Stannis was writing and drawing in his notebook with a quill pen, calculating how much he had spent on the construction of his territory so far.

He was really short of manpower, so he could only start his old job again - accounting.

"The main castle*1, including 10 guards, costs 20 gold coins per week, and 10 groceries. ”

"Barracks*1, including 1 Instructor and 20 soldiers, with a weekly salary of 23 gold coins, 15 pieces of equipment and food, and 1 piece of repair and maintenance. ”

"The water-powered mill*1 earns 40 gold coins a day, and because it is open for six days and repairs a day, it earns 240 gold coins a week, minus wear and tear depreciation, and actually gets 200 coins, but when it rains, it can only be closed, so it has to lose another quarter, which is 150 gold coins. ”

"Canteen*1, an average of 250 people a day, each person together with dinner and wine consumption 2 large copper plates, all add up to 2.5 gold coins, remove the cost to get 2, and the chef 37 accounts, you can get 1.4, a week is 10 gold coins, PS: It looks like you have to do some takeaway service. ”

"The tavern/clubhouse*1 can sell 200 cups of bubble wine every day, and a cup of bubble wine sells for 10 copper, which is 1 large copper plate, and the income is 2 gold coins. At the same time, there are nine girls, each girl entertains 5 guests a day, and each prostitute receives 2 silver coins for prostitution, that is, 9 gold coins can be received from this every day, because they have to split half with the girls, and the actual pocket is 4.5 gold coins. And they offered to help clean and change the sheets, so they saved the money to find a cleaning aunt, and the whole tavern earned 6.5 gold coins a day, 45 a week, and it doubled on holidays, which is really profitable!"

"Clinic*1, that monk Romnyyi said that he was hiding from the world, so he just ate and drank, and those herbs were also picked and delivered by the farmers below, so the cost of the clinic was zero. ”

When Stennis finished settling the score, he was overjoyed to find that he now had a large balance.

"Earnings minus expenditures, I still have nearly 140 gold coins a week, Yo Xi, it's decided, the army will be expanded by 20 people!"

The lord excitedly announced.

Robert next to him was not so enthusiastic about him, "Boss, since you are so rich now, why don't you restore the original amount of pocket money for me." ”

"It's beautiful!" Stannis refused, he still had a lot of use for the money, and he wanted to recycle the satellites released when he first became an earl.

For example, he has been overwhelmed by the intricate and muddy broken roads in his territory. This time he made up his mind to throw all his belongings into it, and build two intersecting stone roads that ran north-south through the territory and from the territory to the west, according to the budget given to him by the engineer Speer.

The construction of this huge road required 2,400 gold coins......

Stannis finally knew why the former 23rd Earl had never wanted to repair the road.

"Where do you get this money from?" Stannis pondered with his chin tortured, he wanted to issue bonds to raise money, but would people in this era subscribe to a piece of paper?

"Boss, if you are really so short of money, why don't you start with those fat sheep in the market, now there are more than fifty merchants stationed there, you have built such a large market for them to trade, now you can levy VAT!" Robert also learned professional financial terminology from him, knowing that goods can be justifiably taxed layer by layer in the process of circulation.

Yes, although there were thousands of gold coins flowing in Stennis's market every day, he never raised his butcher's knife to impose a commodity tax on the merchants. On the contrary, not only did he build a medium-sized market for the merchants to shelter from the elements, but he also repaired the roads to a large extent to facilitate the transportation of their goods, and Stanis estimated that when the roads were repaired, his territory would become the largest commodity trading and transshipment center in the region.

But Stennis was much more ambitious, as his realm was located on the northern and southern nodes of the kingdom, and the raw materials received from the north passed through his realm to the far southern coastal city-states, where there was a well-developed handicraft industry to produce the raw materials into products. At the same time, the merchants bought their products locally and dumped them, because in other parts of the kingdom there were only handicraft guilds and rural handicrafts, and the production was low, so most of the farmers and townspeople bought the products of the south.

Since there is a steady supply of raw materials and huge demand around us, why can't you build a workshop to produce products and be the king of capital comfortably?

However, these are only on the blueprint of Stennis, and building a complete workshop industry chain is not something he can afford now, because he lacks funds, labor, and technology, and needs a strong army to protect his industry from the covetousness of powerful lords in the kingdom.

"Shall we charge a booth fee?" Robert's thinking was still at the lowest level.

"No!" Stannis flatly refused, having made his territory a free zone in order to attract all the merchants of the East and control them firmly.

At this moment, Lady Romon walked in briskly with a letter.

Stannis was amazed, because the old man shouldn't be here, "I say, old man, why aren't you supposed to stand at the door of the mill and collect the money, and come here during working hours?"

Bachelor Romon wiped the sweat from his head, and his anxiety revealed joy.

"Your Excellency, it's a letter from Miss Anister Froude, who invites you to her birthday party tomorrow!"

"Annie?" Stannis finally remembered, because he had left his fiancée out in the cold for a long time because of the non-stop events that had happened for a month.

That's right? I have been working hard for so long, and I am engaged in construction and reform. But as long as you marry into the Flode family, won't all these problems be solved, with such a big backer, even if you want to be a duke, you will have the confidence.

"Look at me, how did I forget my dearest fiancée's birthday!" he patted his head in disgust.

All the people looked at him with disdain, for all knew that the Count of Justin was pretending.

"Don't look at me like that!" Stannis pursed, then he touched his chin and thought for a moment, "This banquet is the best opportunity for me to get on good terms with the Flod family, and I want to prepare a big gift for my little Annie." ”

Robert looked at him a little surprised, "Boss, you don't want to pay back, do you?"

"Pay it back?" is a great way to foster a relationship, but ......