Chapter 481 Change of Mindset(1/2)
The strong men of the gold rank are equivalent to the strategic force of the human kingdom. Every word and deed is noticed by everyone. When they gain power, they also lose their personal freedom. The golden knights stay in the territory most of the time, surrounded by loyal people.
It is very troublesome for Geng Geng's elite retinue to go hunting. If you want to visit a neighboring country, you must prepare months in advance. You must first obtain the consent of the king of your country and the country being visited, and then the church will make arrangements.
, the clergy will accompany you and monitor you all the way to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
Of course, the main reason is that the king is afraid that his country's golden man will be murdered.
No matter how powerful an individual is, his power is limited. As long as he is alive, he cannot escape the fate of death. The extremely destructive Golden Knight sneaking into other territories will only be regarded as the most malicious. If the local lord is absolutely sure, he must definitely try to round him up.
Or booby-trapped.
In fact, the leader of any force is burdened by power and reputation. It is best to stay at home if nothing happens, and don't think about going out freely.
There are also some powerful rangers who advocate freedom in the human kingdom, but they still have to rely on the credibility of the church to deal with secular lords. They always carry certificates issued by the church to avoid conflicts with the villagers. When the ranger's strength reaches a certain level,
If the ranger and his followers are unwilling to accept the solicitation of the lord, the high-ranking priest of the church will entrust them with the task of destroying wild monsters, and the reward will of course be the legal right to develop territory. The ranger
Even if you yearn for personal freedom, you often have to consider your followers, and eventually become a force.
The ancestors of the August family are the best example.
Once a noble has the strength of the gold level, he will be immediately elevated to the throne of power by the political group to which he belongs, and all kinds of troubles will follow.
Everyone knows the truth, but experiencing it personally is another matter. Victor did not clearly realize that there would be whirlpools around him. He was completely immersed in the fantasy of casting gold and silver sol by himself.
The Golden Company and the coinage power each have their own emphasis, and both are of great significance to Victor. From a political and economic perspective alone, one makes money, the other prints money, one abides by the rules of the game, and the other sets the rules of the game. Both sides will make a decision.
, the minting rights are obviously high-end and classy.
Based on the actual situation, Victor can do the Golden Group and Yeliu City as soon as he wants, and the right to mint money can only be thought about for the time being. However, when the Golden Group develops in the later stages, it will definitely have to get involved in the financial field. The right to issue currency is controlled by outsiders.
In his hands, the golden ball was immediately stuck. Victor took precautions and threw out the theory of currency circulation in advance, just to guide Sylvia to work in this direction. According to his estimation, Solvia would not be able to solve the problem in a few decades.
The covenant cannot be overturned.
Victor did not expect that the fat man Embiser was obsessed with the right to coin, and wanted to use rock brick technology to exchange for permanent coinage, and free coinage!
The York family made a very thorough plan, from blue bricks to iron bricks to rock bricks, relying on the barbarians in Raven Town to unite the Kingdom of Gambis, win over the royal families, and force the church to revise the Saul Covenant, laying the foundation for everything.
By working step by step, he not only perfectly concealed the origin of the rock bricks, but also had an 80% chance of obtaining the right to mint coins.
Sylvia expressed her willingness to share the power of free coinage with the Randall family and asked Victor to give up supporting Mrs. Judy. Her reason was simple. It was not that the York family could not keep Judy's power, but in this small matter
Going back on your word will bring disgrace to the Knights of the Spirit.
Happiness came so suddenly that Victor didn't need to think about it and agreed immediately.
With the right of free coinage in hand, can the Golden Group still fly?
According to the plan drawn up by the York family, in as little as 4 years and as long as 8 years, Victor can use rock bricks to build the city walls and fortresses of Pinghu Town. When the main part of the cathedral is completed, Pinghu Town will be upgraded to a city immediately. Defend Alchemy
Construction of the Candlekeep Fortress on the tower's hill can also begin.
With the self-sufficient Candlekeep Fortress, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack, has the right to mint freely, and has Alchemy Tower No. 7, Victor can rest easy from now on.
Of course, free coinage still has to pay taxes. 10% of the currency minted by Victor goes to the church, and the remaining 20% goes to the kingdom. The remaining part, according to the standards of vassal lords, is divided into 30/70 with the York family. That is
Say, for every 1,000 gold soles that Victor minted, he could only get 504 gold soles.
The question is, why did Victor have to mint coins? He had better options.
The rule for the Alchemy Tower to create alchemy creatures is to exchange the luck of the owner of the Alchemy Tower for the alchemy creatures, which is embodied in the sacrifice of wealth, including currency and various materials. However, the value of materials calculated by the Alchemy Tower is lower than the circulation value of currency.
For example, now that the currency has appreciated, making an alchemical war mastiff for 800 gold soles now only costs 788 gold soles. If you exchange it for the cowhide produced by Randall Collar, it will still cost the same amount. But you can buy it for 788 gold soles.
The cowhide was originally worth 830 gold soles. If the currency has no value, then it can only be sacrificed with materials.
It can be seen that the sacrifice object of the Alchemy Tower encouraged Victor to exchange materials for alchemical creatures.
It stands to reason that Victor should purchase cowhide and sacrifice it to the Alchemy Tower. But he still hasn't figured out what the exchange mechanism of the Alchemy Tower means? But he summed up "luck" as benefiting oneself at the expense of others. Just like the villagers
The pork turned in is valuable, but the pigs raised by the alchemical militia are not valuable. Victor sacrifices the pork to the villagers, and the villagers eat less pork. What Victor gets are alchemical creatures that are infertile and have a short lifespan. And the villagers
The children became thin and short due to lack of meat and malnutrition.
Therefore, Victor followed a simple principle: if the object of sacrifice in the Alchemy Tower wanted anything, he would not give it anything, but would give him gold coins.
Who knows what it is... it's not a human being!
Victor also discovered an interesting phenomenon. The value of gold and silver calculated by the alchemy tower is far lower than the circulation value of gold and silver sol, but the copper material and copper sol are equal in value. That is because the copper sol
Originally it represented the value of copper.
On the other hand, Victor has the right to mint gold and silver sol, so he can just sacrifice the gold and silver materials!
There are nearly a hundred tons of silver ingots stored in the mountain fortress, and Victor is worried that he will not be able to take action. Moreover, as the Lizard Swamp is so big, there will always be gold and silver mines. In fact, the smuggling caravan alchemy militia has already discovered it in the mountain forest.
1 gold mine. Victor is fully capable of mining those minerals and quietly transporting them back to Randall territory.
This job requires a golden group to complete.
The function of the Golden Company is not only to make money, it also has military functions, intelligence gathering functions and material collection functions. It also shoulders the task of exploring the ruins of the Alchemy Empire.
The right to mint coins is very important, and Victor is not ready to give up the Golden Group!
Sylvia believed that "you can't have your cake and eat it too," so she asked Victor to choose between Yehliu City and the right to mint money. However, she didn't know that Victor had an alchemy tower.
Victor can have his cake and eat it too.
Sylvia was right about one thing, the Golden Group was in the hands of Viscount Randall and would die if exposed to light.
Victor knew this from the beginning. But giving up the right to speak in Yeliu City does not mean giving up the Golden Group. In addition to Yeliu City, he also has Pine Forest Town.
Pinewood Town is located in the southwest corner of the Chebman Territory. It only takes two days' walk to reach Victor's Mithril Mine. It also guards a natural canyon passage, and at the other end of the canyon is the Niuwei Village in the Buryat Territory. That
The village is relatively remote, more than 40 kilometers away from Yehliu City. It mainly relies on exploiting materials from the mountain people. The master the villagers serve is Judy's father, Baron Matthew.
Victor and the Chebman family have been secretly trading mithril, fine gold and potions in Pinewood Town. At first, he used mithril trading to ask Pinewood Town to relax restrictions on freemen and merchants and exempt them from transit taxes. His original intention
They wanted to build Pinewood Town into a black market for smuggling caravans. At the beginning, the Randall family’s smuggling caravans all departed from Pinewood Town.
Later, Judy became Victor's lover, and Yeliu City fell into the hands of the Randall family. However, Victor was worried that the people in Yeliu City were too savvy and could easily expose the secrets of the smuggling caravan, so he still insisted on walking through the pine forest.
The line of suppressing the black market. It was not until Victor completely controlled the underground forces in Yeliu City and perfected the public transportation in Buryatia that he moved the Golden Group's black market to the prosperous Yeliu City. In the process, Niuwei Village
The village chief has become the shadow of the Golden Group.
Now, Yuanbao and the four great dukes have all squeezed into Yeliu City, trying to turn the Buryat Territory into a military depot and material transfer point for major forces. The market and underground forces in Yeliu City will definitely have to be reshuffled. Even if Victor
By preserving Judy's power, the Golden Company will also be exposed to spies from all major forces.
Yeliu City no longer has the conditions to serve as a black market for the Golden Group.
Victor decides to reactivate the black market in Pinewood Town!
The key is to seize the time and let Old John use violent means to force the Golden Company's black merchants to purchase goods in Pinewood Town before Judy completely loses power, and at the same time drag Earl Chebman into trouble.
There is almost no difficulty. The Chebman family is already in the water, unless they don't want to exchange fine gold for mithril.
Victor's car did not enter Randall's territory, but drove directly to Yehliu City.
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Yeliu City, Yeliu Fort.
Mrs. Judy had her legs together and was sitting elegantly on the lizard leather sofa. Her golden hair was tied into a lady's bun, revealing her fair and long neck. She had a faint smile on her pretty red lips, and her green eyes were like two eyes.
The spring water, tender and tender, looks particularly charming and charming.
The new Sheriff, Lord Verin Buryat, stood upright in the middle of the living room, with his hands close to the seam of his trousers, his eyes not squinting, and his posture was respectful like that of a well-trained butler, rather than a knightly noble.
If it were normal, Welin would definitely pay attention to the beautiful and enchanting Viscountess Buryatia. Although this noble lady, who is famous for her beauty, is not within his reach, it is in line with the social etiquette of the aristocracy to implicitly appreciate the beauty of a lady.
.At this time, Welin would always imagine that the charming scenery under the spider silk dress would one day reveal its true appearance to him.
Weylin was not a lecherous person. In his eyes, Viscountess Buryatia was beautiful and shallow, just like a fragile and delicate vase. But if owning this vase could flaunt his power and status, any knight would be fascinated by her.
As the cousin of Viscount Buryatia and Austin, Welin believed that Judy killed the two great knights of the family and caused Yehliu City to lose its autonomy. After being suppressed by Baron Matthew, headed by Welin
The family members resented Judy even more. Fortunately, the family heir Primo was of noble blood and extremely intelligent. Although he was young, he could distinguish right from wrong. With the help of Viscount Buryatia's trusted servants, Welin kept in touch with him, allowing him to
He realized that his uncle and grandfather had too much power and were endangering the stability of the family. Welin and others were greatly encouraged and lay dormant in silence, hoping that Primo would one day be able to revive the Buryat family.
However, just two months ago, things changed again. Primo's uncle responded to the king's call and led three family knights and 600 soldiers south to the Chibman Territory to participate in the Murloc War. The Duke of Nimes and Joe
Duke Shuya's envoys visited Lord Welling together, hoping to get a share of the shops in Yeliu City Market. They promised that the York family would not interfere in the internal affairs of the Buryat family, and took out the energy potion secretly made by Kite Castle to help
Weylin and another apprentice knight were promoted to knighthood.
The York family promised not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Buryat family. Does it mean that Judy was abandoned by Viscount Randall?
Wei Lin and others became so popular that they couldn't wait to bring out the evidence of Baron Matthew's corruption and take back the position of Sheriff of Yehliu City in one fell swoop.
The proud Lord Welling looked at Mrs. Judy with a different look, and he also had some other thoughts in his mind.
Family cultivation emphasizes the distinction between priorities. According to aristocratic tradition, a lady who has lost her husband should leave the family's center of power before the heir reaches adulthood, so as not to interfere with the family's bloodline inheritance. Catherine, as noble as Queen Cambys, is no exception.
.Judy is not the guardian of the Buryat family, she is just a female trainee knight. Since Judy has given birth to offspring for the Grand Knight, her beauty is of no importance to the noble Viscount Randall.
But Judy is Primo's mother after all. She has three knights under her command, and she is a trainee knight who has naturally awakened. She takes high-quality energy potions and has a chance to become a junior knight. The Buryat family now
Being weak, it is even more necessary to unite the strength within the family. It would be a pity to force Judy to marry outside.
Weylin really wanted to find an opportunity to have a frank talk with Mrs. Judy so that she could understand the situation and help the Buryat family get back on track. It would be best to choose a knight within the family as a companion.
To be continued...