"The fermented bean curd tastes so special, salty and fresh." During dinner in the evening, the centaur girl Kai took a small bite of the fermented bean curd. The unique taste and texture seemed to open a new door.
"You can just have porridge, which tastes better, or grilled naan." Lant wants to find more specialties for his territory, including non-staple food and light industry, so that the residents have something to do and their lives will be easier. Richer.
"By the way, Master Ben Call should arrive tomorrow, right?" Rant asked.
"Yes, sir, the express delivery that arrived today said that Master Ben Call has arrived at East Station No. 2 and will arrive at noon tomorrow." Peter Maned Wolf, who was next to him, answered quickly as soon as he heard Lant's inquiry.
Lant numbered all the inns around Yeqi City. The one closest to Yeqi City in the direction is No. 1 inn.
Those heading towards Lot are South 1 and South 2, and those heading towards the salt mine are East 1 and East 2. When Ben Kaul arrived at East 2 Station, it meant that he was only 80 kilometers away from Yeqi.
Every day, there is an express delivery to the east and the south from Midnight Qicheng. Letters are relayed between the stations at the fastest speed. In the afternoon, express delivery is sent back to Yeqicheng from both places, ensuring that Rand can keep up with the latest information from the two places. Condition.
"Sir, we don't have many gold coins left. We currently have less than 23,000 gold coins in our account." Rand successfully spent half of the gold coins in two months, most of which were magic fairies, space rings, World of Warcraft meat, food, building materials, Decommissioned equipment, boats and clothing.
The 5 space rings and 7 magic fairies and Kay alone accounted for 16,000. Rand could only have 25,000 left, but he successively delivered nearly 60 black scale horses and 50 sets of iron armor and recovered the balance of 8,000 gold coins.
At the same time, Lant still owes at least 20 black scale horses and 30 sets of iron armor, which need to be brought to the royal capital by the Blue Dragon family to be delivered to the relevant families.
As for the more than 2,000 gold coins earned from the various alchemy equipment made by Wendy and others, they were left in the Chamber of Commerce in the Royal Capital and Maned Wolf City as liquid funds.
Now Rand needs to regularly purchase magic grains, potions and food from the two cities, and the import expenses are much higher than the export profits of salt.
"You requested to set up a power boiler room in the north of the city, in the south of the city, in the magic workshop, in the east workshop area, in the royal palace, and in Roth Castle." Makoto held the territory construction plan in one hand and the bill in the other, frowning.
"We still have three items of scrap equipment waiting for payment. We need to prepare 1,000 gold coins for these. In addition, we also need to purchase some city defense equipment, such as bed crossbows and trebuchets. This is also a large amount. In addition, you also requested to order about 100 horses. Draft horses and about 100 ordinary war horses, which will cost about 5,000 gold coins."
Lant put down the knife and fork in his hand and listened to Makoto reporting the accounts, and the meal was no longer fragrant.
"I will find a way as soon as possible," Lant sighed. The territory is now in dire straits. The Black Scale Horse can no longer sell horses after paying 20 horses. It is necessary to ensure that the knights' mounts and horses multiply.
Lant bought war horses and draft horses in the hope of liberating the black-scaled horses used for express delivery and pulling carts in the inn.
"Sir, according to your planning requirements, our salt mine, Yeqidong Industrial Zone and the workshop area in the east of the city need at least 1,000 additional citizens." After Makoto reported the lack of money in the territory, it was Lanya's turn to report the lack of people. Condition.
"And now if these... skills in the palace are developed into an industry, how many more than 200 people will be needed?" Laniya finished eating and took out a stack of forms. These were the lists of the subjects.
"Most of the new demon-free people who have defected to several tribes are barbarians from the north of the Benma River or the west of the Luoyue River. The proportion of human slaves in their tribes is very small, and even fewer can be replenished in the workshops."
The barbarians in Benma Hebei do not have the industrial integration of the Gray Goose Tribe and have very little demand for the human race.
"In terms of population, the Dugan and Joyason families in the royal capital will move a wave of citizens to their inn, which will save me 100 people. I have to find a way for the rest." Lant's voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke. , in the end, I didn’t even believe that there was any way to bring out 1,000 people.
"How about..." Lant suddenly raised his head, "How about I sell some of the antiques in the palace in exchange for money, and then recruit workers from the imperial capital?"
. . . The entire restaurant was frozen in embarrassment, Makoto and Lanya simply pretended not to hear.
Nila's eyes widened, her mouth pursed, and she had an expression that said she didn't dare to say what she wanted to say. She couldn't bear to point out that Lant was a bad descendant.
"Why didn't you respond at all? I'm not going to dig up the royal tomb. We can mortgage the jade carvings in the stair hall to businessmen in the imperial capital."
"Sir? Don't you want Queen Padmilla to come to you from the magic network?" In the end, it was Little Cardinal who was personally promoted by the Fairy Queen who asked first, "I feel that she cares about these things."
"Yes, sir," Peter Maned Wolf carefully added, "things in the palace cannot be sold casually, and no merchant in the imperial capital dares to accept them. What's more important is that the Holy Supreme Council has not recognized you as ruler of Yeqi City. rights."
"Well, that's right. After all, it belongs to the ancestors and cannot be sold casually." Lant thought for a while, "You guys can explore more in the next two days. Since the treasure cannot be sold, let's see if there is a treasury, even a scrap iron pile. ." Lant hoped that the ancestors of the Benma family would leave something useful for themselves.
. . . .
There will always be a shortage of one or two of population, money and food. If there is no shortage any day, it means that the development of the territory has reached a bottleneck period.
On the 10th, things were less busy for Rand. In the morning, I went to the south of the city to see the construction of grain warehouses and mills. A field was to be built in the south of the city, and the supporting facilities were completed before plowing began.
After having some free time in the afternoon, I explored the underground area of the palace before Ben Call came back.
"It's a magical world after all. What I do every day is school, blind dates, and product development." He stroked the magic circle on the wall of the underground hall and said to himself, "This is where I can really feel the magic." "
After entering the second floor of the underground ruins, he could only barely identify the direction through the dim light of various magic circles on the walls and the ground. Based on his own memory, Lant went back to find the various rooms that the Queen mentioned the day before yesterday, such as the rooms on the third underground floor. The training room for training the magic circle was once used as a transmission hall for communication between the palace and the imperial capital, and there was also a rescue room that functioned like a hospital. There is also an emergency communications room with similar functions to a salt mine. Outside the door, Rand also found an [Emergency Communications Room] nameplate marked with the words of his hometown.
The doors of all these functional rooms were closed without exception. Because they were opened and closed by magic, Lant couldn't even find a keyhole. The only one he could enter was the magic furnace room in the center of the third floor.
Contrary to Lant's imagination, although the magic furnace on the third floor of the ruins is much thicker than the one in the salt mine, it is about the same height. It seems that the power of the two should be about the same.
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