Throne of the North.

Chapter 418: Resettlement of Refugees, the Wealth of Lingdu City

The army that Ryan brought out from Lingdu County was formed by nobles, some were recruited along the way, and some followed because of food supply in Lingdu City. Generally speaking, most of them did not come from any fixed houses in this land.

They had no place to live because they were driven here by the invasion of orcs.

Now that it was over, where should they go? Go back to the territory? If they did that, they would be captured and turned into slaves along the way.

For these people, they are confused and surviving the war may not be a good thing for them.

Naturally, I was afraid of the sight of that city.

But for Ryan, there is no such problem, as he already has a plan to accommodate these people.

When the army stopped, he shouted to the refugees in the army behind him:

"I will build three villages around Lingdu City. You can choose to stay and become a citizen of one of the villages, or choose to leave."

"Those who stay will take root in this land. You will pick up tools and cultivate the wasteland. The swampland north of Lingdu City can be reclaimed into vast arable land."

Then Ryan said one sentence after another that made these people's eyes ecstasy.

"I will help you build your houses so that you can avoid the cold winds from the north at night."

"I will provide you with land and build villages and towns. You will be the first batch of people and you will become the indigenous people here."

"I will give you gold and silver coins so you can buy tools, pots and pans, and even food to keep you alive."

"When the village is built and the swamp thaws in the spring of next year, I will allow some of your representatives to follow the Chamber of Commerce to the place where you once escaped and bring your families back. The nobles will not prevent them from reuniting with you."

Ryan pointed at the Xijiao Mountain flag flying in the sky and said loudly:

"I tell you in Ryan's name that this is not a dream."

"Now tell me, what do you need?"

Ryan's voice shocked everyone. Everyone looked at him in disbelief, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

Suddenly, frightened by Ryan's questioning, these people finally came to their senses and realized that everything they had just heard was not an illusion or dream.

A slave ran out, dropped what he was holding, and knelt on the ground with his hands prostrated.

"My dear sir, Maurice will always be your servant and will always be loyal to you."

He was so excited that his eyes were filled with tears. He never expected that at the end of the war, such a pie would fall from his eyes. He was so excited that he could hardly describe himself and could only keep kissing the soil on the ground.

Gradually, more and more people knelt on the ground around.

Give money? Ryan did give money to these people, because they wanted to build a new settlement from scratch, and it was impossible to buy things without money.

This is not the primitive times when everything depended on nature and upbringing.

Ryan gave each person a gold coin, but instead of handing the gold coins to them directly, he gave them a kind of smooth dark green stone. These stones came from a hot spring in Birki and were embedded in the edge of the spring. However, as the temperature in Birki became colder and colder, this hot spring lost its function.

The stone cannot be copied, and everyone looked at the stone in their hands with some hesitation.

"With these stones, you can enter any Chamber of Commerce in Lingdu City and buy the tools you need."

These people knew better than Ryan what tools were needed to survive, and the reason why Ryan didn't give them gold coins directly was because he was sure that most of these people would not spend the gold coins but hide them.

As for the rest who are willing to spend gold coins, they will be ripped off by the chambers of commerce. If they pay a gold coin to a chamber of commerce and can eventually buy back something for a silver coin, that chamber of commerce is considered not to be dishonest.

And these stones are indeed worth one gold coin, because in the end those chambers of commerce can take these stones to Ryan to exchange for real gold coins.

This is gold coins and also vouchers. Master Ryan's intervention in this transaction can ensure that these people can get enough and suitable things from the Chamber of Commerce.

As for why it was the Chamber of Commerce, rather than these people going to any carpenter or blacksmith shop in the city, it was because of the gold coins themselves.

This is a gold coin, the light thing Ryan mentioned. If it falls from the Rhino Horn Mountain, it can smash a group of houses. A family can't save a few silver coins except for the basic income of a year. The value of gold coins is twenty times that of silver coins.

For these people who were once commoners and slaves, this was an enormous fortune, so great that they might not be able to control it.

Ryan could only believe that those unscrupulous businessmen would solve this problem. In short, the purpose of the vouchers was to allow these people to survive in the easiest way possible. He had enclosed three plots of land around Lingdu City.

There are many wastelands in the North Wind Province. It can even be said that not only in the North Wind Province, but in any province of the empire, those lands far away from the nobles are barren. With the productivity of this world, it is simply not qualified to develop so many natural treasures.

So it seems that there are a lot of people here, but after being divided into three groups, it is just like that. At most, there are only tens of thousands more villagers around Lingdu City.

The reason why these people should stay around Lingdu City is for the sake of this city that is destined to prosper.

If Lingdu City wants to become more prosperous, it is impossible to rely on itself. It also needs help from all directions. As the connecting point between the empire and the kingdom, Lingdu City is destined to become a place where gold coins converge.

Ryan increased his credibility through one thing after another and through repeated communication, all for the purpose of making the name Ryan Clayton alone worth tens of thousands or even millions of dollars one day.

At that time, he will be the only one in this land.

For this matter, Ryan left behind a cavalry of 500 people led by Harrington, and asked them to control these tens of thousands of people and take root in several locations. The simple tents in the army were reserved for them to live in for these days.

"This is Master Ryan's kindness to you. Don't think that the master's kindness is for nothing. You have already owed a huge fortune!"

Harrington said indifferently. Ryan didn't say anything, but he couldn't pretend it didn't happen. Every gold coin given to these people was Ryan's wealth, and as a family knight, he had to guard this wealth.

"You'd better build your houses this winter, otherwise you will lose the qualification to stay here. Without the protection of Master Ryan, you will be captured and become slaves."

Unlike Ryan's gentleness, the knights led by Harrington were much more strict. However, such fear made tens of thousands of people relax. Yes, this feeling was familiar to them, which meant that they really survived.

Moreover, they live around this city.

On the other hand, after Ryan entered Lingdu City, he naturally called the Chamber of Commerce managers over again to prevent these guys from interfering with his plan to build villages and towns.

At the same time, the emergence of war allowed these chambers of commerce to make a lot of money.

Ryan asked them for a portion.

"This...this is all my noble master's wealth. You can't rob it like this."

Hearing this, Ryan smiled and said without hesitation.

"Robbery? You understand. I am just taking back the part that originally belonged to me. Don't forget, you made a fortune through war, but the outcome of the war does not depend on you. Once the war fails, you will lose all the wealth you have gained during this period."

“At the same time, all future wealth on this land will be lost.”

"Think about it, after this war is over, how many years can you stay in this land?"

"Thirty years ago, the North Wind Province became the territory of the Empire. The peace that lasted for thirty years was only broken in the past few years. From now on, will thirty years be enough?" "This is a huge fortune. I think you know the benefits of it better than I do. During this period of time, how much have your chambers of commerce collected from the two kingdoms in the east? I don't need to say more, right?"

Ryan finished speaking and looked at these people with a smile.

"You don't think I don't know that?"

The Chamber of Commerce representatives stopped talking. They naturally knew that they could not deceive Baron Ryan in front of them, because the Northern Chamber of Commerce, like them, was the one that gained the most. After all, the Northern Chamber of Commerce was the local boss here and had the protection of the nobles.

This is not surprising. The provinces where the nobles behind them are located are more cunning than the Northern Chamber of Commerce. The Northern Chamber of Commerce was established too recently and seems a little immature compared to them, resulting in too much meat being left out for them to eat.

"We will give you a portion of the gift money."

Elena was the first to speak. The moment she bent over, her snow-white valley was exposed, tempting Ryan to recall some soft memories.

"Then I'll wait and see."

Ryan turned and left. He needed to give these chambers of commerce a warning. Viscount Miles of Lingdu City was still too weak, and he spent more time in the Frozen Territory, so he had to use this method.

After leaving Lingdu City and returning to the Frozen Territory, Ryan was finally exhausted both physically and mentally. He slept for more than twenty hours in the castle before waking up.

"All the nobles of Lingdu County have come to visit you. Perhaps it is for the distant land, but there are also orcs as well."

Avril said as she helped him fix his hair that had already covered his earlobes.

On the ground, the Viscountess knelt on the carpet and gently rubbed his legs, sorting out the intelligence during this period.

After clearing the garbage in his mind, Ryan said thoughtfully:
"I'm afraid these nobles want me to send troops to help them eliminate the orc threats inside and outside their territory."

"But that's impossible."

Avril was a little confused. In her opinion, Ryan was now capable of doing these things.

"The orcs of the Northern Province cannot disappear, especially from the Emperor's sight."

"The nobles here need to constantly ask the emperor for help and tell him about the miserable conditions here and the sufferings that the nobles are living in."

"We cannot deceive His Majesty the Emperor, so these things must be true."

Ryan said with a smile, caressing Avril's palm.

"Don't worry. Since these nobles can come to the frozen land, it means that their territory is not in a desperate situation yet. They can still hold on."

"The ones who really need help are the nobles who can't even hear their voices."

"But this matter is not for me to solve."

"There are so many nobles in this land, they should always help each other."

“People need to circulate so that wealth can circulate.”

“Only when it circulates can it be gathered together.”

Avril found it a little difficult to understand, but she just ignored it and told Ryan about it. Since the nobles had been visiting her these days and he couldn't see Ryan, he naturally had to convey the message through her.

She didn't care much.

"So, you won't leave again, right?"

Ryan thought about the letter sent from the Kingdom of Andara, then hummed.

"I will stay in the territory for a long time."

The war was over, and the only ones who got to relax were the nobles. Apart from the nobles, everyone else was still busy.

Suddenly, tens of thousands of dark-skinned people poured into Lingdu City. Their dirty clothes and hands and feet made other people in the city instinctively feel shocked and repulsed, but the Guild of Commerce shops were wide open.

These people who have just settled down, holding a stone that symbolizes a gold coin in their hands, dare not stay for too long, because they are really worried that the next moment this stone will not be as valuable as they imagined, representing the golden wealth.

Using it up quickly and putting the money in pocket safely becomes the most urgent option.

The knights of the Frozen Territory patrolled in Zero Crossing City, and no one felt anything strange. However, these former soldiers holding "huge sums of money" left Zero Crossing City at sunset, carrying packages that were three times bulkier than themselves.

"Is this all you can buy with one gold coin?"

Harrington asked. He didn't believe that the Chamber of Commerce had been warned and would not bargain so hard.

Fortunately, someone answered his question.

"My Lord Knight, the Chamber of Commerce manager said that they will send the remaining items to Huangtu Slope tomorrow, and we can pick them up ourselves then."

The items these people carried were all relatively valuable, such as wooden basins, iron pots, stoves and the like. These items were relatively cheap in the North Wind Province because they were made from local materials. In addition, since the discovery of the alien world in the mountains and forests, the quality of wooden tools had improved a lot and the price was also much cheaper than a few years ago.

The price has been on the rise recently because the lifespan of that other world is almost reaching its limit.

After getting the answer, Harrington nodded and ignored it. With his status and position, it was a waste of his talent to deal with such matters. Just showing some concern was enough to scare these people.

Back to Huangtupo, this place name was just given two days ago because the soldiers who came here found some yellowish soil and rocks in the deep layer that looked like sand when they were driving wooden stakes.

People did not build houses here randomly, of course. A main road was marked out, and in addition to that, there were more than a dozen small roads intersecting with the main road. These preliminary roads divided the future Huangtu Town into small pieces, and each small piece would have twenty to thirty households.

At present, no one from the Frozen Territory has come to participate, so Harrington, who is just staring at these people, feels a little bored.

"General, the construction team from the frozen land will arrive in two days. Then you won't have to stay in this cold place."

A knight nearby said this, but was refuted by Harrington.

"What do you know! I'm not leaving. Lord Ryan asked me to stay outside Lingdu City. Do you think this is a punishment?"

"This represents trust. I am a member of Clayton's tribe, and I am more trusted by Lord Ryan than that guy Michaela."

Harrington said with some pride:

"I am not here just to watch these peasants build houses, but also to supervise Lingdu City. That is Lord Ryan's city, and all the wealth belongs to the Ryan family. The Frozen Territory is too far away from here, so of course I am needed to supervise it."

"And these peasants, Lord Ryan takes them very seriously. After thinking about it for several days, I finally figured it out."

"These peasants are more loyal than the people of Lingdu City. With them around, it's impossible for Lingdu City to be taken away by others."

"When Tundra led the group here, I heard from Beard that Lingdu City provided Lord Ryan with a huge fortune a few days ago. We must protect this place and not lose even a single copper coin of Ryan's wealth."

(End of this chapter)