"My lord, the sausages in Raven Town are delicious, they cost three times as much as regular sausages, and they are especially loved not only by the holy knights, but also by the barbarians. Knight Nikolai said with a smile.

"Because there's a little jaggery in the sausage. ”

"Yes. "Nicholas Knight Jaws" Compared with expensive and scarce honey, jaggery sugar is a relatively cheap condiment, and it can also replenish physical energy. The barbarians go on long safaris in the snow and ice, and when food is scarce, they still need to be nourished, so the Borui gin and our purple cane wine are popular with the barbarians. But the wine is not good for carrying, and if we ship the jaggery to Arret, we will definitely be able to sell it for a good price. ”

"The problem is that anyone can make ale, and jaggery is a specialty of the Randall family. ”

"The royal family of Dordor expects the price of jaggery to double, and they want to finalize the supply price and trade share of jaggery before the price increases, and increase the reserve of jaber. ”

"Makes sense. Victor smiled, "Let's dine first, I can't wait to taste Uncle Nicholley's roast deer." ”

Nikolai was stunned for a moment, and quickly took out the dagger, cut the roasted bobtail deer and put it on a plate, and handed it to Sophia, Victor, and Natalia respectively.

The roast venison is golden in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and Victor is full of praise for eating it. Sophia tasted a few pieces of deer loin casually, and then went back to the carriage to rest with a cold face, she was very unhappy with her husband's change of subject. Only Natalia happily accompanies Victor to dinner.

Sophia has long realized the value of jaggery, and she has always wanted to get the franchise of jaggery. Now, the Dordor finally made a deal with the jarged sugar, but Victor still didn't say no, which made her feel lost and resentful.

Hmph, the sweet words along the way are all fake!

Actually, Victor thought of another possibility.

The nutritional value of jaggery is higher than that of snow sugar, and the production cost is lower than that of snow sugar, and its only disadvantage is that the storage cycle is slightly shorter than that of snow sugar.

Such a good thing at a good price, but the Duoduo people secretly tried to buy it at a low price.

Luckily, Victor snatched the Blood Boiling Elixir from the Brotherhood of Kamen, otherwise he would have almost been fooled by the Duoduo.

The biggest advantage of the Boiling Blood Elixir is that soldiers can take three bottles in a row in a day, but the effect decreases. The reason for the diminishing effect of boiling blood is that the soldier's physical strength cannot keep up, not the problem of the potion itself. If the boiling blood potion is taken with jaggery, its boiling effect, duration, and number of times will be amazingly improved.

Victor had long suspected that the Borui had bought off the high lord of the Kingdom of Dordor with the Boiling Blood Elixir, and he was now sure that the Royal Family of Dordor had mastered the recipe for the Boiling Blood Elixir.

The Friedrich family used the power of the Duoduo lord to put pressure on Sophia, and at the same time secretly asked Viscount Negus to show favor to Sophia, or he was using Sophia to extort the jaggery of the centaur hills.

The inside story of this is too much to figure out.

Under the conditions of the feudal system, the royal family and the great lord were interdependent, but they were by no means monolithic. In fact, the king had limited influence over the high lord, at least he had no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the high lord. And monopolizing a certain resource is a common means for the royal family to maintain an advantage over the lord. The lords, in turn, had to manage to break the monopoly of the royal family.

The internal conflict between the king and the lord gave Victor an opportunity, and he vaguely had an immature idea.

After a venison dinner, Victor pulled Natalia back to the carriage.

The silk curtain of the carriage outlined Sophia's graceful figure, and Victor called out, "Dear Madam, I want to bathe." ”

"Wash it yourself!Natalia, I won't let you help him!" Sophia said angrily through the curtain.

Victor said, "Then you two will help me together." ”

"The beauty of thought!"

"I'm going to give you an idea, I don't think so. Victor shook his head regretfully.

A slender hand that deceived the frost and snow lifted the curtain, and Sophia deftly got out of the living room of the carriage, she looked Victor up and down, her eyes rolled, and she bit her red lip lightly, "Honey, are you really ready to help us?"

"My favorite is Sophia. Victor laughed, hugged the two beauties, and squeezed into the lavatory of the carriage.

Washing away the smell of barbecue, Victor and Sophia and Natalia, who were dressed in cool clothes, reclined on the bearskin couch.

Sophia raised her hand to spread her wet purple hair, stared at Victor with a pair of wonderful eyes, and said, "My dear husband, what do you have in mind?"

Victor disturbed the breeze blowing his hair, and asked curiously, "How much can the 5 knights and 11 trainee knights of the Sabertooth Tiger Merchant Group get paid every year?"

"Natalia can transfer money directly from my vault, she doesn't need an annuity. The knights of the saber-toothed tiger merchant group are 11,000 gold soles each, and the apprentice knights are 3,000 gold soles each. Sophia said calmly.

Victor was dumbfounded, and the breeze in the carriage stopped. Natalia pushed him and said coquettishly, "Honey, keep blowing the wind." ”

The Lord Knights of the House of York receive a subsidy of 4,000 gold soles per year, and the Knight of the Gambis Praetorian Guard does not receive an annuity of 8,000 gold soles, but they are all knights who are naturally promoted, while the knights of the Saber-toothed Tiger Merchant Order rely on potions to be promoted. The bloodlines and strength of the two are very different, and their social status is also completely different.

Lord knights' fiefs or fiefs were small, and the lords subsidized them financially so that they could maintain a decent and luxurious knightly aristocratic life. The other four knights of the Sabertooth Tiger Merchant Order belonged to two families, and each couple was paid more than 20,000 gold soles a year, which was more than the annual income of most baronies.

Sophia's bold move made Victor stunned, and he shook his head and said, "Nelson's annual salary of 2,000 gold soles is not as good as one of your apprentice knights...... No wonder Nicholas and they are reluctant to give up the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce, I'm afraid only Natalia really wants to stay with me. ”

"My dear, I like you, whether it's Victor in the past, or Viscount Randall now. But I will only stay with Sophia, and her will is my will. Natalia said.

"Loyalty is a valuable quality. Victor looked at him in admiration, and Natalia looked down and smiled.

One is young and handsome, the other is mature and beautiful, how do you look awkward...... Sylvia has become younger, it turns out that it is for the convenience of being coquettish!

Sophia's mind was full of chaotic thoughts, she let the jealousy ferment, carefully experienced it for a moment, pouted, and said, "Your question is really interesting, my knight is not as unbearable as you think." As a sovereign, I also have an obligation to respect, protect, and guarantee the livelihood of my knights. If the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce has a profit of 200,000 gold soles a year, I will pay the saber-toothed tiger knights according to the total amount of profits, so as to show that I value them, and they will be loyal in return. ”

"Do you have any questions?" Sophia looked at Victor disapprovingly and sneered, "You're not going to tell me to abandon my followers, are you?"

"Nothing!" Victor denied.

"I see you're the knight who dislikes me, and I tell you, I'm there, they're there!"

Victor's heart was thrilled by Sophia's light anger and anger, and he suddenly realized that Sophia's behavior was different from the marquis in his memory, becoming gentle and vivid, and more feminine.

Dull monarchs tend to give power to unfettered desires, and there are few mediocre lords in this world, because high knights are good at controlling their emotions. Their presence clearly raises the difficulty of the power game, and since the opponent does not make mistakes, then he must not make mistakes!

Victor retracted his heart, and said confidently and calmly, "I'm just making sure that your will can represent the true thoughts of the Sabertooth Tiger Knight." ”

Sophia pondered for a moment, then said in confusion, "Shouldn't vassals obey the will of the sovereign?

It's really important to have a smart teacher...... Victor sighed inwardly, shook his head and smiled, "The truth is this, the truth may be the opposite...... Maybe your subordinates are influencing your will and you don't realize it, and if you represent your subordinates' thoughts with your own thoughts, the results will be very, very bad!"

"The mystery is something you can ponder later. I just want to know now if you are as united now, and that's pretty much your only advantage!"

Sophia's beautiful face rippled with a touching smile, like a snowlotus blooming, cold and noble.

"Of course, I'm a firm believer in that!"

"I hope so......"

Victor gave her a meaningful look, and then said, "I've decided to hand over the Randall family's jaggery to the Two-Headed Lizard Chamber of Commerce. ”

Sophia calmly asked, "Why, you should know that Sylvia wants me to join the House of York, and you will not have a favorable outcome for me to ask her to beg her." How are you going to help me?"

"I want to make Sylvia happy, is that okay?" Victor raised his eyebrows, and when he saw Sophia's compose, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, "You're not jealous? ”

"Why should I be jealous?" Sophia's soft and boneless delicate body wrapped around Victor, and she breathed in his ear amusedly, biting her lip and saying, "Dear Victor, so that we can be together every day." What else can I do but have you?Do you know what I'm going to do?I'll be a competent Viscountess Randall, drive all your lovers away, and have a few noble heirs with you...... My husband, you want to do the same, don't you?"

"I'm satisfied, except for the third ......" Victor coughed dryly, and said in a straight voice, "Let's continue talking about jaggery!"

"Viscount Negus is going to increase the share of the trade in jaggery by a factor of 20, which is almost my annual production of jaggery. But do you know how many purple cane forests I have to harvest? 8,000 mu? Do you know how many purple cane forests I have? 570,000 mu!"

Natalia covered her red mouth, and her beautiful apricot eyes widened. Sophia leaned against Victor and said softly, "Honey, isn't that great?"

"Not good! not at all!" Victor shook his head, "If the Friedrichs know the truth, they have plenty of excuses to propose a new trade agreement to you...... And then break the contract at any time!"

Sophia was silent, Victor knew in his heart, and continued, "Since jaggery is so important, why can I swallow all the benefits alone? In fact, the Earl of Terrandon and the Duke of York have 110,000 acres and 20,000 acres of purple cane forests respectively, and they only need to harvest 10,000 acres to get a huge profit, but they don't. Why? Because Sylvia won't allow them to interfere with my jaggery sales strategy. ”

"Sylvia trusts me, and I will be rewarded! I will hand over the raw sugar to the joint-stock chamber of commerce to jointly manage it, so that I can win the support of the York family, and the Randall family can gain a foothold in the centaur hills. ”

Natalia's eyes were admiring, and she asked tenderly, "Honey, can you tell us what your jaggery sales strategy is?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. ”

"Huh?"

"It's definitely not just about making money!" Victor clenched his fists and laughed, "to the point where the pursuit of money alone seems to be extraordinarily shallow. Brown candy is like a crowbar, and in my hands it can change many things!"

"For example, it can help me break the game. Sophia's eyes lit up and she said.

Victor stared at his beautiful amethyst eyes and asked with a smile, "Do you really believe in King Dodor's sincerity?"

"No one dares to cut off the trade routes of the Marquess of Wimbledon until the barbarians cross the river!The Grand Lord of Dordor would not be so stupid, but the situation has changed, and the kingdom of Dordor has changed from a place of war to a trade route connecting the north and the south. The Duoduo needed a lot of supplies to rebuild their northern territories. If I were the king of Dord, how could I allow the caravan of the Borui to dominate the family?

"The question is, why should the Duos support you?"

"Because you show your weaknesses, you're especially easy to bully. You know that King Dodor is not sincere, but you still have to negotiate!"

Victor said lazily, "Tell me the truth, dear. ”

Sophia was silent for a moment, shook her head and smiled, "Victor, you really surprised me. I can't hide it from you...... Well, if I don't do something, the Bucks will soon disintegrate. ”

Victor nodded and said, "It doesn't matter if you can solve the problem, it's important to have an attitude to solve the problem, and this attitude is for the Bucks business group." He asked, "What is the current state of the Bucks Merchant Group?"

Natalia glanced at Sophia and sighed, "The hearts of people are disheartened. Many of the caravan mates took refuge in the Southwind Merchant Order, and many of them were confidants of the Bucks Merchant Troupe's steward. What they want to do, it goes without saying. ”

"You led a rabble. And it's all your own doing. If you hadn't separated the Confidant Knight from the Bucks Merchant Group and formed the Sabertooth Tiger Merchant Clan, there wouldn't have been such an embarrassing situation!" Victor sharply criticized.

Sophia shook her head and said, "I don't regret my decision. There is too much sand in the bucks business group, and it can't be picked up completely. The saber-toothed tiger could have absorbed the backbone of the buck merchant group and replaced it. No one expected things to change so quickly!"

Starting from scratch, absorbing the backbone, is actually the same as I thought...... Victor muttered in his heart, looked up and said, "Then you should understand that it was the Radiant Knights who instructed the Borui people to target you, and the other forces just pushed the boat with the flow." Even if you pay a huge price to buy off the Duoduo Lords, when the Radiant Knights make an alliance with Harlotus, the Sassan Empire will cut off your trade to weaken your influence over the barbarians. ”

"Honey, you're dragging down the Chamber of Commerce. ”

Victor rubbed Sophia's delicate and smooth cheeks, and said sympathetically, "Gambis will have a new business aristocrat to replace you." Sylvia and I formed the Two-Headed Lizard Joint-Stock Chamber of Commerce in response to this change. ”

Sophia took Victor's hand and said quietly, "My predicament seems to be unsolvable...... But I was not willing to surrender on my knees...... This is tantamount to negating all my efforts. ”

"It's not like the Sophia I know. Victor shook his head and smiled, "What's your plan to break the game?"

"Convince you, you convince Sylvia again, and help me with ideas. ”

Victor was stunned for a long time and muttered, "It's that simple?"

"Hmm. Sophia pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly, "You can laugh if you want, I am a noble girl of Suss with purple eyes and blood, who does not rely on my own man?"

The argument is strong.

Victor exclaimed, "Simple, effective, and wise!"

Sophia and Natalia laughed and trembled, and she looked up and asked, "Are you praising yourself?

"Not yet. Victor touched his nose and added, "I have a rough idea...... The harder it is, the more you can't back down...... I need information about the powerful lords of Duoduo, including their relationship with each other, as well as the current details of the Stag Merchant Order, you can sort them out for me. ”

"What do you want to do?" Sophia stared at Victor with interest, trying to find a clue from his face.

"Thinking about how to convince Sylvia. Victor freed himself from Sophia and Natalia's entanglement, struggled to get up and said, "You guys have made it impossible for me to concentrate, I'll get out of the carriage and think about it." With that, he left the carriage and walked into the quiet and dark woods with Renaud and Shak.

Natalia lowered the curtain and said with a complicated expression, "When I think of Victor helping us with advice for Nicole, my heart is sour, he used to ......" Seeing Sophia's eyes turned sideways, she smiled again, "Dear Sophia, don't you want to leave me." ”

"No, I mean...... I have your feelings too, Sylvia is right, it's wonderful, it's important......" Sophia closed her eyes and was immersed in inexplicable emotions, and after a moment, she opened her eyes and smiled, "Dear sister, don't worry." The initiative is in our hands. ”

"Because I am the Marquess of Wimbledon and the Viscountess Randall. ”

In the woods, Victor quickly wrote two letters in Chinese with the help of the dim moonlight, one of which was the recipe for the recovery potion.

"Use the Alchemy Raven to pass the two letterheads to Kane, the leader of the elite guards who follow Balor, and ask him to act according to the contents of the letterhead. ”

"Yes. Renault took the letterhead, turned and left.

Victor grabbed him and complained, "Aren't you curious about my plan?"

"Oh. Renault paused, imitated Nelson's appearance, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "My lord, what is your plan?"

"Planting, slapping in the face, and whitewashing...... Forget it, forget it, there you go. ”

Victor waved Renault away in a reluctant manner, and sighed with his hands

"Smart people are really lonely. ”