Chapter 283

Silver moon manor.

Victor leaned back in his chair, playing with the scorpion bone beads Sylvia had given him, and a brand-new letter was nailed to the writing table in front of him.

The style and material of the letterhead is the most common sheepskin scroll. The handwriting and lacquer seal on it exude the smell of acid decay. This smell will dissipate only after the ink and lacquer are dry. At that time, this letterhead can be called a sheepskin scroll.

In fact, Victor need not be so careful. Bishop Perot took away the copy of the letterhead. Even if the two scrolls were damaged, the notice signed by the Lord and the bishop was pasted in front of the church gate. The notarization before God has taken effect, and the church will never deny it.

Pre God notarization is the product of the New Testament of light. It refers to the contract signed by the nobility in the witness of the Lord of light and supervised by the secular servants of the Lord of light. Pre God notarization has the highest priority and is sacred and inviolable. In case of violation, the judgment Office of the church will directly intervene in the execution of the contract.

For the Lords and nobles, the notarization before God has little practical effect. Aristocrats value credibility, and treacherous behavior will disgrace the family, even oral promises are no exception. However, the emergence of pre God notarization marked the complete victory of the paladin group in the power struggle and occupied the dominant position of the church. The overall strategy of the church also changed, and began to actively participate in the internal affairs of the Lords and nobles and strive to expand its own influence.

Therefore, the notarization in front of God was resolutely resisted by Lord Baita and negatively treated by Lord sassanne. It can be said that there are few responders. Victor held two notarization before God in just four years, which can be called a wonderful flower among the Lords. In particular, the content and object of this pre God notarization are unique.

There is only one core clause of the pre God notarization of the Randall family: all free people families who invest in the construction of houses in Randall will become the citizens of viscount Randall. The Randall family vows not to infringe on their private property and will be supervised by the church.

Victor originally wanted to write: in the booklet, the people's property was protected by Viscount Randall. Bishop Perot thought it was superfluous, because protection and dedication were the responsibility of the Lord and the people respectively. Victor offered to pay a deposit to the church. Bishop Perot said very domineering: No.

The meaning of non aggression, no protection and no need means that the Randall family can not arbitrarily deprive the property of the free people for generations. If the people suffer losses due to natural and man-made disasters, what should be done? The Lord can never compensate the people. If the Randall family breaks their promise, the church naturally has the ability to intervene.

Victor was stunned for a long time before he realized that he had made another mistake.

The reality is that in this era of gods and knights, ordinary people without power can only be the bottom. All wealth in the territory belongs to the Lord, including houses. Moreover, mankind has been in a state of war. It is reasonable for the Lord to collect wealth and resist foreign enemies. Even the people themselves admit this. Victor claimed that protecting his people's property was completely winking at the blind, which was pure amorous.

Perhaps some Lords will think that Viscount Randall is poor and crazy. In order to squeeze the money of the free people, they don't hesitate to put a yoke around their neck.

If Victor really thinks so and treats the Lords as idiots, he is a fool himself.

Sylvia's tacit attitude and Bishop Perot's appreciative eyes before leaving are enough to prove that neither the Lord nor the church leaders lack political wisdom. In their eyes, the God notarization of the Randall family is very in line with the actual needs of the pioneer. Viscount Randall used the gold lettered signboard of the church to attract people and extract wealth at the same time. It was a very clever means.

The so-called shackles are actually the Lord's declaration and self-restraint, which is a valuable quality. Victor is neither the first nor the last self-restraint upper class figure. The most famous figure is the founder of the shining Church - the first Pope Enoch.

The glorious Code stipulates that the church shall not hold secular power or engage in commercial trade. It is precisely because of Enoch's self-discipline that the glory of the church will last forever and give Victor an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Victor's political wisdom may not be as good as those old lords, but after all, he comes from a world of information explosion. In terms of experience, he leaves the Lords a few blocks away. Victor's notarization before God is not only a matter of sucking money and people, but also has more long-term considerations.

There are also outstanding roles among the free people. They have money, ability, insight and incalculable network resources. They may be the second son of a village head, a soldier cousin, or a cheap brother-in-law of a sheriff. These people are all needed by Victor. The problem is that they dare not go to the development area. They are afraid of being plucked up.

Under normal circumstances, the Lord will not infringe upon the property of the free people at will, but there is still a phenomenon of extortion between the free people, not to mention the development of the Lord? The church has always turned a blind eye to such things. Now Randall's son's God notarization is enough to dispel the concerns of the free people.

According to Victor's assumption, with the guarantee of the church and the public carriage, the rich among the free people will rush to Randall to buy houses. They usually do business in yeliucheng to make money and settle in Pinghu Town for consumption. This will not only stimulate the economic growth of landlead, but also the network resources of free people will be used by Victor.

The public carriage is the most crucial part of the whole plan!

The study door was pushed open, and a graceful figure came in with a fragrance.

"Honey, I'm coming." Alice said with a smile.

Victor frowned and said, "Why are you here? Don't you knock!"

"I just went to take a bath and changed my clothes." Alice turned around with a smile and said, "is it nice?"

As soon as victor's eyes brightened, Alice was originally beautiful and moving. After careful dressing, she was as gorgeous as peaches and plums. The wine red show hair was in a lady's bun, revealing a beautiful neck and exquisite clavicle. The fiber feet stepped on a pair of delicate high-heeled shoes, a black spider silk dress, and the design of low chest, waist and backless showed the beautiful curve and bright and clean skin incisively and vividly, The skirt is four pieces of translucent tulle. With her rotation, the skirt corners fly, and two snow-white slender legs are directly exposed to the air, just like a blooming Black Kite.

Perspective, backless, vacuum, high-heeled shoes, and learned to walk cat steps... Are you going to have silk stockings? It seems that I let a devil out

Alice walked slowly with sexy and enchanting steps, her crisp breasts and long legs looming in the thin silk skirt. Victor had the urge to have a nosebleed, but he said, "how can you have this dress?"

"Mrs Judy gave it to me. Now ladies wear it like this." Alice said angrily, "Sir, you haven't answered me yet."

"Very nice." As soon as victor finished, his face suddenly changed and asked, "you won't wear this kind of dress at the briart family ball?"

"It's a secret between ladies. How can you wear it at the ball?" Alice realized that her husband was jealous and secretly pleased. At the same time, she said in a flattering voice, "sister Judy specially asked me to show it to adults. If you like it, she will show it to you."

Victor breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I want to talk to you about business, not to let you tempt me."

"It's my duty to serve you." Alice sat directly on Victor's lap, put her arms around his neck, raised her beautiful red lips and said, "Elena and Lilia are with you. Only I keep going back and forth between yeliucheng and Yinyue manor, and I may not be able to meet you when I come back. Sir, can you find someone to take over my job?"

Lilia is in power. The Elena sisters don't mean to envy at all. They only care about being jealous and don't care about competing for power and profit. Aristocrats are naturally superior, not to mention Lilia. Even Nelson is timid in front of the Elena sisters. As a noble Lord, Victor doesn't need to worry about his usurpation of power. The power of the whole human world is maintaining his authority and rule. However, he must let the Elena sisters participate in territorial affairs, otherwise the York family will send people to join the Randall family in advance.

"No." Victor patted Alice's plump buttocks and asked, "how's the family's crude sugar and carriage business?"

Alice didn't dare to delay the event and said, "these two days, several large family caravans have sold out 500000 pounds of crude sugar, and the shop income is 1500 gold sol. The market of carriages is very general. Only 18 carriages have been sold this month, earning 540 gold sol."

"Crude sugar is now a strategic material, and it is normal to be in short supply." Victor nodded and said, "I will immediately transport 12 million pounds of crude sugar to yeliucheng, of which 10 million pounds are for the share of the Marquis of Sophia, and the other 2 million pounds can be sold, but the price should rise to 12 copper sols per pound. In addition, remember to leave 200000 pounds for the traders, but they are not allowed to increase the retail price in the market."

"Crude sugar is a strategic material? Great!" Alice cheered and asked, "what's the price for the share of coarse sugar left for the lady?"

"Madam?" Victor said blankly, "Sylvia didn't tell me to buy crude sugar."

"Oh, it's the Marquis Sophia." Alice put out her tongue quietly and corrected it quickly.

Victor is slightly distracted. In this hierarchical society, ordinary people can never shake the status of nobility, and there are differences between nobility. Although he has irreconcilable interest contradictions with Sophia, Sophia still has a decisive influence on Randall family. If Victor has an accident, No one in the Randall family dare disobey the Viscount Sophia. Of course, Sophia must give up the Marquis title and join the York family at the first time, or Sylvia will kill her herself. If something happens to Sophia, Victor won't have anything.

Victor suddenly had a trace of pity and appreciation for Sophia. The woman insisted on independence and circled among the major forces. It was like dancing on a steel wire rope. If she was careless, she would fall into the abyss. Moreover, this is almost an inevitable outcome. The king's support for the chamber of commerce is not to create a wealthy business aristocrat. Large chambers of Commerce have money but no strength, just like fat pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

As Sylvia said, aristocrats who don't choose their camp can't do anything. Victor was full of pride. After touching his bag, he didn't immediately find a backer. Sophia could have clung to the Queen's thigh. Although she would lose most of her wealth and at least keep her position, she did not hesitate to break with the queen to open her own door. Now she has no way out. Victor really didn't know whether Sophia put herself in a desperate situation because of greed or stubbornness. Anyway, he didn't succeed. He would rather die bravely. In the final analysis, he was just a little man like a wild grass. If he found a piece of land, he could grow a grassland, chasing waves and streams and being tenacious.

"My Lord, did I say something wrong?" Alice said uneasily, twisting her delicate body gently.

When he looked down at the beautiful thing Sylvia gave him, Victor felt a move in his heart. Sylvia doesn't care about a vase man, and she can't see Sophia's plight with her mind and wisdom. The reason why she helped Sophia get rid of the Queen's control is to wait for Sophia to be in a desperate situation and then bring it under her command.

The royal family wanted to reap the wealth of the chamber of Commerce, and the York family wanted to absorb a great knight. In that case, why can't I participate in this gluttonous feast? Sophia has a natural influence on the Randall family, and I have the same influence on her chamber of Commerce. Building a smuggling network with the help of the chamber of Commerce will get twice the result with half the effort!

Thinking of this, Victor immediately changed his original intention and ordered: "in a few days, let the steward of the chamber of Commerce of the Marquis Sophia come to Pinghu Town, and I will meet them in person."

"As you wish, my Lord."

"One more thing." Victor nodded and said, "I have placed orders for the construction of carriages with all villages. You should purchase some high-quality mahogany and copper ingots in Yeliu city to meet the demand for the construction of 20 large passenger and freight carriages, 40 medium-sized passenger and freight carriages and 80 small passenger and freight carriages."

"So much?" Alice was startled by Victor's big hand and said, "honey, the carriage is not easy to sell. The passenger and freight carriage designed by the family is not wanted at all."

"If you want to be rich, build roads first." It's common sense on earth. But the road alone is not enough. There must be transportation. Carriage is the most important means of transportation in the world and a very important fixed asset. The poor can't afford carriages. Even if the rich free people can afford them, they don't buy them, but rent them. Because the lords often requisition carriages in the territory in order to meet the transportation needs of the territory, and the free people generally don't return their carriages. Therefore, only vassals and nobles in the territory can buy carriages, and the leading people can also ride horses. Most of the own people can only travel on two legs.

The passenger and freight carriage designed by Randall can carry both people and goods. The large carriage can take 40 people and load 2 tons of goods, the medium carriage can take 30 people and load 1.5 tons of goods, and the small carriage can take 20 people and load 1 ton of goods. The design of the carriage is very complex, firm and durable, and the production cost is much higher than that of ordinary carriages.

However, the upper class will not take passenger and freight carriages, and its traffic volume is not comparable to that of traditional freight carriages. No one wants to buy this expensive and impractical vehicle except Randall.

Victor designed this carriage entirely to meet the needs of public transport, which is still an undeveloped virgin land.

Public transport has the nature of public welfare and is destined not to have too many profits, but its economic benefits and potential social influence are difficult to measure.

Suppose a villager catches a yellow sheep and can only eat it. Now with a public carriage, he can take the Yellow sheep to the town to sell, and then use the money he makes to buy goods, including crude sugar, and pray in the church. In this way, the villagers made money, the coachman made money, the tavern owner made money by buying game, the Lord received tax, the church got faith, and the Randall family certainly made money.

This is only one aspect of Victor's development of public transport. His real purpose is to smuggle through the public transport network.

Public transport has many advantages, but it has not developed yet, mainly because of two factors. First, the extraordinary nature of knights and nobles caused serious social fragmentation. Lords competed with each other for Knight blood, and did not consider the needs of civilians at all. In order to earn wealth, they are not even willing to plant kidney beans. How can they invest in the public transportation business with large profits? Second, the church was able to develop public transport, but they were limited by the glorious code and could not carry out any commercial trade. (why? The Knights disagreed. In the era of the chosen, the population was large, the city-state was numerous, and the trade was prosperous. The Knights knew very well that the church could not control the trade.) The church once provided loans to free people. Later, they found that there was a sign of bankruptcy and immediately banned this behavior.

These two factors are the objective conditions for Victor to eat crabs first. He sent old John to sell carriages in yeliucheng to plan the development of public transport. However, the investment in public transport was so large that Victor could not realize this idea with his financial resources, so he turned his eyes to the free people.

Free people are at the bottom of society. Their fixed assets are very easy to be remembered. Now they are escorted by the church. They can safely and boldly engage in public transport business. However, after all, public transport has little profit. Free people must be willing to transport some goods in order to make more money. Of course, these goods are also protected by the church. The influence of the priest is quite great. The sentry soldiers dare not seize the public carriage at the risk of offending the priest, which facilitates smuggling.

Victor has no ability to control all public carriages. He just needs to master the public transport network of smuggling channels. Victor has instructed hammer to find suitable free traders and let them build a public transport network in the designated territory through partnership. The church and Lords will naturally provide convenience. Even so, Victor needs to invest a lot of money, but it's worth it.

Only with the black market as the terminal, the mountain village as the stronghold, the public transport as the channel, the light and dark lines, the villain hyenas as the cover, and the mercenary regiment providing force guarantee, can Victor's business empire be formed. This business empire is not just smuggling. It has infinite potential and can attract many forces to join it and make it grow. What Victor has to do is to firmly control it.

Of course, in this process, someone will challenge Victor's position. Victor took the lead and sat on the alchemy tower. What's his fear in the face of challenges.

"Just do it." Said Victor faintly.