Chapter 28: Construction Maniacs
The next morning, Chief Grouchy, as usual, was the first to come to work at the town hall.
But when he took out the key as usual, he found that the door had been opened!
What's going on! Grouchy panicked, hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed in and went straight to the second floor.
He prayed that the city hall would not be stolen, as the important documents were still stored inside!
"Damn! Careless, I really should have transferred someone to guard here these days! ”
Grouch rushed into the lord's office in remorse, and when he looked up in a big gasp, he found that everything was as usual, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
All the desks were neatly placed in their original positions, the documents on the bookcases were not moving, and even the quill pens were arranged very neatly.
Apart from...... Trisda, the newly appointed governor of Black Rock, sits in the seat that originally belonged to Lord Zhaoming.
Although she had been appointed Governor for a few days, this was the first time Trisda had appeared in the town hall.
Grouchy looked at the girl in front of her with an anxious and blank face, while Trisda looked calm, and stood up calmly to greet him after seeing the comer.
"Good morning, Mr. Grouchy." Trisda said humbly.
Grusch came to her senses and was about to ask how she had come in, but Trisda had anticipated his problem and showed him the key she had in her hand.
"There are three keys to the town hall, and the last one is with me besides the lord and you."
Grouch was so shocked that he was speechless for a moment, not only because the girl had prejudged her thoughts, but also because the lord trusted her so much that he handed over the keys to the town hall!
Seeing this, Grouchy could only pretend that nothing was wrong and return to his place to prepare for today's work.
As she sorted out the files, Grouchy's gaze kept on Trisda.
The seasoned administrator was in a state of confusion, he had thought that the position of governor was just a false position promised by Zhao Ming, but he did not expect that Zhao Ming had indeed entrusted the important task to Trisda.
And although Grusch and Trisda are nominally on equal footing, now everyone is directly sitting in the lord's position!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the only person who is really on par with Trisda's status is Lord Zhaoming.
Half an hour later, the clerks arrived at their workstations one after another, and they were all as surprised as Grusch when they pushed the door into the lord's office.
However, Trisda didn't care about this, he thought of what Zhaoming had said: "You can do the economic things, and I will spend more energy on military and construction." ”
Hey, I can't help it.
A smile tipped into her mouth, and the quill pen in her hand scribbled lines on the scroll of paper, as she drafted a business ordinance.
In her opinion, Haradin, the former monopoly merchant and her uncle, would not make money at all, but would only fish with all his might.
In the years that Haradin has monopolized the market, the already not wealthy Black Rock City has been declining. There is less and less wealth that can be squeezed by him, but his choice is to squeeze the last bit of profit by more harsh means.
Trisda believes in one truth: wealth is like water in a sponge, there is always a squeeze, but if you only know how to squeeze wildly, not only will there be less and less water, but the sponge will also break.
As a result, the first thing Trisda did when she became governor was to revive the economy.
The reason why Trisda hasn't come to the town hall these days is because she's been inspecting the market.
Through her observation and operation, and relying on the wealth and goods she inherited from Haradin, she quickly restored prices to normal levels and the market began to function normally.
But that's just the beginning, what Trisda really wants to do is regulate Black Rock's commerce and use the privileges given by Zhaoming to build a real business empire.
……
At the same time, on the other side, Zhaoming rode to the construction site outside the city.
Along the way, he saw the aqueduct bringing water from the river into the farmland, and a sense of accomplishment came to him.
When the people who were working saw the arrival of the lord, they put down what they were doing and shouted loudly to express their gratitude to Zhaoming.
Zhaoming felt satisfied for a while, he had seen too many evil insects before he crossed over, and he had nothing to do but sell his reputation and reputation to harm the people.
He once secretly vowed that if he ascended to a high position one day, he would do everything he could to benefit the people!
When he arrived at the reservoir site, the workers and farmers who had been recruited were struggling around a large pit.
Seeing the arrival of the lord, everyone knelt down and saluted.
After Zhaoming asked them to excuse themselves, they briefly asked about the situation, and under the introduction of the person in charge, they learned that the final stage of the reservoir excavation had not progressed for a long time due to the hard rock in the rock formation.
"We haven't been able to find the right tools to destroy them, so we can't go any further." The head of engineering said in frustration.
Seeing this, Zhaoming asked him to organize everyone to retreat, and then cast elemental magic.
A brown spell appeared in his palm, and then the hard and huge stones flew out of the ground as if they were controlled by an inexplicable force.
"Oh! All right! The surrounding workers shouted excitedly.
Zhaoming didn't say much, nor did he stop to listen to their praise, which was to continue riding his horse to the construction site of the dam.
has been delayed by Haradin for so long, and the blood of infrastructure mania in Zhaoming's bones is about to be irrepressible.
He rushed to the construction site of the dam, where Lesio was directing the workers to prepare.
The young engineer was standing on a high platform and commanding, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from not far away.
Looking up in the direction where the voice came out, Lesio waved excitedly when he saw the lord coming.
The news that the lord was coming to inspect today had already spread, and the surrounding workers had already heard that the lord had the magical ability to move mountains and reclaim the sea, and they were looking forward to what was about to happen today.
Not only them, but many people who had only heard of good deeds but had not seen them with their own eyes were also watching.
Zhaoming dismounted and came to Lesio, who immediately met him.
"How's it going, where are we now?" Zhaoming asked enthusiastically.
Lesio unfolded the blueprint and showed it to the lord, "About a quarter." ”
Zhaoming nodded, looking at Lesio's originally young and immature face turned dark from the sun exposure on the construction site for a long time, and felt both ashamed in his heart.
After complimenting him, Zhaoming ordered everyone to stay away from the construction site as he had just done.
Lesio waved his hands and beckoned the workers to leave, while Zhaoming pulled out the secret sand table from the storage space.
After a few minutes, Zhao Ming saw that all the people had left, so he injected his magic into the sand table and aimed it at the rushing river.
I saw a streamer of light fly by, splitting into a cube in the air and wrapping a section of the river.
The onlookers all sighed when they saw this scene, but more exciting is still to come.
After a loud bang, the rushing river cracked as if it had been cut by a giant axe.
There was a sudden burst of sand and stones in the cube, and everyone felt a violent shaking on the ground, and many timid people knelt on the ground in fear and began to pray to the goddess Enya.
Of course, Lesio and the others have long been used to it.
Zhaoming stood there and ignored everything, entering a state of self-forgetfulness.
This time, with a large infusion of magic, the construction time became very short.
Compared with the previous slightly lengthy construction of the barracks, the dam was completed in only two minutes.
When the commotion subsided, a tall dam was erected, and the engineer Lesio, the many workers, and all those who saw the miracle cheered.
A feeling of his body being evacuated hit him, and Zhaoming almost lost his footing.
It seems that this thing will have to be used less in the future, Zhaoming sighed.
Every time you use the secret sandbox, you will directly drain all the mana, in exchange for a leap in construction speed.
After all this, Zhao Ming didn't stay too long, just called Chrysler, the father of Elusa and Harry Jo, who he had appointed as the deputy director of agriculture.
Since Haradin's death, Chrysler has become more and more impressed with this lord, and he has been complaining that Zhaoming has given him an errand, but now he has no time to thank him.
I saw Chrysler trotting all the way to the tall knight and respectfully asked, "What does the lord command?" ”
Satisfied with his transformation, Zhaoming instructed him to organize men to follow Lesio to deal with the silting of the fields.
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Chrysler said confidently.
Of course, Zhaoming also made a request to him: "Show me Lesio, only allow him to command, not allow him to work!" ”
After explaining the order, without waiting for everyone's reaction, Zhaoming returned to the city again, and the footsteps of this construction madman were already unstoppable!