Digging to Survive: I can see hints at the beginning!

Chapter 201 Subordinate O'Connor, accept the order!

Chapter 226 Subordinate O'Connor, accept the order!

Seven hours later, all the high-level guards and the management personnel in the town signed the surrender contract.Even without the need for other residents to sign the contract, the entire town of knights has already fallen into the hands of Shen Ao.By the time Shen Ao finished all this, it was almost dusk.

Shen Ao promised to release O'Connor within today.

Before releasing O'Connor, he needed to know the current operating conditions of the entire town through O'Connor.

The eastern outskirts of the town.

Shen Ao found Xue Yihan and the other two under a big tree.

The moment O'Connor saw Shen Ao, he rushed towards him, grabbed his collar with both hands, and his eyes were bright:
"Shen, I want your life!"

"O'Connor, calm down." Shen Ao looked at him amusedly.

"How do you want me to calm down?" O'Connor scolded angrily.

"This is a letter from the Lord of Santa Rita, and O'Connor will accept it!" Shen Ao could only move out the letter from Saint Rita.

O'Connor looked at the stamp on the letter in disbelief, let go of Shen Ao's hands, and knelt down on one knee to salute:

"Subordinate O'Connor, accept the order."

"O'Connor has made great achievements in managing the knight town, and he is awarded the status of 'Viscount'. After all the incidents in the slums are over, return to the city-state to receive the status of nobleman. During this period, Captain O'Connor must unconditionally obey Shen Ao's dispatch. As my teacher, he, His orders are my orders!"

Shen Ao read out the contents of the correspondence course.

O'Connor was still stunned for a while: "Teacher? How could you be Lady Saint Rita's teacher?"

"Can't you?" Shen Ao asked with a smile.

"But she clearly wanted you..."

"That was a misunderstanding, and it has been solved. As a representative of China, I have cleared all obstacles for Saint Rita and the China Alliance. Because of Saint Rita's wrong methods, the slums have been reduced to a terrible state for more than ten years. I This trip is to take care of her aftermath."

Shen Ao explained:
"In order to start a war, those nobles in the city-state even wanted to kill Saint Rita! And I did this to divert the hatred of the city-state nobles for her. The alliance contract she signed with Huaxia has already burned her. Only in this way can I draw out all the forces behind it!"

O'Connor asked in a deep voice: "But are you really not angry at all about Lady Santa Rita's wanted arrest for you?"

"I was very angry at first, but I also know that she is an out-and-out good person. She is in charge of a huge city-state with billions of people, and she is even willing to deal with government affairs without sleep for more than ten days for the residents of the city-state. For I can't get angry at this kind of person."

Shen Ao shook his head: "Besides, the alliance with the city-state will benefit and harm China's rise!"

After listening to Shen Ao's idea, O'Connor's last doubt was completely dispelled.

The current slums are indeed depraved. If you want to change the situation that has accumulated over the past ten years, someone must stand up and carry out tough reforms!

Before reform, there will inevitably be a lot of conflict.

But Shen Ao has already made all the preparations!
"O'Connor is under orders. From today onwards, you are under my orders."

"Yes!"

O'Connor nodded vigorously.

"First, report to me all the current situation in Knight Town!"

"Teacher, I must admit my mistake first. In my town, there is also a situation of concealment and non-reporting. In fact, the town has achieved an internal balance of self-production and self-sales as early as five years ago. But I Still continue to take the subsidies given by the city-state."

"The reason?"

"I used this money to cultivate a lot of adventurers in the small town, and provided them with potions and equipment. One is to increase the power to protect the town, and the other is to provide successors for my city-state No.30 Ninth Legion. The third is to let They protect the town's caravans and expand the town's prosperity."

"But you've been doing it for so many years, why can't you even compare to a small town in the suburbs?"

"Just because we hide most of our wealth!"

O'Connor explained: "We are a slum here, and being too rich is not a good thing. At present, the personal deposits, taxes paid, and excess city-state financial subsidies of the town residents are all stored in the town's underground treasury. Savings: 2 gold coins."

For a slum town, more than 2 gold coins is simply a fortune!

Among them, resident deposits: 1 gold coins.

Taxation: 3481 gold coins.

The remaining subsidy of the city-state's finances: 3554 gold coins.

O'Connor said that in order to cover the caravan leaving the town, he spent a special amount of funds to reach a cooperation with a copper mining town in the suburbs.

Every time the caravan goes out, it starts from the copper mining town and goes to the city-state or other small towns and villages.Every activity of the caravan is announced to the outside world as the Copper Mining Town Caravan.Of course he also knew that a big tree attracts wind, so he spent a lot of money to put a disguise on the caravan.

Out of curiosity, Shen Ao asked him the location of the copper mining town.

What a coincidence, it's in Shen Ao's territory!
This copper mining town was previously under the control of the Bona family, which levied a large amount of taxes every year, overwhelming the copper mining town.That's why the managers of the copper mining town will cooperate with O'Connor.

The caravan sells a large amount of grain, as well as some animal skins, clothing, and materials every year at a price that is 3% lower than the market price.Although the town does not have a mature garment factory, orders from other places will be distributed to every household.Even some of China's 'military uniform' orders are here!
"My lord, the biggest problem in Knight Town at present is the limitation of 'quantity'." O'Connor continued: "One is that the copper mining town has attracted the attention of some people and cannot export more supplies. The other is that there is no more The large number of orders made it impossible for Knight Town to continue to expand.”

Shen Ao smiled: "This is easy to handle, I can solve it for you now!"

"What are you going to do?" O'Connor asked suspiciously.

"I still have a large number of orders for military uniforms that have not been produced. I can hand over the orders to you as much as you can. Secondly, I will accept all the food currently in your hands. Wait for you to plant After finishing this crop, start planting the crops I provided."

Shen Ao explained.

O'Connor was very excited, but still couldn't help confirming:
"Is it true that you take all the bills?"

"Otherwise, can I still lie to you?"

Shen Ao rolled his eyes at him.

There are currently millions of people gathered in the Huaxia construction site, and the daily consumption is extremely terrifying.The productivity of a mere knight town cannot even meet the needs of the Chinese city-state!Not to mention foreign trade!
And this is one of the benefits of the city-state and the China Alliance.

mutual benefit!

Division of labor!

Shen Ao lit a bonfire, and talked with O'Connor about the town affairs. At ten o'clock in the evening, it was time to let O'Connor go back.

But at this time, they have not realized that the danger is approaching!

(End of this chapter)