"Uncle Alaric, you sail back to Waitanhoup Island first, old Peter should have all the boats and weapons and equipment we bought, except for the horses, bring them here!"

"Okay!" Alaric nodded and said, "Thank you, Don!" Don't worry, I'll be back as soon as possible! ”

After sending off Alaric, Tang Ping found Caldottir again: "If you want to buy something here, who are you going to trade with?" ”

"There are some smugglers who will sell us goods, but they are expensive!" Caldottir said helplessly: "Because we don't have our own country, a country like Syvix likes to enslave us to be slaves to them. ”

"So not only is the price high when trading, but you also have to be very careful, some smugglers are actually slave traders, and they will take advantage of the trade to take our people to be slaves."

"If we don't really need it, we rarely trade with outside merchants, and the main things we trade are necessities like weapons and medicines."

"But what if I'm going to buy a lot of food?" Tang Ping asked, "Where should I buy it from?" ”

"Food?? Why buy food? We all grow and hunt ourselves! "We never buy food outside. ”

Tang Ping scratched his head: "So your food is always not enough." ”

Don't look at the Vikings who were elected, they were strong, but it was the Vikings who sacrificed the rations of the old and weak to provide for them.

Every year the Vikings die in the winter, and there is no way around it, they have to make sure that the strongest Vikings have enough food to work and fight.

But in Tang Ping's opinion, it is still not enough, if he wants to increase the training of these people, he will naturally consume more food, and it is impossible to directly starve the Vikings to death.

So he had to purchase a batch of grain, and he brought a lot of money, but he didn't have a channel to buy grain here.

"Contact a few smugglers!" Tang Ping told Kardottir his thoughts: "Let's buy some food from them first, and then we will return to the island of Waitanhoup." ”

It was not a matter of two or three days for Alaric to go back and forth, but almost two months and three months.

Tang Ping will not let these months go to waste, so the military training of the Vikings is about to begin here, and food is a must.

Caldottir agreed, and called Don Ping her news.

About two days later, she found Tang Ping: "I have contacted a smuggling merchant, and he promised to sell us a batch of grain, but ......"

"But what?" Tang Ping asked.

"It's too expensive, my God, I never thought that anyone would dare to sell food so expensive, that's something the devil would do!"

Caldottir complained: "According to what you said about three months of food for a thousand people, he actually asked for three hundred gold coins, does he know how much three hundred gold coins are?" ”

One gold coin is one hundred silver coins, one hundred silver coins is one hundred iron coins, and when I was in Porto, one person ate about three iron coins for a day's food.

(The European conversion at the time was not in the decimal system, but it was written as such for the sake of plot convenience, otherwise it would have been too cumbersome to mint 240 dinars of silver for a pound of silver according to their algorithm.) ）

Twenty-seven gold coins would have been enough, but the smugglers had raised the price by more than ten times.

Tang Ping knew why Cardottir felt expensive.

He still has so many gold coins, but it's too unpleasant to think that he has been earned by these profiteers.

It's just that if you don't spend this money, then the training can't start, is it going to take more than two months to train or is it going to be these three hundred gold coins?

Tang Ping hesitated for a moment and chose the former, money can be earned at any time, but time can't be earned.

"Promise them that we are willing to pay for this batch of grain, but they must ensure the quality of the grain." Caldottir hesitated for a moment and didn't say anything, this was Tang Ping's decision, she just did it.

After a few more days, Caldottir said to Tang Ping: "The other party has agreed, and we will go to the sea to trade with them." ”

They usually trade like this, so that the location of their settlement is not exposed, and it is safer.

Tang Ping told Lao Cui that they brought the money, and got on the Viking ship, a total of six boats headed towards the sea, and walked for more than an hour, and finally saw three sailing ships on the sea.

Caldottir waved the flag in his hand, and the other party set up a gangplank for the people on the boat to pass.

"Patriarch Karl, it's a pleasure to see you again." A somewhat greasy businessman on the opposite side tried to come up and hug Caldottir, but she slapped him away.

"Yuris, we don't have any friendships, so what about our stuff?"

For these smugglers, Caldottir did not have a trace of goodwill.

"Well, you're ruthless, Patriarch Karl, but what about the money?? What you're going to buy this time is not a small amount! ”

Tang Ping asked Lao Cui to open the cash box and let him look at the gold coins inside.

Yuris greedily looked at the gold coins in the box, and his breath became short.

"Okay, you see the money, what about the food we want? Don't fool me with those moldy things! ”

"Don't worry, Patriarch Karl, it's not the first time we've worked together!" Yuris smiled slightly, "Please come with me to the cabin to have a look!" ”

He led the way in front and took Tang Ping and them down the cabin.

Soon they were surrounded by a group of men with weapons.

"Yuris, what do you mean by that??"

"Patriarch Karl, I really underestimated you, I didn't expect you to earn three hundred gold coins in such a rural place!" Yuris smiled and said, "It's a pity that I won't find that much food for a while." ”

"So you're ......"

"Hehehe, Patriarch Karl, the money I earned from you is estimated to take more than ten years to earn three hundred gold coins, since you sent three hundred gold coins, I naturally don't need to do business with you in the future!"

This guy, this is a circle set up to rob hard, and Tang Ping is the first time he has met such an unsophisticated businessman.

But that's just the right way to pay for it.

"Lao Cui, on!"

Tang Ping gave an order, and all his guards drew their weapons and rushed forward.

In this era, the almost invulnerable stab-proof suit and the war knife that can cut through almost any weapon of the enemy allowed Lao Cui and them to take out all of Yuris's men in just a few minutes.