From a hired knight to a master of Game of Thrones

Chapter 97 Cancelled

The meeting ended quickly.

Tangjihede led his eight retainers toward the food street.

The food street is now much wider.

Wooden pillars, deeply driven into the ground, were erected on both sides of the street to form a covered walkway that shelters people from rain and snow.

Besides these, the biggest change was that several chefs in the territory followed Don Quixote's advice and started cooking in addition to boiling and roasting.

They also started to try various cooking methods such as stir-frying, steaming, pan-frying, stewing, braising, deep-frying, cold dishes, and roasting.

Thanks to the many merchants traveling between White Harbor and Great Wind Territory, various kinds of edible oils appeared in the territory.

For example, lard, butter, poultry fat, beef tallow, mutton tallow, olive oil, rapeseed oil, etc.

The ingredients have also become more abundant.

It's no longer just aquatic fish like it was at the beginning.

It has almost everything: grain staples, land-based livestock and poultry meat, aquatic seafood, vegetables and mushrooms, fruits and dried fruits, eggs, milk and dairy products.

Of course, some seasonings and spices are also indispensable.

With these basic infrastructures in place, and Don Quixote encouraging culinary innovation, anyone who came up with a new way of cooking, even if it wasn't entirely satisfactory, could receive a reward.

In just half a month, thirty-seven new food recipes have appeared in the territory.

Of course, most of the new food preparation methods are just the most basic stir-frying, steaming, and pan-frying.

However, since these food preparation methods had never appeared in the territory before, Don Quixote was considered a series of new food preparation methods.

At the same time, Tangihred would meticulously record all the new food recipes on parchment and place them on the shelves of the territory's public library, making them available free of charge to all citizens who wanted to learn and cook.

However, most of the people were illiterate.

In order to understand those characters, the people would try their best to ask a few literate people.

The two knights-squires most frequently were Cole and Alden, Don Quixote's two knights-squires.

You also get a 1-copper-point reward for each new character you learn.

Nowadays, Dafengling is not only offering more and more delicious food, but also introducing more and more new ways to prepare food.

The overall literacy rate among the population is also increasing day by day.

When you actively and proactively accept and learn, even the most boring and unfamiliar texts can be gradually mastered.

Upon arriving at the food street, Lady Hannah, who owned nearly half of the business and was also the best cook in the Great Wind Territory, immediately smiled and said, "My lord, my colleagues, please have a seat. I will prepare the best and newest delicacies in the territory for you."

Don Quixote nodded, gazing at the nearly 300-meter-long and 10-meter-wide stone-paved street in front of him.

Under the sturdy roof of the covered walkway that can shelter from rain and snow, a large, well-made stone table is placed every two meters.

It was still a little while before night fell, but there were already eight tables occupied on the street, with nearly sixty people seated.

Most of them were members of the Bloodhand Mercenary Group who had just arrived in the territory, as well as the workers and guards of the Rodney Caravan.

After finding a large stone table nearby where there were no other guests, Don Quixote thought for a moment and said to Adele, "Adele, from now on, when merchants come to the territory, apart from some urgently needed and necessary supplies, you can buy and stock up as needed. As for other ordinary goods, let those merchants trade directly with the people of the territory."

"Of course, if those merchants really can't sell their goods, you can trade some more. In the short term, we can't let the merchants who are willing to come to the territory down."

Previously, Tangihede mainly traded most of the goods directly with merchants at high prices, and then sold those goods to the people in need at low prices.

This is a subsidy.

As the overall income of the residents increases significantly, some subsidies can be eliminated.

After all, the goal is to continuously increase the income of the subjects without increasing their corresponding expenses.

In the long run, this will cause a large portion of the population to lose the motivation to continue working hard.

If the people can easily eat and drink their fill and their pockets are always full, they will have less motivation to work.

Apart from some necessary taxes, Don Quixote would generally not collect any unreasonable silver, deer, or copper coins from his subjects.

However, there will be no direct subsidies for the people.

In the future, he will provide many respectable jobs that earn gold, dragon, silver, deer, and bronze points, as well as some public welfare benefits.

Other matters will gradually be left to the market.

In the short term, prices in the territory will rise significantly. After all, merchants have come from afar not to deliver freebies, and the prices of those goods will be higher than in White Harbor and higher than in their place of origin.

Even with high income, increased expenses can shrink the wealth of the people, but they can still live a decent life.

Moreover, as the territory grows and expands, Great Wind Territory will not rely solely on purchasing goods from other places or from merchants. It will certainly produce food and create goods, and will not depend on the outside world for everything.

At that time, prices will return to a reasonable range.

As Don Quixote pondered, he heard Adele's voice in his ear: "Yes, sir."

Coming to his senses, Don Quixote looked around.

None of the seven retainers spoke; instead, they looked at him and pretended to listen attentively.

Seeing this, Don Quixote immediately laughed and said, "Let's all chat casually, especially Warren. You need to get to know the others better and learn more about the territory."

"Yes, sir."

Warren and his other retainers soon began chatting and laughing.

At this moment, a yellow-eyed wolf cub, already as tall as a child, walked lightly to Don Quixote's feet, a piece of cooked meat that it had begged from another customer in its mouth.

It quickly swallowed the cooked meat in a few bites, looked up at Don Quixote and let out a soft howl, then glared fiercely at Zakari: "Roar!"

It has not forgotten the person who hurt it.

Don Quixote reached out and patted the wolf cub's head, which had grown quite a bit, and laughed, "Little Yellow, you've eaten a lot of Zachary's food, which means you're willing to accept his apology. Don't hate him anymore; you should live in peace."

This is the young wolf that was wounded by Zachary and rescued by Don Quixote.

Not long after it returned to its kin, it once again secretly ran away from the depths of Yangtou Mountain and ran to the border of Dafengling.

They were discovered by Zachary, who was teaching hunting apprentices.

The wolf cub kept howling at Zachary, who was puzzled for a moment before guessing that it might be the same wolf cub that the lord had rescued.

Zachary hurriedly stopped the hunter apprentice who was about to shoot the wolf cub, and then had the hunter apprentice call Don Quixote.

Don Quixote then took the wolf cub back to his territory and raised it.

That very night, a giant wolf from deep within Sheephead Mountain appeared at the border of Great Wind Territory and brought the wolf cub back.

But a few days later, the wolf cub secretly ran to the border of the Great Wind Territory again.

The giant wolf searched several times and found that the wolf cub was living a comfortable life in the Great Wind Territory, so it stopped paying attention to the wolf cub.

Wolf cubs that regularly eat blood apples not only have better blood and physique than wild wolves of the same age, but also have better spirits and are more intelligent.

As it grew older and became more sensible, it did not harm the people of Great Wind Territory, and the people of Great Wind Territory also knew that this was a wolf raised by the lord, so they did not drive it away or harm it either.

The wolf cub thus found shelter under the strong wind.

Yeah, I often come to this food street to freeload.

They didn't eat and drink for free; the rapidly growing wolf cubs were also arranged by Don Quixote to patrol the territory with the patrolmen late at night.

"Awoo~"

The wolf cub obediently and skillfully lay down at Don Quixote's feet.

Zachary smiled helplessly.

He had gotten used to the lord's unfriendly attitude towards the wolf cub he was raising, and there was nothing he could do but feed it more often and ignore it.