Chapter 59: Emergencies

For the sake of trade between the two sides, William specially transferred more than 300 people to fill the ranks of the brewers, and expanded the production to 3,000 cans per month, which is five times the previous output.

At the same time, for the sake of technical blockade, William placed them in the enlarged basement, and the ban on 400 people was doing the work of brewing wine in the basement.

They were not allowed to leave the basement except for the holidays given by William, and even during the holidays, they had to make sure that they were under William's control.

Only in this way can William ensure the uniqueness of the technology, the only drawback is that after the expansion of production, the food in the territory is consumed somewhat quickly, and it is estimated that not much can be used to trade with the Chekels.

In two months, William traded twice with the Checkers, 4,800 cans of vodka and 10 carts of linen and 300,000 kilograms of grain.

300,000 kilograms of grain is already one-third of the grain used for winemaking, but the inhabitants of his territory alone can't eat it all, so they usually store some and then sell it.

Now William's brewing capacity can't say that all these grains can be digested, in fact, William didn't plan to be able to rely on brewing to digest these grains.

It's not realistic to have one business to support everything, unless you can build a huge merchandise empire, but that's too far away for William now.

The 4,800 cans of vodka were far from satisfying the needs of the Chekers, who were not well proportioned, but whose huge territory meant that their population would not be smaller, and that there would be more nobles with spending power.

The Chekels don't have many silver coins, but they have enough livestock, especially the strategic resource of war horses, and they directly bought more than 500 horses in two transactions, and sold them to Denlenburg, or transported to the hinterland of the Tskema Kingdom, which was even more lacking in war horses, which would be several times the benefit.

In addition to the ploughing cattle, although the value of the ploughing cattle is not high, but it can't support the large number, more than 5,000 ploughing cattle are directly more than 25,000 silver coins of income.

As for the sheep, the number is not too much, more than a thousand, William mainly intends to raise these kinds to improve the physical fitness of the people, meat and milk, this high-protein food can change a nation.

William got such a big benefit, and Mutus also knew that this was a mutually beneficial way, like the grain, cloth, and iron household goods of the Lordes people, which were also in high demand on the side of the Checkers.

If this continues to be traded, both parties will not lose profits.

In order to maximize the profits, William asked Hurim to take 400 war horses to the territory of the Cikema Kingdom to sell, the Cikema Kingdom does not produce horses, and most of their war horses are imported from nomads or horse-producing kingdoms.

Therefore, the price of war horses, and even horses, has always been high, which has led to the emergence of a kind of foot knight who cannot afford to buy war horses in the kingdom of Tskema.

This kind of foot knight does not have the impact of a war horse, but its combat effectiveness on the ground is much stronger than that of armed infantry or even hoplite!

Although the combat effectiveness of the knights on foot is very strong, walking is walking, and as a knight, if they have a choice, they will still choose to ride a horse, which provides William with business opportunities.

Coupled with the war some time ago, the war horses in the kingdom have definitely become more scarce, and it is impossible to completely replenish the war horses in just a few months, so it is quite profitable to become a horse dealer now.

Hu Limu took over the task, with more than seven or eight knights, a dozen heavy cavalry and more than one hundred and fifty armed infantry, escorting more than 400 war horses and more than 1,000 ploughing cattle to the kingdom, such a large amount of goods must not be a problem!

Although a plan has been drawn up to dump war horses and cattle into the kingdom, the number of cattle is too large, and it is estimated that it is impossible to sell all of them in a short time, but it is a great burden to raise, and the cattle eat a lot.

More than 3,000 cattle were too much to handle, so William distributed them to ten per village, and the remaining 2,500 were sold by William for six silver coins to the merchants who had been attracted to the Mandes region.

The circulation of this large amount of money directly contributed to the commercial prosperity of his domain, and William's construction of taverns in every village directly filled his territory with life, rather than a pool of stagnant water.

I have to say that the profits of such cross-border trade are really not ordinarily large, and more than 4,800 cans of vodka are obviously only worth more than 14,000 silver coins, plus grain, cloth and other sundries, it is less than 20,000 silver coins.

As soon as more than 2,000 ploughing cattle were sold, 15,000 silver coins were directly received, not counting the war horses that were brought to the kingdom, which was the bulk of the business.

Just according to Dunlenburg, which is relatively not a horse, fifty or sixty silver coins each, and four hundred horses are twenty-four thousand silver coins, so the net profit is more than fifteen thousand silver coins!

Compared to simply selling vodka for only 9,000 silver coins, this model can not only make more profits, but also obtain many strategic resources that are difficult to obtain.

Now William's strength is not good, and when he is strong enough in the future, he can completely expand official trade to private trade, and at that time he will have an even greater advantage, and he can completely corrupt the other party by relying on commerce alone.

The remaining more than 100 war horses, William hopes to train another group of cavalry, this time he went to the Tskema Kingdom, and another purpose is to collect all kinds of talents, especially blacksmiths who can make armor.

William made more money from this trade, so he could have been more extravagant, such as giving his soldiers better armor or something.

Anyway, you can't get cubs if you keep the money, it's better to better arm the soldiers, in fact, William's plan is to recruit fewer knights and form more heavy cavalry.

Unlike the capitalists of the agrarian era, as long as there is a factory with strong production capacity, the strength of the feudal lord depends on the size of the territory under his direct command and loyalty to his army.

So at this time, the size of the territory is very important, if the territory is divided to the knights, then it will be very troublesome in William's opinion, not only the productivity is insufficient, but also the people below will have ideas that they should not have.

It is not impossible to form heavy cavalry, as long as he has enough money, he can completely form an all-iron armored heavy cavalry, maybe they don't know as much as the knights, but the combat effectiveness on the horses is definitely not much worse than the knights.

Now William has thought of the future route, which is to rely on the war horses and cattle resources of the Chekel people, trade with the kingdom, slowly develop and grow, and then open up trade routes, so that vodka can sell well throughout the kingdom.

Coupled with his policy of attracting merchants, one can imagine what Mandes Manor would be like a year or two from now, and Comos Manor issued the same order after William took over.

However, the knights of Comos Manor are not loyal to William, but to the rightful heir of Comos Manor, Wella.

However, both of them are about to get married, and it doesn't matter who they are loyal to, and William is not angry about it.

By this time the autumn harvest had been completed, and there was nothing to do other than the routine clearing of the fields, and Tus was already familiar with his new work.

So William is quite leisurely, he has been accompanying Wella for the past ten days, with William's company, little Weina is less sad about the loss of her father and brother, and a smile can be seen on her slightly pale little face.

William hugged Wella, kissed her smooth little face, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered: "Next month, I will marry you, and then our second child, I will give him the form of Comos, and let him inherit the Comos family!" ”

"Really?" Wella, with a little flush on her little face, asked in disbelief.

"My father is also kind to me, not to mention how can I make my little Weina so depressed all day long?" William touched Wella's nose and said dotingly.

"You're so nice!" Wella muttered something quietly, then her lips pressed to William's, and the two of them looked at each other.

William couldn't help but stick out his tongue, this was the first time that Wella took the initiative to kiss him, and it was very rare for her to make such a gesture shyly!

But just then, Vidal appeared outside the door, anxiously trying to knock on the door.

The maid at the door who was assigned to Wella by William hurriedly stopped it, joking, the baron was making love with the young lady inside, what is this person going in?

"Don't stop me! This is a very important matter, and I must tell it to the Baron at once! Vidal's voice was filled with anxiety.

"No, our young lady is also inside, you can't go in! If you don't leave, I'll call the guards!" Guardsman! The maid said loudly, and really called the guards.

Vidal was angry, as half of the official family of the manor, he was treated like this by a maid, he really wanted to turn around and leave, but thinking about the seriousness of this matter, he didn't dare to leave.

"My lord! Lord Baron! I'm Vidal, and I have something very important to report to you! Vidal shouted loudly outside.

William had actually heard their quarrel a long time ago, but he still wanted to stay a little longer, there was a advantage to take advantage of!

But he knew that Vidal would not be desperate to see him if there was nothing important, so William had to let go of the silky Wella.

Said to her gently: "I'm sorry Wella, I have to go out, it may be a very important thing, I will come back to accompany you in a while!" With that, he kissed her on the forehead and pushed the door out.

"What's the matter, Vidal?"

When the maid saw that the baron had come out, she did not dare to make any more noise, and bowed her head and retreated to the door.

Vidal did not complain, but whispered something in William's ear.

William's face changed dramatically after hearing this, and he said, "Follow me!" ”

When he arrived at William's study, he frowned and said, "What the hell is going on?" The Mendes area is very stable, where is it so strong that the gang is strong, and the other party still has cavalry? ”

"That's right, my lord, according to the villagers who fled back from the plundered village, there were more than thirty cavalrymen wearing leather armor, and more than three hundred robbers who were generally equipped with this leather armor.

So far, five villages have been plundered, one village is directly under the Baron, and the other four are the knights' fiefs, but fortunately, the knights have been training in the manor all year round, and there are no casualties. ”