Chapter 206 witch (Part 1)

   After Adler's hard work for a year, coupled with the king's endorsement, the Royal Bank of England expanded at an extremely fast speed. In less than a year, the Royal Bank expanded from four branches to twenty branches at once.

  Among them, there are ten in London, one each in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool and other places. It can be said that Adler Bank, which originally had total assets of less than 10,000 pounds, has expanded to assets worth 50,000 pounds.

   It can be said that in England, the Royal Bank is no longer a small fish in the middle, but has become the top three banks.

   In this regard, Adler is very confident that he will expand to the whole of Great Britain within three years and complete the mission entrusted to him by the king.

  Edward is also confident about this.

  In order to develop the Royal Bank, Edward stipulated that all officials of the city government and the central government, as well as the guards, should get their salaries from the Royal Bank.

   Even, this year, Edward has invested 20,000 pounds as development funds, and this is how the rapid development of the Royal Bank.

  At the end of this year, Edward decided to allow the Royal Bank to open throughout England. There must be a branch in all thirty-nine counties. That is to say, by the end of the year, twenty-nine branches will need to be established.

   Adler didn't understand this very much. If things go smoothly, the goal will definitely be achieved in three years. Why is it so urgent? There was a lot of discussion in my heart.

   Helpless, Adler had no choice but to withstand the pressure and began to complete the task temporarily set by His Majesty the King.

  But the 50,000 pounds of preparation funds allocated by His Majesty the King made Adler heave a sigh of relief, which greatly reduced the difficulty.

  For the second time, Adler had to start poaching people, otherwise there is only a bank site and no one can do it.

  The number of employees required by so many branches is huge, so Adler had to send people to the Netherlands and began to invite some unemployed employees to come.

   Moreover, the situation of each county is different, some can be acquired, and some need to be rebuilt. Adler feels that he has suffered some in the past few months!

  Our Majesty the King can't control so much. The establishment of branches throughout England is an indispensable part of his future reforms.

  The Kingsleyan area of Kent, near London, was panicked at this time, and a panic and fear spread among the crowd.

  On the road, the usually busy crowd did not go to work, but gathered together, casting doubts, hatred, fear, etc. at a neatly decorated house.

  However, no one dared to knock on the door, or even speak loudly. Only men and women gathered outside the house, whispering to each other, fearing that people in the house would find out.

   But, how is this possible? So many people coming together, the goal is too big.

  In the house, Mary Smith, who is in her fifties, is preparing dinner for her husband and son.

  Compared with other people in the village, Mary's family is well-off. It can be said that her family is called the richest man in the village.

   Compared with other villagers, Mary's family is a typical England Yeomannon.

  Her family not only owns ten acres of land, but also leases fifty acres of land from the nobleman's family. Excluding expenses, the annual income is nearly twenty pounds.

  The son also married the daughter of another Jomannon family and raised three children. The daughter also married a wealthy family. It can be said that her life was perfect.

  But last week, she was accused by neighbor Elizabeth as a chicken thief, which **** her off. She is a dignified Mrs. Smith, would she steal a neighbor's chicken?

   Moreover, her family is not without it, how could she steal a chicken? It was a slander of her reputation, a strong slander.

  Simply, the two had a big fight, and finally, Mary also cursed Elizabeth to die of smallpox.

   Of course, Elizabeth scolded her too.

  Who knew that when Elizabeth and her husband quarreled last night, she was so angry that she was still lying on the bed, which made Mrs. Mary happy for a long time.

  Thinking of this, Mrs. Mary felt that she was chopping vegetables much faster.

  At this time, she glanced out the window, and saw the neighbors gathered at her door one by one, pointing, which made her puzzled.

   Putting down the kitchen knife, Mrs. Mary walked out of the kitchen, opened the door, and stared at the crowd in front of the house with cloudy eyes.

   "What are you doing? What are you doing there?" Mrs. Mary said with her hips akimbo.

   In this regard, the crowd retreated slowly, and slowly dissipated, without a trace of people.

   "I have nothing to do when I'm full!" Mrs. Mary muttered as she watched the crowd disappear, and closed the door again.

  At this time, at her neighbor, Mrs. Elizabeth's home, Mrs. Elizabeth was lying on the bed with a face full of pain, howling a few words from time to time to show her sense of existence.

  And her son Jay sat by her bed, looked at his uncomfortable mother with a worried face, and stood up again in a hurry, looking forward to his father's return soon.

  His father was a deacon in the manor of the Baron, who assisted the housekeeper in managing the manor, so the family was quite rich, and he could bring back a little meat from the manor to improve food from time to time, much better than those villagers.

  My mother was sick, and thought it was a minor illness and didn't pay much attention to it. Who knew that she had been lying in bed for a week, and the doctor couldn't find anything wrong, which scared them a lot.

  Simply, his father went to consult an old man in his seventies in the manor, and only then did he know that his mother was cursed by a witch.

   This made them very anxious. His father kept doing nothing, and with a large sum of money, he decided to invite the priest in the church to heal his mother from the witch's curse.

   Just like that, Jay waited restlessly all morning, and finally saw his father.

  I saw a simple decorated carriage slowly parked in front of his house, and his father came out slowly from behind the carriage riding a donkey.

  On the carriage, a priest with a gray beard in a gray robe got out of the carriage with the support of his servants, and walked to his house under the leadership of his father.

   "Father, Father!" Jay happily opened the door to welcome his father.

   "Master Gilbert, please follow me!" His father winked at him, and then respectfully invited him into his mother's room.

   In this regard, Jay stepped aside, followed behind his father, and followed in.

Father Gilbert with a gray beard glanced at Mrs. Elizabeth lying on the bed, hurried over, looked at her face, rolled her eyelids again, and said solemnly to the host behind him: "Mr. Bancook, your wife is indeed cursed by the witch!"

   Regarding this, the male host Ban Cook turned even paler, and hurriedly asked: "My lord priest, please save Elizabeth!"