"You only give 100 gold coins to a level 7 orc, are you kidding me?
When we bought the orc slaves from you, none of them cost less than 500 gold coins. Buying low and selling high is not your kind of buying. Law?"
Wei Yihong was so angry that he basically brought these slave traders in front of him.
Although the price was quoted by them, if such an outrageous price was quoted, wouldn't Wei Yihong also want to follow these people and leave a bad impression in Xu Lai's heart?
Sure enough, Xu Lai frowned on the side. He expected that these high-level orc slaves would not be easy to sell, but he did not expect that these people would dare to offer such exaggerated prices.
"Minister Wei, you are not in this line of business, so you don't understand.
The higher the rank of slaves, the higher the price.
Let's not talk about profits. Let's start with Talking about the cost, the bulk of the cost of slaves is not the slaves themselves, but the training and management of the slaves.
For an orc berserker like this, I would have to hire at least a few more high-level mercenaries to watch over them. They.
But although such high-level orcs are a little stronger than ordinary orcs, their work efficiency cannot be improved much
For most slave owners, the price/performance ratio is not very high, so naturally they are not willing to raise the price.
Furthermore, the higher the level of these orcs, the greater their appetite. Every time they are kept in my hands for an extra day, countless costs will increase.
In addition, the difficulty of transportation has also increased. I also need to upgrade the handcuffs and shackles, and I need to hire a more advanced slave trainer.
Just because you can’t see these invisible costs, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist. "
The slave merchants were complaining. Although there was some truth to them, Xu Lai and Wei Yihong both knew that this was just their bargaining method.
Wei Yihong snorted coldly and said: "Haha, when you sold slaves to us, you sold them by level.
I remember that you set a price for a seventh-level orc sword dancer. For more than 10,000 gold coins.
Sell us for more than 10,000 gold coins, and charge us only 100 gold coins. Do you really think we are being taken advantage of? ”
More than 10,000 gold coins? Xu Lai really didn't know much about this matter. As a leader, he naturally couldn't care about everything.
This task was assigned to Wei Yihong and the others. Xu Lai only needed to know how much the slaves they bought cost and how much they cost.
As for the sword dancer with more than 10,000 gold coins, Wei Yihong rejected it and would not buy it at all. Xu Lai naturally had no way of knowing.
Hearing this, Xu Lai couldn't help but frown. Xu Lai didn't know how much the more than 10,000 yuan was, but if he calculated it as 15,000 yuan, it would be a huge profit of 150 times.
With this level of huge profits, this guy no longer wanted to do business with him, but found an excuse to rob him.
"Ahem, how could that be? We are in business.
In this case, don't you still have some 4th and 5th level wolf cavalry? You can take them with them together with their mounts. Give me these level 7 orcs, I can give you 200 gold coins each.
You can't deny me any profit. I have a lot of people to feed. ”
These wolf riders were all captured by Lina, Yan Feng and the others later.
They have wargs and wolves to ride on, which greatly saves energy and allows them to run. Farther away, he was not harmed by the Doomsday Judgment.
Wei Yihong glanced at Xu Lai and saw that he was silent, and asked again:
"What price do you give these wolf cavalry?" ? ”
"How about 500 gold coins? The price is not low anymore."
Wei Yihong was still about to bargain, but Xu Lai waved his hand and interrupted:
"Old Wei, don't say that. Come on, drive this guy out and permanently ban them from entering my territory.
By the way, I will inform the entire grassland of my intentions and tell everyone on the grassland that no one is allowed to interact with this guy and this guy.
Anyone who violates this will have all their property confiscated and their family members permanently expelled from my territory.
If someone knows and fails to report, they will be punished in the same way. "
As soon as he finished speaking, Roland immediately waved. Naru, who had been promoted to a heroic knight, directly led two knights to fight this guy up.
"No, you guys You can't do this to me, don't forget, you invited me here.
Moreover, you are just a mere baron, and you got the power by luck. Do you really think you are the king of the prairie? "
With a snap, Naru slapped the slave trader directly in the face.
"Shut up, if you dare to talk nonsense again, I will remove your tongue."
Although Naru has always adhered to the spirit of chivalry, don't forget where he grew up.
Having grown up in a den of horse bandits, if he wants to become vicious, there are really few people under Xu Lai who can compare with him.
Being stared at by Nalu's fierce eyes, the slave merchant immediately shut his mouth.
But now that he has spoken, Xu Lai will not let him slander his reputation.
"Wait a minute, since you asked the question, I will answer it for you.
First of all, it is indeed us who invited you here, so I tolerate your offense this time.
Sending you safely out of the city is my greatest tolerance for you.
Secondly, you are right, I am not the king of the grassland, and I have never wanted to be the king of the grassland.”
Speaking of this, Xu Lai paused for a moment, and everyone at the foot of the steps was stunned for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Lai said again: "But no matter whether I am the king of the grassland or not, you just need to remember that you will never be welcome in my territory.
Look at the fact that you have provided us with orc slaves before , as you have helped me, I would like to remind you as a friendly reminder.
No matter where you go to do business in the future, be careful. If it is my territory, you will be arrested directly by the guards. Get up and hang yourself."
Xu Lai's voice was not loud, but in this extremely quiet lobby, everyone could hear him clearly.
Xu Lai made it very clear that he did not want to be the king of the grassland, but the meaning of his words was also very clear. In the future, his territory should not only extend to the grassland.
If you combine these two sentences, does it mean that Xu Lai's ambition can no longer be accommodated by the grassland?
Actually, Xu Lai doesn't have much ambition. If possible, he really just wants to settle down.
But ideas are just ideas. At this point, Xu Lai knew very well that if he had to take it easy, he would just be asking for death.
The grassland is much better than the wild land, both in terms of resources and field buildings for recruiting soldiers.
I dare not say that compared with the entire wild land, plus those who need to pay tribute in the dungeon, the difference should not be big.
But his small fortune is incomparable to the empire's huge resources.
The empire occupies the most fertile land in the entire world, otherwise it would not always be remembered.
No matter other humans or demons from hell, it is impossible for the hero who unified the empire to let him go.
It can be said that once he is content with the status quo, if any future war is not handled well, he will be beaten directly back to before liberation.
As for making him surrender, I'm sorry, although he has only been a leader for a short time, he has already become accustomed to this feeling.
It is said that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
After you are used to being the leader, it is simply impossible to go back to the days of watching other people's eyes.
After saying this, Xu Lai waved his hand.
Nalu changed his ugly expression before, and excitedly held the slave merchant up, then threw him out the door. Xu Lai has a more profound idea, which is undoubtedly great news for them.
As the leader, the higher Xu Lai climbs, the more followers like them can follow.
Otherwise, if Xu Lai, the leader, does not move, how can they, as followers and subordinates, climb up?
Either you stay lower than Xu Lai, or you have to find a way to get past Xu Lai, and that means betrayal.
Naru would rather be an ordinary knight forever than betray Xu Lai. He was a knight of Xu Lai's bodyguard.
After throwing away the slave merchant, Naru clapped his hands and said:
"If I were you, I would immediately leave by teleportation array, and run away before the people in Qingfeng City have time to react.
Otherwise, if the news reaches Qingfeng City, I'll guarantee it. , you and your caravan, no one can make it out of Qingfeng City alive.
Both the mercenaries and civilians there are the most fervent admirers of our lord.
If they are. I know, if you dare to come to our lord for blackmail today, it would be weird if I didn’t strip you and eat you alive.
If I were you, I would run away quickly to avoid damaging our lord’s reputation.”
The slave merchant came from Qingfeng City. He didn't dare to say more about the actual situation there because he didn't stay long.
But he still understood some of the policies implemented by Xu Lai.
Tax exemptions, kindergarten schools, martyrs' cemeteries, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and even the head tax and city entry tax are exempted.
It is precisely because of his understanding that he has the courage to speak like a lion.
Because he knew that no matter how angry Xu Lai was, he would never kill him.
Anyway, he is in the slave business, and Qingfeng City does not allow the use of slaves.
And other places are just symbolic remarks, only Qingfeng City is fulfilling this law from top to bottom.
That's why he opened his mouth as a lion. If he failed, he would have nothing to lose. If he succeeded, he would make a lot of money.
Similarly, he also knew very well that what Naru said was also true.
Once the news here reaches Qingfeng City, the fanatics in Qingfeng City may really eat him alive.
For the sake of Xu Lai's reputation, Nalu warned him, but those in Qingfeng City were just ordinary people and didn't have much knowledge at all.
Thinking of this, the slave merchant did not care about any nonsense, quickly got up, and ran towards the direction of the teleportation array.
Nalu snorted coldly, turned around and returned to the hall, just in time to hear Xu Laigao, sitting on the top seat, speak again.
“Everyone, I don’t have any bad feelings towards businessmen, but frankly speaking, I don’t have any favorable impressions either.
It is understandable that you buy low, sell high and make profits.
However, if the price is a hundred times higher, can it still be considered normal commodity circulation? Isn't it true that you are robbed in front of me?
If next, you still make the same quotation as the previous businessman, I advise you not to open your mouth.
Lest when the time comes, none of us will be able to get off stage. ”
Xu Lai called these merchants together, firstly so that they could bid against each other so that he would not suffer losses.
On the other hand, the shipment volume this time was extremely high. Da, Xu Lai doesn't have the time to talk and contact each one
If it were all left to Wei Yihong, he might not dare to make the final decision. After all, it involves the bodies of nearly 3,000 Behemoth beasts.
Unexpectedly, Xu Lai brought these businessmen together and gave them room to make a joint quotation.
Several slave merchants discussed quietly and unanimously agreed on such an extremely ridiculous price.
The slave merchants really wanted to make a lot of money by giving them one hundred or two hundred gold coins.
Looking at the current situation, even if the asking price reaches 500 or 600 gold coins, Xu Lai will not be satisfied.
If you approach those orcs, the lowest level is level 4, and ask them to sell it at this price, they will not agree to it.
However, these orcs are indeed dangerous. They are not heroes and cannot add specialization effects to the hired mercenaries.
So even if there are shackles and other equipment, it is considered good if a mercenary can watch two or three orcs.
The costs of transportation, security, food and accommodation are indeed extremely high.
The key is the final sale. If Xu Lai only sells a few, they will be able to contact buyers who like novelty.
Or a more powerful buyer could buy these orcs back to use as fighters or guards.
This kind can be sold at a high price, but the problem is that there is not much demand.
Xu Lai managed to get thousands of high-level orcs out in one breath, but they were really not easy to take action with, so they would probably have to spend a lot of time on his hands.
Therefore, in order to control costs, they are unlikely and unwilling to increase the price above 1,000 gold coins.
Since the quoted price would definitely not satisfy Xu Lai, it would be better not to say anything at all.
Otherwise, if he opens his mouth, he will make Xu Lai angry again. Just like the man before, if he is not allowed to do business in his territory, he will lose a lot of money.
In places that are relatively peaceful now, except for the Southern Empire and the Northern Empire, which have just stabilized, it is the grassland where it is easier to do business.
And these businessmen are relatively optimistic about Xu Lai, and most of them think that Xu Lai's future territory should be more than this.
This is a huge business territory, and as businessmen, of course they are not willing to give up easily.
With the driven merchant in front, most of the other merchants quoted a more realistic price.
For example, if Beamon's pair of sharp claws were used to make armor-piercing arrows, at least several thousand arrows of excellent quality could be produced.
Although a top-quality arrow is not entirely composed of arrowheads, the bulk of the cost must be the arrowhead, followed by the tail feathers, arrow shaft and other parts.
Ordinary armor-piercing arrows are not cheap. Armor-piercing arrows made with Behemoth Claws may ignore more than 50% of the defense.
The quality has improved by an unknown amount in an instant. One Behemoth armor-piercing arrow is equivalent to at least ten ordinary armor-piercing arrows.
Thousands of these armor-piercing arrows are definitely worth tens of thousands of gold coins.
After deducting the cost of workers' wages, arrow shafts, tail feathers, etc., the price of a pair of Behemoth claws is 1,500 gold coins, which is relatively fair.
Sitting in the high hall, Xu Lai personally signed one contract after another, and the gold coins were received softly.
But among the tens of thousands of orcs, no one is willing to continue to quote.
Tahan Yanfeng and others are still out hunting, not only near the Pingfeng Mountains, but also in other places where there are scattered orcs everywhere.
Before the returning people arrive, all these orcs must be captured. By then, more and more orcs will be imprisoned in Stone City.
At today's trade fair, Xu Lai came out to sell a lot of supplies and also bought a lot of grain.
With those maritime merchants in the south, rice can be sold at the price of gold.
So, the food consumed by the orcs is a trivial matter. The key is that Xu Lai does not have so many manpower and energy to keep watching them. (End of this chapter)