Chapter 6

The location of the noble Council is not difficult to find. It is on the square next to the city master's house. The residence of the noble Council is second only to the temple and the city master's house in the city. The whole building is located on a three-story base. On the front is twelve large granite pillars with a diameter of one meter, and above it is a hemispherical dome.

The stone pillars are carved with heroes in the history of the kingdom of Florence, and the reliefs on the walls are important historical events since the founding of the kingdom of Florence. The whole aristocratic parliament looks magnificent.

At the gate of the main gate are two bronze statues riding horses, Charlemagne and Wilson, who are the strongest legendary knights in the history of the Kingdom and the highest commander of the kingdom. The two statues stand up and point to the front with long guns. It seems that they are leading the thousands of troops.

The bronze statue is four or five meters high. The carved details are lifelike. At a glance, it is magnificent. You don't have to ask, but you know it was made by a master.

Su Lun walked up the steps three steps and two steps. As soon as he stood at the gate, he was stopped by a guard.

"Sir, this is the noble Council. What can I do for you?"

Su Lun took out his noble badge, handed it to him and said, "I want to buy a development order."

The guard took the noble badge and carefully identified it. The pattern on it was really true. Then he returned the badge to Su Lun.

"Sir, please follow me." the guard made a gesture of invitation, and then took Suellen into the noble Council.

When he came to the hall, Su Lun found how magnificent the hall was. The whole hall was at least 500 square meters, and the height was more than 10 meters. The whole hall was covered by a semicircular dome. What's more amazing is that there was no column support in such a wide hall.

On the dome of the hall, there is also a mural depicting the founding war. It is also because of this war that the kingdom of Florence defeated the invaders and gained independence.

More than a dozen clerks were busy in the hall. Sulun and the guards did not disturb them. Led by the guards, sulun came to a beautifully carved iron and wood door.

Seeing this wooden door, Su Lun also smacked his tongue secretly. The material of this wooden door is iron wood. The price is not cheap. This is iron wood that grows only in the north. This kind of wood is as hard as iron, not easy to deform and burn, but its weight is only one fourth of that of steel, but it grows slowly. Generally, it is used to make advanced shields, It will take at least 50 years for such a big piece to grow up.

The guard knocked on the door, but there was no response in the room. After a while, the guard stepped up his strength and knocked on the door again. This time, some news finally came from the room.

"Come in." a lazy voice sounded behind the door.

The two pushed the door and entered. The room didn't look luxurious. There was a mahogany desk, several bookshelves and several relatively placed high back chairs. At this time, behind the desk was a fat middle-aged aristocrat. It can be inferred from his blurred eyes, the red print on his side face and the glittering liquid on his lips that he was sleeping just now.

"Sir Julian, this gentleman is here to buy the development order," said the guard, pointing to Suellen.

"Buy a development order?" hearing the guard's words, Julian looked at Su Lun in surprise. He didn't even care to wipe the eye excrement from the corners of his eyes.

He was not surprised. You know, his development orders may not be able to sell a few in a year. Although the development orders look beautiful, there are only a few really successful ones. The vast majority of nobles who bought the development orders finally gave up their territory and came back.

"Yes, Sir Julian." Suellen smiled at Julian with a smile.

"Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you. Don't think it's no big deal to open up territory after reading a few knight novels. You know, there are not a thousand but 800 abandoned territories in the wilderness now." Julian said with a glance at Suellen.

"Thank you for your reminding, sir. I know what I'm doing," said sullen calmly.

"Well, don't blame me for not reminding you." Julian shrugged, then took a stamped parchment from the bookshelf behind him, picked up the goose feather pen next to it, wrote a line of fancy letters in the blank of the parchment, and handed it to Suellen.

"Sign your name and pay five hundred dinars."

Suellen picked up the pen, signed his signature on the sheepskin roll, and then put the prepared bag of jinnar on the table,

Julian put Kinnard on a balance and weighed it. After confirming that the quantity was accurate, Julian picked up the seal and sealed it on parchment.

"Well, young man, take your development order and go. Good luck!"

Suellen took the development order, thanked him, and then turned and left the noble Council. Next, he needs to recruit a group of people. It is not easy to open up territory. He needs to prepare a large number of kinnards. In addition to recruiting a territory guard, he also needs to buy food, tools, medicine, etc. when the territory is initially stable, he also needs to buy slaves for farming.

It's not that he doesn't want to recruit free people, but few free people are willing to follow the nobles to the newly opened territory. Although the development nobles offer various preferential conditions to the free people, few are willing to go. Only those bankrupt farmers or unemployed refugees will be excited. After all, the mortality rate of developing territory is too high.

Looking at the time, it was already dark. Su Lun didn't go to the slave market again and went back to the hotel to have a rest.

Early the next morning, after a simple breakfast in the hotel, Suellen spent a silver dollar, rented a carriage and went to the slave market.

The slave market was located on the other side of the city. It took half an hour. The carriage stopped at the door of a busy market. Suellen jumped out of the carriage and entered the slave market.

The northern provinces are located at the border of the kingdom. There are many Asian races or tribes still in the primitive society around them. Every year, the Kingdom's army will fight local wars with these ethnic tribes and obtain many prisoners from the war. This is also one of the sources of slaves in the slave market. There are professional slave teams who go to the wilderness to catch slaves, Of course, there are also unlucky people who can't afford to pay their debts and are sold as slaves.

Entering the slave market, there is an unpleasant smell, such as the smell of all kinds of excrement soaked and heated and fermented. Sewage flows across the ground, and on both sides of the road are some slave traders Hawking loudly. Many thin and dirty slaves are held in cages behind them.

Most of these slaves were naked, with only a dirty rag covering their crotch. Many slaves still had traces of whipping. Their eyes were dull and lifeless. These were the most inferior slaves.