After receiving the reward, Evan took his father around the city of London just to buy one thing, a car. Whether it was a horse-drawn cart or an ox-cart, as long as it was sold with a cart and a cart of livestock, the price was not ridiculously expensive, and Evan bought it. Seeing that the money in his hand was decreasing little by little, he felt a pain in his flesh, but he couldn't form a caravan without a cart to pull goods. For this reason, Ai Wen could only meditate in his heart, reluctant that the child could not trap the wolf, and reluctant that the child could not trap the wolf.

After purchasing ten carts, there was not much gold left in Aiwen's hand. So he went to the villages outside the city, targeting the livestock of the peasants. Chickens, sheep, pigs, and cows, after inspection, there seemed to be no problem, and Ai Wen did not refuse to come. After sweeping several villages one after another, Aven and his father returned to Hull in a carriage full of livestock, and as for the escort he had brought out, he was temporarily used as a coachman.

After returning to Hull, Evan immediately invited the old butler Morse, and asked him to help people expand the original livestock huts, and arrange these livestock according to different types, and at the same time gather the old herdsmen in the territory, let them be responsible for the daily management, and give these old herdsmen some money in return at regular intervals at the expense of the government. For Aiwen's request, the old butler Morse naturally agreed, although he didn't know why the young master suddenly wanted to buy so many livestock, but he wanted to trust Aiwen, he didn't ask much, immediately gathered people, and prepared to personally find a suitable herdsman to manage.

Looking at the busy crowd, Evan clenched his hands, he attached great importance to his plan. For no other reason, if Hull's economy can't get off the ground, then he won't be able to build a strong army. Delores's words sounded the alarm for Aven, and this invasion of the Kents was tantamount to gaining capital for the war for hegemony in England. Once the battle for hegemony officially begins, it will be difficult to have a lot of time to develop the economy, and without a strong economic foundation, there will naturally be no strength to change the fate.

"You don't have to worry about it, if there's anything you can't solve, come to me. Even if you let out this old face, I'll take care of everything for you." Elruth was so arrogant that he seemed to have returned to the years of twenty years ago, "No matter what difficulties come my way, I will crush him." Looking at his father with gray sideburns, Ai Wen silently set a goal in his heart, he must make achievements so that his father can be happy for a while.

"Lord Baron, there are two groups of people from outside the Lord's Mansion, all with weapons in their hands, and they are still fighting outside the Lord's Mansion, and many of them are wounded, and they are shouting for you to judge." A convoy soldier rushed in from the outside, his body unwounded, but there was a lot of blood on his armor, presumably from the time he was fighting separately.

Ai Wen frowned, looking at the back of his father leaving, he thought about it, and decided to follow to see what was going on. When he arrived at the gate of the lord's mansion, the first thing Ai Wen saw was blood stains on the ground, and there were several people lying on the ground, most of them moaning in pain. More than a dozen heavily armed convoy soldiers, armed with weapons, glared at the two groups. The priest of the monastery not far away also hurried to bandage the wounds of the wounded and pray for them.

"You are so bold, you fight in front of my lord's mansion, and dare to use weapons, do you think that if I usually laugh and squint, I will not send you to the guillotine." Elrus is not angry and arrogant, and his calm words make people shudder. Fortunately, Ayrus didn't really want to throw the group into the guillotine, he casually pointed to one of the groups and said in a deep voice, "You guys have something to do with me."

Seeing that Ayrus was coming, many people trembled, and the anger that had risen a lot dissipated a lot, and one of the young men hurriedly said, "Lord Baron, we are the villagers of Ruhr Village. This year, we came here to sell the pelts we had hunted the other day, but while we were still negotiating the price with the buyers, the group came running over and kept belittling the pelts in our hands, and laughed at us for not being called hunters, and the most hateful thing was that these people actually took the opportunity to sell their pelts to our customers and wanted to steal our business."

The other group of people suddenly stretched their faces when they heard this, but given the gloomy face of Elruth, they didn't dare to say anything. After listening to the appeal of the first group, Ayrus looked at the other group and signaled that they could explain the situation.

"Lord Baron, we are locals, and we are also hunters. This group of people said that we robbed them of their business, and it was just fart. Actually, we first approached the buyer, but the buyer felt that the fur we took out was not what they wanted, so we asked us to get the better fur. So we rushed to get the stock at home, but as soon as we got to the buyer, we saw this group of people robbing us of our business. They want to pass off the inferior furs in their hands as good goods and sell them at a high price. We were immediately displeased, so we went up and pointed out that their furs were of inferior quality. As a result, after this group of people saw that we were exposed, they gathered a group of people to beat us when we went home. Then we wouldn't be afraid, so we started fighting, and then we came here."

After listening to the accounts of the second group, Errus did not immediately make a judgment, but ordered the guards to go and bring in the buyers from the two groups. When the buyer came, Ayrus didn't embarrass him, but only asked him who came first from the two groups. After identification, the buyer said that it was indeed the second group of people who came to find him first, but because he was not satisfied with their things, he asked them to exchange the goods. At this time, another group of people happened to come to buy furs, and they wanted to see how these people's goods were, and then the two groups of people had a quarrel.

"Next time, remember, unless you explicitly refuse the person who came first, you should wait for them to bring it over, rather than directly contact the person who came after you. Both buyers and sellers need to follow the spirit of the contract, and they cannot be trusted." Elrus said unceremoniously. After speaking, he asked the two groups of people to put the goods in their hands in front of the buyer again, and asked the buyer to pick it again.

However, the buyer looked left and right, and for a moment he was a little unsure of what he should choose, and under the gaze of Ellus and the two groups of hunters, the sweat on his face could not stop running. Ai Wen shook his head, walked over to the buyer, picked up the two pieces of fur, and carefully examined them for a while, whether they were carefully touched with their hands to check the two pieces of fur. After a while, he looked back at the buyer, "It's summer, you actually want to buy fur, and you can't wear it now, are you going to do something?"

The buyer was slightly stunned, and said with some embarrassment, "My lord, there have been rats in our house recently, and they have bitten the fur coat I put in the cupboard, so I can only buy another fur and ask the tailor to make another one for me." The other materials were fine, but a hat was missing, so I was looking for the right fur. But these two pieces seem to be suitable, so I don't know which one to choose."

Evan placed one of the furs in the buyer's hand, held up the other and said, "Both of these furs are actually okay, and they have their own advantages and disadvantages. I can tell you about it." Ai Wen stretched out his hand and pointed to the fur in his hand, "This fur in my hand is a wolf skin, it looks new, it should have been hunted recently. But if you look at the places on my fingers, if you look closely, there are traces of sewing in these places, indicating that several hunters were shooting arrows at the same time, resulting in several holes in the fur. In order to avoid not being able to sell, I found a way to sew up these holes with needles and threads. This technique is common for hunters who have just started hunting, and they are not confident in their archery skills, so they invite several companions to hunt together."

Evan pointed to the fur in the buyer's hand and said, "This fur in your hand is a fox skin. The coat color is not bright, the leather is hard, and it is obvious that it has been stored for a long time. I looked closely, and there were no stitches on it, only a hole in the neck, which I thought had been left by the hunter when he shot it. However, if you look closely, you can see that there is a big problem with the method of peeling the fox skin. First of all, the fur of the limbs is very rough peeling, and the fur of the legs is almost damaged, and secondly, the fur of the face, I don't know what is going on, some of the most important features of fox fur are gone. These can be seen in the marks in the orbital area. In general, there is no obvious superiority or inferiority between two pieces of fur."

Ai Wen's words stunned everyone in front of the lord's mansion, especially the two groups of hunters, who couldn't close their mouths and had an expression of disbelief. Eventually, the buyer decided to opt for the fox fur, and after paying for it, Ellus let him go.

Seeing that their fur had been defeated, the group of hunters who spoke first bowed their heads and were frustrated. Evan glanced at the group of hunters, thought for a moment, and handed the fur in his hand to the guards behind him, then reached out and threw the money bag on his body.

Looking at the stunned expressions of the group, Ai Wen said calmly, "As a novice hunter, my courage in hunting wolves for the first time is commendable. It was summer, and it was impossible to buy fur, and a novice hunter, if it weren't for the special original, would not have rushed into the forest to hunt wolves. So this time I took the fur money for you first, as my affirmation and encouragement of your courage."

"Thank you, sir, and may God bless you." The hunters hurriedly put away the money bags, as if they were afraid that Evan would regret it. Seeing that the matter was settled, the two groups of hunters were overjoyed and prepared to leave the lord's mansion, but Evan stopped them. Looking at their puzzled expressions, Ai Wen said with a serious expression, "Before, you said that the other party was shoddy, but I saw that the fur of both sides was half a pound and eight taels, and there was no distinction between superior and inferior, and it caused a large number of injuries, and even armed brawls in front of the lord's mansion, which is very bad in nature......

Aiwen's words made the second group of hunters look a little uncomfortable, and they immediately retorted, "My lord, what we took out is the stock from many years ago. It's not fair to us that you say that."

Evan nodded, agreeing with their words, "yes, so I didn't ask you to apologize to each other right away. Now I give you both a chance, and give you a day, and by this evening you will need to hunt your game again, and take the pelts for me to judge. If you lose, you need to apologize to the winner and pay a certain amount of money."

The two groups of hunters looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, agreed, and walked towards the distant hills one after another. "Why do you do that? Isn't it okay to deal with it before?" Seeing that the hunters had left, Elruth asked calmly.

"Father, there are several reasons." Ai Wen replied respectfully, "First of all, this matter can be big or small, and if you or I slap the table and decide, it will inevitably cause one of the parties to be unconvinced. They are armed with bows and arrows, and if they make enemies against each other, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not fight in private, and then they are prone to death. At the same time, it is very difficult to resolve the mortal enmity, so this contradiction needs to be thoroughly dealt with in the bud, and it cannot be diluted. The best way to convince the two is to compare them again and leave it to me to judge. I believe that the previous experience will not cause them to doubt my judgment."

"Secondly, I actually want to tell everyone that if you are not convinced, you can use your own skills to defeat each other, instead of dueling and fighting. Hunters are compared to hunters for hunting skills, blacksmiths are for ironsmithing, and carpenters are for workmanship. Doing so will effectively reduce unnecessary duels and casualties between people. At the same time, the craftsmanship and technology in the territory will also be improved with each collision."

"Finally, there is the benefit of keeping everything in the territory alive, so that there will be better craftsmanship and better finished products if there is competition among artisans, there will be better yields if there is competition among farmers, there will be greater combat effectiveness if there is competition between armies, and there will be as much competition among nobles as possible to avoid moths. If a territory is peaceful and happy, then it is easy for people to be greedy for pleasure and lose their vigilance. When the crisis does come, it will collapse at the touch of a button."

"Competition between nobles......" Ellus muttered to himself, and suddenly he felt that he had grasped something.

At dusk, two groups of hunters returned at the same time, the older hunters with a deer and the novice hunters with only two or three rabbits. Since the difference between the two sides was so great, after obtaining the consent of both parties, Evan directly announced that the older hunters had won the final victory.

As agreed, the novice hunters apologized to the older hunters for robbing the fur business in front of Baron Ellus and Aven, and offered to pay a small amount of compensation for the medical expenses of the injured.

However, the older hunters refused compensation, apologizing for their verbal faux pas and praising the newcomers for their courage in hunting wolves, saying that although the newcomers did not hunt large animals in the competition, they did not return empty-handed, and their skills were respectable.

They are willing to expose the matter, and the two sides will still be friends when they meet in the future. The newcomers were naturally happy to see it, and Evan said at the right time that he could accept the prey in their hands. The hunters were overjoyed and praised Aven for his generosity.

"Everyone, I'd like to ask you for a favor." Hearing Evan's request, the hunters expressed their willingness to help, "I would like to ask you to help me tell all the hunters in the territory, this winter, the lord's mansion will gather all the hunters in the territory to hold a hunter competition. Over the course of two days, each hunter gets one chance to hunt. Within the allotted time, all hunters must return with their prey, and the winners and losers are judged according to the quality of the prey. The winner will be personally honored by the Baron, and will be given the title of King of the Year."

The hunters' faces turned red with excitement, as if they were drunk, and they hurriedly said that they would definitely tell everyone the news. After accepting Aven's request, the hunters slowly left the lord's palace with the money and the wounded, and the setting sun stretched their shadows for a long time......