The chaos in Cold Wind City will eventually calm down, and Zhou Qingfeng does not want to focus too much on the internal fighting among these powerful people. After digging out the secret room of the Supervision Office ruins, he led the team to exit Cold Wind City and entered the city.
Outside the Fabro estate.
As the 'Chief Alchemist', Fabbro has a territory in Cold Wind City. However, he is not good at running it, so he only used a small part of the territory to build a manor. There are only more than 300 people in the manor, and they mainly serve Fabbro.
Luo.
But Fabbro's territory is actually quite large, with a total area of seven or eight square kilometers. Five kilometers north of Cold Wind City, vast stretches of wilderness, rivers, hills, and woodlands all belong to this 'Chief Alchemist'. Now
Belongs to Zhou Qingfeng.
Standing on the hillside of the manor, you can see the edge of the black forest in the distance and the towering ice mountains. The melting glaciers on the mountains converge into rivers that meander through this place.
The terrain here is flat, the land is fertile, and the water is abundant. If you work hard, you can cultivate thousands of acres of farmland and feed tens of thousands of people.
Under the sun, the wind was cold but extremely refreshing. Facing this new territory, Zhou Qingfeng sighed with emotion: "Fabro is a waste, sitting on a treasure but not knowing how to use it, wasting the land and water here.
From today on, this place will be renamed the 'Fuqiang Dominion'. I am the lord of this place. The government agencies of Harmony Village will be moved here.
Hilly, Rubio, and Wilson, I appoint you as the chief minister and deputy minister of the ‘Rich and Powerful Territory’. It’s up to you to set up the management structure.”
After Zhou Qingfeng's death, everyone in the Harmony Village system gathered together to accept appointments from the lords in turn. Government affairs, military affairs, agriculture, commerce and trade, medical and health, engineering construction, education and training, etc., all had to be assigned designated officials.
"Mobilize key personnel from Harmony Village and resettle all the thousands of refugees recruited here. It is winter now. Before spring next year, I will build enough houses, dams, ditches, farmland, and workshops here.
We started in the Black Forest, but our fortune lies here. As long as we develop steadily for two years, there will no longer be a shortage of food, cloth, timber, mines, and iron. The entire Northland will be our expansion space."
Speaking of excitement, Zhou Qingfeng raised his whip and galloped on his horse. People crowded behind him and followed closely. Iron hooves were rolling all the way, and he was full of high spirits. When he arrived outside the manor, the original manor housekeeper and more than 300 slaves knelt down to greet him.
Zhou Qingfeng looked down from the horseback and laughed loudly. He was no longer a country bumpkin from the Black Forest. From now on, he was a real nobleman with great power - capable, famous, and territorial. No one could despise him in the slightest.
After killing Fabbro, Zhou Qingfeng led the team to clean up the abyss sacrifices, and now he had time to count his harvest. Rubio reported to him in a low voice: "Master, Fabbro's manor has a small population, but he himself
The business is very big.”
As a 'Chief Alchemist', it is natural for him to be rich. Fabbro manufactures and sells potions and magic items himself, and his subordinates will not be idle either.
"Are you in the grain business?" Zhou Qingfeng is most concerned about grain.
The food output in this other world is low and agricultural technology is backward. The northern land is extremely cold and bitter. It can only be cultivated one season a year, and the average wheat yield per mu is only a few dozen kilograms. Farmers have to grow some miscellaneous grains to make ends meet, and residents are generally malnourished.
"No." Rubio shook his head and said, "Fabro monopolizes half of the precious metal mines around Cold Wind City. Especially the river in his territory is a treasure.
Bruno from the forge said that the river flows from the Icefield Mountains and becomes gentle here. A large amount of gold sand has been deposited in the sediment at the bottom of the river. There must be a large gold mine at the source of the river."
Gold mine?!
Zhou Qingfeng was shocked.
Fabbro had more than 300 slaves, half of whom were engaged in gold mining. During the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, they would go to the icy river water to sift gold sand. The sifted gold sand was packed in small glass bottles, and the golden sand was very beautiful.
Because Zhou Qingfeng arrived very quickly, he had strong control afterward. There was no disturbance among the people in the manor, and all the buildings and properties were preserved. Rubio presented bottles of gold sand in his inventory like a treasure, which shone brightly in the sun.
"Arcee." Zhou Qingfeng called softly.
The Mechanical Magic Girl stepped forward to take the glass bottle containing gold sand, poured out a little to distinguish, nodded and said: "Master, this is indeed gold sand, of high grade. I can conduct a systematic exploration of the entire river in the territory, and there should be some
More to discover.
Once a mine is discovered, we will have better technology to separate and screen it, so we don’t need slaves to work with their hands, and the mining efficiency will be higher. I feel that there is not only gold here, but also other minerals."
When it comes to mining, the efficiency of machinery is hundreds of times that of manual labor. Even with a centrifuge, minerals with different specific gravity can be easily screened out.
Hahaha..., Zhou Qingfeng smiled and scratched his head, "Although I am not short of money, no one would dislike having too much gold in their hands."
Gold is a universal hard currency. Anything more precious than it is not as large in quantity. Anything larger in quantity is not as precious as it. Whether in other worlds or in reality, gold has good circulation.
Rubio also fawned over: "Sir, Fabbro was originally the largest coin merchant in Cold Wind City. He used the gold sand in the river to mint currency, and he became extremely rich."
Fabbro was finished, and Zhou Qingfeng got all the inheritance. Gold is also a kind of magic metal. In the underground alchemy laboratory of the manor alone, more than half a million gold coins were found.
Well..., Zhou Qingfeng nodded solemnly when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "We will also do the work of minting coins in the future. But gold should not be leaked out. We should work hard to promote our 'platinum coins', which can be compared with gold coins.
Peer-to-peer exchange.”
Zhou Qingfeng had previously exchanged cheap silver from the real world for gold in Cold Wind City, and at the same time promoted cheaper 'iron coins' and 'platinum coins'.
The "iron coins" made of stainless steel are extremely popular. The common people lack a "universal currency" and have long hoped for a auxiliary coin with a lower value than copper coins.
But compared to the 'iron coin', the 'platinum coin' promoted by Zhou Qingfeng is less recognized. His 'platinum coin' is not platinum, but an aluminum-zinc alloy. It is a 'dime' coin in the real world.
What a scam!
The density of aluminum-zinc alloy is low, and it is light and gives people a low-end feeling. However, aluminum is a metal that has its own special characteristics. It must be obtained through electrolysis in order to obtain it on a large scale.
Don’t expect ‘electrolysis’ in other worlds, aluminum is a genuine precious metal.
Zhou Qingfeng wanted to obtain a large amount of gold through exchange, but aluminum-zinc alloy was generally boycotted. So he could only..., "In the future, our platinum coins and gold coins will be exchanged at one to one. Ten to one is indeed
It’s a bit too unscrupulous.”
Rubio was ignorant, but he also knew that his master's "Platinum Coin" was probably relatively inferior. Arcee and other strange maids knew that the "Platinum Coin" was more than inferior. In the real world, even doors and windows were soon made of aluminum.
"We have the ability to mint coins, so we can open banks in the future. The current loan sharking in Cold Wind City is terrible, seriously hindering the development of business and economy. The bank we open can completely attract businessmen with low-interest loans.
The interest rate should not be too high, as long as the annual interest rate does not exceed 36%." Zhou Qingfeng was cheerful. Everyone else felt that the interest rate was really low, except for the strange maids who all rolled their eyes.