Lord of Rot

Chapter 301: Upright knights are more trustworthy (page 12)

Knock, knock on the door.

The door to the chamber was always open.

Li Qi and Lacey looked up at the door at the same time, with a big smile on Hay Cao's face: "Good night, sir!"

"You came just in time." Li Qi waved: "How is the food situation?"

"It can last up to half a month."

"Well, half a month... the food should have been delivered." He nodded lightly: "You did a good job."

Hayate immediately said: "It is the blessing of the four gods, and it is your glory that guides me!"

Li Qi smiled. He didn't mind if the other party flattered him, as long as he could do good things.

He looked at the paper tube in Hayao's arms.

"Sir!" As soon as Li Qi's eyes moved to the paper tube, Hayao opened the paper tube and sent it to Li Qi: "This is what I counted."

"So fast?" Li Qi glanced at the hay.

This fat steward is different from the porcupine-collared Grant. Grant is serious and considerate. His work efficiency is not very high and many things require Li Qi's personal decision-making.

Hay Cao works faster. Although he is not as precise as Gulen, he can always complete Li Qi's requirements.

This is also the reason why Li Qi always reuses each other.

"I asked you to find someone who is willing to work." Li Qi lowered his head and said, "I don't mean to force everyone to work for me."

Li Qi is well aware of the truth that forceful melons are not sweet, and he is not afraid that some people are unwilling to follow him. Everyone will benefit, that is, no one will benefit. Let people know that following Li Qi is the right path. It's more meaningful than having everyone's head pressed to follow orders.

But Hay said: "If you can let the food be delivered half a month later, I think they will take the initiative to work for you."

"You mean to fool the people who work for me and defraud them of their labor?" Li Qi looked at the hay coldly.

On the side, Lacey Sis already disliked the hay, and now she just waited for Li Qi to give an order and kicked her over, exploding her increasingly fat belly.

"No, sir!" Hayate shook his head immediately, the flesh on his cheeks and the shaking ears clashing and flapping: "It's not about cheating, it's about stabilizing the market. Maybe you don't know what happened recently, because you quickly saved Tiegu , the outward roads are opening day by day, and some people are deliberately reducing their consumption of food stamps. At this time, the entry of a large amount of food will not make the market better, but will make some people choose not to work anymore, because in their hands If you have enough food stamps, you can eat for a long time without working."

Printing a large number of food stamps was also a helpless move. People who worked had to be paid. Food prices soared during the war. However, after the war ended and contact with the outside world was re-established, food prices inevitably fell rapidly.

Some people held food stamps in their hands.

There are only two methods left for Li Qi. One is to directly abolish the food stamps and declare that the food stamps have lost their purchase value.

The consequences of doing so will inevitably arouse public outrage.

The second is to allow people to spend most of their food stamps willingly.

"Iron Valley needs to be built as quickly as possible," Reach said. "I can't let them work hungry."

"No one will go hungry, sir!" Hayao smiled, knowing that Li Qi agreed with his approach.

"At the end of May, food will be delivered."

"Thank you for your kindness, my lord!"

Hay quickly left, and before he had gone very far, Lacey said angrily: "Sir, Hay sells food stamps privately, and today's large amount of food stamps hoarding is inseparable from him!"

Li Qi shook his head slightly: "Although he took part of the profit, all the food stamps he sold were sent to me."

It's not like he didn't know that Fat Steward Hay was reaping the benefits, but he was very smart about it. He only took a small advantage and sent most of the benefits to Li Qi.

Just like Li Qi's development of savings and wealth, Hay's approach is to lower the price of food stamps in his hands and let people spend money to buy them.

In order to buy more food, the people of Iron Wall Fort naturally emptied their wealth one by one.

It was also with this money that Li Qi was able to find Mrs. Jielin to buy food, and even support the development for a short period of time.

"Okay Lacey," Li Qi said, "Iron Valley is now a mess, riddled with holes. If we want to restore it quickly, we must hire some talented people. If you can help me find some talented people when I go to Donggang City, As a helper, there is no need for me to seek medical treatment in such a critical condition like now."

"Don't worry, my lord, I have a pretty good relationship with some knights."

Li Qi said very seriously: "I am very confident about you!"

It is true that hay is easy to use and can make money, but if it is safe to use it, it must be an upright person like Lacey.

The writing of the Iron Valley Development Plan (Phase I) did not end here.

Because of the war, the Iron Wall Fort became a refuge for people, but the dilapidated wooden houses on the training ground and the shacks occupying the main roads did not belong here.

In addition to the small number of people he planned to select and send them to three villages one after another, building a small trading town not far from the Iron Wall Fort was also a top priority.

“It’s not the problem of getting people to make more money, the biggest problem is how to get them to spend it all.”

Otherwise, holding money in hand just for simple food and drink would be like having too many food stamps now. In the end, Li Qi will be raising a group of people, and his territory does not need people lying flat for the time being.

Trading venues that stimulate consumption are bound to exist.

"Dig a tunnel!"

He had had this idea for a long time, and now he planned to include digging holes in the first phase of planning.

Only by digging a tunnel with a not too steep slope from outside the Iron Wall Fort to the cliff and down to the seaside can we make the most of Iron Valley's seaside advantage.

After the road is opened, building piers, watchtowers, etc. are all trivial matters.

"But this is a huge amount of work. Although the Iron Wall Fort is right next to the cliff, the shortest part is forty or fifty meters away from the seaside... The curved spiral tunnel should be able to shorten the distance."

The only problem is the manpower to dig the tunnels.

"Let's do it first. When we return to the Porcupine Territory this time, let Betty and Thomas scholars study it. Maybe there is a better way."

The fire oil mine is a good thing, maybe Betty can develop something.

It doesn't matter if he can't research it, because Li Qi has the alchemical method of "fire and water" in his hand.

After all the miscellaneous items were copied, Li Qi chatted with Lacey about the training of local militiamen.

The soldiers trained by the Iron Valley people are also porcupine soldiers.

The equipment problem can be easily solved. Porcupine Collar has a fairly complete hydraulic forging hammer assembly line.

"Let's train 300 people in the first batch," Li Qi said, "and then increase the number depending on the situation. The Porcupine Territory still needs soldiers, so we can't stay here forever."

……

A raven set off from the Monkey Territory and flew to Longship Castle.

Guy, who was rushing back to Longship Castle with the supernatural ghoul rabbit, didn't stop. Even though he was dead, he didn't get tired.

When they arrived at the door of Mrs. Jielin's room, their sister Yilin stopped the two of them.