Chapter 3 The Dilemma

The Sith Town, near the Demon Forest, is located in the westernmost part of the Falin Kingdom, in the middle of the Dawning Continent. According to the geographical distribution, it is the second starting point, and there are no mineral resources in the territory, which can be called a poor mountain and bad water. There are only about 100 families in the town, most of them are ordinary people from the countryside, and they have their own fields but only enough food and clothing for their families. Arthur had three loyal lords, Frank, Matthew, and Bruce, the size of a village in later generations, and every year they would give Arthur some food and clothing.

After the death of Baron Arin, all the income here was taken away by Viscount Wayne, and even more shamefully this year's was taken away in advance. Arthur came of age at the age of 18, and although the official orders of the kingdom were already on the way, he had no place as long as he did not give them for a day. The three lords were all good friends of Baron Arin during his lifetime, so these three were his strongest backing.

The crackling of burning pine resin wood in the fireplace masked the smell of charcoal, and the place was damp.

At best, the Baron's Mansion was a building made of stones, and most of the houses of the so-called lords in the town were also made of stone and few wooden houses, and the rain rained three seasons a year except for winter, and the newborn Arthur closed his eyes and thought about the future policy.

When he returned, the three lords who stayed in the Baron's Court were reassured. Baron Arin was kind to them, and before he died, he asked these three good friends to take care of his son. But Arthur's way of thinking since childhood has left them with a wreck.

"Arthur, you are now a baron. Those of us who are uncles will call you Baron Arthur from this day forward, but you must know that although our country does not advocate the Church, if you provoke the Papal States, the king will not send troops to protect us. Lord Frank said worriedly. His age here carries a lot of weight, and Arthur is somewhat dependent on him in a way. On the question of taking in the witch Jessica, all three lords were opposed.

"Don't think about this matter, I've decided to take her in, and three uncles, I'm going to go to your territory recently to see the situation, this year's harvest is not good, that insatiable dead fat man, Wayne has taken a lot of grain from the territory, and it may be difficult to do it from autumn to winter, so I suggest that I find another way." ”

"Okay. The three of them left the Baron's Palace. The three lords knew the predicament Arthur was facing, but there was no way to help. A baron had only one knight under him, Bedwell, and they didn't even have cavalry or retinues.

Poor, poor, poor... Now there are 10,000 *** running wild in the heart. "Is there a worse way to start than that? I haven't seen that anyway. Arthur looked at the dilapidated Baron's Mansion and sighed in a low voice. Although the house is very large, there is only one maid, Shalene, and Henry, the housekeeper who is now on the run, and the assets are 5 gold coins, although it is enough to eat and drink, but what can be used to develop the economy. "Master, the family is already very poor, so don't hang around with gold coins all the time. "It was the maid Sha Lin who sighed, naturally soft and cute, the niece of the old housekeeper with short blue hair and wearing a maid outfit, but not the kind of later generations, 16 years old and very beautiful, especially Wei'an's chest. It's a childhood sweetheart relationship with Arthur.,Often together when I was a child.,Stealth stalker.。

"Your uncle, that slut, don't let me see it next time, or I'll hack him to death. "Before leaving, this old guy took more than 100 Falin Kingdom Dragon Sword Gold Coins. The 5 gold coins Arthur now has in his hand are still money that Charlene has hidden and not kept in the vault.

"Master, I already have no relationship with him. Charlene set him a piece of toast, a plate of steak, and a bowl of soup.

"What about Jessica?" asked Arthur.

"Master, do you really want to take her in?"

No matter what era it is, witches are a group of people who are seduced by demons, they have a strong black magic power and can even directly destroy an army, mages are a group of people who pursue truth and knowledge divinely, and witches are the minions of the devil and the servants of the demon king, which makes people fearful. There are many histories of witches in the books, who were evil, powerful, and inhumane.

"Charlene, she's just a normal girl. There are no inherently bad people, give others a chance. "Su Xia and Arthur's dead consciousness gradually merge and accept all thoughts and thoughts. He is a very ordinary and kind man, not King Arthur of the original world. But now he wants Arthur's name to be famous in the Dawning Continent, which can be regarded as a little comfort to the original Arthur.

"Okay, I'm going to call her to dinner. ”

Jessica was wearing Shalene's maid outfit, but Shalin's figure was too good to look awkward on her, so she had to hand over 1 gold coin to Charlene to buy Jessica a new dress tomorrow. After eating, Arthur returned to his room alone to think about his future plans. Jessica looked at Arthur's back in the distance, but didn't ask him in the end.

The world is divided into 3 currencies and a symbolic coin, the three currencies collectively refer to copper, silver, and gold with a conversion rate of 1:100, and the number of symbolic coins is scarce and only issued by the National Unification Commercial Bank during grand celebrations, and one is worth 100 ordinary gold coins. This world already has the concept of traveling merchants and chambers of commerce and is very mature, each country's currency is different in purity and therefore different in value, and only their country's currency can be used in foreign countries, and then there are speculative people such as gold money exchangers.

Meat is cheaper, and the most expensive are vegetables and fruits, spices, silk, and tea, of which spices are equivalent to the price of gold, and silk clothing surpasses the price of gold. Arthur gathered his memories and now either planted all the raw materials for spices and mixed and matched them according to his own memory, or raised silkworms to make silk clothes, but this would take a lot of time and experimentation. According to the rough road map, there are only three continents in this world, the Dark Continent occupied by the Demon King, the Dawn Continent occupied by various races, and the Dragon Territory Continent occupied by the Dragon Clan, and the rest are oceans that no one has explored.

The situation in the Dawning Continent is very unstable, first of all, the three allies of Farin, Azeri, and Thunder where he is located are in opposition to the Elves, War Princesses, and Beast Emperors to compete for sovereignty; the Antarctic Ice Sheet is at war with the Yan Emperor all year round; the Scholars Alliance belongs to the relatively lazy Neutral Law Scholar State, the Holy Empire is the strongest kingdom on the continent, and the Papal States with believers all over the continent is an alliance, and the strongest knight kingdom Sealand These 12 countries constitute the pattern of the Dawning Continent.

Arthur looked at the map of the entire continent and fell into deep thought, now as a poor baron, if you want to become the king of a country, you must first develop the economy, run your own territory well, have money, you will have people, and if you have people, you can fight, as a master of the game, you naturally know what you want to do.

If you want to cook a small meal in a big country, take your time...