What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

Needless to say, the Holy Roll Empire is not a fertile place and the food produced is limited. The city of Orila is even more food-scarce and can only eat mushrooms to fill their stomachs. Now with the high-quality meat and flour from the Orc Empire, Fran's biggest shortcoming has been made up.

She was like a disaster victim who had been hungry for several meals and saw food. She wanted to put all the food into her stomach. Even if she couldn't eat it, she would hide it all! She would get angry with anyone who dared to take her food.

This is not only reflected in Fran, but also in other monsters.

The monsters in Orila City have an eternal obsession with food!

Therefore, no matter how much the orcs sold, as long as the ship could hold it, Fran would accept it all, and then store some of the stool and food in a large number of newly built warehouses for emergency use. If the Orc Empire had not been under-mobilized, Fran would probably have filled up all the warehouses before giving up.

Of course, after that, when the North and South Luoer Empires were short of food because of the war, Fran generously took out the stock in the warehouse to help them, and extorted a large sum of money by the way.

Fran calculated that she could make several times the profit from reselling the item.

Looking at the glittering magic crystal coins on the table, Fran could only weakly curse: Damn the profiteer!

Chapter 138 Spinning Products

If food is Fran's life-saving material, then wool is Fran's most important money-making material.

Although the Jingxi Chamber of Commerce started out by selling blue cloth clothes, the production cost and profit of blue cloth clothes were obviously not comparable to those of wool products.

It’s just that in the beginning, because Fulan did not have a stable wool channel, she had not made up her mind to expand the related industries of wool products, but now the situation is different.

With countless wool shipped from the south, Fran did not hesitate to expand the production capacity of spinning machines and looms.

Nowadays, mountains of cloth are produced from factories every day and sold all over the world!

It is truly all over the world.

At the last trade fair, Fran did not only sell firearms. In fact, in another small corner, she also exhibited various textile products. However, everyone's attention was focused on the firearms, and only a small number of forces discovered these textile products that no one was interested in.

But when they came forward to inquire, they were immediately shocked by the low price and superior quality, so they took back a lot of textile products and made a lot of money.

After that, the name of Fulan textile products spread like wildfire, and eventually became known throughout the world. When the second trade fair was held, the textiles that were originally ignored suddenly became hot-selling items, even more popular than weapons.

After all, buying weapons is for the country, but buying textiles for reselling is for oneself.

Unlike firearms, textiles are being produced all the time! They don't have to wait until a trade show to buy them.

As a result, a large number of forces sailed to buy up the (relatively) cheap textiles from Fran, and then took them back to make a fortune.

If we were to say where textiles are most needed, it would undoubtedly be the Northerners in the north and the Indo-Ya continent with a large number of cold areas. The populations of these two places are not small. After learning that there is a large amount of wool here, countless Indo-Ya people and Northerners flocked here, and a craze for buying textiles was set off for a while.

Seeing their expressions, Fran immediately remembered the time when she bought food, and she also looked like a madman.

However, the Indians were not as rich as Fran, so they could not eat up all the crops like Fran did. But they soon proposed another way of trading...exchanging cheap cotton for cloth!

Using a lot of raw materials to exchange for your own finished product, is there such a good thing?

Fran nodded and agreed without even thinking about it!

After hearing the news, other forces were unwilling to be left out and they all took out the special products of their own continents, wanting to barter with Fran.

Of course, Fran absolutely agreed with this trade agreement of exchanging finished products for raw materials.

However, in terms of trade methods, she refused to barter! Instead, she stated that the textiles she sold must be exchanged for Orila banknotes! Therefore, these forces must first sell the raw materials to Fran in exchange for a certain amount of Orila coins, and then purchase the corresponding items.

The forces that came here naturally did not understand such an "impolite" request. Since the price had been agreed upon, why bother with this? Although the Orila currency was exchanged for paper money at a one-to-one ratio, Fran also kept her promise and had never refused to exchange.

However, since this is Fulan's rule, they have no choice but to obey it silently. After all, it is a seller's market now. Firearms are strategic weapons, and only Fulan has the ability to sell them in large quantities. And all kinds of textiles are her unique products. If you can buy them now, you will make a profit!

Soon, the Orila Coin was gradually promoted among these chambers of commerce and various ethnic groups. At first, when they left Bieson Port, they would still exchange the banknotes for magic crystal coins, but gradually some forces would take the banknotes back and save them for next time.

In transactions between the various chambers of commerce in the port of Biesson, paper money is occasionally seen being used for transactions.

Although Orila Coin still has a long way to go before it can be fully promoted, at least its influence is gradually increasing.

What makes Fran most happy is that the real-time selling prices of various raw materials in the port are now marked in Olila coins. When people discuss the prices of bulk goods, they will directly use Olila coins.

Of course, Fran also wanted to personally ship out all kinds of textiles and sell them to every corner of the world. After all, she would make much less money if there were middlemen.

But now she has too many things to do, she is short of manpower and fleet, so she should just keep the most important routes. And even if she wants to sell it, she has to get the approval of the country where it is located! After all, not all countries are willing to open up tariffs and Fran like the orcs.

deep cooperation.

The haggling over tariffs and foreign trade dumping always requires a lot of time and energy.

Fran needs to focus her energy on more important things.

However, just because Fran didn't have the energy to do it doesn't mean that the chambers of commerce in the Holy Roer Empire didn't have the energy to do it. At least they made money, and the fat water didn't stay in the fields of outsiders. These chambers of commerce organized ocean-going fleets and trained sailors, which was also a way to cultivate talents for the Holy Roer Empire!

If the naval war really begins, Fran can purchase merchant ships in the country and transform them into warships! She can also quickly recruit a group of sailors.

As her idea came out and was made public, a large number of chambers of commerce from the Holy Roel Empire came to bid! After that, they would take boatloads of textiles to various forces to lobby and persuade the locals to agree to let them sell the cheap textiles. As for how much money they could make, it all depended on their luck.

Only then did Fran realize what it meant to make a fortune! The port of Bieson was like a gold-eating machine. Huge amounts of gold coins were filled up every day, so much so that Fran had to invent a bigger carriage to transport them.

But the money didn't sit idle.

In addition to being used in large quantities for repairing roads, building warehouses, and expanding ports, they were also used by Fran in the construction of the city of Orila.

With the large-scale renovation of Thermopylae by Fran, Thermopylae is no longer the dilapidated, deserted fortress it once was. A new urban area surrounding Thermopylae is rapidly expanding.

At the beginning, most of the residents of the new urban area were workers, scholars, and families of female workers near Thermopylae. As the workshops were expanded again and again, the number of workers exploded geometrically, and nearby buildings were built like mushrooms after rain.

For this reason, Fran had to carry out a series of urban planning to prevent the area from growing wildly and becoming an unmanageable slum. She hired the best engineers in the Holy Roel Empire to survey and consider water supply and drainage, urban layout and other aspects, and only started large-scale construction after the planning was completed.

Everyone thought that the new urban area of ​​Fulan was too large. Not only did they reserve various wastelands, but they also built a large number of empty houses. The people of the eight major families even jokingly called the city near Wenquan Pass a ghost town, which was deserted everywhere.

But soon, they kept silent.

The new infrastructure, convenient living, and cheap supplies near the workshops quickly attracted a large number of young workers to move in, including many Roel people from the surface. In their opinion, the city of Aurora was even worse than Viagra, except that they could not feel the day and night cycle.

Nacheng is more comfortable.

After all, slums are bad everywhere, even in the prosperous capital of Vienna. But the new city area of ​​Orilla City is simply a paradise.

Chapter 139: Driving the tiger to swallow the wolf? (Additional chapters with recommended votes)

When a large number of young laborers left the old city, it suddenly became desolate. No one rented the houses, no one wanted the shops, and no one bought the goods in the shops.

This is not a big deal for the entire Orila City. After all, it is just a transition between the old and new city areas. The wealth and population still remain in Orila City, just in a different place.

But for the eight major families, that is a fatal problem!

The eight major families have been working in Orila City for so long, and have accumulated a lot of wealth through land mergers and other means. Now more than 80% of the real estate in Orila City is in their hands. And these high-quality real estates have become the means for the direct descendants of the family to survive.

The direct descendants naturally would not open a shop themselves, but rent out the house and shop to those who really wanted to open a shop to make a living. The more prosperous the city was, the more money they would make.

This is understandable, but the direct descendants of the eight major families are too incompetent and don't want to do anything except collect rent. In addition, they already have a network of relationships among themselves, so it is easy for them to form a bond of interest and exploit them by constantly increasing the rent.

It is conceivable what changes would happen to the lives of the direct descendants of these eight families if there were no rents.

But such exploitation must be based on a foundation, that is, the city must be prosperous enough to support these shops to generate profits greater than their rent. If the rent is higher than the income, then the tenants might as well go home and grow mushrooms.

Now, the old city is deteriorating at a visible rate, which means they have to lower the rent, but this will also cause a significant drop in their income.

It is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

No one wants to watch their affluent life decline.

However, they are definitely unwilling to work!

Are you kidding me? We are the direct descendants of the eight noble families? Do we have to learn skills and become workers like ordinary civilians? We are born to collect rents comfortably, enjoy life and enjoy art. Who told them not to have a house in the first place?

Originally, the direct descendants of these eight major families had other choices - either seek positions in the bureaucracy of Orila City, or work in their family's own chamber of commerce.

Even if the rent is gone, I won’t starve to death in a short time.

But now the bureaucracy is clearly not going to work!

After driving away the four yellow wolves, Fran reorganized the whole staff, expelled a large number of staff who were just eating and drinking for free, and replaced them with people who really wanted to do things. Later, a rule was made that all current bureaucrats must pass the junior high school entrance examination, and new recruitment will be recruited in the form of examinations.

Anyone can be a cat or a dog!

If one road is blocked, then they can only choose to work in their own chamber of commerce.

But what they call part-time jobs is actually a leisurely job with little work and high pay. If it were in the past, the Chamber of Commerce of the eight major families would definitely accept all the orders, after all, the purpose of the Chamber of Commerce is to serve the direct descendants of the family. But with so many idle people coming at once, it is impossible to arrange them.

Moreover, as Fran opened up trade with Vienna and completely broke the material monopoly of the eight major families, the profits of the chambers of commerce under the eight major families became lower and lower!

The landlord has no more food left!

Several weaker families among the eight major families have even begun selling land deeds and properties to solve their current urgent needs.

In this situation, where are there enough resources to support so many idle people?

Every day, the doors of the eight clan leaders were crowded with people. They held all kinds of gifts, trying to negotiate and find a good position for themselves or their families. This gave the clan leaders a headache!

However, what gave them even more headaches was yet to come.

The workshop of the Jingxi Chamber of Commerce has begun to produce a variety of cheap industrial products. In the future, their chamber of commerce will not only fail to make a profit, but will even have to pay money to maintain it! This makes the eight major families miserable.

In Fran's silent economic war, the eight families were forced into a corner and finally decided to unite again to discuss how to deal with Fran.

this day.

The eight clan leaders held a secret meeting in a restaurant in the old city, but none of the clan leaders who came this time had a good look on their faces.

"Now, food, cloth, transportation, and shops in the new city are all controlled by the Jingxi Chamber of Commerce of Fulan!" The elder of the pig tribe said indignantly: "If this continues, we will all go bankrupt! We must think of a solution!"

"Flan has returned to Orila City to rest these days! Why don't we take this opportunity to charge into Thermopylae and seize the throne." said the chief of the Orila demon clan.

"Are you crazy?" Another clan leader said, "Flan's army now has more than 3,000 soldiers, not to mention her underground exploration army and construction corps! If they break into Thermopylae, we'll kill them with our heads."

"Yes! And every soldier of Fran is equipped with a firearm! With our weaklings, can we defeat him? This is simply courting death!"

Seeing everyone mocking his proposal, the demon clan leader said angrily, "Then tell me, what good ideas do you have?"

"We can't compete militarily, and we can't compete economically! This is a difficult hurdle."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

This time, Naranissoya was no longer alone and watched the show like before. She had a hard time during this period, not because Fran was competing with her for the business of the brothel, but mainly because Fran's textile factory was too prosperous, attracting a large number of dark elves in the tribe to join it.

Working as a textile worker there, you can earn more money than working in a brothel. After all, textile workers get real wages, and they don't have to share most of the money with the brothel and the management. Most importantly, the female worker industry is much more respectable than working in a brothel! And you don't have to worry about being kicked out because of old age.

He ended up with a miserable old age.

Without a large number of dark elves working for the clan leader, most of the brothels under Naranissoya were closed. If this continued, the whole army would be wiped out.

So this time, Naranissoya did not tip off Fran as she did before, but stood on the side of the eight major families.

Naranissoyah had also hinted to Fran that she should refuse to hire dark elves as workers in the workshop in consideration of her past help, and let the dark elves work for her brothel for life. However, Fran rejected her outright, saying that she could not discriminate against race.

(Besides, as textile workers, dark elves are very efficient and their products are of high quality, so Fran will not give up.)

Nalanisuoya once wanted to use the charm to control Fran, but she finally held back.

Wait a little longer, wait until Fran completely defeats the other families, wait until Fran's power grows a little more! This way, the fruits she reaps will be more abundant.

Seeing everyone looking dejected, the demon clan leader said angrily: "Humph! Sigh, sigh, sigh! All you know is sighing! You sigh from morning to night, and from night to morning! Are you going to sigh Fran to death?"

"What? If you have a good idea, just tell me. I can lend you my ancestral eight-star sword, and you go and assassinate Fran?" The pig tribe leader glanced at him.

The demon chief naturally didn't have the courage to assassinate him, so he had to lower his head.

"In my opinion, we should try to drive the tiger away and let it devour the wolf!" said the chief of the pig tribe.

"Drive the tiger to devour the wolf? If Fran is a wolf, there is not a single decent tiger in the entire Holy Roel Empire? Even Margaret is no match for Fran, how can you drive the tiger to devour the wolf?"

"We can look for forces from the demon world!" said the chief of the pig tribe, "For example, Fran's immediate superior, His Majesty Beelzebub!"

"Beelzebub? What's the point of looking for her?"

"Think about it, why did Beelzebub throw all the exiled lords to Aurora City? Isn't it because she can't control Aurora City? What if we take the initiative to show our loyalty to her, offer her sacrifices, and join hands with her to kill Fran!"

"How do you know Beelzebub wants to kill Fran, too?"

"Nonsense! If she doesn't want to kill Fran, do you think she will throw Fran to Aurora City? There must be a deep conflict between the two, but Beelzebub can't attack head-on, so he wants to kill with a borrowed knife." said the pig chief.

After hearing this, the other clan leaders stopped talking.

Of course, they didn't think this was a good idea. After all, the relationship between Orila City and the Demon Realm had been estranged for hundreds of years and they had no intersection at all. If they suddenly approached Beelzebub, it was very likely that she would ignore them at all. Even if she agreed to cooperate, she would definitely offer extremely harsh conditions.

But there seems to be no better way at the moment.

However, before anyone else could express their opinion, there was a sudden panic outside the door.

"What's going on?" The eight clan leaders present turned their eyes to the door.

But then, the door was slammed open and a petite voice appeared at the door.

"Lord Fulan??!!" the eight clan leaders said in unison in surprise.