For Kalya, Lux, and Forsbarrow, the arrival of the Winged Sisters is just a small episode.
Even though Kalya started planning for Mount Targon with the help of this episode, at least for now, Forsbarrow's focus is still on the subsequent grid connection project.
After several years of construction, the main project of the Forsbarrow Canal has now been completed. Only partial dam construction and two key projects are needed to connect the Melan River and the artificial lake before it is completely completed.
As long as these two parts of the project are successfully completed, a canal originating from the artificial lake under the Longji Mountains will meander southward, pass through Forsbyro and Xinfucheng, and join the Yinlin River in the north of Velos to join the Meilan River.
river.
By that time, the entire northern Demacia water network will be fully connected, and northern cities such as Forsbarrow, Mithril City, Velos, Lithos, Temuera, and Bursari will be connected through the water network.
closely connected together.
By then, although bulk commodities will not arrive overnight within the scope of the northern water network, the cost will still be significantly reduced and the speed will also be greatly increased.
In addition, when the water network was about to be connected to the grid, the shipyard of Fosbarrow also officially started trial operation. This small shipyard is located next to the artificial lake. The main public bus from Fosbarrow to the artificial lake is
For the boat builders who work here to commute.
A small number of these shipwrights are veterans. They were hired by Ino at a high price when he passed through Bilgewater. These old sea dogs may be tired of the days of wandering on the sea, or they may want to avoid enemies, and finally choose to take them with them.
Their belongings came to Forsbarrow to build ships here; and most of the remaining novices were a group of apprentices recruited by Forsbarrow through clerks. Some of them were hunters who found that hunting could not support their families, and some were
The fresh graduates who just graduated this year and failed to become clerks or northern travelers, although they don't know anything about shipbuilding, at least they have some ability.
Through this model of bringing the old with the new, a simple shipyard framework was built. The Royal Master helped them build a small factory by the lake. For most of last year, the rookies worked in this small factory every day.
Saw wood, drive nails, and became familiar with ship construction.
To this day, this small shipyard cannot build sea-going ships, but it is no longer a problem to manufacture cargo ships for small-scale transportation on rivers.
More importantly, compared with other shipyards in the northern part of Demacia that are still family-owned workshops, this shipyard has initially shown its scale. Even if most of its members are out-and-out rookies,
If a factory with three hundred people is well-organized and has full power, it can build a 100-foot cargo ship in three to five days without any problems - and this is enough to crush all other shipyards.
It is foreseeable that if people later realize the profits of northern trade and a large number of merchants flock to the north, this shipyard will receive a steady stream of orders.
With sufficient manpower and ample wood in the Dragonspine Mountains to the north, this small shipyard will soon bring a bit of Forsbarrow's shock to Demacia!
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As the saying goes, build walls high, accumulate food widely, and become king slowly. In the past four years, Lux and Forsbarrow have almost completely disappeared from the sight of Demacia. The only mithril city that can be praised by others
The battle was not well known to the public because the royal family deliberately kept a low profile.
In the eyes of most of the nobles in the capital, Laxana, a paragon of nobility, was currently fulfilling her responsibilities in Forsbarrow to guard the borders of the kingdom, and had moved far away from the center of politics; while a small number of fiefdoms bordered Lacus.
The nobles were slightly aware of some changes in Forsbarrow, but their understanding of this change was not clear enough.
Just like Magu Zika, Lord of Veroth.
In his opinion, Laxana is a person who knows how to run a business and is also a very graceful noble lady. Since she took over Fosbairo, the sales of dairy products in Velos have increased significantly.
Magu got the hint early and decisively increased taxes on dairy products - so, three years later, the dairy tax allowed Magu to build a brand new manor for himself.
As a "country noble" who seldom socializes in the capital, Magu is not familiar with Laxana's typical aristocratic side, but this does not prevent him from thinking that Laxana is a good neighbor.
Although there were many people in Velos who hated Laxana and even said bad things about her to Magu (such as several mining businessmen in Velos), Magu ignored these idiots at all.
What is your identity? Don’t you have any idea in your mind?
In order to increase the income in the territory, Magu would also invite these businessmen at banquets in the past, and accept their toasts, or dance with their daughters or nieces, but this was just to make it easier for the tax officials to collect taxes.
A little bit - just like scratching the back of the pig's neck when feeding it.
In the final analysis, those businessmen are just like pigs in a pigsty.
However, these idiots who have no idea at all actually still cry to themselves with a big face, saying that the Forsbarrow people robbed their business?!
Every time he thinks about this, Ma Gu gets angry. His business has been robbed. Why the hell won’t you take it back by yourself?
Are you looking for any use to me?
Not to mention, you idiots still have to come to me at the banquet and make me look embarrassed in public...
Is the tax you usually pay me comparable to the new income that Forsbarrow brought me after Lady Laxana came?
climb!
As a result, the Velos mining businessmen who were accustomed to "tax avoidance" were completely defeated and annexed by the Forsbarrow Mining Association.
The mining merchants of Velos have finally tasted the pain of the Fosbarrow people who had no one to top them. In order to obtain high taxes on dairy products and food trade orders, Magu directly traded with Laxana and sold them.
These bastards don't really like to pay taxes according to regulations.
Magu's experience is the epitome of the relationship between many places in the north and Forsbarrow - when Laxana became the lord of Forsbarrow, while developing Forsbarrow's economy, she also branched out.
A certain amount of profits were made, and the profits were distributed to these northern fiefdoms through noble communication. Throughout the northern territory, Earl Laxana's reputation can be said to be quite good.
Fosbairo needs to buy large quantities of grain, dairy products, and meat products, and sell mountain products and aquatic products to neighbors at lower prices. Although in the process, Fosbairo sometimes makes some achievements in industries such as mining.
However, for the lords in the north, after Laxana came to Forsbarrow, their lives were much better.
The food that can usually only be sold to the royal family at a low price now has a more generous buyer; the dairy and meat products specializing in various places have brought more special tax revenue to the lords; the defeat of the Freljord's attack means that the northern territory
More stable...
Under such circumstances, everyone is naturally willing to have a good relationship with Forsbarrow.
Even when Forsbarrow said that he wanted to "expand the channel of the Seasonal River and build a canal," many lords took the initiative to give "Forsbarrow's merchant ships no tolls."
Even if most of the Crown Guard branches in Mithral City have extremely poor senses of Lux, other lords in the north would often just laugh at it after hearing about it and regard it as a conflict between the clan and the branch.
Not to mention, under Kalya's planning, "poor relationship with the side branches" even became Lux's advantage.
Just like the Nidu family whose fiefdom is in Temuera, because the main family is weak and the side branches are strong, they have launched some special cooperation with Lux and sold part of their textile industry through trade with Fosbairo.
In exchange for a large food order and a large amount of cash.
After receiving the news, the manager of the Nidu family branch burst into tears at the family meeting.
"The grain output in Temuera is not high. Farmers can only grow cold-resistant barley and oats, and they can only harvest once a year!" Facing the clan head, the old man was no longer as aggressive as before, "Weaving is our foundation.
Ben, whether it’s the wool of Forsbarrow, the velvet of Velos, or the cotton of Lissos, we must let us weave it! Weavers are the source of Temuera’s wealth!”
"No, that does not belong to the Nidu family, but to your little family." In response to his tears, the patriarch of the Nidu family just wanted to sneer, "Dear uncle, I am the lord of Temula, and I only have power.
Collect land taxes and tenant rent, this is what you said."
"If you really need it." The old man's face was extremely gloomy. At this time, his house was set on fire by a naughty child, and his strength was completely drained. "Then you can completely charge the weavers a weaving tax instead of
They all gave it up to the Forsbarrows..."
"I didn't give them to the Forsbyro people." The young patriarch raised his lips slightly, "I just shared Temula's food with them in a friendly manner after Ms. Laxana gave Temuera a large food order.
Mulla's textile technology, this is the friendship and communication between noble families."
Chief Nidu, who had always been criticized by the old men from the side branch in the past, was extremely happy at this time - as the lord of Temula, although he was theoretically the owner of this land, because Temula is located in the north and has a cold climate, the fields are cut off all year round.
I can't even collect a lot of taxes.
As for these bastards from the side branch, they took advantage of the time when they and their parents went to the imperial capital to engage in the textile industry in Temuera as sheriffs or tax collectors. As a result, they became rich, but the leader of the clan only made himself rich.
Being able to live in a leaky castle...
I told them before about collecting the weaving tax, but both of them said that they couldn't collect it and that they couldn't collect it. They also used the trouble caused by the previous two crop taxes to scare themselves!
Are you now taking the initiative to collect weaving tax?
Too late!
Count Laxana is indeed a model of nobility, and the skills she taught him in dealing with side branches are really useful!
After understanding the secret of the core "Strong Root and Weak Branch", Chief Nidu directly sold the textile technology in his territory in exchange for Fosbarrow's large food order and cash.
Objectively speaking, this business is somewhat of a loss between Fosbairo and Temuera.
But for the head of the Nidu family, this business is a huge profit!
Weaving makes money, but not a penny of it ends up in your pocket, but food orders and cash are real!
Temuera's experience represents another method used by Lux and Forsbarrow - if there is a conflict within a certain fiefdom in the north, she will intervene as a "friendly neighbor" and choose one side.
Give "friendly help".
As for the result of help, the recipients often get what they want, while Forsbarrow receives a new industrial foundation.
Nowadays, in addition to fishery, aquaculture, spice cultivation, mining, fur processing industry and shipbuilding industry, Fosbairo also has certain capabilities in the textile industry, paper industry, ceramic industry, salt industry and other fields.
In these industries, most of Fosbairo is still at the level of "only technical reserves" or "only a small number of practitioners", but this does not prevent them from being precious seeds that will take root and sprout at the appropriate time and grow into a company.
There are towering trees and a forest inside.
Now, although Forsbarrow is not yet capable of becoming a leader in all fields, this does not prevent various industry associations led by clerks from trying to contact the main practitioners in various industries in the north through private channels.
, trying to establish a set of industry standards.
The quality grading of luxury goods such as mountain delicacies and spices, the unified specifications of woolen cotton and linen, the detailed classification of ceramic types, the hierarchy of salt and grain...
We are all from the North. In order to prevent quality problems in the products produced in the North and damage the reputation of the products in the North, let's sit down together to discuss a standard and directly establish a monopoly alliance. Wouldn't it be nice?
Wouldn’t it be great if we all work together to come up with a standard and directly turn the Northern Territory into a brand?
In order to convince them, various trade associations of Fosbairo also cited Fosbairo Fur as an example.
In the past three years, Forsbarrow's furs have almost completely monopolized the fur industry in the north. Now when buying furs throughout Demacia, they will ask "Is it from Forsbarrow?" This is largely because
Forsbarrow's furs have a clear hierarchy.
This unified standard of fur manufacturing made Forsbarrow's fur a de facto brand. Combined with its low price, it defeated the fur industry elsewhere in one fell swoop.
Regarding the statement put forward by the Vosbello Industry Association, the big businessmen from other places all brightened up after hearing the words - a unique business such as the mountain delicacies and spice industry is fine, but like ceramics,
Businessmen in industries such as cotton cloth, salt, and grain that did not constitute de facto monopolies quickly realized the huge profit margins.
If Northland can really be made into a brand, then its products can be the same as Fosbarrow's furs, selling better and more expensively!
Establishing industry standards is a matter of great benefit and no harm to the big businessmen who are in the leading position in the industry!
In this way, representatives of various industry associations from Forsbarrow have successfully participated in the formulation of standards for various industries. Even if they are not leaders, they are still participants.
So, this winter, while the Royal Lawyer construction team was sweating profusely on the riverbed and working hard to connect the northern water network to the grid, the clerks and representatives of various industries, under the instruction of Lux, began a unique undertaking.
Connected to the grid.
The integration of water grids can connect shipping waterways in the north, reduce transportation costs, and physically connect the north more closely.
The integration of various industry standards to the grid will make the connections between various industries in the North closer, and people in various industries will become more recognized as "Northerners", laying a foundation for the integration of the North.
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In the eyes of the lords in the north, Count Laxana is cheerful, enthusiastic, and always polite.
But they didn't realize that this noble model had a strong and powerful heart hidden under his warm, cheerful and polite appearance!
In the spring of the fifth year of Fossberg's calendar, with the opening of the artificial lake and the release of water, the connection of the northern water network to the grid was completed.
In the summer of the same year, the main industries in the north, including the textile industry, salt industry, fur industry, mining, and ceramics industry, were integrated into the industrial network through internal negotiations within the industry association.
It took a full four years for Lux to wield the two pile hammers of the Archon and the Clerk to drive two solid combined piles deeply into the building of the Northern Unification.