Chapter 204 The impression in the eyes of outsiders
Lawrence did not wait long. When he was leading people to build a blast furnace at Andrew's house, people from down the mountain ran up to report the news.
Another businessman is coming! And they brought wheat and female slaves!
The exchange of wheat and women for three pairs of ivory chess and cards gave many businessmen the illusion that this place was an extremely backward barbaric and ignorant area where they could easily exchange lowly wheat and women for hundreds of times high profits!
During this period, some nobles had an astonishing amount of wealth reserves. Relying on years of plunder and occupation, their manors were filled with more food than they could eat and too many slaves to live in.
Ordinary barbarians can plunder enough food and surplus wealth for a year, let alone rulers and organizers.
Barbarians basically do not farm, so food famine has little to do with them. As long as they can rob, the higher the food price rises, the better it is for them.
Once the material needs are met, the most urgent needs are naturally the spiritual needs.
Not all barbarians believed in their backward gods and believed that dying in battle was an honor and that one could go to heaven where the goddess would accompany them.
No real nobleman believed this. Lawrence's aristocratic bloodline was very strong. Like the earls, dukes and kings, they would not accept invitations from certain people to challenge one another.
No one has ever seen gods, so gradually no one believes some of the claims.
The barbarian kingdom is destined to be eroded by the ideas of the western and southern kingdoms. When the barbarians step into a comfortable and comfortable environment, they must passively accept the rules of this area.
The game, which allowed one to sit down and simply play, quickly spread among the upper-class nobles and the middle- and lower-class nobles who were wealthy enough to have enough time to drink and entertain themselves.
In this atmosphere, it is naturally a very prestigious thing for the host to bring out a deck as exquisite as a work of art for the entertainment of the invited guests.
When Lawrence thought this was also a family caravan, he got very unexpected news.
"Forty people are here this time! They are riding wild boars that are bigger than Dom sheep. They are all wearing leather armor and holding knives and axes!"
Forty people...
Lawrence felt that it was very difficult to deal with, and he even didn't want to. Do this business.
"Get Delen, Salil, and Kharan to come down. Call down all the men in the lumberyard and bring weapons! Call down a few women as well, the kind who have received training!" Lawrence called out quickly, feeling uncomfortable
. Don't worry, I went up the mountain to order people, and at the same time prepared materials that could be traded.
In the past, we had always beaten kittens and puppies, such as Ug and Kur.
Pig Trotter City is very strong and has many powerful thugs and elites.
If you encounter the opponent's regular army, the few people you have in your hands are simply not enough.
Lawrence was very worried about these things. When he thought about the comparison between the country warriors in his hands and the kingdom knights, he felt extremely worried.
In this era, as long as the regular army can gather more than a hundred people, it can chase thousands of peasant soldiers and kill them indiscriminately.
What's more, there are extraordinary powers in this world, and there may be various powerful combat units such as knights, berserkers, wizards, and magicians.
When Lawrence, who looked troubled and frightened, led 30 people down the mountain, he soon met 40 people on the opposite side outside Pumexiu Town.
When the two sides were three hundred meters apart, they were both looking at each other's lineup.
The distance of three hundred meters is no longer close, especially when the heights of both sides are about the same. From a distance, only blurry figures can be seen.
To put it another way, when looking from one end of the commercial street to the other, a normal person's vision is actually blurred sixty meters away.
Knight Volkan looked at the team gradually coming from a distance. Those people followed the leading man honestly, maintaining the team's formation even when walking.
Different from loose farmers and improvised bandits, these people all have Dom sheep as mounts. Compared with the farmers encountered on the road, they are too formal.
The barbarians behind him who had been waiting anxiously gradually stood up and gathered together to look at the person coming from the opposite side.
A complete cavalry team! !
Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters!
Fifty meters!
Ten meters!
Five meters!
When the two sides were five meters apart, many people could clearly see the appearance and weapons of those people.
Volkan looked at the group of people. The leader was a young man. He was wearing a cloak made of raven feathers. The black feathers stood on the collar and shoulders like a lion's mane, looking silky. Incomparably, there is a black cloak under the crow feathers, which has a peculiar temperament when blown by the summer wind.
He looks very young, but Wolfe believes that the other person is not a kind person!
Behind him and to the side is a one-armed man with the impression of a strong man. His arm is not a simple palm, but a sharp knife shining with cold light.
On the other side stood a strong man. He was riding a stronger moose. He placed an iron shield on the side of the moose. He held an ax in his other hand. When he looked at him, his eyes only looked at him, without any trace. fear.
Beyond this, Volkan noticed the man behind the men.
These men riding sheep were observing them, and Volkan's eyes quickly glanced at these people's bodies.
Everyone looked extremely healthy, especially the obvious scars on their hands. At first glance, they looked like warriors who often held weapons.
"I am Viscount Volkan Kili from Telland Greathoof City, and I came here to exchange goods on the order of the Duke." When Lawrence heard the other party's last name, he remembered that it seemed to be the rumor that one man killed six men. The fierce man.
The other party was a noble from Pig's Trotter City. Lawrence was also from Pig's Trotter City before and was one of the many sons of the baron.
Facing such a noble knight, Lawrence remained calm and said: "I am the Crow Feather Prophet here. If you are here to exchange dominoes, it is a pity that I only have three pairs of playing cards made of large boar teeth, and I have already given them to the most powerful person." Friends who started trading with me."
Volkan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much relieved after seeing that these barbarians had no ill intentions and no intention of robbery.
Rumor has it that these mountain barbarians in the north are unable to communicate, are particularly fond of robbing, and also like cannibalism and sacrifice.
These things also happen in Pig's Trotter City, but Volkan is a noble in Pig's Trotter City and is just a guest here.
"It's really a pity, but I came here this time not only for the dominoes, but also for a lot of auranthus powder."
Lawrence nodded, "Okay, a basket of wheat can be exchanged for a can of powder."
Volkan quickly Said: "I brought food, slaves, salt and amber."
Lawrence was speechless for a while. Do these people regard themselves as primitive people?
Salt...I can't finish all the salt here!
Lawrence said calmly: "Crows do like shiny things, but as a prophet, I don't like collecting those things. I don't need amber."
"Then you must need a slave!" After hearing this, Volkan decided to keep the amber for himself. How good this thing is.
Lawrence quickly got off the sheep's back, and within a few words he felt that these people had no intention of fighting.
"Yes, but it's best to be a male slave."
Volkan brought ten slaves this time, both male and female, all of whom looked very thin and weak.
Lawrence said: "A slave is counted as twice the weight of wheat. An adult is counted as four baskets of wheat, and a child is counted as two baskets." "
Okay." Wolf agreed happily.
Lawrence took out the three snow mountain wild cats he had prepared.
"This is a wild cat I caught in the mountains. I don't need this kind of animal in the mountains. I want to exchange it for iron tools and mounts."
Volkan looked at the three bobcats in the basket. This thing is indeed liked by nobles, but It's not easy to raise and it will die easily.
"I can only give the price of a slave. These little guys don't look healthy."
Lawrence said: "Your slaves don't look healthy either. Crows are birds that can smell the smell of death."
Volkan said proactively: " Two slaves!"
"Okay!" Lawrence accepted the price.
Volkan quickly accepted three little lynxes, feeling that the furs of these three lynxes could be made into fur handkerchiefs that noble ladies liked, or trouser pads for noble men.
In addition to orange peels, Lawrence swapped wigs and playing cards.
To Lawrence's surprise, a lot of playing cards were also sold.
When I thought about it carefully, I realized that it wasn't that the playing cards couldn't be sold, but that they couldn't be sold at a high price.
Although this thing can be copied by many people, its production is very technically demanding and requires specialized wood.
All the wood near big cities belongs to the lord! !
Of course it’s okay to make one or two sets yourself, but if you want more, you’ll need wood of the same color and texture.
There are not many handicraft workers in the Luofen Kingdom. Most of the time, each manor produces and sells its own products.
Because of this relationship, most nobles have endless money in their hands.
During this period, the pirates had already completed the accumulation of the first pot of gold. Most of these funds existed in the form of food and population, and would be quickly lost due to time.
Therefore, many nobles will develop towards the south where there is more land. The north lacks suitable land and cannot accommodate too many people.
Lawrence was much happier after discovering that playing cards could continue to exist as a commodity.
Volkan quickly left with the people, and their car contained medicinal powder and some random things.
On the way back, Volkan's retinue said: "Viscount, it is rumored that there are not many people there, and they are all women."
Volkan shook his head, "It is rumored that in addition to prophets, there are poisonous witches and berserker warriors there. , I have met the berserker from Pumixiu Town. I heard about the existence of witches here when I was a child, and now I have seen the prophet." The berserkers are real, and so are the witches, and the prophets...
Everyone thinks that the prophets It's also true.
(End of chapter)