After the Council of the Royal Capital, Hudson returned directly to the realm. The turmoil in the international arena is just a topic of conversation in the daily life of the nobles of the kingdom.

Since the end of the Continental War, the Terran world has been divided into two worlds. The political changes in the Southern Continent are certainly far-reaching, but it is enough for the Kingdom to take care of the Five Nations Alliance for now.

"News of the Tribulation of Ten Thousand Years", after a short period of tension, everyone should still do something.

Anyway, the Alpha Kingdom is preparing for war on a daily basis, and if it encounters a catastrophe, it will respond to the catastrophe, and if it doesn't meet it, it will definitely not be in vain.

Looking at the positive work attitude of the kingdom's top management, Hudson really couldn't find fault with him. As for the countries of the mainland, let it be!

After several years of development, the Snow Moon Collar has also undergone earth-shaking changes. Standing above the territory again, the original lush prairie has now turned into farmland.

In addition to the efforts of the people, the Kingdom Wizards also played an important role.

The use of the Wizard Corps as a Wasteland Pioneer Corps did not cause a strong backlash, and Hudson can be regarded as a historical precedent.

If you look closely, there are magicians and serfs below to transform the river together.

To be able to make the mages work so hard, it is completely too much for Master Hudson.

It seems that a lot of time is spent on part-time jobs, but in fact, everyone's cultivation speed is faster than before.

There is no way, the auxiliary cultivation elixir is too fragrant.

It's a pity that this thing has an exclusive monopoly, and the high price is one thing, under normal circumstances, they ordinary magicians can't get the purchase quota at all.

If you want to get the potion to assist in cultivation, the only way to do it is to come and work part-time, except for throwing money at it like crazy.

Generally speaking, the cultivation speed of the magicians who worked for Hudson was fifty percent higher than that of their own hard work.

If you have a skill, you can get more auxiliary potions, and your cultivation speed can even be increased several times.

This account is very easy to calculate, the faster the cultivation is improved, the more time you can spend freely, and the greater the probability of a breakthrough in the future.

The arrogant magic lords have not been able to resist the temptation of rapid improvement in cultivation. So much so that the Kingdom Wizard Corps stationed on the border often sneaks to Lord Hudson's territory to take private work.

Mainly earth magicians and water magicians, because of their professional nature, they can receive the most orders.

Under normal circumstances, the mage group would not be able to find the figures of these two types of mages in the station.

Not only are the magicians during the service, they often stay in the Snow Moon Collar, and even after completing the service mission, there are also many magicians who choose to stay.

At this moment, the Snow Moon Territory has become the most popular place for magicians, and the number of mages staying in the local area even exceeds that of the royal capital.

However, this is only the beginning, as time goes by, not only the magicians of the Alpha Kingdom are spontaneously gathering towards the Snow Moon Territory, but even the magicians of the Principality of Moxi are also eyeing this land.

The influx of mages has also given rise to a lot of related industries. Magic potions, magic equipment, magic materials...... A series of industrial chains serving magicians are constantly developing and improving.

If nothing else, with the continuous development of Xueyueling, this talent siphon effect will continue to spread to the outside world.

It's a pity that the people who can learn magic these years are not ordinary people, and there are still family bonds behind them, so it is difficult to be really recruited.

However, this kind of regret mainly exists in the upper echelons of the territory, as well as the members of the Coslow family, Hudson has never felt this way.

Having experienced the impact of the information age, Hudson didn't care at all whether this group of migrant workers were willing to defect to him and serve allegiance, as long as he could complete the task.

Direct equivalent exchange, no one owes anyone. If you can cooperate, you will cooperate, and if you can't cooperate, you will be pulled down, and you don't need to bear the responsibilities and obligations to each other.

Hudson was not prepared for a civil war, and if war broke out, it would be for the aliens.

There is racial righteousness, and it is enough to directly recruit the magicians of the territory to participate in the war, and rounding off these people is also the military force of the Snow Moon Territory.

Let Maxim take him around the sky twice, and Hudson's whole body became refreshed. These are the rivers and mountains that he has fought down, and they have changed a piece of land in just a few years.

If there were so many migrant workers to join in the development of mountain territory back then, it would definitely not be so difficult.

However, there is no way to do it, and when the mountain collar was developed, Hudson was just emerging and did not have the ability to be high-profile at all.

Unlike the princes of the noble side now, even if they have the name of the first potion master in the continent on their heads, they toss in the magic world in a high-profile manner, and no one sees them.

……

"Duke, we're afraid we're going to have to think about moving to the political center!

With the rapid development of the Snow Moon Territory, the Crescent Harbor is too crowded to continue as the administrative center of the territory.

There are now two options, one is to choose a suitable location in the middle of the territory and rebuild a city as our new administrative center to strengthen the control of the territory.

The second option, considering the future development of the territory, is that the best option now is to use a city in the eastern part of the territory as a temporary administrative center to prepare for the subsequent eastward expansion strategy.

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages, and judging from the current situation in the territory, no matter which option is chosen, it is better than continuing to stay in Crescent Harbor.

In order to divert ships, the Ministry of Administration is considering the selection of suitable locations in coastal areas and the planning of three more medium-sized cargo ports.

……”

After listening to Jacob's report, Hudson was slightly stunned. With the special geographical location of the Crescent Port, the economic development is certainly first-class, but the administrative center as a territory is obviously much worse.

At that time, the choice to set up a base camp here was mainly due to strategic security considerations. With the convenience of the sea in the background, evacuation can be carried out at any time in case of emergency.

However, times are evolving. No one could have imagined that the offensive and defensive momentum between the kingdom and the orcs could be reversed in just a few years.

Strategic security, which was once the most fearful, is now the least important. For at least ten years, the orcs will not be able to launch a full-scale invasion.

"Let's go with the first option!

The current situation is not suitable for continuing to stimulate the orcs. Trapped beasts are often the most ferocious, and if they are too aggressive, they can easily cause unnecessary trouble. ”

Hudson said after a moment's thought.

Relying on encroachment all the way, Xueyue Ling has taken a lot of advantage. If you open the map, you will find that the current Near East is completely different from the original Near East.

Among them, the fastest expansion is naturally Hudson's Snow Moon Territory, and the orcs took the initiative to give up a large area of land adjacent to the Snow Moon Territory.

The lords of the other border areas also took action, but their names were not loud enough to scare the neighboring orc tribes at all.

There is a Snow Moon Lake in the middle, and Hudson has no intention of paying attention to the land to the north, so naturally he will not mix with these local conflicts of land grabbing.

In this regard, the Alpha Kingdom also follows continental conventions. The expansion movement launched by the noble lords was neither for nor against.

Privately launched expansions, as long as they are won on the battlefield and can occupy territory, the kingdom recognizes its legitimacy.

If you are beaten by the other party because of your own poor ability, you will be beaten by the other party if you can't expand, then the lord who is doing the thing will have to bear it yourself.

So much so that the competition for the northern region of Xueyue Lake has continued until now, and none of the parties involved have come up with a winner.

There was no victory on the battlefield, and the expansion speed naturally could not catch up with Hudson, who planted the flag all the way.

If you get cheap, you have to accept it when you see it.

The direct withdrawal of the orc tribe seems to be scared out, and there are also deep-seated political reasons behind it.

Even if the orcs were eager to break Hudson's body into pieces, out of awe of the strong, the neighboring orc tribe still had to endure their grievances and release kindness to Hudson.

There is no way, in this steppe war, the orc high-level leaders were indeed frightened.

Especially in the back, the bright and bright side ball made the orc high-level even more frightened.

In the event of a clash between the two sides, Hudson would play another sidekick, and their neighbors would have another bloody disappointment.

Can't be provoked, can afford to hide.

It's just that the orc tribe has avoided Hudson, which does not mean that people are also afraid of other nobles in the kingdom. Those viscounts in the border area alone couldn't scare them at all.

"Duke, if you rebuild a big city, then this year's territorial fiscal deficit will probably go to a new level."

Jacob reminded vaguely.

As the administrative officer of the Snow Moon Territory, he is very clear about the financial situation of the territory. That can't be described as "bad", it's completely terrible.

It is impossible to develop a piece of white land without spending money. In particular, the territory of the Snow Moon Territory is still increasing.

In order not to arouse the jealousy of all parties, I did not dare to make statistics on how much land had been added, but there must be hundreds of thousands of square kilometers anyway.

At the cost of expansion, the province's finances were very hurt. Millions of gold coins are lost every year, and so far, Xueyueling has owed nearly 30 million gold coins to the Near East Development Bank.

Part of this money was spent on military spending, and the rest was spent on territorial development and infrastructure construction.

The magician is easy to use, but the price is really high. The magic potions distributed to everyone were also purchased from Hudson by the territorial finance department at market prices.

Feedback to the financial statements, the deficit of the Snow Moon Collar continues to snowball.

If it weren't for the loan from the Development Bank of the Near East, with the amount of 80 million fake accounts made by Hudson, the interest on the funds alone would have crushed Xueyueling.

Of course, Hudson did not embezzle the funds recovered by magic potions, and all of them were put into the Near East Development Bank in the name of deposits.

It seems to be a meaningless left-handed to right-handed process, but in fact it is a normal economic cycle.

Deposits on bank accounts have increased, and so has the amount of money that can be leveraged.

The money flowing out of territorial development has given birth to the development of a series of industries, although the scale is not very good, but finally see the signs of a market economy.

The most direct feedback is that Xueyueling's tax revenue has increased sharply in recent years. It's just that the construction investment is too high, and the increased tax revenue will be directly consumed.

The main reason is the expansion of the territory area, which led to the Ministry of Administration's proposal to control the fiscal deficit at 1.5 million, which directly turned into a joke.

Of course, after seeing the rapid development of the territory, everything has changed, and it can only be said that the fiscal deficit is really suitable for economic development.

The only problem is that the high-level officials of the territory are scared enough by the huge debt of the territory, and they are completely unaware that the money spent in the territory is all from Hudson's prostitution.

80 million interest-free bills, only 30 million was used, and Lord Hudson was not panicked at all.

As long as the Development Bank of the Near East is stabilized, if there is a shortage of money for the subsequent development of the territory, it is enough to continue to borrow from the bank.

Using other people's money to develop their own territory, not a penny of capital interest is not required, and the repayment of the principal can be paid in installments for decades, what is the difference between giving away for nothing?

"You don't have to worry about money. The Ministry of Administration borrowed another 2 million from the Development Bank of the Near East for the construction and subsequent development of the new city.

However, the efficiency must be fast, and while the enthusiasm of the current group of magicians is high, the project should be started quickly.

The planning and construction of the new port must also be implemented as soon as possible.

With the development of the territory, the freight throughput will definitely continue to increase in the future. In planning and construction, we must have advanced thinking.

The funding gap, you yourself find Jacob to coordinate. Don't worry too much about debt, these are short-term issues.

Extend the time period, as long as the Snow Moon Territory develops to the level of the Mountain Territory, we can fill in the debts no matter how much we have! ”

Hudson spoke comfortingly.

These are the after-effects of the bankruptcy of the Duchy of Moxi. The country's credibility cannot withstand the debt crisis, which has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life.

The Snow Moon Collar is also heavily in debt, except for Hudson, the lord of the lord, there is not a single one of the important ministers of the territory below who is not worried.

As a territory that has been developed, the Mountain Territory can provide Hudson with nearly one million gold coins every year, and the size of the Snow Moon Territory is more than ten times that of the Mountain Territory.

If it develops to the level of the mountain territory, then the annual fiscal surplus will be as high as tens of millions of gold coins, and the current debt is really not a problem.

(Note: Fiscal surplus = fiscal revenue - expenditure)

It's a pity that this cake is not so delicious. With a population of more than 1.5 million, the mountain leaders are able to have the current economic level.

If Xueyue Ling wants to develop to this point, there is no possibility at all without the filling of one or two million people.

The reality is that the number of people in Xueyueling is less than a million, and even if you add the floating population from outside, it is only a little over a million.

Even if the slaves were brought in to make up the number, they would not be able to make up two million. The gap between the 20 million population and the gap cannot be made up by individual will.

(End of chapter)