Golden Greenery

Yang Yi was really speechless. Over the years, he had seen many nobles who were not doing well. Some were even extremely poor. The only valuable thing in the family was a set of good clothes that could be worn out. But a count as shabby as Deport refreshed his knowledge once again, and Yang Yi felt that he still saw too little.

Hearing that Yang Yi was looking for Bishop Werner of Strasbourg, Deport enthusiastically wanted to guide him. Bishop Werner was his cousin. Along the way, Yang Yi was still wondering: for such a dignified earl, he didn't even bother to dress decently when he went hunting, but the holes in his clothes were only tied up with straw ropes. And you don’t ride a horse when hunting. Can you outrun a wolf?

If the bishop hadn't really been his cousin, Yang Yi would have even suspected that Count Deport was a fake, even more fake than his own duke.

Bishop Werner is a true nobleman. He lives in a luxurious manor, has a vast territory, and holds a priesthood to command the entire Allgäu Mountains on behalf of God. The Allgäu Mountains are only larger than the Kingdom of Leon in terms of area.

Bishop Werner was very polite and respectful to Duke Yangyi. After receiving the letter from Marquis Brecht, he did not open it immediately. Instead, he warmly invited Yangyi to stay in his manor for two days and let him become the landlord. friendship.

However, Yang Yi politely declined his invitation, saying that he wanted to visit Count de Port and come back after a while to get a reply from Marquis Brecht.

Bishop Werner looked at Yang Yi as if he was seeing the most incredible thing in the world.

Soon Yang Yi understood why Werner was surprised.

After walking for a day, the two came to De Peter's house and saw two shack houses that looked like pigs' nests. Banhu's desolation sounded in Yang Yi's mind.

One of them actually houses two pigs. The pigs are skinnier than rabbits, but they are already DePort's most valuable tangible property.

It's not the only piece of clothing that has holes in it, but it's definitely the most decent one.

After returning home, Depot warmly entertained Yang Yi for dinner. In the house of other Counts, I eat what the pigs eat. In the house of Count de Port, I eat what the pigs eat.

Yang Yi, who has lived alone in the Zhongnan Mountains for more than a hundred years, is a person who can live a life of poverty, but Depot's life is not only a life of poverty, it is simply training, training people in the direction of pigs.

Brother Earl, let’s kill a rabbit, no, why not kill a pig and eat it?

Deport and his cousin Bishop Werner were both members of the Alsatian family. The Alsace family originated four hundred years ago, and now it is basically a loose pan-family concept. Except for the noble titles of their family everywhere, the Alsace family is not at all as tightly organized as the clans or clans in the Central Plains.

There are so many titles in such a large and extensive family that almost everyone has them, which is very worthless. The only item that reflects the status of Count de Port is the rusty broadsword with the family crest. To use it to chop firewood, you basically have to smash it.

At this time, all the countries in Europe were basically composed of city-states and territories. Most of the lords here were called landlords in the Central Plains, and they were regarded as squires. The lords supervised the farmers' cultivation when the farming was busy, and took the farmers around to rob when the farming was slack.

If a lord or city lord can support a standing army of more than fifty people, equipped with horses, armor, swords and bows, he is probably qualified to call himself a 'king', a king.

Therefore, there are kings, princes, and princesses all over Europe, and the number of noble titles derived from them is countless.

In the late Tang Dynasty, the Chang'an court was granting titles to anyone who paid for them, and the prices were getting cheaper and cheaper. As soon as the sheep go out of the mountains to buy food, they will encounter a Shangzhuguo, three generals, and seven Qingqi captains squatting on the roadside selling millet.

Europa's title at this time is not that exaggerated, but it has that flavor.

Count Deporte has three families of farmers who are better cultivators than him, and his main income comes from collecting taxes from these three families. To be honest, being able to collect even a small amount of tax from three families like this is already a big deal.

Depot, who has just turned 20, is like Yang Yi four hundred years ago. He looks stupid, but in fact he is mellow and confused, not knowing what to do. Four hundred years ago, Yang Yi met his senior brother Yuan Tiangang, and then he knew what he wanted to do in this world, and then he became Yang Yi four hundred years later.

Depot also needs to meet his ‘Lao Yuan’, or meet Yang Yi.

After two days of 'training' in the shack, Yang Yang, who already knew the rules of survival in Europa very well, took Deporte to a nearby hill.

"Depot, what do you think of this place?"

“Very good, the scenery is beautiful.”

"Deport, you see, this place has three overhanging walls and one gentle slope. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. A lot of farmland can be cultivated along the river below the slope. You build a castle here, stand according to the castle, and then recruit farmers, craftsmen and Knights, let them live at the foot of this mountain and form a defensive force for you."

"Deport, within ten years, you will become a real lord and a true earl."

"Duke Sheep, this...needs a lot of money..."

"Depot, money is the easiest thing in the world. The hardest thing is your courage and dreams."

Depot's ambition was aroused by Yang Yi. He calculated that it would cost 100 gold coins to build a castle, but Yang Yi knew that 100 gold coins was far from enough, because building on the top of a mountain was far more expensive than building on flat land. And until the newly cleared land produces anything, everything is a net expense.

Yang Yi said that "money is the easiest" because he was rich. Deport felt that Yang Yi's words made sense because he knew that his cousin Bishop Werner was very rich.

The innocent and simple Deport went to his cousin to borrow money in a hurry, and borrowed 100 gold coins. Yang Yi didn't stop him. He felt that there were many things that Deport needed to deal with by himself.

Two days later, DePort came back with a depressed face and could not speak a complete sentence.

Yang Yi left a dozen Frank gold coins with him to Deport, asking him to recruit craftsmen and farmers to build the castle and deal with the foundation first.

"Deport, buy a horse, some good clothes and new boots. Also, eat well. I'll be back in two months. Oh, by the way, kill the pig and eat it. It's good for the pig and good for you." .”

Yang Yi remembered that he still had a lot of Frank gold coins in his cellar, and he planned to give them all to Deport.

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Back home in Porto, Behaia didn't let the sheep get out of bed for another day. But after getting out of bed, the problem started.

There were indeed a lot of Frank gold coins in the cellar. I didn't count them all, but about a thousand of them were all picked out and loaded on the carriage, with seven or eight pumpkins pressed on top.

The paranoid miser Behaiya sat on the ground and cried heartbrokenly. She couldn't even part with those pumpkins, let alone so many gold coins.

Rolling around, kicking her legs and beating her chest, Behaiya's grief was more intense than the day her tribe's family members were wiped out. But this home is Yang Yi's home after all, and he is a determined person. After seeing that a few words of coaxing had no effect, he let her go upstream.

I'll stop crying after two days of crying. I'll come back after the autumn harvest and take you to grab it again. We'll only grab gold coins.

Yang Yi took the gold coins and went to the Allgäu Mountains. After he left, he never saw Behaia again.