is an acquaintance.
stepped to the premises of the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce under the gaze of several other small caravans. Reed can clearly feel the surrounding group of guards relieved.
Because the sky is still very dim, the guards of the Jinmai Chamber of Commerce's night watch were on guard before the caravan set off.
Seeing Reed stop, the group of guards suddenly grew big.
What does this master master want to do? They have already encountered a robber halfway through the road, do they have another nightmare at the door of Grimm? !
A guard squad leader wearing a half-length gray leather armor gritted his teeth and walked to the front of Reed, a little wary and a smile on his face.
"Master Mage, what do you need to tell us?"
Reed looked at him flatly.
"I am the owner of Scarlet Mage Tower"
This sentence made the team leader a big sigh of relief. He knew the Scarlet Mage Tower, and the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce would submit asylum fees to each other every month, and he accompanied him several times.
Although I didn't see the real owner of the Mage Tower, I believe that the other party would definitely have an impression of the Golden Wheat Merchant.
"Master Reed, it is my honor to meet you. The Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce is very pleased to serve you. I will let the vice president be called here. Wait a moment."
His name is naturally no secret in the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce.
Reed nodded, and did not refuse.
In this world, mages and nobles are undoubtedly standing at the apex of the pyramid. For this group of businessmen, let alone the captain of a guard, even the president of the Chamber of Commerce is not qualified to sit on an equal footing with Reed.
Reed turned his head and looked at the more than 30 carriages of the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce around them. It can be of this size to transport goods at one time. It seems that the strength of the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce is pretty good.
But it is a pity that half of the cargo on the carriage is empty. I don't know if it was robbed by a robber or lost halfway.
asked a little curiously.
"What is the main business of your Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce? All these goods have been robbed?"
The team leader shook his head, his expression a little frustrated, "We mainly deal in cloth and food. The orcs in the south broke through the border defense. The caravan encountered a group of looting orcs on the way. The caravan suffered heavy losses... .."
"Yes, Reed, the loss of the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce this time is the biggest since our establishment. We were robbed of all the cloth and food shipped to the border to support the soldiers by the orcs.
A middle-aged man in luxurious business clothes came to Reed with a wry smile. He was blond and his shrewd brown eyes were particularly impressive.
"Master Reed, this is the president of our Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce, Laurent Orlando"
"Go down first, wake up the caravan, and get ready to go back to the city right away. I will accompany the Reed Lord"
"Yes, President Laurent"
Reed looked at Laurent Orlando and nodded slightly. He had seen this man, in the memory of the ancestor of the blood race.
And the other party's reputation is not bad, and the business ability is also excellent.
"Hello Laurent, I originally wanted to find a caravan to take a break and wait for the sunrise to return to Grimm. I did not expect to meet the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce.
I deeply regret your encounter, but the suffering will always pass. I believe that an encounter will not bring down the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce."
The ancestor of the blood family spent most of the time in Grimm studying magic, and didn't care about other things at all.
Therefore, Reed has a blank understanding of the Grimm business community. He plans to contact Laurent to learn about the market from the side.
This time buying a large amount of food must cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce, he doesn't have so much energy to buy it himself.
Laurent's eyes flashed a bit of surprise, it seemed that he had never expected that the indifferent Master would be so approachable.
"Your Excellency Reed, I hope that although I have been there, but this time good luck is not by my side"
finished speaking and shook his head, not wanting to continue this topic, and reached out to signal the tent in the center of the caravan.
"Your Excellency, please come to my tent to rest for a while, wait until sunrise and then return to Grimm together"
Reed nodded slightly, did not ask much, thanked him and followed him to the central tent.
The space is not too big, the wool carpet is covered, the bread is placed on a small table, and there is a half-rolled quilt beside it, which is obviously the place where Laurent just rested.
The two were seated, and after a few words of politeness to each other, Reed took the lead in asking questions.
"President Laurent, I would like to ask how much is the price of Grimm for a pound of copper?"
Laurent looked at Reed a little strangely, a mage asked this question?
When do these lofty masters care about food prices? Even if all the civilians starve to death, it is not their turn to starve.
" Your Excellency Reed, although I don't know why you care about this issue, I have to tell you bad news.
This year, because the orcs started the war ahead of schedule, a large amount of food on the border was plundered by the orcs before they were harvested.
So this year’s food prices are the highest in the past five years.
The price of a pound of wheat has now doubled by as much as 8 copper puke, and the price of food is likely to exceed 10 copper puke as the winter month approaches.
The goddess of life is here, and the civilians on the border this winter are afraid it will be hard."
Laurent had a serious face after speaking, and his eyes were a little unbearable.
Once food prices rise, it is undoubtedly civilians who will be the first to be affected. He can already predict that many people will starve to death this winter, many, many.
Reed felt the oncoming blood and sadness from Laurent's simple words. The civilians who suffered the most in the war were always the victims.
But this is not something that his blood ancestor can control, shook his head and began to think about another thing.
One Kim Puke can be exchanged for 100 Silver Puke and 10,000 Copper Puke.
Grimm An ordinary person's monthly income is only 10 silver puke, and this will have to feed his family. It can be foreseen how much the impact of rising food prices will be on ordinary people.
1 Jin Puke can be exchanged for 10,000 copper Puke, and the price of grain is 8 copper Puke per catty. One Jin Puke can buy about 1,200 pounds of grain.
Rongguang pound is a unit of measurement, and the weight is not much different from a catty.
1200 pounds, saving some enough to feed two families of three for a year.
The 2,000 Kimpucks he brought out can be exchanged for rations for tens of thousands of people a year.
This batch of grain is undoubtedly enough for his farming plan in the castle.
As long as it can last a year, no, even this winter, after the beginning of spring next year, the fertile land behind the castle will be enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people.
The only problem now is that he needs to purchase this huge amount of grain.
It is foreseeable that due to the war launched by the Orcs in the South, the price of food will continue to rise in the future~EbookFREE.me~ Since the price is not yet at its limit, the purchase of food must be completed as soon as possible if the market can still buy food.
"How much food does the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce have? I have a business to talk to you, and I need a lot of food"
Hearing Reed, Laurent's eyes lit up, but in a blink of an eye his expression fell again.
"Master Reed, the goddess is here, our Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce is going bankrupt, and there is no capital to buy."
Reed has a stunned face.
"Bankruptcy? Lost goods only once, let alone cloth and grain"
Although there are a lot of cloth and food in thirty carriages, they are far from precious.
Such a big chamber of commerce can't afford even one loss?
Laurent shook his head, eyes full of despair.
"We contacted a seller at the border, and they dug a mithril vein, and they produced a sufficient amount of mithril mine.
You know the preciousness of mithril, an alchemical material, as long as I ship it back to Grimm, I will definitely make a fortune.
But this batch of ore requires a full 1,200 Gimpco. For this business, I sold most of the Chamber of Commerce goods to raise enough, and I owed the Grimm Chamber of Commerce two hundred Jinpuke.
But... orcs, one day I will crush them one by one and drag them to the gallows"
You don't need to say more about the details of Reed. I finally got a chance to make a fortune, but I didn't expect to meet an orc.
"So, sorry, Reed, the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce will no longer exist after sunrise, and I can't do your business."
Bankrupt? Thinking that the Golden Wheat Chamber of Commerce has always had a good reputation in my memory, Reed was not disappointed after pondering for a while, but moved in my heart.
Maybe this is a good opportunity.
