Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

It was dark, and with the sound of water waves beating against the hull, most people on board fell asleep.

Tang Bo didn't sleep, he was still working.

The current population of Bailuling has reached over [-] one after another. It doesn't seem like a lot, but there are many things going on.

No matter how small a society is, it needs a sound organizational structure, laws and regulations, and a lot of materials to run smoothly.

Tang Bo has already set up the framework of Bailuling, but it is still far from making it work on its own, especially since the profit and investment are far from proportional.If Tang Bo and Gu Ding hadn't been able to rob everywhere, bring over the properties of other lords, and then try to find people to buy various raw materials, the population of just over 5 would be able to overwhelm Bailuling.

It is not enough for people to raise them, but they have to find work for them. The two agricultural areas are okay. As long as there is land, people can be asked to cultivate it, or build houses and repair roads, and they can always find work.But people living in industrial areas, in order to ensure their livelihood, they must have something to do every day, and they must believe that their work can be done for a lifetime.

In this way, basically all his workshops cannot stop working. Not only can they not stop, but they also need to increase manpower and increase the scale of production, so that the newly added population can be gradually digested.

But production requires raw materials, and the items produced need to be sold.Only by forming a rotation can the economy of White Hart Collar develop healthily.

But now Bailuling has to keep a low profile, and dare not sell the products it produces.How much can be digested internally?

In order to increase the internal digestion capacity, Tang Bo could only absorb more people from the outside into Bailuling.

But with so many people coming, we have to consider arranging jobs for them.

This has turned into a vicious circle, and the only way to solve this internal vicious circle is to sell the produced goods abroad, and then bring them back in exchange for supplies and food.

But not all commodities can be sold casually. First of all, food cannot be sold outside during the war.It is easy to sell, but difficult to buy back.

Therefore, soy products, flour products and other processed foods cannot be used as commodities, and at most they can sell some candied fruits and the like.

Paper can't be sold, unless Bailuling wants to attract the attention of Lumacheng again, and direct the anger of Lumacheng to himself.It was hard for them to divert the attention of Grand Duke Luma, but they couldn't let him vent his anger.

The briquette coal stove cannot be sold either.Tang Bo has checked the information in other places, and also asked businessmen from other places. The resource of coal has not yet appeared in Tonglei Country.If he pushes out the briquettes now, it will be fine without being noticed. Once people find out that he has discovered new energy, Bailuling will definitely be pushed to the forefront of the storm again.

Therefore, products such as briquettes and coal stoves can only be sold in Three Tree City. When people ask, they only say that briquettes are made by mixing sawdust, mud and livestock manure and using a special method.

Iron products cannot be sold outside. The fact that someone in Bailuling can identify iron ore and smelt metal is one of the biggest secrets of Bailuling.If this matter was leaked out, the Grand Duke of Luma would definitely turn around and beat Bailuling.

If Duke Luma doesn't come, the king of Tonglei Kingdom will send someone to make trouble.

Tang Bo's secret support to the three teams included iron weapons in addition to food and medicine.It was also because of these iron weapons that Duke Luma firmly believed that the civil strife in the Principality was caused by the Principality of Lanji.

If Duke Luma knew that those iron weapons and armors were provided by Tang Bo, would it be okay?

For this reason, the commodities that Bailuling can take out are very limited. Tang Bo made a list, including wood products, lacquer products, leather goods, cloth, ready-made clothes, spices and matches, etc.

These are goods to be brought to the capital for sale.

If he can successfully obtain the merchant's permission granted by the king, he will be able to do business with the Principality of Aomame on his return journey, and he can also sell the paper.

Of course, in the beginning, in order to avoid attracting attention, he would not sell paper that can be written on, but he would sell soft papyrus that can be wiped.

Tang Bo sighed, after all, he was still not strong enough. If he was strong enough, why would he bother to set up a caravan, buy and sell things and accept newcomers so secretly.

If the White Hart Collar is strong enough, I don't care if you are beaten into shit outside, I will still open the city gate to do business, and anyone is welcome.By the way, it can also promote the safety and stability of Bailu collar during the war, and attract more people and talents to the territory.

If the population of Bailuling can reach 50, the land area can reach the size of a provincial capital in the previous life, and the production scale can be a hundred times that of the current one, especially in terms of weapons and equipment. possible.

And the current Bailu collar is not weak, but it just can't fight a protracted war.Although their weapons are powerful, their stocks are very small, and their population is small, and their food stocks are even less.If he was besieged by people, he, Gu Ding and others would probably be the only ones who could get out in the end.

Don't look at the Duke of Luma who is currently suffering from internal and external troubles, but if he concentrates his efforts to attack Bailuling, then Bailuling will only be beaten into a rotten persimmon in the end.

What makes Tang Bo fear the most are those mysterious gods.

According to the feedback from Gu Ding and the others, the reason why the Duke of Luma dared to fight against the Principality of Lanji during the civil strife was because he had a large number of fighting gods, and now these gods are all on the battlefield. He was fighting with the gods of the Principality of Lanji.

"Why are you sighing?" A teenager's voice in a changing voice suddenly rang in Tang Bo's ear.

Tang Bo flashed his blood blade.

Gu Ding quickly raised his hands and said with a playful smile, "It's me."

Tang Bo stared at him for a long time.

Gu Ding took the initiative to lean over, still grinning: "Surprised? I have mastered the magic of space travel, am I good? Do you want me to teach you?"

Tang Bo: "... Have you made a deal with the demon soul?"

Gu Ding sat cross-legged next to him, picked up his water glass and poured half of it: "It's boring, I guessed it right away."

Tang Bo leaned back, folded his arms and said, "You're not timid."

Gu Ding hehe said: "Didn't you say that the bold and the timid are starved to death, sometimes you have to seek wealth in danger?"

Tang Bo snorted coldly: "I also told you about the allusion of playing with firecrackers and tying yourself in a cocoon."

Gu Ding quietly stretched out his fingers and crawled onto Tang Bo's lap, "You will help me, right?"

"What contract did you make with it?" Tang Bo slapped that paw away.

Gu Ding leaned on his shoulder shamelessly, stretched his legs, and said ruffiantly: "The fair trade contract, it taught me all the demon knowledge it knows, and when I have learned it all, let it go free."

Tang Bo knew Gu Ding's plan as soon as he turned his head. Gu Ding wanted to drain the demon soul first, and when the other party had no use value, he would release it out of the soul cage, but when it was released, it would definitely Will let him wait on the sidelines.

"Is that why you have confidence in me?" Tang Bo raised his eyebrows.

Gu Ding: "Well, anyway, I can't learn the knowledge it has mastered so quickly. When I finish learning, you should also become stronger."

"The demon soul knows what you are planning."

"I know. But isn't it a gamble on a chance? If it doesn't do anything, you and I will still get stronger day by day, and sooner or later it will be completely wiped out. Then it might as well be a gamble."

Gu Ding hugged Tang Bo's arm, and said stickily: "Let me teach you how to travel through space. You and I have each other's soul marks. When you also learn to travel through space, we can meet anytime and anywhere. After teaching It's over, let me sleep here for a while, I'm so sleepy. I will come to you after learning this trick, I haven't slept for several days."

Naturally, Tang Bo would not refuse, such a good magic is useless if you don't learn it.

Gu Ding explained for more than an hour, and took Tang Bo to experience it twice.

Tang Bo also has a very deep foundation of magic knowledge. It is not difficult to learn this space shuttle magic, but what they are learning is still the elementary version, which can only shuttle within a short distance and needs to set the coordinates.Otherwise, it is easy to shuttle to nowhere.

When Gu Ding saw Tang Bo was taught, he fell down on Tang Bo's bed with a thud, and fell asleep with a huh huh.

Tang Bo practiced for half the night, the cabin was small, and he didn't bother to go out to find a place, so he pushed Gu Ding to the side, and he also slept on the narrow bed.

Gu Ding stretched out an arm, but Tang Bo didn't care.

Gu Ding put one thigh on him, Tang Bo turned over and continued to sleep on him.

Gu Ding was so excited that he couldn't pretend anymore, he moved his body little by little, hugged Tang Bo, and refused to let go.

Tang Bo's narcolepsy is much better, but as long as he falls asleep, he will still sleep more deeply, but if it is a stranger, no matter how deeply he sleeps, he will wake up as soon as the other person approaches.

But who is Gu Ding?

Tang Bo felt the familiar aura around him, and he didn't care about the weight at all.I just dreamed vaguely that I would not be able to sleep with this child in the future, it was too heavy, and he liked to hug people randomly, so it would be difficult for him to turn over.

Gu Ding didn't know Tang Bo's thoughts in his dream, he was going to die of excitement, but this excitement was broken. In order to avoid being discovered by Tang Bo about his "excitement", he could only reluctantly let go of Tang Bo, put himself Shrunk in the corner.

Maybe he should be bolder?

Gu Ding boldly approached Tang Bo again, but quickly let go when he found that he couldn't suppress it.

As a result, Gu Ding went back and forth in the middle of the night, causing Tang Bo to wake up the next day to see the tall boy lying on the bed, with two big dark circles hanging on his eyes, and said weakly: "Go and do it, I will I need to catch up on sleep, I'm sleepy..."

Before the words were finished, people fell asleep in seconds.

Tang Bo: "..."

Gu Ding slept until noon, had lunch with Tang Bo, and then went back.That team can't leave him, and he can't be away for too long.

But Gu Ding, who has learned the space shuttle technique, no longer restrains his longing. He comes to Tang Bo almost every night, has dinner with him, chats with him about business, and stays with Tang Bo to sleep with him.

The excuse he made was that the battlefield was too dangerous and someone was trying to harm him, so he couldn't sleep well in the camp.

It's no wonder that Tang Bo believed his nonsense.Not to mention Gu Ding's own ability, with Mountain Hunter, the master of illusion, who can break into their tent when they sleep at night?Unless it is dispatched by the gods who are more powerful than them.

But when Tang Bo thought of Gu Dingcai, he would have to go out every day, kill and kill every day, and what he saw was the cruelest scene, which was obviously very unhealthy for the young man's psychology.And children need a sense of psychological security very much, which is probably why Gu Ding insisted on coming to him, so he... indulged.

Passing through Baowangheling, the old lord of the town came to meet Tang Bo.

The current old lord of the town looks a lot thinner, but he is very energetic.

The old man was also very straightforward, and immediately asked, "Sita County?"

"Yes." Tang Bo was not polite: "But we have too few people, so we may not be able to keep it if we ask for it."

The old lord of the town smiled mysteriously: "Didn't you go to present papermaking skills to His Majesty the King this time? If His Majesty the King asks you what reward you want, you can just say that your territory is too small and the population is too small. Expand your territory a little bit."

Tang Bo narrowed his eyes, "Did you know something?"

Since the old lord of the town intends to board Tang Bo's boat, he will naturally not hide it from him: "My family has been in contact with the Qingdou Principality. Someone sent me news from there. It is said that the Lanji Principality is uniting the other two principalities and wants to Divide the Luma Principality. Qingdou Principality wants Sita County, if you don’t want the river course to be choked up in the future, it’s best to take it first.”

Tang Bo was not too surprised and said: "So fast?"

"They probably thought it was a rare opportunity."

"Aren't they worried that His Majesty the King will blame you? I think His Majesty the King doesn't want the four major duchies to become the three major duchies?"

"He doesn't want it. But the current His Majesty the King...is not in good health, and our two princes have not grown up yet." The old lord of the town simply said frankly: "You go to present the papermaking technology to His Majesty, which is equivalent to giving He sent money. If you show your loyalty and show your strength properly, so that His Majesty the King thinks it is a good deal to support you, then you will probably get a relatively large fief."

"I could also become a target set up by His Majesty the King, right?"

"Yes. But that is also your opportunity." The old lord of the town looked at Tang Bo.

Tang Bo nodded: "You are always right."

The old lord of the town smiled: "It doesn't matter how good we say now, it depends on how you operate after you get there. I heard that His Majesty the King likes gold coins the most..."