"Thank you, Your Excellency Richard."

  Fred returned the dagger that he had wiped clean with his clothes to Richard.

   Richard took the dagger, and said, "There are thousands of horse thieves who have been captured. Please see if there is any involvement in that day."

"good!"

  Fred went out. With the help of several soldiers, he pointed out the horse thieves who had invaded his castle one by one, and then killed them one by one.

   Hundreds of horse thieves were killed.

   After killing these hundreds of horse thieves, Fred was covered with blood all over, and even his face was filled with blood.

   Then, he dropped the knife and took a deep breath. The blood on his face was washed out by tears.

   From the next day, he returned to normal.

   became Baron Fred again.

   Richard officially appointed him as a municipal officer.

  His daughter also has good knowledge, can read, even write poems, and has written some novels.

   This discovery led Richard to decide to form a new department.

   That is the newspaper.

   Yes, Richard is going to open a newspaper.

   Richard did not have such talents before.

   But, now Richard has it.

   Now in Richard's territory, ordinary workers desperately want to learn to read.

   The reason for this is also very simple. It takes one more copper coin a day to be literate.

   There is no need to do more work, but one more copper coin a day, why not do it?

   Richard talked to Fred's daughter alone, and told her his thoughts about the newspaper.

   Fred's daughter had her eyes glowing, and Richard's thoughts were something she had never heard of before.

   So, this girl who was ruined by a horse thief officially became the director of Richard's newspaper.

   As for the printing of newspapers, Richard planned to solve it on a certain treasure in the early stage.

   But later, Richard will gradually buy printing equipment to solve the newspaper printing problem by himself.

   Immediately afterwards, Richard also recruited several newspaper readers.

   Yes, it's a newspaper reader.

   Although people in the territory are trying hard to learn to read, the literacy rate is not high after all.

   Therefore, newspaper readers are also necessary.

   Newspaper readers are similar to the role of storytellers, and their existence helps to increase the literacy rate.

  Before these matters were arranged, another matter had already been resolved.

   That is the source of these horse thieves.

   Of the dozen or so horse thieves who attacked this time, eight of them were real horse thieves.

   There are two more... not really horse thieves.

   One was made by the noble behind the horse thief that Richard defeated last time, and the other belonged to another noble.

   These two nobles are both viscounts in the northeastern region and possess a lot of wealth and territories.

   "Do you miss me?"

   Richard sneered.

   come and go without being indecent.

   He was thinking about how to fight back.

   There cannot be large-scale battles between the nobles for no reason.

but…

   The opponent can send someone to attack him by disguising as a horse thief, and Richard can also send someone to attack him by disguising as a horse thief.

   It’s just that, before Richard plans to strike back, another news came from within his kingdom.

   This news was brought by some businessmen.

   That is, in the kingdom, some refugees were forced to launch a large-scale uprising.

   A rebel army with more than 100,000 people appeared.

Chapter 0096 Great Turmoil and Great Opportunity!

"It is said that the rebel army sprouted in the territory of an earl. The earl was very good at doing business. In order to obtain sufficient liquidity, the earl replaced most of the grain with money for business at the beginning of the year. Counting on enough food after the autumn harvest, whoever thinks that the locust plague is coming, the food production will be reduced by more than half, and in the case of food shortage, the earl has money and cannot buy food, so he can only increase taxes. It's trouble."

   On the city square, a businessman was slowly telling Richard about the situation of the rebel army in the kingdom.

   "Earl? For an earl, there must be at least a thousand in standing army, right? Isn't it suppressed?"

   Li Cha asked.

The merchant said: "I don't know the specifics. In short, the earl's castle was quickly breached by the external cooperation, and then more and more people joined it. They attacked the nobles' castles and snatched the food inside. Under such circumstances, more and more people joined the rebel army."

   Richard said: "Did the kingdom send troops to suppress it?"

The merchant said: "It did, but the royal family didn't expect the scale of the rebel army to be that big at first. It sent a corps of tens of thousands of people to suppress it. As a result, it was attacked by the rebel army, and the entire legion lost more than half, not to mention. The wonderful thing is that similar disturbances and uprisings have occurred in other places one after another. It is said that a city has been breached. Now the king is preparing to recruit troops from all the nobles to suppress it."

   At this point, the businessman sighed and said, "No one has thought about the power of this locust plague. If this continues to turmoil, maybe some careerists will participate in it, and the world will be in chaos by then."

   Richard asked the businessman a lot more.

   These businessmen know a lot. Of course, he just hears most of the things and has never seen them.

   Some more details, he doesn't know.

   After talking about the insurgent army, the businessman hesitated for a moment, but he still spoke to Richard and said:

   "By the way, Lord Lord, I think there are many corpses in the wilderness..."

   "That's a horse thief."

   Richard said lightly.

   "Horse thief? So, the lord's city is also remembered by the horse thief?"

   Merchant Road.

   Richard said: "Yes, but they have been defeated by me. It just so happens that, you see, they are prisoners."

   Richard pointed in one direction.

   Looking at the businessman, he saw a large number of horse thieves captives with chains on their hands and feet being escorted out of the barracks and sent to the hydroelectric power station outside the city.

   There were a lot of these prisoners. They lined up in several rows and pulled out a long line.

"so much!"

   The businessman was taken aback!

   He didn't know that there was a big battle on Richard's territory not long ago!

   Richard said lightly: "Well, there are a dozen horse thieves, seven or eight thousand people."

   The businessman was shocked again.

   Seven to eight thousand horse thieves are not a small number.

   The fighting power of the horse thief is not weak.

   But, so many horse thieves were defeated by Richard, and so many horse thieves were captured by Richard!

   The businessman suddenly had an admiring feeling towards Richard!

   The original Richard had so much food that the merchants could not understand the origin of Richard.

   Richard is just a baron after all.

   is still a purchased title.

   However, in the short time that Richard purchased the title, he actually gave the entire territory a new look.

   not only built a huge city, but also built a powerful army. Now he can win more with less, defeating seven or eight thousand horse thieves!

   Such a Richard, in the eyes of these businessmen, I am afraid that even some viscounts can't be compared!

   After chatting with the businessman, Richard sold him a lot of "luxuries" such as potatoes and porcelain glasses, but this time the businessman didn't buy too many "luxuries".

   However, Richard also raised the price of potatoes a lot, from the original 10 copper coins per catty to 15 copper coins per catty.

   rose by half.

"Lord, let’s tell you that, now in the domestic turmoil, the nobles’ demand for these luxury goods has decreased, and their demand for food has increased. In addition, if the lord has enough iron and even weapons, they can sell them to us. I am afraid that the time for the rebels to be upset will not be short, and the demand for iron will become extremely large."

   The businessman said to Richard.

   Food can be sold.

   As for ironware... Richard is not ready to sell it yet.

   Even if he wants to sell it, Richard will not sell refined steel. It is possible to sell inferior ironware.

   Although the merchant of "luxury goods" did not collect too much, but with the increase in the price of potatoes and the increase in carriages carried by the merchant, Richard still earned dozens of gold coins.

   After the merchant left, other merchants came one after another, bringing more news.

   As these news spread, the war that took place on Richard's territory also spread from their mouths.

   caused a lot of shock in some cities.

   also gave Richard's name a certain degree of popularity in this other world.

   "Master, the turmoil is coming!"

   After receiving all the merchants, Mia stood behind Richard in Richard's castle.

   At this time, Richard is standing on the height of the castle, looking down at the whole city.

The current city has become quite prosperous. A large number of residents have moved in. These people are working on Richard’s territory. Some people have rented some houses from Richard’s hands to start a catering business. Kind of business.

  The merchants and their guards who go to the city are their customers.

In the later period, Richard plans to gradually reduce the "included food" treatment, increase a part of his salary, and then let go of food purchases. The residents of the territory can also buy potatoes and other food from him for secondary processing and sale, so that the entire territory The economy prospered completely.

   At that time, not only the sale of food can make money, but also a lot of gold coins can be earned by collecting commercial taxes.

   However, Richard is not thinking about it now.

   is an opportunity in this great turmoil.

   For Richard, this wave of turmoil also contains great opportunities.

   Even if he doesn't think about longer-term things, this volatility, if he grasps it well, his strength can be increased many times.

   Even a wave of takeoff is possible.

   However, before that, the two viscounts who made his mind can be solved first.

   "Dorothy is leaving, right?"

   Li Cha asked.

Mia nodded and said, "Yes, I have already set off. I also sent spies to the two viscounts' territories to explore the way. Master, the two viscounts' territories are not close. If there is no cavalry, we will go over and attack. It takes a lot of time."

   Richard said: "No, after the horses and horses arrive, you can just take them over."

   Mia was surprised: "Master, is it too obvious to use a man and horse?"

   Richard said: "Don't worry, Mia, it's so turbulent now that no one will notice the disappearance of the two viscounts."

Chapter 0097 The Gentleman's Revenge Is Not Overnight!

"hurry up!"

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