Starting Today, I'll Work as a City Lord.

After returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Liu Feng went to the study, and the three girls took Weiya away, saying that they should get to know each other well.

In the study, Liu Feng looked at the financial statements of Xiyang City, and the more he looked at it, the more his brows wrinkled.

The source of income for Xiyang City is really too few. It can be said that there is no source of income. It is only supported by the little wheat outside the city. In the past, it was possible to sell the wheat to earn copper coins, but now Liu Feng has taken the wheat as his own. Ban the sale of wheat to other cities.

"It seems that we have to find a new one to replace wheat for export. Otherwise, in the long run, there will be a lot of raw materials missing in Xiyang City."

Liu Feng thought about it, a city cannot operate behind closed doors, it must trade with the outside world, otherwise it will be difficult to develop rapidly.

The grain was removed by him. He would not sell the most primitive wheat. It would be processed after being sold, such as making coarse grains, or making it into wine, so as to maximize profits. A pound of wheat How much steel did you earn? !

So without considering the food for the time being, only handicrafts are available. For food, clothing, housing, and transportation, Liu Feng decided to start with clothing, that is, the manufacture of linen.

The linen of this era was slowly woven by hand, but there was no spinning machine.

However, there are already looms, and the performance is very rough.

For example, the linen worn by nobles is made of carefully selected hemp threads of similar proportions and then woven. The cost of a piece of clothing has increased several times, which is not affordable for commoners.

After all, there are many people who can't even wear sackcloth, and can only wrap them in animal skins or weave them into clothes with grass silk. It's fine in summer, but many people can freeze to death in winter.

Otherwise, nobles like Tori would not want to use thirteen gold coins to buy Liu Feng's Hanfu. One of them is to study clothes, so that they can learn anything.

Clothes are indispensable to all people. In this era, civilians who can afford complete clothes are considered to have a decent life. Many families only wear those two or three sets of clothes.

On the other side of the earth, Liu Feng once saw an anecdote on the Internet, saying that the commoners in ancient times had no clothes to wear, and if there were several men in the family, they only had one or two sets of clothes, and the one or two sets of clothes were given out to work. Some people wear it, while others have to wait at home until it gets dark, and then go out to work in the dark, so that no one needs to wear clothes and no one can see it.

The statement is a bit exaggerated, but in fact, some families in this era are like this. For example, children run around naked, and some little boys are naked.

In the final analysis, it is still the backwardness of the industry, the production of linen is not large, and it is very expensive.

One meter of linen costs dozens of copper coins, and few families can afford the linen for a set of clothes.

Why did Wei Ya's parents threaten her, saying that she couldn't wear boys' clothes, because linen was expensive and scarce, so wearing boys' clothes meant accepting the boy's love.

If a boy goes home shirtless, there are two possibilities. One is that the boy gives the clothes to the girl he likes and asks the other party to take them home. .

The second is that the boy was robbed and his clothes were stripped.

Linen clothing can be used as a dowry, and it also represents a person's face.Whoever can buy new clothes is the envy of the neighbors.

Chapter 0088 The messenger of Lie Ma City.

Just when Liu Feng was thinking about how to generate income for Xiyang City, a small boat docked at the dock of Xiyang City.

"Why did Baron Omar take a fancy to this broken place?"

Lane, the messenger of Liema City, stood on the boat, frowning at the dilapidated pier, especially some wooden platforms that had collapsed.

Lane is an unpopular civil servant in the Barondom of Omar, and one of the local quasi-aristocrats. He used to be a knight, but now he was expelled by Omar to become a civil servant.

The knights of this era were not nobles, they were a class between commoners and nobles, and they were also dubbed quasi-nobles, which was also what many commoners yearned for.

As long as knights make great achievements, they are very likely to become nobles, or like Liu Feng, to buy a baron title in the western land.

But few knights have savings. For example, all of Ryan's family property only has a dozen silver coins, which he has saved after struggling for [-] years.

The reason why Ryan was driven to Xiyang City was because he heard that there were major changes in Xiyang City, so let him take a look or try it out.

This is a chore. It is definitely a chore for Ryan, who is about to get married. He was not seen by Baron Omar in the first place. He was also removed from the title of knight and changed to be a clerk to deal with the noisy civilian disputes in the territory.

"It seems that the wedding date is not in time this time. I hope Lizao won't blame me." Ryan was in a bad mood. Anyone who was called on a business trip before getting married, if he was in a good mood, he would go to meet his lover.

He has never been able to integrate into the inner circle of Baron Omar, only in the outer circle, no, not even in the outer circle, he is just an ordinary clerk for salary work.

Before Baron Omar came, he was a well-known knight in Liema City, but now he is so low as a clerk doing chores. Is it because I refuted Baron Omar, a few unreliable things he did?

"Sir, are you going to enter Xiyang City now?" the servant asked diligently.

He didn't know why the master was in a daze, he only knew that the master treated him very well, that Baron Omar had been suppressing the master, and everyone in Liema City knew that Knight Lane was too upright.

"Let's go, the advanced city, this remote town, where even the foot merchants rarely come in a year, actually said that there is a big change."

Ryan shook his head. He didn't know what the person who spread the news thought, or whether Baron Omar deliberately suppressed him and wanted to drive him out of Liema City.

"Ta Tata..."

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Ryan turned his head to look and saw four or five carriages coming towards the pier.

"call……"

The coachman stopped the carriage, and Yingya jumped out of the carriage and shouted politely, "Everyone, help unload the salt, and I will give you two more steel coins."

"can!"

Those coachmen hurriedly helped to carry the salt. For them, this was extra income and they didn't have to hand it over to the City Lord's Mansion.

Lane stared blankly at this scene, why was so much salt transported from Xiyang City?Can't common people even buy salt?

Curious, Ryan came to Yingya and asked, "Excuse me, why did you take all the salt away?"

"Are you from out of town?" Ying Ya said with a wry smile.

"Yes, I just came today!"

"You'll know when you go to Xiyang City." Ying Ya said with a downcast, it was a sad thing, so why bother to mention it again.

Ryan looked at Yingya who was walking away, confused. He turned his head to look in the direction of Xiyang City, with a little curiosity in his eyes. Could it be that the nobles of Xiyang City are too cruel?Even the salt merchants can't stay?