Lord of Rot

Chapter 465 Year-End and Good News
In view of the fact that the Baron of the Porcupine Collar invented the ice skate, which promoted the birth of nearly a hundred couples a year ago, it can be predicted that the birth rate of newborns in the territory will increase greatly in the future. Therefore, Mr. Grant, the chief steward, the 'widow', specially wrote a long letter A long report and sent it to the baron.

"Finally got caught."

Li Qi looked at the meticulous middle-aged man with his dark hair, who was looking at him expectantly with a smile on his face.

He is obviously the owner of this castle, but at this moment he looks helpless.

Come on, resign yourself to your fate.

During the time he came back, Li Qi used all kinds of excuses to avoid Glenn as much as possible, but he also knew that as a lord, he couldn't escape the report with thick fingers.

Turning to the first page, he frowned:
"The treasures sold through Aix were sold for a total of 25500 gold days. After 17850% of the profit, [-] gold days were recorded."

"The soap business is becoming saturated, but there is also a very stable market, and the revenue has increased by 12% compared to the previous year"

He suddenly looked up at Glenn, you can draw bar charts by hand?

How is excel used, is it by magic?

Li Qi strongly suspected that Glenn had awakened an extraordinary power called office mastery, which was why he had such a terrifying performance ability.

But the complaints are all complaints. He can see Glenn's seriousness. Perhaps his past experience has made him more cautious in doing things, and even made many things too cumbersome and a waste of manpower.

But Li Qi would not deny his hard work. The most careful person must be Ge Lan. His white hair and the hairline running quietly to the top of his head are the evidence of working overtime and staying up late.

"I'll read it carefully." Li Qi put the report on the table, then looked at Glenn: "Your hair is all white, Glenn."

Gren replied with a serious expression: "As long as you need me, I will always work for you."

He had been a steward all his life, especially when he remembered the young lord chatting with him in the tavern.

At that time, Glenn was desperate. He had some savings, but he loved his career even more, so he followed the little country baron to the barren Porcupine Collar.

In just two or three years, he really saw a barren and dilapidated territory take on a new look. It was changing every day and getting better every day. Even if he was tired, his heart was filled with endless motivation.

There's nothing like seeing your hard work pay off.

"Of course, without your report, I don't think this whole year is complete." Li Qi said, although the report only became popular last year.

Li Qi didn't pay too much attention to Gu Lan's private love life, whether it was the little maids secretly whispering that Gu Lan had another passionate relationship with a certain elderly lady, why again?Baron Li Qi had no idea what he had missed last year.

When facing other people's personal feelings, he tends to eat melons instead of meddling indiscriminately.

They had a brief chat about the future development of Porcupine Collar, mainly to reveal his general plan, but according to Li Qi's inner estimate for next year, the population of his territory should increase by 50 in an instant.

I have to start worrying about food, housing, work, etc. again.

happy troubles.

"I will train war horses and cavalry from the desert, so the breeding of war horses in the racecourse can be slightly slowed down, but there is no need to control it too deliberately. We still need war horses, no matter when."

"Of course, I will let the racecourse pay attention, and also pay attention to the allocation of funds."

"Don't be so anxious to cultivate the wasteland. A good assistant needs to send more manpower to brew wine, weave cloth, raise pigs, make soap, etc."

Li Qi wants to transform Porcupine Collar into an industrial territory. With the smooth logistics of the wharf, business communication will become very easy. In fact, Porcupine Collar is already doing this now.

After chatting with Glenn for a while, Glenn resigned and left, while Li Qi flipped through the report in his hand.

I watched it all night.

Including various income and expenses, profit comparison, etc., all listed.

This requires a huge workload and a lot of manual verification. If there is a problem in a certain place, it is easy to fail to match the general ledger in the end.

"The spice business in the desert is unexpectedly good. Now the salt fields in Leiweng City are also under control, but the area south of Leiweng City in the desert area is estimated to provide me with hundreds of thousands of gold days in the next year."

But these are only theoretical benefits, because Li Qi is not used to oppressing ordinary people, especially people who work for themselves without clothes and food, and whip if they don't work, he can't do it.

He can kill his enemies indifferently, but he cannot let those who are loyal to him starve to death.

For this reason, the money he has to spend is more than ten times that of the Earl of Buffalo.

Other nobles can squeeze like crazy, one meal a day, one meal every two days is fine, of course it can save a lot of money.

In addition, there are a large number of cavalry and war horses, each of which is burning money, especially the rations for war horses, which are better than people's. It can only be said that it is an ordinary employee meal. When fighting, you have to increase nutrition. After all, you are on the battlefield The heavy armored cavalry is the armored tank of the cold weapon era, and it is normal for the maintenance cost to be high.

This year, a large number of soldiers are trained, and a large amount of armor and weapons are also required. There are armor and weapons "sent" by Prince George in the desert, and they have already begun to arrange people to modify them. It can be regarded as saving a lot of money, but it takes a little time. .

Business is profitable, but alchemy and magic are gold swallowing beasts, and you can't expect them to bring a Bronze Star in return until they produce real value.

Therefore, after a busy year of selling fur, wine, cloth, soap, honey, spices, and treasures, etc., the final total bill before Li Qi was 5 gold days.

It is a hundred times that of last year's 50 gold.

But there are still very few, because there are too many in it, such as fur business, selling treasures, etc., which do not belong to the normal transaction category.

"I haven't read Tiegu's final report, but with Tiegu's weak commercial attributes, the most he can do is sell lilac mushrooms. The income from the territory must be negative."

He was sure that if it wasn't for the support of the porcupine collar, Tiegu would soon be in huge trouble because of the inability to make ends meet.

But fire oil and blood herbal medicine are invisible income, seemingly useless, but the kerosene refined so far has already kept part of the territory bright at night at an extremely low price.

The bloodline herbal medicine even changed the bloodline talent of all creatures under Li Qi's command, such as farming, animal husbandry, war, etc., and it couldn't be bought for a lot of money.

Needless to say, the income of the desert is a steady profit.

Stealing other people's money is always faster than doing business. Leiweng City has been carefully managed by the Earl of Buffalo for so many years, and the number of treasures in his hands is very scary. common development.

Li Qi put down the documents, looked at the male servant who was standing aside with his head nodding slightly: "Pitchfork?"

"Yes, my lord!" The servant Pitchfork suddenly woke up.

Li Qi said: "Thank you very much for spending the whole night here as my company, you can go eat something, and then go back and have a good sleep."

"No, my lord, I feel fine."

"Follow orders, Pitchfork."

"Yes!" Pitchfork nodded helplessly.

Li Qi nodded in satisfaction, everyone's physique is different, the night in Pitchfork was hard, but Li Qi was more energetic, not like a person who didn't sleep last night at all.

After Pitchfork left, Li Qi stood up and stretched his waist: "By the way, I remember that Scholar Thomas has made breakthroughs in magic, runes, and magic scrolls. I hope he can bring me enough Much good news."

(End of this chapter)