A Realistic Mount & Blade Game

However, Shen Mu didn't really care much about the workplace struggles of these Blue Star humans in Derheim.

Because what he cares about most now is making money.

Now that the food problem has been solved, the troop problem has also been basically solved, and the current Derheim does not need to be expanded on a large scale.

For him, how to obtain dinars has become the most important thing in his mind.

It's just one word.

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Money.

What Shen Mu wants most now is to make money.

After everyone left the conference room, he still sat in the main seat, reached out and pinched his temples, his face quite complicated.

"I really have to consider how to earn more dinars." Shen Mu was also quite helpless.

There was no way, because his current way of obtaining dinars is through these two caravans conducting business with him.

Although the dinars brought by the caravan are still quite useful, for example, going to the White Tower area back and forth, the current income is initially estimated to be about 10,000 dinars.

And this will last for two weeks.

That is to say, Torres' caravan can earn 10,000 dinars each time it goes to the White Tower area and returns. If it goes back and forth twice a month, it can earn him 20,000 dinars a month.

Quite a good income.

However, the transition time for this income is a bit long, after all, Shen Mu is undergoing tremendous changes every day, and he can't wait for the dinars he earns twice a month.

After all, there are many places that need money now, waiting for Shen Mu to invest in them.

But there is another one, a caravan that goes to the Calradia continent for iron smuggling trade about once a week.

"I wonder if this caravan can bring me more surprises." Shen Mu also thought of Nalot, the bankrupt businessman who was originally a robber.

After all, he had already brought back more than 2,000 dinars before, which was not bad.

And now, because only a few days have passed, if he wants to speed up the time, he doesn't need to worry.

After all, 1,000 points of faith power can speed up one day.

For Nalot, who can make a round trip in 7 days, this is quite easy, after all, Shen Mu estimates that Nalot only has one day left to return to Derheim.

"Then speed up one day." Shen Mu's thinking has also communicated with the system.

[Ding! You have consumed 1000 points of faith power to speed up the round trip time of your Nalot caravan!]

[Congratulations! Your Nalot caravan sent to the Calradia continent for smuggling trade has successfully returned!]

When Shen Mu used his faith power to speed up the round trip time of the caravan, a dialog box immediately appeared in front of him, and the content inside was just the news that the Nalot caravan that went to the Calradia continent for smuggling trade had returned.

"Very perfect." Shen Mu also nodded in satisfaction at this time, after all, the return of the current caravan is a very good start.

At least it can bring him back some crucial dinars.

"Convey my order and let Nalot come here to see me as soon as he puts the goods away." Shen Mu ordered to the Swadian light infantry as an attendant next to him.

Then the Swadian light infantry nodded and turned to leave the noble residence.

After about 10 minutes, he came back again.

This time, he was accompanied by Nalot, who had a proud smile on his face, and was holding a bulging goatskin bag in his hand.

It looked heavy, and it felt a little heavy in his hand.

"Lord Shen Mu, Mr. Nalot has arrived." The Swadian light infantry said.

"Greetings to you, respected Lord Shen Mu, your loyal merchant Nalot is back again." Nalot also followed behind the Swadian light infantry at this time, respectfully reaching out and stroking his chest and bowing.

"Well, that's good, come and sit down." Shen Mu reached out and signaled the Swadian light infantry to leave, and then asked Nalot to sit down.

He was quite satisfied with Nalot, especially when he saw Nalot very proactively sending the bulging, heavy purse to him, the corners of his mouth raised in a smile.

"Lord Shen Mu, this is all the income from this smuggling trade, a total of 5,000 dinars." Nalot said very modestly at this time: "Thanks to the battle between the Swadian Kingdom and the Vaegir Kingdom, the demand for iron products in the Swadian Kingdom has reached its peak, so the iron products we transported have gained a lot of popularity."

Only demand can create profit.

When Nalot thought about transporting those iron products back to the Swadian Kingdom, the merchants who were already short of iron products due to the war immediately rushed to buy them.

Although most of the iron products Nalot transported were also inferior weapons roughly forged by the abyss demons.

But when the Calradian blacksmiths re-smelted all those demon weapons in the furnace and with hammers and turned them into iron ingots, then they would be the best iron products.

They can be made into various armors or weapons, and even agricultural tools.

And Swadia's metallurgical ability is also the strongest in the entire Calradia continent, so the Swadian blacksmiths are also the most experienced blacksmiths.

They simply melted all the spoils of war that were obviously confiscated from the battlefield into molten iron, and then poured them into new iron ingots one by one, and then distributed them to various towns and castles in Swadia.

Then, through the local blacksmiths, they were made into the shapes they needed.

Everything is very convenient.

"So, Lord Shen Mu, those customers in the Swadian Kingdom who have demand are conveying messages to me, hoping to import more iron products." Nalot smiled when he thought of how flattering those customers were to him.

And Nalot was quite clear that the backers of these customers were not commercial guilds, or blacksmith guilds or other organizations.

It was precisely the owners of those towns and castles, those lords.

After the Swadian Kingdom was restricted from exporting iron products by the Vaegir Kingdom, it directly entered a state of iron shortage. The cruel and long battle directly brought the consumption of weapons and armor to its peak.

If they didn't want to have too many losses on the battlefield, then they could only bite the bullet and let the blacksmith guilds and market guilds in the territories that served as logistics bases transport all the supplementary materials they needed to the front line.

After all, these lords' troops were essentially their own personal assets. If they suffered too many losses on the battlefield, their territories would become precarious upon their return.

After all, a lord without strength but with money and power was like a fat sheep.

Everyone wanted to shear off some wool.

And thinking about the stingy, irritable, and easily angered King Harlaus of the Swadian Kingdom, these lords were already quite dissatisfied.

If it weren't for the Swadian Kingdom's reputation still binding them, they would have refused to obey King Harlaus's orders long ago.

Now, it was only the inertia of the Swadian Kingdom that was still restraining these scattered forces,勉强 forcing them to listen to King Harlaus's commands.

However, as King Harlaus led those lords in continuous wars with other countries, losing wave after wave of elite troops, the valuable castles, towns, and even villages they conquered were stingily withheld from the lords who had mustered at his command.

A storm was brewing.

As a merchant, and one instructed by Shen Mu to engage in the smuggling of iron products, Nallot was privy to much information that those well-informed people didn't bother to conceal from him.

Moreover, Nallot himself had experience as a bandit, and bandits, while loosely organized, were a well-informed bunch.

Therefore, he easily grasped the current situation.

That was, the lords and nobles of the Swadian Kingdom were becoming impatient with King Harlaus.

If the day really came when King Harlaus was overthrown and exiled, and other kingdoms abdicated, perhaps the entire Swadian Kingdom would become even more chaotic.

After all, it was said that Lady Isolla, who had a claim to the entire Swadian Kingdom, had begun openly proclaiming herself as the true heir within the Swadian Kingdom.

She was even starting to collude with those nobles and lords, hoping they would push Harlaus off the throne and allow her to be crowned queen.

"The Swadian Kingdom is experiencing such turmoil?" Hearing Nallot openly tell him about the internal affairs of the Swadian Kingdom, Shen Mu became somewhat interested.

After all, he understood the historical background.

He knew that behind these kingdoms of Calradia, there were actually ambitious individuals seeking to usurp the throne, besides the current kings.

Lady Isolla of the Swadian Kingdom was precisely such a person.

"If I remember correctly, Lady Isolla's father should have been the previous king of the Swadian Kingdom. Because she was his only daughter, and she was very young at the time, many nobles and lords recommended Harlaus, a distant relative of the previous king, to become the king."

"That's right, Master Shen Mu, you're absolutely correct." Nallot shrugged his shoulders at this point, saying with a rather helpless tone: "But precisely because the current King Harlaus was a king recommended by all the nobles, they can't easily push him off the throne. After all, if they were to depose King Harlaus, it would be tantamount to admitting they had misjudged him and chosen an incompetent king, which would be very damaging to their honor."

As he spoke, Nallot mysteriously said to Shen Mu: "My lord, perhaps you don't know, but the current Lady Isolla has secretly begun recruiting a batch of mercenaries and is also purchasing iron products to forge weapons and armor. Therefore, the price of iron products within the Kingdom of Dhirim is getting higher and higher."

"Then doesn't that mean that selling iron products in the Swadian Kingdom now would bring high profits?" Shen Mu raised his eyebrows at this moment.

"Exactly, exactly, the profits from iron products have already been driven up to seven or eight times the price, or even higher." Nallot nodded, and at the same time said to Shen Mu: "Moreover, I heard that if you can get more weapons and equipment for Lady Isolla, she will give a very high reward."

"Sounds good." Shen Mu didn't say much at this point, only nodding his head. After calculating it in his heart, he said again: "Nallot, I need you to continue to travel to the Calradia continent for trade. There are still many iron products in the warehouse, all spoils of war. You can transport these to the Calradia continent for trade, and exchange them for many denars."

"Understood, I will do this well." Nallot smiled respectfully at this time, and then said: "Now, in the Swadian Kingdom, many people know that these iron products were transported back from another world by you, so those city defense troops and patrol teams turn a blind eye to me and don't make things too difficult for me."

"That's very good." Shen Mu nodded.

As long as those armies and patrols responsible for investigating smuggling ignore Nallot, then his smuggling business would be extremely profitable.

Of course, he also understood that this should be respect given to himself.

"By the way, Master Shen Mu, there is one thing I would also like to report." Nallot said at this moment.

"Speak." Shen Mu saw Nallot's hesitation.

"Before, when I went to the Calradia continent, I also met some guild presidents of merchant guilds in the Swadian Kingdom, and they all expressed their intention to win me over." Nallot cut to the chase and directly stated his guess: "However, I don't think they want to win me over, but want to communicate with you, especially the nobles and lords behind those guild presidents."

"Want to communicate with me?" Shen Mu frowned slightly.

"Yes, because I have also noticed that they seem to be very dissatisfied with King Harlaus, and your reputation in Swadia is quite high." Nallot hesitated and said: "Moreover, Lady Isolla also seems to want to have a good chat with you, wanting to seek your affirmation and recognition."

At this moment, Shen Mu also slightly raised his head, and some special emotions appeared in his eyes.

He suddenly realized that the Mount \u0026 Blade world could not be completely regarded as a backdrop. The people living in it actually had their own thoughts.

They were all real, living people, or rather, real people living in a real world.