Link didn't expect that the so-called nobles had a much lower limit than he could imagine.

This future mother-in-law, Susan Raphael, only considers the issue that her living standards cannot decline.

It’s a pity that this mother-in-law didn’t give birth to quintuplets.

As for the opinions of sisters Alan Raphael and Ada Raphael, they are basically not considered.

The sisters Alan Raphael and Ada Raphael are now equivalent to continuing the Raphael family's bargaining chips. Who would consider the opinions of chips?

Link: "What is the level of living standards without declining?"

The old housekeeper of the Marquis Raphael's house who stood on the side took out a book at the right time and said, "When the Marquis was alive, in addition to food and accommodation, he would pay the Marquises sixty gold coins from the public account every month as expenses."

Sixty gold coins are an extraordinary number for ordinary people and even small nobles, but for the great nobles of the marquis, it is the Marquis' expenses for one month.

All the money is spent on clothes, accessories, luxury goods, and cosmetics. In addition, the Marquis holds a dance party, a reading party and a tea party every month, and it is also handled with his own pocket money.

These are things that Link only knew a long time later.

So, sixty gold coins a month seem to be a lot, but in fact it is just enough, for the Marquis.

But this money is drizzling for Link now.

"Okay, I agree with this condition."

Seeing that both sides were fine, Queen Triste Bele took her scepter and put it on Link's shoulder and said, "I will appoint you, Link Raphael, in the name of the Holy Empire Emperor, as the 14th Marquis of the Raphael family, and guard the territory around Red Earth City for the Empire."

Under the guidance of the old housekeeper, Link Raphael kissed the back of Queen Triste Bele on the hands and completed the allegiance ceremony.

After the ceremony was completed, after the Queen Triste Bele left, Link said to the sisters Alan Raphael and Ada Raphael who were playing soybeans throughout the journey: "You two go wash me up and wait for me in bed at night."

Link Raphael has never managed the territory, but he also knows that this butler is an indispensable figure. After seeing the sisters Alan Raphael and Ada Raphael leave, Link asked the old butler: "What should you do now is the most important thing?"

Old housekeeper: "Marquis Raphael, the war with Warcraft is temporarily over. The most important thing is the bounty and pension to the adventurers, as well as the bounty and pension in the army. I roughly calculated that a total of 50,000 gold coins are required. There may be differences, but it will not be much different.

If the corpses of the monsters are also part of the wealth after the war with other monsters, but even if the corpses of the trolls are buried in the ground, they will leave the land without harvest. The biggest problem with the Raphael family now is the capital issue.

Originally, there were 32,000 gold coins and 518,000 silver coins in the warehouse. The funding gap was more than 10,000 gold coins.

As for taxation, the land rent collection will only start for two months. Most of the collected wheat is also sold for gold coins. The land rent income in the Marquis’ territory is converted into gold coins, which is about 1,300 gold coins per year, but some of them cannot be sold here. The army and officials of the Marquis’ territory and the people in the Marquis’ residence have to eat part of the wheat every year.

The part that can be sold every year is worth about 800 gold coins, but it is sold slowly and cannot be sold at once. The remaining commercial tax on the territory also has more than 200 gold coins per month, but about half of it is for salary to be paid to military and civilian officials in the territory. The commercial tax on the Marquis' warehouse every year is only more than 1,000 gold coins.

Although there is a funding gap of more than 10,000 gold coins now, I think I can borrow some money from a commercial guild and use the taxes from the Marquis' territory as collateral, and I can pay it back in almost six or seven years."

Link: "No, take me to the warehouse to have a look."

The Marquis said it was an order. The old butler took the key and took Link to the warehouse. He opened the door and went in. The old butler lit the candle with the candlestick in his hand. There were only one small box of gold coins, but there were more than a dozen boxes of silver coins. There were even a bunch of empty boxes.

Link turned on the switch of the storage wrist guard, and a waterfall of gold coins flowed into empty boxes, filled with about five empty boxes, and a river of gold coins flowed on the ground.

Link poured out 500,000 gold coins, which is now a small amount of money for Link.

Link said to the butler: "There are now 500,000 gold coins here, and you can keep them in your account. Now our finances are very healthy. The bounties and pensions that should be paid must be paid in full and timely manner. Do you understand?"

"I understand, Marquis Raphael. Your order is my will." The housekeeper wrote this in the account book, thinking that the gift given to him by the business guild was about to be returned.

After leaving the warehouse, the old housekeeper wrote down the matter and asked, "Do you need to order some special dishes for dinner?"

Link: "Today's dinner, go as usual."

After the old butler wrote it down, he continued to ask: "The current financial situation of the Marquis' Mansion is good. Should I repair the city wall? I have calculated before that it will take about three thousand gold coins and three months."

Link: "Yes."

In theory, Marquis Link Raphael could issue government orders or even enact laws in the Marquis’ territory, but Link could not remember what government orders to issue, so he would just follow the previous routine for the time being.

Before dinner, Link looked at the account book of the Marquis' Territory. As the old housekeeper said, the net income of the Marquis' Territory is about 2,000 gold coins every year, which is outside the disaster year. If you encounter a disaster year, such as this year, killing a troll but having no profit, you will lose money.

In addition to the army, the Marquis of Raphael also maintained four departments, one was a tax department composed of thirty-eight people, responsible for the monthly commercial tax revenue in the territory and the annual land rent revenue in the territory.

The other is a legal department composed of 24 people. In addition to a small court composed of 18 people in the city to resolve various civil disputes, there is also a six-person country patrol court. This country patrol court goes to the countryside for about eight months every year, responsible for giving residents from all over the countryside a court to resolve civil disputes in various places.

The third branch is the logistics department, with a total of 106 people, mainly responsible for the logistics supply issues of the Marquis' army, such as the maintenance of weapons and armor, and the fire-headed troops of each branch received food from here.
Chapter completed!