The Amber Sword

Act thirty-second expansion (thirteen) (third more)

But the management of the wealth left by Gruddin was once quite chaotic. On the one hand, Brando gave Antitina the absolute disposition of the wealth, which has now become his deputy, but later promised Roman This wealth can be used to complete the re-planning of the business and local construction of the Tonigel region.

Even later, Shire, the three chiefs, and the master craftsman Baru all had a certain degree of right to use, and they did not need to pass through the hands of others when they called for some of the resources they needed.

Brando originally arranged this for purely for the sake of convenience. Although he served as the leader of the game for some time in the past, it was completed with the assistance of the game system. The game will systematically record the union warehouse. Deposits and withdrawals-even to assist in making some simple budgets.

But he didn't have the help here. In fact, when it came to the end, he realized that he didn't have much experience in managing the territory.

So soon, he found that his finances became chaotic, and after overlapping in many aspects, he caused considerable conflict. In the end, Romain found Antitina in person and proposed that one person be responsible for management and one person be responsible for recording to stabilize this nearly collapsed management system.

For the first time, Brando's financial system had its prototype.

He glanced at the accounts—of course, to a large extent, without understanding. Romain had a set of her own methods of recording, which she said were taught by her aunt; but according to Shire, the symbols were likely to be secret words between the witches. But Brando didn't care. If anyone around him was the most reliable, it might be Roman and Freya besides summoning creatures.

After a brief glance, Brando looked up again, and at this moment the argument was constantly coming from the outside, which had been going on for quite a long time. Of these, Yuta's voice was the loudest. Clenthia was on the sidelines. The master craftsman Buru occasionally interjected, while Antitina gave the least speech. It was Meltis who persuaded her to say that her voice was almost dumb, but it seemed that no one could persuade anyone.

"What are they arguing about?" He asked.

Romain immediately shook his head happily, mimicking Antitina's tone and prolonged his voice, saying, "I only knew that Chaimi was the master, Lord Lord—"

Brando froze, guessing the core of the dispute outside.

...

The dispute in the courtyard has been going on for quite some time-

Antinina frowned and looked at the people in front of her. Although the aristocratic girl still maintained the basic courtesy, she was almost annoying.

Lord Lord wants to build her own army, which she certainly supports. She also knew that Brando had given Yuta, Fern, Tiger tits, and Klenthia a task, so that they could select some of the civilians in Fir City and prepare to set up the shelves of the future private army. stand up.

But the problem is not here.

Fir City has a population of nearly 15,000, and the autumn harvest has passed. In fact, the city's grain storage is tight enough to eat just the second year of thunderous moon. In other words, the extra rations of these mercenaries cannot even be guaranteed, and they must rely on trade.

On the other hand, I am afraid that Tonigull will face a lot of warfare. During the war, the soldier's share of rations may be different from that on weekdays, and it will almost double. Not to mention the need to reserve grain for spring plowing and replanting the next year. Working men need as much food as women.

Adding these food gaps together is quite incredible.

Not to mention that the cave dwellers in the forest also need food. This part of the food was previously provided by Gruddin, but Gruddin didn't care how many people died of starvation in his territory. They could not.

What's more, this grain gap becomes even more incredible if we want to further control the entire fir baron. Antitina now knows that in the year of flowers and summer leaves, the crops in southern Eruin were generally poorly harvested.

One aspect is the cause of the climate, and the other is the invasion of Madara.

Therefore, to purchase food, we have to face another problem. This is because of well-known reasons, the war in the south has passed, and the war in the north is about to begin. At this moment, the sky of Eruin is overcast.

As a consequence of the war, food has become more stable as an equivalent than precious metals. In other words, the price of food will rise, and I am afraid it is not even a little bit.

As Eruin ’s largest trade port, Amperth's businessmen will not know the current situation. These traitors will not slow their hands and feet because of pity, they will only take the opportunity to drive up prices.

Therefore, the prospect of purchasing food is not bleak.

For this matter, Antitina has already forged her forehead many times, and at half past one, she still hasn't figured out any good way to come. She had considered silver mines far away in Shavrund, but on military matters, she could only suggest it as a deputy. If Brando rejects the proposal, she can only consider the issue from the resources she has.

Besides, she knew that the army of Mintai and Palas was close at hand, and her lord lord might not be able to pull away for a short while.

For this matter, in fact, even Miss Romain, who had always acted in her own way, had been obediently postponing her plan.

But at this time, Yuta came to her to arrange for the recruitment of private troops; but recruiting first needs to spend money, especially in this season, maybe double the money, and the second recruited soldiers also need rations, if The gap in rations would have to be even greater if we had to train.

Antitina could hardly imagine the consequences.

However, she finally convinced the other party and asked the head of the maid to put off the recruitment of private troops, at least until the people in the territory settled down. But it was at this time that the master craftsman Buru also came and didn't mention anything else, just for money.

It turned out that Brando asked him to set up a workshop as soon as possible, but whether it was to make an enchanted armor or not, it first required a lot of manpower and material resources. Not to mention that Tonigel does not produce iron, even training blacksmith apprentices requires a lot of money.

Boru was born as a master craftsman of the court and never needed to think about these outside things, so of course the first thought that emerged in the absence of these things was-yes!

There was a wave of unrest here, and Clenthia was killed from the middle again, of course, he also asked for money. However, he did not come for the purpose of recruiting, but for the funds of the mercenaries.

As we all know, there will be losses in fighting. At this moment, the mercenary regiments under the heads of the mercenary regiments in Fir City can be said to be attached to the big tree of Brando under the name of mercenaries, but they can actually be called an alternative Private soldier.

Without the normal economic sources of mercenaries, the loss of equipment and supplementary tasks naturally fall on the lord Lord Brando; and originally, Brando tacitly maintained a special relationship with these mercenaries for his own considerations. It ’s just that everyone is on a boat now, and Klenthia understands that the group is short of money, so there is no mention of employment costs.

However, the mercenaries were about to start a series of wars immediately, but it was urgent to replenish the equipment and he could not help it. And to add the loss including armor, arrows and weapons, of course, first of all, we must mention a word, money.

The aristocracy's head was almost as big as a bucket at a time, and she didn't have enough money at all. But here she hasn't figured out a proper way, but some people over there are noisy because of a few words.

What you need to put aside for a while, my things are more important, and so on, lines such as flying all over the sky, Antitina could barely persuade the fight at first, but could not help but join the battle group later. In the end, the passing Metisha hurriedly came to persuade him.

Only the red-haired girl who came with the silver elf princess was nothing to do with it. She looked at these men and women from a distance and just bored.

Several people's dispute was at the most critical moment at this moment.

Yuta had just heard Burrow's ridicule and sarcasm. As a prince, the master craftsman Burrow has been weather-tested. Of course, his verbal effort is also quite impressive. It is the essence of spicy irony. The root of the tooth was itching and wanted to refute.

But when she was about to speak, her face changed, but she stopped.

"Lord Lord."

Everyone else looked back, "Lord Lord!"

Brando looked at the people with a firm look, and hummed from his nose: "It's hilarious?"

Everyone bowed their heads, except for the expression of Buru who was not in this system.

However, the old man thought for a while, and still bowed his head respectfully and said, "Master Lord, according to you, we should have common goals and enemies at this moment. Naturally, the husband is not here to trouble you; but as we all know, war is a battle of financial resources. Consumption, it seems that your situation is not optimistic-"

Brando didn't say a word when he heard it, and he certainly understood this; Grudin's wealth left seemed huge, but it was just for an ordinary person, actually scattered throughout the construction of the territory, but it seemed Not so useful.

For example, building a city wall is the consumption of thousands of dollars a day--

In fact, in order to give craftsmen and workers the confidence to work for him, Antitina had to double the price. This sounds strange, because in fact, in this era, a true lord can completely use the labor of his people.

But Brando was well aware of the potential undercurrents in the territory. Before the battle with Count Jean-Dernell, every resident here would doubt how long the unscrupulous Lord Lord could stay here.

In order to appease the public, he had to use this emergency method to pass through the difficult early stage; of course, Clenthia and Fern also suggested that he use forced recruitment to grab labor, but this proposal was made in Yuta and An There was unanimous opposition at Titina.

Besides, Roman, acting as the "Treasury Secretary", does not agree with this plan, but she is not in moral but simple economic considerations. In the long run, the self-destructive thing is not good for the territory, especially for the territorial business. development of.

After all, Brando didn't want to downgrade himself to something like Grudin.

But the problem can't be just a problem, there must be a solution.

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(***. Unhappy, unhappy.)