Chapter 213: The Landlord’s Daughter
On the long table in the Endless Tower restaurant, Ganouen sat at one end of the long table, resting his face on his hands and looking at a stack of documents in front of him.
"Why do I have to deal with more and more documents every day?" Ganon estimated the thickness of the documents and glanced at the five princesses sitting on both sides of the long table.
"I can't help it. Your territory is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people. Naturally, there are more things to take care of." Zhenna, who was sitting next to his right hand, explained seriously.
"To be honest, I don't know how to deal with internal affairs at all. Can't I leave it all to you?" Ganouen felt a little troublesome. "You all have received corresponding education in this area, so you must be better than me." "Okay.
" Well, then who are you going to hand over the financial power to?" Zhenna crossed her hands and raised her eyebrows.
"..." Ganon was speechless.
Naturally, he still has full control over the territory's financial power. The fact that he is now more generous than before does not mean that he does not value his own treasure. There is no negotiation for him to hand over the financial power to others.
This also means that any project that requires money in the territory needs to be approved by Ganon himself.
"Here are basically projects that require money, waiting for your review." Zhenna made an inviting gesture toward the documents on the table.
"I don't want to read it even more." Ganon sighed, but he still started to review the documents submitted by everyone today.
The first document was submitted by Zhenna. She proposed that the soldiers previously captured from the Principality of Xihe and the Empire be moved out of the Endless Tower and establish a village in the southern part of the territory.
Of course, the investment in building various infrastructures in the village must be allocated by Ganouen.
"The construction of the Endless Tower has been completed. There is no need to arrange additional manpower in the tower. It is very troublesome to manage so many people living in the dungeon. It is more cost-effective to let them reclaim land and build villages in the territory." Zhen Na explained.
"Is it really more cost-effective to spend such a large amount of money to build a village? These people are all trained soldiers. Anyway, we have to raise them as troops. They will be the same wherever they live." Ganon looked at it. The budget amount was frowned upon.
"You have to take a long-term view. Building a village in the right place can establish various industries in the village and attract more people to live in it. The land here is so fertile and the yield is so high, it will definitely attract some residents. Yes." Zhenna replied.
"What's the use of this?" Ganon asked casually.
The princesses except Anellojie looked at each other in confusion, and then replied to Ganouen in unison: "You can collect taxes!"
Ganouen was startled.
"You can't turn so much territory into farms. To develop the value of the land, you have to let people live on the land." Anya explained, "Don't worry, there are often refugees in the border area and the northwest region. You can put them there." Introduced to live in your territory."
"Would anyone be willing to live where the red dragon lives?" Ganon asked.
"There will always be. There is an allusion in the past. In order to avoid taxes and labor, people in a village fled near the dragon's lair. They would rather sacrifice to the evil dragon regularly than suffer the exploitation of the lord in their hometown. For some It is very difficult for people to find a piece of land suitable for living. As long as a village is built and the taxes are reasonable enough, sooner or later someone will move here," Zhenna said.
Ganon glanced over and realized that the girls in his tower were all daughters of landlords in terms of their origins, and he himself was now, to put it bluntly, a landlord.
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you. I'll ask Shitou to get the money for you later." Ganon only glanced at the budget amount before responding, and then flipped through the next document.
This is a budget report submitted by Isabel to expand manpower for farms and ranches.
As the territory expanded, the scale of the farms and ranches operated by Ganouen also became larger and larger. Now, it can no longer be managed by the two families of Cohen and Luliye who have been running the farm.
Although he can also let the stone control a large number of golems to deal with it, that will consume the magic power stored in the Endless Tower.
So Ganon considered hiring a few druids from Muxia to take care of the farm, and asked Isbell to ask for help.
"Is it so expensive?" Ganon frowned.
"Keen and the others have been working for you for almost nothing. You may not feel it. Hiring talents with god-given professions is not cheap. It is the same everywhere." Isabel replied.
"Let's hire a group of people to support them for a while first. When the village mentioned by Zhenna is built, we can then mobilize the people there to do it. When there is no war, let them do some logistics." Ganon approved. , and then look at the next document.
This time it was submitted by Mora. Mora wanted to expand the scale of the forging workshop and also requested to recruit a group of more craftsmen who knew smelting and forging from Shaman City to help.
"Your army has expanded to this size. The current workshop production can no longer keep up with the demand for equipment and needs to be expanded. In addition, when I went to Muxia before, I also learned a little about the processing technology of the elves, and I wanted to make some Development. In the future, I may need to hire four or five skilled craftsmen as assistants for a long time. When I was in Shaman City, 'One Eye' seemed to know some craftsmen with decent skills. I think I can let him introduce and hire a group of them." La explained to Ganon.
"Okay, let's go back and find the stone to get the money." Realizing that this was also a necessary expense, Ganon looked at the budget amount and approved it.
Next is a summary of intelligence submitted by Anya, as well as a proposal. These days, Anya's men continue to collect intelligence in the Empire and the Realm of Death.
After another failed attack on Garnorn's territory, the empire seemed to be on its last legs for the time being. This march was mainly led by Prince Aliu. Once Prince Aliu died, the empire naturally had no intention of continuing to fight.
However, the number of troops stationed at the Dragon Fortress has expanded a bit, and it can be seen that the empire has become significantly more vigilant towards Ganon - this is natural, after all, he not only defeated Lucio again, but also killed a The blood prince, the people of the empire recognized his rapid growth and felt that he was a huge threat to the empire.
Over in the Kingdom of Death, after the death of Prince Aliu, a vampire duke who was once a relative of Prince Aliu soon claimed dominance in Dark Night City and Red Moon City, and began to deal with other competitors. From various indications, this The vampire duke must have been supported by the empire. Through this method, the empire got the opportunity to build a factory in the kingdom of death.
In addition, just as Angost warned before, Ganon's reputation has spread further and further. Now in the Kingdom of Death and the Papal Kingdom, the legend of "the evil dragon in the border area snatches the princesses of various countries" is spread. There were even rumors that the lords of various countries in the northern and central parts of the continent were beginning to feel insecure, fearing that the red dragon would target their daughters.
Regardless of how true or false these statements are, Ganon's reputation has undoubtedly spread from the north to the center of the continent.
According to this trend, it is probably only a matter of time before it spreads to the entire civilized world - this should be inseparable from the empire's fueling the fire.
"It's really troublesome." Ganon shook his head.
It was useless to think too much about this matter. Based on the civilized world's understanding of dragons, he had no way of clarifying this matter. Who would believe that the princess in this tower was basically given away by himself?
As for the proposal submitted by Anya, she asked Ganouen to facilitate regular intelligence sharing between her and Angst.
Like Anya, Angst also took a group of labyrinth elites with her when she left the Night Blade family, and she always paid attention to the trends in various countries.
Angost now lives in a cave on the edge of Ganon's territory. She has not signed a contract with the Endless Tower, and will not act as an ally of Ganon. She is just living here temporarily.
"If you want to exchange information with Angst, why don't you mention it to her directly? Are you friends with each other?" Ganon asked casually.
"Do you think she will listen to me? And it's really troublesome to talk to her." Anya's face was full of reluctance, "Just take some time to go with me today. What's the deal?" "Okay
. Come on, let's set off after the meeting." Ganon put it down and finally turned to the last one.
The writing on this document was a bit crooked, and Ganouen could only recognize one signature: "Annie, I can't recognize your handwriting." "
I haven't written in a long time." Anne She whispered to her fingers, a little embarrassed to be said so in front of so many people.
"So what do you want to say to me?" Ganon was a little confused.
Compared with others, Anellojie had almost no work to do in his territory.
The only thing she has to take care of is a group of undead as reserve combat force, and these corpses only need to be buried in the bone burial ground for preservation. Moreover, she is not needed for the layout and management of the bone burial ground. They are basically all her subordinates. of death knights in processing.
"I would like to apply for a little more blood supply, just one meal a day." Annie said cautiously.
As she gradually merges with the source blood, her demand for dragon blood is also increasing day by day.
"Okay, at least you don't need to spend money." Ganon finally finished processing all the proposals and let out a sigh of relief. "I feel like my time is getting less and less." "Most
things are basically done by us. Come on, you still have at least half a day to eat and sleep every day. What's there to complain about?" Anya said and stood up, "Let's go see Angst." "I'll go too!"
Isabel He also stood up.
"Why are you taking part in this matter?" Anya glared at Isbell displeased.
"What does it have to do with you? Just go and do your business." Israel looked at Anya and suddenly narrowed her eyes suspiciously, "Why, do you think I disturbed your time alone with Ganouen? Any chance?"
Anya's face suddenly changed: "W-what are you talking nonsense about?"
"Why do I think you have been looking for Ganouen more often since you came back from Late Summer?" Isbel still stared at Anya.
"Where is it? Don't look for trouble!" Anya patted the table and stood up, "You can follow me if you want! Let's go quickly, don't waste time!" (End of this chapter
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