Arcane Lord

Generally speaking, in addition to cleaning up the forest, adventurers do most of their private work for the lord, such as exploring ruins, looking for treasures, killing people and setting fires, or looking for lost pets for relatives of the lord's followers.

However, many of these functions can be divided into security officers, soldiers, spies, and specialized archaeological teams.

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Xia Duo is already planning to phase out the profession of adventurers in the territory. After all, in modern society, there are security guards, spies, mercenaries, and domestic service personnel, but who has ever heard of adventurers?

Even if there is a so-called expedition team, it is actually a professional team composed of professionals from various industries, rather than casually recruited from ordinary people without professional background. That is not an expedition, it is death.

After Xia Duo's explanation, Pullman has a new understanding of the existence of adventurers, "Lord Xia Duo didn't say anything, I thought the existence of adventurers was indispensable!"

"It may have been in the past, but it will definitely not be in the future." Xia Duo said.

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Leaving the town from the southern area, Xia Duo and Pullman were released only after a simple inspection by the guards. It wasn't until they entered the countryside that Pullman asked curiously:

"Doesn't the southern border collect city taxes?"

Just now at the south gate of the town, he saw a caravan entering the town, but the guards just checked and let them go. Only then did he realize that there was no tax collector at the gate to collect taxes!

To this, Xia Duo replied, "There is no city tax here, and even some small merchants don't even have to pay transaction tax. Only transactions carried out in the trade zone will pay a certain tax based on the transaction amount."

"So this is ah!"

Pullman doesn't know much about taxation, and for the time being, he can't see what kind of impact the tax policy on the southern border will bring, but from what he has learned, the determined tax law is more important than the tax officials casually specifying. It is easy for businessmen and ordinary people to feel at ease.

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After entering the countryside, Pullman was once again surprised by the characteristics of the southern border.

"What I just saw in the sky turned out to be true! Lord Xia Duo, is it necessary to build such a gravel road for every village?"

"It's not necessary."

"Um?"

At first Pullman thought he had heard it wrong, and was about to listen to Xia Duo's high-level remarks, but after reacting, he realized that what Xia Duo said was "unnecessary".

"Then why repair it?"

"The road before is actually quite enough. The reason why we want to build the broken brick road like this is that on the one hand, there are a lot of waste bricks in the process of infrastructure maintenance in the south, which can be used as waste. On the other hand, it is just a matter of fact long."

Pullman is not yet one of his own, and Xia Duo doesn’t want to explain to the other party what it means to hide wealth from the people, and what it means to work for relief. The broken brick roads led by Savile are actually included in a large infrastructure project.

Infrastructure construction is one purpose, and the transfer of wealth to the people of the Savile Land is also a purpose. After all, the Great Xia Territory has been developed before, and almost everyone has accumulated a large amount of wealth.

With the advancement of the integration of the two places, the pricing of some consumer goods needs to be set based on the income and savings levels in the south, but in that case, it may be difficult for people in the north to afford them.

In essence, it is nothing more than raising the minimum income of residents in the Northern Territory to bring it into balance with the South.

In the current era, the power of spellcasters is unparalleled, which of course also includes production capacity. In other words, the bulk of social wealth is in the hands of spellcasters.

And the biggest spellcaster in the southern border is Xia Duo, as long as he has a little leak in his hand, it is enough for ordinary people at the bottom to multiply their wealth several times.

But the released wealth is not gone forever. The value of wealth lies in circulation. As the process of the civilianization of magic continues to advance, those wealth will be recycled through civil instruments.

Of course, at that time, Xia Duo will continue to find ways to increase the income of the people in order to maintain this series of wealth cycles.

If this cycle continues, although the people may not be able to save much savings, the overall living standard is constantly improving.

The so-called "creating a better life" is what it is.

In Xia Duo's vision, the precious metal currency will be gradually transformed into a credit currency, and even the currency attribute will be gradually eliminated, and finally the state of distribution on demand will be achieved.

This is possible, and the Red Heart Alliance of the projection plane has demonstrated that possibility for him. Although it is not completely distributed according to needs, it is very close.

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Due to the good road conditions, Xia Duo and Pullman soon arrived at the southernmost point of Savile Territory, which is also the northernmost section of the [Great Xia-Saville Passage].

Maybe it was a coincidence that the two waited here for a short while before they saw a steam car with a simple shape coming from a distance.

At present, there are only two steam cars on this road, and these two are actually experimental models. The official version will be released after all aspects of verification are complete, and then the number will increase.

So now this car has more people and fewer cars, and thanks to the verification stage, the experimenters on the car can decide whether to take passengers and how many passengers to take.

Under Xia Duo's arrangement, he and Pullman boarded the car under the envious eyes of a group of people, and they were the only passengers in this car.

Since Xia Duo and Pullman were using camouflage at the moment, the experimenters on the car did not recognize him, but simply introduced the principle of the steam car and the precautions during driving, and did not disturb them any more.

Compared with the new order in the trade zone, the country roads, and even the magic street lights on the main roads that he saw before, although there are still some things that Pullman doesn't understand, they are all within the scope of his understanding.

But the steam car is different, it is completely beyond Pullman's cognition. In his impression, no matter what kind of vehicle, if you want to drive, you must rely on manpower, animal power, or magic.

Before today, he had never seen a steam car that could run automatically without any magical elements and without relying on manpower or animal power.

This brought him a great shock.

Even after listening to the principle of the steam engine explained by the experimenter on the car, he still couldn't figure out why this was possible.

Xia Duo saw some clues~www.readwn.com~ and said pointedly: "This is the wisdom and power of ordinary people!"

"The wisdom and strength of ordinary people?"

Pullman was shocked, and asked subconsciously: "Is this steam car invented by ordinary people?"

"Yes!" Xia Duo gave an affirmative answer without hesitation.

Although Hero, the inventor of the steam engine, was a magic apprentice, and the other two who later participated in the invention of the steam engine were also mages, but in front of a great arcanist like Pullman, he was no different from ordinary people.

If not now, in ordinary situations, even if Pullman has some common people agree, he would not really regard apprentices and low-level mages as equals to himself.

But now, hearing that the steam car was invented by ordinary people, Pullman feels that his three views will be subverted. Although it is only a steam car that can walk on its own, he can already foresee this kind of equipment that can produce power automatically Broad application prospects.

It's just that what he can't accept is - this was invented by ordinary people?