"Confidence?" Martin raised the corners of his mouth, "Your Majesty, faith alone is not enough. Bakaria needs a lord who has a goal, a plan, and can build a pioneer leader step by step. ”

Martin struck while the iron was hot and threw out his own governance philosophy.

"Oh, tell me about your plan!" the king's seemingly drunken eyes flashed with a wise glow, "What do you think Lorrainburg needs most now?"

Martin knew that his test was coming.

If his answer does not satisfy the king, according to the king's temperament, he will still inherit the title of the Lorraine family and Lorraineburg, but he will be regarded by the king as a man of honor. The kingdom may continue to use Lorraine as a bridgehead for the development of the wasteland, but the future of the wasteland has little to do with him.

This is definitely not something that the ambitious Martin can accept.

"I think what Lorrainburg needs most now is policy!"

"Policy?" the king or not, the generals and lords who were drinking next to him but pricked up their ears to listen were stunned.

Martin began to say, "Yes, I think different frontiers apply different laws. If the kingdom does not let go of its policies, Lorraine Fort will always be just a deformed territory that must be transfused with the blood of Bakaria itself. After a long time, the kingdom either couldn't hold on, or it asked Lorraine to feed back to the kingdom in the increasingly loud calls in the country, so that the Lorraine pioneer territory would naturally be dragged down, and the kingdom would not benefit from anything. ”

"Go on. King Keane was noncommittal.

Martin stretched out his hand, dipped his finger in the wine, and drew the outline of the province of Lorraine on the vacant white cloth table.

"To develop a territory, you first need food. Without self-produced food, it is impossible to feed people, and naturally we cannot afford to feed the army. Even if the kingdom stuffed ten knights, it would collapse because the food supply could not keep up. The precinct of Lorrainburg is not suitable for growing wheat. I've checked the historical sources, and all of Bakaria's expeditions to the wasteland were actually due to the collapse of the battle line due to the lack of food supplies. ”

Hearing this, all the bigwigs, including the king, frowned, and everyone didn't say anything, because Martin was telling the truth.

Martin slid his finger down to Lorraineburg: "The problem is that if Ggent's Skullsplitter clan is not removed, the entire seaside road will never be safe. If there are more people, it is wasteful, and if there are fewer people, it is easy to be robbed and killed. ”

The bigwigs nodded one after another.

It's been a millennium-old disease.

At this time, Martin put a small saucer in the place that symbolized the River Rick: "So, Lorrainburg needs boats!"

"Well, the kingdom's finances ......" Needless to say, the king, who already knew the roots, was already bitter. Any large-scale shipbuilding must be an astronomical project for the current Bakaria.

"In the early days, it was enough for Lorrainburg to have small fishing boats and small transport boats of 50 tons. I don't need the kingdom's funds, and there are craftsmen who can build fishing boats off the coast of the province anyway, so I can recruit them myself and allow me to build a shipyard in Lorraine to build a shipyard. All I need is for you, Your Majesty, to give me a policy of allowing me and my designated caravans to trade with foreign countries, and to exempt me from all commercial taxes and tolls on the stretch from Lorrainburg to Cote for ten years, and after ten years to collect taxes according to the laws of the kingdom, according to the average of the provinces. ”

What a sensible child!

When the king and his ministers heard the words, 'I don't want the money of the kingdom,' they were so moved that they were about to cry.

What a sensible child, O lord!

The lords of other families immediately cried poor as soon as they came back to report on their work, asking for money, food, and weapons.

Martin didn't even want anything.

You must know that in a few old provinces such as Kurt, they are simply overcrowded, and in order to meet the ever-expanding food demand or something, the treasury can already play the rat race.

As for foreign trade, for the knights, it was a joke. It's not that the kingdom is deliberately secluded, it's that Bakaria can't urinate in the same pot as other nations and races.

Except for the Rick Empire, the dwarves and elves are in seclusion, and the orcs and barbarians are needless to say that they are mortal enemies. What else can be traded?

The trade of the Rick Empire was only in those years, and it was the dwarves who guarded the checkpoints, and they deliberately negotiated the conditions to let them go. As the war between the dwarves and the orcs began, trade came to naught.

Where will the money come from.

Still, the king had an extra mind: "Foreign trade?

"In the bloody tournament, I saved a noble girl from the Rick Empire and made a few dwarven friends, which can be regarded as a path. Martin also knew that he couldn't hide it, so he simply picked it up.

"Oh!" the king didn't care, and emphasized, "We haven't had official contact with the Rick Empire for hundreds of years, and I heard that they are now in a civil war, so we are not familiar with the situation, so don't get involved." ”

"It's okay, if the trade route can be opened, I will trade in an unofficial capacity at most. ”

"In that case, I'll approve it here. "I am so happy today, and the king has rarely taken it all.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the clerk ......" Martin struck while the iron was hot.

"Hey, little one, do you think I and the rest of you will look down on your little business tax? It's all your uncle and uncle, who dares to bully you?" the king laughed with his glass raised.

"Hahahaha! yes! Whoever dares to bully the Lorraine family, I will be the first to let him go!" Uncle Trist was the first to shout.

"Don't be afraid that the heroic spirit of the old Lorraine will run out and teach people?

"Hahaha!

Everyone followed suit.

This is no joke, now that the patronus spirit is in place, the gods are alive. Of the twelve Heroic Knights of Bakaria in existence today, two of them are surnamed Lorraine.

If it's really messy, then hehe.

At this time, this group of kingdom tycoons did not know what an amazing fortune they had missed. Until many years later, they still beat their chests and slammed their feet and privately scolded Martin for being a little traitor!

Today is not only a triumphal ceremony, but also a sales meeting for a group of nobles.

What to sell?

O man!

Bakaria's territory has been solidified for nearly a thousand years, and almost every inch of land in the kingdom has a lord, even if the king has the heart to reward the heroes, he can't reward the territory. If it weren't for the constant invasion of orcs and other foreign races to maintain a high-pressure situation, the kingdom would have been in chaos a long time ago.

There is no hope for expansion, and a group of nobles are not only practicing martial arts at home, but they are also making people.

The nobles who can pass down their family names to this day, which family is not a bunch of concubines and illegitimate children?

The only one who can inherit the title is the son-in-law, and finding a way out for the concubine and illegitimate son is a headache for each family.

There were too many uncertainties in Lorraine Castle before, and everyone didn't dare to let their children go over casually, after all, it was likely to be sent to death. Now I see that Martin, the lord of Wenzhi, seems to be quite good at martial arts, this is a golden thigh!

Don't you come over and hug your thighs!?