Chapter 69: The Lord's Inspection

Merlin, after enjoying a very typical aristocratic breakfast in the castle, hears the voice of Pichu making a loud noise in the next hall. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Merlin frowned and walked quickly to the hall, in the round room, there was a high circular vault overhead, and it was also decorated with some quaint plaster patterns, and there were some knights' armor standing on both sides, and the sword in his hand was shining silver. Perhaps this is the richest thing left in the castle.

Most of the servants in the castle were transferred, leaving only a few local servants, including Bistin, the former butler who managed the place.

Bisdin is a very shrewd man, and his home is in the Iron Blood. He has lived here for generations, and his family is almost exclusively servants in the castle.

Throughout the hall, Pichu and the old butler Bisdine were arguing.

"That's all the accounts for the year, are you kidding? there aren't that many in the imperial capital!" Pichu pointed to the thick ledgers piled up on the table like a hill, which were stacked to be higher than Pichu.

"This young master, this is all this year's account book. Bistin replied seriously: "The information here includes the land measurement area and cultivated land area of the entire Drexian Province, as well as the expenditure of urban revenue, the army's logistics supply expenditure, military salaries, supplies, and weapons consumption, etc., in addition to the grain harvest, and the budget for the buildings to be built this year." Climate change, economic losses from orc raiding, expenditures on trade transactions. In addition to these, there are some estimates of next year's income and expenditure, whether there will be a war, etc..... The imperial ledger that the young master said before was a reduced version for the emperor to see. The real number of ledgers is hundreds or even thousands of times more than here. ”

Pichu looked at the ledger in front of him and his head buzzed, "I need to watch this for a week, bastard!"

Bisdin shook his head, "In addition to these, there is other intel about Drex. I suspect you're going to watch it for a month..."

Pichu looked at the old butler with a confused expression, and saw Merlin out of the corner of his eye, this guy is the lord, can he see so much?

Just as Pichu was about to say something, Merlin instantly approached Pichu and patted him on the shoulder, "You're the city, oh! no, it's the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the entire province! Work hard, I believe in you. ”

After saying that, Merlin ran away with a shadow, joke, let himself read the ledger, how can I have those time? Let me see that I can understand? Even a merchant nobleman like Pichu can understand this thing.

Pichu looked at the ledger in front of him and gritted his teeth, "Okay, isn't that all? ”

Bisdin nodded, closed the door to the hall and retreated, tonight, the lord said that there was a meeting. I have to prepare my dinner.

"Merlin, how about walking me to see the city?" Anne looked at Merlin with a smile as Merlin fished in the pool in her castle. I say that this fish pond was built by the old owner who was very fond of fishing.

Merlin also likes to fish, which is the best way to spend time and get food. Although Merlin does not like to eat fish.

Merlin thought for a moment, he was also a lord of a territory, the lord of Iron Blood City, and he also had to know what was in his city, right? Is this the so-called lord inspection? ”

Madeh was appointed head of the Order by Merlin, and although Madeh was a mid-level swordsman, she was able to beat ordinary high-level swordsmen with her sword skills and natural combat instincts. At the beginning, the knights who were transferred were basically mid-level swordsmen, and none of them were convinced. Merlin told Made, "It's all right." It's really outstanding!

The arrogant knights were all beaten and obeyed, and they all recognized this young boy as a high-achieving student of Hove's magic students.

Merlin's first task for him was to recruit soldiers, at all costs. Drexno's large territory actually has only one city, and the population is pitiful. Merlin means that if there are not enough people, they will go to other cities to rob, and if they can't do it, they will buy mercenaries. Money is not a problem, in the previous beast tide, Merlin made a lot of Warcraft crystals, and at the same time, he also had all the property of the unlucky "hunter" in the Warcraft Forest for more than ten years. Merlin can be described as a super tyrant.

Anne took Merlin's arm and the two walked out of the castle like a young couple and came to the city. There isn't even a church in the city, which is normal, and the kingdom of Farr itself doesn't like the Church of Light. How could there be a church in such a remote area? Didn't you see that there was no church in the city of Calban? The most common thing in the city was the tavern, and the largest marble building on the edge was the mercenary guild.

It borders the orc savannah, and many merchants have to hire bodyguards in order to trade with orcs, and these mercenaries are the best choice. The Mercenary Guild is basically surrounded by taverns and weapon shops. There is a very large building next to the mercenary union, the building is very crudely built, but the area is vast. It alone covers an area larger than Merlin's castle. This is the trading market for humans and orcs. The orcs carried their unique supplies across the grasslands to the Iron Blood City, and the place they headed for was here, the Iron Blood Trading Center.

It is home to merchants from all over the world, who use it to trade with orcs, and it is also the largest tax supply in Iron Blood.

Merlin and Anne were going to visit the Iron and Blood Trading Center to see how the Terrans and Orcs traded.