Aslan smiled and nodded. His career as a politician in his previous life had made his smile completely professional, and he could maintain a friendly smile anytime and anywhere.
"Gawain asked people to move down the goods, especially the linen he just bought, and register them so that they can be sold in the mall next week so that the people don't have to suffer the cold this winter."
Aslan directed Gawain to pull down the daily necessities from the car.
Today's Merlo town is not yet self-sufficient and relies on outsourcing for many things, so Aslan planned the development of the entire Merlo town into a planned economy.
Many things cannot be purchased with money, but require a receipt.
For example, buying cloth requires cloth tickets, and buying farm tools requires iron tickets.
There is no need to buy these things. As long as you work for the city lord's mansion and the lord, in addition to wages, you can also get these notes.
At first, many people could not accept it, but gradually the people were able to accept it. They also strongly supported Aslan's decree, which made all people feel proud to work for the lord and the city lord's palace.
This was also Aslan's helpless move in the early development of Merlo Town. It was because the economy and industry of Merlo Town were too backward.
Aslan took off his gloves and threw them on the table, rubbed his cheeks that were already sore from laughing, and said lightly: "I have been away for more than ten days, has anything happened?"
Arthur took the initiative to speak up about the bait being hooked. Aslan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he smiled and asked Arthur to prepare it.
Looking at Arthur walking away, Essien straightened his collar. Although his hair was gray, the rapid development of the town of Mero in the past six months had unknowingly made him feel more than ten years younger. He said with great enthusiasm:
"Lord, the carpentry factory you requested has been built and production has begun slowly. However, there are not many carpenters in the town, so the output is a bit low. However, I have arranged a group of apprentices to learn. I believe it will not take long.
I can give you a satisfactory answer.”
Aslan nodded with satisfaction. In this world, there are no porcelain products. Therefore, the main tableware in this world are plates and basins carved from wood. The nobles are better. Their tableware is mainly made of silver or gold.
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Furniture is something that only nobles or wealthy businessmen can afford, so the main customers of Aslan's carpentry factory are still nobles and wealthy businessmen.
Mainly with big city residents.
Simply put, the carpentry factory will be a foreign exchange-earning industry for the town of Merlo in the future.
"Very good, how is the textile factory doing now?" Aslan continued to ask.
"The textile factory has officially started construction. It is easy to recruit female textile workers. There are already more than 20 people working. However, it will take a while for the flax in the flax fields to be harvested. The flax in the current factory is wild from the jungle not far away.
The quantity of flax is seriously insufficient, so we cannot continue to increase manpower."
Aslan waved his hand indifferently and looked at a certain place on the map, where Aslan had once developed a huge flax field.
Because of the chaos of magic elements, the output of other crops in the Merlot region, except for bract fruits, has been halved. But Aslan is not worried, because in the next few years, the chaos of magic elements will slow down.
Slowly restore order, and everything will be back to normal by then.
This is also the key reason why the Mero region became one of the kingdom's granaries after the magic elements were in chaos and order was restored.
"Increasing the planting of flax fields, I hope that from now on, the people in the territory will be able to wear the clothes produced by themselves."
Essien and Wilson nodded excitedly.
"Is there anything else?" Aslan asked calmly after hearing about the development of the two factories.
The small town of Merlo originally had a blacksmith shop and a tailor shop, but the scale was small. It was only slowly expanded after it was included in the planned economy. These two industries are relatively old. Before advanced production equipment, they could only rely on
Human operations.
As for why he doesn't make ceramics, it's not that Aslan doesn't want to, but that he can't do it. The pottery technology in this world is very average, and there is basically no room for development.
Except for a few essential items, this fragile and troublesome appliance has been slowly eliminated by the market.
Common people felt that the cost of pottery was too high, and nobles disliked it because it was too ugly. Over time, there was no market for it.
The backwardness of pottery technology has caused porcelain to lose the soil for its birth.
Therefore, before you want to produce porcelain, you must start from scratch, so Aslan first asked people to build a pottery workshop to practice their skills. After a while, he would try to produce porcelain.
"The construction of the cement plant is nearing completion, and the lime mine has been found, but the volcanic ash is a bit troublesome. There are no volcanoes in the entire Melo area," Essien said helplessly.
"Well! There's no rush. When the time comes, contact the Chamber of Commerce in Billy City and ask them to help purchase a batch. It's not worth anything anyway." Aslan said without caring.
Early cement was a mixture of lime and volcanic ash. It may not be as hard as modern cement, but it was enough for a fantasy world. After all, there is a technology tree called magic in this world.
"If nothing happens, let's have dinner together tonight. I can bring a lot of good things when we go out this time." After Aslan finished handling the government affairs for the past few days, he opened his invitation.
Essien naturally agreed. After all, no matter how developed the town of Mero was, it was already a remote and remote place, and there was not much delicious food on weekdays. Therefore, Essien especially liked to come to the Lord's Mansion for dinner.
Dinner was toasted white bread with honey sauce, and simple kebabs, but there was not enough spice, so the taste was not as good as expected. Aslan only ate a little and then stopped, but it didn't affect Will at all.
Letter and Essien's Appetite.
As the guard of Merlot Town, Arthur is naturally qualified to attend, but he does not have high requirements for food. As long as he can swallow it, he will never waste it.
At night, the sky was covered with dark clouds, not a single star could be seen, and even the moon appeared and disappeared.
Aslan was very irritated and put down the notes he had taken in Billy City. He relied on the light from the oil lamp, let alone reading. Even if his eyesight was slightly poor, he might not be able to see the road clearly.
Aslan had a flash of inspiration, stood up suddenly, and rushed to his simple alchemy room to start tinkering. He remembered the magic lamp in his previous life, which was only born about ten years ago. It was a young magic lamp from Claire's Magic Tower in Kyoto.
guide.
Precisely because the magic lamp quickly became popular throughout the kingdom, Claire's Magic Tower made a lot of money and jumped from the third-rate magic force in Kyoto to the top magic force in Kyoto.
It can be seen that the magic lamp brings huge benefits.
At this time, Aslan realized that he had been walking down a dead end. In his previous life, he had been relying on the knowledge of the earth to develop, but this life was different. He still had more than sixty years of knowledge and experience in this other world.