Chapter 39: The Lamb Feast
"Oh...... I understand, if we have a small trading volume, we will exchange two hundred sheep for one pot, and if we have a large trading volume, we will only need to exchange one hundred sheep for one pot!" This time, it was not the calm old werewolf orc Kashpkin who took the lead in calculating it, but his eldest son, the werewolf young orc Pushiko, was the first to figure it out. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Oh......" After Pushko calculated the results, Kashputkin suddenly realized, but Kashputin thought of another question: "But we can't get together so many sheep at once! Keep some lambs in winter, otherwise there will be no sheep at home next year......
"You can exchange it for other herdsmen who go to the iron pot, and we will give you the price of 100 sheep in an iron pot, and you can exchange an iron pot for 200 sheep in the grassland?
Seeing that these steppe wolf orcs had opened their minds, Ziggy continued to exert their strength, according to his idea, if the trade was to be maintained for a long time, then Kashpkin's side should also have profits to make.
The great sage Lao Ma once said that capitalists will take risks when they have 50 percent of their profits, dare to trample on all the laws of the world when they have 100 percent profits, and dare to risk being put on the gallows if they have 300 percent profits.
This iron pot trade can allow them to exchange a hundred sheep for two hundred sheep as soon as they change hands, with such a high profit margin, Ziggy doesn't believe that they are not tempted!
Ziggy handed the iron cauldron to the three werewolf orcs, and the deal was completed.
This transaction, both parties are very satisfied.
Bucklev's sister, that is, Kapushkin's youngest daughter, will be married next spring, and the steppe orc can marry a daughter to marry an iron pot, which is a face-saving thing, after the orc girl marries, the husband and mother-in-law often treat the newlywed wife who can have such a rich marriage.
Ziggy also got two hundred sheep, and in the Holy Odin Empire, one sheep was worth thirty to forty silver coins, and if they were all sold, they would earn six thousand to eight thousand silver coins, which was equivalent to sixty to eighty gold coins.
One gold coin is equivalent to a hundred silver coins, which is nothing more than a drizzle for the wealthy nobles of the Holy Odin Empire, but for an ordinary poor person who can earn dozens of copper plates and is already very happy, a hundred silver coins is enough to make a family of three live in wealth for two years.
Of course, the significance of this transaction is far more than that, not only because they got what they wanted, but also because they established a stable cooperative relationship for long-term trade in the future.
For the Kapushkin family of the Hegus tribe, they no longer have to worry about drinking hot water or hot soup in winter, nor do they have to worry about not being able to feed those cattle, sheep and livestock in winter.
As long as they kept some lambs, the rest of the livestock could be slaughtered and eaten, or sold to the humans like Zig, and in the spring of the following year, they would exchange the iron pot and other orc tribes on the steppe for more cattle and sheep.
For Ziggy, although the wholesale method is adopted, an iron pot can only be exchanged for a hundred sheep, but how much is an iron pot worth?
Less than a hundred copper plates!
Later, when a long-term trade relationship was established, it was not a trickle of water at all, but a great river with a steady stream of wealth!
Windfall!
It's profiteering!
Naked profiteering!
After the deal was completed and they separated, Ziggy crossed the Salmon River on a raft that had been waiting by the river for a long time, and returned to Grizzly Village.
The two hundred sheep were transported on two rafts for nearly an hour before they were all transported back to the village.
Later, the stealthy Assassin Ian, who had been lurking on the north bank of the river, returned to Ziggy with a message that sent chills down his spine.
After the three of them left, Ian, who was hiding on the north bank of the Salmon River, found that in addition to the three werewolf orcs who traded with Ziggy on the surface, there were several werewolf orcs in the snow.
And they are all werewolf orc warriors in the form of werewolves, there are about a dozen, and after the transaction is completed, these dozen werewolf orc warriors came out of the snow and left in the direction of the steppe with the elderly werewolf orc Kapushkin.
"Are you sure the steppe orcs who were ambushed in the snow are gone?" The news sent chills down Ziggy's spine, both rejoicing and raising his vigilance.
It turned out that not only did Ziggy not believe in werewolf orcs, but these werewolf orcs also didn't believe in Zig as a human, and they were more prepared, if it weren't for Ziggy shooting the Great Naga Split Arrow in front of that group of werewolf orcs, the consequences would ...... Ziggy couldn't even imagine it.
Is it to prevent Ziggy from plotting against him?
Or is it to take the opportunity to kill Ziggy, rob it, and make a deal without capital?
Whatever the reason for the werewolf orcs ambushing so many warriors in the snow, Ziggy was horrified by his negligence.
"They should all be gone...... stealth assassin Ian was very careful, not only lurking in the snow for a longer time, but also carefully observing for a long time after all the werewolves had retreated, making sure that those werewolf orcs had no possibility of coming back to sneak attack, and then came back to report to Zig.
In any case, Ziggy made a big mistake this time, and although he finally completed the deal safely and brought back two hundred prairie sheep, there was no guarantee that Ziggy would be so lucky next time.
There are so many werewolf warriors hidden, but the sentry on the watchtower has not yet discovered it, Ziggy thought about it, it shouldn't be that the sentries are lazy, the bigger reason should be the black and white coat color of the steppe werewolf orcs, which is extremely conducive to ambushing in the snow, and the effect of their coat color is similar to that of camouflage uniforms.
Terrible rivals and partners!
In addition to arranging people to take turns on duty on the watchtower, Ziggy also ordered Biden to sleep with their weapons tonight, in case these steppe werewolf orcs take advantage of the night to go and return.
But as time went on, the steppe wolf orcs did not come back to raid.
However, since then, Ziggy has never relaxed his security guard.
......
The first thing that drove the two hundred sheep back to the grizzly village was to attract the attention of the villagers.
Two hundred sheep are just a small flock on the grassland, and the steppe orcs don't even care too much about this number of sheep, a steppe orc family grazes at least three or four hundred cattle and sheep, if it is a powerful steppe orc tribe, it is common for each orc to have thousands of cattle and sheep.
But for the ordinary poor people of the Holy Odin Empire, they had never seen so many sheep.
Two hundred sheep filled the village path, and many of the villagers of Grizzly Village looked curiously at so many sheep with thick wool, and they were all talking about where the new little noble village chief got so many scurrying guys.
In addition to herding most of the sheep into the enclosure, Ziggy asked Aunt Mary and Dwayne Johnson, a slave of the Minotaur, to take the two sheep to Tucker Town for money and dozens of pounds of flour to take back to the village.
In the evening, Ziggy ordered two sheep to be slaughtered, one to be roasted on the fire and the other to be stewed, and to invite all the men, women and children of the village to a feast of mutton.
That night, more than a dozen bonfires were set up in the field near the entire grizzly bear village, and on the largest bonfire in the middle, there was a roasted whole sheep roasted to a golden crisp and fragrant aroma, and an iron pot hung on a small bonfire around it, and each iron pot was boiling mutton.
All the villagers' bread ovens were turned on because Chief Ziggy distributed a pound of flour to every household in the village, and the villagers baked fragrant white bread from the flour!
It wasn't until the noodles were reconciled and the bread was about to be baked that many villagers found that the bread oven at home had either accumulated dust, or the chimney on the oven had been blocked by something, and many villagers had been covered in black ash in order to clean the chimney of the oven.
But the villagers of Grizzly Bear Village are happy! Many villagers haven't eaten white bread in years!
The villagers who had been covered in black ash in order to clean the chimneys, although their faces were black, but when they thought of eating white bread, they couldn't help but laugh out loud, showing a mouthful of white teeth and silly music.