After the cleanup, San Filto City quickly regained its prosperity. After the gangs were gone, the trading and living conditions were greatly improved.
The city's sanitation reform was still ongoing, and the pace was significantly faster. It wasn't a good idea to keep tens of thousands of poor people in a concentration camp. If they didn't find something to do, there would definitely be trouble.
Therefore, Suhlen began to take out the basic reconstruction of San Filto City. Suhlen knew the method of providing relief through work, which was very suitable for these poor people who had nothing.
Public toilets and bathrooms were also built, and the streets were turned into cobblestones.
The poor people would be paid for their work every day, and they would be able to eat their fill. To them, this was already very blissful. Many new houses would be built in the original slums, and these houses would be sold to the poor at a lower price.
The building materials needed could be gathered by the poor people. The poor people would still be used to build the houses, and after the houses were built, they would be sold to the poor people. In this way, the money Suhlen distributed to the poor people was once again recovered.
It could be said that Suhlen didn't spend any money and even made a small profit. He only paid a small price to complete the basic reconstruction of the city.
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After Marquis Savoy left San Filto City, he led the army back to Calt City. After he announced his loyalty to Suhlen, the neutral nobles in the northern provinces of the Kingdom of Florence began to support Suhlen. However, there were still a few cities that didn't accept Suhlen.
These cities were located in the northwest of the Kingdom of Florence. They were already at the border of the Kingdom of Florence. On the other side, they were connected to the Kingdom of Lorenza. The road to these nobles' territories wasn't easy. They had to pass through a mountain range. Because of the mountain range, it was much more difficult to conquer these territories.
After three days of rest, Suhlen ordered Marquis Savoy to lead the army to wipe out these territories.
Under the leadership of the legendary knight, the morale of Calt's army soared. None of the rebellious nobles had legendary combat power. As long as Marquis Savoy arrived, it was only a matter of time before the rebellious nobles were dealt with.
Suhlen had someone send some falcons to the Marquis of Savoy so that he could use them to communicate. If anything unexpected happened, he could be notified immediately.
When the Marquis of Savoy went to eliminate the rebellion, the first batch of officials and soldiers from the Northwind Dukedom arrived at San Filto. As soon as these officials arrived, they immediately immersed themselves in their work. Suhlen was finally freed from his busy work.
After Suhlen reviewed the new law, it was passed and officially implemented. Of course, there were many imperfections in the law written in such a short period of time. However, it could be amended slowly as it was used.
In addition to the most basic constitution, Suhlen also established several branches such as criminal law, commercial law, and civil law. Because of the reinforcements from the Northwind Dukedom, Suhlen also began to reform the tax system. In the past, he didn't change it because of the lack of manpower. Suhlen didn't trust the previous tax officials in San Filto.
If the new tax system allowed them to collect taxes, there would definitely be many problems in the end. Before he had people he could trust, Suhlen wouldn't reform the tax system. This time, the biggest change in the tax system was that the nobles were included in the list of tax payers.
In the past, the nobles didn't pay taxes. Not only did they not pay taxes, but their caravans and shops also didn't pay taxes. Suhlen wanted to teach them one thing: in this world, birth, death, and taxes were unavoidable.
The nobles enjoyed many privileges. If their taxes were abolished, there wouldn't be much money left in the national treasury. After the officials from the Northwind Dukedom arrived, Suhlen sped up the construction of the prison. He planned to let the officials experience the prison after it was completed.
With the prison, the corruption and dereliction of duty of the officials could be guaranteed.
"What's this?" Phyllis asked, pointing at the drawing on the table by Suhlen.
"Water pipe design." Suhlen didn't even raise his head. He focused on the drawing in his hand.
"What water pipe design?"
"Water pipe design!" Suhlen repeated. After getting used to the convenient water in the Northwind Dukedom, Suhlen felt very uncomfortable after coming to San Filto.
"What's this for?" Phyllis asked curiously.
Suhlen put down the quill and poured himself a cup of tea. "This is the water supply system of the Northwind Dukedom. You've seen it in the Northwind Dukedom."
"Do you want a cup? I added ice, lemon juice, and sugar. It tastes good."
"No need." Phyllis waved her hand. She didn't like the bitter taste of tea. She preferred milk. "I asked someone to bring you today's lunch. Try it and see if you like it."
As she spoke, Phyllis took out the fragrant food from the lunchbox.
The lunch was very sumptuous. There were grilled fish, steak, lamb chops, vegetable salad, fruit platter, and so on. Phyllis and Suhlen enjoyed the lunch together.
After the sanitary pads in San Filto were improved, Suhlen began to try to improve the living standards of the city. First of all, the water system could greatly improve the happiness of the residents. In addition, the public bathhouse built by Suhlen also needed the water system. Otherwise, it would take a lot of time to transport water to all the public bathhouses in the city.
There were many benefits to using tap water. Commoners in this world usually went to the river or the well to draw water. Then, they would store a tank of water at a time and use it slowly. Because the tank was rarely cleaned, most of the time, the water in the tank was not very clean. If you looked carefully, you would find a layer of green caterpillar-like things floating in the water tank. In fact, those were algae.
Suhlen's water supply system this time was a water tower. This method was much less work than the overhead aqueduct. The water from the river outside the city was pumped to the water tower, and then the water was sent to every house through the pipes. Of course, the power problem was solved with spells.
In fact, there were many spells that could be used to replace the pump. The simplest one was to use a whirlwind to draw water from the river. This required a simple Rune Magic Circle and an energy crystal to drive it. As long as the energy crystal was replaced in time, the system could be used continuously.
Water pipes were either made of iron or copper. Iron pipes had to be treated with anti-rust treatment, or they would be scrapped in a few years. Copper pipes were good, but they were currency. Suhlen was worried that someone would steal them and make them into currency. As for silver, there was no need to mention it.
However, in this world with magic, this kind of thing was easy to solve. It was not too difficult to just add some anti-rust treatment to iron pipes. There were many ways for wizards to do this.
In this way, it would be much easier to build a water system. As for the power source, Suhlen planned to use the element pool to replace it. The second problem was the lighting of the palace. Although there were magic lamps in this era, they were rarely used in other places except for the wizard tower. Even the palace used candles.
Suhlen planned to install magic lamps in all the palaces. The cost of magic lamps was not high. The main problem was the power source. However, since Suhlen planned to build the element pool, the power source problem was solved.
"You drew a tower?" Phyllis sat on Suhlen's lap. A pleasant smell enveloped the tip of her nose.
"Yes, this is a water tower. It is used to store, purify, and filter water. The water in this tower is sent to thousands of households through pipes."
"This is different from the one in Northern Town," Phyllis asked curiously.
"The one in Northern Town uses an elevated aqueduct. This one requires magic," Suhlen explained.
"Then what is this drawing?" Phyllis asked, pointing at another drawing.
"This is a blast furnace used to make iron." Suhlen pointed at the drawing and said, "This one is hollow. It is used to store fuel and ores. I improved it by combining the dwarves' blast furnace technology."
Suhlen had seen the blast furnace made by the dwarves in the underground world. To be honest, the blast furnace made by the dwarves was almost the same as a blast furnace except for the smaller capacity and lower temperature. If not for the lack of better materials, the dwarves would have built a bigger blast furnace.
However, this was not a problem for Suhlen. The dwarves did not have good refractory materials, but the wizards did. The new blast furnace was nearly eight meters tall and could produce two tons of iron at a time. The furnace body was in the shape of a tower, with an inner diameter of three meters. To prevent it from collapsing, there was a supporting frame at the bottom. The walls of the furnace were thin at the top and thick at the bottom. The belly of the furnace was half a meter thick. The innermost layer was made of Soraya's fire-resistant bricks, and there was a circle of air supply. The air was pumped into the belly of the furnace by manual blowers or hydraulic blowers.
In addition to this blast furnace, Suhlen also made a feeder, which was a climbing rail and a movable feeder at the bottom. The feeder would climb to the top of the furnace under the traction of manual blowers or hydraulic blowers. The buckle at the bottom of the feeder would be put in by a hook, which would open the outlet and pour fuel or ores into the furnace. In fact, this thing had been in the dwarves' hands for a long time. Suhlen just made some simple modifications and moved it here.
The method used to make iron in San Felto City was relatively backward. With this blast furnace, the production efficiency had increased several times. As long as a few blast furnaces were built according to the drawing, the production of pig iron in San Felto City would increase exponentially.
Suhlen was planning to expand his army, so he needed a large amount of iron to make equipment. In addition to this blast furnace, Suhlen also planned to build a blacksmith workshop to produce equipment in a better way.
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