As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 459 Donations
The beauty was taken away. Zhuoli County was willing to make good friends with Suling and got the Xuanhan Iron as expected. The officials couldn't hide their pride and praised their lord one by one. The officials also complimented each other.

This festive atmosphere passed for a long time. After a long while, Qiu Baishui's face became serious and he got down to business, "County Master, we have investigated the identity of the bandits brought back by Chen Ahu, although the clothes on his body bear the logo of Zhuoli County. The sexual embroidery is a small phoenix and a carp, but in fact, the clothes worn by the bandits are abaca produced in Zeyan County."

"Although that man is holding a knife, his fingers are not as rough as those of ordinary warriors. Instead, they are smooth and soft, and the skin of his fingers seems to have vermilion dye."

Qiu Baishui's eyes were slightly cold, "I have learned about Zeyan County. Many people in this territory can make plate toys or silk gourds to hold liquids. To make such gourds, you usually use hands dipped in walnut oil to plate them. Play with the gourd and let the oil seep into the gourd's skin. The oil that has penetrated fills the tiny pores in the gourd's skin. After improving the skin, use varnish and a little vermilion to color the gourd. This person may have joined the army not long ago, and he may have been in the gourd business before. , long-term exposure to walnut oil and vermilion pigments left obvious marks on my hands.”

As soon as Qiu Baishui came up with his reasoning, some of the officials present could not hold back their anger and shouted, "The people from Zeyan County are so shameless. They clearly signed a contract with us, but they deliberately used tricks to prevent us from paying the payment!!"

"Fortunately, the county master is wise and prepared in advance, so no thieves succeeded."

"But Zeyan really bullied people too much and deliberately framed Zhuoli County. Does he want us to have a deeper hatred with Zhuoli County and start a fight?"

"Since it is Zeyan County that is causing trouble, why don't we throw the evidence in their faces and cut a piece of flesh off their bodies."

"Calm down, it remains to be verified whether this was done by people from Zeyan County. Just a touch of vermilion on the finger is not proof. Besides, even if it was done by their people, they insist that they are bandits and they are not wanted. We are invincible, what else can we do?" Lin Sha's words were gentle, but he silenced the noisy lobby alone.

Jiang Ran tapped her fingers on the armrest and raised her eyelids coldly and lazily, "Lin Qing's family is right. Remember this in advance."

This means that we have formed a feud with Zeyan County and want to get it back in the future.

Zeyan County wanted her Fenghuang Town, and Jiang Ran didn't want Chaoyang Town in Zeyan County.When the two territories used precious city land as collateral, there was bound to be a murderous aura in their hearts.

The county leader had spoken in person, and other officials were no longer so angry. Lin Sha said again, "Now that Zhuoli County is no longer openly our enemy, the small territories in Zhuoli County will continue to communicate with us in Suling. Heng’s trade will also start to recover.”

To get rich first, build roads first. Jiang Ran is still very concerned about the traffic problem in the territory. The traffic between Suling Town and the four towns of Xinheng, Fenghuang and Zhenyuan is extremely congested. “Can we recruit laborers from outer cities to build the city wall? Send half of the Suling locals who are building the city back to build the road."

Chen Mao stepped forward and reported back, "If we give money, there will definitely be a lot of people who have no food to eat. But the question is whether the lords of the outer city are willing to release the people in their territories to work for us."

All major territories attach great importance to population issues. Regardless of the size of the territory, they all have strong control over population.

Although there are many outsiders coming and going in Xinheng Town every day, if these outsiders want to leave the city gate of their home, they usually need to show their identity documents and ask the county officials to guide them. Otherwise, it is illegal to leave the city privately.

Because the territories near Suling are not large in size and are located in a remote and spiritually-poor area of ​​Yunshang, the small territories lack resources, but people want to be comfortable and have many items needed for life.

Therefore, although there are some minor frictions between the major territories, items between the cities still flow smoothly. If a group of Warcraft descends from the mountain to attack the human city, several territories will still unite the front.Closer to home, because small territories need to exchange goods and jointly defend against monsters, although there are population controls between cities, they are not strict. If ordinary people want to leave the city to do business in a certain territory, the government will give them guidance.

And the cities have a unified principle by default, which is: my people come to your territory and abide by the rules of your territory, but you can't take my people away.

Chen Mao said, "Your Majesty, our laborers are different from those who import and sell goods. We can come and go at any time. We have to stay for at least ten days and a half at a time. Moreover, I am afraid that other lords are not the same." Fool, help us complete the defense project."

Jiang Ran raised her eyebrows slightly, "What if we give the money directly to Zhuoli County and other territories, and then ask these territories for work?"

Chen Mao lowered his head deeply, cupped his hands and said, "I am stupid."

Jiang Ran's approach is to treat other territories as a labor dispatch company. Because Suling sends money directly to these territories, they can earn the labor price difference from it.

As long as it is profitable, it doesn't matter if they are helping others build city walls. Maybe they will be happy to have the opportunity to figure out Suling's defense structure.

Lin Sha sighed and thought to himself, wondering how those rulers who had nothing to do with their bodies would deduct the wages of the workers. Level by level, how much money would the real workers get.

That’s all, they’re not our own people anyway.

Seeing that the matter was about to be settled and Xiang Yun had to be sent to negotiate, Wu Yun was very worried and hurriedly jumped out to remind, "Lord, we are expanding the size of the army and recruiting a large number of laborers, but Xinheng's trade It hasn’t recovered yet, will the funds not be able to keep up?”

"You have to find a way even if you don't have money." Jiang Ran is particularly stubborn in building roads.

If Jiang Ran hadn't relied on the teleportation array to constantly travel from Tianchen, Yunxi Mountain, and Mingxiao City in search of resources and connections, how could Suling have developed from a poor and white town in one year to a well-established county with hundreds of years of roots, such as Zhuoli, A county-level territory that Ze Yan was vaguely afraid of?

Jiang Ran's eyes were slightly dark, and he could not say anything. "Building roads is something that will benefit future generations. If you really don't have the money, just ask the people for it."

"Engrave merit monuments on the road and ask people who want to donate money, who has donated, whose name and amount of donation are engraved on the monument." Repairing the road is not Jiang Ran's job alone, so she will not resist all the pressure. Regarding myself, "You can contribute even if you don't have money. Whichever village or town has the money first will build which section of the road first."

Jiang Ran tilted her head and looked at the officials below, and said with a hoarse smile, "Dear ladies, I, the county master, will take the lead in donating [-] gold yuan, [-] crystals, and [-] stones of food. Do you want to talk about it? Mind?"

(End of this chapter)