Li Ang In the past two months in Dexia, he has basically collected all the property in central Dexia.
In fact, central Dexia is the richest place in the entire Duchy of Dexia.
The noble people of Toba City have been robbed of nothing by Emil Xixis;
The horses of the nomadic tribes under Gazi Mountain were also dirty by Li Ang and Agason;
Aishikeman is the largest commercial port in Dexia. This place has not been robbed, but merchants have been doing business in this area, and they are also very profitable. It is estimated that Dexian people has spent almost all of its cash.
In the past two months, the merchants have handed over nearly 200,000 dinars to Li Ang as a share, or the 'military business tax' – which is actually protection fee.
From the protection fees paid by the merchants, we can roughly calculate the profits these merchants made while accompanying the army in Dexia.
The total profit they made in Desha must have exceeded one million dinars, because the protection fee was 20%.
When doing business in enemy territory, merchants are generally more honest when paying protection fees. After all, if they offend Li Ang, they may not be able to come back...
A total of almost 5,000 merchants were dispatched with the army, which means that the per capita profit was about 200 dinars.
Of course, it is unclear how many merchants there are in total. After all, there are merchants of all sizes, including large merchants with hundreds of people, and mom-and-pop shops with two or three people.
But in any case, two months have produced an average profit of about two hundred dinars per person, which will definitely satisfy the businessmen. After all, the businessmen only need to pay each employee a salary of two to three dinars...
In fact, Li Ang's 'legitimate gains' from this war have already been distributed.
The nearly half a million dinars obtained in the Toba City bank are legitimate trophies, and most of them have been distributed as rewards.
The 200,000 dinars handed over by the merchants in the past two months were also distributed by Li Ang to his soldiers and the various lords who responded to his dispatch of troops.
The initial purchase price was more than 600,000 yuan. Li Ang was indeed very generous in spending money.
These legitimate benefits are actually an interest relationship deliberately created by Li Ang.
To put it simply, it is to create a consciousness that "you can make money by following Lord Li Ang", and the benefits are obtained from the right path - no robbery, no harm to civilians, but more money than robbery.
Li Ang has always distributed these benefits according to the number of elite troops dispatched by each lord, and it is not distributed directly to the soldiers, but to the knights.
On average, each knight would receive around 1,400 dinars - this was far beyond the expectations of the little lords.
I followed Marshal Li Ang on a trip to Dexia, and I didn't suffer any losses. The journey was extremely smooth, and I made a net profit of more than a thousand dinars in two months. Where can I find this kind of business? I can't earn so much even if I follow Duke Brennus.
No wonder Long River Town people always say that 'war is wealth', and you still have to follow Lord Li Ang to fight...
In fact, Eric has always felt that the lord was too generous with his actions. He felt that even if it was to win people's hearts, there was no need to spend so much money. It was simply a waste of money.
It is normal for Eric to have such thoughts. After all, he is not used to being a rich man yet - the reward Li Ang gave him was a bag of jewelry worth more than 10,000 dinars. When the guy took the bag, his hands were shaking.
You know, two years ago, he was still working in the promising industry of mercenary, earning a high salary of ten dinars per month - indeed a high salary. For the Pande Continent young and middle-aged civilians, the per capita annual income is only about twenty dinars.
Eric When you work as a mercenary, you can earn in two months what an ordinary person earns in a year. You are indeed considered a high-income person... After all, this is a business where you tie your head to your belt.
But unlike Eric, a guy who has never seen the world, Li Ang has his own logic.
--Money is for use, but you can't give birth to it if you keep it in your hands.
Allowing every knight who follows him to send troops to earn money will not only allow these knights to identify with Li Ang and form a willingness to follow, but also allow them to develop a new input-output thinking...
After all, Li Ang distributes money according to the number of elites. This is a simple logic that knights can easily understand - you can't fight with Lord Li Ang. The more elites you dispatch, the more dinars you can get.
Therefore, most of the knights in the group army sent their trusted retinues to follow the merchants to Long River Town - they were protecting the merchants all the way, and they were somewhat familiar with each other. Of course, the merchants of Long River Town would give them some discounts.
They went to purchase equipment in large quantities, especially armor.
Because soldiers wearing armor can be counted as elite soldiers by Li Ang. The more armor they have, the more dinars they can get in the next battle.
After all, the next war is obviously around the corner - Bacchus Empire has declared war on the Lionheart Kingdom.
And where is Long River Town?
This is where arms dealers gather.
When Pioneer Lord was a poor man, Li Ang purchased military supplies from Long River Town.
In the past two years, Lionheart Kingdom has had a lot of troubles, and Pioneer Lord certificates have been issued very rarely. The business of the arms merchants is actually not very good. In fact, it is only supported by a few big customers such as Amy, Godric, and Li Ofric.
Li Ang himself didn't buy much - in his army, Noldo Elves and Meitengheim people all brought their own equipment, and the war horses were all stolen. In other words, hundreds of sets of equipment were purchased at the beginning of last year to arm the non-commissioned officers.
Finally, a new team of 'Silver Hand' was formed, but the new equipment was handed over to the Noldos to build, and the merchants of Long River Town basically failed to make any money from Li Ang.
After all, after Li Ang took over Long River Town, the situation in the eastern region has gradually stabilized, and the demand has become less. Naturally, the sales of armaments and supplies are not as good as before - the more chaotic the world is, the better the sales of arms.
But now, Long River Town's arms market has been revitalized again.
And the inventory is quite active - the spot goods in the hands of merchants are cleared within a week, and the orders have been queued up for two months.
There are even many knights who pay high prices for urgent orders in order to get the equipment in advance.
So all the workshops and blacksmith shops in Long River Town began to work overtime, and it seemed that all of Long River Town had no idlers at all - everyone was called to work.
In other words, most of the money Li Ang distributed to those knights returned to the hands of Long River Town's businessmen...
If there is no demand, create demand. As the lord of Long River Town, Li Ang naturally wants to benefit one party.
Businessmen naturally have to pay taxes when doing business. At the same time, if they make more money, they will deposit it in the bank...
So the money naturally returned to Li Ang's hands.
Therefore, the money must be spent - the dinars will find their own way back anyway.
The merchants had just made a fortune in Dexia and had sufficient capital. They were currently overwhelmed with orders, so they were naturally very generous when purchasing raw materials.
This has made the business in the villages and towns around Long River Town boom, especially the leather, steel sheets, grease and felt used for armor-all are specialties of various villages in the eastern region.
Now, not only are businessmen spending a lot of money to purchase raw materials, Li Ang himself is also spending a lot of money.
In order to spend money smoothly, he found Amy again...
Sometimes spending money is indeed harder than making money.
After all, most of the things Li Ang wants to buy are not very easy to buy.
This time, the lord's purchasing goal is to purchase grain and cloth from the entire continent.
In addition, a large number of building materials and craftsmen must be purchased.
Not to mention grain and cloth, this is still Li Ang's monopoly plan. Of course, now his monopoly target is not just the eastern region, but the entire Lionheart Kingdom... and even the entire continent.
As for building materials and craftsmen, this is of course for the purpose of large-scale construction.
The Lord plans to build many things.
The reconstruction of Shield Wind Fortress has not yet been completed, Calundru Castle needs to be renovated, Wheat Fragrance Territory needs to be expanded, Trublen needs to be restored, Long River Town also needs to be renovated...
In addition, Salem also needs to be filled with immigrants - this is a subordinate village of Calundru Castle, located next to the Sava River. The land is quite fertile, but it was previously uninhabited due to war.
If Salem is tidied up properly, at least tens of thousands of acres of fertile land can be obtained.
There are also roads connecting the territories, as well as the road from White Deer Fortress to Noldo Forest, all of which need to be repaired and widened.
In fact, it is a comprehensive renovation of the territory, all of which are infrastructure projects.
Of course, infrastructure is very expensive, but as the richest local tycoon in the entire Pande Continent, Li Ang's first consideration now is how to spend all the money he has.
After all, you can't eat gold and silver if you keep them in your hands.
But why do we need to build infrastructure?
Because other ways of spending money are no longer suitable for Li Ang's current territory - what Li Ang wants is population, citizens who are willing to actively move to the territory to live long-term.
He now lacks neither troops nor food, and he also has status and fame. The only thing he lacks is population.
Li Ang's territory is already quite large. With the effect of sending troops to Dexia, the entire eastern region should be willing to obey Li Ang's command. However, the population directly under Li Ang's management is only about 50,000 - this is because many immigrants were brought in from the Bacchus Empire.
The rebels coerced by the gladiators are in Calundru Castle, and the villagers of the original Fidne are rebuilding Shield Wind Fortress.
Even if White Deer Fortress is included, the total is just over 60,000. This population is really too small.
But at this scale, it is impossible to ask businessmen to spend money to buy immigrants - it is a drop in the bucket and will not have much effect.
Li Ang can only build the territory into a safe, livable and prosperous place, and let people from other lords' territories switch to their own territory.
So we can only do infrastructure construction.
In fact, for rulers, the infrastructure construction of the territory is equivalent to comprehensive development.
Because no matter what age people are, they all have one most basic purpose of migration - to seek wealth.
That is, job opportunities.
Expanding castles, building houses, improving roads, and improving public security will consume a lot of money and create countless jobs.
And people will come from thousands of miles to follow these jobs. Maybe... these migrant workers can be called "long river drifters"?
These migrant workers from far away will find that due to the shortage of people, there are more job opportunities and higher wages here, so they will stay and work here with their families and gradually become part of the place.
Infrastructure construction will of course consume a lot of money, but no matter how much money is spent, it is actually cost-effective.
Because all of this money is actually spent within the territory - either in the hands of migrant workers or in the hands of local material dealers and contractors.
Then the money will still be used in the territory - people's consumption of food, clothing, housing and transportation will be completed here, and eventually most of it will flow back into the bank.
No matter what kind of consumption, businessmen have to pay taxes...
And entering the bank is actually equivalent to entering Li Ang's pocket again - you can continue to invest.
And as the territory is built better and better, there will be more job opportunities, the population will increase, the territory will become more prosperous, and more and more money will flow into the bank - this is actually a positive cycle.
From the ruler's point of view, as long as the money does not flow abroad, it is actually endless.
In order to ensure that money does not flow abroad, it is necessary to make the territory better than any other country - so it is necessary to invest in infrastructure construction.
Li Ang Now there is no need to worry about the operation of the bank. When the reserves are sufficient to a certain extent, it is difficult for the bank to go bankrupt.
After all, he started issuing large denomination credit coins of ten dinars and one hundred dinars a few months ago, which are enchanted silver coins produced by Noldo. They have been used in large-scale transactions between Noldo Forest and merchants, and many big merchants are already familiar with them.
The magic silver coin with a face value of ten dinars is called 'Silver Deer' because the Mithril rune embedded on it by the Noldor is in the shape of a deer. The deer is a favorite image of the Noldor and a symbol of the elves.
In fact, the only function of this rune is to emit a little blue shimmer. According to Wendilf, this was originally supposed to be the lighting technique in magic. But the Noldor without magic can only make the ebony wood glow like fireflies, which is useless for lighting. It is quite elegant when used to make coins.
The main body of the magic coin with a face value of one hundred dinars is made of gold and copper alloy and is called 'Golden Griffin' - the runes look like griffins, which is the coat of arms of Li Ang.
However, this gryphon rune will emit purple light, which looks a little more dazzling... but it is still an unsuccessful illumination rune.
In fact, the lord originally planned to let the Noldor try to use his image and engrave his image on the gold coins. This may be the wish of every ruler.
However, it was later discovered that the enchantment cannot be pressed with a template and must be carved by hand, so Griffin crest was used instead - otherwise the output efficiency would be too low.
The Noldor all have obsessive-compulsive disorder. It doesn't matter if the deer is abstract, but when carving a human head, they won't stop until it's lifelike.
To be honest, apart from the labor cost, the cost of these two credit coins is quite low because their net weight is less than ten grams.
The cost of Silver Deer is only about three Dirham, and the cost of Golden Griffin is only three dinars. Even if all losses are included, the cost is only one-thirtieth of their face value.
These two high-denomination currencies have now begun to be used. Businessmen love this luminous magic coin far more than other jewelry. They have even started a series of comparisons - that is, showing off their wealth.
Therefore, now Li Ang can use the money in the bank with confidence and boldness, as long as it always ensures that 20% of the reserve fund is not used - this is a very conservative approach, to be honest, only 10% of the reserve fund is enough.
So Li Ang devoted himself to infrastructure construction, and Amy started large purchases again.
However, this time the purchase was not so smooth.
Food, cloth and the like are okay, Amy already has enough experience.
Building materials and the like are also easy to deal with. Long River Forest has a lot of wood. Isildur is even trying to start a wood business now.
And Dengjier Mountains also has a lot of stones. As long as you give money, someone will naturally be willing to get them.
The main trouble comes from craftsmen and some people with ulterior motives.