Su Lun didn't directly take out the sugar to trade with the Skylark Chamber of Commerce, and in his positioning of the sugar, it was a luxury jewelry. White sugar is different from table salt, and ordinary people don't eat sugar even if they don't eat it, so sugar is basically prepared for those nobles.

The goods brought by Robert's caravan included all kinds of daily necessities, in addition to a small amount of food, alcohol, tea, etc. Their arrival solved many problems in the territory, when Su Lun came to open up the territory, he should have limited funds, but only purchased the most important materials, and did not bring other materials at all.

The simplest, such as clothes, there are no clothes here in the wasteland, so many people wear leather clothes after their clothes are damaged. It's hard and smelly, uncomfortable to wear, and smells bad. Robert specially asked Jean about the situation in Suren's territory before coming here, and then prepared the goods, which were naturally very popular.

Su Poor Lun had already run out of money for the first few purchases, and the only way to buy Robert's goods was to barter. Fortunately, during this time, the blacksmith forged a lot of armor and weapons, and it happened to trade with Robert.

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Robert was still very curious about Zhenbei Fort, this small town more than three hundred miles away from Black Rock City, in his impression, few pioneered territories that went so deep into the wasteland could survive three months, and the few who survived three months and finally gained a foothold were also heavily indebted, requiring a lot of capital investment every year, after all, it was too expensive to maintain a regular army of more than 1,000 people in the wilderness.

But this town of North Fort is different, after coming here, Robt's first impression is clean and orderly. Yes, it is clean and orderly, you know, even in the royal city of Florence, except for the aristocratic and rich areas, open defecation is also common, the streets of the city are muddy, and there is human excrement that does not know when it will fall from the sky.

The town was surprisingly clean, the streets were neat, and the streets were paved with stones, crushed, and in some places even used stone slabs as pavement, and there was no garbage in sight on the streets, and no pedestrians had discarded their garbage, even the goblin slaves and gnolling slaves.

Later, he learned that this was the request of the lord Suren, and there was a severe punishment for violating the rules, cleaning the streets and toilets under the surveillance of others with shackles. In addition, those caught defecating in the open will not only have to pay fines and hard labor, but will also be arrested and hanged, and those who refuse to change will also have their tools confiscated.

There is a toilet at the corner of every street, and everyone has to go to the toilet to solve it, in addition to being clean and tidy, there are many rules here, such as the road is divided in half from the middle, everyone needs to walk on the right, etc.

Although the town does not look large, it is well organized, with several roads dividing the town into several parts, and all the houses are almost in the same style. Although it doesn't look good, it looks neat. Some of these houses are already occupied, but many more are empty.

Although each house is small in size, with only three rooms, the layout is very reasonable, the houses facing the street are all two-storey attics, these houses are supposed to be shops, there are drainage ditches dug on both sides of the town road, and there are special sewers inside the houses.

The south side of the city was more populated, and the rest of the city was empty, with many open spaces built with fences, which looked like reserved places, and no one was allowed to approach the barracks in the town, and the lord's mansion was also forbidden to be approached by idle people, but the square was free to come and go.

Not only was it inhabited by a small number of people compared to other towns, but it also had an astonishingly small number of troops, and a pioneer town like this would have had at least eight hundred regular troops to gain a foothold in the wilderness, but what about this town? There were less than a hundred barbarian warriors.

Even if these barbarian warriors were strong, they were too few in number. After a large-scale battle, the tactical flooding of the sea of people can also drown them. But until now, this town is still alive and well, which has to make people think that they have any hole cards.

However, the strength of these barbarian warriors is indeed very strong, and the barbarian warrior named Johnson on the way here is likely to reach the level of a knight chief, I really didn't expect that in such a remote and small place, there is actually a knight chief who surpasses the knight and the rank of a big knight, if he is willing to be loyal to the kingdom, at least he can become a viscount.

In addition to these, what surprised him even more was that the town had a large number of slaves, in addition to those serfs, there were more than a thousand goblin kobolds and gnolls slaves, the number of these slaves was already several times the population of the town, and no slaves had escaped.

There are very few freemen here, and most of them are slaves of the lords, but the slaves here are completely different from the slaves in other cities. In other places, slaves were not highly motivated to work, and in many cases had to be whipped by an overseer, but here the slaves were very active and did not need to be whipped by an overseer at all.

Upon discovering this, Robert was very surprised, and after questioning some people, he learned that the lord of Suren had actually promised to pardon the slave and make him a freeman if he worked hard for the territory for five years. Robt was stunned when he heard the news.

Knowing that slaves are his personal property, it is not necessary to rely on the whip of the overseer to make slaves work hard? Why should he free slaves? Is he thinking that he has too much money? This is something that Robert simply does not understand. They even established a contribution system for these slaves, earning a small amount of points for working hard every day, or the same for joining the army to participate in battles.

Only after the required number of points has been reached will the slave be freed.

Actually, Suren did this because he wanted to increase the number of freedmen in the town, after all, if you knew that you would always be a slave, you could expect that slave would work hard? In this way, Suren succeeded in mobilizing the slaves.

Even if the slaves were to be reverted to freedmen after five years, they would have nothing and would have to continue to work for Suren before they could be paid, but they would have replaced exploitation in a more subtle way.

In addition to these, what made Robert most curious was that the workshop in the city, on the river outside the city, had a blacksmith shop, which was a place for the production of weapons and equipment, but Robert was stopped directly when he wanted to enter. There are several more such places, one of which is in the workshop next to the lord's castle, which is also guarded by barbarian warriors.