Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Su Li spent a fortune buying these two hundred plus slaves. While it did expand the territory, the money spent truly pained him.

Buying these slaves alone nearly drained his small treasury, consuming a full 4192 gold crowns!

After handing so many gold crowns to the trade caravan, Su Li's castle treasury was immediately left echoing with emptiness.

The remaining gold coins were just a small pile, not even as tall as an hourglass.

Even so, it was thanks to the inclusion of the Halfling clan that the money from purchasing land provided him with a large amount of wealth.

Otherwise, as a small frontier territory, he wouldn't have been able to come up with so many gold crowns.

Buying over two hundred slaves at once, including about a fifth of them who were transcendents, was a considerable expense even for a wealthy barony. Being able to do this once a year would be a major event in the territory.

But buying slaves alone was far from enough to solve the territory's current predicament. As a frontier territory, it was poor in resources, the people suffered from hunger, and everything needed to be rebuilt. It was necessary to purchase all kinds of supplies from the trade association to meet the needs of the entire territory.

The trade association also brought a large number of resources for this purpose. In addition to replenishing the needs of the general store, they also brought more than a thousand pieces of pottery, including various utensils such as pottery jars, basins, bowls, pots, and cups.

These were all urgently needed by the territory, whether for milking in animal husbandry, making cheese, or for various aspects of handicraft production and family life.

Su Li came to develop the territory, not to survive in the wilderness, so there was no need to separate himself from imperial society. If he could directly buy mature goods, he didn't need to build everything from scratch.

The territory currently had a limited number of people, so it was definitely necessary to prioritize the industries that were fundamental to the territory, as well as high-profit industries.

After gaining a firm foothold, he would slowly spread out the business and take care of all aspects.

The most taboo thing in territory development was to be overly ambitious. You can't get fat with one bite; you'll only choke to death.

In addition, the trade caravan also sold some high-end goods that the territory could not currently produce at all, such as twenty sets of exquisite porcelain, two hundred exquisite carpets, three hundred bolts of cloth, more than five hundred pairs of shoes, and two thousand pounds of salt!

Su Li urgently needed to buy these things. Salt and cloth were essential in his territory.

Moreover, these things could not be produced quickly and consumed a lot of manpower. If he produced them himself, it would waste a lot of labor.

With the territory's current one thousand eight hundred slaves, it wasn't even enough to cultivate farmland. Farming was the top priority. There had to be enough food supply to ensure that the people could survive, and then they could think about how to live well.

If he relied solely on ordinary serfs to create wealth, Su Li would be powerless to do anything about the things the trade caravan brought, even if he yearned for them.

But fortunately, this fantasy world always had some strange props that could bring Su Li very considerable income.

The first was the [Cold Resistance Necklace] sold to Su Li by the beautiful witch. The Wester Commercial Association had an extraordinary and strong interest in this little thing.

Su Li thought that such a small amulet could earn the territory 2 gold crowns, which would be good enough.

Unexpectedly, the people from the Wester High Merchant Association were willing to spend 20 gold crowns to buy it, and if Su Li was willing to sign an exclusive sales agreement with them, the price could be negotiated, and 25 gold coins would be no problem.

This price stunned the Lord Chamberlain Laun, who was negotiating with them, so much that Laun deliberately interrupted the negotiation process and returned to the castle to ask Su Li for instructions.

Because the profit from this thing had exceeded that of the dwarves' fine heavy armor!

The Wester High Merchant Association knew very well that the specialty of the Black Forest Territory was dwarven heavy armor, and it was difficult to sell this thing, so they lowered the price and were only willing to offer 23 gold crowns.

But for such a small cold resistance necklace, they were actually willing to offer 25 gold crowns.

Laun and Su Li both lost their sense of the value of this thing.

How could such a small thing sell for such a high value? It was comparable to a set of dwarven heavy armor.

The gold content of the witch's hut was still increasing dramatically!

This little thing could sell two to the territory every cycle from witch's hut.

Su Li initially thought that this witch's hut could bring the territory a hundred gold crowns a year, but now it seemed that it could bring the territory a hundred gold crowns a month.

After analysis by Laun and Su Li, the two guessed that this useless little witchcraft item probably had some luxury attributes.

Wester Highlands was located in the northern part of the empire's interior. The plateau terrain caused their climate to be relatively cold.

So locals had to wear thick cotton-padded jackets, leather coats, and wool coats in autumn and winter.

But if everyone was wearing bloated, smelly wool coats, and a nobleman was wearing this [Cold Resistance Necklace], wearing only a gorgeous robe or jacket, wouldn't his graceful and luxurious demeanor and outstanding image be immediately highlighted?

Nobles were willing to spend hundreds of gold coins to show off and compete. If this cold resistance necklace was successfully brought back to the Wester Highlands by the trade association, the profit margin could reach 400% or even 500%.

Although it was just analysis and speculation, Su Li and Laun both believed it was very close to the truth.

So after Laun received Su Li's instructions, he went back to negotiate and raised the price to 30 gold crowns.

But the Wester Commercial Association was only willing to pay a maximum of 25 gold crowns. After fierce confrontation, the two sides couldn't even reach a consensus of 28 gold crowns after each taking a step back.

The agreement was therefore deadlocked. On the first day, the two sides only reached a transaction list in four aspects: weapons, enchanted arrows, potions, and gold.

The Black Forest Territory sold 200 fine-grade weapons to the trade association for 800 gold crowns.

These weapons were all equipment reforged by the dwarves.

The fragility of weapons was beyond most people's imagination. Swords, spears, and halberds would suffer varying degrees of damage in a fierce battle, especially when cutting and stabbing heavy armor. Weapons could easily be rolled, chipped, and broken.

In the previous battle, the territory had a fierce battle with the Broken Toe tribe, and more than 800 people were cut and chopped, resulting in a large number of losses.

So the dwarves gave priority to melting and reforging these chipped and broken equipment. There were many dwarven equipment in the territory's armory.

The territory's knights and armed attendants were replacing their ordinary-grade and high-quality-grade equipment.

Due to the high demand for dwarven heavy armor and the Wester Commercial Association's price reduction, Su Li did not sell it to the outside world.

But these weapons were sold at a very good price under Laun's negotiation. Depending on the variety, the price ranged from 3 to 6 gold coins.

Even dwarven fine weapons were consumables on the battlefield of large-scale battles.

The idea of using a weapon until death was only something that wandering knights would have.

A qualified lord and a powerful knight family would definitely reserve a batch of fine weapons in the armory and arsenal.

Dwarven weapons were the most popular fine products on the continent. Su Li also took advantage of the geographical advantage of being located in the northeast of the principality on the border. There were a large number of mountain dwarves in the Gray Mountains, so there were a large number of dwarven fine weapons in the armory.

The Black Forest Territory did not lack this kind of thing, and it was very popular in the empire, so the Wester Commercial Association did not lower the price. They offered a high price of an average of four gold crowns per piece.

This was the price for their bulk purchase. They also had to bring it back to the empire for distribution and sale, and the price could not exceed 10 gold crowns. The purchase price of four gold crowns was really not low.

Another weapon they purchased was the explosive arrow made in the territory. This was a refined-grade rune weapon made from Anarick giant spider venom and wyvern venom.

The territory's rune master used the last bit of vibranium to make 150 arrows.

This thing was the favorite of elves and followers of the Sun Goddess. Members of the Flame Sun Knights would use bows and arrows.

Pegasus Knight Fasterick had pestered Su Li to take 50 of them, and vowed to hunt down a dark elf girl with a thin waist and long legs to repay his reward.

Dark elves were cousins ​​of high elves and forest elves, known for their evil, cruelty, and promiscuity. It was said that their bed skills could make even the most steadfast paladins unable to hold back.

Su Li couldn't resist the temptation after all and agreed to Fasterick's request. Knights valued ​​oaths, and he would not leave the territory until he completed this oath. It could be regarded as completely binding him to the Black Forest Territory.

Su Li originally didn't plan to sell the remaining 100 arrows, but he couldn't resist Chief Cutter's high price, giving a price of 5 gold crowns for one arrow. Such a rune arrow was equivalent to the annual output of five farmers.

500 gold crowns was almost enough to buy half a set of vibranium rune armor!

Then, after Chief Cutter took out an elven quiver as a gift to Su Li, Su Li could no longer refuse.

[Quiver of the Nameless], it was said that this was the equipment once used by a forest elf prince, and it received the blessing of the forest fairy, which could always store arrows in it.

If it was used for trading and transportation, the arrows inside would never be taken out.

But if it was used to kill enemies on the battlefield, aiming at the enemy, another arrow would appear after one was shot, until all the arrows stored in it were shot out.

The original intention of the forest fairy's blessing was to hope that the elves would use this quiver to protect the forest, instead of doing some despicable transactions. Now this quiver has become Su Li's collection, and Su Li rewarded it to Fasterick, successfully making this pegasus knight determined to stay in the territory. That night, he spent 10 gold crowns to buy a new house in Black Forest Town, as his new home in the future.

In addition to the transactions of potions and gold, Su Li earned 1731 gold coins from the trade association on the first day.

Of course, these 1731 gold coins did not stay in his hands for long, and 427 gold coins returned to the hands of the trade association.

Because Su Li bought a lot of daily necessities from them.

Overall, both sides were very satisfied with the transaction settlement reached on the first day, and each obtained what they wanted.

Although some content had not been negotiated, Su Li was not in a hurry. Their trade association would stay in the territory for more than a month, and he had plenty of time to negotiate with them, reach more transaction content, and earn a lot of wealth from them at the same time.

That night, Laun reported to Su Li that the brothels and taverns were full. These bold visitors were generous and earned more than 40 gold crowns for the territory in one night, with an average consumption of more than 20 silver coins per person. This was a huge number equivalent to a month's salary for ordinary guards, which also shows how rich their bonuses were on this trip.

Laun had urgently dispatched two ogre construction teams to work overtime to build a new brothel and two taverns in Black Forest Town.