Donald, who returned to the manor, met Sir Jesse from Boulder City in the farm room where he was temporarily staying.
The other party subtly showed his kindness and closeness, but he did not disgust the master, and he did not stay much after finishing the work, and quickly left.
For the first noble friend he made in this world, Donald still admired the other's ability to do things. Although this guy will also accept bribes, but he knows how to be measured, and he has a lot of things to do, without the slightest omission.
If he has his own territory now, he will definitely recruit this Sir as the treasurer. The financial officer of a territory is equivalent to the existence of the Minister of Finance of a kingdom. If the work is done well and established Credit, then the lord will not be stingy in bestowing him a hereditary title.
Therefore, generally exiled children of nobles like Jesse cannot resist the invitation of a noble lord. Even working for the kingdom like Jesse has a lot of secrets.
Sir Jesse also admires Donald, a nobleman among the nobles, who has become a full-fledged mage at a young age. Not long after the previous two manor owners took over the place, there was an incident of beast wounding. And the Master Master has been in charge for almost a month, and the manor is almost completed. There are flocks of livestock and construction workers, but there is no accident! It has to be said that the wizard is really a mysterious and powerful profession.
Donald didn't know that he could take over the manor steadily, and Sir Jesse had already attributed it to the magic of the mage. In fact, the reason why there was no problem for so long was not because of what he did, but because the manor had been vacant for most of the month before. In this state, even if there are beasts here, they can't find any living creatures.
Now that the Tree of Life has successfully taken root, its natural enchantment has a calming effect on the surrounding beasts and monsters, so some ferocious beings with strong attack power are far away, and they have not entered the manor to hunt.
After sending Sir Jesse away, Donald knew that the Tree of Life existed. Unless someone deliberately destroyed it or the monsters rioted for other reasons, he didn't need to worry about the infestation of monsters, so he left with confidence and planned to go to Boulder City. Learn about the business situation in this world and make some references for your own manor's flagship products in the future.
The planning of the manor has been roughly completed. A total of 40 acres of farms have been established on the four sides. The temporarily vacant position in the center has now been laid and the construction of villas has begun. At the back is the Tree of Life close to the forest. The entire area of the small manor is almost covered by the tree of life barrier, and it even extends beyond the manor. The natural atmosphere in the barrier is at least five times stronger than the outside world, which provides a good source for the planting of the farm. good environment.
There are houses for farmers to live in on the farm, and the book of truth is produced, and the quality is better than that of ordinary small merchants. With his noble status, at least he has to build a villa to meet his status. At that time, the guest rooms in the villa will be enough for the guests to live in, and the servants will also have their own rooms.
In terms of farmland, there is an enchantment of the tree of life, and all plants within a radius of two kilometers will be nourished by the power of nature. Seeing the wild growth of those weeds, Donald not only feels great hope for the development of the manor.
"Weeds can grow like this, so what's the point of planting something and getting rich soon?"
In addition to the planned fields, Donald also lazily sent people to clean up the weeds in other places, especially the grazing areas. These gratifying weeds will be good fodder for livestock when harvested! For those purely herbivorous livestock, whether it is stocking or mowing captive, there can be a lot of expenses left!
What his estate lacked now was a unique and lucrative economic product.
Without his own unique properties, relying solely on the harvest of general grain crops and poultry and livestock, he can barely maintain his living needs, and he can't afford the expenses of the nobles at all. Besides, he still has the profession of mage to cultivate, and the book of truth is even more crystal-eating. The big family of nuclear and energy spar can't always rely on their own hunting to make money, right?
There was plenty of time this time, and Donald drove to Boulder City in a carriage, not by teleportation. After all, the teleportation technique has a cooling time limit. Under normal circumstances, it is better to use it at a critical moment. Otherwise, if you encounter an emergency, but you cannot catch up because the skill is still cooling down, then the situation is not good.
Dark Night Manor is almost directly north of Boulder City, the distance between them is about **10 kilometers, and there is a red maple town in the middle, and the rest are uninhabited forests or hilly areas.
Although the North County is nominally under the management of Viscount Macbeth, who is the consul, it is not all the territory he rules. Only Megalithic City and the nearby Macbeth family's base in Yuanshan Town and the Lord Gerry Territory acquired more than ten years ago are the direct territory of the Viscount and the territory of his affiliated retainers.
Others such as Red Maple Town in the Red Maple Baron, Greenwood Town in the west under the administration of the bloodstone fortress military, and Shining Gold Town in the southernmost part of North County, which borders the two regions of the Marquis of Ansel and the Central Province of the Kingdom, are all different. Land managed by the Viscount. Viscount Macbeth, who is the consul of North County, only has some supervisory powers.
In particular, the town of Shining Gold at the junction of the three provinces was a trade center that controlled the circulation of goods in the west, north, and central regions. Not only Viscount Macbeth, but also many nobles in the capital were jealous of the large amount of wealth brought here every year.
When Beijun was newly founded, even the royal family could not stop the greedy nobles from competing for the ownership of Shining Gold Town. In the end, they simply learned the system of the commercial kingdom in the southern part of the mainland, and made Shining Gold Town as a self-made kingdom of the kingdom, which would never be given to him. No nobles are directly managed by the royal family, but an official is elected every ten years to act as the mayor in turn, and pays a large amount of taxes to the kingdom every year. Anyone can do business in Goldsmiths as long as they pay their taxes and obey the laws of the kingdom.
These situations were the first information Donald learned after he decided to gain a foothold in this world and had certain strength. Born in a world where information exploded on Earth, Donald naturally knew that knowledge is wealth, and information is money, so he chose the most wise and learned mage profession as his main job.
Otherwise, there are many aspects to the ability-enhancing items in the Book of Truth. He can also choose to strengthen his physique or strength at the same cost. It is also a good choice to be a heroic knight.
But in this world, although knights are powerful, they are not invincible. In the local people's understanding, spellcasters are probably the most powerful professions under the gods. Of course, this is not absolute, and there are also some talented warrior professionals whose strength far exceeds that of their peers.
As a mysterious and powerful name, the representative of the caster, the mage will give other people a noble and unapproachable feeling of oppression from the innate, but it is equivalent to his own noble status. If he had chosen to be a knight, even if he had reached a high-level knight equivalent to a fifth-level professional, he probably would not have one-tenth of the current prestige and deterrent power, which would easily cause a joint attack by the enemies.
From the very beginning, Donald has been relying on the strength of his mage and the general trend of the only mage club in North County, so that he himself and the little foundation he has created have been able to live in peace for such a long time.
The carriage was driving on the way to Boulder City, passing by the village under the Red Maple Baron. Donald suddenly became interested when he saw the rows of emerald green and purple vines in the grape fields on both sides of the village.
Red Maple Baron's wines are well known in Northshire. The baron has his own private estate dedicated to winemaking, and the wines produced in it are all high-quality wines. Although they are not the best, some of them can be sold to all parts of the kingdom every year for those nobles to drink, in exchange for at least thousands of gold. Sol's profit. This industry has always been one of the most important ways for Baron Red Maple to make money.
In this way, the two villages in the territory of Hongfeng Town and the nearby territories also planted a large number of wine grapes. Among them, the good quality will be directly purchased by the officials under the Red Maple Baron when it matures every year. Most of the rest are of average quality, and the villagers will also make some wines by themselves. In addition to their own use, most of these wines of average or even inferior quality are sold to pubs, hotels and other places in nearby villages and towns.
Compared with a glass of fine red wine with a gold sol, those barley wines that can be drunk with a few coppers are more popular with travelers and adventurers. It is a bit tasteless to drink two or three glasses of ordinary wine in one silver moon. Generally, only wealthy businessmen or middle-level officials will have spare money to buy meals. The real aristocratic hospitality is at least above the middle of the high-quality wine, will not lose their status.
Donald ordered the driver to stop by the side of the road and wait. He got out of the car and took the initiative to communicate with the elderly villagers who were in charge of the grape fields, and then found the village chief.
He didn't do anything like this, but wanted to buy some wine from the village's cellar last year.
In my previous life, I also liked to brew wine or something. Although I was an amateur, I had already learned about the specific operation in detail. It is still very easy to brew a few barrels of red wine with the simplest method.
Under Donald's Kingsore offensive, the village chief soon sold all the five barrels of wine originally intended for merchants and taverns to Donald, the aristocratic young master.
After buying the wine, Donald, who had his own ideas, fixed it on the top of the carriage with the help of several villagers, and then stopped moving forward, ordering the coachman to say: "Don't go to Boulder City, let's go back to the manor."
After leaving the village for a distance, Donald, who was anxious to experiment with his ideas, simply put the wine barrel into the space imprint, and then the driver, who had already seen nothing wrong, rushed back to the manor by himself, while he himself burrowed into the deserted woods beside the road, and teleported back to the manor. to the manor room.
"Master, you are back!"
The housekeeper Cod was a little puzzled about the sudden return of the young master who had planned to go to Boulder City, but didn't say much.
Donald ordered: "Cod, go get some wine glasses at home, I need them!"
Codd was ordered to fetch the cup, and then Donald took out a two-foot-tall log wine barrel from the space imprint.
After a while, the butler came back, and Donald opened the barrel and poured a glass for himself and Cod each.
Although this barrel of home-made red wine brewed by the villagers has been cellared for a year, it still looks a bit sour in the mouth. Compared with the mellow and clear wine in the previous life, the impurities in the wine filtered by the original rough method are also A lot, it will inevitably affect some taste.
"The quality of this wine is too bad. I'm used to drinking the wine you bought back with Uncle Cod. It's really hard to swallow!"
Donald frowned and swallowed the wine.
Cod drank the wine and said: "The local wine brewed by these rural farmers can't compare with the fine wine produced by the red maple collar that can only be bought for fifteen silver months. If you want to study For winemaking, it is better to plant excellent grape varieties in the manor, and then carefully study it after it matures to make good wine!"
But Donald had other plans. He shook his head, took out two crystal vials, and poured the blue-glowing liquid into their glasses.