Succubus' Manor

The temperature is getting higher and higher. Men are clapping shirtless under the scorching sun. Every street in Stettin has to be paved with stone slabs. The stonemasons have had a good time recently. They are really busy and tired. But the money is really a lot.

Stonemasons have never thought that they still have today since they started this line of work. Every day, there is endless work to be done, and endless money to be collected. They sit in the yard every day, bowing their waists, chiseling stones bit by bit.

Chi Yan originally planned to use clay, but in the end he found that Stettin had no clay and all the clay was shipped from other places. Not only was it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the quality was not necessarily good. Clay was brought over, along with saltpeter, and the clay was used as a binder, and the main force for paving the road was still slate.

This is also beneficial, the stonemason has something to do, and laying stone slabs is different from paving dirt and mud roads. Paving requires tools, and the hands and feet are not fine, but it is much easier to paste stone slabs, and it is flat when stepped on That's fine, the corners can be hammered with a stone hammer, and it's fine if the edges don't warp.

And I don't worry that if someone steps on it, the land will sink.

Moreover, men are capable of pasting stone slabs, and so are women. At most, women work slower, but although women are slower, they paste more carefully, and the quality is equal to the quantity.

Pasting stone slabs is hard work, and masons chiseling stone slabs is also hard work, so the daily income is a daily income, just like tamping the land, the more you do, the more you get. Now the demons have experience, and there is no such thing as a busy hand. The situation where the work is not well allocated with busy feet.

Sugar and wine brought great wealth to Chi Yan. Although the transaction tax for merchants does not seem to be much, but because more and more merchants are coming, the accumulation is more, and now it is not a lot.

Chi Yan doesn't want to rely on merchants. He does need merchants. He needs merchants to make the city full of vitality. He needs the goods and money brought by merchants so that people can live a stable and good life.

But he didn't want the city's lifeblood to be controlled by businessmen.

In ancient times, there was a reason for emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business. Everyone knows that businessmen make money, and everyone knows how much benefits businessmen can bring.

But businessmen will not take root in one place, they will be there when it is beneficial, and they will leave when it is not beneficial. Moreover, money is so powerful that even high-ranking officials can be bribed, not to mention the small officials below?

Moreover, when businessmen travel from south to north, what they bring and take away is news. They are natural spies.

Therefore, as much force as Chi Yan used to attract businessmen, he had to use as much force to restrict them.

When Stettin was poor before, he relied on businessmen. Now that Stettin is rich, it is businessmen who rely on them.

After the status was changed, it was Chi Yan's turn to speak.

He started to set the rules as soon as he got up every day, afraid that something would be missed. Cardi and the old butler were almost bald, and they thought about it with Chi Yan every day, and finally sorted it out. It was a thick book of business rules.

The people in the chamber of commerce had heard the news a long time ago, and the businessmen outside were in a mess, but they were not panicked at all.

They bought saltpeter from Chi Yan a long time ago, sat in the room with the ice basin, and cooked fruit was placed on the table, chatting while eating the fruit.

"Let them panic, I don't believe they are willing to leave." Lilia took a bite of the fruit and ate a mouthful of sweet juice. The fruit is boiled with sugar, so it's fine if you don't add sugar, and it's pure sweet with sugar. Lilia is a rare luxury Suddenly, happy eyes narrowed.

Benson was also eating fruit, he exhaled a long breath, and smiled at Lilia: "How can it be better outside?"

Here, there are guards patrolling the roadside every day, and they will not take their things for nothing. The goods can be traded in the city. There is only a shortage of good goods, not money, and there is not much transaction tax, and there is no need to pay city tax and city tax.

The ground is also flat, and the ox carts and carriages drive very steadily on the street.

And outside...

Lilia tapped her fingers on the table: "There are more robbers again."

When the royal family and the Holy Court were on the verge of breaking out, there were many robbers, but after the upper echelon calmed down, the number of robbers gradually decreased.

Now there is a resurgent trend.

Robbers are not born robbers. No one is born ready to be a robber. They are ordinary civilians. They can’t afford food or clothes, so they can only be robbers. After a long time of being robbers, people became a beast.

Animal desires are infinitely magnified, and human nature is infinitely reduced.

Robbers are not thieves, they not only want money, but also life.

Businessmen want to be rich, but not dead.

Stettin is a paradise for businessmen, where their safety can be guaranteed-although they may be killed by their colleagues when they go out of the city, at least they are safe in Stettin, and the civilians in Stettin have money. It wasn't there before, and it is now.

And there are a lot of young people, young people can't save money, they spend as much as they have, especially those who are not married and don't have to support their families.

The outside world is a hell where life and death are uncertain for them, but Stettin is a good place where they can see and feel.

Benson smiled and showed his white teeth: "The lord should take care of them, he has already given them a lot of benefits, how much more do you want?"

Lilia nodded: "That's right, we've worked hard for so long, that's all. They still want to be better than us?"

Ever since they became the leaders of the chamber of commerce, Lilia and Benson felt that Stettin had their own share. They separated themselves from the group of merchants. Now the merchants want more benefits, they want Snatch meat from their mouths to eat.

Even if Chi Yan didn't care, they would still attack.

Lilia also laughed, showing her gums: "My lord is soft-hearted."

Benson and several others nodded, and Lilia put the fruit core aside: "Since the adults are soft-hearted, let's be the bad guys!"

Of course no one objected.

They also want to try to see how much power Chi Yan has given them.

Try it out, it's always ok.

In fact, the troubles of the merchants are also very simple. They want to bribe the steward. It would be even better if they can bribe the guards. Then they want to meet the lord and carve up the unowned house by the way.

What they do is all small moves. After all, small businessmen don't have much money, so they are also timid.

But this touched the interests of local businessmen.

Local businessmen have a sense of superiority. They have a house, property, and a lot of relatives here. They have connections there, and they can pick up and transport goods faster than foreign businessmen.

Moreover, local businessmen like to stick together very much. They may be torn apart internally, but if outsiders reach out, they must first unite and chop off the hands of outsiders.

In fact, Chi Yan doesn't like to take care of these things. Although he has enough brains, but dealing with these winding people and things every day, two brains are not enough, so he thought about it, and thought of Dahe Woke up.

Dahe is now a very respectable person in Stettin. Although he is a goblin, no one dares to underestimate him. However, because he has no regular job, he is now like a strong man, and he is available wherever he is needed.

That's why Dahe got to know Stettin pretty well. He also knows the stewards of every street. He can call each other's name, and he knows how many people there are in the other's family, how old are the children, and how old were they married to his wife? , how much visible property is there in the home.

And he still took the goblin boy with him, and went around crowded places whenever he had something to do.

Chi Yan called Dahe to his side. It was the first time he looked at Dahe so carefully, and suddenly he sighed that time flies.

He still remembered when he saw Dahe for the first time, Dahe was just a thin and small goblin, a young man who couldn't stand up straight because he couldn't eat enough. Whipped out.

Dahe didn't grow very much, and he couldn't eat enough when he was a child, and his nutrition couldn't keep up. Even if his life got better later, he had passed the time of growing his body, and no matter how much he ate, he couldn't make up for it.

But he was much stronger, with more flesh in his chest and a wider face. He was a stable adult now from a teenager.

Chi Yan didn't have time to "reminisce about the past" with Dahe, but said seriously: "I have something for you."

Dahe was a little confused, he still remembered his original mission, so he lowered his head and said, "My lord, about the slave..."

Chi Yan smiled: "The slave only needs to add fire."

Chi Yan: "There are other things for you to do now."

Dahe nodded.

Dahe is not stupid, nor is he a single-minded person, but he will always remember who made him a free citizen, who picked him out, and made him look like a human being instead of a beast.

It's the lord, even if the lord tells him to die, he won't even blink his eyes.

He has never read a book, but sometimes he also feels that he is probably loyal to the lord, right?

"I want you to enter the chamber of commerce, and you have to work hard to climb up. I will give you some convenience." Chi Yan was actually worried that he would make things difficult for others, but he had many people he could trust, but few capable ones. He is an honest person, and he doesn't have the brains to compete with the merchants. Only Dahe has some experience and can be used.

Chi Yan: "As for how high you can climb, it depends on your own ability."

Dahe used to be a businessman. He felt that this task was not particularly difficult. He could do it himself and would not hinder Chi Yan, so he saluted and said, "I will follow your orders, my lord."

Chi Yan: "Come to me if you need anything, and watch the affairs of the chamber of commerce carefully."

Da He: "Yes, my lord."

Chi Yan was still not at ease: "You pick two demons to follow you, lest you be plotted against."

Dahe was touched and said: "My lord, I will definitely fulfill your orders."

He finally straightened his back and lived like a human being. How could he let the lord down on him at this time?

Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, he still has to go for it.

Thinking of his mother who was living a stable life in the manor at this time, Dahe had inexhaustible strength.

Chi Yan smiled: "Go."

He wants to hold the city firmly in his hands.

This city can only have one voice—

It's his.

The author has something to say: to free slaves, to build cities, to train an army

Also inquire about the surrounding news.

Chi Yan is so busy.