Chapter 236 Do a show
In half a month, James developed a practical filtration and distillation device, which was extremely cheap. It cost less than twenty-five gold coins in total, and it could purify 300 liters of maple syrup in total. The original maple syrup, one liter bottle, sold for five gold coins, cost three gold coins, and the profit margin was actually not high.
Now, the maple syrup purified by the new method has been placed in front of Rollin, with a transparent and slightly yellow color, as pure as jade. Scoop it up with a spoon and pour it into a bowl, it is as smooth as silk and beautiful as silk.
If you don’t have to eat, just look at the appearance and the specialty of this only family in Maple Leaf Town, this thing is worth a lot of money!
Then, under James' nervous gaze, Rollin tasted a spoonful and carefully tasted it. He felt that the taste was mellow and delicate. The flavor of maple syrup was a little lighter than before. No, it should be said that it was purer and became very gentle.
Rollin nodded: "Very good, very good."
This time, he sat at the long table in the restaurant in the castle, next to him was James. For the sake of decent, James wore clean and tidy new clothes.
There were three people next to him, one of whom was a jewelry design master specially invited by Rollin from the city, named Alda, a very famous person in the northern aristocratic circle.
Another person is a gourmet specially invited from Fire Lion City, named Lucinda, a beautiful woman, thirty years old this year, at the peak of a woman. From her, you can find all the beautiful qualities of women, such as beauty, charm, delicateness, elegance, all of which are all in one, which is so charming.
The only thing missing is chastity. There is no way to do this. Lucinda was born into a commoner family and relied on her beauty to deal with the aristocratic circle. Although she was a gourmet, she was actually a socialite.
The last one was Angela. She heard about maple syrup and was just watching the fun.
When James heard Rollin's comment, he breathed a sigh of relief, and a sincere smile appeared on his face.
The attendant scoops the maple syrup to Angela and Alda, and let the three of them taste them separately.
Angela didn't care, so she took a small bite and nodded repeatedly: "It's delicious, much better than the maple syrup I used to eat. The taste is very soft and not greasy at all."
Orda is a jewelry designer, but this is a reward from the Count, so he naturally has to taste it carefully. After a bite, it was indeed delicious. He couldn't tell where it was good, so he just nodded repeatedly: "No, very good."
Finally, it was Lucinda, the woman was elegant in appearance. She tasted it with the tip of her tongue, and then kept her mouth shut. After a while, she opened her eyes and sighed: "This is simply a work of art. After tasting this, other maple syrups can no longer be eaten. Lord Earl. You made my tongue more picky."
This woman is worthy of being a member of the aristocratic circle in the capital. Her eyes were slanted and she sighed, and she was so elegant and charming that she made Alda and James look at each other repeatedly, but Angela quietly curled her lips. Then she carefully adjusted her sitting position that had been increasingly casually recently.
Rollin laughed, ignoring Lucinda's vague teasing. He knew very well that as long as he nodded, the woman would climb onto his bed at night. Being able to spend the money with the legendary figure who was named by force would be of great benefit to her reputation, and she would not want to.
However, Rollin was not interested in socializing, so he turned to Orda and said, "Master, as Mrs. Lucinda said, this is a work of art. The work of art should be equipped with a container worthy of its value, to reflect the luster of this maple syrup like jade to the greatest extent. As I said in my letter, you don't have to care about the cost when designing this container, just pursue the ultimate perfection."
Alda was prepared and nodded, "This is OK. In fact, I have started designing since you made the request half a month ago, and now there are three different finished products. I have brought them all today, so please check it out."
As he said that, Alda took out three bottles. The bottles were very small and could only hold fifty milliliters of maple syrup, but they were really beautiful. Alda really designed this crystal bottle as jewelry.
As soon as Mrs. Lucinda saw these bottles, she couldn't help but exclaim: "How beautiful! Just like the stars in the night."
Of course, Luo Lin didn't understand these things. He just looked good and didn't want to eliminate any of them, so he asked, "Master, do these three bottles have any background? I mean, what inspired you?"
Orda nodded. He had already been ready. He knew that the nobles liked this tone, and the more mysterious it was, the better.
He began to introduce one by one, the first was the dreamy starry sky, the second was the girl's heart, and the third was the pure moon. Then Orda began to talk nonsense, and each bottle was pulled for more than ten minutes.
During this period, Rollin seemed to listen carefully, and the expression on Mrs. Lucinda was extremely interested, but Angela kept yawning and lacked interest.
James looked at the Earl, then at the elegant Mrs. Lucinda, and finally looked at the verbal jewelry design master Alda, and was instantly confused. He felt the huge gap between himself and the nobles, so he listened carefully and prepared to learn.
After talking for more than half an hour, Rollin nodded and 'appreciated': "It's very good. These three designs are extremely perfect, but I can only choose one. Mrs. Lucinda, which one do you think is better?"
"Oh, I'm honored to give an opinion, Lord Earl. These three bottles are perfect. If I had to choose one, I would choose the Girl's Heart, which reminds me of my youth."
"Well, I feel a little moved when you say that. Then let's be the girl's heart." Luo Lin nodded. He intended to make this purified maple syrup a luxury product in the aristocratic circle. The main consumer of luxury goods has always been those boring noble women, and those aristocratic young people who admire them will definitely spend a lot of money to please their sweethearts.
Why? Because love is priceless, hahaha~
In the end, Luo Lin bought the girl's heart at a sky-high price of 5,000 gold coins, and then gave the first batch of the most commemorative girl's hearts in total fifty bottles, ten of which were given as gifts to Mrs. Lucinda from Fire Lion City, and the other forty bottles, and asked her to give it to Grand Duke Lehman.
Mrs. Lucinda was naturally extremely grateful and expressed that she must let the girls in Fire Lion City know about the existence of this treasure.
The Count was very happy, so he generously donated money to give Mrs. Lucinda an expensive carriage. With a gift worth three thousand gold coins, he personally sent Mrs. Lucinda to the carriage.
Gracefully, Mrs. Lucinda left a grateful kiss on the face of the noble Earl, and returned with a full load, and returned to the Fire Lion City with fifty bottles of girlish heart.
Angela looked at Rollin's series of money-spending actions, and James was shocked. Joni sighed secretly, feeling extremely worried. Although the master is an earl and has a lot of money, he can't be so extravagant.
This matter soon spread in the upper class of Maple Leaf County, and the nobles and celebrities secretly stumbled on the wealth of Earl Rollin. At the same time, they were also amazed at the so-called girl's heart's price, a small bottle, fifty milliliters, no two price, fifty gold coins!
Yes, fifty gold coins! A price that makes the nobles a little painful. However, after hearing that Grand Duke Lehman from Fire Lion City got this thing, he was very happy and gave it to his wife and daughter as a gift. Grand Duke was so happy that in the next few days, many ministers could see the smile of this noble lady.
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In the first month, the Girl Heart created by Rollin sold 1,000 bottles and received 50,000 gold coins. As for the cost... no one knows the real cost of a bottle of Girl Heart. Because each process is separate, but James, as the production manager, knows it. Because a liter of pure maple syrup costs fifty gold coins, but it can fill twenty bottles of Girl Heart. The profit given to him was 900 gold coins, which was two percent of the pure profit.
James knew that the Earl's profit was a lot, but he would not say that to others, he would only say that the production of pure maple syrup is very complicated and very expensive.
Another person probably knows the trick, that is Angela.
"Rolin, you're robbing money!" That's what she said to Rolin.
"So what? Angela, I didn't force others to buy it." Rollin smiled.
The second month, the sales of Girl Heart entered a stable period, and 800 bottles were sold. However, Rollin launched a new product called "Tear of Flowers". He also asked a famous bard to compile a tear-jerking story, which caused the noble girls to shed tears and then donated generously.
Finally, Hua Zhixi sold two thousand bottles...
In the third and fourth months, there were new products. People in the Principality began to get used to the existence of purified maple syrup and regarded it as a weapon to pretend. However, the popularity also decreased. Rollin's income from purified maple syrup began to stabilize, and his monthly profit remained at around 50,000 gold coins.
This was enough. By the beginning of the fourth month, Rollin's total profit in his pocket reached 300,000 gold coins, plus the 200,000 he brought from the Premo family, was 500,000 gold coins.
This is a huge fortune.
More importantly, in the past few months, everyone knows that Count Rolling has made a lot of money and his prestige in the territory has been completely established. It can be seen from the changes of the butler Joni.
Now, he never doubted Rollin's words. When he talked to others, he always said: My master, and he must be speaking with his head raised and his chest, looking proud.
With money and prestige, Rollin has the confidence in his heart and starts to take the second step.
Because the territory was hit by disaster last year and grain production was greatly reduced, Rollin began to issue laws to purchase grain in other provinces in the name of the Earl, and then sell it at a low price, and directly exempt from taxes for three years.
This step is very simple. Just write a decree and write a decree.
Therefore, the leaders were grateful and sincerely supported.
At this time, two months had passed, and in total, Rollin took two steps, conquered the people's hearts of the territory, and truly settled in the position of the Count.
During this period, Viana came three times in total, each time she had a secret meeting and left the next morning. As before, she always kept her last step, and could only say that she had relieved Luo Lin's pain of missing her.
During this period, the secret connection between his Earl Corps and Fix Island has been established and improved. If there is any news on both sides, it will take only three hours to know about a small thing called "Little Spirit Dragon" provided by Viana.
At this time, you can take the third step to reorganize the army and manage the government.
Although the Count can only have a quota of 1,000 warriors and 200 knights, it is not enough to be as relaxed as in the past. Rollin wants to ensure that every warrior of his is an absolute elite!
His army is a large group of waste who eat military pay, but it cannot be cut off out of thin air, because everyone in the army has something to do behind it, and suddenly it is cut off, which will cause panic and be detrimental to territorial stability.
So Rollin needs a reason that no one can refute.
Luolin was very lucky. Another month later, an urgent report came from the north of Maple Leaf County that a small-scale Frost Giants crossed the Goldlin Mountains and invaded the village. Three villages have been destroyed at present, but they were lucky enough to get a warning and the personnel were not seriously injured.
When Luo Lin heard this, he immediately ordered the army to be reorganized. Three days later, he personally led the army, and a total of 1,100 people went north to attack the Frost Giant.
At this time, Angela had already practiced her fifth move. In the first move, she could already exert 20% of the power of Drop Water. Now that she encountered a bottleneck, she wanted to experience the real battle and asked to follow her. Luo Lin thought she could keep her safe, so she agreed.
So the army marched north. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!