The victorious security forces were being inspected by Li De.
They were established just before the army set off. They were affiliated with Haggard's Ministry of Civil Affairs, with a full strength of 500 people. However, the force now has less than 300 people. Because entering this force requires a series of screening and training
and assessment, and finally can be officially enlisted in the army.
Strict standards have created the combat effectiveness of this force. This time the venture capital company organized more than 800 people. In addition to goblins, there are many races such as centaurs, tauren, trolls, and even black iron dwarves from another continent.
!
Venture capital companies are best at recruiting desperadoes of various races, and then organizing them into violent groups, enslaving weak intelligent beings to sell their labor, or mining ores or collecting herbs, and then hoarding them to drive up prices.
Because they were all desperadoes, they were extremely courageous and dared to provoke any enemy. Unfortunately, almost half of the men they sent lost their lives in the Shining Plains this time.
They entered the Shining Plains from the Thousand Needles from the north. Their purpose was to take advantage of the situation and directly attack Gadgetzan when the Bilgewater Cartel fleet attacked Hope Port!
Unfortunately, Haggard and the others were already prepared for this. Zul'Farrak, located in the mountains of the north, could always monitor the movements in the north from the mountains. As soon as the group entered Thousand Needles, news about them came to them.
The goblin locomotive was delivered to Gadgetzan.
Due to the numerical disadvantage, Haggard did not take the initiative to attack and chose to rely on the favorable terrain to intercept all the enemies within the Shining Plains.
In this battle, Deputy Civil Affairs Officer Fan Cleef, who had always kept a low profile, finally showed off his ability as a master of stealth. He touched the enemy commander behind his back and slashed his head!
For this fruitful victory, Li De praised him heavily, but what he wanted to do was to recruit and train more military talents in the future, so as to save the embarrassment to the point where even Van Cleef went to the battlefield. This master architect has more important
A position for him to shine.
Although the results were outstanding, the offensive and defensive battle was not without losses. The thugs from the Venture Capital Company, seeing that they could not enter Gadgetzan, retaliated by destroying the Shining Plains Circuit.
Although the news had been received early and the staff of Glitter Plains had withdrawn, many facilities such as the racing track, mining field and salt field had suffered serious damage: as an organization established by goblins, the Venture Capital Company was in no shortage of explosives.
"These bastards have ruined the Shining Plains into this state... The racing track will no longer be able to operate in the future... I have already done some tax reform, but they were ruined by those guys!"
Nogfogg couldn't help but said in despair, which aroused Li De's curiosity at that time.
“What tax reform?”
As soon as this was mentioned, Noggenfogg suddenly became energetic and introduced it vividly.
"After the new spinning machine was put into production, I decided to focus the main source of finance on import and export trade, and the workers also received relatively considerable wages.
So I decided to stimulate internal consumption and lowered the tax rate for merchants. At the same time, the transaction tax on daily necessities was also reduced a lot.
But at the same time, I have also formulated new regulations to impose heavy taxes on luxury goods and the entertainment industry. As you know, the income of the racing track has always been considerable, so that more tax revenue can be returned to the finance and used for infrastructure construction.
This was originally planned, but now it has been destroyed by those guys. Even if it is repaired, with the war with the Bilgewater Cartel at sea, the game can no longer be held."
Li De was immediately in awe after hearing this. He was indeed a professional. The redistribution made him understand the game clearly.
But then Li De began to doubt the authenticity of what Noggenfogg said. You must know that an important reason why Li De and Nogfogg have always had a harmonious relationship is that when they established the Hanhai Protector, everyone's
Not a penny of private property has been touched.
The racing track, which occupies a large area of the Shining Plains, is still completely Noggenfogg's own business, and the governor does not have any shares in it. Including the subsequent taxes, the tax rate for the racing track is also very polite.
You must know that people are all selfish, especially according to the goblins' greed for gold coins, how could they take the initiative to cut off their flesh?
Thinking of this, Li De asked half-jokingly.
"My Lord Minister, you didn't say that on purpose because you couldn't continue the competition, right?"
After saying this unintentional joke, Li De could clearly see Nogfogg's face turn red.
"How could it be! It's true that goblins love gold coins the most, but everyone has their own way of loving them.
The guy Rivergaz's love for gold coins is to collect more gold coins and then hide them, or build a big statue of himself to show off his wealth.
I am different from him. Gold coins are my belief. I want to praise the power of gold coins and use gold coins to create a greater world!
But the few gold coins in my current finances are not enough to support my idea. How many businesses with huge potential are dazzling in front of my eyes!
I have a lot of gold coins on hand, but I can't spend them. Those industries with huge potential are all vital lifeblood. I invest my own money in them. One day, guys like Haggard and Niebuhr may
I have to tear it into pieces to feel at ease.
Taking gold coins to invest in other existing public industries or banks is the same as above.
So the best way is to put my money in the financial system legally. To be honest, Anderson doesn't understand economics at all except shipping.
Whether I put my money in the treasury or my private treasury is the difference between my left and right pockets, and our territory is my chessboard.
By now, the Protector and I have been inseparable for a long time. If you don’t believe me, go to the spinning factory and see the hundreds of thousands of whirring spindles, each one praising my daughter’s name!”
Li De realized his mistake on the spot. He thought it was just a casual joke, but to Nogfogg's ears, it sounded like he was insulted.
He quickly admitted his mistake to the other party and comforted him with words. Haggard and the others also followed suit with dumbfounding laughter. It took a long time for Noggenfogg to regain his composure.
This incident left a lesson to Li De. As a leader, he should not be too frivolous in his words and deeds. In his position, every word he said might be taken seriously.
But then, Li De discovered that in his desperation, he had overlooked an important detail in Nogfogg's words.
"One hundred thousand ingots? One hundred thousand ingots!"
As soon as he vowed not to be careless and frivolous in the future, Li De didn't hold back and let out a roar that could penetrate the clouds and crack the rocks.
Looking at Noggenfogg, Bigwhiz, Haggard, VanCleef... all of them were silent and full of pride, as if they were saying to Li De:
Please translate for me, what is a surprise?
Dai Lin, who had been standing behind Li De, had questions all over his head. Ever since he came to Hanhai Protector, he felt that his eyesight was not enough.
Everything here was so novel to him. There was actually a city full of flowers and grass in the desert! What made him even more incomprehensible was that all the managers here had a high-spirited spirit.
Even in his heart, the goblin, which has always been synonymous with greed and cunning, has a courage that he cannot imagine.
Now he heard Li De's roar again, which made his eardrums hurt. He plucked his ears slightly unhappily, and then asked in confusion.
"What one hundred thousand ingots? What are you talking about?"
Li De didn't reply directly because he hadn't gotten over the shock yet. Good boy! One hundred thousand ingots. He now understood why the Bilgewater Cartel directly sent warships to attack. This was not to touch other people's interests, but to pursue their interests.
Let people die!
Thinking of this, Li De cast an apologetic look at Dai Lin with some sympathy.
Even though I was mentally prepared for this, our Marshal Dai Lin will really understand after a while: what the fuck, what a fucking surprise.
Regarding Li De's apologetic look, Dai Lin was wrong again. He thought that the big business he had promised was about to fall through, but now he was not so urgent.
Because seeing the prosperous Hanhai Protector, he suddenly felt that even if there was no big business in a short period of time, he would definitely find excellent business opportunities here.
This time Li De didn't overdo it. The win-win cooperation was for everyone to make money, and he didn't go there just to scare anyone. He always pretended to be mysterious and ended up embarrassing everyone. This was the whole job.
Who is watching?
"Marshal Dai Lin, what I want to invite you to visit next is our spinning factory. A few months ago, we invented a new technology that can produce yarn in large quantities. The production speed is dozens or hundreds of times that of traditional handicraft industry.
That’s not all.”
Dai Lin's concept of spinning is still based on a single-wheel spinning machine. Hearing Li De say this is just bragging. How fast can spinning be?
"Your spinning wheels are better than others? Or do you have more weavers than others?"
As a noble leader with a naval background, it is rare to be able to ask such a question. Li De stopped talking and just took Dai Lin to see it.
The factory was located in an open space in the Gadgetzan Industrial Zone. There were no factory buildings around except the cotton mill. From a distance, everyone saw thick smoke billowing out of a row of large chimneys.
It was something Dai Lin had never seen before. Why was the spinning mill emitting smoke?
After approaching the factory, a group of guards stood in front of the double iron doors, which made Dai Lin even more curious. Does spinning still need such strict protection?
Seeing Nogfogg and others, the factory protection team immediately came forward to greet them. Then they saw Li De in the crowd, and the guards were even more surprised.
The cotton mill is very important to the Hanhai Guards. Even when foreign enemies invade, they continue to stick to their posts and do not give any unscrupulous people a chance to steal information. That's why these team members know about Li De's return.
Li De, the guard captain, has an impression. He was originally a soldier in the new army trained by Niebuhr. However, during the process of military reorganization established by the Guards, he was transferred to the Security Section of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Unexpectedly, he was now promoted to captain.
Already.
After patting the captain on the shoulder and whispering a few words of encouragement, Li De signaled them to open the iron door and let everyone enter the factory.
"Be mentally prepared."
He quietly said something to Dai Lin, which was also a reminder to himself. After saying that, Li De raised his head and walked forward.
There was no need for Li De to remind him. In front of him was a scene that Dai Lin had never seen before. In the clean and tidy large factory building, workers shuttled back and forth, putting buckets of seeded cotton into the machine, and then the workers who operated the machine turned them into cotton.
Carded fiber into buckets.
Then another group of workers turned the barrels of fiber into wide slivers. After several processes, the wide slivers were turned into thin slivers. Finally, they were put into the spinning machine and spun into yarns.
The thread is wrapped around the rows of spindles!
Everything was so neat and uniform. The workers took out the spindles wrapped with yarn and placed them on the trolley next to them. On the trolley, there were piles of yarns piled up in rows.
"this……"
No words are enough to describe Dai Lin's mood at this moment. This production mode that is completely dimensionality reduction makes him really don't know where he is.
A small Jenny machine, after technological improvements, can burst out such energy.
"Not only did you not speak out loud, I even thought you were very polite to me at that time."
It took a long time to hold back such a sentence, and Li De was filled with emotion.
"To be honest, I didn't even think that they could do this. Before I came back, I thought it would be very rare to get 10,000 spindles. How many spindles are there in this workshop?"
Li De has always been charging forward, either building wonders or killing demigods, constantly creating miracles. So everyone else is holding back their energy. This time it is finally their turn to create miracles.
.
"This is all the joint efforts of everyone. Bigwitz and the others conquered the technology, Minister Haggard approved the land and people, I am responsible for allocating funds, and the priests of the monastery asked the respected Loa to boost morale. It has only been two months.
time, this factory was finally built!
Although production started only one month ago, the first day's output successfully reduced the price of Kezan's yarn by ten percentage points! Later, we put some more into the market one after another, which completely angered those guys, and the rest
All of them are still piled in the warehouse.
To be honest, we don’t dare to produce at full capacity. There are 5,000 spindles in workshop No. 1, and there are 20 such workshops in this factory area.”
"Two...twenty!"
Dai Lin was really going crazy. He began to ask humbly how to operate these machines. When he heard that they were powered by steam engines, Dai Lin looked around the boiler like a child and looked carefully. But he didn't want to,
Bigwitz, who was explaining to him, suddenly reminded him thoughtfully:
"You'd better stay away from there. The boiler hasn't exploded today."