"What are you talking about? What is the Winter Plan?"

Princess Gina looked at Duke with a puzzled expression, completely unable to understand what this guy meant.

"Look, I said before that I can't understand it with your IQ, and now I have to ask again, it's really troublesome. ”

Princess Jina, who had heard Duke say something, and her anger had decreased, but she heard Duke's taunt again, and she directly grabbed Duke by the collar and warned viciously: "You say it again!"

Faced with this situation, Duke hurriedly said: "Your Royal Highness, violence will not solve the problem, we must be moved with affection and reason! For the sake of a better tomorrow in Storm Castle, I think you should show the elegant and beautiful side of the princess." ”

Hearing Duke say this, Princess Gina pouted and let go of his collar in hatred. In fact, Princess Ji Na is not this kind of image at all in the Imperial Martial Arts Academy, and she can even be said to be a little cold and alone. I don't know why, every time I feel angry with this straw bag, I have an urge to beat him!

Seeing that Princess Gina let go, Duke was also very unhappy, he was a big man who was actually crushed by a little girl! Damn, if he also has the strength of a swordsmanship master, see if he doesn't give this little girl XX a thousand times, a thousand times!

"Then what are you going to do?" Princess Gina asked again reluctantly.

"Cottages are one of the fastest ways for latecomers to get rich!" Duke smiled mysteriously as he walked out of the study, leaving Princess Gina alone in a daze.

Walking out of the study, Duke yawned tiredly, but he was still satisfied with the results of last night. Because in addition to the book balance, he also knew the income and expenditure of Storm Castle in detail.

Storm Castle isn't really bad. On the west side of the fortress is the mouth of the Seine, which brings with it a rich fishery and fertile alluvial soil, which is the main reason why Stormfort still has a population of tens of thousands and two hundred knights, even on the front line.

At the same time, Storm Castle also has very rich mineral resources, such as ordinary gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., Storm Castle has mineral deposits. Even the Empire's relatively rare magic crystals are produced in the Stormcastle mines, ensuring that the entire fortress can support a military force of 1,500 people.

It's just that the evil creatures in the Monster Valley threaten, so that every lord who has taken office here wants to make a fortune and quickly transfer out, and he doesn't care about the development of Storm Castle. Then there is the need to maintain an excessively large military force, especially to support the Border Knights, which is also a heavy financial pressure on Stormcastle.

There are also various problems such as the collection of tithes by the Holy See and the backwardness of productive forces, which are entangled in the Storm Castle and become the half-dead appearance it is today.

Winter is less than a month away, and even if it is only two months away from the cold winter moment when the ice demons may attack, and it will take almost four months to get through winter and wait until spring.

For four months, tens of thousands of people were crammed into the walls of Storm Fort, and a narrow valley behind the fort. This time of year is a time when Storm Castle is in short supply and prices are skyrocketing.

Hunger, cold, fear! In addition, the sanitary conditions in this era are not so good, so the time of the monster invasion every year is the time when a large number of diseases and deaths are caused. If it weren't for the cold winter, it would probably be an outbreak of epidemics, and everyone in Storm Castle would have finished playing. In fact, it is the existence of these problems that is the reason why every city lord escapes, because as long as there is the existence of the monster valley, this situation is unsolvable.

If you want to change all this, the first thing is to have money! As the saying goes, money is easy to do, and if you have money, at least the two threats of cold and hunger can be temporarily removed, and you only need to deal with the attack of evil creatures. It is not unreasonable to settle inside before you go outside, and sometimes it is not unreasonable.

But there is no way to change this situation by relying solely on trade income, and Duke can only get sufficient funds if he does not follow the usual path. And it just so happens that there is a very lucrative commodity in this world, which is something that Duke is very familiar with.

The name of this product is called porcelain, except for the technical factors, it is simply mud for gold coins!

In this world, there is also a distant eastern country called the Celestial Empire. The most well-known commodities in the Oriental countries were silk, porcelain and spices, which were loved by the Holy See and the nobility of the mainland.

Moreover, this world ocean is far more terrifying than the Middle Ages on the earth, in addition to the extremely dangerous natural factors, there are also all kinds of strange beasts and monsters. Basically, the people who chose to trade at sea in this era were some condemned prisoners, prisoners, or sinners condemned by the Holy See, who went to sea with the mentality of death, and as long as they successfully returned, they could not only obtain great wealth, but also be forgiven.

Because of such difficulty, silk and porcelain imported from the Cyris Empire have become the top luxury goods on the mainland. Compared with the crude pottery used by ordinary people, every piece of shiny porcelain can be called a work of art!

What Duke has to do now is to copy out the porcelain of the Ceris Empire, and then sell it to the Holy See and the rich nobles of the empire in exchange for a huge amount of money. Because of silk and spices, he can't do it if he wants to come out of the cottage, and porcelain is the only feasible way for him at present, which is his winter cottage plan!

At the thought that as long as the cottage was successful, there would be golden coins rolling in, Duke couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement. Immediately called Allen, who was guarding the gate of the castle, over and ordered: "Go to the bulletin board in the flower square immediately and announce that the lord will recruit all the pottery craftsmen in Storm Castle, and will be given three gold coins per month!"

Three gold coins are equivalent to three thousand yuan a month on the earth, which is not much on the earth. But in this world, it is very good for an ordinary craftsman to have a few hundred yuan a month, which is almost several times the usual salary. And in the current period of almost idleness, the income of three gold coins is a huge amount of money, which can greatly improve the life of the whole family.

"Yes, my lord. ”

"Also, the City Lord's Guard and the Border Knights will both increase their salaries by one gold coin from this month. ”

"Thank you, Lord Lord, for your gift!" Allen's voice was noticeably louder this time, after all, it was a good thing to increase the salary, especially in such a difficult situation.

"Go ahead. Duke nodded with satisfaction at Allen's reaction, there was once a great man on the earth who said a truth, that is, power comes from the barrel of a gun! Military force is the foundation of Duke's survival, and money may not be the most high-end method, but it is the most effective method in a short period of time!