Vol 4 Chapter 168: The housekeeper of Montina

Noon in August is very hot, even in the cooler West Bank of the Mediterranean, this time is not a good time to travel.
But there was a small team of people who just walked slowly in the hot sun at this time.
Someone on Alexander's head was wearing a big parasol. This was not actually for, but for Barenti.
It's just that the weather is really hot, so even under the shade of the umbrella cover, Balenti's nose still floated with a sweat bead.
Seeing Alexander tilt her head to her, Barendi instinctively wiped away the unpleasant sweat on her nose. Speaking of it, if Alexander didn't look at it, she wanted to keep the sweat beads for a while. Why she didn't understand herself.
But she knew that it would be terrible to let Alexander see her like that, so she hurriedly touched her nose, and then suddenly stared back at Alexander with some indignation.
Alexander didn't understand the strange behavior of Barenti. In fact, even Barenti didn't know why he was suddenly unhappy.
The village of Holy Trinity is the village farthest from Montina. The farms here are very large, and the edge of the village even borders a distant village in Bologna, which caused some contradictions between the two villages in the early years.
It is said that a small Bologna noble once tried to resolve the dispute between the two villages by force, but the result was that the small noble was directly pulled down by a farmer on the side of Montina from the horse, and then suffered a meal. The iron fist of the polite bottom people.
At that time, how to resolve the dispute was untestable, but one thing is for sure, when Alexander took over Montina, the village head of the disputed village because of ownership came to Montina to ask the lord master of.
Because of this, Alexander was still taking care of the village. At least from the beginning, he did not intend to chase the renter who had been stolen in the village for so many years. Cut a few pieces of meat from the sheep.
However, this kind of good life is obviously coming to an end. With the arrival of Miss Rowley's family, the farmers have vaguely felt the atmosphere different from that of the Earl Earl.
The lady of the Rowley family is very strict, which is felt by everyone, but what is worse is that she is very serious, and obviously read a lot of books as a woman.
So although the process of checking the accounts was slow, the lady of the Loveley family still caught some people.
Now Miss Luo Weilei, accompanied by Lord Earl, went down to the village in person. After hearing this news, a group of villages who could make up their minds immediately gathered together, but after a long time these people did not come up with a proper way to deal with it.
Miss Luo Weilei is obviously here to find fault. Although some people did not go to the castle to meet the young lady, the people who heard it said that the young lady was obviously not so good to deal with, and even less fool.
"I hope the countess will understand our difficulties."
This is the last thought of those villagers who can manage things, although they themselves know that this kind of words sounds so pale and weak.
When entering the village, some old people in the village cautiously surrounded the two nobles to the church.
Although it was better to be a thatched house than a church, and even to see two donkeys tied under the eaves, but at least along the way, these people still took the opportunity to complain to the lady of the Rovere family.
Regardless of whether it was natural disasters or human disasters, or all kinds of unexpected troubles, these farmers said it all, but they talked about war the most.
"Miss you know, fighting every day has been fighting, I can't even remember the day when I was born, even if it was a safe day," an old man whose wrinkles on his face had almost formed stones Complaint "The village has more to think about. If an army comes to collect food, it will be a big trouble if it cannot be taken out, so the village always has to find ways to keep more harvest."
"So you just deduct the rent that belongs to the lord?" Balenti looked at the old man coldly, and saw that the dirt on his forehead shivering because of the uneasy shaking, Balenti continued. " I should take back your land, but I do n’t think my fiance will agree to do so. "
"Master Count, you are such a nice person."
The old man looked back at Alexandria immediately. After the original thought that the lady of the Rovere family had come, the earl seemed to be useless, but now it seemed that things were not so different. At least Miss Rovere seemed to care about the idea of ​​the count.
Alexander looked interestingly at Barendi, who always straightened his waist. He knew that she said that it was not to take care of his prestige in the territory, but to do so.
"How are you going?"
When there were only two people together, Barendi finally couldn't bear it. While she endured the damp rot of the thatched cottage in the village and the stench from the corral across the wall, she stared at Alexander across the table.
"You don't let me punish these thieves, then tell me what do you think?"
"I said before, let them replant vineyards," Alexander looked at the muddy dishes and thought about it with a trace of suspicious-looking yellow mutton, but did not venture to try this authentic country. Taste "My Agry will supply enough food, so I think Montina can be a place of high value by-products."
Speaking of which, seeing Barrondi's puzzled expression, Alexander thought about it or made an analogy.
"Like those laces and various floral ornaments that you consider precious, those things are not worth much, but once a cotton thread is woven into a pattern, its value is several times higher than the original cotton thread. A well-known tailor ’s hand, maybe these laces will become the heirloom property, so that it will completely get rid of the value of a mere cotton thread ... "
"Do you want Montina to create lace, not just cotton thread?"
Balendi suddenly interrupted Alexander's words, her eyes were calm, not because she understood these explanations so happy.
"Vineyards can bring us a lot of money," Alexander was not angry about Barenti's seemingly impolite behavior, he explained patiently, "Grapes can make wine, I believe my business is better than you think. Do a lot, especially in the future, I believe that I can make us rich. "
Balenti noticed that Alexander seemed to be in a trance for a while, which made her a little annoyed.
When you think about it, Barenti finds that sometimes Alexander seems a little weird, because he sometimes shows a strange look outside the soul while talking.
If it were not that the trial of heresy is no longer so popular, and he himself is an earl, Barrondi Lundi even feels that he may be treated as a heresy.
"Where did I just say?"
What made Barendi angry was that Alexander seemed to be a real wanderer at this moment, so that after she secretly woke up, she couldn't remember what she said before.
"You said we can make a fortune," Barendi told himself to be calm "or you can tell us how to make a fortune."
"Oh, this will be unclear for a while," Alexander said casually. He couldn't tell Barendi that in the future, with the development of the new continent, various exotic species from the new world may bring the whole of Europe. It has a major impact. Among them are jewelry gold that makes people crazy and obsessed with countless people. There is also syphilis that will be hard to escape from bad luck no matter how expensive or cheap it is.
As for the grape nodule aphid, which has been completely imported from the New World and almost completely wiped out the grape varieties across Europe, it seems that it will not appear long afterwards.
Alexander shook his head slightly, and sometimes it didn't seem like a good thing to know too much.
For example, it was only a small matter between him and Barenti about the tenant's rent evasion and tax evasion, but he couldn't help but think of more things, but these things can't hide the fiancee in front of her, and certainly can't let her know Too many, which made Alexander feel a bit of a headache.
"My territory can provide us with enough food," Alexander said very clearly. "And Montina can become a special vineyard. That's it. I believe the land here is definitely suitable for growing grapes. I can Bet with you. "
Barendi looked at Alexander a little helplessly. She knew that Alexander's appearance meant that there should be no question, and she had also heard that Montina was suitable for growing grapes.
As his own territory in the future, Barendi actually still cares about this place in Montina.
As early as a few years ago, when she heard that it would be her dowry, she had inquired carefully about the situation in this territory.
So when the village heads of Zhuangtou poured out bitter water on her, she could immediately point out that all of these people's words are not untrue.
But in spite of this, Barendi didn't understand why Alexander was so sure that growing grapes would make him rich.
After all, there are many famous vineyards, not to mention Tuscany and Romagna, but there are a lot of areas for growing grapes in Lombardy and the north bank of the Po River.
"Trust me, all this is worth it in the end."
Alexander smiled at Barendi, somehow he liked the little trick that teases the girl who is famous for his calmness, but he also knows that Barendi can always endure him, just because his father has not sent Someone sent her a reply.
Barendi wrote Alexander ’s threat almost untouched in the letter to Old Rovere. In the letter, she already emphasized that Alexander should not only be a threat, but may be the result of action, especially in the letter. At the end, Barendi very seriously reminded her father:
"If you can't restrain a violent lion, you should wear it with strong enough shackles. I used to think that I was such shackles, but now I worry that I can't do this job. My fiance is a man with great ambitions. So I do n’t doubt at all that he might actually reach an agreement with the Venetians. If that ’s the case for Loveley ’s family, or for myself, it ’s a very unfortunate thing, so please be careful about what I wrote to you. this letter."
When Barendi sent someone to send this letter, his mood was very complicated.
She did not know whether it was right or wrong to do so, or even whether the things written in the letter were very inappropriate, so when she saw Alexander treat her perfunctoryly, she felt unsatisfied and even angry.
It is very hard to visit the farm, especially in this weather, but Barenti seems to be happy with this kind of thing. She rushes from one farm to the next farm, and often does not wait for those hunting after inspecting a place. The guards gave their warhorse loose song horse girth, and began to urge to the next destination.
Although he was very tired and even felt more troublesome than the Genoa people before, Balendi's extraordinary diligence was admired by the hunting guards, especially when she heard her so decisive and clear again and again When debunking those peasant tricks, many hunting guards even secretly rejoiced that they had not encountered such a landlord when they were farmers.
The Countess of Cosenza was also very strict, but she would never make a big effort for the greedy few liters of wheat, but the Miss Luo Weilei was obviously not like this. Find out.
"You are too kind to these people. Know that only kindness cannot rule your people. You should let them know how to do it. But God also has a whip."
Looking at Barenti, who looks like a judge, Alexander couldn't help but smile gently. He didn't tell Barenti that he knew what these farmers were doing, and he didn't tell her that he was even contributing to it. .
It ’s Alexander ’s idea to disturb those farmers to grow food. For him, Montina ’s land was not originally used to support his army, so Montina did n’t grow too much food. Great meaning.
As the center of the border between Tuscany and Romagna, Montina is destined to be a place where all parties will compete in the future.
At that time, a rich production area was enough to make some people go crazy because of greed.
However, the attractiveness of a piece of land that produces grapes will be much smaller, not to mention that in today's war years, people's demand for food is far more than wine.
"We are going to turn this into a grape plantation, a large plantation," Alexander said to Barenti, who was always indignant. "At that time, it was no longer possible to divide the land as it is now, and even some villages may be canceled. "
"What are you going to do?" Barendi wondered. "Do you really want to build so many vineyard plantations?"
"This is just the beginning."
Alexander's answer made Barenti stunned.
Despite the hard work, Barendi felt that it was much easier to visit the farm than to get along with Alexander.
At the quarry a few miles from Montina Castle, Barenti saw the captives.
Although these people were under Calgino's men, and most of them were mercenaries, after seeing some of them apparently from Genoa, Balenti couldn't help but feel a little strange.
"Why don't you agree to Calgino's terms, ten thousand florins are already a lot."
After consideration, Barendi finally made recommendations to Alexander: "Maybe my father can earn more benefits for you, but you should release these people, at least part of them."
"I think that part must be Genoese."
Alexander ’s words annoyed Barenti, but she nodded seriously: "The hard work you let them do cannot be compared with 10,000 florins. With that money you can even hire more than these. Many people. "
"But these people can do the jobs that the workers absolutely can't do," Alexander was unimpressed with Barendi's suggestion. "And I will reject Calgino because I know he will definitely pay a higher price."
Alexander ’s guess was accurate. When they returned to the castle of Montina, after seeing the Bishop Montina of the Rovere family, they also knew the news brought by the bishop.
Tony de la Rovere was not a prominent figure at Rovere's house, otherwise he would not go to Montina to serve as a bishop. According to Rovere's habits, he should have been assigned to a large diocese.
However, Tony de la Rovere is a very proficient person. At least Alexander knows that he is closely related to several notorious bandits. Even in order to deal with Florence, he personally mobilized the use of bandits to fight Florence.
"Then you came this time in the name of the Genoa Parliament, Bishop?"
Hearing Alexander ’s doubts, Tony de la Rovere immediately denied: "Of course not, God is a Rovere to prove me."
"A Rovere who is very close to Calgino." Sitting at the side, Barrondi could not help ironing his cousin.
"My dear niece, it makes me sad to say this," Tony de la Rovere glanced at Barenti with some anger. "In fact, I brought news of your other uncle."
"Uncle Rafael?" Balendi's expression became slightly serious.
"It's really unfair. I'm also your uncle, but I have never seen you respect me so much." Tony Della Rovere nagged in dissatisfaction, and then looked at Alexander. "Lafort is now in Genoa, Giuliano sent him to deal with the parliament. Although the Calgino family has been destroying, Rafael has done a good job, "said the bishop with a rare look." He brought the decision of the Genoa parliament. "
Alexander nodded silently, this is what he waited for these days.
And after knowing that the Bishop of Genoa returned to Genoa from Balendi, he was waiting for the news.
Rafael de la Rovere was a diplomat and messenger of the Rovere family. Even when the old Rovere and Alexander VI were in full swing, Raffle could still run in Rome for the interests of the Rovere family, even Alexander. There is also a good personal relationship between VI and Rafael. This alone shows how easy it is for this Rovere family to succeed the old Rovere Genovese bishop.
"The news I brought may not make you happy," Bishop Montina smiled to Alexander. "The Genoa Parliament recognizes your dominance of Montina and is willing to pay compensation for the previous war ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Alexander nodded, but showed no joy, he was waiting for the next news, that was the most important thing.
"But there is a condition for all of this," Tony de la Rovere said and glanced at Barenti next to his eyes. "That is you have to give up your marriage contract with Barenti."
"what?!"
A cry of exclamation came out from Balendi's mouth. She turned to look at Alexander in amazement, but all she saw was a smiling face.
Then she saw that Alexander gave an order to a follower standing at the door: "Go and call both Aufrei and Gompati."
"What are you doing?" Balenti asked in amazement.
"It seems I have to prepare to fight that Calgino again." Alexander said as he walked towards the door.
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