Transcendent Noble

Silvermoon Manor.

Victor leaned on the back of his chair, playing with the scorpion tail beads given to him by Sylvia, and a brand new letterhead was nailed to the writing table in front of him.

The style and material of the letterhead are the most common sheepskin scrolls. The handwriting and the fire lacquer seal on it exude a scent of acid and decay. After the ink and fire lacquer are all dried, this smell will dissipate. Only then did this letterhead be called a sheepskin scroll.

Actually, Victor doesn’t need to be so careful. Bishop Pierot took away a copy of the letterhead. Even if both scrolls were damaged, the notice signed by the lord and bishop was pasted in front of the church gate. The notarization before the gods is already in effect , The church will never deny it.

God's notarization is a product of the Bright New Testament. It refers to the contract reached by the nobles under the witness of the Lord of Radiance and supervised by the secular servants of the Lord of Radiance. Notarization before God has the highest priority and is sacred and inviolable. If there is a violation, the church court will directly intervene in the execution of the contract.

For the lord and nobles, the notarization before the gods does not have much practical effect. Nobles value credibility, and their perfidy behavior will bring shame to the family, even if it is a verbal promise. However, the emergence of the notary before the gods marked the Paladin Group's complete victory in the power struggle and occupied the dominant position of the church. The overall strategy of the church has also changed. It has begun to actively participate in the internal affairs of the lord and nobles, and strive to expand its own influence. force.

Therefore, the notary before God was resolutely resisted by Lord White Tower, and was treated negatively by Lord Sasan. It can be said that few people responded. In just four years, Victor held two notarizations before the gods, which is a wonderful work among the lords. Especially at this time, the content and the concluding object notarized by the gods are unique.

There is only one core clause of the notarization of the Randal Family before the gods: Any freedman family that takes the capital to build a house in Randal becomes the registered subject of the Viscount Randal, and the Randal Family swears not to infringe on their private property. The church supervises.

Victor originally wanted to write: The property of the people in the book is protected by Viscount Randal. Bishop Pierot thinks this is unnecessary, because protection and dedication are the responsibility of the lord and the people respectively. Victor also proposed to pay a deposit to the church. Bishop Pierot said very aggressively: No need.

Non-infringement, non-protection, and needlessness mean that Randal Family cannot deprive freed people of their property at will for generations. What should we do if the people on the list suffer losses due to natural disasters and man-made disasters? What should I do? I can’t let the lord compensate the people. If the Randal Family breaks their promise, the church will naturally have the ability to intervene.

Victor was stunned for a long time before realizing that he committed another crime.

The reality is like this. In this era when Spiritual God manifests the saints and Knight rules the roost, ordinary people without power can only be the bottom. All the wealth in the territory belongs to the lord, which also includes the house. What's more, mankind has been in a state of war. The lord expropriates wealth and resists foreign enemies. It is reasonable and reasonable. Even Fanmin himself admits this. Victor's claim that protecting the property of his people was to show blindly to the blind, it was purely affectionate.

Perhaps, some lords think that Viscount Randal is crazy and poor. In order to squeeze free people's money, they don't hesitate to put a shackle on their necks.

If Victor really thinks so and treats the lords as idiots, then he is a fool himself.

Sylvia’s default attitude and Bishop Pierot’s admiring eyes before leaving are enough to prove that the lord and the church leaders are not lacking in political wisdom. In their eyes, the notarization of the Randal Family is very much in line with the reality of the pioneering leader. need. Viscount Randal used the church's golden sign to attract the population while squeezing wealth by the way. It was a brilliant method.

The so-called shackles are actually the declaration and self-discipline of the lord, which is a commendable quality. Victor is not the first self-disciplined upper-class character, nor will he be the last. The most famous great character is the founder of Radiance Church, the first Pope Enoch.

The Glory Code stipulates that the church shall not be in charge of secular government and shall not engage in commercial trade. It is precisely because of Enoch's self-discipline that Radiance Church's long-lasting prosperity has also given Victor an opportunity.

Victor’s political wisdom may not be as good as those veteran lords, but after all, he comes from an information explosion world. In terms of knowledge, he is a few blocks away from the lords. Victor's notarization in front of God is not only as simple as attracting money and people, he also has more long-term considerations.

There are also outstanding roles among the freedmen. They are rich, capable, knowledgeable, and have incalculable network resources. They may be the second son of a certain village chief, or a soldier’s name. Brother, or a cheap little brother-in-law of a sheriff, these people are all Victor needs. The problem is that they dare not go to the pioneering collar because they are afraid that they will be swallowed up.

Under normal circumstances, the lord will not infringe upon the property of the freedmen at will, but there are still clever plundering among the freedmen, let alone the pioneering lord? The church has always closed its eyes to such things. Now the notarization of the gods led by Randal is enough to dispel the worries of free people.

According to Victor’s vision, with the guarantee of the church and the public carriage, the rich among the freedmen will rush to Randal to buy houses into their homes. They usually do business in Wild Willow City and make money in Flatlake Town. Settlement consumption. This will not only stimulate the economic growth of the RAND leader, but the personal network resources of the freedmen will also be used by Victor.

Public carriage is the most critical part of the whole plan!

The study door was pushed open, and a graceful silhouette came in with a fragrant wind.

"My dear, I am here." Alice said with a smile.

Victor frowned and said: "Why did you come? Don't knock on the door yet!"

"I just went to the shower and changed my clothes." Alice chuckled and turned around. Circled, and said: "Does it look good?"

Victor eyes shined, Alice was originally beautiful, but she was even more beautiful after being carefully dressed. The wine-red hair wore a lady's bun, showing grace The neck and the delicate collarbone, the slender feet are stepped on a pair of delicate high heels, the black spider silk dress, the low-cut, waist, and open back design will make the beautiful curve, vivid and thoroughly shown by the shiny and clean skin, the skirt It is four pieces of translucent tulle. As she turns, the corners of the skirt are flying, and two beautiful snow-white legs are directly exposed to the air, like a black iris flower in full bloom.

Perspective, halter, vacuum, high heels, and also learned to walk catwalks...Is there even stockings soon? It seems that I let a devil out...

Alice walked in a sexy and enchanting step, her breasts and long legs faintly discernible in a thin silk skirt. Victor had the urge to bleed, but he said: "Why do you have this dress?"

"Ms. Judy gave it to me. Now ladies wear it like this." Alice said while playfully pouting: "My lord, you haven't answered me yet."

"It's pretty." Victor just finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and he asked: "You won't be in the Beria family Do you want to wear this kind of clothes at the dance party?"

"This is the privacy between the ladies, how can I wear it at the dance party?" Alice realized that her husband was jealous and secretly delighted. At the same time, she said flatteringly: "Judy's elder sister specially asked me to wear it to an adult. If you like it, she will wear it to you."

Victor relaxed and said: "I want to be with you Talking about business matters, it’s not for you to seduce me."

"My duty is to serve you." Alice sat directly on Victor’s lap, put her arms around his neck, and pursed her beautiful red lips. Said: "Alina and Lilia are by your side. I am the only one who travels back and forth between Wild Willow City and Silvermoon Manor. I may not meet you when I return. My lord, can you find someone to take over my job? "

Lilia is in power. The Elina sisters don't have the slightest envy. They only care about rival for love, not fighting for power. Nobles were born with aloof and remote, not to mention Lilia, even Nelson shrank in front of Sister Alina. As a noble lord, Victor does not need to worry about usurping power at all. The power of the entire human world is maintaining his authority and rule. However, he must also allow Sister Elina to participate in territorial affairs, otherwise the York family will send people to join the Randal Family in advance.

"No." Victor patted Alice's plump buttocks, and asked: "How is the family's jaggery and carriage business?"

Alice didn’t dare to make a mistake, and said: “In the past few days, several Great Family caravans rushed to buy 500,000 pounds of raw sugar, and the shop received 1,500 jinsore. The market for carriage is very average, and it’s only sold this month. 18 carriages, earning 540 Kingsore."

"Raw sugar is now a strategic material, and it is normal to be in short supply." Victor nodded, said: "I will transfer 12 million pounds of raw sugar to Wild Willow City soon. Among them, 10 million pounds is reserved for Marquis Sophia's share, and the remaining 2 million pounds can be sold, but the price will rise to 12 copper sols per pound. Also, remember to leave a share of 200,000 pounds for the vendors, but not allow them to increase the market Retail price."

"Raw sugar is a strategic material? Very good!" Alice cheered and asked: "Then what price is the amount of raw sugar left for the lady?"

"Madam?" Victor said blankly: "Sylvia didn't tell me to buy jaggery."

"Oh, it's Marquess Sophia." Alice quietly stuck out her tongue and quickly corrected her.

Victor is somewhat absent-minded. In this hierarchical society, the ordinary person can never shake the status of the nobility, and there are differences between the nobility, although he and Sophia have irreconcilable interest contradictions. Sophia still has a significant influence on the Randal Family. If Victor has an accident, no one in the Randal Family will dare to disobey the Viscountess Sophia. Of course, Sophia must immediately abandon the marquis position and join the York family, otherwise Sylvia will kill her. . If Sophia has an accident, Victor will not do anything.

Victor suddenly felt pity and appreciation for Sophia. This woman insisted on being independent and working in the various Great Influences. She danced on the ropes and fell into the abyss of ten thousand zhang if she accidentally fell into the abyss. And this is almost inevitable. The king's support to Chamber of Commerce is not to create a wealthy commercial aristocracy. The large Chamber of Commerce has money but no strength, just like a fat pig to be slaughtered, there is no possibility of being spared.

As Sylvia said, the nobles who do not choose the camp are impossible to move a single step. Victor was so arrogant at the beginning, and after touching his head full of bags, he didn't immediately find a backer. Sophia could have held the queen's thighs tightly, although she would lose the overwhelming majority wealth and at least still keep her own position, but she did not hesitate to break with the queen to stand on her own, and now there is no retreat. Victor really doesn’t know whether Sophia puts himself in desperation because of greed or stubbornness. Anyway, he is not unsuccessful, or rather sturdy. After all, he is just a nobody like weeds. If you find a piece of land, you can grow a piece of land. The grassland, chasing the waves and stubbornly.

"My lord, did I say something wrong." Alice gently twisted her lovable body and said restlessly.

Looking down at the stunning stunner Sylvia gave him, Victor's heart moved. Sylvia doesn't care about a vase male favorite. With her mind and wisdom, it is impossible to see Sophia's plight. The reason why she helped Sophia get rid of the Queen's control is to wait for Sophia to be in desperate situation and then earn her.

The royal family wants to reap the wealth of the Chamber of Commerce, and the York family wants to absorb a Great Knight. That being the case, why can't I participate in this gluttonous feast? Sophia has a natural influence on Randal Family, and I have the same influence on her Chamber of Commerce. Using the power of Chamber of Commerce to build a smuggling network will double the results for half the effort!

Thinking of this, Victor immediately changed his original intention and instructed: "In a few days, let Marquis Sophia's Chamber of Commerce manager come to Flatlake Town. I will meet them in person."

" As you wish, my lord."

"There is one more thing." Victor nodded said, "I have placed orders for the construction of carriages from the villages. You buy some high-quality goods in Wild Willow City. Redwood and copper ingots are required to build 20 large passenger and cargo carriages, 40 medium-sized passenger and cargo carriages, and 80 small passenger and cargo carriages."

"So much?" Alice was named Victor great generosity. I was taken aback and said, "My dear, carriage is not very good at first. The family-designed dual-use carriage simply doesn't care about it."

"If you want to get rich, build roads first." It is well known common sense on Earth. But roads alone are not enough, but transportation is required. Carriage is the most important means of transportation in this world, and it is also a very important fixed asset. The poor can’t afford the carriage. Even if the rich and freemen can buy it, they don’t buy it. Instead, they rent it out. In order to meet the transportation needs of the territory, the lord often requisitions the carriage in the territory. Freedmen generally do not. Go back to your own carriage. Therefore, only vassals and nobles in the territory will buy carriages, and the leaders can also ride horses, and most of their own citizens can only drive on two legs.

The dual-purpose carriage designed by Randal collar can carry both people and cargo. The large-scale carriage can carry 40 people and can carry 2 tons of cargo. The medium-sized carriage can carry 30 people and can carry 1.5 tons of cargo. The carriage takes 20 people and carries 1 ton of cargo. The carriage design is very complicated, sturdy and durable, and the production cost is much higher than that of ordinary carriages.

However, High Level people will not take a dual-purpose carriage, and its transportation volume is not as good as traditional cargo carriage. Except for Randal's own use, no one wants to buy this expensive and impractical vehicle.

Victor designed this carriage completely to meet the needs of public transportation, and public transportation is still an undeveloped virgin land.

Public transportation has a public welfare nature and is destined to not make too many profits, but the economic benefits and potential social influence it creates are difficult to estimate.

Suppose that a villager catches a yellow sheep and can only eat it. Now that he has a public carriage, he can take the yellow sheep to the town for sale, and then use the earned money to buy supplies, including raw sugar, and by the way, pray in the church. In this way, the villagers earn money, the coachman earns money, the tavern boss buys game, which is equivalent to earning money, the lord receives taxes, the church gains faith, and the Randal Family makes money, of course.

This is just one aspect of Victor's development of public transportation. His real purpose is to use the public transportation network to smuggle.

Public transportation has many benefits, but it has not been developed for a long time, mainly because of two major factors. First, the extraordinary nature of the Knight aristocracy has caused serious social fragmentation. Lords compete with each other for the Knight bloodline, and will not consider the needs of civilians at all. They are reluctant to grow kidney beans in order to earn wealth, so how can they invest in a public transportation business with low capital and profitability? Second, the church has the ability to develop public transportation, but they are restricted by the Glorious Code and cannot carry out any commercial trade. (Why? Knight disagrees. In the Chosen One era, the population was large, the city-states stood in great numbers, and trade was prosperous. Knights knew very well that the church could not control the trade.) The church once provided loans to free citizens, but they found out that they were bankrupt. At the beginning, this behavior was immediately banned.

These two factors are the first objective conditions for Victor to eat crabs. He asked Old John to sell carriages in Wild Willow City to plan the development of public transportation. However, the investment in public transportation was too great, and Victor's financial resources could not realize this idea at all, so he set his sights on the free people.

Free people are at the bottom of the society, and their fixed assets are very easy to be remembered. Now there is the church guarantee and protect, they can safely and boldly engage in the business of public transportation. However, public transportation is profitable after all. In order to make more money, free people must be willing to transport some goods. Of course, these goods are also protected by the church. The influence of the priest is quite large. The guard soldiers dare not take the risk of offending the priest to seize the public carriage, which facilitates smuggling.

Victor does not have the ability to control all public carriages, he only needs to master the public transportation network of smuggling channels. Victor has ordered the Hammer to find suitable freelance traders, and through the way of doing business in partnership, let them build a public transportation network in the designated territory, and the church and the lord will naturally provide convenience. Even so, Victor needs to invest a huge amount of money, but no matter how much it costs, it is worth it.

With the black market as the terminal, mountain villages as the base, public transportation as the channel, two lines of light and dark, and villain hyenas as cover, mercenary group provides martial power protection to form Victor's business empire. This business empire is not only smuggling, it has endless potential and can attract many forces to join it and make it continue to grow. What Victor has to do is to firmly control it.

Of course, someone will challenge Victor's position in this process. Victor takes the lead and sits on Alchemy Tower. What is the fear of facing the challenge.

"Just do it." Victor lightly instructed.