The Knight's Journey to the Empire

“Then in terms of economic development: although a commercial zone has been established in [New Ganise City], it is mainly for future trade in goods with the mainland.”

"So overall, the business development in the new territories is still relatively fragile, and the business taxes that can be collected are also relatively small."

"However, in order to promote the supply of materials and the circulation of currency on the island, we have set up four large stores in the east, south, west, and north of the city in the name of the New Ganise City Lord's Mansion to sell various daily necessities or production materials to meet the daily needs of the people."

"In addition, we have also set up a small shop in each of the 15 newly built towns to sell some daily necessities."

"At present, many large-scale construction projects in the territory are recruiting civilian workers through the 'work-for-relief' method. Therefore, most of the people in the territory have some spare change."

"The implementation of these measures has, to a certain extent, curbed the lazy and passive attitudes of the people in the territory; at the same time, it has increased their income and improved their purchasing power, thus promoting the stable development of the territory's business."

"In addition, we have also recruited a large number of skilled craftsmen and rented or hired them to open various functional shops, such as tailor shops, blacksmith shops, pottery workshops, stone workshops, etc."

"So overall, the new territory now has a certain degree of commercial prototype, which can barely meet the daily material circulation needs of the territory; but it is still a long way from reaching the stage of self-sufficiency."

"At the same time, we also organized a large number of farmers and civilians to reclaim large tracts of arable land in the surrounding areas of cities, towns and villages for growing crops, and built several large farms for raising horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc."

"The implementation of these measures, while promoting the development of the territory, also meets the needs of the territory's material logistics supply to a certain extent."

"But due to time constraints, we missed the best time for planting this year, so only a quarter of the cultivated land is planted with grain crops such as wheat, rye and oats."

“The remaining land is planted with legumes such as black beans, broad beans and red beans, as well as vegetables, edible ferns and other crops with lower yields.”

"According to preliminary calculations by officials from the City Lord's Mansion, the output of all crops on these farmlands this year can only meet about one-fifth of the island's total food demand."

"Of course, these are only temporary! When the spring plowing season starts next year and the planting structure of the new territory is adjusted and optimized, the output of these farmlands will probably be able to meet about half of the island's total food demand."

"If we continue to work hard for a few more years and cultivate these newly opened arable lands into 'cultivated lands' through the new 'intensive farming' method, we will be able to be self-sufficient in meeting three quarters of the island's total food needs."

"In addition, the new territory's salt field has also begun construction. It is expected to be put into use in the early spring of next year to produce high-quality [Snowflake Sea Salt]."

"In the future, high-quality [Snowflake Sea Salt] will become a specialty product of our new territory and will be used for trade and material transactions with the mainland."

Soren specifically proposed to build a new salt field on [Qihang Island] to produce [Snowflake Sea Salt].

Because salt is one of the necessities of life, there is always huge market demand and wealth profits.

Especially when it comes to high-quality sea salt, the profits are irreplaceable.

After all, the nobles control 90% of the wealth in the entire society, so the purchasing power of an aristocrat is several times stronger than that of thousands of farmers.

When leaving Ganise County, the [North Fort Changfeng Salt Field] owned by the Earl of Katis's family had been completely destroyed by the army specially sent by Soran.

Among them, the tools, skills, materials, etc. related to the manufacture or production of [Snowflake Sea Salt] were burned if they could be burned, and those that could not be burned were broken into pieces. Even the fields used for drying salt were dug with big holes.

All in all, there is no intact thing in the entire [Beibao Changfeng Salt Field] now.

Finally, all the workers who had participated in the production of sea salt, regardless of age, illness or disability, were packed up and taken to the [Angles Islands], and no one was spared.

The reason why Soran did this was to protect the production process of [Snowflake Sea Salt] to prevent any leakage or omission.

Because in the future development of the [Angliss Islands], Soran also plans to use this [Snowflake Sea Salt] as a price to open up trade channels with the nobles on the mainland and conduct commercial exchanges!

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"Then there is the storage of supplies: Since we made sufficient preparations when we decided to move to the Antilles, the amount of supplies on the island is still quite sufficient."

"For example, in terms of the most important food, the food currently stored in the territory's warehouse is enough to feed the more than 50,000 people on our island for a year and a half. Therefore, in the short term, we don't have to worry about food shortages."

"Moreover, after the shipyard in Canard was relocated to Sailing Island, it rushed to build hundreds of fishing boats. Our Lord's Mansion also recruited many fishermen to form a fishing team."

"The fishery resources in the [Anglican Islands] are relatively abundant. The fishing team can always harvest something every time they go out to work, and sometimes even return with a full load, so this can alleviate the food pressure in the territory to a certain extent."

"However, it is worth noting that the new territory is still somewhat short of precious materials such as gold, silver, copper, iron, cloth, cotton, paper, and pottery."

"So if the new territory is able to trade with the mainland in the future, it can choose to purchase this part of the materials first to replenish the consumption of the warehouse reserves."

"Of course, in order to improve the territory's self-sufficiency rate and prevent the territory from being controlled by outsiders, we have also sent out exploration personnel to conduct field exploration of all the islands in the [Angliss Islands] to see if we can find some metal veins."

"But so far, nothing has been discovered."

"At the same time, we have also opened up corresponding plantations for centralized planting and unified management of cotton and linen crops needed to make cloth and silk."

"Oh, yes, there are also sickles, hoes, machetes, axes and other production tools. As the territory development campaign progresses, the number is consumed relatively quickly, so they also need to be replenished in a timely manner."

"Otherwise, the work efficiency of the people will drop significantly, which will be detrimental to the development and construction of the new territory."

"Overall, the territory's material reserves are relatively sufficient. In the short term of half a year to a year, there will be no shortage. However, if they are not replenished for a long time, it will seriously restrict the development of the territory and even lead to some irresistible crises."

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