Chapter 158: Tangled merchants
There were many tables in the noodle and noodle soup restaurant, and the lions gathered in small groups in small groups to secretly discuss the power of the muskets they had just seen.
"The force of Tomorrow Town far exceeds that of Wang Cheng, and Wang Cheng is in trouble now." There was already a tendency to rebel in some merchant groups.
Since the weapons of Tomorrow Town are so powerful, and the Lionheart Kingdom will die sooner or later, it is better to secretly defect to Tomorrow Town, such an idea is not only discussed by one table, but other lion people are also hesitating and undecided.
"The predecessor of Tomorrow Town was a mining village, and now he is backed by iron mines, and he also needs to import iron ore, so it is conceivable that this town is constantly making weapons, otherwise he doesn't need so much iron ore." The iron ore merchant's face was cloudy.
"If you want me to say, there should be not enough slaves to mine the mines, and you need to add mines from other towns."
The slave merchant's eyes flickered, vaguely seeing through the connection between Allen's purchase of a large number of slaves and iron ore.
Tomorrow there is a shortage of working people in the town, there are not enough miners, and there are not enough miners, so it is very expensive to make up such a simple and crude method, and normal businessmen will never do this.
The lions discussed for a while, thinking that Tomorrowtown had treasonous tendencies, and all this made sense.
When the entire Lionheart Kingdom is overturned, all resources are theirs, and at that time it can spend as much as it wants, and now the expenditure is just to speed up.
Iron ore is limited in the purchase index, but local supervision is not effective, coupled with the drive of interests, iron ore is still rolling into Tomorrow Town.
With this deal, Tomorrowtown has engulfed one-eighth of the entire iron ore market.
One eighth is already a lot, and you must know that the mineral merchants in the western region did not participate in the grand event of Tomorrowtown, and the merchants who now trade with Tomorrowtown are all nearby big cities.
No one in the merchants of Wangcheng dared to do business in Tomorrowtown, they originally intended to come and take a look, and by the way, send some news back to Wangcheng, but after seeing the power of muskets and artillery, they were entangled in one thing - can Wangcheng win?
One thing is certain now, Tomorrowtown needs a lot of minerals to make that kind of siege weapon, and with them, any wall will collapse in ten minutes.
The important point is that the range of the siege cannon is far beyond imagination, both in power and range, it perfectly crushes the strongest trebuchet in the Lionheart Kingdom.
After a while, snacks such as xiaolongbao came up, but the lions didn't pay attention, picked up xiaolongbao and put it in their mouths to chew, the thin skin broke open instantly, and the sweet taste of meat exploded in the tongue cavity.
The lion's eyes widened, their mouths slightly open and closed, and they made a mumm-humm.
"It's hot!" The faces of the people in the other towns turned red and their tongues were burned, but they couldn't bear to waste the deliciousness, so they could only endure the high temperature and swallow their feet.
When the xiaolongbao was swallowed into their stomachs, they smashed their mouths, and there was still a strong smell of xiaolongbao meat in their mouths.
At this time, I looked down at the xiaolongbao in the cage, which was small and exquisite, white and tender, with thin skin, and a faint steam because it had just come out of the cage.
"Delicious!"
"I've never eaten meat with this taste, and the skin is also very good, fat but not greasy!"
"Boss, two more cages!"
"I want ten cages!"
The lions applauded, and hurriedly asked the boss to add xiaolongbao.
The rest of the merchants didn't order xiaolongbao, and when they found out they were yelling, they couldn't help but be envious.
"We didn't order xiaolongbao, so we don't want to order one again."
Grek raised his eyebrows slightly, as a big merchant in the royal city, he didn't order the best food, which made him a little unhappy.
"Your braised pork ramen has arrived, please use it slowly."
The lion waiter holds a large bowl of ramen noodles with a smile on his face and puts the bowl on the table.
As soon as the braised pork ramen was served, the aroma of the soup bowl slowly burrowed into Glick's nose, making him shake all over.
What kind of smell is this, Gorrik has never smelled it, and it is quite fragrant.
Greek first asked the waiter to order a few more xiaolongbao, then looked at the ramen in the bowl and the pair of wooden sticks next to him, not knowing how to eat it.
"Do you eat with your hands?"
Gorrik didn't see a knife or fork, but the spoon did.
Grek glanced at Alan's table quietly, and saw Eren take out two wooden short sticks with both hands, put the ramen noodles in the bowl into his mouth, and sucked it very loudly, making him feel delicious.
"That's how the stick works."
Gorrik muttered to himself, he had never used chopsticks, but fortunately he himself secretly observed Alan for a while and learned how to eat noodles with chopsticks.
First, hold the chopsticks with both hands, interspersed the middle fingers in the center, separate the chopsticks, and clamp the noodles...... Glick sandwiched the ramen with a blank face, and only succeeded once out of five times, but the noodles always slipped off the chopsticks, making it difficult for him to eat the braised pork noodles.
"Damn ......"
Gorrik was so angry that he almost wanted to flip the table.
Fortunately, the tenth noodle clamp was successful, and when the noodles entered the tongue along with the meat, Glick closed his eyes and slowly sucked, chewed, and tasted aftertaste.
"This taste is very unique, how to say it, it is obviously the pork that I am used to eating, but it has a different taste, it is very ......strong," Glick opened his eyes and sandwiched the noodles again.
This time, he no longer complained about the difficulty of holding chopsticks, but was very patient in clipping, failure made him more persistent, and every success made him smile on his face.
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As the sun set, Allen stood in the harbor area, smiling as he watched the merchant ships depart.
This time, Tomorrow Town got several large orders, harvested seven thousand slaves, harvested thousands of cattle, horses, sheep, fish and other unintelligent animals, thousands of tons of iron ore, and the rest of the minerals added up to four or five hundred tons, as well as thousands of gold dragons.
The accounting department was very busy today, and it took a lot of brain cells, and if it weren't for the elementary school math textbook written by Allen, they might have to wait until tomorrow to sort out the details of today's transactions.
"Lord Allen, with this resource in Tomorrowtown, we will soon be able to launch a nationwide slave liberation movement." Ivan and the other orcs wagged their happy cat tails and circled around Alan.
"That's right, but we have to take our time to liberate the slaves, and we must at least ensure that there are enough housing and enough food in Tomorrow Town in order to liberate the slaves on a large scale, otherwise we will only do bad things with good intentions." Alan highlighted the reason why the unconditional emancipation of slaves has not yet been implemented in Tomorrowtown.
All slaves were emancipated, and the jobs provided required the distribution of golden dragons, and the treatment of food and housing was improved.
Without huge financial support, it is difficult to implement these things, which is why Alan did not emancipate all slaves into free people.
Now the town of tomorrow adopts the policy of giving priority to the promotion of freemen with major outstanding contributions, and it is slowly liberated step by step.
"The late rice autumn harvest is approaching, let the people of the Ministry of Food preside over the situation of slave promotion, and I will formulate the rules for slave promotion." Alan returned to the city walls, watched the rice paddies grow gold, and thought that the time had come for the slaves to be promoted.
The people around me have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and when they saw that only the slaves of the cat-eared orcs had special treatment, and the other slaves needed to be promoted according to their contributions, they couldn't help it, and they waited for the moment when Eren liberated all the orc slaves.
Windsor wagged her cat's tail happily and began to ponder the warm-up for the autumn harvest.