The Extraordinary Earl

Prior to this, the agricultural concepts of the Pompeii family were implemented in Pompeii territory. At the beginning, Luther was a little worried that this idea was too easy to be plagiarized. If this agricultural concept is plagiarized, food production in the entire Orange will increase by countless amounts, and food prices will fall accordingly.

No matter how much food Pompeii produced, it would still be of little benefit.

But judging from the results, Luther thought too much.

The lords of this era rarely paid attention to food production. They preferred to attend drinking parties and communicate with women.

So in the end, this matter required vigorous promotion by the Pompeii family.

It feels a little weird to go from worrying about being plagiarized to needing to promote it yourself.

Putting down the situation of the territory first, Luther asked Knight Ston: "Mr. Knight Commander, I already know that the number of guards has increased to five thousand. Where are the family guards?"

"When the news of the Pompeii family recruiting guard knights was released, many knights responded. Some knights even came from far away, but according to your request. I selected them strictly, not focusing on strength, only on strength. Paying attention to noble moral character, through gathering information over the past few months, I expanded the family's bodyguards to thirty-five people, three of whom are intermediate knights and the rest are junior knights. "

Knight Stone stood up and reported to Luther.

Guards and knights are different.

The guard knights in this world are usually responsible for the defense of lords and cities. Strictly speaking, they are garrison troops, a miscellaneous army.

The Knights are an organized regular army.

Because of the regular army, knights only need to be brave and good at fighting and have discipline.

Because he is a garrison and is even responsible for protecting family members, the most important thing is his character. Therefore, recruiting guard knights is more cautious and difficult than recruiting knights of the Order.

Luther can still accept the current situation of only thirty-five family knight guards.

"Thank you for your hard work." Luther said to Mr. Knight Commander. The knight commander not only had to worry about the guards, but also had to worry about recruiting family guards, and he also trained hard and worked hard to become a senior knight.

Simply Mr. OK.

Knight Stone nodded and sat down.

Administrative and military matters are all well understood. Next came the issue of the family business. Luther turned his eyes to the general manager and said, "Mr. Kuba, how is the hot spring resort?"

Bowser Brown stood up, a little relaxed and helpless and said: "The construction plan, etiquette training, chef recruitment, etc. are all going well. The security recruitment has been completed in advance. There are three senior knights, fifty intermediate knights, and one hundred As a junior knight, we will definitely be able to meet the expected opening date, but the actual opening day is a bit far away.”

The plan at that time was to officially open the hot spring resort after more than ten months of preparation.

However, the plan cannot keep up with the changes. Currently, the opening of the hot spring resort is far away, and it also costs a lot of money every day in wages.

It's really a bit helpless.

"The war will eventually end, order will be restored in Orange, and rich people will come to vacation. Take a long-term view, and our resorts cannot be abandoned and we cannot worry about salary expenses."

Luther said.

"Yeah." Kuba Brown nodded.

"Madam, what's the status of Pompeii wine production?" Luther turned to ask Mrs. Sophie. Because it was a formal occasion, he called his mother madam.

"Currently, the production capacity is maintained at 500,000 barrels per month, with an income of more than 100,000 gold coins. But when the war breaks out, Pompeii Wine will definitely collapse."

said Lady Sophie.

War is the end of all commerce, and Pompeii wine is no exception.

"Before the war breaks out, go all out in production and earn all the gold coins you can. When the war breaks out, reduce production as appropriate."

Luther thought about it and said.

"Yes." Mrs. Sophie nodded gracefully.

As a ruler, all the instructions Luther should understand and issue were completed at this meeting.

Then it depends on how the situation develops.

The most annoying thing is this, you know the storm is coming, but you don’t know how long it will take, how many months? Or how many years?

But this storm came faster than Luther imagined, much, much faster.

………….

The Marquis of Parker.

When the kingdom was first established, His Majesty King Michaux, the Sky Knight of Prussia, and his eight nobles formulated the laws and systems of the kingdom.

At that time, the system was: king, duke, hou, uncle, son, male.

Five levels below the king.

But after that major incident, the prestige of the King of Prussia dropped sharply. The nobles on the ground no longer obey the king's orders, and they don't care much about their titles.

What matters more is bloodline, antiquity, and strength.

In Orange, a baron is more powerful and has a more noble status than a viscount. Counts are more powerful than marquises and have more noble status. There are many examples of this.

Under such circumstances, the Earl of Libya became the consul of Orange, a super noble. Second only to the Earl of Libya was Duke Ferg.

After that, there were first-class nobles such as Marquis Parker.

There are only three first-class nobles like Marquis Parker.

Among the first-class nobles in Orange now, Marquis Parker is very famous, because his nickname is "The Executioner", and he treats the people below him in every possible way.

Kill people, expel them, make disgusting laws, drive away these land-owning people, take the land under the name of the marquis family, and buy serfs for farming.

This is only a small increase in the income of the Marquis family.

What Luther despises the most is this kind of behavior. The gold coins produced in the farmland will always be meager. Only by doing business and doing exclusive business can one become rich overnight.

But Marquis Parker obviously did not have Luther's vision and so many clever ideas. He could only start from the land and farmers, increase his wealth, and then squander it.

Many of the people lost to the Marquis Parker territory entered the Pompeii territory.

Luther once used the Marquis of Parker as a cash machine.

But even if Marquis Parker worked hard, because as a first-class noble, he owned a vast territory, many big cities, a huge number of guardian knights, and a sequence of vassal knights.

There is also a famous knight family under the command of Marquis Parker, the Morgan Knight Lord Family. This family owns a small city as a fiefdom, which is rare in the entire kingdom.

Compared with Baron Barton's strength, it may only be a little bit behind.

The Marquis Parker family is very, very powerful.

Under normal circumstances, the Marquis Parker family would not be finished.

However, we are under abnormal circumstances now.

The season has entered winter, and today is a gray and cloudy day. The sky seems to want to rain, but it does not fall.

The rain in winter is very annoying and makes the air damp and cold.

All the people don't want it to rain, just like all the nobles don't want the new party to launch a rebellion.

Just today, an ordinary carriage entered the main city of the Marquis of Parker, Sparta City.

The driver driving the carriage was an ordinary person, and sitting in the carriage was a gray-haired old man. This old man was really old.

The skin was full of wrinkles like tree bark, and the exposed hands were covered with age spots.

But his eyes are very, very bright.

Judging from his breathing, this is a very strong knight.

This old man is the leader of the new party in Orange, Siddhartha Parker. Frost Knight.

Knights with frost fighting spirit can only be regarded as users.

Only the true title knight is the true Frost Knight.

He is the strongest group of people in the entire kingdom.

He is a noble, he was born in this territory, and he is also a member of the Parker family that rules this territory.