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With a cold light in his eyes, Cooper walked out with Edward's orders in a murderous manner. Mobile access m.

Cloaked in a crimson cloak and with a short sword at his waist, Cooper had a grim expression on his face, and walked quickly through the streets of Edinburgh with a dozen murderous members of the Darkblade.

The roadside vendors, beggars like dried corpses, and emaciated civilians, looked at such a group of people and hurriedly gave way, saving the trouble of Cooper and his party.

"Boom! Knock knock! Ku Bo's eyes flickered, and everyone came to a house at the level of a medium-sized family, and a strong buddy walked in front of the door very consciously, banging vigorously with his hands, and his mouth did not stop.

"Open the door, open the door—" The stronger buddy hammered harder and harder, and the entire door panel almost cracked.

"Coming, coming, you—" Before the servant who had hurried to open the door had finished speaking, he was put a sword to his neck by a man, and his face turned blue with fright, and his body trembled.

"Where's your master?" Cooper walked over, gently removed the dagger from his neck a little distance, and asked in the servant's ear.

"In, in—" Looking at Cooper's increasingly cold eyes, the servant weighed his heart for a moment, and pointed directly to the ground.

"In the cellar below the bedroom, move the bed out of the way and there is a ladder to go down directly."

Cooper patted the servant's rough face lightly, and said with a smile: "Count you as acquaintances, get out of here!" ”

Laughing, he led the people behind him, and walked easily according to the servant's instructions.

"Alas! Unlucky! The servant stroked his forehead with his right hand and said with a sigh, "I'd better take some money and run away, and go to hide in the field!" ”

The servant turned his heart on his side, hurried to the study, took away all the valuable jewels and gold, and ran away in a hurry.

In this way, in less than three days before Edward was about to leave, more than a hundred people were arrested in the whole of Edinburgh, and the number of people was 452, most of them were local low-ranking nobles and knights and some wealthy merchants.

For all of them, Edward was sentenced to death for assaulting the king, and his family property was confiscated.

What Edward didn't expect was that the last action before leaving brought him a good income.

There were sixty-six estates of more than 1,000 acres, and the valuation was 260,000 pounds, and Edward, a manor of less than 1,000 acres, could not be counted, so he sold them directly and got 80,000 pounds.

In the case of pastures, there are three of them of more than 10,000 mu and more than 30 of them of more than 1,000 mu. However, the most in Scotland is pasture, so the valuation has reached 100,000 pounds, and if you add the cattle and sheep in it, it will have to be at least doubled.

Combined with gold jewelry, as well as gold and silver coins, this time, Edward's total income reached 500,000 pounds, which was the income of the royal family for two years.

The Scottish aristocracy is really rich, it is really a feudal noble, and there is really a lot of manor land, and it is the best way to get rich.

It's a pity, they are all businessmen and low-level nobles, if they are high-level nobles, then they must not make a big deal!

At this time, Edward also began to calculate the property of the Scottish royal family, that is, the property of the Tudor royal family, after all, these are also the dowry of little Lori.

And after Edward arrived in Edinburgh, he immediately asked the Minister of Royal Affairs, Sir John, to come, after all, professional things still have to be done by professional people.

"Your Majesty, these are the property lists of the Stuart royal family, take a look!" Sir John stroked his beard and happily handed Edward a ledger of blank paper into his hand, his eyes smiling.

"Your Excellency, is it necessary to be so happy?" Edward looked at the thick account book in front of him, his head was a little, and then he looked up and saw Sir John's smiling eyes, and asked amusedly.

"Your Majesty, thanks to your wise command, we have included Scotland in the territory of the Tudor royal family, and the Tudor royal family has truly become rich, you are really a king blessed by God, you are the birth of an angel, God's agent in the world, your wisdom and greatness, I really admire the abnormal, I can compare with you, England is under your command, this is really ......"

Sir John said that he was smooth, and a fug came to his face, and Edward, who was already thick-skinned, was a little embarrassed, waved his hand again and again, and stopped with a smile: "Okay, Mr. Sir, tell me about the specific situation!" ”

Sir John, who was as smooth as eating and sleeping, could only stop, and it seemed that he had not yet said anything happy, and looked at Edward with resentful eyes.

"Your Majesty, according to my statistics, the Scottish royal family has one hundred and thirty-six estates in the Lowlands, of which fifty-three are over 1,000 acres and six are more than 10,000 acres!"

"Moreover, there are a total of 163 pastures, 125 over 1,000 acres, 13 over 10,000 acres, and a total of no less than one million cattle and sheep!"

"The Scottish royal family also owns thirty-six castles, five hundred and sixty-three mills, thirty-nine merchant ships, and countless wastelands, deep forests, mountains, lakes and swamps, totaling no less than ten million acres! (Equivalent to the size of Beijing City, the land in the north of Scotland is very desert, there are so much)"

The more Sir John said, the more rosy Edward's face became, although they were all real estate, but the annual output was a large amount of money, and it was indeed worthy of the Stuart royal family, which had ruled Scotland since 1371, and it had accumulated a lot of money for two hundred years.

Looking at His Majesty the King, who was blushing, Sir John also happily continued: "There are five hundred and sixty-three islands of all kinds, sixteen French manors, and one hundred and sixty-five shops of all kinds......

"Alright, Mr. Sir, just tell me how much you produce in a year!"

Edward stopped Sir John's endless reports and asked.

"If you deduct all kinds of administrative expenses, as well as staff salaries and maintenance costs, the annual income is almost 80,000 pounds!"

"I heard you right! My sir, so many industries, even a small income, is abnormal! ”

When Edward heard this, his jaw was almost gone, he sounded so rich, and his income was only so little in the end, so he was happy in vain.

"Your Majesty, it's true, that so much castle maintenance work is not a small amount every year, and that the Privy Councillors, magistrates, thousands of armies and navies, if you add in the various expenditures given to the highlanders every year, it is already very good to be able to have eighty thousand pounds left!" As he spoke, Sir John looked at Edward with an innocent face and explained.

"I can understand everything else, but why give things to the Highlanders? Too much money to panic? Edward asked angrily.

"Your Majesty, I heard that this is the Scottish royal family spending money to buy peace and appease the highlanders!" Sir John explained.