(Chapter 5, more in a moment!)

Returning to the manor, Donald met with Sir Jesse from Boulder City in his farm room.

The other party skillfully showed his kindness and closeness, but did not disgust the owner, and did not stop long after completing the work, and quickly left.

For this first aristocratic friend he made in this world, Donald still admired the other party's ability to do things. Although this guy can also accept bribes, he knows how to measure himself, and he has a lot of things to do, and there is no omission.

If he now has his own domain, then he will definitely recruit this knight to be the treasurer, and the financial officer of a realm is equivalent to the existence of the finance minister of a kingdom, and if the work is done well and the merit is made, then the lord will not be stingy to give him a hereditary title.

Therefore, an exiled noble child like Jesse would not be able to resist the invitation of a noble lord. Even if he works for the kingdom like Jesse, he secretly has a lot of oil and water.

Sir Jesse also admires Donald, a nobleman among nobles, a young man who has become a full-fledged mage at a young age. Soon after the first two owners of the manor took over, there was an incident of demonic beasts hurting people. And it has been almost a month since this mage took over, and the manor is almost finished, with herds of livestock and construction workers coming and going, but no accidents have occurred!

Donald didn't know that he was able to take over the manor safely, and he had been attributed to the magic of the mage by Sir Jesse, in fact, the reason why there was no problem for so long was not because of what he had done, but because the manor had been vacant for most of the previous month, and even if there were demonic beasts here, there would be no living creatures.

And now that the Tree of Life has successfully taken root, its natural enchantment has a calming effect on the surrounding beasts and demonic beasts, so some fierce beings with strong attack power are far away from it, and they do not enter the manor to hunt.

After sending Sir Jesse away, Donald knew that there was a tree of life, and unless someone deliberately sabotaged it or the monster rioted for other reasons, there would be no need to worry about the invasion of the monster, so he left with peace of mind, planning to go to Boulder City to learn about the business situation of this world and make some reference for the main products of his manor in the future.

The planning of the estate has been largely completed, with a total of forty acres of farms built on all four sides, and the foundation has now been laid for the temporarily vacant site in the center, and the construction of the villa has begun. Behind is the Tree of Life near the forest, and the entire area of the small manor is almost covered by the enchantment of the Tree of Life, and even beyond part of the manor, and the natural atmosphere in the enchantment is at least five times stronger than that of the outside world, providing a good environment for the cultivation of the farm.

There were houses on the farm for the peasant to live in, and the Book of Truth was of better quality than the average small merchant's house, and there were more rooms to spare, so there was no need to build anything else for the time being. In his aristocratic status, he had to build at least one villa to meet his status, and then the rooms in the villa would be enough for the guests, and the servants would have their own rooms.

In terms of farmland, there is an enchantment of the Tree of Life, and all plants within a radius of two kilometers will be nourished by the power of nature, watching those weeds grow wildly, Donald not only feels great hope for the development of the manor.

"Weeds can grow like this, so isn't it planting something and getting rich soon?"

In addition to the planned fields, the weeds in other places, especially in the grazing areas, Donald is too lazy to send people to clean up, and these weeds that grow well will be good fodder for livestock when they are harvested! For those purely grass-eating livestock, whether they are free-range or mowing and captive, they can leave a lot of money!

Now all his estate lacks is a unique and lucrative economic product.

Without his own unique products, he can only barely maintain the needs of life by relying on the harvest of ordinary food crops and poultry and livestock, and he can't afford the expenses of the nobles at all, not to mention that he still has a mage profession to cultivate, and the Book of Truth is a big eater of crystal nuclei and energy crystals, so he can't always rely on himself to hunt to make money, right?

This time there was plenty of time, and Donald was in a carriage to Boulder City, and did not travel by teleportation. After all, teleportation has a cooldown time limit, and it is generally better to use it at critical moments, otherwise it will be bad if you encounter an emergency, but you can't catch up because the skill is still cooling.

The Night Manor is almost directly north of Boulder City, and the distance between them is about ten kilometers, and there is a red maple town in the middle, and the rest of the place is an uninhabited forest or hilly area.

Although the Northern County is nominally under the administration of Viscount Macbeth as an archon, it is not all of his domain. Only Boulder City and the nearby Macbeth family's base in the southeast and southeast directions, Yuanshan Town, and the Lord Gerry County obtained more than ten years ago, are the direct territories of the Viscount and the territories of the subordinate retainers.

Other towns such as the Red Maple Barony, the Greenwood Town in the west, which is under the military administration of the Bloodstone Fortress, and the Shining Gold Town, which borders the Marquis of Ansel's and the Central Province of the Kingdom in the southernmost part of the Northern County, are all lands that are not managed by the Viscount. As the Archon of the North County, Lord Macbeth only has some supervisory powers.

In particular, the town of Shining Gold at the junction of the three provinces is a trade center that controls the flow of materials in the west, north and center, not only Viscount Macbeth, but also many nobles in the royal capital are jealous of the large amount of wealth brought here every year.

When the northern county was newly created, even the royal family could not stop the greedy nobles from fighting for the ownership of Shining Gold Town, and finally simply learned the system of the commercial kingdom in the south of the continent, and set Shining Gold Town as the kingdom's own domain, which was permanently not given to any nobles, nor was it directly managed by the royal family, but elected an official every ten years to take turns acting as the mayor of the town, and paid a large amount of taxes to the kingdom every year. As long as they pay their taxes and obey the laws of the kingdom, anyone can do business in Shining Gold.

These situations were the first information that Donald learned after he decided to establish himself in this world and had a certain strength. Born in the world of information explosion on Earth, Donald naturally knew that knowledge is wealth, and information is money, so he chose the most intelligent and erudite mage profession as his main job.

Otherwise, there are many aspects of the ability enhancement items in the Book of Truth, and he can also choose to strengthen his physique or strength at the same cost, and it is also a good choice to be a heroic knight.

However, in this world, although knights are powerful, they are not invincible, and in the perception of the natives, spellcasters are probably the most powerful profession under the gods. Of course, this is not absolute, there are also some talented warrior professionals, whose strength far exceeds that of the same level.

As a mysterious and powerful synonym, the representative of the caster, the mage will inherently give others a sense of nobility and unapproachable oppression, but it is exactly the same as his noble status. If he had chosen to be a knight in the first place, even if he had reached the level of a high-level knight equivalent to a fifth-level professional, he would probably not have one-tenth of the prestige and deterrence of the current one, and it would be easy to cause a joint attack by the enemy.

From the very beginning, Donald had relied on the strength of his mages and the general trend of the only mage guild in North County, and he and the little foundation he had created were able to stay together for so long.

As the carriage drove on its way to Boulder City, passing by the village of Barony Red Maple, Donald was suddenly intrigued when he saw the rows of verdant green and purple vines in the vineyards on both sides of the village.

Baron Red Maple is famous for its wines, which are well known in North County. The Baron had his own private estate dedicated to winemaking, which produced the finest wines, and although not the finest, some of them were sold to the nobles throughout the kingdom every year for a profit of at least a thousand gold soles. This industry has always been one of the most important ways for Baron Red Maple to make money.

In this way, the two villages in the territory of Red Maple Town and the nearby territories also planted wine grapes in large quantities. Among them, the good quality will be directly purchased by the officials under Baron Red Maple every year when it is ripe. Most of the rest are of average quality, and the villagers will also make some wine themselves, and in addition to their own use, most of these grape wines of average or even inferior quality are sold to taverns and inns in nearby villages and towns.

Compared to a glass of fine red wine in Kinsor, those barley wines that can be drunk for a few coppers are more popular with travelers and adventurers. And a silver moon can only drink two or three glasses of ordinary wine, which is a bit chicken, and generally only wealthy businessmen or middle-level officials will have spare money to buy to accompany their meals. The true aristocracy is to enjoy at least medium or higher quality wines, so as not to lose their status.

Donald ordered the driver to stop on the side of the road and wait, and he got out of the car and took the initiative to talk to some of the elderly villagers who were in charge of the grape fields, and then found the village chief.

He wanted to buy some of the village's last year's wines.

In my previous life, I also liked to make my own wine or something, although it was an amateur play, but the specific operation was also detailed in detail, and it was easy to make a few barrels of red wine in the simplest way.

Under Donald's Kinsol offensive, the village chief soon resold all the five barrels of wine that had been intended for vendors and taverns to Donald, a noble young master.

Donald, who had his own idea in mind, bought the wine, fixed it to the roof of the carriage with the help of several villagers, and then did not continue on his way, and ordered the coachman: "Don't go to Boulder City, let's go back to the manor." ”

After leaving the village for some distance, Donald, who was anxious to experiment with his ideas, simply put the barrel into the spatial imprint, and then the coachman, who was already surprised, rushed back to the manor on his own, and he himself went headlong into the uninhabited woods by the side of the road, and teleported back to the manor room.

"Young Master, you're back!"

Regarding the sudden return of the young master who had planned to go to Boulder City, the butler Ke De was a little puzzled, but he didn't say anything.

Donald instructed, "Kode, go and get some of the wine glasses at home, I need them!"

Cord was instructed to fetch the cup, and Donald pulled out a two-foot-tall log barrel from the spatial sigil.

After a while, the butler returned, and Donald opened the barrel and filled a glass for himself and for Corde.

Although the home-grown red wine made by the villagers has been cellared for a year, it still looks a little sour in the mouth, and compared with the mellow and clear wine of the previous life, the original rough way here filters out a lot of impurities, which will inevitably affect some tastes.

"The quality of this wine is so poor, it's really hard to swallow when you're used to drinking the wine you bought back Uncle Cod!"

Donald frowned, swallowed his wine, and said.

Ke De drank the wine on the side and said: "The local wine brewed by these rural farmers themselves naturally cannot be compared with the fine wine produced by the red maple collar that can only be bought in fifteen silver months, if you want to study winemaking, young master, you should plant excellent grape varieties in the manor, and then carefully study it when it is ripe to make good wine!"

Donald, however, had other plans, shook his head, took out two crystal vials, and mixed each of them with a glowing blue liquid into their glasses.