Chapter 279 When the Rain Is About to Fall

Before this, the agricultural concept of the Pompeii family was implemented in Pompeii. At the beginning, Luther was a little worried that this concept was too easy to be plagiarized. If this agricultural concept was plagiarized, the grain production of the entire Orange would increase countless times, and the grain price would fall accordingly.

No matter how much grain Pompeii produced, it would not be able to gain any advantage.

But judging from the results, Luther thought too much.

The lords of this era rarely paid attention to grain production. They preferred to attend cocktail parties and communicate with women.

So in the end, this matter needed to be vigorously promoted by the Pompeii family.

From worrying about being plagiarized to needing to promote it yourself, it feels a bit strange.

Putting aside the situation of the territory, Luther asked Knight Stone: "Mr. Knight Commander, I already know that the number of guards has been expanded to 5,000. What about the family guards?"

"When the news of Pompeii's recruitment of guard knights was released, many knights responded. Some knights even came from far away, but according to your requirements. I strictly selected them, not focusing on strength, but only on noble character. After gathering intelligence for a few months, I expanded the family guards to 35 people, three of whom are intermediate knights, and the rest are junior knights."

Knight Stone stood up and reported to Luther.

Guards are different from the Knights.

The guard knights in this world are usually responsible for the defense of the lord and the city. Strictly speaking, they are garrisons and miscellaneous troops.

The Knights are a regular army.

Because they are regular troops, knights only need to be brave and disciplined.

Because they are garrisons, and even responsible for the protection of family members, the most important thing is character. Therefore, recruiting guard knights is more cautious and more difficult than recruiting knights of the Knights of the Order.

Luther can accept the current situation that there are only 35 family knight guards.

"You have worked hard." Luther said to the Knight Commander. This Knight Commander has to worry about the guards, recruit family guards, and train hard to become a senior knight.

It's just Mr. OK.

Knight Stone nodded and sat down.

Administration and military are already clear in mind. The next is the issue of family business. Luther cast his eyes on the general manager and said, "Mr. Kuba, how is the hot spring resort?"

Kuba, Brown stood up, a little relaxed and a little helpless, and said: "The construction plan, etiquette training, chef recruitment, etc. are all going well. The security recruitment has been completed in advance. There are three senior knights, fifty intermediate knights, and one hundred junior knights. It will definitely catch up with the expected opening date. However, the actual opening day is a bit far away."

The plan at that time was to officially open the hot spring resort after more than ten months of preparation.

But plans cannot keep up with changes. The opening of the hot spring resort is still a long way off, and a considerable salary cost is paid every day.

It's really a bit helpless.

"The war will end, the order of Orange will be restored, and the rich will come to vacation. Let's take a long-term view. Our resort cannot be abandoned, and we can't feel sorry for the salary expenditure."

Luther said.

"Yeah." Kuba Brown nodded.

"Madam, what about the production of Pompeii wine?" Luther turned his head and asked Mrs. Sophie. Because it was a formal occasion, he called his mother "Madam".

"Currently, the production volume is still 500,000 barrels per month, and the income is more than 100,000 gold coins. But if the war breaks out, Pompeii wine will definitely collapse."

Mrs. Sophie said.

War is the terminator of all commercial activities, and Pompeii wine is no exception.

"Before the war breaks out, we will produce at full capacity and earn all the gold coins we can. When the war breaks out, we will reduce production as appropriate."

Luther thought about it and said.

"Yeah." Mrs. Sophie nodded gracefully.

As a ruler, Luther had done everything he should know and issue at this meeting.

Next, it depends on how the situation develops.

The most annoying thing is this: you know the storm is coming, but you don't know how long it will take, a few months? Or a few years?

And this storm came faster than Luther imagined, much faster.

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Parker Marquisate.

When the kingdom was just established, the first Prussian king, Sky Knight, His Majesty King Mishu, and his eight nobles formulated the laws and systems of the kingdom.

At that time, the system was king, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron.

There were five ranks below the king.

But after that major event, the prestige of the King of Prussia declined greatly. The real nobles no longer obeyed the king's orders and didn't care much about the title.

What matters more is bloodline, antiquity, and strength.

In Orange, barons are more powerful and have a noble status than viscounts. There are many examples of earls being more powerful and having a higher status than marquis.

Under such circumstances, the Earl of Libya became the governor of Orange, a super noble. The second only to the Earl of Libya was the Duke of Ferger.

And then came the first-class nobles such as the Marquis of Parker.

There were only three first-class nobles like the Marquis of Parker.

Among these first-class nobles in Orange now, the Marquis of Parker was very famous, because his nickname was "Executioner", and he did everything to treat the landed people below.

Killing, expelling, making disgusting laws, driving away these landed people, taking the land under the name of the Marquis family, and buying serfs for farming.

This was only to increase the income of the Marquis family.

Luther despised this style the most. The gold coins produced by farmland were always insignificant. Only by doing business and doing exclusive business could you become rich overnight.

But the Marquis of Parker obviously did not have Luther's vision and so many tricks. He could only start from the land and the farmers, increase wealth, and then squander it.

Many of the people who left the Marquis Parker Territory entered the Pompeii Territory.

Luther once used the Marquis Parker Territory as a population cash machine.

But even if Marquis Parker tried his best, he, as a first-class noble, had vast territories, many large cities, a large number of guardian knights, and a sequence of vassal knights.

Under Marquis Parker's command, there is also a famous knight family, the Morgan Knight Lord Family. This family has a small city as a fiefdom and territory, which is extremely rare in the entire kingdom.

Compared with Baron Barton, the strength may be only a little bit worse.

The Marquis Parker family is very, very powerful.

Under normal circumstances, the Marquis Parker family will not be finished.

However, it is now in an abnormal situation.

The season has entered winter, and today is a gray and cloudy day. The sky seems to want to rain, but it doesn't fall.

And winter rain is very annoying, which makes the air damp and cold.

All the people don't want it to rain, just like all the nobles don't want the new party to launch a rebellion.

Just today, an ordinary carriage entered the main city of the Marquis Parker Territory, Sparta City.

The coachman was an ordinary person, and the person sitting in the carriage was a white-haired old man, who was really old.

His skin was full of wrinkles like tree bark, and his exposed hands were covered with age spots.

But his eyes were very, very bright.

Judging from his breathing, he was a very strong knight.

This old man was the head of the New Party in Orange, Siddhartha Parker. Frost Knight.

A knight with frost fighting spirit can only be regarded as a user.

Only the real title knight is the real frost knight.

He is the strongest group of people in the entire kingdom.

He is a nobleman, he was born in this territory, and he is also a member of the Parker family who rules this territory.