I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 46: Savage Carrying Gold

Got leather?
Oh, good stuff.

Chris suddenly became interested. He found that he had missed a point. It was normal for savages to make a living by fishing and hunting, so it was normal for them to have leather in their hands, but he actually forgot about it.

Chris is neither a god nor a robot. Many times he forgets things, is negligent, and misses things that he should focus on.

For example, the player's trouble, such as the leather of the mountain barbarian.

In the Bohemian Empire, Chris once wanted to acquire some raw materials or primary processed products that would still be valuable in the 21st century in order to make some money back.

The first thing Chris took a fancy to was leather. He had a good plan and asked Isaac's caravan to go out and buy leather. He would take it to the 21st Century to sell it in exchange for RMB, and then use the RMB to buy primary industrial products and sell them in Bohemia.

However, Chris's business plan got stuck at the first step... He couldn't buy enough leather of good quality.

In the Bohemian Empire, every city has its own industry guild. Do you want to purchase a large amount of leather?

Yes, but only if you are a member of the local merchant guild?

No.

Are you a member of the local leather and manufacturing guild?
Neither?
Do you have letters of introduction from merchant guilds in other cities?

What? You only have merchant documents issued by the Empire!?
Where did you come from, you country bumpkin? Don’t get in the way here, get out of here!

The above conversation is the experience of Isaac and Chris.

Because of their lack of background, Isaac's caravan was unable to purchase leather, not even one or two pieces of cowhide.

If it doesn’t work in big cities, how about trying towns and villages that are rich in leather products?
also can not.

Because such villages and towns are also the territory of industry guilds in nearby large cities, the guilds have regulations that their output can be sold to third parties, but the buyers must first obtain the guild's purchasing qualifications.

Buy privately?
You can give it a try, but this is considered guild smuggling. In addition to the fact that the lord who has not collected taxes may issue a warrant for your arrest, the merchants and leather guilds whose interests have been infringed will likely send people to hunt down the Isaac caravan.

Yes, hunting down. Such monopoly guilds have their own private armed forces. The caravan guards, bodyguards, mounted militia, and citizen militia are the merchants' thugs and lackeys.

Even if the Isaac caravan runs away, the local lords will not bother to pay attention to you, but the bounty hunters hired by the merchant guild will not. Even if the Isaac caravan runs away from the country, they can pay money to let guilds in other countries do the work.

In order to maintain their monopoly position, businessmen will really fight to the death.

Therefore, Chris really did not purchase any decent leather in the Bohemian Empire. He gave up and subconsciously forgot his plan.

Now that the barbarian chief mentioned it, Chris remembered it and he became more energetic.

“Have them bring the leather over and check the quality and quantity.”

Chris thought that the mountain barbarians had leather in their hands, which should be cowhide, goathide, or even horsehide, wolfhide or other leather.

Valuable horsehide and wolfhide can be sold for hundreds to thousands of yuan, and worthless sheepskin can be sold for dozens of yuan, which can make Chris a profit.

As a result, the development of things was beyond his expectations and imagination.

When Chris saw the barbarians happily coming out of the nearby woods, carrying a large bundle of thick snow-white fur tied with ropes, he was stunned.

Then, after a long time, Chris woke up. He rushed over quickly, grabbed the snow-white and soft hair and pulled it for a while.

"What...what kind of fur is this?"

Chris's voice was trembling. Mia, who had been following him, looked up at him in surprise, and then translated truthfully to the barbarian chief.

After a while of chattering, Mia translated simultaneously.

"It's white bear hair."

"Where do you get the polar bear fur? Where do you hunt them?" "In the summer, the tribe enters the Kaslo Mountains and keeps going north until they reach the ocean of ice, and then they will encounter polar bears."

Damn, the case is solved. This is not a white bear, it’s the skin of a polar bear!
Chris quickly opened his phone and briefly checked the value of this thing. Ordinary quality ones cost 20,000 to 30,000 RMB, while good quality ones can be sold for 200,000 RMB... That's a huge profit!

The tax rate of 1 is quite scary. It seems that the tax is collected according to the rules for luxury goods.

If these bear skins could be processed into furs, they would be even more valuable. Not only would people be buying them in the 21st century, I'm afraid there would be people wanting them even in the 25th century.

Chris had the ropes tied up the furs removed and counted them. There were fifteen of them, all in good condition with no obvious damage on the surface.

Chris estimated from an outsider's perspective that these fifteen furs could bring him an income of about 20 to 1 million RMB.

"How much food can I get in exchange?"

Mia asked on behalf of the barbarian chief.

"It can be exchanged for a lot of food... follow me."

Chris decided to exchange a bear skin for 100 kilograms of grains for these mountain barbarians, and gave them all the food that the caravan currently carried... He could buy it later anyway, just a few clicks on the phone.

In addition, there were fifty spears, five boxes of iron arrowheads, and ten large iron pots.

Chris also wanted to give them ten muskets and a thousand rounds of ammunition to make it easier for them to hunt in the Arctic at the end of the Cathro Mountains.

Originally, Chris was thinking of recruiting soldiers from these mountain barbarians and forming some mountain soldiers. But now it seems that it would be such a waste to recruit soldiers from the mountain barbarians.

It would be better to let them go hunting and sell the polar bear skins to Chris.

However, Chris still had some common sense after all, and before giving Isaac the musket, he asked Isaac's opinion.

"Sell the muskets to the mountain barbarians, will you?"

“It’s okay. Although these mountain barbarians are active in Bohemia and Bagnia, their main enemy and target of plunder is actually the Retalia Empire.

Because their original residence was within the Retalia Empire, and after their homeland was occupied, they fled to the Kaslo Mountains."

Isaac shrugged.

“Once these people get weapons, they will only cause trouble for the Retella people and rarely clash with the Bohemians and Bagnians.

Because these mountain barbarians can't defeat the Bohemian regular army, and the Bagnians... well, they heard they were almost as poor as the mountain barbarians. To be honest, it was the Bagnians who often robbed the barbarians.

After hearing what Isaac said, Chris had a clear idea in his mind and handed over ten muskets to these barbarians.

When the barbarians got food, they were very happy. When they got knives, guns and iron pots, they also felt very good and used them without hesitation.

When Chris had someone take out the muskets and hand them to them, these barbarians cheered loudly while holding up their muskets, and even danced on the spot, howling at Aisha who was running towards them.

During the dance, the barbarian chief, whose name was unknown, ran over and shouted excitedly.

"We have more white bear skins. Can we exchange them for more muskets?"

Mia translated.

"Don't want food?"

"Food is enough for now. We need weapons so we can protect ourselves."

"Where's the fur?"

"In the mountains across the river."

(End of this chapter)