The first person who came to exchange the drawings of the heavy trebuchet was Baron Rice, an old acquaintance of Richard.

In the last year's war, Baron Rice was an important commander under Richard.

The two cooperated well, both made a windfall from the Dirham territory, and finally dealt with the trouble of sending people to inspect together.

With this relationship, Baron Rice believed in Richard very much.

After receiving the news that Richard was willing to trade the blueprints of the heavy trebuchet, Baron Rice was the first to come to the Harland Territory.

Baron Rice was very familiar with Richard and spoke straight to the point.

"Baron Richard, how are you going to exchange?"

"The royal family exchanged drawings for heavy trebuchets, valued at a thousand gold coins. We couldn't go below that price. However, the things traded are very flexible, they can be exchanged for various materials, and the valuation can fluctuate a little higher. ”

The royal family obtained the heavy trebuchet invented by Richard, and exchanged it with hundreds of nobles at home and abroad, at least a few hundred thousand gold coins worth of money.

The Haaland family is just a small aristocracy in northern Xinjiang, and although they have some influence in Geda Province, they are not able to compete with the royal family for business.

If it is low-price competition, it annoys the royal family and enters King Charlie's blacklist, and there will be a hidden danger of breaking the family in the future.

Even if the royal family doesn't do anything, and doesn't send reinforcements when the orcs invade, no nobleman can hold out for too long.

Even big nobles like Duke Edward and Duke Jonathan need the support of the royal family if they want to gain a foothold in the northern frontier.

Even though the heavy trebuchet was invented by Richard, the royal family ate hundreds of thousands of gold coins in profits.

Richard can't be jealous, and the territory can't compete with the royal family for business, which is the political correctness of the Grant Kingdom.

Unless there is the strength of the two dukes of Jonathan and York, there is the strength to make the royal family compromise.

How big a platform, how much strength, how much to do.

This is a truth that Richard has understood since he was a child.

Haaland's territory has a small platform and weak strength, and if he obtains a large amount of gold coins, he will be in big trouble.

Barony Rice is relatively barren and does not produce much.

But last year he fought the orcs and grabbed a large amount of gold coins.

But Baron Rice was reluctant to exchange the gold coins and decided to exchange them for orc slaves.

"There are seven minotaurs, forty-six sheep-headed men, and more than eighty ko-headed men in our territory, how much can you estimate?"

Orc slaves are relatively inexpensive and are far less valuable than human slaves.

Although the minotaur is strong and has brute strength, it is very difficult to manage, and unless it is a professional, it can hold down the position.

If you let the minotaur work in the field, there is a risk of escaping at any time.

Sheep-headed and kobold are weaker, although obedience is better.

But they don't understand the language of orcs and don't have good management experience, and their labor efficiency is outrageous.

Especially kobolds, who still eat a lot of food, it is very uneconomical to use kobolds as slaves.

Ten kobold slaves are not worth as much as a human slave.

"You know, orc slaves aren't worth much. If you add thirty serfs and these orc slaves, you can exchange. ”

Thirty serfs, including the old and the weak, add up to about one hundred and fifty people, and go to the slave market to buy them for more than seven hundred gold coins.

The valuation of orc slaves is only about two gold coins on average, which is twice the market value.

Baron Rice haggled with Richard and finally exchanged his orc slaves, plus twenty-six serfs, for the heavy trebuchet blueprints.

Some lords can't use orc slaves, and the key is that they can't understand the orc language.

There are a large number of indentured slaves in Richard's territory who are proficient in the orc language, and through these humans who have lived in the orc empire for many years, Richard can manage orc slaves.

Kobolds can let them go to mining, sheep-headed people can be used for grazing, and bullheads are so powerful that they can not only mine, but also use them to plough the fields when cattle are in short supply.

The mine is closed and there is a garrison outside.

Let the kobold go to the mines, a kobold must dig a hundred kilograms of iron ore every day to have food.

Using this new approach, the Harland Territory has gained some experience in managing orcs.

Because of his gentle temperament and helping Richard find the brown sugar wood, the sheep-headed man was treated much better.

The grazing life is not too hard, and the environment in the southern foothills of the Eagle Mountains is much better than that in the northern foothills.

The sheep-headed people do not need to be conscripted to fight, and they regularly hand over some livestock every year, and their lives are better than in the orc empire.

The living conditions have improved, and the sheep-headed people are very satisfied with the status quo, and even have a feeling of being happy.

Although the minotaurs resisted desperately, they were few in number and did not cause any trouble.

After the news of Richard's deal with Baron Rice spread, five or six more barons came back and forth.

Including Dark, Baron Bazel, which Richard was familiar with, they all used orc slaves, plus some human serfs, in exchange for heavy trebuchet drawings.

The orc slaves they brought with them have exceeded a thousand.

The number of human serfs also increased by five hundred.

Of these 500 serfs, Richard arranged them in the least important reclamation strongholds to prevent spies from being planted and infiltrating important departments.

After this wave of people, there were suddenly fewer nobles who traded heavy trebuchet drawings with Richard.

The speed of news transmission in the Kingdom of Grant is not fast, and many people do not know that Harland led to the invention of heavy trebuchets.

Moreover, Richard did not have a royal seal in his hands, and could not enter into a binding contract with Baron Rice.

The barons were given heavy trebuchet blueprints, which could also be exchanged for nearby provinces.

Richard thought that this would be the case, but he didn't expect that a few days later, he would usher in three barons, Paul, Harden, and Sharp.

The three barony territories were not far from Richard.

The threat posed by counterweight trebuchets has also been seen first-hand during the war.

They had planned to trade with the royal family, but after hearing the news of Baron Rice's deal with Richard, they waited a few days and decided to trade with Richard.

Trading with Richard allows you to exchange valuable heavy trebuchet drawings for low-value resources.

Baron Harden is strong, and there are also people in his territory who are proficient in the orc language.

Orc slaves were also valuable to him, and trading with Richard was a little uneconomical.

However, there was no shortage of resources in Barony Harden's domain, and five hundred tons of old grain were exchanged for heavy trebuchet drawings.

Although Baron Sharp's own strength is not strong, his wife, Baron Raphael, is no less powerful than Baron Harden.

He used a breathing book and exchanged heavy trebuchet drawings with Richard.

The Haaland family also has a collection of this breathing method, which is the broken brute cow breathing method.

It's just that the Brute Bull Breath brought by Baron Raphael is more complete than the Haaland family's collection, and it can be cultivated to the third order of a professional.

The scrolls that Baron Paul used to exchange for heavy trebuchet blueprints were more valuable, containing enchantment knowledge that could be used to create magic bombs.

(End of chapter)