Since Dawn Furnace City was not captured, Lehman no longer recognized Ursula's alliance with the Lion Kingdom - this was an order that Rayman had received before leaving the Seven Forks Fortress, and King Ulrik did not want to be used as a sword to take Dawn Furnace City, and this covenant would not take effect.

In addition, the Lion Kingdom and the Raven Kingdom have ceased war, and the soldiers of the Lion Realm have no reason to stay in the Raven Realm, so Lehman returned to the Lion Realm with his troops and left Ursula outside the Dawn Furnace City.

As a result, Ursula tossed around and got almost nothing.

Fortunately, with Sir Wren picking her up, she was able to return to the Falcon Castle safely. But she will definitely not be able to do anything more in the short term, and can only make overtures to Roland.

Sir Roland did not refuse Ursula to enter the Falcon Castle to repair, this is what Leon deliberately explained, to unite all the forces that can be united, in the short term, the only enemy of the Falcon Castle can only be the Cato.

All the surrounding forces did not have the idea of attacking the Dark Falcon Fortress, but instead showed a certain amount of goodwill, which was inevitable - the Dark Falcon Fortress was the front line of the Raven Realm's resistance to the Cato people.

Therefore, whether it is Dawn Furnace City or Oldenburg, they are basically willing to sell some necessary supplies to Sir Roland, such as food and daily necessities.

Even the Misty Mountain people are courting the Falcon Castle, but they are not there to deal with the Gatu.

Andongjia successfully contacted her people and paid off her blood debt with 1,800 dinars.

To tell the truth, this money is really nothing to the lord, and the lives of the people of the Misty Mountains are really not very valuable......

However, for the people of the Misty Mountains, there are not many people who can pay off their blood debts in this year, and An Dongjia is even regarded as the leader of a new tribe because of this.

This is also their tradition in itself, and being able to repay the blood debt is equivalent to bringing back a large amount of supplies to the Misty Mountains, and they are already qualified to form a new tribe.

Then, at the behest of her lord, Andonga set up camp in a wilderness north of Darkfalcon.

The camp was an outdoor trade market.

An Dongjia will lead the Misty Mountain people and the Pande soldiers to maintain the safety and order of this camp, so that the Misty Mountain people can trade supplies here.

For example, food and daily necessities are actually bought on the spot from the Raven Realm, and they are directly sold as middlemen.

Although the people of the Misty Mountains robbed everywhere, they did not rob An Dongjia's head, and in order to trade normally, they would protect this small camp.

Although the scale of the trade is small now, this kind of place where you can trade reciprocal and can trade grain is indeed too rare for the people of the Misty Mountains.

Coupled with the fact that the merchants in this camp allowed barter—this was very much in line with the needs of the Misty Mountain people, who really didn't have the dinars, but they had a lot of souvenirs such as deerskin and bear skins.

The Misty Mountain people are just savage, they are not stupid, they all know that this kind of camp must not be robbed, so most of the Misty Mountain people will also show favor to the Dark Falcon Castle.

So, now all parties have good relations with Leon's Falcon Fortress, except for the Cato.

However, the Gatu did not come to harass them for a while, and probably there was something going on within them - it was obvious that Juda's tribe had suffered extremely heavy losses, and Zakar would surely seize this opportunity to unify the steppe.

Everything is going well, and An Dongjia has already begun to recruit the people of Misty Mountain, but she is a little incomprehensible to one of the lord's requests.

Leon asked her to recruit only misty mountain people who could speak Pande's dialect and not be shamans.

It can't be a shaman, it's no problem, An Dongjia has been pitted by the shaman of the Bearpaw tribe, and he doesn't have a good impression of the shaman.

But you have to be able to speak Pande, which is a bit difficult.

Ordinary people in the Misty Mountains don't have much opportunity to learn foreign languages......

The only people in the Misty Mountains who speak more eloquently are those who are relatively well-born in each tribe, such as the patriarch's family, or the shaman's family.

These people are not easy to recruit.

So Antunga asked Sir Roland what to do—but Sir Roland didn't know.

But Roland too

felt that this request was right, after all, if he couldn't speak human words, then he wouldn't be able to train these people, so he asked An Dongjia to think of a way by himself, and he had to resolutely implement this request anyway.

So An Dongjia learned from Mai Xiangling and White Deer Castle, and also held a training class in the trade market outside Dark Falcon Castle, specializing in teaching the people of Misty Mountain to speak.

Anyway, the lord's request is only to be able to speak, so it is okay to teach them.

It's just that the teaching progress is quite slow at the beginning - it is not easy to teach without relying on words and speaking alone, and An Dongjia herself is semi-literate, and she doesn't know many words......

In fact, An Dongjia just wants to pull up a team as soon as possible, after all, in her concept, only with soldiers in her hands can she have status.

She wanted a higher status.

But she ran to become a teacher, which made Sir Roland's attitude towards Anton a big change - Antunga originally gave Roland the impression of a rogue robber who came down from the Misty Mountain, plus she did have a lot of hooligan habits, so she was often criticized by Roland.

Now this hooligan scoundrel is actually teaching the robbers of the Misty Mountains to learn culture, which is of course a good phenomenon.

Although Roland didn't understand what cultural conquest was, he at least knew that it would make it easier for the Misty Mountain people to discipline and pass on some ideas of goodness and orderliness in class.

But I'm afraid it's not very appropriate to let An Dongjia, the leader of the hooligans, pass on the concept......

So Roland sent a team of non-commissioned officers who had learned a little culture to An Dongjia as teachers.

This was a mistake that made many people in the Misty Mountains have a good impression of the griffin crest on the Dark Falcon Castle and the non-commissioned officers.

Most people in Misty Mountain actually want to enter the mainstream society, and after seeing Pande's flowery world, and comparing it to a poor place like Misty Mountain, many people actually want to make a living in Pande.

But language is their biggest obstacle, and the people at the bottom of the Misty Mountains have little access to education.

Now that the Falcon Castle is willing to teach them to speak and read, this is tantamount to giving these people the greatest hope.

As a result, An Dongjia successfully gathered a group of people, and she and those non-commissioned officers also learned a lot of culture.

Being a teacher usually learns faster than being a student, after all, people are responsible, and you can't let your students learn the wrong grammar.

So, during this time, An Dongjia, a semi-literate person, actually wrote a letter - she wrote a letter back, but not to the lord, but to Ansen.

I don't know what this letter is about, but Anson is mysterious and secretive, and he spends the whole day giggling, wasting a dozen pieces of parchment just to write a reply—probably a dozen letters that he didn't feel satisfied with, and he was busy writing the last one until midnight.

Later, Anson seemed to receive letters every day, and he also replied to letters every day, and it is estimated that he has become the largest customer of the White Deer Fort parchment merchant.

The lord saw everything in his eyes, but did not bother them.

With Anson and Roland, two people with excellent character, in charge, An Dongjia will not mess around.

Similarly, with Ann Dongjia, a rogue scoundrel, in the Dark Falcon Castle, Roland will not be fooled by his kindness.

……

At the end of October, White Deer Castle successively welcomed more Noldor elves to settle in.

This is an inevitable effect of a continuous high number of transactions.

Leon himself didn't make much money in his dealings with the Noldor Elves, but he sparked the Noldos' need for a better life.

The Noldor Elves have made money from their ongoing trading and are living more conveniently than ever before.

This convenience paid off quickly in just one month.

Some of the Noldos, who were the first to benefit, no longer had to think about where to find food every day, nor did they have to stay at home and weave cloth with a patchwork of hemp and silk yarn.

After being freed from the dilemma of food and clothing, it is natural that they will begin to pursue a better life and find their own value.

They can do what they love more and create wealth in less time.

Those who are good at smelting can produce equipment, and those who are good at craftsmanship can do some manual work, which can be done directly in the forest, and they don't need to go out of the forest.

But those who are good at warfare, or who are engaged in technical work, have begun to come to White Hart Fort to seek their own value.

The long life span has given them more self-confidence, and the vast majority of Noldor believe that the skills they have honed over the course of their long lives will make them better than humans in every way.

This will allow them to get higher remuneration and status, and live their lives the way they want them to.

It's a lot like how some young people with professional skills have gradually moved from the countryside to the cities after some remote villages are gradually connected by road networks and supportive trade policies......

In fact, these Noldor are indeed much stronger than humans in terms of professional ability, but they can't be bosses with only professional skills.

Living in the forest for a long time puts them at a complete disadvantage in terms of communication skills and thinking flexibility......

Moreover, the Noldors did not dare to go outside of Leon's territory for the time being, which made it impossible for them to engage in business activities alone.

At this time, part of the farm between Bailubao and Mai Xiangling was converted into a factory after the wheat field was harvested.

These factories are located right next to a paved road, so they are not hidden at all and do not look special.

Only when you enter the factory will you know that these factories are all heavily guarded, and most of them are divided into two layers.

They were "enchanted factories", which were actually raw material processing plants related to gunpowder, but the final assembly of the finished product was not carried out in these factories.

Only the production of Magic Silver is in one of the factories, which is managed by Vendatier himself, and where most of the Noldor Elves live en masse.

If it is to produce conventional weapons and equipment, the proud Noldor Elves do not look down on human blacksmiths at all, but if it is to produce "magic items", every Noldor is interested......

As a result, many Noldor elves have become workers in Leon's territory.

Oh, it should be called a part-time elf, including food and shelter.

The boss is naturally Li Ang, and there is only one big boss that the Noldor can trust at present, and there is only one boss who can provide these professional and technical positions.

At the same time, the real Noldor mercenaries also appeared.

One hundred and fifty Noldor warriors were organized into three patrols, responsible for the security of the area around Fort White Hart and Wheat Collar.

There was another Noldor army of more than 100 people, which became Leon's mercenaries.

This is the troops led by Noyer.

Looking at this, Yin Silandil also plans to let his subordinates earn some money......

After everything was in order, Leon finally returned to his new territory, Changhe Town.

Perhaps the lord was lucky, although he himself had not been in Changhe Town for more than a month, there was nothing wrong with this newly acquired territory.

Because there's Eric there.

Eric has been in Long River Town for this time, he is the person who is most familiar with Long River Town, and the lord naturally gave him a heavy responsibility again.

The lord has been promoted, and of course a capable subordinate like Eric should also follow the promotion to make a fortune, and now Eric is already the political officer of Changhe Town.

Eric never imagined that his life would be so drastically transformed in a year.

A year ago, he was just an ordinary mercenary, with his head tied to his belt and living a life with today and no tomorrow, fighting between the tavern and the battlefield.

But today, a year later, he has changed from a nobody who no one cares about to the chief of government where most of the nobles in Changhe Town compete with each other.

The nobles with the title of baron or knight were smiling flatteringly at them.

They didn't seem to remember, or they all pretended not to remember, that they were just the children of the fisherman in the north of Changhe Town, and they had neither noble blood, nor brilliant martial arts or any outstanding talent.

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Luck, it seems that he suddenly changed after being shot by Risadilan, and the lord personally saved himself, and continued to give himself more opportunities.

Not only became a knight, but also became the governor of a big city like Changhe Town.

It's probably your luck, right?

Eric felt.

But in fact, it was never luck that decided all this.

It's about seizing every opportunity you can take and keep making the right choices.

But now as the head of government, Eric is a little undecided, because the lord's mind is becoming more and more difficult to understand.

"My lord, you mean that you want to send money to the people of Changhe Town?"

Eric now looks at the lord like he is looking at a pure loser.

"No, it's not giving money, it's borrowing money. Lend money to them to pay taxes, and you have to pay it back after three months or six months."

The lord spread out his hands: "Didn't they cry poor? If I lend them money, whoever dares to shout poor will not give me face at all!"

Eric's dilemma was collecting taxes.

But when it comes to collecting taxes, people everywhere will of course cry poor...... And Leon's subordinates have not yet learned how to deal with this situation, and Leon himself is actually inexperienced.

Godric gave some advice and put Eric in charge, dividing the non-commissioned officers into dozens of groups, each group into a zone, such as a street or a small village, and then allocating a quota to each zone.

This is actually the traditional way of levying, and the non-commissioned officers are equal to the traditional knights.

But this traditional way of letting the tax collector collect and the knight assists was not very suitable for Leon's territory.

Most of the non-commissioned officers under the lord are from Mai Xiangling and White Deer Castle, and they are not from Changhe Town, plus they have never done tax collection affairs......

So the non-commissioned officers will look helpless when they get to the place.

The rapid expansion of the territory will create problems of one kind or another.

In fact, Leon's tax collection was not heavy, the total amount was less than twice the national tax, and it was levied directly in equal proportion to the people's land and housing contracts in the administrative department.

This is definitely the lightest tax in the entire Lion Realm, and it is basically levied in proportion to wealth.

But no matter how light the tax is, no one will be willing to pay it......

So the lord is going to do something special.

He directly asked Eric to lead people to go door-to-door to promote the new policy.

Families who automatically pay taxes before the end of October, whether they are originally businessmen or civilians, will make a record and issue tax payment certificates, and Maixiang International will give priority to families with tax payment certificates.

Whether it is recruitment or other business activities, tax payers are preferred.

People who are not very active in crying poor can go to the bank for low-interest loans until mid-November, and the annual interest rate is only 12% - this interest is less than half of that of commercial loans, because compound interest is not counted.

After all, many of them may indeed have no cash, but as long as they have assets, whether it is real estate or land, they can always find collateral anyway.

Of course, the destitute who have no assets at all do not have to pay taxes, but they have to build roads or recruit militias. If you have skills, you can do other jobs, and now Mai Xiangling and Bailubao have jobs.

The lord does not raise lazy people, and either contributes money or effort, so that Hanako will be expelled from the city and left to fend for herself.

If he doesn't want to do anything and just cries about poverty, then after November 15, Eric will go door to door with troops and forcibly "borrow" them to pay taxes.

And at that time, it was a monthly interest rate of 2%, and the interest was rolled over monthly.

What? You call it a forced loan?

No, no, no, this is good governance in this era, and it is exactly the same as helping farmers to lend.

Isn't there no money to pay taxes? The lord lends you money, and if you don't do it, you don't take the lord seriously at all......

"Your Excellency, this ...... Will forcibly borrowing money force them away?"

Eric doesn't quite understand, hasn't the lord always wanted to increase the population?

"If you're not willing to obey my rule, why don't you let them stay here? However, if someone borrows my money and leaves my territory without paying it off, then there is nothing to say, and a wanted warrant will be issued to arrest the person and return him to hard labor."

Lord Lord's appearance is very much like a tyrant now.

"Understood, my lord, but if nothing else, I am afraid that you and I will be scolded......

Eric nodded and said helplessly.

"It doesn't matter, it lets us know who the enemy is...... Erik, actually, we need the enemy right now."

The lord waved his hand and looked at the map on the table.

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