Black Iron Crown

Chapter 362: Thoughts that shouldn't be there

Cam was wearing two layers of animal skins and a layer of cotton coat, covering him like a bloated bear, stumbling with his few entourages through the thick snow of the northern border.

He is a small businessman from the imperial capital. After hearing that the big figures are offering sugar rewards madly, the businessman's keen sense of smell told him that he should have come to the north to take a look.

Immediately, he took his two entourages and eight guards to the north, hoping to buy sugar in the north and get rich overnight.

He came with full of hope, but after arriving in the north, he realized that a luxury such as sugar was really not something he could get in his hands.

Five gold coins can only buy one kilogram of white sugar. Why is this enough?

Do you want to take a trip to the far north for a kilo of sugar? This is obviously unrealistic.

Five gold coins, this is a huge sum of money even for him as a businessman. Five gold coins are even enough for a family of five to live for a lifetime. If he really bites his teeth and spends five gold coins to buy sugar, he will have to bear a huge amount. But risk.

However, if he didn't buy sugar, then he would come here in vain, and the cost along the way was not a small figure. If he didn't buy anything, what awaits him is absolutely nothing.

In desperation, Cam entered several taverns in the peak season in Mecalon. He inquired that the handicrafts and animal skins in the north were cheap and large in quantity, and after the high quality, he left the prosperous city and prepared Try your luck in the small village.

Several entourages and guards around him walked hard in the snow with their carriages.

Originally, neat stone roads had been built in the northern border, and at the same time, the snow on it was cleaned up as soon as winter arrived.

However, since his target is a small remote village, no one clears the snow.

The half-person height of snow made the journey extremely difficult. They walked staggeringly, while the guards and entourage yelled at them from time to time, and irritably led the carriage forward.

"Head, this horrible place is too difficult to go! Let's change the place! God knows if we will die in this heavy snow!"

An entourage walked to Cam's side, opened the warm cloth strip of his mouth, begging to say to him.

He glanced behind him and found that the guards and entourage who followed were all looking at him hopefully, hoping to return.

Cam with a bitter expression on his face, and glanced at the gray sky, Weng said angrily: "Hold on again, my dear brothers! I swear this time we will make a lot of money! When we return to the imperial capital I will allocate 40% of the benefits to you!"

"Now, we have no choice! We paid so much road tax and spent so much money on the road! If we can't find business opportunities here! We will lose everything!"

After saying this, he gasped heavily. The air-conditioning reduced the oxygen content in the air, and every word he said was a huge burden.

Why didn't he regret it at this time, if he was given another chance to choose, he would definitely not be tempted by the reward to come to the northern border, a place where birds do not shit.

But something happy happened, and regret had no effect. He had to find a way to save his loss.

The smoke was curling up, and it was very bright in this gray weather. People in the team couldn't help but ecstatic when they saw the smoke in front of them. In such cold weather, they could drink a bowl of thick but broth. It couldn't be better.

After a few strange screams, they speeded up.

"Stop! Outsider!"

Three adult men holding dung forks appeared in front of the group of people, watching them warily.

Cam hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong! My friend, I am a businessman from the Imperial Capital! I came here hoping to buy some gadgets from you! Some gadgets that can benefit us all!"

The three were still on alert, and one of them said, "Go and call the elder and the village head!"

Reiner now deploys local village chiefs and village officials who are mainly responsible for construction and tax collection in village-level units. The powers of the two are checked and balanced to prevent monopolies or corruption.

However, due to the insufficient number of officials in Reiner, this policy can only be gradually rolled out.

After a while, the elders and officials of the village appeared in front of them.

After learning the purpose of their coming, the village officials couldn't help but beamed. The task that Rainer explained to them was to develop business as much as possible, and now they finally had the opportunity to show their face in front of Lord Earl.

After reconfirming the identity of the other party, the village official began to lead them through the house to see which gadgets and the other party's wishes.

"This...this bear skin..." Cam's eyes were fixed on the black bear skin that was intact, with his head also on top of it, and his mouth kept tucking in surprise.

But soon he reacted, coughing lightly, looking at a part of it pretending to be sorry, and said: "Hey, this should be a good bear skin, but it's still a bit flawed. It's a pity to look at these scars. ..."

The village official watched Cam's performance coldly, and did not speak.

"Well, two silver coins. Seeing you are so poor here, I'll buy it at the high price of two silver coins!" Camu looked up and down the huge bear skin, and sighed pretendingly.

Listening to Cam's chatter, the village official interrupted: "Well, Mr. Cam, if you really want to buy at least one gold coin, or forget it, you may be able to look at other things!"

"..."

"I mean... there are big flaws in this long bear skin..." Before Kam was finished, the village official frowned and said, "I also said, at least one gold coin, otherwise you can take a look. For other commodities, I am the village official appointed by Earl Rainer, and my duty is to ensure the interests of the residents and Lord Earl under the rule!"

"Okay..." Cam was very helpless, he didn't expect that his all-inclusive solution in a remote and small place would actually fail.

Early the next morning, Cam returned with a full load ~lightnovelpub.net~ and left the village with three large trucks of goods.

He spent a lot of copper, which was more than three gold coins in total, but his heart was hot at this time, and he knew he was going to make a fortune.

The handmade products here are indeed very high-quality and rare. Exquisite and practical baskets, brooms, small decorations, and some animal skins can bring him at least ten gold coins in the Imperial Capital!

Countless small merchants infiltrated various villages, and the big merchants were rich and powerful. Even though they were dissatisfied with the high price, they still sold out the sugar.

In just a few days, there were more than 3,000 gold coins in Reiner's warehouse, which was not even considered the surge in commercial taxes everywhere.

At the same time, a dialogue like this appeared in a dark room in the imperial capital: "I heard that the expensive sugar is from Earl Rainer in the North?"

"Yes, I think we should be able to profit from this..."

"Aha, maybe we should write him a letter to let him know that the big figures in the imperial capital like his sugar and hope to have technical cooperation with him..."