Chapter 248

A complete leopard skin is laid on the hemlock wood floor. There are a pile of yellow gold coins on the leather, but the most eye-catching are dozens of pure diamond crystals and more than a dozen fiery red gemstones.

"There are almost 3000... No! At least 4000 kinsols." An old mercenary with an iron hook in his left arm stared at the pile of gold coins on the leopard skin.

Old John glanced and said confidently, "if there are less than 5500 kinsol, I'll eat them all!"

No one will doubt old John's vision. He was originally a good financial planner of the bear mercenary regiment. Sure enough, the hammer said, "5534 gold sols!"

"Hey, hey." Old John turned the white crystal, "41 white crystals, 400 gold sols each, no discount, 16400 gold sols! How can this leopard skin... Sell 1000 gold sols? I haven't seen this kind of ruby. Even if there is one 30 gold sols, there are 500 gold sols. How many gold sols in total?"

Lilia, sitting next to victor, smiled and said crisply, "a total of 23434 gold sols."

"OK, hammer! You bought * * our mercenary regiment for more than 20 years!" Nelson affectionately patted the hammer on the shoulder until he patted the thick man and showed his teeth.

Nothing is more shocking than a pile of treasure in front of you. The War Bear mercenaries have to admit that Victor's smuggling plan has been a great success!

Zhan Xiong's mercenaries are all in high spirits and their eyes are red. They want to lead the mercenary regiment to do another smuggling business.

Mercenaries fought and killed, first for finding a way out and second for money. However, unless the vassal soldiers suffered heavy losses, the LORD would not easily recruit mercenaries as family guards, so most mercenaries only wanted money. The War Bear mercenary regiment can earn hundreds of thousands of gold sol at most. They didn't even think about a job that could earn more than 20000 kinsol at a time.

Lilia is in charge of family finance and has the deepest experience of wealth.

What is the concept of 23434 gold sols? The Randall family purchased cattle and sheep from the chebman family in the early stage. Every 20 kinsol can buy 4 cattle and 2 sheep. Now purchase from yeliucheng, and you can buy 5 cows and 4 sheep for every 20 kinsol. In theory, 20000 kinsol can buy 5000 cattle and 4000 sheep.

Randall's net income from selling crude sugar, green bricks, bacon, wheels, hemostatic agents, coffee and snow sugar is 11000 gold sol, with an average profit of 700 gold sol per month.

If you only look at the 5500 gold coins taken out by the hammer, the money they earn a year is equivalent to Randall's trade profit for half a year, and their capital is only 20 bags of crude sugar and arrows, with a total value of no more than 600 gold sol.

How can the huge profits from smuggling not make people crazy?

Victor sat on the main seat and played with the dagger made of the teeth of the night blade leopard. He saw the excited expressions of Nelson and others.

In fact, the mercenaries miscalculated.

The wealth brought back by the hammer is far more than 20000 gold sols. The fur on the ground is the fierce night blade leopard skin they hunted in the dark forest. In the mercenary's opinion, the leather can be sold for 1000 gold sol, which is a sky high price, but the nobles are absolutely willing to buy the fur of violent animals at a price five times higher. If the leather is processed into top leather armor by first-class craftsmen, it can be sold for at least 10000 gold sol.

Different things will have different values in the hands of different people, such as the leather of night blade leopard and fire element crystal.

In old John's view, flame crystal is a kind of ruby, and more than a dozen are worth 500 gold sols. In the eyes of jewelers, flame crystal can be a precious gem raw material. In the hands of divine knights, flame crystal can make them play a strong combat effectiveness without being attacked by the fire element sea. However, through the flame crystal, the alchemy auxiliary soldier can increase the temperature of the furnace by 50% and reduce the fuel consumption by 20%. It can improve the production efficiency of brick kilns and the melting efficiency of various ores. It is simply an extraordinary energy!

Everyone cheered for the wealth earned by the Warhammer mercenary regiment, but Victor was satisfied with the initially established smuggling channels.

On the bright side, Victor built a new water conservancy project, vigorously developed agriculture, forestry, fish and animal husbandry, increased population and logistics capacity, expanded armaments, built fortresses, and actively prepared for war. Secretly, Victor established a smuggling network, absorbed free civilian traders and mountain mercenaries, made huge profits, and then attracted various lords to join them, and finally formed a powerful interest group.

If the ant tide drowns Randall's collar, Victor can also guide the Lord group to deal with the ant army by virtue of smuggling forces. Even if he loses his territory in the future, he can also occupy a dominant position in the new interest group. Because the smuggling channel itself does not depend on the resources of a territory.

When the Warhammer mercenary regiment set out, they only brought fine iron arrows and crude sugar worth hundreds of gold sols. They made money by reselling the goods in the hands of the mountain people. Therefore, the profit comes from the smuggling trade itself, which has nothing to do with Randall's resources. However, Victor can sell the materials collected and processed by alchemists one by one through smuggling channels, which will make him rich.

With money, the alchemy tower can continuously produce alchemy creatures. Victor can not only fully collect mountain resources, but also prospect the lizard swamp.

Victor should use massive resources to expand his military strength, the army of the York family, the Buryat family, the chebman family, and even the whole Gambis kingdom. Only in this way can we defeat the ant man completely.

Because of the importance of the free merchant team plan, Victor summoned the three heads of the Warhammer mercenary regiment, hammer, Fermi and Kidd, the day after he returned to the silver moon manor.

The ice breaking trip of the Warhammer mercenaries brought many surprises to victor. They passed through 23 territories, forced 41 shanzhais to participate in the smuggling trade, absorbed 57 mountain mercenaries, not only arrived in the Neville Kingdom, but also established relations with Baron garrot. Moreover, Victor was very interested in the planning scheme of fat wedge's candied fruit industry.

When the hammer said that Baron garrot ignored wedge's proposal, Victor couldn't help laughing. "This boss of wedge is a talent!"

The business plan that fat Weiqi came up with is a classic and has great hope of success, but he has a low status and has no strength to promote the implementation of the plan, so Baron garrot will not leave weiqi and cooperate with the Warhammer mercenary regiment.

Without strength, you are not qualified to participate in the distribution of interests. No matter how good the idea is, it is just making wedding clothes for others. Victor has a deep understanding of this. However, Vicky's candied fruit industry plan is in line with the strategic layout of the free chamber of Commerce, and Victor doesn't mind giving him a hand.

Who doesn't use it?

"I need more flame crystals. Since the development of the candied fruit industry can establish a relationship with Baron garrot, we must support this plan!" Victor said to old John, "boss wedge guessed that behind the Warhammer mercenary regiment there is a big man of the Randall family... Old John, you come and act as this big man and talk to him!"

"I..." old John pointed to his nose and stammered, "my Lord, i... I can't! I'm an old cripple. What a big man."

"Haven't you adapted to the change of identity?" Victor shook his head with a smile and said, "now, you are all big people in front of free traders! As long as the family continues to grow, you will be big people among the top people in the future!"

"Old John, you've run hotels and grocery stores, and you've dealt with free traders like wedge. I'll leave it to you. I just want to ask that free traders must spend all their savings to participate in the preserves industry."

"In addition, I'm going to open a shop in yeliucheng, which will also be taken care of by you. You can talk to Mrs. Alice about specific affairs."

As soon as these words came out, the originally excited mercenaries immediately looked at each other. They couldn't help looking at Lilia with a stunned face. Only Nelson was unaware of it.

Victor simply said to Lilia, "Lilia, don't you always call for shortage of staff? Later Alice will work under you. She is responsible for foreign trade, and you still manage the family finance."

"I can be busy." Lilia bit her lip and said reluctantly.

Lilia's jealous appearance made Victor happy. If she accepted Alice, it would be disturbing. If no one is available, Victor doesn't want the old mercenaries to help Alice, but at present, they can only help Alice open the situation first.

To avoid Lilia deliberately dragging her feet. Victor decided to beat her. "Do you think the marriage between the York family and me is as simple as sending two women over?"

"Mutual penetration of family members is a necessary condition for marriage!"

"Although the Elina sisters' family has no place in the York family. The York family can provide them with housekeepers and guards as long as necessary. Sylvia didn't arrange this. She was taking care of my emotions, but madam knows that our Randall family is short of hands. She is waiting for me to speak!"

"It is inevitable that the people of York family join Randall's collar! But I'm not ready. Everyone knows the reason. I hope this time point will be postponed for half a year until my elite soldiers fully integrate into the collar!"

"If you don't cooperate with Alice, she'll go to the York family to recruit help! Lilia, will you?"

Lilia shook her head and said with a low eyebrow, "Victor, I'm wrong."

Nelson looked at this and that. He really didn't understand why these old guys looked constipated, so he shouted, "what adults say, we'll do! What are you doing with so much heart?"

Victor nodded with satisfaction. Maybe Nelson wasn't very careful, but he didn't lack great wisdom. In the face of unfamiliar fields, Nelson never makes up his mind and can always find key people to solve problems.

Knowing people and making good use of them is actually a valuable talent. Victor felt comfortable with such men.

"Hammer, the newcomers and vendors of the mercenary regiment rest in Songlin town?" Asked victor.

"Yes, my Lord."

Victor knocked on the table and said, "you've made a lot of mistakes, but you've also won 41 strongholds. Do you know what to do next?"

The hammer said honestly, "I don't know."

"These cottages are very important to us!" Victor pondered for a moment and said, "they are the nodes of the smuggling channel, the trading object, the supply station, the source of troops and the processing workshop. The candied fruit production can be handed over to the mountain people. Our next step is to win over these mountain strongholds and even expand their strength."

Victor carefully looked at the map drawn by the alchemy militia, walked back and forth for a few steps, and said, "I'll fill you up with some manpower, and then divide the Warhammer mercenary regiment into two mercenary regiments, each with a staffing of 50 people."

"The smuggling route is also divided into two. Each mercenary regiment is responsible for one smuggling route. It has to run for half a year at most!"

"The next time we set out, the caravan will bring more living supplies such as salt, linen and candles. We can also equip them with some cross bows and some old leather armor. We have taught the mountain people how to eat sweet potatoes, but that's not enough! We also need to teach them how to raise wild boars."

"All this is to enhance the viability of the mountain people, reduce their dependence on the Lord and let them completely take refuge in us! Whether to make money from the mountain people is secondary. We should recruit more people from them."

The hammer said carefully, "Sir, will this offend the Lords everywhere?"

"Of course!" Victor said coldly, "if the smuggling caravan runs a few more times, it will be noticed. What should we do then? What? Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid!" The hammer smiled and said, "Baron Schultz's Sheriff has been cleaned up by barbarians. We almost robbed Baron garrot's flame crystal. Barbarians are so strong that I have nothing to be afraid of!"

"Hammer, if you're afraid, change me!" Cried the one eyed dragon Gru, patting his chest.

"Get out!"

"All right... Everyone has a chance in the future except Nelson." Victor waved to the eager mercenaries and said to them, "you three have a good rest these days, get together with your wife and children, comfort those new people, and run hard again in two months. I'll keep 2000 of these kinsol, and you can share the rest!"

"My Lord, that's too much!" Said the hammer.

"That's it. Let's break up."

The matter of the free civil and commercial team is over. It's time to see the results of mercury. Victor turned to Lilia and said, "honey, let barrow see me."