Lord of Industrialization

"Baron Potter, what can I get and what can you give me?"

Count Ortiz slowly shook the glass and took a sip. The flaming wine leaked from the corner of his mouth, slid across his pointed chin, and dripped onto the two pounds of meat in front of him.

Baron Harry Potter raised the glass and studied the wine in the glass, and replied: "We take what we can take, and you take what you can't take."

Ortiz thought in his mind that the Wesson army would not stay to occupy the land for a long time, so they only wanted floating wealth.

Land is the most important thing. If the things on it are gone, they can grow back in a year or two.

"Population," Ortiz said, "Population must be left to me."

Population is also an important resource, and it cannot be replenished for a while.

Porter nodded and said, "No problem."

"I have one last question," Ortiz squinted slightly, "I heard that you have cooperated with Sampaio, why do you still want to cooperate with me?"

Porter took a sip of wine, as if drinking a mouthful of fire.

"It's very simple." He said, "Charles Smith, who dominates the business over there, is just a cook for Grand Duke Wesson. He can only brag and can't do anything big, so he can't command the army like me."

"My father and Grand Duke Wesson's father died in battle on the same day and in the same place. I studied with Grand Duke Wesson."

Ortiz's eyes lit up. It turned out that he was a close minister of Grand Duke Wesson. He was the type with a promising future. This kind of person can be settled as long as he doesn't cause too big a problem.

"There is another most important reason." Porter said with a smile, "Sampaio is just an old man who is about to die, and you are a beautiful lady."

Ortiz narrowed his eyes slightly, raised the corners of his mouth, and asked, "So you are very brave?"

Porter said confidently, "Just kidding, I'm super brave, okay."

Ortiz took out a piece of paper soaked in a little wine and threw it over, asking, "Can you provide these within half a month?"

Porter took the note and read it. There were ten motorcycles, fifty bicycles, and a lot of "Emperor Water" and allicin injections and equipment on the list.

The so-called "Emperor's Water" is happy water, thanks to Ferdinand who drank two bottles before his death. This is how local merchants in the former Principality of Wesson promote it.

These things are sold in the Kingdom of Madeira, mainly because a certain knight's family is doing this, and the price is not low.

"No problem." Porter said, and then quoted according to his own understanding.

"So low?" Ortiz looked incredible, "Please give a reason."

Porter thought that the Shasbier family seemed to be very black-hearted, and smiled and said: "Of course I have conditions, and I have to pay with grain."

"These things are not easy to explain. I can explain that they were lost when I went to collect grain."

"And..."

He looked at the other person with a slight smile.

"Food?" Ortiz thought.

After a moment, she said, "Food is fine. We'll calculate it based on the current bulk grain price."

"But it will take me time to mobilize so much food, about ten days."

"You stay here for fifteen days and teach my people how to use the magic medicine."

Porter nodded and said, "Okay."

"Do you want me to help fight someone?"

Ortiz shook his head slightly and said, "No, His Majesty Doss will summon the nobles to the capital in two months. I can take these things back and seek a new territory far away from here."

Porter took another sip of wine and said, "It seems that you want to stay away from the war." Ortiz nodded slightly, without any intention of denying.

Porter said, "That's fine. I can't bear to see a beauty like you become my medal of honor."

"I have a suggestion," his eyes became sharp, "I can give you double the money, tell me what you know."

Ortiz asked him, "Aren't you afraid that I will cheat you?"

Seeing that she didn't refuse, Porter smiled and said, "I can give you triple the money, you have to make sure it's true."

"If you cheat me, I can tell Grand Duke Wesson and suggest that he stop trading with your country and explain it to the merchants."

"I was just cheated by you. It's the higher-ups' business to not verify the truth of the information. It's not a big deal for me. At most, I'll be scolded by Grand Duke Wesson and then pay for the hole myself."

According to the information provided by Grand Duke Suarez, the Ortiz family was the loser in the court struggle. Ortiz's father died of depression less than two years after he came here. She has been wanting to leave all these years.

There is only one way to leave, bribing the court officials, so she needs the high-end goods that are in short supply in the capital.

Since Ortiz was talking about the truth of the intelligence, Frederick was naturally using a stick in one hand and a beet in the other.

For the nobles, the survival of their own family was the most important thing, and if the king could be sold for a good price, he would naturally sell it.

On this day, Count Ortiz announced that he would fast for two weeks in the monastery outside the city in order to return to the capital.

After Frederick sent the letter back, he followed to the monastery.

At first, he thought he had come to the palace prepared for the king's personal expedition, until a group of nuns in khaki robes walked out of it, and then he was sure that this magnificent building was a monastery.

Fasting starts with bathing.

Two nuns took Frederick to a small bathroom and took a piece of soap "gift from Mother Earth" from the shrine.

Frederick was very upset. This was clearly sulfur soap produced by his own family, so how could it become a gift from the God of the Earth?

The two nuns chanted scriptures like singing, lit a faint incense, and prepared hot water filled with flower petals.

The process seemed quite solemn, and Frederick felt a sense of calm, as if his soul was sublimating.

Ortiz had agreed earlier that he would live in a small courtyard during this period and try not to go out.

The two nuns changed him into a khaki robe, took him to the courtyard, and then brought today's lunch.

The big bowl was filled with potatoes, onions and carrots. According to the Earth God Church, the root food in the ground is the gift of Mother Earth, and only these can be eaten during fasting.

Frederick did not believe that the followers of the Earth God Church were so pious, and the two nuns were not so serious just now.

He pushed aside the potatoes, and sure enough, there was stewed venison underneath.

A nun whispered to him, "Count Ortiz prepared it for you."

Frederick whispered, "It could also be for you."

"Really?" The nun's eyes lit up. This man had been very serious just now, and he was different from the men that the sisters had talked about before.

Frederick thought, potatoes have only appeared here for a few years, and they have been absorbed into the system of the Earth God Church. There is also sulfur soap just now. It seems that they are not stubborn old antiques.

As long as they are not old antiques, then business is not impossible to discuss.

Frederick found that the potatoes in the bowl were not big, obviously old varieties or degraded varieties.

As long as the money is in place, he doesn't mind selling the improved crop varieties to the Earth God Church.