Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 239 Territorial Planning
Rhodes sat in the big house of the illegitimate son of the nobleman, listening to the townspeople of this small town come and accuse the illegitimate son of the recent evil deeds.

He sat high on a chair in the hall, with Baron and Hamer standing beside him, and the illegitimate son of the nobleman knelt facing the residents of the small town below the stage.

Robbery and extortion are nothing, and he also hanged the family of a certain townsman, including his three-year-old daughter, because he offended him with a word, but he did not kill the townsman. The townspeople just locked him in a locked house and let the townspeople watch him go crazy.

If he was still the lord of the town, these residents would only dare to be angry and dare not speak out, but now that Rhodes, who is the lord of the entire Riverview Plain, has denied his legal status as lord, the town residents dared to complain.

Rhodes originally wanted to save his life and work as a coolie for himself, but under the strong demands of these residents, he was going to hang him.But that's good too, and there's no need to worry about him making trouble in the future.

"Don't worry, I will definitely punish him for his evil deeds!" Rhodes stood up and interrupted the town residents who were still talking in the hall.

"Tomorrow daytime I will hang him in the square of the town!" Rhodes announced loudly.

As soon as his words fell, the residents of the small town below began to praise and thank him.

"You are such a wise lord!"

"Thank God, let us have such a righteous lord!"

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Rhodes looked at these town residents expressionlessly. He was not proud of what they said, but felt that these town residents were a bit ignorant. The illegitimate son who had been domineering over them before was hanged in public.

After the town residents celebrated for a while, they all left the house one after another.

Rhodes stood up from the chair, turned to Baron and Hamer and said, "Let's go around this town."

"Aren't you going back to the castle first?" Baron asked.

"Tomorrow, the illegitimate child will be executed. Let's go back after this matter is resolved." Rhodes replied, he wanted to know the situation of this town.

Baron nodded, and he followed Rhodes out after ordering the servants in the house to prepare dinner and repair the door.

It was Hammer's idea for Rhodes to conduct this trial today, but it did play some role, at least let the residents of the town know that he is the real lord.

He is now walking on the street and people are constantly saying hello to him.

"The people here are a little different from the Nords." Baron said after observing all the way.

"What's the difference?" Hamer was a little curious.

"People who are born and bred here are very reserved when they see us, and lower their posture very low. But the Nords just say hello, and then go do their own thing." Baron replied.

Rhodes also noticed this. The nobles of the Nord Kingdom treated the civilians more kindly than the nobles of the Roman Empire. If they did not move, they would whip and slash and kill them, so the Nords were not so afraid of the nobles.

The town is not big, they finished shopping in less than three or two hours, and this was when Rhodes chatted with many people for a while.

From the mouths of the town residents, Rhodes learned a lot.

To the northeast of this small town is the castle, which can be reached in one to two ten minutes if you ride a horse.

The town is adjacent to the Qinghe River, which is also known as the White River in the northern Nord population, and there is an abandoned pier in the town. Rhodes feels that as long as the pier is renovated and expanded, the town will definitely develop rapidly.

He has already made plans to expand the town into a city.

A noble above a viscount is eligible to build a city, provided he has enough money.

If Rhodes were to exchange all gems for gold coins, it would definitely be enough to build a small city, but he didn't intend to rely entirely on the money.

As a person who traveled from modern times, he has countless ways to make money, and there are many ways to make his subjects rich.

First of all, the docks and the roads in the territory still need to be repaired.

Rhodes returned to the house, and after dinner, he chose a clean room to live in and began planning the town's construction.

First of all, he needs to exchange part of the money in his hand for food, preferably purchased from outside the territory, and he plans to use the food to hire the residents on the territory to help him work.

For ordinary farmers in the territory, food is more real than gold coins, and they usually exchange it for what they want directly through bartering. Farmers who grow wheat directly exchange with farmers who grow hemp.

But this is only temporary. After Rhodes' paper mill is built, this kind of behavior will definitely be reduced, but it is still like this for now.

If the currency in the territory suddenly increases, but the total amount of food and other commodities does not increase, the prices of these commodities will definitely rise, which is not a good thing for Rhodes and the people who accept his employment.

So he needs to import goods from outside, and temporarily use these goods to settle wages.

Compared with most of the nobles in this world, Rhodes is already very kind. Many nobles ask their subjects to work for them for free without paying anything, and punish them if they don't do well.

Now Rhodes thinks that there are three things to do first. The first thing is to build the pier and the road from the town to the castle. The second thing is to find a way to get the merchants to sell goods to him. factory.

His main source of income in the future may be the paper mill for the time being. Judging from the current situation, he plans to sell the paper produced by the paper mill to nobles at a price higher than that of animal skins, instead of using cheap paper as he thought before. Paper gives everyone the opportunity to read.

Rhodes now feels that it is better for him to increase the price of paper for his profit, and the nobles' money is the best to earn.If cheap paper is allowed to appear on the mainland like this, it may not be a good thing, at least not for him now.

In addition, there are some things that need to be done before spring, such as promoting the plow in "Carpentry Classics", and building water conservancy facilities and waterwheels.

Rhodes decided to hand over the construction of the paper mill, the manufacture of agricultural tools and the construction of water conservancy facilities to Hamer. Besides being an excellent blacksmith, Hammer was also a good carpenter.

After finishing the planning, it was getting late, and Rhodes was also very sleepy.

Just as he was about to go to bed, he suddenly remembered another thing. He needed Gilbert to research the cement in the past few days. He felt that cement would definitely be used for road repairs, pier repairs, and house construction in the future.

In addition to the Riverview Plain, Rhodes' territory also has half a rocky mountain range, which must contain materials for making cement.

He planned to talk to Gilbert about the composition and manufacturing method of cement tomorrow, and then asked Baron to accompany Gilbert to the Rocky Mountains to study it. It might be dangerous if Gilbert went alone. Baron went over to protect him together.

Thinking of this, Rhodes realized that he was short of manpower. He still needed someone to help him contact merchants to establish trade with them, and he also needed someone to help him with a census of the population in the territory. The construction of docks and roads definitely needed someone to supervise.

Although Rhodes can do all these things, he feels that he must be too busy alone. Thinking of these, Rhodes nods...

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　After coding another chapter, let’s post it first. I still have a lot of ideas, but I don’t have time to write. There are a lot of lessons every day, and there is another chapter that will be posted at night.

　　
　
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