Chapter 197: Food for Slaves

After buying slaves from the Grand Duchy of Stannik, it has entered August. (っ◔◡◔)っ

August is the season of autumn harvest. Because the territory has reclaimed a large amount of farmland this year, the grain output is still increasing.

The autumn grain plus the summer grain, this year's grain output has reached 26,000 tons.

The territory has a population of more than 60,000. It is enough to save 15,000 tons of grain. 2,000 tons of grain must be left for next year's planting. There are 9,000 tons of surplus grain available this year.

Because the liquor market suffered heavy losses, this year's liquor brewing consumed less than 1,000 tons of grain.

Last year, 8,000 tons of grain were stored, and this year only less than 2,000 tons were consumed.

Now the Haaland Territory has 14,000 tons of grain in stock.

Starting this year, the Haaland Territory can 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 6,000 tons of grain, and the remaining 8,000 tons of grain will be sold to the Duke of Edward.

This year, the Duke Edward suffered from a locust plague, and the grain production was severely reduced.

After the autumn grain came down, the fleet of the Duke Edward came to Black River Fort and purchased a large amount of grain at a price two levels higher than the market price. If the grain can be transported to the Duke Edward, the grain price will be two or three times higher than normal, or even five or ten times higher.

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

Eight thousand tons of grain were transported to Black River Fort. According to this year's grain price, it can be sold for 19,000 gold coins.

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

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

Sanji Tara is the brother of Lady Tara.

Lady Tara is the court maid of Duke Edward. She is very favored and has given birth to three children for Duke Edward.

Thanks to Mrs. Tara's relationship, Sangjitara became the commercial agent of Duke Edward.

Seeing Richard transporting a large amount of grain, Sangjitara was very happy.

After counting the grain, Sangjitara did not directly negotiate the price with Richard, but invited Richard to a banquet.

Richard also wanted to see what Sangjitara was up to? So he followed Sangji Tara to the banquet, where Richard met many acquaintances, including Viscount Romen, Baron Bazel, Baron Baron, Baron Green, etc.

These hereditary nobles have a large amount of farmland in their territories and are the largest grain merchants in Heihe County.

Including Richard, the five nobles sold a total of 60,000 tons of grain.

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

These girls were tall, exposed, and had fiery eyes, which made them look very sexy and attractive.

The nobles present were all strong professionals.

Whether it is a knight or a warrior, because of their strong body and abundant energy, they will secrete more hormones and dopamine, and their desire is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

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

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

As soon as these beautiful women appeared and surrounded the nobles, Viscount Roman and others immediately made their blood boil and showed fiery eyes.

Baron Barton had the worst self-control. At that time, he did it regardless of the occasion, and his ugly appearance was exposed. It seemed that he had to have a shot and entered the sage time to sober up.

Although Richard was also aroused by desire, he was more sober than others because of his strong mental strength. He narrowed his eyes, pushed away the sexy woman who approached him, and said directly: "Mr. Sanji, what is the meaning of doing this to us?"

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

This year, the Duke of Edward suffered a serious disaster. The locust plague has reduced the food in the territory by 70%.

Although Duke Edward has 100,000 tons of grain reserves, the territory has more than 2 million people who are hungry. Part of the 100,000 tons of grain reserves is military rations, and the grain reserves are far from enough.

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

Seeing that the food gap is still very large, Duke Edward came up with an idea to exchange slaves for food.

Selling one slave means one less mouth to feed. The food exchanged for a strong slave can be enough for fifty slaves to eat for a year. This is both a source of income and a cost-saving trade. The slave-for-food trade is very suitable for Duke Edward's territory this year.

Duke Edward knows very well that strong slaves can enhance the strength of the territory, so he plans to sell as many female slaves as possible.

Especially beautiful female slaves, who can be sold for hundreds of gold coins. If one can be sold, Duke Edward can feed 500 or even 1,000 ordinary people in the disaster year.

This year, Sanji Tara displayed a group of female slaves with the highest price. The most beautiful ones are even as good as Sofia and Wendy, but because of their low birth, their temperament is not good enough.

In previous years, female slaves of this quality and appearance were basically sold in the capital, and were usually high-value commodities that were exclusively enjoyed by the nobles.

Hearing that Sanji Tara was willing to sell these beautiful women, even Viscount Romen was somewhat tempted, and immediately asked for four girls with the largest breasts, and the price was 500 tons of grain.

Viscount Romen had a high prestige, and no one dared to compete for the women he wanted.

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

The three even had their eyes on the same beautiful slave girl. Baron Barton paid 400 tons of grain to snatch this beautiful slave girl.

According to this year's grain price, 400 tons of grain is about 1,000 gold coins.

The gold coin of the Kingdom of Grant weighs about 65 grams. This beautiful woman is only 100 kilograms. The price paid by Baron Barton is more than 130 kilograms of gold.

"It's terrible for a guy whose brain is occupied by hormones."

Richard looked at the few people speechlessly, walked out of the banquet hall, and calmed himself down first.

Although he did not buy the most beautiful slave girl, the trade of slaves for food is very feasible.

After Baron Bazel and others completed the transaction, Richard talked to Sanji Tara about exchanging food for slaves.

Because Richard was only willing to accept slaves with complete families, the Duke of Edward finally sold 800 slaves in exchange for 8,000 tons of food.

Of these 800 slave households, 300 had no male members, there were only 500 strong adult male slaves, 1,300 adult female slaves, and the remaining 2,600 slaves were all old people and children who could not be sold. In order to reassure the slaves, Richard also took away a dozen idiots and disabled people.

After completing the slave-for-food trade, Richard looked at the population statistics and found that the population of the territory had reached more than 68,400 people.