Chapter 599: The Nodal Family's Decision

Gunnar was immediately interested when he heard that Gunner had given Charles, and his uncle still had a good eye for people.

He waved everyone in the garden to back down, and said, "Tell me what you think." ”

"I can't see through the depth of his strength, but I'm sure he's among the best in his age," Gunner said.

"He's got a lot of people, and he can win more than 90 percent of the games in those days. ”

"The most terrifying thing about him is his self-control, he has maintained a high level of restraint in the box for so many days, you must know that they are not ordinary people. ”

"If he hadn't been reacting normally, I'd almost have put him in a man's waiting. ”

He invited the strange woman of Fire Rose, but made her the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. ”

Gunnar then asked, "What about the people he bought?"

Gunner replied, "All the slave contracts have been discharged, and those who want to go home will pay for their journey." ”

Swallow said that he wanted to go home, and he was really ready to send Swallow home, and also helped arrange the caravan and gave the travel fee. ”

Gunnar continued to silently wipe the long sword, and after thinking for a while, he said: "If he really sends Yanzi home, then let Yanzi go back, although her parents have made mistakes, but they have worked hard and hard over the years, let them reunite their family." ”

The others stayed and didn't take the initiative to contact the outside. ”

Gunner nodded silently.

Gunnar suddenly asked, "Do you think he will be a traverser?"

Gunner frowned, thought back to what Charles had done, thought about it again, and said, "I don't think so. ”

"The Maccaden family has a deep relationship with the elves, and they are deeply influenced by the elves, including the tradition of not being a slave, and his approach is only to continue the family tradition. ”

"His way of behaving is also different from that of the traverser, unlike the traverser who gives them freedom and then consciously or unintentionally shows favor to them and increases his bond with them, but simply manages them as freedmen or employees in the territory. ”

Huang Li deliberately slackened his work for a day, but only got a little pot water from the pot that day. ”

That night and the next day, he didn't say anything to Huang Li to comfort or encourage, but just asked the apprentice to tell everyone to work hard, and not to work hard. ”

Then Huang Li said that he wanted to leave, but he didn't pay Huang Li for the journey, and directly invited her out of the manor. ”

Gunnar nodded slightly, this is a basic operation such as managing a workshop, don't talk nonsense to lazy people, punish directly, and if you want to go, you will leave.

"Ten days later," he said, "let Huang Li go back on the pretext that he can't find a job outside and see how he handles it." ”

Gunner continued to nod.

Gunnar continued, "Is there a woman around him?"

Gunner was prepared for this question, and he took out a document about Diana from his storage ring and handed it to Gunnar, which even included a portrait of Diana.

Gunnar took it and looked at it carefully, put it aside after reading it, and then closed his eyes and pondered.

Ten minutes later, he opened his eyes, his face full of sarcasm, and said, "It seems that my 'wool cousin' will have a hard time in the future. ”

Gunner also smiled, his mother, that is, Gunnar's grandmother and the mother of King Antoine II of the Kingdom of Bischberg were sisters, so Gunner and Antoine II were cousins, and Linda and Gunnar were cousins.

Even earlier, the Bischberg family was founded with the secret support of the Duchy of Milan, and the queen of the first king was the daughter of the Nodal family, and the two families continued to marry each other ever since, so the relationship between the two families was very close.

This is also one of the potential reasons why the Bischberg Kingdom has a bad relationship with its neighbors and is often beaten, everyone is from the north, you are in the south, and you don't beat anyone.

At the same time, it is also one of the potential reasons why some domestic nobles in the Kingdom of Bischberg do not oppose or even support Linda's marriage to Charles. As long as Linda and Charles's children ascend to the throne, the royal family truly has the blood of one of the best nobles in the north, then the Bischberg royal family can be regarded as truly integrated into the northern family.

The underlying reasons for this are tacitly unknown and not openly spoken, Charles and Linda never even knew about it, and Auston I thought Charles knew so he didn't say it.

The successive kings of the Bischberg Kingdom are not unaware of this, but the country has little arable land, and the main buyers of the domestic Warcraft resources are the merchants of the Duchy of Milan, and at the same time, the domestic food gap is filled by them transporting grain from the south, and this line cannot be broken.

Now Charles has the wool resources of the savannah, Linda has the most and best wool textile factories, and then they start to bring other nobles to make money together, which makes the nobles of the Bischberg Kingdom less economically dependent on the Duchy of Milan.

The nascent wool economy determined that in the future, the Kingdom of Bischberg no longer needed to rely on marriage to improve the relationship with the merchants of the Duchy of Milan, and in the future, wool products could be produced and sold in the cold northland in winter, and the grain could be purchased from Charles's brother-in-law's Ryric Kingdom, and it was not impossible to talk about the old rival Rybach Kingdom after it became the Redkin Kingdom, so that there would be nothing to do with the Duchy of Milan.

Also aware of this was Gunnar Nodal, the kingdom of Bischberg was an important bridgehead for the merchants of the Duchy of Milan to the north, and it was through this that the Duchy of Milan became an important bridge between the north and the south.

It's just that this situation, which has lasted for 300 years, has long been kicked open by the Maccaden family.

To the west of the Duchy of Milan and to the west, there is a smaller Linjiang Kingdom called the Kingdom of Visma, which was almost divided due to the bankruptcy of the royal family's finances, but Charles's great-grandfather took away the princess of the family, and Ru's great-great-grandfather didn't want to pull them to save this small country.

After Charles's father sucked away Duke Redkin's daughter, the Kingdom of Visma immediately tied up with Duke Redkin in Jiangbei, and then snatched a share of the North-South trade from the Duchy of Milan.

Naturally, the Duchy of Milan will not let go of this newly rising opponent, and the merchants and the Nodal family are not secretly plotting against the Kingdom of Visma.

As a result, at this time, the fleet of the Elven Royal Court on the river suddenly moved the base on the river from the Duchy of Milan to the Kingdom of Visma, so that the previous Grand Duke of Milan had to "travel" to appease the anger of domestic merchants.

According to the news of the past two years, Thomas, the prince of the Kingdom of Visma, who often runs to be a bard, has a very good relationship with Charles, and he also contributed to the treatment of Charles, who was seriously injured and dying, after the disaster at Charles's home.

It is not difficult to speculate that when the "Mackaden Economic Circle" in the north is completed, the Kingdom of Visma can be regarded as its own people by the "Economic Circle", and the center of gravity of North-South trade will shift.

It can be said that the Duchy of Milan and the Maccaden family have a feud, and the feud is not small.

To be honest, Gunnar had long wanted to cut Charles.

It's just that in the past few years, Charles first became a member of the royal family of the elven royal court, and then he gained a huge reputation on the battlefield, resulting in Gunnar now having to protect Charles on his own territory, and he is afraid that someone else will kill Charles here and a flying cauldron will fall on his head.

Gunnar originally planned to take advantage of the accidental explosion of the sewers in Florence to get Gunner to drive Charles away, but it didn't work out, and his son was encouraged by him to run away from home.

So he had to ask Gunner to immediately smash Charles with a sugar-coated cannonball with a large yield, as the saying goes, gambling depends on character, and at the same time to see what kind of person Charles is and whether there are any loopholes.

The result now is that Charles has a lot of potential on a personal basis and is not easy to get started with.

Gunnar continued to sit in the gazebo, wiping his sword as he pondered what to do.

He raised his sword and flicked it with his index finger, and it made a nice sound.

Since you can't deal with the enemy, join the enemy's team.

Gunnar asked Gunner, "Do you think the Earl of Maccaden will also free the slaves when he pioneers there?"

Gunner replied, "Absolutely." ”

Gunnar flicked the blade of the sword rhythmically with his fingers, first in and out of rhythm, and then to the rhythm, which was a recent popular song in the city of Milan that sang the praises of love.

He said to Gunner earnestly, "Do you think that Diana is the outcast child of the Nodals?"

Gunner instantly understood what his nephew meant, but he shook his head and said, "This method doesn't work, Duke Redkin's wife once planned to use this method, but it turned out to be fruitless." ”

Gunnar continued to think in silence.

After ten minutes or so, he asked, "Can you be sure that Charles has a good relationship with Auston I and Ji Shijun?"

Gunner nodded, he had already reported the relevant information.

Then Gunnar stared at him and said, "You go and arrange for someone today, the Nodal family will provide a large interest-free loan to Auston I and Ji Shijun." ”

Free stuff tends to be the most expensive, so Gunner asks, "Are there any conditions?"

"Nope. "From this day onwards, the loans to Auston I, Charles and Ji Shijun are interest-free and unconditional. ”

The look on Gunner's face was full of confusion, and he waited for Gunnar to explain. He's good at hacking people and intelligence, and he's not very good at business.

The affairs of the Nodal family were decided by Gunnar, who had always respected his uncle's opinions, and there were no disagreements or conflicts between the two over the years.

Gunnar asked his uncle, "What is the biggest source of income for the principality?"

Gunner replied, "A merchant's tax." ”

Gunnar then asked, "Then how can we get the merchants to pay more taxes?"

"Naturally, if their business is better, and the goods are more profitable, and more people buy them, then the merchants will make more money, and we will be able to collect more taxes," Gunner said. ”

Gunnar nodded slightly, and then said, "We can't control the profit of the goods, but we can try to get more people to buy the goods." ”

Gunner looked at his nephew in surprise, he guessed what his nephew was thinking.

Alston I carried out the abolitionist movement in his royal domain, and Ji Shijun in the Slime Basin made it clear that as long as he did not die, there would be no slaves, and the Charles family had no tradition of slavery.

If the huge group of slaves is not completely abolished, even if it is abolished, then the purchasing power of these slaves after they are converted into free people......

Gunna's eyes suddenly changed to the shape of a gold coin.