Chapter 197: Food for slaves

Chapter 197 Grain for Slaves

After purchasing slaves from the Grand Duchy of Starnik, it was already in August.

August was the season for the fall harvest, as the territory had reclaimed a large amount of farmland this year, and the production of grain was still increasing greatly.

With the autumn grain plus the summer grain, this year’s grain production reached twenty-six thousand tons.

With a population of over 60,000 people, saving some 15,000 tons of grain is already enough, and leaving 2,000 tons of grain for next year’s planting, there is a surplus of 9,000 tons of grain this year that can be used.

Because of the heavy losses in the liquor market, brewing liquor this year only consumed less than a thousand tons of grain.

Last year, eight thousand tons of grain reserves, this year only consumed less than two thousand tons.

Today, there are fourteen thousand tons of grain in stock in Harland’s territory.

From this year onwards, Harland Territory will be able to sell a few thousand tons of grain every year to fill the deficit of the reduced profits from white wine.

Next year, the probability is that there will be no war, Richard only intends to stockpile 6,000 tons of grain, the remaining 8,000 tons of grain, ready to be sold to Duke Edward’s territory.

This year, Duke Edward’s collar suffered a locust plague, and the grain production was reduced very seriously.

After the fall grain came down, the Duke Edward’s Collar’s fleet came to Black River Fortress and purchased a large amount of grain, the purchase price was two tiers higher than the market price. If the grain could be transported to Duke Edward’s Collar, the price of the grain was two or three times higher than normal, or even five or ten times higher.

But earning this money may not save your life, Duke Edward is not a good-tempered person. Letting you hoard and make away with tons of gold coins in his territory.

Eight thousand tons of grain transported to Black River Fort, according to this year’s grain price, can be sold for nineteen thousand gold coins.

With this amount of money, the territory’s income will also skyrocket this year.

Richard sent this batch of stale grain to Black River Fort through water transportation and met Sanjay Tara, who was in charge of grain trade in Duke Edward’s territory.

Sanji Tara was Mrs. Tara’s brother.

Lady Tara was Duke Edward’s courtesan, very favored, and had already given birth to three children for Duke Edward.

It was through Lady Tara’s connections that Sanjay Tara became Duke Edward’s agent in business.

Seeing Richard transported a large amount of grain, Sangitara showed great joy.

After counting the grain, Sangitara didn’t talk about the price directly with Richard, but invited Richard to attend a banquet.

Richard also wanted to see what Sanjay Tara was selling in his gourd, so he followed Sanjay Tara to the banquet. So he followed Sanjay Tara to the banquet, at the banquet, Richard met a lot of acquaintances, Viscount Rommen, Baron Bazel, Baron Barton, Baron Green and so on.

These hereditary nobles have a large amount of farmland in their territories and are the largest grain merchants in Black River County.

Counting Richard’s five nobles combined, the grain sold reached 60,000 tons.

Sanji Tara clapped his hands and a group of more than thirty beautiful young girls appeared in the banquet.

These young girls were tall, dressed in revealing clothes, and with fiery eyes, they looked very sexy and seductive.

The nobles present were all physically strong professionals.

Whether they were knights or warriors, because of their strong and energetic bodies, they would secrete more hormones and dopamine, and their desires were much stronger than ordinary people.

That’s why the vast majority of the nobles would have a very large number of women, powerful female knights, female warriors, and generally speaking, a lot of men as well.

This has nothing to do with morality or immorality, it’s entirely determined by hormone levels. As soon as these beautiful women appeared and surrounded the nobles, they immediately made Viscount Rommen and the others’ blood boil and revealed fire-breathing eyes.

Baron Barton’s self-control was the worst, when he was up and down without regard to the occasion, his scandalous behavior was revealed, and it looked like he had to have a shot and enter the Sage Time in order to sober up and clear his head.

Although Richard was also tickled with desire, he was instead more awake than the others because of his strong spiritual power. He narrowed his eyes, pushed away the sexy woman who leaned up, and directly spoke, “Mr. Sanji gave us this hand, what exactly does it mean?”

“I just want to entertain and thank everyone for selling us food. If you all like it, this batch of beautiful women can be sold for your enjoyment.”

This year, Duke Edward’s territory was severely affected, and the locust infestation reduced the territory’s food by seventy percent.

Although Duke Edward had 100,000 tons of stored grain, but the territory’s population of more than two million people was waiting to be fed, 100,000 tons of stored grain and a part of it was military grain, the grain reserve was far from enough.

Although Duke Edward has a lot of gold coins, he is not willing to take out all of them to feed the serfs and the people.

Seeing that the food gap is still very large, Duke Edward came up with an idea to exchange slaves for food.

Selling a slave is one less mouth to feed, the food exchanged for a strong slave can be enough for fifty slaves to eat for a year. In this way, both open source and reduce expenditure, slave for food trade is very suitable for this year’s Duke Edward’s territory.

Duke Edward knew very well that strong slaves could enhance the strength of the territory, so he planned to sell as many female slaves as possible.

Especially beautiful female slaves could be sold for hundreds of gold coins. Being able to sell one would allow Duke Edward to feed five hundred, or even a thousand ordinary people in a disaster year.

Sanji Tara displayed a batch of female slaves with the highest price tag this year, the prettiest ones were a few whose looks were not even inferior to Sophia and Wendy’s finest, but because of their lower origins, they were not good enough in terms of temperament.

In previous years, female slaves of this kind of appearance would basically be sold in the royal capital, and would usually be high-value commodities for the exclusive use of the great nobles.

Hearing that Sangi Tara was willing to sell these beautiful women, even Viscount Solomon was a bit impressed, and immediately asked for four young girls with the largest breasts, at the cost of five hundred tons of grain.

Viscount Solomon’s prestige was very high, the women he wanted others did not dare to compete.

Seeing that Richard had no intention of buying, Baron Bazel, Baron Barton, and Baron Green competed to be the first to bid.

The three even had their eyes on the same pretty slave girl, and Baron Barton paid four hundred tons of grain to snatch the pretty slave girl.

According to this year’s grain prices, four hundred tons of grain is about one thousand gold coins.

The gold coin of Grant Kingdom is about sixty-five grams in weight, this pretty woman is only one hundred pounds, and the price Baron Barton paid is surprisingly more than one hundred and thirty pounds of gold.

“The guy whose brain is occupied by hormones, it’s really scary.”

Richard looked at the several people speechlessly and walked out of the banquet hall to calm himself down first.

Although he didn’t buy the prettiest female slaves, the slave for food trade was very feasible.

After Baron Bazel and the others completed the transaction, Richard talked to Sanji Tara about the grain for slaves.

Because Richard was only willing to accept slaves with intact families, in the end, Duke Edward’s collar sold eight hundred slaves in exchange for eight thousand tons of grain.

These eight hundred households of slaves, three hundred of them had no male children, strong adult male slaves were only five hundred, adult female slaves were thirteen hundred, and the remaining two thousand six hundred slaves were old people who couldn’t be sold for a price, children, and in order to make the slaves feel at ease, Richard took away a dozen or so fools and handicapped people.

After completing the slave for food trade, Richard looked at the population statistics and realized that the territory’s population already had more than sixty-eight thousand four hundred people.

(End of Chapter)