The late Knight Nelson dispersed the crowd and came to William, and when he saw that William, who was silent, he felt a lot of pressure, so he had to say respectfully: "His Royal Highness William, I'm sorry..."

"Okay, let's get here first if you explain, I know we've been busy preparing for war these days, and I don't blame you for what happened before!" William patted Knight Nelson's bent shoulder, nodded in understanding, and said.

Hearing William's words, Knight Nelson breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully: "Thank you, Your Highness William, for understanding my difficulties!" ”

"Nelson Knights, having said that, I had this situation today, and I had to take care of that." William's face was straight, and he looked at Knight Nelson with a serious expression and said: "In the past two days, you have to send more people, and you must clean up all the gang forces and criminal gangs in Alençon City, and all the black markets must be strictly rectified!" ”

"Yes, His Royal Highness William, I will definitely do the task you have assigned!" Knight Nelson touched the sweat on his forehead and bowed in response.

"Well, go ahead! Whatever you do within three days, get back to me! William's eyes were still so grim, staring at the back of the Nelson knight and breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Yes, I'll do it." The Nelson knight turned around and ran away with the defenders as if he were a big man.

It seems that William's deterrent power against Nelson Cavaliers and others is still full.

William turned around, waved to everyone around him and turned to leave, leaving only the little girl Lisa starry to look at William and the others who were gradually disappearing, unwilling to withdraw her gaze for a long time.

......

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, in the study room of the municipal official residence.

William sat on the throne, invited Baron Adolphus, Bruce, Sir Hubert, and Steward Osborne to sit down, nodded slightly, and said: "Uncle Adolphus, ladies and gentlemen, I visited the commercial districts of Alençon City before, and found that there are no people renting shops in these places at all, and the businesses in the city are concentrated in the black market in a few small residential areas, which is extremely unreasonable, and we must change this situation. ”

When everyone present heard this, they all bowed their heads in contemplation, and no one opened their mouths to make any statement on the current situation proposed by William.

"Bruce, tell me how we are doing with the rental of shops, houses and other real estate in the hands of our Normandy consortium?" William's eyes fell on Bruce's body, and he replied by name.

"Returning to His Royal Highness William, less than five percent of the three blocks we own, with a total of two hundred and thirty shops, five hundred street-level houses and thousands of residences, have so far been rented out, and most of them have been leased by our brother companies in the Normandy consortium." As the third-in-command and actual head of the consortium, Bruce Knight reported to William and said.

"We still have so many properties that we don't have for sale, Bruce, tell me what is the reason for this?" William continued to ask.

"This—" The Bruce Knight looked up at William, and stopped talking.

"Speak up, Bruce, I don't blame you for anything!" William looked at Bruce and said in a voice of encouragement.

"This is probably due to the fact that there were too many merchant councillors in the counterinsurgency war, and now merchants from Alençon and other regions are reluctant to come to us to do business." Bruce said helplessly.

This is indeed the case in Alençon City, where William executed a large number of rebellious merchants in the process of suppressing the rebellious merchant rebels, confiscated all their property in the Barony of Alençon, including gold and silver coins, grain, land, shop properties, industrial and mining workshops, etc., and even carried out a purge expansion, and a large number of implicated merchants were also purged.

With the exception of a few capable businessmen who were fortunate enough to be pardoned and served as city officials, most of the rest were lost in both their lives and their fortunes.

William's brutality undoubtedly caused many merchants who had not participated in the rebellion to flee Alençon, and even merchants from other regions did not dare to do business here.

Had it not been for the royal merchants brought by Baron Adolphus from the county of Evreux to trade with the Normandy consortium, it is likely that there would have been a shortage of grain and salt in Alençon.

Thinking of this, William could only sigh slightly, distressed by the terrible situation at this time, but he did not regret his actions, he knew that he would do it no matter what.

"Uncle Adolf, you see, if we want to revive the commerce of Alençon, we must attract merchants from other places to do business here. Can you introduce some of the merchants of the county of Evere to Alençon? William turned his head to Baron Adolf and pleaded.

"William, all I can do is to send an invitation to the merchants of the whole territory of Evre, and invite them to come and do business. But whether they will come, I can't say for sure, after all, we have raised butcher's knives to the merchants, and they are not easy to trust us anymore. Baron Adolf shook his head and nodded in response.

"I don't believe that if there is enough interest, they will not come." William clenched his fists and said confidently: "As long as you come here to do business, you can get a two-year rent-free period for a shop, and no rent will be charged during this period."

Secondly, businessmen who invest and do business in Alençon can enjoy a three-year exemption from half of the commercial tax, and the customs duty is also reduced by half for one year.

Finally, as long as you register a commercial company in Alençon City and invest in it, you can get a good business certificate that I personally distributed. By virtue of it, merchants were exempt from the gate tax, enjoyed the right to security and property protection in Alençon, and were able to request the help of magistrates, judges, and garrisons in the event of an attack or injustice. ”

Having said all this, even Bruce was a little moved, and William was confident that these conditions would be enough to attract merchants to trade with Alençon.

"William, are these conditions too good! Will the merchants become unscrupulous with these conditions? Uncle Adolf asked, with some doubts.

"Don't worry, Uncle Adolf. As long as they have the conditions, our Normandy consortium will only get more facilities and rights. There was a huge Normandy consortium on their heads, and these merchants did not dare to make a mistake. William said with a confident smile.

Everyone present nodded in agreement with William's decision, and no one raised any objections.

"Bruce, in addition to what I have said before, I have decided to let the Normandy consortium go out of Alençon and go to Evreux, to Rouen, to Paris and even further afield." William turned to look at Bruce and said.

"It's... His Royal Highness William, with our current capabilities, the activities around the county of Evreux are already at the limit, how can we go so far to expand our territory? Bruce asked, with a questioning look on his face.

"Well, it's going to use a method called partnership to expand the business territory."

Saying this, William sold a little, looked up at everyone, and saw that everyone was listening to their own speeches carefully, William nodded with satisfaction and began to introduce what partnership is.