Chapter 282

Sylvia's car is gone.

Victor began to measure the gains and losses of these two days on his way back to Pinghu Town.

The biggest benefit is crude sugar. Victor had hoped to get rich by sucrose, but he didn't expect that this sweet food rich in nutrition and energy was unsalable for four years before the dawn came. This is mainly because the spread of information in the world is too slow, and crude sugar is not a necessity. In fact, Victor thought it would take at least 5-10 years for people to get used to eating crude sugar. In order to open the market as soon as possible, he even sold crude sugar at a low price and gave profits to caravans and traders.

Crude sugar was suddenly designated as a strategic material, which was reasonable and unexpected. However, Victor still hopes that crude sugar can become the daily consumer goods of civilians. After all, Randall's crude sugar production capacity is particularly huge, soldiers' consumption of crude sugar is relatively limited, and the civilian market is vast. Victor is also ready to package and grade crude sugar to meet the needs of different classes and earn more profits.

In any case, all major forces will compete to purchase crude sugar. Victor expects that the annual sales revenue of crude sugar will not be less than 60000 kinsol, and the financial difficulties of Randall family will be solved. Thinking that more than 10 million pounds of crude sugar inventory had been wiped out, Victor was as comfortable as eating ice cream in dog days.

Another harvest is the agreement on technology sharing with the York family. In a sense, this is more important than the crude sugar trade.

Due to the changes of the times, there are many technologies that can not be directly applied. For example, the silver crossbow made by busso completely imitates the design of Dodo's military heavy crossbow. The Heavy Crossbow he designed is two circles larger than the military heavy crossbow. There is no winch, and it is stringed purely by hand. The whole Randall collar only Nelson can pull that kind of giant crossbow. Many of the instruments of the alchemy auxiliary are designed to be super large and very useful. Fortunately, alchemists have the ability to learn and can easily imitate any instrument. Randall's weapons, armor, catapults and catapults were mostly imitations of the armaments provided by the York family.

Alchemy auxiliaries are the top craftsmen, but they are not scholars. Although they have the ability to learn and imitate, they only have a life span of 15 years, and their ideas are rigid. In their whole life, they will not innovate, or even improve technology. Technology sharing can make up for the defects of alchemy auxiliary soldiers. Victor provided the technology created by civilians, which was put into practice by scholars of York family, and then imitated by Alchemy auxiliary soldiers. This is the most efficient way at present, and it can also cultivate the technical talents of Randall family.

Sylvia's wonderful attitude confused victor. She didn't care about the interests of crude sugar and didn't show much enthusiasm for technology sharing, but she was angry for several dogs. When she heard that the Randall family did not recruit knights, she was very happy. The reasons for this are somewhat intriguing.

X-3's almost machine like way of thinking made Victor see Sylvia's decision under the veil of warmth.

Victor is a gift from Sophia to Sylvia, which all forces admit. At the beginning, Sylvia handed over more than 10000 square kilometers of territory to Victor with a doting attitude. Despite her efforts to create a relaxed and free growth environment for Victor, she will never allow Victor to betray himself, let alone Randall to break away from the control of the York family.

Set aside a territory for you to toss about. Your success is my success. If you fail, I will catch you.

Sylvia never thought that Victor would play so big that other forces would be ready to move, and she had a feeling that she couldn't catch it. In Sylvia's eyes, no crude sugar, coffee, snow sugar or new technology is as important as Randall's collar.

No one dares to grab territory with the divine Knight blatantly, which does not mean that penetration means can not be taken. Sylvia only worried that Victor really regarded himself as an independent Lord and gave other forces an opportunity. Therefore, Victor's cultivation of family hounds like an independent Lord touched Sylvia's nerves.

The Randall family refused to recruit knights, and the situation was different.

Victor has only civilians under his command. Without knights, there is no family. Viscount Randall is a member of the York family. The achievements of the Randall family still belong to the York family.

Suppose Victor recruited family knights, even if the York family's manpower was tight, Sylvia would arrange for the family children to fill Randall's leadership.

Randall collar must be attached to the York family! This is Sylvia's limit. Breaking this bottom line, the loose and free environment of the Randall family will no longer exist. In the worst situation of x-3 push performance, victor often lives in Rose Manor, becomes the companion and chief staff of the Rose Queen, and has to do many unspeakable things with the female Knights of York family.

It is human nature to keep one's own fruit, and there is nothing to blame. So is Sylvia and so is Victor. Although Victor pretended not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Buryat family, if Judy colluded with other forces, he would take more drastic measures than Sylvia.

However, Victor also has a bottom line. He admits that he is a member of the York family, but does not accept the leadership of the York family. Sylvia could not imagine his ambition.

In the future, if you will be my woman, I will try my best to lead the York family to glory!

Immersed in fantasy, Victor couldn't help showing an obscene smile.

The bright sun lit up the whole study through the window. In the eyes of bishop Perot, the smile on Viscount Randall's face was brighter than the sun.

"Victor, have you come up with a solution?" Asked Perot eagerly.

Randall's worship system was of great significance to the church. When Perot learned it, he was like a treasure. However, after investigation and research, Perot found a difficult problem. If this problem is not solved, the worship system will not be popularized, and even Randall's Sunday will die. Perot was like a hungry goblin. He suddenly found a feast in the room. As long as he found the key to open the door, he could eat delicious food. In order to find the key, Perot stayed up all night and still had no clue, but he would never give up.

Perot thought that since Viscount Randall showed him the feast, perhaps the Viscount himself had a way to open the door. Bishop Perot ignored his reserve. As soon as victor's front foot came back, his rear foot caught up with him. After some greetings, Perot went straight to the subject and put the difficulties in front of victor. Then Victor fell into meditation. Bishop Perot was patient and waited for a quarter of an hour. Finally, viscount Randall stretched his eyebrows and showed a confident smile.

Perot looked forward to Victor's answer, and knew that Victor had been daydreaming of conquering Sylvia, and would not understand that the so-called problem was only a part of Victor's huge plan.

"Yes." Victor cleared his throat and said sincerely, "Your Excellency Perot, without your reminder, I would not have realized that my respect for the Supreme Lord would be frustrated."

Express your thoughts quickly, which is the greatest respect to the Supreme Lord!

Perot thought in his heart, but said in his mouth, "Victor, the Supreme Lord points out the way for all of us. Your respect for the Supreme Lord is not accidental. I firmly believe that our Lord will guide you to find the answer."

"It's hard... But it's not impossible." Victor shook his head and nodded, which made Perot's heart go up and down.

Victor continued: "You have seen the passenger and freight carriage I designed. It is much larger than an ordinary carriage and can transport 40 passengers at a time. If you want to pull so many people, you must use a strong horse. In order to transport the believers led by Randall to attend the worship in Pinghu Town, I invested 80 carriages and transported them in two times. The cost of carriage and horse is 60 gold sol, which has not been tested yet Consider the feed for horses, the depreciation of carriages and the wages of Coachmans. "

"As you worry, Randall's population exceeds 30000. I need to prepare 200 passenger and freight carriages to complete the transportation task. The population exceeds 50000 and needs 400... I can't afford such a great financial pressure."

"In fact, we can't use so many carriages. When Randall's population reaches 50000, we will build at least three churches here and arrange five priests. Believers don't need to go to Pinghu Town church to worship. They can choose a closer church. As long as you can insist on public transportation, I think 120 carriages are enough..."

For the church, calling believers to worship is not a problem at all. Unless it is labor, the Lord cannot force the people to work. After Perot's research, he found that in fact, Sunday is not important, and the key is public transportation. Believers are happy to pray in the church, but they are limited by travel. If there is a public carriage, believers in remote areas can often go in their spare time The church prays that this is much better than a Sunday, and it can also reduce the capital investment of the Lord. However, the Randall leader will have more than 50000 people in the future. How many carriages will he need at that time? How many carriages will the densely populated parish lords buy? Not to mention 120, even if they maintain 20 public carriages, the Lord will not be happy! This contradiction is almost insoluble, Perot The sound of is getting smaller and smaller.

"You're right. Not all believers will focus on one day of worship. 150 carriages are really enough. However, I still can't afford such a large transportation cost. So... I have to charge!" Victor nodded.

Perot frowned and said, "charge? Isn't that good? Many believers are poor."

"There's no way." Victor shook his head and sighed: "civilians can walk up to 40 kilometers a day and take a carriage for only three hours. Every 20 kilometers, I charge each passenger a copper sol. Civilians have more than two copper sols a day. Although they have to eat every day, they can save time on the way and work more time."

Perot thought for a moment and said, "it's true. It's a feasible way."

Victor smiled and said, "even so, I still can't afford it."

"This... Why is this? Carriage fees can obviously make money!" Asked Perot in surprise.

"The public carriage starts regularly. Not every carriage can be full." Victor explained

Perroton understood that the toll carriage is a business. Yes, it can certainly make money, but the investment is large, the profit is thin, and the return is slow. Even Viscount Randall can't see it, let alone other lords.

When the bishop began to be discouraged, Victor smiled and said, "I intend to give this business to the free people. I can provide loans to help them buy carriages. I will also entrust the work of transporting materials to them, so that they can earn money to support their family and I can save a lot of money for investment and coachman."

"Good idea! Many free people can't find work. This business can support a group of people." Perot's eyes brightened and sighed, "Victor, you are indeed a genius favored by our Lord!"

Genius? This is a contract!

Victor was secretly funny, but his face was sad: "When I provide loans, I must charge interest. I'm afraid that some free people will cheat my carriage. Therefore, I must see their sincerity... People who want to do this business have to give at least 20 gold sols! I roughly calculated that pulling freight passengers can earn almost 10 gold sols a year, and they can get back the capital in six years. If there is no accident, they can work on horses for 20 years. Well, I'll start from the third year They began to recover the principal and interest in three years. They returned me five kinsol every year and paid it off in ten years. "

"It should be." Perot took the lead with satisfaction.

"The problem is..." Victor stared into bishop Perot's eyes and said slowly: "Randall's collar is a pioneering collar, which will be attacked by ant people at any time. 20 kinsol are not a small number for free people. Will anyone be willing to invest in the public carriage business?"

Bishop Perot took a breath of air-conditioning. It's the problem of opening up. All territories have the same problem. The Lord doesn't trust the free people, and the free people don't trust the Lord.

When the time was ripe, Victor said, "bishop, I asked for a pre God notarization to ensure that the property of free people is not infringed, but I didn't follow it. It's very difficult for me."

Perot was silent for a long time before he said, "the glorious code defines our responsibilities. The Lord's protection, the church's redemption and the people's dedication. Your recruitment of soldiers from the free people violates the principles of the glorious code. Unless you change the content of the notarization before God, the church will not agree!"

"I had to." Victor raised his voice and said, "Sir, you should know that the Randall family has just been established, and there are not enough vassals and people, but I need the army to protect the territory. The dark cloud of the ant man has not dispersed. If it is lost here, the people are the biggest victims!"

"Let's not let civilians die! You know, civilians have no ability to fight monsters! They are the lambs of our Lord, not the victims of the Lord! Such a tragedy only happened thousands of years ago!" Perot also became fierce.

Victor was agitated for a while, which was the root of his conflict with the church. The church regarded the free people as their own property. Even if mercenaries joined the army voluntarily, the church would still protect them in case of war. How could soldiers fight to the death when they had a retreat.

Perot advised painstakingly, "Victor, the horse hills are guarded by his highness Sylvia. You don't need too many troops. A wise monarch won't easily start a war."

"But he needs to be ready!" Victor said coldly, "I can't shelter under a woman's skirt, can I?"

"Your Highness is a divine knight and the top figure in contemporary times. It's an honor for you to stand behind her. Don't belittle yourself from the point of view of civilians." Perot shook his head secretly. Victor and civilians had been together for too long. It was just wrong.

"..." Victor was stunned. He remembered that the aristocratic world had only power, and men were not superior to women.

"You're right. I made a mistake." Victor quickly admitted his mistake, which would be bad if it reached Sylvia. Victor took a sip of coffee and said, "you just said that civilians can't fight. It's not true."

"As far as I know, the Sassanian Empire has gathered thousands of mercenaries in the Northern Wilderness this time. There are many mercenary groups active at the junction of the kingdom of SUS and the dusk forest. My man Nelson is also a mercenary. Aren't mercenaries civilians?"

"Well... There are indeed some warriors among the civilians who fight voluntarily. They deserve respect. Of course... There are also some thugs." Perot explained, "in short, mercenaries are free. No one can force them to fight."

"I can recruit mercenaries, right?" Victor pressed step by step.

"Yes. They are willing to accept your employment. That's their right." Perot stressed, "but you can't force them!"

"How could I force them?" Victor said contentedly, "I will offer generous rewards and conditions. There will always be warriors who will voluntarily accept my employment. As long as they work for me for 25 years, I can even grant them land. Isn't that why the mercenaries?"

"But I paid a high reward. If mercenaries dare to escape, I will punish them for cheating the Lord. The church can't interfere in my governance, can it?"

Bishop Perot thought for a moment, nodded and said, "yes, the church will not shelter criminals."

"In that case, I am willing to delete the content of the pre God notarization on the recruitment of free civilian soldiers." Victor smiled happily. Mercenaries and mercenaries are just one word apart. They change soup without medicine, but they are different in nature for the church. If you knew this, you might as well not change your name.

Perot was also very satisfied. As long as victor knew that the glorious code could not be shaken, his goal would be achieved, and with the example of Randall, the public carriage could be promoted.

"Your Excellency, my ability is limited, but I am willing to persuade the Buryat family to promote the public carriage."

Victor took the initiative to make Perot happy. "It's great. May our Lord protect the Randall family."

"Unfortunately, my financial resources are limited and my influence is not enough. Other families may not be willing to protect the property of the free people. I'm afraid they won't provide loans to the free people." Victor shook his head regretfully. Bishop Perot said with a smile, "don't worry, there will naturally be devout believers engaged in the public carriage industry. As long as there is no war, the church will supervise the actions of Lords and vassals, and will not let people arbitrarily confiscate the free people's carriages. Well, the promotion process may be very slow."

Victor tried to keep an elegant smile. If he had a fox's tail, he couldn't hide it now.