As soon as Li Changan walked out of the room, he felt a sharp gaze on him, and then a cold air swirled around his neck.

He panicked in his heart, forcibly adjusted his mentality, as if he didn't know anything, and greeted calmly: "Hehe, white girl, it's early......"

"Early."

Bai Yaoyao stared at Li Changan for a while, then coldly spit out a word and turned his head away.

Whew-

Li Changan breathed a long sigh of relief and summoned Gonggong Hai and Zhang Mingda over to learn about the recent situation in the border city.

Although he is a hands-off shopkeeper, he still has to know the situation at all times and prevent all kinds of risks, as the city lord, he doesn't have to do everything, but he must take care of the overall situation.

After listening to the reports of Gonggong Hai and Zhang Mingda, Li Changan already had a rough idea in his heart.

The houses involved in the road have been demolished, and a total of 9,792 taels have been compensated, in addition, because of the recruitment of twenty warrior guards, the personnel expenses and wages of the city lord's mansion have skyrocketed every day, and sixty-six taels need to be spent, as well as materials such as earth stones needed to build roads, and the current amount is not enough for half of the road, and six thousand taels have been spent.

Although the saltpeter mine sold to the Xiao family can still bring 150 taels of income every day, but in ten days at most, the demand will be greatly reduced, and it will not even be needed, because the summer is about to pass, but it doesn't matter, when Qianrichun enters the market, the speed of making money will only be countless times faster.

At present, the remaining silver on the account is 7,815 taels and 8 wen, which is fortunately 10,000 taels from Wang Meng and Sun Wei last time, otherwise it is already a debt.

Zhang Mingda added: "Your Excellency the City Lord, Wu Qingbo and Wang Defa came to me last time, saying that they wanted to build a bookstore, and it was estimated that it would take 1,000 taels. ”

"One thousand taels is not enough, I will allocate five thousand taels to them, let them benchmark me against the royal city and the county town, the appearance must be gorgeous enough, at least three floors at the beginning, and the rubbing area must be large enough, and the rubbing work here can solve the work problems for many people in the border city in the future."

Zhang Mingda was directly stunned, he didn't expect Li Changan to wave his hand and directly increase the expenditure by five times, this is simply taking money inappropriately, and Wangcheng is not so extravagant.

He couldn't help but say: "Lord City Lord, isn't this too extravagant for a bookstore, and the border city is still so crowded, and there is no need for such a big bookstore......"

"Just do what I say."

Li Changan didn't bother to explain, since he wanted to develop the border city into the first big city, he simply went directly to the best at the beginning, and then demolished and rebuilt the province later, after all, he came from the previous life, and his vision was high, since it was his own city, then landmark buildings like libraries, schools, hospitals, shopping malls, etc., must be tall, this is the façade of the city.

Li Changan continued: "Also, let them also design the college and the medical center, ready to start construction at any time, we have to build the building before anyone can come, otherwise where will the teachers and students stay?" ”

"I see, Lord Castle." Zhang Mingda nodded in response.

When Zhang Mingda and Gonggong Hai retreated, Li Changan still sat in place and thought.

He borrowed from the model of his previous life, and he had already built a rough framework in his mind, but now the biggest problem in the border city is people and money.

It is necessary to find a way to attract people to settle in the border city, and the money on the books of the city lord's mansion is not much, and it is completely insufficient to support the construction.

Although you can make a lot of money with fine wine in the future, the expenses in the future will also be huge...... No matter where it is, armed guards are the biggest expense, and then food, education, medical care, etc., as part of the cost of people's welfare, is also a bottomless pit, otherwise how to attract people?

That's it for now, and we'll talk about that later.

Li Changan had a headache when he thought about it, so he put this thought aside and walked around the city lord's mansion.

"Subordinates, see the lord of the city."

"Slave maid to meet the lord of the city."

……

When they met the guards and maids along the way, they all saluted and greeted Li Changan respectfully, and I have to say that this feeling is really good, which makes Li Changan a little fluttering.

Unconsciously, he came to the martial arts training ground and stood aside to watch An Zhaoran train the children.

In front of them was a one-man high wooden stake, which was hitting the stake with both hands, feet and even torsos in an orderly manner, and each time there was a "Peng Peng" sound, which showed that all of them were real.

At this time, the scorching sun was in the sky, and all the children's sweat soaked their clothes, and there were bruises on their arms and feet, but they were still gritting their teeth and persevering.

When they found out that Li Changan appeared here, the originally tired eyes suddenly burst into light, as if they were inspired, and they practiced even harder.

An Zhaoran couldn't help but be a little speechless when he saw this scene, if these children knew that their city lord liked to lie flat, he didn't know how he would feel.

She walked up to Li Changan and said: "This group of children has a strong willpower, originally I let them quit to become ordinary guards if they couldn't endure hardship, but until now, no one has withdrawn." ”

"What is this physical pain compared to a life of hunger and hopelessness?"

Li Changan sighed with emotion, and then asked, "Is this refining your physique?" ”

"Yes, only by polishing the skin, flesh and bones to the limit can the body give birth to mystical power."

Speaking of this, An Zhaoran couldn't help but think of Li Changan, a freak, who could inexplicably give birth to Xuan Li while lying on the recliner, which was simply outrageous.

Li Changan was very happy, fortunately, he had a system, and he didn't have to suffer from martial arts.

He looked at the guards on the side again, and found that the training methods of the guards and these children were not the same, because the guards had passed the age of the best martial arts cultivation, so they were not taking the route of quenching their bodies, but practicing a set of marksmanship together, the movements were neat and uniform, and the killing atmosphere was amazing, this is a murderous marksmanship that can charge on the battlefield.

Li Changan just stood by and watched, and didn't say anything encouraging, but his arrival was the greatest encouragement, enough to keep everyone passionate all day long.

At noon, he sat down with everyone and ate a big pot of rice, and asked the kitchen to add a few more pieces of meat to everyone, which bought people's hearts just right, so that everyone was moved, and secretly swore in his heart that he would protect the city lord and the border city!

Then, Li Changan returned to the courtyard, comfortably went to the recliner, and called Xiaohe to help him massage.

"Xiaohe, why are you angry, did someone make you angry?" Li Changan saw Xiaohe's little face bulging, and couldn't help asking.

While massaging Li Changan, Xiaohe muttered aggrievedly: "The city lord doesn't mean what he says. ”

Li Changan was surprised, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Xiaohe said sullenly: "You said that you would teach me a full body massage, and you also said that you would let me sleep, but you lied." ”

After so many days, she finally reacted naïvely, and Li Changan told her every time that next time, she was actually lying to her......

Before Li Changan could speak, he felt an incomparably cold and sharp aura descending, and then a sword aura roared past him, and the ice cubes placed on the side were instantly cut into two neat pieces......

Bai Yaoyao flew from the sky, his face was full of cold arrogance, and he said indifferently: "You go on, I'm just trying to see if this ice is hard enough!" ”