As the farmers' autumn harvest work began, the city hall and Pompeii's house became busy.
Especially the city hall. Before this, the city hall was very quiet, because Pompeii currently only has farmers and no residents, and there are not so many things going on.
Now comes the thing.
This year is a bumper harvest. The farmers will deliver all the harvested wheat and vegetables to the Pompeii family for processing. The wheat will be turned into wheat flour and the vegetables will be turned into vegetable oil.
The farmers will pay a certain commission to the Pompei family for this. The commission is not high, but small profits but quick turnover. The two processing workshops of the Pompei family made a lot of money.
After vegetable oil and wheat flour are produced, farmers will keep some for their own consumption, and most of them will be sold to the Pompeii family in exchange for copper coins.
The Pompeii family would buy it at a price lower than the market price, and then transport it to Kaiyue City for sale, which would be another source of income.
And after farmers had silver coins or even gold coins in their hands, they naturally began to consume, buying cloth to make clothes, buying some food, and even some meat and making some sausages.
So the farmers waved their coins and came to the Pompeii family's grocery store, cloth store, and pasture to buy these daily necessities, and the Pompeii family made a fortune.
This is a very, very terrible thing.
Logically speaking, this is impossible in a real city. This is due to the fact that Pompeii is still small and all businesses are exclusively run by the Pompeii family.
All in all, the farmers made more during this year's autumn harvest, and the Pompeii family actually made more. On the contrary, reducing the people's tax burden for a year was only a drop in the bucket.
Of course, because the Pompeii family's financial system is two sets in parallel, the Pompeii family's business forms its own finance, and the city hall's taxes form its own finance.
So it was the Pompeii family who made the money, but because the city hall was very poor, the Pompeii family had to subsidize the city hall. In short, it was left to the right, and it was all Pompeii's money.
Pompeii Castle, in Madame Sophie's study.
Mrs. Sophie was holding a ledger and starting to reconcile the accounts, calculating and writing. Luther was sitting at the desk, very obediently not moving or making any sound.
Lady Sophie is settling the income from the Pompeii family's territory this year.
Luther was looking forward to how much income the Pompeii family would have.
"Bang." After a long calculation, Mrs. Sophie put down the account book and showed a joyful smile to Luther.
"Luther, our Pompeii family's income from this autumn harvest is eight thousand gold coins."
Luther immediately became happy when he heard this, and even clenched his fists and waved them in a gesture of joy.
Luther was really happy.
Eight thousand gold coins may not sound like much. After all, when Luther wiped out the Qiufeng bandits, he borrowed 100,000 gold coins from the Barton family.
But you must know that Barton is a barony with a population of more than 100,000, and the income generated is of course astonishing.
Pompeii's income in the previous year was less than one thousand gold coins.
Eight thousand gold coins is a very considerable income, and it is not a one-time transaction, and has a certain sustainability, because it is impossible for farmers to spend all the gold coins at once. In the future, farmers will have a huge amount of consumption.
The Bei family brings a steady stream of income.
There are more than 10,000 farmers now, but what about 100,000 or millions in the future?
Therefore, it is very scary to run a territory.
"Don't be too happy. We still have a lot of external debts. We owe the Barton family 88,000 gold coins. The bounty has not been paid for a while, and the 88,000 gold coins are still generating interest continuously.
, and the gold coins we borrowed from the five major knight families also need to be returned."
Mrs. Sophie poured a basin of cold water on Luther.
"Pay back the money? You won't pay back the money. If you keep it with interest, you might be able to use it later." Luther shook his head and would never pay back the money.
Money can beget money.
However, interest still has to be paid, and Luther is not a sluggish person.
By the way, the 88,000 gold coins of the Barton family cannot be withheld. After the bounty comes down, the principal must be repaid with interest. This is the condition agreed upon at the beginning.
But all Luther could owe was the gold coins from the five major knight families.
After feeling happy, Luther stood up from his chair, then bowed to Mrs. Sophie and said sincerely, "Mom, you have worked hard this year, please be sure to buy some jewelry for yourself."
There is nothing wrong with what you said.
In terms of personal relationships, Luther and Mrs. Sophie have a very good relationship as mother and son, better than most biological mothers and children. There is nothing wrong with buying jewelry for my mother.
In terms of work, this year Mrs. Sophie and Butler Ferran have managed the family business in an orderly manner. Pompeii Wine, various workshops, pastures, and shops in the territory are all run by her mother.
reason.
No need to pay wages yet.
You have to give a year-end bonus anyway.
You must buy jewelry and clothes.
"Then I will withdraw two hundred gold coins to buy some clothes and jewelry." Seeing Luther's filial piety, Mrs. Sophie said happily.
"Two hundred gold coins are too little. Please spend five hundred gold coins." Luther begged his mother to spend money.
"Then I will buy some clothes for you, Mary, and William." Mrs. Sophie said with a smile. As a noble lady who knows how to run a household, she certainly would not spend five hundred gold coins on clothes and jewelry for herself, so extravagantly, but
Seeing Luther's filial piety, she compromised and planned to buy more clothes for her family.
"Okay." Luther reluctantly agreed.
Skipping this topic, Mrs. Sophie suddenly remembered the circus and asked, "By the way, didn't you ask Lelouch to hire a circus for a carnival celebration? When will it arrive?"
"According to the plan, we should arrive the day after tomorrow." Luther said with a smile, and then added, "This is a famous circus hired from Kaiyue City. There are various animal training performances, various acrobatic performances, and yes, there are also funny performances.
A clown show. Mom, you must go and see it too.”
Mrs. Sophie nodded happily and said, "Okay, I will definitely go and have a look then."
As the lord's wife and the person in charge of the family business, Mrs. Sophie rarely leaves the territory throughout the year, and her entire life is centered around the Pompeii family.
This time Pompeii's autumn harvest and the circus came to tour, of course she was interested in going and seeing it.
after one day.
The famous circus of Victory City, "Circus Parada", has come to Pompeii. Pompeii will usher in a month-long carnival. During the carnival, the circus will tour in various villages in Pompeii.
All expenses will be borne by the Pompeii family.
There is only one purpose.
Let the entire Pompeii territory fall into a carnival and continue the joy of the autumn harvest.
Have fun, people.
Revel together for our common Pompeii.
Pompeii.
Our Pompeii will be better.
The previous chapter was revised twice because I took on the title of the leader of the band of thieves and received the name of the President of the United States, so the harmony was lost.
The first modification added a period in the middle of the name, but it didn't work.
In the second modification, the leader is called Omima.