After Odaye signed a contract with Idar, money, machinery and skilled workers soon arrived in Belenburg. Odaye has been operating a flour mill for more than a decade and has trained a large number of mature workers.

With capable workers as the backbone, the new flour mill was successfully operated in less than three months by bringing the old to the new.

Although Odaye offered higher wages to skilled workers than in the country, ordinary workers kept costs down.

In Haaland's homeland, labor costs have begun to rise in recent years.

Taking the central and Heihe provinces as examples, the factory needs to pay each worker a monthly salary of four silver coins, and the working hours cannot exceed 12 hours a day, and the canteen must provide free meals, 15 days of vacation a year, and pay for labor insurance such as gloves and work clothes.

In Rex Province, through negotiations with government departments, as long as they can manage three full meals, two silver coins per month, they can recruit indentured slaves to work, and the factory can force indentured slaves to work for fifteen or sixteen hours, with no holidays throughout the year.

From the perspective of labor costs, opening a factory in Rex Province can greatly reduce costs.

After the flour was produced, Odaye himself went to Kanas Castle to sell flour to the bakeries, high-end restaurants, and wealthy freemen in the castle.

After the large-scale production of white flour in Haaland's domain, selected flour was no longer reserved for the great nobles.

With the circulation of trade, fine white flour gradually appeared in the castles of Kanas, and even in the south of the Sith Kingdom, the Kingdom of Palame, there was a small amount of flour made in the Kingdom of Haland.

It's just that due to the distance of thousands of kilometers and the high cost of logistics and transportation, the flour in Kanas Castle is very expensive. Now the flour market in Rex Province is as high as 16 copper coins a kilogram. This selling price is already eight times the level of the wealthy provinces such as the central and Heihe kingdoms of Haland, and it is more than five times higher than that of poor areas such as Priland and the east coast.

Don't be too expensive, in Hawkins, Auxerre, the kingdom of Palamé, white flour sells for as much as three silver coins a kilogram.

If three years ago, a kilogram of selected flour at Kanas Castle would have cost one silver coin, and ten years ago, selected white flour was reserved for the great nobles. Even the little rich nobles could not buy selected white flour.

Today, the price is half that of three years ago, mainly because of the sea trade, which saves logistics costs.

The Dawn Plane is a little different from Richard's previous life, the danger in the ocean is extremely high, and it is difficult for the ocean trade to circulate on a large scale.

Haaland has been accumulating for many years, and there are only more than 20 magic ships, mainly used to transport troops.

The magic ships are basically the main warships, and there is not much tonnage to transport goods, and the remaining more than 60 steam cars, distributed along the coastline of nearly 3,000 kilometers, are far from enough, and there is not much flour to be transported throughout the year.

Although the logistics cost has been reduced a lot compared with a few years ago, the price of flour is still at a high level due to the factor that scarcity is expensive.

Although the Odaye Flour Mill is just in operation, it is still producing 20 tonnes of flour per day, and with the mill on track, there is room to expand its production capacity to 40 or 50 tonnes per day.

Even in the Haaland Kingdom itself, the annual output value of this factory is more than 80,000 gold coins, which has a significant boost to the local economy.

Odaye worked as a salesman himself, negotiating and signing contracts with some of the biggest clients, and despite his aristocratic status, he was approachable in business. Odaye and Immorton are truly intelligent people, although they chase profit and disregard life, but they also know who their friends are and who are their enemies.

For the merchant class of the Haaland Kingdom, both of them will vigorously support it, and only by increasing the number of commercial nobles and then huddling together can their embarrassing situation in the noble council be alleviated.

Although Hayden and Rogge's knighthood methods are the same as Odaye's and Immorton's, there is an essential difference between the two sides, Hayden and Rogge are blood relatives of the king and queen, and they are knighted with the help of external forces, and it is acceptable for military nobles.

In the history of the Dawn Plane, kings were very fond of letting their relatives follow the generals in battle, and the situation of Rogge and Hayden was similar to this.

Moreover, these two people are important ministers of the Haaland Kingdom, with high and powerful positions, and the hereditary nobles also know the pros and cons, so they dare not provoke the two easily.

Odaye and Immorton are both businessmen, and their roots are not deep. The process of their knighthood went against tradition, and the hereditary nobility did not agree with the status of the two at all.

It is difficult for commercial aristocrats such as Odaye and Immorton to marry with traditional military nobles, and it is almost impossible to integrate into the military aristocracy.

Odaye also has a background in the first squadron, and the children have old comrades-in-arms such as Sula and Jennings who are willing to marry, while Immorton's children are now even a problem with marriage. The eldest son was over thirty years old and was not married.

Immorton became a hereditary nobleman and had a hard time accepting children marrying ordinary people, his mind was indigenous after all, and he was far less enlightened than Richard.

Last year, the two of them worked together to take out their savings, lent Rand a huge amount of 30,000 gold coins, and personally came forward to help Rand recruit ruthless people among the mercenaries, hoping to support Rand to the hereditary aristocracy.

Rand is the elder brother of Lady Ola, who relied on William thirty years ago and became a big merchant in Blackriver Fort.

When Richard began to run the territory, both Rand and Lady Ola lent a lot of money.

More than ten years ago, William went south, and Rand followed William to the southern region, although he made a lot of money with the help of William's background, but the speed of capital development was far less than that of Odaye, Immorton and others who ran factories.

Originally, Rand developed very smoothly in the south, and he was the businessman behind William, and he could often go in and out of William's mansion.

But when he heard the news that Odaye and Immorton had been promoted to hereditary nobles, his heart was suddenly very sad, and he was full of envy for the life of Immorton and Odaye.

Although William respected him as an elder brother-in-law, it was impossible for him to go against tradition and promote him to the hereditary aristocracy, let alone carve a piece of his own territory and give it to him to inherit.

The dukedom under William's name has already chosen an heir. Only Richard's lineage has the right to inherit, and small pieces of scattered territory are distributed to Ron, George and others. After all, William was promoted to a legend, made miraculous achievements, and was awarded the title of duke, and Richard's support behind him was the most critical reason.

If William chooses other heirs, it will inevitably lead to internal contradictions at that time, and the strength of Ron, George and others is not comparable to Richard's lineage at all. Not allowing Richard's lineage to inherit is actually making Richard's brothers lose their lives in vain.

After carefully weighing the pros and cons, Rand asked for a letter from William and returned to the kingdom of Harland.

Rand has followed William for many years, and he also has a large amount of money in his hands. There are 60,000 gold coins in cash alone, and in addition, his business channels can also make thousands of gold coins a year.

After coming to Priland Castle, Rand formed a mercenary group, eliminated many undead, and captured a large number of soul crystals, but the gold coins in his hands were seriously consumed and gradually insufficient.

Seeing that half of the battle achievements had been accumulated, but the gold coins were not enough, Rand could only ask the local chamber of commerce for help, and in the end, it was Odaye and Immorton who joined forces and lent him 30,000 gold coins to tide him over. Now Rand has accumulated eight major merits and four medium merits, and will soon be able to succeed in becoming the third noble merchant.

Odaye negotiated with seven major customers and negotiated contracts for the supply of 100 tons of flour per month.

With seven major customers, Odaye almost monopolized half of the private market in Kanas Castle, which greatly reduced the pressure on the sales department of the Belenburg flour mill.

After winning the big customer, Odaye also planned to open a flour sales shop in the busiest street of Kanas Castle to do retail business, mainly serving the freemen of Kanas Castle.

Of course, the most crucial step in the sales strategy is that he is going to go to the Rex Academy of Magic in person to negotiate with Dean Capezon to sign a long-term supply contract with the Academy of Magic at a low price. This low price is about the same as the wholesale price in the Kingdom of Haaland.

Rex School of Magic has the foundations laid by the United Kingdom on the East Coast and today has more than 200 teachers and more than 4,000 students.

With the occupation of Rex Province by the Kingdom of Haland, the six-ring magician Capeson served as the dean, and there were two vice presidents, one was a descendant of the former East Coast Mage Association, this person was named Lucian, an eight-ring magician with a complete magical heritage. The other vice-president was Carpeson's old friend Roentgen.

The East Coast Magic Association has a total of four vice-presidents and five presidents, and more than ten years ago, the vice-president, the eight-ring magician Salen, died at the hands of Sophia.

Three years ago, the vice-president of the Nine Rings Magician Harbert was killed by a surprise attack by Sutton.

President Neo fled after the destruction of Kanas Castle and went to the Magic Kingdom of Makholm, where the vice-president of the Eight-Ring Magician Krimu commanded the mage regiment with the army and disappeared in the war.

Of the five presidents, only the vice-president, Lucian, remained at the Academy of Magic and surrendered to the Haalanders.

Although Lucian's professional level was stronger than Capeson's, Richard still didn't trust him, and after forcing him down, he signed a thirty-year service contract, and he would only keep his promise to release him after thirty years. So Lucian can only serve as vice president, cooperating with Capezon and Roentgen.

Capezon's meditation method was incomplete, and he could only meditate on the five rings, but after joining the Harland Mage Association, he read many novel papers before he deduced and made up for the six rings by himself. Although his own magic qualifications are good, his IQ is not smart enough, he is not good at magic research, and his speed of deducing meditation methods is very slow, and it is difficult to be promoted to the Seven Rings in this life. From this point of view, he is not as good as his old friend Roentgenium.

But it was precisely because of the hopeless future that Capezon had enough time to manage the Academy of Magic and teach and educate people.

Rex's magic is the focus of the Haaland Kingdom, and the annual grant is very high, even for students who have just entered the academy, each person will allocate three gold coins for logistics. The teachers of the academy are all full-fledged magicians and have accumulated a lot of capital.

As long as the flour is sold to the Rex School of Magic, it is enough to sell thousands of tons in a year.

Odaye has his eye on this market, and his vision is indeed okay.

In addition to Rex's School of Magic, there is also a big market for army supplies.

According to the living standard of the Haland Kingdom, the army basically supplies white flour, but when they go out to fight, they try to search for food locally, and it is difficult to eat white flour.

In addition to rice, the garrison led by Haaland in Duke Rex could only eat black bread and wheat rice most of the time, and it took a month to eat a meal of white flour.

The province of Rex has 40,000 garrisons, and each soldier consumes an average of 200 catties of flour a year, and provides 4,000 tons a year.

4,000 tons of flour is already one-third of the capacity of the Odaye plant at full speed.

But if you want to get the army's logistics order, you need to get through the relationship at the top, and Odaye alone doesn't have such a big face, and Jennings needs to come forward to get the relationship through.

Just as Odaye was trying to expand the market, Richard heard from him and summoned him to the mansion.

"You are also a veteran from the first squadron, so you don't need to be so reserved."

Seeing Odaye cautiously bow his head like a shivering quail, Richard pulled him to his seat. Richard has always been more tolerant of the officers and soldiers who came out of the military system, and now he occasionally finds time to meet the veterans who retired from the military system.

The Kingdom of Haaland is a centralized militarist country, and the desperate fighting of officers and soldiers for many years is the reason why Richard wears the crown, and Richard is very sober about this.

So whoever comes out of the military system will be a little bigger in Richard.

Odaye bowed respectfully to Richard, and said in a trembling voice: "I am still very excited to see His Majesty the Kingdom again. Can you take the liberty of asking, Your Majesty has summoned me, what do you need me to do? ”

Odaye was indeed loyal to Richard in his heart, because Richard was the one who changed his fate.

Thirty years ago, Odaye's family became slaves, and their lives were extremely difficult. Not only has dignity been lost, but the safety of life is also not guaranteed.

At the slave market, Odaye's family contracted the plague, and it was Richard who saved their lives. From that time on, Odaye was willing to fight hard for Richard.

A few years later, Odaye retired from the army due to injury and illness, and Richard did not abandon him, but arranged for him to enter the army garment factory to recuperate. In the following twenty years, it was Richard who opened up the market and issued decrees that allowed Odaye to make a lot of money. Then it was Richard who promoted the soul crystallization in exchange for the meritorious policy, so that Odaye could break the tradition and succeed in knighthood.

Richard was the noblest man in Odaye's life, changed his fate several times, and joined Haaland for 30 years, Odaye has always cherished a high level of gratitude to Richard. Compared with the traditional aristocracy, the capitalist aristocrats such as Odaye and Immorton were more loyal to Richard from the bottom of their hearts.

(End of chapter)