Chapter 37: Dragon Rider in the Travels
Although Gervis now has more than 20 gold coins, there are still many places where he needs money. For example, the castle is still empty. There is nothing except some leftover furniture. For a noble castle, 20 gold coins are not enough to fill the gaps.
Not to mention buying some artworks to improve the style, even the goose down cushions on the sofas had to be bought, and the carpets in each room and the various beddings in the guest rooms needed to be replaced with new ones. The biggest thing was the various silver plates and porcelains for the banquet.
These things must be purchased at present. Otherwise, if a guest comes or a banquet needs to be held, Gervis will not even have a place to entertain them. If this gets out, it will definitely damage the reputation of the Gale Family and the Jones Family.
These things that are related to nobility are very expensive, which makes people feel headache just thinking about it.
Gervis has no income now. Although the summer taxes for the territory can be collected in more than a month, there are only 2,000 serfs in the territory, and the church will take half of the taxes. It will be good if the remaining Gervis can keep the castle going until next summer.
To recruit soldiers, he could only wait until the supplies sent by Gandalf arrived.
"This is a vicious cycle, we must find a way!" Gervis rubbed his swollen head.
"Now it depends on whether our wine can be successful. As for the oysters, we have to put them on the agenda as soon as possible so that we can let them go out and make money." Gervis's territory is not as rich in minerals as Viscount Lanny's territory. If Gervis wants to make his first pot of gold, he must focus on wine and oysters.
What Gervis is most looking forward to is wine. Once successful, it will definitely be a hen that lays eggs.
As for the grilled oysters with garlic, I can only find the lords in the coastal areas and sell them door-to-door in person. Once the nobles like the product, I will sell the technology to them. However, this is only a one-time deal. If it goes on for a long time, there will be absolutely no income.
While thinking about Gervis, he unconsciously flipped through the thick book in his hand. This book should be a travelogue. Although the book is thick, there is not much content. Most of it is illustrations. The painting level is not up to standard and it has a bit of abstract meaning. Just after Gervis had flipped through most of it, suddenly an illustration caught Gervis' attention.
The illustration shows a golden-armored knight riding on a dragon, fighting a huge monster.
This surprised Gervis a little. It was not surprising for a knight to slay a dragon. There were also carvings of this kind on the long table in the restaurant. It was probably the dream of every knight to slay the dragon and save the princess.
However, this was the first time he had seen Gervis riding a dragon to fight. Gervis had traveled here for more than a month and knew that there were fighting beasts in this world. He was also very curious about whether there were legendary dragons. However, both the popular science books and Gandalf's words clearly stated that there were no dragons in the world and they only existed in novels.
Gervis couldn't help but look back at the beginning. The previous interjections and stories were all very normal. There were fights between knights and battles between humans and monsters, all of which could be found in reality.
"In the 368th year of the Alliance Calendar, I came to the Principality of Pace in the north of the continent. I heard that a violent monster appeared on the edge of the Evernight Forest a month ago. Within two days, it destroyed three cities of the Principality of Pace, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties. The only dragon knight of the Principality of Pace took action and killed the monster. When I rushed to the edge of the Evernight Forest, the prosperous scene on the originally wealthy land was no longer there. The three cities with hundreds of thousands of people turned into ruins, and where the dragon knights fought with the monsters, there was a gully hundreds of meters long and dozens of meters deep. I swear, this is the first time I have seen the power of the dragon knight."
When Gervis finished reading the text, he was shocked. Hundreds of meters long and dozens of meters deep, is this still human strength? Can the power of the Golden Knight reach that level?
Later, Gervis felt that this book was definitely not a travelogue, but a novel, because there was no Alliance history on this continent. The original owner was also a descendant of the nobility. Before he came of age, he was sent to Winterfell by Gandalf to attend a three-year aristocratic school. Although the school taught more about the etiquette of the nobles, history was also indispensable.
As far as Gervis could remember, he had never heard of the Alliance Calendar. There was only the unified year of the continent, and now it was the 233rd year of the Gregorian calendar.
Gervais picked up the book. On the old cover were written the words "Cecil's Travels", and the title below was Cecil Biff.
Gervais turned the book back to the first page and then slowly flipped through the pages.
"In the 363rd year of the Alliance, a war broke out between the Earldom of Pers and the Earldom of Kate. Earl Pers sent out 10,000 troops and took three months to capture the Earl Kate's castle..."
"Alliance calendar year 363..."
"In the 365th year of the Alliance Calendar, it was already winter. I was invited by a good friend to go to the Principality of Gus to attend his award ceremony, but the road to the Principality of Gus was blocked by heavy snow. In order to catch up in time, I spent gold coins to follow a caravan and prepared to cross the dangerous Cher Swamp with them. On the third day after departure, the team was attacked by a monster. A snow wolf hid in the snow pile on the side of the road and dragged away a guard without the caravan noticing..."
"Alliance calendar year 366..."
Gervis flipped through the book page by page and found that this book was called "Cecil's Travels". Except for the description about the dragon knight, the other described events were relatively real, including introductions to local customs and practices, interesting stories about the nobles, and small-scale wars.
This troubled Gervis, as he couldn't tell whether the dragon knight in the story was real. Otherwise, why would a normal travelogue suddenly have such a mythical content? Was it the author's bad taste, or something else?
When Gervis finished reading the entire book, he still couldn't find the answer.
After rubbing his slightly stiff face vigorously, Gervis no longer paid attention to the book. Regardless of whether it was a dragon or not, there were many doubts about the time recorded in this book. He planned to look through other books to see if there were any records about the Alliance calendar.
Next, Gervis looked for a few history books on the bookshelf, but unfortunately, none of them had any records about the Alliance calendar. The earliest records in these history books started from the Gregorian calendar, and there were no records before the Gregorian calendar.
Gervis didn't give up and looked through a few more books, but still got nothing.
"It seems that I still know very little about this world. It is impossible that humans have only survived in this world for 233 years."
The history of this continent seems to be shrouded in fog. Except for the records within 233 AD, everything before that seems to be broken and there is no record at all.
This is extremely strange. You have to know that even in the most primitive era of history on Earth, people would slowly complete the history of their predecessors through archaeological excavations.
"Aren't the nobles in this world curious?" Gervis believed that he was not the only one who could discover this problem, but why didn't the nobles explore it?
"It seems that I should ask my cheap dad about it when I get a chance." Gervis secretly remembered this matter and planned to find out more about it when he had the chance.
(End of this chapter)
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