Arcane Universe

Danell looked at Feng Chou and said with a smile: “You are very smart, you have always been so smart, but you still have my friend, don’t you?”

Feng Chou looked at him, “It depends on what you can give me. Rather than selling the family property at a low price, I would rather not. In this case, at least my family will not hate me.”

Darnell said: “Even if you give up, the Amberlite collar will no longer belong to the Stuart family. According to the inheritance ranking, you are now the first heir, and the second heir is Amberit Baron. The younger brother of the deceased wife, and even the third and fourth in line heirs, are members of the family of Baron’s wife.”

“If you are willing to get the Amberite collar, you will have the territory indefinitely. Entrusted to El Chamber of Commerce, then you will definitely get a satisfactory reward.”

Speaking of which, Feng Chou also straight to the point, “Amberit and Pedro’s Indefinitely entrust the management right in exchange for Sir Vito’s collar, three gentleman collars in the upper reaches and one gentleman collar in the lower reaches, plus the land development rights on both sides of the Vito River not less than the Amberite collar.”

Land development is different from development. Obtaining the development right is equivalent to directly acquiring the ownership of a piece of wilderness land, which can be developed at any time. The development is a territory, there is no limit on the age, and there is no need to pay half of the development land to the lord as a reward. .

Therefore, obtaining land development rights is far more difficult than obtaining development rights.

After hearing Feng Chou’s request, Darnell frowned and said, “Vito collar? Ah! I know where it is! Before the dam on Lake Avon is built, the Vito River is only A small creek, at that time, near Vito Neck, was the barrenest territory near Antalia, but after the construction of the Avon Lake Dam and the expansion of Lake Avon to its current size, the flow of the Vito River expanded several times. The harvest of farmland on both sides of the strait has also improved year by year. It is obviously dry land without water conservancy facilities, but it is almost as dry and flooded as irrigated land.”

“The Lord Earl also thought about developing that area, but on the one hand, The flow, velocity, and topography of the Tuo River are not enough to support a large-scale water conservancy project. There are no other rivers nearby. If water is drawn directly from Lake Aiwen, the amount of work will be too large. In addition, Lake Aiwen is large. After the completion of the dam, the food production in Antalia itself has already been in a large surplus, and the export pressure is very high. This has led to a drop in food prices. Therefore, the Earl’s talent dispelled the idea of ​​developing the Vito River Basin.”

Feng Chou hearing this, puzzled: “Why repair water conservancy facilities?”

Darnell asked: “Without water conservancy facilities, how can it be considered a high-quality territory?”

Feng Chou was speechless. Judging from the aristocratic territories he had seen, Antalia’s aristocracy was really persistent in pursuing water conservancy and irrigation systems. As long as they had the conditions, they would desperately build water conservancy facilities.

This can actually be regarded as the benefit of land intensification in this World. Lords with large arable land and wealth have the conditions and ability to build water conservancy facilities to improve the quality of farmland. If it is a small-scale self-cultivation, This can’t be done.

But the actual situation is that the area on the upper reaches of the Vito River, because it is close to the water source of Lake Aiwen, is very rich in groundwater, and has been called a wetland. The groundwater there is sufficient for the growth of crops. The condition of blessed by heaven simply does not require water conservancy facilities.

Of course, Feng Chou will not convince Darnell that the upper Vito River simply does not need water conservancy facilities.

He shrugged and said: “Anyway, this is my condition. I need a land development right not less than Ambolite. If you can meet my requirements, I will not only put Ambrose Ritterling and Pedro led all rights to the Chamber of Commerce indefinitely, and only one krona a year in rent.”

Listening to Feng Chou’s request, Darnell thought about it. For a moment, he stretched out his hand and said: “Deal.”

Feng Chou also smiled and reached out and shook it.

The reason why Darnell is so refreshing is because Feng Chou’s condition is simply too generous for him.

In this era, the most important thing for aristocrats is territory, but businessmen are not. The reason is that agricultural development, from the perspective of businessmen, is actually a very low-profit business behavior.

The development cost of a territory like the Baron collar of Amberlite is as high as more than two million kronor. It requires the unremitting efforts of several generations, but it is such a territory. If only agricultural income is counted, one year Excluding various expenses, the final net income is only six to seven thousand kronor. This is still in the case of stable food prices. In the eyes of businessmen, such a rate of return is simply horribly low.

It takes thirty years or more for the return of an investment to return to its original value. Merchants are absolutely unwilling to do this kind of business, but the nobles are always happy, and they will take it from the land regardless of the consequences. The silver crowns that were dug out were thrown into the land one by one, just for a piece of land that could be permanently inherited.

In Darnell’s view, a piece of wasteland, even if it is one hundred square kilometers, is worthless. If this piece of wasteland is to be developed into a manor, it will be a loss-making business.

And Darnell is also sure to persuade Count Antalia.

He only needs to hand over all the trusteeship rights and proceeds from Amberit to the earl.

Use the indefinite discretionary power of a fully developed and fertile territory in exchange for the ownership of a wasteland. The earl will definitely like this kind of business.

Darnell has no interest in a territory with a net income of only 80,000 crowns a year. He only hopes to use this territories which is extremely attractive to the nobles to exchange a little more for Pedro. To lead the income equity.

In Darnell’s eyes, Pedro’s underground passage is the golden rooster that lays the golden eggs.

A week later, Darnell brought the clerk of the Earl of Antalia to Feng Chou’s villa. The two sides conducted detailed consultations on the area and location of the land to be granted development rights.

The reason for the delay for a week is that Count Antalia has been busy dealing with his second son colluding with the ogre thieves recently.

Actually, this ogre thieves group is not an ordinary thieves group, he is the priest group of Evil God Bann.

Evil God Bann is an evil and powerful deity active in the Northern Continent before the Arcane Empire. He is also known as the black tyrant. He is famous for his tyranny and is the shelter of many cruel lords. By.

In the early days of the Arcane Empire, Bann conspired to provoke a dispute between the Arcane Council and the good gods, which directly led to the fall of the god of dawn Luoshanda.

After Luoshanda’s fall, his priesthood was received by the god of justice, Tyr, and gave birth to the most powerful god today, the Lord of Glory.

Bann’s conspiracy was finally exposed. Not only was it strangled by the Arcane Council, but it was also suppressed by the union of the righteous gods headed by the Lord of Radiance.

Finally, during the expansion of the Arcane Council and later the Arcane Empire, Bann’s powerful territories were destroyed one by one, and his followers were almost wiped out under the pursuit of the mighty Arcanist. Bann was threatened by fall.