>>5323611Well said.
>>5323768I laughed hard at this.
>>5323771I added an option to check our finances.
>>5323774It is a good idea, some of your subjects have already a stud but it has not a lot of horses so increasing it's scale would be profitable.
>>5323755A tournament, at this point, would be costly but I am thinking that it will be possible to host one in a few threads. You must be known first before inviting some knights after all, and have some money or prise to give to the winners.
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You decided to go big, a big project should be impressive after all and you said proudly.
-We will build a canal, send a corvée of serfs with shovels, and pay some villeins. We have great works to do !
Traditionnaly trees were planted during Saint Catherine's day in November so you asked the man.
-Could we get the works done before the next Saint Catherine ?
But Oldfossil simply raised an eyebrow. Of course, the Indians used another calendar since they were not Christians and you had to explain him that it was normally the day were we planted trees. You tried to explain that the end of november was the best period to plant trees but he never heard about this month ! Months had strange names here, Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Fructidor, you wondered what kind of dullards have invented them, so you decided to try to have him explain it. The old man told.
-See, each day has the name of a fruit, of a tool or of an animal. And we are already at the 10th of the Brumaire month, in autumn, so we will not be able to plant before next year. But if we work hard enough I am sure that we will be able to plant this orchard next year. I have made some calculus and I am sure that we will be able to produce, once the trees would have grown, something that 25 000 pints a year, or maybe a bit more. If we manage to sell it for 1 silver coin the pint we will have 2 500 gold coins at the end of each year. The last years taxes have been of 2500 gold coins.
By the heavens ! 1 silver coin for a parisian pint of cider... Ah yes, they paid in gold here so everything was more expensive but damn... After this project you would double your gains ! You will become a far more powerful lord ! If the boat gave you some money too you would be rich... And if it was not enough you would borrow some money to some jews or lombards and never pay it back. You were a better administrator than this scoundrel of Enguerrand de Marigny, you thought.
-Then build, dear Oldfossil, build. I want the serfs digging this canal every time they have a corvée and are not tending our fields !
