Chapter 212

"Dear Sir, I was originally a free merchant in Heibao town. Because the man horse hill suffered from ant disaster, I formed a caravan with several colleagues, hired Warhammer mercenaries and sold goods everywhere..." When Vicky saw Baron garrot's interest, he was determined and worked harder to explain.

In this era, there are neither newspapers nor networks. The channels of information dissemination are limited and the speed is slow. Even ordinary people like to listen to stories told by bards, caravans, mercenaries and refugees thousands of miles away, not to mention lords and nobles who need to know the situation all the time.

Baron garrot was not interested in the experience of Welch's business, but he was very concerned about the scale of Heibao Town, the characteristics of ant people, the process and consequences of ant disaster, and personally raised many questions.

Weiqi is a shrewd man. He didn't intend to tell the relationship between the caravan and the mountain people. Since the Baron doesn't care about the core content of the business road, he is willing to focus on the local customs of Gambis, the prices of local specialties, as well as the situation of ant disaster and human horse hills.

In fact, Vicky knew very little about the inside story, but as a sophisticated businessman, it was his instinct to observe his speech and appearance, and his strong point was his eloquence. He quietly grasped the rhythm of the conversation, not only described Baron garrot's concerns vividly, but also boasted the achievements and potential of the free merchant team without trace. Even the hammer who experienced the ant disaster was attracted by Weiqi's story, others listened with interest, and Baron garrot smiled from time to time. Unconsciously, the atmosphere in the hall became relaxed.

Vicky took a long time to satisfy the curiosity of the neville people. Baron garrot finally asked, "what business are you going to do in my territory?"

Vicky turned his eyes and wanted to show off his mouth. It could be seen that one of the Baron's boots was stepping on the head of the night blade leopard. He immediately excited his spirit and said honestly: "we want to buy fire element crystal.

The top element crystal can be given to the top knight as a gift. Even if a small Lord like garrot digs the top crystal, he is not qualified to curry favor with the top knight, but the great noble will buy his crystal at the price of 50000 gold sol or provide other support. Ordinary element crystals can sell at a good price after being polished by famous masters, while natural element crystals are not as good as gemstones The ore is valuable. But whether the price is high or low, the element crystal is only circulated in the aristocratic circle. A free merchant should not know this kind of thing.

Weiqi named to buy fire element crystal, which surprised garrot. He suspected that the free merchant from Renma hill was instructed by a noble, because only the Rose Queen among the knights could use fire element crystal. However, does the Rose Queen lack fire element crystal?

With this doubt, garrot winked at Vidal, the housekeeper, and ordered, "go and get the fire element crystal."

Vidal turned and went to the warehouse. In a moment, he put a box in front of Vicky, opened it and said, "these are fire element crystals."

There were 17 crystals in the box, big and small. The big ones were about the same as the palm of the hand, and the small ones were only as big as the fingernail, and their colors were different. Wedge and the hammer looked at each other with a confused face.

Baron garrot knew this situation well. It should be a "little man" in Renma Hill who wanted to make a set of fire element crystal jewelry to please the Rose Queen. Unfortunately, the "little man" didn't know fire element crystal at all. He didn't even have a caravan, so he found a free civilian merchant to buy crystals.

Garot lost his interest in inquiry, but he had a desire to make money. He decided to kill him: "the fire element crystal is very precious, 100 gold sol per ounce, which is almost 200 ounces. You can pay 18000 gold sol."

These fire element crystals are sold by King Neville, which is worth 600 gold sol. Garrot lion opened his mouth and offered a sky high price of 18000 gold sol, just to kill the "little man".

What's the concept of 18000 gold sols? A leading family of seven people can earn almost 20 or 30 gold sols after a year's hard work. Wei Qi's business in Heibao town for one year will make more than 100 gold sols' profits. The War Bear mercenaries are killed, and their total income from beginning to end is less than 10000 gold sols. Such a huge sum of money can make the hammer take risks.

As a new vassal, hammer doesn't know what is the channel and what is the terminal. His understanding of the task is to make more money and attract more people to join. So far, everything has been going well. More than 50 mountain people, men and women, have been forced or voluntarily joined the mercenary regiment. They also earned 8000 gold sols and dozens of white crystals, plus 10 purple gold coins given by Victor , the Warhammer mercenary regiment has a wealth of more than 30000 kinsol.

The Warhammer mercenary regiment took out 18000 kingsol, but the hammer knows the consequences of taking out the money!

Neither hammer nor wedge knew the market of fire element crystal, and could not even distinguish the authenticity. Fortunately, wedge knew the characteristics of ruby and red garnet, and he could be sure that these crystals in front of him were not traditional gemstones. Hammer knew the character of Lord Neville very well, because he was a native of Neville mountain.

In the hammer's view, Baron garrot's lion's big opening is inevitable. If he takes out the money happily, the trouble behind him has just begun. In Neville, mountain people in different villages have to beat their heads and blood for several bags of salt, several carts of grain and several women, not to mention rich fat sheep? Even if Baron garrot let them go, the mountain people led by the Baron will come out and grab them. In addition, to spend 18000 gold sol for more than a dozen crystals that don't know whether they are true or false, it must be that the head was clamped by the cow's ass and filled with cow dung! Hammer now just wants to act according to the rules of the Neville. He wants to rob the crystal!

When fighting the bear mercenary regiment, the hammer cooperated with dodo's knights many times. His awe of Knights was far less than that of free traders. Along the way, hammer walked with the bull. He could vaguely feel Victor's unfathomable strength, which could not be matched by a small Lord like Baron garrot.

The knight is really strong, but he has to kneel in the face of ten barbarians! I'm strong and you're weak. I'm sorry for the Neville tradition if I don't rob. However, the hammer's survival to the present shows that he is not a reckless man.

Anyway, Baron garrot and his knights will always go back to the king's capital. It's not too late to do it when they're gone. I just don't know if they will bring crystal. Maybe they should send a dust Falcon to stare at

"I don't know a copper sol!"

"What are you talking about?!" Baron garrot glared at wedge.

Vicky didn't know the fire element crystal, but he also knew that the Baron slaughtered him as a fat sheep. As a businessman, the head can be broken and the blood can flow. Fat sheep can't do it! While the hammer was planning how to rob, wedge was planning how to step on the high and buy the low.

Under the Baron's cannibal eyes, Vicky smiled flatteringly: "Dear Sir, I have a better proposal that will satisfy you!"

Vicky took the coarse linen pocket in the bull's hand, took out a sealed pottery pot from it and handed it to housekeeper Vidal. At the sign of wedge, Vidal broke the cork with a knife, looked at the contents, smelled again, and asked blankly, "what is this?"

"This is... Um... Purple sugar... Yes! It's purple sugar! A specialty of Renma hill." Wedge twisted a square piece of crude sugar, threw it into his mouth and said, "it tastes very sweet!"

Vidal didn't know that wedge had changed the sweet name of the crude sugar. He also picked up a piece of "Purple sugar" and put it into his mouth, and then the whole person's expression stretched out. Seeing his housekeeper beaming and eating one piece after another, Baron garrot quickly waved to him.

The sugar jar was placed on the table. The Baron saw that it was a small purple square and smelled a faint smell. He frowned and asked, "what's the smell?"

Vidal impolitely grabbed two more pieces and said while eating, "well... It's sweet... A bit like honey..."

Baron garrot wouldn't eat anything of unknown origin. He turned his eyes to wedge. Wedge quickly said, "Dear Sir, purple sugar and purple sugarcane wine are made of purple sugarcane from man and horse hills. I guarantee with my life that they can definitely be eaten!"

"My Lord, purple sugar tastes sweet and fragrant. It tastes better than honey. If sealed in a container, purple sugar will not deteriorate after being stored for more than 3 years. Purple sugar can be eaten directly, soaked in water, or added to cream. When barbecue, apply some purple sugar. The meat tastes especially delicious..."

Vicky began to introduce the benefits of purple sugar. When he said that purple sugar would not deteriorate, garrot was moved.

The boulder mountains in the north of Neville contain rich mineral resources and are the main producing area of refined iron and iron materials in the human country. Before the Borui people developed the seven islands, it was still the main producing area of refined gold mines. Even now, there are 12 refined gold mines and 2 Mithril veins in the boulder mountains, and the Northern Wilderness to the north of the boulder mountains is dominated by orcs.

Orcs and monsters are intelligent races and can also use weapons. Dog headed people are the best miners. Goblins can make weapons and equipment. The orcs want to seize the mineral resources here. In addition, goblins and koeheads breed too fast. Every few years, the powerful Orc clan will drive countless goblins and koeheads to attack the boulder mountains. Anthropologists call this animal tide.

In order to resist the orcs, the RAND Empire and the church built the boulder fortress group as early as 800 years ago. Now the Neville Kingdom has assumed the responsibility of guarding the boulder fortress. When the animal tide comes, the boulder fortress will be besieged for a long time. In addition, the mountain roads are rugged and it is difficult to supply. The neville people have a great demand for easy to store food and are also very sensitive to food storage technology.

The neville people took the lead in discovering that honey and sweet fruit can quickly restore soldiers' physical strength. However, honey is a luxury and fruit is easy to rot. Neville people tried to make wine with local green cherry fruit, but it was too sour to swallow, but they still invented "fruit meat" and green cherry fruit preserves. The so-called "fruit meat" is to keep the green cherry fruit and meat in the bucket layer by layer, so that the meat can be saved more easily. Although the taste is poor, it does not need to drink a lot of water like bacon. As for green cherry preserves, they are world-famous delicacies, which can only be enjoyed by nobles.

Baron garrot did not care whether the purple sugar was poisonous or not at this time. He tasted one and suddenly a sweet taste melted on the tongue bud. It was not as sweet and greasy as honey. It also had a fragrance. The taste was very good.

Garrot asked quietly, "what's the price of purple sugar in the man horse hills?"

Vicky said without hesitation, "32 copper sols a pound! It's more expensive than salt." He deliberately overstated five copper sols.

"How many do you have?"

"800 pounds." Vicky hesitated and said it honestly.

"Hum!" Garrot sneered: "800 pounds of purple sugar, do you want to replace 18000 golden Sol's elemental crystal? Maybe my whip can wake you up."

"Dear Sir, I have another gift for you." Vicky bowed deeply and took another jar out of the bag.

"What is this?" The housekeeper Vidal asked curiously.

Vicky took a purple fruit from the jar, threw it into his mouth and said, "this is a preserved fruit pickled with coarse... Purple sugar."

Vidal grabbed a handful impolitely and stuffed it into his mouth, "um... Delicious... Better than green cherry preserves!"

"You old dog! Have you ever eaten Green cherry preserves?" Baron garrot snatched the jar.

Vidal wiped his mouth and said with a smile, "yes! I did three years ago."

"Sir, during the wind season, we made this kind of preserves with green cherry fruit and purple sugar from Gambis. Of course, the quality and size of green cherry fruit from Gambis can't be compared with that of Neville......" When Vicky saw garrot carefully observing the preserves in his hand, he quickly explained: "this... Looks worse, but the taste is definitely no worse than the green cherry pickled with honey!"

The green cherry fruit pickled with honey is amber and crystal clear like a gem. The green cherry preserves are purple to black and have a layer of oily appearance. In terms of appearance, ordinary nobles will not eat it, but not including Neville's Lords. Baron garrot ate one. The sour and sweet taste was really unique, which made him like it very much.

Vicky seized the opportunity and said, "Dear Sir, Neville's Green cherry preserves sell 140 copper sols in the eastern provinces and 300 copper sols in the man horse hills."

Baron garrot's eyes jumped. The price of green cherry preserves in the king's capital of Neville was 32 copper sol per grain.

"Neville's honey sells 6 gold sols per pound in the eastern provinces and 10 gold sols per pound in the man horse hills!"

Baron garrot felt even more painful. The price of honey he sold to the chamber of Commerce was 1 kingsol per pound.

"Lord, Neville's Green cherry fruit is everywhere. Because the fruit is too sour and there is too little honey, it will rot away in vain every year."

"One pound of honey can pickle two pounds of green cherry fruit, about 150. Each pound of purple sugar can pickle almost 100 green cherry fruit. And the price of purple sugar is much lower than that of honey," Vicky said eagerly

"I see what you mean!" Baron garrot shook his head and sighed, "unfortunately, it's too cheap!"

"Lord, you are wise!" Vicky began to regard himself as the Baron's courtier. He nodded and said, "how can such cheap purple sugar be eaten by the noble master!"

"So, I have a gift!"

Vicky carefully took a box made of silver and bordered with gold from the bag. Vicky's solemn appearance made the housekeeper Vidal take a lot of care when he received the box.

Baron garrot stared at the fine crystals in the box like frost and snow and asked curiously, "what's this?"

"Snow sugar! Also called frost sugar!" Wedge said solemnly, "your Lord may not have heard of its reputation, because this kind of thing is only given but not sold!"

"Snow sugar is also a specialty of the human horse hills, but the noble York family never sells snow sugar. Only the great nobles of Gambis can get gifts from the York family! However, some caravans will buy snow sugar in Heibao town at the price of 30 gold sol per pound! Of course, they can't buy snow sugar at any higher price."

"Lord, please sprinkle a little snow sugar on the preserves and have a look."

Snow sugar falls on the candied fruit and is immediately stuck by the oily honey. The fine snow-white crystals shine in the light. The purple and black candied fruit looks like putting on a gorgeous coat, which is dazzling, unforgettable and salivating.

Baron garrot couldn't help eating another one. He just felt that this time it tasted ten times better than the last one. Vicky saw the Baron's enjoying expression, knew that the time was ripe, and said, "Dear Sir, I don't have 18000 kinsol. As long as you give me the fire element crystal, I can make you continuously obtain wealth!"

"And then?" Baron garrot laughed.

"Then, I am responsible for sending crude sugar and snow sugar. Your people are responsible for pickling new preserves. I will buy your preserves at the price of 20 copper sol per grain."

"Honey Green cherry fruit sold to Renma Hill costs 300 copper rope per grain. You can bid 20 copper sol for this snow candy preserves?" Garrot sneered.

"Sir, I didn't know what business is until I went to a shop. My price is lower, but it can be managed up and down. Taxes are levied everywhere and transportation costs are capital." Vicky glanced at the Baron secretly and whispered, "it's still for your sake of providing fire element crystal."

Baron garrot agreed with wedge in his heart. The grain trade in Neville is monopolized by the chamber of Commerce of the Marquis Sophia, and the wine trade is monopolized by the aifizos family of Borui kingdom. Now the Marquis Sophia has also begun to get involved in the wine trade, and her purple sugarcane wine is very popular in Neville. To this end, the two chambers of Commerce fought endlessly, but no matter how hard the two chambers of Commerce fought, the chambers of Commerce of other families could not shake their position.

The two chambers of Commerce made a lot of money in Neville, and garrot was jealous. He and several other families jointly formed a caravan, wanted to take a share, but lost everything. Not to mention the problems of bandits and transportation, local lords can't afford to collect taxes at all levels, and the United caravan can only stop.

Baron garrot has a much deeper understanding of trade than Vicky. Goods are only one aspect, and trade is the key. Snow candied fruit has a good prospect, but if it is operated by the two major chambers of Commerce, the price will only be lower, and it will offend the families producing candied fruit. From this point of view, candied snow must find another way to make money.

"Master!" Vidal, the housekeeper, with golden eyes, shook Baron garrot's arm vigorously.

Baron garrot threw aside Vidal and said with a smile, "OK! You can leave the purple sugar and snow sugar and get out! Vidal took the crystal back to the warehouse."

The smile instantly solidified on Vicky's fat face.