As we all know, because of the inconvenience of transportation in this world, when nobles gather together, it is often not just because of a simple matter.
For example, when the nobles who come to this territory now gather together, in addition to learning this knowledge, they also have another goal of communicating with each other.
If it were not for communication, there would be no need for them to send those high-level servants or even come to this place in person.
Therefore, after completing these studies, the nobles did not leave, but settled in Surrey Castle and began various social activities.
Perhaps because of the gathering of nobles here, some nobles who had not come to study before also hurried over by various means of transportation, and then joined in this rare exchange in several years.
Not surprisingly, Lawrence himself became the focus of these aristocratic gatherings.
Of course, his previous inventions are not enough to draw everyone's attention to him. What is more important is that he is a powerful lord and noble who owns several islands.
After all, this is a world that pays attention to class and class. If everyone wants to communicate, they will basically only communicate with people of similar status to themselves.
The reason why these people communicated with Lawrence was also very simple, that is, they could get enough tropical commodities from Lawrence.
Contrary to what Lawrence imagined, these nobles were not actually poor. After all, although this land was a little barren, it still produced something.
In addition, the nobles who can own territories are often the old nobles with accumulated accumulation. Therefore, in addition to the income on the island, they can also obtain other income through many industries.
This situation is very normal for hereditary nobles. For example, in addition to the territory, the Earl of Sauer family also had a lot of foreign investments.
For example, many small and medium-sized steel plants and several weapons factories in the Holy Visby Empire at that time belonged to Count Sauer's family.
It is a pity that after the accident in the family, these things and the territory were handed over inexplicably, and the ownership was transferred to the royal family and some nobles.
Later, after everything was cleared up, Lawrence and his adoptive father considered their relationship with the royal family and other nobles and did not ask for those properties back, but said that these things could be arranged by the royal family.
Obviously, judging from the subsequent situation, this step was considered the right step, because the royal family naturally did not want to leave a reputation for plundering the wealth of subordinate nobles in the minds of these wealthy people, so they later generously compensated August
family.
This is why Lawrence was able to obtain a large territory that was far larger than the upper limit of territory that his title could obtain.
In addition, Lawrence received substantial financial support and an unusual degree of freedom.
To give the simplest example, the main reason why Lawrence was able to become one of the very few non-independent political entities with the right to issue their own currency among the countries in the Old World in such a short period of time actually comes from the divine
The compensatory psychology of the royal family of the Visby Empire.
From this point, we can clearly see how much wealth those hereditary nobles with a long history have. After all, if the wealth was very small, the emperor of the Holy Visby Empire would not have given Lawrence so much.
compensation.
Compared with the old Holy Visby Empire, although the Brythonic nobles are slightly inferior in the accumulation of extraordinary power, they have more money because they were the first to embrace the industrial revolution.
Therefore, the biggest problem encountered by the British nobles on Green Island now is that they have money, but it is difficult to buy the products they want.
If things like tables, chairs, benches, or pots and pans can be bought and brought back once and for all after going to certain places, then fast-moving consumer goods such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation are not so easy to get.
In addition to the nobles, ordinary people on the island also have the same problem. Things like furniture or production tools can be solved through large-scale purchases, but various consumables in daily life are obviously not so easy to obtain.
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Therefore, for ordinary people, in addition to trying their best to use consumables as economically as possible, they can only say that the prices of goods are almost extorted by profiteers who come occasionally.
This is why these nobles gave Lawrence a very miscellaneous product list after he said that he could sell tropical specialties.
The largest material on the list is naturally food. Although they can now purchase enough food directly from the White Eagle Federation, considering the complicated relationship between the Briton Kingdom and the Federation, it is natural to open a new channel to obtain food.
It's a very reasonable thing.
In addition, the island needs some treated wood, a variety of trendy wooden furniture, daily necessities and some special items from tropical areas.
For example, regarding the specialties of tropical areas, the list these people gave Lawrence included sugar, cocoa, coffee, ropes made of sisal, and some tea leaves.
These teas were sold to these nobles by Lawrence. During the whole process of entertaining these nobles, Lawrence specially brewed milk tea with the tea leaves he brought with him for these nobles to drink.
Unlike people in other places who prefer to drink black tea brewed directly or with only a little spice added, the nobles in this cold zone prefer to drink sweet milk tea mixed with condensed milk, milk and sugar to provide them with precious calories.
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Also in the process of this statistics, Lawrence realized that each of these nobles actually had some specialties in their territories that were only found in the cold zone.
It's just that because the output of those materials in each territory is too small, the types of output are too diverse, and transportation is inconvenient, most of the items except for a very small amount of furs and salted fish cannot be stored for a long time.
For example, these territories also have some whale products produced by the fishing industry, nutritious reindeer dairy products and meat, etc. But it is well known that these things are difficult to preserve for too long.
However, because the output of such products in each territory was too small in the past, unless a businessman happened to arrive, these things could only be consumed internally.
But for the people on the island, they are more willing to exchange these foods that appear to be higher-end to people outside the island for money, and then buy more ordinary foods and various daily necessities.
Under this situation, Lawrence realized that this green island, which was almost at the edge of the civilized world, had a lot of business opportunities.
At least he felt that he could send a ship carrying various commodities around the several ports on the island, then collect all these items at each port, and finally put them on one ship and bring them back.
Therefore, after discovering this problem, Lawrence began to use a form to record the specialties of each noble territory that he communicated with.
Although the nobles said that they could purchase those goods with cash, Lawrence himself preferred to be able to purchase some items rather than just receive cash.
After all, driving from the Sea of Stars to Green Island is a very long and dangerous journey, so large ocean-going ships are needed to complete this trade.
And if you just pull the goods over and return the empty ship, it is obviously a very uneconomical behavior.
So he needed to sum up all the products on this land, and then see how much goods in this area could fill the warehouse of the ship he sent.
After sorting out this list of items, Lawrence took the initiative to hold a banquet on the Viscount of Surrey's property. That night, most of the nobles were invited to the Viscount of Surrey's mansion to attend the banquet.