Start As a Lord In a Viscount

Everyone on the field was stunned for a while.

"Big... lord!" Vice-captain Hunter took the lead and bowed to Claire on his knees.

Dean, a silver knight, died in front of him like this, and the shock Claire's shot brought him was too great.

After Hunter knelt down, the fifty-odd knights in the back also knelt in front of Claire one after another.

This time, Claire didn't dodge, but looked at them with indifferent eyes, an aura that was not angry and self-proud spontaneously emerged.

Those knights didn't even dare to lift their heads before they got the order, they could only kneel humbly and hope that the Viscount wouldn't shoot at them.

Claire pointed to Hunter, "You will be the Knight Captain in the future."

Hunter raised his head in disbelief, a little incredulous, pointed to himself and asked, "Lord Viscount, are you talking about me?"

"Yes." After speaking, Claire glanced at the corpse under her feet and said, "Take care of it."

Although Dean stopped in the end, but Claire doesn't like to keep people who don't have good intentions for her for the New Year, and she came to Nafford just in need of a prestige, and this knight captain came out at the right time.

Then Reagan led the carriage and followed him past the fifty or so knights into the city gate.

Hunter immediately stood up and shouted at Claire, "Lord Viscount, what should I do!"

"Cut off his head and hang it at the gate of your barracks." Claire answered loudly without looking back.

As soon as these words were spoken, the fifty or so knights present heard it, the crowd was silent, the sound of swallowing saliva could be clearly heard, and there was a trace of fear in their eyes.

This Viscount is too cruel, it doesn't look like a sixteen-year-old child can do.

After walking for a while, Regan couldn't help but asked in a low voice, "Master, why do you do this?"

Claire chuckled, "Let them get up every day to see the head of the former Knight Captain, and that's the end of going against me."

Reagan's heart was overwhelmed, when did his young master have such a means, but... this is what a real noble can do! The Griffin family has produced a talent, sir, you can be comforted in the spirit of heaven.

Although it was the first time to kill someone, but Claire's heart didn't fluctuate much. Originally, the other party wanted to kill him. opinion.

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The Viscount Mansion is located in the middle of Nafu City, and it is also the best building in Nafu City. As soon as you enter the city, you can see the towering castle. Like Nafu City, the Viscount Mansion was also when the ancestors of the Griffin family were rich. It was built, so it's new and gorgeous.

However, he was used to seeing tall buildings and buildings of various shapes in his previous life, so Claire was not too shocked.

After entering the Viscount Mansion, Claire did not enter first, but asked Regan to take the knights who followed to clean it, and then moved the furniture and other heavy objects in one by one. When it was almost over, the moon was already high. Hanging in the night sky.

Claire watched the moon in the pavilion for half an hour, and Reagan finally brought someone to tidy up the Viscount Mansion.

After dismissing the knights who followed, only Regan and Claire were left alone in this empty viscount mansion.

"Master, take care of it, let's go in."

"Yeah." Claire nodded lightly and walked into the castle. The castle has six floors and a basement. There are seven floors in total. There are more than fifty sets of large and small rooms. A lawn about the size of a football field and a pavilion full of flowers and plants are indeed a lot more extravagant than those villas in the previous life.

Claire simply strolled around the castle where she would live in the future.

Reagan followed closely behind, and apologized in a low voice, "You can only do this today, young master. After dawn tomorrow, I will go and recruit some maids."

"Hmm." Claire snorted.

"The basement and the top floor are not allowed for maids to enter." Claire instructed. He planned to use the basement as a place for experiments, because he was a junior mage himself, and the top floor was used as a study and used to put himself traded items.

"clear."

"How's the recruiting salary?"

"Both food and housing, and give me 500 copper coins every month."

In terms of current purchasing power, generally three or four copper coins can buy food that can fill the stomach. A family of five spends about fifteen silver coins on food in a month. The money that an adult male can earn is only a dozen silver coins a month.

This income level is simply the poorest among the poor in the kingdom, and the beggars in the capital earn more than them.

And if you come to work in the Viscount Mansion, you will not only get money but also reduce some expenses for your family. Underage girls can't do physical work at all and can't earn money, so maids are a very good choice, so Five hundred copper coins are not too few. If it wasn't for maintaining the reputation of the Griffin family, Reagan would be reluctant to spend those five hundred copper coins.

"Double it, ten silver coins." Claire said softly.

He roughly calculated in his mind that the area of ​​the castle can only recruit fifteen maids at most, and the total cost for a year is less than twenty gold coins. The cost of doing a random experiment on their own is higher than their annual expenses, so this amount of money is not bad.

Reagan was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "You are really a kind lord. Presumably your people will cheer for your kindness."

Claire asked again, "How much money do we have left?"

"About 20,000 gold coins."

This amount of money is really nothing to the nobles. The dagger in Claire's hand was worth thousands of gold coins, and these 20,000 gold coins are just enough to support them to live a decent noble life. If there is no income, it can be used up in a few months.

"More than 20,000, that's enough for a while. Tomorrow you go and call the administrative officer."

"Yes, Master, do you want to increase taxes?" Reagan asked tentatively.

"No, I'm going to cut taxes."

"That's absolutely impossible, young master." Reagan was in a hurry. "We just arrived in the viscount, and the money is not enough. If you want to reduce taxes..." Reagan didn't say anything later, then we If he can't even maintain a noble life, he will be ridiculed by other lords.

Claire patted Regan on the shoulder, "Remember the mother and son we met?"

"What's the matter? Young master."

"Their tax has become once a month, so after a few years, there will be no more oil and water to squeeze. No matter how much we increase the tax, it will not increase our income."

"Who will scrape the oil and water that doesn't scrape civilians?"

"Whoever has the money earns it, and the oil and water scraped out must be more fat than the civilians."

Reagan was stunned for a moment, and felt that what his young master said was quite reasonable, but he just didn't understand. If the nobles didn't scrape the oil and water of the commoners, who else could scrape?

Claire suddenly thought of something, and there was a flash of coldness in his eyes, "By the way, by the way, check this political officer to see how many gold coins he has greed that should belong to us."

There is no need to check whether there is corruption at all, but directly check how much corruption. If there is no political officer behind the support, Claire simply does not believe that the tax can be collected and almost kill people.

"Master..." Reagan looked a little embarrassed.

However, Claire had long expected this situation, "It's okay, it's not urgent, it's not too late to write it down and check it later."

In the final analysis, the Viscount is now only himself and Regan, and there are no other people. Even if Regan is asked to investigate, he does not know where to start.

"There is no hurry to recruit maids. When the tax reduction decree is promulgated, it will be announced together."

"As ordered!"

"It's getting late, let's go down and rest."

"Okay, Master Gui'an."

On the roof of the sixth floor, Claire could see the moon outside through the transparent window. The moon here is not the same as when it was on Earth. It is much larger and emits a faint blue light.

"Emmm." Claire rubbed her chin while lying on the reclining chair, "I don't know if the world still has the idea that the moon orbits the earth."

Lying on the reclining chair and dangling, his thoughts drifted around, and Claire fell asleep at some point.