Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

The Marquis of Thunder knew exactly what the king was thinking.

He wanted to cancel the four principalities, and wanted to take the entire country into his own hands.

This is almost what every generation of kings desire to accomplish most, but the enfeoffment system has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If no better and effective way to manage the fiefdoms can be thought of, even if the king takes back the principality land, he still has to send nobles to garrison it. and management, then in the end these nobles are actually no different from the Grand Duke of the Principality.

Doesn't the Marquis of Thunder want to be the Grand Duke?

He wants to.

However, since the second king of the Tonglei Kingdom came to power, he has never conferred a Grand Duke, the highest being a Marquis.

The four Grand Dukes were all bestowed at the beginning of the founding of the country.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the country, the four grand dukes were more like sharing the world with the king. After all, the first king was able to win such a large piece of land in the Tonglei Kingdom, and his four grand dukes gave him a lot of help.

To put it more clearly, the four grand dukes and the king of the first generation are all from Qiushuishang Kingdom. The four grand dukes themselves were born in noble families, and the king was born as a prince of Qiushuishang Kingdom.

At that time, the first generation king was very ambitious and power-hungry, but he was smarter than other heirs of the same period. He did not choose to seize the throne in the country, but found a few noble second or young sons who were equally capable and ambitious. Ask them to reach out with themselves.

The double moon star is very big, and the place where human beings set foot is still very small. There are still large tracts of unowned land outside the four great kingdoms, as long as you dare to find and develop it.

For the children who want to expand the territory, the king of Qiushuishang Kingdom still welcomes them very much, asking for people and food.

Those great nobles were also very willing to help other children who were not eligible for inheritance to develop their careers outside the country, and also gave them a lot of support.

The status of a prince who is not the first heir is actually not much different from the children of other great nobles.The first king of the Tonglei Kingdom wanted the full support of those noble descendants, so he naturally made a very generous promise.

So when the Tonglei Kingdom was established, the first king entrusted four dukes and created four duchies as promised.

This is purely a last resort, since the second king came to power, naturally there will be no such good things.

The Marquis of Thunder has contributed a lot to the current king and helped him a lot, but he never expected to become a grand duke or even get a duchy.

But now Grand Duke Luma, one of the four great Dukes, is dead, and his first heir is also dead, while his wife and his other children have acquiesced to give up the Duke's right of succession in order to save their lives.

In this way, the position of Grand Duke was vacated by the four principalities. When the Marquis of Thunder was sent to Luma City by the king, he would have some ideas even if he had no ideas.

Therefore, after the Marquis of Thunder came to Luma City, he really regarded the Luma Principality as his future territory, and he was serious and responsible in his work, without any fooling around.

On the first day he arrived, he took over the security management of Luma City vigorously. He thought he would run into a barrier, but as soon as he gave the order, the mercenary guild took back all the patrols and temporary sentry boxes.

The Marquis of Thunder took over Luma City almost effortlessly.

He didn't even have to deal with the chaos in the city and bother to appease the people, because before he came, these tasks were done by the mercenary guild.

In the end, the Marquis of Thunder just posted a notice, and then someone sent a message in the city, saying that the Marquis of Thunder had come to Luma City, and he would temporarily take over and manage it in the future.

The aristocrats and rich families who fled abroad were not allowed to leave again. Once these people left, in addition to wealth, craftsmen, slaves, farmers, etc. would be taken away by them.For those who have already left, the Marquis of Thunder is also calling them back. It doesn’t matter if they refuse to come back. After confirming, they will directly revoke the other party’s right of residence in Luma City, and take over all the family properties and properties that have no owner.

After Luma City was stabilized, Marquis Thunder planned to send troops to the surrounding territories to quell all the civil strife that had arisen.

This is thanks to the Duke of Lanji's rapid withdrawal of troops, otherwise the Marquis of Thunder would first go to the battlefield to deal with the Duke of Lanji.

But just when the Marquis of Thunder was planning to mobilize troops to punish the generals, people in the stable Luma City suddenly reported a series of crimes, involving a sect called Tumojiao.

After discovering the ambitions of the Demon Slayer Sect and the close relationship between the Slaughter Demon Sect and the Principality of Lanji, the Marquis of Thunder, who had an extremely sensitive political sense, immediately targeted the Slaughter Demon Sect and devoted most of his energy to Find the vines that Tumojiao planted in the Luma Principality.

Tang Bo found an appropriate time to have an in-depth talk with the Marquis of Thunder.

"Do you want the Principality of Lanji?" Tang Bo said at the beginning.

The Marquis of Thunder raised his eyebrows: "There is no need for us to go around these detours, just say so."

Tang Bo Mingming smiled very calmly, but his facial features were of the feminine type. This unreasonable smile made people feel a little sinister: "I want green hemp, and I will take it. But I don't want to be your enemy. If you want Lanji, I, Bailuling, can fully support you."

The Marquis of Thunder laughed: "Are you not afraid that I will tell His Majesty the King about your ambition?"

Tang Bo said indifferently: "If you don't say it, won't he think so?"

The Marquis of Thunder slightly nodded his forehead: "You are straightforward." Then suddenly said: "Does the Mercenary Guild have something to do with you?"

Tang Bo only smiled and said, "I have a good relationship with the Mercenary Guild. After all, our White Deer Caravan often hires mercenary escorts. If you need the strength of the Mercenary Guild, I can also help you connect."

The Marquis of Thunder did not continue to spin on the matter of the mercenary guild. He mentioned: "The Principality of Lanji is deeper than I thought. The Demon Slayer Sect and the Principality of Lanji are too entangled. I might as well take down Lanji... ..."

Tang Bo just looked at the Marquis Thunder and didn't speak.

Marquis Thunder took back the last part of the sentence "It's better to hit green hemp" and changed it to: "Keep it as it is, even if I don't become the Grand Duke, Your Majesty will not treat me badly. As long as the other duchies are still there, my position will be stable. "

Tang Bo smiled a little more sincerely this time: "Then if you took down Lanji for His Majesty, donated a large area of ​​the Principality of Lanji to him, and eliminated another Grand Duke for him, what do you think he will think of you? And after Lanji was taken down, it would take a lot of time to clean up the land that was deeply poisoned by the Demon Slayer Sect. At that time, who could the king send to take it over? Besides, there was an unstable green hemp next to it. , what do you think the king will do?"

The Marquis of Thunder knocked on the armrest of the chair, thinking.

Tang Bo: "You can refuse to accept the title of duke, so that His Majesty can rest assured. But His Majesty trusts you, but not others, so do you think he will send you to the Lanji Principality to garrison?"

Thunder Marquis admitted that he was moved.If he stays in the capital, although his status will not change.But being a great nobleman and a famous general, how can it be as comfortable as being a powerful lord with a soldier's self-respect?

Tang Bo pushed again: "If you can garrison in Lanji, or persuade His Majesty to send troops to Lanji, during this period, I can directly exchange your share of dividends for food or even weapons for you."

The Marquis of Thunder immediately asked, "What weapon?"

He had secretly heard that the White Hart Collar seems to have some powerful weapons.

Tang Bo clapped his hands and asked the guards waiting outside to bring in a wooden box.

Tian Min stepped forward to open the wooden box lid.

The Marquis of Thunder hooked his head and took a look. After seeing it, he immediately got up from the chair, walked down quickly, and took a closer look at the weapons in the wooden box.

This is a long knife made of fine iron, very suitable for use on the battlefield.

The Marquis of Thunder split the wooden chair next to him in half with a single knife.

"Good knife!" Marquis Thunder couldn't put it down holding the long knife.

He took out the knives, bows and arrows in the wooden box and looked at them one by one, and then said to Tang Bo: "It turns out that this is your confidence. You have mastered the art of iron smelting."

Tang Bo didn't deny it, although refined iron weapons were not his confidence at all.His confidence is himself, and... magic!

The Marquis of Thunder sat back in his original seat, and suddenly asked, "What do you think of the Tonglei Kingdom?"

Tang Bo smiled, "Although the Tonglei Kingdom is good, it is too troublesome to take it down, not to mention that there is a Qiushuishang Kingdom above the Tonglei Kingdom. Instead of thinking about the entire Tonglei Kingdom, I might as well manage my current territory well." , in the future, if there is an opportunity, I will develop towards the Shiwan Dashan. There are no lands there, and there are rich products. For others, the Shiwan Dashan is very dangerous, but for me, Bailuling..."

Tang Bo's eyes fell on the wooden box full of fine iron weapons pointingly.

Marquis Thunder felt relieved, he had to admit that Tang Bo's words really made sense to him.Although he has certain ambitions, he doesn't want the Tonglei Kingdom to disappear, and he doesn't want countless innocent people to be involved in the war for his and Tang Bo's ambitions.

But if Tang Bo wants to develop outward, the meaning is completely different. He can form a real alliance with Tang Bo.

"Sit down, let's have a good chat." Marquis Thunder made his attitude clear.

After the Marquis of Thunder was fooled... his energy and attention were dragged by the Demon Slayer, Tang Bo made great use of the space of the Cangbing Cave to bring back [-] labor slaves from other countries in batches.

The reason why we say worker slaves is because these people are all young and strong with certain skills, but they are not craftsmen, but just slaves who were forcibly captured to build bridges, pave roads, open mines and build cities.

The composition of these labor slaves is very complicated, coming from several countries.

They don't understand each other, and many of them live in a similar primitive state. Most of them don't have much morality. They are obviously the oppressed at the bottom, but they will still bully the weak by the strong, for their own survival. Don't care about other people's life or death.

Such a large number of people came to Bailuling, if it is not managed well, it may bring disaster to Bailuling.

But Tang Bo is not afraid now. His magic weapon research has embarked on a bright road. Not to mention that he can equip the soldiers of the White Deer Collar with a magic gun, but it is no problem to equip some special teams with one.

Tang Bo brought back so many labor slaves, it is naturally impossible to keep them for nothing.

He needs to build up the infrastructure of the White Hart Collar in a very short period of time, and also needs to mine a lot of minerals and reclaim wasteland, all of which require a lot of manpower.

Moreover, Bailuling is now full of 25 people. This 25 sounds like a lot, but after deducting the old and weak who can't work, and the soldiers who need to be out of production, the young and strong who are really able to work, both men and women are only 10. Less than ten thousand people.

What can 10 people do?

When the Earth China was first established, it took ten years to build a 7-kilometer mountain canal, and a total of [-] people were employed.The conditions were also very difficult at that time.

But isn't the current condition of Bailuling difficult?

Fortunately, Tang Bo has mastered magic, and he and Landa and others made some very practical magic tools using the magic array diagram.

With the help of these tools, the speed of Bailuling's infrastructure projects can also be greatly improved, but there are tools that need someone to use them, and magic tools will only be used in the most critical places, and most of the trivial work still needs to be done manually.

For example, if you encounter a hard mountain rock, you can blow it up with a magic bomb, or use a magic drill to drill a hole, or use other magic tools to find a way to break it, etc., but the broken stone needs to be moved away, and the road needs to be cleaned. and level.

Exploding mountains, digging rivers, drilling holes, exploring caves... When doing these dangerous tasks, Tang Bo can issue protective magic array cards to the relevant workers, but this is only to protect them from injury.

Landa is very interested in the mechanical puppet proposed by Tang Bo, but it is not a short-term success to develop a mechanical puppet that can work like a human.Tang Bo only has two researchers, Landa and Yan Ren, and with him and Gu Ding, it barely counts as four.

Of the four researchers, only Landa is a real off-the-job researcher. How many research results can they produce?

Tang Bo didn't think about the beauty of all the magicians holding magic tools to build infrastructure. He would rather be more practical. The tools are not enough to make up the manpower. Anyway, he is not short of food, let alone money.Moreover, compared to the money and materials spent on the research of magic tools, the money he spent on buying [-] labor slaves was only a drop in the bucket.

Will 10 people be disobedient?

It doesn't matter, he promises that everyone will have enough food, clothing, warm sleep and comfortable sleep. If they are sick, someone will treat them, and after deducting the cost of buying them, they will pay their wages. Just ask these people, are they still willing to run?

It is no exaggeration to say that [-]% of the [-] labor slaves did not have such good food and clothing in Bailuling before they became slaves. It is just a little labor. What is the difference from farming and hunting at home?

Will it cause trouble if you are full?

It's okay, he has a special engineering supervision team.

These supervisors are all equipped with magic guns and paralyzing whips.

The magic gun is extremely lethal. If it is not a very special event, the supervisors cannot use the magic gun at will.But the paralyzing whip is different. If you dare to make trouble, you just whip it over without explaining.

And the main function of this whip is not to make you hurt, but to make you enter a state of paralysis on the spot, the kind of paralysis that you can't even move your eyelids.

No matter how powerful the guy is, unless he can also use magic, he can only lie down obediently and wait for processing.

Supervise teammates to take down the troublemaker, and then deal with it according to the laws and regulations of Bailuling, and never engage in lynching.

You can leave if you don't want to do it anymore, as long as you can pay the ransom money.

But after leaving, it doesn't mean that you can stay in White Hart Collar freely.

Now not everyone can stay in Bailuling. Bailuling now has very strict control over the residence of people. Anyone who comes to Bailuling must register. It is useless for you to hide in the deep mountains and old forests... Uh, a bit However, even the White Deer Special Forces are unwilling to enter the deep mountains and old forests easily. How long can you live in it?What's the point?

Tang Bo roughly divided the people living in Bailuling into four grades.

The first level is the real White Deer collar people who have a White Deer collar ID card. They enjoy all the legal rights, benefits and obligations of the White Deer collar.

For example, when children go to school, the first five years of education fees are free.There are huge discounts for buying houses and fields, and for businessmen to open workshops.With medical insurance, you can buy medicines and see a doctor with a [-]% discount, and you can get a [-]% discount for serious illnesses.And pension insurance etc.

Like military academies and civil servants, only true white deer leaders can apply for the exam.Others, unless they are particularly talented, are only possible with the special approval of the lord.

The second category belongs to the undecided personnel who are in the inspection period. These people have met the application qualifications and are applying to become White Deer Leaders, but they have not yet obtained the White Deer Leader ID cards.Their temporary residence permits are long-term, but they also need to be reviewed every four years.These people are jokingly called Bailu fetuses, which means they are pregnant but not yet born.

They also enjoy all the legal rights, benefits and obligations of the True White Deer Leaders, but only two-thirds of the benefits.There are some benefits that only true white deer collars can enjoy, but they can't enjoy them either.

The third category is the foreigners who work and live in Bailuling. They get a temporary residence permit, which is reviewed once every two years at most.Their wages and various benefits are not comparable to those of the real white deer collars, but they are much more than those who work in other places outside.Children can also go to school in Bailuling, but it is not free.

The fourth level is like the [-] labor slaves brought back by Tang Bo. They are newcomers, and all of them are not free.But they can work and live in Bailuling, their children can also go to school nearby the construction site, and they can learn to read and write after get off work every day.

After paying off the redemption fee, they will be automatically promoted to the third gear, and they can choose to leave or stay in Bailuling.

Although there are four grades, all Bailu collar people, including outsiders, feel that this division is justified.

And the stricter the population control of Bailuling, the more outsiders want to lead Bailuling.Without him, Bailuling is safe, and the most important thing is that this place is much more equal than other places.

Absolute equality is impossible, only relative equality can be sought.

In Bailuling, no matter what grade of ID card you have, the penalty for breaking the law is the same. No one will be lighter just because you are a real Bailuling, and heavier if you are a temporary worker.

Likewise, nobles are not popular here.

The nobles do not have any preferential treatment in terms of status and status in the White Hart Collar. The nobles can buy fields and shops when they come to the White Hart Collar, but they can only hire employees and cannot buy slaves.Bailu collar still has a minimum salary, and employers are not allowed to beat and scold employees at will. Employees have the right to sue their employers if they are treated unfairly.

Not to mention that no one will give way to the carriages and horses of the nobles when walking on the road, and they will not salute to them and give them the best seat when they are eating. They could only bear with it, which made many high-ranking nobles very uncomfortable after coming to Bailuling.

The nobles who couldn't adapt left, and those who could adapt stayed soon and couldn't help but say it was really fragrant.

Those who left the White Hart Collar, when they want to come back, they will find: Oh, it was easy to leave at the beginning, but now it is really difficult to re-enter the White Hart Collar!

No matter whether you are noble, rich or poor, as long as you leave the White Deer Collar and want to come back, unless someone accepts you, and you have to pass the assessment, you will be allowed to enter the White Deer Collar .

Of course, you can be treated as a tourist. When you enter the city, as long as your identity is verified, you can stay in Bailuling for up to half a month with a temporary tourist card.

Within half a month, you can find a job in Bailuling and learn the most basic laws and regulations of Bailuling. Work visas for varying periods of time.

Under various measures, only a very few of the [-] labor slaves brought back by Tang Bo really chose to leave.

Some of these very few were missing their families, and returned home after earning enough ransom money.Some of them have hidden identities, so naturally it is impossible to stay in the labor slave team for a long time.Others simply yearn for freedom, hoping to choose their own future.

In any case, these [-] labor slaves played a great role in helping the initial construction of Bailuling. With the help of hand and foot, and the help of magic tools, Bailuling is almost different every day.

After Tang Bo merged the original Bailuling, Sanshuling, Hongshanling, and Hongyuling together according to the plan, he built a hexagonal big city that is quite huge for now.

Then it radiated to the west of the original Sita County territory, dividing the original Sita County into several satellite cities.

Atomic Bomb Wanghe Territory and several nearby territories became the first satellite city "Bailu Commercial City", which is mainly responsible for port trade and foreign business, as well as fishing and hunting.Most of the foreign businessmen also live in this satellite city.If they want to go to White Deer City, they have to apply for a "Visit Permit" here.

Anhe Territory, located in the center of the original Sita County, and several nearby territories were merged into the second satellite city "White Deer Animal Husbandry City". This is the main grazing land of the White Deer Lord. Large and small chicken farms, pig farms, fish ponds and other farming businesses.

Several territories, including the former Rhinoceros Territory, were merged into the third satellite city "Bailu Agricultural City", which is mainly responsible for farming, cultivation of economic crops, development and sales of agricultural and sideline products.It can be regarded as the second largest farming area in Bailuling.

The first farming area is Wantian Town located on the other side of the virgin forest.The third farming area is the red taro collar.

The satellite cities were built, and the avenues between the cities were also paved, followed by trails leading to towns and villages.

In order to prevent the enemy from invading and being destroyed, the soldiers responsible for the defense of the White Hart collar are also increasing.

They patrol the cities, fields, and wilderness every day, so that the white deer leaders who see them feel very at ease.

The weapons held by these patrolling soldiers are so powerful that they can kill a ferocious beast from a long distance.

There used to be robbers and bandits who fled to Bailuling. Seeing that the people in Bailuling were rich, they wanted to rob them, but they were surrounded by patrolling soldiers and killed them before they even entered their homes.

Tang Bo also issued a kind of warning whistle to the white deer leaders, as long as something dangerous happened, they could blow the whistle to spread the sound.

And every Bailuling village will have at least one protective sentry post, as long as they hear the whistle, they will rush to the whistleblower in the shortest possible time.Even if they can't catch up, neighbors and passers-by will rush over if they hear it.

There are great rewards for catching and killing bad guys in Bailuling!

After the road was built, a large number of tricycles and bicycles suddenly appeared on the road in Bailuling one day.

After tricycles and bicycles, Bailuling's bus carriages also quietly turned into magic trains one day. They don't need to be pulled by mules, and there is only one driver sitting in the front of the car. The speed of the car is very fast.

It takes only three hours to take the magic bus from Bailu City to the most marginal Bailu Commercial City, which is why it must stop at every big station.If you let the magic bus stop all the way and go forward with all your strength, you can reach it in half an hour.

Since the appearance of the magic bus, people from Bailuling have come and gone more frequently. Many people who were not born and bred in the territory of Bailu are asking relatives and friends to live in Bailuling.There are also people who come to Bailuling to trade or pass by. Seeing Bailuling like this, they can't help but want to stay, and want to take their family, relatives and friends over.

Such a nesting of dolls, just like endless matryoshka, caused the population of Bailuling to skyrocket, and made Bailuling more prosperous.

Two years later, within the area of ​​Bailuling, the publicity team went to various cities, towns and villages to publicize that there will be strange connecting carriages in the sky tomorrow, so that everyone should not panic when they see it.

On the next day, a line of huge black monsters suddenly appeared in the clear, cloudless, blue sky, galloping across the sky like a dragon.

Ba da, many white deer leaders were frightened to lose their hands, raised their heads and were speechless in astonishment.

If the publicity team hadn't come to greet them in advance, many people would probably run away in fright at this time.

"Father, what's in the sky?" The naive and ignorant children asked, pointing to the things that passed quickly in the sky.

The parents of the children also want to know the answer.

What is this?

Why so big?Why does it look so much like connected carriages?But how can the car fly in the sky?