Chapter 104 Common Interests

In the Moravian parliament hall, the Moravian nobles at this time were obviously in a bit of anger, and the reason was the sentence that Ernst had just said.

"I want to be able to merge all the vineyards into the Moravian wine company, and I have no hesitation in your compensation, whether in shares or cash."

Ernst was serious, but even then the nobles were furious, for they thought that Ernst was taking their inheritance, and that nothing was more important to the nobles than the land given by their ancestors.

"Twenty per cent of the shares, if you agree, then I am willing to give twenty per cent of the shares of the Moravian Wine Company, and if it is cash, then I will buy it for a price ranging from £30 to £100 per acre depending on the geographical location."

The price really didn't matter whether it was said or not, because no one would choose cash, and if they were really greedy for tens of thousands of pounds, then their land would not necessarily have to be sold to Ernst, even if the price he gave was twenty percent higher than the market price.

When the London group returned, Ernst really began to show his fangs, and the nobles were right, Ernst was ready to annex their inheritance, but they could refuse?

What is a twenty percent share? At least £400,000 a year, even if they could only get two or three percent of the shares, that's £40,000 a year. Compared with the income brought by the land, there is no doubt that the choice of shares is the most appropriate.

But they can't ignore one thing, that is, in the future, Ernst is very likely to increase capital and reduce the shares in their hands, and at the same time, once they invest most of their net worth in the wine company, then they will be tied to the same rope with Ernst in the future, life and death are not counted, but Ernst has a loss of interests, and they are not much better.

There are two paths before them, the first is to keep the income of a few thousand pounds a year as it is, and then wait for the money to go bankrupt. The second is to live honestly in Moravia, and the rights are transferred to Ernst, who enjoys tens of thousands of pounds a year from the wine company.

Most of the Moravian nobles will choose the first one? If you really think like that, you simply overestimate these nobles, their greed makes them lose their minds, and the immediate benefits make them unable to refuse at all.

The parliament was clean, and no one immediately gave an answer, and that step would always be subject to the future, but it also represented tens of thousands of pounds of wealth every year, which was really unavoidable.

"I need a guarantee that there won't be too much fluctuation in our equity in the future."

It was impossible and unrealistic to have no fluctuations at all, and Viscount Leoš Janáček, the temporary leader of the local nobility, negotiated with Ernst with a resolute expression.

Just put forward his opinion, it would be bluffing to say that Ernst had no way to be nervous, after all, once the nobles agreed, then the future Moravia would be truly of one mind, he was the worthy master of Moravia, and no one could shake his position here.

"I can't guarantee it, but I can promise that you can sell me your shares for £200,000 at any time."

More than 20 nobles, even the one with the smallest shares, had 1.5 percent in his hands, so it can be said that Ernst's business was not a loss, and for the nobles they were a little more at ease.

The 1.5% stake would not have been given £200,000 for a simple sale of the land, and although it was a bit unfair to those who had more shares, they were relatively satisfied.

It is estimated that no one except Ernst knows that there will be countless millionaires, multimillionaires, billionaires in the world in the future, and 200,000 pounds is just the price of a luxury car.

Ernst's words were just a guarantee, and the initiative to sell or not to sell was in the hands of the nobles, who thought that the worst luck was to sell the land in their hands at a slightly higher price, and the risk was worth the gamble compared to the profit.

An agreement was signed on the spot, in which Ernst exchanged 30 percent of the shares in the wine estate for nearly 7,000 acres of Moravian land and tied the interests of the local aristocracy to himself.

Commercially, Ernst was not a very wise business, because everyone knew how great the future potential of the wine estate was. From a political point of view, however, Ernst was a real profit, calming the crisis that was likely to erupt in Moravia in the future.

The council staff was busy getting everything done, and it was only then that Ernst and the nobles prepared to go to the vineyard to inspect their cash cow.

Ernst's carriage led the way, and behind him were more than thirty luxurious noble carriages, and if an Assassin attacked and succeeded at this time, the whole of Moravia would probably be in chaos.

Arriving at the nearest vineyard, Ernst was led by the person in charge and went straight under the newly erected grape trellises, regardless of the brand-new suits on them.

"The shelves have been placed, and the red wine company has said that it will be distributed to the planting estates within three days, and there will be no delay in planting."

The explanation of the vineyard manager made Ernst's original dissatisfaction slightly better, which also blamed the wine company, after all, the vineyard needed too many seeds, and it took some time to buy and transport them.

The vineyards are followed by mills and wineries, both located on the outskirts of Moravia, in a remote but elegant and untouched environment.

Barrels, glass, these were allocated to small workshops, a wine company drove the entire Moravian economy, the labor force was basically saturated, and a new round of foreign recruitment of workers was already in the city's plans.

The inspection queue included Mayor Stanis Gross, who said that there were solutions to the situation that Moravia was about to face, but that it would take time to do so.

Although he has the right to decide the decisions of the city government, it is easy for Ernst not to touch things that he does not understand, municipal management is the business of the city government, and all he needs is the final result.

The 4,000 young men of the army, the Moravian agricultural machinery company, the general reclamation, the construction company, the grape plantation, the spring ploughing, all made the Moravian labor market repeatedly raise prices, and Ernst naturally stopped urging under its pressure.

A group of victims from Italy have already arrived, and there are some gold diggers in East Asia who are ready to come to Europe, but compared to the victims in Italy, the gold diggers in East Asia are still on the way at this time. Even if the Suez Canal has been opened now, it is impossible to travel from East Asia to Austria-Hungary without a few months.

After all, it was a cargo ship rather than a warship, which was inconvenient in all respects, and although Austria-Hungary had considerable influence in the Balkans, the complicated situation there also led Ernst to choose to let the upcoming East Asian gold diggers land from Italy instead of Croatia.