Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence
#127 - The caravan returns with a surprise
Hearing the good news reported by Lauren, Su Li was overjoyed.
Master Kurt and the Wester Commercial Bank returned just in time.
The army clearing the Blood Pine Forest in the territory had just set off, and the Blood Pine Forest was relatively empty. Their chamber of commerce workers could go in to cut down the blood pine wood.
At the same time, after the Summer Solstice Festival tomorrow, the land reclamation will also begin. The accumulated water under Bjorn Bay has been drained, and the summer sun has dried the land below, which is loose and dry, and very suitable for reclamation.
The territory is short of manpower, and Master Kurt brought back the slave hunting group, which can greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient manpower in the territory. The area of cultivated land in the territory will also be greatly increased.
So Su Li didn't even bother to pay attention to the monsters in Lake Leiflin. He immediately got up and said to Fastelek: "I will leave the cleanup here to you. Be sure to eliminate all the distorted monsters and ensure the smooth, peaceful, and tranquil Summer Solstice Festival tomorrow."
Fastelek patted his chest and assured: "Lord Lord, don't worry. I guarantee with the honor of a knight that I will never allow any beautiful girl to suffer from the poisonous hands of monsters. Evil will be purified and ended in my hands."
Su Li waved his hand and said goodbye to him directly. This powerful Pegasus knight was good in every way. He was strong, handsome, full of justice, and hated evil.
The only thing that made Su Li a little unacceptable was that this young knight probably listened to too many knight novels and bard stories, and his words and deeds were like a proud rooster with bright feathers in his head, both coquettish and detached.
However, Su Li didn't bother to talk to him. As far as Su Li knew, in the empire, at least half of the knights were as proud and coquettish as him, if not 80%.
Of course, he also had the capital to be so proud and coquettish. If Su Li was also a champion at the age of 20, he would be even more proud and frivolous than Fastelek!
If he was a champion knight instead of a trainee knight when he negotiated with Count Sunab in the Bauhinia Fortress, he would have been directly conferred as a Kingdom Knight instead of a Pioneer Knight. The territory would have been in the Thorns River Valley, not the Frontier Prince Territory!
However, on the way, Su Li quickly adjusted his mentality. Pioneer knights also have the benefits of pioneer knights. For example, a wider fief and more fertile farmland!
As long as there are enough people, the army that the pioneer territory can support will exceed most of the kingdom knight territories within the empire.
But as he returned to Hessen Town, he realized that the scale of Master Kurt's caravan was beyond imagination.
Outside the simple wooden walls of the Black Forest, a huge caravan was stationed. They had more than two hundred carriages, and there were more than twenty privateers, armed merchant ships, slave ships, and grain ships on the Blackwater River.
Seeing this scale, Su Li smiled and said to Master Kurt who came over: "Your Excellency is well prepared, you want to take away all the wealth of our territory!"
Master Kurt pressed his right palm to his heart, bowed slightly, and then said with a smile: "Isn't this a win-win situation for both of us? Only when gold coins flow can they have the value of a golden crown. Stacked in a dark cellar, it's just a pile of broken copper and iron."
Of course!
Master Kurt was right.
Su Li is not a greedy dragon who likes to collect gold coins. The golden crowns in his vault have piled up into three small mountains, but they are of no use to him. His life is still hungry and poor. His clothes need to be patched, and he only has one quilt, which he has to dry every day.
What he wants is the prosperity of the territory, the strength of the army, and the wealth that can be transformed into improved life and increased strength!
So Su Li said with a smile: "That's right, this is a win-win situation. The growth of our territory can also make your warehouses sell those unsalable goods for value. You no longer have to worry about economic crises, and you would rather dump the excess wealth than sell it."
After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled. Obviously, this round of confrontation allowed both sides to show each other's value.
Then Su Li asked with concern: "Master Kurt, what have you brought to my territory? Why is there such a huge caravan?"
A caravan of two hundred vehicles and ships, although not very large, is also a gamble.
In order to reduce losses, the chambers of commerce in this world generally set up chambers of commerce alliances in various large cities to build complex commercial networks.
For example, a large ocean-going cargo ship or a large caravan to a foreign land is rarely operated entirely by one chamber of commerce.
Because these large caravans often carry materials worth hundreds or even thousands of gold crowns.
Once lost in a storm or robbed by robbers.
The lost wealth is enough to bankrupt a well-run chamber of commerce and hurt its vitality.
Therefore, chambers of commerce generally form commercial alliances, sharing profits and risks.
In a large caravan, each chamber of commerce bears more than a dozen vehicles of materials, so the loss is relatively small. Even some complex caravans are composed of dozens of chambers of commerce, each chamber of commerce contributing one or two vehicles of goods. The profit is relatively small, but the risk is also small.
In any world, a truth is universal: high returns are accompanied by high risks!
Some large mercenaries and镖行 even have the feat of thousands of vehicles traveling together when escorting convoys.
They are really licking blood on the tip of a knife, and only such a scale can resist the harassment of robbers and thieves.
Master Kurt straightened his chest and said proudly: "Respected Lord Su Li, this trip is a wholly-owned caravan of our Wester High Chamber of Commerce. I used my equity to guarantee the successful establishment of such a large caravan. I have brought you all kinds of supplies needed for the territory."
Master Kurt's gamble was undoubtedly a great success!
With his successful arrival in Hessen, it means that he will harvest at least thousands of gold crowns on this trip!
Perhaps his overall voice in the Wester High Chamber of Commerce will be greatly improved as a result.
His business dealings are not only insightful, but also have very good luck!
The storm in Tarr swept through the Frontier Prince Territory, a large number of territories were destroyed, and fleeing refugees were everywhere. Countless civilians fled with their families, and the robbers did not pay attention to this low-key caravan, so they arrived in Hessen very smoothly.
Master Kurt first talked about the slave issue that Su Li was most concerned about, and said: "We brought a privateer fleet and a slave hunting group this time, so we brought you 6 elite transcendents, 12 formal transcendents, 24 trainee transcendents, and 50 technical workers from various industries."
"Of course, any territory needs a large number of serfs, and we have brought you 173 people."
In fact, such a large-scale slave is impossible for a privateer fleet and a slave hunting group to carry.
Many people underestimate the difficulty of marching in war!
In large-scale wars at the imperial level, the difficulty of marching is ten or dozens of times more difficult than fighting.
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Marching and fighting, marching and fighting, marching is always in front, and fighting is behind.
If you march thousands of miles without a large number of non-combat attrition, without a large number of slaves and armed attendants running away, and you can bring 90% of the troops to the battlefield smoothly.
Then this general is an outstanding general!
If you win a few more battles on the battlefield, you will be a famous general in history.
The Wester High Chamber of Commerce certainly does not have such outstanding talents. They initially only brought 150 slaves, which is already a very considerable scale for a slave hunting group.
Deaths and escapes occurred halfway, but God bless the Wester High Chamber of Commerce. The heavy rain caused refugees everywhere, and their slave hunting group and privateer fleet only needed to catch them as they walked. In the end, the number of slaves increased instead of decreasing.
They even caught an elite knight on an earthen slope flooded by the flood! He rode a white war horse and starved in the flood for three days and three nights. He was so weak that he was about to die, and was easily caught on the ship by the slave hunting group.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, it is a feast for the rich and chambers of commerce to get rich. There are such wandering knights everywhere in the Frontier Prince Territory. Their territories are destroyed, and they have to wander around with an iron sword to find new employers.
Su Li's intelligence in the past few days has also allowed him to collect 3 elite knights, 5 formal knights, and 10 armed attendants from the wild, and found a camp of peasant thugs who had fled to the south of the territory, allowing the territory's population to increase by more than 80 people.
Su Li really didn't want to buy so many elite knights anymore.
After all, each elite knight's monthly salary is five gold coins, and the annual salary of three elite knights is enough for him to buy another elite knight.
His territory now has more than two squads of elite knights. If they do nothing for a year, the maintenance cost will be as high as thousands of gold crowns.
Such a huge wealth is far from what an ordinary pioneer territory can support.
But he can only grit his teeth now and accept everything that comes.
He must quickly expand his army to deal with the threat of the green dragon and prevent the possible demon rampage in the north.
So Su Li waved his hand generously and said: "I will take all of your slaves, as long as they don't have any serious illnesses. Let's take a look at the quality of the slaves now."
Su Li didn't even bargain, because money is the least important thing to him. He now needs to give the Wester High Chamber of Commerce the impression that he accepts everything that comes! Let them be sure that as long as they bring slaves, they will be picking up money!
Only in this way will they more enthusiastically and actively organize caravans and slave hunting groups to give priority to Hessen.
And Master Kurt's eyes immediately burst out with excitement and ecstasy. He really bet right! Next time, he can double the number of slaves.
He said excitedly: "Lord Su Li, come with me. The quality of these slaves is guaranteed to satisfy you. These are the elites I have carefully selected."
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