Chapter 174 Big Profit

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When Gervis came to the lobby, Thomas and others were already waiting there. After seeing Gervis, they all greeted Gervis excitedly.

"Thank you for your hard work! Go wash up first! Thomas, and both of you, follow me to the hall first!"

Gervis glanced at the carriages. Only two of the five carriages were loaded with things. One carriage was filled with empty wooden boxes, and the other one was also loaded with a lot of sundries, all of which were necessities for the castle. They should have been purchased. Seeing this situation, Gervis had a clue in his mind that all the goods this time had been sold.

"Yes, sir!"

Gervis brought Thomas and Jimmy's two apprentices to the hall. As soon as they sat down, Thomas handed Gervis two bulging and heavy black purses.

Gervis took the purse and did not check it immediately. He happily asked Thomas and the two cook apprentices to sit down, and then asked Thomas, "Thomas, how is the response to your products?"

After touching the money bag and feeling its weight, Gervis knew that the goods had been sold out. However, he wanted to know the specific sales process and the customer's response on the spot. This would help him judge the quality of goods such as ice cream, ice cubes and oysters.

"Sir, this time we sold ice cream and ice cubes and earned a total of 11 gold coins, 10 silver coins, and 75 copper coins. God, I guarantee that I have never seen gold and silver coins come so easily. It's like picking them up from the ground. Everyone was afraid that they couldn't buy them, so they tried their best to pass the money in front of us..."

Next, Thomas excitedly told Gervis in detail about everything that happened in Winterfell, including his encounter with Eagle and Anthony. Of course, the most important thing was the description of the scene of selling ice cream and the bustling scene when selling ice cubes in the South District. Thomas even did not miss the fact that the Earl asked more than a hundred city guards to help maintain order on the scene.

"Looks like I'll have to ask Jimmy to speed up the ice cream-making process these days!"

After listening to Thomas's detailed account of what happened in Winterfell, Gervase was sure that the future of his ice cubes and ice cream was bright. However, ice cream and ice cubes had a disadvantage, which was that they were only popular in the hot summer. If they were in winter or the other two seasons, they would basically be unsalable and had a strong cyclicality.

Now that summer is about to pass, if Gervis wants to make more money this year, he must let Jimmy make more ice cream. After the caravan set off, Jimmy's two apprentices had also become masters, so Gervis taught Jimmy how to make ice cream. As a chef, Jimmy only followed Gervis's instructions and made it once, he reached Gervis' level.

During this time, Jimmy has been making ice cream of various flavors in preparation for the next caravan departure.

"As for Herald Eagle, it seems I have to thank him this time too!"

Gervis has already remembered that Eagle was able to help his caravan. As the saying goes, if someone respects me one foot, I will respect him ten feet. Gervis will leave for Winterfell in the next two days, and he can take this opportunity to thank Eagle in person.

"Sir, here is the invitation and envelope that the Earl gave you!"

After explaining how to sell ice cream cubes, Thomas took out the envelope and invitation card that Alice asked him to bring back to Gervis.

Of course, the invitation was for Gervis to attend Alice's birthday party. Gervis picked up the invitation first. The invitation had a leather cover and was finely crafted. It looked extraordinary. When Gervis opened the book-sized invitation, he took a breath of cold air.

"Hiss! How rich is my cheap wife! It's made of silver!"

I saw that the inside of the invitation was not made of paper, but made of shiny silver sheets, and the contents of the invitation were engraved on the shiny silver sheets.

In fact, as Alice's husband, Gervis did not need an invitation. However, in order to let Gervis understand the true relationship between them, Alice prepared an invitation for Gervis like other nobles.

Of course, Gervis understood this very well, but for the sake of the two glittering silver pieces, he chose to forgive, and even hoped that Alice would continue to send him such invitations in the future, and it would be even better if the silver invitations could be replaced with golden pieces.

As to whether Gervis' idea can be realized, it is unknown.

After glancing at the contents of the invitation, Gervis stopped paying attention and picked up the envelope to check its contents.

This envelope was the receipt from the king to Alice. When Gervis finished reading the letter, the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Thomas, take a look at this letter too!"

Gervis handed the letter to Thomas, and then turned his attention to Jimmy's two apprentices.

"Now tell us about your convoy's journey!"

Gervis said to the two of them with a smile.

"Yes, sir!"

The two of them quickly sat up straight and began to talk...

After they separated from Thomas, they walked slowly all the way. Every time they passed a lord's territory, they would stop for half a day. Because of the experience led by Thomas, the two were a little nervous, but they followed the procedures step by step. The lords agreed to let them grill the golden oysters, and in the end they were conquered by the golden oysters and other seafood, and generously took out gold coins.

In ten days or so, they visited a total of sixteen lords' castles and harvested 33 gold coins. The extra gold coin was exactly the money from selling oysters and lobsters.

Finally, they sold their wares all the way to Gandalf's castle, where they taught Gandalf, Nashen and another lord's cook how to roast golden oysters, while waiting for Thomas and others to return.

Gervase had already instructed Gandalf's and Nashen's cooks to provide them for free. In addition, he also gave Gandalf 100 kilograms of oysters and gave each of his vassal 50 kilograms for free. At this point, all the goods of Golden Life's team were cleared out.

"Very good! You didn't disappoint me!"

After listening to the two apprentices' stories, Gervis nodded with satisfaction. Of course, the most important thing was that the 33 gold coins allowed Gervis to make a fortune this time, which demonstrated their contribution.

"Thomas, next year the castle will directly supply food to each of them, and their families will be responsible for farming!"

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Of course meritorious service should be rewarded, and Gervis was not a stingy person, so he immediately gave an order to Thomas.

There are about a dozen quotas for providing food to the castle. After obtaining this quota, the castle will allocate them the best fields and provide them with seeds for free. They only need to cultivate the land well and provide the castle with the crops grown in the prescribed quantity without having to pay taxes.

"You two should go down and wash up first and have a good rest. We will set off again in two days!"

"Thank you for your gift, sir! Thank you for your gift, sir!"

When the two heard that Gervis had actually awarded each of them a quota to supply food to the castle, they immediately knelt on the ground excitedly and thanked Gervis loudly. With this quota, their families would no longer have to worry about food and clothing.

This quota is originally used to win over the lord's subordinates. The amount to be paid does not need to be too much, and it is several times lower than the tax. It can be said that this quota is the iron rice bowl in this world.

After the two thanked him, they left the hall with excitement. Gervis then spoke to Thomas again, "Thomas, what do you think of this letter?"

"My lord, Viscount Lanny must have bribed some officials to speak for him, and Viscount Lanny also concealed the fact about the mithril mine!"

Thomas thought about it and expressed his thoughts.

"That's right. If the king knew about the mithril mine, he would definitely mine it himself instead of letting Lanny do it on purpose. The king did this for only one purpose, and that is to suppress the Jones family!"

Since the king has made this move, which involves my interests, let's see whether their teeth are harder or my mithril sword is sharper!"

Although Gervis is still weak at the moment, Lanny's camp was destroyed by him not long ago. It would take at least one or two months to rebuild it. Gervis can use these two months to quickly improve his strength. More importantly, he now has gunpowder.

Since they were able to rob the Lanny once with the help of Gandalf's reinforcements, Gervase had the confidence to rob them a second time with the help of gunpowder.

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