Chapter 65: The Caravan on the Agenda

"Lord Baron, Anroes has come to visit."

Hearing the squire's briefing, Evan was surprised, he had been busy with the Snapdragon Army for the past few days, and he had completely forgotten what he asked Anroth to do.

However, Rao is like this, and Evan still decides to meet Anros, if you don't consider the background, the latter is definitely the best person in internal affairs under him, not one of them.

"Anros, do you have anything to do with me?"

Evan put down the parchment in his hand and looked at the old man in front of him.

"My lord, you and Mademoiselle have instructed me to form a caravan of our own to develop the economy of the territory. Now I'm almost ready to go."

Anroth placed a roll of parchment on Aven's desk and took a half-step back, waiting for Aven's decision. Ai Wen patted his head, he patronized military affairs, internal affairs and diplomacy, and even the palace regiment were thrown behind by himself.

He picked up the parchment and looked at it seriously. Evan thinks that the caravan is second only to the Snapdragon Army, so he doesn't dare to be careless.

The content on the parchment is also very simple, Anlos mainly lists the things that Laques can buy and needs to buy, and at the same time roughly writes how to run, what preliminary preparation is needed, and how much price is appropriate.

"What do you think, tell me about it."

Putting down the parchment in his hand, Evan looked at Anroes. He only stayed at the stage of theory on paper, and he didn't know much about the specific steps and processes, which was far from people like Anroos.

Instead of being a layman commanding an expert like Jiang Zhongzheng, it is better to let people who know how to do it themselves from the beginning.

"My lord, Laques didn't have much to buy, it was mainly food and meat, and nothing else, but now there are carpenters, tanners, blacksmiths, etc., in the territory, and maybe some finished products can be bought from their places and shipped to other places to sell. As for where to sell, I think we should choose Essex City over London."

Aven basically agrees with Anlos's words, but in his impression, the city of London, as one of the few big cities, is not Anroos's target.

"Why not London? As far as I know, the city of London is larger in terms of population and size."

An Lothon paused, and breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably in his heart, it seemed that the young man in front of him still had something he didn't know, not as omniscient and omnipotent as people said in private.

"You're right, the city of London is indeed good, but there are also many people who are already buying things there, and the shops in the city are very expensive, unless the Earl is willing to give you one, I am afraid that we will not be able to afford a newly formed caravan like ours."

Anroth's words reminded Evan that he seemed to have a shop in the city of London at the beginning, and promised the owner of the shop, but there was no contact until now, and people who didn't know thought he had run away.

"I have a shop in London, and Deloris knows the location, so you can ask her to take you there. Your plan is good, so I'll follow yours, but I have some suggestions for you to listen to. If it makes sense, do it, and if you don't think it works, I won't blame you for not saying it."

Anroes was surprised to hear that Evan actually had a shop in the city of London, he was very familiar with the city of London, and he knew too well how expensive the shops were there. He quickly came to his senses, borrowed a pen from Aven, and began to write down his suggestions on parchment.

"What we sell through the caravan must first ensure the supply of the territory, which is necessary. Secondly, I think it's better for us to sell things that aren't wheat, hides, fish, or anything like that, it's not that we can't buy them, but these things, you know, don't sell at a good price, so it's better that we can do some processing in the territory before we buy them."

"For example, whether wheat is ground into wheat flour or directly made into bread, and whether animal skins can be directly made into leather jackets. The price of these processed goods must be much higher than that of the raw materials. As for the blacksmiths, I'll invite them to join the caravan, but I'm not sure if they'll agree, so be prepared if they don't."

"In Essex, you focus on raw materials first, and in London, if you think these things are not easy to sell, I know that there are several things that can be turned into novelties after simple processing, and can be tested in shops in the city of London. If it works, it can be rolled out to Essex City."

"Caravans are one of the most important things in our territory, and you need to send special people to manage and run them, and anyone who embezzles money or does anything else that damages the territory, no matter what his status, must be handed over to Deacon to deal with."

"All I can say is this, I don't know exactly how to run the caravan and what problems it will encounter, it depends on you capable people to do it. Of course, if the caravan is bullied outside, it must be based on its own life, and it can be earned if the money is gone, but it is really gone if the people are gone. When the caravan returns, tell you, you have to tell me, and I'll take care of the rest."

Anlos looked deeply at the young junior in front of him, the latter's words sounded more like what the elders said to the juniors, it doesn't matter if you are wronged, who bullied you, Lao Tzu will help you bully back, whoever doesn't want you to have a good time, Lao Tzu doesn't want anyone to have a good time!

If someone else said that, Anlos would definitely scoff at it, aristocracy really thought it was so simple?

But the young man in front of him, maybe he can really do it? After writing down Aven's words in full, Anroes began to prepare for the caravan.

Even if Evan didn't say how important the caravan was, Anroes didn't dare to take it lightly, the way the Snapdragon Army spent money like flowing water before gave this old man a deep shock, and it was the first time he knew that the army was so expensive.

This also gave him a great sense of crisis, although the Barony of Láques has experienced decades of development and has a certain inventory, but these will eventually be exhausted.

If the caravan can't get up and can't balance the territory, no one knows what will happen then, and Anroos doesn't want that to happen.

Although the Earl of Morloll and His Majesty King Charles are constantly supporting their own lords' expansion of the Snapdragon Army, who knows how long this support will last, and they can be relied on in the short term, but it is better to rely on themselves in the long run.

"I heard you've been busy lately, will I disturb you now when I come here?"

A voice sounded outside the door, and Evan stopped the pen in his hand and looked at the door with some surprise. I don't know when, the Count of Morol was already standing at the door.

"Why, Lord Earl, I'm glad to come here. It's just that you didn't tell me in advance that I had to prepare something."

Evan got up with a smile and was about to step forward to greet him, but Count Morol took the first step and walked in, pretending to be mysterious,

"I'm here to surprise you today, my daughter asked me to help a long time ago. I've been looking for an opportunity, and now it's finally done, so I'm coming to you."

Evan was a little confused, and Deloris actually secretly told the Earl without telling herself.

"Lord Count, what did Delores say?"

Count Morol laughed a little and said towards the door,

"Evan, who do you see coming?"