Heart of Empire Chapter 287: Finance

As for the so-called invitations from the commercial guild, Dane had no intention of answering them because of his arrogance.

In Dane's mind, he is the lord of Shawan Harbor, not these merchants. He didn't care what kind of tacit understanding there was between the merchants and the former warlords who controlled the port, and how to manage the city. He only knew that Shawan Harbor was now under his leadership, and what he wanted to do was to be a real lord, not a rogue gangster collecting protection fees.

For the future development of Shahaiwan Port, he has his own plan in mind, of course, the location of merchants is indispensable, after all, Shahaiwan Port is a commercial city.

But there is no place for a commercial guild.

The current commercial guilds have too much influence on the city. In every aspect and every line of business, there are complete departments in the General Affairs Office, and it is useless for Dane to intervene.

This makes his desire for control very unsatisfactory, and more importantly, he can only be a protection fee collector. As for those who collect protection fees, how can they manage their own business and make money?

Dain will definitely abolish this commercial guild. It is definitely unreliable to wipe out the roots. After all, the management of the city still needs such a department to maintain, but the function of the General Affairs Office in his future planning can only serve as a management department at most, and it needs to be based on his own will. The management department that exists below can no longer control everything in the city like it is now.

What to do, Dane already has some ideas in his mind.

However, these ideas are not very mature yet, and some opportunities are needed.

He is not in a hurry, and it doesn't matter if he waits. As for what to do now...he plans to let the greedy guys in the commercial guild dry for a while.

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Goodell couldn't care less about waiting for Dane anymore. He didn't want to see Dane at the General Affairs Office in Shawan Harbor during the day. God of Wealth!

So, that night, he went directly to ask for a visit, but was told that Dane had already led the army and was on his way back to White Wolf Castle before evening.

Godell, who had rushed to nothing, was keenly aware that the situation seemed to be developing in a direction that was very unfavorable to the businessmen. The arrogant business guild has obviously annoyed the new general, who has even been rumored to be the governor.

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Dain was in a hurry to return to White Wolf Castle, of course there were reasons for him. His new batch of troops had completed their recruitment a week or two ago, and they were undergoing training at various training bases in White Wolf Fort, waiting to continue forming an army.

This time, the troops he brought back were still the first and second wing.

The first regiment was in the battle of the Tiedinggang Legion, and suffered a lot of losses. The two heavy infantry brigades were reduced to nearly 200 people, and the white wolf cavalry also lost more than a hundred people. As for the two light infantry brigades, they were directly defeated on the battlefield. Although some of the defeated soldiers were brought back in the end, there were more than 300 soldiers who were killed in the middle or simply fled and could not be found.

Looking at it this way, the loss of the First Wing has almost reached 40%, and it was almost disabled.

The second team is much better. Although they fought two assault battles, they can be regarded as crushing and defeating their opponents. They did not fall into a brutal battle, and the loss ratio was controlled at 100%. Ten or less.

Compared with the results of destroying the entire Malone Legion and defeating the Gusha Group under Governor Kangli, such a loss is of course a big victory. But the loss in the middle must be made up as soon as possible.

What's more, Dane doesn't intend to stop his pace of further military expansion—otherwise, how can he confirm his title as governor?

Now, the building levels of the White Wolf Cavalry Training Camp, White Wolf Guard Training Camp, and Pure Swordsman Training Camp in White Wolf Castle have all been raised to level four, and the speed and scale of training soldiers have been improved to a certain extent . Although the next batch of troops to form an army will be two months later, at that time, the elites of the newly trained two or three brigades will be filled into the existing troops, which will not only replenish the lost troops , It can also allow him to completely replace all the miscellaneous soldiers in his two alliances representing his core combat power.

The performance of the elite troops in the war is much better than that of the miscellaneous troops. He is fed up with those light infantry that will drag them down.

After this wave of military training is completed, he will immediately cancel all the three existing light infantry brigades that are still in service. These light infantry can be thrown to Verina's garrison army in one go. His regular army no longer needs this kind of scum.

This speed of military expansion actually puts his financial situation under pressure.

White Wolf Fort needs to expand three elite brigades, and it will cost almost 40,000 gold coins.

What's more, this is nothing more than military expansion, and he still needs to further develop the territory.

Constructing buildings, upgrading buildings, and issuing various administrative strategies also require a lot of resources to support them.

If it is as it was three months ago, the income of about 20,000 gold coins per month, after deducting the daily city maintenance and military expenses, can be kept in the pocket for continued economic development and military expansion. The funds are only more than 6,000. How is it possible to afford such a huge expense?

Dane can only use his own inventory resources to fill the hole.

These inventory resources come from Moore, and from the legacy of Barber, the former mayor of Rotten Wolf Town~IndoMTL.com~ But up to now, the resources of more than 100,000 gold coins have been rapidly increasing in three months. More than half of it was consumed during the development process.

This means that although Dane still has some money in hand, if he wants to continue to maintain his rapid development momentum, if he does not find other ways out and only relies on existing resources , then soon he will touch the bottleneck of development, and will stop because of this.

But fortunately, Dane has not just spent money in the past three months. Gold coins invested in various buildings and various policies and regulations to promote economic development have also begun to play a role.

Among them, the biggest head is the two abandoned mine veins developed around the White Wolf Fort.

Only these two veins can bring more than 3,000 gold coins to Dane in a month. It's a pity that this mine vein is abandoned. Even with the power of the system, it can only develop to this point at most. The concentrated expression is that after Dane raised the building level of these two mine veins to the second level, There is no way to go up again, which has to be said to be a pity. (To be continued.)