When he got home that day, Jones wrote the letter. Because he was in a hurry, he wrote all the letters to everyone at once.

"Will they lend it to Master Jones?" muttered Dora, "100,000 gold is a lot of money." I heard that Miss Irene's annual income in the entire Duchy of Besil is only 50,000 gold coins, and this is still without removing expenses. ”

"Borrow or not, don't you have to borrow to know? Anyway, find a few more to borrow, there is always someone willing to borrow, right?" Jones replied with a blank face.

Dora declined to comment.

In any case, the letter will have to wait until the next day. After all, the night is coming to an end soon.

The Jones family never saw the sun all year round, but there was sunshine on the way to deliver the letter. You can't let Dora deliver letters with a sun, can you? Or let Jones deliver letters with a sun?

In fact, Jones really wanted to do this, but unfortunately, he could fly at night and only walk in armor during the day, and in the end, the speed was not estimated to be much faster. Forget it.

This "night", Jones tossed and turned, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

"I'm going to have a castle of my own, a territory of my own. Well, I'll have to form a Blood Legion, which is what a great Blood Lord should do. I feel like my life is finally back on track. ”

Thinking about it, for the first time in his life, he ...... Insomnia.

Either way, he managed to make it to sunset.

Jones excitedly said to Dora, "Give them the letter, let them reply, and then hurry back." ”

"But what if Dora goes to deliver the letter?" Dora's gaze looked at Quaya, who was watching them.

"It's okay, you go. Am I not there?"

"But today is the Brotherhood's Day, have you forgotten it?"

Jones was stunned for a moment, quickly wrote down a letter, and then handed it to Dora: "You stop by for a trip to Hilde and help me take a leave of absence from Adair." ”

Dora hesitated, but nodded.

"Do you know how to deliver a message?"

"Aren't you just flying over?"

"No, no, they're scattered in several places. If you look for them one by one, you won't be able to come back today. Even if you don't look for them one by one, you won't be able to come back. Time is estimated to be enough for you to pass. So, you should ask Catherine and Vivien to help you. Or find Richie's guardian angel and induce demons. They are not afraid of the sun. ”

Pursing her lips and frowning, Dora nodded heavily, then turned into a bat and flew away.

Watching Dora's figure disappear into the distance, until it disappeared into the sky, Jones slowly exhaled, then looked at Gu Ya on the side, and took out the "Barbarian Language".

"Do you want to go out for a walk? It's so nice today, let's go for a walk!"

Gu Ya looked at Jones a little confused, then nodded heavily.

You think Jones will honestly stay at home and take care of Quaya? How could Jones stay at home in such a situation?

Turning into a bat, Jones flew to Hilde with Guya in his hand. Frightened, Quaya screamed vigorously.

There was no way, Jones had to use a cloth to blindfold the quaint eyes, and the takeout flew a little lower. Still, Quaint screamed all the way. But that didn't stop Jones from preparing for the castle.

You asked what if you took a leave of absence and ran to Hilde, what if you were found by Adair?

Oh, and Jones didn't even think about it. Or rather, he didn't care about it at all.

"Follow me, don't run around, or you might be caught and continue to be a slave, you know?" Jones said to Gu Ya, holding the Barbarian Language.

Gu Ya was still in a state of confusion, but she still nodded heavily.

The first thing to do when you arrive in Hilde is to solve the problem of transporting the gold. Jones went straight to the bank.

In Heard, the most lucrative business, apart from the sale of slaves, was the bank. Hilde, who was not very large, had three banks, which were decent buildings compared to the messy slave trading market - white walls, domed structures, and two lower annexes on either side. In addition, there are one hundred and eighty zombie guards outside the door, and sometimes some elven archers standing on the roof.

Almost all banks look like this.

Jones casually walked into one.

The tellers in the lobby were a group of goblins: "You have to solve the problem of transporting gold? Well, it's too easy." In fact, it's our main business. Blood lords generally have a lot of overseas assets, and we can arrange for you to exchange them with customers who want to deliver their money to the right location, and you don't even need to know who they are. Of course, we have to charge a little fee, which is usually 10 percent. ”

"Is that a little bit called?"

"Yes, there are very few of them. You have to understand that we are doing business on the whole continent, and the money for external advertising can be exchanged with us anywhere. But actually...... You should understand that we can't find a redemption partner anywhere. Sometimes we still need to move and transport it a little. Merchant ships laden with armor raise the banner of the Bloods, which would not be of interest to the average pirate. But if it's gold...... Transporting large sums of gold is risky after all. ”

"Okay, I got it. I want to make an appointment with the Kingdom of Isaac, the Duchy of Bert, the Kingdom of Allen, the Kingdom of Fides, the Duchy of Eden, the Kingdom of Beavis......"

"Wait, you seem to have counted the whole South. ”

"Can't you?" Jones looked at the goblin across the counter with a blank expression.

"Uh...... OK. Of course. To be cleared in advance, we do not accept exchanges for less than a thousand gold coins, because it is not profitable. Excuse me, how much would you like to exchange?"

"One hundred thousand gold coins. ”

"100,000 in every location?" exclaimed the goblins.

"No, a hundred thousand in total. Jones corrected: "The point is that I don't know where I'm going to get it now, after all, I'm not sure which of them will lend me 100,000 gold coins." So I had to make all the reservations. ”

The goblin looked at Jones with a blank expression.

Jones also looked at the goblin with a blank face.

"That sounds like a joke. ”

"No, I'm not kidding. ”

"That'...... Please wait until you figure out who is willing to lend you money. Next ——!"

Jones was politely sent out of the bank.

However, no matter what, the matter is certain and can be done. It's just that the handling fee is a bit expensive.

"If I think about it this way, I have to borrow 110,000 yuan, otherwise it will not be enough to deduct the handling fee. Well...... What's next? I'll have to find out where I can buy a castle. Hey, hello, do you know where to buy a castle?"

Jones grabbed a Bloodborne freedfolk as he walked by. The Bloodborne Freedfolk froze for a moment, then pointed to the place where Jones had just come out.

"Uh...... It's the bank again. ”

......

Across the counter, it's the goblin again.

He looked at Jones expressionlessly, "Have you figured it out?"

"No, not yet, I'm here to ask another question. ”

"What's the problem?"

"I want to buy a castle, do you have a castle to sell here?"

The goblin took out a few pieces of paper from the large stack of materials next to him, "Yes, what kind of castle do you want to buy?"

"Uh......" Jones thought for a moment and said, "I don't know how to describe it." It has to be a castle first. ”

"Of course, the castles we sell are all castles. It won't be a thatched hut or anything like that. The goblin silently lit a cigarette and smoked it as he looked at Jones.

Jones said seriously: "And then it's cheap enough, as long as it's cheap enough!"

"We all sell it cheaply. The goblin pulled out a piece of paper and handed it over: "This is the cheapest castle here, for only 20,000 gold coins, facing the sea, as soon as the sun rises, you can enjoy the first rays of sunshine." ”

"But I'm a Bloodline. ”

"That's a shame, but that's okay, you can still enjoy the beach at night. ”

"Wait, it says the castle will be flooded at the late high tide. ”

"But you can fish, can't you?"

"And then I smell of fish all over my body every day?"

"Uh...... Okay, I see, you want a castle that won't be flooded at night. ”

"Isn't that the most normal requirement?"

"Okay, then please take a look at this. With only 40,000 gold coins, it is a large scale, and you can enjoy the snow scenery all year round. ”

"No, I can't ask for this. Not even grass grows in this place, and there is hardly any output. I can't pay it back. ”

"Hmm...... You mean there has to be output?"

"Isn't it necessary?"

"Then please take a look at this. 160,000 gold coins, the plains are very rich, and if you use zombies to farm, only four out of every five years will fail to harvest. There are also large woods around, as well as mines. ”

"Four out of five years will have a bad harvest?"

"Yes, you have to know that this is the Colin Peninsula. It's already very good. ”

"No, it's too expensive. There is no castle with about 100,000 gold coins, a little more normal. It's like my family. ”

"What is your home like?"

"It's just, it's normal. Very normal castle. ”

"Ahem!" The goblin scratched his head helplessly, "Can you please describe the various elements of your castle accurately?" ”

"There is no sunlight almost all year round, even on sunny days. There are two veins, surrounded by woods, but most of them are dead wood......"

When he walked out of the bank, Jones finally realized how poor his family was.

Yes, poor.

He glanced down at the blueprint in his hand that introduced the castle.

88,000 gold coins, no discount.

The lack of sunlight means that the output of cultivation is very small, and it also means that there are not many lords, i.e., zombies. Yes, zombies are very expensive to eat, and if you kill a few zombies, you can solve it by killing two deer. But when you have hundreds of zombies and a barren territory, that's where the problem comes in.

As for those two poor mines, they can probably earn 2,000 gold coins a month. After deducting the various costs required for operation, normally there are a few hundred gold coins left. If you deduct the maintenance expenses of the castle, your own living expenses, and the living expenses of your necessary subordinates, then there is basically nothing.

Buying such a castle means never having to pay it back.

"So, when my father bought the castle, he actually took the money from my grandfather?" Jones looked around, and a quarter of the people on the street were blood freedmen.

Yes, the Bloodline Freedmen, not the Bloodlords. If the Blood Lord is so good, why are there still Blood Freedmen?

It seems that the money is not easy to make.

Turning his face sideways, Jones looked at Gu Ya, "My mother must not know that you are worth almost half of our family's fortune. ”

Sighing, Jones gritted his teeth and went back to change the introduction.

Yes, the introduction of the flooded castle.

"Fishing is an income, isn't it? 20,000 gold coins doesn't seem like much!"

And then there are the zombies.

Zombies are the lowest-level lords of the Blood Clan's territory, slow to move, have a lot of strength, have a clumsy brain, and work reliably, just eating a lot.

Normally, any Bloodline has the ability to turn corpses into zombies, however, corpses are a problem. After all, it's not something you can pick up casually on the road. Because of the agreement with Heaven, the Blood Clan can't just go out and hunt the living. If you want a corpse, you can only buy it.

"So, how much does a corpse cost?"

It's still the goblins who sell the corpses, and Jones doesn't know why the goblins sell everything.

"The corpse of an adult man costs a hundred gold coins. ”

"Why is it so expensive?"

"You have to know that under the framework of the agreement, it is not easy to legally get a corpse that can be turned into a zombie. ”

"Is there a cheaper one?"

"Thirty gold coins for the corpse of an adult woman, and five gold coins for the corpse of a child. ”

"Does it make a difference?"

"I don't have the same strength, but I eat the same amount. ”

Oh, and you can't afford even a serious adult zombie with all the money you have.

If you want your castle to produce well, you need at least 300 zombies. And it has to be a zombie made from the corpse of an adult man. This means that at least 30,000 gold coins are still needed...... This is another amount of money to be repaid.

Jones was starting to feel his scalp tingle.

In any case, the most basic needs have finally been figured out. As for the dwarven blacksmith shop or something, let's talk about it later.

When you think you can afford it, 100,000 gold coins is not much. But when you find that the output is very problematic and you may not be able to pay it back, 30,000 gold coins is an astronomical amount.

Back home, Jones fidgeted for a moment and began to ponder how to make money.

"Catch fish and sell?"

"Mining to sell?"

"Build armor to sell?"

Selling to whom, and at what price, this is again a big question.

Jones' scalp was scratching.

At dawn, Richie's guardian angel, Delia, finally appeared in front of Jones, with an echo of his request to borrow money.

Thankfully, at least there were no surprises when it came to delivering the letter.

Jones opened the first letter, Camilla's reply.

"What do you want so much money for? You want to buy a castle? You want to be a blood lord? Get back to me right now! There's a lot going on here!"

Well, Camilla doesn't have to count on it. Jones silently crumpled her letter and threw it into a paper basket.

"Dear Jones, we are preparing to follow Gray on the Northern Expedition, and the entire Duchy of Belsil is squeezing for military spending. There is not so much money to lend you for the time being. However, I can privately fund you with a thousand gold coins. You don't have to pay it back. ”

Well, that's the standard way to refuse to borrow money without hurting your feelings. Anyway, I got a thousand gold coins. There's no handling fee, Dora just brings it back.

"My dear Jones, for well-known reasons, the royal family of Isaac does not have any excess property. And our taxes are very low, so I'm afraid we won't be able to support your idea of establishing a Bloodline Territory. ”

Bob didn't even give a thousand gold coins......

"Dear Jones, I would like to support your idea. But I'll have to wait until I inherit the throne. Given that the Paladin had promised his father to turn him into a lich after his death, I may never be able to inherit the throne. Of course, I still support you. I'm willing to give you a hundred gold coins out of my pocket money!"

100 gold coins...... Well, better than nothing.

Jones now has 1,100 gold coins, and he is still 48,900 gold coins short of his goal.

"Dear Jones, do you need to borrow money? In view of our deep friendship, I can introduce you to a very well-known banker! Whatever you want to borrow, you can borrow as much as you want, for only two cents a year...... You are the adopted son of a paladin, and he will lend it to you!"

Hehe, you think you have a lot of friends, maybe it's just because you haven't borrowed money from them.

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