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Chapter 200 Bought a lot of land

After returning from the beach, Françoise changed into the cook's clothes, wrapped her hair, and started cooking today's dinner in her own dedicated kitchen.

Frederick stood by the table, carefully studying the chicken that was on the plate for tonight.

This kind of golden-skinned chicken is a specialty of the Kingdom of Gaul. The skin of the chicken is the color of gold. Frederick poked it with his hands from time to time like a bumpkin to confirm that it was a real chicken, not a model made of gold.

Françoise took the golden skin chicken away, washed it, rubbed salt and pepper on the inside of the chicken, and rubbed olive oil and salt on the surface of the chicken to marinate.

Then she heats a pan to melt the butter, pours in chopped garlic and chopped onion and sautés until it changes color a bit, then adds soaked mushrooms, celery and chopped carrots and sautés them, and then leaves them to cool.

Then I diced some of the leftover bread that I ate this morning, soaked it in milk to soften it, chopped the rosemary, peeled the chestnuts I picked yesterday and cut them into dices.

After squeezing out the milk from the soaked bread, mix all the things you just prepared, add some salt and pepper, and stir into the filling.

Finally, stuff all the fillings into the belly of the golden chicken, plug it tightly, seal the opening of the chicken belly with an iron needle, and tie the chicken to shape with a cotton rope.

After the oven is hot, add chopped onions, celery, garlic and carrots to the baking pan, add some water, coat the surface of the chicken with a layer of olive oil, put it in the baking pan and put it in the oven.

Françoise opened the oven lid every 15 minutes and took out the chicken. Drizzle the juice from the basin on the chicken to make the surface of the chicken smell. After two hours, when the juice is poured for the last time, peel off a lot of chicken. Good chestnuts are roasted together around the chicken.

At dinner, Françoise cut up the golden grilled chicken, and placed the chicken, stuffing, and chestnuts on a plate in front of Frederick.

Frederick carefully observed the golden chicken, and almost took out the microscope.

He had heard that the Kingdom of Gaul had golden dishes, but this was the first time he had seen it.

Under the urging and watching of Françoise, Frederick cut off the chicken and took a bite, then asked, "Can you sell this golden chicken to us? It's alive!"

Françoise shook her head with a smile, and said, "Unfortunately, this is not possible. This kind of golden-skinned chicken cannot be sold alive."

"However, I heard that the golden-skinned chickens come from the southern continent, but the ones over there are not so big and thin, and the skin of the people there is as black as charcoal. You can look for them there if you want."

Frederick nodded slightly, thinking that he must get such a delicious golden chicken back from Uncle Hei.

As for the reason for the breed, it doesn't matter if the body is thin. Weissburg University has capable people who can grow lynx into pigs, so it shouldn't be a problem to breed golden-skinned chickens with more meat.

The two chatted for a while while eating, and Françoise suddenly asked Frederick: "You look like you want to buy a swamp this morning?"

Frederick replied while eating: "Yes, I have this idea, but there is no way, the land will not be sold to the people of the Rhine Union."

Françoise said: "There is actually a way. There is a limit for us to buy land here, because I bought it in my own name and not in the name of my family, so I only have enough to buy this manor."

Frederick nodded, he had heard about it.

The manor that Françoise bought has an area of ​​more than 100 hectares, and the length of the four sides is only a little more than one kilometer, which is not too big for those large manors of five or six hundred hectares.

She continued: "So someone came up with a way that the locals are not restricted from buying land, so they pay the locals to buy the land, and then lease it for 999 years at a very low price."

Frederick nodded slightly, this kind of loophole will never disappear.

It's just that he said embarrassingly: "I'm afraid this method is reserved for you, I can't get it."

A bright smile appeared on Françoise's face, and then she said seriously: "If you trust me, I can help you."

Frederick thought for a while and said, "Let me think about it."

He wanted to consider that it was just for show. The purpose of this investment was not to buy land, but to sell steam engines. Even if the land was swallowed by Françoise, he could earn back from selling steam engines. He agreed when the dinner preparations were over. .

After dinner, Françoise took Frederick to the study, where there was a promotional map she got when she bought the land, which marked the general topography of the entire lowland area.

Frederick studied the map. It was engraved and printed by the Gaul Kingdom on large white paper imported from Wessen.

His eyes narrowed slightly, it seemed that he was about to file a patent lawsuit.

The patent law in this world was proposed by magicians. The earliest registration was magic patents, and then developed to the mutual recognition of patents in various industries and countries. If this system collapses, it means that the magic developed by the magicians themselves can be used by others. Use it casually, so they hate the act of stealing other people's patents, and they are not afraid of lawsuits.

In the next few days, Frederick devoted himself to studying the map in the morning, and took time to go to Amstel to bring the dawn. In the afternoon, he took Françoise to take a bird's-eye view of the swamp from the air, and came down from time to time to ask the nearby villagers. This asks that.

During this time, news had spread throughout the city of Amstel that the Duke of Wessen had purchased a large marshland through his lover in the Kingdom of Gallia.

The news spread widely, and many believed that Duke Wesson's head was kicked by his winged unicorn.

The nobles of the Gaul kingdom who controlled the lowland area behind the scenes looked confused. After discussing for a while, they thought that it would be no problem to buy only the swamp land.

Later, they were a little bit sorry. After all, they were the sons of Earl Wesson and had many fans. If it got out, people would feel that they were bullying children, so they decided to sell a little of the surrounding land.

When the amount of marshland Duke Wesson was to buy - 3000 hectares - was confirmed, the consensus was that he had been kicked in the head twice.

At this time, the local government department immediately expressed the hope that Duke Wesson could buy more, and it would be better to include tax for 20 years.

Everyone felt that those old men were too unseemly, how could they bully others like this.

What can be produced in the swamp, just cut some reeds in the marginal areas and sell them. It has always been a land without owners, and no one collects taxes.

The gentlemen in the local government later felt that this was a bit bad, so they lowered the tax rate a lot.

However, what happened next made everyone think that Duke Wesson's head had been kicked more than 10 times. He actually increased the amount of swampland he bought, bought a lot of swampland in the south, and finally became the behind the scenes of owning ten thousand hectares of swampland big landowner.

The signing of the contract was completed in half a day. The landlord was a young girl from Amstel City named Lilu. Everyone was familiar with this kind of white gloves. Frederick and Françoise also found a ready-made one nearby. of.

Then the land was leased to Françoise for 99 years, and the lease was automatically renewed when it expired, and then sub-leased to the Duke of Wesson for 98 years, and the lease was also automatically renewed when it expired.

Then everyone saw Duke Wessen's resolute actions, and the stonemasons' guilds and engineers from the entire lowland area were invited to Amstel to take up the task.

The Duke of Wesson requested that drainage ditches and low dams should be dug outside each swamp, and the soil from the drainage ditches should be directly used to build dams on the side. All are connected with nearby rivers, and the width and depth of drainage ditches that cut off and divert the original rivers can be increased appropriately.

These projects seem simple, but overall, the amount of earthwork is quite large, and it will take next summer to complete.

(End of this chapter)