Chapter 83: The Reality of Skinny
The upper camp has an elaborate wooden cottage, which is Victor's residence.
The villa is two floors up, and Victor is drawing a map in the upstairs study at this time. Black charcoal pens swirl over the huge whiteboard, and the rough map gradually became clear.
Victor checked the parchment scroll in his hand and sketched a few more strokes on the map, this is an iron ore vein that Jack has surveyed, and Victor intends to build his iron ore village here.
These days, some geographical information in Jack's territory is constantly passed on through the alchemy crow, and Victor gradually has a general understanding of the natural resources in the territory.
According to the annotation of the replacement agreement, the Victor Territory is bordered by the Barony of Eskeri to the north, the Viscount of Buryatia to the northeast, the Countdom of Chebman to the east, and 20 kilometers south of the hill camp in the south, which is 12,000 square kilometers, but it is far more than that. Because on the west side of the territory is borderless terra nullius, and on the other side is a large stretch of barren mountains, and through the barren mountains is the swamp. If you continue 40 kilometers south of the hill camp, you will reach the magnificent Jinshui River.
According to the law of lieges, these borderlands are unexplored territories that Victor has the right to explore, provided that he builds at least three castles to assert his sovereignty. Victor can't do it at the moment, he can't even afford to build a castle. In fact, the hill camp, together with the village of Pinghu and the camp of the Chebman family, controls an area of just over 7,000 square kilometers.
In this area, Victor has discovered two silver mines, an iron mine, a mythril mine, two lakes, a large sisal field, and a small flax field. Victor plans to digest these resources first, and then expand into other areas.
When the brick kiln village is on track, Victor plans to build the flax village and the carpenter village first, and the blacksmith village last. On the one hand, it was out of Taoguang's obscurity, and on the other hand, the large forge that Victor wanted to build lacked two important resources: oilwood and red crystal.
There is no coal and oil in this world, only firewood is used as fuel, and the temperature of the forge is not the way to smelt alloys. Therefore, it is necessary to use a kind of oil-rich wood as fuel, which is oilwood.
Victor has seen oilwood. When he was at the Marquis' Palace, the fuel for the fireplace was oilwood, except that they were called oil palms. Oil palm wood, although it is worth a lot of money, can also be bought. But what is the red crystal, Victor is really blind.
Busso told Victor that in order to create a type of high-quality alloy equipment, the forge must be inlaid with red crystal to increase the furnace temperature. Therefore, Victor decided to put the construction of the blacksmith village on hold first, and it would be best to find red crystals in the future, and if he really couldn't find it, it would be a big deal to produce second-class Thur silver equipment.
There was a sound of light footsteps outside the door, and Victor knew through the door that it was Lilia coming. After a while, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in. Victor shouted with his back to the door.
Lilia took the fragrant coffee, pushed the door in, and said in a coquettish voice, "Victor, the coffee you want." β
Do I want coffee?βVictor was wondering if his memory was declining when Lilia's round buttocks sat on his lap.
Victor only noticed at this time that Lilia was wearing a low-cut waist-cinching maid's dress, her long hair was wet, and there was a fragrant smell on her body, apparently she had just bathed, and at this moment she was looking at Victor expectantly with watery eyes.
Lilia's coquettish appearance made Victor's heart flutter, and one hand reached into her skirt to hold a soft ball.
This little goblin is really getting more and more seductive, and the life of the nobility is really depraved!" a pleasant smile appeared on the corner of Victor's mouth.
The vassals or maids of the nobility were generally the children of vassals. Vassals will try their best to send their children who have no inheritance rights to serve as servants in the lord's castle.
Don't look at the lowly servants, these positions are very competitive. The second son and daughter of the vassal did not have the status of vassal, and when they entered the castle, they had the opportunity to receive an education. If the squire is appreciated by the nobles, he may even become a family steward, or even a servant or soldier. And the handmaiden with outstanding appearance is also what the nobleman wants, even if she can't become a personal maid, as long as she can get pregnant, it will be considered a step to the sky, and there will be a lot of vassals willing to marry her.
When Victor was in the Marquis's Palace, there were also many beautiful maids around him, but those women did not dare to covet Victor's bloodline, because Victor was the nominal husband of the Marquis's at that time, and in fact, the little male pet, those maids knew who was the master of the Marquis's Mansion.
After being reborn, Victor was even more pitiful, bearing the name of a baron, but there was no one to serve around him, living alone in the villa, and he had to do everything himself, and he was very cold.
Now, the delicate and lovely Lilia has moved in with Victor, which gives this villa a taste of home, and Victor naturally loves her.
Lilia's face was red and warm when she was caressed by Victor, and she was secretly proud. It was the first time she had worn a long dress, and Linda had hired a tailor to make it for her. Linda tells Lilia that she is already an adult's personal maid, and the most important thing is to get more favor while she is young and delicate, so that she can give birth to a child of noble blood.
Lilia didn't have so much thought, she just wanted to please her sweetheart, so she changed into this sexy long dress, which now seems to work very well.
"Victor, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Victor didn't make any further moves, Lilia said in a greasy voice.
"I was thinking, Nelson and they should have been in Blackcastle, I wonder how much money they can make for me this time?"
Ten days ago, Nelson headed to Blackcastle with seven wagons full of purple cane wine, as well as 20 pounds of coffee and 500 pounds of cane sugar. This was the first time Victor had sold cane sugar and coffee, and he told Nelson that the price of cane sugar should not be less than 1 gold sol per pound, and coffee should not be less than 15 gold soles per pound.
Victor is optimistic about the sale of these two goods. The current production of cane sugar is stable at around 100 pounds per day, and coffee is much less, almost two pounds per day. If nothing else, the monthly income should be around 4500 gold soles. In this way, Victor will be able to produce 3 alchemy militia per month, and it won't be long before his castle can be built.
"My lord!" said Lilia, who was already like this, but Victor was still thinking about something else, which made the girl a little depressed.
Victor smiled lightly, and with a hook of his hand, he untied Lilia's white dress, revealing a pink delicate body in his arms. Victor picked Lilia up by the waist and walked straight to the bedroom.
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In the Goat Hotel, the fat on Boss Wage's cheeks trembled suddenly, and Nelson's gaze like a dead man made him feel terrified, but he still said firmly: "Sucrose, 20 copper soles a pound, coffee, 2 silver soles a pound, my lord, this is the highest price I can offer." β
"You black-hearted slut, you just said that cane sugar tastes better than honey! Are you kidding me?" Nelson shouted as he threw the 300-pound Wedchwood into the air.
Wei Qi's face was pale and sweating, and he begged bitterly: "My lord, I have already taken a big risk with this price, it can't be higher, the price you asked for is simply impossible, please believe me." β
Nelson put Wake down, knowing he hadn't lied to him.
Two days earlier, Nelson had arrived in Blackcastle, and he had sold a full 50 barrels of purple cane to the Yorks for 200 goldsoles. This money is only enough to buy food, and this time he needs to purchase 10 sets of equipment, 10 war horses, 20 horses, and 15 cows. Victor now needs more capacity and mobility to meet the demands of trade and transportation.
Although this money is certainly not enough, Nelson is not worried, he still carries coffee and cane sugar. Nelson believes that as long as he sells all of this, money is not a problem!
Nelson did not go to the York family to sell sugar and coffee, and Victor told him to be wary of the Yorks. So, Nelson went straight back to the Goat Inn. Old John had already invited a few bosses to come and see the goods, and he didn't even ask the monkey to help him find the merchants.
Cane sugar and coffee conquered everyone, and these bosses expressed their willingness to take it all and asked for long-term cooperation, but the price they offered was ridiculously low. In a fit of rage, Nelson blasted them all away, only Fat Wechie refused to leave, and then he gritted his teeth and offered the highest price, which was the one just now.
"Wage, what price do you pay for honey?" Nelson asked in a deep voice.
"My lord, our purchase price for honey is 1 pound and 4 gold soles, and now it's all in this market. Welch said as he wiped his sweat.
"Hah! You will pay 20 copper cords for such a good thing as cane sugar, and 22 copper cords a pound for salt!" Nelson laughed angrily.
Wei Qi rubbed his fat hands tangled, he really didn't want to give up sugar and coffee, his intuition told him that these two things could make him rich, but these people on the other side were completely outsiders in business, and Wei Qi really didn't know how to convince them.
"My lord, things are good things, but good things may not be able to sell at a high price, cane sugar and coffee have not been recognized by the noble lords, but you want to sell them at the noble price, how is this possible. Only I am willing to take this risk, and the price I give you is really sincere. I promise you that as long as the market is opened, I will definitely raise the price for you. β
"How much?" asked Nelson wistfully.
"Double!oh no, no!Double!" Seeing Nelson's face turn blue, Witch quickly changed his words.
"Can you tell me why?" Nelson looked at Welch coldly, and a vicious aura came over him, he was sure that someone was doing it.
"My lord, we small merchants all rely on caravans for food. If I sell it to a caravan for a high price, they will cut off the deal with me, and I'm doomed. Please be considerate!" said Wedge, bowing to Nelson.
"Caravan, the caravan people haven't seen sugar and coffee, how can they price you?, are you a fool to me?" Nelson sneered.
"My lord, the new goods are pressed to the lowest, things like salt can't exceed the price of salt, and things like tea can't exceed the price of pine nut powder, this is the rule of the caravan to receive goods!"
Nelson didn't say a word, he still couldn't believe that such a good thing was not even as good as table salt.
"Let's go!" After a while, Nelson gave the order to evict the guest.
"Your Excellency, you must think about it!" "Fat Weche was pushed out again by Old John, just like last time.
There was silence in the Goat Inn, and after a moment old John asked in a whisper, "Nelson, what shall we do?"
"Use the Blood-Eyed Raven to send a message to your lords. β