Chapter 301: Road construction! Bridge building! Offense and defense change!

Spring is coming soon.

The full moon cast a new layer of green on the vast land.

The frozen riverbed has also thawed.

The silvery white river water keeps flowing.

If you stay in Crescent Moon Harbor, you can still feel the sound of the sea waves hitting the shore, but in Full Moon Territory, you can only feel a few wisps of moist sea breeze.

Rand and Taran are supervising people to build the road.

"Compact the soil for me. I'm telling you, don't be lazy. I have records here of who built which section of the project! If you cut corners, the lord will hold you accountable indefinitely!" Taran roared with a whip in his hand.

In fact, Taran felt that if anyone dared to cut corners, they should just be hanged. There was no need to hold them accountable indefinitely by saying something incomprehensible.

What kind of life did they live in the past? Being a bandit was not an easy life. If you wanted to rob someone, you had to risk your life.

Moreover, if injured, there would not be much chance to recover. When he was young, Taran, as a bandit leader, had to reluctantly give up many of his companions who had lost their fighting ability.

Because there was simply no extra food to take care of the wounded.

Later, when Taran became the chief of a village, he was still exploited by local nobles and might even be robbed by other bandits.

It feels like no matter what you do, you have to try your best to survive, and it also depends on luck.

Taran also got to know the villagers under his command. They used to live a very bad life.

In peacetime, you have to depend on the tax collector's mood and the lord's thoughts. But once there is any turmoil, it depends on luck whether you want to avoid starvation, freezing to death, or being robbed and massacred.

Now Lord Rand has come and brought them advanced farming techniques, so that they will not freeze or starve to death even when the weather is bad.

They also provided them with shelter so that they would not be robbed or massacred by other nobles.

Now Rand needs them to work and has paid them corresponding wages. If anyone still dares to cut corners, they deserve to be hanged!

But Rand was watching here, and as an official figure, Taran couldn't say anything too extreme, so he had to read the documents Rand gave him.

Rand watched Taran supervising the workers with a whip on his face and fierce eyes.

I can only say that he is worthy of being a bandit leader in the past. He is just different.

Mingming seems very steady in normal times, and is very skilled in handling official documents and local affairs, and he has a very good reputation.

But when it comes to this, he turns into a vicious bandit leader.

That's fine, at least it seems to be efficient, and no one is actually whipped by him.

It seems that these people are working very hard. If this happens, the main roads can be replaced with brick and stone roads soon.

Brick roads are much smoother than gravel roads, and unlike gravel roads, they do not become muddy when it rains.

However, brick roads also have a disadvantage, which is that they are as easily damaged as gravel roads.

Bricks fired in the kiln are inspected, but no matter how strong the bricks are, they will break if they are constantly run over by wheels and trampled by horses.

It is estimated that it will require extensive repairs in three to five years.

But within ten years, Rand will surely find a way to promote concrete pavement.

At that time, bricks and stones will only be used to build houses. Brick and stone houses are not only warmer and more comfortable than wooden and thatched houses, but can also effectively prevent the spread of fire. They are excellent building materials.

"Let me see the map." Rand said to his secretary Olenna, who was standing beside him, as he watched Taran urging the workers to build the road.

Olenna handed Rand a general map of the Lunar Counties.

There are many lines drawn on it. These lines are the roads planned by Rand and the top management of the hideout.

Especially Olena, who was a top student from the University of the White Country, and she had even learned a little about urban and rural road management.

After discussions among top leaders including Rand, the current road plan was drawn up.

It is still unclear how many percentage points the traffic efficiency can be improved, but it is bound to be a significant improvement.

Moreover, the technology for building arch bridges was already available in this era, which allowed bridges across rivers to not hinder the passage of small boats.

It is expected that by the end of this year, which is the fourth year since Rand came to this world, the Earldom of the Moon Phase will be able to complete the construction of brick and stone roads on all the main roads.

At that time, Rand's port was almost able to make initial profits.

In fact, it is already profitable now.

Rand arranged some small boats and planned some fishing grounds near the coast. Seafood near the coast is now available, although the efficiency is very low.

But it is rare.

And Rand had already built an ice cellar.

After being transported frozen, the sea fish is still quite fresh.

Now more and more nobles want to come and invest in the port.

"The bidding is about to begin." At this time, at Rand's request, Olenna put on glasses and looked very bookish.

After realizing that Olena's knowledge was better than he thought, Rand arranged for someone to make a pair of glasses for Olena! Rand sighed, feeling that he was becoming more and more stupid.

"Okay, I'll be there now."

This place is not far from Man Yue Territory and can be reached quickly by horseback.

To accommodate current needs, Rand has set aside an open-air area as the venue for the bidding conference.

Things are different now.

At the beginning, Rand wanted to attract investment, but he had to talk for a long time to the strong men sent by the kingdom.

But now, as the family forces behind the kingdom's strong men have come to participate in the investment, especially the Grand Duke of Thorn has invested a lot of money and materials.

The Black and Brown Marquis and the Stag Earl also invested a lot of wealth.

The nobles in the country realized that the construction of Rand's port would definitely be a profitable business.

And it looks like this port will soon pay off.

When Rand's iced seafood appeared on the tables of the domestic nobles, the domestic nobles realized how great the benefits were.

So the situation is different now. Everyone wants to invest in Rand, and Rand can be picky.

That's how bidding works. Now the offense and defense have changed! Looking at the lively meeting, Rand narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.

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After a while, Rand came to the front.

"Any questions?" Rand asked.

"Excuse me, what is the bulk transaction guarantee service?" asked a noble in the audience.

Rand smiled and began to explain.

Finally someone is starting to care about this service.

This is Rand's attempt to advance the economic system of this world.

In this world, unless there is a divine weapon, an exotic mount, or some rare gem, the nobles' large amounts of silver and gold coins can only be spent in war.

Most of the time, these coins could only lie in the warehouses of the nobles.

The money lying in the warehouse is dead money and has no significance to the economy.

And now, because Rand is going to build a port, a lot of money has been leveraged and started to flow.

This money will be exchanged for manpower and material resources and circulate within the Frost Moon Kingdom. Then, as the port of Rand is built, it will be converted into more manpower, material resources and currency.

In this process, Rand can operate to a certain extent.

For example, he can provide a guarantee.

"I will guarantee some nobles and merchants with good credit. For example, when there is a large transaction at the port, I will pay the currency on their behalf to complete the transaction directly, rather than waiting until both parties have their money and goods in place. Of course, I will still charge a guarantee fee of about 1%. If it is a noble who has invested in the construction of the port before, the guarantee fee will be reduced to 0.5%."

"And if you don't want to pay the guarantee fee, you can also store your money with me, and when you need to trade, you can withdraw it directly from me."

The former could bring huge profits, while the latter would give Rand control over a large amount of money.

In fact, it is the use of credit currency. In this turbulent era, if you want to promote paper currency, you will basically lose everything, or it will simply become a joke that no one cares about. Even state guarantees are not possible because the possibility of national bankruptcy is not small.

However, it is still possible to simply apply economic principles. If it can be really implemented, a port investment and construction bank can be established.

In the early stage, this bank will only participate in the port's economic cycle and will not participate in other things. In order to gain trust, Rand will not transfer the bank's money to other places in the early stage.

As for the latter, once the bank really obtains a large amount of savings, it will be difficult for it to actually go bankrupt as long as Rand Credit does not go bankrupt.

Lending is not the only way for banks to make profits.

The nobles and leaders in the audience were talking about it.

Rand explained it very clearly, this is indeed very convenient and can reduce a lot of losses.

Without the guarantee service, large-scale money transactions would be quite dangerous. After all, the nobles did not all have good relationships with each other. Moreover, once there was a lot of money, this world had top-level professionals, and the money might be robbed when it was transported to Crescent Moon Port for trading.

Large amounts of money often require armies to transport.

The deployment of troops will bring a lot of consumption.

This is true for both buyers and sellers, except that now, these nobles are just buyers.

When the port is officially completed, at least Rand will be able to trade with the White Kingdom and several other northern united countries with coastal lands.

If they were merchant ships recognized by all countries, they could also go to some southern countries to trade.

By then, sellers will also be sold this model by Rand.

After all, they are transporting a lot of money back home, and they also have to face the threats of pirates and aquatic intelligent creatures, right?

Then whether to let Rand guarantee or store the money with Rand, it is a very good choice.

Normally, you just need to record the money here in Rand. When you really need to transport the money back home, you can settle it once a year.

The nobles off the field all felt that Rand was very smart, thoughtful and considerate, and had considered things so far ahead.

Rand quietly looked at the nobles who were discussing the matter below the stage. This would undoubtedly be a win-win situation.

When the bank is truly formed and both parties of the port transactions settle accounts here at Rand, their money will become numbers that only change in the account books, and the real money will not even need to appear in front of them!

(End of this chapter)