Throne of the North

The army Ryan brought out from Lingdu County was formed by nobles, recruited along the way, and followed in Lingdu City because of food supply. Generally speaking, most of them did not come from a fixed house on this land.

They had no place to live, and they were driven here because of the invasion of orcs.

Now it's over, where should they go? Go back to the territory? In that case, they will be captured and become slaves along the way.

For these people, they are confused, and surviving the war may not be a good thing for them.

Naturally, they are afraid of the city coming into view.

But for Ryan, there is no such problem, he has already had a countermeasure to settle these people.

When the army stopped, he said loudly to the refugees in the army behind him:

"I will build three villages around Lingdu City. You can choose to stay and become the citizens of one of the villages, or choose to leave."

"Those who stay will take root in this land. You will pick up tools to reclaim wasteland. In the swamp north of Lingdu City, you can reclaim vast arable land."

Then Ryan said one sentence after another that made these people excited.

"I will help you build your houses so that you can avoid the cold wind from the north at night."

"I will provide you with land and build villages and towns. You will be the first people there and you will become the natives here."

"I will give you gold and silver coins so that you can buy tools, pots and pans, and even food to keep you alive."

"When the villages and towns are built and the swamps thaw in the spring of next year, I will allow some of your representatives to follow the Chamber of Commerce to the place where you once escaped and bring your families back. The nobles will not stop them from reuniting with you."

Ryan pointed to the Rhinohorn Mountain flag flying in the sky and said loudly:

"I tell you in the name of Ryan that this is not a dream."

"Tell me now, what else do you need?"

Ryan's voice shocked everyone. A pair of eyes looked at him in disbelief, wondering if they had heard it wrong.

Suddenly, frightened by Ryan's questioning, these people finally realized that everything they had just heard was not an illusory dream.

A slave ran out, dropped what he was holding and knelt on the ground.

"My dear lord, Morris will always be your servant and will always be loyal to you."

He was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes. He didn't expect that at the end of the war, he would encounter such a pie falling. He was so excited that he couldn't describe himself. He could only keep kissing the soil on the ground.

Gradually, more and more people knelt on the ground around him.

Give money? Ryan did give these people money, because they wanted to build a new settlement from scratch, and it was impossible to buy things without money.

This is not the primitive era where everything depends on nature.

Ryan gave everyone a gold coin of wealth, but he didn't give them the gold coins directly. Instead, he gave them a kind of dark green smooth stone. These stones came from a hot spring in Birki and were embedded on the edge of the spring. However, as the temperature in Birki became colder and colder, the hot spring also lost its function.

Stones cannot be copied, and everyone looked at the stones in their hands with some hesitation.

"Take these stones and you can go to any Chamber of Commerce in Lingdu City to buy the tools you need."

These people know better than Ryan what tools are needed to survive, and the reason why they don't give them gold coins directly is because Ryan is sure that most of these people will not spend the gold coins, but hide them.

The remaining part who are willing to spend gold coins will be slaughtered by those Chambers of Commerce. If they can buy a silver coin with a gold coin, they will be regarded as unscrupulous merchants.

And these stones are indeed worth a gold coin, because in the end, those Chambers of Commerce can take these stones to him, Ryan, to exchange for real gold coins.

This is gold coins, and also vouchers. Master Ryan intervened in this transaction to ensure that these people can get enough and suitable things from the Chamber of Commerce.

As for why it is a Chamber of Commerce, instead of these people going to a random carpenter's and blacksmith's shop in the city, it is because of the gold coins themselves.

This is a gold coin. The light thing Ryan mentioned can hit a house when it falls from the Rhino Horn Mountain. A family can't save a few silver coins in a year except for the basic food. The value of gold coins is twenty times that of silver coins.

For those who used to be civilians and slaves, it is a huge fortune, so big that they may not be able to control it.

Ryan can only believe that those profiteers will solve this problem. In short, the role of the voucher is to make these people survive in the simplest way. The three plots of land he enclosed around Lingdu City.

There are many wastelands in Beifeng Province. It can even be said that it is not just Beifeng Province. Any province in the empire, the land far away from the nobles is barren. With the productivity of this world, it is not qualified to develop so many natural treasures.

So it seems that there are many people here, but after being divided into three groups, it is just like that. At most, there are tens of thousands of villagers around Lingdu City.

The reason why these people are kept around Lingdu City is for this city that is destined to prosper.

If Lingdu City wants to be more prosperous, it is impossible to rely on itself. It also needs help from all sides. As the connection point between the empire and the kingdom, Lingdu City is destined to become a place where gold coins meet.

Ryan used one thing after another, and spread it again and again to increase his credibility, just for one day, the name of Ryan Clayton alone will be worth ten thousand gold or one million gold.

At that time, he will be the only one in this land.

For this matter, Ryan left a cavalry of 500 people led by Harrington, letting them control these tens of thousands of people and go to several locations to take root. The simple tents in the army are reserved for their residences these days.

"This is the kindness of Master Ryan to you. Don't think that the master's kindness is for nothing. You have already owed a huge fortune!"

Harrington said indifferently. Ryan didn't say anything, but he couldn't treat it as nothing. Every gold coin given to these people belonged to Ryan's wealth, and as a family knight, he must guard these wealth.

"This winter, you'd better build your houses, otherwise you will lose the qualification to stay here. Without the protection of Master Ryan, you will be captured and become slaves."

Unlike Ryan's gentleness, the knights led by Harrington are much more strict, but such fear makes tens of thousands of people relax. Yes, this feeling is what they are familiar with, which means that they really survived.

Moreover, they live around this city.

On the other side, after Ryan entered Lingdu City, he naturally found those chamber of commerce managers again to prevent these guys from interfering with his plan to build villages and towns.

At the same time, the emergence of war has made these chambers of commerce make a lot of war money.

Ryan asked them for part of it.

"This... this is all the wealth of my noble master, you can't rob it like this."

Hearing this, Ryan smiled and was not polite.

"Robbery? You understand. I am just taking back the part that originally belonged to me. Don't forget that you made money through war, but the outcome of the war does not depend on you. Once the war fails, you will lose all the wealth during this period."

"At the same time, you will also lose all the wealth on this land in the future."

"Think about it, how many years can you stay on this land after the war is over?"

"Thirty years ago, the North Wind Province became the land of the empire. The peace that lasted for thirty years was only broken in the past few years. From now on, will thirty years be enough?"

"This is a huge fortune. I think you know the benefits of it better than me. How much have you chambers of commerce collected in the two kingdoms in the east during this period? I don't need to say more, right?"

After Ryan finished speaking, he smiled and looked at these people.

"You don't think I don't know, do you?"

The chamber of commerce representatives stopped talking. They naturally knew that they could not deceive Baron Ryan in front of them, because the North Chamber of Commerce, like them, was the one that gained the most. After all, the North Chamber of Commerce was the local snake here and was protected by the nobles.

This is not surprising. The provinces where the nobles behind them are located are more cunning than the Northland Chamber of Commerce. The Northland Chamber of Commerce was born too recently and seems a little immature compared to them, resulting in too much meat being left out for them to eat.

"We will give you a part of the gift money."

Elena was the first to speak. The moment she bowed, the snow-white valley was exposed, tempting Ryan to think of some soft memories.

"Then I'll wait and see."

Ryan turned and left. He needed to knock on these chambers of commerce. Viscount Miles of Zero Crossing City was still too weak, and he spent more time in the frozen land, so he had to use this method.

Leaving Zero Crossing City and returning to the frozen land, Ryan was finally exhausted physically and mentally. He slept in the castle for more than 20 hours before waking up.

"The nobles of Zero Crossing County all came to visit you, perhaps for the distant land, but also for the orcs."

Avril said while helping him take care of his hair that had covered his earlobes.

On the ground, the Viscountess knelt on the carpet and gently rubbed his legs, sorting out the intelligence during this period.

After clearing the garbage in his mind, Ryan said thoughtfully:

"These nobles probably want me to send troops to help them clean up the hidden dangers of orcs inside and outside the territory."

"But this is impossible."

Avril was a little puzzled. In her opinion, Ryan is now capable of doing these things.

"The orcs in the North Wind Province cannot disappear, especially from the emperor's sight."

"The nobles here need to constantly ask the emperor for help, tell him about the miserable situation here, and live in dire straits with the nobles."

"We can't deceive the noble emperor, so these things must be true."

Ryan said with a smile, stroking Avril's palm.

"Don't worry, since these nobles can come to the frozen land, it means that their territory is not in a desperate situation, and they can still hold on."

"The ones who really need help are the nobles who can't even hear their voices."

"But this matter is not for me to solve."

"There are so many nobles in this land, they should always help each other."

"People need to circulate, and wealth can circulate."

"Only when it circulates can it be gathered."

Avril found it difficult to understand, so he simply ignored it. He just told Ryan about it. The nobles came to visit these days, but they couldn't see Ryan, so naturally they had to convey it through her.

She didn't care much.

"So, you won't leave again, will you?"

Ryan thought about the letter sent from the Kingdom of Andara, and then hummed.

"I'll be staying in the territory for a long time."

The war is over, and the only ones who have relaxed are the nobles. Except for the nobles, everyone else is still busy.

Tens of thousands of black people suddenly flooded into Lingdu City. Their dirty clothes, hands and feet made other people in the city instinctively reject them, but the Chamber of Commerce stores were wide open.

These people who have just settled in hold a stone that symbolizes a gold coin in their hands. They dare not stay too much because they are really worried that the next moment, the stone will not be as valuable as they imagined, representing the golden wealth. .

Use it quickly and save money, which has become the most urgent choice.

The knights of the Tundra Territory were patrolling in Lingdu City. No one felt anything strange. However, these former soldiers holding huge sums of money left Lingdu at sunset with packages that were bloated than the three of them. Cross the city.

"This is all you can buy with one gold coin?"

Harrington asked. He didn't believe that the chamber of commerce had been greeted and wouldn't bargain like this.

Fortunately, someone answered his question.

"Back to Sir Knight, the stewards of the Chamber of Commerce said that they will send the rest to Huangtupo tomorrow, and then let us collect it ourselves."

The things these people carry with them are relatively expensive, such as wooden basins, iron pots, stoves, etc. These things are relatively cheap in Beifeng Province. After all, they use local materials, and the wooden tools are of good quality because they were discovered in the mountains and forests. Not to mention a lot, the price is much cheaper than a few years ago.

Prices have been on the rise recently because the lifespan of that other world is approaching its limit.

After receiving the answer, Harrington nodded and ignored it. His status meant that he was overqualified to deal with such a matter. Just caring about it could make these people tremble.

Back to Huangtupo, this place name came up just two days ago. The reason is that when the soldiers who came here were driving down the wooden piles, they discovered that some of the deep soil and rocks were yellowish and sandy.

People build houses here, of course, not randomly. A main road is drawn out. In addition, there are more than a dozen small roads intersecting with the main road. These preliminary roads will divide the future Huangtu Town into a There will be twenty or thirty households in each small plot.

So far, no one from the Tundra Territory has come to participate, so Harrington is a little bored just staring at these people.

"General, the construction team from the Tundra Territory will be here in two days, and then you won't have to stay in this cold place."

Next to him, a knight said, but Harrington retorted.

"What do you know! I'm not leaving. Lord Ryan asked me to stay outside Lingdu City. Do you think this is punishment?"

"This represents trust. I am a member of Clayton's tribe, and I am more trusted by Lord Ryan than that guy Michaela."

Harrington said somewhat proudly:

"I am here not only to watch these mud-legged people build houses, but also to supervise Lingdu City. That is Lord Lane's city. All the wealth belongs to the Lane family. The Tundra Territory is too far away from here. Of course it is needed. I'll supervise."

"There are also these mud-legged people. Lord Ryan takes them very seriously. After thinking about them for several days, I finally figured it out."

"These mud-legged people are more loyal than the people in Lingdu City. With them here, Lingdu City cannot be robbed by others."

"When Tutu brought people here, I heard that boy Beard say that Lingdu City provided Lord Lane with huge wealth a few days ago. We must protect this place so that even a copper coin can belong to Ryan. Can’t throw it away.”