Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence
#128 - The value of blood pine
Soon, Su Li, led by the steward Kurt, arrived at the slave camp of the merchant caravan.
The continuous cloudy and rainy weather ended, the sun was shining, and they had arrived at their destination. The members of the slave-hunting group were in high spirits. They immediately dragged the slaves out of the bottom of the cabin and tents, gathering them in the square to soak up the sunshine and get rid of the mustiness on their bodies.
After successfully arriving at their destination, these slaves were treasure, each one a golden king's crown. They absolutely could not be allowed to die.
If any member of the slave-hunting group killed a slave at this time, the furious chamber of commerce executives would throw the offending member into the slave camp to compensate for the loss.
If you've seen a black slave auction, you'll have a more intuitive understanding of how the slave camp operates.
After the slave-hunting group arrives in a territory, they will stay here for a few days, waiting for the nearby farmers to gather.
Then they will build a high platform, displaying the slaves batch by batch to the farmers below, who will then bid for the strong slaves they like.
威斯特·高商会(威斯特·高商会: West High Chamber of Commerce) also plans to do this. Their slave-hunting group members have already built a display platform in the middle of the camp out of wood. They are displaying a team of strong slaves on it in order to spread the name of the slave-hunting group.
They hope to attract the great landowners from various farms, affiliated territories, and autonomous territories under this territory.
Of course, in this world, they have an even more important client, and that is the powerful knights.
Generally, a formal knight has his own farm and servants and slaves. They are the main client group of the slave-hunting group, and most of the strong slaves are bought by them. The clever and especially lucky guys will become armed servants of a knight in the family. The remaining unlucky ones will become serfs and horse slaves, cultivate the farmland in the knight's manor and take care of the knight's war horses.
However, with the arrival of the steward Kurt, all the traditions of this slave camp were broken. The steward Kurt shouted with great momentum: "Everyone stop and listen to Lord Su Li's orders! All the slaves here belong to Lord Su Li!"
The members of the slave-hunting group and privateering fleet were stunned for a moment, and then everyone burst into ecstatic cheers.
"Praise Lord Su Li!"
" Yurik will protect you forever strong!"
"Oh, generous Lord Knight, your virtues are so charming, the gods will bless you!"
Of course, they were ecstatic. So many slaves had been successfully sold, and their bonus for this trip would definitely be very generous!
You should know that the chamber of commerce is very greedy and stingy. In the past, a large amount of performance was deducted for dead slaves, which greatly affected their income.
And Su Li's generous spending money like water meant that they could all get their full bonus.
This could greatly improve their predicament. In addition to paying off a large debt, they could also free and easy for a few days in the tavern and brothel of Heisen Town.
This is especially important for those hungry slave-hunting group members!
In the past, the slaves were only sold at the end of the merchant caravan trip, and the bonuses were distributed. They had already set off on the road, and there was no time to free and easy.
These rough and stupid men couldn't keep money at all. They used most of their money to gamble on the road, losing everything and incurring large gambling debts.
And with this money early on, they can free and easy and buy some weapons and equipment to improve their condition.
They had heard that this territory had two great things: first, the brothel were good, and second, the equipment was good.
This is exactly the territory that these men who lick blood from knife edge like to go to the most.
Looking at the enthusiastic cheers of the slave-hunting group members, Su Li smiled and waved to them. These people are also his favorite visitors in the territory!
They live a precarious life, so they spend money lavishly. The territory's brothel, tavern, and the dwarf blacksmith shop can empty all the money from them.
It can greatly compensate for his consumption of buying slaves.
Su Li didn't interact with these merchant caravan members for long. The merchant caravan employees brought a few chairs and let Su Li, Hild, Laun, and steward Kurt sit down.
Then the slave-hunting group members pulled the first batch of six most valuable elite superhuman onto the display platform.
The craftsmanship of these seats is indeed very good. The wood is supported by carefully selected and polished blood pine wood, the surface is smooth, and it has a warm and delicate feel.
The cushions and backrests of the seats are covered with soft velvet, and the off-white cushions are filled with cattail floss, embroidered with golden griffin patterns, which feels soft and luxurious.
Even Su Li felt a possessiveness in his heart. Any nobleman's castle hall or manor room should have a set of such luxurious and grand furniture.
Touching the warm and smooth like jade texture of the blood pine wood armrest, Su Li asked: "How much does a set of these seats cost?"
Steward Kurt smiled, the fish had taken the bait!
"The chair you are sitting on is made of precious blood pine wood logs, with various luxurious materials such as velvet, cashmere, and gold thread. The selling price of a chair is as high as 10 gold crowns!"
Su Li nodded, this price is not expensive.
In any world, furniture made of logs cannot be cheap.
Especially since blood pine wood is still a very expensive material. If it weren't for its huge output, let alone 5 gold crowns, even 50, 500, or even 5000 gold crowns would be bought by nobles.
If you have seen the golden sandalwood with its golden and glittering material, you will know how luxurious the life of the nobles is. If you see it on the spot, the golden sandalwood is placed there, and the luster is like flowing gold.
The great nobles don't care at all about spending a lot of money for a set of luxurious furniture.
In fact, blood pine wood also has this potential. Its color is also very perfect, like rubies and blood jade, and more importantly, its feel is very moist. It will be very comfortable to sit on a chair made of blood pine wood in autumn and winter.
This makes furniture made of blood pine wood sell well inside and outside the empire.
However, due to the characteristics of the wild growth of forests in this world, blood pine wood can never be cut down, so its quantity is considerable, and the price is relatively affordable.
But this affordable price is also relative!
This kind of furniture made of logs is expensive in any world, and ordinary people cannot access it.
Even elite knights need one or two months' salary to buy such a chair. For ordinary farmers, it would take the annual income of two or three families to buy one piece.
And such expensive furniture, steward Kurt waved his hand generously and said: "If Lord Su Li likes it, I will have someone send two sets to your territory later. Including 24 armchairs, 4 tables, two beds, and sixteen sideboards, screens, tea set cabinets, tea tables, wardrobes and other accessories."
Su Li raised his eyebrows, so generous? He said with a smile: "Then I will not be polite. With these luxurious furniture, my castle finally has a bit of a rich and noble appearance."
Then he asked a key question: "Can my territory's carpentry workshop produce these furniture?"
"Of course!" Steward Kurt said with a smile: "Our chamber of commerce invested in a carpentry workshop in your territory to obtain materials locally. It can save us a lot of transportation costs. However, your territory currently needs some ingredients for production, such as velvet, cashmere, etc."
No wonder he is so generous, this is a bit of a to present the Buddha with borrowed flowers meaning.
However, Su Li still appreciated his kindness and said to him: "I will let my Lord Chancellor fully cooperate with your chamber of commerce operation and try to provide you with a stable supply of materials."
"In addition, my high-level servant chief will form a city guard, which will definitely take extra care of your chamber of commerce and ensure your business environment. Anyone, whether it is a rogue, a thief, or a knight, who dares to harass you, we will punish them severely and never tolerate them."
"Haha!" Steward Kurt laughed excitedly and said: "Thank you for your care, Lord Su Li, this is our chamber of commerce's honor. Our chamber of commerce will definitely operate with all our strength and contribute to the prosperity of your territory."
During the exchange of greetings, the six slaves on the display platform had been placed in the correct position to ensure that the territory ministers watching from the audience could see them very clearly.
After seeing the appearance of the superhuman on the platform, Su Li asked in surprise: "Why are there so many women?"
There were actually five women out of the six superhuman on the platform!
This ratio is too unusual.
As far as Su Li knows, men dominate in this world. Except for elves, where there are more female superhuman, the male-to-female ratio of superhuman of other races is far from reaching 1:1.
1:2 is barely possible, 1:3 or even 1:4 is the norm.
Just look at the situation in Heisen Territory to know that the number of female knights is less than a quarter of all knights.
The higher you go, the lower this ratio becomes. When you reach the elite level, this ratio drops to 1:10, at most not exceeding 1:5.
And when it comes to the champion level, men have an overwhelming advantage.
All three champion-level knights in the territory are men, and no female knight has reached this position.
Everyone says that Hild has infinite potential, but no matter how much potential Hild has, it is in the future.
As far as the current situation is concerned, Hild has not shown an absolute advantage in terms of training speed. Which champion-level knight performs worse than her? With the powerful assistance of Su Li's opportunity, Orstein is fighting while acquiring various auxiliary qualifications to improve, and the upgrade speed is no worse than Hild's.
Almost everyone is confident that, according to the current situation, Knight Orstein's promotion to God-chosen knight is a sure thing. Even if there is a bottleneck, the Lord will help him break through it.
In the original information, the upper limit of Hild's life trajectory was only the rank that Knight Orstein had already reached, and far behind.
Of course, Su Li is not comparing the qualifications of the two of them here. Su Li hopes that both of them can be promoted to the God-chosen level, and then challenge the legendary bottleneck together.
Just through the current situation of the territory, you can clearly show the proportion of men and women in the cultivation system.
More men and fewer women are the norm, but why are there more women and fewer men among the elite slaves of the威斯特·高商会(威斯特·高商会: West High Chamber of Commerce) this time?
Steward Kurt explained with a smile: "These slaves are a new batch of elites we purchased from the battlefield. Each of them has divine art bestowed by the gods, and four of them are members of the Hospital Knights of Shalya, the God of Life and Mercy."
Shalya, the God of Life and Mercy, is the God in charge of medical care in the empire.
The four members of the medical Knights made Su Li overjoyed. This is the church paladin he has been expecting for a long time!
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