Chapter 116: patrol
"Lord Marquis, this is the city gate and city wall of Lanxia City. It was made according to your instructions." Rebella pointed to the hollow city wall and said, in front of everyone, she also habitually called Lord Marquis , and only when there are few people, will the elder brother appear close.
Then looking at Leo's curious eyes, he continued, "Thanks to this, we can build so quickly.
Near Lanxia City, there is still a big gap in stone materials, and the stone materials that can be used for the city wall are still scarce. Thanks to the willingness of the Baike Chamber of Commerce to cooperate, a large number of stone materials are transferred every time, and there is also Alama of the Great River City. The family also supports us strongly.
Otherwise, this stone material alone is enough to slow down our progress, not to mention food and other shortages. "
"Well, very good," Leo nodded, he has a system to cheat, that stone bun, oh, this terrible name, I hope it can be worthy of his introduction!
Rebella was secretly surprised, and she really didn't know why Leo had such a choice. Just made the skin on both sides, and the middle is hollow. This is simply a fantasy, and if you really want to put a stone in the middle , it is also impossible to save stone, and affect the integrity of the city wall.
A city wall built piece by piece should have a big difference in sturdiness from building the two sides and filling it inside, right? Although this city seems to be particularly heavy, and even the impact of the great knight of the kingdom with a lance, I am afraid that it is difficult to cause much damage - if it is really built according to the thickness of the blueprint.
"And here is a business area. In response to your request, we have specially opened up booths of different sizes, charged rent, and strictly ordered merchants to keep their own areas clean and tidy." Rebella pointed to the central area in the distance. , "But obviously, this business district is not very popular now.
There are still very few businessmen willing to come to Lanxia City to develop trade. Thanks to the fact that Achle attracts a lot of caravans from time to time, we can have a little taxation. With all due respect, Lord Marquis, you abolish the city entry tax, absolutely. Not a wise move, and your act of deducting 50% of the tax on the territory.
Not to mention how much wealth this is, I am afraid that many nobles have secretly had opinions on you, but I do not know why they have not come forward to criticize this behavior, and if we were not trading in refined salt, the marquis would have already made ends meet. "
"Rebella, don't worry," Leo said with a light smile, looking a little careless, "I have prepared another class of goods this time, and I don't plan to rely entirely on Achle's caravan.
I will release the news that all the caravans need to come to Lanxia City in person to pick up their goods. Our business district, the central area will soon become hot, and even a corner will be robbed. "
As for Rebela's doubts, Leo naturally understands that Rebela is not a lord after all, and it is not clear how powerful Leo was in the king before. Those nobles who have been compared by the former marquis are naturally not. Dare to squeak.
Once Leo was in charge of the Wind Patrol, he could be regarded as holding a lot of power, and even the Marquis of Ike family in the capital was uprooted by him. He could only complain in secret, relying on his seniority and pointing at him with the attitude of an elder.
But now, I'm afraid there will be no complaints. After all, although Leo was a high-ranking, he was essentially a baron, but King Ulric trusted him to take charge of the huge wind patrol and lion knight. Just a group.
At this time, he is a real marquis sitting on one city, two towns and four villages. He really belongs to the front of the kingdom's aristocratic sequence. A real marquis is enough to make too many nobles truly awe, and he has willful actions. Capital.
Leo has the final say in everything in his own territory. In the future, these complaints will not appear. It is a big joke to accuse a real marquis of not managing the territory.
"Really?" Rebela couldn't believe it a little bit, naturally because of the new goods Leo said, there are not many good things in this world, it is surprising that they can master a refined salt, never Thinking that Leo didn't use refined salt to accumulate strength, but instead scattered his wealth elsewhere, it really made Rebela a little difficult to understand.
Besides, with that new item, is your lord so confident? Do you want other caravans to come to Lanxia City to trade? Really unbelievable.
"Of course it's true," Leo said with a strong confidence on his face, "In the future, we will have more and more unique goods, and more goods, they can only come to our Lanxia City to pick up the goods, Lanxia City It will also become more and more prosperous under the leadership of these businessmen!"
The simplest example is that when a merchant comes to buy goods, it is impossible for him to come with an empty cart. That is what Mengxin merchants do. In order to maximize their profits, they will bring all kinds of goods when they come. The goods were constantly sold and bought along the way, and finally came to Lanxia City to dump the goods, empty the carts and horses, and then load these unique goods that only Lanxia City produced.
In this way, countless business travelers come here. In order to maximize profits as much as possible, they will naturally come here for bulk cargoes that are in short supply in the city, but with so many caravans, it is naturally impossible for everyone to find them every time. Chance.
For a long time, the price of the entire Lanxia City will be suppressed very low, because all kinds of goods will be abundant enough, if Leo wants to store grain in the future, he only needs to increase the price of the grain a little bit.
Those merchants will find that this is an excellent opportunity to transport a large amount of grain to be sold, and then loaded into the truck. The key to this is naturally the goods that belong to Lanxia City. They must Make sure that when you leave Lanxia City, you will be loaded with enough unique goods.
Like... soap, like... refined sugar!
This is the first thing Leo thought of that could be produced. They would tempt a steady stream of merchants to come here to pick up the goods, and they would disperse a large number of goods along the way, ensuring the supply and demand of Lanxia City.
Of course, how can one line of these goods alone be possible?
"What happened to the master refiners I asked you to find?" Leo asked again.
"Lord Marquis, we did our best, and under the coordination of the Alama family and the Baike Chamber of Commerce, we persuaded three colonial master refiners to come and settle in our Lanxia City," Rebella said with a wry smile. After all, master refiners It's human, and it's a good guy.
How could it be so easy for them to leave their permanent residence and wander for thousands of miles?
"Forget it, take your time, this matter can't be rushed," Leo said with a wry smile, "It will be much easier when our reputation gradually becomes louder in the future."
In this way, under the circumstance that many citizens don't know much about it, the real owner of the entire Lanxia City or the entire Marquis, Marquis Leo Archimonde has returned to his castle!
Of course, the castle today has also been simply decorated. As for the inside of the castle, Leo is not there, and his subordinates naturally dare not move, but a large open space outside the castle has completely become a patchwork garden. The fierce lion-level armed infantry, holding a long sword of a knight in the lion's realm and wearing a long-swing chain armor robe, is in the inner circle, and the outside is a uniform of the lion-level armored infantry.
The entire castle can be said to be heavily guarded, and even more impressive.
Leo nodded lightly, but he saw a few people wearing military swords and city guard uniforms in the distance, coordinating the travel of the citizens there.
"The road still needs to be repaired." Leo could see that although the road was newly repaired, for the noble carriage, it can only accommodate two parallel cars It always feels less. Something... Leo frowned slightly, and then a bit of understanding flashed on his face, "Rebella, starting today, the city guards will no longer be responsible for the city's security.
Lanxia City will set up a patrol team to inspect illegal acts in the city and manage the city's public security. The treatment is based on the standard of 80% of the city guards. All soldiers who are irreversibly injured in the battle and can no longer go to the battlefield can join first. "
"Ah?" Hearing that, Captain Kari was stunned for a moment. After all, in the Pande Continent, city security has always been managed by the city guards. Although the city guards and local traders or citizens are inevitably prone to conflicts, they have never listened to them. It is said that the city guards are only responsible for city defense, and then establish a patrol team.
"Okay, I'll draw up a plan later." Rebella nodded and seemed to have found something, "This method is good, at least those seriously injured soldiers can have a good place to go."
"We can't just recruit these disabled soldiers. In the future, our elite soldiers can also give priority to recruiting people from the patrol team. The scale of the patrol team can be expanded and prepare sufficient reserve soldiers for us." Leo added again.
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In this way, the system of Lanxia City has changed again, and all the citizens who heard this kind of news are all talking about it.
"The city guards are no longer in charge of public security? What should we do? After that, wouldn't the city be in total chaos?" Some citizens were amazed.
"This announcement said that a patrol team was established to be responsible for public security in the city, which is different from the city guards." Some citizens also seemed puzzled, "How come you have never heard of this before?"
But in any case, the citizens of Lanxia City have no right to refuse, and when the treatment of the city guards broke out, it still attracted a lot of citizens to sign up.