Chaotic Sword God
Apocalypse Gacha
Necromancer: I Am A Disaster
Martial Cultivator
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Nightmare Assault
I, The Dragon Overlord
Loser System and Berserker Me
Horror Game Designer
There's Absolutely No Problem With The Magic Cards I Made!
Swear Fealty To Me, My Subjects!
The Hero Turned Into A Potato And The World Fell To Ruin
Nightmare Assault
Chapter 247: The Past is Like the Wind
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1175- Don't discriminate
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Chapter 946: Fatal Strike
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1174- Divide
Snow-Kissed Rose (GL)
Chapter 18
The Hero Turned Into A Potato And The World Fell To Ruin
Chapter 78: This Fight Will Never End
The Demon King is Too Unfathomable!
Chapter 33: a.0.3 Update! Skills System
Martial Cultivator
Chapter 621: Meeting an Old Friend
Chaotic Sword God
Chapter 3829: An Answer
Nightmare Assault
Chapter 246: What are you Waiting For?
Horror Game Designer
Chapter 324: Flying Seeds
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1173- Crystal Pillar rankings
Apocalypse Gacha
Chapter 1172- Sky Monument Path
Aspiring to the Immortal Path
Chapter 945: Resisting the Mandate of Heaven (3)
Snow-Kissed Rose (GL)
Chapter 17
Martial Cultivator
Chapter 620: The Young Man in the Monastery
Chaotic Sword God
Chapter 3828: Investigation
Horror Game Designer
Chapter 323: How Many Things Live Inside His Heart?
“My father told you to Inform him if the Sorofya House sends someone over?”
Sitting by the campfire, Roel looked at Dirk with eyes filled with confusion.
What’s going on? When in the world did our Ascarts get involved with the Sorofyas?
Furthermore, to actually instruct Dirk to inform him right away if the Sorofyas were to come knocking, it must be something pretty serious. It can’t be that… Carter borrowed money from them in his younger years?
Roel felt a chill running down his spine. It was not that his imagination was running wild… Well, it sort of was running wild, but he couldn’t be blamed for that! There were simply far too many nobles in debt to the Sorofyas!
Developing a fiefdom requires a massive influx of money and resources, and there are very few noble houses financially stable enough to fork it all out at once.
In a sense, it was similar to how people bought houses in Roel’s previous world. There were tycoons who simply paid the full sum right away, but most people had no choice but to take out a loan first before slugging it out to pay the debt off in installments.
It was mainly the banks that provided financing services in his previous world, but in this world, this job was taken up by the merchant associations. Most fief lords would make sure to build up a good relationship with major merchant associations to ensure that they could get funding whenever they needed to work on a major project.
To put it simply, the merchant associations lent out money to the fief lords, and the fief lords repaid the debt, with a bit of interest, over years or even decades using the taxes they collected.
This was an oversimplification of how things worked though. More often than not, there was much more to talk about at the negotiation table.
For example, the fiefdom could benefit from the connections and technological expertise that merchant associations had, such as procurement of manpower and tools for the construction of advanced facilities.
Similarly, the merchant associations could request favorable terms for i
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