Before Luo Ming can recruit more people, he must turn a blind eye, otherwise even cutting this steward will only cause trouble.

At that time, they would have to take on the tasks of collecting taxes, driving out serfs to work, and settling accounts, which involved a lot of energy.

The next day, Luo Ming still got up early and exercised in the morning as if nothing had happened.

After that, the steward appeared in front of him with some unkempt hair and bloodshot eyes.

"Sir, please let me show you around the storeroom. ”

Apparently, he counted the accounts for a long time, and then gritted his teeth and pulled out most of the embezzled possessions and filled them back into the warehouse.

After some inventory, Luo Ming found that there were actually quite a lot of belongings here.

Originally, after the harvest season had completely passed each autumn, it was time for these estates to be handed over to the lords. However, since the baron had been ill since the end of last year, and several cousins began to fight for power, the steward silently chose to sit on the sidelines, and kept dragging his feet, ready to wait for the dust to settle before handing over the property to the victorious side.

Of course, there could have been a lot of cats in between, but who knew that when I met Luo Ming and Granty, it was obvious that they couldn't play too many tricks under their noses.

The other two small estates have already been handed over their belongings, and all that remains can be said to be a little.

And in the granary of this medium-sized estate, there are now nearly a hundred sacks of grain—according to the steward, during the harvest season, even three or four hundred sacks of wheat can be piled here, like a hill.

It's just that it's useless to smash all this grain in your hands, most of it is sold to merchants for money, and the rest is part of seeds, and the other part is food for yourself to eat and prepare for disaster relief.

In the unlikely event of a bad harvest in the year, the surplus grain will be used for lending so that the peasants will not starve to death. Of course, afterwards the peasants would probably have to hand over what little land they had to the nobles to pay off their debts.

Although this was also exploitation, in the eyes of the aristocracy, it could also be called the "protection" of the peasants - just as the peasants protected the hens that lay eggs and the cows and sheep that produced milk, no one wanted to have freedom for the livestock that created their wealth, and the nobles wanted to turn the tenants and most of the freemen into serfs.

This kind of thing can't be completely cut off for a while, and Luo Ming doesn't care about it for the time being.

In another small food warehouse, Luo Ming also saw a lot of radishes, onions, pumpkins, peas, kale and other vegetables. There are also some meats such as bacon and dried fish on the side. In addition, there are also a lot of cooking oil, salt, seasonings, and so on.

Finally, there's the vault – a sturdy, nailed wooden cabinet in the corner.

There were eighteen gold coins in total, and more than one hundred and twenty silver coins, as well as some bits and pieces of copper coins that didn't need to be counted at all.

Twenty-five other gold coins were hidden under a floor tile with a creaking table pressed against it, and it was almost impossible to move the table silently.

Sherlock must have known that the income of this medium-sized estate had not been paid last year, and this money was probably more than 20% of her annual income.

She sold her favor again, but Luo Ming didn't accept the money with a straight face, but wrote an IOU in her free time, and converted the money into a legitimate loan, with a repayment period of three years, and obtained a relatively ordinary interest rate.

After all, Luo Ming is a person who cares about favors, even if he knows that the other party wants to entrap him, but owing so many favors will make him feel uncomfortable after all.

Anyway, this amount of money seems to be a lot of money, but it is far from nothing for Luo Ming to do next, the income to be obtained.

In fact, Luo Ming had already turned over the ledger before. Forget about the old accounts, the accounts of the past three years have been turned over - after all, it is not modern, there are not so many income and expenses of various projects, and the level of middle school students can basically understand this account book, not to mention that there is Aya to help.

Although there is still a little discrepancy, it is not very big, and Luo Ming openly announced in front of the steward that these old accounts will be written off and will not be checked in this matter.

In order to appease this subordinate, he confessed several more things for him to do.

In the afternoon, Charando came to visit the mansion and brought a gift - a whole barrel of wine.

Usually there is no need for such a big gift for a door-to-door visit, and there is no need for him to say it, Luo Ming can be considered to understand, this guy may have used various means, and may even use the stunt of "hugging the other party's thighs and burying his head and crying", so that Sherlock completely forgave him for his previous wavering.

When asked, the situation was indeed as Luo Ming expected.

Charando signed a written document under the notary declaring that he would renounce his inheritance to the barony, and in return, Shylock lent him an additional 1,000 acres of land for planting grapes - although it was not a feud or a gift, and the grapes were produced and taxed, and the right to use this land was only until his death, but it was a rare generosity.

The most important thing is that such a disposition, even if he is legally expunged, is almost equivalent to Sherlock publicly announcing that he will completely forgive him, and he will not have to worry about being held accountable for this matter.

Of course, this is a great thing for him, and he is naturally grateful to Luo Ming for helping to advise in this matter.

And on top of gratitude, there is more purpose - Luo Ming seems to know a lot of winemaking techniques, if he is powerless and a commoner, Charando must not hesitate to be a common bully nobleman in the story, tie him back and ask slowly.

However, it was a pity that Luo Ming only needed one finger to kill him, so he could only lean over and stammer in a low voice.

Luo Ming saw through this, not only did he not get angry, but he felt a sense of pleasure.

If you have no desire, you are rigid, and once you have any urgent desire, you are easily held hostage by others.

Although some people are difficult to be held hostage - for example, Luo Ming himself, who has been nurtured by the two masters in casual conversation:

If a relative or friend is kidnapped, and the kidnapper makes some very excessive demands, he will probably try his best to negotiate. But if the other party refuses to give in to the conditions, they will ruthlessly attack and destroy the kidnappers and hostages together, and if possible, bombs and shells will be used, leaving absolutely no chance for themselves to regret it.

Terrorists or kidnappers, if they give in to them once, they will know that this method will work. It will only attract them to press step by step again and again, next time relatives and friends will be kidnapped again, and next time they will use self-explosion and crowd trouble to threaten you, so that you can make greater concessions and break the bottom line again and again.