"Boom!"
The sound of heavy objects being placed on the table sounded. Claire rubbed his chin and looked at the statue in front of him, lost in thought.
After a while, Regan opened the door and walked in, "Master, I bought the mermaid statue from Nakin Town that you asked me to buy." After saying that, he placed the statue next to another statue.
Claire pursed his lips, put the two statues together, and looked at them with squinted eyes.
Half a minute after coming over, he turned to look at Regan and asked, "Is there any difference between these two statues?"
"Uh..." Regan was speechless for a moment, but quickly replied, "The one on the right is more beautiful..."
Claire curled his lips and said directly, "Don't be so polite. Compared with the one on the right, the mermaid statue from Nakin Town is just garbage."
Regan: "..."
He didn't expect that his young master would be so direct. After all, it was produced by the town under his governance.
"Indeed." Regan responded honestly.
The quality of the two handicrafts is not at the same level at all. If you compare the statue of Nakin Town with another statue, even an inexperienced person can tell the pros and cons of the two.
Claire glanced at the two statues a few more times, and then asked, "Have you investigated everything?"
Regan nodded, took out a stack of documents from his arms, and placed them on the table one by one. As the administrative officer of Nafu City, he only needed to give an order to the people below to hand over all the collected information.
Regan picked up the document on the desktop and introduced, "Most of these foreign statues were transported from the three cities of Aogang, Haiya, and Portland."
Claire nodded. He knew all these three cities. They were the three closest big cities to Nafu City. Among them, Portland was a port city and Aogang was the closest city to Claire. Nafu City is the nearest city and has rich mineral resources. Haiya City City is a transit city for the Lixis Merchant Guild and other chambers of commerce in the Southern District of the Kingdom. It started with convenient transportation.
"Among these three cities, Aogang transports the most statues. The quality of the statues in the three places is almost the same..."
"Then what proportion of the statues sold by Nakin Town can be achieved now?" Claire asked.
Regan hesitated for a moment and replied, "There is no statistics on this, but it took a lot of effort to find it when I bought it. Master, give me some time and I will investigate clearly."
Claire waved his hand, "No need."
This sentence of Regan is enough to explain a lot of problems. I bought it after looking for it for a long time. Then I am afraid that the statue from Nakin Town has no market in Nafu City.
After saying that, Claire put his hands on the two statues and rubbed them gently, and fell into deep thought again.
"Master?" Regan called tentatively.
"What's wrong?" Claire responded after regaining consciousness.
"We may be able to restrict the access of these statues to Nafu City, so that the statues of Nakin Town can be sold."
Lords in various places often use this method to suppress the chambers of commerce in other cities, so that other chambers of commerce cannot make profits in their own cities. However, these are things that only small cities can do. The larger the city, the more open it is to the outside world, and the presence of those chambers of commerce can drive the development of the city.
Claire has no such intention. If it is closed, it will do no harm to Nafu City. Moreover, it is just a trivial matter, and it is not that he cannot solve it.
"That's not a big deal." Claire stood up holding the two statues in his hands, "Get ready, I'm going to Nakin Town to take a look."
Regan took a half step back and bowed slightly, "As you command! Master!"
Nakin Town is not far from Nafu City. Claire used Flying Spell to arrive in less than an hour. He came alone this time, and Regan stayed in Nafu City to manage government affairs.
After being still a few hundred meters away from Nakin Town, Claire slowly floated down from the air and walked into Nakin Town.
Compared with the previous time, Nakin Town has undergone earth-shaking changes. When I left, Nakin Town was still under construction, and all the people coming and going were dark-skinned miners. Now there is a touch of life, some streets have been planted with trees, and greening is almost done. It does look like a livable town.
Although it is not as prosperous as Nafu City, it does have a lot of public facilities and services. When Claire came in, he saw many open small shops selling various small commodities. I also saw some children running past me with schoolbags on their backs. Yes, according to Claire's idea, a free public school has been built here. The teachers are the same as Nafu City, and they will take shifts.
After walking into Claire, all you see are the happy smiles on the faces of the residents living in Nakin Town. Compared with the current bustling Nafu City, there seems to be a touch more life here.
After stopping and watching for a while, Claire showed a happy smile, turned around and looked around at the Jianshehe people, then nodded with satisfaction and walked towards Steward's Office of Nakin Town.
When he was still dozens of meters away from Steward's Office, Claire saw a group of people waiting at the door. They put their feet on the ground and looked forward to it. This was because they had received the news from Regan and knew that they were coming today.
Claire As soon as he got close, he heard the leader shouting, "Lord Viscount!"
Then those people standing at the door rushed over and stood in front of Claire one by one.
Claire pursed his lips, focused on the person in the middle and said, "You are the person in charge of Nakin Town, right?"
"Yes, Lord Viscount! My name is Nick!" Nick said excitedly. He is a native of Nafu City. He worked in Steward's Office before Nakin Town was built. He admires Claire very much.
"Okay, Nick, right." Claire nodded, "Just follow me, and everyone else can go get busy."
Nick nodded vigorously, turned around, and asked the others to leave first. When those people left, their faces were still a little disappointed. They originally thought they would have the opportunity to work with the Viscount.
After the swarm of people left, Claire said, "Are those blacksmiths here?"
"I've been waiting for you since I heard you came, Lord Viscount."
"Lead the way and go have a look."
Nick responded and took the initiative to walk to the front and lead the way.
After a while, Claire was brought to the Blacksmith Street on Nakin Town. While still outside the door, Claire could clearly feel that the temperature had risen several degrees.
Claire is quite familiar with this place. It is completely built according to the Blacksmith Street in Nafu City, and the entire Nakin Town city planning design drawings were designed by Claire himself. How could he not be familiar with it.
Blacksmith Street is the workplace of these blacksmiths. They usually forge metal ingots here. The metal ingots they forge here will be taken away by Steward's Office at a predetermined price. Although they cannot make a lot of money, they have a stable income.
And the work is relatively easy. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. The more metal ingots are forged, the efficiency will naturally increase. Sometimes they are not even needed. Just call a few apprentices to forge it. The crafts of those statues were forged in their free time.
As soon as Claire came in, he saw rows of blacksmiths standing at the street entrance. Most of them were recruited during talent recruitment, so they all knew Claire. As soon as Claire came in, the blacksmiths shouted out in unison.
"Hello, Lord Viscount!"
The sound almost lifted the roof. Claire felt a little tinnitus. He reached out and rubbed his ears before it eased a bit.
Then he walked straight to a table and said directly, "I think you all know me, so I will keep the story short."
Then he took out the mermaid statue from Spatial Ring and slapped it on the table, "Pop!"
"Tell me! Who did this!"