What Lant didn't expect was that the height of the rooms in the small building where the Earl was located was surprisingly high, with each floor being 10 meters high. The room where the Earl was located was an extremely large and extremely high room that was directly raised to the roof.
Rand, who had just entered the room, glanced at the various layouts of the room curiously. In Rant's opinion, this place looked more like a gymnasium in his previous life, with a super high roof, various exercise equipment, and special wooden floors.
The Earl of Maned Wolf was half sitting and half lying on a huge rocking chair quietly, looking at the curious Lant, and Fernando was standing behind the Earl.
"Do you think this room is interesting?" the count asked.
“Your room is very unique”
"Actually, rooms like this are very common in big families. After breaking through to the Sky Knights, you need a special place to practice flying with fighting spirit." The Earl said while looking around.
"At that time, I thought that becoming a Sky Knight was a matter of course, but later I realized that the requirements behind 'it is a matter of course' even exceeded the requirements of the Sky Knight itself."
In fact, when Lant just heard this sentence, he still agreed with it. In the first few years of working in his previous life, Lant also believed that as long as he worked hard enough, subsequent promotions and salary increases were natural. However, after many years of Even if you put aside the illusory connections, your personality, opportunities and even fate are enough to change the words "as it should be".
Of course, Lant knows better. The Earl seems to be introducing life experience to Lant. In fact, what he really wants to express is that the viscount Lant now inherits is not as simple as "it should be taken for granted", but that the Earl of Maned Wolf strives for it. Come, Earl Maned Wolf hopes that Lant will appreciate it.
"My father has always warned me that as an intermediate knight, I was able to successfully inherit the title of Viscount Lot, thanks to the earl's care."
"Hey, Viscount Lant is now the great hero of our Northwest Territory," the old maned wolf smiled, "Even His Majesty the King will grant you the Palace Viscount. Do you want to just accept the honor? Or do you plan to stay in the royal capital? Are you doing your duty for His Majesty?"
"What do you mean, count?"
"I think that since you have just inherited the Lot territory and you don't have a clue about everything yet, it is better to practice in the territory for a few years and wait until the territory can run on its own before going to the royal capital."
"Thank you, Lord Earl, I agree with you exactly."
"Okay, I heard that you have fulfilled all the contracts between the Bob family and other nobles?"
"Yes, Lord Earl, the Galloping Horse Plains requires a lot of food, and also produces horses and salt." Lant organized his words and expressed his thoughts.
“There are now too many barbarians and human demon-wishers in Lot’s territory. Lot’s territory cannot afford to support them, so they must return to the plains to develop salt mines, raise black-scaled horses or other livestock, and exchange these prairie specialties for grain. "
"Very good, I'm relieved that you can have such a plan for the territory. The Galloping Horse Plain has been the biggest source of chaos in the Northwest Territory in the past few hundred years. I hope you can maintain the peace today." The count said on his face He showed a pleased expression.
"I am very happy that you are developing your territory. I will ask the steward to find a place for you outside the city. In the future, your caravan will have fixed warehouses and houses when it comes to Maned Wolf City."
"Thank you, Lord Count."
"In addition, each of their nobles has a mansion of their own in the city. Viscount Bob has one, and your father once had one, but later he sold his house to Bob." The Earl smiled, " I'll ask the housekeeper to take you there soon, and now these two houses are yours too."
"But Lant, I heard that your caravan will eventually go to the capital?"
Coming, Lant knew that Earl Maned Wolf was about to make an offer, "Yes, sir, I have reached a contract with the Salt and Iron Company."
"Oh, of course, the Dragon Kingdom needs the salt from the plains very much, but as far as I know, our nobles in the Dragon Kingdom mainly use Warcraft leather armor, and their mounts are also mainly Warcraft.
If you spend all your energy bringing the black scale horse and iron armor to the royal capital, you probably won't be able to sell them! "
"Oh, I didn't expect this. As you know, sir, I have never been to the royal capital, so I really don't know the situation."
While Lant agreed with the count, he complained in his heart, are you making trouble with me? They all wear leather armor, and the tens of thousands of deposits from the royal capital in Bob's account book were all blown by strong winds?
"In my opinion, your black scale horse and iron armor will be sold in the store in Maned Wolf City. If you can't sell them, I will take care of them and save you from going all the way to the royal capital."
If it weren't for Bob's account book, Lant would have thought it was his father Huck who said this.
"Then thank you so much, Earl, but no matter what, I still need to send a lot of salt to the royal capital. It would be great if there were enough cargo ships."
"Isn't this a coincidence? Every time our caravan goes there, it takes a cargo ship. It stops in several cities along the way. Our two caravans can go together. I only charge 10% of your profit as the shipping fee. .”
"Thank you so much, Earl." Lant knew that the asking price was indeed not high. As a viscount, Lant's caravan would need a high city entry tax to go to cities outside the Northwest Territory.
Although salt is a product of the Salt and Iron Department, it can be tax-free with the Salt and Iron Department's salt certificate as a certificate, but it will be difficult for people at the city gate, and other goods accompanying the caravan will be levied a higher proportion of tax.
But by following the earl's fleet, not only can a large amount of salt be transported at low cost, but also under the flag of the northwest earl, most of the city entry taxes can be waived. This alone is very profitable.
"The Count has one more thing. I don't have enough food in my territory. I want to buy some food in Maned Wolf City."
"It's easy. You follow my butler and take my voucher to the warehouse at the back to buy some old grain."
"Okay, thank you very much, Earl."
Old grain is much cheaper than new grain. It can not only be used as rations for barbarians, but also as feed for black-scaled horses and beasts of burden. This is what Viscount Bob must buy every year during his trade.
Before leaving, Lant presented several other sets of magic pattern equipment to the Earl, and then followed the housekeeper to take over the land in and outside the city.
"Father, there is no need to give Bob's house to Rand, right?" Fernando was quite puzzled by his father's generosity. "Even if we buy his armor and horses, we will buy them according to the price. He still has to By doing business with us, our family has given him enough profits."
"Hey," the old maned wolf sighed. His son was good in other aspects, but he took money too seriously. "Now the entire kingdom hopes that there will be a conflict between me and the Benma family. They are afraid that we will monopolize the Benma Plain."
"Then we can't coddle him like this."
"So? We squeeze him out and let him go to the capital every day to complain as a palace viscount?"
"Then let Lant go to the royal capital to be his court viscount."
"Then what? Let the Blue Dragon family find him a Silver Knight wife to manage the Lott Territory?"
"You mean?" Fernando raised his hand to indicate a height of 3 meters.
"Yes, that's the dragonborn girl." The Earl gritted his teeth and stood up, "Each family has different understandings of the same things. In your opinion, she is one of the few demon-supporters in the world. Maybe in the eyes of others, she is just a demon possessor. A bargaining chip for the exchange of benefits.
If you want to avoid becoming a bargaining chip, you must not only see the gold coins in front of you, but also the future situation! "
The earl once again fell into the memories of half a month ago. In front of the legend and the magister, he was forced to admit that he wanted the lady to marry the future Viscount Lot. This was the most difficult moment in his decades-long earl career.
