Release that Witch

16. Chapter 16 Front Road

    The fire in the fireplace was burning, dispelling the chill from the gap between the doors and windows. At the top of the fireplace is a deer head with a large horn. Under the illumination of the fire, the projection of the horn on the back wall is like a huge claw.

    Opposite is a dark red long wooden table filled with sheepskin paper rolls and books, mostly administrative orders waiting to sign names. In peacetime, Roland is here to deal with official duties. After transforming the three-story house into an office, he gradually fell in love with it.

    Through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, he can see the small town extending in front of the horizon, and at the end is the endless mountains. It is the Impassable Mountain Range that runs almost across the continent, separating the Kingdom of Greycastle from the wilderness on both sides. The Northern Slope Mountain is just a branch of the Impassable Mountain Range.

    At the foot, you can see the garden surrounded by wooden fences. The wooden shed for training Anna has been dismantled and the brick pool has become a long table for easy setting of tableware during afternoon tea. If the weather is good, he will go to the sun below, or lie on a specially-designed rocking chair.

    Although the castle is not big, it is a medium-sized villa with a separate garden. For the rest of my life, I want to sit on a real stone steps castle. It is almost a fantasy story. I just have to pay for tickets before I visit. But now, he not only owns the castle, but also controls a town.

    “His Royal Highness, the recent recruitment of craftsmen and handyman is quite expensive, and the money is drawn from your pocket, so I am afraid that it will not last spring.”Barov pinches a stack of parchment and reports to Roland about the recent financial situation.

    Border Town’s original income and expenditure is very simple, one line is the ore, gem trade. This line was monopolized by Longsong Stronghold, replacing the output of the Northern Slope Mine with wheat or bread, with no taxes in between, and the strong resource exchanged the natural resource exchange. In the popular terms, the Northern Slope Mine is a joint-stock project of Longsong Stronghold’s big noble. Those who are stationed in the Border Town’s noble can be seen as the supervisors sent by the shareholders. Most of their fiefs are in the east of stronghold. They are only temporarily staying here, and the people coming here are different.

    In fact, Border Town’s history is less than 30 years old, and it is a newborn baby compared to Longsong Stronghold, which has been nearly two hundred years old. Originally Duke Ryan was only planning to set up an outpost here to make an early warning of the Evil Beast attack. However, it was not expected that the pioneers found a rich mineral natural resource in the Northern Slope Mountain, so they simply set up the town here and named it Border Town. In a sense, it was the Northern Slope Mine that made the small town.

    In order to prevent sneak peeks, Duke did not adopt the advice of each noble to send out his own hands. Instead, he hired local residents and nearby refugees and even criminals to work as miners. The proportion of ore produced by each household was invested in natural resources. distribution. Stronghold This is only required to provide the employee with food and a small commission for the whole year. These payments are fixed amounts and will not change depending on the output of the mining site. Border Town’s more than two thousand residents, most of them serve the mining site.

    The other line is the other industries in the town – such as blacksmith shops, pubs, textiles, etc. Border Town’s meager taxes are mainly from here, and it’s hard to stay in the end of the year. The first feudal lord did not take this barren land seriously. Since Roland was sent to the place by King of Greycastle, he simply stayed at stronghold.

    Therefore, Roland wants to hire someone to repair the city wall and can only save money from his pocket. If it was the previous Four Prince, it would definitely not be willing to say anything, but for Roland, as long as you can stand firm in Border Town, it is worthwhile to spend all your possessions. Anyway, the future ore trade will no longer be settled by grain. If it is settled by currency, this investment is simply drizzling.

    The only problem is that Longsong stronghold is willing to give up the monopoly, and the border town to carry out normal trade-this is somewhat like the food of the tiger, but the inventory data provided by Barov show that limited human exploitation efficiency and transport inconvenience, in fact mining site every year The value of the ore produced is only thousand gold Royal, but bucket for stronghold’s entire revenue. The only thing that hurts the interests is the noble of the partnership investment.

    For the long-term development of Border Town’s, this line must be withdrawn. Roland knew clearly that even if the investment of the gang was fully recovered as early as a decade ago, they would not let go. Mosquitoes are small and meat, not to mention the good thing that can be used to collect money. He is willing to give previous investors certain discounts and compensation, such as half-price purchases. But dragging a ship of ore back to exchange only half-ship food is not allowed to happen again.

    When Roland stared at the list, Barov was watching him.

    For the past three months, it has been said that in the most recent month, there have been some unspeakable changes in Fourth Prince. The outsider may not be clear, but he is with the prince every day, this change can’t beat him.

    As early as Greycastle’s, he had heard of Four Prince Roland Wimbledon’s notoriety. I am doing my own way, arrogant, no noble style…these sorts of things. In short, big mistakes do not make mistakes, small mistakes continue, compared to his two brothers are far worse.

    When he was sent here by Your Majesty, he was disappointed. If it wasn’t for Your Majesty’s promise to be the king, he would be appointed as the official Minister of Finance. He really wanted to stop doing it.

    Two months before the arrival of Border Town’s, Fourth Prince continued to show extremely naive behavior and offended all the offensive local noble. Fortunately, the town itself is extremely small, and even if the administrative duties are all vacant, he and the dozen or so civilian personnel he brought can also be filled.

    Later, some things will become different.

    When did the change start? He thought, probably…It was from the rescue of the witch.

    Barov didn’t doubt the possibility of Devil possession, or the prince himself was manipulated by another hidden witch. But this possibility is minimal. If Devil and Witch have this ability, what about Finding Fourth Prince? Is it better to directly control Your Majesty or the Pope? Another thing that dispels his suspicion is that he saw the prince holding the God Punishment Lock.

    This thing is Church’s trump card against the witch, and any demon power will collapse in front of the God Punishment Lock, but Roland holds it directly. In other words, if he is not a Fourth Prince, but a demon who does not need to fear even the power of God, is there a need to expose it? Keeping your life is the first.

    The prince’s style is still a matter of his own way, but the feelings of the two are not the same. No, Barov thought about it, it should be the opposite.

    The biggest difference should be purpose. He perceives what Roland is planning, and in order to achieve his goals, he must adopt some means that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. Just as the other side tried to convince himself why he had to save a witch, perhaps the plan was not mature enough and the loopholes were full, but the prince was indeed moving forward to the plan and was convinced of the results.

    This is the most confusing place. The throne may be born in any of Roland’s brothers and sisters, but it will never be Fourth Prince himself. This kind of thing should be very clear to himself. Is it a small place in Border Town to talk about development? Even the gods can’t do it! Roland is conceiving a crazy plan, crazy enough to make a small town outside the border defense develop better than Golden Harvest City, and have to believe that this plan will succeed?

    If it’s just a madman’s delusion, the wall built by Roland shows that this is not the case. He really intends to stay here and rely on the “cement” alchemy product to build a wall that is almost impossible to complete in common sense.

    There is alchemist in Barov’s family, but he has never heard of the alchemical workshop making such a thing. Building a wall-building program on something that no one has ever seen, is this self-confidence or indiscriminate? Expanding to Roland’s entire plan, what else does Fourth Prince still hide? He found himself interested in the future.