When it was the turn of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, Kaimo snorted, "Your Highness, I hope you can find the real person in charge as soon as possible. I don't want to attend this kind of meeting again."
"..." Roland rolled his eyes secretly. After becoming a leader, he found that some words had to be ignored selectively. How could a person who has dabbled in alchemy and chemistry be so easy to find? "Do you have any clues about the large-scale production of two acids?"
"No," Kaymer shrugged, "that's why I need to devote more energy and more people to research this project, instead of sitting here wasting time." After staying in the town for a long time, he also brought some Roland-style vocabulary, "If I have to report, I can only say that there is a shortage of people in the laboratory, and the more people come, the better. In addition, although these five people who have recently joined are young, they are all smart. It seems that you The primary education you get is still useful."
Well, the chief alchemist is probably the one with the most disrespect to his words and attitudes, but considering the age of the other party and his enthusiasm for chemical experiments, Roland has no resentment. To know that after he suffered an explosion accident and was completely cured by Nana, his first reaction was that he could carry out experiments without restraint, and he also planned to taste the taste of different acids. No one had this enthusiasm.
"Okay... You continue to study, I will let Barov find a way to fill the personnel gap."
"By the way, Your Highness," Kaimo said again, "Have you written your book of "Moderate Chemistry"? If you can give it to me for reference, maybe I can come up with a large-scale acid production method earlier. "
"I said at the award ceremony that as long as the apprentices and assistants you train can fill up the newly-built laboratory, I will hand over the books to you," Roland spread his hands. In fact, this book has not even touched a single word, and the elementary chemistry has already hollowed out his few chemistry knowledge. Even if he racks his brains, he may not be able to make up a few pages of content.
The fourth is the Minister of Construction Karl Van Bert.
"First of all, I want to thank Lord Shushu," he said with a nod to Shushu. "I'm really happy to learn that those children have successfully graduated."
Compared with the chief alchemist, Mr. Mason's communication talent can be described as a world of difference, and the book also nodded and said, "This is what I should do."
Then Carl opened the record book he carried with him and said in an orderly manner: "Now various projects in the town are progressing steadily, the main items are Kingdom Avenue, Chishui Bridge, new residential buildings and new city walls. Among them, the number of people who built Kingdom Avenue is It has reached 4,500 people, half of whom are from the Changge Fortress, which is expected to be completed next spring. The Chishui Bridge is still under construction of the underground cement wall, and the residential community has been extended to the vicinity of the old city wall. As long as the supply of bricks and cement can be guaranteed, it should be possible to complete the established task of moving all the eastern refugees into the town before the demon month."
Since Carl often reported the current status of the project to Roland, this statement was very brief, such as the expansion of the castle area and the construction of the Witch's Building, which he did not mention. In addition, after the new city wall has been positioned and drawn, Lian is solely responsible for the construction, and the daily progress is maintained at about 100 meters.
"It's hard work," Roland nodded. The engineering department is the department with the largest amount of staff and funding, so it has the most results. "While stepping up the construction, don't forget to promote the preferential treatment policy of Border Town. These are from the fortress. Handymen can be considered qualified craftsmen after a year of practice, and you should keep them in the town as much as possible."
"Yes, Your Highness." Carl replied.
"Then next... Iron Axe."
It was the first time that Iron Axe participated in such a meeting, so he seemed a little uncomfortable. He cleared his throat, "His Royal Highness, the army is mainly for two things. First, the Second Army has completed basic training and can be sent to the fortress at any time. Second, with the addition of new blood, the First Army currently has eight hundred and two Fifteen people, apart from the three hundred and fifty people in the artillery team, the rest of the soldiers have all changed to revolving rifles. That's all I have to say." After the report, he gave a military salute.
"Yes, let the Second Army set off tomorrow. Remember to place reliable personnel in the team, and do not interrupt daily training and ideological training in the fortress, and report the situation to the town every week." Roland instructed.
The last person to speak was Barov. He first looked around the crowd for a week before he casually saluted Roland, "His Royal Highness, since the last time I paid the Margery Chamber of Commerce the transportation fee and the cost of the Thassa mission, the city hall has The amount of gold stocks in China has dropped very seriously, and with this bumper harvest, the Ministry of Agriculture still purchases grain at the normal market price, resulting in only more than 2,000 gold dragons left in stock, which is a relatively dangerous limit."
Two thousand golden dragons... Compared to the previous winter, it was undoubtedly a huge sum of money, but Roland also knew that the situation in the town at this time was different. It is a huge expenditure just to pay more than 5,000 workers in the engineering department every month, and the First Army, factories, chemical laboratories and city halls, which are currently considered high-paying, all need to spend a lot of gold.
In other words, Frontier Town is now making money quickly and spending money quickly. This is still based on the fact that most of the materials and machinery are self-sufficient.
"I see. But when the Margaery caravan arrives in the town early next month, they can get some income by selling steam engines," Roland responded, "and buying food and transporting fugitives are not daily expenses, so In the next six months, the gold inventory should increase steadily, you don't need to worry too much." He paused, "In addition, I plan to increase your salary."
"A salary increase?" Barov was stunned.
"That's right, the City Hall is no longer an organization that only relies on a dozen people. Your workload has greatly increased, and your compensation will naturally increase." The prince smiled, "You will increase to The monthly salary of the hardware dragon is two gold dragons per month for the head of the department, and then according to this ratio, the apprentices and assistants are also raised uniformly. Don’t worry, this amount of money is not much, only about twenty or thirty gold dragons.”
Although the hardware dragon is not rich for the position of city hall manager, Roland knows that what Barov loves more is the right to count and distribute all the financial revenue and expenditure of the border town at present, and there is no supervision department. You can earn hundreds of times your income if you keep it. So far, he has not shown any signs of embezzlement of public funds.
Of course, in addition to relying on the other party's self-consciousness, Roland can also rely on Nightingale's ability to maintain the integrity of the department. Under her inquiry, no one can hide his bad behavior.
"Besides, there is one thing that everyone may already know," he continued, "I plan to officially build a city here after the month of demons ends today, in other words, the town will be upgraded to a real city. This big city From the wild wasteland to the west, the Changsong Fortress to the east, and the hills and the sea to the south, its city walls are natural mountains and natural dangers, and its area will far exceed that of the royal capital or even any city in the Four Kingdoms.”
"So you still need to step up the work in your hands and welcome the establishment of the new city with a better attitude," Roland paused and said word by word, "I hope this city can be as warm as spring even in the endless cold winter. ." (., Your support is my biggest motivation.)