Arcane Lord

Generally speaking, in addition to cleaning up the forest, the most adventurers do is to help the lord with private work, such as exploring ruins, searching for treasures, killing people and setting fires, or searching for lost pets for the relatives of the lord's followers.

But many of these functions can be split between security officers, soldiers, spies, and specialized archaeological teams.

Xia Duo is already preparing to gradually eliminate the profession of adventurer in the territory. After all, in modern society, there are security guards, spies, mercenaries, and domestic service personnel, but who has heard of adventurers?

Even if there is a so-called expedition team, it is actually a professional team composed of professionals from various industries, rather than just recruiting ordinary people with no professional background. That is not exploration, that is death.

After Sha Duo's explanation, Puman gained another understanding of the existence of adventurers, "If Lord Sha Duo didn't say anything, I would have thought that the existence of adventurers was indispensable!"

"It may have been the case in the past, but it will definitely not be the case in the future." Sha Duo said.

…

Leaving the town from the South District, Xia Duo and Puman were released after only a brief inspection by the guards. It was not until they entered the countryside that Puman asked curiously:

"Don't any city taxes be collected here in the southern border?"

Just now at the south gate of the town, he saw a caravan entering the town, but the guard only checked it briefly and let it go. Only then did he realize that there was no tax collector at the gate to collect taxes!

In this regard, Xia Duo's answer was, "There is no city tax collected here, and even some small merchants do not even have to pay transaction tax. Only transactions conducted in the trade zone will pay certain taxes based on the transaction volume."

"So this is ah!"

Pullman doesn't know much about taxation. For the time being, he can't see what impact the tax policy on the southern border will have. But judging from what he already knows, the confirmed tax laws are more effective than the taxes and fees casually designated by the tax officials. It is easy for businessmen and ordinary people to feel at ease.

…

After entering the countryside, Pullman was once again surprised by the characteristics of the southern border.

"What I just saw in the sky turned out to be real! Lord Xia Duo, is it necessary to build such a gravel road in every village?"

"No need."

"Um?"

At first, Puman thought he had heard wrongly and was about to listen to Xia Duo's eloquent remarks, but when he reacted, he realized that what Xia Duo said was "unnecessary."

"Then why do you need to repair it?"

"The previous road was actually sufficient. The reason why we need to build the current broken brick road is that on the one hand, there are a lot of waste bricks during the maintenance of infrastructure in the south, which can be used as waste. On the other hand, there is another reason. Long."

Puman was not considered one of his own for the time being, and Xia Duo did not want to explain to him what it meant to hide wealth from the people, what it meant to work for relief, and the broken brick roads led by Savile were actually included in a large infrastructure project.

Infrastructure construction is one purpose, and transferring wealth to the people in Savile Territory is also a purpose. After all, after the previous development of Daxia Territory, almost everyone has accumulated a large amount of wealth.

As the integration of the two places advances, the pricing of some consumer goods needs to be set based on the income and savings levels of the south. But in that case, it may be difficult for people in the north to afford it.

Essentially, it is nothing more than raising the minimum income of residents in the northern territories to bring them into balance with those in the south.

In the current era, the power of spellcasters is unparalleled, which of course includes production capacity. In other words, the majority of social wealth is in the hands of spellcasters.

The biggest spell caster in the South is Xia Duo. A little leakage in his hand is enough to increase the wealth of ordinary people at the bottom several times.

But the wealth released is not gone forever. The value of wealth lies in its circulation. As the civilianization of magic continues to advance, the wealth will be recovered through civilian magic weapons.

Of course, by then, Xia Duo will continue to find ways to increase people's income so as to maintain this series of wealth cycles.

If this cycle continues, although people may not be able to save much savings, their overall living standards are constantly improving.

This is what is called "creating a better life".

In Xia Duo's vision, precious metal currency will gradually transform into credit currency, and even gradually eliminate the nature of currency, and eventually reach a state of distribution on demand.

This is possible. The Red Heart Alliance in the projection plane has demonstrated that possibility for him. Although it is not completely distributed on demand, it is very close.

…

Due to the good road conditions, Xia Duo and Puman soon arrived at the southernmost end of the Savile Territory, which is also the northernmost section of the [Bactria-Saville Passage].

Perhaps it was just a coincidence that the two of them only waited here for a short while before they saw a simple-looking steam vehicle clanging towards them from a distance.

There are currently only two steam cars on this road, and these two are actually experimental models. The official version will be launched after all aspects are verified and completed, and then the number will be increased.

So now this car has more people and less cars. Thanks to the verification stage now, the experimenters on the car can decide whether to take passengers and how many passengers to take.

Under Sha Duo's arrangement, he and Puman got on the bus under the envious eyes of a group of people, and they were the only two passengers on this bus.

Since Chateau and Puman were using disguises at the moment, the experimenters in the car did not recognize him. They simply introduced the principles of the steam car and precautions during driving, and did not disturb them anymore.

Compared with the new order in the trade area, country roads, and even the magic street lights on the main road that he had seen before, although there were still some things Puman didn't understand, they were all within the scope of his understanding.

But steam vehicles are different, completely beyond Puman's cognitive scope. In his impression, no matter what kind of vehicle it is, if it wants to move, it must rely on human power, animal power, or magic.

Before today, he had never seen a vehicle like a steam vehicle that did not contain any magical elements and could drive automatically without relying on human or animal power.

This gave him a great shock.

Even after listening to the principle of the steam engine explained by the experimenter on the car, he couldn't figure out why it could be like this.

Xia Duo saw some clues and said meaningfully: "This is the wisdom and power of ordinary people!"

"The wisdom and strength of ordinary people?"

Pullman was shocked and asked subconsciously: "Was this steam car invented by ordinary people?"

"Yes!" Xia Duo answered in the affirmative without hesitation.

Although Hero, the inventor of the steam engine, was a magic apprentice, and the other two people who later participated in the invention of the steam engine were also mages, in front of a great arcanist like Puman, they were actually no different from ordinary people.

If it were not now, put it in a normal situation, even if Puman had some recognition from ordinary people, he would not really regard apprentices and low-level mages as equals to him.

But now, after hearing that the steam car was invented by ordinary people, Pullman felt that his three views were about to be subverted. Although it was just a steam car that could walk automatically, he could already foresee such a device that could automatically produce power. Broad application prospects.

But what he couldn't accept was that this was actually invented by ordinary people?