It was another early morning.

In the workshop in the back garden of Fort Wagner, Ye Qi, who had read various weapon forging books for a day and a night, finally ushered in a pleasant system prompt: "Ding Dong ~ After a long time of reading and comprehension, gain 1 point of [Advanced Weapon Forging] proficiency." ”

"It's finally done."

Ye Qi, who whispered like this, put down the book in his hand, reached out and rubbed his temples that were a little swollen at this time because of long hours of reading and thinking.

With Ye Qi's thoughts, he summoned his own system.

Looking at the system interface suspended in front of him, when this [Advanced Weapon Forging] appeared after the continuation of the [Night Watch Sword Technique] and the [Night Watch Body Forging Technique], Ye Qi, who did not expect that this was also an advanced level skill, and Ye Qi, who needed two skill proficiency points to increase a little proficiency to it, couldn't help but mutter: "Fortunately, after raising the career level of many rangers before, I also deliberately shed a lot of skill proficiency points for this." ”

At the moment, when Ye Qi spent 200 skill proficiency points to increase this [Advanced Weapon Forging] proficiency to 100 points.

Under this indoctrination of a large amount of knowledge about weapon forging, he also felt that his head was a little swollen, so he stopped adding points.

Half a sound, waiting for Ye Yeqi to ease the discomfort of his body, he got up and came to the workbench to pick up the dragon slaying broadsword.

With the hint of Ye Qi's own weapon forging skills, he already had a lot of plans in his mind, and he who could repair this dragon slaying broadsword was to put down the dragon slaying broadsword in his hand and rummage through the materials needed for the repair in this workshop.

After another half-ring, the workshop in the back garden of Fort Wagner, which had been silent for a day and a night, was filled with the rhythmic sound of wrought iron.

At the same time, wagons escorted by two battalions of the 1st Marine Division also departed from the Ministry of Finance at the Pioneer Base and arrived one after another at the town of Wagner, which was almost changing day by day under the large amount of money spent on Kimmuton, and was developing towards a city like Bal.

"Your Excellency."

With this call from Andri, there was a call from outside the door.

Ye Qi, who had already repaired the Dragon Slaying Broadsword, and was about to try to make it after learning the explosive arrow blueprint that he had exchanged before, immediately responded to this: "Come in." ”

"Is something wrong?"

Waiting for Ye Qi to put down the enchanting pen in his hand that was depicting the explosive arrow enchantment rune on the sketch, he asked the administrator of his own territory who pushed the door and walked in at this time.

Andri, who bowed to Ye Qi, who was sitting on the soft floor, handed a sheepskin report in his hand to the small coffee table in front of the former, and reported very respectfully: "My lord, the 200,000 gold muttons promised by Minister Wang of the pioneer base have all been put into storage. Here's a specific receipt, and ask an adult to look at it. ”

And as Ye Qi's own strength became stronger and stronger, especially after the Purgatory Scarlet Incident, the aborigines in the territory became more and more respectful towards him.

I know that this seems to be engraved in the bones of Andri and other aborigines, and the worship of the strong. It is impossible for Ye Qi, who has changed for a while, to force something too much.

"Sit down, Andri. As for the usefulness of this batch of Kimmuton, I just want to talk to you in detail. ”

Seeing this, the lord who greeted him like this took another teacup, placed it in front of the coffee table on his side, and poured himself a cup of fine tea with a faint fragrance. Andri, who couldn't help but feel a little flattered, immediately replied: "My lord, you say, I'll just stand." ”

"Sit!"

As he spit out the word without raising his head, he poured himself a cup of emerald green tea from the port of Limon, the southernmost point of the eastern border of the principality, which is often used for export, and the taste is a little biased towards the taste of green tea, which can refresh the mind.

In this regard, it was inevitable that Andri, who felt extremely helpless in his heart, could only sit down slowly at the moment.

And as if he had seen the change in Andri's attitude towards himself during this time, Ye Qi reminded him here emphatically: "Andri, your time to come to Fort Wagner is not short. I think you should be very aware that I am such a person. ”

"And you've been more and more respectful to me lately, don't you think that affects the effectiveness of our conversations?"

"Andri, I hope you understand that what I need is a realm administrator who keeps his head above water. Not a servant who always trembles and respects his lord every day. ”

"If all this is due to the change in my own strength, then I hope you adapt to it as soon as possible."

Waiting for Ye Qi to finish the above words in a very sincere tone.

At this moment, Andri, who was also cold and realized that he was being unconsciously changed by secular thoughts, couldn't help but sigh silently in his heart: "Andri, Andri, why is it still like a teenager, blindly worshipping these strong people who are often limited to legends......"

At this point, he looked up at Ye Qi like this, and he tried his best to adjust his mentality, and responded: "I understand, Lord Lord." ”

And naturally, it is impossible to see from Andri's expression just from Andri's expression at this time, Ye Qi, who the other party does not understand, also turned the topic between the two to the right thing: "Recently, how is the collection of homeless people going?" ”

Digging out a document from the document pocket he was carrying, Andri, who looked at it, replied: "After yesterday's statistics, the total number of displaced people from all over the country has reached 167431. ”

"However, because there is no armed escort along the way. Not to mention the cities that are far away from me, even Benguela and Baal, there are still a large number of displaced people who need to be resettled. Therefore, among the displaced people who arrived at Wagner, they were still mainly young and middle-aged. ”

"At the same time, in recent times, there have been many freedmen who have moved from the surrounding territories that are not in good condition, following the nobles or gentlemen with a certain amount of armed force. Its number has also reached 34,123. ”

Hearing this, Ye Qi raised his hand to signal Andri to speak here first, and then asked, "With the loss of such a number of free people, those surrounding lords didn't trouble us?" ”

No wonder Ye Qi has such doubts at this time, after all, these freedmen are more stable taxpayers in each territory than merchants with a certain amount of mobility.

"My lord, if it is the height of summer during the grain season, the lords who have passed such a large number of free people in their territory will naturally come to trouble your lordship. However, now that it is winter, they may wish that these freedmen who also need to consume their food reserves will leave. ”

With Andri's answer, Ye Qi commented on him from the bottom of his heart: "It's really a group of short-sighted guys." ”

"Can our grain reserves still supply the needs of the market?"

In the face of Ye Qi's next inquiry, Andri, who was also a little worried about this, just replied: "Under the rationing of food and materials that are constantly being transported from the Bar City docks, there is no big problem for the time being. However, as the northern frontier struggles with the orc war, I fear that the merchants who provide us with such large quantities of grain trade will deliberately raise the price of food. ”

Ye Qi, who knew that no matter what world it was, businessmen were profit-seeking, nodded deeply at this time. At the same time, with the continuation of this cold winter that lasted for at least 16 years, he felt that these grain merchants would probably have no grain to sell at that time, so he asked: "Then how is the growth of the snow rice we planted in the previous experiment?" ”

"Not very ideal, my lord."

Andri, who shook his head at this, explained: "After all, this kind of grain, which only grows in winter, has a low yield. The snow rice provided by the female city lord of Vaolet, even if it has been improved by spells, can still only provide us with about thirty percent of our total food consumption at this stage. ”

"Then if we continue to open up new underground plantations under Fort Wagner, how much Kim Muton will be needed to completely supply the daily food consumption of more than 200,000 people in the current territory?"

Although, at this moment, Andriy was a little puzzled why his lord would ask such a question.

However, as the administrator of the territory in charge of internal affairs, he silently calculated this in his heart, and then replied: "According to the scale of the underground plantation under Fort Wagner, under the impetus of the botanical spell, the crops produced can already be calculated for the daily consumption of more than 2,000 people, and if you want to increase the output to the daily consumption of more than 200,000 people, it will take nearly 130,000 gold Mutons." ”

Although, his next order requires an extremely large amount of Jin Muton consumption.

However, Ye Qi, who knew that he had to settle this matter about food as soon as possible, immediately said about it: "Okay, contact the spellcaster's union in Baal City and ask them to come to Fort Wagner in the near future." The scale of the underground plantation will be temporarily expanded to accommodate the daily needs of 300,000 people. ”

"What? It's not ......"

At this moment, Andri, who was still a little unresponsive, then opened his mouth and persuaded him: "My lord, I hope you can think about it, such an expense is too huge. ”

"Moreover, what lord or monarch from ancient times to the present day would spend a huge amount of money to build underground plantations to provide them with fresh crops in order to ensure that the common people under their rule have an adequate supply of food during the cold winter?"

And the above sentence is naturally just Andri's thinking in his heart at this time.

At the same time, it is no wonder that Andrie would have such thoughts at this time.

After all, this requires at least 150,000 gold motons!

Even because Ye Qi had such a huge amount of income after killing a corpse frost wind dragon this time.

However, you have to understand the strong purchasing power of a gold Mouton.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that when Ye Qi received Baron Dorne's property before, he only harvested about 8,000 gold Muttons in the underground treasure vault of Dornburg, and various collections worth about twenty or thirty thousand gold Muttons.

And this is already a field baron, and all the property of his family after three or four hundred years has been inherited!