Chapter 50: Opening Trade Channels
Within an hour, Baron York received the news and invited Donn and them into his castle.
For Donne's conditions, Baron York readily agreed.
Although he did not dare to take the risk of selling illicit salt, there was no problem in buying illicit salt only in his own territory.
The profit of 5 gold coins and 40 silver coins a year was enough for Baron York to ignore the monopoly of the city defense army Corbett.
Don and the others left thirty sacks of salt, harvested 1 gold and 35 silver, and then left the barony's field and returned to their secret camp.
It was a little unexpected, and Baron York was not a bold man, nor was he willing to act as an agent for Done and his private salt trade.
Unless they risk trading with Count Gmacia and get the Count to agree to be their partner, Don and the others will be able to become the shopkeeper and not have to do anything more.
Since there is no suitable agent, Tang En can only do it himself and open the channel for the private salt in their hands.
They went first to the nearest Barony of Kirdon.
Baron Kirdon was the weakest, and he didn't dare to offend Don and them at all. He bought 500 catties of salt for five copper coins per catty, happily accepted the trade, and verbally reached a long-term trade contract.
Then Don and the others bypassed the strongest Gmacia Domain, and entered the five noble realms of Baron Oliver, Baron Falcon Baron, Viscount Monroe, Baron Reed, and Baron Norman.
Faced with profits at their fingertips, these territorial nobles certainly would not refuse.
Because of the three professionals Rednor, Donn, and Bruce, these nobles didn't have a bad idea, they either bought some salt in thirty bags or fifty bags, and ate Donn's goods cleanly.
In order to open the channel, Tang En and his team walked more than 1,000 miles, and it took more than half a month to complete the trade smoothly.
Because they didn't have a good partner, Tang En and the others had to put some of their energy here, so they had to build a secret camp on the edge of the Red Dragon Forest.
In order to deter these greedy nobles, they had to put some of their power here, so after discussing with Rednor, Don decided to keep Rednor and John to suppress these local nobles in Torlo Province.
After another two or three days, Don and the others had set up the camp, leaving Rednor, John, and twenty ordinary mercenaries to guard the secret camp, and then returned to Northern Xinjiang Province with a wheelbarrow.
There were more than fifty people when they set out from the Horn Forest, and only sixteen when they returned. Thankfully, the return was smooth and he returned to the supply camp near Loya Canyon without any danger.
Tang En and the others have been gone for more than 20 days, and the left-behind personnel of Brand have almost become savages. After Tang En rotated some mercenaries, he immediately returned to the Horn Forest with the remaining mercenaries.
This time, bypassing the Loya Canyon trade, they sold the salt they had accumulated for more than two months, and obtained 9 gold coins and 75 silver coins.
Despite the long time it took and the number of occupations used, it was undoubtedly a successful adventure to open a path through the Red Dragon Forest and open up trade routes in the province of Torlo.
After opening the trade channel, Don and the others traveled to the Red Dragon Forest every other month. They carried about 100 bags of salt, 200 new candles, and 150 leather clothing products at a time.
For one such trade, the volume is around 8 gold coins.
Because the province of Torlo does not have the goods urgently needed by the Emerald City for the time being, Tang En and the others return empty-handed every time, otherwise the profits will be even greater.
Even so, counting the candle trade of the three of Tang En, their monthly income is about 25 gold coins, which is no less than some powerful viscounty realms.
In addition to the professionals, there are now more than 500 mercenaries under their command.
Each mercenary has an annuity of two silver coins a month, and it is only about 10 gold coins a month.
Their net income has already exceeded 15 gold coins per month, and their net income in a year will definitely exceed 150 gold coins.
In addition, the trade in new candles and furs is expanding, and the income is rising every month.
In the past, the Dragon's Horn Mercenary Regiment had no more than four hundred official members.
Now Don and their official personnel are a little more than the Dragon's Horn.
When Donn returned, he became a little closer to Todak.
All new candles and fine furs were sold to Todak at a low price, so that he could sell them in the Emerald City, acting as a conduit for Don and their subordinates.
Richard, Tedley and others are also courting their friends in the Emerald City to build a new low-level channel merchant so as not to put profits in the hands of wholesale merchants.
Within a month, Don and his family had partnered to open three stores in the Emerald City.
With the new channel, Don no longer supplies to wholesale merchants in the South Bazaar. These people relied on the power of the nobles, and the reason why Tang En was wanted by them, the purchase price was too low.
Aside from these vampire merchants, Tang En's monthly profits immediately increased by thirty percent.
Not only has the shipping price increased a little, but even the stores in the city will give them dividends every month.
In the past few months, although Tang En and the others did not have a war, they still gained 95 experience points by hunting magical beasts.
During this time, Don has not relaxed his magic learning, not only learning the third level 2 magic sonic boom, but also learning three level 0 magic to detect toxicity, stun the technique, and fight the necromancy.
After this period of solid foundation, Donn's spell list has finally filled up a lot, and his magic methods are no longer single.
He quietly opened the attribute panel, and couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart.
Name: Donne
Race: Human
Bloodline: Divine Dragon Bloodline
Divinity: 1 point
Class: Level 3 Arcanist (227/500).
Experience points: 227 points
Skill points: 0
Free attribute points: 0 points
Physical attributes: Strength 7 (13), Agility 9 (14), Constitution 8 (11), Intelligence 14 (20), Charisma 11 (20), Perception 9 (18).
(The number in front represents the current attribute, and the number in parentheses represents the growth limit attribute, which will only increase if the character level increases.) )
Hidden Attribute: Will 11 (Everyone's will is infinite.) )。
Lucky >30 (You got the legacy of Tolkien, the creator god, what a lucky guy.) )
Mental power: 23 (Because of time travel, your mental power is far stronger than you think.) )
Health: 70 (Constitution 8×5 + Level 3×10).
Mana: 100 (Intelligence 14×5 + Level 3×10)
Class Skills: Concoction Magic Potion 7, Magic Enchantment 5, Magic Language 3, Rune Formation 8.
Other skills: Occult 30, Dragon Language 2, Elven Language 6, Archery 11, One-Handed Weapon 10, Two-Handed Weapon 4.
Level 0 Spells: Electric Shock, Flash, Reading Magic, Teleportation, Freezing Ray, Arcane Seal. Increases resistance, detects magic, illusions, detects poison, stuns, and fights necromancy
Primary Spells: Magic Alert, Magic Missile, Shield, Greasy, Secondary Strong Acid Ball. Might, Jump.
Level 2 magic: strong acid arrow, spider web, sonic boom.
Bloodline Spell: 1 Mist (Level 2).
If you count his bloodline spells, he can now cast 4 second-level spells, 7 first-level spells, and 12 zero-level spells.
Even compared to some level 4 magicians, Tang En is not much different in terms of spell diversity.
A fourth-level mage can only use four zero-level, three first-level, and two second-level spells per day, for a total of eight spells.
When it really came time to fight, when he encountered Don En, who had no spell slot restrictions, he didn't have much power to fight back.
After all, according to Don's mana, he can use six second-level spells in a row, and when it comes to combat explosive ability, his level is no longer lower than Lucia's.