Duke Klein looked at the two children in front of him, and an idea suddenly flashed through his mind, so he spoke: "There are more than a dozen poor villages in the Lavia region, you can choose a few villages at will for practice, and I hope to see a new look in half a year." ”

"Father, what do you mean?" Victor was shocked, his father was making Vivien justifiably compete with him for the heir position!

If, after half a year, Vivien's domain develops better than his, who will recognize him as the future duke?

Although the Klein family has been inherited by men for more than 100 years, it does not mean that women do not have the right to inherit. Now that Victor is the first in line to the throne, and Duke Klein has not adopted any collateral lineage, then Vivien is the second in line to the throne.

"Victor, are you afraid of losing to me?" Vivien snorted coldly, as if she didn't take her brother seriously.

"Sister, you misunderstood." Victor didn't smile at the flesh.

"Victor, you grew up with an heir's education, while Vivien received a lady's education. I hope you don't waste the teachers' careful teaching, understand? "The Duke is interested in his hidden daughter, and of course he also wants to know how far his son can go in order to win?

In short, he doesn't care if the heir is male or female, he only cares if the other party can bring greater benefits to the family. Vivien's elementary school education was flower arrangement, embroidery, and poetry...... If she can beat Victor, it means that she is more talented, and that's it.

"Father, everything will be as you wish." Vivien grabbed the hem of her skirt and bowed, an attitude that showed she was willing to accept the challenge.

Victor gritted his teeth and glared at her, this woman was ambitious, snatching everyone's attention, not to mention, but also snatching the only thing he had!

Vivien swept Victor's distorted face with her afterglow, and suddenly felt in a good mood. In Victor's opinion, he is the heir of ironclad, and even if he kills people and sets fire to his father, he will protect him.

Now that the situation has changed, if his father no longer lets him go, then his position will become very awkward. In the next half month, Victor personally went to Lavia to select villages.

In the north, potatoes, corn, and barley are mainly grown, and if there is enough land, even if the harvest is not good, it can barely make ends meet.

The reason why the Lavia region is poorer than other places is that there are more mountains and less arable land; the second is to pay a lot of taxes; The third is the proximity to the Leith Mountain.

Behind the Leith mountain lived a group of savages, who often entered the village to grab food during the ripening season. Duke Klein once sent soldiers to suppress the bandits, but the other party was too cunning, and they escaped every time.

Vivien chooses the four villages closest to Mount Leith and asks the Duke to transfer the land to her name. The Duke agreed without asking much, and let them choose their own assistants.

Vivien set off with five knights, three maids, two butlers, and Karna. On the other hand, Victor also chose two villages, but they were far away from the Leith Mountain.

"Lord Duke, who do you think will win?" Gilman was curious about the choice of the duke.

"Victor doesn't throw in easily, Vivien seems to be hiding a lot of things." Duke Klein knew very well what his son had done all these years, and the reason why he pretended not to know was because Victor was a smart child.

The nobles of the empire will have some shortcomings to a greater or lesser extent, such as some people like to be imprisoned, some people like to torture and kill, and some people like to hunt, and it is not surprising that Victor likes to watch people bleed.

The Duke drove him to the country, not because he believed that Victor could get better, but because he didn't want to be found out that there were madmen in the Klein family. After six years of education, the darkness in Victor's heart has not dissipated but has become deeper and deeper, but it doesn't matter, because he has learned to hide the darkness.

Even if he doesn't take the initiative to mention it, the Duke will send someone to pick him up after a while. After all, as an heir, the sooner you get in touch with the family's business, the better.

The only thing that made him lose control was Vivian, who went to the royal capital and came back, and her temperament seemed to have changed completely.

"Miss, the carriage in front of you can't get in." Evans and the others sighed as they returned.

"Then let's ride into the village." Vivien looked at the dilapidated road, and if she forced the carriage to pull it in, she was afraid that it would break down in less than half an hour.

"What about what's in the wagon?" Vivien was going to stay here for half a year, and Laura, Anne, and Fia packed a lot of things, and the carriage was jammed to the brim.

"Mark, Evans, and Karna follow me into the village, and the rest of us guard their luggage here." Vivien said as she got out of the car.

"Yes, miss." The crowd replied quickly.

When the four of them rode into the village, they saw a dilapidated gray, gray sky, gray thatched houses, gray villagers, and gray land......

"Okay, let's get something to eat!"

"Give me something to eat, we haven't eaten in three days!"

"My two children are so pitiful, they are dying of hunger!"

When the villagers saw the richly dressed nobles entering the village, they immediately pounced. Evans and Mark stood in Vivien's way, and Karna bared his teeth and roared.

After two months of teaching, he already knew that Vivien was the master. As long as he is obedient, the master will praise him and let him eat delicious food.

For Karna, the young lady who doesn't beat him and feeds him is the best master in the world.

"Mark, tell them to build roads if they want to eat." Vivien patted Mark's arm.

Mark and Martin are both candidates for stewardship and are brothers, Mark is tall and good at disciplining his servants; Martin is good-looking, good at settling accounts and doing business.

"Quiet!" Mark drew a long whip from his waist and flicked it, causing all the villagers to take two steps back.

"This is the daughter of Duke Klein, and from today onwards she will be in charge of the Vinia region. The road is so bad that the lady's carriage can't get in, and if anyone is willing to build the road, then the woman will be happy to provide you with food. ”

After Mark finished speaking, the villagers became depressed, thinking that they could get relief food directly, but they didn't expect to have to work!

"If no one wants to, then we go to the nearby villages and ask, because there are many people who want to work anyway. Also, be careful not to offend the princess, it is a capital offense for the poor to attack the nobles! ”

Mark snapped and flicked another whip, and the villagers looked at each other. A woman came forward, with three children of seven or eight years old next to her, who had heard that her husband was sick.

"I'm willing to build roads, and my children are very capable." The woman shouted.

"Okay, young and old, as long as you can work, you will get food." Mark put on a hearty smile, as if it wasn't him who was the fierce man just now.

The villagers went to repair the road, took the tools they had at home, and carried them by hand if they didn't have them. Vivien took a look and found that there were only about twenty households in the village, less than a hundred people.

However, there were only twenty people who went to build roads, and there were seven or eight who pretended to work, but in fact secretly looked at them.

The village chief was a seventy-year-old man, wrinkled, and looked like a sun-dried plum.

Vivien inquired with the village chief and learned that the young people in the village had run away, and only the old people and children had become poorer. The situation in the nearby villages is similar, and some people died of starvation a few days ago.

Vivien's plan is to save the villagers by planting greenhouses and doing business.