Chapter 158: An Unexpected Discovery in the Study

Not to mention how Theros introduced the usefulness of the firm, when Alan left the courtyard, he looked at the excited expressions of those merchants and knew that the matter was basically done.

The rest is to use the channels of the caravans that have joined the trading houses to sell all kinds of goods, such as glass that is being made, or seafood from the port city.

"Let's go, we'll be at the manor!" Alan said as he walked out of the doorway and turned to the two knights.

Soon, Alan was back at the manor, and Millie and Alice didn't know what they were doing, and they hadn't seen anyone these days, but Alan wasn't worried.

After all, when the two of them go out, a knight will come and report to him, besides, this port city is his territory, and it is remote enough.

"Take me to the place where the books are hidden!" said Alan, after returning to the hall, after a moment's thought, to one of the servants who followed him.

"Yes, sir!" the servant was startled by Alan's sudden voice, then came back to his senses and hurriedly replied, after all, Eren had made too much impression on them that night.

Following the servant, Alan thought about leaving, it was time to do something, Alan thought.

"My lord, it's here!" Alan glanced up, and the servant stood cautiously beside him, looking down at him.

"Well, you're guarding here!" said Allen, with a soft sigh of grace, and went into the study.

There were shelves of bookcases on which were placed a bunch of parchment scrolls, some of which were relatively new, and looking inside, some of them were already a little worn.

"Tsk, this Edmund is quite powerful, he can get so many books," Alan sighed, "Is the viscount so powerful?"

Allen's doubts are not unreasonable, because according to Allen's estimates, there are at least a thousand books here.

That's a lot of them, and Alan remembers that he didn't see that many scrolls in the church when he was a child.

Amazed, Alan casually picked up the nearest parchment scroll and unfolded it.

This is a scroll that records some data of this port city, and looking at the date on it, it was actually recorded at the beginning of last year.

"I'm afraid this is the most accurate record of Kegang City!" Alan exclaimed, he didn't expect that he would find some data in Kegang City just by taking it casually.

And on this cabinet, there are some books.

Alan looked at it carefully, frowning from time to time, the data on it was clearly written.

There are 3,281 people in the city of Kor, not including the army and slaves.

This is the data that Allen summarized after reading it, and some relevant data is written in it.

However, this number is really small, and this viscount is too poor, Alan couldn't help but complain.

This territory is not as big as some villages in the previous life!

Originally, Alan thought that there would be at least tens of thousands of people here, but he didn't expect the reality to be so cruel, it's really desperate.

After all, the population determines how many knights the territory can raise, and according to the state of wealth of one out of ten, there can only be three hundred knights here at most.

This was a great blow to Allen's plan, Benji still thought that he could recruit a lot of knights if he had money, who knew that reality gave him such a big brother's joke.

It seems that the plan has changed, and the knights of the territory are already in full swing as far as the previous action is concerned.

Alan sighed and put down the scroll in his hand, his heart collapsed for a while, he now had some doubts about how many people there were in this entire kingdom!

Even the Viscount's territory is only more than 3,000 people, yes, this is a bit remote, but it is not too much worse, think big, where you are richer, the territory is at most more than twice the size of Kegang City.

This can't be over, Alan complained for a while, no wonder when he went out, most of the area was wasteland forest. He also thought that people in this era already had environmental awareness, but now he understands that it is not environmental awareness, purely because there are too few people. The impact on the environment is almost negligible.

With this in mind, Alan continued to flip through the other parchment scrolls on the shelf, and for the sake of memorability, he soon read them almost completely.

But the annual income of Harbor City is about more than 1,000 gold coins, which is quite a lot, and it can be seen from the savings of El Ling for many years that it is only more than 2,000 gold coins.

Hey?

Alan flipped over to a place and suddenly exclaimed, and immediately looked closely.

"I'll just say, based on this income, Edmund is unlikely to have that much savings, so it's here!" Alan laughed, what a windfall!

It is written on the scroll that in the 321st year of the Continental Era and the 846th year of Xize, the Flying Wolf Village in the Kemas Valley presented 300 gold coins and a number of various treasures.

This kind of information is probably a tribute from a dozen or so bandits, but the main contradiction between Kegang City and White City is actually a battle of interests, and the contention is that there are cottages and bandits all over this barren mountain range.

These people raided everywhere, knew the routes of the mountains and forests, and their sphere of influence spread throughout the Kemenorae Mountains, which bordered more than a dozen viscountdoms, as well as the domain of a count, and the barons were also numerous, and they were also one of the main targets of these bandits.

With the help of the advanced equipment of the knights, Edmund controlled a medium leader in the mountains, and some of his small cottages would pay tribute from time to time with gold coins and some mountain treasures.

Carefully flipped through the entire ledger, Alan was a little curious, where did these small cottages get so much money, and the contribution points of gold coins were actually one-third of a viscount's territory.

Alan was puzzled, and finally had to give up, and when he had time, he could ask the black bear, after all, the previous black bear village was also one of the cottages, but the power of the black bear village was quite strong, so it was not exploited.

However, you have to get in touch with these people quickly, this is a major way to get money.

Alan lowered his head and thought for a while, and secretly made up his mind that he would arrange it when he went out in a while, after all, this is not a small amount of money, not only is it still a business without capital, but it is also a continuous source of money.

"Forget it, I don't want to, I almost forgot what I was doing today!" Alan put down the injured ledger and patted his head and muttered.

Allen, who put down the ledger, walked inside, according to his thoughts, what he was looking for should have been quite a long time ago, so Alan walked directly towards some parchment that looked old.

Alan flipped over here and there, "How could it not be?" Alan flipped through the sheepskin scroll in his hand, his brow furrowed deeply.

"No, this book is even available in churches!" Alan said to himself, as he put down the parchment scroll in his hand.

(End of chapter)