"Well, it's good to be back."

Kant nodded, looked at Jocelyn with a happy face, and asked with a smile: "Looking at your appearance, it seems that you have encountered something to be happy about." ”

"That's right." Jocelyn nodded, "We can maintain a long-term trade with the tree people of the Fagon Forest!" Without waiting for Kant to ask, he continued to report: "The elemental gems we had at the beginning were those crystal clear blue and yellow gems, I think you know it, Lord Kant. ”

"Of course I know the gems I get after killing the elemental giants." Kant nodded.

"That's it!"

Jocelyn smiled and said, "Those treants need these elemental gems!" ”

"Huh?" Kant's eyebrows furrowed slightly: "This is indeed good news." Still, he asked, "How is the value calculated, and if memory serves, the tree people don't really care about money like gold and silver, or the concept of trade at all, right?" ”

"It's not a problem, as long as it's the most primitive barter."

The corners of Jocelyn's mouth curled.

He is very confident in this trade and future trade: "The people of the Fagong Forest have all kinds of wild spices to exchange, such as cinnamon bark, black pepper, cumin grains and other expensive spices!" ”

"Spices, good." Kant nodded, this is indeed an expensive luxury.

This does serve as an exchange item.

Even cheaper Kant, after all, he didn't have much thought about those elemental gems.

Although it can be sold.

It's like Pande and Calradia.

The aristocracy who were keen on luxury would buy elemental gemstones as pure and flawless sapphires and topazes.

There are not many convertible dinars, if Kant can exchange them for spices, even if it is 10 elemental gems for 1 small bag of spices, and sell them to the merchants of the Duchy of Lion, in exchange for a lot of golden eagles, it will be a sure profit!

The elemental gems in the Fagon Forest are spices, golden eagles, and dinars.

And after this reversal.

The value has directly multiplied several times!

Spices are worth more than salt because they represent status.

At the banquet of the aristocracy, if there is no spice, it is equivalent to a miser, a broken household, and it will not be accepted by the mainstream aristocratic circle, and even ridiculed, because the social atmosphere is like this.

As a high-ranking nobleman, you must have an aristocratic background.

Fine white salt represents this.

Spices that produce wonderful chemical reactions in the mouth represent this even more!

It can be said that in the hands of the Lion Principality and even the human countries, and even those alien tribes and kingdoms further afield, it can be regarded as a hard currency comparable to gold, a luxury that can be directly purchased with the Golden Eagle!

The value of spices is extremely high!

"Your Excellency."

Jocelyn spoke: "The exchange price is indeed generous. ”

He paused and continued to report, "In the eyes of these treants, earth elemental gems and water elemental gems can bring them a different kind of enjoyment, just like when we eat, we can get supplies that are beneficial to the body. ”

"They're equal to half elemental creatures, that's normal." Kant nodded, not surprised.

"Of course."

Jocelyn nodded: "So their trading price is, 1 elemental gem, which can be exchanged for 1 small bag of spices." ”

"So much?" Kant raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised.

"Uh-huh."

Qiao Celin said helplessly: "Of course, this is really a small bag of spices. As he spoke, he took out the spices he had obtained from this transaction in his arms, the size of his fist, with a spicy fragrance: "This is a small bag of black pepper, which was picked by those tree people, in fact, they are not stupid." ”

1 Elemental Gem for 1 small bag of spices is indeed not a huge profit.

But Kant didn't care.

Elemental gems didn't do much for him.

But even this 1 small bag of spices, just like this black pepper, is definitely worth 10 golden eagles, or 1,000 large silver coins, in the Lion Principality, which is more expensive than the trade of white salt!

"It just doesn't last."

Kant frowned slightly.

At present, the source of his elemental gems is obtained by relying on those two pages of strange things.

You can summon about 7 Earth Elemental Giants and Water Elemental Giants every week, and only after killing these elemental creatures can you get Elemental Gems, and occasionally the Elemental Gems will be severely shattered due to the slightly heavier strength of the Marksmen.

This is not without precedent.

Elemental gemstones are also gemstones, with sufficient hardness but poor strength.

If the sharp and hard cone-headed arrow is a few points deeper, the arrow can easily stab the elemental gem.

Although it will not shatter into gemstone slag, but there are traces of fragmentation, it can definitely affect the stability of the elements inside, which can be guessed even if there is no tree man to inform Kant, no one wants broken materials.

But even so, only about 15 elemental gems can be produced every week.

If you exchange for a Golden Eagle, you will have 150 of them.

That's 15,000 dinars!

Changing hands, the price of 15 elemental gems directly doubled several times!

You must know that when sold purely as a decorative luxury for gemstones, the price given by the nobles of Calradia and Pande is only 250 dinars for one crystal clear top element gem.

And this crystal clear top-of-the-line elemental gemstone is not something that can be encountered every time.

"15,000 dinars a week."

Kant's fingers tapped on the tabletop.

After a moment of contemplation, he said to Jocelyn: "Continue to maintain good trade exchanges with the tree people of the Fagong Forest, although the money is less, but the relationship with them is the most important thing." ”

"Understood."

Jocelyn nodded.

The current Kant, of course, is not looking at 15,000 dinars per week.

If you talk about the salt trade alone, then his income can reach 150,000+ dinars every month, which is more than 100,000 yuan, even if it is all filled into the construction of towns, it can pile up half of the city.

For example, the original investment in the city of "Aaron" was only 350,000 dinars.

Small point though.

But it's a city.

Of course, the next step is to build a good relationship with the tree people, and it would be best if you could hire these tree people, even if you can't hire them, it would be good to get the precious natural spring that these tree people have.

The sentry oasis has been so badly damaged that the vegetation has been trampled and even the date palm trees have been damaged.

If left unattended, it will surely wither.

Nature's fountains can be added to revive withered plants.

I have to say that this is the magic of consumable strange things, comparable to the power of regularity.

"It's good to stabilize it for now."

Kant came to a conclusion.

What is needed now is indeed stability, the means to digest the fruits of victory as soon as possible, and at the same time to speed up the entry into the Lion Principality, and most importantly, the ancient passage under the city of "Aaron", which should also come in handy.

You can go directly to the Resniston River and go straight to the important place of the Duchy of Lion!

Also on the verge of the Kingdom of Silverplate.

In addition, the river also communicates with other human nations.

Strategically significant!

Kant certainly had ideas about the river, especially after repelling the undead invasion to the south, and he thought a little more about the lion principalities and the human kingdoms.

Not out of territorial occupation, but from the dinar.

This is Kant's purpose.

Land is just nothingness for him, in fact, there is a system, he does not need land.

Even the output of the land, the wealth of the aristocracy, was only a concept for Kant, and only the dinar was real, because only this kind of money could be systematically recognized.

Dinars are required to recruit troops and purchase supplies.

Therefore Kant needed the dinar.

The only thing in this world that can be exchanged for dinars on a large scale is gold.

Therefore, he needs to trade, just like the colonies on the earth that appeared in modern times in the previous life, plunder all the economies of the colonies, and obtain a large amount of gold for the main power, that is, Kant, so as to exchange it for dinars.

Only the dinar could strengthen Kant's strength.

The so-called soldiers.

The so-called materiel.

In fact, they can all be obtained with the dinar in the world of riding and slashing!

This leads to Kant not caring about the supply of this world, and really regards this world as a colony that can be plundered at will, especially the plundering economy, that is, gold!

"By the way, since you're back, let Manid quickly sort out the preparations for the salt trade."

Kant commanded: "Tomorrow, I will set out with him and go to the central station." ”

"That's as it should be." Jocelyn shrugged: "Those merchants of the Lion Principality, it is estimated that they will have to wait. ”

The undead sealed off the castle of "Drehem" for two weeks.

That would mean that the salt trade was cut off for two weeks.

But for those businessmen who depend on Kant for their livelihood, it is that the financial route is cut off for two weeks, and if it lasts too long, it is estimated that these businessmen, who have become accustomed to high profits, will be angry!

They had come all the way to the Narun Desert to make money.

It's good now.

The salt-eating camel caravans that used to appear every week are gone.

If they want to continue deeper into the desert, Rolf, the commander of the local garrison, will never allow them to enter.

If there is no hurry, it is absolutely impossible, it is estimated that those merchants will still unite and try to negotiate with Rolf, after all, they are not relying on themselves, but also representing the nobles behind them!

The sentry oasis has calmed down.

The current castle of "Drehem" just needs to be vigilant.

Kant would not have brought too many troops with him to the central station.

But there are still high-end troops.

Because going to the central post station is not the goal, he also has to go to the Jianshi Pass to meet Fatis who has been stationed there for more than 2 months, and by the way, send a signal to let those nobles who want to go further know the benefits of cooperation.

Planning for the Lion Principality is on the agenda.

Now Kant has enough troops.

The strength is also sufficient.

It was still very simple for Kant to annex the Duchy of Lion, or to support the agents, to completely control the business of the Duchy and turn it into a source of continuous production of golden eagles.

Especially the shadow that was buried in advance, the Borg, who was in the East County Territory, he also planned to contact him.

Shadows are meant to be used.

Right now.

It's time.

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