Reggie gave the Bayer people ten days to make a choice. In the end, only 10% of the Bayer people chose to return to their hometown to live. This made Reggie very gratified. He not only saved the population, but also gained people's hearts.
But other people have to pay the price for their choices. All the Bayers who left Broken Snow City have their names recorded, and they can no longer set foot on the territory that belongs to Reggie.
After solving the most difficult problem, the next thing to do is to prepare for the New Year. Reggie will hold a grand New Year's Fair in Zhilin City.
Nipoli brought twenty merchant ships to the White Tower Country. He was responsible for purchasing the main commodities for the annual fair. Edwina recruited a large number of workers. She must restore Zhilin City to its former glory before the annual fair began.
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And Reggie had to solve a complicated problem. He had to determine the time of the New Year's Eve, because different races have different New Years.
According to the Gregorian calendar on the mainland, the New Year of the Laine people is on January 1st, the New Year of the Dongsang people is on January 10th, and the New Year of the Bayer people is on February 1st. The New Year of the Laian people is definitely the main one in the annual collection, but
Reggie didn't want the other two races to be spectators at the annual event.
In the end, Reggie formulated a seemingly incredible plan. The annual meeting started from December 15th on the Gregorian calendar and ended on February 15th, lasting two full months. During this period, all the territorial citizens
Everyone will receive a shopping voucher worth two gold coins, which they can use to buy their favorite products in Zhilin City.
This idea sounds very absurd. In the Origino continent, the market generally does not last more than five days. The annual market in Blue Bay is the largest market in the Lion Kingdom. It usually only lasts about ten days. Even the largest market in the entire continent is Baidu.
The spring market in Tajikistan never lasts longer than a month. How could there be a businessman spending two months in the same place?
As for shopping coupons, this was unheard of. Reggie owned seven territories, and the total number of residents was nearly 100,000. Each person had two gold coins, which would consume more than half of Broken Snow City's savings.
What's even more ridiculous is that Reggie didn't give gold coins to his subjects, but gave them a piece of parchment. How could a piece of parchment be used as two gold coins? Even Finans was dissatisfied with Reggie.
approach has been questioned.
"Sir, do you really want to use parchment paper instead of gold coins? One hundred pieces of parchment paper is only worth fifty copper coins, which is far different from the value of gold coins."
"It is not an ordinary parchment, it is a parchment with the unique mark of Shattered Snow City. It cannot be copied or forged, and it can only be used in annual gatherings."
Reggie took a lot of effort to explain the concept of shopping coupons clearly, but Finans still didn't understand what Reggie was thinking.
"Sir, do you really want your subjects to exchange parchment for goods? This will empty our treasury."
Before that, Nipoli had raised the same question, and Reggie calculated an account for him. He wanted Nipoli to understand that instead of a loss, this money would bring greater gains.
First of all, the New Year's Fair must be popular. But the people of Lane are used to staying at home to celebrate the New Year, and the people of Dongsang have the habit of going to the market, but most of them live on Tuo Island and Spike Island, and they will not travel across the ocean to Zhilin City.
Going to the market, as for the Bayers, their way of celebrating the New Year is to eat up all the food they have in stock and then go out to rob. They have no concept of going to the market.
If some special measures are not taken, this grand annual fair will become a one-man show in Zhilin City. Even its own citizens will not join in, let alone businessmen from other countries.
When the citizens come to Zhilin City to go to the market with shopping vouchers, they will inevitably bring other consumption. They need to eat, stay in hotels, gather together to play during the day, and find the girl they like at night, shopping vouchers
After spending all the money, they will dig into their pockets to buy other goods. Once the desire to shop is aroused, it is difficult to stop. Just like in his previous life, once he received the shopping card, he would keep going to the supermarket to buy.
Things, and his consumption will be far greater than the face value of the shopping card, and all the gold coins earned will eventually return to Reggie's pocket.
Of course, there is no denying that there will be some extremely stingy people who bring their own dry food, eat and sleep in the open air, and leave immediately after spending all their shopping vouchers, but they can still bring popularity to the annual fair. Nipoli understands the importance of popularity
Reggie's intention, because this is the key to the success of the whole year.
But Finans is still a little worried: "What kind of parchment can be made unforgeable and uncopyable?"
This question made Reggie a little annoyed: "Do I have to solve every problem personally? Don't you think of a solution on your own?"
Finans spent three full days and finally came up with a way. He hired the best painters and engravers in the city to carve the appearance of Shattered Snow City into a relief, and added embossed sculptures in some secret locations.
With a special mark, he applied ink on the relief, and finally printed 100,000 shopping coupons on parchment.
Seeing the quality of the shopping coupons, Reggie had to admire Finans' wisdom and meticulousness. If more effort was put into the paper, these shopping coupons could even be comparable to later generations of banknotes.
There are still some difficulties in promoting these shopping coupons. No matter how well-made they are, people still don't believe that a piece of parchment can be used as a gold coin.
Asharif didn't believe this kind of thing. He, his wife, and children received three shopping coupons in total. He originally wanted to throw them away, but his wife quietly kept them. In Asharif's view, there is absolutely nothing like this in the world.
Cheap things, using your sweat to make money to eat, this is the basis of survival.
The New Year is approaching, and he also wants to make more money, at least to buy a few more decent belongings in the department store. Oleg has already set off with the fleet. The income of a boatman is amazingly high, and the work is not that hard.
But his wife did not allow him to go to sea. As a traditional Bayer woman, she had a deep fear of the sea.
Another high-paying job was working as a construction worker in Zhilin City. In order to prepare for the New Year's Fair, Wen Na also spent a lot of gold coins.
But his wife also didn't allow him to go to Zhilin City. The reason was very simple. That place would make men learn bad things.
"Do you think I haven't heard of it? Men who have been to Zhilin City don't want to touch the women at home anymore. You can't make any money in that kind of place. Even if you can make a little bit, you will be deceived by those bitch women.
Let’s go!”
After taking his wife by his side, Asharif gained happiness, but also lost his freedom. Among the remaining jobs, the highest-paying job was road construction, but the work of road construction was very hard. He had to lay bricks on the dirt road, and then
Then he poured asphalt on it, which was very smelly and difficult to wash off if it stuck to his body. Fortunately, he could earn five silver coins a day. At least this income was in line with Asharif's expectations.
During the slack period, the number of workers was very large. Khalaf summoned more than a thousand workers, and it took only ten days to repair the roads in the city. The roads paved with blue bricks were very beautiful, and even the roads in Frost Flower City were also beautiful.
Not so smooth.
This job seems to be over, but there are still ships on the dock constantly transporting asphalt from Spike Island, because the lord still wants to repair the roads outside the city.
Green bricks can no longer be used on the roads outside the city. This is too time-consuming and too luxurious. Khalaf's method is to use stones mixed with asphalt and pour them directly on the ground, and then use stones to flatten them. It's okay to pour stones.
But the work of pushing the stone roller is very hard. It takes twenty workers to push the stone roller weighing tens of thousands of pounds, and the rolling process must be very careful. If the stone roller is pushed just a little bit, the road will be uneven.
Khalaf divided the workers into forty groups, with thirty workers in each group. Each group of workers can build up to two hundred feet of road every day, and most of the time every day is wasted on rolling. According to this efficiency, before the New Year,
The road can almost be built to the dock, but the lord wants to build the road all the way to Hanfeng Fortress.
"How long will it take to practice this?" Asharif was muttering to himself during the lunch break.
"What does this have to do with you? Anyway, it's five silver coins every day." Another worker covered his face with a hat. It seemed that he wanted to have a good sleep. "After completing the task, go home and sleep. We don't
It's not our fault for being lazy, the lord is just a lunatic, why do you have to worry about him?"
It seems that what he said makes sense. He is just a day laborer and he really shouldn't meddle in other people's business.
Today's lunch break was particularly long. Asharif slept in the work shed for two full nights, but the foreman still did not announce the start of work. At dusk, the workers began to become restless. If they could not complete the two hundred-foot project before dark,
I can't call it a day and go home today.
The foreman was maintaining order and the workers were making loud noises. Asharif did not care about the conflict. He had a vague feeling that something big was about to happen.
Sure enough, a roar came from the distance, and a huge monster came down the mountain along the mountain path.
If Asharif hadn't been so frightened that his legs were weak, he might have escaped long ago. The workers fell silent instantly, and some people peed their pants on the spot.
What kind of monster is this? It is more terrifying than the freezing demon Asharif has ever seen.