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Given the malicious hype of the ill-intentioned businessmen, the food in Nai An Province has risen all the way in a short period of time, rising to as much as twenty-four times.

However, although salt is a necessity, the demand for salt is not large. If it's expensive. Eat less, forget it.

Although the people of Nayan complained about this, they were not yet forced to the point where they could not live. It's not worth challenging the authority of the government for a little salt. It's really a lack of salt, it's a big deal, next time I study those old people in the mountain, just pick off the boogers and don't throw them around.

So the group looked like fools. After taking five copper plates from the merchants, the civilians who rushed to the front with a fire bumped into the muzzle of Grandpa Leo's gun, of course, it was not good.

Grandpa Leo, what kind of person is he?

The scoundrel was the son of Archduke Julius, the butcher of the bloody hand, the future emperor of the Empire, and grew up under Catherine, the iron-fisted governor.

The number one princeling in the world, the top second ancestor. Plus this period of time by Lorraine that. After careful education of the bad guy with sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet. Whether it's experience points or Yin skills, swishing upwards.

In order to improve his "skill proficiency", he is now fighting dogs and chickens every day, and he has nothing to do, not to mention these guys who dare to jump out and find him to do something.

In the face of riots. Grandpa Leo felt his face damaged. The Royal Janissaries were immediately ordered to suppress it.

When the soldiers were given the order, they took up wooden sticks and sticks, beat them very much, and were given the charge of disturbing the peace, and they were locked up in a dark room and squatted for several days.

But then again, "the wisdom of working people is infinite".

The common people are now playing hooligans who want to be the governor of Lorraine, and they can't afford to offend the merchants. Now Wu can't afford salt, so let's cook it yourself, anyway, they are not far from the sea.

Many families simply carry the pot and go to the beach to cook salt by themselves, and for a while the beach is full of smoke and dust, but the efficiency of boiling salt is really not high, it is just a temporary helpless move, and it will not last long. Everyone still has to support their families, and they don't have so much effort to squat on the beach every day to make a fire.

As Governor, Lorraine did not intervene in the skyrocketing prices of salt and spices, and even stopped mentioning the matter at a recent council, as if it were over.

And the strength of the eldest princess Catherine, the people of Naian are also known to the people, those local nobles who speculate on the price of salt are just thinking of not blaming the public, and those who are pushed to the front are some characters. If Catherine had been angry, it would have been nice to push them to the front and take the blame, and the excuse would have been devised as a "temporary worker."

But Catherine and Adele, except for two appearances at the freeing of the slaves, never left the villa, and went out, and went straight to the pedestrian street, and went on a shopping spree.

Seeing that Lorraine had been indifferent. There are different speculations below, and some think that Lorraine is powerless, so they simply leave it alone. Some people think that Lorraine wants to use the method of buying salt from other places to force this turmoil over.

Lorraine and Catherine did not start to clean up their salt merchants, and the local nobles were optimistic that Lorraine had been taught this time, and now it was just to save face. It won't be long before he will surrender automatically.

At that time, Ney Ann will still be everyone's Ney.

There is a bold and heartless guy who is fooled by others and wants to be the first to eat crabs. Be bold. He turned the workers back into slaves and locked up the workers in the salt works with thugs.

And the rest of the crowd also held their breath and opened their eyes wide when they saw this obvious temptation. I want to see if this young governor will pretend not to see it and compromise with everyone.

But to their surprise, the provincial government of the empire led by Lorraine was unprecedentedly efficient, and it is not surprising that people were raiding other people's homes. When you grab money and things, you always run fast.

Lorraine's officials appeared at the saltworks less than a moment later and arrested the foolish and daring salt merchant.

Lorraine was also extremely annoyed by this guy who dared to commit a crime against the wind, so faceless, and blatantly challenged the authority of the empire, and motioned to the legal officer to sentence him to one. "Hunt the good as slaves, and indulge in lawlessness. This short-sighted guy is waiting to be beheaded.

As soon as this incident came out, the province of Nai An was immediately shaken.

The people of Ne understood that the Governor of Lorraine was determined to solve the slave problem. And the local magnates also knew that Lorraine did not seem to have any intention of compromising with them, and they immediately showed no weakness. The price of salt doubled overnight.

Even the officials who had been waiting and watching. Also stood up in support of Lorraine. In the eyes of these officials, these people are no longer dealing with Lorraine, but challenging the power of the government in Nai'an

In the face of increasingly severe circumstances, more and more officials asked Lorraine to order administrative intervention at regular meetings.

Lord Lorraine knew that, although among these officials. There is no shortage of people who really ask for the lives of the people. But even if he is in the most conservative estimation, the vast majority of those officials are not good birds, and they have long been greedy for the huge benefits here, and still want to take the opportunity to reshuffle the cards, kick others out, and let their brother-in-law and the like master these resources.

Of course, if the stakes are too great, they just take off their clothes and go into battle shirtless

The more excited they were, they rolled up their arms and sleeves, and shouted, "My lord, you give orders." The more loyal and courageous. The guy who is brave at the head is the more he doesn't have a good heart.

But everyone gave themselves face like this, and Lorraine was embarrassed to expose their intentions in person. Because he himself has no good intentions.

Therefore, in the end, Lorraine could only refuse all the rationalization of the officials on the grounds that there was no such article in the imperial law.

During this period, Lorraine also continued to do his job as governor, and he used this salt storm as a cover to quietly issue two decrees in Naiantongguò.

One is the "Land Development Incentive Ordinance" promulgated to stimulate the economic development of Nai'an, which stipulates that the government will give bonuses of varying amounts per mu of land to those who reclaim barren mountains and wasteland.

This decree had little effect on the humans of Neyan. They had basically filled the plains of Nai'an, and they lacked not land, but manpower.

Originally, because of the limited financial resources of Naian, it was impossible to implement this kind of decree, but Lorraine had an annual allocation of 1 million gold coins from the emperor, and as long as 100,000 gold coins were taken out, Nai An Province could increase more than 100,000 acres of arable land or fruit forests every year.

The half-elves, dwarves, and half-orcs near Nashi welcomed this decree very much, and cultivated their own fields and fruit trees, planted them and harvested them. It's all your own. And that's not all. And the governor who has no heart and eyes sends money to himself. Where can you find such good things?

Therefore, everyone is unusually enthusiastic. In a short period of time, a boom broke out in the land.

The other is the somewhat confusing Patents Protection Act.

Recently, officials have been focused on the conflict between Lorraine and the local magnates, and they have not paid much attention to this patent protection law, and when Lorraine proposed it at the meeting, there was only one official. Thought, this governor is too young, and young people are so happy. Mess around with some weird stuff. It's also understandable.

And with the Patent Act, there can be one more project to collect money in the future, which is also good.

Soon after the introduction of the patent law, an accompanying administrative body was established, and this department, with only a dozen people, was not at all conspicuous, and it was only located in the corner of the office building of the Governor's Palace.

The staff at the patent office also did not know much about their new positions, and they did their homework with the patent law promulgated by Lorraine.

Lorraine attaches great importance to this institution. Far from rewarding the land for his enthusiasm, Lorraine threw the matter to the agricultural officer and his assistant.

The day of the establishment of the Patent Office. Not only did the Governor of Lorraine personally unveil the plaque, but the eldest princess Catherine and Sister Adele, as well as Leo, Vera, and Melina. Even the two elves who netted to Lorraine's house were all attending the celebration without falling.

Seeing that the Governor's family was gathered here, this made the first Director of Patents very frightened, and at the same time, he was also more and more strange, could it be that he picked up a bargain, this grandma didn't hurt. Uncle doesn't love it, so the patent office that doesn't come to anyone is said to be a powerful yamen with rich oil and water?

In the presence of Lorraine's family, Alva ordered his staff to file and store the documents, and then signed the document with the first number of the patent case written on it. Solemnly stamped with the seal of the Neyan Patent Office.

Lorraine took the text, looked it up and down with satisfaction, and also signed his name as the governor and stamped it.

Leo had already watched with a blank eye, and when the seal of the Lorraine Internet café was removed, Leo stretched out his hand and grabbed it, leaned in front of his face, and looked up and down.

While watching, he laughed and said, "With this thing, our Flying Eagle Company monopolizes the salt industry and dominates the world is just around the corner." ”

Catherine snatched the patent certificate from Leo's hand and said, "This certificate is worth so many years, I have to find a frame to put it on."

A few months later, it was ordered by Catherine. In the territory of the Grand Duke Julius, the Eastern provinces began to implement the patent protection law, and in the following two years, after demonstrating the great role of patent law in promoting technological progress, especially after the nobles of Juman knew that it was more profitable to collect money for the licensing of patents than for the hard hoarding of juqi, the patent protection law was implemented in the heraldic court of Tongguò.

In this era, the only people who have spare money and time to engage in these crooked things without doing their jobs are these aristocrats, and other people who have ideas and no funds are like pulling venture capital. will also go to the nobles to invest money.

Moreover, with a little black belly, the aristocracy can directly snatch the patent from others and make their own money.

This No. 1 patent certificate became the testimony of Leo's majesty in the future, and it was hung in Leo's office in a grand manner.

The court painters, when they painted their portraits of the emperor, were told that they must draw this patent certificate into it.

At this historic moment, when the Governor of Lorraine arrives, Catherine and Adele praise Vera and clapping her hands, and Leo is looking forward to a better life as a salt merchant.

In the afternoon, Sexton, the public works officer, was approached into Lorraine's office.

Leo was already impatient, kicking his legs in the chair, touching this and moving that, and complained to Lorraine: "Why haven't you come yet, I have ordered the shipyard project to be temporarily stopped" Those employees are idle now, how much money do I have to lose for a day?.

Lorraine didn't hear Leo's thoughts. He was in Lorraine and Cather

As Public Works Officer Sexton walked into the office, Leo let out a loud cheer and shouted, "You're finally here."

Sexton was startled by Leo, and Lorraine hurriedly called him, he was at a loss for what he was thinking. Looking at Leo's appearance, he was even more worried.

After Sexton sat down, Lorraine smiled and said, "Lord Sexton, Leo and I need to talk to you about work." ”

"Yes, sir, please

Leo couldn't wait to shout, "You're the public works officer, and the land grant is under your control." ”

"Yes, Your Highness, the land of Nai'an is under my administration and that of the agricultural officer. Sexton said respectfully.

Leo grinned and said, "That's right, I'm going to ask you for land." ”

Sexton said, "Your Highness, please command." ”

Leo tapped the map of Nedel on Lorraine's desk, pushed it in front of Sexton, pointed to a beach, drew a large circle on the map with his finger, and said, "This is the beach." I want them all. ”

Sexton looked over and saw that the place Leo was referring to was below the mouth of the sea, not far from Nedel City, about a few hours away by boat, but it was a completely barren beach. There is not even one nearby, there is no fishing village.

Sexton was amazed, and said, "Ah, such a big area, this is a barren beach." Your Highness, what do you want to do here? There are many good places near Nedel. You say where you want it. Let's just enclose his land and go. ”

Sexton thought it was Lorraine or Catherine who wanted to build some property in Nedel and do it in circles

Leo gave him a disdainful look and said, "If so, I'll need to look for you, the public affairs officer." I'm going to take the cover factory. You'll know when the time comes. ”

Sexton said, "Yes, Your Highness, I'll handle it." ”

Leo waved his hand, and his stomach thumped. Showing the demeanor of a general, he said with a smile: "No hurry, no hurry." I heard that we have a "Land Incentive Ordinance" in Nai'an?"

Sexton smiled bitterly and said in his heart: Isn't your old man pretending to be confused?

Sexton said, "Yes, Your Highness. We have a reward for clearing wasteland

Leo slapped the table and exclaimed, "That means that you see that not only does it cost you money to circle this piece of land, but there should also be a big reward, right?"

Sexton secretly said in his heart: How can it be so simple, there is no loophole in this ordinance, otherwise they will all come to cheat some money and run away, and the Governor of Lorraine will not kill me?

He thought about it for a while: But the empire is all owned by other people, and I dare not implement it? This kind of thing related to the royal family must be implemented if it is understood, and if it is not understood, it must be pretended to be understood, and then executed. Forget it, let's do it humanely.

Sexton said, "I know what to do, Your Highness. ”

Leo said with satisfaction: "Okay, okay, you still know how to do something, go get busy, I will see the approval today." ”

Lorraine shrugged helplessly, meaning to listen to Leo.

Sexton soon sent the fierce approval to Leo's hands, and Leo's hand circled, which was nearly 5,000 acres of beach land, and together with the approval, there was a bonus of 10,000 gold coins, and when Leo took it back to show off, it was neatly confiscated by Catherine.

Catherine poked Leo's chest and abdomen and scolded, "You're so happy to dig into your own corners."

Under the arrangement of Lorraine and Leo, the Flying Eagle Company held a meeting overnight, and Leo waved the approval document to deploy the work. Since the Flying Eagle Company received the order to prepare for the opening of the salt plant, the following managers have already started to prepare, recruiting personnel. The purchase of means of transport, the preparation of warehouses, office buildings, and workers' housing, etc., have long been carried out in an orderly manner.

The Eagle Company was soon put to work, and now that the governor of Lorraine was in urgent need of salt, the managers of the Eagle Company had temporarily built some sheds for living, and it didn't matter if it was summer anyway.

Then he led his subordinates to devote themselves to the work of building salt pans.

Leo Mountain ruffian because of the personal experience. Catherine has always used Leo as free labor. After finishing and kicking aside without even thanking him, Leo understood that if he wanted the horse to run, he had to feed the horse. The wages of the salt workers are not low, and there are also significant performance bonuses.

The price of salt in Nai'an is still at a high level, and the upper-class people who have stirred up the price of salt are laughing at the gold coins that flow into their pockets, while laughing at the governor of the hairy boy who doesn't know the height of the sky, what if the eldest princess has the backing, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, here you don't have any cronies, we will use this legal means to play with you. What can you do with us?

Of course, Leo couldn't hide the matter of opening a salt farm, and as early as when Leo asked for thousands of acres of beach from the public works officer, these people had already thought that Lorraine was going to make salt himself. The gang also laughed at Lorraine in private, and it seems that our governor has run out of tricks, and he is all dressed in battle, and we will take as much salt as he produces, and in the end we will make money, and we will treat him as working for us.

Lorraine didn't care about them now, because Catherine had made up her mind to give these black-hearted merchants a look. Catherine got up, and the consequences were very severe. Just ask those priests in the Eastern Province to find out that the whole history of blood and tears.