Chapter Fifty-Eight: Roy's Secret Letter
Goodern followed the routine and began to shush Buck.
For example, how is the work, is there any pressure, is it suitable for the current changes, is the salary enough, balabala.
It's been ten days since the incorporation and transformation, and Buck was a little uncomfortable with the new change work at first.
But by now, he had been able to fully accept and adapt to Gooden's orders.
In terms of salary, Goodale offered him two gold coins per month, which was provided throughout the year.
And the point is that this is only his salary, and the salary of the apprentices is calculated separately.
You must know that he can earn a maximum of ten gold coins in a blacksmith shop a year, and if it is an off-season, he even has to pay in backwards.
And now as long as he completes a certain amount of work on time, he can get this money, which is suddenly empty of the pressure of Buck's life.
Buck was still very happy with the changes and answered Gooden's questions one by one.
Seeing that the emotions were almost baked, Goodern began to propose the idea of 'upgrading'.
"Do you still have any thoughts about going further now? Like being a master blacksmith or something. ”
"Well, if I could be a teenager younger, I might think about it, but now I'm in my forties......"
Buck sighed, said with some regret.
"Then if there was an opportunity now that could make you take your skills to the next level, would you choose?"
"It will definitely be, there is such an opportunity who does not choose who is a fool...... Well? Young master, why are you looking at me like this? ”
Goodern looked at the 'Blacksmith' entry that had already been refreshed and retained, and directly chose to modify it.
When he came to the blacksmith these days, Goodwin didn't forget to refresh the entries for the people around him.
For example, when he encounters a refresh to the right entry, he stops refreshing and waits for the right opportunity to modify it.
And Buck's 'Master Blacksmith' entry had already been refreshed and waited, and it was only at this moment that the original garbage entry was officially modified and replaced.
"Huh?! Young Master......"
Buck's eyes widened as the countless forging knowledge that suddenly popped up in his mind, as well as the special changes in his physique.
These things......
"Remember the contract between us, I can give you and recycle, now go and familiarize yourself with the new forging knowledge."
Gooden was already surprised by the expression after modifying others, and just said something slowly with a smile on his face and left.
Leaving a still stunned Buck in place, it took a while to come back to his senses.
As for Goodern's 'reminder', Buck naturally didn't care, because he was already ready to stay in Qingyuan Town for the rest of his life.
As for the knowledge that appeared in his mind, Buck didn't think much about doubting it, and he was also one of the few people who knew about Young Master Gooden's becoming a mage.
This magical change, he naturally summed up in his mind with the help of magic.
"Pansy, free up furnace number one for me, I'm going to use it."
"Yes, master."
……
After all the work was done, Goodern returned to the castle as usual and went into his study.
Only a small part of the work was arranged by himself, and he left the rest to Joseph Sr.
Things like the component construction team, personnel distribution arrangements, and so on are all in charge of Joseph Sr.
The end result only needs to meet Gooden's plan.
In terms of entertainment, there is no modern rich otherworld, and Goodern can only read books as a rest at the moment.
But the break was short-lived, and soon Goodern was back in the lab and working on various things.
It wasn't until the afternoon, when Joseph Sr. delivered a letter, that Goodern stopped making it.
"Young Master, here's an unsigned letter with the mark you said."
"Huh?" Hearing Joseph Sr.'s words, Goodern immediately withdrew his magic and got up to take the letter.
The simple envelope has a circle drawn on the seal, and there is an inverted triangle inside the circle, which is the secret letter mark he agreed with Roy.
"So soon there's news coming out?"
Gooden muttered in his mind, and then immediately opened it for inspection.
There were only five crooked words written on the letter, and it took him a long time to read the contents
"Taxes, problems, dangers."
"Taxes? Issue? Dangerous? ”
Repeating it in a low voice, Goodern looked at the five words that he didn't understand, frowning slightly and thinking about the meaning.
As Roy is a spy who has reached full loyalty, Goodern naturally does not suspect that he has the possibility of defection.
But less than half a month after lurking in the Charleson family, such an unknown message came out, which made Gooden a little confused for a while.
"Old Joseph, what do you mean by this letter? Roy came back. ”
Instead, Gooden gave the letter to Joseph Sr. and asked him to help with the staff officer.
As the old Joseph who was full of loyalty, Roy was also clear about what was lurking, and he was also a little confused about the return of this secret letter.
"Roy doesn't know much, and if it's urgent, he should circle the point if he doesn't understand it."
"He should be trying to express that there is a problem with the tax, so let's pay attention to the reminder?"
Old Joseph muttered to himself as he analyzed the contents of the letter, but at the same time his face was even more confused.
"Now for the autumn harvest, it will be the imperial tax collectors who will collect taxes after a while, and if there is a problem, it should be on this."
"But after you come to Qingyuan Town, I will handle the tax issues myself, and there will never be problems."
"Is there an additional tax this year? It's not right, even if there is a possibility of war now, at most it will only be an advance tax rather than a tax increase, which is strange......"
Touching his beard, which had been shaved off, old Joseph also fell into deep thought at this moment.
Goodern listened silently to the analysis, reassured of Joseph Sr.'s loyalty.
The tax in Qingyuan Town is not much a year, only one or two hundred gold coins, if you want to replace food with money, plus grain tax, it will only be three or four hundred gold coins in the sky.
This amount of money is just enough for 'him' to eat, drink and have fun for a year, but he was funded by his family before, and 'he' couldn't look down on it, and even returned the excess taxes directly to the town.
With such an 'incorruptible' lord, Goodern didn't understand how the issue of 'taxes' could be dangerous.
"Wait......"
Goodern suddenly noticed a blind spot in his thinking, why would Roy send him such a letter.
Why did Roy find the 'tax' problematic and dangerous?
"Fuck, fuck Charleson, you're going to set me up again?"
Thinking and analyzing from this perspective, Gooden directly burst into foul language.
Old Joseph on the side looked up and was a little puzzled, what happened to the young master? Why did you suddenly scold the Charleson family?