"My lord, please forgive me for being rude. I don't want to slander a nobleman, but Viscount Randall is too arrogant!"

"Viscount Randall's offer is ridiculous! Not only did he ask us for 40,000 spiny kidney beans, but he also asked us to bear all the transportation costs, and he reciprocated us by asking us to stabilize the price of food!"

"My lord, this is not a deal. It's a ridiculous order. If Viscount Randall isn't a fool, he's humiliating us House Wellington. ”

An indignant Sardinia finally uttered a word offensive to the nobles, and the quill in the Duke of Wellington's hand stopped, and a bit of ink was fainting on the dull yellow parchment scroll.

The Duke of Wellington dropped his quill pen, leaned back in his lizard leather chair, rubbed the swollen forehead, and six hours of continuous writing made the aristocratic scholar of nearly seventy years feel physically and mentally exhausted, he stood up, moved his sore arm, and walked to the window, and the butler lightly put away the papers on the desk, and stood behind him respectfully.

The tallest room in Fort Weststock was the Duke of Wellington's favourite study. Working here, when you are tired, you can overlook the scenery of the city of Vistock through the window. However, Wellington felt that he was becoming more and more inadequate, and it was now a pain to go to the study every day. Wellington had to admit that he was actually very envious of the knights.

Outside of the city of Vistock is a vast expanse of farmland. Seeing that the harvest season is approaching, the golden wheat waves are surging endlessly, and the wheat fields are like an endless golden ocean, and the farms are small islands in the sea. The sweet smell of wheat seemed to have drifted through the window into the high study, and the Duke of Wellington took a deep breath, but the dark green prickly kidney bean fields were so dazzling in this sea of gold. As a result, the laugh lines that had just been hooked up were immediately flattened.

The Duke was not prepared to hold the trade steward accountable for the wrongs of the nobles, and although he was arrogant and stupid, he was after all defending the interests and prestige of the House of Wellington.

Your own dog is always cuter than other people's children.

The Duke of Wellington only hopes that his heir will not be burdened by the reputation of the millennium family and become a real arrogant nobleman. The Duke turned back to the desk and took the silver cup from the butler's hand, the aroma of the coffee lifted his spirits, he gently took a sip of the expensive drink in the cup, closed his eyes, let the bitter sweetness permeate the tip of his tongue, and tasted it for a while before the Duke asked his eldest son, "Dacroo, what do you think of the conditions proposed by Viscount Randall?"

Dacro Wellington looked away from the map, turned to his father, shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice: "I can't agree to Viscount Randall's conditions!"

Sardinia, the trade steward, was secretly excited. The Duke was resourceful, but he had grown old and had lost his previous determination to kill, and had become merciful and generous. Even a little viscount dared to dictate to the Wellington family! Fortunately, Young Master Dacroo was extraordinary, and he must teach the arrogant Viscount Randall a lesson, so that everyone would know that the majesty of the Wellington family was inviolable!

"The number of thorn trees given to Viscount Randall must be at least tripled! ”

Sardinia stared blankly at the heroic Young Master Dacroo, and he wondered if he had heard it wrong. Sardinia looked at his master again, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the Duke slowly shaking his head with a serious expression.

Young Master Dacroo must have taken a fancy to the noble lady of the Randall family, so he thought of a way to please the other party. Fortunately, the Duke of Wellington is resourceful, how can he do a loss-making business?

"You're too greedy! It would be nice to double the number of thorn trees given to Viscount Randall. ”

Sardinia quietly plucked out his ears, convinced that something must be wrong with his hearing. Neither the Duke nor Dacrus cared about the miser's actions, but the butler could not tolerate his disgrace in front of the lord. So, Sardinia was kicked out.

"Father, there are 840,000 acres of thorn rue trees planted in the entire central and southern regions, and Viscount Randall only needs 100,000 trees, so we can only get 5,000 acres of farmland. If His Excellency the Viscount receives 400,000 thorn trees, the amount of farmland to be restored will reach 20,000 acres. ”

"With these cultivated lands, the family can canonize two knights. I've already figured out that Advi and Cato have worked for the family for 11 years, just 10,000 acres of arable land for each of them. ”

Wellington looked at the high-spirited heir, frowned and asked, "Neither the church nor the royal family can tolerate the continuous rise in food prices, which will only cheapen Marquis Sophia's Chamber of Commerce." And how are you going to get Viscount Randall to receive 400,000 thorn trees?"

Dakru nodded and said, "At present, the Buryat family has hired a large number of displaced people to expand the outer city of Yeliu City. As long as we don't let the prickly kidney beans flow into the Buryat Territory, if Lady Judy doesn't want to use the family's reserves, she can only ask Viscount Randall for help. His Excellency Randall's offer to receive 100,000 thorn rue trees has proven that he will not sit idly by and watch the Buryatia family get into trouble. ”

"I'm afraid that Lady Rose will interfere with Lord Randall's planting of the Rose. There's nothing we can do to stop Lord Randall from burning those thorny trees. Dacrwe sighed worriedly.

The prickly kidney bean is a thorn in the heart of the Wellington family. If they could get rid of the prickly kidney beans, they would have done it a long time ago. It's easy to shovel the prickly kidney beans, but the consequences are quite bad. Not to mention the pressure of the church, without the prickly kidney beans, the population of the central and southern parts of the kingdom will inevitably flow to the middle of the kingdom, which is the direct territory of the royal family! Therefore, the Wellington family has always hoped that someone will take over, but no one wants to be the wronged leader.

The Duke of Wellington managed to get Viscount Randall interested in the prickly kidney beans, but he didn't make any moves for a long time. Now, Viscount Randall finally spoke, and directly transplanted 40,000 thorn rue trees! Although it would be expensive to transplant 40,000 rue trees, they would immediately have access to 2,000 acres of arable land. 40,000 thorn rue trees in exchange for 2,000 acres of arable land is too good a deal!

Looking at the heir who was suffering from gains and losses, the duke sighed and said, "Dakru, you got the point wrong. ”

"Regardless of whether Viscount Randall can become the second Sword Saint or not, his bloodline is not inferior to any of His Highnesses. The royal family and the church are showing goodwill to the viscount, and you still treat him as a male favorite who obeys Madame Rose's orders?"

"The House of York gave Viscount Randall two female apprentice knights as his personal maids. Hehe, is there a highness who will arrange a partner for his favorite? This is purely a family marriage! So, Viscount Randall is the lord of the Centaur Hills, and since he has decided to transplant the spiny kidney beans, then we don't have to worry about the attitude of the York family. ”

"The point is, we don't have the initiative!"

The Duke of Wellington stood up, walked to the window, and said, "There are few people in the hills, and there is a need for more freemen. It is best for us to introduce the excess population into the Centaur Hills. ”

"According to the original strategy, we first lowered the price of food to help the people in the hills accommodate more people, and then raised the price of food to encourage them to grow kidney beans. However, the new farming and pastoral system devised by Master Edwin frustrated our plans. ”

The Duke pointed to a farm below and said, "I have carved out 10,000 acres of farmland following Edwin's method, raising wild boars, planting potatoes and wheat, and adopting the planting method of deep ploughing and frequent manure. He paused, shook his head and praised: "The planting effect is very good! With 150 pounds of wheat seeds per mu, 600 pounds of wheat is expected to be harvested, far exceeding the yield of 380 pounds per mu in previous years." The sweet potato yield is 500 pounds per mu, and after drying, it also has 280 pounds, and it can be stored for up to 7 months!"

"I think that next year's harvest season, the Yorks will be able to start stockpiling their first grain, and in another three years' time, their grain reserves will be back to pre-war levels. This means that the Yorks don't need our food to accommodate the homeless, and they don't grow prickly kidney beans!"

Dacrus said angrily, "So, Viscount Randall is lying to us!"

The little family is teased by the Golden Knight, and they will still be angry. What's more, Viscount Randall is not a real golden knight, and the Wellington family is powerful, not a small nobleman to be bullied. Dacrus didn't scold, which was already self-contained. The Duke of Wellington shook his head and smiled, "You don't know Viscount Randall's character. ”

"Now, powerful lords are investigating Viscount Randall's background and character. I'm no exception. The Duke of Wellington continued: "Victor Wimbledon, the second son of a small family, was suddenly favored by Madame Rose and became a powerful lord. Victor, like the nouveau riche, was desperate to prove himself, and he was inevitably a little quick to get things done, as evidenced by his introduction of the division of work system and his refusal to become a vassal lord of the House of York. The high-yielding prickly kidney beans are just right for Victor's appetite. ”

"The best thing is that an upstart with this personality will never admit it even if he knows he has done wrong! That's why I encourage Viscount Randall to grow prickly kidney beans. ”

"Of course, we have to admit that Victor has a lot of potential and is very smart. If there is a choice, I don't want to offend him. The Duke of Wellington was silent for a moment and asked, "Dacroo, why did you say that Viscount Randall didn't stab the seeds of the kidney beans, but transplanted the thorny rue tree?"