Lord of the North

The ceremony lasted all morning. In addition to commending the expedition team members, Jason also announced some future decisions in the territory.

He felt that it was necessary to let his citizens know about these things, otherwise it would be easy to cause resistance from the townspeople if they were announced and implemented without warning.

After all, some decisions will affect the interests of some people.

The most important thing is that winter is about to enter. The winter in the north is a bit long. It starts from November every year and ends in February of the next year. For five months, the north will be covered with ice and snow. under.

If there is a little less grain harvested in one year, it may not be enough for the residents to survive the winter.

So Jason decided to build a granary in the town to avoid people starving to death in winter.

Another thing is that there is a large lake to the west of Tieya Town. It is said that there are a lot of fish in it, so he decided to investigate it after a while. If the conditions are right and the lake freezes, he may be able to carry out a big fishing!

In this way, the food source of the people will be guaranteed, but it will affect the business of the merchants. You must know that the grain business in the north can bring them a large amount of income every year.

That's why Jason issued this order in advance to prevent merchants from hoarding a large amount of food, maliciously raising food prices, and at the same time avoiding their losses.

If they are not satisfied, Jason has nothing to do, just ignore them, there is no perfect solution.

Jason had to think about his own interests first.

"This is miserable!" Some businessmen sighed there after the ceremony.

"Yes, I shipped a large amount of grain from the south in advance, so I might lose money."

"It's all our fault that we didn't inquire about the temperament of this new lord, otherwise we should have some ways to deal with it."

"I thought I could make a lot of money, but I didn't expect to pay the transportation fee."

"You said, can we go and bribe the new lord?"

Some people have a wrong idea, because many nobles in the Lopez Kingdom are extremely greedy, which is one of the reasons why the kingdom began to decline.

"Hmph, have you forgotten the corpses hanging outside the city gate before?" Another person sneered. Jason's purge had frightened these people.

"Okay, don't make any wrong thoughts, sell these grains to other territories, at least we can guarantee that we won't lose money this year." An older businessman finally said.

"It's all the fault of the Kyle family. This new lord is also blind. The Kyle family can cooperate..." Another person complained that since the Kyle family came to the north and reached a cooperation with Jason, this situation has caused a lot of trouble. The caravans had to lower their prices a lot.

This can cost them a lot of profit.

"Hush!" But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by another person, who looked around nervously: "Is this kind of thing we can discuss?"

Discussing and slandering nobles on the street, if discovered, will be punished.

"Let's go, everyone will think about it carefully. The most important thing is not to throw these grains in your hands."

"That's right, let's go!"

The group of businessmen stopped talking and went back separately.

On the other side, when Jason was wondering why Gareth hadn't been seen from the beginning to the end, Eve squirmed over.

"Well, Lord Marquis." She was a little embarrassed, with a tangled expression: "Where is Lord Gareth? I... have something to ask him."

"Ah, Gareth!" Jason didn't know, so he turned his gaze to Lancelot.

"Gareth went to the military factory." Lancelot replied, and glanced at Eve with a smile by the way.

"Huh? What are you doing at the military factory?" Now it was Jason's turn to be curious.

This guy should first report to himself about the situation in Erbia, right?

"He heard that a master blacksmith came to the military factory recently to be responsible for the equipment, so he hurried over to ask if he could help him improve the equipment of the army in Erbia." Lancelot said helplessly.

Erbia's equipment is indeed much worse than that of the regular army in Iron Tooth Town. Erbia's army still wears iron-inlaid leather armor, or even ordinary leather armor.

The infantry army in Iron Tooth Town is all equipped with half-body iron armor, and the equipment of the archers is similar to that of Erbia. After all, these people don't need to go forward to fight.

Recently, Jason and Lancelot have jointly purchased a large amount of iron ore to build equipment and equip the heavy infantry.

Now that Rodney is in charge of teaching the craftsmen the forging skills, the quality of army equipment is absolutely up to standard, and there is no problem with the heavy armor that he dared not make before. As long as the gold coins can keep up, Jason is confident that he can forge it in a year. A heavily armored unit.

"What a quick temper." Jason spread his hands towards Eve, expressing that he didn't care about his own business, it was Gareth who didn't come over.

"Is that so." Her eyes dimmed for a moment, but she didn't say anything.

"You're missing him, aren't you?" Jason asked with a funny look at her.

"Impossible! How could that be? Why would I miss that guy!" Eve waved her hands instantly after hearing that, never admitting that she would miss Gareth.

She said that Gareth was the first person she met in Iron Fang, so she cared about it, yes, it was the caring between friends!

But her flushed face was not convincing.

"Okay, but I happen to be going to a military factory, do you want Miss Eve to come with you?" Jason invited with a smile, and said naturally by the way.

"By the way, meet that friend of yours."

"It's okay, I haven't seen me for so many days, so I have to ask if he sent someone to notify my family." Eve replied indifferently, her eyes fluttering.

Then Jason asked Alexis and Lorna for their opinions, and after getting an affirmative answer, he smiled and said, "Haha, let's go then."

Alexis and Lorna are also curious about this military factory, which is responsible for the production of equipment for the entire territory, but there is no secret at all, so it doesn't hurt to bring people in to have a look.

Now Jason has recruited more than a hundred blacksmiths from the territory, and Jason from outside Iron Fang Town has brought their families into the town.

The salary of these people is very high, the reason is that Jason hopes to let the citizens know that as long as they have excellent craftsmanship, they can find a good job in Tieya collar and their life can be guaranteed.

In this way, Jason can not only gain prestige, but also implement future policies better.

But the biggest problem is that this military factory is really burning too much money. A lot of ore is consumed every day. After all, not every piece of equipment can be qualified, and no matter how skilled the master is, there will be mistakes.

When the group walked to the military factory, they happened to see Gareth who had just come out of it. Today, this young handsome guy didn't wear his armor anymore, but a black robe. He looked much more stern. .

"My lord!" Gareth apparently also noticed Jason and the others who were walking over. He was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately saluted.

After that, he glanced at Lang Nat behind him indiscriminately, with a very powerful aura.

As for Eve, who was shy at the side, he was flamboyantly ignored.