We finally got back to the castle after two days......

Wangcai met us at the gate with the old crook Isaac, and as for Joel, the blacksmith who was drunk every day, I was not surprised not at all to see him.

The autumn harvest was successfully completed under the arrangement and supervision of Wangcai, and the winter reserves were completely ready, this housekeeper reassured me very much, and Isaac wanted to talk to me several times at the welcome dinner, but Wangcai pulled me back, these two people were a little abnormal.

"What's going on?" I put down the dagger that cut the flesh and asked Wangcai.

Wangcai lowered his head and thought for a while, and Isaac hurriedly said: "We have no money, master, let's think of a way, I am about to lose all my private money!" ”

After the last time I was captured by the French, all the gold coins I had squeezed from the old crook were looted, but then His Majesty the Emperor and His Majesty the Pope rewarded me with a small sum of money, about two hundred silver coins, which could not have been spent so quickly.

Wangcai said to me, "Master, didn't you come back this time and find that there are only five people left in the guard?" It costs us a great deal of our savings to feed these people, and you continue to apply a new tax policy in this territory, and the next year's taxes have not yet been collected, and the peasants have no money to use your mill, and our finances are beyond our means, so we can only stop the renovation of the castle and lay off some of the guards, but this is not a long-term solution, we need money, we need it, you have become the poorest lord in all of Germany, sir. ”

Isaac followed up and complained: "At the beginning, my business was relatively easy to do, and I made some money by buying low and selling high, but since last month, I don't know why some lords have begun to refuse to recognize the certificate you issued to me, and deliberately exceed the heavy taxes of other merchants several times, so that I have lost all the profits from a transaction, I secretly inquired, there are rumors that some big nobles are going to crush you, have you offended some powerful people outside?" ”

Retribution is coming, it must be the good deeds of the old aristocrats who look at me unpleasantly, and the Pope's promotion of me finally brought me to the front of being attacked by everyone.

It stands to reason that ordinary lords don't care too much about commercial things, because their territory is self-sufficient, and they won't starve to death even if they don't have to communicate, and the merchants are at most the providers of luxury goods, and the transmitters of new news, more of them are not more, and less of them are not many, but my dependence on commerce is different from most of the lords of this era, exempting most of the peasants from taxes, so that I can only rely on business cooperation with Isaac to obtain income, plus I insist on maintaining a life guard, and my financial resources are even more stretched, They have seized my life and are going to put me to death.

"Let's start reverting to the original tax standard next year! The landlord's family has no surplus food. ”

I spread my hands and finally admitted my mistake of taking the plunge, it was really out of place to be too far ahead, I was too naïve to think at that time, this era of the jungle and the strong, with sharp reality once again educated me.

As for Isaac's business......

I came up with another way......

I saw that the old liar's frustrated face suddenly lit up, and I still have an advantage as a modern person when it comes to making money.

As a veteran profiteer who has speculated in the rivers and lakes for many years, Isaac is the predecessor and mentor of all the people who fantasize about empty gloves and white wolves.

I have always listened to his words with my left ear and my right ear, because he can come up with countless reasons for a thing in an instant, lie and never change his face. While you were deceived, you also happily helped him count the money, just look at the people under my rule.

After the stupid peasants sold their inventory cheaply, they took the money that they had in their pockets and bought what a cheap and useless thing Isaac had packaged in a clever way.

And then...... There was no then, because I couldn't catch anything, and I became a free porter.

Now this old liar who has been going south and north for many years, has never suffered a loss, and finally encountered something that made him helpless, in the face of the powerful force of several nobles, he obediently acquiesced in his weakness, and could not play any means, so he could only watch the money in his pocket, just like when he deceived those dirt buns, flowed out like water, and became a variety of taxes with different names.

The most unbelievable thing to him was that the market in front of him had slowly closed its doors to him, many of the territories no longer welcomed his broken carriages, and even the Jewish merchants who also traveled from village to village began to avoid him, completely isolating him.

Now this old liar, who is dozens of years old at an instant, sits in front of me with a sad face that is not very good-looking, and tells me about the injustice he has suffered with a handful of snot and tears, and the words and feelings are sincere and tear-jerking, which is really pitiful, so I yawn and stretch a big lazy waist to show my impatience.

"You keep saying, I'll go sleep for a while, and then call me when I'm done."

I stood up and moved my muscles, and was about to walk away, when the old liar's chattering mouth instantly fell silent, and he stared at me intently, and the little eyes were terrifyingly cute.

"Tell me your good plan, I've been waiting impatiently!"

The old liar said with his hands in his hands, as if it were me who was pulling the smelly and long footcloth just now, and plucked himself clean and pretended to be innocent.

"How can it be!"

I cursed in a low voice, looking at Isaac, who changed his face faster than turning a book, he was angry, this old guy has a trick of deceiving people, but when he encounters problems, especially about his gold coins, his IQ is infinitely close to zero, I really don't know how this business wizard has been mixed for so many years.

"In fact, there are many ways to save you, but the problem now is that I have also been cut off from my wealth, and the opponent is a big nobleman that I absolutely can't provoke, and the means of stealing chickens and dogs really can't be put on the table, so we have to take some fair and honest schemes, defeat them with commercial means, let them lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot, in an old oriental proverb, that is, to treat others the way they do."

I closed my eyes incomprehensibly and sold it first, like a lame half-immortal who sells dog skin plasters, and I had to shout for a good appearance before the steaming plan came out, but several people around me heard it in a fog, and applauded without cooperation.