295 Soldiers and Horses (2nd Watch)

Wang Shi still exists in this world, and has not disappeared into some mysterious spatial black hole. In addition to throwing the soul of the Great Demon King of Luo Yi together with a science and technology guide that is outdated to the extreme, the Egg Pain Star Man never reached out to interfere with the operation of this world, and naturally he would not help the Great Demon King to attack the Wang Master, and the worries of the former contractor Carl were unreasonable.

They were also very active in preparing for war, and the hammers in the blacksmith shop rang every day, which may be strange to some people, because they were not unarmed civilians, they all had armor and weapons, and those who had defected to them, ready to benefit from the recovery of Neustria, also brought their own armor and weapons, but their armor had to be changed to suit the size of their fat masters, and some of the iron rings on the chain mail, which had rusted due to the long escape from war, had to be removed and replaced with new ones, or redone, The arrowheads of the consumables were also hammered out with a hammer, so their blacksmiths were busy despite the support of the craftsmen of the royal family of St. Omer.

This made all the people who came to them feel very powerful, and among them was a merchant named Roma, who had traveled all over the world and made a lot of trade. He was a merchant of the sea, owned several large ships, and owned many properties in his own land, and could have given the trade to his son, and sat down at home and enjoyed his blessings, but according to his own account, when he had gone from a sailor to the owner of a boat, and felt that he had saved up enough property, he was met with a great calamity, and almost in an instant he became a destitute poor man, and he was rescued by the saints, and not only did he avoid bankruptcy. And since then he has been more and more lucky, although he has lost a boat. But he was compensated elsewhere and soon bought a boat again. The business was bigger than ever, he said, that he had made a vow to give himself and his son to the gods and saints at that time of his rare salvation, but according to the saint's will, he was taught to serve the gods and the saints by doing what he was accustomed to, so that he was even richer, but he still ran the sea tirelessly to do business, and from then on he specialized in the trade of monasteries and churches. He trafficked white paper, beeswax, wine, amber, porcelain from Tournest to the nations to peddle it to the rest of the world while he was fighting pen wars in this church. Business is getting better and better, because the churches and monasteries in those countries feel that the great war is imminent, and they are openly supporting the pope of the Eternal City, but their wallets are scrambling to support the pope of Neustria.

At this time, he brought a shipload of popular goods to the exiled court of St. Omeer, in addition to the white paper, beeswax, wine, and other things that he used to sell for the church, as well as some old armor, second-hand swords, hammers, and sticks. According to him, these things. It was he who guessed that the Neustrian royal family, which was trying to recover and was recruiting troops, needed it, so he specially responded to the call of the Eternal City and bought them from his hometown from the noble knights who were too old to participate in the holy war in person, and prepared to supply them cheaply to the orthodox royal family and the crusading army.

The goods he brought with him were exactly what he said. It was sold very cheaply, and although it was shipped from afar, the price was very fair. Compared to him, the price of the armor and swords sold by the other merchants who heard the news was like a robbery. In other words, the goods supplied by the sea merchant Rohm seem to be so cheap as they were snatched for nothing.

"It's all because I'm grateful to the gods for saving me during that great disaster. I don't dare to ask for more interest, and besides, I'm not new. Rohm humbly said that, indeed, his goods were second-hand, and anyone could tell at a glance, because he had not polished them and passed them off as new. Of course, if anyone buys something from him and doesn't want to expose the fact that he is shy in his pocket, he also provides free polishing services to ensure that the price is good and good. Therefore, not only did the ordinary soldiers, seeing his price, come to him and replace their leather armor with iron armor, but also knights secretly covered their faces and came to him to ask for goods. It's a pity that although his things are good, the quantity is really limited, and they are almost all at once, making those who are a step too late sigh.

"Sorry, you're late, please be early next time." The young man with weak straw-colored hair said to the patrons who came late, of course, he didn't think that there would be a next time, and the idea of selling second-hand swords and armor from the old Neustrian nobles to the orthodox royal family of Neustria was not approved by everyone in the staff, and some people thought that it was purely a capitalist enemy, and they wished that their future enemies would all wear grass skirts and fight with their nails, so although the price of selling second-hand goods was much higher than the price of scrap metal recycled, the final approval was only a ridiculously small figure.

When it was time to put it into practice, they were glad that the number of approved was very small, after all, many of the armor and swords were ancestral, and they were not sure which of the remnants of the exile would recognize them, and it took a lot of effort to pick out some imported goods from the many seizures, and give them to this Humphrey merchant, who had been loyal to them since the time of Tournest, as a stepping stone to open the court of exile, and to make a name for it, and as a precaution, the lazy Bael, who "couldn't help much in the staff", was also kicked in to supervise and act as a spy.

It was well worth the trip, and soon he heard from the junior knights who lamented that they had not caught up with the pious merchants' bargain sale, and that the exiled royal family, like them, wondered about the delay of the new pope of the Eternal City for reprimanding the Bishop of Turnest for usurping the archbishopric - had not the Holy See of the Eternal City completely turned against Novoneusteria? They have already been excommunicated from the "Neustria's liar", so why are they still obsessed with raising prices? There is no second buyer...... Do they still expect Novoneutria to give them two thousand pounds?

Of course, there was more to Bailier than that, the skill of counting sheep that he had cultivated when he was a shepherd had been fully applied at this time, and on the surface, he was just running errands for his master, and going everywhere to inquire about the sale and demand of goods, which seemed to be no different from the previous work he had done for Chief of Staff Jason, but he only needed to sweep it with his eyes, and swept the situation of the men and horses and equipment in the range he passed into his mind.

According to his estimates, 8,000 people had gathered under the exiled royal family, and these people were not farmers, but warriors trained in martial arts. He also collected records of other information about horses, armaments, food, and ships, and sent them back to Neustria with carrier pigeons. (To be continued......)