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The Sun Festival is a good thing. It is equivalent to three consecutive days of tax-free paid leave plus a carnival of big price cuts for commodities. As long as you say "Blessing of Light", you can enjoy these benefits logically, even for the most demanding manor owner. Serfs can also get a little breathing room these days.

After all, there is a saying in this world such as "the gods can see the gods when they do good deeds on a daily basis". The nobles and gentlemen are very willing to show kindness and generosity to the God of Light who is born ignorant of existence or not.

Miss Noble showed interest in Lucien's proposal, but she said, "I think the Noble family has already donated enough to the priest Eleanor to hold this festival."

Lucien agreed: "Yes, Priest Eleanor has mentioned to me the generosity and kindness of Viscount Noble many times. The light will definitely shine on your family."

Miss Noble smiled and said: "This is what we should do. It should be us thanking the officiant Elaine. In the past, these ceremonies were supported by the church with their own savings, allowing us to enjoy the grace of light. This time we can have Father is also very happy to have such a good opportunity to contribute to the festival."

"Of course," she added, "you should be thanked for that too."

Priest Eleanor's head was stuffed with prudence and safety, and even if he tried to break it, he couldn't think of an idea to take money from their pockets.

Lucien smiled reservedly at this, and did not take the initiative to admit his role in this matter: "This is all thanks to the Priest Elaine, I just made a small contribution with his help. contribute."

For example, take the lead in donations, such as the establishment of a day festival event planning committee, and the introduction of the county government's financial department to supervise the use of donations to ensure that all the money can be used where it should be used.

The nobles are best at allowing the state officials to set fires and not allow the people to light lamps. They can collect miscellaneous taxes under clever names and swallow up the money that the lords used to help the poor, but they don’t want others to be ignorant—especially Elaine. There are faint signs of falling to the lord's side, and they are also cooperating with a relief center that sounds short of money if they can't get in or out.

However, this did not affect Miss Noble's optimism about Lucien's ability to make money. Last winter, Velvet's chamber of commerce made a lot of money through the trade fair, and the families that supported these chambers of commerce were fattened up as a result.

I have a lot of spare money in my hand, and there is no place to spend it for the time being. In addition, the crops in the fields are growing well and there will be a good harvest this year. The fundraising for the daily festival is going smoothly, which is also inseparable from these reasons .

It's also the same, if you have spare money and have nowhere to spend it, you can only pile it up in the warehouse. Compared with it, Miss Noble is of course more willing to do some pleasant cooperation with the lord, so that money can generate more money.

Most of the sun festival items that Lucien mentioned to Miss Noble have nothing to do with the festival celebrations, but with the venue of the spring hunting market.

The area where the Spring Hunting Market is located belongs to Lucien. During the Spring Hunting season, this land earned Lucien a lot of land rent, as well as more taxes that can be used by the government for secondary development and construction.

And now that the spring hunting season is about to pass, Lucien has lent this site to the Church of Light for free as the main venue for the sun festival, and according to the practice of the sun festival, he will exempt all people in the site during the festival. Taxes, whether they are locals or foreigners, free people or slaves, can enjoy the same rights and policies here.

"There will be a lot of people coming, and there will be a lot of transactions." Lucien said, "After spring hunting, there will be autumn hunting, and there will be Hanukkah in summer. If we can build a permanent place that can be used, although at the beginning The investment will be relatively large, but the investment can always be recovered slowly in the later stage.”

"After all, the Moon Mountains are there. Every year, there will be no shortage of adventurers here. You should look at the comparison of the spring hunting income between this year and previous years. You will only earn more in the future."

Therefore, simple tents and wooden fences built with coarse cloth and wood are not suitable. They need more durable houses and more stable walls, as well as more types of internal industries to meet more needs, and build a long cycle. .

"It sounds like..." Miss Noble tapped her fingertips on her knees, "You seem to be building a city."

Lucien asked back, "If it's possible, why not?"

A city is a symbol of complete commercialization. A well-developed city will attract large-scale chambers of commerce, trade unions, and craftsmen in a region to gather in it, forming an industrial chain that "relies on external supply of food" and "featuring West Fantasy's characteristic handicrafts and commerce." In other words It is a large amount of money flow, as a landlord, it is a business that can not make a profit.

"Well...it is true for you." Miss Noble nodded, "But as the owner of the manor, please forgive me for not agreeing."

The city was built on Lucien's land. Not only would the manor owners not like the city, on the contrary, they would hate the city so much that they wanted to raze it to the ground.

Miss Noble directly pointed out the disadvantages, "The city will take away the craftsmen on our land, the peasants will not be willing to work hard, and the slaves will escape to the city to hide. You know, every city has dark streets and dark streets." Alleys and other places raise a group of lowly sinners who steal, rob, and sell their flesh."

"So," she looked into Lucien's eyes, and said slowly, "Why do you think we will agree?"

Lucien also looked into Miss Noble's eyes, and he suddenly found that she had a pair of beautiful brown eyes, the brilliance inside was bright and sharp - after staying in this world for a long time, he could only describe it in this way - the brilliance was Like a pair of man's eyes.

"You are wrong." Lucien corrected, "I think you will agree."

"Every year there will be Spring Hunt and Autumn Hunt, there will be Sun Festival and Hanukkah, we will have more workshops and factories and more merchants... One day, Velveer will build a city, no If I build it, someone else will build it, so why don't we be the first?"

"Admittedly, if things take their course, it may be ten, twenty or even thirty years later, but forgive me, by then, the Norber family may not be able to intervene."

"If I remember correctly, your father should be almost 70 years old this year?"

The existence of magic and martial arts has increased the average life expectancy in this medieval background world. There is no change for ordinary people without talents. Four or fifty years old is considered a long life, but low-level talents basically have no problem at seven or eighty years old. Intermediate and high-level centenarians abound , and reaching the stage above the archmage like Andasi, the basic life span starts from 50 years old.

Thankfully, the proportion of gifted people is small and the fertility situation is not very optimistic. The aristocratic families are anxious to get their children engaged early, which may not be due to the factors that they can work hard for a few more years by getting married early.Under normal circumstances, if both husband and wife are gifted, it is not uncommon to have only one child in more than ten years.

If not, the world would have had a population explosion 800 years ago, based on the average life expectancy of the gifted.

Miss Noble is the old daughter of the Viscount Noble. She was born after more than 30 years of marriage and changed two wives. Even though he is still trying to cultivate a male heir, in terms of fertility rate, the future Noble family will basically It was Miss Noble who came to inherit.

Women inheriting the family business often means being marginalized by the noble association. Now the manor owners who are obedient to Viscount Noble will attack Miss Noble who inherits the family property. Miss Noble herself is not sure that she will be able to keep it at that time How many homeland farmers.

That would not be so far away. Ten or 20 years later, Miss Noble knew that she would inevitably face such a situation.

Lucien also knew that Miss Noble knew.

"Fields and estates are outdated." Lucien poured tea for Miss Noble this time, adding honey and milk, "and we can earn more."

"I suppose your father must have hoped so, too."

Viscount Noble still doesn't like Lucien so far. As the representative of the local manor owner, he has a difficult conflict of interest with the lord, but he still acquiesced that Miss Noble had a good relationship with Lucien, and he was willing to have a good relationship with Miss Noble. Under the persuasion of Lucien, he made some concessions to Lucien's policies.

At least this will allow Miss Noble to get some protection from the lord in the future. Viscount Noble still believes that this young lord with an abnormal mind is at least willing to keep his daughter safe and prosperous, as long as they have interests and cooperation between them. friendship.

Miss Noble stared deeply at Lucien, she could only see the sincerity in those eyes

And sincerity, it seems that this person is really selfless and purely thinking about his friends, so he is willing to share a piece of the pie in his own city and bring her to make money together.

She knows that's not true.

But that's what anyone can't help thinking when staring into those eyes.

"You are really..." Miss Noble sighed as if she was complaining and coquettish, picked up the tea that Lucien poured her, and drank it in an unladylike way.

"Has anyone ever told you?" She frowned and swallowed the tea, twisting a salty pastry to suppress the greasy taste in her throat, "It's not good to drink too sweet tea."

She even suspected that she drank a whole glass of honey and milk, and she did not put down the teacup on the spot to show her respect to the lord.

"I know." Lucien signaled the maid to bring a pot of milk tea directly, and he said it with confidence, "But I like it."

The guest can do as he pleases, of course Miss Noble will drink whatever he drinks.