Chapter 168: The Magical Guild's Tactics
"Young master, young master, what a lot of income today!" said Made, blushing, holding in his hand a thin pamphlet, the first two pages of which were densely packed, and every stroke, every tick, and the string of numbers that followed, made the faithful old servant feel unusually excited.
"Oh, how many?" asked Du Wei lazily, leaning back in his chair.
At this moment, the sunset hung at the end of the Arc de Triomphe Street, and when rì fell, the shop was closed, and the nobles who had originally visited the place also warmly invited Du Wei to have dinner together.
However, Du Wei's original good mood disappeared after the last words left by Master Clark before leaving!
"A total of six hundred and eighty-four thousand six hundred gold coins!" said Old Made's voice a little trembling when he reported the number.
Du Wei didn't say much.
Hmph, after spending so much effort, if you can't make so much money, then wouldn't you be too much of a failure......?
Seeing that the young master had no expression, Old Madder thought that the young master was dissatisfied with his report being too general, so he quickly flipped through the account book in his hand and said in detail: "Today, the biggest hero is Miss Ruolin, just the things she sells in her hands are enough to have 380,000 gold coins.......
"Alright." Du Wei waved his hand, interrupting Old Mad's meaning.
How many more people like Ruolin? That's unrealistic.
The so-called scarcity is precious.Ruolin's super gorgeous female knight's image is mainly a "novelty", which makes those drooling nobles willing to pay a lot of money.If there are too many corners like this, those nobles have no freshness, and it will be ineffective.Moreover,Talents like Ruolin are really hard to find.Ruolin's appearance and figure are first-class,The most important thing is that this woman still has a lot of brains.In the early years, she was mixed with mercenary adventures.,Accumulated a lot of skills to deal with men.Smart, beautiful and brainy, he is also a samurai, and he is loyal to himself, so where can he find a few more candidates like this?
However, on the first day of the opening, there were 880,000 gold coins in the account, which still made Du Wei very satisfied.
Du Wei understands this very well, and the fact that he can have so much land income today is purely to take advantage of his own land, and I am afraid that there will not be so much in the future.
The Count of Villa alone casually sent out 100,000 gold coins, and the Delan Mountain Demonic Beast, although this time it didn't seem so bold, but Du Wei understood that the land of this store was sold and transferred to him at an absolute local price, and his own land was cheap, not to mention hundreds of thousands of gold coins?
"You go and prepare, and get another set of Ruolin's kind of armor, not too strong, just as gorgeous as possible.Hmm......" Du Wei hesitated for a moment, and glanced at Made, "Made, let me ask you a question."
"Young master, please speak."
Du Wei pondered for a while: "I will go to the northwest in a few months, would you like to stay in Dìdū to help me take care of the real estate here, or will you go to the northwest with me?"
Honestly, Madeh said without hesitation: "Young Master, I am your faithful servant, of course, I will go to the Northwest with you." As he spoke, Old Made's eyes turned red: "But you are my Made, who has been holding the earth since I was a child, is the young master now that Madea is old, and he wants to leave Old Made?"
Du Wei smiled, looked at the red ground Made, and said gently: "Okay, Made, don't cry, of course I won't leave you.
This "uncle" title frightened Ma De's face pale, he was stunned, and quickly waved his hand and jumped up: "Young master, don't call me that, old Ma De can't afford it! I am your servant, your groom, and your housekeeper...... What kind of uncle or something, don't shout like that, or I'm ...... Made."
Du Wei had already stood up, walked to Madedi's side, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and smiled: "Okay, Made, it's just the two of us here...... Oh, and there's an Alpha Guard, so there's no need to be polite between us."
The choice just now is that everyone knows what's at stake.
Go to the northwest of the world full of wind and sand, or stay in the bustling place, such a choice, everyone can see which is more advantageous, but Lao Ma De did not hesitate at all to choose to accompany Du Wei to the northwest to open up the wasteland, this loyalty, is enough to make Du Wei moved.
"Since you want to accompany me to the Northwest Region, then dìdū ......" Du Wei thought about it, and felt that dìdū was the best person in charge of the real estate here, and after calculation, the most suitable person for his subordinates was only Ruolin.
It's just that...... Who cares about those pirates?
Alas, the problem of manpower shortage cannot be solved in a day or two
"Go and help me get Ruolin." Du Wei sighed: "I have something to explain to her."
Waiting for Madea to walk out, Du Wei casually picked up a cup of herbal tea on the table, drank it all, and couldn't help but frown.
Mage Clarke's arrival today is obviously the intention of the president of the Magic Guild, and the people have given him face, and he has given himself real benefits...... These benefits are lost to themselves.
But these are not free lunches!
Hum...... Remember your identity as a magician?
Needless to say, after the political situation stabilizes, the previous plan to establish a magic academy must have been put on the agenda again!
As far as Du Wei himself is concerned, he definitely doesn't want to be caught between the regent and the magic union as a ball in the establishment of the magic academy.
At present, Du Wei thinks that the best way to do this is to leave dìdū and go to the territory!
When the time comes, the Academy of Magic will be established, and even if the Magic Guild and the royal family fight for blood, it will not be my business!
But I originally thought that just after the coup d'état, Prince Chen had just come to power, he shouldn't have put the plan to establish the magic academy back on the agenda so soon, right?
But now, I want to leave the region and go to the northwest, but I can't! The local government affairs in the northwest have not yet been handed over -- it's not that those administrative departments are stuck in themselves, but they really don't have a group of competent people in their hands to fill the grassroots officials in a province in the northwest!
Academy of Magic...... Academy of Magic!
Hum!
Du Wei suddenly felt a little angry in his heart. The establishment of this magic academy is foreseeable that in the next few years, it will cultivate batch after batch of magicians! But these people will not fall into their own pockets in the end! I am jumping up and down here, and I am angry on both sides, so why bother to come to the land?
It's better to leave early!
However, thinking of the magician talent, Du Wei's heart suddenly moved, and he had another thought for no reason.
The next day, Du Wei took the initiative to go to the palace in a carriage to meet His Royal Highness Prince Regent.
After experiencing the turmoil in the previous territory, Prince Chen's mood seems to have calmed down a lot now, at least he seems to have forgotten that Du Wei took his favor to force himself not to kill the old Raymond. Du Wei arrived, and was warmly received by Prince Chen.
No one knew what the Regent and the young duke had been talking about this morning, but the Regent's personal guards, after seeing the young duke's farewell, seemed to be in a very good mood, and even smiled and patted himself on the shoulder, and said a few jokes to himself.
On Du Wei's side, he left the palace of Prince Chen, only to feel that the sweat on his back had completely dried, and his underwear was sticky to his body.
Alas, this Prince Chen really plans to use himself as a gun to deal with the Magic Union!
In the morning, Du Wei cautiously tested Prince Chen's plan to establish the Academy of Magic.
The establishment of the Magic Academy will enter the implementation stage within a month! The first batch of Magic Academy students are selected, and the royal family is currently engaged in round after round of open and secret battles with the Magic Guild.
However, in the coup d'état, he strongly supported the prince of Chen, and the magic union obviously also got the concession of the prince of Chen.
In the first phase of the Magic Guild, the general plan is to recruit 100 students.
Don't underestimate these 100 people, it seems that the number is very small, but you must know that on the entire continent, there are only a few hundred magicians with genuine magician qualifications!
And now...... According to the current negotiations between the two sides, the Magic Guild has asked for half of the quota!
Such a share is something that Prince Chen can't agree to.
The establishment of the magic academy is mainly to break the monopoly of the magic union on the talent of magicians, if the magic union still occupies half of the quota, then, how to distribute the remaining half of the land?
The royal family must first select a group of people to enter the magic academy, and several aristocratic families in the following areas must also occupy a certain number of places.
As the actual ruler of the current empire, he will never allow such a situation to happen.
He gave Du Wei a bottom line of his own today, that is, the students directly sent by the royal family must occupy half of the ground!
After talking with the regent for a morning, in fact, Du Wei only got one meaning from Prince Chen:
"You go and tell the chairman of the Magic Guild that I will make the biggest concessions. That is, when the Magic Guild competes with the military and other aristocratic families for places, I can secretly support the Magic Guild! But the premise is that the students directly sent by my royal family must occupy half of them!"
Originally, Du Wei came to find Prince Chen, and he also thought that the establishment of magic students would cultivate a group of magician talents, and he also wanted a piece of the pie, but in the end, Prince Chen gave him a very simple answer: "Yes, but your quota, negotiate with the magic union, after all, you also have the magic union to recognize the qualification of the magic bachelor."
In the afternoon, Du Wei had planned to go to the Magic Guild to meet the old fellow of the union's president, Jargo Doug.
However, Du Wei temporarily changed his mind!
Why don't you wait for the other person to come to my door?
Hmph, the establishment of the Academy of Magic, such a big thing! Such a big benefit! Your magic union sent a Clark mage to come and buy some goods from my shop like a charity, and you want to impress me?
Hmph, that's cheap!
Du Wei was ruthless in his heart! Even if he couldn't get any benefit from the establishment of the Magic Academy, he would have to knock the Magic Guild hard!
With this hint of determination, Du Wei walked out of the palace with a calm face, and the palace guards beside him looked at the young duke's gloomy face, and his heart was uneasy, and he followed all the way, and he didn't dare to speak.
When he walked to the square in front of the gate of the Emperor City, Du Wei suddenly saw a group of people coming in front of him.
A fully enclosed carriage, the entire carriage was almost inlaid with bright silver sheets, and a snow-white white banner hung on it!
White flags?
Du Wei was stunned for a moment, this is the flag of the funeral place!
And this carriage slowly drove into the imperial city, and the guards of the imperial city immediately flashed to both sides, and knelt on one knee on the ground to salute.
And on the carriage of the carriage, it was clearly a royal land of the Thorn Flower clan emblem! and in a nondescript way, next to the thorn flower clan emblem, there was also a very familiar earth temple emblem hanging from the place.
Even the groom sitting in the car had a serious face, wearing a white robe and a cross pinned to his chest.
Du Wei was stunned, the carriage and his party had already arrived in front of him, and the inner court guard next to him saw that the Duke was distracted, so he quickly pulled Du Wei gently, pulled Du Wei aside, and got out of the way.
When the carriage slowly drove into the palace, Du Wei frowned and looked at the inner court guard beside him: "Who was in that carriage just now?
The inner court guard hesitated for a moment, lowered his voice, and said, "Lord Duke...... Don't you know? The one in the carriage is the Holy Maiden of Verona, known as the flower of the royal family, the Holy Maiden of the Temple......
Du Wei only vaguely knew that the so-called earth saint was actually a gimmick made up by the religious organization of the temple, selecting some holy and beautiful maidens, religiously converting to the temple, never marrying for the rest of her life, maintaining a holy body, and serving the gods......
But this Verona Saintess, the flower of royalty?
"You really don't know?" The inner court guard was a little surprised by the young duke's loneliness, and his face was a little unnatural: "The Holy Maiden of Verona...... Her father is the late prince of the land......"
"Oh......" Du Wei turned to look meaningfully at the departing carriage.
The daughter of the great prince?
Hehe...... Then it's no wonder that the carriage is hung with white flags.
Although the eldest prince committed suicide after the coup d'état, the prince still did a very good job in this matter, did not deprive the eldest prince of his status as a member of the royal family, and allowed him to be buried according to the Augustinian royal family tradition after his death, that is, he was buried with a thorn flower flag.
This holy woman ...... It's the daughter of the eldest prince.Hmph,It seems that the eldest prince hasn't tried to win over the temple.It's just that,When it came to the end,The temple finally chose Prince Chen.And at a critical time, the big prince was put together!
Hum......
Just when Du Wei would look at the carriage, he faintly felt that the closed carriage, as if the window had been opened, and a beam of eyes drifted towards him from afar......
I returned to my own underworld.
Du Wei had already been made a duke, but he did not set up his own duke's palace in Dìdū, because although the regent gave him a lot of court titles, the glory was enough glory, but it did not make Du Wei serve as an actual official in any department of the empire.
Of course, this is because Du Wei is only fourteen years old after all, and being a duke at this age is already shocking, and it would be too much nonsense to be the first minister of some ministry again.
Therefore, Du Wei did not set up his own duke's palace, but prepared to go to the northwest to become the emperor of the soil.
He is currently in the "mansion" of dìdūdi, in fact, it is a small house in the rich area of dìdū.
As soon as he returned to his house, he saw the old servant Mader waiting at the door.
Seeing the young master coming back, Ma De hurriedly came up and helped Du Wei get out of the carriage with his own hands, and then the first thing he said was: "Young master, someone from the Magic Union came to see you today, but you are not at home, and the people from the Magic Union have been waiting for you at home for a morning without waiting for you, so they have to go back."
Coming to my door so soon?
Du Wei sneered in his heart.
But the next sentence surprised Du Wei.
Obviously, the magic union didn't directly woo itself, and the other party played smarter than expected!
"The Magic Guild is coming, in fact, to inform the young master...... Yes, it will be a level assessment of your magic, and it will be conducted in three days, and it will be presided over by the chairman of the magic union himself."
Wizard level assessment?
Du Wei was stunned.