Margaret arrives as promised in the second month of summer, midsummer.
This time, the ships brought by the merchant groups far exceeded the maximum capacity of the dock. Many sailboats could only dock by the river and waited for the front ship to unload before connecting to the pier.
This made Roland realize that the town dock had to be expanded.
Grayburg Industrial Company finally successfully completed its mission this month, reducing the parts scrap rate to 40%, and successfully produced three steam engines before the delivery date.
Although the foreign trade products produced by the factory are much worse in terms of power, air leakage, noise, vibration, etc. compared to the third-generation steam engine currently put into use in the town, it has made a great progress compared to the first-generation engine.
The Thin Yue Bay Caravan brought a team of 300 craftsmen according to the contract. Roland placed them all in the industrial park on the south bank of the Chishui River. In addition to building a new wooden factory next to the original factory, he also ordered Carl to build an employee dormitory near the river bank of the park.
In order to complete the facility within one month, after the huge logs were transported to the site, Carl was responsible for technical guidance and Anna made the cut.
The longest wood processing process was announced to be completed in just two days, while Carl, a former teacher in Anna, was stunned by her new abilities. In just half a year, the thin and quiet girl had become confident and energetic.
Roland held a sumptuous dinner at the castle to welcome the merchants.
At the same time, white wine also appeared in everyone's sight for the first time.
Every time I come to you, there will be new things. Margaret didn't lie to me. Hogg shouted, Even the wine is so unique, compared to this...
Liquor, Margaret reminded.
Yes, liquor!Compared to it, ale and wine are simply bland and tasteless. He grinned and drank the wine in his glass. Your Highness, you must sell me a few boxes of this thing.
I thought it tasted too hot, and fruit wine was more suitable for me, and the businesswoman smiled and shook his head.
Roland smiled. It was related to the taste, and not everyone could accept high concentrations of distilled liquor.I didn't plan to promote it, but I just happened to create some to give you some.
In the era when brewing wine is still the mainstream, distilled liquor is obviously a new star with great development potential. For example, later generations of liquor, rum, whiskey and vodka are distilled liquors with high alcohol content, and a series of bartending cultures have been extended accordingly.
However, for the current Bianfeng Town, it is too early to develop this industry.
Your Highness, I have sent people to collect a lot of information about what you wrote to me last time. Margaret said, "After Yongdong was controlled by the church, there has not been much change. However, the resistance of the wolf heart kingdom is much stronger. It is said that all the church troops gathered in Broken Tooth Fort and were unable to move forward for more than two months.In addition, King Dawn sent a messenger to Gray Castle, believing that the church's move was not to destroy the witches, but to occupy the continental kingdom.He called on the two countries to establish an alliance, expel the power of the church, and jointly fight against the holy city of Hermes.
How did Wang Du respond?Roland asked.
Former Prime Minister Marquis Wick rejected the proposal and scolded the other party for being nonsense.Gamore shrugged, this incident caused a lot of controversy among the kings, and even the nobles did not reach an agreement.As far as I know, many people support the alliance, after all, the church currently shows no sign of returning the dominance to the successors of Yongdong.
Did Tifeco not come forward?
The Prime Minister's answer must be out of the instruction of Tifeko. He has now led his army to the East. Marland's expression is a bit solemn. I heard that a huge fleet landed in Haifeng County and plundered along the coastline of the East. He did not even let the church go, and many fjord merchants were also affected.
There have been a large number of fleeing people in the East, and Hogg and I have taken in a lot. Margaret added that they said that these robbers not only robbed money, but also did not let go of people. All the things that they could not take were burned, as if they wanted to turn the entire Eastern Region into a piece of white land.This was definitely a heavy blow to Tifeke, who had just conquered the nobles of the Eastern Realm.
It was supposed to be a happy thing for Tifeco to be hit, but when he heard that the other party was plundering the population, Roland felt a burst of pain in his heart, those fleeing people...
Are you interested?Margaret smiled and said, "When I saw that letter, I was guessing that you might want to buy a large number of slaves to enrich the labor force of your territory."However, compared to Yongdong and Langxin's foreign refugees, these Greycastle people may not be willing to sell themselves as slaves.
I don't need to use them as slaves. As long as these people are willing to settle in the border town, they will have food and housing, and they will get paid for their work.Roland corrected that he also realized that this was a good opportunity to expand the number of people, and although the news came slightly behind, how many people would they have?
Most of the strong refugees have been taken in by nobles and caravans. At present, nearly 10,000 people are still gathered outside the capital, but there are many young people and women.
It doesn’t matter, I will send someone to screen the way, and the prince made the decision. Do I need to deal with the officials of the royal capital when taking them away?
No, Margaret waved his hand, they wished you could take this group of people away, otherwise there would be insufficient relief food and their number would continue to increase, which would likely lead to a refugee riot.
……
After the dinner, Roland returned to the office and called his personal guard Tassa.
This incident made him realize that his intelligence system was very backward. If he could know about the fugitive incident as soon as possible, he could make preparations early and bring more people to the border town.
At present, his understanding of external information comes from the caravan, and the transmission speed once a month cannot meet the demand at all.
Even if you station troops in Changge Fortress and establish outposts, you can only monitor one part of the western border.If you want to compete for the throne of Graycastle, you must expand your attention to the whole country, or even the entire continent.
Roland did not have so many loyal men to form a complete intelligence team, and there was no way to talk about the spies and spies lurking everywhere.
So he planned to start with the basics and arrange some people to go to the royal capital to collect information collected from all over the country.
Not to mention detailed monitoring, you can at least quickly understand the overall situation changes and not be as passive as today.
Tassa, who knows the power of the royal capital, is the best candidate for the prince.
You asked me to follow the caravan to return to the capital?Tassa was stunned.
That’s right, you have two tasks. The first is to host refugees from the East.I will send a team of soldiers of about 100 people to be responsible for escorting them. I will tell you the detailed screening conditions before the caravan leaves.
yes!
Second, after the refugee wave ends, you stay in the capital and collect information from all over the country.You have dealt with underground rats before and should be clear about what to do, and Margaret’s caravan will support you with all your strength and ask them for the cost of the mission.Unlike the last time I went to Chishui City to spread the news of witches, there is no upper limit on the funding this time.He put a revolver on the table, protecting himself, and hopes to hear good news from you as soon as possible.
……
This time, the ships brought by the merchant groups far exceeded the maximum capacity of the dock. Many sailboats could only dock by the river and waited for the front ship to unload before connecting to the pier.
This made Roland realize that the town dock had to be expanded.
Grayburg Industrial Company finally successfully completed its mission this month, reducing the parts scrap rate to 40%, and successfully produced three steam engines before the delivery date.
Although the foreign trade products produced by the factory are much worse in terms of power, air leakage, noise, vibration, etc. compared to the third-generation steam engine currently put into use in the town, it has made a great progress compared to the first-generation engine.
The Thin Yue Bay Caravan brought a team of 300 craftsmen according to the contract. Roland placed them all in the industrial park on the south bank of the Chishui River. In addition to building a new wooden factory next to the original factory, he also ordered Carl to build an employee dormitory near the river bank of the park.
In order to complete the facility within one month, after the huge logs were transported to the site, Carl was responsible for technical guidance and Anna made the cut.
The longest wood processing process was announced to be completed in just two days, while Carl, a former teacher in Anna, was stunned by her new abilities. In just half a year, the thin and quiet girl had become confident and energetic.
Roland held a sumptuous dinner at the castle to welcome the merchants.
At the same time, white wine also appeared in everyone's sight for the first time.
Every time I come to you, there will be new things. Margaret didn't lie to me. Hogg shouted, Even the wine is so unique, compared to this...
Liquor, Margaret reminded.
Yes, liquor!Compared to it, ale and wine are simply bland and tasteless. He grinned and drank the wine in his glass. Your Highness, you must sell me a few boxes of this thing.
I thought it tasted too hot, and fruit wine was more suitable for me, and the businesswoman smiled and shook his head.
Roland smiled. It was related to the taste, and not everyone could accept high concentrations of distilled liquor.I didn't plan to promote it, but I just happened to create some to give you some.
In the era when brewing wine is still the mainstream, distilled liquor is obviously a new star with great development potential. For example, later generations of liquor, rum, whiskey and vodka are distilled liquors with high alcohol content, and a series of bartending cultures have been extended accordingly.
However, for the current Bianfeng Town, it is too early to develop this industry.
Your Highness, I have sent people to collect a lot of information about what you wrote to me last time. Margaret said, "After Yongdong was controlled by the church, there has not been much change. However, the resistance of the wolf heart kingdom is much stronger. It is said that all the church troops gathered in Broken Tooth Fort and were unable to move forward for more than two months.In addition, King Dawn sent a messenger to Gray Castle, believing that the church's move was not to destroy the witches, but to occupy the continental kingdom.He called on the two countries to establish an alliance, expel the power of the church, and jointly fight against the holy city of Hermes.
How did Wang Du respond?Roland asked.
Former Prime Minister Marquis Wick rejected the proposal and scolded the other party for being nonsense.Gamore shrugged, this incident caused a lot of controversy among the kings, and even the nobles did not reach an agreement.As far as I know, many people support the alliance, after all, the church currently shows no sign of returning the dominance to the successors of Yongdong.
Did Tifeco not come forward?
The Prime Minister's answer must be out of the instruction of Tifeko. He has now led his army to the East. Marland's expression is a bit solemn. I heard that a huge fleet landed in Haifeng County and plundered along the coastline of the East. He did not even let the church go, and many fjord merchants were also affected.
There have been a large number of fleeing people in the East, and Hogg and I have taken in a lot. Margaret added that they said that these robbers not only robbed money, but also did not let go of people. All the things that they could not take were burned, as if they wanted to turn the entire Eastern Region into a piece of white land.This was definitely a heavy blow to Tifeke, who had just conquered the nobles of the Eastern Realm.
It was supposed to be a happy thing for Tifeco to be hit, but when he heard that the other party was plundering the population, Roland felt a burst of pain in his heart, those fleeing people...
Are you interested?Margaret smiled and said, "When I saw that letter, I was guessing that you might want to buy a large number of slaves to enrich the labor force of your territory."However, compared to Yongdong and Langxin's foreign refugees, these Greycastle people may not be willing to sell themselves as slaves.
I don't need to use them as slaves. As long as these people are willing to settle in the border town, they will have food and housing, and they will get paid for their work.Roland corrected that he also realized that this was a good opportunity to expand the number of people, and although the news came slightly behind, how many people would they have?
Most of the strong refugees have been taken in by nobles and caravans. At present, nearly 10,000 people are still gathered outside the capital, but there are many young people and women.
It doesn’t matter, I will send someone to screen the way, and the prince made the decision. Do I need to deal with the officials of the royal capital when taking them away?
No, Margaret waved his hand, they wished you could take this group of people away, otherwise there would be insufficient relief food and their number would continue to increase, which would likely lead to a refugee riot.
……
After the dinner, Roland returned to the office and called his personal guard Tassa.
This incident made him realize that his intelligence system was very backward. If he could know about the fugitive incident as soon as possible, he could make preparations early and bring more people to the border town.
At present, his understanding of external information comes from the caravan, and the transmission speed once a month cannot meet the demand at all.
Even if you station troops in Changge Fortress and establish outposts, you can only monitor one part of the western border.If you want to compete for the throne of Graycastle, you must expand your attention to the whole country, or even the entire continent.
Roland did not have so many loyal men to form a complete intelligence team, and there was no way to talk about the spies and spies lurking everywhere.
So he planned to start with the basics and arrange some people to go to the royal capital to collect information collected from all over the country.
Not to mention detailed monitoring, you can at least quickly understand the overall situation changes and not be as passive as today.
Tassa, who knows the power of the royal capital, is the best candidate for the prince.
You asked me to follow the caravan to return to the capital?Tassa was stunned.
That’s right, you have two tasks. The first is to host refugees from the East.I will send a team of soldiers of about 100 people to be responsible for escorting them. I will tell you the detailed screening conditions before the caravan leaves.
yes!
Second, after the refugee wave ends, you stay in the capital and collect information from all over the country.You have dealt with underground rats before and should be clear about what to do, and Margaret’s caravan will support you with all your strength and ask them for the cost of the mission.Unlike the last time I went to Chishui City to spread the news of witches, there is no upper limit on the funding this time.He put a revolver on the table, protecting himself, and hopes to hear good news from you as soon as possible.
……