"Why is there so much money left?!"

In the castle study, Devin asked with a frown as he looked at the official document report presented by the consul.

He didn't look at the rest for the first time, but he just looked at the balance, and it was less than a thousand gold coins!

In such a huge city, a gathering place for tens of thousands of people, just a few things are really jaw-dropping.

The consul saw sweat on his forehead and explained in a low voice: "My Lord, the new rent for this year has not been collected yet. These are all the remaining money from last year. The remaining money is already very good."

Of this money, the officials' salary and soldiers' commissions account for only half, and most of the others are the daily expenses of the castle.

Not to mention anything else, a baron's clothing is worth less than ten gold coins, so it will never be worn. The baron has to change dozens of clothes every year.

The Baron is like this, and the Baron's daughter and son are all big spenders.

The annual maintenance costs of the castle, lawns, flower beds, etc., require hundreds of gold coins.

Over the years, Lomba City has been in a balanced balance, and there is not much money left.

So today Dewen suddenly had to do a big thing, and the consul was so distressed.

The consul continued: "Sir, build a small town of 1,000 people, with an ordinary two-story wooden house of at least five gold coins, and more than one hundred households are more than five hundred gold coins. The church must be built with stone, so it requires at least two hundred gold coins. In addition, it is not enough money to support more than one thousand people."

It was enough, but some time ago, Baron Heimer spent a lot of gold coins to get a Exploration Crystal, and he immediately lost his savings from the past years.

Moreover, if you say it in advance, the consul has a countermeasure, such as borrowing some money from a wealthy family in the city.

The main reason was that it was too sudden and caught the consul off guard.

Dewen had no expression on his face. He began to look at the specific income and expenditure options on the official document. After looking at it for a while, he felt dizzy.

The accounts on this official document are not difficult. In fact, this thing is a pediatric for German, but this accounting method is too trivial.

This damn thing is so boring.

Dewen forced himself to finish reading the official documents and roughly understood.

As the consul said, it is almost a balance of income and expenditure. There is a slight surplus. It can produce about 300 more gold coins every year.

He is a baron, but he is definitely not a rich man, and he only collects about two thousand gold coins a year.

The gold coins he snatched from the Fire Demon Phils were worth more than 20 years of income in Rumba City.

What made Dewen depressed was that there was actually a loan on the official document.

I borrowed the king's money, a total of 1,000 gold coins, and it also indicated that the unpaid and the annual profit was ten points. A year later, I would have to pay back one hundred gold coins.

He worked hard to build a city, and after deducting the loan, the gold coins became negative, which made Devin very popular.

He slapped the official document on the table, frowned, and said, "What's going on with this loan?"

Dewen is now strong in his soul and extremely majestic. After he sinks his face, the ordinary consul is a little overwhelmed.

He didn't expect that the city lord, who was born in the country, was still literate and could easily understand the account book. He immediately cut off his contempt in his heart.

Indeed, those who can use means to capture a city will not be ordinary characters.

The discerning person in the city is very respectful to Dewen. In this series of things, this person became the city lord. These coincidences look scary.

He bent his body, and fine sweat oozed out of his forehead. He said tremblingly: "Half a month ago, the Baron bought a Exploration Crystal from the auction house and spent two thousand gold coins. He only gave one thousand, and the other thousand was borrowed, and he was ready to repay it in three years."

Devin was depressed. The old baron died and even left him such a bad debt.

Since he robbed Fodocen's money, he has become accustomed to being too big. Now when he sees the account book, he is a little disappointed. It turns out that the baron is just glamorous.

The consul asked, "Master Lord, the money from that town..."

What else can I do? Today's matter has been decided, and I am facing the neighbors of Vito Town, so I must not go back on my word and delay.

He had more than 1,200 gold coins on hand, so he could only take them out to respond to the emergency.

Devin poured out the gold coins, pushed them to the table, and said, "Take it, in a month, I will see the town."

The consul was surprised. He originally thought that the new city lord would ask him to scrape more oil from the city merchants to make up for it, but he didn't expect to pay the money himself.

But now that he has money, he no longer has any worries and said, "Sir, don't worry, the town can be built in less than a month."

"That's good. The land tax and land rent in the new town... will be exempted for three years, and only half will be charged in the future."

This is the authority of the city lord, and the consul nodded and agreed.

When he left, Devin left this matter behind. He didn't think about increasing wealth in Lumba City or reducing expenses.

He is a warrior, not a businessman, and has no interest in making money. In the future, Alice will probably have to control the castle.

The wealth of Lumba City is enough to support his daily expenses.

Now that it was empty, Devin rushed to the martial arts training ground in the castle to hone his sword skills.

Although German is extremely familiar with the sword skills on the Frost Flame Scroll, he has never been afraid of practicing sword skills.

Only after working hard can you know where you will go.

Just like Devin practiced bows and arrows with Uncle Nolan. At the beginning, he just wanted to shoot some wild game to satisfy his cravings, but he never thought that he could achieve great success in his arrow skills.

But after he practiced hard every day, he became a master of archery and reached an incredible state ten years later.

The same is true for sword skills.

Moreover, for a warrior, sword skills are the foundation. Although elemental combat skills are extremely powerful, they are not enough to rely solely on elemental combat skills.

If you do that, you will definitely have loopholes when fighting and die quickly.

When he arrived at the martial arts training ground, Dewen began to do basic chop, chop, cut, cut, stab, and other movements over and over again, focusing very much, as if he was practicing some peerless sword skills.

He soon became immersed in, not knowing the passage of time.

The dragon power in his body also flowed to the Dragon Soul Sword under his control.

As the dragon's power continued to infuse, the dark sword body slowly changed its color.

I don’t know how long it took, but the sword body began to brighten up, emitting a dim red light.

The third-level runes were filled with Dewen again, and the dragon power in Dewen's body happened to be exhausted. He only felt very tired. He was sweating profusely and almost exhausted.

But this is a must.

The third-level combat skills included in the Dragon Soul Sword are very powerful. Facing a powerful lethal force with a final say.

Dewen naturally had to fill the third rune as soon as possible and leave this combat skill as his life-saving trump card.

"Dervan. It's time to have a meal." A voice came from behind Devan.

He looked back and found that Alice was here.

Several servants followed her, holding a food bowl in her hands, and a large amount of very delicious meat on it.

Several other servants walked up to wipe Devin's sweat and changed his clothes. The service was very meticulous and thoughtful.

Then, a simple dining table was moved to this martial arts training ground.

Well, Dewen has experienced the benefits of becoming the Lord of a City. It is easy and enjoyable to be a person who is always there to take care of the trivialities of daily life.

With such superior conditions, as long as you practice martial arts wholeheartedly and do not make rapid progress, it will be strange.

However, being served like this, Dewen felt a sense of slackness in his heart, satisfying the status quo.

He was shocked and immediately alerted himself: "A comfortable life is indeed a tomb of ambition. I must always remember this and must not be satisfied with the current situation."

Now he has created a great enemy like the Demon Lord in the abyss. If he does not make rapid progress, it is hard to say what the outcome will be.

Seeing that Devin had not started eating for a long time, Alice asked with concern: "What's wrong? Isn't it to your taste?"

She knew that Devin liked to eat meat, so she brought all the meat. The current situation made her think that Devin was tired of eating it.

Dewen then came to his senses and smiled and said, "No, I'm just distracted."

He sat on a chair and feasted. Alice sat opposite him, holding her chin with one hand and looking at him with her head tilted.

"Why, you've eaten it?" Devin asked.

"Um."

Devin looked at the servants around him and suddenly changed to classical language and asked, "How is my Uncle Nolan living in the castle?"

Alice was stunned, then reacted, squinted her eyes and smiled, and switched to classical language, saying, "It's very good, it's just a bit boring."

Devin sighed. Indeed, Uncle Nolan was used to staying in the town and living like a idyllic crane in the town. When he came to this castle, he was indeed very restrained.

It seems that I'll send him back in a few days.

Alice asked curiously: "Derwin, I'm very surprised. How could you speak classical and literate? Are you not an orphan?"

"Learn from others."

"What about your martial arts? It looks very clever."

Alice felt that this man had many secrets, which made her very curious. And they had a real intimate relationship last night, and she unconsciously wanted to get to know this husband in depth.

"I have learned it from people. The arrow skills were taught by Uncle Nolan, and he is very powerful." Devin didn't say much.

After a pause, he said, "We will set off in a few days. We must settle the title as soon as possible."

Speaking of the title, Alice looked a little sad, and she whispered: "For you, am I a tool to obtain the title?"
To be continued...