Late at night, Tius went back to his room to rest accompanied by the butler, and Jiang Yuan sat in the study to learn information through the collection of books, and the timeline at the moment was before the plot began.

Due to the influence of extraordinary factors, the late empire adopted a system of central and local parallelism, with a total of 27 county towns, each of which had 10 to 12 cities and hundreds of villages, and the total population was estimated to be about 50 million.

Berkshire is the eighteenth county town, located in the Northland, very close to the sea in the east, limited by the cold climate of the north, fishing and farming are not outstanding, and even salt production is inferior to the twenty-seventh established Blue Sea County.

The fief of Count Tius was located by the sea, and he owned a city and two important vassal nobles, Viscount Bono and Viscount Ebel, who were considered in-laws of the Tius family.

As for the Barony of Knorr, it includes ten villages, close to the sea, and self-sufficient.

"Before the start of the winter hunt, I need to accumulate wealth, manpower, and armaments, and at the same time, the eight rooms must be filled with a certain combat power, and there are many things to do."

……

Early the next morning, on the second floor of the castle.

The table is filled with food, still meat-based, vegetable soup with nuts, and the main course is carefully baked white bread, which is finally complemented by dessert and honey jam.

The four of them sat at the table, the red pupil got up in the morning and stimulated a strong desire to eat non-stop, the black pupil seemed a little quieter, and from time to time he looked at his sister, Tius had a bad appetite, and ended the meal after drinking the thick soup.

"Didn't you sleep last night?" Tius asked.

"Normal." Jiang Yuan refused to wipe his mouth with the personal valet, and said after taking the handkerchief, "The last time I went out hunting, I met a hunter in the sea and mountains, he mastered the family salt making method, I bought it, and it is expected that the output and scale will be greatly improved after it is put into use, and compared with the current salt, it is more refined, and the buying group is mainly for nobles and merchants, and it is a good choice to sell to the emperor." ”

The butler carefully handed the paper to Tius, and the count looked at it twice and asked, "What about the people?"

"Killed." Jiang Yuan replied calmly, "Send someone to try it first, and if you succeed, lend me 1,000 gold coins first, and divide the profit fifty-fifty." ”

"Yes." Tius turned to the butler and said, "Let the knight of Rodon go to the earl's collar and bring back an elite hundred, and besides, without my permission, the red pupils and black pupils are not allowed to leave the castle perimeter this winter, and the names and origins of the guards will be counted again, and they will be checked once a week in the future, and new guards will be stopped." ”

"Yes." The butler said respectfully.

"Reveal to the public that I have the complete production method, which is private property, and the earl has no right to know after the coming-of-age ceremony, believe it or not." Jiang Yuan instructed that touching the interests of others, hostility and even kidnapping and assassination will definitely occur, but it is only a matter of time before his eighth room is short of corpses.

"Understood." Seeing that the earl did not object, the butler answered his own baron seriously.

After the housekeeper left, Jiang Yuan threw another piece of paper, and Tius couldn't cry or laugh after catching it, "Don't you even worry about Burke, he has been with me for more than ten years, and the temptation has already been done." ”

"The vast majority of loyalties are clearly priced."

"That's right." Tius no longer dwelled on the question, waved his hand, and in the dark corner, a figure rolled out of the window.

"A master from the Imperial Fist Temple is still a little short of the general level."

Jiang Yuan nodded, the combat power of this world is generally divided into four levels, guard level, knight level, general level, and rare strongest.

On the premise of not holding any special weapons, killing ten elite soldiers head-on is the guard level, and the elite battle formation that can defeat fifty fully armed soldiers is the knight level, as for the general level, it usually has to have the ability to turn the tide of small-scale battles, and there have been cases in the history of the empire where the general level and more than 800 central guards died together.

The combat type emperor is generally defined as a thousand enemies, and if the general-level emperor is holding the emperor, he may become a strong man who breaks the army alone on the battlefield.

At the end of the meal, Red Hitomi took a small wooden knife to the school field for training, and Black Hitomi followed behind her sister honestly.

Jiang Yuan returned to the bedroom and used paper and pen to record the alchemy knowledge in his mind, so as not to forget it for a long time, and the text was selected in Chinese Simplified, which was more difficult to decipher from scratch after breaking away from the pictographic evolution.

……

Three days later, the castle schoolyard.

The sun was shining, the wind in late autumn was not too cold, and the guards were on duty in the towers around the castle, and according to the Earl's instructions, the number of third-class dangerous breeds of black hounds exceeded double digits, and a certain little girl expressed her displeasure at this, because they also ate meat.

On the school field, Jiang Yuan was standing still in a strange posture, sweat dripping from his jaw to the ground, and the red pupil stood aside and secretly bowed his head, and at the same time stopped the black pupil from wanting to step forward to wipe the sweat with his eyes.

Five minutes later, Jiang Yuan changed his posture, and the red pupil approached and broke the other party's wrist, and after determining the posture standard, he retreated.

Tius sat in the sun and flipped through this year's ledger, winter was approaching, it was the lord's duty to try to ensure that the people were not starved to death, of course, in addition to that, his greater obligation was to attend the banquet, as one of the only two earls in the Berkshire aristocratic group, it was the basic policy to unite the nobles to check and balance the Taishou.

"Uncle, you're smart."

At the end of a workout, Red Hitomi evaluated it extremely seriously.

"You're smarter than me." Jiang Yuan took the towel brought by Hei Tong, took out a handful of white sugar cubes from his pocket as a gift, and the little girl reached out and stuffed all the sugar cubes into her mouth, and then smiled happily.

"Why?" Red Hitomi asked, wrapping her arms around her arms.

"Because you're well fed and ready to hibernate and I haven't, not to mention anything else, at least you solved the problem first, which is great." Jiang Yuan did not hesitate to praise.

After speaking, he began to relax his body and recover his strength in a short period of time, the exercise movements similar to ancient yoga just now are the secret methods of the Tius family, which have been quite perfect after being modified and improved from generation to generation, and can exercise the muscle groups of the whole body more thoroughly, which is fundamentally to imitate the movements of dangerous species at all levels when hunting, and initially involves the extraordinary.

The price is that it requires a lot of energy, and the red pupil likes to eat meat, and the black pupil likes sweets, all of which have something to do with it.

At the end of the fourth arcane cultivation, Tius came over with a bag of gold coins and said:

"Pay attention to proportion, it is easy to damage the body if you exceed the limit." Tius put the bag on the ground, "The new salt method has been successful, thanks to the recent good weather." ”

"I'll have to go out for a while before the news of the new salt comes out." Jiang Yuan said.

"How to ensure safety, I can equip you with a guard." Tius frowned.

"The guards are a greater threat to me than the bandits, and dying outside and dying inside the castle are two different concepts."

"But I've given you the march of the dead."

"There is no such thing as absolute fit."

Tius barely breathed his breath.

Jiang Yuan was relieved: "It's just that we can't trust each other, forgive me, I promise that this time I won't run away, I will come back before the winter hunt, and you don't have to be forced to stand in line." ”

Tius was silent for a long time and said, "Be careful. ”