In the past two months in Dexia, Li Ang has basically acquired almost all of the property in the central part of Dexia.

In fact, the central part of Dexia is the richest place in the entire Duchy of Dexia.

The nobles of Toba have been robbed of nothing by the emir Xerxes;

The horses of the nomadic tribes at the foot of Mount Gazi were also divided up by Leon and Agathon;

Eichkoman is the largest commercial port in Dexia, and this place has not been robbed, but the merchants have been trading in this area, and they are also very profitable, and it is estimated that they have almost consumed the cash of the Dexia people.

In total, the merchants paid Leon a share of nearly 200,000 dinars, or 'military merchant tax' in the past two months, which was actually protection money.

From the protection fees paid by the merchants, it is also possible to roughly calculate the profits that these merchants made in Dexia with their army.

The total profit they made in Dexia should have exceeded one million dinars, since the protection fee was paid 20%.

Doing business in enemy territory, businessmen will generally be more honest when they pay protection money, after all, if they offend Li Ang, they may not be able to come back......

In total, the merchants marched with the army of about 5,000 men, which means that the profit per person was about 200 dinars.

Of course, it is not clear how many merchants there are, after all, there are large and small merchants, there are large merchants with hundreds of people, and there are also mom-and-pop shops with two or three people.

In any case, two months of profit of about two hundred dinars per capita must have satisfied the merchants, who only had to pay two or three dinars per employee......

In fact, all the 'legitimate gains' that Leon had gained from this war had already been divided.

The nearly 500,000 dinars that had been obtained from the treasury of Toba City were legitimate booty, and most of them had been distributed as a reward.

The 200,000 dinars that the merchants had handed over in the past two months were also distributed by Leon to his soldiers and the lords of the various families who responded to his troops.

As soon as he made a move, it was more than 600,000 yuan, and Li Ang was indeed very generous.

These legitimate gains are actually a kind of interest relationship deliberately created by Li Ang.

To put it simply, it is to create a sense of 'there is money to be made by fighting with Lord Leon', and it is all from the right way - no robbery, no harm to civilians, but more than robbery.

Leon had always distributed these benefits according to the number of elite troops sent by the lords, and he did not distribute them directly to the soldiers, but to the knights.

On average, it could have fallen on each knight's head about 1,400 dinars—which was much more than the little lords had expected.

I followed Marshal Li Ang to Dexia for a tour, and I didn't suffer any losses, and the journey went smoothly, and I made a net profit of more than a thousand dinars in two months—where to find this kind of business? You can't scrape so much with Duke Brennus.

It's no wonder that the people of Changhe Town always say that 'war is wealth', and you still have to follow Master Li Ang to fight a war......

In fact, Eric has always felt that the lord is too generous, and he feels that even if it is to buy people's hearts, he actually doesn't need to give up so much money, and he is simply a loser.

It was not uncommon for Eric to think this way, after all, he was not used to being a rich man - Leon rewarded him with a bag of jewels worth more than 10,000 dinars, and the guy's hands were shaking when he took the bag.

You know, two years ago, he was still in the promising industry of mercenaries, earning a high salary of ten dinars per month - it is indeed a high salary, and the per capita income of young and middle-aged civilians in the Pande continent is almost twenty dinars per year.

When Eric was a mercenary, he could earn an ordinary person's income for a year in two months, which is indeed a high-income person...... After all, it's a business with your head tied to your belt.

But unlike a guy like Eric who has never seen the world, Leon has his own logic.

- Money is used for use, and you can't give birth to cubs in your hands.

Let every knight who goes with him earn money, which not only allows these knights to identify with Leon and form a willingness to follow, but also allows them to have a new input-output thinking......

After all, Leon divides the money according to the number of elites, this is a simple logic, and it is easy for knights to understand - you can't pick and search when you fight with Lord Leon, and the more elites you send out under your own men, the more dinars you can get.

As a result, most of the knights in the group army sent their cronies to follow the merchants to Changhe Town - they were protecting the merchants all the way, and if they were more or less familiar, the merchants of Changhe Town would of course give them some discounts.

They went to buy a lot of equipment, especially armor.

Because the soldiers in armor can be counted as elite soldiers by Leon, and the more armor, the more dinar they will receive in the next battle.

After all, the next war is clearly just around the corner - the Bacchus Empire has declared war on the Lion Kingdom.

And what is the town of Long River?

This is where the arms merchants gather.

Once when he was a poor pioneer lord, Li Ang purchased military supplies in Changhe Town.

In the past two years, there have been a lot of troubles in the Lion Kingdom, and the pioneer lord certificate has been issued very little, and the business of the arms merchants is actually not very good, and the whole is actually only supported by a few big customers such as Amy, Godric, and Offric.

Leon didn't buy much of his own - in his troops, the Noldor Elves and the Metenheim brought their own equipment, and the war horses were all looted, that is, hundreds of sets of equipment were purchased at the beginning of last year to arm the non-commissioned officers.

Finally, a new 'Silver Hand' was formed, but the new equipment was handed over to the Noldos to build, and the merchants of Changhe Town basically failed to make any money from Li Ang.

After all, after Li Ang took charge of Changhe Town, the situation in the eastern region has gradually stabilized, and the demand has become less, and the sales of armaments and materials are naturally not as good as in the past - the more chaotic the world, the easier it is to sell.

But now, the arms market in Changhe Town has been revitalized again.

And it's quite active - the stock in the hands of the merchants is emptied within a week, and the orders have been lined up for two months.

There are even many knights who rush to order equipment at a high price in order to get the equipment in advance.

As a result, all the workshops and blacksmith shops in Changhe Town began to work overtime, and it seemed that the whole Changhe Town suddenly saw no idlers - they were all called to work.

In other words, most of the money that Li Ang gave to those knights went back to the merchants of Changhe Town......

If there is no demand, demand is created, and Li Ang, as the lord of Changhe Town, naturally wants to benefit one party.

Naturally, businessmen have to pay taxes when doing business, and at the same time, when they earn more money, they will deposit it in the bank......

So the money naturally returned to Li Ang's hands.

So, the money must be used - the dinars will find their way back anyway.

The businessmen have just made a fortune in Dexia, and the capital is also sufficient, and now they are too busy to place more orders, so they are naturally quite atmospheric when purchasing raw materials.

As a result, business flourished in the villages and towns around Changhe Town, especially the leather and steel sheets used for armor, as well as grease and felt, all of which were produced by the villages in the eastern region.

And right now, not only are businessmen spending a lot of money on raw materials, but Leon himself is also spending money hard.

In order to spend money smoothly, he brought Amy again......

Sometimes it's really harder to spend money than to make it.

After all, most of the things that Leon wanted to buy were not very easy to buy.

This time, the lord's purchase target was to purchase grain and cloth from the entire continent.

In addition, a large number of building materials and craftsmen were procured.

Needless to say, grain and cloth are still Leon's monopoly plans, and of course, now his monopoly is not only aimed at the eastern region, but the entire Lion Kingdom...... and even the entire continent.

And the building materials and craftsmen, of course, this is for the construction of the building.

There are a lot of things that the lord has to build.

The reconstruction of the Shield Wind Fort is not yet complete, the Karen Deer Fort needs to be renovated, the Mai Xiang Ling needs to be expanded, the Troubrun is to be restored, and the town of Changhe is also to be renovated......

In addition, Salon is to be populated with immigrants - this is a subordinate village of Karen Deer Castle, located next to the Sava River, and the land is quite fertile, but it was previously uninhabited by the war.

If you tidy up Selen, you can get at least tens of thousands of acres of fertile land.

There are also roads connecting the territory, and the road from White Hart Castle to the Noldor Forest, all of which will be renovated and widened.

In fact, it is a comprehensive transformation of the territory, all of which are infrastructure projects.

Of course, infrastructure construction is very expensive, but as the richest landlord in the entire Pande Continent at present, Li Ang's first consideration now is how to spend all the money in his hand.

After all, the gold and silver are left in the hands and cannot be eaten.

But why infrastructure?

Because other ways of spending money are no longer suitable for Leon's current territory - Leon wants a population, a lord who is willing to take the initiative to move to the territory to live for a long time.

He now has neither troops nor food, status and fame, and the only thing he lacks is population.

Leon's territory is already quite large, and with the effect of this dispatch of troops to Dexia, the entire eastern region should be willing to obey Leon's command, but the population directly under Leon's management is only about 50,000 people - this is because of the many immigrants from the Bacchus Empire.

The rebels engulfed by the gladiators are at Karen Deer Fort, where the villagers of the former Fidna are rebuilding the Shield Wind Fortress.

Even if you add White Deer Fort, there are only more than 60,000 people in total, which is too small a population.

But at this scale, it is no longer possible to find businessmen to spend money on immigrants - a drop in the bucket, and it will not make much difference.

Leon can only build the territory into a safe, livable and prosperous place, and let the people on the territory of other lords switch to their own territory.

Therefore, we can only engage in infrastructure.

In fact, for the ruler, the infrastructure of the territory is equivalent to all-round development.

Because no matter what age people are, they have one of the most basic purposes of migration - to seek wealth.

That is, job opportunities.

Expanding castles, building houses, improving roads, and improving law and order will cost a lot of money and create countless jobs.

And people will follow these jobs all the way to come, maybe ...... Can these migrant workers be called 'long river drifters'?

These migrant workers will find that there are more jobs and higher wages due to the lack of people, so they will stay and work here with their families and gradually become part of the area.

Of course, infrastructure costs a lot of money, but no matter how much money you spend, it's actually a good deal.

Because all of this money is actually spent in the territory – either to the migrant workers, or to the local material suppliers and contractors.

Then the money will still be spent in the territory - people's food, clothing, housing and transportation will be spent here, and most of it will eventually flow back into the bank.

Regardless of what they consume, merchants have to pay taxes......

And entering the bank, in fact, is equivalent to entering Leon's pocket again - and can continue to take it out for investment.

And as the territory gets better and better, there will be more jobs, more people, more prosperous territory, and more money flowing into the bank – it's actually a positive cycle.

From the ruler's point of view, as long as the money does not flow abroad, it is actually inexhaustible.

And in order to ensure that money does not go abroad, it is necessary to make the territory better than any other country - so there is a need to build infrastructure.

Leon now does not have to worry about the operation of the bank, and it is difficult for the bank to go bankrupt when the reserves are abundant to a certain extent.

After all, he had been issuing 10 dinars and 100 dinars of credit coins since a few months ago, which were enchanted silver coins produced by Noldor, which had been applied to the large transactions between the Noldor Forest and the merchants, and many of the big merchants were already familiar with it.

Magic silver coins with a face value of ten dinars are called 'silver deer' because the Mithril rune embedded in them by the Noldors is in the form of a fawn, a favorite image of the Noldor and a symbol of the elves.

In fact, the only function of this rune is to emit a faint blue light, which, according to Wentilve, was supposed to be the illumination of magic. But without magic, the Noldos could only make the ebony glow like fireflies, and the lighting was useless, but it was quite tall to make coins.

The main body of the magic coin, which has a face value of 100 dinars, is made of gold and copper alloy, and is called the 'Golden Griffon' - the rune is in the form of a griffin, which is the coat of arms of Leon.

However, this griffin rune glows purple, making it look a little more dazzling...... But it was still an unsuccessful illumination rune.

In fact, the lord originally planned to let the Noldors try to use his avatar and engrave his own avatar on gold coins, which may be the wish of every ruler.

It's just that it was later discovered that the enchantment could not be suppressed with a template, and had to be carved by hand, so the griffin coat of arms was used instead—otherwise the output would be too inefficient.

The Noldors have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it doesn't matter if the deer can be abstract, but they won't stop if they don't do it vividly when carving human heads.

Truth be told, aside from the labor cost, the cost of both credits is quite low on their own, as they both weigh less than ten grams.

The cost of the Silver Deer is only about three dir khans, and the cost of the Golden Griffin is only three dinars, and even with all the losses, the cost is only one-thirtieth of their face value.

These two high-denomination currencies are now in use, and merchants are far more interested in the glowing magic coin than other pieces of jewelry, and they have even begun a series of comparisons – that is, flaunting their wealth.

So now Leon can use the money in the bank with confidence and boldness, as long as he always makes sure that 20% of the reserves are not used - this is a very conservative approach, to be honest, only 10% of the reserves are enough.

So Leon himself threw himself into the infrastructure, and Amy started the big purchase again.

However, this procurement did not go so smoothly.

Grain cloth and the like are okay, Amy already has plenty of experience.

Building materials and the like are easy to deal with, and there is wood in the Changhe Forest, and Yin Silandier is even trying to do a timber business now.

And the Dengier Mountains also have stone, as long as you give money, naturally someone is willing to get it.

The main trouble comes from the craftsmen, as well as some people with ulterior motives.