The Second Highness personally brought a large group of administrative officials to the armed camp of the Norton family. He did not believe that Lorist really possessed a monster fur worth more than one million gold fords, and hoped that Lorist was talking big. It's a pity that he was disappointed. After the valuation of the fur expert he brought, the value of the beast fur stored in the camp was worth more than 1.467 million Jinford, and the 1.2 million that Lorist offered him Jinford is indeed a discounted conscience price.
Lorist was in a happy mood as he watched His Highness pay the bill with a bitter face. Today is really a sunny day, and luck is really good, and he was able to sell this batch of hard-to-sell ordinary furs for a huge price. For the Norton family, Warcraft fur has become the largest material in the family's reserves, and it is also the most difficult to dispose of.
There is no cotton in Galintia, so there is no cotton cloth, and there are no cold-proof materials such as quilts and cotton jackets. The most important fabrics and cloths are silk, fine linen, linen and burlap. For the Gelinthians who are accustomed to nesting in winter, the best clothing to keep out the cold is nothing more than sweaters and leather materials, and the best leather materials are coats made of monster fur, leather pants, leather hats and boots to keep warm and cold. Clothes are not only light, flexible and elastic, but most importantly, they can block the wind.
When Lorist returned to the family territory and led the family to fight against the wave of monsters that swept across the family territory every winter, the family warehouse was full of all kinds of monster furs. In terms of value alone, these Warcraft furs are expensive and valuable, but the problem is that they cannot be realized. The reason why the Norton family armed each soldier has cold-proof and warm clothing made of monster fur is also out of helplessness. If they cannot be sold and stored in the warehouse, they will be broken. Besides, when you need monster furs, you can send your family's armed forces to the barbaric plains, and you'll have everything you need.
It wasn't until Lorist opened up the sea route from Northland to Hilovas Island that the Norton family got on line with the Peterson Chamber of Commerce, one of the seven giants of the business alliance. There is no market for Warcraft skins at all!
how could it be possible? Lorist clearly remembered a mercenary adventure mission he was dragged by Fatty Shi to complete when he was twenty years old. That mission was going to an underground cave. The store bought a leather vest made of magic sheepskin at a high price to resist the cold. In Lorist's imagination, the furs of these monsters stored by his family should be the best sellers, thinking that the few furs of monsters he hunted and killed when he was doing mercenary missions all sold for a good price.
However, Lorist was speechless after the manager of the Petersen Chamber of Commerce in charge of the fur business explained the reason clearly. This is really an absurd reason. The main reason why so many Warcraft furs cannot be sold is that no one can afford them. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce is the largest fur dealer in the Ford Business Alliance, controlling almost all of the fur goods market in the entire business alliance. Although the reasons they gave are ridiculous, they are undeniable facts.
Warcraft fur is better than artificially bred cows and sheepskin to keep out the cold, but the commoners of the business alliance basically use cows and sheepskin to keep out the cold, and the price of monsters' fur is two or three times higher than that of cows and sheepskin. The Peterson Chamber of Commerce can let the warcraft furs that the mercenaries hunt sporadically enter the market and get a lot of rewards, which also raises the price of warcraft furs.
However, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce will never allow tens of millions of Warcraft furs hunted by the Norton family to flood into the fur market of the business alliance, so as to disrupt the order of the entire low-end fur market dominated by cattle and sheep skins. At the same time, he also warned Lorist that the value of monster fur has always been two to three times higher than that of cow and sheep skin, and the main users in the business alliance are basically free mercenaries. As for civilians and citizens, they generally still use cow and sheep skins to make winter clothes, and they are reluctant to spend two or three times the price to buy monster furs. At worst, they can stay at home and burn the stove for winter.
It's not that the Peterson Chamber of Commerce doesn't do the fur business of monsters, it's just that what they need are the more precious furs of monsters, which are suitable for the high-end and luxury markets, and what they earn are the gold coins of the rich. The profits in this area can be described as huge profits. The fur agreement they signed with the Norton family was only worth 400,000 to 500,000 goldfords, but all the furs they purchased were rare monsters. They don't need the furs of monsters like wolves, cows and sheep, but the Norton family has the most furs of these monsters.
Warcraft fur is also very particular about storage, otherwise it will easily deteriorate or become a pile of rotten skin after being bitten by insects and rats after a period of time. This is also one of the reasons why Lorist had to have people make those stored monster furs into cold-proof and warm clothing for the family's armed forces. Storing unsold supplies would be a pile of rubbish, so it's better to use them as soon as possible.
Lorist led the Flying Tigers to hunt in the Demon Plain, and the most hunted ones were the Demon Wild Wolf and some herbivorous monsters. However, although the furs of these monsters are valuable, they cannot be sold, just like the furs of a large number of demon cows and sheep stored by the Norton family in the family territory, there is no market.
Lorist remembered very clearly that he once wanted to sell a large amount of ordinary monster fur stored by the family at the price of that kind of farmed cow and sheep hide, thinking that such a low price would always open up the fur market of the business alliance. Unexpectedly, he was also rejected by the fur steward of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce.
The manager justly said that if these ordinary monster furs were sold for the price of cow and sheep skins, the price of cow and sheep skins would drop sharply. For the Peterson Chamber of Commerce in the entire low-end leather goods market, it is no less than a glass of poisoned wine, and the impact is very bad...
Just like the displaced refugees at the end of last year, the Norton family is not afraid of severe cold and snow. In fact, the reason is very simple. Each refugee is assigned one or several pieces of warm clothing made of monster fur, which is distributed to them for free, plus convenient and fast snow sleds, transportation tools such as sledges, and logistical supplies along the way. Sufficient stops and rest stations can complete the migration of hundreds of thousands of people in one winter.
If Lorist claims that the furs of monsters stored and used by the Norton family are the number one in the entire Galintia continent, no matter the country or the family, I believe no one can deny it. A few years ago, the family armed several legions to go to the barren plains for training. By the way, they brought back nearly 100,000 monster corpses, and some warehouses that were consumed were filled with monster fur.
The furs of those wild wolves and sheep brought back from Moyuan this time are like chicken ribs to Lorist. It is a pity that it is useless to throw them away. Anyway, the market price is very high, but the quantity is large, but they cannot be sold. Go out, and even if you want to sell, there is no market. If people's living standards improved in the peaceful and prosperous age and there were gold coins in their pockets, maybe these monster furs would be in short supply. But now is a troubled time, with wars raging everywhere and the people living in dire straits, no commoner will spend money on buying expensive warm clothes made of monster fur for themselves.
For monsters like the giant swamp crocodile, its skin is the best material for making leather armor, and it has always been hard to find at high prices. Lorist transported some of the more precious furs of monsters back to the family territory first, and then considered those What should I do with the fur of the wild wolf and demon sheep? I didn't expect that His Royal Highness would pay for everything, so why didn't this make Lorist overjoyed? These days, it is as hard to find a Kaizi as a local tyrant.
That's why Lorist not only offered a discount, but was also willing to give the furs of dozens of precious beasts to His Highness the Second Highness. Seeing that the Second Highness was happy and tentatively proposing to purchase a few thunderbolt catapults, Lorist agreed without hesitation, and catapulted five hundred thunderbolt catapults from a Thunderbolt catapult camp equipped by the Flying Tiger Army at the price of one hundred and fifty Jinfords. The cars were sold to the Second Highness. Lorist even offered to sell him all 2,500 steel crossbow chariots from a chariot corps, seeing that the Second Highness had money now, but the Second Highness refused.
In the eyes of the Second Highness, the Norton family's catapult is the supreme offensive weapon. Even in defense, it is more convenient and flexible than those stupid giant lever-type catapults. At least it can change positions after a few rounds of stones, not Standing still like those trebuchets made them easy targets for ranged attacks.
As for the Norton family's chariot steel crossbow, to be honest, His Royal Highness was really moved at that moment. But with the development of those shield vehicles, the power of the steel crossbow has also been greatly reduced. Now, who would not arrange shield vehicles to defend against ballista attacks before deploying troops? Whether it is offensive or defensive, shield vehicles have become an indispensable troop configuration, and they are getting stronger and bigger and more effective. Improved protection of soldiers and installations.
So His Royal Highness rejected Lorist's proposal. He had a huge sum of nearly 6 million goldfords in his hand, but the money had its own uses in his heart, and he couldn't wait to prepare for the war and expand the regular armed forces of the kingdom. Although the family armies of the four northern alliances and the four principalities in the central region were not harmed in the conquest of the four principalities in the central region, he was still very satisfied with taking the eleven provinces of the four principalities in the central region with the help of Lorist.
The next thing to do is to let the kingdom have a strong military force, to ensure that the four northern alliances, the Feisabrun family and the three central princes who have just surrendered will not have different ideas, and it will take two or three years to use the strong The kingdom's army came to the Merchant Alliance and forced them to return the provinces they had taken by force. Now the Second Highness is not afraid of having too much money, but feels that Jinford is still too little. It would be great if he could take down all the four princes in the middle instead of letting them surrender. Then maybe he can get more without paying any price...
The king had no jokes, Lorist took the talk and had to be forced to buy all the furs of monsters in his barracks, which already made the Second Highness regret his negligence and gaffes, what should I do if I bought so many furs of monsters. Fortunately, one of his tax officials thought that Lorist's words were very reasonable. It was indeed a good deal to buy low and sell high when transporting them back to the imperial capital. The only disadvantage was that it might take several years to sell the extra furs of monsters. If you are lucky, you may be able to earn a lot of money in addition to the number of monster furs needed by the blizzard raiding corps. This finally gave Second Highness some comfort.
The purchase of these monster furs has already cost 1.2 million Gold Ford, and the Second Highness began to carefully count the gold coins in his hands. It was already an unexpected surprise for Lorist to agree to sell the thunderbolt catapult. He once ordered the skilled craftsmen of the kingdom to try to make knockoff catapults, but the biggest difficulty was the special spring steel sheet. Without this kind of steel sheet with the same performance, it was impossible to imitate the catapult of the Norton family, so that the Second Highness spent a lot of money on it. He got nothing for the money, and could only curse those craftsmen as idiots and waste.
The Second Highness's refusal to buy the steel crossbow made Lorist very regretful. In fact, based on the principle of waste utilization, he was preparing to let the Second Highness be the successor. Whether it is a catapult or a steel crossbow, all of them will be scrapped when they go back this time. There is a term called fatigue. This doesn't just refer to humans and animals. The spring steel sheets and steel sheet crossbow arms that are standard on catapults and chariot crossbows also have fatigue.
This time when they went to the four principalities in the middle of the country, the Flying Tigers seldom fought in battle, but the armored crossbows and catapults equipped by the legion were very busy. Crossbows have never stopped long-range attacks. Whether it is offense or cover, catapults and chariot steel crossbows play very important roles.
For a good catapult, the best state is to throw stones at a distance of four to five hundred meters, but now because of the fatigue of the spring steel sheets, the farthest it can throw is only about three hundred and twenty to thirty meters. However, the Chariot Crossbow performed better. The Moyuan hunted monsters, and the Chariot Crossbow showed great power. Most of the monsters died under the long-range attack of the Chariot Crossbow. However, due to frequent firing, the fatigue of the steel crossbow arm has greatly increased, and the current range has dropped from more than 300 meters to about 230 to 40 meters.
Lorist estimated that the steel crossbows of these chariots could be scrapped after firing another two or three hundred times. Since the Second Highness wants to buy catapults, he might as well try to sell these steel crossbows, which are about to be scrapped. It's a pity that the Second Highness thought of the shield car, and finally rejected Lorist's proposal.
On September 10, 1783, the common calendar in Galintia, Lorist was relaxed, with more than one million gold dollar coupons in his arms, and led the Flying Tiger Legion and the guard team to the Duke of Felim, Duke of Shaheen and the Accompanied by his family's armed forces, he embarked on the journey back to the Northland.
Lorist believed that although the Second Highness won eleven provinces, he was not the final winner of the war against the four central duchies. Just as he declared that the four grand dukes in the central region were rebels, the final result was that three grand dukes surrendered and one grand duke defected. And His Highness the Second Highness also had to admit that the three Grand Dukes in the middle were not rebellious, and the conflict between the two parties occurred because of a misunderstanding.
What is not worth the loss is that with the help of Earl Churchwick's dictation, the truth about the quarrel between the four Grand Dukes and the Second Highness has been spread, and the harsh and cruel character of the Second Highness has also begun to be understood by more nobles.
Occupying the four central duchies did not improve the prestige of the Second Highness. On the contrary, his reputation became even worse when he admitted that he had misunderstood the four central duchies as rebels, and at the same time occupied eleven provinces of the central four duchies. The nobles of the territory would rather be deprived of their titles and territories, and run away to seek refuge with the three deposed Grand Dukes, rather than serve the Second Highness, the king of the Antinac Kingdom.
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