I'm working on infrastructure in Xihuan

Dave saw [the trading place designated by the lord] earlier than the merchants.

Here we have to make it clear that usually the seller in the spring hunting season is the adventurer who brought the prey from the mountains, while the buyer is the local and foreign businessman. The goods traded depend on the harvest of the adventurer, and the transaction volume is usually not very large. , Most of them are retail businesses with the unit of one head/one catty/one.

Therefore, the seller must first enter the venue and set up the stall, so that the buyer can conduct the transaction.

Lucien's so-called [designated trading place], in terms more commonly used in this world, is a [large bazaar].

The previous adventurers’ gathering place in Velveer actually had a rudimentary form of a market. They both lived in the gathering place and displayed their prey for trading. It’s just that the manors behind the gathering place have different rules, and Velveer’s The consul couldn't stand it anymore, and the transaction has been carried out in a decentralized manner. Not to mention the low efficiency, it will lose all the profits that all parties can earn.

At this time, the government needs to come forward—strictly speaking, the county government, on behalf of the actual owner of Velvet County, the Duke Velvet, will mediate it, while communicating with the nobles to integrate the various scattered gathering places, so that they can let go Then hold on to the business of the gathering places, so that the civilians who come out to work can no longer only work in the gathering places of their own manors. On the other hand, the government has to negotiate with the presidents of various trade unions, and the trade unions will drain the "people" to the market.

As a result, the nobles would lose the money they obtained from adventurers by collecting rents from gathering places. As compensation, Lucien sold them a batch of fringe forests that had processed and cleared magical beasts at a low market price.

Anyway, he doesn't have enough people under his command to maintain those forests, so it's better to sell them first to solve the current problem, and realize a liquid capital.

The land that can raise monsters is good land that can be reclaimed and turned into good farmland, but the cost of clearing the monsters is too high, and several families have to work together to pay for it. If it wasn't for Lucien's own pocket for road repairs, Usually the nobles didn't dare to think about it, but since Lucien was willing to sell it, even if some serfs were forced to relocate a little farther to cultivate, it would still be a good deal in the eyes of the nobles.

For these old-fashioned aristocrats, fields and ranches are the real wealth that can be passed down to the family. Velvet didn’t know that the gathering place business for a few years is just a temporary gain, and the income now is less than ten years ago. After a lot, the gods will know whether they can continue to do it ten years later.

It's just that Lucien's calculation of such small favors can't win the lady of the Noble family—that smart person that Lucien rarely saw in his previous life, enjoying the pillow wind of his fiancé did not hinder the tea party. Smiling and taking some more benefits from Lucien's hand, it can be said that there is no disadvantage at all.

"Aren't you reminding those gentlemen?" Lucien asked her such a question.

And the young lady smiled dignifiedly and gracefully while holding her scented tea with three spoons of honey.

"And why should I remind them?" she countered. "It wouldn't do me any good, would it?"

"Ah..." Lucien also held up his teacup, "That's true, I was the one who said too much."

It is definitely not a good thing for the Velvet Noble Association headed by the Norber family to be included in Lucien's plan, but for Miss Noble, it is difficult for women to hold power. One or two of the guys who walked would jump into the pit, so it would be common sense for her to wait for someone to jump in and fill up the pit before going up.

She smiled and offered a piece of snack to Lucien, which was also her sincerity to the lord.

If the Norber family is destined to lose the right to speak in the noble association in the future because she is a woman, then she chooses to let those nagging "uncles" completely shut up.

Lucien took the dessert she offered, and the sweet and sour taste different from his own manor also suits his liking.

"The weather is really nice today, Miss Kasnaya."

……

The location of [Master Lord’s Designated Trading Bazaar] is quite superior—it is not only close to a wide main road leading directly to the pier, but also not far from the entrance of the Moon Mountains. A few steps away, there is a small river that is a tributary of the White River. With a clean and sufficient water source, enough firewood can also be collected in the forest that has been cleared of monsters.

Dave first followed the previous road to his usual gathering point, which was very close to the village of the Hall clan, and there were often Hall haunts, some of them came to buy some materials for monsters to process by themselves, and some came to find them. Guides can earn a small amount of pocket money. If they are only guides, the asking price is not high. If they need to help them hunt or gather medicine, then the price will be calculated separately.

At this time in previous years, the gathering place should already be very lively. Anyway, the Baihe River will not freeze. If you come early, you will rush to grab the first wave of prey just after the New Year's Day. The days of not having enough to eat throughout the winter are also in the weak period. As long as you can withstand the cold weather, the mountains, the high forests, and the dangers enough to die, you can earn the most lucrative first pot of gold in the spring hunting season.

However, what greeted Dave this year was calm, without white tents one after another, without one after another shouting, the air was filled with the fragrance of grass, trees and flowers in early spring, and there was no smell of the mixed smell of blood in his memory that called him the first time. A bad smell that nearly spit out once.

Even the dirt is clean.

There wasn't any blood of monsters splashed on it. In the past, all kinds of beast blood would dye the soil a deep crimson color, breeding all kinds of bugs that feed on the bloody flesh.

All Dave saw was a weed stubbornly protruding from the soil, staring at him with the only young Hall who was standing here, with golden beast eyes staring straight at him, as if he was a strange monster about to be captured.

Ah... that's right.Dave is quite self-aware of what he looks like during this period of time. He just crawled out of an underground city not long ago, and his face was pale and pale like a zombie in it, and he had some sequelae to test the potion, which did not affect the normal casting. The red marks from head to toe are mottled and ugly.

But luckily he's a mage.

We all know that if a mage is reasonable and orderly, he is really reasonable, well-behaved and able to communicate with others. He has never been as barbaric as those warriors who flipped the table halfway through their words.

So Dave got the map leading to the market designated by the lord, and a small sign engraved with the silhouette of the Moon Mountains. The person who sent the message—Dave now knows that he was temporarily hired to pass it on to people like him who went astray. The news—the man with the mustache told him that with this sign, he could receive a free meal at the food stall in the market, as compensation for the long distance that the lord suddenly changed the gathering place and caused them to travel a long way.

There are definitely not a few adventurers who have received this sign, although the street sign clearly indicates where the new gathering place is and the reminder that the old gathering place has been abolished.

Lucien had already anticipated this, so he arranged for people to guard the larger gathering places to spread the message.

After all, in the eyes of mercenaries from all over the place, the credibility of a road sign is far less reliable than their experience, and the speed of the various trade unions is not so fast. If Dave climbed out of the dungeon and followed him to the Moon Mountains Adventurers, they rarely take extra time to go to the union to find out the latest news.

What new changes can Velvet have? In the words of an old adventurer familiar to Dave, when he came here to take risks 20 years ago, Velvet was like this.

What greeted Dave at the new gathering place was a clean and tidy camp area, orderly tents, and the camp administrator who immediately greeted him and started to introduce him non-stop.

The tent is still the white pointed tent that Dave is familiar with. It is easy to set up and take down without much effort. It can block the wind and rain, and you can go out after lighting the fire and smoke. It is enough for the mild spring in Velvet.

This is the residential area, separated by a small road is the stall area.Dave and the others can spend money to rent a stall to sell their prey, or they can choose to put the prey on the booth of the local chamber of commerce for consignment. If the prey is exactly what the chamber of commerce needs, the chamber of commerce can give priority to buying it.

If it is sold to the chamber of commerce, the adventurer will collect all the tax deducted, and if it is only for consignment, a certain amount of consignment fee must be paid to the chamber of commerce.

While listening carefully, Dave took out a few copper coins from his waist pocket, and coaxed the manager to talk a little more about the rules here - newcomer, if you spend more money now, you will suffer less in the future.

The manager also liked him, laughed and patted him on the shoulder, saying that he is a talent, and then babbled to him about where the tent location is good, which business owner is easy to talk to, and that he is not in a hurry to go first The trade union registration is really a wise move. There are trade union and county government booths in the camp, and all the formalities can be completed in one stop after queuing up.

Dave repeated a few more words along the way, remembering that he still had a free meal to receive, so he simply asked the manager to eat and drink after work, and have a chat.

The managers here are former adventurers and mercenaries who had to retire due to injuries and disabilities. They can not only have some qualifications to not be frightened by adventurers, but also have a common language with them to communicate with them.

At the same time, it can be considered that Lucien has opened up a suitable new position for the talented sick and disabled, saving one or two of them from sitting on the mountain or living in a decadent life, wasting the great labor of the gifted in vain.

Lucien estimated that one-fifteenth to one-tenth of Velveer's population is such ex-adventurers or ex-mercenaries. After all, many people would ruin their careers here every year.

You must know that not every adventurer has a team, and not every team can have the rule of not abandoning their companions like Hall's mercenaries, so many adventurers and mercenaries have to stay in Velveerd, as Talented people don't worry about starving to death like ordinary people, but they can just muddle through their days.

As a result, many people can't accept that their days are so different from the past, and they hide their names as if they have died from this world.

Lucien even guessed that the first residents of Velveer were the descendants of these talented people who were forced to retire.Velveer was first recorded in history as a holy land of adventure. At that time, Velveer was not the territory of the empire. It was a gray area where no one cares. I don’t know how many talented people disappeared here, some died, and some Live as if dead.

In addition, the talent of a gifted person is not a dominant inheritance, so parents must have children if they have children. If it is not like the nobles who marry each other to artificially increase the winning rate from generation to generation, the probability of not having them is actually higher.

After three or five generations, the descendants of talented people are no different from ordinary civilians.

Therefore, the current knight titles of the empire can only be passed on to descendants after becoming knights for three consecutive generations, and those who have no talent for the next three generations will be deprived of them-if the Andasius Archmage is powerful and has no descendants, disciples can be included in the scope of inheritance.

This not only ensures that the existence of the gifted will not cause too much impact on the inherent class, but also ensures that the distribution of benefits of the inherent class will not touch the bottom line of the gifted.

In addition, the aristocratic class has been passed down to the present and almost all of them are extremely outstanding talents. Hello everyone, the current situation is stable. In the history books for hundreds of years, Lucien has never seen any records of uprisings by civilian talents. .