The fire in the fireplace was burning vigorously, dispelling the chill that penetrated through the gaps in the doors and windows.
There is a deer head with huge horns hanging at the top of the fireplace. Under the reflection of the fire, the projection of the horns on the wall behind is like a huge minion.
Opposite is a long dark red wooden table filled with parchment scrolls and books, mostly executive orders waiting to be signed.
Usually, Roland handles official duties here. Since he transformed the third floor of the castle into an office, he gradually fell in love with it.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, he could see the town extending in front of his vision, and at the end were endless mountains.
It was a desperate mountain range that almost penetrated the continent, separating the Graycastle Kingdom and the wilderness from the east and west.
The Beipo Mountain is just a branch of the desperate mountain range.
At the foot, you can see the garden surrounded by wooden fences.
The wooden shed for Anna's training has been removed, and the brick pool has been turned into a long table for easy placement of tableware during afternoon tea.
If the weather is good, he will go downstairs to bask in the sun or take a nap in a specially customized rocking chair.
Although the castle is not big, it can be regarded as a medium-sized villa with a separate garden.
In my previous life, it was almost a fantasy to have a real stone castle. Just visiting, you have to pay for the tickets first.
But now, he not only owns this castle, but also controls a town.
Your Highness, it has been a lot of money to recruit craftsmen and handymen recently. This money is taken out of your pocket. If this continues, I am afraid it won’t last next spring.Barov held a stack of parchment and reported Roland's recent financial situation.
The original income and expenditure of Bianfeng Town was very simple, one line was the trade in ore and gems.
This line was monopolized by Changge Fortress, which replaced the output of the North Slope mine with wheat or bread. There was no tax in the middle, and the fortress sent someone to preside over the resource exchange.
To put it simply, Beipo Mine is a joint-stock project of the great nobles of Changge Fortress.
Those nobles stationed in the border town can be regarded as supervisors sent by shareholders. Most of their fiefs are east of the fortress. They only come here temporarily, and the people who come every year are different.
In fact, Bianfeng Town has a history of less than thirty years, and compared to the Changge Fortress, which has been around for nearly two hundred years, it is simply a newborn baby.
Originally, Duke Ryan just planned to establish an outpost here to provide an early warning of the invasion of evil beasts.
However, unexpectedly, the pioneers discovered abundant mineral resources in the North Slope Mountains, so they simply set up a town here and named it Bianfeng Town.
In a sense, it was the North Slope mine that created the town.
In order to prevent secret mining, the duke did not adopt the suggestion that each nobleman would send his own personnel to mine, but instead hired local residents and nearby refugees and even criminals to act as miners, and the ore produced was distributed according to the proportion of resources invested by each company.
The fortress only needs to provide the employer's annual food and some commissions. These remunerations are fixed and will not change due to the amount of output in the mining area.
Most of the more than 2,000 residents in Bianfeng Town serve the mining area.
Another line is other industries in the town, such as blacksmith shops, taverns, textiles, etc.
The meager taxes in Bianfeng Town mainly come from here, and it is difficult to spend much of them all year round.
The premiere did not take this barren land seriously. Since Roland was sent here by the King of Graycastle, he simply stayed in the fortress and could not come.
Therefore, if Roland wanted to hire someone to repair the city wall, he had to pay for it from his own pocket.
If it were the four princes before, he would definitely not be willing to say anything, but for Roland, it would be worth it to spend all his property as long as he could gain a foothold in the Border Town.
Anyway, the future ore trade will no longer be settled by grain, and if it is settled in currency, this investment will be drizzling.
The only problem is whether Changge Fortress is willing to give up its monopoly. It is quite like snatching food with the border town. However, the list data provided by Barov shows that due to the inefficient human resource mining and inconvenient transportation, the ore produced in the mining area each year is only worth more than a thousand golden dragons, which is only a drop in the bucket for the entire revenue of the fortress.
The only one who suffers from the interests of those who invest in partnership are those nobles.
Considering the long-term development of Bianfeng Town, this line must be retracted.
Roland knew in his heart that even if those people's investments were all recovered more than ten years ago, they would not let go easily.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, let alone a good thing that can make money by lying down.
He is willing to give previous investors certain discounts and compensation, such as buying at half price.
But it is not allowed to happen again if you drag a ship of ore back to get half a ship of food.
Barov was also staring at him as Roland stared at the list.
In the past three months, to be precise, in the past month, some indescribable changes have occurred in the fourth prince.
Outsiders may not yet know it, but he is following the prince every day, and this change cannot be hidden from him.
As early as in Grayburg, he had heard of the infamous reputation of the Fourth Prince Roland Wimbledon.
I do my own things, act recklessly, have no aristocratic style... and so on.
In short, if you don’t make big mistakes, you will keep making small mistakes, which is far behind both of his brothers.
When he was sent here by His Majesty, he was disappointed. If His Majesty had not promised that he would appoint him as the official finance minister after the end of his promise.
Two months before the first arrival in Bianfeng Town, the fourth prince continued to show extremely childish behavior, offending all the local nobles who could offend.
Fortunately, the town itself is extremely small, and even if all administrative positions are vacant, he and the dozen civilian personnel he brought can fill it.
Later on, some things become different.
When did the change start?He thought, probably... it started from saving the witch.
It is not that Barov had doubted the possibility of devil possession, or that the prince himself was manipulated by another hidden witch.
But this possibility is slim. If the devil and the witch have such ability, why do you want to find the fourth prince?
Isn't it better to directly control His Majesty or the Pope?
Another thing that dispelled his suspicion was that he saw the prince holding the lock of divine punishment with his own eyes.
This thing is the church's killer move against witches. Any evil power will disintegrate in front of the God's Punishment Lock, but Roland directly held it.
In other words, if he is not the fourth prince, but the devil king who does not even need to fear divine power, is there any need to expose it?
Saving one's life is the first priority.
The prince's style is still self-righteous and reckless, but the two give him different feelings.No, Barov thought about it and it should be the exact opposite.
The biggest difference should be purpose.
He realized what Roland was planning, and in order to achieve his goal, he had to use some means that ordinary people could not understand.
Just like the other party trying to convince himself why he wanted to save a witch, perhaps the plan was not mature and full of loopholes, but the prince was indeed moving towards the plan and believed in the result.
This is the most confusing thing. The throne may have been born among any of the Roland brothers and sisters, but it will definitely not be the fourth prince himself.
He should be very clear about this kind of thing. Talking about development in a small place like Bianfeng Town?
Even the gods can't do it!
Did Roland conceive a crazy plan that would make a small town built outside the border defense line develop better than Jinsui City, and he had to make himself completely believe that this plan would be successful?
It would be fine if it was just a madman's delusion, but the city wall built by Roland showed that it seemed that this was not the case.
He really planned to garrison here and rely on cement, an alchemy product, to build a city wall that is almost impossible to complete in common sense.
There are alchemists in Barov's family, but he has never heard of an alchemist making such a thing.
Is it confidence or random to build a wall building plan on something that no one has seen before?
Expanding to the entire plan planned by Roland, how many things the Fourth Prince still hides that he doesn't know?
He found himself vaguely interested in the days ahead.
There is a deer head with huge horns hanging at the top of the fireplace. Under the reflection of the fire, the projection of the horns on the wall behind is like a huge minion.
Opposite is a long dark red wooden table filled with parchment scrolls and books, mostly executive orders waiting to be signed.
Usually, Roland handles official duties here. Since he transformed the third floor of the castle into an office, he gradually fell in love with it.
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, he could see the town extending in front of his vision, and at the end were endless mountains.
It was a desperate mountain range that almost penetrated the continent, separating the Graycastle Kingdom and the wilderness from the east and west.
The Beipo Mountain is just a branch of the desperate mountain range.
At the foot, you can see the garden surrounded by wooden fences.
The wooden shed for Anna's training has been removed, and the brick pool has been turned into a long table for easy placement of tableware during afternoon tea.
If the weather is good, he will go downstairs to bask in the sun or take a nap in a specially customized rocking chair.
Although the castle is not big, it can be regarded as a medium-sized villa with a separate garden.
In my previous life, it was almost a fantasy to have a real stone castle. Just visiting, you have to pay for the tickets first.
But now, he not only owns this castle, but also controls a town.
Your Highness, it has been a lot of money to recruit craftsmen and handymen recently. This money is taken out of your pocket. If this continues, I am afraid it won’t last next spring.Barov held a stack of parchment and reported Roland's recent financial situation.
The original income and expenditure of Bianfeng Town was very simple, one line was the trade in ore and gems.
This line was monopolized by Changge Fortress, which replaced the output of the North Slope mine with wheat or bread. There was no tax in the middle, and the fortress sent someone to preside over the resource exchange.
To put it simply, Beipo Mine is a joint-stock project of the great nobles of Changge Fortress.
Those nobles stationed in the border town can be regarded as supervisors sent by shareholders. Most of their fiefs are east of the fortress. They only come here temporarily, and the people who come every year are different.
In fact, Bianfeng Town has a history of less than thirty years, and compared to the Changge Fortress, which has been around for nearly two hundred years, it is simply a newborn baby.
Originally, Duke Ryan just planned to establish an outpost here to provide an early warning of the invasion of evil beasts.
However, unexpectedly, the pioneers discovered abundant mineral resources in the North Slope Mountains, so they simply set up a town here and named it Bianfeng Town.
In a sense, it was the North Slope mine that created the town.
In order to prevent secret mining, the duke did not adopt the suggestion that each nobleman would send his own personnel to mine, but instead hired local residents and nearby refugees and even criminals to act as miners, and the ore produced was distributed according to the proportion of resources invested by each company.
The fortress only needs to provide the employer's annual food and some commissions. These remunerations are fixed and will not change due to the amount of output in the mining area.
Most of the more than 2,000 residents in Bianfeng Town serve the mining area.
Another line is other industries in the town, such as blacksmith shops, taverns, textiles, etc.
The meager taxes in Bianfeng Town mainly come from here, and it is difficult to spend much of them all year round.
The premiere did not take this barren land seriously. Since Roland was sent here by the King of Graycastle, he simply stayed in the fortress and could not come.
Therefore, if Roland wanted to hire someone to repair the city wall, he had to pay for it from his own pocket.
If it were the four princes before, he would definitely not be willing to say anything, but for Roland, it would be worth it to spend all his property as long as he could gain a foothold in the Border Town.
Anyway, the future ore trade will no longer be settled by grain, and if it is settled in currency, this investment will be drizzling.
The only problem is whether Changge Fortress is willing to give up its monopoly. It is quite like snatching food with the border town. However, the list data provided by Barov shows that due to the inefficient human resource mining and inconvenient transportation, the ore produced in the mining area each year is only worth more than a thousand golden dragons, which is only a drop in the bucket for the entire revenue of the fortress.
The only one who suffers from the interests of those who invest in partnership are those nobles.
Considering the long-term development of Bianfeng Town, this line must be retracted.
Roland knew in his heart that even if those people's investments were all recovered more than ten years ago, they would not let go easily.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, let alone a good thing that can make money by lying down.
He is willing to give previous investors certain discounts and compensation, such as buying at half price.
But it is not allowed to happen again if you drag a ship of ore back to get half a ship of food.
Barov was also staring at him as Roland stared at the list.
In the past three months, to be precise, in the past month, some indescribable changes have occurred in the fourth prince.
Outsiders may not yet know it, but he is following the prince every day, and this change cannot be hidden from him.
As early as in Grayburg, he had heard of the infamous reputation of the Fourth Prince Roland Wimbledon.
I do my own things, act recklessly, have no aristocratic style... and so on.
In short, if you don’t make big mistakes, you will keep making small mistakes, which is far behind both of his brothers.
When he was sent here by His Majesty, he was disappointed. If His Majesty had not promised that he would appoint him as the official finance minister after the end of his promise.
Two months before the first arrival in Bianfeng Town, the fourth prince continued to show extremely childish behavior, offending all the local nobles who could offend.
Fortunately, the town itself is extremely small, and even if all administrative positions are vacant, he and the dozen civilian personnel he brought can fill it.
Later on, some things become different.
When did the change start?He thought, probably... it started from saving the witch.
It is not that Barov had doubted the possibility of devil possession, or that the prince himself was manipulated by another hidden witch.
But this possibility is slim. If the devil and the witch have such ability, why do you want to find the fourth prince?
Isn't it better to directly control His Majesty or the Pope?
Another thing that dispelled his suspicion was that he saw the prince holding the lock of divine punishment with his own eyes.
This thing is the church's killer move against witches. Any evil power will disintegrate in front of the God's Punishment Lock, but Roland directly held it.
In other words, if he is not the fourth prince, but the devil king who does not even need to fear divine power, is there any need to expose it?
Saving one's life is the first priority.
The prince's style is still self-righteous and reckless, but the two give him different feelings.No, Barov thought about it and it should be the exact opposite.
The biggest difference should be purpose.
He realized what Roland was planning, and in order to achieve his goal, he had to use some means that ordinary people could not understand.
Just like the other party trying to convince himself why he wanted to save a witch, perhaps the plan was not mature and full of loopholes, but the prince was indeed moving towards the plan and believed in the result.
This is the most confusing thing. The throne may have been born among any of the Roland brothers and sisters, but it will definitely not be the fourth prince himself.
He should be very clear about this kind of thing. Talking about development in a small place like Bianfeng Town?
Even the gods can't do it!
Did Roland conceive a crazy plan that would make a small town built outside the border defense line develop better than Jinsui City, and he had to make himself completely believe that this plan would be successful?
It would be fine if it was just a madman's delusion, but the city wall built by Roland showed that it seemed that this was not the case.
He really planned to garrison here and rely on cement, an alchemy product, to build a city wall that is almost impossible to complete in common sense.
There are alchemists in Barov's family, but he has never heard of an alchemist making such a thing.
Is it confidence or random to build a wall building plan on something that no one has seen before?
Expanding to the entire plan planned by Roland, how many things the Fourth Prince still hides that he doesn't know?
He found himself vaguely interested in the days ahead.
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