After a month of hard work, Black Rock City has stepped out of the shadow of the war and is back on the right track of development.

Seeds have been replanted in the destroyed farmland, broken water facilities have been repaired and back in operation, and shouts are once again ringing in the markets.

And Zhaoming and Trisda also began to make plans for the future.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of renovation, Zhaoming expanded the city hall. Floors were added to the original and the office environment was broadened.

Grouchy, Kaeya, Leila and others all have their own private offices, and Lesio and Andu even have office buildings, and now they no longer work in the town hall, but in a dedicated space.

However, Zhaoming and Trisda still work together, and their relationship has become closer to those under him.

At this time, in the lord's office, Zhaoming sat in a chair and enjoyed the massage service of the maid Elusa, while Trisda was sorting through the mountain of papers.

Zhaoming looked up with a face full of enjoyment, and Elusa's sweet smile combined with the right amount of strength on his shoulders gave him a pleasure that was difficult to describe in words.

Zhaoming suddenly became lustful, stretched out his hand and pinched the maid's delicate face, scratching Elusa's chin like teasing a kitten.

"Hmph~" Elusa pursed her lips in protest, but she still obediently catered to her master's teasing.

Zhaoming is enjoying the pleasure of eating Elusa tofu wantonly, and at the same time complains about Trisda in his heart.

"Trisda, Trisda, I'm not super nice to you, but it's good, why are you doing this to me?"

The reason why Zhaoming is like this is that Trisda has been living in Zhaoming's house since the destruction of the manor, not only "robbing" her bedroom and forcing herself to the study.

Of course, these are actually nothing, what really makes Zhaoming unbearable is that Cui Sida has seriously interfered with her lustful career!

Yes, to this day, Comrade Zhaoming still hasn't taken down the lovely maid Elusa.

"Damn, the meat was placed in front of me for me to eat, but it was disturbed by others!"

Zhaoming wanted to cry without tears, and the uncomfortable part was that he could see that Trisda knew about it, but it was not good to say it to Trisda.

Zhaoming has a firm belief from the bottom of his heart: he is a womanizer.

Yes, Zhaoming never thought of himself as a decent gentleman.

For a special class of knights, lust is a very serious crime. Because it affects their reputation, and reputation is the knight's second life.

But Zhaoming didn't care about these things at all, he couldn't even memorize the first sentence of the "Sacred Words"! If it is placed in other knights, those who covet women will definitely be dragged out and beaten by their own great mentor until they have a pure heart.

Zhaoming shouted in his heart: "I want to be lustful!" I'm going to bully Elusa! I'm going to find Bianca! I'm going to be a hero! ”

Just as he was feeling uncomfortable, Trisda placed a thick document in front of him.

"This is the next development plan, please look at it and sign it!" Trisda said politely.

Zhaoming reluctantly opened the file, and to be honest, he really didn't want to use his brain right now.

But the content of the document made him tremble all over, and he temporarily put those messy thoughts behind him.

Trisda's presentation is about the revitalization of Black Rock through commerce, and it is a step further and more complete than the previous proposal.

First of all, the first is to trade with the Knights' territory, including Hurricane City.

However, this plan is a bit difficult to execute, as not all Knights are as poor as Black Rock. Most of them are self-sufficient, and to some extent a small kingdom of their own. The Knights also tended to be religiously fanatical, very resistant to profiteering, and often hoped that their people would be able to settle down, rather than encouraging them to engage in commercial trade.

However, Trisda had already come up with a reason for Zhaoming to use the resistance to the demon as an excuse.

To put it simply, it was to encourage the major knights to build roads to connect with each other and facilitate exchanges, nominally to support each other, but in fact to speed up the flow of goods.

"That's a good idea, and I can do something out of it!"

Zhao Ming's natural thought is to use the secret sand table, this treasure can greatly reduce the cost of building roads, and I believe that it can better convince the major knights.

Trisda added, "As an added benefit, once we are united, all the border cities will become a commercial aggregate, and we can use our size to break through the commercial blockade of Linduhou against us." ”

Hearing Trisda's reminder, Zhaoming remembered Lin Duhou, who had been against him, and the pressure of the demon's attack made Zhaoming forget about this big trouble.

Lin Duhou blocked the road from Zhaoming to the whole country of Tranya, and even cut off the supply of iron ore before, so that he could barely produce equipment.

"Take your time, sooner or later there will be a day to clean up for him."

The second is the future development focus of Black Rock, which is to focus on making money!

Black Rock is poor, really poor!

Even if Zhaoming built a large number of water conservancy facilities, although high-yielding crops were distributed, the gap in reality cannot be bridged by technology.

Even if Zhaoming obtains various large-scale mechanized agricultural equipment through the system in the future, it will be difficult to make up for the disadvantages of Black Rock.

One big reason is that there is too little land to cultivate, and when the river was controlled, a large area of fertile silt was obtained, all of which was used to house the families of the martyrs.

The large number of refugees previously hosted was also a big problem. It is impossible for Zhaoming to let them continue to live a life of exile, but dealing with them has become a big problem.

Crohn's foundry and Ando and Lesio's men have collected a lot, but it is difficult to deal with so many refugees.

It is worth mentioning that the money-hungry Trisda once thought of imposing a wave of taxes on these refugees.

These refugees must thank the Black Rock Lords for their protection, those who have money give money (most of them will not be refugees), and those who don't can do their labor.

But this is strictly forbidden by Zhaoming, and not being able to oppress the poor is Zhaoming's bottom line.

Zhaoming thought for a while and put forward an idea: "I want to organize refugees to reclaim wasteland, which can be regarded as working for the Knights, and part of the food in these heavens and earth will be left for them and partly handed over to the Knights as reserve military rations, and additional consideration can be given to taxes." ”

Zhaoming's idea was modeled after the tuntian system that had prevailed in the world before he traveled to the world, and it was a good way to deal with the displaced people.

Trisda nodded in agreement, but that wasn't what she thought in her heart.

"Hey, Lord Lord, I was looking for a batch of free laborers for the caravan. Hmph, obviously the caravan makes money, and he also benefits! ”

The third article, which can also be regarded as a supplement to the second one, is to make full use of the existing conditions to get rich.

One of them was the foundry, and although Trisda didn't know where Zhaoming got a lot of strange equipment, she saw a business opportunity in it.

"The products processed by these equipment are not only of high quality, but also low cost, and the production speed is also fast, and we can completely do the arms export business."

The prospects for the arms export business are quite good, because they are located on the border and are constantly facing the danger of demons, and many people who have some spare money like to equip themselves with a good weapon.

Moreover, there is a mercenary group in this world, and these war contractors not only provide military services to secular monarchs to contribute to the war, but also provide protection for the wealthy.

And if you want to talk about the most profitable project, it is still the manufacture of muskets!

Different cold weapons will be built in every place, but the manufacture of firearms and the production of gunpowder are all monopolized by Zhaoming, this is a golden mountain!

It just so happened that Andu also sent good news to Zhaoming recently - he has conquered the nitrate making method in the nitrate field!

Nitrate is the key to making gunpowder, but there is no nitrate ore in Black Rock, and even if there is, the cost of mining is too high.

The method of nitrate production is different: first find an open field, remove impurities such as stones, then dig a series of pits or simply use a cellar, and pour water and lime into it - this practice is to maintain the temperature of the soil and promote the production of nitrifying bacteria in the soil. In this way, after a period of "heat preservation", the soil becomes a nitrate field. Pour the collected urine of people and livestock into it, and after about ten months, the soil in the pit will be rich in a lot of nitrate, and the nitrate-rich nitrate soil will be mixed with plant ash and purified to get extremely high purity nitrate!

This method, which was once invented only in the fourteenth century, has now been conquered by the brains of the geniuses of Andu, and the production of gunpowder is guaranteed.

"What is missing now is an opportunity for everyone to understand the power of gunpowder, but I'm sure it will happen soon."

Zhaoming agrees with Trisda's suggestion and signs his name on the paper.

Satisfied, Trisda put away the documents and prepared to hand them over to her subordinates for specific execution, when suddenly someone knocked on the door and asked to meet the lord.

Elusa opened the door and was surprised to find that it was the old priest Martil standing outside the door!

"Father Priest!" Elusa was amazed, an ordinary person like her had a lot of respect for the clergy.

The old priest said very kindly: "I want to meet the lord, I don't know if I can?" ”

There is no way to say that Zhaoming stood up directly to greet the old priest, and Trisda also saluted him.

Elusa brought a chair for the old priest, and Zhaoming enthusiastically asked the old priest what he was doing.

"Is it the church that needs help?"

The old priest shook his head, then took out a letter from his bosom and said, "It's not a big deal, it's just that there is a personal letter of yours in the arraignment furnace today, and I want to deliver it personally." ”

Zhaoming took the letter suspiciously, after all, such a thing as a teleportation furnace would only convey quite important information, how could there be a private person?

But when Zhaoming saw the name of the letter, his head seemed to be struck by lightning.

"Lucia!"