Chapter XXVII By late September, the Rodnik Territory now had roads to boast of in the northwest, and the caravans that had passed by recently praised the smooth pavement.
And the people of the Rodnik Command have now been lifted out of abject poverty, and some industrious families have even accumulated twenty gold coins in their hands.
When Zhao Yannian first came to the territory to buy grain last year, each family received an average income of about two gold coins, which has made the people grateful to Zhao Yannian, and now after two months of road repair projects, the salary of one silver coin a day has been accumulated, and a strong laborer can save six gold coins, and some families with many men have accumulated more money.
With money, there will naturally be consumption, and the grocery store, which had been deserted for a few months, was now crowded, and Erica urgently dispatched a group of members of the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce to help save the clumsy local clerks in the store.
Nowadays, it is common to see peasants carrying dry firewood on their backs, wearing shabby linen clothes, but wearing a pair of leather shoes worth one gold coin and five silver coins under their feet.
Of course, it is impossible for Zhao Yannian to let his subjects throw all their money on those useless consumer goods, most of the consumer goods in the grocery stores are supplied in limited quantities, and now the caravans passing by are also directly selling goods to the grocery stores, which allows Zhao Yannian to easily control the consumption structure of the people in his territory.
Members of the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce recently re-established a forging line in Zhao Yannian's territory and began mass production of agricultural tools such as sickles and pickaxes.
With the autumn harvest approaching, the sharp scythes were immediately popular with the lords as soon as they were put on the shelves, and some clever farmers had begun to ask the shop clerks about buying fertilizer.
One-third of the farmers in Zhao Yannian's spring fertilizer distribution were trying to use it in the fields, and by the summer, there was a clear difference in the growth of crops that used fertilizer and those that did not.
And as the autumn harvest approaches, the huge difference in the fruits in the fields makes the people who did not receive free fertilizer regret it.
Zhao Yannian has already given his subjects the capital to purchase the means of production through road construction projects, so now he does not plan to continue to distribute fertilizer for free, if everything is free, it will only make his subjects lazy in the end.
So Zhao Yannian asked Erica to send people to the villages early in the morning to announce that the fertilizer would not be distributed for free, and if you want to buy it, you can go to the grocery store in the town before spring ploughing next year.
This is a good sign that the trade of the collar is starting to become active.
At this time, Zhao Yannian was directing several huge machines to work near the quarry in the western part of the territory.
Forklifts, rollers, and trenchers are carving out another narrow road along the previously paved road from Hulu Mountain to Cuifeng Town.
A forklift was scooping up the gravel on the road and moving it to the side of the road, but Zhao Yannian didn't see the person driving inside through the glass of the forklift's cab.
"Jasmine!
Let little Jamie get off the forklift and don't act like a driver!
Zhao Yannian stood on the front cover of the magic speed car and shouted at the forklift with a megaphone!
"Jamie!
You dead boy, give me a good drive, and if you make any more fun, give me back to the store!
As soon as Zhao Yannian's words fell, Jasmine's frantic roar rang out from another excavator.
"Don't!
I don't want to go see that hotel!
Little Jamie stood up in the cab of the forklift and turned his head to yell at Jasmine as he expertly reversed.
"Broken hotel!
You bastard!
Don't have dinner tonight!
Jasmine was even more frustrated.
"Cut, the lord's brother has paid me my salary!
I have food everywhere I go!
"Jamie didn't care about Jasmine's threats.
At this time, a road roller drove from the west road to Zhao Yannian's magic speeder, and a half-elf girl poked her head out and said to Zhao Yannian: "My lord, the previous section of the road has been flattened, and it is ready to be paved." ” "Well done!"
Zhao Yannian praised him with satisfaction, and then turned his head and shouted at Jasmine and Jamie, who were still bickering.
"Okay, don't make any noise, it's about to start laying, why don't you go over and have a look?"
"I'm going!"
"I'm going too!"
The two of them stopped bickering at the same time and looked at Zhao Yannian expectantly.
"Get in the car if you want to go."
Zhao Yannian lowered the magic flying car to a height close to the ground.
"Hahaha, I'm the first."
Little Jamie jumped out of the forklift first, rushed over and grabbed the co-pilot's seat.
"Stinky boy, you come down for me, where are you sitting there and letting me do it!?"
Jasmine came to the two-seater magic car and looked at the grinning little Jamie who was sitting in the passenger seat.
"Can you sit on the lap of the lord's eldest brother, don't you usually sit like this?"
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There used to be a saying in Zhao Yannian's hometown that he was seven or eight years old to hate dogs, and now nine-year-old little Jamie seems to be condensing the bad energy that he didn't have time to play when he was seven or eight years old to vent it together.
"Phew!"
"Oops!"
Jasmine, whose face was already red, finally couldn't help but use violence.
Pulling the little Jamie who was holding his head and screaming from the magic speeder, Jasmine jumped on the flying car briskly, and the movements of the girl in the long skirt were like flowers, and Zhao Yannian, who was pleasing to the eye.
"Unlucky, run on your own legs!"
Zhao Yannian teased little Jamie, and then raised the height of the magic speed car and flew away.
"Cut, I'm a driver, I need to go!"
Little Jamie, who got up from the ground with a muttering disdain, said disdainfully, and then climbed into the forklift and rushed out with the good-natured laughter of several half-elf girls who were also driving construction machinery.
Zhao Yannian drove the magic flying car towards the quarry, hundreds of workers from the territory were hoisting pieces of sleepers onto a train in the open space outside the quarry, the train stopped on a section of railroad tracks that was only two hundred meters long, and the train was not much to load, a simple locomotive with only a narrow cab, a flatbed wagon used to place sleeper rails, and a rail-laying car with a gantry crane.
Speaking of this, everyone should understand that Zhao Yannian is preparing to lay the railway, the first section of the twenty-kilometer railway Zhao Yannian originally planned to lay between Cuifeng Town and the power armor factory, and then earn alchemists and craftsmen gold coins through the service industry, of course, the main reason is that he is unwilling to run at both ends of the carriage.
However, with the advent of the magic speeder, the distance of ten kilometers is no longer a headache for Zhao Yannian, so Zhao Yannian put the first section of the railway between the quarry and the cement plant to be built, and then a smelter will be built near the cement plant.
The site of the cement plant has been completed, and the magically powered cement rotary kiln, cyclone preheater, and grate cooler have all been designed, and now it is only necessary to ask the alchemist to help make it.
The line of the magic network itself runs through Zhao Yannian's territory, so Zhao Yannian only needs to connect a line from the backbone of the magic network to let the cement plant start, but the connection to the magic network needs to submit an application to the Supreme Council, and Zhao Yannian's application to transfer his magic network node to the west side of the territory has not yet been approved.
The level of the magic net allocated by the Magic Guild to Zhao Yannian for use is not high, and it is the same level as the magic net in the old magician's magic tower, which is the same as the level of the great magician.
If this magic net is used by Zhao Yannian as a mana supply for the city's defense, it can allow ten high-level magicians to stand on the node and release magic without restrictions.
However, if it is used for industrial production, it can probably be used to keep a cement plant with a daily output of 50 tons running all day.
Although Zhao Yannian can contribute more technology to the king in exchange for a more advanced magic net, but after all, it is in the hands of the kingdom, and the prerequisite for a country to develop safely is food self-sufficiency and energy self-sufficiency, and Zhao Yannian does not intend to make the energy of his territory subject to the kingdom.
As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, there is the largest river in the world flowing through his territory, if there is still a lack of energy, Zhao Yannian feels that he will die in the future, he will definitely not have the face to meet the scientists of Cullen, Volt, Faraday and Nikola Tesla.
It is unrealistic to build a hydropower station directly on a river with a width of more than a kilometer for the current Rodnik territory, but Zhao Yannian has already planned to dig a tributary out of his territory, which will not only solve the energy problem, but also solve the agricultural irrigation problem in the territory, so that the farmland in the eastern part of the territory will be greatly increased.
The construction of hydropower stations and embankments required a lot of cement and construction machinery, so Zhao Yannian used his authority to find the alchemists at the Power Armor Factory who were now idle to help him build a train and ten construction machines for paving.
Zhao Yannian, the operator of these machines, chose some smart and clever half-elf and human teenagers in the territory, and gathered them together and pulled them to the construction site to open a construction machinery training class on the spot, because they were young people with bright personalities, there were not so many racial and regional prejudices, and the half-elf girls and the teenagers in Zhao Yannian's territory got along quite well.
Whether it was a half-elf or a human teenager, they were full of interest in being able to manipulate these huge machines, and under Zhao Yannian's command, they quickly entered the state.
Just as Zhao Yannian watched the continuous extension of the railroad tracks, Luna came to the construction site with the members of the security team.