Arcane Universe

Cleaning up some things hastily, the four of them left the York apartment.

When he walked out of the apartment, Chapman was a little surprised. He asked, “Mr. Baron, did you bring a guard? For a noble gentleman, it’s not like entering the North District without a guard. A wise thing, there is no black hat here.”

The black hat is what the lower class calls the police, because the police here will wear a distinctive steel that is painted black. Lightweight helmet.

Feng Chou said with a slight smile: “Don’t worry, I am an eighth-level Knight.”

Chapman hearing this suddenly.

Led by Chapman’s son, they walked through the streets and alleys, all the way south.

They encountered several harassment along the way, and Feng Chou used magic to start them off.

When the four walked out of the North District, crossed a river from a stone bridge, and entered the Central District, even Feng Chou couldn’t help but relax.

The environment in the North District is too depressing for him.

When Feng Chou was on Earth, although there were poor people in his country, the world, the poor of that era, and this World, the poor of this era, were completely two concepts. He never saw I have never thought that there are such desperate slums in the world.

The four were stopped by two mounted policemen at Qiaotou. They interrogated the four.

Feng Chou revealed his identity as Baron, and the police quickly let it go.

Feng Chou found a hotel nearby for the family to live in. He left Chapman two hundred crowns for them to take a bath, get a haircut, and buy some decent clothes.

When Chapman stood in front of Feng Chou again, he was almost like a different person. No one can treat this decently dressed elderly gentleman with the one who was in the slum yesterday. The old people struggling on whilst at death’s door are connected together.

However, his son and daughter are not decent enough, obviously lacking self-confidence, ten years of slum life, they have long forgotten how to be a decent gentleman.

Therefore, when their three people came to the hotel where Feng Chou was staying, they were questioned by the guard for a long time. Although they were finally let in, they were followed by a hotel guard.

After receiving Feng Chou’s confirmation, the guard apologized and left.

Receiving the three of them into the room, Feng Chou and Chapman talked about the specific matters of reselling the territory.

Feng Chou found that Chapman is very familiar with the various affairs of the territory, not only that, he is also familiar with business, knows the law, and has a good grasp of the operation of the Casalanca City Hall.

Chapman is not the eldest son of the family. As the second son of the wealthy viscount, he received a fairly comprehensive gentleman education since childhood. In fact, Chapman was trained as an excellent steward. He understands agriculture, management, and law, and is familiar with all the details of the operation of the territory.

In fact, before the family accident, Chapman was serving as the steward of a manor in the home of an earl who was closely related to his family.

Generally speaking, high-ranking nobles will not have only one steward. You can hardly imagine a real estate with nearly a million acres of land under the name of the earl, concentrated in one manor, managed by the same steward, in fact This is neither reasonable nor realistic.

The land of the high nobles is mostly divided into several parts, just like the Antalia Count family, with dozens of castles controlling dozens of territories; in the relatively safe Casalanca, there is no need to build expensive The castle, the land will be divided into several manors according to local conditions, each manor has a special steward responsible, and above the steward, next to the lord, there is a steward who is responsible for coordinating the steward of each manor.

The large estate that Chapman is responsible for is one of the most important estates under the name of his lord, a large estate with more than 50,000 acres of farmland.

Chapman told Feng Chou that as a steward of a large manor, what he has to do is not only look at the farmland of the manor, but also the steward of a manor. In this era, if he only knows that it will be harvested in autumn, If his crops are piled up in the warehouse or brought to the lord’s house, then he deserves to be swept out.

A qualified steward must not only guarantee a good harvest in the territory, but also help the lord sell the various harvests of the manor at a reasonable price, convert them into krona and exchange them into bank drafts and send them to the owner’s home.

To do all this, he must be familiar with business operations, and business operations are often inseparable from dealing with the business aristocrats and the law of Casalanka.

After some discussions with Chapman, Feng Chou realized that he had underestimated the transaction of a Viscountry with more than 200,000 acres of land.

According to the normal process, a viscountry transaction will surely alarm the noble committee of the city hall.

The committee is a subordinate body of the city hall, and its status is equivalent to Feng Chou’s previous government bureaus, such as the Commercial Committee, the Judicial Committee, the Noble Committee, the Public Security Committee, the Public Committee, and so on.

The nobility committee is responsible for the registration and management of noble status, the registration and management of heir status, the inheritance of knighthood, the exchange and sale of territories, and even the maintenance of the nobility law in the city hall. Not a judicial committee.

Once this transaction is known to the upper management of Casalanka, Chapman asserted that the transaction will be blocked.

The reason is very simple. There is definitely more than Feng Chou who can think that the Chapman collar problem will be solved sooner or later. Even if someone who didn’t expect it, he would definitely investigate after hearing about this transaction. After the investigation, it is easy to think of.

The reason why no one has proposed to buy this territory before is perhaps that the person who thought of it planned to swallow this territory without paying a penny, or that the person who thought of it was unable to swallow this territory.

As Chapman said, once you realize that the Chapman collar problem will be resolved sooner or later, then this territory will turn from trouble to fat, such a big piece of fat, those adults We will never let it go.

As for why Chapman is willing to trade with Feng Chou instead of those great characters, the reason is even simpler. If those great characters are on the collar of Chapman, there is no need to do it with him. Trading, they have ten thousand ways to let the Chapmans disappear without a trace in a slum.

“Only you, a foreign aristocrat who has no local foundation, will care more about the legality of the transaction.” This is Chapman’s statement.

Chapman’s statement made Feng Chou worry that even if he got the ownership of Chapman, he would not be entitled to it in the end.

For Feng Chou’s concern, Chapman thought it was unnecessary, “Sir, you are different from me. In that disaster, the Chapman family, which was not prosperous, was almost extinct. Even if there are disabled Yu Family members like me, they have died out in the following ten years of hard life.”

“You know, after the disaster, the court ruled that the Chapman family, except for being contaminated Outside of the territory, all movable and immovable properties are used to compensate the victims for their losses. This has caused the remaining members of the Chapman family to be impoverished.”

“At least as far as I know, the Chapman family is now Members, only our family is left; but you are different. There is a prosperous family behind you. Kill me, and Chapman will become a no-owner. The dignitaries can divide it up if they find a reason. Losing you is just changing the ownership of the domain to an individual in your family. Don’t forget, in your name, there is also the great surname Stuart.”