Chapter 175: Big Profit
"Your Excellency!"
When Gervais came to the vestibule, Thomas and the others were already waiting in the vestibule, and after seeing Gervais, they all greeted Gervais excitedly.
"Great work! Let's all go wash up first! Thomas, and both of you, come with me to the hall first! ”
Gervais glanced at the carriage, only two of the five carriages were loaded with things, one carriage was full of empty wooden boxes, and the other was also filled with a lot of miscellaneous items, all of which were necessities for the castle, which should have been purchased.
"Yes, sir!"
Gervais led Thomas and Jimmy's two apprentices into the hall, and as soon as he sat down, Thomas handed Gervais two bulging black money bags.
Gervais took the money bag, and without checking it immediately, happily sat Thomas and the two apprentice cooks, and then asked Thomas, "Thomas, how is the response to your goods?" ”
Touching the money bag and feeling the weight, Gervais already knew that the goods were sold, but the specific sales process and the reaction of the customers on the spot, Gervais wanted to understand clearly, which made him judge the ice cream ice cubes and oysters
"My lord, this time I sold ice cream and ice cubes, and I got a total of 11 gold coins, 10 silver coins, and 75 copper coins, the gods are above, I can guarantee that I have never seen gold and silver coins come so easily, as if they were picked up from the ground, everyone is afraid that they will not be able to buy them, so they hand the money to us......"
Next, Thomas excitedly told Gervais in detail about everything in Winterfell, including meeting Eagle and Anthony, of course, the most important thing is to describe the scene of selling ice cream and the hot scene when selling ice cubes in the South End, even the Earl asked more than 100 city guards to help maintain order on the scene.
"Looks like I'm going to get Jimmy to speed up making ice cream these days!"
After listening to Thomas's detailed explanation of Winterfell, Gervais was sure that his ice cubes and ice cream had a bright future, but ice cream and ice cubes had a disadvantage, that is, they could only sell well in this hot summer, and if it was in winter or other two seasons, they would basically be unsalable, and the cyclical nature was strong.
Now the summer is about to pass, so if Gervais wants to make more money this year, he must let Jimmy make more ice cream, after the caravan departed, Jimmy's two apprentices have also been apprenticed, so Gervais taught how to make ice cream to Jimmy, Jimmy, as a chef, just according to Gervais's teachings, has reached the level of Gervais.
All this time, Jimmy has been making ice cream in a variety of flavors in preparation for the next caravan departure.
"As for Herald Iger, it seems that I will be thankful this time!"
For Eagle to help his caravan, Gervais has already remembered in his heart, as the so-called people respect me, I respect people, Gervais will leave for Winterfell in the next two days, and take this opportunity to personally thank Eagle.
"Your Excellency, here are the invitations and envelopes that the Earl gave you!"
After saying how to sell ice cream and ice cubes, Thomas took out the envelope and invitation card that Alice had asked him to bring back to Gervais.
Of course, the invitation was for Gervais to attend Alice's birthday party, Gervais picked up the invitation first, the outside of the invitation is made of leather as the cover, the workmanship is extraordinary, when Gervais opened the book-sized invitation, he gasped.
"Shhh How rich my cheap wife is! It turned out to be made of silver! ”
I saw that the inside of the invitation was not paper, but made of silver glittering silver, and the contents of the invitation were engraved on the shiny silver plate.
In fact, as Alice's husband, Gervais does not need an invitation, but Alice prepares an invitation for Gervais in order to let Gervais understand the true relationship between them, just like other nobles.
Of course, Gervais understands this very well, but for the sake of these two silver shining silver plates, Gervais chose to forgive, and even hoped that Alice would still send him such invitations in the future, and it would be better to replace this silver invitation with a golden gold plate.
As for whether Gervais's idea can be realized, it is unknown.
Glancing at the contents of the invitation, Gervais stopped paying attention and instead picked up the envelope and checked its contents.
The envelope was the King's receipt to Alice, and when Gervais finished reading the letter, the corners of his mouth curled.
"Thomas, look at this letter too!"
Gervais took the letter to Thomas before turning his gaze to Jimmy's two apprentices.
"Now tell me about your convoy!"
Gervais said to the two of them with a smile.
"Yes, sir!"
The two hurriedly sat up straight and began to talk......
After they separated from Thomas, they walked slowly, and each time they passed through the territory of a lord, they would stay for half a day, because of the experience of Thomas's leadership, although the two were a little nervous, but according to the step, those lords also agreed to let them roast golden oysters, and in the end, they were conquered by golden oysters and other seafood, and they generously took out gold coins.
In ten days, they visited sixteen lords' castles and harvested 33 gold coins, the extra one of which was the money from the sale of oysters and lobsters.
Eventually, they made their way to Gandalf's castle, where they taught Gandalf, Nashen and another of the Lord's cooks how to bake golden oysters, while waiting for Thomas and the others to return.
Professor Gandalf's and Nashen's cooks, Gervais had already ordered, of course, for free, in addition to giving Gandalf 100 catties of oysters and his vassals 50 catties each, so far, the goods of the golden team were all emptied.
"Excellent! You have lived up to my expectations! ”
After listening to the two apprentices' lectures, Gervais nodded with satisfaction, of course, the most important thing is that the 33 gold coins made Gervais make a lot of money this time, showing their contribution.
"Thomas, next year, the castle's direct food field quota will be divided between the two of them, and let their family take care of farming!"
Of course, merit must be rewarded, and Gervais is not a stingy person, so he immediately commanded Thomas.
There are about ten places to provide food to the castle, and after obtaining this place, the castle will allocate them good fields, and will also provide them with seeds for free, they only need to cultivate well, and provide the crops grown by the castle according to the specified amount, without paying taxes.
"You two go down and wash up first, have a good rest, and leave again in two days!"
"Thank you, Lord for your kindness! Thank you, Lord for your kindness! ”
When the two of them heard that Gervais had given each of them a quota for the food provided to the castle, they immediately knelt on the ground excitedly and said loudly the words of thanks to Gervais, with this quota, their family could be said to have no worries about food and clothing.
This quota was originally used to win over the lord's subordinates, and of course the amount of this surrender does not need to be too much, it is several times lower than paying taxes, so it can be said that this quota is the iron rice bowl of this world.
After thanking each other, they exited the hall in excitement before Gervais spoke to Thomas again, "Thomas, what do you think of this letter?" ”
"My lord, Viscount Lenny must have bribed some officials to speak for him, and Viscount Lenny also concealed the fact that the Mithril Mine was found!"
Thomas thought for a moment and spoke his mind.
"That's right, if the king knew about the Mithril mine, he would definitely mine it himself, instead of deliberately letting Lenny mine it, the king did it for only one purpose, and that was to suppress the Jones family!"
Since the king has made this move, and my interests are involved, let's see if their teeth are hard, or if my Mithril sword is sharp! ”
Although Gervais is still weak at the moment, Lenny's camp has just been destroyed by him, and it can't be completed in a month or two if he wants to rebuild, while Gervais can take advantage of these two months to quickly improve his strength, and more importantly, he now has gunpowder.
He was able to rob Lenny once with Gandalf's reinforcements, and Nagvais was confident that he would rob them a second time with gunpowder.