Entering the gates of Nolan, Richard first showed the city guards his noble coat of arms.

Seeing that he was the son of a noble baron in the north, the city defense officer was very polite, and after carefully checking the luggage of Richard and others, he gave Richard a customs clearance paperwork.

When he came to Nolan City, Richard first found a large hotel and settled everyone down. Then from the innkeeper, he inquired about the location of the slave market.

The slave market is located outside the southern city and is large in size, but it is a mess.

The planning is not very good, and the sanitary conditions are very poor. It stinks, and there is human and horse excrement everywhere.

Many of the slaves were very numb and did not seem to be ashamed.

Richard saw some female slaves defecating in the open, not caring about other people's eyes, and even revealing their private parts.

Strong slaves were displayed in the most conspicuous places, and some guests went up to crack the slave's teeth and check the slave's health.

Richard frowned, held his breath and walked around, getting a rough idea of the price of slaves.

A strong young male slave costs about twenty gold coins.

A strong young slave girl, the price is about twelve gold coins.

Slaves over thirty years old, there will be some problems with health, and the price will be half cheaper. Elderly slaves over the age of forty were just as much a loser as minor children, and the price ranged from one or two gold coins to a tael.

Craftsmen such as warriors, veterinarians, blacksmiths, carpenters, and shavers were more expensive than slaves in their prime.

Beautiful female slaves basically do not appear in the slave market, and this kind of precious slave basically appears in high-end places such as auctions and exhibitions.

In the slave market, professional indentured slavery was also available.

Indentured slaves are not the same as ordinary slaves. To purchase such a indentured slave, it is necessary to negotiate the indentured slave treatment in advance, and then sign a contract, which is more similar to a hired service.

At the end of their service, the indentured slaves regained their freedom.

These indentured slaves are basically captured officers, caravan guards, mercenary group mercenaries, hunters, adventurers, and so on. No family members paid the ransom before they were reduced to the slave market and became indentured slaves.

In the slave market, every indentured slave is very sought-after, and the price is also very high, and the ten-year contract of a third-order professional can even reach about three hundred gold coins.

With such a high price, Richard had a jaw-dropping feeling, and his spirit couldn't help but be a little trance-like.

This time he came to the royal capital, and Richard brought a lot of gold coins.

In order to buy enough people, the Haaland family went to great lengths to raise funds.

Sold off a lot of the assets in Blackriver Fort, including a watermill run by his stepmother, Lady Ola, and a farm of dozens of acres. Lady Aura even took out all her private money to get enough of it.

Lady Ola came from a merchant family and continued to run a number of businesses after marrying William. His elder brother, Rand Marsal, ran a grain store business and bought a large farm near Fort Black River, and his assets were quite large.

It was also in order to keep his wealth and find a backer for himself, that Rand married his young sister to William, a widower.

Now William struggled to become a hereditary baron, and Lady Ola's children became nobles.

In the Kingdom of Grant, there is a world of difference between nobles and commoners.

The laws of the kingdom clearly stipulate that judges, prosecutors, auditors, and high-ranking civil officials of counties and towns can only be selected from among the nobility.

became a nobleman, and only in law can he be regarded as a master and ruler of this country. Only then can you hold an important position, and only then will you have a future in life.

Ordinary people want to become nobles, and there is only one way to change the fate of their family in the Grant Kingdom, which is to obtain military titles through war.

Even if Lady Ola's children could not inherit the title, William would arrange a good future for them.

This time Richard went to Nolan, and Lady Ola's brother Rand also took out a thousand gold coins and lent them to the Harland family.

plus the money that Powell, William and others have accumulated over the years. In addition, Richard's uncle Soros, with his own property, borrowed 2,000 gold coins from the mercenary union for the Harland family.

Richard came to the royal capital this time, bringing with him the liquidity accumulated by two generations of the Haraland family for 20 years, adding up to 9,600 gold coins.

This also includes a debt of about 4,000 gold coins.

Richard found one of the largest slave traders and gave his seal to the slave traders.

The seal is a token of nobility, with Richard's name engraved on the front and the coat of arms of the Haaland family engraved on the back.

After becoming a hereditary nobleman, one must have a noble badge.

The Haaland family coat of arms depicts a majestic knight wielding a spear and riding an iron wildebeest.

The knight's appearance bears a lot of similarities to William. Seeing this badge, you can know part of the Haaland family.

The Harland family had just been knighted, and most of the ordinary people in the Kingdom of Grant were not familiar with this badge, except for scholars who specialized in the study of badges.

"The Young Master family is a new nobleman in the North? From the direct territory of the crown or the dukedom of Jonathan? My name is Smer, and I come from the Duchy of Guise to the west, and my great-grandfather was also a hereditary nobleman. ”

Discovering that Richard was a hereditary nobleman, Miles, a slave trader, was polite and greeted Richard warmly. However, I still want to talk between words, and I want to find out the details of Richard.

In this orc invasion war, the Kingdom of Grant only captured a total of four hereditary barons.

One is an ordinary military nobleman, the other is a well-known Baron Harden in Gascoigne Province, and the other two are the sons of Duke Jonathan, which can be regarded as Duke Jonathan's branch.

The influence of these three is almost worlds apart in Nolan. Although Richard is young, he will not be greedy for small advantages and pretend to be a member of Duke Jonathan's family.

Doing this kind of thing not only lost his noble status, but also became the laughing stock of the Grant Kingdom, and disgraced the honor of the Harland family.

When the situation is right, it can also become a big trouble. Maybe Duke Jonathan will take this kind of thing as a joke and won't pursue it. But owing the favor of the great nobles, the Haaland family simply can't afford it.

"My name is Richard, and I come from the Haaland family in the direct crown territory. Our family has just been promoted to hereditary nobility, and I want to buy some slaves from the royal capital to develop the territory. Mr. Biles, you are the biggest slave trader here, do you have enough slaves? ”

"I'm not the largest slave trader in the royal capital, the biggest slave trader here is the military department. The second few great nobles had slave caravans, and they were much larger than mine.

The total number of slaves in my possession is only more than 300 people, and they are slaves captured from the kingdom of Delong by Duke Guise. ”

The Dukedom of Guise is located in the southwestern part of the Kingdom of Grant, bordering the Kingdom of Delon.

Due to the perennial lack of population in the northern part of the Kingdom of Grant, there was a large market for the slave trade.

The market size is large, and the profit will not be small. The people within the kingdom cannot be caught, and the slave traders can only go to the nearby territories to commit crimes.

Moreover, there is a dispute between the territory of the Kingdom of Delong and the Kingdom of Grant, and the Duke of Guise is a feud with the Marquis of Hubble and the Marquis of Isaac of the Kingdom of Delong.

Although the war on the southwestern border was not as large and intense as the war in the north, there were always fierce conflicts.

Especially in the last hundred years, the northern border of the Grant Kingdom has been developed, and the Duke of Guise has crossed the border almost every year to capture slaves from the Delong Kingdom.

Duke of Guise, once a hereditary ducal family of the Kingdom of Delon. Because of a civil strife in the Delong Kingdom, Duke Guise failed to stand on the side, and in order to avoid being liquidated, he joined the Grant Kingdom and became the great nobleman of the Grant Kingdom.

The capture of slaves was already a very important income for the Duke of Guise.

In the outside world, Duke Guise even had the title of Slave Duke. The vassals of the Duke of Guise all followed the Duke in the slave trade.

The vast majority of the masters behind the slave market in the royal capital were nobles from the Dukedom of Guise.