The benefits brought by crushing the market are amazing, and this income even exceeds the income of porcelain before, because porcelain is a luxury after all, and the buying crowd is really limited.

However, Duke is already planning to lower the price again, after all, the profit of porcelain is still very high, and it is a big profit no matter what. And the middle class makes up less than 20 percent of all groups, and there are other 80 percent of supermarkets, and Duke doesn't want to give up. In addition, the porcelain market has always been in a state of saturation, after all, porcelain is not like other consumables, as long as it is not broken or something, it can be used for a lifetime!

And because of the high price of porcelain, the average person pays more attention to them, so it is basically difficult to damage something, which is the main reason why the market tends to be saturated. The money of the big households is almost gone, and now Duke has set his sights on the small households, and the small profits and quick sales will also be a routine.

The reason why Duke dared to collapse the porcelain market was because textiles could now bring in 100,000 gold coins a month. In fact, according to the consumables of textiles, the market of millions of gold coins per month on the Europa continent is more than enough, after all, there are up to three or five billion people on the Europa continent, plus other races on the land, it may reach an astonishing scale of 800 million, and the clothing market is immeasurable.

It's just that now the Europa continent is also a small-scale peasant economy, many families are self-produced and self-sold, and commercial trade is not very developed, so even if Duke's clothes are cheap, many families do not buy them, but choose to produce them in their own homes. Of course, the more reason for this is that there is no money to buy clothes, and the extreme backwardness of productivity has led to such a situation.

It's hard for Duke to change other empires, but it's still possible to change the Storm Territory, which is to stimulate a lot of production and consumption, so that money circulates throughout the market, so that the big guys have money and things in their hands. Otherwise, every family is the kind of self-produced and self-sold, the entire market economy is basically dead, and many things can not be produced by a family, and human beings as a group of people pay attention to the division of labor and cooperation, which is also something that Duke must do.

But in any case, the increase in financial income still makes Duke feel very comfortable, at least now there is no problem with living without food and clothing. And in this kind of satisfying living environment, Duke doesn't want to go against the Holy See anymore, after all, people are like this, and under a stable life, many ambitions and ideals will begin to slowly fade.

It's just that every time Duke sees the witches, he thinks of the tens of thousands of women on the continent who have magic or no magical talent at all, who live in humiliation as the embodiment of demons, or can only hide their identities for fear of being judged as witches by the Inquisition. Even some beautiful women will inexplicably assume the title of witch because of jealousy, and then burn to death at the stake.

At the same time, Duke saw the hydraulic machinery of the hydraulic factory turning, saw the Jenny machine exert a hundred times the efficiency of manpower, and saw the shocking mechanical power of the mine steam pump, Duke knew that his journey was still a beginning. If he just gave up, the world in the rest of the continent would still not change, and even when he died one day, everything in the Storm Territory would change back to the way it was before under the control of a new lord or the Holy See, which was not what Duke wanted to see, and it also strengthened his determination to overthrow the Holy See and change the Middle Ages.

The time came to the end of April, the spring ploughing was basically over, and the tense working atmosphere before the storm territory was almost over at this time. At the same time, at this time, the storm caravan immediately transmitted the news from the outside world through the post station, that is, the Marquis of Steven, the Eastern Territory, announced that the garrison of the French Empire disturbed the people, and officially expelled the garrison of the French Empire in his territory, and had formed a de facto independent territory.

When Duke heard the news, he immediately convened a military tent meeting, because in a sense, this was the opportunity he had been waiting for, and that was the civil strife in the French Empire. You must know that many empires have perished, and very few of them have really died due to the invasion of foreign enemies, and the vast majority of them will be like this because of their own internal reasons.

To put it simply, if Henry VII worked hard to govern the country, and the major lords and princes obeyed the orders of the central government, then even if the Holy See provoked behind the scenes, as long as they did not directly send troops to attack the French Empire, there would be no problem at all.

A simple invasion of the Milan Empire in the East, as long as the Prince of Andorra listens to the order, tens of thousands of Prince Andorra's troops support, and then other territories gather tens of thousands of troops, plus Prince Edward's own army, under the condition that the central army does not move, the eastern defense line can have 100,000 troops, occupying the defensive advantage of the fortress and the fortress, as long as it is not a huge mistake in decision-making, it is really not a simple matter for the 200,000 Milan Imperial Army to break through the defense line.

Even ancient China had the old method of using soldiers, ten to surround it, five to attack it, and it is actually difficult to defeat the defending side with a double gap. The northern defense line is even simpler, the main force of the imperial army is in battle, cooperating with the lion army of Duke Otto, and at that time Duke did not want to pit the Fran Empire, so if he really wants to enter the war, the storm army in the storm territory will actually stand on the side of the Fran Empire to fight against the barbarian invasion, and this time the army of more than 100,000 is also not able to attack the 200,000 barbarian cavalry.

And it is no exaggeration to say that the northern defense line is the most elite legion of the empire, not to mention the barbarian attack, if the northern legion really wants to attack the past, the barbarians may not be able to resist it, and it is not at all the passive situation like today.

Therefore, the situation of Henry VII is like the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost to the point of being embattled. It's just that it was only an invasion of foreign enemies before, but foreign enemies were not enough to destroy the French Empire, but it was easy to arouse the determination of the entire empire to resist the invasion of foreign enemies. But once chaos begins to appear within himself, just like Li Zicheng's attack on Beijing, the people's hearts will fall in an instant, and then it will be time to destroy the country.

Now that the French Empire has finally come to the first step, the so-called disturbance of the Marquis Steven in the Eastern Territory is known to anyone with a discerning eye to be an excuse, in order to expel the few remaining Imperial troops in the territory. Suffice it to say that from the time Marquis Steven made this move, the Eastern Territories were de facto independent.