Before the Duke's merchant arrived, Toheko received a letter from the Church of the Mother God of the Forest, which wrote many important things, especially some trade events: "The construction circle you wrote about has been built and has begun to work non-stop, and the energy extracted from it every day is enough for 70 junior Rokko Divine Guards to carry out the delicate wood shaping work, and we can't even find enough people to make that wood." A second circle is currently being built. It will cost a lot of money, but we are not short of money right now. Because the synthetic wood produced is loved by many people. From the manufacture of composite bows made of multiple layers of wood to tall antiseptic planks. Two days ago we had just completed the trade of a large quantity of antiseptic timber, purchased by a minor duke who needed to quickly build a ring of ramparts near a river to resist a rival nobleman. But he didn't have a few months and a lot of gold coins, and we built a slope barrier more than 20 feet high using thick antiseptic planks, wooden pillars and rammed earth under our simple construction. It is said that the effect is good, and he has successfully stopped the enemy attack. Unless the enemy can hire a large number of arcane soldiers to fly and attack. But at the moment the enemy does not have such great financial resources. And we can supply him with a batch of crossbows made of composite wood. ”

Ordinary composite bows need to use wood, animal tendons, horns and other materials, with high material requirements and complex processes. Even with the help of spells, you can speed up the craft, but it is very expensive. Composite wood bows and crossbows are made directly from wood and plant canes of different textures, with seven or eight percent elasticity and three or four percent of the price. In particular, it is possible to make a cheap ballista, and with some tracking methods, it can be used against ordinary air targets. It is estimated that he will be able to make a lot of money from this duke again.

"Also. Recently, there has been a controversy about a very lucrative trade project," the letter continued: "Someone wants to build a big stone bridge across the river. It requires a lot of labour and civil engineering. Someone in the church gathered the priests who had made the Tree Guards, and asked them to direct the Tree Guards to participate in the construction of the project. Transporting stones, digging, and even going down to the river to drive piles to build foundations, a tree man guard is worth more than thirty or more people. There are also businessmen who are willing to come forward to help us talk about this. However, the Treant Guardians are all retinues of the mid-level priest, and must be accompanied by the mid-level priest to command. In this way, it is necessary to concentrate 50~70 middle-level pastors, which is too many. There is a lot of opposition in the churches everywhere, because middle pastors are often the backbone of the town. Once it is taken away, there will be complaints. And these pastors are not willing to do the work of 'inferior people'. I don't know what your opinion is?"

Looking at the letter, Toheko laughed: "This matter has nothing to do with me, you deliberately asked for my opinion in the letter." I want to use my chicken feathers to be your arrow, so as to subdue everyone. But then again, I'm not a chicken feather. Maybe it's really an arrow. "As the creator of the Elemental Fusion Circle and the representative of the worldly business appointed by the Mother Goddess of the Forest, Dongzyzi does have a great say in this matter. It's a 'golden chicken feather'.

Tohezi replied directly: "On the issue that the Tree Man Guardian can only be maintained and commanded by a mid-ranking priest. Sooner or later, it will have to be solved and must be solved! The Treant Guard, especially the latest Beamon Tree Guard, is a 'high-horsepower power source' that is cheaper than large golems and constructs. If this kind of 'power source' can be applied to social construction, it will have a huge impact on the entire human society. It can solve many problems that have always plagued us, such as the time-consuming and laborious construction of projects, the competition with agriculture for population, and the consumption of large amounts of food. Once these issues are resolved. Mankind will be able to carry out all kinds of large-scale construction more effectively. For example, large-scale water conservancy and water transport facilities. Large roads and bridges, mountain forts and trading posts. Humans can overcome more weather and terrain difficulties, expanding the area of human domination and the quality of life. So how to apply it is something we must attach great importance to. I've always been a supporter of our people's involvement in these big projects. This is not to ask everyone to be 'people's husbands'. Instead, in addition to the 'people's work', he has more contact with people from all walks of life. Learning skills, organizational skills, the ability to deal with all walks of life. The churches of the Mother Goddess of the Forest at all levels are all from the countryside, and they need to understand how to adapt to the new environment, new situations, and new forces. These projects will help us to understand. Therefore, it will be of great help to the future of the whole church, from top to bottom. ”

"It is normal for churches everywhere to have grievances, and only when there is input and output can everyone be motivated. It is not normal to have merit and wealth, but not to be rewarded. You can share the difficulties, but if you are blessed, you can enjoy them with everyone, and no one is a fool. At this time, shouting empty slogans and asking everyone to be ethical masters is actually an ignorant act of covering up your ears and stealing the bell. If the church has project income, it should be tilted towards the local government, preferably directly to key people, so as to avoid the reward funds being misappropriated by local leaders. ”

Giving no benefits or only small bait has always been a bureaucratic mistake that the upper echelons of centralized organizations are prone to make. The benefits are not given to the real key people, and it is a gray thing that is easy for local and grassroots bureaucrats to do. Local and key individuals oppose the resistance, and to put it bluntly, there is no benefit in working. This is the same principle as merit and merit, but it is hidden in complex organizational work, and even more hidden behind the fancy slogan of 'serve XX wholeheartedly', which is often ignored or no one comes forward to curb it. This is also the reason why it is difficult for large collectives to defeat competing private individuals.

In a competitive private economy, whoever exerts his initiative will be able to obtain excess benefits, or even most of the benefits. Just like those developers who can toss, whoever can toss will get the vast majority of benefits, which is much higher than those workers and designers who do the work. With interest incentives, there will be more initiative. Therefore, they often show a strong tendency to attack and toss. And large collective organizations always like to use empty slogans to reduce benefits, but no one is stupid, and after a long time, everyone loses enthusiasm. This is human nature, vainly trying to erase this human nature with all kinds of fancy slogans, and in the end it is an idiot to cover your ears and steal the bell.

After breaking through this layer of window paper, Tohezi remembered another important problem, so he wrote seriously: "To make zuò composite wood, you need a variety of trees, plants, and some alchemical additives. These things are produced from all over the world, from hundreds of miles away. It is necessary to integrate them. The most important thing is to plan our 'bulk goods trading network'. It is also an important stepping stone for us to reach the top of the world. ”

"You need to know: the feudal manor or the semi-closed society of acquaintances is the living environment that we are familiar with. But if our vision and habits of mind are confined to these estates or societies, then we are finished. The trade of bulk goods spanning thousands or tens of thousands of miles has long permeated the feudal manors and Shuren society, and the vast majority of people, even some regional merchants, may not fully understand it. Only those who stand at the top can realize the existence of these trade networks and their significance to various nations and races. ”

"Mastering hundreds of production bases for bulk products, controlling long-distance trade of bulk products, and carrying out currency adjustments will become the key matters that we urgently need to learn in the future. For those trades that span thousands or even thousands of miles, we must not be satisfied with 'being part of it', but we must have a clear understanding and even control of the whole process, a pepper or a fine leather or a batch of special parts, where it comes from. How many transport segments are passed. We must have a clear understanding of what the forces are in control of, how the currency needs to be regulated, what means are used to influence its trading, what kind of social consequences, the consequences of war, and the consequences of the political pattern will be produced by influencing its trading. For those trade networks involving hundreds, if not thousands, of scattered trade points. There can be no embarrassment. Know the impact of these long-distance trades on the world. It is no less than the impact of various wars and political forces on the world. control these complex long-distance trade networks. It is also building a 'kingdom', a hidden 'kingdom'!"

"Actually, there have been many such kingdoms for a long time. Unfortunately, the Church of Mother Goddess of the Forest, and indeed myself, don't know much about this. If we don't get to know them, we'll be willingly enslaved by the kings and nobles of those hidden kingdoms. This is the most insidious and insidious form of slavery! Now, taking advantage of the opportunity of multi-regional production and long-distance trade of composite wood, we can see little by little the fog of the world and see what is hidden. The article I wrote to you last time, "The Soybean and Cash Crop Trade in the Three Northeast Provinces and the Rise and Tragic Death of Warlords", you obviously did not recognize its value. I hope you'll take a closer look. You must know that without the long-distance trade of key bulk products, the complex long-distance trade system and the pattern of benefit distribution, it is impossible to understand what is semi-feudal, semi-colonial, and imperialism, let alone the 'general trend of the world'. ”

In short, we must not be satisfied with being a tyrant who dominates one side or a humble gentleman, because the idea of a feudal society of lords and acquaintances will greatly hinder our progress and make us indulge in backward methods of production and organization, and backward methods of interpersonal communication. I hope that you will explore the dimensions of the 'world's great trading system'. ”

"The reason why lords are lords is because they have the most important resources of 'land and food', they decide the flow of resources, they distribute land, food and money in exchange, so they can gather talents and occupy high positions. However, they can only do so in their own small territory. Once it is from the perspective of the whole world, it is impossible to realize that 'the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king'. No one can have a complete monopoly on the world's land, food or resources. Since the producing areas cannot monopolize production, whoever can dominate trade will be able to control important resources. Whoever controls the flow of resources is the real 'world lord'! We must participate in this process, and now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Do we let the mountains and forests of the world become our 'kingdom strongholds,' or do we continue to shrink into the mountains and become rednecks? Now determines the future. ”

After writing this letter, Tohezi was inspired to write a letter to the duke: "Your domain is a mixture of mountains, hills, and a few plains. Unfortunately, those mountainous areas are unmineralized and difficult to exploit. I built several large and medium-sized reservoirs using the mountainous terrain. Choose the right place and plug the gaps between the mountains, and you can become a reservoir. Then, anticorrosive wooden channels were built, which could be supported to a certain height by tower-shaped pillars, and crossed mountains and ravines to transport water over short distances and develop agricultural land. It can even be transported to the territories of other lords in the north, helping them irrigate their fields and collect fees. ”

"Not only will this increase agricultural yields, but it will also bring the Northern Territories into our sphere of influence. Engineering will cost a lot of money. But I can contact the Mother Church of the Forest and ask them to accept the project at cost. "The project involves a lot of water, soil, mountain solidity and climate surveys, various resource planning, and how to deal with all kinds of people. It is an opportunity to train the team and talents. These experiences are more useful than a little profit for the Church of the Mother God of the Forest, which has just shown the dawn of development.

Then he called Xander again: "You haven't had any major events lately, but I have a big event for you to do—your 'natural blessing', which is a bit like a 'reverse spell'." In this case, can this ability be combined with some herbs to improve the spellcasting ability of mages? For example, allowing a normal mage to cast spell power, spell level, or spell range increase for a short period of time. This synthetic agent can sell for a lot of money. ”

Seeing the reluctance of Xander frowning slightly, Donghezi raised the 'big killing weapon': "As a developer, you can get a share of the profits." In this way, you can also return the money you borrowed from me and the interest as soon as possible. Seeing that Xiandel began to hesitate with a bitter face, he lured again: "And many mountainous and dry lands are not suitable for growing crops, but you can grow cash crops such as herbs." This is good for the livelihood of the locals. ”

As usual, Cindell took on the task with half a push and half under coercion and temptation: "This thing can't be developed for a while." On the other side, Toheko said, "This is an important thing for a long time. You start with a preliminary proposal, and then think about recruiting some support researchers. You have to run your own errands for all of this, and there's a lot to do back and forth. If I don't have the funds, I can borrow but at 4% interest per year. ”

If you don't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, you don't know that people are unpredictable and the world is complicated. It is by no means possible to 'convince people with virtue' by virtue of kindness and Yao Shun ethics. Let her be the master and practice it, so that she can get rid of the childish thinking in that brain.

Two days later, when Tozyko was helping Bonuk familiarize himself with the Four Elephants Divine Skill in a clearing, trying to manifest the qi elemental effect in his body, making Bonuk feel that 'the whole world has slowed down a little, and he can see birds passing by quickly, with a few feathers on his wings', the Duke's business mission arrived. And by the way, I also brought a surprise news - the snake king wants to borrow a large amount of war turnover funds from the duke!!

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