Chapter 301 Winning the bet brings wealth to the whole family, losing the bet brings wealth to the whole family
An ancient castle outside Fairhaven.
Although Baroness Seranis planned to follow Mo Cheng's advice and transform this place into a manufacturing factory for the Glimmer Ointment, she was currently busy with other matters and would not be able to take care of this place for two or three days.
After all, according to the news from Margaret, Baroness Seranis has been very busy these days because of debt collection from other nobles.
There is no doubt that the Serannis family fleet was sunk by a spy sent by some nobles, but most of the nobles who invested in the company did so for the money. Now that the fleet is gone, it is simply impossible to spread the loss among the nobles who invested in the company.
Mo Cheng guessed that the Serannis family might be a clear indicator of who the nobles behind the shipwreck fleet were, but he had no evidence.
Without any evidence, if someone were to accuse a noble, it would most likely be the old noble. If Seranis dared to accuse him today, those nobles would jointly request Queen Aundair to deprive Seranis of his title tomorrow.
Mo Cheng was not completely ignorant of the dirty deeds done by the nobles. He also had some knowledge of some of their shady tricks. When he was in the [Foreign Land], several of his major missions were even taken advantage of by the nobles.
Of course, those nobles also paid a painful price. After all, the guys who were rewarded by the black players were not just brave, they were the bravest of the brave who dared to gamble their family tree.
There are several underground storage rooms in the castle, some used as wine cellars, some for storing ice, and some simply for storing sundries.
There aren't many basements, but they are located quite far away. If you want to find all of them, you may have to go around the entire castle.
Mo Cheng only knew about the alchemical product of the production line, which was hidden under the ancient castle outside Fairhaven, but he didn't know the details of how to obtain it...
As a SKIP type of player, you won't care how to obtain something that can only be obtained once and is out of print.
His memory of the thing was only that it was found in the basement of the castle, but he didn't know which basement it was.
This is the question that needs to be clarified today.
Mo Cheng released his perception to make sure that no one suddenly appeared around. The Seranis family would be very busy these days and would not be able to notice what was happening in the castle.
He had a whole day of safe time to explore secrets and dig for treasure.
“It feels pretty much the same as when I was a kid.”
Run to a deserted place, treat it as a secret base, and then explore with your good friends...
This kind of behavior has never occurred since my parents brought me to live in the city.
With memories and a childhood mentality, Mo Cheng searched the basement carefully.
In the first basement, we scraped off a layer of soil around it, but found nothing.
There was also nothing found in the second basement.
In the third basement, after Mo Cheng dug two layers of soil on the ground, he found something unusual.
He found some debris in the soil, which were ore fragments.
There must be no mines where the castle is located. All the mining areas around Fairhaven have been explored and are owned by someone. If there were mines in this place, there would not be a castle built and then abandoned.
When Mo Cheng saw the ore fragments, he knew he had found the right basement. In addition to having the same function as a production line, the alchemical product could also be used to obtain raw materials by decomposing finished products, or to extract trace elements from the soil to extract ore.
To be honest, when Mo Cheng first learned about the function of this alchemical product, he also felt it was very magical. At the same time, this alchemical product has also become a treasure that many lord players are fighting for.
Having a production line that is close to modern ones can play a huge role in the development of one's own territory. In order to fight for this thing, many lord players lost all the assets of their own territories.
Originally, Mo Cheng didn't have any particular thoughts on this alchemical product, otherwise he wouldn't have left it for so long and without taking so many chances.
After all, if you want this kind of thing to play the greatest role, it must be a lord with territory and power. Mo Cheng himself has neither land nor people, so it won't be of much use if he takes it.
Until recently, when I received news that Queen Aundair was planning to confer a knighthood on him, things were completely different.
When a title is granted, no matter what it is, even the lowest level title, in theory it comes with territory.
Of course, that is only in theory. In reality, there are not so many territories to be divided in the country, so many nobles can only do business based on their noble status and privileges, or get a considerable living allowance from the royal family.
But in fact, in addition to royal fiefdoms, nobles also had another possibility of acquiring territory.
Pioneering nobility.
As the name suggests, it means going to places that are rarely visited or even desolate places, or to places where the borders between two countries are disputed.
The former opens up wasteland, while the latter opens up new frontiers.
As long as you are determined to suffer for several generations, you will definitely be able to get a territory for your family. Moreover, this kind of territory is directly based on the legal principles. No matter how big a mistake you make in the future, as long as it is not a crime such as treason and regicide, the king will at most let you go back to the territory your family has developed and develop it again.
Of course, not everyone can be a pioneering noble. Most of the nobles who want to pioneer often end up with a bad ending.
The pioneering nobles may have to spend several generations to make the territory suitable for human habitation, find people to settle down, offer extremely favorable tax rates, and at the same time explore economic sources within the territory, invite caravans and offer sufficiently low tax rates.
When you start making money, you have to be careful of robbers. When there are more people, you also have to be careful of the unfriendly monsters around.
The basic situation has been established, man-made disasters have been resolved, but we still have to be careful of natural disasters .
Sometimes, after spending decades wholeheartedly making the land in his hands presentable, a natural disaster struck and all the people in the territory died. The lord was so mentally stimulated that he even committed suicide.
Not to mention the pioneering nobles who opened up new territories. Having to compete with other countries for territory, they either rise quickly or die quickly .
There were quite a few pioneer nobles in the early days of the country. At that time, after the war, no matter where you went, it was almost the same. Whether you could get a good territory depended entirely on your ability. As time went on , the country became more stable, and the number of pioneer nobles gradually decreased.
After all, becoming a pioneer noble is really like gambling with the lives of your entire family. If you win, your whole family will be prosperous, and if you lose, your entire family will be rich.
With such a high risk, naturally not many people would choose it.
