The city of Blinor is divided into two districts: the inner and outer districts.

The kite fort and the mansions of the great nobles were concentrated in the inner city, where every inch of land was at a premium, while the residents of the outer city were mainly the inferior nobles and the families of the Praetorian Guards in the royal capital. The outer city is more than ten times larger than the inner city, with noble districts, vassal districts, shops, warehouses, workshops, and farmland in the city.

The Blue Amber Inn is located in an orchard on the city's farmland.

It is made up of seven stone buildings and a few wooden houses, and is lined with fruitful alligator trees, which looks more like a farmstead, but it is quiet, fresh and has a unique forest landscape.

"It was amazing. Victor stepped out of the carriage, took a deep breath, turned his head and smiled: "I didn't expect you to have such a large orchard in the royal capital." ”

Triss stood side by side with Victor, looked around, and said proudly, "This place originally belonged to Baron Jon of the House of Leopold, who lost the lease of the orchard to me in a game of cards...... Of course, I was able to enter Joe's circle thanks to Rand's coffee and snow sugar. ”

"And preserves and other goods......" Victor smiled, adding, "Above all, you have a shrewd and capable caravan steward. ”

"Marcel is really capable, he helped me make a lot of money...... The Blue Amber Hotel was also suggested by him. ”

"Oh, what's the point of that?" asked Victor with interest.

"Blinauer City is big, but it's also crowded. When nobles from all over the world came to the royal capital, they often had to stay in the homes of relatives and friends, and their retinue lived in hotels in the outer cities. The lack of servants was unaccustomed to the aristocracy, but it would be humiliating if the inn was full and the servants had to live in the stables or warehouses. Tenis shrugged his shoulders and said, "This happens a lot, especially in March of the land season, when the lord of the fief goes to the royal capital to take up his duties. And that's the case now. ”

With his left hand behind his back, Turnis pointed to the building of the inn with his right hand and said, "I have converted the Orchard Farm into a hotel, with 12 rooms on each floor, for the sole use of a nobleman and his servants. There are 7 4-storey stone buildings that can accommodate 28 distinguished guests at the same time. Although Blue Amber's location is a bit remote, it's quiet and comfortable enough, and the tenants are decent people of status, and the lords of the Quays are very happy with it. ”

"You only receive the lord of the fief?" asked Victor.

Tenis nodded and said, "Normally this is the case. ”

Victor stopped, looked at the layout of the surroundings, and frowned: "The price of the royal capital is expensive, and I am afraid that you will spend a lot of gold to build blue amber." If this place only entertains the lord of the fie, you will definitely lose money every year. After all, the lord of the mining has only been in office for a month. ”

"I wasn't prepared to make money from Blue Amber at first. Tenis smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice: "Now everyone knows that only Viscount Tenis sells coffee and snow sugar in the entire king, but they don't know that my annual coffee share is not 200 pounds but 500 pounds. I can't sell the extra coffee to the nobles of the royal capital, and the lord of the mining province will not care about how much coffee I sell in the royal capital, they can buy coffee and snow sugar by living in blue amber. Even though they only live for a month, I make more than 6,000 gold soles a year selling coffee. ”

Later, some of the lord of the mining province proposed to rent a house for a long time, and they paid for the house for two years at a time, and they also sent someone to take care of it as their temporary residence in the royal capital. Tenis spread his hands and said, "Instead of losing money, Blue Amber has made a profit. That's something I didn't expect as well. However, the nobles of the royal capital, who had the right to rent farms in the city, also began to follow the example of Blue Amber and build noble manor inns, but they did not have coffee. And in order to sell the coffee to more lords of the fie, I built two more stone buildings to satisfy those who did not have long-term rentals. Now the Blue Amber has a great reputation, and the Baroness and Baroness Shatarn live in the building in front of them, and I still have the best floors reserved for them for your sake. ”

Victor chuckled, "My friend, I feel your heart...... In any case, I want to thank you. ”

"It's something a friend should do. Tenis said politely.

At the beginning, Tenis operated Randall Coffee, and after the lord's layers of exploitation, coupled with the personal contacts between the nobles of the royal capital, it can be said that he only lost money but did not make money. And the annual salary of the tax official of the royal capital is only 1,000 gold soles, and in order to master the resource of coffee, Tenis can only grit his teeth and hold on.

Victor wanted to break into the black market in Blinor, so he tricked the tax collector into smuggling coffee for profit, and suggested that he choose men from among the free folk merchants and form his own caravan to carry coffee and snow sugar.

Marcel, chosen by Turnis, was indeed a talent, believing that coffee as a noble drink could not be sold in the shops of the Free People, and the Blue Amber Hotel cleverly disguised the volume of coffee shipments.

Viscount Turnis made a lot of money and trusted Marcel. But unbeknownst to him, Victor had also reached into the black market in Blinor City through Marcel's caravan.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water. The guys in the caravan naturally have a way to make extra money. The goods are lost in transportation, the caravan is dotted along the way, and they only need to do a little tricking, and they can unknowingly hack a sum of supplies. Although the amount is not large, each caravan gets a little bit out, and the total amount of supplies flowing into the free people's black market is considerable.

With so many goods mixed together, it was difficult for even the Kingdom's spies to clarify the relationship.

Marcel hugged the thighs of the royal nobles and mingled in the freedmen's market in Blinor. And Tenes only wants results, not the process. In order to satisfy his master, Marcel not only has to feed a group of men, but also has the opportunity to get on and off his hands. When Marcel went to Wild Willow City to pick up the goods, he naturally had to get acquainted with some black merchants. So, the local thieves' guild cleverly recommended him to a black merchant who specialized in shipping in Blinor.

The black merchant deals in raw sugar candied fruits, mountain goods, bristle brushes, bacon sausages, oil-spun fabrics, ...... These are all goods purchased by Marcel in Wild Willows. The two sides connected and the fight suddenly became hot. According to the rules of the Free Folk Black Market, the black merchants were responsible for receiving and supplying the goods, and Marcel was responsible for covering the shipments, and the business grew bigger and bigger, and soon occupied a place in the Free Folk District outside Blinor.

In fact, the black merchant was a downline of the Golden Regiment Waych, and the black goods he handled were not the materials intercepted by the caravan, but from the industrial chain that Victor had painstakingly managed.

The smuggling caravans of the Golden Regiment transported light goods to the mountain people's strongholds, processed them into goods, and then channeled them through the channels of the freedmen traders and into the free people's black market. The Golden Order currently controls more than 100 black merchants, and has built a sales network that spreads throughout the main cities of the eastern, central, southern, southern, and western parts of Gambis, and even spreads across the territory of the kingdoms of Neville and Duoduo.

Among them, Blinauer City has the largest shipments, which can be said to be the best among other cities.

On the one hand, there are more than 150,000 freedmen attached to the city of Blinor, and the market potential is huge. The black merchants of the Golden Regiment have figured out their way and gained a firm foothold in Blinor City.

On the other hand, thanks to the population optimization of the Kingdom of Gambis.

The Centaur Hills continued to recruit hired laborers, and the lords of the western, south-central, and southern kingdoms were building their infrastructure with bricks, and they provided many jobs. The city of Blinor brought surplus populations to the western and south-central parts of the kingdom. The decline in the total number of displaced people in the royal capital has led to the stabilization of the work of the displaced families, the increase of income, the growth of savings, and the natural improvement of consumption power.

Last year, the total sales of the Golden Regiment in Blinor City were 3,000 gold soles, and in the first half of this year it has already exceeded 4,000 gold soles, and the total sales for the whole year are expected to be no less than 7,000. There will only be more in the future.

If you look at the whole of Gambis, the wealth in the pockets of the homeless will definitely make the lord's jaw fall on the table.

Victor vaguely remembers the story of buying bananas first and then selling shoes. He's doing the same thing.

Tenis is complacent about the annual profit of a few thousand gold soles, and Victor has to set up the game ahead of time before everyone reacts.

"Renault, you guys stay outside with Aka and take care of Swiftbird. Nelson, Gru, and Shaq accompanied me in. Victor turned his head and stepped into the Blue Amber Hotel.

Nelson took a quick step and asked in a low voice, "My lord, what kind of etiquette should we do to your parents?"

Tenis chuckled and said, "Your Excellency, you are vassals of Viscount Randall, not subordinates of the Baroness and Duchess of Shatarn...... The jaw salute is very much in line with who you are. ”

Nelson suddenly said, "I see. He stopped talking and followed Victor and Tenis up to the second floor of the hotel.

Baron Shatahn's family had been preparing for Victor's visit. A well-dressed butler with gray hair stood upright at the aisle. Seeing Viscount Turnis walking up with a nobleman whose face was covered by a hood, he looked excited and behaving at a loss, and asked in a trembling voice, "Master Vic, is it you?"

Victor took off his hood, showed a handsome face, and said with a smile, "Steward Joris, it's me." He put his arm on the butler's shoulder and sighed, "I haven't seen you for more than ten years, and you're old." ”

After Lelia Behrens married Baron Chartain, she arranged for her butler, Joris, to take care of little Victor's diet. The little baron wakes up from a nightmare at night, and Joris is always the first to appear in front of him. The relationship between the two is very close, when the little baron left home, he held the housekeeper and refused to let go, and Joris was also in tears.

"Master Vic, I thought I would never see you again in my life...... Thank you for the mercy of the Most High Lord, for allowing me to see Lord Vic again. Joris choked up, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and bowed, "Lord Ludwig, I'm very sorry. I'm so excited, please forgive me for my faux pas. ”

"I was only moved and not offended. Tenis chuckled.

"What about my parents?" said Victor untipped his cloak and handed it to the attendant beside the butler.

"The Baron and the Lady are waiting for you in the drawing-room. Joris snatched the little master's cloak from the squire's hand and led the way.

The blue amber living room is richly decorated yet elegant, in keeping with the status of the nobility. When Victor walked in the door, he saw Baron Chartain and Lady Lyria, as well as a slim maiden and a young boy with black hair and black eyes. The girl was supposed to be his sister Percy Wimbleton, whom he had never met, and the boy was probably his other half-brother.

Baron Shatarn was well-dressed, his half-gray black hair meticulously combed, and he sat in the main seat of the living room with a serious expression. He clenched his hands into fists, and looked at Victor's eyes with complicated eyes, a little nervous, a little excited, and an imperceptible panic. Apparently his heart was not as calm as he appeared.

"Dear Victor, my child, I am so glad to see you. ”

Lady Lylia had maroon hair, and although she was over forty years old, as a female cadet knight, she was tall and well-proportioned, fair-skinned, and beautiful, like a mature young woman in her early thirties. She stepped forward, her eyes glistening with tears, her full lips trembling slightly, and she reached out to rub Victor's face with her slender hand.

The little baron lost his mother at a young age, and his father and brother deliberately distanced him, but Lelia took on the responsibility of a mother, being gentle and strict with him, so to speak, as her own, but finally gave him to the Auguste family.

If according to the moral standards on earth, parents who sell their children will definitely be punished by law and public opinion, but in this world, blood is higher than family affection, and nurturing grace is greater than family kindness. The social value system constructed by the knights helped the big nobles to continue to gather strong bloodlines, while the small nobles had a hard time keeping good children. Otherwise, the human kingdom will be plunged into never-ending internal strife.

It is a fact that Baroness and Baroness Chartain betrayed the little baron, but the feelings they showed were also true, and they did not feel the slightest guilt about their original actions. Their approach was completely in line with the traditions of the nobility.

Victor doesn't hold a grudge against the Shatauns for his past. He let Lalia caress his face, looked down and smiled, "Mother, I'm glad to see you too. Then he looked up at the baron and said, "Father, are you alright?"

Baron Shataun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he had been worried that Victor would embarrass him, "Victor...... You've grown up. The baron coughed lightly, cleared his muddy and hoarse throat, massaged his face again, quietly rubbed his sour eyes, and then stood up and said, "Your Excellency Ludwig, please sit casually." ”

"It's my presumption. Tennis returned the favor with a graceful salute and said, "I have brought a 30-year-old bottle of Doume to this impromptu party. ”

He didn't use the word "family gathering," but everyone took it for granted.

Madame Lalia took Victor's hand and said with a coquettish smile, "Lord Viscount Ludwigsi, you are too polite. I'm going to arrange some snacks and barware...... Victor, you sit too. With that, she left the living room.

It wasn't long before Lalia led a few maids and placed pastries, preserves, fruits, and preserved venison on the table. Joris, the butler, uncorked the bottle and poured a glass of dume for everyone.

"Let's drink this cup for today's reunion. Baron Shatarn said, holding his glass.

"For today's reunion. Everyone raised their glasses and drank them all.