Roland sat at the desk and looked at the chief knight who came to report on the recent situation of the First Army with great interest.

Compared to his meticulous appearance a few months ago, Carter's iceberg face now has a different kind of emotion, and his calmness has faded a lot, with more expectations and impatientness in it.

It was probably related to the Western Frontier Star, he thought.

Roland has heard a little about Carter getting closer to May recently. After all, as one of the top leaders of the First Army, his representatives in the army, everyone pays attention to his every move, not to mention that he is surrounded by a woman like May.

When they first appeared side by side on the streets of the town, the personal guards had already heard the news.

Roland didn't care about this kind of thing. Carter was about two or three years older than him. It was a strange thing to have not gotten married yet. It would be great if he could really find a partner in the Western Region, as long as it didn't affect his work.

According to the report of the Chief Knight, the First Army has now had about 200 rotors in the assembly line, and about ten new ones can be added every day. In fact, if the raw materials are sufficient, Anna's production capacity can be increased several times, but she has to be responsible for pig iron steelmaking and steam engines at the same time, so the speed has slowed down.

However, this speed is acceptable. After all, the First Army has only 600 people, and it will be able to be replaced in one and a half months. And before the new wave of population expansion arrives, the size of the army cannot be further expanded for the time being.

Another point is the establishment of the Second Army.

In order to facilitate training and keep confidentiality, all the civilians recruited from Changge Fortress passed the review and were all incorporated into the Second Army by Roland. They are currently undergoing discipline training, which is the military training set. At night, it is ideological education classes, striving to make these people develop the belief that they are guardians of the Western Region as soon as possible and that the safety of their relatives needs them to protect.

"The current training progress of the Second Army personnel is good, and it is expected that in another week, they will be able to switch to shooting training. By then, the eliminated flintlocks will be enough to get a handful of people," Carter concluded.

This is also the advantage. It takes at least a year to train a cold weapon warrior, and it takes about five or six years to train a knight, while soldiers can fight in just one month. The longer a battle is, the more advantage the soldiers will have. After all, pulling the trigger is much more labor-saving than fighting with a sword.

"You must pay attention to managing the funds when practicing live ammunition shooting. You must recover as much as you send. The same is true for gunpowder. It is distributed on the spot during practice, and the veterans of the First Army are arranged to be responsible for supervision."

"Yes," he nodded.

"Very good," Roland waved his hand, "Since that's the case, go and do it."

"Uh, Your Highness..." Carter said hesitantly, "Is this true that the perfume mixed with soap is made of sugar cane?"

"Yes," the prince leaned on the chair, "What's wrong?"

“Is sugar cane expensive?”

“Not…just a normal crop.”

"I heard that a bottle of perfume as big as a thumb in the capital can reach five golden dragons," Carter scratched his head. "If this is the case, wouldn't using sugar cane perfume bring a generous income to the town?"

"Five Golden Dragons?" Roland was stunned. He had never considered this. Looking back at the time in the palace, the Fourth Prince never cared about the price of a daily necessities, and things like perfume that are less exposed to are even more so, only women prefer these things that can make them full of fragrance.

His initial motivation for perfume was just to get soap. Otherwise, the bathroom without tap water always feels that something is missing. Let bubbles rub all over the body is the romance of the bathroom.

If you can buy several golden dragons in a small bottle of perfume, it is indeed a good business. Unlike coated mirrors, sugarcane and flowers as raw materials are much cheaper than crystal glass.

Thinking of this, Roland smiled and said, "This idea is good, I will consider it."

"Your Highness, then... can I bring a sugar cane out of the castle?" the chief knight asked expectantly.

"It's okay," he heard this tone, and guessed what the other party wanted to do. After all, the Western Region is not like Bishui Harbor. The plants in the fjord are quite rare here. It is a good choice to use as a gift to please the lady. "Just pick them on the walls of the backyard."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Carter saluted and said withdrew.

Then Roland called Barov and now called him as assistant to the minister. As the number one figure in the town hall, he can be regarded as the chief executive of the border town.

After Barov took his seat, Roland roughly said about the perfume, "How do you think this business can make a big profit of Golden Dragon?"

Instead of answering immediately, he asked with his eyes wide open, "Your Highness, are you really sure the perfume is made of that sweet crop?"

"Didn't the soap be sent to you? The reason why it has fragrance is that it is mixed with perfume," Roland said, "its raw materials are indeed these valuable things. I just don't know whether the perfume in the capital is as expensive as Carter said."

"Far more than that, Your Highness!" Barov said excitedly, "Perfume is the top secret product of the Royal Capital Alchemy Association. It is about a thousand bottles every year, and only a small part of it will be in the Royal Capital. Transferring to other cities of Gray Castle can increase the price by 20% or 30%. If you go to the fjords and other kingdoms, the price can almost double. In order to prevent merchants from earning the difference, the association not only firmly controls the price of perfume in other places, but even merchants must designate it by them. If you can produce perfume, you can get rich returns even if you only give Chishui City and Zhulongling."

"So that's it." It's not bad that he was the assistant of the Secretary of Finance for 20 years. Roland thought to himself that Barov was indeed very good at the price of goods and trade. With this information, he also formed a preliminary plan in his mind.

There are many ways to perfume. The easiest way is to mash the petals or herbs with unique fragrance into alcohol, soak the alcohol to dissolve the aromatic oil in the plant, and finally filter out the residue, add water to dilute it.

Alcohol comes from fermentation of sugarcane juice; aromatic oil raw materials can be roses, or the more common rosemary and vanilla. However, since mass production is required, it is best to let the leaves cultivate a batch of magical plants that can directly secrete aromatic oil.

In addition to perfume, the industry can also have sugar and liquor at the same time, which are also consumables with a large demand. Although the profit is not as good as perfume, if it can be given to the townspeople at a low price and enrich their recipes, it will be a great improvement for people's livelihood.

The reason why Roland has been slow to develop light industry is that it is difficult to make high profits for small-scale daily necessities when there is insufficient manpower. The most cost-effective approach is to invest a limited population in heavy industry production.
Chapter completed!