People in the Middle Ages, draw cards to get promoted

Chapter 163
Coors is indeed a very good butler who knows how to measure.

If the owner is licentious, he will not persuade him like a courtier, but will only find beautiful women for Lothar to create a perfect environment for pleasure—fortunately, Lothar did not indulge in pleasure.

He didn't even do anything to the three Persian female slaves, but let them do the laundry and clean the castle.

As soon as Coors was summoned, he quickly devoted himself to helping Lothar organize the property at hand.

Compared with Andreas, a rookie who has talent but still needs to be honed.

Coors, who has rich experience, was able to replace Maharaja Vlad when he was asleep in the old days, and he was really reliable.

For many things, Lothar only needs to mention a little bit, and Coors can immediately understand Lothar's intentions, and he doesn't need to bother to explain.

In just one hour, Coors counted all the properties under Lothar's hands, the manor, the approximate output, and the required inputs.

He closed the account book with a serious expression:

"My lord, your industry deficit is very serious. If your private treasury has not received the property subsidies obtained from the raid, you can declare bankruptcy now."

Not so much.

I was also able to borrow large sums of money from the Church and the Knights Templar against my title and lands.

Lothar muttered in his heart, but said on his mouth: "It will get better after this time."

Coors said sternly: "I think so too. Your vision is very good. It is foreseeable that the several negative assets you currently hold can make a lot of money."

"But among them, New Habsburg needs the longest period to gain benefits, and your investment in this place is really too early."

New Habsburg cannot be built in a day, even with the most important outer wall, it still takes nearly half a year to complete.

Even if it is built, the castle is still a negative asset without the village attached to the New Habsburg and the Tree of Life.

Originally Lothar believed that, as the hub of Hebron radiating out of the Jordanian Counties, even if the New Habsburg was not built, it would be able to maintain a balance of payments simply by collecting taxes paid by passing merchants and pilgrims.

But the recovery of the trade route was slower than Lothar imagined.

One of the most important reasons is that the port of Ella has not been taken back. The new lord there is a fool who extorts money and imposes heavy taxes on passing merchants. As a result, merchants from the Red Sea would rather go far away than return Take this trade route.

Lothar nodded and said: "This point, I admit that it is a bit hasty, what else?"

"Currently, the blacksmith shop you built by the Jordan River has the largest deficit among all industries. You don't seem to have any doubt that the new armor will sell well."

Lothar nodded and said, "I'm really confident. Taking a step back, even if strategic materials like armor are unsalable, I can use them to arm my soldiers."

In Lothar's view, no one can refuse a new type of armor that is more beautiful, more flexible, and less expensive than chain armor.

The knights who are obsessed with improving their personal bravery and their appearance, looking forward to being favored by the ladies and getting funding, will never be stingy with emptying every dinar in their pockets.

Coors was a little puzzled and said, "May I take the liberty to ask, where does your confidence come from?"

Lothar told the story of the private goods contained in the "Song of Winter and Fire" written by himself, and Coulston was stunned.

"Your Excellency, this is definitely a genius move."

"It's just that I'm still not optimistic that grape purple clothes will become popular. Your understanding of human nature is limited, and you don't understand that people often prefer to choose the best and most expensive murex purple, rather than choose the cheaper, but second-time First-class grape purple."

Lothar was a little puzzled: "But not everyone can afford Murex purple clothes."

The output of Murex Violet Dye is very rare, which means that it is impossible for this dye to occupy the entire market.

Coors nodded: "It is true, so people would rather choose not to wear it-this can also convince others by being in line with the church's thrifty ethos."

"If some poor nobles wear grape purple clothes and meet those rich nobles who wear murex purple clothes, wouldn't they naturally be shorter?"

"And the people at the bottom will not be willing to pay for it."

Lothar was slightly startled: "Is that so?"

Coors said sternly: "Your propaganda method is wrong. You should not render grape purple as a lower-end clothing than murex purple, but should describe it in the book as a kind of clothing dyed with rare dyes. Murex purple is even rarer, precious clothing, and only the 'Westeros' royal family is eligible to wear it."

"As long as you control the output of the dye workshop and only sell a few pieces every month, you will definitely make a lot of money."

Lothar was a little dumbfounded: "But this, isn't this a lie?"

Coors smiled and said, "My lord, there is a popular saying in our world - a successful businessman must be better at sucking blood than a vampire."

Lothar sighed lightly: "Indeed, in this regard, my thinking direction is wrong."

He didn't think it was his fault, but because of his personality, he really couldn't sell the cloth dyed with grape skins, which was obviously not as precious as the murex purple, at such a high price.

Coors also showed a regretful expression: "This point, as your new book becomes popular in Jerusalem, there is no way to remedy it."

"However, we can change our thinking and package grape purple clothes as 'clothes that every decent gentleman should have in his cupboard' or "clothes that should be worn every time he fasts."

If there is no demand, we can create demand. As long as we do a good job of guiding, we can also make a lot of money from grape purple clothes, which are already high-quality and cheap. "

Lothar suddenly realized.

He recalled his previous life, the first cup of milk tea in autumn; diamonds last forever; melatonin as a gift.

...

At noon, the butler came to Lothar again with a copy of "The Witcher".

"My lord, I have a suggestion."

Lothar joked: "Coors, hasn't the matter of the dye workshop been entrusted to you? Why do you still have time to read novels?"

Coors looked as usual, and said with a smile: "My lord, there are not many urgent matters to be dealt with in the territory. Many of them can only be started after the return of your court garment officer."

Dividing fields is not so easy.

Jeanna, the hands-off shopkeeper, found that Andreas had gradually figured out the key points, so she simply threw all her brains to him, and lazily ran back to the castle with Fringilla.

This is where Jeanne is not as kind as Hans.

Lothar smiled and said, "Oh, Coors, I didn't mean to blame you, it was just a joke."

"Next, please share your suggestion."

Coors pointed to the book and said, "You want to sell plate armor with the help of Song of Winter and Fire. It's very clever, but why did you ignore the treasure in this book?"

"What do you mean?"

"Gwent card."

Coors said seriously: "In the book, since you have explained the gameplay in detail, why don't you just make it?"

Lothar frowned: "I have had this idea, but I just think that the mechanism of this kind of card is too complicated for people of this era?"

Coors said with a smile: "No, my lord, you would never imagine how strong people's learning ability is at the poker table."

"Okay, then this matter will be handed over to you, Coors, I will tell Andreas, let him allocate a sum of money to you, and in addition, the printing workshop will also be handed over to you."

Lothar patted Coors on the shoulder.

Coors frowned subconsciously, because Lothar's shoulders were wrinkled because of the neat dress.

"Sorry, I'm used to it."

Lothar is not an idiot who can't even observe words and expressions. He realized something was wrong as soon as he started.

Coors said in a deep voice: "My lord, you are serious. I do have some small obsessive-compulsive disorder, but you don't need to take it to heart at all."

Lothar sighed: "Okay... In short, I will leave this matter to you. If you fail, you don't have to blame yourself. I believe in your talent, but you may not know much about this era."

He is still not optimistic that the Gwent card will become popular.

The rules of Gwent cards are naturally far from complicated for people like Lothar who have played card games such as Hearthstone in later generations.

But for those illiterates who struggled to count numbers with more than ten fingers, it was very difficult to figure out the numbers on the Gwent cards.

(End of this chapter)