Chapter 32: Economic Control

After the construction of the port Norasien was completed, Sakavi decided to appoint Su Lai De, a candidate acceptable to all parties, as the Governor of Norasien. This place is a window for external contact, and only by making others feel that it is safe and reliable will people come to do business.

Sakavi felt that he also needed a monopoly company specializing in bulk commodity trading along the Bohe River. Other small businesses can be handed over to ordinary merchants. Bulk commodity export businesses such as coal, steel, tin ore, and salt cannot be eaten by local small merchants, and even if they are supported, they are unstable factors.

After picking and choosing, he finally selected the High-Level devil caught in the Loka Grand Canyon six years ago. After six years of torture, this devil finally said his true name last month.

Looking at Lusko, who had become his slave, Sakavi decided to send him to organize the Bohe Shipping Company. This devil from the second layer of the Bator Underworld was very familiar with various rules and regulations and transactions.

Sakavi decided to appoint Grom, who was caught with him, as the Governor of Black Iron City. Black Iron City, this coal transshipment hub, needs to coke coal and smelt and process iron and tin ore. Its status is second only to Norasien. Obsidian from upstream and forged ironware will be loaded onto ships here and then transported to all parts of the world.

Sakavi allowed them to pick any race he had, but they seemed to have a great interest in Underworld Gnomes. Both of them chose a large number of Underworld Gnomes in terms of clerical and management personnel.

In a blink of an eye, time came to November, and cassava was in the harvest season, but the yield of Ogres was unbearable to look at. It was the first time for them to farm, and the yield of the disciplined Lizardmen was three times that of the Ogres.

Looking at the cassava fields that had been eaten more than half by the Ogres halfway, Sakavi didn't know what to say, but the enthusiasm of the Ogres for farming was very high. The environment here is much better than the wilderness, but they are used to being chaotic and disorderly, and their work efficiency is very low.

To this end, Sakavi directly told them that the farming policy for the next year would be changed to: the 1,000 people who farm the best will get permanent farming rights, and the 50,000 people who farm the worst will be sent back to the wilderness directly. No intelligent race is stupid enough not to understand the rules, it's just that they lack guidance and regulations.

Compared to the Ogres here, those who built the port had a hard time. At that time, Sakavi specifically sent Drow Elves to select Ogres that were easy to control to reclaim wasteland. These people who engaged in construction were naturally those who were not honest.

In the past year or so, Sakavi received countless complaints from Gray Dwarves, saying that these people could make people angry when they worked. They didn't do much, but they didn't do less fighting and brawling. However, Sakavi thought they still had progress, at least they would listen to the command.

In order to better control them ideologically, Sakavi specifically asked elves to compile many songs for them, and took them to sing when they had nothing to do. They also taught them to play bagpipes, xun, and other musical instruments that are easy to learn and not easy to break. It doesn't matter if it sounds good or not, as long as they are satisfied.

After more than a year of teaching, Sakavi thought it was still not enough, so he arranged for them to build the two piers of Muddy Anchorage and Giant Stone Port, as well as the roads from the piers to various tribes. The black basalt mountains on the wilderness are inexhaustible, and are the best choice for building bridges and repairing roads.

After arranging the Ogres, Sakavi came to the school area of Agrik. This place is divided into two parts: one is the school for cultivating future grassroots management personnel, and the other is the centralized management center for Goblin and Ogre children. Sakavi ordered last year that all Ogre children be concentrated here. Although the Ogres were dissatisfied, thinking of the 100,000 orcs who were beheaded by the river, they didn't dare to say anything.

From the beginning of the construction of Agrik, Goblins have been responsible for cleaning and clearing feces, but they have been chaotic and disorderly for too long. If there is no Drow Elf to check on the side, they will make a mess of their work.

In order to solve this problem, Sakavi directly ordered that all Goblin children be sent to Agrik to receive obedience and discipline management education from Drow Elves. After they get used to discipline and grow up, as long as they don't come into contact with those old oilers, they can avoid the bad habits of chaos and disorder.

After inspecting the school, Sakavi came to Grapp's office. Grapp has now become the Grand Steward of the Internal Affairs Court. His main task is to draft and compile the territory's laws, regulations, political framework, etc. With the help of Drow Elves, he completed it very satisfactorily to Sakavi.

Looking at the "Tribal City-State Transition Law" handed over by Grapp, Sakavi felt it was necessary to implement it as soon as possible. However, things have priorities, and it is impossible to implement this plan in all places at the same time.

Sakavi ordered all Lizardman tribes in the swamp area to complete the establishment of the City Hall/Town Hall before January next year, with the Finance Department, Infrastructure Department, Production Department, and Security Department set up underneath, and complete various tasks issued by the Internal Affairs Court according to the regulations, and there will be Drow Elves to supervise.

Of course, just forcing execution will have very low effects. Sakavi decided to use the Bohe River shipping system in his hands. The Lizardman tribe itself does not produce ironware, and the winter here is very cold, so Lizardmen must burn charcoal in winter. The fish and grain they produce must be sold.

When Sakavi ordered the establishment of the City Hall, he also ordered that without the stamp of the Production Department, no one could purchase the fish and grain of the Lizardmen. Without the stamp of the Finance Department, no bulk commodities could enter the Lizardman tribe.

People from the Internal Affairs Court came to assign various tasks, and they were all looking for specialized people to connect, and the people of the Security Department had to come out for training regularly under the leadership of the Security Department Chief. In this way, even if the chief wanted to stop it, there was not enough opportunity.

In other places, tribes that support urbanization more will also receive more preferential treatment. If any tribe takes the initiative to implement the "Tribal City-State Transition Law" and does not fool Sakavi, they can enjoy tax exemption services.

After this plan has been implemented for more than three years, Minotaurs, Harpies, and Kobolds have taken the initiative to implement it. Centaurs said they are nomadic and have no conditions for implementation, and Murlocs and Goblins said they could not understand the bill.

But it doesn't matter, Sakavi helped them understand what they didn't understand, directly sent Lizardmen to give on-site guidance, and directly moved Goblins out of the hilly area. They were settled in various parts of the territory, specifically responsible for picking up garbage, cleaning feces, and composting.

After five years of teaching, the first batch of trained Goblins has graduated. This batch of Goblins will be settled in the residential area of Agrik, responsible for street cleanliness and fire hazard investigation.

This group of Goblins is very in line with Sakavi's requirements for residents. They wear clothes with the characteristics of the Black Dragon Grand Duke's territory, can read general text, and know the basic geography and history of the Grand Duke's territory. Looking at the older generation who were howling around leaves, they themselves were disgusted.

When the residents of the Grand Duke's territory are all this kind of new culture that recognizes the fusion of their own culture invented by elves and is independent of any place in the world, Sakavi's rule will be unbreakable. Sakavi has designed tailored culture for every race here. They are different and do not conflict with each other.

Seeing that this new culture has effects even on Goblins, who are the most difficult to control, Sakavi decided to import the new culture into various races through trade. Let them understand that cities and people who accept the new culture are more acceptable and cooperative in trade with him, and in fact, they are much more civilized than before.

In another two years, the first batch of Ogres will also graduate. After separating this group of Ogres with culture from the older generation, the new generation will gradually occupy the mainstream position.

In Sakavi's plan, only 5,000 of the first batch of Ogres who came to reclaim wasteland will be left to farm, and others will be gradually sent back to the wilderness after the first batch of Ogre children graduate, where they will continue the mining work of obsidian. And organize towns, the wilderness Ogres and the farming Ogres will be two different nations.

Of course, Lizardmen are the same, but they don't need to be sent back. Sakavi will not allow any race to occupy too much power. When it is completely stable here, Drow Elves will return to the newly established Shadow Intelligence Court.

For many years, Sakavi's intelligence work has been the responsibility of Vilna, but she has many tasks, and the intelligence work is often intermittent. Three years ago, she proposed to set up an intelligence organization, but because she really couldn't spare high-quality talent, it was only completed this year.

Mentioning the Intelligence Agency, Sakavi felt that the last of the three carriages in his hand, the Public Security Agency, should also be established. In recent years, the gnoll bandit groups that had been beaten into disappearance by the Warcry Tribe in earlier years have reappeared this year.

When Sakavi first came here, he ordered all tribes to send representatives to a meeting, but the Gnolls couldn't even find a tribe with more than a hundred people. Seeing that there were really few people, he didn't bother with them. Who knew they had recovered this year.

According to the fact that Gnolls reach the youth stage where they can fight at the age of four, these Gnolls should be the youth of the new generation, and the oldest is only about seven years old. Since this is the case, just catch them and train them for two or three years, and they will be qualified security personnel.

Thinking of this, Sakavi immediately ordered Lady Tali, the Grand Steward of the Security Corps, to lead the Harpies and Centaurs under her command to encircle and annihilate the Gnolls. When completing the map drawing task, Lady Tali felt the problem of insufficient manpower, so she took the liberty to take down Screaming Cliff.

She, who came to the Grand Duke's territory, is already a High-Level Wind Mage. Dealing with a group of Harpies who are only at the Initial Rank is not difficult at all. Sakavi had no way to deal with her behavior of acting first and reporting later, so he could only let her be the Grand Steward of the Security Corps.

According to reason, a Screaming Cliff with more than 60,000 Harpies should have several Master Rankers, but the Dragon Spine Mountains back onto the Black Forest, and the Wood Elves do not allow Harpies above the High-Level to appear in their territory.

Lady Tali, who has studied professional military theory in school, is easy to deal with a group of Gnolls without combat experience. Just one week later, Gnolls could no longer be seen in the entire Grand Duke's territory.

Looking at the 10,000 Gnolls caught, with those young faces, Sakavi felt that his rule over this land was becoming more and more stable. ===== CHAPTER 33 =====