Empires Start with Lords - Chapter 42

The old butler tasted a sip of the leaf vein fruit, the incomparably smooth taste made him feel the top food in the world on the tip of his tongue.

The entire kingdom of Aklan is not rich in food, and the commoners of some poor provinces are even more clothed and have no food to eat. They can only afford rough hard bread.

Ross bought one to taste before. The hard bread was a bit like a baguette from a previous life, but the hardness was even scarier than a baguette that could be called a “weapon”.

Even Ross felt a tooth loose after taking a bite.

Therefore, the delicious taste and high yield of Rose’s vein fruit can meet the needs of the local market and the high-end market respectively.

Not only the commoners like to eat it, but even the nobles like it.

At this moment, Ross looked at the old butler who was eating with gusto, and immediately decided that he must open up the high-end market, so that both ends could go hand in hand.

Most of the leaf vein fruit is sold to a dozen or so towns that are surrounded by poor parcels.

Because these towns are far away from the imperial capital and the wealthy cities of several duke lords, Ross happens to be the only one in the vicinity who can help them.

Every month, Ross will use more than 400,000 gold coins from the fiscal revenue to allocate more than 100,000 yuan to these dozen towns for construction.

However, Ross’s request was that troops should be stationed in these towns. Ross promised not to interfere with their internal affairs. The troops were stationed only to protect his own convoys from entering them for trade.

These trade volumes, along with Ross’s large investment, began to increase gradually.

There are several big cities in Ross with a total population of 80,000.

Among them, the most populous and most economically developed city was originally a big city under the command of Duke Russell, but it has now been conquered by Ross. Because of the high terrain here, it can protect the other three big cities. Ross named it Hope shield.

Now, Ross has several major cities including Eye of Hope, Hand of Hope, Green Forest and Shield of Hope.

The territory is also a full 6,000 hectares.

Although after the death of Duke Russell, all the territories belonged to Ross, but after Ross occupied this place, a large area of ​​the surrounding territories declared independence immediately.

Ross allowed them to become independent, and these territories add up to about 3,000 hectares, but the conditions for granting independence are indeed to do business with him.

Only in this way can Ross make them fully feel their strong economic capabilities. Even if they do not belong to them, these small places cannot develop agriculture for Ross.

That’s why Ross allowed the slaves of Resel City to be independent for the time being, and gave them a portion of the land. .

After the name change, the Shield of Hope has a population of more than 30,000, and the tax that can be provided to Ross every month is a full 150,000 gold coins.

This accounts for almost one-third of the total income of the four cities in Ross. Ross plans to expand the territory in the future, starting from the city of Lei Sai in the northwest.

At that time, start from Green Forest to build a road that is 70 kilometers long. It can pass the width of three carriages side by side, and at least it must be relatively flat, although it will consume a lot of materials and manpower, and Ross does not have cement. Build sharpeners.

However, as long as the road can be built, the several territories of Ross can be fully integrated into a front line, connected with each other, and the road will go from the Green Forest to the Shield of Hope.

Ross predicts that the trade volume will increase by another 30% by then.

You must know that the second of the three carriages driving the economy is consumption and investment.

Ross invests in surrounding towns for better business.

After negotiating the Yeveguo business, the housekeeper took out a stamped white note and stamped it twice with a specific stamp.

Ross knows that in some big cities with a population of more than a few hundred thousand, this check and transaction method is popular.

He took the check handed over by the butler. It was the first time Ross saw this kind of check. He could take this check to the bank in the Imperial Capital to exchange it at any time.

Of course, there are also around fifteen banks of Aklan in other cities next to the imperial capital.

Ross said thank you. This check method does not worry that someone will make a fake, or simply **** someone else’s exclusive seal to stamp it, and then go to the bank to exchange it like a white wolf with empty gloves.

Since the new era is about to start, the banking model has become popular in all countries, and it can be quickly constructed when applied to major investments.

In order to prevent someone from acting like an empty-handed wolf, the bank has specially set up a set of countermeasures.

First of all, even if it is a stamped cheque, before exchanging the amount exceeding 10% of the principal, the bank will take time to contact the person shown on the cheque.

For example, Ross got a check for 200,000 gold coins. When he went to the bank to exchange it, even though the amount of the royal family’s deposit was very high, it did not reach 10% of the principal at all.

However, the bank will still send someone to ask the royal family to make sure the transaction is legal.

Ross nodded in satisfaction.

He instructed a few subordinates to transport all these leaf veins to more than a dozen carriages sent by the royal family. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

“The royal family is worthy of being a royal family. These horses are selected from the royal horse farm.”

Mander sighed on the side, looking at the royal family’s property with admiration.

“It’s good.”

Ross also nodded. These harnesses are made of stainless steel, which is very durable and comfortable to ride on.

Unfortunately, Ross has not been able to extract such materials.

“After a while, we must find a way to obtain stainless steel and a few commonly used forging materials.”

The current refining industry in Ross has not been exported to other cities, not because the quality is not up to standard, but because the refining technology in the Ross territory is still at an ordinary level.

Like the refining technology of the royal family, it is not at the same level as himself.

I heard that the royal family can refine and refine an astonishing 3,000 tons a year, while Ross has not exceeded 100 tons.

Such a gap, even if it is sold, it will not be able to impact the high-end refining market. It is better to settle for a while.

Ross sent people to investigate. Currently, the steel refining in the western part of Aklan Kingdom is still not full. Because of the several giant deserts in the northwest, the traffic in the entire west, north and south is very inconvenient.

In this era, there is far from being able to traverse the desert, and the number of camels is very small. There are no more than 20,000 camels living in the entire desert.

With these numbers, if you want to fluently pass through the desert, it may only be enough for a few caravans.

The transportation is inconvenient, which has led to the sales of Ross’s items being exceptionally good.

Therefore, Ross intends to sell his things to various places as much as possible before changing the traffic and creating road sections himself.

“goodbye!”