Chapter 269: The First Plenary Session (Part 2)

When it was the turn of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, Kai Mo snorted, "His Royal Highness, I hope you can find the real person in charge as soon as possible. I don't want to attend this kind of meeting a second time."

"..." Roland rolled his eyes secretly. After becoming a leader, he found that some words had to be selectively ignored. How could it be so easy to find a talent who has dabbled in alchemy and chemistry? "Do you have any idea about the large-scale production of two acids?"

"No," Kaimo shrugged, "That's why I need to spend more energy and more manpower to study this project, instead of sitting here wasting time." After staying in the small town for a long time, his words also carry some Roland-style vocabulary, "If I have to report, I can only say that the laboratory is short of people, and the more people who come, the better. In addition, although the five people who joined recently are not very old, they are all pretty smart. It seems that you The elementary education you got is still a little bit of use."

Well, the chief alchemist is probably the one who is most disrespectful to his words and attitude, but considering the other party's age and enthusiasm for chemical experiments, Roland doesn't have any resentment. You must know that after he suffered an explosion accident and was completely cured by Nana, his first reaction was that he could conduct experiments unscrupulously, and even planned to taste the taste of different acids.

"Okay...you can continue to study, I will let Barov find a way to fill the gap in personnel."

"By the way, Your Highness," Kaimo said again, "Have you finished writing your "Intermediate Chemistry"? If you can give it to me for reference, maybe I can come up with a large-scale acid production method earlier. "

"I said at the award ceremony that as long as the apprentices and assistants you cultivate can fill the new laboratory, I will hand over the books to you," Roland spread his hands. In fact, even before a single word has been written in this book, his limited chemistry knowledge has already been exhausted in elementary chemistry, and even if he racks his brains in intermediate chemistry, he may not be able to make up a few pages of content.

The fourth is Minister of Construction Carl Vanbert.

"First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Shujuan," he nodded to Shujuan first, "I am really happy to know that those children can graduate successfully."

Compared with the chief alchemist, Mr. Stonesmith's talent for communication is worlds apart, and Scroll nodded in return, "This is what I should do."

Then Carl opened the notebook he carried with him, and said in an orderly manner: "Now the town's various projects are progressing steadily. The main projects are the Kingdom Avenue, the Chishui Bridge, the new residential area, and the new city wall. Among them, the number of people building the Kingdom Avenue It has reached 4,500 people, half of which are from Changge Fortress, which is expected to be completed next spring. The Chishui Bridge is still undergoing construction of the underground cement wall enclosure, and the residential area has expanded to the vicinity of the old city wall. As long as the supply of bricks and cement can be guaranteed, it should be possible to complete the set task of moving all the fugitives from the east into the town before the arrival of the Demon Moon."

Since Karl usually reports the latest project status to Roland, this statement is very brief, such as the expansion of the castle area and the construction of the Witch House, he did not mention it. In addition, after the location of the new city wall was set and the lines were drawn, Lian was the only one working on the construction, and the daily progress was kept at about 100 meters.

"Thanks for your hard work," Roland nodded. The engineering department is the department with the largest amount of personnel and funding, so it has achieved the most results. "While speeding up the construction, don't forget to publicize the preferential treatment policy of Border Town. Those who come from the fortress A handyman can be considered a qualified craftsman after a year of practice, and you should keep them in the small town as much as possible."

"Yes, Your Highness." Karl replied.

"Then next...Iron Axe."

It was the first time for Iron Ax to participate in such a meeting, and he seemed a little uncomfortable. He cleared his throat, "Your Highness, the army is mainly about two things. First, the second army has completed basic training and is ready to be sent to the fortress at any time. Second, with the addition of new blood, the first army currently has eight hundred and two Fifteen people, except for the 350 people in the artillery team, the rest of the soldiers have all been equipped with revolver rifles. That's all I want to say." After the report, he gave a military salute.

"That's right. Let the second army set off tomorrow. Remember to deploy reliable personnel in the team. Daily training and ideological training must not be interrupted in the fortress, and the situation will be reported to the town every week." Roland instructed.

The last one to speak was Barov. He looked around everyone for a week before saluting unhurriedly to Roland, "Your Highness, since the last time I paid the transportation fee and Tasa mission expenses to the Margaery Chamber of Commerce, the City Hall The gold inventory in China has dropped very seriously, and with this bumper harvest, the Ministry of Agriculture still purchases grain at normal market prices, resulting in only two thousand gold dragons remaining in the inventory, which is a relatively dangerous limit."

Two thousand golden dragons... is undoubtedly a huge sum of money compared to last winter, but Roland also knows that the situation in the town at this time is no longer the same. It is a huge expense just to pay the more than 5,000 workers in the engineering department every month, and the First Army, factories, chemical laboratories, and city halls that are currently considered high salaries all need to spend a lot of money.

In other words, Border Town now makes money quickly and spends money quickly. This is still based on the fact that most of the materials and machinery are self-sufficient.

"I see. But when Margaery's caravan arrives in the town at the beginning of next month, they will be able to earn some income by selling steam engines," Roland responded, "and buying food and transporting fugitives are not daily expenses, so In the next six months, the amount of gold stock should increase steadily, so you don't need to worry too much." He paused, "Also, I plan to increase salaries for everyone."

"Salary increase?" Barov was startled.

"That's right, the city hall is no longer an organization that relies on only a dozen people. Your workload has increased significantly, and your salary will naturally increase." The prince smiled, "From this month, you will be promoted to The monthly salary of the five gold dragons is two gold dragons per month for the head of the department, and according to this ratio, apprentices and assistants are also raised uniformly. Don’t worry, this amount of money is not much, only about twenty or thirty gold dragons.”

Although the Metal Dragon is not very rich for the position of the city hall manager, Roland knows that what Barov loves more is the right. At present, all the financial revenue and expenditure of Border Town are counted and distributed by him, and there is no supervision department. You can get hundreds of times the income if you keep one hand. And so far, he has not shown any signs of embezzlement of public funds.

Of course, in addition to relying on the other party's self-awareness, Roland can also use Nightingale's ability to maintain the integrity of the department. Under her inquiry, no one can hide their bad deeds.

"In addition, there is one thing that everyone may already know," he continued, "I plan to officially build a city here after the end of the Demon Moon today. In other words, the small town will be upgraded to a real city. This big city From the wild land in the west, the Longsong Fortress in the east, and the hills and the sea in the south, its city walls are natural mountains and natural dangers, and its area will far exceed the capital of the king, or even any city in the Four Kingdoms."

"So you still need to hurry up and advance the work in hand, and welcome the establishment of the new city with a better attitude," Roland paused, and said word by word, "I hope this city will be as warm as spring even in the endless winter "(To be continued.,,, your support is my biggest motivation.)