"What? Your Majesty, you want to rent our manor?" The three knights' jaws dropped in shock, their mouths opening wide as they blurted out in unison.
On the side of the Howard butler also no longer calm look, eyes are glaring out, a look of incomprehension, look like a circus ugly, very funny.
"Yes! I would like to rent your land, and I promise to offer a price that you will be happy with!" Edward spoke in a definite tone.
Serious expression appeared in the face of a ten year old child looks very funny, but the crowd present can not laugh at all, after all, the age in is also the king of England ah. In the Tudor period, who do not know how much power of the king, and William three people as the bottom of the nobility, understanding is also the deepest.
"This! Your Majesty the King, this is a big matter, we still have to go home and discuss it!" The bearded Knight Bruno was the first to speak, while the remaining two hastily nodded their heads in response to the drink.
Not wanting to be so slow and cumbersome, Edward just opened his mouth and gave them an exciting price.
"Knight William your eight hundred acre estate I will give you eight hundred pounds a year!" Edward looked at Knight William, who was standing on the sidelines, and offered a price that made his heart skip a beat!
"And Knight Bruno, I can give you nine hundred pounds a year for your nine hundred acre estate!" Knight Bruno, who was on the side, also received a mind-blowing price that straight away made his heart beat faster.
Nor did Edward spare the initiator, the Knight of Devereaux, who remained quietly at bay, and, turning on him, offered a higher price than his present rent.
"Knight, for your fifteen hundred acres of manor, I will give three hundred pounds a year more than you do now!"
"You can have fifteen hundred pounds, every year!" In order to give them firm confidence, Edward went out of his way to offer a price that was far above the market.
Faced with such a temptation, the three knights looked at me and I looked at you, all of them did not intend to be the ones to stand out.
Seeing this, Edward knew that the talks had failed, but he wasn't discouraged and relaxed. He talked happily with the three knights about interesting stories from all over England, but Edward mainly played the role of listening.
Then Edward invited them to a luncheon, giving the country bumpkins a glimpse of royal opulence.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Steward Howard himself saluted them out, while Edward merely bid them a friendly farewell. The three knights burped contentedly and rode off on their great horses, well escorted by their squires, on their way home.
"Dang! Dang! Knock!" Edward was lying back in his seat, Lucy was massaging his shoulders with her delicate hands, occasionally catering to Edward's questions, and it couldn't have tasted better. A sudden knock on the door interrupted his excitement.
"Your Majesty! It's me! Howard Charles!" Howard's butler's voice rang out just in time to hold some of Edward's foul language in his throat, eliciting a giggle from his maid, Lucy.
"Come in!" Edward intoned helplessly, looking as if there was nothing he could do about Howard.
Steward Howard curtsied to Edward, after which he turned his head and looked at Lucy without speaking.
Knowing what he meant, Edward nodded at Lucy, who, knowing better, left the study of her own accord, closing the door of the room in the process before leaving.
"Your Majesty, as your vassal! It is necessary for me to dissuade you from the muddled thoughts you have made!" Howard spoke to Edward with a serious face, making like a warrior who was about to die heroically, with a hint of sadness in his tone.
"Mr. Steward! Is yours this matter of renting the Knights' estate that I proposed this morning?" "Yes! Your Majesty, this is a terrible decision!"
Howard spoke in an affirmative tone, keeping his eyes on Edward.
"Oh! My Lord Steward, it was just an idea I had on the spur of the moment!" Edward wisecracked, "Besides, didn't they just not agree to it!"
"Your Majesty the King, you are wrong to think this way! And those nobles will think that the royal family is preparing to confiscate the fiefs of their own bannermen, so the royal bannermen will definitely be uneasy, damaging the majesty of the royal family ah!"
A burst of teaching from Howard's butler confused Edward, killing him to think that a momentary thought could have such consequences, and thankfully it didn't work out in the end.
Although Edward already knew in his heart that he was wrong, his mouth was not convinced.
"Well, sir, I've got it, no more!" Edward's grumbling voice rang out, directly interrupting Howard's butler's babbling.
"And, my Mr. Butler, you didn't come all this way specifically to lecture me, did you?"
"How could it be, how could I dare to lecture His Honorable Majesty?" Howard's mouth said dare not, but the tone of the words didn't sound like that in any way.
"So, Steward Howard, what exactly are you here about?" Edward's tone stiffened a bit.
"Your Majesty, I came to ask, we have finished watering all the land with that, what should we do next?" Howard was not intimidated by Edward and answered calmly, but it could be heard that he had a problem with applying farm fertilizer to the rye.
Edward wasn't disappointed to hear that Howard had rounded over, how could a savant like him be intimidated!
Up the farmyard fertilizer, it wasn't easy for Edward to come up with it.
First, Edward built outhouses on the estate and made it mandatory for all people to defecate in the outhouses, no open defecation.
A lot of people think that normally, people's poop can be watered directly on plants, but this is actually wrong.
The main reason is that human feces contains germs and insect eggs, only after fermentation and rotting, most of them are killed, reducing the germs to promote the faction. And if you water it directly without fermenting and rotting, the plant is likely to be rotted and burned to death.
So Edward and after a few days of storage before you can use, and the storage time should not be too long, generally summer ~ days, winter ~ days on the decay, fermentation and decay should be applied as soon as possible to avoid the loss of fertilizer points.
In ancient times, when there was no fertilizer, the use of farmyard manure was a way to be frugal, easy to get all over the place, and effective!
The nutrients contained in farmyard fertilizer are more comprehensive, and the fertilizer effect is stable and long-lasting. In addition to the three major nutrients of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, farmyard fertilizers also contain calcium, magnesium, sulphur, iron and a variety of trace elements as well as a number of substances that can stimulate the growth of the root system and a variety of beneficial soil micro-organisms.
"Howard, get some men ready to cut some weeds over here!" Edward commanded, "Bring a few more men and get as much over as you can!"
"Yes! Your Majesty!" Even though Howard was in a fog, he had no choice but to do as he was told due to the agreement he had made some time ago.
Everyone guessed it correctly! Edward is getting ready to get grass clippings to fertilize the fields.