Lin Ye didn't know exactly when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he was still lying on the desk. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's dawn. He looked out the window, the morning sun stained the clouds red, and a light breeze blew in his face.

He yawned and was about to go out, but when he saw that he was still wearing the same dress he had changed yesterday, he smiled dumbly.

"If you go out like this, you will definitely be suspected of not sleeping well last night, and you will have to change your clothes. He had chosen a light hunting outfit, and if he were in the hinterland, he would have been laughed at if he had dressed so casually as a duke.

But the Far East and the inland are two different things after all, the Black Fire Castle itself does not produce flax, coupled with the closed environment, the population is sparse, the handicraft industry is still in a fairly primitive stage, and the ability to make candles and refine lamp oil with local methods has reached the upper limit.

This meant that Blackfire Castle was unable to produce fabric, and the clothes worn by the people were entirely made by purchasing them from caravanserais.

However, due to the complexity of the Far East, there would be no caravans that would choose to go to the Black Fire Castle to sell their goods, one is a long way, and it needs to pass through the territories of multiple tribes along the way, which is full of dangers, and the other is that the Black Fire Castle has weak purchasing power, and there are no precious metals, so there is no profit to be made.

Under these conditions, it would be strange for a caravan to come to Blackfire Castle.

In order to buy some necessities of life, Blackfire Castle often chooses to buy them in a border town called "Falcon Town", the closest human gathering area to Blackfire Castle on the map.

Although it was recently, it was by no means easy to get from Blackfire Castle to Falcon Town.

Not to mention the fact that they have to cross the territory of as many as 12 tribes in the Far East, each tribe is not willing to give way, even if it is completely unimpeded, it will take half a month to reach Falcon Town.

This back and forth has been more than a month, and the distance and danger of the road can be imagined.

In the early years, Blackfire Castle still had some strength, and it was able to forcibly carve out a path, and it was able to go to Falcon Town every two years to make purchases.

However, with the gradual decline of the Black Fire Castle, especially after the birth of the Little Duke Link, the standing army of the Black Fire Castle is worth more than 100, and it is not easy for such a strength to gain a foothold in the Far East.

Not to mention the border, it doesn't even have the financial resources to buy goods, and Blackfire Castle hasn't traded with Falcon Town for 15 years.

"The textile industry in this world is not developed, and there is no such thing as silk, if the time is ripe, the development of the textile industry is also a good choice, but before that there is still to solve the problem of financial resources and population, these two are the basis for the development of industry. Lin Ye looked in the mirror.

He smiled at the handsome young man with black hair and black eyes in the mirror, something he had never done before.

"I'm Link, Link is me, accept this identity, accept this world, here you are no longer a small clerk who only promises, but the duke of the empire, the overlord of the world!

He took a deep breath and opened the door.

At this time, Vivien happened to pass by with a basket of vegetables, and she looked at the young duke with some consternation.

"Good morning, Vivien, why are you looking at me like that? Do I look weird?" he asked with a smile.

Although he didn't sleep very well last night, he felt refreshed and hadn't felt like this in a long time.

"It's a little weird...... I always feel that you, Lord Duke, are very different from before. Vivien replied with a faint smile.

She wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, if the Duke was still a small staff member like Lin Ye, he would definitely like her type.

Both the appearance and figure are impeccable, and the key is that there is a temperament that is easily accessible.

However, he has obtained a new identity of Link, and he is only a 14-year-old boy, so his immunity to this type of girl has naturally increased a lot, and coupled with Milia's relationship, he is naturally not very interested in this charming and moving maid.

"Yes? I think it's not just me, it's going to be the whole of Blackfire Castle soon. By the way, did you see Mr. Murray?" Lin Ye looked confident and calm.

This was something that the previous little Duke Link would never have.

"Mr. Maury should be at home now, do you need me to call him?" asked Vivien.

It's not working time yet, and because of the tight manpower in the castle, most of the clerks wear many hats, so there are basically no daily meetings in the castle, and everything is called on an ad hoc basis.

"Then I'm sorry for you, if Mr. Maury's breakfast isn't ready, invite him to the council hall and have breakfast with me, and I'll have Miria prepare one for him, and you can go to Crescent Village to the west of the castle to find old Bill of the brewery, and let him come to the castle, I'll have something to look for him." ”

Lin Ye explained these two things to Vivian, and according to his estimates, in the next three months, the situation in the Black Fire Castle would be relatively stable.

With the lesson of the battle of Guillotine Valley, the rest of the surrounding tribes did not dare to fight the idea of the Black Fire Family for the time being.

But it is impossible for the Black Fire Family to use this battle to deter these tribes for too long, once the moon comes, it is inevitable that there will be tribes to pick quarrels and provoke trouble.

Moreover, the Black Dog Tribe is now decaying like this, and even if the Gray Wolf Tribe allied with them, small-scale conflicts are still unavoidable.

When the conflict evolves to a certain scale, even if the Viper, Lizard, and Poison Frog tribes don't trouble the Black Fire Family, out of strategic considerations, the Black Fire Family has to help the Black Dog Tribe.

It is inevitable that they will be involved in conflict.

So in the past three months, he urgently needs to do something to reverse the situation, otherwise when the time comes, if he fails to withstand the second wave of impact, the Black Fire Family will be completely finished.

The Black Fire Family, whose strength has been constantly drained over the years, has been able to survive until now is already unbelievable.

Lin Ye didn't want him, the duke's buttocks, to be knocked off the stage before he was hot, and he couldn't even save his life.

"How do I feel like I'm in a race against time?" he said with a self-deprecating smile as he entered the chamber and waited for Mr. Murray and Old Bill to arrive.

Mr. Murray came quickly, after all, he lived in the castle, and it was only a few minutes away.

But old Bill was longer, and it took more than twenty minutes for Vivien to come and go.

Lin Ye beckoned Mori to sit down in the conference hall and said with a smile: "Mr. Murray, please take a seat, I'm sorry to call you over so early, you haven't had breakfast yet, have you?" ”

In Link's memory, Morry was his teacher in Blackfire Keep, and much of his knowledge was imparted by Mr. Murray, so he had a lot of respect for Mr. Morry and used honorifics.

But there is one thing that makes Lin Ye very strange here, that is, the memories of Link in his mind are all after the age of 6.

This meant that he didn't remember anything about Link before he was 6 years old, and he didn't know if it was Link's own problem or if it was something else.

Although this made him wonder, it was a matter that could be slowed down, and the top priority was to change the status quo of Blackfire Castle.

"Thank you, sir, but I don't know what the matter is that the lord has come to me, and why haven't the other officials arrived yet?" asked Morry, sitting down.

Vivien was only responsible for getting Maury over, and didn't tell him why Link was looking for him, or how many other people he had found.

In fact, Vivien herself did not know the answer to the previous question, and she did not trespass too much as a maid.

So Murray only called the whole meeting as Lord Duke, as he had done several times before.

"I didn't call anyone else, and it wasn't a formal meeting today, just you, me, and old Bill, who was at the brewery in a moment's time, and the three of us discussed some private issues like a family. Lin Ye smiled.

"Bill of the brewery?" Morry frowned, he really didn't understand what the young Duke was doing with letting a winery owner come to such a serious council chamber, could it be that the lord was obsessed with drinking?

If that's the case, that's not good news.

"Yes, let's talk while we eat, and today I want to have a good discussion about the sake brewing industry. Lin Ye smiled and threw out this seemingly ordinary question that had nothing to do with the current situation of the Black Fire Castle.

But he knows that this seemingly insignificant industry will fundamentally change the future of Blackfire Castle!