Train to Another World.

Chapter 420 Lookout Peak

Kai Luo gradually became wary of Li Zhuoguang, and it was not his fault, because Li Zhuoguang was heading towards Bonaparte's territory. And more than 200 elf rangers, what kind of concept is this?
Usually, one Elf Ranger can be the backbone of an adventure team and directly carry the entire mission. Ten Elf Rangers are enough to launch a coup in a city.

There are now more than 200 elf rangers. If the other party can really persuade the peace-loving elves to use violence, then it is not impossible to sweep away the Bonaparte family.

The most important thing is that the food supply for 200 people is not a small number, and the enemy is all lightly equipped. If it is an ordinary adventure team of five or six people, it is not impossible to collect food while walking. But 200 people, collecting food? It's a joke!
Although there is no proverb here that goes "If my neighbor hoards food, I hoard guns", Kailo now has a vague worry about what will happen if this group of people runs out of food.

After walking for a few more days, we could vaguely see a majestic mountain on the horizon. It was the only peak standing out in the flat wilderness. I guess this was Lookout Peak.

During the journey of the past few days, Kylo's worries gradually turned into surprise, because he was sure that this group of elf rangers really did not bring any food, but they always took turns to eat.

Later, under Kylo's attention, all the elves who went to eat went to Lady Storm without exception. He wanted to go over to see, but was blocked by the elf rangers on the grounds of protecting Lady Storm.

So Kylo had a bold guess, that is, Ms. Storm, or Li Zhuoguang and others, have a batch of new compressed dry food or meal replacement drugs.

This kind of thing is not a secret at all in some big forces. Everyone has their own unique secret recipe for processing food. For example, the Bonaparte family is good at beating dried meat into meat floss with a wooden hammer, and then adding some secret medicine to compress it into pills.

Just one pill can keep you from being hungry for a day and make you energetic. Unfortunately, you can't eat too much. If you eat it for seven days in a row, your body will have problems and your consciousness will become hazy. It seems that this is what the elves have been using these days.

Kailuo, who thought he knew the truth, immediately asked a quick follower to leave the group and rush back to the territory with supplies. Kailuo believed that the secret recipe of compressed dry food used by Li Zhuoguang was better than his own, and he wanted to buy the recipe.

After entering the territory of the Bonaparte family, more people began to arrive, some were caravans, some were adventurers. They were all frightened when they saw such a large-scale army, but they breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that this army was from the elves.

Even when he saw that they were moving in the same direction as himself, he still followed the team and walked together to avoid risks.

Li Zhuoguang couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene, saying that this was the result of thousands of years of good reputation.

Unlike a certain mysterious Eastern superpower that loves to beat up its neighbors for a thousand years. The reason why it is a thousand years and not longer is simply because the other party has only been established for a thousand years.

In recent decades, they have suddenly become peace-loving and told their neighbors that they are now rising peacefully and will not attack them in the future. Do you think they would believe it?
As the group following grew larger, some people finally began to notice Kylo who was trapped in the crowd of elves, and they came forward to greet Kylo.

Some older people, who probably knew the strange ancestral teachings of the Bonaparte family, secretly asked Kylo if he had fulfilled his ancestors' wishes? Were these elves here to attend the wedding?
Kylo would always shake his head with regret, and then look towards Ariana with pity. But Ariana was always unwilling to look in his direction.

After approaching Lookout Peak, Ariana led the way. Although she hadn't been here for more than 20 years, she remembered that there was an abandoned ancient city site nearby. As long as they reached the site and repaired it with a little earth escape, they could use it as a temporary base.

But when they arrived at the ancient city ruins, they were dumbfounded. They saw that it was not an abandoned ancient city ruins at all, but a newly built city. The gate was crowded with people, and it looked like the city was still prosperous.

"Oh! How do you know my fiefdom is here?" Kylo stood aside, his mouth grinning from ear to ear.

Aliana asked, "Is this your city?"

Hearing Ariana's question, Kylo became even more proud: "Yes, I am the smartest one among my father's sons, so my father has placed high hopes on me since I was a child. When I was about to come of age, he gave this abandoned city to me as a fiefdom.

And I didn't let him down. I turned this abandoned city into the most prosperous city nearby." Xiong Facai rubbed his chin and said, "It must have cost a lot to build this city, right?"

Kai Luo shook his head: "I have nothing but the ownership of an abandoned city. If I build a city on my own, I won't be able to finish it by the time I die."

“So how did you build it up?”

Kai Luo smiled proudly and said, "Of course, let the merchants build it. I never planned to build this into a regular city. From the beginning, I planned to build this city into a commercial city. Except for the city lord's mansion and the camp of the city guards, all the shops will be built.

I have divided the entire city into several small areas. Anyone who is willing to take responsibility for rebuilding an area will be eligible to build his own shop in that area and enjoy extremely low business tax for fifty years.

The infrastructure such as city walls, roads, and city lord's palaces are distributed in better locations. If you want to have the right to use a better location, you need to undertake the corresponding infrastructure.

Fifty years is not a short time, and Lookout Peak is a relatively prosperous area with many cities. If a purely commercial city is built here, there will be no shortage of people coming to trade.

If you own a low-tax shop here for 50 years, even if you need to invest in construction in the early stages, you will still make a profit overall.

So from the beginning, my plan attracted a lot of powerful chambers of commerce and nobles to invest. It only took me five years to build a city. "

Li Zhuoguang nodded. Although this behavior was just basic in his world, it was considered very business-minded in this end of the Middle Ages. So he asked, "How low is the low tax for 50 years that you mentioned?"

Kai Luo said honestly: "It's very low. Apart from covering the operation of the city and the basic expenses of the City Lord's Mansion, there is no surplus at all."

"Then your fifty years..."

Kai Luo looked at the bustling crowd at the city gate and said, "Just like my ancestors said, we must take a long-term view.

The low tax rate over the past fifty years will make the goods in my city the cheapest in the region. And if the whole city is full of shops, the goods here will be the most complete in the region.

Even nobles who live far away will be willing to come to me to trade as long as they need to make large purchases. Slowly, this place will become the commercial center nearby.

Even when the 50-year period is up, I will not raise taxes immediately, but will increase taxes gradually over 50 years, taking 10 years to reach normal levels. After 50 years, everyone will be used to trading here, so a gradual increase in prices will not be a big deal.

One hundred years from now, this city will be the most precious treasure I leave to my descendants."

"Excellent! Your plan is indeed excellent, and with the support of the Bonaparte family, it is not easy for other forces to emulate it." Li Zhuoguang clapped his hands, "But I have a question. You said that you started with an abandoned city, and you used some means to build the abandoned city into its current appearance. Then what about the two cities you wanted as a betrothal gift before?"

Hearing Li Zhuoguang's question, Kailuo was stunned for a moment, then gave an awkward but polite smile.

(End of this chapter)