Chapter 408

Brinor city is divided into two urban areas, inside and outside.

Kite castle and the houses of the great nobles are concentrated in the inner city area where every inch of land and every inch of gold are available, while the residents in the outer city area are mainly the second-class nobles of Wangdu and the families of the forbidden guards. The area of the outer urban area is more than ten times larger than that of the inner urban area. There are aristocratic areas, vassal areas, shops, warehouses, workshops and farmland in the city.

The blue amber hotel is built in an orchard of farmland in the city.

It consists of seven stone buildings and some wooden houses. There are fruitful alligator jujube trees in front, back, left and right. It looks more like a farm, but the environment here is quiet, the air is fresh, and there is a unique forest landscape.

"Great." Victor stepped out of the carriage, took a deep breath, turned his head and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to have such a large orchard in Wangdu."

Tnis stood side by side with Victor, looked around and said proudly: "Baron Jon, who originally belonged to Leopold's family, lost the lease of the orchard to me in a card game... Of course, I can join Jon's circle, all thanks to Rand's coffee and snow sugar."

"And preserves and other goods..." Victor smiled and added, "the most important thing is that you have a capable caravan manager."

"Marcel is really capable. He helped me make a lot of money... The blue amber hotel came from his suggestion."

"Oh, is there anything particular about it?" Asked Victor with interest.

"Brinor city is very big, but it is also very crowded. When nobles come to the king's capital, they often need to stay in the homes of relatives and friends, and their entourage lives in hotels in the outer city. The lack of servants around them makes nobles feel very uncomfortable, but if the hotel rooms are full, servants can only live in stables or warehouses, it will be a shame." Tnis shrugged his shoulders and said, "this situation often happens, especially in March of the land season every year, the manor Lord has to go to the king's capital... And now."

Tnis lost his left hand behind him, pointed to the hotel building with his right hand and said: "I transformed the orchard farm into a hotel. There are 12 rooms on each floor for a noble and his servants to use alone. There are seven four story stone buildings here, which can accommodate 28 distinguished guests at the same time. Although the location of blue amber is remote, it is quiet and comfortable. The tenants are dignified people. The manor lords are very satisfied with it."

"You only receive manor lords?" Asked victor.

Tnis nodded and said, "it's normal."

Victor stopped, looked at the layout around him, frowned and said, "the price of the royal capital is very high. I'm afraid it cost you a lot of gold sol to build blue amber. If you only entertain the manor Lord here, you must lose money every year. After all, the manor Lord's appointment is only one month."

"I wasn't ready to make money from blue amber at first." Tnis smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice: "Now everyone knows that only Viscount teness sells coffee and snow sugar in the whole king, but they don't know that my annual coffee share is not 200 pounds, but 500 pounds. I can't sell the extra coffee to the nobles of the king, and the manor Lord won't care how much coffee I sell in the king. They can buy coffee and snow sugar when they live in blue amber. Although they only live for a month, My profit from selling coffee every year exceeds 6000 gold sols. "

"Later, some manor lords proposed to rent a house for a long time. They paid the house money for two years at a time and sent permanent staff to take care of it as their temporary residence in Wangdu." Tenet spread out his hands and said: "Instead of losing money, blue amber made a profit. That's what I didn't expect. However, those royal nobles who have the right to rent farms in the city also began to follow Blue Amber's example and build noble manor hotels. But they don't have coffee. In order to sell coffee to more Manor lords, I built two stone buildings to meet those guests who don't rent for a long time. Now blue amber The barons chatarn and his wife live in the building ahead. I have reserved the best floor for them for your sake. "

Victor smiled and said, "my friend, I feel your heart... Anyway, I want to thank you."

"This is what friends should do." Said tnis politely.

At the beginning, teness managed Randall to get coffee. After layers of exploitation by the Lord and the human relations between the royal nobles, it can be said that he only lost but did not earn. The annual salary of the Royal tax official was only 1000 gold sol. In order to master the resource of coffee, teness could only bite his teeth.

Victor wanted to break into the black market in brinor City, so he persuaded the tax official to smuggle coffee for profit, and suggested that he select people from free businessmen and form his own caravan to carry coffee and snow sugar.

Marcel selected by tenet is indeed a talent. He believes that coffee, such a noble drink, can not be sold in shops of free people, and the blue amber Hotel cleverly disguises the shipment of coffee.

Viscount teness made a lot of money and trusted Marcel. But he didn't know that Victor also reached into the black market of brinor through Marcel's caravan.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water. The staff of the caravan naturally have a way to get extra money. The freight transportation is worn out, and the caravan manages things along the way. As long as they do a little tricks, they can steal a lot of goods unknowingly. Although the number is small, each caravan gets a little out, and the total amount of goods flowing into the free people's black market is considerable.

With so many commodities mixed together, it is difficult for even the spies of the kingdom to clarify the relationship.

Marcel took the lap of the royal nobles and got up in the free people's market in brinor. And tnis only wants results, not process. In order to satisfy the master, Marcel not only has to feed a group of guys, but also has the opportunity to do it. When Marcel went to yeliucheng to get the goods, he naturally had to meet some black goods merchants. Therefore, the local thieves' Union skillfully recommended him a black merchant who specially shipped goods in brinor.

The black merchant deals in candied fruits, mountain goods, bristle brushes, bacon sausage, oil spun cloth... All of which Marcel can buy in yeliucheng. The two sides connected their heads and immediately became hot. According to the rules of the free people's black market, the black merchants were responsible for receiving and supplying goods, and Marcel was responsible for covering shipments. Their business grew bigger and bigger, and soon occupied a place in the free people's district outside brinor.

In fact, the black merchant is the downline of weiqi, the golden group. The black goods he manages are not the goods intercepted by the caravan, but from the industrial chain painstakingly managed by Victor.

The smuggling caravan of the gold regiment transports light goods to the mountain people's stronghold, processes them into commodities, and then flows into the black market of the town through the channels of free civil and commercial traders. At present, the golden group controls more than 100 black merchants, and its sales network covers the main cities in the East, central, South, South and west of buganbis, and even spreads to Neville and dodo kingdom.

Among them, brinor city has the largest shipment volume, which can be described as the best city.

On the one hand, there are more than 150000 free citizens attached to brinor City, and the market potential is very huge. The black merchants of the golden regiment have found out the way and have a firm foothold in brinor city.

On the other hand, it benefited from the population optimization of the kingdom of gombis.

People and horses continued to recruit employees, and the Lords in the west, central and south of the kingdom were building infrastructure with green bricks. They provided many jobs. The city of brinor introduced the surplus population into the West and south central part of the kingdom. The decline in the total number of refugees in Wangdu has led to stable work, increased income, increased savings and greater improvement in consumption capacity.

Last year, the total sales of the gold group in brinor city was 3000 gold sols, while it has exceeded 4000 gold sols in the first half of this year. It is expected that the total sales of the whole year will not be less than 7000. There will only be more in the future.

If you look at the whole territory of Gambis, the wealth in the refugees' pockets will definitely make the Lord's chin fall on the table.

Victor vaguely remembered the story of buying bananas before selling shoes. He is doing the same thing.

Tnis is complacent about the profits of thousands of kinsol every year, but Victor wants to arrange the game in advance before everyone reacts.

"Renault, you guys stay outside with Arka and take care of the fast bird. Nelson, Gru and shack accompany me in." Victor turned to give an order and stepped into the blue amber hotel.

Nelson took a quick step and asked in a low voice, "Sir, what etiquette should we show your parents?"

Tennessee smiled and said, "Lord, you are the vassal of viscount Randall, not the subordinate of barons chataan and his wife... The jaw head salute is very consistent with your identity."

Nelson suddenly said, "I see." He stopped talking and followed victor and tnis up the second floor of the hotel.

The barons of chataan were well prepared for Victor's visit. A housekeeper with straight clothes and gray hair stood upright at the entrance of the aisle. When he saw Viscount teness accompanying an aristocrat whose face was covered by a hood, he looked excited and behaved at a loss. He asked in a trembling voice, "Lord Vic, is that you?"

Victor took off his hood, showed a handsome face, smiled and said, "housekeeper Joris, it's me." He held the housekeeper's shoulder and sighed, "I haven't seen you for more than ten years. You're old, too."

Lydia After Berens married Baron chatain, he arranged his housekeeper Joris to take care of little Victor's daily life. The little Baron woke up from a nightmare at night, and Joris always appeared in front of him for the first time. They were very close. When the little Baron left home, he held the housekeeper and refused to give up. Joris was also full of tears.

"Lord Vick, I thought I would never see you in my life... Thank the Supreme Lord for his mercy and let me see Lord Vick again." Joris choked, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, bowed and said, "Lord Ludwig, I'm very sorry. I'm so excited. Please forgive my impoliteness."

"I was only moved and not offended." Tennessee smiled.

"Where are my parents?" Victor took off his cloak and handed it to the attendant next to the housekeeper.

"Your Excellency and madam are waiting for you in the living room." Joris took the little master's cloak from the servant and led the way.

The blue amber living room is richly decorated without losing elegance, which is in line with the status of nobility. Victor walked into the door and saw Baron chataan and lady leilia, as well as a slim girl and a little boy with black hair and black eyes. The girl should be his sister Percy, whom he had never met Wimbledon, and the little boy may be his other half brother.

Baron chataan, with his well-dressed, half gray black hair combed meticulously, was sitting solemnly in the main seat of the living room. He clenched his hands into fists and looked at Victor with complex eyes, a little nervous, some excited, and imperceptible fear. Obviously, his heart was not as calm as he showed.

"Dear Victor, my child, I'm so glad to see you."

Mrs. lailiya has jujube red hair. Although she is over forty, as a female trainee knight, she is tall and symmetrical, fair skinned and beautiful, just like a mature young woman in her early thirties. She came forward, her eyes glistening with tears, her full lips trembling slightly, and leaned out her slender hand to touch Victor's face.

The little Baron lost his mother when he was young, and her father and brother deliberately alienated him. Leilia assumed the responsibility of his mother, treated him gently and severely, but finally handed him over to the Auguste family.

If parents betray their children according to the moral standards on earth, they must be punished by law and public opinion. But in this world, blood is higher than family affection, and nurturing kindness is greater than loving kindness. The social value system built by knights helps the big aristocrats to gather strong blood, while the small aristocrats are difficult to retain excellent children. Otherwise, the human kingdom will fall into endless internal disputes.

It is a fact that the barons of chataan betrayed the little Baron, but their feelings are also true, and they will not feel any guilt for their original behavior. Their practice is completely in line with the aristocratic tradition.

Victor won't resent the shattans for his past. He let leilia caress her face, lowered her head and smiled, "mother, I'm glad to see you, too." He looked up at the Baron and said, "father, are you all right?"

Baron chatain breathed a sigh of relief. He was just worried that Victor would embarrass him. "Victor... You've grown up." The Baron coughed softly, cleared his hoarse voice, massaged his face, quietly rubbed his sour eyes, then stood up and saluted, "Your Excellency Ludwig, please sit down."

"I'm here. Take the liberty." Tnis gracefully returned the salute and said, "I have specially brought a bottle of 30-year-old rum to this temporary party."

He didn't use the word "family party", but everyone took it for granted.

Lady leilia took Victor's hand, smiled and said, "Lord Ludwig, you're very kind. I'll arrange some snacks and wine utensils now... Victor, sit down, too." With that, she left the living room.

Before long, leilia led several maids to put cakes, preserves, fruits and preserved venison on the table one by one. Housekeeper Joris opened the cork and poured a glass of rum for everyone.

"Let's drink this cup for today's reunion." Said Baron chatain, taking up his glass.

"For today's reunion." Everyone raised their glasses and drank them all at once.