In fact, more than a month ago, Valki completed the sale, Zhao Yu's gem was robbed by the nobles in Rome with its perfect cut, the most expensive ruby was sold for 20,000 gold coins, and the cheapest was not less than 17,000!

This made Valki very happy, you must know that he earned how much money he sold, and Zhao Yu had nothing to do with it, he earned 40,000 gold coins for five gems!

What is the concept of 40,000 gold coins? His entire previous net worth is about the same number!

This kind of huge profit made Valki red-eyed, and he hired a big ship to go to sea in a hurry, striving to run again, there were 100,000 gold coins in cash on the ship, 36,000 is Zhao Yu's payment, and the rest are Valky's net worth, which is used as a deposit for the next gem, but he ran into pirates in less than two days.

Two pirate ships caught up with the merchant ship, and nearly a hundred ragged pirates, wielding blades, rushed along ropes and hitches, and were thrown into the sea by the valiant mercenaries.

Valki hired thirty mercenaries this time, and it stands to reason that these people could not defeat the pirates, but Valki stimulated them with money, and he shouted on the ship: "As long as you can repel the pirates, I will reward you with 100 gold coins for every enemy you kill!" Anyone can! ”

The mercenaries are crazy, a hundred gold coins for a head, when will such a good thing happen? The mercenaries, who were desperately trying to survive, didn't even want their lives, they just wanted to cut two more!

Not only that, anyone could hear it, and the laborers who were paddling on the lower level could not sit still, and they rushed towards the pirates with their bare hands and screaming.

The pirates were beaten in a daze, and they were the ones who never wanted to die, so why did they fall one by one this time? After losing more than forty lives, the pirates retreated in a hurry.

And Valky's ships were not lightly wounded, more than a dozen mercenaries and twenty crew members were killed, the disabled merchant ships did not dare to continue sailing, had to retreat to Rome, and then Valky ran in all directions, preparing for half a month to pull up a large caravan of 15 ships, before daring to set off again.

Hearing Valki's story, Zhao Yu wiped a cold sweat in his heart, his gold coins were almost sent to the pirates!

"Were pirates so crazy in previous years?" Zhao Yu asked.

"This year's bandits are particularly serious, even on the Roman side, and I blame myself for being in a hurry, I shouldn't have run out on a boat."

In fact, there are not too many professional pirates in the Roman Empire, and there will be basically no problems on the big routes in the past, because Rome also has an army to crack down, but this year because of Commodus's SB policy, more and more people can't eat, and can only make a cameo appearance as a robber in the winter, in order to survive. (This is a true thing in history, Commodus delegated too much power, resulting in his Praetorian Guard captain too much power, actually embezzled public food, and there was a famine in the city of Rome, and finally this farce ended with the captain being executed, which increased the influence of this little fat, and the city of Rome increased the looting of food elsewhere because of the famine, resulting in more people who could not afford to eat, so the number of displaced people increased greatly)

The two then made another trade, and Zhao Yu once again gave Valki more than a dozen gems of different sizes and varieties, but Valki said that this time the sale may have to wait until spring, and now he plans to hide in Carthage City for a while.

And Zhao Yu harvested 95,000 gold coins, stacks of stacks in seven boxes, each box was close to two hundred catties.

With so much money, Zhao Yu and Fan Bucket took five loyal members of the underground party and transported them to several private house hiding places in a horse-drawn cart, of which 10,000 gold coins were left by Zhao Yu to the underground party as the expenses of this winter, as well as the money for the second batch of weapons.

The second batch of weapons orders totaled 300 sets of equipment, worth 5,000 gold coins, and Zhao Yu estimated that he would not be able to come back in time when it was delivered, so he could only let the backbone members receive it.

Zhao Yu took the time to call out the six backbone members again, these six people are the six slaves who were absorbed for the first time, Zhao Yu told them in every detail, they must hide themselves, even if they stop all actions, don't expose them!

After two months of training, these six people have matured a lot, and Zhao Yu can rest assured that he will hand over the affairs to them.

On the third day, the fifty foreign mercenaries recruited by Senatia were finally ready, and Senatia began to march towards the winery with twenty slaves.

The winery is located in the southwest of the city of Carthage, it takes half a day to reach the speed of the team, Zhao Yu and a few male slaves such as Fan Bucket, responsible for driving the carriage and hauling supplies, the amount of materials is not large, mainly a hundred spears, and a small amount of daily necessities, and there are reserves of food on the side of the winery.

The most valuable 'goods' belonged to Senatia herself, who did not walk with her people, but sat in the only box carriage in the house, driven by her only two guard slaves, who had brought her dowry from her homeland.

The two guard slaves heard that they used to be gladiators, and after being injured, they were bought by Senatia's father to protect Senatia's safety, so they were treated very well, and they were mixed well in the slave class, and they couldn't pee in the same pot as Zhao Yu.

This is also why the development of the underground party needs to be strictly selective, many slaves have been enslaved, they are loyal to their masters, blindly maintain their little pitiful superiority, as long as they live better than other slaves, they are satisfied, very strange.

The team arrived at the winery in the evening smoothly, this kind of team that looks like there is no oil and water, it is all composed of large soldiers, there can be no bandits attack, they are seeking money and survival, not death.

"Lord Senatia! You're finally here! The steward of the winery greeted him warmly, who had been newly hired by Senatia to take charge of the winery: "Rest assured, we are ready!" ”

"Very well, Libby, let's arrange for everyone to stay first." Senatia stepped out of the carriage with the help of the slave girl, and she was tossed on it for a long time, and she could not stand it anymore.

Libby is the name of the steward, he is not a slave, but a free man.

Zhao Yu looked at the winery in the team, the area is very large, there are many houses, and the winery is next to the vineyard, but now this season, the vines are gone, leaving only some bare poles in the field, and the other end is the wheat field, which has also been harvested.

The winery is also surrounded by a circle of wooden stakes as a defense, the height is only two meters, the top is sharpened, and the circle is raised with a soil layer, which can be condescendingly defended, such a defense is already very good for the winery, and it is impossible for more than 100 bandits to break in.

Now with mercenaries, plus spears and farm tools, the number of people who can fight is more than two hundred, and there is no problem in defending against three or four hundred rookie enemies, and the number of bandits composed of outcasts will basically not exceed this number.

This is also the reason why Senatia dared to go out of the city to guard the winery, the homeless people, and not the regular army, with the assistance of mercenaries, there is no need to worry about safety, and save money, so you should come here for a vacation.

Although there are many winery houses, many of them are wine cellars, and the number of people has surged, as a slave, Zhao Yu can naturally only work on the floor with other slaves, squeezed into a room to sleep, but it is not as comfortable as in the stable, and the rice bucket is sleeping next to it, this guy thunders at night, which is very annoying.