Stannis had given all of his earnings for the last two weeks to Speer, who had already planned for him to unlock the cavalry training ground and stables in the barracks.

With the addition of the horses he had captured from the bandits, Stannis began to build up a cavalry corps, and under Korodov's repeated requests and even pleas, Stannis reluctantly accepted his application to be the captain of the cavalry.

Although Korodov got his wish to become the captain of the cavalry, the bartender in the entertainment club was still a knight because he could not find anyone to replace him for the time being. It is necessary to train cavalry during the day and work as a bartender at night, if it were someone else who was exploited like this, he would have jumped up and quit a long time ago, but the knight is not an ordinary person, and his long-cherished wish has finally been realized, and this knight seems to have devoted himself to the construction of the army as if he has endless vitality.

Although there was no protective gear for practice, the chief knight still insisted that the cadet cavalrymen be trained with green wax poles, and these strong young men were carefully selected by him to ride horses, including many of the horseback soldiers of the former Ilisses Empire. So instead of wasting time teaching them how to handle horses again, Korodov started straight to learn from the pistol.

As a time-traveler who started from scratch, Stannis also secretly observed from the sidelines, as a world-famous knight, he was sure that he would often have to duel with people in the future, so it was better to practice from now on.

As for settling the new farmers, Stannis acted as the treasurer, leaving them to Romon and letting Lucia assist him, and the two of them were the only ones with management experience in the territory, and Stannis was happy to be idle.

The work of the mill was postponed to Robert, who had been upgraded to lv2 after Speer's renovation last time, unlocking a spare engineering notch, and now there were three huge mechanical grinding discs that could work at the same time, but still could not meet the needs of the territory, and every morning, the peasants from various villages had a dispute over the order of grinding grain, and in order to maintain order and for the personal safety of the younger brother, he had to send a team of soldiers to protect Robert from being beaten.

And tonight, Stannis summoned ten of the richest merchants in the market to discuss a big matter.

In the dimly lit castle, the flickering flame of white candles illuminates only the lower half of each attendee's face, which makes the already wary businessmen feel a little uncomfortable.

"Do you know why the Earl called us here?" a chubby merchant looked at Albert, the Lanana who had become Stannis's agent in the business world.

But the chubby little businessman, who was also chubby, shook his head, saying that he did not know the purpose of summoning them.

"Stan told me he was just asking us to call you over for a meal and get acquainted with each other. Of course, even Albert did not believe such words, and they all believed that the only reason for a noble lord to invite a lowly merchant to dinner was that he was short of money......

The most important thing in the Western Continent is the lords who are in debt because of wars everywhere or extravagance, and the quickest way for these sword owners to solve the debt problem is to first 'borrow' money from the merchants in the territory, especially the Lanana merchants, of course, those nobles will not pay back, as for why those merchants are willing to lend money, because this process is usually carried out with the sword around the neck.

And when the interest on the loan is so high that it is admirable, the lord will decisively disperse them all on the grounds that the merchant has defiled the gods, and even confiscate the family property, of course, the money does not have to be repaid, and it can make a lot of money.

And now, although the lord named Stannis has done so many things that are beneficial to the merchants, such as building roads and markets, the merchants do not think that he is no different from other greedy and unreasonable lords, and may have done these good things just to wait for them to fall into the net, and then catch them all.

And now, it is undoubtedly the time to close the net, and everyone is terrified, as if to welcome the end of the world.

Finally, as the host, Stannis belatedly appeared at the dinner.

He was accompanied by his gang of murderers, each of whom was dressed in murderous spirits.

The merchants swallowed, for several of them had already recalled the painful memories of being held hostage for money, and the cold touch of the blade of the sword came from their necks.

Stannis didn't say hello, but sat down directly and got straight to the point, "Everyone, you also know the purpose of my call for you to come, so I don't know if you eat." ”

Hearing him say this, all the merchants chuckled in their hearts, and the fat merchant had to say on behalf of everyone: "Lord Earl, if you want to borrow money, just say it, as long as you don't steal our property!"

This was also the voice of all the merchants, who all nodded like Stennis pleadingly.

Stannis didn't expect the gang to offer him money to spend, but that wasn't his purpose, at least not by borrowing money and not paying it back.

"What do you think of me? I've done so much, do you still confuse me with those lords who are eating the corpses?"

He feigned anger, and Albert knowingly made a round, "Stan, are we thinking for you, too?

In this singing and harmony, it changed from borrowing money to donating for free......

Stannis was overjoyed, but he still had to keep his face shelf, "I'm a principled lord, who wants your money! You know, I swept the downstream a few days ago, and cleared the dams and reefs that blocked the river there, and I guess I will be able to resume shipping soon, and then I will be an important node in the whole waterway, so I want to rebuild the destroyed dock, you know what I mean?"

As soon as his words fell, the eyes of all the merchants flashed with greed, and of course they knew what it meant, the rolling wealth!

Once the port is built, the raw materials they procure here can be transported quickly and safely to the southern coast by water, and the finished goods purchased from there can also be transported here for sale without hindrance, which hides huge shipping benefits.