Transcendent Noble

In the early morning, in the restricted area of ​​the upper camp, Victor was playing with an exquisite dagger. The dagger was two fingers wide and two feet long. Narrow, sharp and cold.

Victor danced a sword flower, and slashed downward, and a sharp azure streamer passed over the hard and thick hemlock table, and easily removed a corner of the table.

"Good sword." Victor praised his jaw. He flicks with the finger on the sword, and the short sword made a clear buzzing sound for a long time.

"Buso, this thorium dagger is very sharp. Is there anything special about it?" Victor asked Buso, who was standing by.

"My lord, Thorium is as soft as mud, condensed into a ball, no matter how pressed, it can automatically return to a spherical shape, so the Thorium dagger is sharper, tenacious, and flexible than ordinary daggers. , It will not break or break, even if it is deformed, it can return to its original state by itself." Buso said.

This fuck is awesome than memory metal!

Listening to Buso’s explanation, Victor smiled and asked, “How long does it take you to be able to make such a thorium dagger? Casting one?"

"My lord, I made this thorium dagger by hand. The process is cumbersome. It takes 20 days to build one. Due to the excessive amount of thorium into the dagger, The quality can only reach the third-class standard. If you use a medium-sized forge, you can make a second-class thorium dagger in 8 days, and the thorium consumption will be reduced by 40%. Using a large forge, you can make one in 3 days A standard Thorium dagger. Thorium consumption is reduced by 60%." Buso responded.

Victor nodded, said: "There will be something in the forge. You can produce cane sugar first."

"Yes, sir." Buso bowed down respectfully.

After Buso left, Victor picked up two small bags of flour from the ground, carried a dagger, and walked towards the cave.

Here, the element extraction platform of Alchemy Tower, Vic connects Tower Spirit in his consciousness: "King, let’s do an experiment today. This is a Thorium dagger made by Buso, tell me Me, how much money can you withdraw from it, or luck?"

Speaking, Victor put the Thorium dagger in his hand on the stone platform.

"My lord, the funds that can be withdrawn from this dagger are not even a golden thaw." After a while, Tower Spirit reported the results of its test.

"Not even one Kinsol? Hehe, you need to know that this dagger, if sold to aristocrats worth at least 300 Kinsol, it may be even higher." Victor is somewhat flustered and exasperated. To say.

"My lord, it really can't extract 1 gold coin unit." The king confirmed his answer again.

"Well, this is a pound of flour that my subordinates bought from Heibao. This is the flour that Pinghu Village enshrines to me. You can compare the value difference between the two."

Victor threw two more bags of flour on the extraction table.

"My lord, although it is also not worth the value of a Kinsol, the flour enshrined in Pinghu Village is twice as valuable as the flour you bought."

"Interesting, In other words, what others gave me for free is more valuable than what I bought?" Victor asked the king with his eyes flashing.

"My lord, I am not sure of the logical relationship inside. I have no information to provide about the exchange rules of Alchemy Tower."

"Of course, the driver of the carriage does not You need to know how to build a carriage. Alchemy Empire doesn’t need to load the secrets of Alchemy Tower for Tower Spirit."

"My lord, are you doing this experiment to unlock the secrets of Alchemy Tower’s rules?" The king told Victor Asked.

"no! The law of creation, I have no ability to uncover the mystery, I just determined one thing, and that is to pay from other people's pockets, and I will develop faster!" Victor Replied with a smile.

At this time, a melodious bell came from outside the penalty area, which reminded Victor that it was time for a meeting.

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When Victor walked into the Conference Hall, Nelson, Lilia, Linda, and the six village leaders had already It's all here.

"Sit down."

Victor took the lead to sit down in front of a huge round table, and his men also sat around the round table.

Although Victor has signaled that everyone can sit down, facing such a round table, the six villager group leaders stood hesitantly. Because in the past, Victor asked them for questioning, and they were all standing.

Nelson sat down carefree, but after seeing Linda winking desperately at him, he stood up again unfathomable mystery. Although he didn’t know what it meant, his wife’s words were still To listen.

"Sit down, don't you also use round tables in the cafeteria?" Victor asked a little surprised.

"My lord, those who eat in the cafeteria are all members of the work-point system. It is not a problem to sit at a table, but your status is honorable, and we can't break the rules." Morin stepped forward and replied.

"I know, but you must also know that you are already my vassals, and I am your lord." Victor stood up and said solemnly.

"Maybe you still don’t know the duties of vassals to the lord, I will tell you today. First of all, respect. As vassals, you have the responsibility to maintain my dignity and authority. Accompany me on occasion and defend my glory and prestige."

"The second is advice. As vassals, you must attend meetings I convene, plan for me, make suggestions to me, and use me Announce various regulations in the territory in the name of ."

"The third is assistance. When I launch a war order, you must respond to my call, join my army, fight on the battlefield or provide logistics Guarantee, if I am imprisoned or captured, you must donate a ransom to save me."

Victor’s words made the people present very excited. This is the first time that Victor has established their vassal status and revealed to them The duty of vassal, which means that since then, they are no longer farmers or mercenaries, but real High Level people.

"Today, I held this time meeting to ask you to fulfill your obligation to make suggestions. I chose this round table to let you put aside the identity gap, speak freely, and provide suggestions and supplements for my decision-making." Victor said with a smile.

This time, a few villager group leaders took the lead to sit down, and one by one triumphantly waited for the Lord Lord’s meeting.

"Lilia, you introduce the basic situation of the following camps." Victor motioned to Lilia.

"Yes, my lord." Lilia gave Victor a sweet smile, and said crisply: "There are more than 1,000 people in our camp, including 278 people in the work division, 124 people in the general population, and guards. There are 113 people, and the rest of the free people are almost 500 people."

"In addition, there are 9 carriages, 14 horses and four cattle in the camp."

"We just moved from black Fort added 100,000 pounds of flour (about 45 tons), 40,000 pounds of beans, 5,000 pounds of salt, and a small amount of linen. In addition, we also stocked 10,000 pounds of bacon (20 wild boars). At the same time, we raised them in the camp. There are more than 600 ground lizards, which lay more than 300 eggs every day, as well as a small number of yellow sheep and grouse."

Victor quickly calculated in his mind that these foods were not enough for 1,000 people to eat for a month. Humans in this world are very edible. They need 3-5 pounds of food a day, and the guards eat more. Nelson consumes more than 40 pounds of food a day, and the Concealed Ox militia is similar.

Victor sighed, he asked Maureen: "Maureen, tell me about the construction and reclamation of your side."

Maureen stood up and bowed to Victor, he opened the mouth and said: "My lord, we currently have two camps, one is under construction in a village, more than 100 houses, more than 300 shacks, one blacksmith shop, two mills, but none of them are currently in use, only one carpenter The workshop is already in use, and even wheels can be made. I believe it will not be long before we can make the carriage ourselves."

Molin was a little proud. Being able to make wheels, Maureen decisively recommended him to Victor, but he didn't know that this "talent" was Victor's alchemy assistant.

"We have also cultivated 2,400 acres of arable land, and we have also planted barley and black beans. These will not be harvested until the windy season. In addition, there are some scattered vegetable fields, planting lentils, red vegetables, and peas. And lentils, together with the collected berries and wild celery, and mushrooms, basically meet the needs of the camp." Maureen continued.

Hearing that Maureen said this, a village leader wanted to say something, but Victor asked him: "Bodie, do you have anything to say?"

"My lord, I want to tell you that we can no longer collect berries and wild vegetables around our camp. There are very few mushrooms. Even sweet potatoes need to be collected 15 kilometers away."

Bodie is the leader of the villager group responsible for the collection, and he continued: "My lord, we are picking too frequently. We should collect these wild vegetables and berries regularly, and now..."

Victor nodded, he already knew.

"You all understand the situation. We are short of everything, especially food. At present, our food can only last for one month. You tell me, based on 2,000 people, how much arable land we need to cultivate to satisfy the territory. Running?" Victor cast his eyes on the six villager group leaders.

Several villager group leaders whispered to each other for a while, and Maureen stood up and replied, "My lord, you need at least 20,000 mu of cultivated land."

"What? Did you make a mistake, it takes 20,000 mu?" Victor couldn't believe his ears.

"My lord, I really need 20,000 mu, and it must be fertile land. For example, we need 30,000 mu to reclaim land to feed 2,000 people." A villager group leader said.

"My lord, you may not know that our farmer’s farming is a grass field rotation."

Another village leader rushed to speak, anyway, the adults told them to speak freely, so another The villager group leader went on to say: "My lord, the grass-field rotation means half of the land is planted and the other half of the grass is grazing, alternating with each other. We harvest the grass and put it in the pen. The forage and manure are mixed and fermented to become fertilizer, so we Only half of the arable land is growing crops."

"My lord, we mainly grow barley, einkorn wheat, and diploid wheat. If the year is good, the harvest is at most three times that of sowing. If you plant wheat, , Up to twice as much, but barley needs people to take care of them from time to time, and dimer wheat and einkorn wheat do not attract birds, so we mostly grow wheat."

When it comes to farming, these farmers are all excited. When they get up, they are all experts, and they are not showing off at this time.

"My lord, this crop is only harvested once a year. We need more fertile land. I suggest shoveling 10,000 mu of purple cane and planting crops."

The proposal immediately got the nodded endorsement of all the villager group leaders.

Victor was troubled by these newly promoted vassals, but Victor understood one thing, he had no hope for the traditional self-sufficient development model of lords.

In the current human world, crops are ripened once a year, and the year here has 16 months. Coupled with low yield, land is especially precious.

Because of this, the pioneering territory was unable to make ends meet in the first two years, so the pioneering leader needs family support for two to three years to function normally.

Originally, Sylvia gave Victor 40,000 goldsoul, just enough to make him survive the difficult period of the first two years, but Victor used the money! He is a poor lord now! And this poor lord is still a pioneer!

Buso once told Victor about 15 high-yield crops, but the farmers here have never even heard of it. Subsequently, Buso put forward a great plan, using Mithril to create a Mithril array, an array can make crops of one mu of cultivated land four crops a year and high yield.

When Victor learned that a Mithril array not only consumes 10 pounds of Mithril, but also requires an alchemist to seal the rune, Victor was speechless for a long time.

In short, Victor has only one choice, to take the road of commercialization, and now he needs to unify this understanding in his small group.

"I won't cut down the purple cane forest!" Victor resolutely and decisively said.

"Nelson sold the purple cane wine we brewed on this trip to Black Cane. Each cup of purple cane wine sold for 12 copper sols, and every 3 copper cables You can buy a pound of flour, you can calculate this account."

"Moreover, 12 copper sol is the purchase price, and purple cane wine has sold 30 copper sols in the tavern. A cup!"

Victor's words caused an uproar among several village leaders. They didn't expect that the purple cane wine made by accident could sell so expensive.

"My lord, then we won't have to farm anymore! As long as we make purple cane wine, we can make a fortune!" Lilia said in surprise.

"It’s not that simple." Victor said with a bitter smile: "Although purple cane wine is more valuable than food, there are not many people who can afford it in Black Castle Town. In fact, buy us Most of the purple cane wine merchants buy it back to the cellar, and the price of these wines can double in a few years."

"It is no problem that purple cane wine can feed all of us, but we still lack Weaponry, lack of linen, lack of sheepskin, lack of cows, lack of salt, and these all require money, especially weapons and equipment. You must know that a set of York’s standard equipment is worth 80 kinsall!"

"So, I decided to speed up the construction of the village, but not just a farm! I want to build a village specializing in iron, weapons and farm tools for me, a village specializing in the production of linen, and a village specializing in raising dairy cows. We produce whatever we lack! Is there a problem?" Victor stared at these village leaders with scorching eyes.

But these people were silent. After a while, Dean boldly asked: "My lord, what about the worship if we don't farm? And how do we count the 20% of the income of the leader?"

Victor smiled, this is what he was waiting for.

"Change the offering to tax."

"Tax?"

"Yes, you don't need to pay me the offering, I will place an order with you, you The materials are produced according to the order. I will pay you for these materials, and you will pay taxes to me with the money. The tax rate is tentatively set at 60%. You don’t have to worry that there will be no orders. I will let people sell these materials. I will buy grain and sell it to the people at a reasonable price, but there is one thing, all the products must be sold to me, otherwise I will take back the village!"

All the village leaders were silent for a while, this novelty The relationship makes them at a loss.

"My lord, what about our Fiefdom?" Maureen gritted his teeth and asked Victor.

"Concentrate on the farm and hire people to plant. I will get 50% of the rest. In addition, the work points system will not be cancelled within ten years. The work points you get can still be exchanged for land and copper sol, and I allow You exchange for the purple cane forest, and I will buy the harvested purple cane at the price.” Victor said confidently. If he wants to protect the purple cane resources in his territory, he must connect everyone with benefits. This is the long-term solution.

As soon as Victor said this, everyone was sighed in relief. Their desire for land was deeply rooted. At this time, they still didn't understand what kind of future Victor would bring to them.

"Then there is no problem." Several villager group leaders grinned.

"Okay, you need to speed up the conversion of free citizens into civil citizens, and 30 people will be promoted every month in the future. I need all the villages to be built within one year. Go and work if there is no problem."

"Yes, my lord!"

When everyone was going out, I heard fief lord's order again.

"By the way, this kind of round table meeting is held every six months. In addition, when I am not in the territory, the members of the round table will vote on the affairs of the territory. The most important thing is that the next time you speak Hands!"

This is the reason for Victor's roundtable meeting. When I was in, you centralized power, and when I was away, you were democratic. Very good, very powerful! It is said in the TV series that King Arthur did this!

"Sylvia, don’t you want to tie me? I'll pass the rope to you and see who is tied at the end?"

Victor thought alone, he decided to Go to Black Castle Town.