Chapter 78 Seventy-eight Heirs

Baron Ravossen House, a simple investiture ceremony was held in the cathedral.

After only two or three days of preparation, all the benches in the cathedral were cleared out. In the middle stood a sacred altar of creation, borrowed from an unknown sect. It was a scaled-up reliquary with wolf bones inside for sacrifice.

The bishop and a group of novice monks, and the choir were singing beside them. The earl, wearing a purple-red robe and holding a silver sword, walked around the altar and first "consecrated" the new barons one by one, pinning ribbons and medals on their bodies.

After that, each newly-appointed knight knelt down, took an oath, and was awarded the knight's medal.

After the ceremony, the Earl held a grand banquet at Baron Lavossen's mansion.

The banquet was of a very high standard. Olivia, Caesar, and the other barons and ladies sat at tables where four people could enjoy six dishes, one soup, and various snacks and fruits.

But it was different from what she had eaten in the Baron's mansion before. The table here had bear paws, goose breast, venison legs, lamb, fresh cherries, late-ripening sweet oranges, and the most luxurious food.

Although the food was delicious, none of the barons and ladies present were really there to eat and drink; they were just there to show their appreciation.

Everyone should take this opportunity to recognize each other's faces and see whose house is next to whose.

In the town of Ramwijk, across a mountain range to the north of Einweiden, the baron is the nephew of the countess, named Wabre Konta.

This man's family is very wealthy south of Rosslinge. His ancestors were landowners engaged in business, and the past two generations have begun to intermarry with nobles.

He and his wife were both young, not talkative, and quite arrogant. It seemed that they had known for a long time that they would definitely be banned, so they were extremely calm.

Olivia was at the table, sitting with Baroness Odoni, who had taken the other half of the original Linkai Town.

The town of Odone borders Dunfermline to the north, and its baron is Nint vanders.

Nint was originally a retainer of Ssona. He was very brave in battle and made great contributions. He was also the leader who led Ssona's soldiers to cooperate with Caesar.

The situation at that time was that Ssona discussed the transfer with the officers, and finally Caesar and Ningte were responsible for the execution, so they were quite familiar with each other.

Olivia looked at this person's character card. He was a three-star military talent, and his wife was named Lautracy, a one-star intelligence talent.

This couple has simple personalities and likes to communicate with others.

Lautracy asked Olivia about the business tax and property tax rates near Lavossen.

She was not familiar with the north at all. Two days ago, she heard in Anko City that her family was going to be ennobled, so she rushed here overnight.

Olivia knew what the property tax regulations were, so she explained it to her.

In the direct territory of Lavosen, the price of medium-sized arable land is about one gold coin per acre, and the annual property tax is nine li. Because it is used to grow crops, it is considered a low tax.

The transaction price of forest land is eight gold coins per acre, and the annual land tax is three silver coins.

The mine is only rented and not sold. The monthly rent for one mine is five gold coins.

The land within the fortress city is sold at a high price.

In the city of Lavosen, the best-located land can cost hundreds of gold coins per acre, and the selling price is ten times the annual rent. The annual property tax is 5%.

Even in a remote and bad place, it costs about a hundred gold coins to buy one acre, and the annual property tax is five gold coins.

There is no fortress in Lautreci's territory, so it must be re-planned and rebuilt, but the count probably didn't allocate too much money.

After most barons and ladies had planned their direct territories and places to build fortresses, the first thing they did was to sell or rent land to raise money so that they could recruit soldiers.

After recruiting soldiers and horses, he appointed some knights and paid the earl's taxes every year by collecting land rent, property tax, and manor tax.

If businessmen and farmers who have bought land leave the land vacant, they will lose money in land taxes every year.

In order to avoid losses, these businessmen and farmers will continue to farm every year. As long as they produce something, a series of jobs and processing workshops will be generated.

Therefore, for the Barony, the more merchants it can attract to buy or rent land, the more prosperous the place will be in the future.

After the banquet, Caesar, Olivia, and old Renault followed the sheriff to sign the land exchange contract with Baron Lavosen.

She gave over forty hectares of land on the riverbank of Dunfermline across from Lavossen, and Olivia gave twenty hectares of her own river valley land to Dunfermline.

She also returned the documents of Toxon Manor. In the prosperity level, the town map of Einweiton changed slightly.

The dozen or so soldiers recruited from Toksun Manor were all returned, with only their equipment collected.

As a result, there were only five cavalrymen and more than twenty ordinary soldiers left in the barracks.

As for the soldiers who signed the contract, they are all still alive. They received their salaries, were allocated an acre of land in the village, and became serving soldiers.

That night, before returning to the south, the attendant Ssonar introduced two newly appointed knights, named Galt and Lannis.

These two were originally Ssona's personal attendants and were mercenary contract soldiers.

They served under Ssonner for three or four years, each with four infantrymen under their command.

Although they now had the new title of knight, they had no fief, only the title salary.

The two thought it would be better to have a fief, so they gave Ssona a sum of money to buy himself out.

He also asked Ssona to help introduce a baron to him so that he could move his registered residence from Anko.

Ssonna took their money and entrusted the two men to Caesar.

Caesar was short of manpower and asked Olivia for her opinion.

She flipped over the character cards of the two people and found that they were the two two-star military talents drawn from the card pool two days ago. They both had simple personalities, so she agreed.

Caesar planned to give these two men a fiefdom in the village near the southern valley of Ein Wetten.

After all, the other side of the river is someone else's county, so we still need to be on guard.

But for now, he had to gather dozens of people to take over the port, where dozens of Baron Lavosen's direct soldiers were still guarding the port.

The next morning, at the east ferry terminal in Lavossen City, Olivia rented three large ferry boats with a carrying capacity of tens of thousands of pounds.

Caesar and old Renault, each with twenty soldiers and several cavalrymen, as well as the two new knights, sent the horses and luggage across the river to maintain law and order on the other side of the river.

The second boat carried the steward and strong men of Renault Manor, as well as Loschi and his four assistants and two horses.

Letilen and his six men, Jacob and several helpers, as well as ten mules, twelve donkeys, and more than twenty carts.

The last boat was filled with food and priests, a total of 7,000 pounds of wheat. The four novice monks sent by the bishop, Donald and Fanon, followed closely behind.

These grains were obtained from the manor. Caesar and old Renault were to each take 3,500 pounds to go to the fortress and port to appease the refugees.

Olivia also gave some settling-in money to the four novice monks. They were going to teach and save all living beings.

The dock is very busy now, and the barons who need to take the big ship to cross the river to take office are as numerous as dumplings.

Even small fishing boats were pulled out to be used as ferry boats.

Many of them were businessmen who wanted to cross the river to try their luck in Constantia, and some landless farmers planned to go to the town on the other side of the river to work as laborers in the land reclamation.

Caesar and his group first spent a day visiting Dunfermline Fortress.

In that fortress, settle down the new baron, old Renault.

Thanks to the humanoid radar Letilan, Olivia can see the map of the entire Dunfermline when she returns home.

The old Eastwind Fortress was built at the pass on the north side of the present-day town of Dunfermline, on the top of a small hill, surrounded by steep forests and accessible only by a winding mountain road.

Although such a fortress looks very stylish, it took a lot of effort to attack it.

After entering the city, the group went to the fortress in the city to find accommodation, arranged for soldiers to distribute porridge in the city, and recruited soldiers and servants.

The city has experienced several wars, and the surviving residents were all enslaved by the rebels and used to work.

Or they could be some lucky refugees hiding in the nearby mountains.

Old Renault and his group of hundreds of people marched into the city in a mighty procession. They counted the population, cooked porridge, stored food, and recruited soldiers.

Two days later, the old East Wind City was cleared out, and Caesar and his party went to Einweiden.

Inside the manor, Olivia gathered the construction trio and several workshop owners.

These workshops will be moved there after the planning of the port town is completed.

Olivia's policies for these workshop owners are very generous.

Give the ports the best locations for free and exempt them from taxes, allowing them to develop their scale and expand production.

But it is still the same as now, the goods are only sold to her as the lord. If anyone sells goods privately and official goods become private goods, then there is no way out.

After more than a year, these workshop owners have made some money. Some of them have enough money to buy more than ten cows.

Everyone is willing to follow the arrangements and want to move to a good place like the port to develop, perhaps even achieve great success.

Fishermen like Antona also know that sea fish are much more valuable than river fish. She thought that if she moved there, she would open two more drying yards.

Gao Sili, Adam and Ethan had already started packing their luggage.

They planned to bring people to build a workshop as soon as the designer returned the plan.

When it comes to the family being granted a title, the three of them were the happiest and were so excited that they took several days to calm down.

In the past, when doing business, people were very cautious. They didn’t dare to set the price too high, and they didn’t dare to sell the porcelain they had produced.

If the lord who is of higher status gets to know about it, the recipe will be lost.

Now his family has military power, so much land, and even seaports.

No one could hinder them except the Earl, but the Earl was far away.

Gao Sili had already made up his mind. He wanted to move all the workshops to the best location in the port, set up his own shipyard, and recruit sailors.

From the source of the workshop, the products are exported to other places by sea, and the whole process does not involve any third-party dealers, so naturally, one can make a lot of money.

Olivia consulted with the workshop owners and took inventory of the things in the manor.

After the design drawings are completed, Caesar will recruit people in Eindhoven to build the city and provide relief through work.

The various workshops were moved there and built at the same time.

After half a year, when the fortress and town were almost completed and the soldiers were recruited, she finally moved there with all her family's valuables.

As for this manor, a small pier was built on the river bank, turning it into a ferry crossing.

From then on, this place would be a transit point for goods or raw materials to come in and out, and the manor would still be cultivated.

When Caesar's followers passed the tournament in the Knights Templar and were knighted, they would return and be granted fiefs.

As the days gradually approached mid-April, Olivia received the drawings that were expeditedly sent back by designer Loschi.

There are a total of twelve pages of parchment, which are densely covered with drawings, including drawings of the current situation.

There are also overall future planning maps, partial divisions, and detailed maps of important facilities.

The current drawing shows the entire old port on the seaside, which covers an area of ​​about ten acres. It is located near the mouth of the Dela Ulun River and has a small barracks covering an area of ​​two acres.

After some investigation, Slochi discussed with Letilen and Caesar for a few days and drew a new design.

Loschi planned the town and the port to cover about 15 hectares, or about 1,500 acres, and designed it into a triangle that cuts diagonally from the river bank to the coastline.

Excluding the artificial canal that needs to be dug, the circumference is about four or five kilometers, and it takes more than an hour to walk around the city.

This is the typical size of a medium-sized town at present.

The fortress where she was to live was located in the center of the triangle. It was a U-shaped building covering an area of ​​eight acres, with one door facing northwest and the other facing southeast.

The functional structure inside the building is similar to that of most current baron fortresses.

Four main streets extend from the four directions of the fortress.

The street to the northwest leads to the main city gate on the artificial river bank. This gate is also in the form of a drawbridge, and walking out is the inland of Eindhoven.

The street to the southeast leads directly to the port and dock area. There, a city wall will be built, a harbor will be built, the dock area will be expanded, and a location for hundreds of merchant ships to dock will be designed, as well as the shipyard that Gaosili had been dreaming of.

The two avenues leading to the southwest and northeast have no city gates at the end.

At the end of the southwest avenue, Loschi reserved a place for a church.

The northeastern avenue leads to a town warehouse.

Four avenues divide the triangular city into four areas of different sizes.

The two areas adjacent to the artificial moat are divided into two right-angled trapezoids by roads and are designed as market areas.

People entering the city from the northwest can eat, stay, browse retail stores, and trade goods at the auction house.

The areas to the northeast and southwest are designed as residential areas, and these two places are relatively secluded.

The area in the southeast near the port is obviously an industrial area.

There are three hectares of land that can be used to house various workshops and warehouses, and it is quite close to the port.

As soon as the design drawings came out, Olivia could clearly see which land on the drawings could be rented or sold.

She first called the impatient construction trio and asked them to bring a group of workshop owners and a group of men to survey the location and occupy the most convenient position to build the workshop.

By the way, each of the construction trio and the workshop owner will be given a 300-square-meter residential plot in the residential area.

In addition to the main roads, there are countless small roads in the city, which are shown in the detailed maps.

She divided the residential areas in the order of inner circle first and then outer circle.

When these people arrived at the place, they would naturally build houses on the corresponding land under Caesar's supervision.

Since she had to build a workshop from scratch, she received some construction subsidies, but for building a house herself, she only had free land and no subsidies.

After seeing this group of people off, she began to see a large number of businessmen and self-employed farmers who came to inquire about buying or renting land.

Show these people the blueprint, write a contract, and let them take the contract to Caesar and others to measure the land.

Sixteen merchants rented a quarter of an acre of land in the market area at the price of six silver coins per month.

Eight businessmen rented an acre of medium-sized land in the industrial zone to set up a workshop, with a monthly rent of 25 silver coins.

The minimum rental period for these places is one year, with no deposit required and the fee for one year must be paid in one lump sum.

There were also twelve families who bought one-sixth of an acre of land in the residential area for twenty gold coins, intending to build small wooden houses to settle down.

For residential land like this, the tax rate is uniform: one silver coin per sixth of an acre per year.

In just a few days, he collected hundreds of gold coins by renting and selling land.

Before she was conferred the title, she had 600 gold coins left in her pocket. The title conferment allocated another 600 gold coins, and now she has received another 400 to 500 gold coins, making a total of more than 1,700 gold coins.

All this money must be spent on building cities and roads in the direct territory. Don't even think about keeping a single cent.

At present, her family has not yet granted a knight fief, so the entire town of 3,600 hectares is direct territory, which is really difficult to deal with.

A week after the construction trio took the workshop owners to Eindhoven, the "First Experience" mission was completed and the experience points were increased.

She unlocked new quests.

"Build a fortress

Mission Description: Build a fully functional fortress that can meet the needs of a baron's mansion.

Mission progress: 1/100

Mission Reward: +66 Experience Points

+＊1 vacant seat for heir

Olivia's face was stunned, and she clicked on the explanation of the heir seat.

The explanation is that the way to use this blank seat for the heir is that within one month after she clicks on it, she has to have sex with the NPC Nianniang Jiangjiang once, and this time she will be able to have a baby.

A blank seat can only be used once.

You have to unlock a new blank seat, click to use it, and then go to Nianniangjiangjiang to have a second baby. If you don’t use it, you will be sterilized.

If you don't make sauce within a month, your seat will be invalid.

Olivia scratched her head. When it comes to heirs, quality is more important than quantity. It would be bad to have nine dragons competing for the throne. It would be enough to train just one. There is no need to worry about the timing.

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