Fashen live room

Chapter 165 The Duke Pleases
The Vernacelle Palace, which is the most important place in the entire Franciscan territory, is also the residence of the Duke of Roberts.

This big castle located in the heart of Nicaro has more than 200 rooms, and it takes half a day to walk from the gate to the hall, and now Norman and Billy are walking on the way to the hall, with a neatly dressed servant leading the way .

Although Billy is the son of the Grand Duke Roberts, according to the rules of the kingdom, he moved out from the Vannesseli Palace after he acquired the title. For the current Vannesseli Palace, he is a guest, so It is still necessary to follow the normal rules of hospitality, and the servants will lead them in-even if the earl can walk where they are going with his eyes closed.

During the journey, Billy asked Norman in a low voice: "The bookstore has made so much money, when will you give me the 'dividend' you mentioned?"

Norman asked back: "My lord, are you short of money recently?"

Billy hesitated for a moment and said, "You know, I often go to dances recently and hold a lot of dances." Ever since Norman helped Billy connect with Skull and Bones, Billy has always been Transparent guys are slowly becoming more popular now, and they attend dances much more frequently than before, and they don't even play chess very much.

"I heard people say that the bookstore earns dozens of Jintalan every day, so we have already earned back the capital we invested, right?"

Norman nodded, "The initial investment has been earned back, but we have used all the money we earned to recruit workers and expand production. Earl, as you know, our goal is not just Nicaro, the entire Franciscan Business needs us to expand, and our current output and manpower are obviously not enough..."

Norman actually understood Billy's thoughts quite well. If he had been himself not long ago, he would only see immediate benefits like Billy now.

But unlike him, the farmer's son, Billy is the son of a grand duke, and his vision is so short-sighted, so it's no wonder that being mixed up like that is not favored by everyone.

After being comforted by Norman, Billy's agitated heart aroused by his new friend gradually calmed down. The two continued to follow the servant and arrived at the hall after a short while, then passed through to a room. Go to the smaller living room.

Today was a private family dinner at the Grand Duke's house, and he invited all his sons, the only exception was when Billy was called over, he was asked to invite Norman along the way.

"The family banquet should be just a cover, and the main target of Archduke Roberts this time should be you."

This is the analysis of the Knights Templar, and it is true.

When Norman and Billy came to this smaller living room, they saw that there were already two men inside, one was the Archduke Roberts, and the other was Billy's third brother, Earl Herbert. People are chatting.

After the two greeted each other and sat down, the Grand Duke left after a while, calling Norman out by the way.

There is no need for the Knights Templar. Norman can judge by himself that the most important thing in today's so-called family dinner should be this conversation, and everything else is just incidental.

This living room is on the second floor. Norman followed the Grand Duke out of the living room, first turned left, walked for a while, went up to the third floor, and then turned right into a room. After the two entered, the servants outside consciously Close the door of the study.

This is a study room. There is a large desk in the middle. Behind the desk, there are several large bookcases against the wall that go up to the ceiling. Every bookcase is full of books. It is very spectacular, and it can show the wealth of the owner of this study.

And there is a ladder on the far right side of the bookcase wall, which can be pushed, and its function should be for the owner of the study to push and climb up to get books.

The Grand Duke Roberts came in and walked directly behind the desk, and sat down, but he didn't tell Norman to sit down, so Norman didn't dare to sit down, and stood for the time being, looking at the Grand Duke in front of him.

Brandry was also looking at him, his eyes were quite strange, mixed with various meanings such as curiosity, inquiry, interest, appreciation, etc., but he just didn't speak.

Brandry didn't speak, and Norman couldn't speak, so he just stood there and looked at him.

Brandry stared at Norman for a long while before finally speaking: "I heard that you founded the Nikaheim Chamber of Commerce?"

Sure enough, it was because of this incident.

Due to the large supply of cheap and exquisite books, the weird new word "Nikaheim" has become the hottest term in the whole of Nicaro recently, not to mention the nobles and Rich merchants, even civilians who have nothing to do with books and don't know a single letter, all know about Nikaheim one after another.

Norman replied, "Yes."

Brandry asked again: "You sell the books so cheaply, won't you lose money? I also bought a set of "Holy Book" made by you. Not too much difference, but the price difference is too much."

Norman replied cautiously: "Because of the new method and the large shipment volume, we will not lose money for the time being."

Bradley nodded and asked, "What method? How exactly?"

Norman's heart tightened.

Bradley wants their business secrets.

Fortunately, the Knights Templar have already responded to this, but they don't know if it will be useful to face the Franciscan emperor... But now they don't care too much. Now that they have decided to do this, this kind of thing Sooner or later it will come.

Norman tried to keep his voice as steady as he had rehearsed many times, and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Grand Duke, this business is not mine alone, I need the consent of my partner Only then can we decide whether to disclose this method to you."

Brandry was a little surprised by Norman's uncooperativeness and boldness. He glanced at Norman and said, "If what you're talking about is Billy, then I believe he will agree. Maybe I should ask someone to go to him. Call me?"

Norman nodded, and said: "I believe Earl Billy will agree, but I think other partners need to agree."

"Other partners?"

Bradley was taken aback.

According to his investigation results, the owner of Nikaheim is Norman, and the two persons in charge, Derrick and Curtis, are only Norman's subordinates, and Derrick is still Billy's follower, so the matter Obviously, this Nikaheim was created by Norman, and his son Billy might be the big boss behind the scenes, but he didn't expect that there were other collaborators.

The cooperation between Norman and the members of the Skull and Bones was carried out in the tomb. Due to the high-end and concealed nature of the Skull and Bones, the Grand Duke Brandry did not investigate these things for a while.

"Yes, other partners."

Norman reported the names of those partners one by one, "Lisa King, June Rodriguez, Joseph Avari, Armstrong Moore..."

Brandry listened, the dazed expression on his face gradually disappeared, and his expression calmed down, but a huge wave slowly set off in his heart.

There is nothing terrible about these names in the Norman newspaper. Although they are all elites, they are just some young people of the junior generation. What makes Bradley's heart stir is what these juniors represent.

The King family, the Rodriguez family, the Avari family, the Moore family, the Perez family, the Howard family, the Richardson family...

Nicaro actually had dozens of aristocratic families involved in this matter!

If Nikaheim is just an ordinary shop, then Bradley may still believe that it is just something for these juniors to play with, and has nothing to do with the family behind them, but what Nikaheim now has The technology of mass-produced books obviously has great potential, and can even influence the times. How can you convince Bradley that this matter is only played by these juniors themselves, and has nothing to do with the families behind them?
Facing such a huge kinked force, even Bradley, the local emperor of Franciscan territory, had to be afraid.

(End of this chapter)