Chapter 83 The Return of the Caravan
"Attracting a wandering hero?" After seeing this message, Sulun's breathing instantly increased a little.
He now has only three heroes in his territory, Johnson, Boulder and Chris. Each hero is not weak. If he can recruit heroes, the value of this tavern will be even higher.
Arranged personnel to open the tavern, Sulun went to the tavern for a while. After experiencing the tavern, he ordered the person in charge to pay attention to collecting information in the tavern and pay attention to some strange people.
After the tavern opened, Sulun discovered that the barbarian warriors loved this place more than the school grounds, which forced Sulun to restrict them.
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In order to cope with the subsequent trade, Sulun built a barracks near the trading market, which was a resting place for soldiers. Next to the barracks is the tax office of the trading market. The tax office is now very simple. Even the tax officer in the territory has not been appointed, so Chris can only serve as the part-time position.
Fortunately, there is no other tax revenue in the territory except for caravans coming to trade. This is also because Su Lun has not appointed a tax officer for a long time, after all, there is no tax revenue.
For caravans coming to trade, this kind of tax is definitely required. In the territory, transactions with more than one hundred jinars must be registered with the tax office and a certain amount of tax is paid. If someone wants to take advantage of the loopholes and deliberately limit the transaction amount to one hundred gold coins, once discovered, they will be punished ten times directly.
All transactions must be traded in the trading market. Trading outside the trading market is considered illegal and the goods will be confiscated directly by soldiers responsible for market security.
After coming out of the tavern, Su Lun saw Gene with a dusty face at a glance.
"It's great to see you. I'm going to report to you." Gene was overjoyed when he saw Sulun. He quickly walked to Sulun, and then bowed and said, "Sir, the caravan has returned to the territory safely. All the goods and supplies have not been damaged. This time, he bought three hundred slaves from Carter City. We also made a profit of 1,500 kinners in this trade."
so much?
Su Lun was a little stunned, then took the bill and looked around.
The biggest income on the bill is sugar. Gene went to Carter City to trade and brought a total of 50 kilograms of sugar. The others were fur and other things. The things were sold in total for less than 500 jinnals. Fifty kilograms of sugar were sold in Carter City for nearly 3,000 jinnals.
Then, purchase supplies in Carter City cost more than 1,000 kinars, purchases of 300 slaves, and after paying the tax, there are still 1,000 hardware.
The average price of sugar sold by Gene is about 60 jin per pound, which doubled the price of sugar distributed directly. As a result, all the sugars were sold out without even a long time. There were also a large number of nobles who had not bought sugar. The merchants wanted to make reservations, but without Sulun's order, Gene did not dare to accept it.
"It seems that those nobles have a strong demand for white sugar." Su Lun thought to himself.
Although he was mentally prepared, he still underestimated the nobles' love for white sugar. These nobles who lived a luxurious life had reached a very high level of pursuit of various material enjoyment. The long-term peace made the nobles more and more arrogant and extravagant.
"It's done well." Sulun patted Gene on the shoulder and praised.
Gene was very satisfied with his current job. He went from a mercenary who was penniless, drinking and drinking dew, and licking blood on the knife every day to a businessman who now has a family and a career and works for a territorial nobleman. This huge change made him full of gratitude to Sulun, the person who gave all this.
"This is all your guidance, I just did some of the most basic things," Gene said respectfully.
As the first mercenary hired by Sulun to open up the territory, Gene watched Sulun overcome all obstacles, gain a foothold in this dangerous wilderness, and then lead the barbarian warriors to win again and again.
In just over two months, a town was built from scratch, and a gold mine was dug in this barren land. Now he thinks he is witnessing the rise of a legend.
Being able to follow a legendary figure is also of great benefit to him. Maybe he can take this opportunity to become a new nobleman from a civilian.
"Jen, don't be humble, I know your efforts." Sulun nodded at him.
After this period of caravan work, Gene's negotiation and trade skills have improved, which is the most obvious change.
"Sir, only a small number of the nobles purchased this time have skills, and other slaves can only be serfs or handymen."
"Sorry, most of the craftsman slaves with skills were bought by the nobles..."
For skilled slaves, they are in short supply in the slave market, and are basically monopolized by big merchants and nobles. Others can only pick up some leftovers from them. Su Lun was able to buy dozens of craftsman slaves because of his aristocratic identity.
"More than 300 slaves, which craftsman slaves are divided according to their skills. As for the remaining slaves, let them build roads." Su Lun quickly arranged their own places for the slaves.
"Sir, this time, sugar is sold in Carter City. Many people are asking about our supply. I told several businesses as you told me that they have decided to come to our territory for transactions."
"Okay, I understand." Su Lun released the news, attracting other chambers of commerce to come here to make more people compete for sugar.
Of course, in addition to sugar, the arrival of many chambers of commerce will also drive the discovery of territorial commerce, which is very important for Sulun's territory discovery.
As for sugar, he plans to trade 500 kilograms every month.
Five hundred kilograms of white sugar were divided into five parts, and then auctioned one by one, which would be the highest. In order to prevent those caravans from secretly colluding and suppressing the price, Su Lun used a secret bidding bid.
The price is kept confidential, and each person has only one bidding opportunity. In this way, even if they have already negotiated the price in advance and divided the share, it is useless. In order to avoid being eliminated, they can only increase the price.
The caravans did not follow Gene to Zhenbei Castle, they were ready to come together.
For the upcoming trade, Sulun asked the slaves to prioritize the construction of the trading market, and the roads of the territory also began to extend outward.
Chapter completed!