Lord of Rot

Chapter 300 Iron Valley Development Plan (Phase [-])
'Cinderella' Lily holds a board with a stack of papers in iron clips in her left hand.

She holds a quill in her right hand.

Swish.

The end of the pen is shaking.

"Tell Steward Hay, gather all the people who are willing to work and get paid tomorrow, and group them according to their specialties. I need someone to build roads, someone to build houses, and more! Artisans will have higher salaries."

Suddenly there is a shadow in front of my eyes.

Lily looked up, her heart beating slightly.

It turned out that the lord came to his side and tilted his head to look over.

Li Qi praised: "The writing is beautiful."

He just had a whim, and found a secretary who could write to help him record, but he didn't expect to find a treasure.

The girl has obviously read a lot of books, and can accurately understand what she means.

Lily lowered her head and covered her burned cheeks with her hair, but her eyes subconsciously moved to Li Qi's boots.

He didn't look up because he was afraid of being seen with ugly cheeks, and looked down at him because he was obeying the evaluation of adults.

She became in a good mood, she could play a big role and was appreciated by the lord.

"Look for some chickens and ducks," Li Qi said, "By the way, find someone who can raise chickens and ducks."

Swish, Lily wrote quickly.

Li Qi glanced at the words on the paper again, and after confirming that the other party had recorded his meaning accurately, he nodded in satisfaction.

He needs capable people. Good looks are not very important. There is never a shortage of vases in this world.

"Let him come to see me after Lacey comes back from the raid."

"Pay attention to the raven delivering the message, find a servant to wait in the castle, and let me know as soon as there is a letter."

"and also!"

Li Qi suddenly raised his index finger, looked at Lily and said very solemnly: "Let Butler Lidton find some chefs who are good at cooking, and it's best to understand my requirements to cook."

He cleared his throat and said, "Isn't there celery? I just use celery to fry a piece of meat. The specific method is very simple..."

Lily wrote quickly, and when Li Qi finished recording all the orders, she finally stopped to take a rest.

The wrist is sore, and it feels like the whole hand is not his own.

But she admired the lord even more, because she just recorded these things, whether she could finish them, how effective they would be after finishing them, and the results were all the lord had to bear.

Just like what he asked for, let everyone work and pay according to how hard they work.

Thousands of people only work and don't farm the land, and the Lord Lord alone has to bear the burden of eating, drinking and laying waste!
Lily still remembers that when her father was alive, she was devastated by the lack of food harvest. At that time, the village only had a hundred people. Now the number of people in the Iron Wall Fortress is dozens of times that of the original Beech Village.

Li Qi didn't go around the city wall, his current mood is not optimistic.

Based on the time, Guy should be on his way back to Longship Fort.

"I don't know what the monkey family plans to do."

After changing the chef, Li Qi got his wish and ate fried pork with celery. Although the celery was a bit old and the meat was cut too thick like pork chops, it didn't affect the tears in his eyes.

"Being a lord in Iron Valley is even more difficult than being a lord in Porcupine Collar!"

The environment inside the Iron Wall Castle is somewhat unusual. The study room is like a garbage dump, with mold and rat holes. Occasionally, a few mice can be seen coming out of the gaps.

Li Qi could only work in the chamber temporarily.

On the paper spread out in front of him, there was a line written: "Iron Valley Development Plan (Phase I)"

Even with the experience of porcupine collar planning, I still feel a headache when faced with writing the planning plan of Iron Valley.

The situation in the two places is completely different.

“The soil quality here is very poor, it is not allowed to grow food”

On the way out to kill the corpse, Li Qi also dug a few holes.

The hard soil is full of small rocks, and the soil is rough. Growing food in this kind of place is just making yourself uncomfortable.

But it's not really impossible to plant. It is also possible to forcibly loosen the soil, dig out stones, and break the soil, but the cost of investment is too high to be worth it.

"If you can open a terraced field, you can also grow rice."

The rice in the Lurea continent has not been hybridized, and the grains are not full. Li Qi also asked the locals, and they sometimes found wild rice from some wild water puddles, which can fill their stomachs a little.

"It's definitely impossible to count on the rice to get enough food, but it's better than letting the porcupine lead here for blood transfusion."

There is still some distance between the two places. Putting all the food in the porcupine collar is like putting eggs in one basket. If there is any problem with the porcupine collar, both territories will collapse.

He wanted the two territories to develop together, and it would be best if they could help each other. After all, they were all his own property, but they couldn't be completely bound.

Distance is the root cause of inability to bind.

"And village reconstruction."

Li Qi roughly wrote the planning outline, and planned to organize it into an orderly and easy-to-read paper after it was completely written: "The fire oil mine in Zhenzi Village is the main reason I came here. This thing is used for siege and defense, as well as war It plays a very important role in food delivery, and can quickly accumulate development funds, but buyers must choose well.”

The biggest problem in Iron Valley right now is the lack of money. After one or two years of plague, the development of the entire territory is completely abandoned and stagnant, which is slightly better than starting from scratch.

"The Beech Village must also be rebuilt, especially the medicinal field of mysterious herbs. If it can really break through the limit, the value may not be worse than that of the fire oil mine. It will not be sold out, but I can use it myself. The problem lies in two One village is in the south and the other is in the north, the distance is far and remote... build a road?"

To get rich, build roads first, but in terms of rebuilding villages and planning development, road building costs a lot.

"You can first arrange a team to cut wood, open the path, and knock some gravel to fill the path."

Li Qi lowered his head and wrote a few strokes, temporarily deciding the development of the two villages.

"grown ups!"

"Lacey, you're here." Li Qi nodded, pointed to the chair in front of him and said, "Sit down."

"Yes" Lacey sat down.

"How's the cleanup going?"

"It's basically cleared," Lacey said. "The Iron Valley people are very good, and they have a kind of resilience, which may have something to do with the hardships they have suffered over the years."

Li Qi deeply agrees: "The experience of suffering will indeed make people stronger, but I don't think anyone is willing to suffer for the sake of being strong, so developing this place well and making Tiegu people live better is the meaning of our coming here."

Lacey nodded heavily, he believed Li Qi's words.

Although he has been with Li Qi for a short time, he can see Li Qi's thoughts on the development of the territory. He never collects people's money and stuffs it into his pocket.

Li Qi picked up a roll of paper beside the table, which was a simple map with only a few obvious landmarks.

Although it is very simple, it is absolutely no problem in terms of distance and bearing.

Except for Li Qi, there should be very few people in this world who can overlook the territory and draw a picture at the same time.

Spreading out the map, Li Qi pointed to the Hazelnut Village in the south, pointed to the Iron Wall Fort, and said: "I plan to build a simple road to connect the Iron Wall Fort, Hazelnut Village and Beech Village. The previous roads are all crooked. It is very inconvenient for people to come out on their own, why not re-plan a smooth and straight road, what do you think?"

"My lord, why not add Lilac Village?" Lacey asked suspiciously.

Li Qi glanced at him and thought, "Of course it's because Lilac Village doesn't have any special features, even if it's to build an outpost village closer to the water stream, it can be placed close to Beech Village. "

In his eyes, the location of Zilixiang Village is not favorable, and it would be better to rebuild the village elsewhere than to build a road to get there.

"Well, the location of Lilac Village is very..." Li Qi pointed to the location of Lilac Village on the map, and said, "It's very remote. In the early stage of Iron Valley's development, the focus should be on rebuilding and settling the free people in the territory, so that they can quickly recover. normal production."

Lacey shook his head lightly and said, "My lord, building Lilac Village is not a waste of manpower and money. I only learned from other people in the past few days that Lilac Village is rich in a plant called Lilac Mushroom."

"I know." Li Qi nodded.

Lilac shiitake mushrooms are poisonous and inedible.

But Lacey said: "It is said that eating a small amount of this mushroom can prevent and treat beriberi."

A lot of beriberi happened to nobles, not beriberi caused by fungal infection, but a disease caused by lack of vitamin B1.

There may also be natural vitamin tablets, but those don't matter.

"What about the price?" This is what Li Qi cares about.

Lacey said: "It is said that the selling price is Silver Moon, and some rich merchants will buy it."

Li Qi's eyes lit up, making money is a good thing.

The growth cycle of some mushrooms is about 30 to [-] days, and the longer ones are only a few months. If lilac mushrooms can be cultivated on a large scale, it can be regarded as the development of Tiegu’s own planting industry.

The difference is that wheat cannot be grown here, but mushrooms can be grown.

No wonder Tiegu has such a large territory, but villages are built in these three places.

Blessed land!
As long as the roads are repaired, the money will flow in.

Li Qi bowed his head and wrote a few strokes, nodded: "Well, I will ask someone to have a detailed look at the lilac mushroom, and then determine the construction problem."

After he stopped writing, Li Qi looked at Lacey: "How about the fire oil mine in Hazel Village? How much is the output?"

"About 80 pounds a year," Lacey said.

"So little?" Li Qi frowned: "How deep are their oil wells, and how do they mine them?"

"This..." Lacey was taken aback, and said, "My lord, there is no oil well like you mentioned in Zhenzi Village. There is kerosene gushing out of the ground, and they use jars to collect and store it."

"I only scratched the point that came out of the surface." Li Qi was relieved.

The bit of oil sprayed out from the ground is like a pig's pimples, and it is not grease at all.

"In other words, the fire oil mine in Zhenzi Village has not been exploited at all!"

Li Qi suddenly felt ambitious: "Should we just pave Iron Valley with asphalt?"

Of course, he was not overwhelmed by this impulse, let’s not talk about fractionation, the problem of mining has not yet been solved: “Let’s collect it in clay pots over there, but we need to establish a protected area, and I will talk about it after I find a mining method. "

Lacey sat aside, occasionally answering Li Qi's questions. Fortunately, he was really busy running for the territory, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to answer.

"Lacey, do you have any friends?" Li Qi suddenly asked, "For example, some academic talents, do you want to develop better?"

"Yes!" Lacey nodded.

Now he has full confidence that following Li Qi will achieve unprecedented success.

"It's just right, when we return to Porcupine Collar after a while, and then take a boat to Donggang City, you can go back with me."

　Thank you [Anonymous Xuan] 100 and 100 rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)