Lord Harland.

Chapter 197 Food for Slaves

After buying slaves from the Grand Duchy of Stanik, it has entered August.

August is the harvest season, because the territory has reclaimed a lot of farmland this year, and the grain production is still increasing greatly.

Combined with autumn grain and summer grain, this year's grain output has reached [-] tons.

With a population of more than 6 in the territory, it is enough to save some [-] tons of grain, and [-] tons of grain will be left for next year's crops. This year, there are [-] tons of surplus grain that can be used.

Because of the heavy losses in the liquor market, less than [-] tons of grain were consumed in brewing liquor this year.

Last year, [-] tons of grain were reserved, but less than [-] tons were consumed this year.

Today, there are [-] tons of grain in Harland's territory.

Starting from this year, the territory of Harland will be able to sell thousands of tons of grain every year to make up for the loss of liquor profits.

There is a high probability that there will be no war next year. Richard only plans to reserve [-] tons of grain, and the remaining [-] tons of grain will be sold to the Duke of Edward.

This year, the Duke of Edward suffered a plague of locusts, and the food production was severely reduced.

After the autumn grain arrived, the Duke of Edward's fleet came to Black River Fort to purchase a large amount of grain, and the purchase price was two floors higher than the market price.If the food can be transported to the Duke of Edward, the price of food will be two to three times, or even five or ten times higher than normal.

But earning this money may not save your life. Duke Edward is not a good-tempered person.Let you hoard in his territory and earn a lot of gold coins.

Eight thousand tons of grain is transported to Heihe Fort. According to this year's grain price, it can be sold for [-] gold coins.

With this amount of funds, the income of the territory will increase sharply this year.

Richard sent this batch of old grain to Heihe Fort by water transport, and met Sanji Tara, who was in charge of the grain trade in the Duke of Edward.

Sanji Tara is Lady Tara's older brother.

Lady Tara is Duke Edward's court maid, very favored, has given birth to three children for Duke Edward.

Relying on Mrs. Tara's relationship, Sanji Tara became the commercial agent of Duke Edward.

Sangitara was very happy to see Li Cha transporting a large amount of grain.

After counting the food, Sangitara did not directly negotiate the price with Li Cha, but invited Li Cha to a banquet.

Li Cha also wants to see what kind of medicine is sold in the Sangjita pull gourd?So I followed Sanji Tara to the banquet. At the banquet, Richard met many acquaintances, such as Viscount Roman, Baron Bazel, Baron Barton, and Baron Green.

There are a lot of farmland in these hereditary aristocratic territories, and they are the largest grain merchants in Heihe County.

Including Li Cha's five nobles, the grain sold reached [-] tons.

Sanji Tara clapped his hands, and a team of more than 30 beautiful girls appeared at the banquet.

These girls are tall, with revealing clothes, and with fiery eyes in their eyes, they look very sexy and attractive.

The nobles present are all strong professionals.

Whether it is a knight or a warrior, because of their strong body and energetic relationship, they will secrete more hormones and dopamine, and their desires are much stronger than ordinary people.

So most nobles will have a lot of women, powerful female knights, female warriors, and generally a lot of men.

This has nothing to do with morality or immorality, it is entirely determined by hormone levels.

As soon as these beautiful women appeared and surrounded the nobles, the blood of Viscount Roman and others immediately burst out, showing fire-breathing eyes.

Baron Barton had the worst self-control. At that time, he acted disregarding the situation, showing his ugly face. It seemed that he had to have a show, and he would only be able to wake up after entering the time of the sage.

Although Li Cha was also aroused by desire, but because of his strong mental power, he was more sober than others.He squinted his eyes, pushed away the sexy woman who came up, and said directly: "Mr. Sanji gave us this hand, what exactly does it mean?"

"I just want to entertain everyone, thank you for selling food to us. If you like, this batch of beautiful women can be sold for everyone to enjoy."

This year, the Duke of Edward has been hit hard by disasters. The flood of locusts has reduced the food in the territory by [-]%.

Although Duke Edward has 200 tons of food in storage, the territory's population of more than [-] million people is starving for food. Part of the [-] tons of food storage is military rations, and the food reserves are far from enough.

Although Duke Edward has a lot of gold coins, he is unwilling to use them all to feed the serfs and the people.

Seeing that the food shortage was still very large, Duke Edward thought of an idea to exchange slaves for food.

Selling one slave saves one mouth, and one strong slave can get enough food for fifty slaves for a year.In this way, both increase income and reduce expenditure, the slave-for-grain trade is very suitable for this year's Dukedom of Edward.

Duke Edward knew very well that strong slaves could enhance the strength of the territory, so he planned to sell as many female slaves as possible.

Especially beautiful female slaves can be sold for hundreds of gold coins.If one can be sold, Duke Edward can support five hundred or even a thousand ordinary people in a disaster year.

Sanji Tara showed a group of female slaves with the highest prices this year. The most beautiful looks are not inferior to those of Sophia and Wendy, but because of their lower background, their temperament is not good enough.

In the past, female slaves with this kind of appearance were basically sold in the capital, and they were usually high-value commodities exclusive to the nobles.

Hearing that Sanji Tara was willing to sell these beautiful women, even Viscount Roman was a little moved, and immediately asked for the four girls with the largest breasts at a price of [-] tons of grain.

Viscount Roman has a high prestige, and no one else dares to compete for the woman he wants.

Seeing that Richard had no intention of buying, Baron Basil, Barton, and Baron Green rushed to bid.

The three of them even fell in love with the same beautiful female slave. Baron Barton paid [-] tons of food to snatch this beautiful female slave.

According to this year's grain price, [-] tons of grain is about [-] gold coins.

The gold coins in the Kingdom of Grant weighed about 65 grams, and this beautiful woman weighed only one hundred catties. The price Baron Barton paid was more than 130 catties of gold.

"The guy whose brain is occupied by hormones is really scary."

Li Cha looked at the few people speechlessly, walked out of the banquet hall, and let himself calm down first.

While not buying the most beautiful slave girls, the slave-for-grain trade was very viable.

After Baron Bazel and others completed the transaction, Li Cha talked with Sanji Tara about exchanging food for slaves.

Because Richard was only willing to accept slaves with complete families, the Duke of Edward finally sold [-] slave families in exchange for [-] tons of grain.

Of these 500 households of slaves, 300 households had no males, only 600 strong adult male slaves, [-] adult female slaves, and the remaining [-] slaves were all old people and children who could not be sold. In order to reassure the slaves, Li Cha also took away a dozen fools and disabled people.

After completing the slave-for-grain trade, Li checked the population statistics and found that the population of the territory had already exceeded 400.

(End of this chapter)