After Dite left, everything seemed to be in silence. The Federation did not take any action because of Yiming's tough statement. However, according to the report of the border patrol, the group of barbarians were still carrying out the migration operation in an orderly manner. Obviously, the Federation did not mean to give up on this plain.

Now, Yi Ming is facing more serious problems.

"money?"

He and Mayalie stared at the long list of numbers handed over by Marien, almost dazzling people.

"Yes, two adults."

With Lucia's assistance, Marian and Elinoa's work has been significantly reduced a lot. However, some problems cannot be solved by relying solely on administrative capabilities.

"The military pay of the patrol team, the monthly salary of the castle insiders, and the expenses required for city maintenance are all a lot of money. In order to attract foreign chambers of commerce and personnel, we have reduced the original tax revenue by one third according to your order. If this continues, we may not be able to make ends meet. In a short while, our financial problems will become very serious."

Marian sighed, and then Elinoa continued.

"According to the law of the empire, the two adults, as counts, were unable to withdraw more gold coins from the treasury because they had the privilege of adjusting the tax rate at will. As members of the Council, the two adults were able to obtain salary of five thousand gold coins from the Academy Council every month. But even if the two adults invested all of this money into the construction of the city, it was not enough."

money?

Yiming and Mayali looked at each other, they had never thought about this issue.

And now, Marian and Elinoa actually told them unanimously that they were short of money!

"Then. The city is built..."

"Using magic to mix stones and soil, and at the same time, fix vines to fix the city walls. The roads are built in a flat grass and the land is completed by Miss Marian with her own magic power. Only in the subtle parts, she spent nearly 20,000 gold coins to rest. Because Azus currently has no specialty except ore. Almost everything in the land can only rely on transportation. The price is much more expensive than in other places."

"Sister Marian."

At this moment, the ice fish was reading a book next to her and raised her head.

"I read the history book that said, "This was once the location of the High Elves Kingdom. So how did they maintain the land at that time?"

“The Elf Kingdom is different from us.”

Marien laughed bitterly.

"The elves at that time did not like to interact with foreign countries, and they could live a self-sufficient life just by hunting and living peacefully with the forest. But we can't do it, we are humans. And now Azus is not an elves kingdom after all, and we have stricter requirements than fruits and food. If this were not the case, I wouldn't have to bother building the city, so I'd just let everyone dig a tree hole and live in it."

Elfs are indifferent in nature. They advocate harmonious coexistence with nature and are satisfied with their current life. But humans are never satisfied. This may be why although elves have a longer history than humans, their progress is not obvious to humans. Whether it is a hundred years, a thousand years, or ten thousand years, elves seem to have no change. Change means destruction, and the dust remains unchanged. It is not a good thing.

“That is to say…we are short of money?”

Yiming shook his head, muttered to himself, and then looked at Mealli.

“How much money do we have?”

(There are 100,000 gold coins, haven't you kept it in my custody? This is the reward from the Council we received after completing the task last time, but that's all... Maybe not enough.)

“Haah…………………”

The two sighed at the same time.

Yi Ming never thought that he would be short of money.

In other words, he never cared about whether he had money or not.

In the original world, even if they have tens of millions of dollars, it doesn't make any sense. They cannot buy luxury houses and villas like ordinary people and enjoy everything that money brings. On the contrary, this will make them even more dangerous. Meyali's family was once a large European multinational company, but after Meyali's ability was discovered, their family began to resist the government. Neither Meyali's father nor mother would intend to hand over Meyali out. So in the end, their family's business was "legal" merger and acquisition under the government's step by step. After silently replacing shareholders and members of the board of directors, they became worthless from the original tycoon, and they did not even have the ability to resist the government's pursuit. Therefore, no matter how much money they had, it could not eliminate the fear and threat in the hearts of normal people.

After arriving in this world, the two people's view of money also did not change. For them, as long as they live enough, they would have no idea about using this money to invest in exchange for more money.

But now, the crisis is in front of them.

"We still have 100,000 gold coins here. I will give it to you, as long as you can. I think we must consider the development direction of Azus..." Yiming finally made the decision.

Although this decision was a bit hasty, Imming and Mealli could not blame all this. Before, because of concealing the truth and reducing Brad's vigilance, Imming disguised himself as a man who was a mess in urban management. He set up a big mess in the early stage, and at that time he did not think of Azus as his territory, so he just did it casually. After the incident of Brad, Imming and Mealli were soon sent to the Kingdom of Marco to carry out the destruction mission behind enemy lines, and they simply forgot about Azus. It was not until they returned to Lily Flower City that they officially received the order to appoint the two as permanent lords. Now, what they have to face is the mess they left behind.

It's really a cycle of nature, and retribution is unhappy.

However, although Yi Ming is not very familiar with urban management, he still knows very well what he should do.

The first and most important thing is to decide on the location of Azus.

The positioning of a city will affect their income and development direction. If it is a city that is mainly commercial, then it will naturally have to work hard on business. If it is a city that is mainly transportation, then the right way is to build well-connected roads and docks that can accommodate large ships. If it is a city that is mainly defense, it can completely abandon unnecessary communication and focus on the defense and military preparation of the city walls. If it is a city that is mainly based on grain production, it is necessary to reclaim large areas of fertile land. At the same time, it is necessary to set up a series of processing industries.

So, what should Azus do?

I have to say that this is a very headache for Yiming. In general cities, they basically rely on their own geographical location to make judgments. For example, being in a major transportation road, or surrounding terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, or having very convenient and wide ground, etc. Deciding the development direction of the city based on the terrain is also a solution.

But here's the problem.

As the largest and only city in the Forest of Life, Azus plays a very important role in transit transportation without doubt. The wide Crescent River flows downstream and enters the largest waterway of the Leah Empire, with extremely convenient transportation. Regardless of whether the plains can be taken down, it will face the frontier fortress of the Federation, and it is naturally careless in defense. Fertile soil is everywhere, and even the veterans who just came here at the beginning have become small farmers. Moreover, not only are they suitable for planting crops, but the fruits and magic plants native to the Forest of Life are also very good sales, and the number of animals is also gradually increasing.

It is precisely because there are too many directions to choose that Yi Ming doesn’t know what to do.

It is naturally good not to give up on any aspect. But Yi Ming now does not have the ability to blossom from all sides... In short, he still has no money.

Otherwise, Yi Ming would have to wave his hand and shout "Do it all" with a turtle-like spirit, then there would be no problem.

To pay attention to transportation, we must first build a dock and expand the road again. However, the relationship between the Federation and the Empire is tense now. Although merchants have no borders, it is not the time to let them pass by at will. Although reclaiming fields is a good choice, the benefits are too slow. It takes a long time to recover them. As for defense, there is no need to think about it. If all the money is invested in the city's garrison, then the two of them will probably become paupers tomorrow. Although they have "blame" from the Federation, they only agreed to deliver it within three months. It is hard to say when they can get it.

"It's such a headache..."

After seeing off Marian and Elinoa, Yiming couldn't help but feel a headache. Mayalie rubbed her eyebrows, obviously a little tired.

(I really didn't expect that it would be so difficult to manage a city... The most important thing is that it's really not money.)

"Although that's what we say, we have to find a way to earn this money ourselves."

Yi Ming pointed out calmly.

(That's right. We must rely on our own efforts to complete this matter, and at the political level. We cannot accept other people's money in any case, otherwise, this is not a good thing for us.)

As a formerly prominent member of a large family, Mealley clearly understands the almost omnipotent role money plays at the political level.

But it's just "almost".

"call…………"

Yi Ming stood up and walked to the window and looked at the city outside.

This is his city.

So, what should he do?

At this moment, Yi Ming looked down and suddenly saw a group that he was very familiar with. The old dwarf walked towards here with anger against the hammer, while two beast-eared mercenaries followed behind him. Speaking of which, after letting Youfa and Yuri return to Azus, they seemed to have been serving as the guards of the old dwarfs...
Chapter completed!