Just returned to the territory, everything is waiting to be done.

Bran hired the craftsman Jones, and now the quality of the printing machine has been improved, the speed of printing paper and the consumption of ink have been improved, and Bran's current printing products have been able to meet the needs of 100,000 people.

Profits are rolling in.

However, in order to keep the machine from falling into the hands of man, Howard found a safe forest with the machine and built a small camp to guard it.

Sooner or later, someone will come to grab such profits, and Bran decided to shoot hard, ruthlessly, and quickly.

When he went to make the rounds, Bran was also relieved, "It won't be long before we can print in the open." “

The craftsman didn't understand this, just nodded.

He summoned Ambu and Desley, as well as Hilde and Simon who were far away in Rome, and Carol who was outside.

The grandfather will do the work for the family.

When Bran saw Carol returning to the manor, he was extremely shocked.

Carol's man was horribly burned, his eyes barely visible, and his nose and mouth seemed to be glued together.

The skin on the face was completely burned, and even the skin on the scalp was necrotic.

But Marlene did not dislike him, and after her husband returned to the manor, she kept encouraging him.

Also because the child was about to be born, he cheered up.

Now that Carol no longer wears a mask, the Half-Faced man is gone.

"Your Highness."

"Card ...... Teacher. “

"I'm alive." Carol squeezed out a smile, although her facial features were distorted, the joy on her face could still be seen.

Bran took Carol's hand and sat on the left hand side of the lord's table, with the right hand side vacant.

After sitting down, Bran looked at the crowd, "Now, there is war everywhere, from the south to the north, if we go slowly, we will be trampled underfoot, I have to redraw the negative country plan now, if you have something to say, just say it." “

After Bran finished speaking, he slapped the table with his palm, and Carol didn't need to say much, his life was with Bran.

Bran looked at them in turn, and Heard spoke, "Your Highness, do you want to go from the north or from the south?"

Hilde was also privately running his estate in Rome during this time, and he asked this selfishly.

"To the north, take out our enemy first--Nefer."

Hearing this, Hilde was a little relieved, but asked again, "Now that the Principality of Barcelona has also voted for Ashclay and paid taxes for protection, although we can pull up a team of a few hundred people, but the injured Nefer still has 3,000 people to protect the Principality, and there is a castle to defend it, how can we start?"

"Everything is linked to each other, Nefer is far away from us, but Florence is close to us, this time, Albert joined forces with Venice, the 'Battle of the Gorge' was defeated, let the 'giant Shangluo', sealed the north of Rome, and gave away a lot of the entire republic of commercial power, the merchant aristocratic council, I think he was also under great pressure, this is our breach.

You have all been born and died with me, and I will not hide it from you.

As a first step, I will ask a person in the north to help us order a large number of wool lists and various goods from the Republic, so that the Quake family will think that they have a lot of business and put their funds on it.

Then we have the second step, which is to collect all the claims of the city. “

The so-called creditor's right is a special means of raising funds in the urban republic, issuing a decree signed by the consuls, selling the future proceeds, and obtaining funds for the construction of production, if it is in a feudal country, it is generally a direct tax increase.

"Debt collection?"

"Yes, we can't collect it all, but as long as some of it can cause panic, in addition to the Republic, the Quake family has also sold a lot of commercial bonds to pay the reparations.

We place orders from the north, pay a deposit first, force them to produce goods in large quantities, and when the time comes, I will persuade the other nobles to take the debt together and make trouble at the meeting of the nobles.

The consul election is coming in less than a year, and in the past, there was no one to compete, so they didn't have to spend a penny, but this time I will find a nobleman to fight, which will make their funds even tighter.

As long as we can legally take the position of the standard-bearer of justice in the end, we will have a reason to collect debts from Nefer.

He was not strong in the first place, but he was able to expand all the time, and he expanded his territory several times in just a few years, all thanks to Albert's support.

If he refuses to pay, I will unite with the nobles of Northern Italy who have been oppressed by him, such as the subjects of the Duchy of Cannae, who he annexed and lost their territory, and hold him by the throat.

Even give the right to collect debts directly to the side of Aschu Clan.

I'm going to force them to come to me.

In the same way, the military is our back, and if we don't have soldiers, he will turn his back, so I'm going to change to the Knights and expand the numbers so that Never can't hurt us.

When we take over the city, we will set up the Teutonic 'City Knights', and then we will have an official status.

Justifiably can be expanded. At that time, all the other mercenary groups in the city will be annexed.

I will use the economy to annex and coerce these feudal lords in the shortest possible time, and establish our power in the mountain lords around the Alps, northern Italy, and even the nearby surrounding cities.

Listen, the merit is at hand, waiting for us to take it.

I returned from the Crimean Peninsula this time, where I met the steppe Khan and won the battle against tens of thousands of people.

You can get the submission of dozens of towns at one time, and if a woman can do it, then we can also write the words in our mouths into the legal code, so that the subjects of various places can spread it. “

Bran finished speaking in one breath, and everyone present was envious.

The commercial hegemony that Bran talked about, Hilde was thrilled in his heart.

He is not willing to live an ordinary life, and he agrees at the moment, even if he crushes his body, he will let Bran accomplish the great goal.

At this time, someone said, "Who is the one who ordered from the north?" And convince the Quake family that they must be a native and have an identity. “

Bran didn't say it explicitly, but this person already sounded in his mind, that is, Durren, the little Irish lord who was rescued by him when he was in the valley and agreed to keep in touch.

And his friend in the Knights, Leary Dan, is now also in England, and he can also ask him to help, pretending to order city goods, using the identity of an English nobleman.

Bran took the sand table of the peninsula in front of him, took a closer look, and took the flag on it.

The Duchy of Venice was no longer an island state, but was to be connected to the peninsula.

After the meeting was over, and after returning to his study, Bran wrote two letters to the North, one to Leary, asking about the war in England, and expressing his hope that he would help to order a shipment in the official name.

But this goods, no need to pay, the deposit indemnity, Bran to out.

At the same time, Bran would donate a sum of money to Leary to pay for the war against the Scottish people.

Bran speculated that it was not unlikely, that Leary would agree, and that now that the southern part of the peninsula had been conquered by Chaisu, it was impossible for their family's fief to be taken back. Viscount Dan, who sold his property a few steps earlier, can be said to have escaped.

Now their family, as retainers of England, will not pay too much attention to the affairs of the peninsula.

The letter is asked for friendship with a friend, and ends with profit.

And then it's for Duren.

The letter is written more bluntly.

"From Peninsula Bran. Chaman, my friend, I need your help right now, which will bring a new dimension to our relationship, and even affect one side, and you may be able to go from a wool lord to a businessman who dominates the affairs of the country, and I will ......"

The letter Bran first induces Eli, and finally mentions his kindness to saving him, hoping that Durham will help.

Bran feels that Duren values profits, but is also a man who is willing to repay the favor - profit before favor.

Two letters, Bran sends Simon to do it, Simon is loyal and at the same time does not have the same ambition as Hilde.

Hilde, on the other hand, was approached by Bu and entrusted with the task of acquiring the debt.

"I want you to collect it in batches, and at the same time, find your connections to disrupt market prices, I know your skills, don't let me down."

The other meaning of Bran's remark is that I know that you have done smuggling, and you have secretly contacted many people.

Hilde walked out of the room almost in the cold.

Until I went back to the room, I still couldn't calm down for a long time......

Bran didn't pay attention to what Hield was thinking, and dared to use him as long as he could control him now.

"I want to be quick, sooner or later, Ashklay and Chaisu will have to divide the victory and defeat, and once they are separated, they will not allow the existence of strong vassals in Italy. Within a year, I will expand the size of the Order to 4,000 people, and the number of people will exceed 150,000.

Bran set a small goal of earning him a country (the Florentine commercial republic) first.

He also heard the voice of God, and he will be a great monarch, a one-and-nothing being.

He took out the sand table map, planted the family flag, and a new state, the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, was formed.

With the Kingdom of Venice as the title of king, the jure law includes the peninsula, Swabia, Bavaria, East Francia, and Tunisia.

In 1318, four years after what historians call the year of the Beginning, the future Demon King Bran embarked on the path of the Lord of a Kingdom!