Chapter 177 (2/2)
In fact, Sean wondered if Elsie Boulder, the young Baron, had offended anyone in the family. Because he was a baron, but the land he inherited was not a baron collar of standard size, but a territory only slightly larger than ordinary barons - only a small town, a small village and a mini manor.
Under normal circumstances, if the territory inherited by a Baron is relatively small, there must be some rich materials in the territory to make up for it. But in fact, this modge collar is not only very small, but also the land is relatively barren.
Except for some limited places, the vast majority of land is not suitable for growing crops. All these limited places are concentrated in the mini manor where Elsie lives - the whole manor covers an area of less than 10 mu, and most of the manor is planted with various fruit trees. The main building is not even a stone building, but a four story wooden building. According to the aristocratic rules, other houses in the manor could not be higher than the main building, so they were scattered in pieces in several other three story houses in the manor, occupying the remaining area in the manor.
In such a manor, only 20 or 30 people can live at most.
As for the other small village, it is really small. There are less than 20 families in the whole village, with a total of 60 or 70 people - larger than the manor where Elsie, the noble, lives. Is this a human thing? Moreover, because the village is too poor, Elsie has completely exempted all taxes of the village. If there was not a prosperous Blackstone town to support his territory income, Elsie would probably become the first aristocrat in the boulder family to go bankrupt due to poor management?
However, Blackstone town is said to be prosperous, because the whole town relies on Blackstone to earn business, but most of the income has to be used to buy food to maintain the rations of the whole town.
And the most outrageous thing is that the stone factory that can produce black steel stone is not a product under Elsie's name!
”The owner of the stone factory is a great beauty?” Sean finally couldn't make complaints about it, not cold humming or sneering.
”No, it's a middle-aged man.” Elsie said, ”he's as thin as a monkey. I always thought he must be malnourished.”
”Is that middle-aged man your lover?” This is not surprising. Many nobles like it.
”How possible!” Elsie was shocked. ”The person I like is the little daughter of Duke setros. I'm going to...”
Sean doesn't have to listen to what's behind Elsie. Because if he remembered correctly, the Duke of the kingdom of dabion, who advocated peace with Athena, would die at the hands of his political enemies in another year. He didn't know exactly what happened, but the only thing he knew was that after the Duke died, all the children of his family were demoted to slaves and all their property was divided up.
”So what do you have under the control of the factory director?” Sean couldn't help but finally interrupted Elsie.
”Neither.”
”Then is there a huge pit in your head!” Sean finally couldn't bear it. ”This stone factory isn't yours. Why do you have to pay the excavation fee for it?”
At first, the black reef grassland belonged to Viscount saofe. Later, after Viscount saofe died, this territory now belongs to Athena, so the mining right of the territory naturally belongs to Athena. If Blackstone town wants to continue to excavate the hard rocks of black reef into black steel stone, it must pay the excavation fee to yasina to obtain the mining right. Otherwise, yasina has the right to send troops to expel or even kill on the spot.
What Sean didn't expect was that the mining rights and expenses were paid by Elsie, a fool.
If the stone factory belongs to Elsie, it's another matter, but this stone factory doesn't belong to Elsie, so why should he pay for this stone factory? Sean's only thought was that there must be some secret between the two, but Elsie denied it, so Sean could only say that Elsie was an absolute fool.
How could a nobleman run a territory like this?
”But this stone factory belongs to the boulder family.” Elsie frowned and said, ”isn't it normal for me to pay for my family property?”
”Do you have any shares in this family industry?”
”Shares? What is that? ”
”That means, do you have any dividends?” Sean really couldn't stand it. ”Did you get the profit of gold coins from every order transaction of this stone factory?”
”It seems... No...” Elsie thought for a moment and then said, ”the factory director said that business is really bad recently, and no one has come to place an order...”
”Business is bad?” Sean sneered, ”did you learn chivalry and break your brain?”
”Hello! I'll be angry if you say that! ”
They went to Blackstone town and finally arrived at the gate of Blackstone town in the evening（ To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)