Chapter 177: Internal Affairs
Time flies, like sand between the fingers, inadvertently passing in the hand.
In the bustling small garden square, Ades is accompanying Molly to inspect a armor shop, which is a shop purchased by Ades with a lot of money, mainly selling magic leather wrists, belts, and standard weapons made by dwarven blacksmiths, and there are some alchemy potions for sale, which opened for a month, and because of the exquisite craftsmanship and good effect of magic leather equipment, it has been sought after by customers and became an instant hit.
Molly came to the front of an armor stand, looked at the refined half-body steel armor on the shelf, turned to Adès and said: "The rhino skin inlaid steel plate armor designed by you and Evise has all arrived, or your method is better, the two captains of the city guard wear live advertisements on their bodies, and the recruitment of local tenant farmers and civilians has been very successful in the past few months, and the reserve team of three hundred people in total has been full, and a direct escort army of fifty people can be selected this month." ”
Ades smiled and said: "You can be forgotten, those who fail should not be dismissed at will, the direct property of the viscount will be sent to guard, and when this group of people is trained, they can be filled into the city guard, and slowly replace all the old people in the city guard, then the military power inside and outside the black iron port will be in the viscount's mansion." ”
Molly nodded slightly, the three of them had discussed this matter a long time ago, although the city guards are also very obedient now, but after all, in the last incident, there were many people in the city guard system who were arranged by the illegitimate son, although there are no things to resist now, but in the long run, it is better to change.
"By the way, how are your smelting factories doing now?" Molly is more concerned about the steel smelting industry.
Ades shook his head and said, "General." Last week, I bought a batch of lignite from someone else and tried it out a few times. The heat is still difficult to master, and several times it comes out with iron. It is still difficult to melt high-quality steel ingots in one go. ”
Molly chuckled and said, "Even if it's iron, it's already good, I didn't expect lignite to be used like this, and I heard Xena come back and say, you secretly asked someone to go to the garbage heap outside the city to find slag that others don't want to smelt?"
Ades smiled and said: "Giant Hammer told me before returning to his hometown that a lot of waste slag is not useless, but the temperature is not high enough when others are melting, and those slags can be made of good steel as long as they are re-screened and matched." When he comes back from his hometown, he brings a few dwarven blacksmiths who are willing to come to us, and lets them do this, and I think the success rate will be greatly increased. ”
Molly pursed her lips and smiled: "You, this little money should also be saved, you go to the mine of the viscounty to get iron ore, and you don't need a few dollars, if it is not for good accounting, in fact, I can send those ores to you." You have to refuse. ”
Ades waved his hand and said, "Isn't it a test now, besides, the smelting factory already has your shares, and the money saved is also your money." Ades walked forward slowly, and suddenly turned back to Molly and asked, "Everyone is proficient in the new bookkeeping method, right?" did Jane say about me?"
"I'm basically proficient. Now they basically can't lie to us, as long as they use the new accounting method, they will spit out everything they eat in their mouths. In the past two months, the profits of the major industries of the viscount have more than doubled, and they used to be greedy. It is conceivable that if it weren't for the fact that there was no one to replace it for a while. I'll pull out all the stewards and behead them," Molly said hatefully.
Adès said to her: "You toss slowly, let them spit out all the food they have eaten before, find a few greedy ones and cut them, and the rest will be obedient." ”
Molly gritted her teeth and nodded, "I'm going to cut off a few heads." ”
Ades doesn't worry about Molly not being able to do this, the nobles are already very familiar with this kind of thing of killing chickens and monkeys, and they often do things that pull one faction and one faction.
Molly walked to the counter of the store, looked at the magic bracers and belts on the shelves behind her, and said enviously: "It's still magic items to make money, the profit from selling one piece is as good as our mine for a month, and you, the alchemy potion, I heard that it has been directly booked for three months now?"
Ades smiled and said: "Part of it, I gave up a part of the share to those people to book, there must always be a spot in the store, otherwise they will be all covered, what else does my store sell?"
Molly nodded, this is also, if you only make money, it's okay to make a round for those big customers, but if you want to make a name, it's not good to make a round.
Ades accompanied Molly to see the newly opened shop, and then took a carriage back to the Viscount's Mansion together, because tomorrow Ades will go back to Hekou Town, and he must go back to straighten things out there, and the leather and potions collected from the riverside, estuary, and outpost need to be sorted out well, and in this area, he basically controls seventy percent of the supply of goods, and in the future, these things will be transported to Black Iron Steel or even farther away, and he needs to go back to arrange.
Back at the Viscount's Palace, Mia and Anna had just finished their daily routine training, they were both the commanders of the guard, and this armed force had to be in their hands from the beginning, so many things had to be done by themselves now, and when this team was formed, they could get out.
When Adès saw Anna, he asked her, "How are you feeling these days?"
Anna's beautiful big eyes bent, and she said to Ades with a smile: "Very good, much better than at the beginning, the effect has increased by at least three layers, I think in a few days I can break through to the sixth level with the help of my lord's power." ”
"What about you, Mia?" said Ades, turning to the little maid.
"It's more effective, I think it may be easier for me to upgrade to the fourth level than the second to the third, young master, you are right, every nobleman has his own unique secret skills, I am convinced." Mia smiled and took Anna's hand, and at the end of her conversation, she turned her head to Anna.
The Anslow family also has a secret technique like the original family of Ades, after they signed the oath, Ades taught his secret art to Anna and Molly, at first the effect was average, for a while Anna was sad every day, at first she refused to say why, and then Molly made the decision and completely opened the secret art of the Anslow family to Adès.
Adès realized that Anna had also saved his original intention to integrate the secret techniques of the two families, but unfortunately he had not succeeded.
After opening up the family secret technique, Ades took over the job, he had such experience before, and he was very familiar with the channeling technique, and he could also see inside, so the integration work was very smooth.
After the integration of Ades, the effect has doubled, and after being deleted, the teaching to Anna and Mia also has two three-layer increases, during this time, Molly and Anna's physique has been increasing, and the concentration of bloodlines is also increasing, according to the current increase, maybe after two or three years, the dragon veins on their bodies will reach the critical point of awakening.
Xena and Jane also benefited, as Adès studied the exercise methods that were prevalent on the Big 6 and also researched a new version and taught them to the two maids, because Anslow had trained the two of them since childhood, and they were to follow Molly as auxiliary talents, proficient in various housekeeping and financial knowledge.
Even Ades has learned a lot of knowledge from the two of them, so in return, whether it is squeezing, he must take care of the bodies of these two maids, and Ades promised that as long as they manage the industry under everyone's name, and find materials to increase their life in the future, they will definitely give them a share.
Ades is so generous, because the half-plane of the bead is restored, the water element slowly condenses, more and more energy, and the degree is faster, the golden pool begins to accumulate concentrated water essence, and Ades still has the knowledge that Velina taught him in the previous collection in the Viscount's Mansion, and has come to a conclusion that the predecessor of mortal gods such as the water of life and the fountain of eternity is the concentrated water essence.
Now Ades doesn't know the specific recipes of these mortal gods, but with the continuous output of concentrated water essence, he can also configure some low-level life-increasing elixirs, and the formulas of these elixirs are not difficult to obtain on the big 6, Ades is ready to ask Verina to see if he can find it.
Before these formulas were found, Adès did not vacate the flower beds in the half-plane of the beads, and after testing, the golden soil in it was indeed like the legend of the earth goddess God's kingdom, which had the effect of increasing the yield, ripening, and increasing the efficiency of plants, and it was very effective.
He tried to grow the potions needed for agility potions and brute force potions, and they matured in three days, and the potions he made were very effective, which was the main reason why he was able to sell them out of the market after putting them on the shelves of the shop.
It is precisely because of the good effect of these potions that Adès instantly turned into a profiteer, and gave a name to the potions refined in the half-plane, called refining brute force potions and refining swift potions, which are distinguished from ordinary potions refining, and all of them are auctioned, and explain to customers that this potion cannot be mass-produced, but only occasionally obtained when refining, if you want, just bid.
These potions alone can bring thousands of gold coins to Ades every month, plus the magic materials and silk that were handed over to Molly to sell before, Ades can squander them at will, not only buying shops, but also smelting.
He went back to the estuary this time, and he was also going to invest money to establish inland river transportation, from the estuary to the port of Ambo, and then Molly's fleet was relayed there, he and Molly discussed it, and when the fleet was trained, new routes would be added, after all, ocean transportation is the most profitable industry in the world.
Taking advantage of information asymmetry, transshipment of various goods in large quantities, and earning 10,000 thousands of gold coins a year, it is quite a simple thing. (To be continued!)
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