Luther knew long ago that to gain status, two factors must be present: financial power and military power. These two factors complement each other.

What happened to the Patton family this time made Luther understand this even more clearly.

If Old Thor hadn't suddenly come, their vassal knight sequence would have suffered heavy losses even if they had been able to break out.

Lady Sophie.

Uncle Lipton, cousin Newton.

I don’t know how many people will die in that internal conflict.

This is an extraordinary world, where the power of individuals becomes extremely strong, while the power of order becomes relatively weak.

Just like in the United States in the past, when people had guns, shootings would occur frequently.

It was like Baron Barton was hit by a magic cannon and no trace was left.

If there was no powerful military protection, not to mention Pompeii, even his own life might turn into dust in a moment without any pain.

The internal strife within the Patton family made Luther realize this more deeply.

So we have to make money, and at the same time, we have to turn the money into our own combat power. And if we want to expand our combat power, nothing is more suitable than expanding our father's combat power.

A great knight, even if he is a fake one, is a big shot in Orange and can be a powerful deterrent.

On the contrary, ten senior knights combined are not as intimidating as a single great knight.

Of course, a normal force should be in the shape of a pyramid, with top-level combat power, as well as middle-level and bottom-level combat power.

The future Pompeii should also be equipped with a small number of senior knights and a large number of junior and intermediate knights.

But the problem is that the Pompeii family currently has no trustworthy knights, just like the Patton family's guardian knights. Each guardian knight family has served the Patton family for at least a hundred years.

Perhaps out of consideration for the future of the Barton family, Hisoka and Rufen chose to let Lucy Barton become the new Baron Barton.

However, it cannot be denied that the guardian knights betrayed their duties and the laws of the nobility, which led to internal strife in the Barton family and caused great harm to the Barton family.

These families may also take such actions under these circumstances.

Not to mention the hastily recruited knights.

Loyalty is not guaranteed.

In the future, Luther will establish a supernatural school to cultivate his own supernatural powers. No matter whether they are commoners or nobles, as long as they receive education in Pompeii's school, they will have a natural loyalty to Pompeii.

But Luther didn't have so much money to push Pompeii's education to a higher level. In this case, it was a good choice to spend money desperately to train his father to become an elite knight, or even to give him the title of knight.

As long as there is top combat power, even if this force is extremely weak, it can still become a top force.

"Don't worry, Dad. Money is not a problem." Luther put his arm around old Thor's shoulder and said with a relaxed smile.

"You are such a disrespectful boy." Old Thor didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and slapped Luther's hand away.

Not long after, the father and son came down from the roof and went about their respective business.

………….On the road to the Golden City.

Wrong, it should be on the road from Kaiyue City to Golden City. Because if I don't make it clear, I won't be able to tell the difference.

All the avenues in Orange lead to the Golden City.

The Pompeii family's team was very large.

It consisted of 250 carts, corresponding coachmen, a team of 500 guards, and 20 knights, among whom even Knight Smith, a senior knight of the Orange Springs Resort, was temporarily borrowed by Luther.

Because the entire Orange is full of various bandit gangs, if there were no high-level knights in charge, such a large team would be robbed countless times along the way to the Golden City.

However, in order to prevent some powerful bandits from spying on this team, Luther also used the coat of arms of the Pompeii family.

Now the Pompeii family has a certain reputation in the whole Orange, not only because of the Autumn Wind Thieves Gang incident and the Orange Hot Springs Resort incident, but also because of the Pompeii family's great knight, Thor Pompeii.

No one would easily offend a great knight.

Thieves are bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong.

In the black carriage of the only carriage in the team, Luther put down a document in his hand.

This is a law that has just been promulgated by the Count of Libya, the Archon of Orange, a law on wine.

Before this, Luther had always been worried that Pompeii wine had no technical content, did not require superb winemaking technology, and did not require an excellent winemaker.

The current Pompeii wine is definitely not as good as the high-end liquor in Luther's previous life, such as Maotai. In fact, the current Pompeii wine should be equivalent to the low-end liquor produced by the assembly line in the previous life.

The only thing is that it's strong.

If someone wants to peek into the technology of such low-grade liquor, the chance of stealing it is 100%. Fortunately, no one has done such a thing before.

The Count of Libya promulgated this law not long ago, requiring all famous wines with names to go to the Golden City for registration. Once officially registered, they will be protected by the Count of Libya.

Anyone who steals technology or counterfeits alcohol will be cracked down by the official forces of Orange.

The Count of Libya protected the property rights of alcohol.

But this was not the result of Luther's activities; it was a law enacted after consultation between the Libyan Count and many great nobles.

Because in the whole of Orange, the largest red wine production workshops all belong to the great nobles. From the top wine to the ordinary wine, they are almost monopolized by the great nobles.

Protecting the property rights of wine is equivalent to protecting their own interests.

Luther's Pompeii wine took advantage of this opportunity and became a wine protected by all the nobles of Orange. In this way, Luther no longer had to worry about his technology being stolen.

Before the opening of the Orange Hot Springs Resort, Luther hopes to earn enough money during this period to expand the Pompeii family's combat power, mainly to enhance his father's combat power and protect himself.

So this time Luther led a huge team, with 5,000 barrels of Pompeii wine, to the Golden City to develop the market.

Now that there was a law officially issued by the Count of Libya, Luther would be doing himself a disservice if he did not sell Pompeii wine to every corner of Orange.

But Luther plans to make some slight changes to the wine selling model.

Luther planned to invent a wine selling model that had never appeared in the world, hoping to sell Pompeii wine to every corner of Orange in a short period of time.

The reason why the first stop was chosen as Golden City was because Golden City was the economic center of the entire Orange. If Pompeii wine was successful in Orange, then the markets in other cities would also be easily opened.

The Golden City is just so awesome.

Pompeii is still a long way off.

(End of this chapter)