Apocalyptic Dragonborn Lord

Chapter 90 The Great Future
Stannis was writing and drawing in a notebook with a chicken quill pen, and he was calculating the expenses and income of the construction of his territory so far.

Really short of manpower, he can only do his old job again - accountant.

"The main castle*1, including 10 guards, the expenses are 20 gold coins for weekly salary, and 10 food and sundries."

"Barracks * 1, including 1 coach, 20 soldiers, the expenses are 23 gold coins for weekly salary, 15 gold coins for equipment and food, and 1 gold coin for repair and maintenance."

"The water mill*1 earns 40 gold coins per day. Because it is open for six days and repaired one day, it earns 240 gold coins per week. After deducting the loss and depreciation, it actually gets 200 gold coins. However, it can only be closed when it rains, so it is still Another quarter must be subtracted, which is 150 gold coins."

"Dining hall * 1, with an average of 250 customers per day, each person consumes 2 large copper coins together with food and wine, all of which add up to 2.5 gold coins, 2 gold coins in hand after removing the cost, and split the bill with the chef, you can get 1.4 gold coins , a week is 10 gold coins, PS: It seems that we have to do some takeaway services."

"The tavern/club*1 can sell 200 cups of bubble wine every day. A glass of bubble wine sells for 10 coppers, which is 1 large copper plate. The income is 2 gold coins. The raw material is sour water sent by rural farmers. The cost of making wine is zero. At the same time, there are nine girls, each girl entertains 5 guests every day, and each client receives 2 silver coins for whoring, that is, you can receive 9 gold coins from this every day, because you have to share with The girls split half and half, and actually pocketed 4.5 gold coins. And they offered to help clean and wash the sheets, so they saved the money to find the cleaning aunt. The entire tavern earns 6.5 gold coins per day, 45 gold coins per week, and even more on holidays. Doubling it is really making money!"

"Clinic * 1, the monk Romney always said that he lived in seclusion, so he just had to eat and drink, and those herbs were picked by the farmers below, so the cost of the clinic was 0."

When Stannis finished his accounts, he was overjoyed to find that he now had a large balance.

"Income minus expenses, I still have an income of nearly 140 gold coins every week, Yoshi, it's decided, the army will expand by another 20 people!"

The lord announced excitedly.

Robert next to him didn't respond so enthusiastically, "Boss, since you are so rich now, why don't you restore the original amount of pocket money to me."

"That's a beautiful idea!" Stannis refused straight away. He still has a lot of use for the money, and he wants to recover the satellites that were released when he first became the earl one by one.

For example, he has been annoyed by the intricate, muddy and broken roads in the territory.This time, he made up his mind to throw all his belongings in to build a two intersecting gravel roads running north-south across the territory and extending westward from the territory, according to the budget given to him by engineer Speer.

It takes 2400 gold coins to build this huge project...

Stannis finally understood why the former 23rd Earl never wanted to repair the road.

"Where do you get this sum of money?" Stannis propped his chin and thought hard. He wanted to issue bonds to raise funds, but would people in this era subscribe to a piece of paper?
"Boss, if you are really short of money, why don't you start with those fat sheep in the market, there are now more than 50 merchants stationed there, you built such a big market for them for trade, now you can Let’s levy value-added tax!” Robert also learned professional financial terminology from him, knowing that taxes can be increased layer by layer in the process of commodity circulation.

That's right, although there are thousands of gold coins flowing in Stannis' market every day, he has never raised his butcher knife to levy commodity taxes on those merchants.On the contrary, he not only built this medium-sized market that can shelter from the wind and rain for the merchants, but also repaired the road to a large extent to facilitate their cargo transportation. Stannis estimated that after the road was repaired, his territory would be Become the largest commodity trading and cargo transshipment center in this area.

But Stannis's ambitions are far more than that. Since his territory is located at the north-south node of the kingdom, the raw materials received from the north must pass through his territory and be sent to the coastal city-states in the far south, where there are developed handicraft industries to transport the raw materials. Produced as a product.At the same time, merchants bought products locally and shipped them to sell. Because there were only handicraft guilds and rural handicrafts in other parts of the kingdom, the output was low, so most of the farmers and citizens bought products from the south.

Since there is a steady supply of raw materials and huge demand around, why can't I build a workshop to produce products and be the king of capital comfortably?
However, these only exist on Stannis' blueprint. Building a complete industrial chain of workshops is not what he can afford now, because he lacks funds, labor, and technology, and at the same time needs a strong army. To protect his property from the coveted lords of the kingdom.

"Then charge the head office for a booth fee?" Robert's thinking is still at the lowest level.

"No!" Stannis flatly refused. He built his territory into a duty-free zone in order to attract all the merchants from the Eastern Territory, and then firmly control them.

At this time, Bachelor Romon walked in quickly with a letter.

Stannis was surprised, because the old man was not supposed to be here, "I said, old man, shouldn't you be standing at the gate of the mill to collect money, why come here during working hours?"

Bachelor Romon wiped the sweat off his brow, revealing joy in anxiety.

"Your Excellency, this is a letter from Miss Anist Flood. She invites you to her birthday party tomorrow!"

"Annie?" Stannis finally remembered that he had left his fiancée cold for a long time because of the non-stop happenings for a month.

Yes?I have struggled desperately for so long, and I am engaged in construction and reform.But as long as he married into the Frode family, wouldn't all these problems be solved? With such a big backer, he would be confident even if he wanted to be a duke.

"Look at me, how can I forget my dearest fiancee's birthday!" He pretended to pat his head to show his annoyance.

Everyone looked at him with contempt, because everyone knew that Earl Justin was faking it.

"Don't look at me like that!" Stannis pouted, then he stroked his chin and thought for a while, "This banquet is the best chance for me to have a good relationship with the Frode family, and I want to prepare a big gift To my little Anne."

Robert looked at him in surprise, "Boss, don't you want to pay back the money?"

"Repay the money?" This is indeed a good way to promote relationships, but...

(End of this chapter)