"Bang" A gunshot rang out, and a vase three meters away from Malone shattered.

Looking at the musket emitting white smoke in his hand, Ma Long's eyes still had an incredible look.

Even though he had succeeded in creating a musket, he still couldn't figure out why this little musket was so magical.

Why can an ordinary lead pellet produce such an amazing power after being fired by a musket?

If this is the power of magic, Malone will not be surprised at all, because magic, known as the power of gods, gods, is naturally omnipotent.

But Ma Long, who made a musket with his own hands, understood that this was not the power of magic at all, and it had nothing to do with magic. That's why he was curious and wondered why.

He really wanted to pull Claire in front of him now, and let Claire explain to him what secrets this little musket hid and why it could do such a magical scene.

But thinking about Claire's identity and strength, Malone is still decisive.

Let's do what the Baron has arranged first, so that when I ask the Baron again, he will be in a good mood and will tell me the reason.

Without delay, Malone returned to his room, took out another musket, and prepared to have a good chat with the town's craftsmen.

The hardest part of making a musket is the flint and steel mechanism, but for Ma Long, who has made a lot of magic artifacts, it is not difficult to count it as a delicate gadget.

As for the barrel, trigger or something, it's a simple machine, as long as you teach it casually, I'm afraid even children can do it.

However, I don't know what the level of craftsmen in Tilling Town is, whether he can figure out the mechanism of the flint, or whether it is safer for him to come to teach it himself.

Imagine what a powerful army it would be if all the soldiers in Tilin Town were equipped with such weapons, and Marlon couldn't help but start dreaming.

"Lord Baron, the recent accounts have been sorted out, please take a look." Little John respectfully handed Claire a ledger.

"Well, a new bookkeeping has been learned?" Claire took the ledger and asked casually.

Little Ivan immediately complimented. "Yes, Lord Baron's bookkeeping method is really easy to use, much clearer and clearer, even people who don't understand it can quickly understand it, Lord Baron is really powerful!"

After coming to Tilling Town, Claire didn't check the accounts of the Hart family, but unfortunately, the strange bookkeeping methods in this world made him dizzy even in the face of a large amount of research literature.

How can there be such a way of bookkeeping, just now it is still a hundred dinars, the following is the expenditure of ten catties of grain, and then the income of a horse, there is no summary and law at all. I don't know how people in this world check their accounts.

After asking little Ivan, Claire learned that the nobles were not clear about their accounts, and they only roughly knew how many things they had, and they didn't know how many they had. On the one hand, it is the pot of bookkeeping, and on the other hand, there is also the problem of the people below filling their pockets.

Claire was naturally not allowed to appear in her own territory for such behavior, and immediately gave little Ivan a training in a new bookkeeping method, requiring the other party to keep accounts in a simple way according to expenditure and storage from now on, so that the accounts can be seen at a glance.

Little Ivan was a well-educated man, and in the face of new bookkeeping methods, he quickly mastered the application, and sorted out the accounts of Tilling Town and the expenses of Hart Manor.

Claire flipped to the latest page and saw the spending figures, her eyes went dark, and she almost couldn't believe her eyes.

"Why did you spend so much money?"

It's no wonder that Claire was surprised, it has only been more than half a month since he took Tilin Town, and he has already used up more than one-third of the wealth accumulated by the Hart family over the years, which is enough for 40,000 dinars, and the corners of Claire's mouth twitched a little in distress.

Yes, Claire does have a lot of good things in her hands that make money, and Claire doesn't feel sorry to spend money, invest, and stimulate the economy.

But in the absence of stable income, it is impossible for anyone to burn money so much.

If the town of Tilling was not built by Claire herself, but inherited, I am afraid that this money would have been scolded as a loser long ago.

Claire is not worried about money, he is worried that the little money accumulated by the Hart family will not be able to support him for a long time. Once the capital chain is broken, the thriving scene of the territory may be disillusioned in an instant.

Seeing Little Ivan's eyes, Claire also realized that she was a little out of shape, and asked after coughing dryly.

"No, I'm not worried about the money, I mean, how did this money go so quickly, is there something hidden."

Hearing Claire say this, little Ivan began to call Qu up, saying that he had not taken a penny, and began to explain to Claire in detail where the money was spent.

After listening to Little Ivan's detailed explanation, Claire could only smile bitterly and shake her head, why did this money go so fast, wasn't it because he took too big a step?

One of the major expenditures is military spending.

This includes the cost of hiring two mercenary groups and the start-up capital of small mercenary groups, the cost of forming new recruits, militias, and the cost of building corresponding weapons and equipment.

Military spending, no matter what world it is, can't be saved, not to mention that Claire is still facing an attack that doesn't know when it will come, and it's even more careless.

In addition to military spending, another major part is infrastructure.

The cost of building roads and magic towers is also quite staggering. Especially the magic tower, the purchase price of many precious magic materials, even if little Ivan saw it, his eyes were red. No wonder someone once said that the magic tower is an inch of tower, an inch of gold, and the construction of the magic tower is completely built by gold coins.

And to build roads, it will definitely not cost much to change to other lords, it is good to have two meals with a conscience, and if you have no conscience, you have to lead the people to bring their own dry food to work. As for Claire, building roads is not only for food, but also for money, although it is not much, but to build multiple roads at one time, using so much labor, it is also considerable.

On the contrary, the investment in education and the expenditure on the estate are insignificant compared to these two.

Now Claire finally understood why the Hart family was able to save money, even if they stayed in the manor every day and were drunk and gold-obsessed, it was not easy to spend these tens of thousands of dinars. Indulging in pleasure is still a cheap thing for the lord, how can it be reasonable, doesn't this encourage Claire to fall.

Claire sighed, money, money, where should I go to grab money?

The current money is all obtained by robbing the Hart family.

Grab money? Claire thought of something and turned her head to stare at little Ivan and asked.

"Oh no, I should have some money. Didn't Wade and Eugene bring me back the loot? ”