A complete leopard skin was laid on a hemlock wood floor, and there were piles of yellow gold coins on top of the leather, but the most eye-catching thing was dozens of pure diamond-shaped crystals, and a dozen fiery red gemstones.

"There are almost 3,000 ...... here. No, at least 4,000 gold soles. An old mercenary with an iron hook in his left arm stared at the pile of gold coins on the leopard's skin.

Old John glanced at them and said confidently, "If there are less than 5,500 gold soles, I will eat them all!"

No one will doubt Old John's vision, he was originally a good financial manager of the War Bear Mercenary Group. Sure enough, the hammer said beside him: "5534 gold soles!"

"Hey, hey. Old John flipped the white crystals, "41 white crystals, 400 gold soles each, no discount, 16400 gold soles......! I haven't seen this kind of ruby, even if it's 30 gold soles, it's 500 gold soles. How many kinsols are there?"

Lilia, who was sitting next to Victor, pursed her lips and smiled, and said crisply, "A total of 23,434 gold soles." ”

"Okay, Hammer! You've made a lot of money in twenty years from buying ** our mercenary group!" Nelson patted Hammer on the shoulder affectionately, until he patted the big stout man on the ground and bared his teeth.

There's nothing more shocking than a pile of treasure in front of your eyes. The War Bear mercenaries have to admit that Victor's smuggling plan was a great success!

The War Bear mercenaries were all in high spirits, their eyes were red, and they couldn't wait to personally lead the mercenary group to do another smuggling business.

The mercenaries fought to the death, one was to find a way out, and the other was for money. However, unless the vassal soldiers suffered heavy losses, the lord would not easily recruit mercenary groups as family guards, so most mercenary groups only sought money. The War Bear Mercenary Group will earn a few hundred or thousands of gold at most for a mission. And the job that can earn more than 20,000 gold sol at a time, they have never thought about it.

Lilia is in charge of the family's finances and has the most profound knowledge of wealth.

What is the concept of 23,434 gold soles? In the early days, the Randall family purchased cattle and sheep from the Chebman family, and for every 20 gold soles, they could buy 4 cows and 2 sheep. Now purchased from Yeliu City, you can buy 5 cows and 4 sheep for every 20 gold soles. Theoretically, 20,000 gold soles can buy 5,000 cattle and 4,000 sheep.

Randall's net income from the sale of jaggery, green bricks, bacon, wheels, hemostatic agents, coffee and snow sugar was 11,000 gold soles, with an average profit of 700 gold soles per month.

If you only look at the 5,500 gold coins that the hammer took out, the money they earn in a year is equivalent to half a year's trade profits of Randall, and their capital is only twenty bags of jaggery and arrowheads, with a total value of no more than 600 gold soles.

How can the windfall profits of smuggling not make people crazy?

Victor sat on the main seat, playing with the dagger made from the Nightblade Leopard's Blade, and he saw the excited expressions of Nelson and the others.

Actually, the mercenaries miscalculated.

The Hammer brought back a fortune of far more than 20,000 gold soles, and the furs on the ground were the furs of the ferocious Nightblade leopards they hunted in the dark forest. In the eyes of the mercenaries, this leather can be sold for 1,000 gold soles, which is considered a sky-high price, but the nobles are definitely willing to buy the furs of the ferocious animals at a price 5 times higher, and if this leather is processed into high-quality leather armor by the hands of first-class craftsmen, then it can be sold for at least 10,000 gold soles.

Different things will have different values in different people's hands, and this is true of the leather of the Nightblade Panther, as well as the Fire Elemental Crystal.

In Old John's opinion, the flame crystal is a kind of ruby, and a dozen of them are worth 500 gold soles. In the eyes of jewelers, flame crystals can be a valuable raw material for gemstones. In the hands of the Divine Knights, the Flame Crystals allow them to exert their powerful combat power without being attacked by the Fire Elemental Sea. However, through the flame crystal, the alchemy auxiliary can increase the temperature of the furnace by 5 percent, reduce the fuel consumption by 2 percent, and improve the production efficiency of the brick kiln, and the melting efficiency of various ores, it is simply an extraordinary energy source!

Everyone rejoiced at the wealth earned by the Warhammer Mercenaries, but Victor was satisfied with the initial smuggling channels that had been established.

On the bright side, Victor built new water conservancy projects, vigorously developed agriculture, forestry, fish and animal husbandry, increased population and logistical capacity, expanded armaments, built fortresses and fortresses, and actively prepared for war. Secretly, Victor builds a smuggling network, recruits freeman traders and mountain mercenaries, makes huge profits, and then recruits various lords to join it, and finally forms a powerful interest group.

In the unlikely event that the ant tide overwhelms Randall's territory, Victor can also lead the lord group to deal with the Antman army with his smuggling power, and even if he loses his territory in the future, he will be able to occupy an advantageous position among the new interest groups. This is because the smuggling channels themselves do not depend on the resources of a particular territory.

The Warhammer mercenaries set out with only a few hundred gold soles worth of iron arrowheads and jaggery, and they made money by reselling the goods in the hands of the mountain people. Therefore, the profit comes from the smuggling trade itself, and has nothing to do with Randall's resources. But Victor can use smuggling channels to sell the materials collected and processed by alchemy humans one by one, which will definitely make him rich.

With the money, the Alchemy Tower can produce a steady stream of alchemy creatures, and Victor can not only fully collect mountain resources, but also the lizard swamp can also look forward.

Victor wants to use massive resources to strengthen his military strength, strengthen the army of the Yorks, strengthen the Buryat family, strengthen the Chebman family, and even strengthen the entire Gambis Kingdom. Only in this way can Ant-Man be defeated once and for all.

Because of the importance of the Free Folk Caravan plan, Victor summoned the three leaders of the Warhammer Mercenary Regiment, Hammer, Fermi, and Kidd the day after returning to Silvermoon Manor.

The icebreaker journey of the Warhammer Mercenaries brings many surprises to Victor. They passed through 23 territories, forced 41 cottages to participate in the smuggling trade, absorbed 57 mountain mercenaries, and not only arrived in the kingdom of Neville, but also got in touch with Baron Garrot, and Victor was very interested in the plan of Fat Wech's candied fruit industry.

When Hammer said that Baron Garrot ignored Wage's proposal, Victor couldn't help but laugh, "This Wage boss is a talent!"

The business plan that Fat Wech came up with is a classic, and there is a great hope of success, but his status is low, and he does not have the strength to promote the implementation of the plan, so Baron Garrot will not leave Wage and cooperate with the Warhammer Mercenaries instead.

If you don't have the strength, you are not qualified to participate in the distribution of benefits, even if you come up with a good idea, it is just to make a wedding dress for others, and Victor has a deep understanding of this. However, Wage's plan for a preserves industry is in line with the Free Folk Chamber of Commerce's strategic layout, and Victor doesn't mind giving him a hand.

Who doesn't use it?

"I need more flame crystals. Since the development of the candied fruit industry can be connected with Baron Garrot, it is necessary to support this plan!" Victor said to Old John, "Boss Welch guessed that behind the Warhammer mercenary group is the big man of the Randall family...... Old John, you're going to play the big guy and talk to him!"

"I ......," stammered old John, pointing to his nose, "my lord, I ...... I can't do it! I'm an old cripple. ”

"Haven't you adjusted to the change of identity?" Victor shook his head with a smile and said, "Now, you are all big people in front of the free folk traders! As long as the family continues to grow, you will be considered a big man among the upper class in the future!"

"Old John, you've run inns and grocery stores, and you've dealt with freeman traders like Wage. I'll leave it to you. I would like to mention that the freedmen must give up all their savings in order to participate in the preserves industry. ”

"In addition, I am going to open a shop on the side of Yeliu City, and you will take care of it. You will consult with Lady Alice about specific matters. ”

As soon as these words came out, the mercenaries, who were still in high spirits, suddenly looked at each other, and they couldn't help but look at Lilia with a stunned face, only Nelson didn't notice it.

Victor simply instructed Lilia directly: "Lilia, haven't you been shouting that there is a shortage of manpower? ”

"I can get busy. Lilia bit her lip and said reluctantly.

Lilia's jealous appearance made Victor happy, and if she accepted Alice generously, it would be unsettling. If it weren't for the fact that there was no one available, Victor didn't want the old mercenary to assist Alice, but for now, he could only let them help Alice open the situation first.

In order to avoid Lilia deliberately dragging her feet. Victor decided to smack her, "You think it's as simple as sending two women over to marry the York family?"

"The infiltration of family members is a necessary condition for marriage!"

"Don't look at Sister Alina's family, they don't have much place in the York family. The House of York could provide them with butlers and guards as long as necessary. Sylvia didn't make this arrangement, she was taking care of my emotions, but Madame knows very well that our Randall family lacks manpower, and she is waiting for me to take the initiative to speak!"

"It's inevitable that the Yorks will join Randall's Territory! I hope to postpone this point back for another half a year until my elite soldiers are fully integrated into the people!"

"If you don't cooperate with Alice, she'll have to go to the York family to recruit helpers! Lilia, are you willing to do that?"

Lilia shook her head again and again, lowered her eyebrows and said, "Victor, I was wrong. ”

Nelson looked at this, and then at that, and he couldn't understand why these old fellows had a constipated expression, so he said loudly, "What do you say, let's do it!"

Victor nodded in satisfaction, perhaps Nelson didn't have much of a careful eye, but he didn't lack great intelligence. In the face of unfamiliar areas, Nelson never messes with ideas, and always finds the key person to solve the problem.

Knowing how to make good use of people is actually a rare talent. With such subordinates, Victor also felt very comfortable.

"Hammer, the mercenary group newcomers, and the vendors are all resting in Pinewood?" asked Victor.

"Yes, sir. ”

Victor knocked on the table and said, "You have run a lot of wrongful roads this time, but you have also taken 41 copycat strongholds. Do you know what to do next?"

Hammer honestly said, "I don't know. ”

"These cottages are very important to us!" Victor said after a moment's silence, "They are the nodes of the smuggling channel, the objects of trade, the supply depots, the source of soldiers, and the processing workshops, and the production of candied fruit can be completely left to the mountain people." Our next step is to win over these cottages, and even strengthen them. ”

Victor carefully examined the map drawn by the Alchemy militia, walked back and forth a few steps, and said, "I'll make up some manpower for you, and then divide the Warhammer mercenary group into two mercenary groups, each with a strength of 50 people." ”

"The smuggling route is also divided into two, and each mercenary group is responsible for a smuggling route, and it will take one trip at most half a year!"

"On the next departure, the caravan should bring more daily necessities such as salt, linen, and candles, and you can also equip them with a few crossbows and some old leather armor. We've taught the mountain people how to eat sweet potatoes, but that's not enough! ”

"All of this is to increase the survival of the mountain people, reduce their dependence on the lord, and make them completely surrender to us! Whether or not to make money from the mountain people is secondary, and we need to recruit more people from among them. ”

Iron Hammer said cautiously, "My lord, will this anger the lords of various places?"

"Of course it will!" said Victor coldly, "The smuggling caravan will definitely be detected if it runs a few more times, and you will be able to do what you should do when the time comes!

"Don't be afraid!" Iron Hammer smiled and said: "Baron Schultz's sheriff has been cleaned up by the brute, and we almost robbed Baron Garrot's flame crystal, the brute bull is so strong, I have nothing to be afraid of!"

"Hammer, if you're scared, change me!" cried the one-eyed dragon, clapping his chest.

"Get out!"

"Alright...... Except for Nelson, everyone will have opportunities in the future. Victor waved his hand at the eager mercenaries, and then said to the hammer and them: "The three of you have a good rest during this time, get together with your wives and children, appease the newcomers, and run hard again in two months." I'll keep 2,000 of these kinsols, and you can divide the rest!"

"That's too much, my lord!" said Hammer with a sigh.

"That's it. Let's disperse. ”

The Free Folk Caravan is over, and it's time to see what the mercury has done. Victor turned to Lilia and said, "Honey, let Balor come to me." ”