Throne of the North

There are iron mines in the Frozen Territory, but Ryan did not choose to send people to mine, which means he does not have the biggest source of wealth for the nobles in the Northern Wind Province.

The mine owner sells the mines, and ordinary barons can earn two to three thousand gold coins a year, but Ryan, who does not sell mines, has a source of wealth by accumulating small amounts.

In the past few years, including now, the storefront has been supported by large-scale transactions again and again.

For now, these transactions can still be maintained because the threat of orcs still exists, resulting in a sense of tension in both the two eastern kingdoms and other parts of the empire, and the weapons produced by the Frozen Territory are naturally high-end brands.

Not to mention the direct sales in the Imperial Capital, the chambers of commerce in Zero Crossing City ask the butler Beard every month if there are any extra weapons to sell to them.

The story of the bard and a discussion in the Imperial Capital made the weapons engraved with the mark of Rhino Horn Mountain become best-sellers.

This is a very important source of income, accounting for 40% of the total income of the Frozen Territory.

The rest is occupied by collections from other worlds, as well as high-end foods such as fruits.

Firewood, ice cellars, crops brought by craftsmanship, various unconventional resources produced in the mountains and forests, and war horses occupy scattered parts.

In general, the resources produced in the frozen land territory are actually more used for self-use.

Self-production and self-sales are not possible. Even now, when self-production and self-sales seem to be insufficient, Ryan has used various means to subtly let the resources and wealth of the nobles begin to circulate in the market. There is no reason why he can't do this himself.

After the chambers of commerce in Lingdu City delivered a large amount of supplies to the three villages and towns, Ryan also happily asked the butler Beard to deliver the gold coins to the chambers of commerce that brought stones to exchange for gold coins.

Then, it was to discuss more with these chambers of commerce.

He said that he would help those people build villages and towns, and in this process, these newcomers only need to reclaim wasteland.

All Ryan could do was to use the Chamber of Commerce to build these three villages and towns. The construction team of the frozen land territory would make preliminary plans, and the construction of the wasteland would actually belong to these people themselves.

"I will pay you enough gold coins, and you will transport food and warm clothes from the south, as well as stones, wood and other materials from the interior of the North Wind Province."

"Seeds for next spring, and arrange people to help explore the land around the three villages and towns, suitable for growing food."

Ryan took out part of the money that the Chamber of Commerce had given him before.

After reaching this deal with half of them, Ryan continued to keep this half of the Chamber of Commerce, and there were new deals.

This made the Chambers of Commerce that did not agree to Ryan regret it. When they wanted to hear what the deal was, they were sent away by the servants of the castle.

Looking at the five or six people still standing in front of him, Ryan put down the towel for wiping his hands and asked the maid to bring the fruit to the heads of these Chambers of Commerce.

"You all know my story more or less, especially the war in the Andara Kingdom."

"You may also know that after that war, I got a city. The Dawn City can still bring me a lot of wealth and authority, but in addition, King Andara also gave me many manors."

"My plan is to grow extraordinary crops in those places and use them for transactions between extraordinary people."

Compared to transactions between ordinary people, trade between extraordinary people is the real wealth crocodile. Magicians use gold and mithril as ordinary trading units. The wealth gained by ordinary people is sustainable and gathered in large quantities.

But between extraordinary people, it is direct.

"Not only in the Kingdom, but also in some places in the North Wind Province, such as Thunder Cloud County and Iron Mountain County, there are lands marked by me, and those lands can grow suitable extraordinary crops."

"But I don't know what kind of magic materials are suitable. I think you will know what kind of crops are more suitable for those lands. The deal this time is that I want to invite some people behind your Chamber of Commerce to help me explore and give me a list."

"After that, I will purchase the seeds of these crops from you, and promise you that these crops will be sold to you."

The six people were all thinking, although the things Baron Ryan said did not seem to be difficult for them, but rather very beneficial, and the relationship with Baron Ryan would be closer.

But things are not that simple.

Ordinary commodities, such as food, metal weapons, tools, antique collections, etc., have a large circle. The huge iron weapons brought by the iron ore in the North Wind Province will not affect the same weapons sales in other parts of the empire.

But the extraordinary circle seems very small, just like a mountain. Ordinary people live at the bottom like dust, and they will never see what the stones on the other side of this mountain look like in their lifetime.

The extraordinary are different. The most dazzling ones are magicians. Ordinary magicians are adventurers who run around everywhere. They need to witness whether their practice is correct and need to explore the truth of this world. The truth exists in every corner of the world, even in another world.

Moreover, there are not many extraordinary people.

Like the war in the North Wind Province, the troops on the battlefield of mortals are all from the North Wind Province, but in the realm of the extraordinary, there are powerful legends like Lady Rosalind who are famous throughout the empire from the belly of the empire. His scope of activities is not a small province, or even just the empire.

So why are these two things related to each other?

The reason is that the crops of the extraordinary will eventually circulate among the extraordinary in the form of products such as magic potions, and the extraordinary are very repeat customers.

A magician trusts a chamber of commerce, and under the same conditions, it is impossible to go to another chamber of commerce to buy the same magic potion.

Because he cannot be sure whether the magic potion of another chamber of commerce is the same as he knows, and he does not know whether there are subtle changes between the magic factors of the magic potion. Even the magic potions from different magicians are slightly different.

This little difference may cause their years of hard work to go down the drain.

Therefore, caution and trust are very important.

Baron Ryan wants to break into the extraordinary circle and allow the Chamber of Commerce to trade with the extraordinary. There are only two possible outcomes.

One is failure. Baron Ryan cannot get the trust of a large number of extraordinary people because they are not sure about the extraordinary potions and other things made by his hands, so they choose to reject them.

To cultivate extraordinary crops and to make and sell them sustainably requires huge wealth to support them. Throwing in millions of gold coins is just a preliminary plan.

Once it fails, Baron Ryan will lose millions or even more gold coins.

And if at that time, he blames this on the seeds and crop choices provided to him by these chambers of commerce, it will be troublesome.

This is not a suspicion of Ryan, but a cautiousness about millions of gold coins. No one can still be calm when facing the number of millions of gold coins. The support of one million gold coins per year given to the North Wind Province by the Imperial Capital City before was the result of months of discussions that year.

An investment of millions of gold coins, and finally failed... Someone has to bear the anger of Baron Ryan for this, right?

They also have to show their abilities to the nobles behind them in the gold rush of Lingdu City, so as to improve their status within the Chamber of Commerce and in the territories of the nobles.

So, this matter is very important. It is related to the future of the heads of the Chamber of Commerce in the North Wind Province, and determines whether they can go further.

This is very risky.

This is the ending of failure. There is a second ending, which is success.

Baron Ryan succeeded and successfully entered the extraordinary market. The magic potions of the frozen land are as popular as the metal weapons here, which makes a large number of extraordinary people trust and choose.

Then it returns to that topic.

The circle of extraordinary people is not large. The extraordinary people in the North Wind Province and the extraordinary people in the Thousand Lakes Province in the south of the empire may be friends.

The number of extraordinary people is not that large compared to ordinary people.

Since the cultivation of extraordinary crops can be sustainable and large-scale, it means that this kind of extraordinary crops and extraordinary products such as magic potions related to extraordinary crops are not exclusive.

In other words, there is no uniqueness.

Rage potion, a magic potion used for knights to burst out, is the most common potion but not the lowest grade. Every big chamber of commerce in the empire has this potion.

The raw materials come from different places and from different magicians.

Every chamber has it, but the knights choose to buy from a chamber of commerce that they trust.

Trust has its limits. If you trust this one, can you trust another one?

Impossible.

In other words, once Baron Ryan succeeds, it will lead to a large number of extraordinary people buying those extraordinary products under Baron Ryan.

Does this have anything to do with them? Of course.

Because they will lose a group of loyal customers. The Rage Potion originally had 100 knights buying their homes, but now there are only 50 left, and the income has been reduced by half.

The income brought by 50 extraordinary people is very different from that of 50 civilians. Civilians use copper coins for transactions, while extraordinary people use gold coins.

The chamber of commerce's income is reduced by gold coins, which will eventually appear on the desks of the great nobles.

If Baron Ryan fails, then someone will have to bear Ryan's anger.

But Baron Ryan succeeded, and those positions with reduced income had to bear the wrath of the great nobles who discovered their wealth loss.

For example, the female countess behind Blade Rose, and the royal family behind the Imperial Chamber of Commerce.

The great nobles would not directly argue with the leaders like them, but the anger of the great nobles was never shown on the surface.

They only needed to frown, and they would move their bodies like a stone on the top of the mountain, move a piece of gravel under them to the periphery, fall to the top of the mountain, and smash on the ground.

In the process, trees may be broken, bushes may collapse, and rivers may be diverted...

They, the heads of the chambers of commerce who directly participated in Ryan's success or failure, were either the gravel, or the trees and bushes in the process.

As long as they participated, there would be risks.

They were already standing on the edge of the cliff of risk, but this matter was still too thrilling.

If you are not careful, you will die miserably. Why are these chamber of commerce managers so smart? Because those 'former stewards' who were not smart and who could not bring wealth to the nobles but instead reduced the wealth of the nobles, ended up in a blur, a blur of blood and flesh.

It is precisely because of such shrewdness that these people did not respond immediately after hearing what Ryan said, even Irina, the new head of the Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce who has the best relationship with Ryan.

Ordinary people might get excited, trust Baron Lane, and agree to earn immediate rewards.

But businessmen with a long-term perspective have seen the risks involved and what they need to face.

So three people immediately chose to retreat. They were satisfied with what Lingdu City had brought to them, and they could exchange for the future of themselves and their families in front of the great nobles behind them.

But if you take another step forward, you will really walk out of the cliff.

With her heart pounding, Irina couldn't help but want to pounce on Ryan to ask more things, but at this moment she was sweating profusely, because when she came to Ryan's castle, she took off her outer cloak. , the thin clothes now somewhat exposed the inner details.

She was nervous because she knew that if she refused, all her previous efforts would be in vain. In the future, she would need to compete with other chambers of commerce for business opportunities in Beifeng Province.

But if she agrees, she doesn't know if the two kilograms of meat on her body are enough. It most likely won't be enough, because the nobleman behind her is a woman and will not hesitate to drop the butcher's knife just because of her two kilograms of meat.

"I...I..."

Irina hesitated for a long time, and suddenly saw Avril walking by outside. The baroness seemed to have something to do and came to the baron's study. It couldn't be for excitement.

Irina suddenly reacted, and the words she was about to refuse turned into a promise.

"The Blade Rose Chamber of Commerce will agree to trade with you and follow your wishes, Lord Ryan."

After saying this, Irina felt a little weak and wanted to fall in front of Ryan. Fortunately, she stood firm in the end.

On the other side, Frank from the Lantern Merchant Guild glanced at the woman in surprise. His eyes were firm and he couldn't see Irina's coquettishness at the moment.

He is not afraid. He is a member of a noble family and is special compared to other chambers of commerce.

"The Lantern Merchant Guild also agrees to your transaction, but some resources unique to the Lantern Merchant Guild will be excluded from the final list. Of course, if you are willing to trade all the resources in those plantations to the Lantern Merchant Guild, you can consider it. "

Ryan looked at the last person, who gritted his teeth and decided to take a gamble.

He is alone.

"Well, you three can go back and prepare for a few villages and towns."

Ryan said to the three people who refused, and everyone looked at him in shock. They were actually going to face the same situation as the first group of people who left just now.

The first transaction, the second transaction, and now the third transaction, but there are only three people left who are qualified to hear the details of the transaction from Ryan.

"Lord Ryan, no wonder Viscount Miles says you are a devil who controls people's hearts."

"My heart is so scared that it's about to burst out of my chest."

"Shall I press it down for you?"

The person who answered her was Avril who walked in. Irina's face turned pale. Why had she forgotten again? She lowered her head and did not dare to say anything.

Ryan smiled and pulled Avril to sit next to him, and said to the heads of the three chambers of commerce:

"What I want to say this time is the same thing."

"I can't say that there are too many people in the Serra Kingdom. After all, their king is the powerful 'Wind Emperor'."

"But here in the Kingdom of Andala, after the original war, it was already determined that there will be some nobles who will help me cultivate extraordinary crops."

"So what I just talked about was not a few pieces of land, but most of the Andala Kingdom."

After Ryan finished speaking, the three of them all widened their eyes and breathed rapidly.

If there were huge risks in the previous transaction, then now, huge profits were placed in front of them in advance.

Regardless of whether Baron Lane succeeds or fails in his foray into the extraordinary realm, and the final consequences, at least now, they have gained an entire kingdom's market for their chamber of commerce.

This is a kingdom. No matter what happens in the Kingdom of Andara, it is one of the nine kingdoms of the Empire on Norris Road. The huge wealth was just thrown down in vain.

"The war has caused huge damage to the Kingdom of Andara. The nobles there also need to restore their territories and wealth, and use more means to enhance their strength to fight against the orcs in the north."

"They promised me, but in this case I can't send the right people to explore."

"You can trade with them, but the transaction volume cannot exceed 50%."

"Because at least half of them belong to the Northern Chamber of Commerce."

Policy determines the market economy, and as a nobleman, Ryan is the policy of this land.

After waving his hands and letting the three of them leave, Ryan looked at Avril.

"Why are you here?"

Avril said with some worry:

"My father wrote a letter saying that the eldest son of Grand Duke Meyers in the imperial capital city proposed to the emperor to mine iron ore on a large scale in the North Wind Province to rebuild the fleet that the empire lost in the West Sea in the Gulf of Thousand Lakes Province."

"The emperor agreed."

Ryan looked at the door, butler Beard was also standing there without coming in. This letter was written to Avril, but it would also be given to the Frozen Territory.

"What's the big deal? The emperor wants the iron ore in the North Wind Province, and he has to pay..."

Ryan was halfway through his words when he suddenly reacted.

He narrowed his eyes, and said with some surprise but uncertainty:

"Elector?"

"Yes, the emperor asked His Highness Volvo, one of the electors, to be responsible for rebuilding the fleet in the West Sea. This is the first test for the electors."

Ryan suddenly laughed.

"This is not the first one."

"The previous elector appeared in the Andara Kingdom to mourn the old king. I'm afraid it has something to do with this matter. His Highness was personally investigating the iron ore resources in the North Wind Province. As someone who wants to become an emperor, he is eager to know what is buried under every piece of land on his land."

"Moreover, the key to your father telling us this is not the iron ore, but that it is actually related to Meyers?"

If it is said that among the four grand dukes of the empire, Grand Duke Fleming has the best relationship with the current emperor Columbus III, which has led to this group of nobles always being able to eat the most in this era.

Then it is obvious that the other three grand dukes will compete for the next era.

Even if this era is a hundred years later or two hundred years later, they have to start fighting now.

There are three electors and four grand dukes in the empire. This number, this suddenly fit politics.

So that's how it is.

Why did Viscount Melendez tell Ryan this? Because Ryan is his son-in-law, the other in this political marriage?

No, it was because Melendez had just joined the Fleming Grand Duke's faction that benefited from the policy in this era, and Ryan was also a member of this group, but he had the closest relationship with him.

If Ryan was the policy of the land in the North, then the emperor was the policy of the entire empire, and half of the entire Norris.

If the policy went well, everything would go well.

Although it was still far away, since the emperor had given the elector a test, it was natural that he would give the elector the rights after successfully passing the test.

Power and interests.