“You leave me speechless.”

“Yes, yes. In that sense, could you please wait a moment?”

After standing, he went back to his room for a while.

Then he took out something and brought it in front of me.

“What is this?”

“It’s the wedding funds my mother told me to save.”

“oh….”

Seo did not work for free.

At first, the school paid for their labor by feeding and sheltering them, but after it became clear that they were living with a single mother, they paid a fair price for their labor.

“Until now, thanks to the generous gift from Master, I have saved up a lot. Enough to buy a large manor within the castle no matter where I go in the central plains.”

“…You’ve collected a lot.”

In fact, she was saving up so much gold that it cost a lot of money.

“Yes, I will put this into the Shinya Development Fund.”

“What? Then what about marriage?”

“Well, it’s not like people die if they don’t get married.”

He stood and pushed the box towards me and smiled brightly.

“With this, Master, what you have in mind will come true. And if possible, please take responsibility for me as well.”

“…I already have two wives?”

“Oh, that’s okay. I’ve already reached an agreement with my mother.”

He stood up, put both hands on his lower abdomen, and smiled.

“My mother said I just need to see my grandchildren.”

“…Your mother is a very open-minded person.”

“Because I am also old.”

I couldn’t bear to continue speaking due to Seo’s words.

“You said you could have a granddaughter.”