The evening of late autumn comes relatively early, and it is already getting dark before dinner time.
Frederick received Mrs. Sophie in the living room, who had returned from an overseas trip, and at the same time invited Archbishop Victor to accompany her to avoid suspicion.
Mrs. Sophie looked at Frederick quietly for a while and said in Rhineish with a weird accent: "Not bad."
She wore a white robe without any pattern decoration, and her head and face were wrapped in scarves and veils. Only her golden eyes and wheat-colored dark skin around her eyes could be seen, and her voice sounded without any emotion.
Frederick said proudly: "How could I have a problem? With your help, it would be embroidery on silk."
"I mean my own divination results are good. You can survive this difficulty. I didn't say anything about you." Mrs. Sophie said coldly, "The relationship between me, Sophie, and you is just a pure businessman and customer. Don't tell me."
It’s like I have some collusion with the heretics.”
"I know, I know!" Frederick's voice sounded like coquettishness, "Don't worry, I have kept the payment for the seeds this time. I have been short of money recently and haven't touched it even if I sold the goldware at home." As he spoke, he made a gesture, and Tarot placed a silver box on the coffee table in front of Mrs. Sophie, which contained some beautiful gems.
This pagan businessman spent two years traveling to the East. Although he took out all the inheritance that Frederick's grandmother Elizabeth specially left to him for a rainy day, the seeds he brought back were enough to keep Frederick awake.
Laugh out loud.
Needless to say, the Chinese cabbage is durable in winter, the delicious chicken feathers, and the peppers that people love and hate. Not to mention the bright red tomatoes, delicious cucumbers, and golden pumpkins. Spring wheat and potatoes alone are enough.
Let Frederick give her the box of gems.
Exchanges between the East and the West have never stopped, but because of the long and dangerous journey, trade is carried out section by section by locals, so the message transmission is distorted, and the spread of crops will also be interrupted due to unsuitable climate and soil somewhere along the way, so that Sophie
Madam dared to use soybeans as a magic elixir to trick Frederick.
This time Mrs. Sophie has opened up the route between the East and the West, and maybe there will be big business in the future.
It’s just that Frederick has a question, how did these special peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins and potatoes appear in the East?!
Mrs. Sophie didn’t know about this and didn’t ask.
Frederick decided to give up thinking. Although the geography of this world is somewhat similar to his hometown, the Sahara Desert has turned into a forest, and a large area of land has grown to the west of here. It is not surprising that some strange things will happen.
After Sophie came back, she heard about Weisenling's situation. She first sent someone to provide help in times of need, and then she came to deliver the goods after all the rebels in the family were identified.
Now you pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, everyone is happy.
After receiving the balance, Mrs. Sophie handed over the nautical charts, logbooks and experiences along the way to Frederick as agreed.
Frederick smiled and said: "I think we can continue to cooperate."
Mrs. Sophie asked: "What do you want to buy?"
"Books," said Frederick, "any book."
Mrs. Sophie narrowed her golden eyes slightly and asked, "Do you also want books from the Flame Church?"
Frederick first smiled at Archbishop Victor, and then said: "I am going to build a library and want to collect some official books of your church."
Archbishop Victor was thinking about making money from them, so he said: "If it's just a collection, the churches will also give books as gifts."
He thought to himself, if he and Frederick let each family of the Flame Church in the south have a book, would they canonize us? It is exciting to think about one person being canonized by two churches. There are also the Earth God Cult and the
The Church of Nature is even more exciting.
Mrs. Sophie thought about what she wanted to sell and not sell in business, so she replied: "Yes, I will introduce a translator if necessary."
An idea suddenly came to Frederick's mind: how about setting up a translation court to translate and publish books from various countries.
Putting that aside for now, he still needs a specialty from the Southern Continent.
"I need cotton," said Frederick, "a lot of cotton."
There is no need to worry about selling cotton in the north. There is no need to spin it. You can make a lot of money even if you resell it.
Mrs. Sophie's golden eyes rolled and she said: "I can sell you all the cotton in our Kingdom of Kush, and I can also purchase a large amount of cotton from the south and sell it to you."
Frederick frowned slightly and asked: "What's the price?"
The Kingdom of Kush is not a small country. If the border can beat the Rhine League into a pig's head, such a large amount can support itself to death.
Naturally, they don’t have to worry about selling their cotton, so there’s no need to hang them here.
Mrs. Sophie made the price, simply and clearly: "Steel and elemental steel."
Frederick said depressedly: "The current production is insufficient. As you know, we have to open up wasteland recently and need a lot of tools."
Mrs. Sophie said: "I want the exclusive marketing rights of Southern Continent."
Frederick thought for a while and replied: "In principle, there is no problem here, but if others buy it from me and sell it to the south, I can't help it."
"And I can't meet the needs of the entire southern continent. There is a shortage of ore, coal and magic crystal."
"It doesn't matter." Mrs. Sophie said, "Haredin will handle the first problem, as long as you don't sell it to other countries in the south."
"Second question, I can export ore, coal and magic crystal to you."
After hearing her name the famous pirate in the south, Frederick ignored it. He didn't want to get involved in the bloody storm behind it.
Presumably the southern continent is not at peace either, so buying so much steel is most likely to prepare for war.
He thought for a while and then said: "This year's cotton will not be mature enough, and our output is not enough. Let's start this business from next year's cotton maturity season."
Mrs. Sophie thought so, and now both sides were out of stock, so she agreed.
She then asked again: "Do you want a gryphon?"
Frederick still shook his head and refused: "No, don't think I don't know that guy is afraid of the cold. How many nobles in the north have been tricked by you."
"Of course, if you are willing to sell the winged unicorn, I will definitely buy one or two hundred."
Archbishop Victor unexpectedly discovered that Mrs. Sophie’s beautiful golden eyes could actually roll her eyes.
Unicorns are very common in the southern continent. Their status is the same as that of horses. The price is related to the breed. In the north, they are mostly rare breeds with magical talents purchased by nobles. At the same time, unicorn kidneys are a popular "men's gas station".<
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But the Winged Unicorn is different. It is one of the few monsters on the mainland that can be domesticated and manned for flight, and it is a strategic material.
Such monsters include the griffin in the south, the flying deer in the dark land in the north, the hippogriff in the west, the giant eagle in the east, and the fire dragon that lives in the mountains hundreds of kilometers south of Wesen.
Each of these monsters has its own characteristics. The winged unicorn flies fast, but has low defense and is not suitable for attacking enemies; the griffon is ferocious, but it is afraid of the cold and can only live in the south; the flying deer has a large load capacity, but needs to dissipate heat in time otherwise it will cause heatstroke.
It can move in the winter in the north and south; the hippogriff is easy to tame, but its upper limit of IQ is a bit low, and it is easy to be impulsive; the giant eagle can fly high, but it is difficult to breed artificially, and its number is limited; the fire dragon has high skill and defense, but requires the cooperation of magic equipment
Only in order to be domesticated.
They also have one thing in common - they eat a lot.
One or two hundred fasting winged unicorns could eat Frederick until he could only eat meat once a month. If the meat-eating fire dragon could make him eat grass roots.
Only a powerful country can afford to raise such monsters on a large scale, so ordinary nobles don't have to think about it.
Moreover, if Frederick wanted to buy a unicorn, it would be equivalent to buying a car. It depends on whether it is a van or a sports car. Buying a winged unicorn would be equivalent to buying the most advanced fighter jet. Mrs. Sophie would not sell even one.
Frederick's hopes were once again frustrated without any surprise, and he could only buy some beasts of burden to fill the gaps in his territory.
The manor's kitchen originally prepared a roast pig for Victor, and it was just in time to entertain Mrs. Sophie.
Mrs. Sophie still did not take off her veil when eating dinner, but this did not affect the meal and telling everyone about the East.
Richard Nall, Katie and Victor were amazed by the local customs and customs in the distance.
When the dinner was about to end, Psyche, who had been silent all the time, suddenly asked Mrs. Sophie the name of a person, which sounded like her surname was Li.
"Do you know him?" Mrs. Sophie was surprised, "I have dealt with him, and he is now the navy marshal of their country."
"His death star is gradually getting brighter. It will only be a few years away."
"He has a daughter who is similar in age to Baron Wesson. She grew up at sea and has a promising future."
Psyche just calmly raised her glass and toasted to her, thanking her for the news.
Mrs. Sophie spent the whole night telling stories at the manor, and the next day she purchased a batch of specialties from the Wesson territory and left with the fleet.