The day after the troops from the 29th village arrived in Kamijin County, the caravan of the Heyan family arrived at Agusburg in the evening. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ogus was a small kingdom of the Tugu people, located southwest of the village of Twenty-Nine. Ögusburg is the capital of the kingdom, and it takes only two days to walk from here to Twenty-Nine Village.

Mel had already bought a second carriage and handed it over to Leaf and Bird, who he and Kiki were in charge of the first carriage as before. He bought a shipment of cotton from Liangyue City, which was harvested at a low price from an Iraung merchant. He was going to exchange the cotton for muskets with the Dugu people, and then sell the muskets with the caravan of the Heyan family.

The purchase price of Dugu muskets is very high, and one must cost at least 20 tairong. Mel's two carts of cotton could only be exchanged for one or two muskets when he arrived at Urgus. Due to the large number of shipments, the caravan of the Heyan family could probably exchange ten muskets.

If the musket does not have ammunition and bayonets, I am afraid that it is not as good as the burning stick. If you buy a musket, you have to buy ammunition, otherwise the musket will not sell. The ammunition of the musket is divided into two parts, projectile and gunpowder, one projectile and one gunpowder as a group. Dugu muskets have high requirements for the quality of gunpowder and projectiles, so the price of a set of ammunition should be more than 20 Wentai Rongqian.

He Ruizhi said that a musket had to be equipped with at least twenty sets of ammunition before it could be sold. But compared to the muskets, this is a fraction of the money.

But if you think about it differently, a set of ammunition costs 20 Wen Tai Rong money, which means that the person who uses this musket only needs to move his fingers, and the 20 Wen Tai Rong money is gone. If it is a 50-person musket squad, just one volley, 1 Tairong money will be gone.

Thinking of this, Maier couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh. Gray had told him before that the Elt's personal guards cavalry was the most expensive class, but it was not the most expensive class. The most expensive class of troops was the musketeers of the Tugu people, followed by the musketeers of the Ilibi people, then the musketeers of the Mingji people, and then the turn of the Elt Guards and the Anwick heavy archers.

An Elt Guard Cavalry is equipped with a set of enchanted full-body plate armor, an Elt warhorse, a horse armor, a six-meter-long heavy cavalry lance, a cavalry shield, and hand-to-hand weapons such as a sword, a military hoe, a meteor hammer, and more.

A set of Enchanted Full-Body Plate Armor of the Elts costs at least 300 Tairong money, the cheapest of an Elt war horse costs 60 Tairong money, a set of armor of the war horse costs at least 30 Tairong money, a special heavy cavalry gun costs at least 80 Tairong money, and the melee weapons are also of the highest quality, with a value between 10 and 40 Tairong dollars.

In other words, arming an Elt personal guard cavalry will cost at least 480 tairong. Therefore, the Elt Guards Cavalry is a well-deserved "most expensive class", and in terms of the value of individual equipment, no class can match it. Of course, such a money-burning class has good combat effectiveness. The Elt Guards were the royal troops of King Elt, with a total of only more than 300 horsemen. The equipment of the cavalry was provided by the king and belonged to the king from beginning to end. If a cavalryman is wounded, disabled, or killed in battle, the equipment is recalled. The king would personally select soldiers from the ordinary cavalry units and replenish them with the personal guard cavalry.

Since the equipment can be recycled and the damage rate is not very high, the Elt Guards cavalry is not a burning of money. The weekly salary of the Ert guards cavalry was about 200 Wen Tai Rong money, which was for food and shelter, and the king only needed to pay the food and salary on time.

On the other hand, the Dugu musketeers' weekly salary is only about 40 Wen Tai Rong money. However, a Dugu musketeer had to consume at least 20 sets of ammunition per week for training, and in non-wartime conditions, the average person had to break one musket per year, and the damage rate of muskets was even higher in wartime, and repairing or replacing muskets was a significant expense.

If there is no ability to produce their own muskets and ammunition, a Dugu musketeer will spend dozens of tairong money on equipment and training every year in addition to food, and this is still without fighting. Even with the ability to produce their own muskets and ammunition, the annual cost of the Tsugu Musketeers is still not a small number.

The muskets and ammunition of the Ilibians were cheaper than those produced in Tugu, but that was also a significant expense. The musket produced by Mingji is the cheapest of the three muskets, and it is also the least performant, but even so, the annual cost of a Mingji musketeer is still higher than the annual consumption of an Elt personal guard cavalryman.

Raising soldiers was still a very distant thing for Mehr, at least in his own opinion. Now he needs to care not about how much money it costs to raise a Dugu musketeer, but who to sell the Dugu musket to.

In fact, the musket industry of the Dugu, Ilibi, and Mingji people was firmly controlled by the ruling class of these three races, and was rarely sold to the outside world. Because muskets are an important strategic resource, if they flow into the hands of the enemy in large quantities, they are likely to cause harm to their own side.

As for ammunition, the three races that could make muskets did not control it, and sold it through official channels for profit. At the same time, they did not prohibit outsiders from coming to them to repair or even refurbish their muskets, because in their opinion, as long as there were no large quantities of arms flowing into the hands of the surrounding forces, the scattered muskets on the market did not pose any threat to them.

Some of the muskets sold in the market were purchased by arms dealers through official channels, and the Heyan family wanted to exchange dyed clay pots for muskets from the king of Egus. The other part is that some people, in order to earn gray income, use various methods to get scrapped muskets in the army, repair and refurbish, and then sell them to arms dealers behind the back of the government, which are inferior to the original in terms of performance and service life. Some of them were captured by soldiers on the battlefield and sold to arms dealers for extra money.

Due to the higher price of muskets, the average person could not afford them. The people who bought muskets were either rich children who liked novelties, and most of them bought muskets for show-off or self-defense; Either they are outlaws disguised as rich men or mercenaries, who buy muskets to strengthen themselves; Either the lords who could afford to raise musketeers, who also bought muskets to strengthen themselves; There are also large mercenary groups, who also buy muskets to strengthen themselves.

He Yan Ruizhi wanted to sell the musket to Shangjin County, because it had become a battlefield. The accuracy of the Dugu musket is high, and even a squad of several people can play a certain role on the battlefield. Therefore, it is possible that both the Bujin people and the Ira people will buy this batch of muskets.

Since muskets and ammunition would not take up much space, He Yan Ruizhi also prepared to buy grain in Urgus, fill the freight wagons, and transport them to Shangjin County to sell along the way. Shangjin County is now a battlefield, and as long as it is a battlefield, there is no worry that grain cannot be sold. When the time comes, they will buy a batch of local specialties in Shangjin County and bring them back to Liangyue City to sell, and this time the business will be successfully over.

Even if the Dugu musket at hand is not sold, He Yan Ruizhi will not be worried. Because compared to dyed clay pots, Dugu muskets are much easier to sell, and it won't take long to sell, and they are not afraid of being lowered.

As it was getting late, Maier and Yan Zhiheng decided to go back tomorrow morning to talk to King Urgus about business. The king of Urgus, whose name was Ramogis, was a beautiful man known for his languidness and handsomeness. Since the other party was a lazy person, Mair did not expect to see the deity. Anyway, they are here to talk about business, as long as the person who comes to talk about business can make a decision, everyone will come.

The next morning, Maier and Harmony arrived at the king's castle. The castle, named after the "crown", did not have a flashy façade, and the walls were covered with shooting holes. It's heavily guarded, and special permits are required to enter and exit. The castle's guards were all ancient musketeers, numbering more than five hundred.

Maier explained his purpose to the guards at the gates and showed him a sample of the goods he had with him. The guards examined the samples before they asked their companions inside the gate to report to the king. It didn't take long for the guards who reported the news to return, motioning for Maier and Yan Zhiheng to go with him.

Maier and Yan Zhiheng followed the guards into the castle, and as soon as they entered the city gate, they were robbed of samples by the guards inside the city gate, and their bodies were also pressed against the wall by the guards. The guards carefully searched the two men for every place where they might have hidden their weapons, then blindfolded them with a black cloth and told them to drag a rope forward.

How insecure is the owner of this castle?

Mel smiled wryly and dragged the rope one foot deeper and one foot shallow. The guards who led the way were dutiful, and they would be notified when it came time to turn and ascend the stairs so that they would not hit the wall or fall on their heels.

About twenty minutes later, Maier heard the sound of the heavy wooden door being pushed open, after which the black cloth covering his eyes was removed and the sample was returned to him. Her eyes, accustomed to darkness, were stabbed by the sudden appearance of light, which made Mel's eyeballs feel a burning pain. He squinted for a moment before slowly opening his eyes.

The first thing that catches your eye is a pennant that almost covers the wall. The pennant is embroidered with a golden crown studded with gemstones of various colors, with a red background. Then there was a large stone table, flanked by two rows of chairs, and on the chair facing the door was a mahogany chair, on which sat a girl in a fine costume with a pair of long ears on her head.

"Welcome to Fort Crown."

The girl narrowed her eyes and smiled at the two of them.

"You may be seated."

Maier and Yan Zhiheng glanced at each other, and the two carefully chose the last two chairs to sit down, and gently placed the samples in their hands on the long table.

"My name is Euris, daughter of King Ramogis, and a princess of the kingdom of Egus."

The girl fiddled with the curls of her sideburns and looked with interest at the two young men sitting in the distance.

"I don't know who the two surnames are, and where do they come from?"

As soon as He Yan Zhiheng heard that the other party was a princess, his face immediately turned pale with nervousness, and he couldn't even speak. Because Maier has relatives in the Taeyong nobility, he is not panicked at all when facing the nobles. He stood up and saluted Euris and introduced himself unhurriedly.

"My name is Mel? Byrons, Gray? The son of Byron is a merchant from Liangyue City. ”

He glanced at He Yan Zhiheng, and saw that he didn't look like he could speak, so he introduced himself for him.

"This is He Yan Zhiheng, the son of He Yan Ruizhi, and a merchant in Liangyue City."

Grace? Byron was not as well-known among the Tufols, but Euris had heard of him and knew that he was a very powerful man. As for Heyan Ruizhi, Yulisi hadn't heard of this name, but she had heard of the Heyan family in Liangyue City. Since Gray? When Byrons's son introduced He Yan Zhiheng, he only mentioned the name of He Yan Ruizhi, and did not mention the name of his grandfather or other people, which means that this name is enough to support He Yan Zhiheng's identity, and Ulis feels that this person is most likely the head of the He Yan family.

"It's a pleasure to meet you both."

Euris smiled gracefully and gave the maids standing on either side of the hall a look, and the maids brought the samples that were placed in front of them to Euris. Euris carefully examined the quality of the sample, then fixed her eyes on Myer.

"How many dyed pottery do you have?"

When Mel saw that Uris didn't ask about cotton, she knew she was trying to lower the price. This is a common tactic used by buyers, who want to buy another product, but deliberately pretend to be interested in other goods, so as to lower the price themselves.

"A lot." Maier replied with a smile, "Your Highness, I also have two truckloads of high-quality Iraa red cotton, which is light in weight, has a good warmth effect, and is also very strong when spun into cotton cloth. ”

"Not necessarily, I think our Dugu oil cotton is much stronger than Ira's red cotton in terms of warmth."

Ulis knows the benefits of Ira's cotton, and she also knows that Dugu oil cotton is inferior to Ira's cotton in other aspects except that it is much stronger than Ira's cotton in terms of warmth. However, after the formation of the New World, there was no change of seasons, the climate change in various places was not large, and the winter in the Kingdom of Egus was gone.

Therefore, the warmth of Dugu oil cotton is completely ineffective in the Kingdom of Urgus, and now the cotton produced in Ogus can only be exported, and the local cotton is spun from other places.

Seeing that Uris did not return to dyeing pottery, but provoked the problem of cotton, Mel confirmed his judgment. When he saw that Uris was interested in buying this batch of Iraa red cotton, he was not ready to let her lower the price at all.

However, Maier did not know much about cotton, and the reason why he brought cotton here to sell it was simply because he had found a bargain in the market and bought it casually. What he had just said was what the Ira merchant who sold his cotton had said, and if he was asked to raise the price of cotton from the performance of the cotton, he would definitely lose to Yulis.

So he decided not to talk about cotton for now, and used this method to whet Urlis's appetite, and according to Ulis's apparent meaning, he stopped talking about cotton, and began to talk about dyed pottery.