readx;? Emperor Long Chenguang's appreciation aroused the jealousy of the civil official system and Long Zhanhuo, who still spoke ill of Fang Ruitao above the court from time to time, and even hoped to change Fang Ruitao's seal elsewhere and transfer him away from Shouyang City, which became more and more attractive because of the expansion of Fang Ruitao's industrial park. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the situation above the court, Long Hanyue would write it down in detail every month, and then send it to Fang Ruitao in the form of a letter, so he was quite clear about these things, and felt the pressure from the imperial capital, Fang Ruitao naturally would not sit still, so he began to plan the construction list in the second batch.

Nearly a third of Shouyang City has been built, and the Elf City and Industrial City near the Great Hengduan Mountain Range have also begun to be built. Murong Yanran's Shouyang Chamber of Commerce relied on a few fist products in its hands and began to gradually make a profit, and the wheat in the first season finally began to be harvested, but the funds in Fang Ruitao's hands were still very tight.

At this time, there are more than 1,300 amethyst coins that can be mobilized in Fang Ruitao's hands, which is equivalent to 13 million gold coins, which sounds like a lot at first glance, but it is indeed a drop in the bucket compared to what Fang Ruitao has to do. First of all, close to the sea, Fang Ruitao began to plan to build a port and open a large salt factory. The port is to exist as the main force of future trade and transportation, and the salt pan is another cash cow for generating gold.

In the Celestial Continent, because people have little understanding of the sea, the various resources in the sea are completely unexplored, and sea salt is one of the easiest to develop. The human body's demand for salt is self-evident, but most of the salt eaten by people on the Celestial Continent depends on the salt from wells in various places. There are only so many places in the entire Tianshen Continent that produce well salt, and most of them are close to the mountains, the roads are rugged and difficult to transport, and the transportation is inconvenient, which causes the salt to be cheaper the closer to the salt wells, and the farther away it is, the more expensive it is, and the price gap is even more than a hundred times, and the Shouyang Province is the place where the price of salt is more expensive.

The production of well salt is like mining, which is much higher than the cost of drying sea salt, and sea salt contains essential iodine, which is not available in well salt. With so many advantages, Fang Ruitao naturally wanted to establish a salt farm as soon as possible, and make a large amount of sea salt by drying salt, so as to earn enough profits from it.

It is precisely because of the importance of these two projects to the development of Shouyang Province in the future that they are absolutely unwilling to be delayed by Fang Ruitao, and now there is one more such project. Due to the geographical environment of Shouyang Province, it does not have many external problems except for the Blue Pass, but there is also a narrow passage inside, which is a plain area separated by the sea and the Dahengduan Mountains. Although the terrain here is not wide, it is unusually flat, and if troops are sent from within to attack, Shouyang City will be directly threatened.

Sending troops to attack Shouyang City now seems nonsense, but with Fang Ruitao's ambition, such a situation is possible. Coupled with the recent clamoring of civil officials in the court, Fang Ruitao had to improve the defensive situation of this place as soon as possible, so he hoped to build a strong military fortress in this place as a barrier for Shouyang City.

Fang Ruitao did not dare to build a fortress in the country to defend against the inland army, which would make Long Chenguang suspect that he was going to rebel, so Fang Ruitao decided to build a fortress in the name of a caravan post and a trading post, which was a lot of money.

Thinking about the funds in his hand, Fang Ruitao felt more and more that the funds were insufficient, and if one of them was cut, he felt a little pity, so he had been frowning for the past few days. On this day, Fang Ruitao was sitting in the study in a daze, and Sun Wu walked in.

For these of his henchmen, Fang Ruitao behaved quite casually, they could come to him anytime and anywhere, and there was no need to report at all. Sun Wu walked into the study, looked at Fang Ruitao like that, and sighed lightly. These days, Fang Ruitao has been worrying about what is going on, of course Sun Wu knows, but he also has no choice.

Walking to Fang Ruitao's side, Sun Wu said in a low voice: "Lord, can we borrow money from the peasants? A few days ago, a bumper harvest of grain had just been obtained, and the peasants' families had a lot of surplus grain, if we could borrow it, we could use it to hire workers to build the city." ”

Fang Ruitao shook his head and said: "This is not good, the hearts of the people in Shouyang City are undecided, if we borrow grain from those farmers, it is estimated that many of them will not borrow because of caution." Not to mention how much grain we can borrow, the mere fact that the lord is short of money and wants to borrow grain from the peasants is enough to cause panic. Once someone spreads some rumors inside, we will be in great trouble, and this will not outweigh the losses. ”

Sun Wu said with some sorrow: "I checked all the accounts yesterday, and even made an estimate of the income for the next six months. It turned out that even the most optimistic projections were completely underfunded. ”

"Alas" Fang Ruitao sighed: "It would be nice if we could have a sum of money, we are still too poor." At this moment, the guards outside suddenly reported: "Zhang Tao, the president of the Shannan branch of the Lund Chamber of Commerce, asks to see him." ”

"Lund Chamber of Commerce? Zhang Tao? I don't know. Fang Ruitao scratched his head, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind: "Zhang Tao? Isn't that the caravan leader I met in Lutan Village for the first time? The Lund Chamber of Commerce is not Amees, that is, Yun Tianjiao's industry? How did they get together." ”

"Let him in. Fang Ruitao said to the guard, and then waved his hand, Sun Wu took a few steps before and stood behind Fang Ruitao. In the hearty laughter, a middle-aged businessman walked into the study with square steps, and Fang Ruitao fixed his eyes to see that it was indeed Zhang Tao, who had drunk wine together in Lutan Village.

Zhang Tao saw Fang Ruitao and hurriedly said, "Lord Lord has always been good, do you remember me?"

Fang Ruitao smiled: "Of course I remember, we used to drink together." ”

Zhang Tao sighed: "The demeanor of the lord is still the same after a few years, but there have been such a big change in Lutan Village, it is really embarrassing." ”

Fang Ruitao's smile gradually retracted, he gritted his teeth and gurgled, and fire could appear in his eyes: "I will definitely avenge the revenge of Rutan Village, as long as I find out who it is, I will not have a good life without him." ”

Zhang Tao said: "I heard some rumors, the strength of this bloody Rutan Village seems to come from the Durrant Empire, and it also has some connections with the city lord of Chongming City. Of course, this information is just hearsay, and I don't have any evidence. ”

Fang Ruitao's face was stunned: "Sure enough, it has something to do with them, I have long been a little suspicious, and I will check it carefully in the future." I don't know why Brother Zhang got involved with the Lund Chamber of Commerce again, as far as I know, the owner of this Chamber of Commerce has a deep background. ”