Chapter 85
Chapter 85 Moving to a new home
The Rosiding in the central area of the Kingdom has a total area of more than 25,000 square kilometers, the plain can cultivate an area of 4,000 square kilometers, and the population is only 220,000. In addition to the county town of Rosiding, there are three towns, namely Liverpool, Lagers and Kiel. Rosiding has a population of 30,000, and the other three towns each have a population of about 10,000.
In comparison, Rosyding County is equivalent to a large city in the world before, but its population is less than a county. It can be said to be vast and sparsely populated. However, compared with other counties in the kingdom, it is medium, less than the coastal counties and more than the counties close to the Nusen Mountains.
There are more than 4,000 square kilometers of plain land, of which 3,000 are wheeled forests. This part of the land originally belonged to the kingdom and several ministers, but now it has become Zhang Ziqiang's private land. Nearly 800 square kilometers are planted with various kinds of spiritual medicine and spiritual trees. This part of the land is divided by various middle-class nobles, urban living area and roads, etc., occupying more than 100 square kilometers. The area that is truly used to plant essential materials such as vegetables and fruits is only more than 100 square kilometers. This part of the land belongs to some small nobles and wealthy civilians.
After receiving the will of His Majesty the King, Zhang Ziqiang left only Dofos with his two guards to guard the village. Now he is not short of money, so he kept the spirit gathering formation in the outer village. Dofos now has the conditions for practice, and he proposed to buy some servants to train them together based on the spirit gathering formation.
Zhang Ziqiang didn't have to worry about this matter. The other servants followed him to the fiefdom. The whole family left the capital in a mighty way. He felt quite emotional. He even owed a loan to buy a house on earth. It was only three years since he came here, but this was the third time he had moved and earned a county territory. It was really unimaginable.
The family was happy and came to Luosiding City through three ordinary teleportation arrays. The teleportation square in the county was different from that of the king. One was that there was only one teleportation array, and the other was that the square covered an area of about twenty acres. The twenty acres were surrounded by tall and wide city walls, and there were five hundred guards, including two Golden Elixir Stages! The teleportation square had two gates, one imported and one exited, and the guards came and went to check.
There are special formations in the teleportation array range. As long as the person who came to the Golden Pill stage, the formation will be triggered to issue an alarm. After that, the person will be registered and found out. This is a bit like the security check of the airport and customs. In fact, the number of Jindan monks in the Kingdom is limited. As long as the Jindan monks registered in the Kingdom are released, the guards can know their identity.
This measure is to prevent the enemy from sending Jindan stage masters to invade as commandos. Once a dangerous situation occurs, the guards can immediately close the teleportation array. The King Capital Teleportation Square is too large and the Jindan stage masters come and go frequently. There are many Jindan stage monks guarding the King Capital, which can resist attacks, so this function is not enabled.
However, Zhang Ziqiang also discovered something. His four bodyguards from No. 1 to No. 4 could not detect this formation. Thinking about it, both of them were produced in the temple, I understood it in my heart.
Zhang Ziqiang and his party arrived at Rosiding. As soon as they walked out of the teleportation array, they quickly surrounded a team of guards from the city gate. After asking, the leader found out that it was the lord who came and hurriedly sent someone to notify Dunbar.
"I've seen Mr. Hou!"
A burst of greetings broke out among the crowds in the square. For the residents of Rosiding City, Zhang Ziqiang was the local emperor, and they were all Zhang Ziqiang's people.
He can make laws on his own, appoint officials on his own, and collect taxes on his own. In addition to being unable to grant titles, he must pay three gold coins per head every year, and his power is almost the same as King Carus in this county!
The county directly under the kingdom has to pay a tax of ten gold coins per person per year. Now Rosiding pays three gold coins per person per person per year, leaving seven gold coins for himself, and the whole county has 220,000 people, and the gold coins he keeps is only more than one.5 million, which is almost half of Zhang Ziqiang's restaurant income.
However, the county also costs a lot, including officials' salaries, infrastructure construction, road collection, investment in junior colleges, etc., which together require 700,000 to 800,000 gold coins per year. If he still wants to build a private army, the investment will be great. The normal income in the county is not enough, so King Carus exempted him from taxes for three years.
When Zhang Ziqiang saw Dunbar coming, he laughed and said, "General Dunbar, I haven't seen each other for a while. How are you doing recently?"
"Mr. Hou, the army has just taken over, and the little bastards have just returned from the front line. The front line is always a little different from the local area. They are busy with training every day and have no time to drink at the restaurant." Dunbar pretended to be bitter.
"Haha, I'll ask someone to send some to your house later. I'm afraid I won't have any alcohol to drink when I help me maintain public security?"
"Thank you, Mr. Hou. Let's go to the city first. The Aida family changed the person in charge two months ago. The original welfare was recalled to the family's residence. People in the city were unstable during this period, so we said as we walked."
It turned out that after Fuli was recalled to the family's residence, Millum sent another person in charge Fuquan to hand over Zhang Ziqiang. Fuquan's qualifications in cultivation were not good, and he reached the foundation-building period by relying on medicine to deal with the foundation-building period. However, he was a good at handling government affairs and doing business, and was deeply trusted by Millum. After Fuquan came to Rositing City, he had been taking stock of the family's industries and moving out of Rositing County.
This is also normal. It turns out that Rositing County City is the fiefdom of the Aidra family. Nearly half of the entire city is his family, and half of the territory in the city is also his private land! Now that the city has returned to Zhang Ziqiang, it is reasonable for them to move away.
The Aidel family members have almost gone, and all the stores are empty. The city of Rosidin, which was originally 30,000 people, is now only 15,600,000. There is now a third-class marquis, eleven earls, forty-two barons, and one hundred and thirty viscounts in the county. All of them have industries in Rosidin County, and these people are not stable.
The development order of His Majesty the King has been issued. In other counties, the nobles can develop new lands, and one for two can be purchased. This county is Zhang Ziqiang's private property. The fiefs of the other five dukes do not have any nobles from other families. Who knows whether Zhang Ziqiang will use His Majesty's development order to develop? Will he deliberately increase taxes on them?
If these people hadn't found out that Zhang Ziqiang's family was newly built and unable to develop, and their industries in the county could not be handled, they might have moved away long ago.
These people, together with their families and servants, accounted for half of the total population in the county. Of course, Zhang Ziqiang could not let them go. He is still very weak and has a strong family background. He has to find a way to tie the nobles together to develop.
He thought to himself that with these people, he could quickly organize manpower and material resources to develop new land, use their funds and human resources to develop, and at the same time exchange them for land on the plains and use the land on the plains to attract civilians. Only by expanding the population base can talents be selected from the civilians to enrich their strength.
This noble has an industry locally, so there is no need to worry about them moving away for a while. After announcing the development plan, I believe they can be kept all of them.
Zhang Ziqiang thought about it while following Dunbar into the city. Most of the county towns in the kingdom are of the same specification, with a length and width of about three kilometers and nine square kilometers. Only more than 10,000 people are now living, and the empty popularity is insufficient. The teleportation square is also close to the southern gate of the city like the capital. The half of the city to the south has now been basically empty.
There is a newly built house garden covering an area of 400 acres in the middle of the city, which must have been rewarded by His Majesty the King. The house garden is surrounded by a high wall. It is said that the wall is actually the specifications of the city wall. There is only one door to enter the house garden. When you enter the gate of the house garden, a bluestone road about fifteen meters wide and sixty or seventy meters long paved to the political hall.
The political affairs hall is where Zhang Ziqiang meets and handles political affairs. There is a political affairs hall, a banquet hall, and seven or eight small living rooms. There is a small road on the left and right of the political affairs hall to lead to the back house. The back house is divided into three areas. The center is the main house, the servant guard residential area on the left, and the right is the area for Zhang Ziqiang to carry out research and development.
All three areas have walls about two meters high. There are more than ten meters between the walls and the exterior wall of the house. They are all grasslands. Guards can patrol along the walls of the house. While guarding safety, they will not affect the work of the three areas of the back house.
Zhang Ziqiang asked Xiao Cui to command everyone to settle down first, and the right side of the back house was distributed to the Family Formation Research Institute. The house was too big, and the owner's living area in the middle was eight pavilions that looked like the former Zhangzhuang. There were flowers and plants between the pavilions, which were fascinating.
Such a big place, just living in Zhangzhuang's Neiyuan seems empty, and some maids are needed to do some chores. Amilia transferred ten maids into the inner house, and Betha lived alone, Kalyn, Lolan and Finlat shared one, and four buildings were left.
Zhang Ziqiang left Xiao Cui to settle down in the back house, and took Amilia to the reception room in front, while Dunbar was still waiting.
"General Dunbar has been waiting for a long time. If you are pleased, the general will send someone to invite Fuquan from the Aidel family to come and handle the handover first."
"You are kind to me, the city lord Fuquan is waiting outside the house."
"Oh? Then please come and have a request."
Fuquan is a middle-aged man with a beard like a tent. After entering the living room, he thought it was because of Millum's tips. He was very polite to Zhang Ziqiang and respectfully bowed to him: "I have met Mr. Hou."
"Please sit down by the Lord Fuquan City. I had the honor of meeting your family's head, Duke Millum, two months ago. I wonder if the Duke will be happy in the near future?"
"Thank you, Mr. Hou, for your concern, everything is fine for the head of the family."
"That's good. Have your family handled the industry in Rosiding City? If you can use my place in the future, just open your mouth."
Fuquan looked at Zhang Ziqiang carefully, and saw that his face was not different, he replied: "It's done. Today I brought the land deed. I'm just waiting for the master to hand over it, but..."
"If you have any difficulties, please tell me."
"Because the family also wants to develop a new city, all the industries in Rosiding City have been moved away. The family used to have more people in Rosiding City, and the population in the city has been reduced by half. Please forgive me."
"Haha, what I do, it doesn't matter. It's reasonable for the noble family to do this." After stopping, he looked at Xiao Cui and said, "Xiao Cui, you go hand in hand with Lord Fuquan and ask General Dunbar to be a witness. At noon, I will treat two of you to a meal at the liquor house."
"I can drink Master Hou's good wine again. I've been waiting for it for a long time." Dunbar laughed.
Chapter completed!