Food Reserves on the Dragon's Back

From the perspective of others, shortly after Silas became the leader of the Dragon Knights, he began to care about his family business. Every day, his housekeeper would send someone to send the sorted account documents to the Dragon Peak Handing it over to the leader of the Dragon Knights, Silas himself would return to his home in Silver Creek City from time to time to communicate with the housekeeper about the industrial direction of the Haslan family.

Since the last time she said "I don't have your son", Yehelena has completely ignored these things, and has not talked to Silas. Instead, she has entered a period of "self-defeating and spending money like water", holding some parties and dances every now and then, inviting Other noble ladies and ladies came over to drink tea and chat.

To maintain such an extravagant life would naturally cost a lot, but Barristan did not dissuade him, and always accommodated her requests as much as possible.

On this day, Silas returned to his home, closed the door in the study and exchanged some things with Barristan about the smiling hand, sealed the documents that needed to be shown to Sarannar in his bag, and then He started to deal with the accounts related to his own family business. After all, superficial skills still had to be done properly, and Sarannar also hoped that he could learn some valuable experience from it.

"Sell the tea garden in the west of the city. Recently, many families have seen that this area is profitable, and they have begun to follow suit to grow tea. In the future, the sales and price of tea will become a problem." Silas flipped through the account books in a hurry. Barristan said, "It takes too long to cut down the tea trees and other things. You can sell the tea gardens now and get a good price."

"Understood, I will sell it before the next harvest season." Barristan took out his small notebook and wrote it down.

"Recently, the price of cotton is lower than that of grain. Buy a batch first and stock up. It is estimated that most farmers will switch to other crops in the next two years, and then we will sell the stockpiled cotton."

"Okay, Master Silas." Barristan recorded in his small notebook, and at the same time he said, "Lord Sarannar wants me to teach you management and business knowledge, but as things stand now Come on, you are really self-taught in business."

"It's not self-taught. My mother let me learn these things since I was a child. I hope that one day I can become the steward of other rich nobles." Silas laughed at himself, "After becoming a dragon knight, I always thought that these things It’s all for nothing, I didn’t expect it to be useful.”

"Multiple skills never overwhelm you," Barristan said.

Silas had already looked through the account books, threw them aside and looked at his obedient butler: "I saw that my mother held eight dances in the last month alone, and she came every three or four days. The pin is not small, you should dissuade her appropriately."

"Don't worry, Master Silas, all expenses are still within the allowable range." Barristan said with a smile, "I think you also hope that your mother can be happier."

Silas sighed: "I don't mind letting her squander some money, but these are Saranal's assets, not mine."

"Lord Sarannar has ordered that you do not need to hide anything from now on, so I am very sorry to tell you..." Barristan paused and said with a smile, "The fact that holding dances so frequently It came from my arrangements and suggestions, and it was Lord Sarannar who asked me to do this."

Silas frowned. "Did he tell you why he did it?"

"The chats between noble wives and young ladies contain a huge amount of information, such as whose lord has gone out recently, whose mistress suddenly bought jewelry that she couldn't afford at all, all of which are thanks to the Dragon Worship Sect The poor people can't get the news at all." Barristan said with a smile, "Because of being favored by the leader of the Dragon Clan, the new leader of the Dragon Knights was suddenly given a large amount of wealth, and the upstart wife who was used to poverty started In the eyes of others, this is a reasonable reason to hold a party. Smiling hands also have a breakthrough in infiltrating aristocratic society. After all, only the servant of the party host can walk on the ball in such a fair manner. Come on, it's well worth the money."

"So that's how it is..."

"And he has another request, which is to let your mother live a luxurious and comfortable life as much as possible. You must understand the profound meaning of it, young master."

Silas felt a little uncomfortable. Although he also hoped to solve his mother's stubbornness, it still made him feel uncomfortable in this way. After all, they were his relatives, and now he could only hope that his mother would be in Saranna. I could figure it out myself before I started to clean her up.

After finishing dealing with the matters of the Smiling Hand and the Haslan family, Silas packed up his things and prepared to go back to the Dragon Summit, and casually said to the butler, "Barristan, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"

"Just ask, I will know everything." The butler, who is nearly fifty years old, replied respectfully.

"You were already a member of the Dragon Cult before the establishment of the Smiling Hand, but I think you look quite smart, and you don't seem like the kind of person who would believe that the Dragon Clan was sent from heaven to save the world."

"Are you doubting my loyalty to Lord Sarannar, Master Silas?" Barristan's smile remained unchanged.

"No, I'm just curious." Silas sat down again, looked at his butler and said, "I can't figure out this matter, Salanar said, if you don't understand anything, you can ask you."

"My loyalty to Lord Sarannar is no less than that of you, Master Silas—it is true that you have other things besides loyalty." Barristan, who was questioned, remained as respectful as before, "Indeed , if I had believed so blindly like the clansmen, Lord Sarannar would not have entrusted me with such an important position. I deeply understand that even though the dragon clan is far more powerful than humans, Lord Sarannar would not have given such an important position to me. He is a rare wise man among the dragon clan, and the dragon is just a dragon, not a god or a savior."

"So your loyalty to him doesn't come from blind faith, why is that?" Now Silas no longer believes in unreasonable loyalty.

"When my tribe was desperate, it was Lord Sarannar who generously rescued us. Of course, this move also deepened the tribe's belief in 'the dragon is the savior'. I am very grateful to him. No matter what his original intention is, in the When we were on the verge of freezing and starving to death, there was no other human or god in charge of our lives, and without him, neither my wife nor my two sons would have survived." Barristan smiled, his gray eyes calm Looking at Silas anxiously, "But I believe that if I just say that I am grateful to Lord Sarannar, neither you nor Lord Sarannar will really feel at ease with me, so my loyalty Of course there are other reasons."

"I'm all ears."

"Although this country has now recognized that those of us who immigrated from the south are also the people of Andocia, and tax and recruit soldiers from us without discrimination, you must also know that Andocians are divided into three, six, and nine classes. Yes, we Hawacans and others who are called 'outsiders' are a group of people living at the bottom, and even the poorest natives have a sense of superiority in front of us. I think everyone Some Andocians like you think that you have given the 'outsiders' living space, which is already the greatest kindness, and we should not ask for more. As a low-status 'outsiders', we You will never be able to enter the power class of Andorcia, and the power of this country is still in the hands of the nobles who have lived here for generations."

As one of the "nobles" who have lived here for generations, Silas sighed and said, "There is no way to do this. Who would be willing to give up the wealth and status left by their ancestors to others for nothing."

"Please don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, nor do I want to avenge Andorcia who took in us refugees, Master Silas." Barristan said, "We were driven out of our homeland by the orcs, like mourners. The nobles of Andorcia are of course not obliged to hand over the power and status they have passed down from generation to generation. It is just that there are some of us who are not willing to live in the slums. We need channels and opportunities to rise , and Lord Salanar gave us such an opportunity. This is the reason why I will never betray, besides Dragon Worship and Smiling Hands, where else in the world can appoint a Hawakan without prejudice Woolen cloth?"

"That's a very good reason." Silas stood up and said, "Okay, I should go back."

"Be careful all the way, Master Silas," Barristan said. "The carriage must be ready, and I'll have the model of the dragon-slaying crossbow brought there."

When Silas returned to the top of the dragon with the model as tall as half a man, he used magic to notify Sarannar, and Sarannar immediately monitored the movements around Silas in all directions. , this seemingly domineering model attracted all-round spectators as soon as it arrived at the top of the dragon. Even the unsmiling butcher Saka expressed interest. No one showed obvious panic to the model, which made Sarannar feel a little disappointed.

He picked up the model with one hand, and said to Silas: "You rest first, I'm going to have a meeting with other dragons."

"Can't I go?" Silas asked a little depressed in his tone.

"Not yet." Sarannar patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be discouraged, it will take longer for them to accept a human being as their own."

"Okay." Silas could only express his understanding.

So Sarannar once again gathered all the adult dragons into an empty cave, and showed them the model of the dragon-slaying crossbow.

This iron crossbow has a base with wheels for movement, and the direction and angle of the crossbow can be controlled by the axle. The crossbow arm is completely made of fine iron, and the two crossbow arms are crossed in an X shape. A special arrow with a chain attached to the tail.