The Extraordinary Earl

When Luther left the Golden City, many top wealthy people saw him off, and they seemed to have become the new rich in the Golden City. Luther just used Pompeii wine to travel around the Golden City.

So regardless of whether you have a good background or not, as long as you have money, you can make a fool of yourself.

However, Luther doesn't care about becoming the upstart of the Golden City. He just wants his Pompeii to develop better.

This time it only took Luther more than ten days to return to Pompeii from the Golden City, because he had previously sent the team back to Pompeii under the escort of several knights.

By the way, I asked someone to purchase some specialties from the Golden City and sell them back. It's not easy to come to the Golden City. You can't leave empty-handed. You can earn as much as you want.

It was still mid-winter when Luther set out from Pompeii, and it was already mid-spring when he returned to Pompeii.

Because although Pompeii expanded, it did not include large tracts of farmland in the south. Agricultural production was not harmed, and farmers began spring plowing activities one after another.

The Bass cattle, which made great achievements last year, were kept extremely fat by the farmers during the winter. They were mooing as they plowed the fields hard.

The industrial park in the west of Pompeii, the Habus factory, and the weapons factory have been built. The Habus industry is very mature, and familiar workers and apprentices have begun to make carriages, saddles, furniture and other products.

However, it will take some time to raise weapons production, because the Pompeii family has no plans to expand its guards yet, and mercenaries have not poured into Pompeii in large numbers.

The main job of the weapons factory is to recruit familiar blacksmiths, as well as to gather the sons of serfs who were ordered by Luther to be blacksmith apprentices.

This group of blacksmith apprentices have been training for more than a year, but they are still some way away from becoming blacksmiths.

The current main job of the weapons factory is to train these apprentices to become blacksmiths and repair weapons for the current guards in Pompeii.

As long as the expansion of Pompeii City is completed and the Pompeii family has plans to recruit more guards, the weapons factory can purchase iron ore and produce weapons.

Farther west, a large area of ​​forest was cut down, and a mulberry forest and a pasture stood up in the farthest place.

They are the properties of Miss Amanda and Miss Alice respectively.

Mulberry saplings have been planted, and Amanda hired a large number of workers to care for and maintain the trees.

Miss Alice purchased a group of purebred horses, excellent hunting dogs, and beautiful pet dogs, ready to show off her ambitions.

When Luther returned to the castle, he didn't even bother to take a shower and hurried to see Mrs. Sophie.

Not much has changed inside the castle.

One hundred permanent guards, as well as the escorting knight Mr. Magellan.

There were also male and female servants.

The only ones who are extra are little Maya and Lily. The two wizard apprentice ladies were holding their magic wands, chanting spells around the castle, and taking out tools to knock.

Luther couldn't understand it, but he knew that they were releasing constant magic, burning magic runes, and strengthening the castle.

This work was started before Luther left and is still being done now, which shows the huge amount of work.

However, Luther estimated that this was because the two of them were magic apprentices. If they were formal wizards, they would not be so slow.

Luther looked at little Maya and Lily who were concentrating on their work, so he did not disturb them and went to the second floor, Mrs. Sophie's study.

As soon as he came in, Luther saw that his mother seemed to be looking a little sad.

"Mom, you seem worried?" Luther asked with concern.

"Luther, are you back?" Mrs. Sophie's eyes lit up when she saw Luther, and she was very surprised.

This trip to the Golden City took so long for Luther, and Mrs. Sophie really missed him.

But thinking about the trouble Luther brought to her, Mrs. Sophie also felt sad. She glared at Luther and said, "It's not because of you."

Madam Sophie's glare was really feminine. But Luther naturally had no thoughts about his mother. He touched the back of his head and muttered: "What does it have to do with me?"

But think about it, my mother could have been a carefree lady. But because the Pompeii family's business expanded rapidly, my mother was very busy and dizzy.

I still run into trouble from time to time.

Luther guessed that the matter this time might be related to the brewery.

"Didn't you write a letter asking me to expand the winery? But you didn't say clearly what scale you wanted to expand to. And I sent someone to inquire about it, because the winery is surrounded by farmland, and farmers have already started spring plowing. , even if I buy their land at a premium, they won't sell it. Finally, because of your various policies, and Miss Amanda, Miss Alice's industry has started, and the number of workers in the city has become tight, I still have to do it. Find a way to go to Kaiyue City or the surrounding territories to recruit workers."

Mrs. Sophie rubbed her temples and told Luther all her troubles.

However, Mrs. Sophie is also very proud. Originally, the employment rate in Pompeii was a big problem, but her son unexpectedly solved the problem in a few seconds. Now, not only are there a shortage of workers in the city, but their wages have also increased a lot.

The higher the income of residents, the more they consume, and the higher the taxes paid by the city hall.

Everything is developing for the better.

Luther was a little surprised after hearing this. He didn't expect that Pompeii had become like this, and the workers had become a hot commodity.

Luther thought about it for a while, and then said to Mrs. Sophie: "Mom, the expansion plan of New Pompeii originally planned an industrial area. I am not going to destroy the large farmland in the south. That would be a pity. Just destroy us. The brewery and wheat flour factory will be moved to the industrial area. As for how to expand the brewery, I will ask Lelouch to expand it according to the production capacity of 500,000 barrels per month."

"Five million barrels?" Mrs. Sophie opened her red lips, revealing her snow-white teeth, which seemed like they could hold down a whole egg.

Mom was originally very elegant, but now she looks a little inelegant.

But there is no way, this expansion speed is really terrible.

You must know that before this, the production volume of Pompeii wine was only one or two thousand barrels a month. Because now Mrs. Sophie is just setting up a sales network in Barton collar.

Not much wine sold.

And now Luther is talking about 500,000 barrels, which means that production capacity must be expanded four to five hundred times.

It's impossible not to be surprised.

"I have already found someone to lay out sales channels throughout Orange. Five hundred thousand barrels is just the initial expansion plan. I estimate that we may eventually be able to sell one million barrels per month."

Luther shrugged and told his mother the results of his trip and the agency's innovation.

If one million barrels of Pompeii wine can be sold every month, the net income will be 250,000 gold coins. An income of more than two million gold coins a year.

The wine business is indeed hugely profitable.

"A million barrels!"

Madame Sophie was numb.

There are no words to describe it.