Hera moved quickly, and on the same day she led Rose and Alice to prepare for Andorra City.

When leaving, Duke also personally met with the two little witches, although they didn't know exactly what they were going to do, but this was definitely a very dangerous thing, if they were caught by the Holy See, it was estimated that they would be burned at the stake.

"You will face this very dangerous operation next, and as Lord of Stormcastle, I appreciate your efforts. ”

Alice was talking to Duke for the first time, so she replied with obvious excitement: "Lord Lord, didn't you say that we are also members of Stormcastle, then this is what we should do, for Stormcastle!"

Hearing this familiar slogan, a smile appeared on Duke's face, and he said to Rose and Alice, "Do your best, if it's really dangerous, I will allow you to abandon this operation." ”

Duke hasn't become the kind of person who will do anything to get there, not to mention that these witches may be as useful to Stormcastle as Watt in the future.

It's just that Duke, who thinks he is an ordinary Chinese, has a different kind of emotion in the hearts of these witches. At least in Lord Duke's mind, they are not so-called tools, but treat them as their own.

"Don't worry, Duke, I won't let the girls suffer unnecessary casualties. ”

When Hera had said this, she turned around and said, "Girls, get ready to go." ”

After hearing this, Rose and Alice saluted Duke and prepared to turn away, but at this time Rose stopped, she bit her lip, looked at Duke hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Lord Lord, I apologize for cutting you last time, I'm sorry." ”

Duke thought that Rose was going to say something, but it turned out to be this matter, so he smiled dumbly: "Don't take that matter to heart, it's just a small matter, forget about it." ”

"Have you forgiven me?"

Duke said with a smile, "I didn't blame you in the first place. ”

"Thank you, Lord Lord!" a bright smile appeared on Rose's face, she had always felt guilty about this incident, and today she was very happy to hear Duke say that she had forgiven her.

This little girl looks good when she laughs, and Duke has such an idea in his heart. Rose used to be like a hedgehog, she protected herself firmly, most of the time she was a poker face, she couldn't see any change in her expression, and she spoke coldly, but today she actually smiled.

Of course, Duke can't let his subordinates see the obscene thoughts in his heart, otherwise how can he maintain his tall image? I saw him wave his hand and said lightly: "Go, the journey is smooth." ”

"Hmm. Rose nodded happily, and then caught up with Hera.

Normally, it takes five days to get from Castle of the Storm to Andorra la Vella, but it can be done in two days in the summer and at least three days in the winter. Counting the time to go back and forth and rescue the rescue, it will take at least ten days and half a month to get things done.

And during this period of time, Duke personally called on and encouraged the miners of Storm Castle to launch a winter mining plan, no matter what, the magic spar and iron ore raw materials could not be cut off, otherwise the time for changing clothes would be delayed, and it was about to enter the New Year of this world, and it was also the coldest time of winter, and the monsters would not stop attacking because of the human festival.

With Duke's call, the cohesion of Storm Castle is far from what it was before, and the miners shouted the slogan for Storm Castle and entered the Saint-Michel mountain mine to ensure the supply of raw materials. In this situation of desperate production of miners, the hydroelectric plant finally returned to a state of breaking even again, ensuring production.

However, Duke's continuous large-scale recruitment has caused huge pressure on Stormcastle's finances, although many of them are civilians, and the salary paid is not high, but the transportation logistics pressure in winter is very great, and even exceeds the salary itself.

In order to alleviate the financial pressure, and the minerals are basically for their own use and cannot be sold, so all sources of funds are basically only porcelain left. Naturally, porcelain has also fallen into a state of three shifts like a hydroelectric factory, just to be able to produce more porcelain for sale.

However, the production of porcelain is not as scarce as armor, and the production of porcelain can reach thousands a day after the increase in production. This huge amount of porcelain poured into Takayama City, even if it was constantly imported to the far end of the mainland, but due to the traffic of this era, it was very difficult to digest it in a short time.

Therefore, when Storm Castle increased production for the first time, Alpine City had already pressed the porcelain to 5 gold coins each, and the price was constantly squeezed even lower. Before, Duke had to swallow his anger because of the monster army and the Sea Clan's sneak attack, after all, this was Stormcastle's only income, and it would be a disastrous situation for Stormcastle's finances to turn around.

And although the price has been reduced, the absolute production quantity is much more than before, and the cost price of the porcelain plate is really low, and Duke can only eat this dumb man.

But this time Abner came back and said that Alpine City had pushed the price of each porcelain plate to 1 gold coin, and if you deduct taxes and tithes from the Holy See, plus transportation and labor costs, the profit of each porcelain is really not a huge profit.

Moreover, the son of Ultra in Alpine City also said to Abner that the purchase price of the next batch of porcelain would be reduced by thirty percent, and at most 7 silver coins could be given to a porcelain plate. According to this purchase price, Storm Castle would generally have a batch of 3,000 porcelain plates, and after deducting all the costs, it would be at most a thousand gold coins.

This income, if replaced by the previous Storm Castle, is already a very considerable income. But now that Stormcastle is entering a period of full-speed development, it is all about throwing money at it, and this kind of income will allow Stormcastle to maintain a balance of payments.

However, the threat faced by Duke is not only guaranteed by breaking even, he also needs to expand the army, especially the storm troopers must be expanded, otherwise relying on these hundred or so knights, they can only be used as scouts, and the cavalry regiment attack is not to be considered. There are also walls that need to be reinforced, and Duke plans to seal off the hydroelectric plant to avoid a repeat of the sneak attack.

And in Duke's plan, Storm Castle will build several major roads, and even open up Mont Saint-Michel, so that Storm Castle can have a smoother communication with the outside world. Otherwise, everything will run through Takayama City, which is equivalent to pinching his lifeline in the hands of Takayama City.

But all of this needs to be built on a financial and material basis, and unfortunately, neither of these things are currently available in Stormcastle!