Chapter 55 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
Roland pushed open the office door, and Barov had been waiting in the room for a long time.

He threw the document to the assistant minister and lay straight on the chair with his bipod on his desk.

If there weren't outsiders present, he really wanted to hum a little song.

Your Highness, please feel sorry for your grief. Barov quickly finished reading the document and frowned and said, "The king unfortunately passed away, and the murderer turned out to be the eldest prince. This is really a tragedy. I wonder what your Highness, you plan next."

Geron's death is too strange. I want to see the decision of my third sister and fifth sister before making plans. Roland said, but no matter what, we should be careful of some things in advance.

Barov looked at the prince and waited for the other party's following.

The king may become turbulent because of this change of royal power. The first thing to do is to take away your relatives and family members.Of course, what is more important is to avoid the Second Prince using these people to threaten his subordinates. For now, the assistant minister is indispensable to maintain the normal administrative and financial operations of the border town.

Roland took a sip of tea and continued, "You, Carter, and your men, have written a letter from home. I will ask my personal guards to take them to the capital and arrange them to other towns to avoid them for a while."

Not used in border towns?Barov is not a fool. His more than 20 years of political experience made him immediately understand the prince's deep meaning.

Need not.Roland neither wanted the other party to threaten his subordinates with his family, nor did he want his subordinates to think that he was threatening them with his family, so he chose a compromise method, first resettled to other safer towns, and then waited for the border town to gain a firm foothold before moving over.

I got it, thank you for your concern. The assistant minister nodded in agreement, which made Roland breathe a sigh of relief.In the final analysis, there are too few talents under my command.

Another thing is about the ore trade. Recently, the iron ore has been suspended from exporting and only sold gems and rough stones to Liuye Town. He instructed, I need to keep these iron ore for use.

This will reduce fiscal revenue, Your Highness.

But it won't drop much, miners discovered a new gem deposit that could make up some of the gaps, Roland said.

Moreover, there is no business in winter, and no one wants to go out to the business when evil beasts may appear at any time. There are probably only two or three rounds of transactions in the long four months.

For lightweight sloops, transporting gem rough is obviously a more cost-effective option.

I got it, Barov recorded these.

After the assistant minister left, Roland called Catlanis again. I need to expand the scale of the militia. After the recruitment is issued, you can arrange it and draw a few quick-responsive and strong-powered team members to be captains in the new team.The training is done according to the method I implemented last time.

Your Highness, if you follow the last training method, it will probably take a long time for the new team to come in handy.

That was better than a group of mobs, and Roland waved his hand and asked him to do what he said.

Although the team trained in this way is far from being a military force, it is probably the level of college students who have completed military training, sometimes the combat effectiveness must be compared with the opponent.

In addition to the evil beasts that don’t have brains, the most likely opponent he encounters is a group of mixed troops temporarily pieced together by private troops, mercenaries, and serfs. As long as he is equipped with weapons that cross-ages, the level of college students is almost able to cope with it.

After Carter left, Roland couldn't help laughing.

He didn't expect that such a coincidence would happen!It's simply a timely help and handing a pillow when you're sleepy.

Is this bad news for me?

Is it a dilemma?

A big mistake!

He didn't know much about Garcia Wimbledon, but she was by no means the kind of person to be slaughtered.

The eldest prince was sentenced to death in such a short time. Even if there is no insider, she probably wouldn't return to the capital easily.

He just needs to follow suit.

As long as you stay in the border town and stay still, someone will inevitably jump out and the Duke of the Fortress is likely to be the first person to sit still.

Otherwise, he would not have delivered the recall documents to himself in such a hurry in this ghost weather.

The Duke hopes that he can see it one day earlier and cannot sleep or eat one day earlier.

If you choose to stay in the border town, it is equivalent to disobeying the will of the new king.

When the Demon Moon passes, the Duke will most likely teach himself a profound lesson under the banner of Tifeco Wimbledon.

And that's exactly what Roland needs.

If you ask what industrialization lacks the most, the answer is undoubtedly human.

It requires a large number of people to invest in this huge production, turn people into parts, and drive this huge machine.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was the land enclosure movement in Britain that drove a large number of farmers away from the land and made them free workers, which laid a deep foundation for the subsequent industrial revolution.

The industrial age is so rough that as long as you continue to invest in popular education workers into this furnace, you can get rich returns.

The more detailed the industrial classification, the larger the population it needs will be.

What Roland has always troubled is the population problem.

There are more than 2,000 residents in Bianban Town. Even with the machinery of the new era, they are just workshop-style production.

Without a large number of available populations, many projects cannot be developed.

But where did he steal and kidnap so many people?

Purchase slaves?

Let’s not mention where to buy thousands of slaves at one time. Adult slaves are expensive and have little meaning to cultivate.

The training cycle of young slaves under the age of ten is too long, and even if they hire child labor against their conscience, they will have to wait several years later.

Recruiting talents?How many people can this kind of border land attract?And it will only cost more than buying slaves.

Encourage more lives?Forced marriage?Forget it...

He was not unwilling to focus on Changge Fortress, but the kingdom was in a stable state. He was simply joking about the future when he attacked the surrounding lords.

Duke Ryan also dared not target him on the surface, so he could only trip up secretly.

But now it's different. After Tifeko ascended the throne, he urgently hoped that all his competitors would disappear. This recall order shows his eagerness.

Duke Ryan can obviously see this too. Once he loses the constraints of the old king, as the head of the Western Frontier, it would be strange if he doesn't do anything.

This is the opportunity that Roland has been waiting for for a long time.

As a kingdom border, Changge Fortress has been operating for a century and has nearly 10,000 permanent residents.

After the fortress, there are even large tracts of land and unprepared towns.

As long as he defeats the Duke of the Fortress and takes the city, he can get a large number of free people and complete the original accumulation of wealth.

What else is easier to obtain a population than annexation?What else can accumulate wealth faster than plunder?

This news was like a lighthouse that dispelled the fog, illuminating the direction of Roland's progress.

He would never miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.