Chapter Forty-Eight: A Despicable Feast (Part II)
"How's that, Admiral Catherine, have any comments on my merchandise?" Lorraine looked at the Admiral and the Emperor with a smile on his face, hoping to receive more orders. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
"It's not bad, although it's all export...... According to the price I said before, I want it! Catherine didn't want to buy it out of the blue.
"Thank you for your patronage, send someone to escort the goods to the ship!" Lorraine also hopes that there will be no surprises, after all, after selling goods in this era, there is no after-sales service.
Magic Armor is indeed a very good mechanized unit, the problem is that only the Bretanians have used this weapon in large quantities.
Training, maintenance and supply, these three issues almost determine whether the magic armor can play its full role, and training can also ask the Far Eastern Army, the problem is maintenance and supply.
Maintaining the Magical Armor requires a large number of magicians, at least magical apprentices, and the supply problem cannot be solved even by the Far Eastern Army, so they can only wait for Lorraine's Magical Armor localization project to be completed.
The two elders, who had evil intentions, drank tea and soon saw the Eastern Army taking the trade from the Riberia soldiers—men and women with ropes tied to their hands.
"Is this what you're talking about?" Emperor Tokusho looked at Lorraine with some incredulity, hoping that the other party could give an explanation.
"You seem surprised, Your Majesty?" Lorraine gave the other party a strange look, "It's just that I got 1,200 Toei slaves from Admiral Catherine, and I need enough manpower to build the Edo Concession and the Itatang military base." ”
"Yes, that's the case...... Emperor Tokusho felt that humiliation again, although he had long since become the emperor of the bathhouse without real power, it was still very uncomfortable to see this scene.
Catherine's eyes seemed to sparkle with her, she had long noticed that Emperor Tokusho was wrong, and with the appearance of these slaves, a wonderful idea appeared in her mind.
"Your Majesty the Emperor, it seems that there are too few servants to serve you these days." Catherine's sudden speech made the two of them feel very strange, "As an emperor, I think there should be a minimum of decency, and I will select five hundred men and women from the captives to give you as gifts." ”
The surprise came too suddenly, it was Emperor Tokusho, who was still sad for the people a second ago, and when he heard that he could get five hundred slaves, he instantly became happy, "Thank you so much, Admiral Catherine!" It's just that the inner government can't feed so many people......"
Lorraine immediately realized the trick Catherine wanted to play, and preemptively spoke, "Don't worry about this, as a friendly state of Dongying, on behalf of the Brittany Empire, I am willing to provide you with a batch of rations, as well as weapons for self-defense. ”
"Thank you so much!"
The Emperor who had received the benefits left immediately, and watching the Emperor leave in a hurry, Lorraine and Catherine had nothing to say for a while.
"Keep a low profile...... Admiral Catherine, are you doing this to plunge Dongying into more chaos? Lorraine's casual remark made Catherine want to roll her eyes
"Wouldn't I know the importance of keeping a low profile?" The admiral pointed to his head, "A famous general like me, I must pay attention to the impact of every move, disturbing the situation on the side of Dongying will only benefit us, and the emperor will definitely gradually want to replace the three families when he gets help, so wouldn't business be better?" ”
Lorraine nodded indispensably, but he didn't think so: You, the general, are not going to kill the Eastern Army and the Dongying people, so I don't have time to disturb your great cause, so what is there to doubt about the ambition of the emperor now?
"Speaking of which, don't you have to look at the deal?"
"Trading or something has already begun." Admiral Catherine pointed to Major Heine in the distance, "You see, they're all getting to work. ”
Following her fingers, Lorraine saw Major Heine, who had ripped off his uniform, walking around the Eastern Military Goods Stall, bending down from time to time to check it, and then dictating something for the clerk who followed him to write it down.
And Major Rodney, Dongfang Jun, with several officers and representatives of the military art troupe, was checking the health and quality of the "traded goods" and recording some information from time to time.
Lorraine knew that they were assessing the price of the goods, an essential step in bartering transactions.
The next step is to check with each other, bargain until each other acknowledges the price given by the other, and then you can start to move each other's goods.
Although the most important weapons and medicines had long been traded in valuables and gold coins, the rest were only minor goods, and there was really no need for two generals to supervise them.
The goods brought by the Far Eastern Army this time were mainly all kinds of searched grain, used weapons in stock, medicines and holy water that had not expired, as well as some high-end consumer goods such as coffee and soju.
The grain was piled up like a few real hills, enough to fit a large warehouse area, not to mention the sheer amount of cans of wooden shell spam, which were horrible enough to fit a transport ship.
Most of the soldiers of the Eastern Army had been moving like ants since early in the morning, and even Lorraine himself had to use the space bag back and forth several times to finish the gadgets.
The abundance of food overjoyed the people of Riberia, and what the exiled fleet lacked was enough food supplies, and in addition to paying the bills with looted Kyoto luxury goods and antiques, population was also an important trade.
It's just that this is not surprising enough, Lorraine soon saw a group of crying Dongying people, all of whom were the best choice in terms of appearance and everything, numbering more than 300 people, but with a full body tie and a collar around their necks.
"Who are these, Admiral Catherine?"
"These?" Catherine looked at Lorraine's hand and suddenly realized, "It turns out that it was the Dongying spellcaster and the noble lady, both of whom were caught by me during the battle, except for a few who were willing to surrender, the others should be here." ”
"It's incredible! Didn't anyone save the spellcasters in Dongying? Not only witches, but even nuns, you've caught a lot of them! ”
"What's so strange about that? It is true that there are people who do not do their best to save people, but the problem is that the Riberian soldiers are not vegetarians, they can kill as many as they come, and the injured can be sold to you. ”
Catherine's words made sense, and Lorraine couldn't refute them for a while, but there was still a little expectation in her heart.
I don't know what these beautiful slaves taste like...... No, no, no, he meant that the process of sorting out the Eastern magic and the localization of the magic armor could finally be accelerated.
As for the thoughts of the slaves, even the emperor was bribed, and no one had the time to pay attention to their sorrows, this is the blood and tears of an agricultural country in the era of industrialization, and it is also the hegemony of steel and flame.