Although Duke is very skeptical about whether he can succeed, this matter is also in the imminent stage, and Stormcastle will continue to spend a large amount of money to maintain the current construction preparations.

Because the winter of Storm Castle is still a month away at most, the Seine River will be frozen at that time, and the strength of the Ice Demon will be greatly increased in winter. Therefore, at least before winter comes, the construction of Storm Castle and the material reserves must have a guaranteed base to survive this dangerous winter.

So Duke discussed with the treasurer Kangsi, and finally decided to issue a storm bond of 200,000 gold coins in Storm Castle, if there is an income of 200,000 gold coins, plus 150,000 business income, Storm Castle will directly have a huge wealth of 350,000 gold coins in this last month.

With such a sum of money, basically all kinds of wages and subsidies before the winter can be fully paid, and even part of the pension can be paid. The most important point is that Storm Castle will have the money to make the last large-scale purchase, ensuring the supply of living materials in this thing, the three main settlements of Storm Fort, Storm Harbor, and Storm New City, even if it encounters an attack or even a blockade by the Ice Demon, there is no need to worry.

The release of the 200,000 gold coins storm bond instantly caused an uproar in the storm fort, because this way of the lord borrowing money from his subjects can be said to be unheard of in this world. In the past, at most, the king borrowed money from some wealthy nobles, or exchanged his territory for money, etc., and there was never a nobleman who directly issued bonds to the lowest commoners.

It's just that after the shock, it's almost as if it ignited Stormcastle, whether it's the petty nobles, knights, or most ordinary farmers in Stormcastle, they all rush to buy Stormcastle's bonds.

Because they all know in their hearts that Storm Castle can achieve what it is today, all thanks to Duke leading everyone to do it little by little. And what is Duke's usual life, the people of a small place like Storm Castle also see it, even if it is the lord's castle, there is only a simple little maid, a butler and a cook in it.

And every time Duke traveled, he never had any extravagant carriage procession, either on horseback or in the most ordinary of Stormcastle carriages. And the large-scale construction and reclamation of Stormcastle has also benefited all the people at the bottom of Stormcastle.

In the former Storm Castle, these low-level peasants were at most cultivating land with knights, and due to the threat of ice demons, the area of the land was still very small, and after getting the harvest and handing it over to the nobles, it was very difficult to even the most basic food.

But with the arrival of Duke, their remaining labor force has a lot of occupations to choose from, such as soldiers, laborers, miners, and construction workers. If you don't want to, you can continue farming. Moreover, the tens of thousands of hectares of land reclaimed by Storm Castle only collect half of the harvest at most, which is much better than helping the lord to farm the land in the past.

More importantly, Duke also promised that Stormcastle would continue to reduce taxes on land, and eventually reduce agricultural taxes when it was fully funded. Although Duke never said a precise time, this is also the first time in the history of Europa that a noble lord has said that he will exempt the peasants from taxes, which is enough to make ordinary peasants extremely excited.

So after learning that the lord's finances were not enough and he needed to issue storm bonds, almost everyone in Storm Castle snapped up them, and some people took out their own funds to buy storm bonds. They all believe in their hearts that Duke will not deceive themselves and will eventually return the money to them.

Even some people are prepared for the worst, even if the lord really can't afford to repay this bond in the end, he will treat himself as supporting the construction of Storm Castle!

In just one day, Stormcastle's 200,000 bonds were sold out, and Duke himself was a little surprised and surprised by this efficiency, which is equivalent to Stormcastle humans and dwarves, each contributing two gold coins. If they were farmers, it was very likely that they would have contributed all of their income for half a year.

In addition to these, there is another thing that surprises Duke, that is, Fasqi of the Wave Tribe, after hearing the news of Stormcastle's bond issuance, asks to see him with several large carriages.

When Faski pulled the carriages to the Lord's Castle and opened them, Duke was blinded by the contents of the chests, which were filled with precious stones, precious goods, and other valuables, like a super treasure.

"Your Lord, you once said that since the Sea Tribes have joined Stormcastle, they are members of the subjects of Stormcastle and enjoy the same rights and obligations as humans. Now that you issue storm bonds to borrow money, but you haven't informed us of the Sea Clan, don't you treat us as your own?"

Fasqi said unhappily at this time, as she handed over the control of the Sea Clan and the military power, she had also looked down on it for many periods, and began to really see herself as a subject of Storm Castle. In particular, she saw that Duke had kept his promise, Storm Harbor was rising from the ground almost day out, and the Storm Navy of the Fish-Man Warriors was completely trained like humans.

At this time, Fasqi completely accepted his status as a subject and regarded the entire Wave Tribe as a member of Storm Castle, so after learning that Duke was poor in issuing bonds, but did not notify the Sea Clan to help, he felt that he was still an outsider, which was naturally very unhappy.

To be honest, Duke didn't expect Fasqi to give him such a play, he could only smile and say at this time: "I enjoyed the benefits, I was embarrassed to borrow money." The Wave Tribe has only been here for a short time, so I'm sorry to ask you to pay for it. And it's all human gold, and I'm not sure if you have any money. ”

"We really don't have gold coins, but there is never a shortage of valuable things in the Sea Clan, and these jewels and gems are worthless things in our Sea Clan, so we have a lot of collections. But I know that these things are very valuable in human society, Lord Lord, you can sell these things, I believe they should be worth at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins!"

"Value, absolute value!"

Duke replied excitedly at this time, to be honest, he didn't expect the Sea Clan to be so rich. I knew that they had so many pearls and gemstones, so I wasted some energy to issue bonds, and just borrowed money from them!