1255. Before the Expedition

Probably because Surdak has a powerful army of alliance lords in his hands, no matter what policies Surdak has implemented in Ruit City recently, as long as it is not too excessive, these noble lords in Ruyt City will not stand up and voice their opposition.

Even if Surdak wanted to build a road in the abandoned mining area, when the nobles heard that they didn't have to pay a penny from the city hall, they immediately passed a decision to build the road.

Moreover, the lords who own the wasteland in the abandoned mining area are also very generous.

Surdak set aside some land from their territory to build roads, and they also received only a gold coin for each person, they didn't care that the road would pass through the territory, and split the territory in two, and some lords thought that it would be actually good to pass through the territory, at least the road could lead directly to Ruyt, so that the residents living in the territory could enter the city more conveniently.

This time, the 1st Construction Team of Mukuso transferred 500 kobold slaves, and the kobold built a felt shed outside the city and began to build the roadbed.

The first batch of volcanic ash brought by a convoy from the barren Pupu Mountains has been laid near the city gates, and after watering, the ash has formed a very strong concrete pavement, which is separated by thin planks every three meters at Surdak's request, which is said to prevent the road from freezing and cracking at the turn of winter and summer.

Luke was the commander-in-chief of the road, and although it had not been built, it had been carved out by seventy-three trading firms, and in the future there would be some warehouses and shops on both sides of the road.

The city's nobles didn't have the same keen sense of how to make money as the merchants, and they didn't realize what kind of changes the road would bring to the city of Ruyt.

In fact, Luke's construction of this road started in both directions, and in the small town of Hammond, north of the Jezipias Manor, another road construction team of kobold slaves was also in full swing, and there were obviously more four-wheeled carriages here.

However, it is precisely the lack of capacity that limits the speed of construction of this road.

Surdak left Ruit City in a magic caravan, first patrolled the camp of the coalition forces outside the city, and then ran to the road construction site to chat with Luke, and then took the magic caravan to the treasurer Kurt. Latte's estate.

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Kurt. The Count of Latte was lying on a wicker chair on the terrace on the second floor, and the two butlers in the living room were leading the servants in cleaning, which would become a huge dance floor at night, so that the furniture that was useless had to be moved to the back warehouse.

Several of the ladies of the Earl of Coulter, the treasurer, gathered together and sat not too far from the Earl of Coulter to play cards.

The ladies were very excited about the fact that there was a grand ball in the manor, and the young men of the family had been summoned back by the Earl of Coulter, and even if they only showed their faces in front of these nobles and officials, it would be of some benefit to them in the future.

The main reason why Count Kurt held this ball was to show his loyalty to Surdak.

That's right, that's what he thought.

He is one of the few people in Ruyt City who supports Lake. The nobleman of Count Cushing, because he knew very well that the city of Ruyt after the baptism of war needed to be changed, at least not to be mentioned, was the phrase 'Know and know, that is the main city of Lord MacDonnell's rebellion!' ’

The city of Ruyt needed a new look to change the perception of the people of Bena.

In many cases, the rest of the province of Bena refers to the area of Ruyt as Tanan, but there is also something that is not literally meant - 'savage land'.

He and Lake. Count Cushing also tried some new initiatives, but they either failed or failed to carry them out.

Count Coulter was a supporter of the previous consul, Count Leke Cushing, which is why he served as the treasurer of the city of Ruyt.

During his tenure, he never met any other contenders, and the nobles knew that there was no money in the coffers of Ruyt.

But this day is different, Surdak is in charge of Ruyt, which immediately gives new life to the city, and Count Kurt is now in charge of the finances, and he knows that if he wants to keep this position, he must become the most trusted person around Surdak.

However, without a certain amount of time to run in, and without experiencing some major events together, this kind of trust is difficult to establish.

Unless it's to form an alliance and get the clan lords to join Surdak's legions.

But at present, the Ratie family does not have a formed lord army at all, and he cannot join the Surdak lord legion, so he is always worried that his position will not be guaranteed.

Recently, I have been suffering from insomnia, and I dream that I have been pulled down from the chair of the financial officer.

The incident where Count Leck Cushing hid in Bednar City a while ago also made him a little nervous, worried that Count Cushing's loss of Surdak's trust would also affect his position as treasurer.

The garden was filled with a group of young men and women from the family, and among the men and women, a tall and outstanding young girl mixed in with the crowd, she wore an apricot-yellow dress and golden hair, and in the crowd she looked like a beautiful white swan. Iron.

Kurt wanted to introduce his niece to Surdak, but he didn't have the opportunity to do so, and this ball was a great opportunity he didn't want to miss.

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Before going on the expedition, Surdak decided to join the finance officer Kurt Brown. Latte held a ball.

After all, during the time he left Ruit City, the Kurt treasurer held the key to the treasury in his hands, and Surdak still needed to encircle the treasurer, if there was really no suitable candidate, Surdak would never put an outsider in such a crucial position.

It's a pity that neither Hathaway nor Beatrice are the right people for financial officers.

In fact, the most suitable person is Selena, but she does not want to come to Ruit City anyway.

The carriage stopped, and Surdak opened his eyes and looked out the window. The gate of the Rattie family's manor was built in great style, and the guard saw the badges on both sides of the magic caravan, glanced inside, and asked the coachman to drive the magic caravan into the manor.

After entering the manor, the magic caravan drove a little way on the road in the front yard before coming to the front of the courtyard in the manor.

The courtyard had a large carpet in the middle of the grass, all the magic sconces around it, and the buildings inside the manor looked gorgeous, and a group of people stood on either side of the steps, waiting for Surdak to step out of the carriage.

Waiting for Surdak to get out of the carriage, the treasurer Kurt. Ratie was already waiting in front of the magic caravan, and a group of city hall officials gathered around him, and Surdak stepped forward to greet the group of officials.

Kurt, the treasurer, stood at the front and told Surdak about the estate's 100-year history.

The beautiful Zeta had also been arranged to be by the uncle's side, and she knew that the protagonist of the night was the young Grand Knight, who was not only the consul of Ruyt City, but also the entire Gampo Plane in his hands.

Count Kurt tried several times to introduce his niece to Surdak, but Surdak was constantly surrounded by noble lords.

The expedition is imminent, and everyone hopes to know the specific combat mission of Count Surdak in the Bailin plane this time.

It's a pity that Surdak is tight-lipped about this, and even the other lords who participated in this battle are silent, and they don't say which area they will expand to after entering the White Forest Plane.

It wasn't until near the end of the ball that the treasurer, Count Kurt, introduced his niece Zeta to Surdak.

She is so young and beautiful, her eyes are full of worship for the strong, and her beautiful and delicate face seems to satisfy the vanity of any man.

It's just that Surdak isn't in the mood to pay attention to this Miss Zeta at this time.

He had countless duties to attend to, and he wouldn't even want to attend to the ball if it weren't for appeasement to Count Coulter.

The third phase of the restaurant plaza project has begun, and the hotels and supporting facilities in the surrounding area also need to be gradually built.

In Surdak's view, the restaurant plaza should not only have free drinking water, but also public toilets, public areas for small traders to set up their stalls, and magic caravans should not be parked on both sides of the street, there needs to be a special area. These should be planned for the perimeter of the restaurant plaza.

Although the planner was Baron Martino, Surdak wanted to incorporate some of his ideas into the planning of the restaurant plaza.

In addition, the first batch of slum resettlement houses has also begun to be put to work, and the city hall will continue to relocate other slums, and the second phase of resettlement houses will also start construction as soon as possible, which is a big problem to solve the livelihood of the slums, and Surdak attaches great importance to this.

As the construction of the resettlement house gradually got on track, Luke had stepped out and mobilized the kobold slaves from the village of Wall to build roads outside Ruyt, and these kobold slaves were a group of road builders with a lot of experience in building concrete roads.

But here's the irony......

Although Surdak enforced a decree prohibiting the slave trade in the Ganbu plane, he owned nearly 1,500 kobold slaves, and the number of this group was gradually increasing by 200 every year, making him probably the largest slave owner on the Ganbu plane.

Towards the end of the ball, Surdak left Count Kurt's manor in a magic caravan.

Miss Zeta didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to Surdak.

Thea sat down in the magic caravan, and angrily counted the Kurt treasurer's bad intentions at the ball, and he must tell Hathaway and Beatrice the truth about what he saw at the ball......

Surdak sat across the carriage, ignoring her nagging, and casually said to Thea, "Tomorrow, the Lords' Alliance will march to Bena City......

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