Being able to make money successfully is one skill, being able to spend money correctly is another skill.
Reggie planned all morning and finally planned the use of six thousand gold coins.
In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Reggie specially called the bachelor to discuss it.
Batchelor looked at Reggie's plan, nodded and said: "Two thousand seven hundred and fifty five gold coins are used to reward soldiers, one thousand five hundred gold coins are used to purchase supplies, and one thousand gold coins are used to pay.
Salary, the remaining gold coins will be used for emergency reserves. Lord, you have really changed."
"Changed? Where to start?" Reggie was a little nervous. Could it be that the old guy discovered the rebirth?
It doesn't matter if he discovered it. With his level of scientific knowledge, how could he possibly understand such a thing as time travel?
But it seems that this matter...can't be explained scientifically, and it may be related to the mysterious power of this world.
"Lord, let me say something offensive. In my impression, you rarely make plans before doing things, let alone write them down on paper." Batchelor stared at Reggie, with a look of difficulty on his face.
With a guessing smile, "I have been witnessing your growth almost every day since you were born. The changes you have made in these few days are worth the past seventeen years. Could it be that you have received guidance from the gods?"
"Maybe," Reggie smiled, then raised his neck and pointed at the scar that was about to disappear, "I think you should understand the origin of this scar."
Batchelor looked at it carefully, frowned and said: "I heard Sann mention this matter. I didn't believe it at first, but I really didn't expect that you would actually have the idea of committing suicide."
"Everyone has times of despair. Fortunately, the experience of escaping from death allowed me to overcome despair and made me change."
Batchelor was convinced by Reggie's explanation and had no objection to Reggie's plan. He only made one suggestion: "Purchasing supplies is a very complicated matter. You have the right person to do it."
Accomplish this mission?"
Reggie said: "He wants to take away my gold coins and exchange them for what I want. This person must be absolutely loyal and very shrewd. It is really difficult to find such a person. I think the only suitable candidate is
Only you, my Grand Maester."
Batchelor laughed loudly and said: "Thank you for your appreciation, Lord. Your father has never said such a thing."
When treating an outstanding subordinate, never be stingy with rewards and appreciation. This is the rule of the lord that Reggie set for himself.
Of course, no matter in this life or in the past, there are always some mean and unkind people who have achieved success. But rather than letting others live in your own shadow, it is better to let others live in your own sunshine. Reggie does not want his life to be too
Too dark.
Dambachello did not intend to accept this task, he was a self-aware person.
"Sir, I don't want to shirk it, but I'm really not good at dealing with businessmen," Bacello's attitude was sincere. "Bargaining with businessmen is an art. I've tried it, but I've never succeeded. How about this?"
It's best to go to Shagt Hill, he is the real businessman, he knows the art of businessman best, your father often sends him out to buy things, of course, he will also collect some appropriate rewards."
Shagt Hill is the cattle dealer Old Hill. Reggie once thought of him, but he was injured and he didn't know if he could travel far now.
Reggie prepared some gifts and made a special trip to Hill's house after lunch. Old Hill's house was not inferior to Bachelo's manor. His house had fine wine. What's even more rare is that he had an ice cellar.
Stocked up on a lot of ice.
"Although the weather is a bit cold, the wine with ice still tastes different." Old Hill held a unique utensil and carefully mixed the proportion of ice cubes and wine. He is a very refined person, even better than the bachelor.
Live a more refined life.
Reggie explained his purpose and gave the list to Old Hill.
"Let me see, do you want to use five hundred gold coins to buy food?"
"Yes," Reggie said, "I made a rough calculation. Ten copper coins can buy two pounds of wheat. Five hundred gold coins is equivalent to five million copper coins. It should be able to buy one million pounds of wheat..."
"I'm afraid I can't buy that much, my lord," Old Hill shook his head and said, "Ten copper coins can only buy one pound of wheat, not even one pound."
What are these words? How is it possible that you can’t even buy a pound?
Reggie's face sank, was this old guy bullying him for not knowing the market?
"As far as I know, the price we sold wheat at last year was three copper coins per pound," Reggie said. "Even if the freight is included, the price of wheat is five copper coins per pound. This is a very fair price."
Old Hill was silent for a moment. He knew that Reggie was not a stingy person, let alone a fool, but he was not a businessman.
There is no mature business theory in this era. Old Hill must find a simple and efficient way to tell Reggie the secret hidden in the price.
"Lord, you should know that Broken Snow City has no history of purchasing food."
Reggie nodded and said, "I know this. Suixue City has always made a living by selling food, but the situation is different this year. We don't have enough food."
Old Hill said: "I know the crisis we are facing, but do you know that several surrounding cities buy food from us every year."
"I know this too."
"Businessmen from Zhilin City, Jinguang City, Huarong City, Drawsha City, and even Tuodao City overseas all come to Suixue City to buy food. Guess what's the reason?"
"What other reasons could there be?" Reggie said, "Of course businessmen want to pursue profits."
"But where does the benefit come from?"
Reggie thought for a while and said, "It should be...the price difference?"
Old Hill smiled: "Price difference, what a good word. Lord, you are really a natural businessman. The price difference is the source of profit. In the cities around us, food is not abundant. The food in these places is not abundant."
The price may be two or even three times higher than ours. Now if you want to buy food from these cities, guess how much you need?"
Reggie stopped talking. It seemed that the situation was not optimistic.
"Lord, when merchants buy a pound of grain from us for three copper coins, when they return to their cities, they have to earn at least twice the price difference, that is, a pound of grain must be sold for at least nine copper coins. Of course, this
This is just the most optimistic estimate, because we will no longer sell food this year, food will be more scarce in surrounding cities, and prices will rise. We may have to spend ten or even fifteen copper coins to buy a pound of food, and this does not include the
The cost of transporting food back to Broken Snow City."
Reggie rubbed his forehead and said, "Can't five hundred gold coins buy five million pounds of wheat?"
Old Hill made a simple estimate and optimistically estimated that he could buy about 300,000 pounds.
According to current processing technology, three pounds of wheat can be exchanged for two pounds of flour.
300,000 pounds of wheat can be exchanged for 200,000 pounds of flour. There are more than 2,000 civilians in Broken Snow City, and each person can get almost 100 pounds of flour. The situation is not too bad, and they can barely survive four months.
Reggie hesitated for a moment and then asked: "Can we go to other cities to buy? I mean cities with more abundant food."
"The farther the distance, the higher the loss. We can't transport food back from thousands of miles away. The people and animals transporting food will eat up all our food, unless we use ships, but we must repair the dock. Lord, you
Do you have plenty of time?”
In an era when grain could not be transported thousands of miles and relied on human and animal power for transportation, consumption and costs were staggeringly high. Reggie once again made a common sense problem of this era.
"You're right, I don't have much time. Enemies may appear below the city at any time," Reggie picked up the list and asked, "What about other items? Do we need to reduce the quantity as well?"
"Let me take a look," Old Hill read the list carefully, "Beef and eggs, these are also the specialties of Shattered Snow City. I'm afraid they won't be so cheap elsewhere. Charcoal and iron stone, do you want to create a batch of weapons?
Is this thing? It’s okay to say that the price in Jinguang City is the most reasonable, but their weapons are not expensive either, so why don’t we buy some ready-made weapons?”
Reggie smiled and said: "I like our craftsmen better, their craftsmanship is more outstanding."
Hill sighed and said: "But we have too few craftsmen. It will probably take until this time next year for them to build a weapon for each hero."
Old Hill carefully estimated the price of each item. When he saw the end of the list, he frowned again.
"Yellowstone and froststone? What do you want with these?"
Yellow stone is sulfur, and frost stone is saltpeter.
Together with charcoal, it is naturally the raw material of black gunpowder.
Reggie wouldn't tell Old Hill that he was going to make gunpowder. Of course, he had already thought of a way to say it.
"Yellowstone can drive away devils and parasites, and froststone can be used to make ice," Reggie said. "I learned about these rare things from the Grand Master, so I wanted to buy some for some fun."
"Looking for fun?" Old Hill was a little disappointed with Reggie. In the previous battle, he saw a lord with wisdom, courage and faith. Now it seems that this lord is still a young man who is curious about
Driven by the heart, we do some ridiculous things that are worthless.
"Lord, I don't think ice is interesting, and Broken Snow City is not a place lacking ice." Old Hill asked Ansley to bring some more ice cubes. "Winter is coming, and then the entire Broken Snow City will be full of ice."
There is ice everywhere in the city, if you want ice now, just take it from my ice cellar."
Reggie shook his head and said: "What I want is the process of making ice, not the ice itself. Mr. Hill, are frost stones expensive?"
Old Hill was silent for a moment. Maybe he shouldn't say more, maybe he shouldn't ask more questions. Lords should also have the right to enjoy themselves.
"Frost stones are not expensive. There are many in Jinguang City. Moreover, Zhilin City keeps the price down. One silver coin can buy almost a hundred pounds." Old Hill sighed, "The girls in Zhilin City all like frost stones.
They like ice, their customers like ice, and it would be great if they liked Yellowstone too."
Reggie said: "Is Yellowstone expensive?"
Old Hill said: "It's hard to say. Let's look at the market. This time last year, someone used a special medicine to cure the plague in Huarong City. Now that Huangshi has been regarded as a holy medicine, the price will probably be as high as
You are surprised."
Reggie sighed helplessly and said, "Try your luck."
Old Hill looked at it carefully again: "It seems like something is missing..."
After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Old Hill discovered the problem: "Lord, you forgot to buy salt."
"Salt?" Reggie couldn't help but laugh, "Mr. Hill, do you still need to buy salt?"
"What do you think?" Old Hill didn't laugh. He really couldn't understand why Reggie would ask such a stupid question. Even if he was a pampered viscount, he should know the importance of salt.
From the expression on Old Hill's face, Reggie knew that he had made another mistake.
"What I mean is that we are close to the sea, which means we have inexhaustible salt. Maybe you still can't understand that a large amount of salt can be made from sea water..."
"Of course I can understand, salt originally comes from the sea," Old Hill was a little annoyed. He thought Reggie shouldn't show off such basic common sense in front of him, "Have you ever seen the residents of Shattered Snow City boil salt? Yours
Didn't father tell you that the sea water in the North Sea is poisonous?"
Reggie searched hard for the memory fragments. There seemed to be some shadows in the memory, but they were not clear.
The reason is very simple. For people in Suixue City, some things do not actually need to be remembered deliberately. Just like eating, drinking, sleeping, no one will pay attention to the details.
The seawater in the North Sea is poisonous and fatally poisonous. Not only is the sea salt inedible, but even the fish in the sea are highly toxic. Every resident living in the North knows this.
Reggie licked his lips and asked, "Is salt expensive?"
Old Hill said: "One silver coin per pound, this is the price last year."
Reggie took a deep breath and said, "God, this is a robbery."
Old Hill looked at Reggie in surprise and said, "Do you really think this is robbery? This is salt shipped from the far south. When it comes to robbery, what you and your father did is called robbery."
Reggie frowned and said, "Where do you start talking about this?"
"Oh my God, you really don't know?"
It seems that Reggie made a common sense mistake again.
"Private sales of salt are prohibited in Broken Snow City. This is a rule set by your father," Old Hill said with a smile. "The purchase price is one silver coin, and the selling price is five silver coins. Your family has made a lot of money."
Earning four times the profit from salt is not recorded in the ledger. God knows where the money went.
The salt of this era was very rough and had a lot of impurities. A normal person needed at least five pounds of table salt every year. The entire Shattered Snow City probably needed more than 10,000 pounds and more than a hundred gold coins, which didn't seem like much.
"Buy! Buy ten thousand pounds!"
Seeing the pain in Reggie's heart, Old Hill smiled and said: "Actually, you don't have to reward the soldiers that much. Counting the guards, dead and alive, a thousand gold coins in total is enough."
Reggie shook his head and said, "That's what I said. The lord must never break his promise."
Old Hill was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You are different from your father."
"Yes, I am different from him." Reggie couldn't laugh. He really couldn't laugh at the painful moment. "When can you leave?"
"It's OK now," Old Hill answered readily, "I'm injured. Although it's not that bad, it's best if you can bring me a helper."
Reggie looked at Ainsley standing aside, and there seemed to be a little blush on her dark cheeks.
It seems that she already has a suitable candidate in mind.
"What do you think of Su Lit?" Reggie decided to make this couple happy.
"No!" Old Hill rejected Reggie's kindness, "That young man is useless. I hope Dexter can go with me. He is a businessman and knows the rules of business, and I really want Ain Silly."
Marry him."
"Father!" Ansili shyly punched Old Hill. Old Hill coughed twice. It seemed that the punch was not light.
The situation in front of him seemed different from what Reggie imagined. It seemed that a poor young man was facing a love tragedy.
Su Lit has always considered Ain Sili as his lover, but now it seems that this is just his wishful thinking.
Reggie thought for a moment and frowned: "As far as I know, Decto already has a wife."
"He will abandon that woman soon!" Ansley blushed instantly, her voice full of anger, "Who can tolerate that kind of woman! That kind of ugly! Vulgar! Savage!
woman!"
Ugly, vulgar, barbaric.
Every word was said through gritted teeth.
Seeing how Ansley's strong physique can make her make such cruel taunts, I really can't imagine what kind of existence Dexter's wife is.
"Okay, I will tell Knight Gusta to ask Dexter to go with you," Reggie said. "If it is convenient, please go to the castle with me now, and we will put fifteen hundred people in front of you."
Count the gold coins."
"Fifteen hundred gold coins?" Hill looked at Reggie in surprise, "You want to hand over all fifteen hundred gold coins to me? Aren't you afraid that I'll never come back?"
Reggie smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? Your home is here, and your daughter is here too."
Hill said: "If I go to Yasan Island with this money, I can buy ten manors and marry a hundred wives, and each wife can give me lovely children."
"Father!" Ansley punched Hill again. This time Hill coughed for a long time.
Reggie said: "Don't be ridiculous, I trust you, old cowboy, you saved my life."
Hill was silent for a long time. He tried his best to avoid Reggie's eyes. As if he had done something wrong, he lowered his voice and asked, "Do you remember what I said?"
"Of course I remember," Reggie nodded, "Orcs, right?"
Hill took a deep breath and asked again: "Do you think I am guilty?"
Reggie shook his head and said, "You're not guilty, old man, that's not a crime."
An Sili couldn't understand what the two people said: "What do you mean about orcs? What about sins?"
It seems that there are some things that Old Hill has been hiding from his daughter.
"I didn't say anything," Old Hill said with a smile, "Lord, you don't have to give me so many gold coins, as long as a hundred gold coins are enough, I will use the money to pay the deposit, and the merchants will deliver the things
Come on, just give them the remaining money when the time comes."