"Sir, the sausage in Raven Town is delicious. Its price is three times that of ordinary sausage. Not only the paladins love it, but also the barbarians." Knight Nicholas said with a smile.

"Because there's a little bit of coarse sugar added to the sausage."

"Yes." Knight Nikolai nodded and said: "Compared to expensive and scarce honey, jaggery is a cheaper condiment and can also replenish physical energy. Barbarians hunt long distances in the ice and snow. When food is scarce, they

We still need to supplement nutrition, so the Borui gin and our purple cane wine are welcomed by the barbarians. But the wine is not easy to carry, and if we transport the jaggery to Arreat, we will definitely be able to sell it at a good price."

Natalia said: "The problem is, anyone can brew ale, and jaggery is a specialty of the Randall family."

"The Dodo royal family expects that the price of jaggery will double. They want to finalize the supply price and trade share of jaggery before the price increases, and increase their jaggery reserves."

"That makes sense." Victor smiled and said, "Let's eat first. I can't wait to taste Uncle Nikolai's roasted deer."

Nikolai was startled for a moment, then quickly took out his dagger, cut up the roasted short-tailed deer, put it on a plate, and handed it to Sophia, Victor and Natalia respectively.

The roasted venison was golden in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and Victor was full of praise for it. Sophia tasted a few pieces of venison tenderloin carelessly, then returned to the carriage to rest with a cold face. She was very dissatisfied with her husband for changing the subject. Only Natalie

Ya happily enjoyed dinner with Victor.

Sophia has long been aware of the value of jaggery, and she has always wanted to get the franchise of jaggery. Now, the Dodo people finally made an offer using jaggery, but Victor still refused to comment, which made her feel disappointed and angry.

Humph, the sweet words all the way are all fake!

Actually, Victor thought of another possibility.

The nutritional value of jaggery is higher than snow sugar, and the production cost is lower than snow sugar. Its only shortcoming is that the storage period is slightly shorter than snow sugar.

Such a good thing at a low price, but Duduo people secretly try to purchase it at a lower price.

Fortunately, Victor seized the blood-boiling potion from the Masked Brotherhood, otherwise he would have almost been fooled by the Dodo people.

The biggest advantage of the blood-boiling potion is that soldiers can take three pills in a day, but the effect decreases. The reason for the diminishing blood-boiling effect is that the soldiers' physical strength cannot keep up, rather than a problem with the potion itself. If the blood-boiling potion is taken with jaggery,

Then its blood-boiling effect, duration, and frequency of consumption will be astonishingly improved.

Victor had long suspected that the Borui people had used the blood-boiling potion to bribe the great lords of the Dodo Kingdom. He was now certain that the Dodo royal family had mastered the formula for the blood-boiling potion.

While the Friedrich family was using the powerful lord Dodo to put pressure on Sophia, they also secretly asked Viscount Negus to show his favor to Sophia. In other words, he was using Sophia to extort the coarse sugar from Centaur Hill.

The inner story of this is worth pondering.

Under the conditions of feudalism, the royal family and the great lords are interdependent, but they are by no means monolithic. In fact, the king's influence on the great lords is limited, at least he has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the great lords. Monopolizing a certain resource is the royal family's responsibility.

A common means of maintaining an advantage over the lord. In turn, the lord must try to break the royal monopoly.

The internal conflicts between the king and the lords gave Victor an opportunity, and he vaguely had an immature idea.

After finishing the venison dinner seemingly slowly but quickly, Victor took Natalia back to the carriage.

The spider silk curtain in the carriage outlined Sophia's graceful figure, and Victor called: "Dear madam, I want to take a bath."

"Wash it yourself! Natalia, I don't allow you to help him!" Sophia said angrily through the curtain.

Victor smiled and said: "Then you two help me together."

“What a beautiful thought!”

"I was planning to help you with some advice, but it seems I won't use it anymore." Victor shook his head regretfully.

A slender hand that deceived the frost and snow opened the curtain, and Sophia emerged from the living room of the carriage lightly. She looked at Victor up and down, her eyes moved, and she bit her red lips: "My dear, are you really ready to help us?

"

"My favorite is the charming Sophia." Victor laughed, hugged the two beauties, and squeezed into the bathroom of the carriage.

After washing away the smell of barbecue from his body, Victor, Sophia and Natalia, who were wearing cool clothes, reclined on the soft bearskin couch.

Sophia raised her hands to spread her wet purple hair, stared at Victor with her wonderful eyes and said, "My dear husband, what are your ideas?"

Victor disturbed the breeze and asked curiously: "How much remuneration can the 5 knights and 11 trainee knights of the Sabretooth Tiger Merchant Group get every year?"

"Natalia can transfer funds directly from my treasury. She does not need an annuity. The knights of the Saber-Tooth Tiger Merchant Group each receive 11,000 gold soles, and the trainee knights each receive 3,000 gold soles." Sophia said calmly.

Victor was stunned, and the breeze in the carriage stopped. Natalia pushed him and coquettishly said: "My dear, keep blowing the air."

The Lord Knights of the York family can receive an annual subsidy of 4,000 gold soles, while the annuity of the Cambis Guards Knights does not exceed 8,000 gold soles. However, they are all naturally promoted knights, while the knights of the Saber-Tooth Tiger Merchant Group rely on pharmaceuticals for promotion.

The bloodline and strength of the two are very different, and their social status is also completely different.

The fiefdoms or fiefs of Lord Knights are very small, and the lords provide financial subsidies so that they can maintain a decent and luxurious life of knights and nobles. The other four knights of the Sabretooth Tiger Merchant Group belong to two families, and a couple earns more than 20,000 yuan per year.

The annual income of King Sol is actually higher than that of most baronies.

Sophia's lavish move made Victor speechless. He shook his head and said: "Nelson's annual salary of 2,000 gold soles is not as good as one of your trainee knights... No wonder Nicholas and the others are unwilling to give up the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce. I'm afraid

Only Natalia really wants to stay with me."

"My dear, I like you, whether it is Victor in the past or Viscount Randall now. But I will only stay by Sophia's side. Her will is my will." Natalia said seriously.

"Loyalty is a valuable quality." Victor nodded in admiration, and Natalia lowered her head and smiled.

One is young and handsome, the other is mature and beautiful, but they look awkward... Sylvia has become younger, it turns out it is for the convenience of acting coquettishly!

Sophia had random thoughts in her mind. She allowed her jealousy to ferment. She thought about it carefully for a moment, curled her lips and said, "Your question is really interesting. My knight is not as unbearable as you think. As the master, I am the same."

I have the obligation to respect, protect and ensure livelihood for my knights. If the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce has a profit of 200,000 gold soles every year, I will pay the saber-tooth tiger knights corresponding remuneration based on the total profit to reflect the importance I attach to them, and

They responded with loyalty."

"Do you have any more questions?" Sophia looked at Victor dissatisfied and sneered: "You won't ask me to abandon my followers, will you?"

"Nothing!" Victor denied flatly.

"Hmph! I think you just dislike my knights. Let me tell you, where I am, they are right there!"

Victor's heart was moved by Sophia's touching charm of light anger and slight anger. He vaguely realized that Sophia's behavior was different from that of the Marquise in his memory. She became gentle and lively, and showed more feminine charm.

Foolish monarchs often hand over power to unrestricted desires, and there are very few foolish great lords in this world, because high-level knights are good at controlling their own emotions. Their existence obviously increases the difficulty of the power game, since the opponent does not make mistakes

, then you must never make a mistake!

Victor calmed down his feelings and said confidently and calmly: "I'm just making sure whether your will can represent the true thoughts of the Sabretooth Tiger Knight."

Sophia thought for a moment and said confusedly: "Shouldn't the vassal obey the will of the master? Didn't I fulfill the obligations of the master?"

It is really important to have a brilliant teacher... Victor sighed in his heart, shook his head and smiled: "This is the truth, but the fact may be exactly the opposite... Maybe your subordinates are affecting your will, but you are not.

Without realizing it, if you use your personal thoughts to represent the thoughts of your subordinates, the results will be very, very bad!"

"You will figure out the secret later. All I want to know now is whether you are united as before. This is almost your only advantage!"

A moving smile spread across Sophia's beautiful face, like a snow lotus blooming, cold and noble.

"Of course, I firmly believe that!"

"I hope so……"

Victor gave her a meaningful look and then said: "I have decided to hand over the Randall family's jaggery to the Two-Headed Lizard Chamber of Commerce for management."

Sophia asked calmly: "What's the reason? You should know that Sylvia wants me to join the York family. If you ask me to beg her, there will be no favorable results. How are you going to help me?"

"I want to make Sylvia happy. Is this an acceptable reason?" Victor raised his eyebrows. Seeing Sophia's calm expression, he couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "Aren't you jealous? It seems that you really don't take me to heart.

"

"Why should I be jealous?" Sophia wrapped her body around Victor, blew a breath into his ear funny, bit her lip and said, "Dear Victor, this way we can live together every day.

Together. Besides having you, what else can I have? Do you know what I will do? I will be a competent Viscountess Randall, drive away all your lovers, and give birth to several heirs of noble blood with you.

…My husband, you want this too, don’t you?”

"I'm very satisfied, except for the third item..." Victor coughed dryly and said seriously: "Let's continue talking about jaggery!"

"Viscount Neguse wants to increase the trade share of jaggery by 20 times, which is almost my annual jaggery production. But do you know how much purple cane I have to harvest? 8,000 acres! Then do you know how many purple cane forests I have?

? 570,000 acres!”

Natalia covered her bright red mouth, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened. Sofia leaned against Victor and said softly: "My dear, isn't this great?"

"No! Not good at all!" Victor shook his head, "If the Friedrich family knew the truth, they would have enough excuses to propose a new trade agreement to you...or break the contract at any time!"

Sophia remained silent, and Victor understood clearly, and continued: "Since jaggery is so important, why can I monopolize all the benefits? In fact, the Earl of Terlandon and the Duke of York have 110,000 acres and 20,000 acres respectively.

As long as they harvest 10,000 acres of purple cane forest, they can make huge profits, but they don't. Why? Because Sylvia doesn't allow them to interfere with my jaggery sales strategy."

"Sylvia trusts me, and I will be rewarded! Only by handing over the jaggery to the joint-stock merchant association for joint management can I win the support of the York family, and the Randall family can gain a firm foothold in the Centaur Hill."

Natalia looked at her with admiration and asked tenderly: "Dear, can you tell us what your jaggery sales strategy is?"

"Not ready yet."

"ah?"

"It's definitely not just about making money!" Victor clenched his fists and said with a smile: "At our level, the pure pursuit of money seems extremely shallow. Jaggery is like a crowbar, in my hand it can

Change a lot of things!”

"For example, you can help me break the situation." Sophia's eyes lit up and she said.

Victor stared into his beautiful amethyst eyes and asked with a half-smile: "Do you really believe in the sincerity of King Dodo?"

"Before the barbarians cross the river, no one dares to cut off the Marquis Wimbledon's trade route! The great lord of Dodo will not be so stupid, but the situation has changed. The Dodo Kingdom has changed from a place of war to a place connecting the north and the south.

Trade routes. The Dodo people need a lot of materials to rebuild the northern territory. If I were the King of Dodo, how could I allow the Borui caravans to dominate the family? It is a wise choice to have both sides and collect taxes through the border!"
To be continued...