The promise of slow wear for the rest of your life

What's more, even the teachers hired by Arnold, if you really want to look into it carefully, are not actually hired specifically for Elrigett.

Arnold knew very well that to develop an extremely impoverished territory, the people's livelihood must first be improved, and secondly, commercial routes must be expanded.

At the same time, the appearance of the town must also be improved, at least to give passing businessmen a good impression and a more comfortable place to stay.

By then, the leaders should have some spare money in their hands.

At that time, it will be time to open a college to train talents in all aspects for the territory.

At this time, those teachers also have a wider scope for use.

Of course, before implementing these plans, he still needs to fulfill the most important premise.

The prerequisite is that there must be talents in his territory, or there must be many, many talents.

If he can't achieve this premise, then all the development plans he has made will be reduced to empty talk.

However, for a territory famous for its desolation and poverty, it is delusional to try to attract refugees, or even civilians from other territories, to travel long distances to settle.

It was for this reason that Arnold spent a lot of money to buy batch after batch of slaves, regardless of the old, weak, sick, or disabled, and would not refuse anyone who came.

It is also a loss, the human trafficking here is a legal business.

Otherwise, Arnold would really have to spend more thought to achieve that most important premise.

The territory development plan made by Arnold has not been discussed with anyone.

This "anyone" naturally also includes the old butler Basil, and the new butler Ke De who has been in office for less than half a year.

In addition, Arnold didn't notify them in advance before he left.

So these two faced a group of slave caravans arriving at Thorn Manor one after another, and they were really worried.

It was just a trivial matter to be busy paying the final payment to the slave merchants who carried the transaction notes signed by Arnold.

The point is that the number of slaves sent by those slave traders is really too much.

On the day when the largest number of slave caravans arrived, the manor received a total of thousands of slaves one after another.

Now that it's not the peak of the farming season, there is no more work in the manor for them to do.

In short, they are all freeloaders.

The total amount of food that these slaves can eat in a day can be said to be so heartbreaking.

These are only secondary, and the more important thing is that there will soon be no extra space in the manor to accommodate so many people.

It can only be said that fortunately, it is the end of spring and the beginning of summer when the weather is warm, and everyone can sleep together on the floor outside the house for a few nights, and there will be no major problems.

Otherwise, they would have to spend a large sum of silver coins just to get medical treatment for these people.

Just when Basil and Ke De were almost bald, Arnold and his party finally returned to the manor.

The two found the backbone in an instant, and scrambled to throw all the problems to Arnold to solve.

The solution given by Arnold is simple and brutal.

I just heard him say: "Since there is no farm work for them to do, let them do it themselves first, and build the houses they want to live in. After they are done, let them push the mountains and open up wasteland."

"Our Territory of Thorn Ridge is so big and there are so many wastelands. Even if they bring another one hundred and eighty thousand, they will not be able to complete the land reclamation for ten or eight years. When slave caravans arrive in the future, you will continue to follow this charter Just make arrangements."

When Basil and Cord heard this, they suddenly became enlightened and their melancholy disappeared.

Kodd further asked: "In Master's opinion, where should their residence be built? And the two elf slaves you brought back, how do you think they should be arranged? Do you need to let them live in the castle? "

"Of course not." Anol shook his head without hesitation.

You know, letting them live in the castle means that they will become his bed-warming male slaves and bed-warming female slaves.

That's not what Arnold brought them back to do.

He said: "Those two elf slaves should be very good at planting. They will be responsible for taking care of the newly opened seedling field behind the castle in the future. You can arrange two houses around the castle for them to live in."

Kord, who knew he had misunderstood, hurriedly blushed and complied.

Afterwards, Arnold pondered for a moment before speaking out again, answering the previous question: "As for the new batch of slaves, let's arrange them to live on the west side of the manor. Let them build houses like those slaves lived in before. The layout is also planned for them row by row as usual, and hygiene issues must also be paid attention to by them."

"In addition, let them build a few more kitchens. You should also arrange for the slaves who need to work in the kitchens, as well as the grain, oil and vegetables that need to be distributed as soon as possible."

"The original kitchens there may not be able to provide food for so many people at once. From now on, the place will be collectively called "slave camp". If there are new slaves, they will all be arranged there. If the house is not enough to live in, we will continue to build more.”

"If this kind of situation happens again in the future, you don't have to wait for me to come back to deal with it. You can just watch and arrange it yourself."

"You only need to write down the silver coins in the castle's inner warehouse and the grain in the granary every time you use them, and then give them to me for inspection on a regular basis, and there is no need to ask for my permission in advance."

Ke De nodded repeatedly: "Okay, master, I will arrange this right now."

"Well, let's go." After watching Kodd leave, Arnold turned to look at the old butler Basil who was hesitant to speak a few times, and signaled him to speak directly with his eyes.

Seeing this, Basil hesitated for a moment before saying, "Master, you must have spent a lot of gold coins after buying so many slaves?"

"It did cost a lot," Arnold said.

The old butler said worriedly: "In the vault of the castle, you don't have many silver coins left behind. Look, should you arrange for the Surrey Knights to ship a few more batches of grain, oil and paper for sale?"

Arnold asked without answering, "Is Orgus back?"

The subject changed too quickly, and the old housekeeper couldn't help being slightly taken aback: "He's back. Your dragon has been staying in the bedroom since he came back. If he doesn't come out, we don't dare to bother him."

Anol nodded and said: "Maybe he is asleep. Then don't worry about him, he will come out when he wakes up."

The old butler agreed with a full face: "You are right."

After taking the time to ask about Orgus's recent situation, Anor continued the previous question and said: "During this period, have you sold our grain, oil, and paper stocks to the slave traders who transported slaves here?"

The old housekeeper said: "Yes. But they feel that the profit of grain and oil is too low and the goods are too heavy to transport. They are only willing to buy our sunflower seeds and paper, and no one is willing to buy our grain and oil."

Anol felt a little relieved and said: "So, recently, the manor's finances can be considered to have gained something. Have you ever calculated the gap between income and expenditure? Can it be balanced?"

The old housekeeper said: "Forget it. It can barely balance."

Hearing this, Anol was completely relieved: "That's good. Let's do this first in terms of business. The slave traders who transported the slaves here have all safely walked out of Thorn Ridge."

"In the future, there must be many merchants from all walks of life who are willing to come here to buy the sunflower seeds produced in our territory, and also buy grain, oil and paper along the way. The remaining stock in the warehouse will not worry about selling it."

Arnold took out a few bags of gold coins and handed them over, "You should store these gold coins in the castle's inner treasury and keep them for flowers, lest the manor's income and expenditure will not be stable and cause difficulties."

The old housekeeper took the gold coins, and couldn't help asking: "You didn't go out this time to buy the goods, these gold coins are the gold coins you got from selling slave rings and magic potions, right?"

Of course not, the slave rings are all used on the newly bought slaves, so there is no one left to sell.

The magic potion, Arnold, only brought a few bottles of plant nutrition potions, which were handed over to the Magic Union for testing the efficacy of the potion.Afterwards, I only received deposits from some magic unions, and never actually sold them.

And these gold coins were exchanged by Arnold with gold beads on the way back.

Naturally, these facts cannot be told to the old housekeeper, so Anol lied without changing his face: "No. It's the barbecue reward that Orgus rewarded me."

So many gold coins are all rewards!Basil exclaimed, "Your dragon is really generous."

As we all know, the dragon family loves money and is stingy.

There are countless dragon knights in this world, but none of them can get gold coins from the dragon clan.

The old housekeeper felt sincerely that if his master's dragon could give so many gold coins, it must be considered generous.

Hearing the exclamation, Arnold seemed to feel that the excitement was not enough, and said: "It's nothing. Olgus has a lot of gold coins, and he will definitely reward me in the future. Don't say anything about this, so as not to provoke People's jealousy makes trouble."

When Arnold said this, he just wanted to inoculate in advance for more gold coins and even gold beads of unknown origin in the future.

The old butler didn't know the inside story, and couldn't help but feel that his master and his dragon got along very well, and the relationship was also very good.

The old housekeeper swore to comply with the secrecy request, and he almost swore that he would never spread this matter to the outside world.

While Arnold nodded in satisfaction, he couldn't help secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

Then the two talked about some small things about the financial aspect of the manor.

After all the financial problems were resolved, the old butler left the study with ease.

Arnold is finally free and can concentrate on dealing with the backlog of territorial government affairs during this period.

On the day he returned to the territory, Arnold was busy with work.

For the next few days, Arnold was busy dealing with territorial government affairs and manor chores in the morning, and busy making the batch of plant nutrition potions ordered by the Magician's Union in the afternoon.

It wasn't until he finished preparing all the batches of plant nutrition potions and asked Surrey to take people to the Magician's Guild in Hijin City that such a busy day came to an end.

After about a month or so, Sarri brought people back with an extremely considerable amount of gold coins.

Seeing such a large amount of income, Arnold couldn't help being more active in making phytonutrients.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month passed.

After careful calculation, at this time, Olgus hadn't looked for Arnold to have a barbecue for hundreds of days.

As for the bedroom where he stayed, there was never any movement.

Arnold couldn't even find it, there were signs of living things in it.

After a long time, Arnold could not help suspecting that Olgus, who had returned at that time, most likely left the castle before the old housekeeper and others noticed.

In order to verify the authenticity of this suspicion, one morning, Arnold, who had just woken up, took the spare key, and gently opened the secret door that allowed the two bedrooms to communicate.