Before ascending to God, be a good lord

On the morning of the 13th, Mace Frostwolf came to Rand to report the income of the merchant.

"Lord Rand, our sausage, cheese, leather, and salt are very popular in Blue Magpie City and Maned Wolf City. The goods produced by our territory are almost sold out when they arrive at Elk Castle. Generally, we Restock in Maned Wolf City and the castles along the way, go to Dragon Tooth City to sell, then buy local goods in Dragon Tooth City, and then sell them all the way to the territory." Mace Frostwolf is reporting the business situation to Rand.

"That is to say, except for the salt from the Blue Dragon's family, and the black-scaled horse and iron armor ordered by the Maned Wolf's family, the rest are from the knight's and baron's lands, so they bought them, right?"

"Yes, merchants are selling all the way and buying goods all the way. There is no shortage of furs or irons near the capital, but there is a great demand for magic plants." The beast of burden was very interested and asked if we would sell it."

"We can't use it ourselves, how can we sell enough?" Lante carefully looked at the two documents in his hand, which were the caravan import and export orders.

The goods of the family include food, non-staple food, salt, iron armor, war horses, and livestock. When they arrived in Maned Wolf City, they sold the iron armor and horses, bought local specialties such as herbs, draft horses, gazelle, and plain cloth, and sold them along the way. They all bought magic scrolls, magic runes, alchemy props, printed cloth, satin, potions, paper, etc., and sold some of them when they returned to Maned Wolf City, and then bought some special products of Maned Wolf City before returning to the territory.

From the point of view of the nature of the commodities, the commodity route from the territory-earl-king capital-imperial capital is a scissors journey of agricultural products-handmade products-high-end handmade products-high-tech products, if it is not for the three strategic materials in the territory: salt, Iron, horses, and their own territory commodities are not competitive at all.

However, the purpose of a caravan like Metz is not to make a lot of money. It is more about wandering between small and medium noble territories, opening up trade routes between various baron and knight territories. From this perspective, changing from land to The waterway seems to save time for business, but it actually reduces the profit of each business.

If we only talk about making money, alchemy items or magic equipment are naturally the most profitable, but such products are not affordable by ordinary citizens, and are not even widely used by knights, jazz, baron and other small nobles.Even magic markets like Maned Wolf City and Dragon Tooth City can only be regarded as small businesses. The real big business depends on the concentrated orders of the big nobles.

"My lord, I suggest that the territory should still mainly sell magic-weave armor. Now that we have tutor Tania, drawing runes is more secure. We don't have to sell full-body armor every time. We can also disassemble and sell it. Our There are a lot of scattered armor parts in the warehouse, the earl's restriction on you is only a complete set of armor, and these parts are not counted."

"What you said makes sense," Rant thought for a while, and it was true. During the raids on various tribes, a large number of scattered armors and weapons were seized. Many weapons were made of iron ore on the Galloping Horse Plain. Magical black iron The content is high, if we ask Wendy and others to draw 1 or 2 magic patterns, the goods can guarantee high profits and relatively low prices at the same time.

"However, we still have to keep doing business. This is like the gray geese's annual alliance. The real purpose is to integrate other regional specialties. You divide the caravan into two teams. One team will be the caravan team inside the territory, and the other team will be the Earl of the Northwest. Leading merchant, you are still in charge of the caravan going to the capital. I will tell the girls in a while, hurry up and make some magic-weave weapons in the past few days, and you can take them to the capital for sale.” Lante thought again, I think it is better not to use metal currency for internal caravans, but to use paper money or tokens.

. . .

"Teacher Ben? Why are you here?" When the girls came out of the tent, they saw Master Ben Kaur waiting outside.

Seeing his serious face, the girls thought that Ben was going to persuade them to go to the imperial capital again: "Teacher, we have already decided, thank you for your invitation." Wendy went to deal with it first.

"Everyone has his own aspirations. I thought about it last night. Since you really don't want to go, I don't have to be so persistent." Benkaur took out a booklet while talking, "This book "The Origin of Magic and Elementary Magic "Theory" is a relatively new textbook for the Tower of Purity, and it is the basis of magic theory. I had the honor to participate in the compilation, and I give it to you today."

"Thank you teacher" Several girls saluted the mage together and took the book.

"Wendy, you have the best foundation and the greatest potential among all the children. At your age, you are also the smartest type. However, there is a saying in the Tower of Purity that the fastest walk is not necessarily the one who walks the fastest. The one that goes the farthest. The road to exploring magic requires not only wisdom, but also persistence." Ben Kaur gave his comments on Wendy seriously.

"Ah, thank you, Teacher Ben" Wendy didn't understand why he thanked him, and he didn't know why.

"Lili, I remember you once told me what kind of magic is the most powerful. At that time, I answered you that it is the most suitable for you." Ben looked at Lili, "Today I want to tell you that sometimes magic is not Just releasing the magic power, being able to understand people's hearts and fate is also magic."

Lili looked at Ben, and silently repeated the phrase "understand people's hearts, understand destiny". In her eyes, Ben Kaul is like a deep star, and the girls around her have their own unique and unique characteristics. s color.

"Firefly," Ben turned his head again, looking at the apprentice from a butcher's family, "I've never seen an apprentice who is more familiar with the body structure than you, and even the apprentices of the human body induction school and the classical life school may not have With your basic skills, I know you don't like others to mention your family background, but I still want to say that it is not your burden, but your wealth."

"Thank you, Teacher Ben." For Yinghuo, the butcher's daughter was the biggest reason she was ridiculed by noble classmates, and it was also the past she didn't want to mention. After Kay, and the arboreal fairy Lielle in the royal capital, she began to be fascinated by life.

"One more thing, your lord has some scrolls of orcs in his hands, all of which are about the body structure of animals such as black scaled horses and long-haired sheep, you will definitely be interested." Ben went to Yinghuo's side, whispering said a few words.

Ben Call's "whispering words" were neither small nor loud, and the girls' tent was next to Rand's main tent, so they couldn't hide from Rand's ears.

Hearing Ben Kaul comment on his female mages one by one, Rand also became interested, and simply signaled Mace Frostwolf beside him to stop the report, and listened to Ben Kaul's comments attentively.

"Jonny, you are the first girl in the entire territory who took the initiative to attend classes in that magic circle. I must tell you that the knowledge in that magic circle is the most basic, and the explanations inside are also very outdated. I strongly I suggest you come to the Tower of Purity to learn." Looking at Jonny who was shaking his head vigorously, Ben also smiled, "The magic boiler is the most interesting alchemy item I have seen in these years. If it can be applied on a large scale, I think it can even Be comparable to the magic furnace, don't give up your ideas, many of the greatest inventions of great magisters and even legends were conceived when they were apprentices."