Lord: Married To A Countess At The Beginning

After seeing the industrial area, Anna returned to Thorn City and looked at the houses built of stone and wood in the city, and she immediately felt the difference.

The houses in the industrial area are square and square, making them very comfortable to look at.

These houses look very strange, and because the materials they use are different in size, they don't look as comfortable as the houses in the industrial area.

Anna sighed. She had never thought that the house could be built like that before.

Compared with the houses in industrial areas, the houses in my own city are quite ugly.

She immediately glanced at Gray with some resentment.

"After your factory is built, you must give priority to helping me rebuild Black Rock City, and then help me renovate Thorn City with new materials."

Anna said softly.

Gray was attracted by her cuteness.

Gray: "Of course, that's what I originally planned."

Anna: "Forget it, after repairing Black Rock City, let's build the roads first and build the roads between towns."

Gray: "Okay."

Anna: "No, no, we should first build the road from Black Rock City to Thorn City, and the road from Thorn City to Kailan City in the north. This will make it easier to transport supplies to Black Rock City and you!"

Gray smiled: "Okay."

Anna: "Then you have to build a new territory. At least you need some walls and fortifications. With cement and blue bricks, I finally understand why you have the confidence to open up territory in the north. Your side is more important. I will give it to you first. , and then build the Thorn City."

Gray: "Okay."

When the two said this in the carriage, most of the time it was Anna who said it, and Gray just responded to her.

For the next month, Gray prepared to open up new territories.

Because he has the support of the countess, Gray is already very wealthy in terms of manpower and financial resources.

In this month, Gray's cement factory, brick kiln factory, sugar factory, and cannery have all been repaired.

On the second day after the factory was repaired, Gray had people build a human-driven conveyor belt in the factory to facilitate the transportation of materials. At the same time, he also had several customized large iron wheels, each of which was huge. Six large cylindrical through holes are left on the top.

Then someone brought back the cement stove he had customized at the blacksmith shop and stuffed it into the cylinders.

There are magic arrays specially customized by magicians in these stoves. This small magic array has only one function, which is to quickly increase the temperature to a certain fixed range.

This saves a lot of time and firewood.

However, fire magic stones are needed to provide energy.

Fortunately, the Field family is now very wealthy and has no shortage of money at all, so the magic stone is not a problem.

A magic stone is enough to earn nearly ten times the profit from the cement it makes.

So Gray doesn't care about the consumption of magic stones at all.

Using a combination of science and magic, cement production can be greatly increased.

Within two days, the workers had become accustomed to these novel devices and were educated on work safety rules by Gray.

Then the first cement plant began to operate rapidly.

At the same time, the brick kiln was almost up and running.

With these two things, the construction speed of industrial zones has once again increased by several levels.

While businessmen throughout the industrial area were cheering for the start of construction of their factories, Gray had returned to the castle with a bag of white sugar.

Anna looked at the pile of white crystals on the plate in front of her with curiosity.

Gray showed a mysterious smile.

He put a little on the palm of his hand, and then moved it in front of Anna.

"Try it."

Ana rolled her eyes at him, then leaned over and licked a mouthful of sugar with her pink tongue.

The next moment her eyes widened.

"This is sugar!"

Gray nodded: "How about white sugar? Does it taste better than brown sugar?"

Anna nodded her head: "Yeah! It's so sweet. I've never eaten this kind of candy!"

Anna looked directly at Gray: "Where did this come from?"

Gray smiled proudly: "Of course I made it."

Anna's breath hitched.

"You made it? Your factory?!"

Anna said in surprise.

Gray smiled and nodded: "To be precise, it's our factory. I will need a lot of money in the future. Although you are my wife, I can't keep spending your money, so I built a sugar factory. This The gadgets, plus the cement and blue bricks, should be enough to support my early expenses in opening up the territory."

Anna didn't doubt Gray's words. Judging from the taste she just tasted personally, this kind of white sugar will definitely become popular throughout the kingdom!

With the current high price of brown sugar, the price of this completely crushed brown sugar is definitely an extremely high price.

Anna could predict that a large amount of gold coins would soon enter Rose Castle.

Anna looked at the smiling Gray in front of her. With this guy's pace of finding a good thing in just a few days, she might consider building more vaults.

A few days later, with Field Territory as the center, a kind of snowflake-like white sugar suddenly appeared in several surrounding territories. Not only did it look crystal clear, but it also had a great flavor!

With almost no effort, white sugar was loved by all the nobles in several territories, and the price of brown sugar was directly broken.

Gray initially priced sugar at ten gold coins per pound of sugar.

As a result, the market price of sugar continued to rise within a few days.

There is no way, his current factory is not big, and orders for Field Territory and several surrounding territories have already been placed a month later.

When supply exceeds demand, the price of an item will start to skyrocket.

Until a bag of sugar weighing one pound reached a high price of fifty gold coins.

At this time, the price of sugar can be said to be comparable to gold.

And the orders for sugar are still growing crazily.

People, headed by Harry, were invited to dinner by other businessmen every day just to be able to order sugar from them.

The profits from sugar were so high that the hearts of Harry and the three of them were trembling.

At this moment, they finally understood why Lord Gray looked so heartbroken when they were able to own 1% of the factory's shares for just 10,000 gold coins.

At the time, they thought Gray was trying another way to get money.

Now they know they were wrong.

This is not asking them for money, this is clearly giving them money!

Think about it, 3% of the profit from every order they sign with these merchants now belongs to them.

Even a businessman with Harry's price couldn't help but feel excited.

Sugar is not God’s other commodity.

This kind of thing that consumes a lot of money and has no substitute is almost like a gold mountain.

And they currently have this thing in their hands.

What a concept.

Just this 3% profit is enough to be worth half of their lifetime's struggle.

Not to mention there are several other factories.

Isn’t cement profitable?

Doesn’t blue brick make money?

I didn't expect Master Gray to be so generous and give them such a big gift.

This made Harry and the others work harder for Gray's product orders.

They read it right. Being bound to Gray would bring many benefits in the future.

Under the leadership of the three Harrys, the businessmen headed by the three of them worked extremely hard for orders from Gray Factory.

The natural result was that boxes of gold coins were carried into the Castle of Roses.

The equipment of the soldiers in the entire Field Territory has been updated, and even the cavalry has increased by 3,000!

You must know that there were only about 5,000 cavalry in the entire Field Territory before.

The consumption of cavalry is much greater than that of infantry.

They not only need weapons and armor, but also war horses.

The cavalry's horses are not just one person and one horse.

War horses, a strategic resource, played a very important role in the cold weapon era, but war horses also had to bear a lot of weight.

Not only must they bear the weight of the cavalry, but they must also bear the weight of armor and weapons.

In addition, fighting on the battlefield requires horses to run at full speed.

This will greatly consume the physical strength of the war horse.

If it weren't for horses with special bloodlines, ordinary high-quality war horses would be exhausted after running for more than ten or twenty kilometers carrying heavy armored cavalry.

Heavy armored cavalry must run to be effective.

Once you can't run, you will be a target.

Therefore, in a heavy armored cavalry team, one person is usually paired with two or even three horses.

In this way, horses can be exchanged during the battle, which has the effect of letting the horses rest, and at the same time, it can keep the entire heavy armored cavalry team in peak condition for a long time.

And the price of high-quality war horses is not low.

The countess's cavalry team was originally short of horses, but now that she has money, she naturally has to make up for them.

After all this consumption, it can be said that money is flowing like water.

After all, the three thousand newly added cavalry are basically heavy cavalry.

That is to say, in a territory like Field that faces monsters, orcs, and armies from other countries all year round, it can instantly gather 3,000 cavalrymen with superb riding skills and combat experience.

These three thousand people were not just expanded by Anna to enhance her own strength.

Of these three thousand heavy armored cavalry, two thousand were transferred to Gray.

Because Gray is about to go north to open up territory.

Originally, Anna had no plans to expand the cavalry. Even when Gray earned hundreds of thousands of gold coins, she never thought about this issue.

Because if you want to expand the heavy armored cavalry, what you need is not a fortune, but a stable and continuous financial source.

It is true that the initial purchase of weapons and horses can be purchased with a large amount of money, but the subsequent raising and training of troops are the major expenses.

Without the sugar factory built by Gray, Anna would not dare to expand the cavalry by three thousand.

Heavy armored cavalry are gold-eating beasts. An ordinary nobleman can sweep an army with three thousand heavy armored cavalry.

The heavy-armored cavalry of the great nobles all had one set of armor saved over dozens or hundreds of years.

Only someone with a strong foundation like Field could afford five thousand heavy armors.

However, this also leaves the Field family's treasury in a dry state all year round.

It wasn't until Gray's arrival that the problem was solved.

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