Aningsbe People Come to Build the Railway

Goat, goat.

Ate the flowers.

Goat, goat.

Entered the garden.

Goat, goat.

Eating flowers.

Insects, insects, everyone is eating flowers.

Animals, animals, all eating flowers.

Garden master, garden master, why do you weep?

Garden master, garden master, your beloved flowers are on the cross.

Garden master, garden master, your daughter has come to the garden.

Merchants from the north travel with silk around the Principality of Olexian, listening to children's songs in the small town of Baron Kage.

Previously, the merchant Lynn mostly traded with merchants from the Kingdom of Alev in the east. Now he needs to handle some business with the Nobles.

After being ravaged by Werewolves, it's a bit dilapidated, but it's not a problem.

"Lord Green, hello."

"Hello, Baron Kage, I bring greetings from Baron Lynn."

Green took out a road construction plan and a company stock table from his pocket and handed them to Baron Kage: "I'll get straight to the point. Our Lord Lynn wishes to undertake road construction on your territory, establishing a wooden track wrapped in iron sheeting. If completed, this will bring immense profits to both parties. Baron Kage, you can examine the potential benefits within."

Baron Kage's impression of Lynn was still stuck in the memory of reclaiming territory a year ago. Although there have been rumors about him recently, involving the Demi-human Princess, and that some Demi-humans have already surrendered. Lynn even audaciously established a Special Administrative Region for Demi-humans, which is practically no different from the Demi-human Kingdom. This is because the administrator of the Special Administrative Region is the Demi-human Princess, and the region does not have complete jurisdiction. It only manages roads and minerals. As for governance, everyone uses the same constitution, and under the premise of the constitution, Demi-humans can form autonomous regions based on their respective races and enact laws that do not violate the constitution.

However, there are many such rumors about Lynn.

For example, the scandal with the Third Princess Yuffie.

The scandal with the Paladin Leticia.

The scandal with the Saintess Ria.

Everyone listened to them as mere entertainment.

They also treated matters concerning the Orcs as entertainment.

Prejudice in people's hearts is a great mountain, impossible to move no matter how hard one tries. After hearing so much, many people no longer take it seriously.

Baron Kage looked at the document Green handed him, titled Trade System Community.

If completed, it would accelerate commercial circulation.

Lynn would provide materials and technology, and recruit merchants and Nobles to jointly fund the road construction, planning to connect everyone outside the fortress for easier communication.

According to the stock system, Lynn would hold 51%, and the remaining 49% would be diluted among the investing Nobles and merchants.

Then, when people use this road, they must pay a fee, and the annual profits will be distributed according to the shares. It can be said that this is a foolproof plan that benefits future generations, with no possibility of refusal.

However.

"Knight Green, this project of yours is truly too costly and labor-intensive. Baron Lynn has only been in Aningsbe for less than a year, and it's so far away. This road construction plan also requires building bridges over such a long distance, all the way to the fortress. Isn't this somewhat impossible to achieve?"

Green chuckled lightly and then produced a Magic Crystal Ball: "Baron Kage, please rest assured. Take a look at this Magic Crystal Ball."

In the image, six Magical Beasts are pulling many boxes of ore on a track. The speed alone indicates that the wooden track wrapped in iron sheeting is very fast, heading towards Aningsbe. Simultaneously, there are many soldiers in the image wearing uniforms and cloth armor.

Because rivets were used on the outside and iron plates on the inside, Baron Kage could tell it was armor, but he was unsure of the weak points or how many plates were used.

These soldiers have a strap with a pouch hanging below, containing items. Next to it is a wooden stick, similar to a hammer (grenades and ammo pouches).

There is also a short sword.

Furthermore, these soldiers are holding strange objects. Not strange, exactly, but they resemble Matchlock Guns, yet they don't quite.

Matchlock Guns have severe gas leakage and are heavy. As people used them, someone proposed, "Is there any need to continue using such trash?"

Then they were all thrown into the warehouse to gather dust.

However, the scene that followed caught Baron Kage's attention.

A Fold-eared Cat seemed to be training Cavalry, pointing and gesturing.

Those Cavalry were wearing breastplates and holding curved swords.

They were light cavalry.

The problem was the sheer number.

A vast horde, several hundred people.

What Baron has so many soldiers?

Are they sold in bulk?

A Baron can have at most ten Knights, with a few attendants, perhaps a hundred people at most.

A Viscount can have up to several hundred soldiers, with the strongest possibly having a thousand.

An Earl can command a thousand, or even ten thousand.

A Marquis also commands around ten thousand.

A Duke's strength depends mainly on whether they are one of the Western Grand Dukes. The Western Grand Dukes are also border guardians and can have hundreds of thousands of troops, though most do not exceed 300,000.