Act 32 Expansion(13)

But the management of the wealth left by Grudin was once quite chaotic. On the one hand, Brando gave Antitina, who has basically become his deputy, the absolute right to dispose of the wealth, but later promised Roman This wealth can be used to complete the re-planning of business and local construction in the Tonigel area.

Even later, Charles, the three grand leaders, and the master craftsman Beru all had limited rights to use it to a certain extent, and when they used some of the resources they needed, they did not need to go through the hands of others.

Brando's initial arrangement was purely for temporary convenience. Although he served as the leader of the group for a period of time in the past games, this was done with the help of the game system. The game will systematically record the union warehouse. Deposits and withdrawals - and even assists in formulating some simple budgets.

But he didn't have this help here. In fact, when things came to a head, he realized that he didn't have much experience in managing the territory.

Therefore, he soon found that his finances had become a mess. After many overlaps, it once led to considerable conflicts. In the end, it was Roman Jr. who personally found Antitina and proposed that one person be responsible for management and another person be responsible for recording, which stabilized the nearly collapsed management system.

And Brando's financial system also took shape for the first time.

He took a look at the accounts - of course, he didn't understand them to a large extent. Roman has her own recording method, which she said was taught by her aunt; but according to Ciel, those symbols are probably secret words between witches. But Brando doesn't care. If there is anyone around him who is most reliable, then apart from the summoned creatures, they are probably Roman and Freya.

After a brief glance, Brando raised his head and looked outside again. At this moment, the sound of arguments was coming from outside and had been going on for quite a long time. Among them, Juta has the loudest voice, Kerenthia is helping out, Master Craftsman Belu only occasionally interjects, and Antitina speaks the least. On the contrary, Medissa, who was trying to break up the fight, looked like her voice was almost hoarse, but it seemed that no one could convince anyone.

"What are they arguing about?" he asked.

Little Roman immediately shook his head happily, imitating Antitina's tone and said in a long voice: "Only the master knows that firewood and rice are expensive, Lord -"

Brando was stunned and had already vaguely guessed the core of the dispute outside.

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

Antitina frowned and looked at the people in front of her. Although the noble girl still maintained basic courtesy on the surface,

But in fact, I was almost bored to death.

The lord wants to build an army of his own, and of course she supports it. She also knew that Brando had given Juta, Fern, Huque and Clenthia a task, which was to select some people from the civilians in Fir City and prepare to build the future private army. stand up.

But that's not the problem.

Fir City has a population of nearly 15,000, and the autumn harvest has passed. In fact, the city's food reserves are tight, which is just enough to last until the Thunder Moon of the next year. In other words, the rations of these extra mercenaries cannot even be guaranteed and must rely on trade.

On the other hand, Tony Geer will probably face a lot of wars in the future. During wartime, the soldiers' rations will be different from those on ordinary days, and will almost be doubled. Not to mention setting aside food for replanting in the next spring. Working men and women need a lot of food.

Added together, these food gaps are quite serious.

Not to mention that the cavemen in the forest also need food. This part of the food was provided by Grudin before, but Grudin doesn't care how many people starve to death in his territory, they can't.

What's more, if we want to further control the entire Fir Baron, this food gap will become even more incredible. Antitina now knows that in the Year of Flowers and Summer Leaves, crops in the south of Eruin generally failed.

One aspect is due to climate, and the other aspect is due to Madala's invasion.

Therefore, we have to face another problem when purchasing food. This is because of well-known reasons. The war in the south has just ended, and the war in the north is about to break out. The sky in Eruin can be said to be covered with clouds at the moment.

A collateral consequence of the war is that food becomes more stable than precious metals as an equivalent. In other words, the price of food will rise, and I'm afraid not just a little bit.

As the largest free trade port in Eruin, the merchants of Ampelser will not be unaware of the current situation. These profiteers will not slow down a little bit out of mercy. They will only take the opportunity to drive up prices.

Therefore, the prospects for purchasing grain are not bleak.

Antitina has rubbed her forehead many times for this matter, but for a while she still couldn't think of any good solution. She had considered the silver mines far away in Schavlund, but on military issues, as her deputy, she could only make suggestions. If Brando vetoes this proposal, then she can only consider the problem based on the resources she has.

Besides, she knew that Mintai and Pallas's army was close at hand, and her lord might not be able to get away for a while.

For this matter, in fact, even Miss Roman, who always had her own way of doing things, obediently postponed her plans.

But at this time, Yuta came to her to arrange the recruitment of private soldiers; but recruiting soldiers first requires money, especially in this season, which may cost double the money. Secondly, the recruited soldiers also need rations. If If you still need to train, the gap in rations will be even greater.

Antitina simply couldn't imagine the consequences.

And she finally persuaded the other party to let the female mercenary leader put the matter of recruiting private soldiers on hold until at least the people in the territory settled down. But at this time, the master craftsman Belu also came, asking for money without mentioning anything else.

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

As a master craftsman in the palace, Belu has never had to think about these external things, so when he lacks these things, his first thought is of course - want them!

There was an unrest here, and Kerencia came out of the way again. Of course, he also wanted money. However, he did not come here for the purpose of conscription, but for the funding of mercenaries.

As we all know, when fighting, there will be losses. At this moment, the mercenary groups under the mercenary captains in Fir City can be said to be attached to the big tree Brando. They are named mercenaries in name, but in fact they can be said to be an alternative. private soldiers.

Without the normal source of income for mercenaries, the task of wearing out and replenishing the equipment of his men naturally fell on Brando, the lord; and originally Brando defaulted to maintaining a special relationship with these mercenaries out of his own considerations. It's an employment relationship, but everyone is in the same boat now. Kerencia also understands that the group is short of money now, so she doesn't mention any employment fees.

But the mercenaries were about to start a big battle one after another, and the matter of replenishing equipment seemed urgent, and he couldn't help but come. To supplement the losses including armor, arrows and weapons, of course, one word must be mentioned first, money.

The noble daughter's head was as big as a bucket for a while, and the little money she had was simply not enough. But before she could think of a proper solution here, a few people over there started to quarrel over a few disagreements.

For a while, lines like "Your things need to be put aside, my things are more important" were flying all over the sky. Antitina could barely break up the fight at the beginning, but later on she couldn't help but angrily join the fight. In the end, Medisa, who was passing by, ran over in a panic to break up the fight.

Only the red-haired girl who came with the little silver elf princess had nothing to do with her. She simply watched these people bickering here from a distance, feeling bored.

The dispute between several people is now at its most critical juncture.

Juta had just finished listening to Belu's sarcastic remarks - as a member of the royal party, the master craftsman Belu had been through many storms for a long time, and of course his verbal skills were quite good, and he had learned the essence of bitter sarcasm - so the female mercenary leader was once angry. My teeth were itching to refute.

But just when she was about to speak, her expression changed and she stopped talking.

"Lord Lord."

The others were stunned and turned around: "Lord!"

Brando looked at these people with a blank expression and snorted from his nose: "It's quite lively, isn't it?"

Everyone lowered their heads, except for Beilu, who was not part of this system, with an indifferent look on his face.

However, the old man thought for a while, then lowered his head and said respectfully: "Lord, according to you, we should have a common goal and enemy at this moment. Naturally, I am not here to cause trouble for you; but as we all know, war is a competition for financial resources. consumption, now it seems that your situation is not optimistic——"

Brando said nothing after hearing this. Of course he understood this; the wealth Grudin left behind seemed huge, but to an ordinary person, it was actually dispersed into the construction of the entire territory. Not that durable.

For example, building a city wall costs thousands of gold a day——

In fact, in order to give craftsmen and workers the confidence to work for him, Antitina had to offer double the price. This sounds a bit weird, because in fact, in this era, a real lord could use the labor force of the people in his territory free of charge.

However, Brando is very aware of the potential undercurrents in the territory. Before the battle with Count Gendenel, I am afraid that every resident here will doubt how long he, the unjust and unjust lord, can stay here.

In order to appease the people, he had to adopt this emergency method to get through the difficult initial period; of course, Kerenthia and Fern also suggested that he use forced recruitment to seize the labor force, but this proposal did not work well with Jutta and Antoine. Titina aroused unanimous opposition.

What's more, Roman, who is the acting 'Minister of Finance', does not agree with this plan. However, she does not do it out of moral considerations but simple economic considerations. In the long run, destroying one's reputation is not conducive to the territory, especially the territory's business. develop.

After all, Brando doesn't want to downgrade himself to someone like Grudin.

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

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