Lord of Industrialization

Guiyum returned to Barris City without any incident and met the landlord downstairs of the rented house.

This three-story building belongs to a baker. The landlord bakes and sells bread on the first floor. He lives on the top floor, and the second floor is rented out to outsiders like Guiyoum.

There is a toaster on the first floor. The house on the second floor is very hot in summer, but it can save a lot of firewood for heating in winter.

The landlord is twenty years old this year. His parents retired last year and returned to live with relatives in the countryside, so he officially inherited the family business.

It's just that he can't handle it alone, and the store is in urgent need of a landlady.

The landlady has basically made an appointment. The youngest daughter of the tailor's family in the next street is seventeen years old and is waiting for the landlord to propose.

The landlord was a thoughtful young man. He gave Guiyoum a gold coin that he had saved through frugality and asked him to bring back something beautiful as a proposal gift when he went to the Principality of Wesson.

Guiyoum's backpack was large. The innermost part was a cowhide box containing documents such as a power of attorney to sue, and the gifts he bought for his landlord were also inside.

"Hiss..." The landlord was shocked when he opened the jewelry box, "Isn't this expensive?"

The box contained a set of jewelry made of colored crystal glass, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets and hairpins. They were a bit dazzling under the noon sun and could not be bought with two or three gold coins in Barris City.

Guiyum smiled and said: "The gentleman I went to this time works in a glass factory in the Principality of Wesson. I bought it at the factory price. The extra money bought you a set of clothes, but you still owe I have a few copper seeds.”

As he spoke, he took out a blue blacksmith's uniform and a pair of white cloth shoes, which were sold very cheaply in the Principality of Wesson.

The landlord's eyes widened. He had wanted a set of clothes and shoes like this for a long time, but he had never dared to spend it in order to save money for his wedding. Unexpectedly, Guiyum bought it for him in just one trip.

The few copper seeds he owed was not a big deal. He returned with a few loaves of bread that had just been baked this morning and gave them to him. The price was much higher than the few copper seeds.

Guiyum returned to his room. There was only one bed and one cabinet. The low table on the bed was used for eating and writing. There was a popular briquette stove in the corner, and a blanket hung on the chimney that stretched out the window.

He put his backpack on the ground and the bread on the low table. He fell on the soft bed and took a deep breath.

Before he left, he paid the tenant in the next room to help him clean every ten days and open the windows for ventilation. After leaving for more than half a year, the room was still clean and there was no smell.

This bed was not made of wooden boards. Guiyum could not afford large wooden boards at that time. Instead, he found a few broken fishing nets and tied them to the bed frame. It was somewhat elastic and soft when lying on it.

The nerves that had been tense during the long journey suddenly relaxed, and soon there was the sound of snoring in the room.

The noise of the bread-buying customers downstairs woke Guiyoum up. He found that the sky was dim outside the window, and he slept until the next morning.

His body suddenly trembled, his hands quickly touched his body, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief.

Guillaume took off his clothes and wore a "traveling vest" underneath. There was a palm-sized pocket on the vest with several buttons at the mouth, which contained the check that Frederick had funded him last year.

He had been resting in his room that day. At the same time, he went downstairs to get some plant ash, then fetched water from a nearby well, washed all his clothes, and spread the soaked clothes on the floor while baking bread downstairs. .

The next day, Jiyoum returned to school and asked the school to cancel his leave.

It is very common these days for students who are halfway through their studies and have no money to ask for leave to work. The school leaders knew what they were going to do, so they held their noses and approved the leave according to the rules, but it was difficult for them to come back.

The school's top management has made a decision. When Guiyoum comes back, he will be asked to provide proof that he can pay the remaining tuition fees at once, otherwise he will be asked to get out.

Guillaume did not talk nonsense with them, and directly placed nine gold coins on the table. Most of them were florins from the Principality of Wesson, and a few were lifre gold coins from the Kingdom of Gaul.

These gold coins were funded by his senior brothers in his lawsuit, but they did not prevent him from showing them off and pretending they were his own money.

The school had no choice but to pinch their noses again and let him re-enroll.

This matter was just an unimportant trivial matter to Guiyum, and he didn't take it to heart. There were more important things waiting for him.

This afternoon, Guiyum brought the cowhide box to a tavern, which was their stronghold.

There were many students in the pub today, but the air was heavy and no one spoke. Many people drank beer or water in silence.

Guiyum's arrival brought some smiles to everyone, but many people became crestfallen.

He asked a good friend: "Reno, what's wrong with everyone?"

"Alas..." Renault sighed, "The court has come up with a new trick. If you sue a nobleman, you need to pay a huge deposit. If it is a false accusation."

Guiyum thought that this was indeed the case and asked, "How much deposit do we need to pay for this case?"

Renault held out two fingers.

Guiyum said: "I have received a lot of funding here. I think it will be no problem for everyone to chip in for two hundred livres."

Renault shook his head and said, "It's two thousand livres."

Jiyoum's eyes suddenly widened.

At the same time, in the Noble Court of Barris City, two judges, Count Feret and Sir Javert, were enjoying their afternoon tea time.

None of the judges in the noble court wanted to take on this case that offended a large number of nobles, so in the end they had no choice but to draw lots to decide the person in charge of the case.

There were fifteen judges in the court. When drawing lots, there were seven pieces of paper with the name of Count Ferret in the box. Who made his backers run away with almost all their families to Weissembourg to treat Francoise?

Sir Javert felt that he was the worst. He was assigned to Count Ferret as an assistant judge only the day before the drawing of lots.

"Your Excellency's method is good!" Javert flattered his leader, "They can't sue this time, and similar cases will not be able to be sued in the future."

He and Ferret are now grasshoppers tied to the same grass, and they will rise and fall together.

Ferret smiled smugly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea slowly.

He knew he was cheated, but it was irreversible, and he kept thinking about ways to break the deadlock.

The easiest way to avoid offending the masters in this lawsuit was to prevent those students from suing. The students' weakness was that they had no money, so he started with money.

So Feret pushed a new bill in a short time, requiring commoners to pay a high deposit to sue nobles, under the pretext of prohibiting false accusations, but in fact setting a high threshold for common plaintiffs in such cases.

This bill was very effective, and they heard that the students were very disappointed these days.

Feret deliberately arranged the time for the bill to be announced and take effect, specifically when the students who went out to collect indictments came back one after another. Many people were caught off guard and their morale plummeted for a while.