Chapter 22: The Problem
With the money Silas disbursed, everything was back on track, and Leon spent two days in the Executive Hall working hard to get the plans in place. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Good morning, Your Royal Highness the Prince. Maurice came to the executive hall early in the morning and greeted the prince with a smile on his face.
"Good morning, Mr. Morris. The prince stopped the quill in his hand, and noticed this man, whom he had not seen for a long time, dressed in a gray robe and his hair almost the same color, with some wrinkles on his face, short and thin, but with the vigor of a young man, and always with a smile on his face, as if he did not know what it was like to be sorrowful.
Maurice was the castle steward of the previous administrator. The magistrate rarely lived in the town, and he did not have much to do with Maurice, usually responsible for the cleaning of the castle and the management of the town, and reported the situation every few months.
When Leon arrives in town, the magistrate leaves Maurice as his helper.
With his help, Leon quickly figured out the situation in the town. In fact, Leon could have done it without him, and all the circumstances were written in a few parchment scrolls, which did not add up to as much as was recorded in a day now.
There are not many literate people in the town, and there are two people besides the prince and the knight, one of whom is the owner of the grocery store and the other is Maurice. According to him, when he was a child, he worked as an apprentice with a bachelor, and within a few years he came to the north because of his family. Later, he became an assistant to the administrator's housekeeper, and because he was literate, he was left in Ravenwood as a housekeeper.
When Leon planned to build a lumber plant, the business was left to Morris, who knew a certain amount about the merchants of White Mist City, and he proved to be quite efficient.
Since then, Morris has been in charge of the town's trade affairs, including the buying and selling of ores. Now about working with Silas, Leon also sent someone to tell him.
"Your Highness, now that you and Mr. Silas are cooperating, I am afraid that the future trade of the town will be twice as large as it is now, but you also know that the docks of the town will not be able to meet the requirements in the future. "Morris is not here to gossip, the dock of the lumberyard can still be used for now, but the dock of the town was built many years ago, and usually everyone walks on it is shaky, and it may collapse when loading and unloading goods in the future, so he, the person in charge of trade, is indispensable to take responsibility.
"Mr. Morris, I have already arranged this matter in the plan, and the funds will be allocated to you later. Leon flipped through the parchment scrolls on the table, found a plan for the rebuilding of the docks, and handed it to him.
Morris took the parchment with both hands and read it carefully by the morning light that came in through the small window.
The plan was detailed, including how long and wide, what materials to use, the estimated duration and funds were all listed, and he only needed to work according to the requirements.
"Your Highness, why did you build the dock outside the town, isn't it better now?" Morris finished reading the plan, everything was very good, but the location of the construction was a little unclear, and it was some distance from the town.
"You also said that trade will be more frequent in the future. It's okay to park two ships at the dock today, but there is no way to do it any more. The newly built place was specially screened by me, it is a natural port, although it is a little farther away, but it avoids the trouble of not being able to stop the ship in the future. Leon explained slowly.
His plan is not only to meet immediate needs, but also to meet future encounters. Regardless of whether or not such a statement exists in the future, it is necessary to have an optimistic heart now.
"Okay, I'll arrange it as soon as possible. It's just that what should we do in terms of manpower?" Morris had no objection, and he sent someone to start the work when everything was ready.
"The reclamation work will be completed in a few days, and I will draw people out when the time comes, so you can get ready first. "Lyon now has money, but population is still a big problem.
Morris was gone, and Leon had barely written a few words with his quill when Toso came.
After figuring out what happened, Tosso realizes how stupid and bastard he is, and almost lost his best friend due to a misunderstanding.
He invited the Ham family to his home for a delicious feast, which cost him several days of wages, and the reason was of course to celebrate his ability to do things for the prince, but the reason behind it he could only bury it silently, it was too embarrassing to say it.
"Good morning, Your Royal Highness the Prince. Toso greeted happily as soon as he entered. It seems that everyone who enters the Executive Hall is happy, except that Leon is sometimes angry when faced with a lot of unhandled things.
"Good morning, Mr. Toso. It was the first time Leon had seen Toso's smile, and he had either been nervous or frustrated. He asked himself if he wasn't that scary.
"Your Highness, I feel honored that you have put me in charge of the vegetable base, but are you sure you want to plant so many fields with vegetables? What about the barley next year?"
"The land that has been cleared is next year's barley planting, so your task is to fill the current land with vegetables. "Lyon's plan remains the same.
He also told Toso about the farmyard manure and asked him to use it in the vegetable base as well.
Toso learned the technique of cultivating seeds from his father at an early age, so that he could harvest more from the same land than others, and he had never heard of farm fertilizer. Seeing the fertilizer pit outside the town and the prince's environmental protection regulations, he once thought that the prince did not like the image of the town, and that he had only suddenly appeared after a year of coming.
Now that he heard the prince's personal explanation, he still had some doubts in his heart, that the people of the royal family would farm the land? Later, when he thought about it, the prince was not comparable to him as a country man, maybe there was some book that recorded such a method, and the prince just applied it.
"Your Highness, there is no problem with these. In order to have a good harvest, all these fields need to be loosened, and they must be completed in half a month, and in my long experience, this is the deadline, and the income will drop sharply at any later time, and most of them will not survive the winter. "Appointed by the prince himself, Toso knew that he had a great responsibility and took this work very seriously. One is to live up to the prince's weight, and the other is to show his ability, and everything is nonsense without ability.
"So urgent?" Leon didn't know in advance, he had only planned to draw people to build a dock, and now Toso also wanted people from him, where to find so many people.
"Yes, Your Highness. The north is not better than the south, everything has to go according to time, and there is no way to remedy the missed opportunity. Tosso said it from his own professional point of view.
"I know, I'll arrange it as soon as possible, you can prepare other things first. "Leon needs to think about it now.
In the dimly lit room, Leon was worried.