Chapter 925 Planning
In order to give his men a thorough understanding of the essence of rule and city management, Henry spent a whole day in the Doge's Palace, and made detailed plans for Willen, including the expansion of the city and the adjustment of the streets, the layout of the market and houses, how the soldiers should be assigned to patrol, etc., and finally made clear arrangements for the next few months.
The first was that the former pirate fleet, already cloaked in the skin of the navy, forbade further looting, and the task of blockading the coast of Amm was left to the remaining Nelanthel pirates, who were able to collect protection money from passing merchant ships.
The rules were simple, an order was issued in the name of the Governor's Office to levy five to ten percent of the profits of the cargo on board passing merchant ships, ostensibly on a purely voluntary basis.
All ships that have paid will be given a flag with a special pattern and number, which will allow them to pass safely in the southern Sword Bay, the Sea of Swords, the Strait of Exeville, and the Sea of Glory.
In this way of combining officials and bandits, it is believed that it will not be long before the merchants can learn to behave, and in the middle of arranging for the so-called navy and pirates to perform several wonderful naval battles, at that time the tolls alone will be a huge amount, plus the hidden control of the trade routes and trade, and soon establish the authority of the Kingdom of West Hartland in the western coastal waters.
The second was to send ships to recruit bankrupt peasants from the southern Tessel and Karlinsan, and to get the farms near Wiren back up and running, at least to ensure the supply of vegetables, fruits, and some miscellaneous grains, as much as wheat could be grown. Anyway, there are two big granaries of the Angome Islands and the Green Fields. Enough to supply the consumption here.
Finally, there is manufacturing. Due to its proximity to the Wildas Forest and the Dark Regions, Henry developed two systems for Willen, one for shipbuilding, and the other for glassmaking and jewelry.
Although he already had the idea of building a steel warship, judging from the kingdom's current steel production and industrial technology, it would be a blessing to be able to build one a year, so the wooden sailing ship could not be eliminated for a long time.
What's more, the shipbuilding industry in the Feron continent is not very developed, and many places use primitive oars and sloops as power. Even the Deep Water City and the Amm Giant, which represent the pinnacle of human shipbuilding, are only used in the Carrick ship model left over from the fifteenth century on Earth, and this design pays too much attention to the carrying capacity, so the huge hull is prone to tilting of the center of gravity, and the ship will often be destroyed in the event of a storm.
As for the legendary elves' fast sailing ship, which is known as the pinnacle of the world's shipbuilding, he has never seen it yet, and according to the description of the sailors who often sail on long voyages, it should be a ship that simply chases speed, and the structure should be similar to the clipper ship that only appeared on Earth in the eighteenth century, and it is not equipped with any weapons. Because powerful elven mages are the best weapons, and when they catch up with their targets, they raise their hands to see a volley of fireballs. The power is certainly not much worse than that of a shell.
In order to ensure that Willen's shipbuilding industry could gain a relatively leading position, Henry carefully recalled the knowledge stored in his brain, and finally decided to take out the Galen ship that dominated the second half of the Age of Discovery.
Although he did not know much about the specific internal structure, he did know a little about the characteristics, the most important part of which was to increase the aspect ratio of the hull, and the bow and stern were lowered, and the keel was more than three times the width of the ship.
With this important indicator, I believe that a real galleon can be built, after all, the pirates of the Nälancer Islands have excellent shipbuilding skills, and there are also two secret shipbuilding bases, as long as they are packed and sent to Willen.
To be on the safe side, he also wrote a letter to Su Li and asked him to send it to the elf queen Alixing, and the main content of the letter was only one, that is, to ask for a few elven craftsmen.
Glass manufacturing and jewelry processing are simpler, quartz ore can be found everywhere in the dark area, as long as you say hello to the underground gnomes, it is really as much as you want, and the process of burning paper glass has long been known to many people, many materials in the alchemy process are glass products, the price of this thing is not expensive, but it is not cheap.
But for one thing, no glassmaker knows how to solve the problem of bubbles, and only the casters have the means to banish these pesky little things with the power of guò magic.
It's no secret that hiring a caster is quite expensive, paying a large amount of gold for each spell cast, so glass products with no or few bubbles are expensive, and some glass crafts are even more valuable than natural crystals.
Henry shamelessly told Su Li of the two methods of removing bubbles, stirring method and artificial blowing method, the former is already a well-known method for many earthlings, and the latter is to blow large bubbles at the bottom of the glass solution through a guò tube, and float up the large bubbles to take away the small bubbles, which can also have a good effect.
He demanded that the glassworks be built in caves outside the city that led to the dark areas. In this way, as long as the entrance and exit are guarded, the secret can be well hidden, and with the large supply of cheap quartz ore, it will soon be able to seize a large market share.
Of course, in order to prevent someone from being tempted to leak secrets, some dark elf assassins should be arranged around, so that nothing goes wrong.
Jewelry processing is even simpler. Underground gnomes and dark elves generally only keep those parts that can make zuò talisman items, and they don't need them at all if they can't carry magic power and small gems, and they take this part of the waste to humans and hand it over to craftsmen to cut and polish, and then sell it to merchants all over the world, which is a lot of income.
Looking at the densely recorded plans, materials and technologies in his hands, Su Li couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face: "Master, you have to send the relevant officials as much as possible, my cultural experience is not high, it is limited to reading and writing in the lingua franca, and this highly professional thing is not enough knowledge to be done." ”
"Don't worry, I'll send all the personnel here soon, you just need to separate the pirates from the navy first, and take care of the tolls, and as for the rest, one by one." Henry knew that this kind of thing was not in a hurry. So no specific time limit was given.
Needless to say. Large shipyards alone are very cumbersome to build. Not to mention the glass workshop, which requires a large number of skilled craftsmen.
"Understood, I'm going to clean up those pirates right away and make them all behave." Saying that, Su Li turned around and was about to go out, seemingly wanting to implement this matter immediately.
Henry hurriedly grabbed him: "Don't worry, it's too late to do this tomorrow, take me underground first." ”
"Underground?!" Su Li was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately. "No problem, I'll call a team of guards. Although the location of the new town chosen by Anteleb is not far away. But there are still some monsters on the road occasionally, so it's safe to be more human. ”
"No, there's no need for that, it's enough to have me and it." Henry patted Ares, who had been following him, and the big brown bear disguised as a panda instantly understood, stretched out his paws and easily scratched a few marks directly on the marble floor, looking at its relaxed and happy appearance, it was obvious that it was not difficult at all.
After doing this, Ares shook the hair off his body triumphantly, perhaps because of Karlinsan's greasy food eating too much. Layers of flesh emerged from his body, and he looked full of joy.
However, Su Li was not fooled by the superficial appearance. Squatted down and carefully examined the scratches on the ground, and instantly gasped: "The gods are above!" This monster bear is terrifying! Its claws are probably harder than steel! Sharper than a sword! ”
"Let's go, it's there, I promise those monsters won't even get a chance to get close." With that, Henry turned around and left the office and walked straight in the direction of the city gate.
He remembered very well that there was a cave not far outside the city of Willen that was the entrance to the dark region, and the one located in the elven temple had been completely sealed, in order to prevent a similar situation from happening again, Queen Alistar even asked the mages to set up a strong seal, even if the gods themselves came, they might not be able to do anything, which meant that near the peninsula, there was only one exit left.
The two of them swaggered through the streets, all the way east out of the city gate, and it didn't take long to come to the entrance, where a group of about two hundred human soldiers was stationed, all of whom had escaped alive from the dark region, and only when they saw the dark elves or underground monsters would they not panic.
Henry didn't seem to be recognized by anyone, so basically Su Li came forward, as the most important administrator in this land, no one dared to intercept him, and it only took a few minutes to enter the cave unimpeded.
After walking in the dimly lit cavern for about ten minutes, Henry was surprised to find that on the walls on both sides of the tunnel in front of him, there were torches blessed with the "Immortal Flame" at intervals, which seemed to be the work of the dark elf mage, and the road had been cleared and widened enough to accommodate a standard caravan pass.
There is no doubt that this was a special rest for the delivery of supplies, and even the narrowest of places could accommodate six Loesmon walking side by side.
"This is the first project planned by Anteleb a few months ago, and he is quite prescient, if the road is not built first, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get food, salt, cloth, spices and seafood and other daily necessities in time." Su Li took the initiative to stand up and explain.
As someone who had watched the road be built, he admired the magic of the dark elves and the stone magic of the underground gnomes, and if it weren't for the large amount of labor required to build the underground city, he would have wanted to keep some of the underground gnomes behind.
These little men are simply natural builders, and with their strong affinity for the earth element, they can easily cast terrain-altering spells, some of which are as powerful as ninth-level magic.
"Yes, with this road, all kinds of underground specialties can be transported far and continuously, and your glass workshop will not have to worry about the lack of raw materials in the future, it seems that Antleb is doing a good job. Let's go, I can't wait to see what the new underground city looks like. With that, Henry quickened his pace, followed the light of the torches, and soon disappeared at the end of the dark passage...... (To be continued......)