Train to Another World

Kylo gradually became wary of Li Zhuoguang, and it was not his fault, because Li Zhuoguang was heading towards Bonaparte's territory. And more than 200 elf rangers, what does this mean?

Usually, an elf ranger can act as a thigh of an adventure team and directly carry the entire mission. Ten elf rangers are enough to launch a coup in a city.

Now there are more than 200 elf rangers. If the other party can really persuade the peace-loving elves to use violence, then it is not impossible to sweep away their Bonaparte family.

The most important thing is that the food supply for 200 people is not a small number, and the other party is all lightly equipped. If it is an ordinary adventure team of five or six people, it is not impossible to collect food while walking. But two hundred people, collecting food? Play!

Although there is no proverb here that "neighbors store food and I store guns", Kylo now has a vague worry about what will happen if this group of people runs out of food.

After walking for a few more days, I could vaguely see a majestic mountain on the horizon. It was the only peak standing out in the flat wilderness. I guess this is Lookout Peak.

During the journey of the past few days, Kylo's worries gradually turned into surprise from the beginning. Because he was sure that this group of elf rangers really didn't bring any food, but they could always take turns to eat.

Later, under Kylo's attention, the elves who went to eat went to Ms. Storm without exception. He wanted to go and see, but was blocked by the elf rangers on the grounds of protecting Ms. Storm.

So Kylo had a bold guess, that is, Ms. Storm, or Li Zhuoguang and others, had a batch of new compressed dry food or meal replacement drugs.

This kind of thing is not a secret at all in some big forces. Everyone has a unique secret recipe for processing food. For example, their Bonaparte family is good at beating dried meat into meat floss with a wooden hammer, and then adding some secret medicine to compress it into pills.

Just one pill can keep you from being hungry for a day and make you energetic. Unfortunately, you can't eat too much. If you eat it for seven days, your body will have problems and your consciousness will be hazy. Now it seems that the elves have been using this for the past few days.

Kylo, ​​who thought he knew the truth, immediately asked a quick follower to leave the team and rush back to the territory with supplies to collect materials. Kylo thought that the compressed dry food secret recipe used by Li Zhuoguang was better than his own, and he wanted to buy the recipe.

After entering the territory of the Bonaparte family, the flow of people began to increase, either caravans or adventurers. When they saw such a large-scale army, they were all scared, but when they saw that this army was an elf army, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Even seeing that they were marching in the same direction as themselves, they followed the team to avoid risks.

Li Zhuoguang couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene, this is the result of thousands of years of good reputation.

Unlike a certain mysterious Eastern country, which loves to beat its neighbors for a thousand years, the reason why it is a thousand years instead of longer is only because the other party has only been established for a thousand years.

In recent decades, it has suddenly become peace-loving and told its neighbors that I will rise peacefully and will not beat you in the future. Do you think the other party dares to believe it?

When the following team became larger and larger, some people finally began to discover Kylo who was trapped in the crowd of elves, and they came forward to greet Kylo.

Some older people, who probably knew the strange ancestral precepts of the Bonaparte family, secretly asked Kylo if he had fulfilled the wishes of his ancestors? Are these elves here to attend the wedding?

Kylo always shook his head regretfully, and then looked at Ariana with regret. And Ariana was always reluctant to look at him.

After approaching the Lookout Peak, Ariana led the way. Although she hadn't been here for more than 20 years, she remembered that there was an abandoned ancient city site nearby. As long as you reach the site and repair it with a little earth escape, it can be used as a temporary base.

But when everyone came to the ruins of the ancient city, they were dumbfounded. They saw that it was not an abandoned ancient city ruins at all, but a newly built city. The gate was bustling with people coming and going, and it looked like the city was still very prosperous.

"Oh! How do you know my fiefdom is here?" Kylo stood aside, grinning from ear to ear.

Ariana asked: "Is this your city?"

Hearing Ariana's question, Kylo was even more proud: "Yes, I am the smartest one among my father's sons, so my father has high hopes for me since I was a child. When I was about to become an adult, he gave me this abandoned city as a fiefdom.

And I didn't let him down. I built this abandoned city into the most prosperous city nearby."

Xiong Facai rubbed his chin: "It cost a lot to build this city, right?"

Kylo shook his head: "Except for the ownership of an abandoned city, I have nothing else. If If I build the city by myself, I won't be able to finish it even when I die of old age."

"Then how did you build it?"

Kailo smiled proudly and said, "Of course I let the merchants build it. I never planned to build this into a regular city. From the beginning, I planned to build this city into a commercial city. Except for the city lord's mansion and the camp of the city guards, all the shops will be built.

I divided the entire city into several small areas. Anyone who is willing to take responsibility for the reconstruction of an area is eligible to build his own shop in that area and enjoy extremely low business tax for 50 years.

The infrastructure such as city walls, roads, and the city lord's palace are allocated to better areas. If you want to occupy the use rights of better areas, you need to undertake the corresponding infrastructure construction.

Fifty years is not a short period of time, and Lookout Peak is a relatively prosperous area. There are many cities here. If a purely commercial city is built here, there will be no shortage of people coming to trade.

If you hold a low-tax shop here for 50 years, even if you need to invest in construction in the early stage, you can still make a profit.

So from the beginning, my plan attracted investment from many powerful chambers of commerce and nobles. It only took me five years to build a city. "

Li Zhuoguang nodded. Although this kind of behavior was just basic behavior in his world, in this end of the world, which was close to the Middle Ages, he was already very business-savvy, so he asked: "The fifty years of low taxes you mentioned , how low is it?”

Kailo said honestly: "It's extremely low. In addition to covering the operation of the city and the basic expenses of the city lord's mansion, there will be no excess left at all."

"Then your fifty years..."

Kailo looked at the busy flow of people at the city gate: "As my ancestors said, you have to take a long-term view.

These fifty years of low taxes will make the products in my city the cheapest in this region within fifty years. And the whole city is full of shops, which makes the products here the most complete in the area.

Even nobles who are far away will be willing to come to me for transactions as long as they involve bulk purchases. Slowly, this will become the commercial center of the neighborhood.

Even if the fifty-year period expires, I will not raise taxes immediately. Instead, I will use ten years as a step, and it will take another fifty years to slowly increase taxes to the normal level. Fifty years later, everyone has become accustomed to doing business here, and it won't hurt even if the price slowly increases.

A hundred years from now, this city will be the most precious asset I leave to my heirs. "

"Wonderful! Your plan is indeed wonderful, and because it is backed by the strength of the Bonaparte family, it is really not easy for other forces to follow suit." Li Zhuoguang clapped his hands: "But I have a question, you said you You started with an abandoned city, and you used some tricks to build it into what it is now. So what happened to the two cities you wanted as a betrothal gift?"

Hearing Li Zhuoguang's question, Kailuo was startled, and then smiled awkwardly but politely.