Riding and Slashing

Chapter 294 Start of Infrastructure Project
During the two months in Li Ang's territory in Dexia, he basically collected almost all the property in the central part of Dexia.

In fact, the central part of the D'Shar is the richest place in the entire D'Shar Principality.

The nobles of Toba have been plundered by Amir Xerxes;
The horses of the nomadic tribes at the foot of Gazi Mountain were also divided by Li Ang and Ajiasong;
Eichkeman is the largest commercial port in Dexia. This place is not up for grabs, but merchants have been doing business in this area, and they are also very profitable. It is estimated that the cash of the Dexia people has been almost exhausted.

In the past two months, the merchants have handed over nearly 20 dinars to Li Ang, or it is called "military business tax"-in fact, it is a protection fee.

From the protection fees paid by the merchants, it is also possible to roughly calculate the profits these merchants earned while accompanying the army in Dexia.

The total profit they made in Dexia should exceed 100 million dinars, because the protection fee is [-]%.

When doing business in enemy territory, merchants are generally more honest in paying protection fees. After all, if they offend Li Ang, they may not be able to come back...

A total of almost 5000 merchants dispatched with the army, that is to say, the per capita profit was about [-] dinars.

Of course, it is not clear how many merchants there are in total. After all, there are merchants of all sizes. There are big merchants with hundreds of people, and there are also mom-and-pop shops with two or three people.

But no matter what, the per capita profit of about [-] dinars has been generated in two months, which will definitely satisfy the businessmen. After all, the businessmen only need to pay each employee a salary of two to three dinars. ...

In fact, all the "legitimate income" Li Ang got in this war has already been distributed.

The nearly 50 dinars obtained in the bank of Toba City are legitimate spoils, and most of them have been distributed as rewards.

The 20 dinars handed over by the merchants in the past two months were also distributed by Li Ang to his soldiers and the lords who responded to his troops.

One shot is six 10,000+, Li Ang is indeed very generous in throwing money.

These legitimate benefits are actually a kind of interest connection deliberately created by Li Ang.

To put it simply, it is to create a sense of "following Lord Li Ang to fight and earn money", and all the benefits are obtained from the right way-no robbery, no harm to civilians, but more money than robbery.

When Li Ang distributed these benefits, it was always based on the number of elite troops dispatched by the lords, and the money was not distributed directly to the soldiers, but to the knights.

On average, about [-] dinars fell on each knight's head-this was far beyond the expectations of the little lords.

I traveled to Dexia with Marshal Li Ang and didn't suffer any losses. The journey was extremely smooth, and I made a net profit of more than 1000 dinars in two months-where can I find this kind of business?You can't scrape so much with the Duke of Brennus.

No wonder the people in Changhe Town always say that 'war is wealth', you have to follow Master Li Ang to fight...

In fact, Eric has always felt that the lord is too generous in his actions. He feels that even if he wants to buy people's hearts, he doesn't need to spend so much money. He is simply a prodigal.

It's normal for Eric to have such thoughts. After all, he's not used to being a rich man. The reward Li Ang gave him was a bag of jewelry worth more than [-] dinars. When this guy took the bag Hands are shaking.

You know, two years ago, he was still in the promising industry of mercenaries, earning a high salary of ten dinars a month—it was indeed a high salary. The annual per capita income of young and middle-aged civilians in Pendor Continent was only about twenty dinar.

When Eric was a mercenary, he could earn the income of an ordinary person for a year in two months. He was indeed considered a high-income group... After all, this was a business with his head tied to his belt.

But unlike Eric, who has never seen the world, Li Ang has his own logic.

——Money is for use, and you can’t have cubs if you keep it in your hands.

Allowing every knight who follows him to earn money will not only allow these knights to identify with Li Ang and form a willingness to follow him, but also allow them to develop a new input-output thinking...

After all, Li Ang distributes the money according to the number of elites. This is a simple logic, and it is easy for the knights to understand-you can’t pick and choose to fight with Lord Li Ang. The more elites you send out, the more dinars you can get. more.

Therefore, most of the knights in the group army sent their cronies to follow the merchants to Changhe Town—they were protecting the merchants along the way, so they got to know each other more or less well, and of course the merchants in Changhe Town would give them some discounts.

They went to purchase equipment in large quantities, especially armor.

Because soldiers wearing armor can be counted as elite soldiers by Li Ang, the more armor they have, the more dinars they can get in the next battle.

After all, the next war is clearly imminent - the Bacchus Empire has declared war on the Sarleon Kingdom.

And where is Changhe Town?
This is where arms dealers gather.

When he was a poor pioneering lord, Li Ang purchased military supplies in Changhe Town.

In the past two years, there have been many troubles in the Sarleon Kingdom, and few certificates of pioneering lords have been issued. The business of the arms dealers is actually not very good. In fact, there are only a few of Amy, Godric, and Li Offric. Big customers are holding on.

Li Ang himself didn't buy much—in his army, the Noldor elves and Mettenheim all brought their own equipment, and the war horses were all robbed. That is to say, he purchased hundreds of sets of equipment at the beginning of last year. Come and arm the non-commissioned officers.

Finally, a new team of 'Silver Hands' was formed, but the new equipment was handed over to the Noldor to build, and the merchants in Changhe Town basically failed to earn any money from Li Ang.

After all, after Li Ang entered Changhe Town, the situation in the eastern region has gradually stabilized, and the demand has decreased. Naturally, the sales of armaments and supplies are not as good as before. The more chaotic the world is, the easier it is for arms to sell.

But now, the armaments market in Changhe Town has been activated again.

And it's quite a job - the spot in the hands of the merchants is emptied within a week, and the order has been queued for two months.

There are even many knights who paid high prices for urgent orders in order to get the equipment in advance.

As a result, all the workshops and blacksmith shops in Changhe Town began to work overtime, and the entire Changhe Town seemed to see no idlers at once—all of them were called to work.

In other words, most of the money that Li Ang distributed to those knights returned to the merchants in Changhe Town...

Create demand if there is no demand. As the lord of Changhe Town, Li Ang naturally wants to benefit one party.

And businessmen naturally have to pay taxes when they do business. At the same time, if they earn more money, they will deposit it in the bank...

So the money naturally returned to Li Ang.

So, the money must be spent—anyway, the dinars can find their way back.

The merchants have just made a fortune in Dexia, and their capital is sufficient. Right now, there are too many orders to keep them busy. Naturally, they are quite generous when purchasing raw materials.

This has made the business of the villages and towns around Changhe Town more prosperous, especially the leather and steel sheets used for armor, as well as grease and felt-all are special products of various villages in the eastern region.

But right now, not only merchants are spending a lot of money to purchase raw materials, but Li Ang himself is also spending money hard.

In order to spend money smoothly, he found Amy again...

Sometimes spending money is harder than earning it.

After all, most of the things Li Ang wanted to buy were not very easy to buy.

This time, the lord's procurement goal is to purchase food and cloth from the entire continent.

In addition, a large number of building materials and craftsmen must be purchased.

Needless to say, food and cloth, this is still Li Ang's monopoly plan. Of course, now his monopoly target is not only the eastern region, but the entire Lion Kingdom... and even the entire continent.

As for building materials and craftsmen, this is of course for the sake of large-scale construction.

The lord has a lot of things to build.

The reconstruction of Shield Wind Fortress has not yet been completed, Karen Lulu Castle needs to be renovated, Maixiangling needs to be expanded, Trublen needs to be repaired, and Changhe Town needs to be remodeled...

In addition, Salem also needs to be filled with immigrants - this is a subordinate village of Karen Deer Castle, located next to the Sava River, the land is quite fertile, but no one lived there because of the war.

If Seren is properly tidied up, at least tens of thousands of mu of fertile land can be obtained.

And the roads that lead to the domains, and the road from White Hart to the Noldor Forest, all have to be repaired and widened.

In fact, it is a comprehensive renovation of the territory, all of which are infrastructure projects.

Of course, infrastructure construction is very expensive, but as the richest landowner in the entire Pendor Continent, Li Ang's first consideration now is how to spend all the money in his hand.

After all, gold and silver can't be eaten if you keep them in your hands.

But why engage in infrastructure?

Because other ways of spending money are no longer suitable for Li Ang's current territory - what Li Ang wants is the population, the citizens who are willing to move to the territory for a long time.

He is neither short of troops nor food, and has status and fame. The only thing he lacks is population.

Li Ang's territory is already quite large. With the effect of this dispatch of troops to Dexia, the entire eastern region should be willing to obey Li Ang's command, but the population directly under Li Ang's management is only about 5—this is because of the The Bacchus Empire brought in many immigrants.

The rebels surrounded by the gladiators are at Karen Buckkeep, and the villagers of the original Fydna are rebuilding the Shieldwind Fortress.

Even including White Hart Castle, the total is just over [-], which is really too small a population.

But at the current scale, it is impossible to find businessmen to spend money to buy immigrants-a drop in the bucket, and it won't do much.

Li Ang can only build the territory into a safe, livable and prosperous place, so that people from other lords can switch to their own territory.

So we can only do infrastructure.

In fact, for the ruler, the infrastructure construction of the territory is tantamount to comprehensive development.

Because no matter what age people are, they all have the most basic purpose of migration-seeking money.

That is job opportunities.

Expanding castles, building houses, improving roads, and improving law and order, these basic constructions will consume a lot of money, and then bring countless jobs.

And people will follow these jobs from thousands of miles away, maybe... these migrant workers can be called "long river drifting"?
These migrant workers will find that due to lack of people, there are more job opportunities and higher wages here, so they will stay and work here with their families and gradually become a part of this place.

Infrastructure construction will of course consume a lot of money, but no matter how much money is spent, it is actually a good deal.

Because the money is actually all spent in the territory—either in the hands of migrant workers, or in the hands of local material dealers and contractors.

Then the money will still be used in the territory-people's basic necessities of life will be completed here, and most of it will eventually flow back into the bank.

No matter what consumption, merchants have to pay taxes...

And entering the bank is actually tantamount to entering Li Ang's pocket again - and can continue to invest.

And as the territory is built better and better, there will be more job opportunities, the population will increase, the territory will become more prosperous, and more and more money will flow into the bank-this is actually a positive cycle.

From the perspective of the ruler, as long as the money does not flow abroad, it is actually inexhaustible.

And in order to ensure that the money does not flow abroad, it is necessary to make the territory better than any country-so it is necessary to invest heavily in infrastructure.

Li Ang no longer has to worry about the operation of the bank. When the reserves are sufficient to a certain extent, it is difficult for the bank to go bankrupt.

After all, he has been issuing large denomination credit coins of ten dinars and one hundred dinars a few months ago, which are enchanted silver coins produced by Noldor, which have been applied to large transactions between the Noldor Forest and merchants Many big businessmen are already familiar with it.

The magical silver coin with a face value of ten dinars is called a 'silver deer', because the mithril runes embedded in it by the Noldor look like a deer. The deer is a favorite image of the Noldor and a symbol of elves.

In fact, the only function of this rune is to emit a little faint blue light. According to Wentierf, this should have been the lighting technique in magic.But the Noldor who have no magic power can only make the ebony glow like fireflies, the lighting is useless, and it looks quite tall when used as coins.

The main body of the magic coin with a face value of one hundred dinars is made of gold-copper alloy, and it is called the 'golden griffin'-the rune looks like a griffin, which is Leon's coat of arms.

But this Gryphon rune glows purple, which makes it look a bit more dazzling...but still an unsuccessful Illumination rune.

In fact, the lord originally planned to let the Noldor try to use his avatar and engrave his avatar on the gold coin. This may be the wish of every ruler.

It's just that it was later discovered that the template could not be used for enchanting, and it had to be carved by hand, so the Griffon emblem was used instead - otherwise the output efficiency would be too low.

Noldors all have obsessive-compulsive disorder. It doesn't matter if the deer can be a little abstract, but they won't give up if they don't do a lifelike carving of the human head.

To be honest, apart from the labor cost, the cost of these two credit coins is quite low, because they both have a net weight of less than ten grams.

The cost of the silver deer is only about three dirhams, and the cost of the golden griffin is only three dinars. Even with all the losses, the cost is only one-thirtieth of their face value.

These two high-denomination currencies have now begun to be used. Merchants love this luminous magic coin far more than other jewelry, and they even started a series of comparisons—that is, showing off their wealth.

So now Li Ang can safely and boldly use the money in the bank, as long as he keeps [-]% of the reserve fund unused—this is a very conservative approach, to be honest, only [-]% of the reserve fund is enough .

So Li Ang devoted himself to infrastructure construction, and Amy started a big purchase again.

However, this purchase was not so smooth.

Food and cloth are okay, Amy already has enough experience.

Building materials are also easy to deal with. Long River Forest has plenty of wood, and Islandil is even trying to do the wood business now.

The Dengjil Mountains also have a lot of stone materials. As long as you give them money, people will naturally be willing to get them.

The main trouble comes from craftsmen, and some people with ulterior motives.

(End of this chapter)