"Piri, are these all the slaves you brought?"

Gervais retracted his gaze and looked at the slaver in front of the unicorn.

"Master Gervais, yes, this time I have brought a total of seven hundred and thirty-five slaves, one hundred and ninety-six families, including four hundred and seventy-nine male young slaves, one hundred and seventy-seven young women, thirty Chinese New Year's Eve, and the rest are all children."

Piri didn't dare to slack off, answered Gervais's question in detail, and then looked at Gervais with some apprehension, after all, although the thirty-odd old people were not too old to move, they were no longer able to do heavy physical work, and at most they could only do some ordinary farming work.

He was just a small slave trader, but Gervais was the husband of the Earl, and looking at the hundreds of heavily armed soldiers behind Gervais, Piri was afraid that his slave this time would not satisfy Gervais.

"Piri, do you remember that day before I left, I told Le to recruit artisan craftsmen, did you do it?"

The proportion of slaves satisfied Gervais, and now Gervais began to care about whether there were craftsmen, his territory was in ruins, but the population was sparse, there were almost no craftsmen, and without craftsmen there could be no construction, and Gervais was in urgent need of talents.

"Remember, Lord Gervais, the villain is working hard for the adults, and has brought in all the slave craftsmen he can find in Winterfell!"

Piri nodded hurriedly to show that he was doing things for Gervais very carefully, and as he spoke, he took out a note from his bosom and called the ragged slaves not far away.

Soon, Piri read the names of more than a dozen slaves, and all of them stood out of the crowd with a cower, not daring to look up at Gervais.

"Master Gervais, these are the craftsmen you need, 10 stonemasons, 7 carpenters, 1 tailor, and a blacksmith!"

Piri introduced Gervais with a flattering face.

Gervais looked at the slaves whose names were named, and although Gervais did not ask if they were real craftsmen, he could see a little clue from his appearance.

The other slaves were all yellow-faced and thin-skinned, but the bodies of these people were much stronger, and it was obvious that after becoming slaves, these people did not starve like the others, and the treatment they received was estimated to be much better than that of other slaves.

Slave traders are masters who don't want to die as long as they have money, and they can provide more food for these people to eat, which means that they are valuable and can earn back from them in the future, after all, craftsmen are also talents in this world.

"Very well, Piri!"

Gervais finally nodded in satisfaction, and nodded to Anna behind him in Piri's expectant gaze, and Anna immediately rode forward and handed Piri a money bag.

"Master Shegervis! Master Shegervis!"

Piri first opened the money bag, and when he saw that there were golden gold coins in it, he immediately smiled from ear to ear, turned around cautiously and nodded, and even took out a gold coin and put it in his mouth and bit it, and after making sure that the quantity and quality of the gold coins were all right, Piri's face was almost full of laughter.

"Okay Piri, don't get in the way, I'm going back to the territory, master!"

Gervais didn't mind Piri's actions, he wouldn't cheat anyway, and this trade was indeed a big deal for a small slave trader like Piri, and it wasn't that there were no nobles who cheated people by cheating.

"Yes, yes! Master Gervais walks slowly, if the master needs anything in the future, he can also come to the villain, the villain must bow to the essence! ”

Piri didn't dare to slack off, and immediately retreated to the side with a few of his helpers and saluted Gervais.

Gervais didn't respond to Piri's words, and without squinting, he urged the unicorn to slowly walk towards the avenue ahead.

As Gervais moved, everyone behind him moved, including guards, pikemen, and even slave longbowmen and swordsmen.

These longbowmen and swordsmen won from Kevin's bets, and they were only loyal to those who had the scepter, and now the small whip that symbolized the scepter was in Gervais's hands, so Gervais could use it with confidence.

In addition to the soldiers, there are dozens of carriages in Gervais's team, these carriages are loaded with the most food and other daily necessities, Gervais has more than 700 slaves purchased today, if you don't buy food back, the storm collar can't afford to supply it at all, if you want these slaves to support themselves and grow output, you will have to wait until next year at the earliest.

As for the remaining carriages, which were filled with all kinds of fine utensils that Gervais had brought out of his new mansion, Gervais didn't have much time to return to Winterfell, so of course he would bring these good things back to Stormwind, and more importantly, Gervais still had a careful idea, that is, in the future, he would prefer to live in Castle Rose.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that Gervais covets Alice's beauty, but Gervais has a very valid reason, that is, he lives in Rose Castle so that he can go to Alice's study to read books.

As the team slowly advanced, there was naturally a personal guard Zhang Luo who arranged those newly bought slaves at the back of the team.

These more than 700 slaves joined the marching procession, and in an instant, the length of Gervais's convoy was more than a mile long, which was spectacular, but the slaves had been starving for a long time, and the speed of their hearts was also very slow, which seriously reduced the speed of the procession.

However, Gervais was not in a hurry, and now he was fully loaded, both in terms of population and gold.

After this return, it will definitely make the storm leader improve, and this trip also proves that Gervais's business strategy is correct, and the main direction of the storm leader in the future Gervais is full of confidence.

Suddenly, Gervais seemed to notice something in his heart, so he turned around and looked up at the majestic Rose Castle on the mountainside, thanks to his vision far beyond ordinary people, Gervais vaguely saw a purple figure standing on the balcony on the third floor of the Rose Castle.

"This cheap wife doesn't come out of the castle to see me off, stand on it and see what's going on, the wind is so strong!"

Although he couldn't see the face of the purple figure clearly, there was no doubt that Gervais was Alice, Gervais muttered in his heart, but the most coincidental thing was to show a smug smile, and suddenly raised his hand and waved at Rose Castle, regardless of whether Alice could see it or not.

……

"My lord, it's windy here, let's go in first!"

Lina stood behind Alice and reminded her slightly when she saw the hem of Alice's skirt being blown up and down by the cool breeze.

Now that autumn has fallen, the tail of summer has slipped away, the weather is gradually getting cooler, standing on the balcony high, the cool breeze blowing on people is bringing a little coolness.

Alice held on to the railing, and when she saw Gervais in a red cloak in the distance, she suddenly turned around and waved her hand to this side, her cold and pretty face couldn't help but smile, and then she turned her back to Lina and said slowly: "It's autumn, this year's conscription order is about to be issued, Lina I handed over to you The Mithril should be forged into weapons by the blacksmiths as soon as possible, I think this southern expedition is not as easy as in previous years." ”

In the past, the annual southern expedition was a good time for the nobles of the principality to snatch merit, because the Duchy of Alban was weak and was caught between the two countries.

The Duchy of Albane is pressed and beaten by the Duchy of Jean every autumn, and can only defend hard, if it were not for the secret support of the church, the Duchy of Alban would probably have been destroyed long ago.

But this year, the church took the initiative to start interfering with the internal affairs of the Duchy of Jean, and Alice faintly felt that the church could not bear it anymore.

"My lord, I have summoned the blacksmiths to start forging and ensure that it will be completed before the southern expedition."

"Hmm!"

Alice hummed, then said no more, continuing to watch the distant group out of sight.