Chapter 109: Council of Cassano
"Last month, our Cassano trade income was 78,581 gold coins, but the trade expenditure was 379072 gold coins.Fabia, there was a deficit of 300,000 in a month, but fortunately, your personal piece of magic scrolls and magic items had almost 350,000 profits, which is a slight surplus...... Vivien said.
"Yes. In addition to this, it is already autumn and the whole of Cassano is harvesting the crops. Adela added: "This year's harvest is much worse than usual, a normal year is a harvest year is enough to ensure three years of life, but unfortunately the previous war has caused us too much loss, according to estimates, this year's harvest can barely sustain the people's livelihood for a year, so next year's grain trade will not be able to ......."
Moses saw that the two women had finished speaking, so he began to report: "Regarding the security of the territory, last month we cleared a total of three bands of thieves, and the booty obtained did not exceed 5,000 gold coins, and in addition, there were wolves in the east of the territory, the number was about 200, and Nigel has already led a team of 500 people to clear it, which should be able to solve this problem, and it can be regarded as training......"
"In terms of territory construction," Adams said, pointing to the thick ledger in his hand, "the construction of the new city of Iron Fist Castle is going very well, in fact, a lot of gold spent last month was on the new city, not a daily expense, so there is no need to worry too much." In terms of trade, there is a dilapidated section of the road leading from Paradise of Liberty to Crimson Castle, and there are many places on the two roads from Seremis to Ironfist Castle that need to be repaired......
"And Cassano's minerals," Carter also began his own report: "In the past 200 years, the three families have spent a lot of manpower and material resources on this, but unfortunately with little success, the original three families only have a total of 4 iron blocks, a silver mine, this amount of mining can barely ensure the replacement of farm tools in the hands of farmers, in fact, the weapons of the army are all bought from the outside of the steel made by themselves, which is the largest trade volume in the free paradise." This is a very big hidden danger, and once the free paradise stops trade, we are in trouble. ”
Old Bill was the last to speak, he was the worst in terms of identity, but in order to balance the strength of the three families in the Cassano Council, the Emilio family must have 2 places, originally Vivian's mother's lover was the best candidate, but unfortunately he died in that night, so Vivian only needs to pick a familiar figure among the Emilio family who is not familiar with the original, and Old Bill is lucky to become a big man in the council.
Old Bill is well aware of his identity, so he not only works harder, but also lives in simplicity. In this council, Old Bill is mainly responsible for the day-to-day affairs of Tekken Castle, and can be regarded as Ryan's grand butler. After seeing that everyone else had finished speaking, Old Bill said: "Everything is normal here in Iron Fist Castle, everyone's spirit is very good, and everyone is full of fighting spirit when they watch the new city be built little by little every day." Now that Tekken Castle has become the center of Cassano, there are a lot of merchants and mercenaries from outside, and they will inevitably have some fights and other things when they get drunk, so I suggest that the new city under construction be divided into several areas, and a special piece is designated for these mercenaries and merchants, so that it is easy to manage. Also, Mr. Moses, the sheriff, does not have a team on hand that is entirely dedicated to maintaining law and order, and every time there is a mercenary fight, men have to be drawn from the army, do you think there is a need to form such a team?"
Ryan rubbed his head in annoyance, it seemed that being a qualified Cassano overlord was not an easy task, and it had only been a few months, and Ryan felt a little exhausted. In fact, Ryan still had the idea of staying out of the matter at first, so he would push a lot of things to his subordinates to do, but as time went by, Ryan slowly integrated here, and this territory was almost equivalent to his own children for him, making him cherish the abnormal.
Seeing that a large circle of people around him were looking at him, Ryan coughed lightly and began to command: "The construction of the new city of Iron Fist Castle must ensure the construction period, this is the strong backing of our Cassano in the future, and it is also the center of the entire territory, as for the funding problem, it is up to me to figure it out, fortunately, a large number of boulders are mined from the Valo Mountains by themselves, otherwise the cost will be greater." ”
"Okay, I see. Vivien nodded in understanding. Since the three of them took an ambiguous bath in the bathroom that night, the relationship between the three of them has naturally become very harmonious, and they seem to have a tacit understanding of signing a soul contract with each other, but in front of outsiders, especially in this kind of monthly meeting, Vivien and Adela still have to show their attitude as servants to Ryan.
"On the harvest side, if you don't have enough manpower, let the army help. How long can the entire Cassano grain stock be able to support now?" Ryan said this, turning his head to look at Adams, and Adams blurted out without even thinking about it: "Not counting this year's income, it can feed more than 200,000 people in the entire territory for 22 months." ”
Ryan was very pleased with Adams' performance, which showed that the frail former Lord of Saranal was putting his heart into it. Ryan thought for a moment and said: "This storage amount is not enough, we are now the imperial capital to the north, Seke City to the east, and the Mochizuki City forces to the south, and the strength of any one of them is far superior to ours, so we must prepare in advance, including the training of warriors, the storage of materials, and so on." ”
Ryan took a sip of water and continued: "So from this year onwards, Cassano will no longer sell grain to the outside world, and he will say that the losses are too great because of the previous war, and as for the gap in the grain trade here, I will think of other ways, anyway, this money usually has to be actually received in the second year, and if you want to use it, you can only use it after that, right?"
"Yes. Adams replied in the affirmative.
"As for the construction of the interior of the territory, this should be done, not only the roads, but also the construction of various estates, the construction of new farms, and the development of other resources. It's just that now we are very short of money, so we have to do it little by little, let's repair the road first, Adams, you make a plan, the length of the road to be repaired, the surrounding environment, the area to pass, the estimated cost, etc., and we will find another time to discuss. ”
"Yes. Adams nodded heavily, as long as he handed over these things to his subordinates, he could come up with a satisfactory plan, but if he wanted to completely count the entire Cassano situation, it would still take a lot of time, and he really had to find another time to discuss it as Ryan said.