[Henry VIII] Tudor Crown

"I remember that the real estate under your name is only a winery." As early as when Guillaume was engaged to Princess Margot, William III assigned a piece of royal land near London to Guillaume to prevent him from marrying Princess Margot Later, I couldn't afford the morning gift for my wife.

Although Guillaume's hobbies are extremely expensive, but in other respects, he is also a very shrewd person. He deeply understands the truth that money should be spent wisely, so after obtaining his fief in advance, he did not make any big moves. The idea of ​​building a manor or castle is instead calculating how to get the most benefit locally.

It is true that Guillaume also wants to follow the example of the Countess of Nottingham, who is the second richest woman in Britain, and build a factory on her own fief to start a profitable wool thread business. When you learn to walk, you want to run in big strides.

The Countess of Nottingham even carefully analyzed the necessary conditions for building a woolen thread factory with Guillaume under the "heavy money consultation".

First of all, you have to have wool, which means you have to have a wool supplier, or engage in wool production yourself.

The second is that you have to have a spinning jenny, and then recruit a group of skilled female workers to help you spin the woolen thread, and also ensure the logistics and safety of the factory.This means that Guillaume not only has to hire thugs to patrol around the factory 24 hours a day, but also has to pay for the accommodation, food, and babysitting expenses of some foreign and impoverished female workers.

In addition, Guillaume had to have an underwriter of wool thread or his own sales channel.

The reason why William III dared to set up a royal factory was mainly because he confiscated a large piece of land in England after Henry VIII killed the Duke of Buckingham and the Duke of Norfolk, and Wales established a direct port with Ireland, so He has a complete set of production lines and sales lines.

When the Countess of Nottingham chatted with Guillaume, she said very modestly that she drank the water directly after William III dug the well.

After all, without the name of the royal factory and the strong support of the king, the Countess of Nottingham would not be able to make the business of woolen thread flourish, and even produced many by-products such as fodder, woolen cotton clothes, and the leftovers of the Jenny spinning machine. gadgets.

Even the Countess of Nottingham gave the discarded defective products to the nearby poor at a low price, and those women who worked in the weaving factory could also pick up some slightly better defective products to go home.

After all, although cashmere is not as good as silk, it is not affordable for everyone.

It is true that while the business of the royal factory is booming, there are also some nobles who want to imitate others, but they are quickly taught to be human by reality.

The reason why the royal factory created by William III was able to start quickly and soared to a large extent was dependent on his status as king and the good reputation he had accumulated during his reign.

It is not even an exaggeration to say that he is the most popular king since the establishment of the Tudor dynasty.

Especially in the women's group, William III is almost a perfect existence.

Internally, the family is harmonious, there are zero scandals, he is handsome, and he doesn't like luxury.

Externally, as soon as he came to power, he gave tax cuts to civilians, abolished some relatively harsh religious regulations, stopped the witch-hunting trend from the German region, and won a piece of France without the civilians bearing too much pressure. land.

Facing such a king, almost no one would believe that he would treat those working in the royal factory harshly.

Moreover, William III also introduced the "Employment Act" and "Labor Law", so he must set an example to improve the treatment of the people in the factory, and also appointed the Countess of Nottingham, who does not look so sharp and is easy to be liked, to be in charge of the operation of the royal factory. .

Therefore, the Royal Factory at this time is equivalent to the state-owned enterprises of later generations, with high salaries and sufficient benefits, and it is not easy to make mistakes.

As long as the king does not go bankrupt, they will always have food.

And Guillaume obviously does not have his father's financial resources, power, and charisma.Opening a factory now is undoubtedly a dream, so the Countess of Nottingham gave him another choice.

"You go to farm! After all, food is a panacea at any time." The Countess of Nottingham, who still has to take care of her own people, said with a flexible mind: "Besides, some grain husks and vegetable skins can also be processed into feed. If you intend to do business, I can also help introduce some caravans and hotels that need to buy a lot of feed. When you save enough money and have a lot of contacts, it’s not too late to start a factory.”

Guillaume, who is good at listening to opinions, immediately planted food in his fief.

Then, in order to increase production, he resolutely gave up building houses, and even built the first apartment in history with the help of Michelangelo in order to save land. The foreign population came to help him cultivate the land.

This little calculation works...

Absolutely called shrewd word.

However, more refined is yet to come.

Facing William III's question, Guillaume, who only had one set of real estate, replied confidently: "Isn't it just a house? One set is enough for living, why do you need so many?"

Queen Juana asked back: "Aren't you afraid of some people whispering behind your back?" After all, most nobles use real estate to prove their worth, and many of them are swollen faces to pretend to be fat.

Guillaume asked strangely: "Do they dare to say this in front of me?"

Queen Juana choked and looked at William III.

"Then after you married Margot... lived in your wife's house?" Because Guillaume decided to give his only real estate to Princess Margot, William III directly assigned the ownership of the winery to Princess Margot On the body: "You are not afraid...others say that you are being taken care of by..."?

The speechless William III could not say the last three words to his son.

"What are you afraid of? This is a reasonable distribution of property and increasing income and reducing expenditure." Guillaume said even more strangely: "It's not that I'm separated from my wife, why live in two houses?"

Now it was William III's turn to be choked, so he looked at the Duke of Richmond.

The Duke of Richmond, who received his father's gaze, pressured the mountain road: "Then... then what if you have a conflict with Princess Margot and are kicked out of the house by your wife? You can't go to London or Wales to join your relatives!"

"Isn't Michelangelo's gallery nearby? Can't I just squeeze in with Michelangelo?" Guillaume said, looking at William III expectantly: "Of course, if you are willing, father I will not refuse to sponsor a property for me.”

In short, Guillaume is not at a loss whether William III can't get used to it.

Queen Juana subconsciously put her right hand behind William III's back to prevent him from falling to the ground suddenly.