Although Elijah's activity made everyone laugh, the atmosphere of the dinner party made her mobilized, and everyone no longer felt constrained and began to talk freely.

About the Grand Glorious Festival......

About the activities of the Datang Chamber of Commerce......

About the scenery in the Elves......

At this time, Victor raised his glass to Tang En and smiled: "Baron Don, can we put the things we agreed on before on the agenda?" ”

Tang En was stunned: "What did you agree?" ”

“……”

Victor was helpless: "Combine harvester, ah......"

"Oh!"

Don suddenly realized: "How much do you want—wait, Fiona, do we still have spare capacity?" ”

Fiona took out her notebook and quickly flipped through a few pages, and then said: "The main production line is still in full swing to produce the previous orders of the Kadir family, and at the current production rate, it will take more than a month to complete the order. If Your Majesty is not in a hurry, you can arrange a small number of combine harvesters to be used temporarily. ”

"How much does a small amount mean?"

"Within 100 units, it can be produced within a week."

"What do you think? If you want, you can get a discounted price. ”

Tang En said with a smile: "The original price is one million, and I can give you a 20% discount." ”

Fiona didn't say anything this time, after all, the client was His Majesty Victor......

Victor smiled bitterly: "I don't have that much money to spare. ”

"Are you kidding? You're the king! ”

"I'm also the poorest king, and even if I take out Olena's private possessions, it's not enough to spend. Do you know how expensive it is to raise an army? Even if they don't do anything, they can eat down a few small families just for the cost of eating every day. ”

Victor sighed, "Otherwise, I wouldn't have pinned my hopes on the crystal energy plan you mentioned." ”

Fiona suddenly asked, "Do you need a combine harvester?" ”

"Of course, I've heard about the harvesting efficiency of the combine. I would even like to promote it nationally if necessary. ”

Fiona's eyes flashed: "Since that's the case, then let's exchange the property again." ”

"Property exchange? What do you mean......"

"We give you the combine harvester for free, but you have to give us the corresponding tax deduction."

Fiona said calmly, "According to the laws of the Empire, the taxes that the lord should pay so far are about 850,000 gold coins-"

"Why are there so many!?"

Tang En was stunned, and Victor was also stunned: "So much!?" ”

It's no wonder that Victor was taken aback, when Donn went to Ellington. Ellington was poor and white, and the taxes paid by the previous acting lords were only about 10,000 gold coins every year!

He has only been there for a few months, and Ellington's output value has increased dozens of times!?

"So much, of course."

Fiona smiled bitterly, "Your Excellency. Haven't you calculated how much you earn? ”

"Nope."

Tang En said casually: "I have left this aspect to you to take care of, I haven't paid attention to it." ”

Victor was impressed with Fiona, and to be so trusted by Don was that the last descendant of the Golden Rose family was really not simple.

"Your Excellency. We've made a lot of gold. ”

Fiona said noncommittally, "But it costs more gold." In case you didn't know, in order to build Ellington, we used almost all the gold we earned to buy various materials, which is why Ellington has changed dramatically in just a few months. ”

"To put it bluntly, Ellington now has a per capita net income of more than ten gold coins per month, and the inhabitants are very cohesive and supportive of the lord's rule. But this is based on the fact that the lord is spending a lot of money on construction. ”

"Now in Ellington, the vault is actually empty."

There was a pause. Fiona continued, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed if you want to get the tax coins from Ellington. ”

Disappointed? Victor certainly wasn't disappointed!

Doesn't Donn't the fact that he was able to develop in Ellington's place mean that he was a child of destiny?

"Therefore, in the case that Ellington is unable to pay the taxes smoothly, and at the same time, Your Majesty has a demand for our products, I suggest that Your Majesty accept this win-win solution - to mortgage the taxes payable by the products of the Datang Chamber of Commerce."

"Our Datang Chamber of Commerce not only has a combine harvester, but also a series of products such as magic energy cultivators, magic energy irrigation machines, etc., if Your Majesty is willing to learn about it, I will leave you a full set of introduction materials later, and we are also happy to continue to accept transactions with product collateral taxes."

After Fiona finished speaking, she was suddenly stunned, her face was slightly red, she picked up her wine glass to cover it up, and accidentally entered the sales state......

After Victor was stunned for a moment, he turned to Don and said, "Baron Don, you have found a very good financial officer...... If I had her help, maybe the royal family's fortune would turn around. ”

"Fiona is indeed one of my best helpers."

Tang En smiled and said, "So what do you think?" ”

"Absolutely!"

Victor raised his glass and smiled: "There is no more suitable way to trade, and then sign the contract." ”

This kind of trading method is also a helpless move, Tang En's Datang Chamber of Commerce is indeed very profitable now, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a daily increase in money, but it can't stand the large expenses, Victor also needs gold coins here, but those products are indeed more important, not only can liberate agricultural productivity, increase production efficiency, reduce the pressure of food in disguise, but also help expand the market for magic crystals.

Don't forget, Don and Victor are their number one goal, and it's still the Crystal Energy Project!

After popularizing more magic energy machinery, and even satisfying domestic demand, it will continue to export to other countries, and the market will continue to expand, so that everyone will realize the vast market of magic crystals, and the price of magic crystals that is at a low point will be raised again. At that time, they will no longer have to worry about gold coins with the magic crystal mine.

After three rounds of drinking, Victor suddenly said, "Baron Don, in view of your great merit to the Empire. I want to promote you to hereditary count, what do you think? ”

Princess Aurelia was immediately stunned when she heard this, her face full of incredulity.

Straight from a baron to a hereditary count?

What does Father mean by this? Drink like a fish?

Aubury and Adrien and Princess Aurelia all felt the same, and the wine in their mouths almost squirted.

Hereditary titles are not the same as ordinary noble titles, the two are not the same concept at all, and getting hereditary nobility means that as long as the empire is not destroyed. No matter how wasteful, Donn and his descendants can gain the glory and power of nobility recognized by the royal family.

Why exactly did Victor trust him so much?

Or even give him so much freedom?

Parola, who had been smiling, looked at Victor in surprise, wondering what was wrong with her brother.

It has been more than 800 years since the founding of the Illus Empire. There are only more than a dozen hereditary nobles canonized, and almost all of them are the founding heroes of the year.

From Victor's succession to the present, he has never canonized any hereditary nobles, which shows how special an honor hereditary nobles are.

What's wrong with him today? Why did you suddenly think of canonizing hereditary nobles?

What is so special about Donne? Worthy of his attention?

Don shrugged: "It doesn't matter. ”

I saw that he didn't care. Aurelia gritted her teeth angrily, don't you know what a huge honor this is!?

It can be said that once this news spreads, in the blink of an eye, Don will become the hottest aristocratic new star in Alink!

Everyone knows what it means to be hereditary nobility – ordinary nobility is stripped away, but once it is recognized, it is permanent.

Unless stupid enough to commit treason.

It's such a special honor, but he doesn't care so much?

Aurelia can't wait to strangle this bastard!

"That being the case. Then it's decided! ”

Victor smiled, "Baron Donne...... No, now it should be Count Donn's credit to the Empire. In fact, it should be worthy of a higher status, but in order to gag those people's mouths, it is better to take it slowly. ”

Aurelia opened her mouth wide, and the princess's grace was gone.

Parola, Olena, Aubury, Adrien, and the others were all dumbfounded.

Listening to what Victor meant, it is not enough to give Don the hereditary earl, and he still wants to continue to promote him!?

Even if you trust him very much, but this is too exaggerated, right!?

They didn't know that Victor was actually worried that Don would refuse!

If it weren't for the fear that if he was promoted too much at once, he would have wanted to promote Don En to the status of a hereditary duke or even a hereditary prince, and tie this son of destiny and the royal family of Ilrus firmly on the same front.

"I don't have a problem with that."

Don still looked unconcerned.

So Aurelia was even angrier.

Perhaps Victor also noticed that he was doing a little too much, so he had an idea and explained: "You may not have noticed how great the credit of Earl Donn is, the emergence of the combine harvester has made the empire's agriculture more than a big step forward, and the great improvement of harvesting efficiency can promote the expansion of cultivated area, and the grain production will be even greater." ”

"And the increase in food production not only solves the problem of hunger among the inhabitants of the empire, but also solves the food problem of the army on the other hand, and improves the combat strength of the army in disguise - this is only the role of the combine harvester, not to mention that Earl Don has also developed other agricultural magic energy machines, I believe that they can all greatly improve agricultural production capacity without exception."

"With the help of Earl Donn, our Illus Empire will surely change its decline and rise again."

Victor's words were not finished, but his meaning was clear, Don and the magical machinery he had developed would completely change the weak position of the Ilruth Empire in Plandall, and even restore his dominance! (To be continued.) )

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