Chapter 189: New Sources of Wealth
The newly built farm in Zhenbei City is located outside the city, near the military horse farm, and in Sulun's plan, this farm will raise more than 3,000 domestic pigs to provide sufficient meat for the army. And he also named the breeding factory Spring Bright Breeding Factory very badly.
【Spring Splendid Breeding Plant: The spacious and comfortable environment can make the livestock feel comfortable, and sufficient feed can make the livestock grow meat without worry. Rapid Growth +15, Blight Reduction +10, Delicious Meat +8, Prosperity +3, Carefree】
[Carefree: Livestock raised here will grow without worry. 】
Although the breeding factory was established, it took at least half a year for the livestock to be slaughtered, so before that, in addition to hunting, Zhenbei City could only buy livestock from the northern provinces on a large scale. Transporting a large number of livestock from the city of Carthus, the cost of the road alone is worth most of the price of livestock, and the journey of at least 300 miles is very difficult.
In the past, when there were only those barbarian soldiers, Su Lun didn't think it was difficult to raise soldiers, after all, the barbarians only needed to eat enough, but now that the army in Zhenbei City had 1,500 people, it definitely couldn't be the same as before.
Ordinary soldiers were given ten silver nars a month, and those who were strong were three to ten gold narls, and according to the standards he had set, those barbarian warriors were now basically ten gold narls. After all, the strength of these guys is already a third-order transcendent professional.
Their leaders, Boulder and Johnson, are already fourth-level professionals, and now there are quite a few people in Suren's territory who have reached the fourth-level professional, including two barbarians, a drow elf, a half-elf and a succubus, as well as Suren, a legendary-level powerhouse, the number of third-order professionals is as many as two or three hundred, and the number of second-order professionals is even more, such strength is in the northland provinces, except for Carter City, the strength of other cities is not as strong as Zhenbei City.
The strength of the territory made Su Lun very excited, but the monthly expenses also made Su Lun feel painful. Suren now earns little of the kinnar each month, except for immigration and military pay. Even the various alchemical materials purchased by Hathaway's laboratory are out of money.
Fortunately, the Underworld has a monthly gold income, and the mint can barely break even after minting the gold.
However, in order to earn some reserve funds, Suren still took out his previous collection and prepared to sell it for money. In the collection of the Lord's Castle, although many things were given to Hathaway as alchemy materials, there were still many good things left. For example, after killing the Raging Wind Demon Tiger, the jerky made from the meat of the Demon Tiger, the heart of the Demon Tiger and the heart of the Ice Pterodactyl, as well as the most valuable Demon Tiger Whip and Ice Pterodactyl Whip.
The Demon Tiger Whip and the Ice Pterodactyl Whip will be wildly sought after as soon as they appear among the nobles, and the things on this high-level Warcraft are too strong for ordinary people to bear, and the best way is to use them to soak in wine.
Su Lun specially asked the brewery to prepare several large barrels of high-end rum, and then put the Demon Tiger Whip and the Ice Pterodactyl Whip in to soak. In order to achieve the best effect of these tiger whips and dragon whips, Su Lun also specially purchased a recipe for dragon and tiger wine from the system mall, and then asked Hathaway to help her refine it.
"I wasn't very powerful last night, why do you want such a thing?" Hathaway looked at Suren with some strange eyes.
"What do you think? I'm going to use this kind of thing? Who begged last night not to. The territory is out of money, and this is for sale. Suren reached out and kneaded Hathaway's hair into a chicken nest.
"The territory is out of money?" Hathaway said in surprise, "Isn't the sugar trade and the wine trade very profitable?"
Su Lun glanced at her and said, "Even if you make money, you can't resist the three gold-devouring beasts of the army, immigrants, and your alchemy laboratory." ”
"Uh..."Hathaway shrunk her neck a little weakly, since she came to Zhenbei City, her laboratory has not had a headache for all kinds of materials, as long as she makes a list, someone will help buy all the materials, she almost forgot that these things are valuable.
"Then I'm going to save a little bit in the future? I won't buy anything in the lab this month. Hathaway said weakly.
"There's no need, it's just how you want to come. Suren waved his hand and said, what are you kidding, Hathaway's laboratory produces a large amount of magical equipment every once in a while, which money may not be able to buy.
"Help me make this dragon and tiger wine first, this wine will sell enough money for your lab for a few months. Suren waved at Hathaway.
Several large barrels of rum packed from the brewery were taken out of the storage space, all of which were made of fine nanmu, the barrels were one meter and two high, with a diameter of 60 centimeters, and were tightly clamped with iron hoops around them, so that such a large barrel was full of more than 300 catties.
After all the Tiger Whips and Dragon Whips are processed by Hathaway, and then soaked in these barrels, it takes about a week for the Dragon Tiger Wine to be made, but this Dragon Tiger Wine is still not something that ordinary people can afford.
Those aristocratic lords have all been hollowed out by the wine, and their bodies can't bear this kind of dragon and tiger wine that is too powerful. It also needs to be diluted 1:5 in a ratio, so that Dragon Tiger wine works best for them.
Moreover, after the tiger whip and dragon whip are soaked, the effect is still very strong, and it can continue to be used to soak in wine, and after soaking five times, the medicinal effect can be regarded as exhausted.
After all the ingredients were made and put in, Suren sealed several barrels and put them in the cellar in the lord's castle for storage, and after a week, Suren opened one of the barrels, and for a while the wine was rich, the wine showed an amber color, which looked crystal clear, and the whole wine cellar was several times richer.
Su Lun slapped a glass with a wine grape, and then raised his head to drink, the wine was sweet with a sweet taste, and the aftertaste was long, and after entering the stomach, a warm current soon rose. Then this warm current continued to spread to the body, and soon Su Lun's whole body became warm, and the originally loose pants became a little tighter.
The barrel was resealed, Suren left the cellar, and then found Chriss, who was still dealing with affairs, and then directly pulled the little succubus to the upstairs room to take a step to the stomach, tried the ancient way of hot sausage, and whipped into it.
Among Su Lun's several maids, only the little succubus can kill seven in and seven out with him, but he is still not his opponent, not to mention that Su Lun also has the ultimate mystery, plasma cannon, and one shot into the soul. So even if it is a succubus who is proficient in various skills and has unique skills, it is not an opponent.
Two hours later, Su Lun left the room refreshed, the air was still filled with the smell of heather, the little succubus had already exhausted his strength and fell asleep, and it seemed that today's affairs could not be handled.
After trying the dragon and tiger wine, Su Lun began to mix these wines according to the proportion, a barrel of 300 catties of dragon and tiger wine is 1,500 catties after blending, and then let the craftsmen bottle half a catty for bottling. The bottles used to hold the wine are also specially made according to Sulun's requirements, and they must be made delicately and beautifully.
After three thousand bottles of wine were filled for most of the day, Su Lun casually picked up a bottle of Dragon Tiger Wine and checked its attributes.
[Dragon Tiger Wine: Use the high-level Warcraft Raging Wind Tiger Whip and Wurm Ice Pterodactyl Whip, with more than a dozen precious magic plants, and add a special drink brewed with high-grade rum alcohol hearts, which can revive the male virility after consumption. Aphrodisiac +25, Strength +10, Regeneration +15, Dragon Spirit +15]
After the four barrels of Dragon Tiger Wine were blended and packaged, Su Lun got 12,000 bottles of Dragon Tiger Wine. Naturally, the price of this wine cannot be sold cheaply, and a bottle of the best Holy Blood wine in the Florentine Kingdom is fifty gold narls, and Suren is ready to double the Dragon and Tiger wine on this basis. One hundred kinnar tried the water, and if the reaction was strong, he planned to raise the price again.
Su Lun is still very professional in making money from those nobles, but what is needed now is to let those nobles know the effect of this wine first. The best thing to do is to let them experience it for themselves, after all, no matter how good it is, it is too weak to experience it firsthand.
It is impossible for Su Lun to leave Zhenbei City and deliberately go to the northern provinces to sell medicine and wine, it is too cheap. So he directly held a wine tasting party in Zhenbei City, and invited all the caravan stewards who came to Zhenbei City to come and participate.
To be honest, being a merchant in this country, at the level of the Chamber of Commerce, basically there are nobles as backers behind them, and businessmen without backers can't do much at all, and they will soon be eaten by other caravans. So as long as these merchants knew, then the nobles also knew.
For the wine tasting held by Su Lun, all the merchants were very willing to participate, and many merchants coveted the white sugar and rum in Su Lun's hands, but Su Lun was very guarded, and they spent a lot of money not to obtain the secrets of white sugar and rum. As for snatching, if you dare to do this, you will already expose the corpse wilderness, this is not Florence, the aristocracy is powerful, in this northern wasteland, it is his final word.
Since the formula cannot be obtained, it is necessary to find a way to obtain the right to buy, but unfortunately the two goods are still monopolized by a few caravans. Other businessmen naturally want a piece of the pie, but they don't have a chance. Now that Suren is holding a wine tasting party, these businessmen are naturally moved.
After the announcement of the cocktail party, all the merchants were speculating whether there would be new products in Zhenbei City this time, and they were all gearing up, ready to compete for it when the time came.
Soon, the time came for the evening of Suren's wine tasting, the banquet was held in the lord's castle, the food was also prepared by the chefs led by Flordo, a halfling, and the banquet was held according to the buffet banquet model of the previous life, but in comparison there were no dressed lady-in-waiters and well-dressed bands. Although the food at the banquet was delicious, these merchants did not have the heart to taste it at all, and waited anxiously one by one.