The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 967 The core of the Lagran Kingdom!

"Ah? Then how do we make a profit? Aren't blue salt and snowflake white salt both products of alchemy?" Nyx was stunned. How much does blue salt cost? Selling it cheaper than coarse salt? Even in the Empire Era, I'm afraid they wouldn't dare to do that?
"Well, I have a method here. You can forward it to Yun Feng and ask him to implement it!" Roland wrote the method of boiling salt and filtering charcoal on a piece of paper and handed it to Nyx.

"Is this okay? Dissolve it? Boil the salt? Wouldn't that boil it away?" Nyx was stunned. Was her husband possessed? What nonsense was he talking about?

"Let Yun Feng try it. We'll know if it works once we give it a try!" Roland said calmly. After all, the salt produced in this way is already very refined. As long as the steps are correct, there should be no problem.

Thanks to the high-quality salt mines in Palembang, there are no poisonous salt veins, otherwise it would be very troublesome to filter and utilize them! Although it is coarse salt, at least it is not poisonous salt.

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"Let's take a look at your Majesty's solution!" Yun Feng handed the letter from Lagrande City to Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz and asked him to express his opinion.

"Is this okay? Why does it feel unreliable?" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz pointed at the words above and asked Yun Feng.

"What are you talking about? If it is a method of making salt, it should be feasible, dissolving, filtering and purifying... Huh? Why hasn't anyone thought of these before?" Yun Feng supported his chin and pondered.

"Your Excellency, you have gone off topic..." Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz said helplessly.

"Oh! Yes! You should prove His Majesty's unique foreign trade policy! See if it works. After all, it is your Franz family that has to play with money!" Yun Feng nodded to him.

"Small profits but quick turnover? That's certainly possible! But there are three important problems that need to be solved! If they can't be solved, then there's no point in discussing this issue!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz thought carefully and said decisively.

"Tell me about it!" Yun Feng said seriously.

"First! How to supply cheap green salt? Without a complete supply chain, the so-called small profits but quick turnover is just a castle in the air! Second, the so-called small profits but quick turnover requires trade routes and market support. If we can't open up trade routes, all these things are nonsense! Third, cheap salt will arouse the envy of many vested interests. How can we prevent and respond to the counterattacks caused by cutting off other people's wealth? This wealth cannot be protected without absolute force!" Marquis Al Tigrand Franz leisurely listed the three questions.

"Well, that means we actually only need to solve the first resource problem!" Yun Feng nodded in understanding and instantly got the idea.

"Wait! Your Excellency the Prime Minister, I hope you can hear me clearly! There are three questions!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz stated.

"I know! But for Lagrande, this is just a problem, right?" Yun Feng smiled "kindly".

"Problems that can be solved by force are too simple! Your Majesty did not spend food and dragon coins to support a group of honor guards! The army can only fully demonstrate its value when the wheels of war are running!" Yun Feng's eyes flashed with bloodthirstiness. "Uh... Excuse me, what the Kingdom of Lagran needs now is to recuperate..." Marquis Al Taigran Franz put forward his own suggestions.

"It's the civilians who need recuperation. What does it have to do with the army?" Yun Feng said calmly.

"???" Al Tigrand Franz looked at Yun Feng in shock. What kind of bullshit are you talking about? The army doesn't need civilians? Is it infinite magic crystal power?

"The situation in the kingdom is rather special at the moment. The support for the army and the civilians are separated! King Roland is relying on the royal private treasury to support the army. Otherwise, do you think the current Kingdom of Lagrande can afford these soldiers?" Yun Feng sneered and threw the roster to Marquis Al Tigrand Franz.

"So that's it!" Marquis Al Tegrand Franz was shocked. This made sense. No wonder the kingdom had tens of thousands of elite soldiers. The comparison between the military and civilians almost scared Marquis Al Tegrand Franz to death. This military and civilian comparison was too aggressive. However, as loyal dogs of the royal family, the Franz family would not question the king and could only do their own thing silently. Yun Feng had solved the doubts for Al Tegrand Franz.

"If we use the royal private treasury, then it's not a lot to support these people!" Marquis Al-Tigrand Franz nodded. How much money and grain there is in the royal treasury of the Lagran Empire is unknown to the emperors of all dynasties! It is the savings and efforts of generations. The emperor also has a bottomless pit-like space storage artifact in his hand. For thousands of years, it has swallowed up the surplus of the entire empire like a pixiu! These accumulations are also the most important part of the Empire's Fire Plan!
"So, the plan is feasible?" Yun Feng's eyes flashed with interest and excitement.

"If that's the case, we don't have to rush to sell salt!" Marquis Al-Tigerand Franz said with relief.

"Why?" Yun Feng asked back.

"The fact that the kingdom can support troops with the help of private treasury means that it does not need to bear the financial burden of maintaining troops at present, and it has just enough time to build the kingdom!" Al Tigrand Franz analyzed.

"Stupid! Living off the resources is a fool's choice! The storage in the royal treasury is for emergencies! Don't look at me like that! I know that perhaps the accumulation of successive royal families can support these soldiers for a lifetime! But we can't develop such a habit! The real thing is to form a circulating economic system within the kingdom itself!" Yun Feng said bluntly.

"But we can't go on fighting like this..." argued Marquis Al-Tigerand Franz.

"The wheel of war has never stopped. If there is a truce, it is only a brief truce! The situation in the kingdom is very good now. If you don't take the opportunity to gain more benefits for the country, you tell me to stop? Are the orcs and the Ringwraiths worthy of it?" Yun Feng said seriously.

"As you develop, others are also developing. The kingdom's population means that our war potential is not high in the short term. Do you want to achieve prosperity by accumulating strength? What we lack is time! The orcs and the Ringwraiths won't give us that! Believe it or not, as long as the Tank People catch their breath, they won't let us go!" Yun Feng smiled.

"Military force is the core of the kingdom, King Roland and I know this very well! We can slow down the pace of development, but we can't just put our weapons away! The army cannot stop, otherwise the cost of recovery when they enter a state of war again will be too high!" Yun Feng waved his hand.

"This..." Al Tigrand Franz wanted to persuade him again.

"Don't worry, neither I nor Your Majesty have any plans to go out in full force. Even when we are training the troops, we will rotate them!" Yun Feng said.