As the farmers began their autumn harvest, the town hall and Pompeii's family became busy.

Especially the town hall. Before this, the town hall was very quiet because there were only farmers and no residents in Pompeii, so there was not much to do.

Now here comes the thing.

This year is a bumper harvest. The farmers delivered all the wheat and cabbage to the Pompeii family for processing. The wheat will be turned into flour and the cabbage will be turned into vegetable oil.

The farmers will pay the Pompeii family a certain commission for this. The commission is not high, but by making small profits but quick turnover, the Pompeii family's two processing workshops make a lot of money.

After the vegetable oil and wheat flour were produced, the farmers would keep some for themselves and sell most of it to the Pompeii family in exchange for copper coins.

The Pompeii family would purchase them at prices lower than the market price, and then transport them to Kaiyue City for sale, which was another source of income.

After the farmers had silver coins and even gold coins in their hands, they naturally started to spend money, buying cloth to make clothes, some snacks, and even some meat to make sausages.

So the farmers waved their coins and came to Pompeii's grocery store, cloth shop, and ranch to buy these daily necessities, and Pompeii made a fortune.

This is a very, very scary thing.

Normally, this is impossible in a real city, thanks to the fact that Pompeii is still small and all businesses are exclusively run by the Pompeii family.

In short, the farmers made a lot of money this autumn, but Pompeii actually made more. On the contrary, the tax reduction for the people for one year is just a drop in the bucket.

Of course, because Pompeii’s financial system is two parallel systems, Pompeii’s business forms its own finances, and the taxes from the city hall form its own finances.

So it was the Pompeii family who made the money, but because the city hall was very poor, the Pompeii family had to subsidize the city hall. In short, it was all Pompeii's money, from one hand to the other.

Pompeii Castle, in Madame Sophie's study.

Mrs. Sophie was checking the accounts with her account books, calculating and writing. Luther was sitting at the desk, very obedient and didn't move or make any sound.

Lady Sophie is calculating the income from the Pompeii family's territory this year.

Luther was looking forward to how much income the Pompey family could earn.

"Snap." After a long period of calculation, Mrs. Sophie put the account book aside and gave Luther a joyful smile.

"Luther, our Pompeii family's income from this autumn harvest is as much as 8,000 gold coins."

When Luther heard this, he immediately became happy and waved his fist to show his joy.

Luther was really happy.

Eight thousand gold coins didn't sound like much. After all, when Luther wiped out the Autumn Wind Bandits, he borrowed 100,000 gold coins from the Barton family.

But you have to know that Patton is a barony with a population of over 100,000, so the income it generates is certainly astonishing.

Pompey's income in the previous year was less than a thousand gold coins.

Eight thousand gold coins is a very considerable income, and it is not a one-time deal. There is a certain sustainability because it is impossible for the farmers to spend all the gold coins at once. In the future, the farmers' various consumption will bring a steady stream of income to the Pompeii family.

Now there are more than 10,000 farmers, and in the future there will be 100,000 or 1 million farmers. So it is very scary to run a territory.

"Don't be happy too soon. We still have a lot of external debts. We owe the Barton family 88,000 gold coins. The bounty hasn't come out for a while, and these 88,000 gold coins are still generating interest. We also need to pay back the gold coins we borrowed from the five major knight families."

Mrs. Sophie poured a bucket of cold water on Luther.

"Pay back the money? I won't pay it back. I'll drag it out with the interest. I'll keep the money first and maybe I can use it someday." Luther shook his head and refused to pay back the money.

Money can make money.

But the interest still needs to be paid, and Luther is not a deadbeat.

By the way, the 88,000 gold coins from the Patton family cannot be delayed. After the bounty is paid, the principal plus interest must be repaid. This was the condition agreed upon at the beginning.

After being delighted for a while, Luther stood up from his chair, bowed to Mrs. Sophie, and said sincerely: "Mom, you have worked hard this year, please be sure to buy some jewelry for yourself."

There is nothing wrong with what he said.

From a personal perspective, Luther and Mrs. Sophie have a very good relationship, better than that of an average biological mother and son, so there is nothing wrong with him buying jewelry for his mother.

In terms of work, this year Mrs. Sophie and Butler Ferran have managed the family business in an orderly manner. Pompeii wine, various workshops, ranches, and shops in the territory are all managed by her mother.

No need to pay wages.

No matter what, you have to give a year-end bonus.

You must buy jewelry, clothes, etc.

"Then I will withdraw 200 gold coins to buy some clothes and jewelry." Mrs. Sophie said happily when she saw Luther was so filial.

"Two hundred gold coins are too few. Please be sure to spend five hundred gold coins." Luther begged his mother to spend money.

"Then I will buy some clothes for you, Mary, and William." Mrs. Sophie said with a smile. As a lady who knew how to manage the household, she certainly would not be so extravagant as to spend 500 gold coins to buy clothes and jewelry for herself, but seeing that Luther was so filial, she compromised and planned to buy clothes for her family.

"Okay." Luther agreed reluctantly.

Skipping this topic, Madam Sophie suddenly remembered the circus and asked, "By the way, didn't you ask Lelouch to hire a circus for the carnival celebration? When will it arrive?"

"According to the plan, they should arrive the day after tomorrow." Luther said with a smile, and then added: "This is a famous circus hired from Kaiyue City. There are various animal training performances, various acrobatic performances, and yes, there are also funny clown performances. Mom, you must go and see it too."

Madam Sophie nodded happily and said, "Okay, I will definitely go and take a look when the time comes."

As the lady of the lord and the manager of the family business, Lady Sophie rarely leaves the territory throughout the year, and her life revolves around the Pompeii family.

This time during the autumn harvest in Pompeii, a circus came to perform, so of course she was interested in going to see it.

One day later.

The famous circus of the city of Kalij, the "Circus Pallada", has come to Pompeii. Pompeii will usher in a month-long carnival, during which the circus will tour various villages in Pompeii.

All expenses will be borne by the Pompey family.

There is only one purpose.

Let the entire Pompeii territory fall into carnival and continue the joy of autumn harvest.

Rejoice, people.

Let’s celebrate together for our common Pompeii.

Pompeii.

Our Pompeii will be better.

The previous chapter was revised twice because I took the name of the President of the United States as the leader of the thieves, so it was harmonized.

The first modification added a period in the middle of the name, but it didn't work.

In the second revision, the leader was called Omima.

I'm really sorry for the trouble this has caused you all.

(End of this chapter)