Chapter Twenty-Four: Talk!
Baron Pope's residence was a castle similar to the Western Middle Ages, and as a baron with a fief, his ancestors were once glorious. Even though after generations of inheritance, the glory of the past is slowly gone, and the land in the fief is slowly shrinking for various reasons, but he is still a baron who does own the fief and controls the fate of more than a thousand people.
The castle is equipped with various defenses such as walls and arrow towers, and a guard of twenty people armed with leather armor and steel swords is patrolling.
In Zhao Feng's insight eyes, it can be seen that this escort team of twenty people, each of them has the strength of a second-level bronze warrior or above, and there are even three third-level bronze warriors.
This strength is much more elite than most of the first-level bronze warriors in Dauphinbru City.
The interior of the castle is made of marble, and there are oil paintings hanging around the walls, which are clean and tidy, revealing a touch of luxury.
Along the way, Zhao Feng saw many young maids and manservants busy in the castle, and whenever he saw Pop coming, he would salute Pop.
As soon as Zhao Feng's swamp monitor lizard entered the castle, a servant came to lead it to the livestock shed, and although he was very frightened by the swamp monitor lizard that could swallow a human in one bite, the servant still trembled and followed the baron's instructions to take it away.
Entering a visitor's study, Zhao Feng and Baron Pop were on the sofa.
A good-looking maid, about sixteen or seventeen years old, served each of them a cup of hot coffee and withdrew.
"Dear Mr. Mage, where are you from?" asked Baron Pope, plainly.
"I'm from Rock Town. Zhao Feng said lightly.
Starting with this ordinary politeness, Zhao Feng began to chat slowly with Baron Pope.
Half of Zhao Feng's soul is a resident of this world, and the other half of his soul is from modern times, although the soul from the inhabitants of this world is basically out of language and has not learned much, but the other half comes from the earth where information is exploding, and there is a mage who is known for his power and eccentricity as a cover. As time passed, Baron Pop became more and more knowledgeable and intelligent about the young magician in front of him.
And as the chat with Baron Nabop deepened, the aristocracy's poor impression that the nobles were portrayed as parasites, disgusting, perverted, like to rob people's daughters, incompetent, and only knew the wind and snow, which was synonymous with waste, and because of Nabolesi, the waste leader of Dauphin Blu, the city was easily captured by the orcs, the inferior impression was gradually reversed.
Baron Pope was the ruler of the fiefdom and the largest administrator of the fiefdom, who was involved in agriculture, hunting, economics, law, arithmetic, politics, history, and many other fields. Although the inhabitants of his fiefdom were not wealthy, it was not a problem to maintain food and clothing. Mastering a territory, the fate of more than a thousand people is not a simple matter, in this era of backward technology with a yield of two or three hundred catties per mu of wheat, being able to maintain the food and clothing of the people in the territory can already be seen in the ability of Baron Pope.
"Mr. Pope, please help me buy one hundred and fifty big fat pigs to feed my pet. This is the honorarium, the flower of the ten black spirits. Please buy them as soon as possible!" Zhao Feng took out twenty Black Spirit Flowers from the package he was carrying, and pushed them in front of Baron Pop.
A big fat pig needs about two or three gold coins to buy, and one hundred and fifty big fat pigs need three hundred or four hundred gold coins.
A flower of the black spirit, in the city of Dauphinbru, the buyer is willing to offer a price of twenty gold coins, but if there is a way, it can definitely be sold for more than thirty gold coins. If it is placed in a small auction inside the mage, you can even auction more than 40 gold coins. These twenty Black Spirit Flowers could be sold for four hundred to six hundred gold coins, far exceeding the value of those big fat pigs.
However, it is not as commercial and well-served as the earth. Zhao Feng, who didn't have any network resources, whether he wanted to sell the Black Spirit Flower or buy one hundred and fifty big fat pigs, it would take a lot of time and energy, but for the head snake Baron Pop, it was very simple, and only one order was needed.
"Worthy of a magician, he is really rich. Baron Pope sighed in his heart, this business, through the channels he mastered, he could earn nearly two hundred gold coins at once.
Baron Pope's entire domain, if the harvest is good, the salaries to be paid to the stewards and servants, the expenses for food, the maintenance of weapons, and other expenses are removed in a year, and the surplus is at most more than 1,000 gold coins. If the year is bad and the harvest is low, it will even lose money.
"No problem, tomorrow you will get what you want. Baron Pope smiled slightly, shook a bell, and a middle-aged man dressed as a butler walked in, "Put these away, and send one hundred and fifty big fat pigs into the castle before dayfall tomorrow." ”
"Yes, Lord Baron!" replied the butler, put away the ten black spirit flowers, and then withdrew.
Zhao Feng chatted with Baron Pope for a while, time passed, and the dinner began.
In the ballroom, there was a long table, on which was laid a spotless white cloth, on which were soft and delicious white bread, jams, cheeses, cod, hen stewed mushroom soup, roasted veal tenderloin, and all kinds of fine foods.
Todd's family consisted of three, and Todd's wife, Magnai, was a blonde, blue-eyed, rough-handed, ordinary-looking, and very old-looking woman. Todd's son, Little Baker, is a blonde boy.
The Todd family were all neatly dressed, but their clothes looked a little out of place for the dinner.
Todd and Margo looked a little restrained in front of the baron, while little Baker stared at the food on the table.
"Praise be to Heckmore, the great god of fire! Under your protection, we can have peace and harvest food. Praise you!"
After Baron Pope and his wife prayed, the meal began.
Todd and Margo were still a little restrained in the face of the noble Baron Pop, but little Baker began to devour the food on the table, they were ordinary farmers in Baron Pop's domain, and many of the things on the table they had never eaten.
Looking at the gobbling little Baker, Baron Pop frowned slightly, then let go. As a nobleman, he hated eating with uneducated people very much, but Zhao Feng, a noble mage, was by his side, so he didn't have much to say.
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