Lord Harland.

Chapter 103 Trade
Richard's journey to the Duke of Jonathan went smoothly.

From Harland territory to Jonathan territory, the straight-line distance is about [-] kilometers.

However, there are no direct roads between the two territories, and many areas in between are barren mountains.

Fortunately, you can take the waterway, go down to the Heihe River through the Powell River, go down the Heihe River, sail 220 kilometers, and disembark at the border ferry of Lahe Province.

Although there are many detours, it can be transported by river, saving 70.00% of the distance.

Li Cha and the others traveled more than 300 kilometers on a boat for four days. After disembarking from the ferry at the border of Lahe Province, they arrived at the border of the Dukedom of Jonathan.

After entering the border of Duke Jonathan, Richard took his noble seal and passed the inspection of the border post. After paying taxes to the dukedom, he can pass through the customs clearance documents freely in Jonathan's territory.

Entering the Dukedom of Jonathan, it is still a hundred kilometers away from the capital, East Castle.

After more than 100 years of operation, members of the Jonathan family have fought bravely, and the territory has become very prosperous.

The entire Dukedom of Jonathan has an area of ​​12 square kilometers, which is equivalent to a province with a small geographical area in Richard's previous life.

The population of the territory is relatively large, probably more than 200 million people.

The Jonathan family has three legions with more than [-] soldiers and excellent equipment, and there are also mages to help out.

In the entire Grant Kingdom, apart from the royal family, the Jonathan family is the most powerful.

Eastburg is the capital of Jonathan's territory. There are 10 people living in the city, and the population in the tens of kilometers nearby is very prosperous, adding up to more than 60.

It looks more prosperous than the densely populated big cities such as Black River Fort and Wright Fort.

Li Cha's caravan carried more than [-] tons of goods, especially [-] urns of liquor, each urn was [-] kilograms, which added up to [-] tons.

Plus two tons of iron arrowheads, hundreds of catties of brown sugar, thousands of catties of honey, and more than ten catties of royal jelly.

More than 150 soldiers, plus more than a hundred civilian husbands, plus heavy packages, the average weight of each person is close to 150 catties.

Fortunately, there are many strong men in Chenxi Continent, such as Li Cha and his uncle Soros, who can carry a ton of objects.

Even if it is a long-distance march, it is very easy to carry a heavy load.

Two tons of iron arrowheads can be carried by five or six professionals.

Besides, for this shipment, Li Cha also used iron horned horses to carry the load.

A magical beast like an iron horned horse can easily carry a thousand catties of supplies.

Although carrying heavy cargo, the caravan only traveled a hundred kilometers for two and a half days. In the afternoon, they arrived near East Castle.

Li Cha handed the customs clearance documents to the city defense army. After inspecting the goods, everyone found a large hotel outside the castle, and crowded together to live in the hotel.

Through the innkeeper, Richard found out that the largest chamber of commerce in East Castle is called the Sierra Chamber of Commerce.

This chamber of commerce has a very strong background and can communicate with the upper echelons of the Duke of Jonathan.

Richard brought the caravan to Jonathan for trade, not for retail, so he decided to wholesale the goods to the Sierra Chamber of Commerce, and buy salt from the Sierra Chamber of Commerce, and bring them back to the family territory.

Because of the large quantity and high value of the goods they carried, they came to the Sera Chamber of Commerce not long ago, and even alarmed the owner of the Chamber of Commerce, Serena Sera.

Selina Serra is the younger sister of Madame Serra, wife of the Baron de Rossi.However, according to public rumors in East Castle, he was also the lover of Duke Jonathan, and even gave birth to an illegitimate child for the Duke.

Duke Jonathan has already had two wives, the first being a consanguineous marriage.The Duke married his aunt, who gave birth to four children in a row, but unfortunately they were all fools and disabled.

The continuous blows made the Duchess go crazy.

Eventually the First Duchess was sent to the Church of Kings Abbey.

Mrs. Serra is the second wife of Duke Jonathan. The Serra family is also a hereditary vassal of the Jonathan family. There are also some dragon knights in the family.

After Mrs. Serra married, she gave birth to six children. The eldest son is 32 years old and has been designated as the heir by the Duke.

The Sierra Chamber of Commerce has been established for more than ten years. It not only has business in Duke Jonathan, but has extended its tentacles to other parts of the Grant Kingdom. Even the king's capital, Nolan, also has the Sierra Chamber of Commerce.

Shopping malls are like battlefields. To do big business for a long time, you must be honest.

Unless the interests are very large, a behemoth like the Sierra Chamber of Commerce can be made to abandon integrity.

Although the goods brought by Li Cha are very valuable, it is impossible for the Sierra Chamber of Commerce to commit murder and steal goods.

The people of the Sierra Chamber of Commerce are very smart and capable, and quickly counted the goods.

Although they had never seen some of the goods brought by Li Cha, such as white wine and brown sugar, after tasting them, they immediately notified Serena and decided to eat the goods.

Because the shipping cost is not small, the price of baijiu reaches five copper coins per kilogram.

Jonathan's territory also brewed red wine, and the price of local red wine was one silver coin per kilogram.

This kind of price is very unfriendly to the people, and almost only senior military officers, nobles, and wealthy businessmen will often drink it.

Even if the Sierra Chamber of Commerce raises the retail price to seven copper coins per kilogram, it is several times cheaper than red wine.

In the morning light plane, red wine is a luxury, while high-grade liquor is a necessity to a certain extent.

Liquor has the largest volume and the heaviest weight, and the selling price adds up to about 250 gold coins.

A two-ton iron arrowhead can be transported in a carriage, but it can be sold for a high price of three hundred gold coins.

The price of brown sugar is also good, the same as honey, one silver coin per kilogram.

Two hundred catties of brown sugar sold for eight gold coins and four silver coins.

The amount of honey was much more than that of brown sugar, a total of 66 catties, and it was sold for [-] gold coins and eight silver coins.

Adding these two items together, they sold a total of 75 gold coins.

The final royal jelly has the highest price, and it is already considered a magic item. Ten gold coins are one kilogram, and the total is less than 92 catties. It was exchanged for [-] gold coins.

In the end, this batch of goods sold for a high price of 717 gold coins, and Li Cha planned to use part of this sum to buy salt.The remaining gold coins are going to buy some commodities that are in short supply in the Principality of Jonathan.

Duke Jonathan owns the salt mine, and the output is very large.

The price of local table salt is also cheap, and one copper coin can buy half a kilogram.Converted into gold coins, you can buy 180 kilograms.

In Gerda Province, in recent years, only twelve copper coins can buy one kilogram of salt.

The price of salt is six times that of the Duke of Jonathan.

This year, the price will increase by [-]%, nineteen copper coins per kilogram of salt, nine times higher than that of Duke Jonathan.

From this, we can see how hard the Huolan family exploited the salt?
(End of this chapter)