Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

After returning from Toyohara City on an armored ship, Harvey temporarily disconnected the deep connection with the soul puppet.

Then, Asdaren and Reiner, who had been waiting in the castle, immediately summoned them to discuss important matters about building a city in the north.

"Fungyuan City has now been included in our control. In the north of the Principality of St. Valen, there will be no more stumbling blocks to curb our development..."

Harvey walked to the map beside the wall with great enthusiasm, picked up a thick charcoal pen and circled the Pioneer, Grizzly Bear and Fengyuan, forming a complete northern area map.

"You should still remember the city building plan I mentioned before. At that time, the vast territory between the three places, Pioneer, Grizzly Castle, and Fengyuan City will be connected into a whole, implement the same law, and implement the same policy... Reclaim all the nobles' feudal rights and territorial ownership."

Asdaren wondered: "Sir, most nobles do not have family industries to operate. If they take their land directly and make them lose the power to collect land rent, they may be on the verge of bankruptcy. Will it arouse their resistance..."

"I don't intend to take the lead." Harvey interrupted the chief consultant's concern. "On the contrary, I will acquire land from them by purchasing, and under the new laws and systems of the territory, I will support them. I will form a professional army to protect their industrial wealth as long as I follow my rules, the income they earn will be far beyond the past, and naturally I will not be able to develop a slight sense of resistance."

After the mountain tunnel of Jackdaw Ridge was opened to traffic, it only takes half a day to lead the Jaw Town, which is separated by a mountain. Even if you have to rush to the Grizzly Castle, which is farther away, you can reach it smoothly in just one day. It's just a way to ride a horse or ride a bicycle by manpower. If it were more advanced railway and train traffic in the future, the time would probably be shortened several times.

As for Fengyuan City and Sancha Town, the administrative area further south, the railway may not be able to be paved in a short period of time, but the sailless magic powered ship coming and going on the Ralph River can be fully compensated for the maximum sailing time of two days. The shortcoming of distance.

To get rich, build roads first. No matter which world it is in, it is the most practical truth to develop.

Reiner was very pragmatic. He immediately took out the account book of the municipal general manager when he heard this, "I am frank, sir... It is not realistic to buy all the land from the nobles with the surplus of fiscal revenue obtained by pioneers. , We don’t have that much money, and printing gold and dollar bills on a large scale will lead to soaring territory prices, and the private currency you issue will also depreciate rapidly, which will cause big problems."

Harvey smiled slightly, and took out a stack of documents from the desk drawer with a preparatory look, and pushed them to the two loyal subordinates, "Who said I wanted to buy land from them with real money?"

Asdaren picked up the file quickly with his eyes and soul fire, and his eyes were gathered rapidly. It took less than half a minute to read it quickly, but his tone revealed the confusion that was rare in alchemy life, "Stocks... stocks? This is What? This is...a new currency you intend to issue again? ”

"You can understand it as a kind of industrial dividend right that can be traded and traded." Harvey briefly explained that the issuance and operation of stocks he has simplified, "In short, it is a kind of securities, and if you own it, you will be fine. It is equivalent to having the right to distribute dividends from the operating income of a certain industry."

But only for dividends... Harvey will not easily let the management rights of these industries in his hands fall into the hands of others.

After the nobles handed over the right to enfeoff and land ownership, they only needed to choose Harvey to provide them with various production and manufacturing industry projects with rapid development momentum and buy some stocks with equal value in their hands. Reaping the benefits of operating dividends continuously is not much different from sitting at home and counting money.

Food factories, steel factories, shipyards, perfume and soap factories, textile factories, any manufacturing industry involving people's livelihood...even the railway and inland shipping industries that are being organized in full swing, will issue corresponding shares.

Harvey could use the land and population of the nobles without spending a gold pound to exchange for the land and population from the nobles, and at the same time eliminated the feudal power and class identity they had naturally possessed since ancient times.

It can be said to be a top "open conspiracy" without bloodshed.

"After the official construction of the city, the pioneered city hall will be directly transformed into the central city hall, and the municipal management departments of other cities will be directly under the central government's direct jurisdiction. Similarly... the Territory Police Department and other subordinate departments also need to remain intact. Copy it into other cities.”

Harvey directly threw this problem to his two subordinates, "So your main job next is to quickly expand enrollment and reserve administrative management talents, select from public schools, promote from various departments... No matter how useful Any method must be used to frame the municipal management departments of Sancha Town and Fengyuan City as quickly as possible."

Maintaining the administrative management and daily operation of a city and surrounding areas requires a large number of people. In this ignorant era of less than one percent of the literacy rate, it only relies on Harvey to popularize literacy education and public institutions in a pioneering leadership. The school cannot meet such a large talent gap.

It is inevitable to bring in the nobles who have received the "old-style elite education". Many of these people are heirs trained by various families. Naturally, they are not completely unfamiliar with business management. As long as they are re-educated through "brainwashing", there will definitely be outstanding advanced elements.

Just like when he was in Fengyuan City, he saw a group of young nobles like Ross Ralph who were relatively upright but very active. They were typical suitable candidates. He didn't mind training such people to join the municipal management department and manage a city or surrounding towns on his behalf.

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After explaining the administrative management of the huge new territory in the future, Harvey took a few sips of hot tea and waited patiently for Asdalen and Reiner to digest his many instructions slowly.

Although these two people are his closest confidants who have followed him for the longest time, one was originally a watchmaker of humble origin, and the other lived in the distant ancient times where the thinking was even more backward than today. It is still difficult to thoroughly understand Harvey's modern thinking.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

But fortunately, they are pure alchemical lives that have undergone soul transformation. With the blessing of absolute rational creation talent, their logical thinking ability and work efficiency far exceed that of ordinary people, which can make up for the temporary backwardness in ideology to the greatest extent.

After all, if Pierce and others were to do it, Harvey would most likely get the result that a group of diehard military force factions would directly sweep away all the noble forces in the territory like a whirlwind, completely eliminate the aristocratic class from the physical level, and maybe in the end there would be a different world version of "Yellow Robe", directly putting Harvey on the throne and becoming an upgraded and enhanced version of Grand Duke Saint Valen.