The Marquis, who had been busy for many days, came home. The two close maids who served the Marquis beside him rubbed their shoulders and beat their legs. Marquis Link Raphael, who was lying on the recliner, was listening to the old housekeeper's report on his work.

The old butler is fifty years old this year. If it were ordinary people, they would have been buried. However, the old butler is also a level 10 warrior. He has awakened his blood skills and his life has been sublimated a little, and he can live to about ninety years old. His physical function must not decline after he is seventy years old, which means that the old butler can work for at least twenty years before retiring.

First, I introduced the income and expenditure of the territory in the past few days. The old housekeeper said: "Marquis, the commercial guild in this city recently bought our saltpet, but we did not eat our saltpet this month."

"What do they say?"

The old housekeeper: "They said that the saltpeter market is a bit saturated now. The price set in the past is a bit too high... They want to meet you and sign a new supply contract again."

Link: "See you then."

The old housekeeper: "I'll have someone to invite them."

Link then looked at several documents and changed the reward for guarding Baishan Fortress on one of them from thirty silver coins per month to fifty silver coins per month.

For the soldiers of Baishan Fortress, it is not easy to work to guard the place and to mine and wash the mine when they are idle. At least it is much more tiring than training. Moreover, Baishan Fortress is very remote, so it is reasonable to give more rewards.

After the old butler finished speaking, Allen started talking again, mainly about the recent recruitment work. Now the treatment of soldiers in Hongtu City has increased a lot. The increased treatment here is not about salary, but about food. Since ancient times, when he was a soldier, he naturally had to take care of food and accommodation.

In the past, in the territory of Marquis Raphael, after recruits joined the army, they all had broth and black bread for three meals. It was said that it was broth, but in fact, even if you could get more than three pieces of meat, you would have made a profit. If the soup that didn’t eat meat at all was not oily, your body would not be able to stand it when you were trained.

Now that Link has taken office, he has changed the rules and taken out all the middle and high-level monster meat hunted by the army every day as the main food for the army.

There are also times when there is a shortage, but now there is a legendary strongman, two powerful men in the territory, and five magic soldiers. It is not difficult for these masters to hunt some advanced monsters.

Even if the hunting amount was not enough that day, Link would still buy the earth dragon meat from Helen based on His Highness’s mage tower as a supplement.

Now the soldiers eat only half a piece of black bread every day, but because of the habit of taking care of everyone, Link can't change the Queen's bread. Anyway, the soldiers are all poor and are already used to the taste of black bread.

Almost all soldiers are from rural non-first sons and children who grew up in the city, but they do not have the habit of being a soldier or an adventurer. The point is to find a business in the city - if there is a guarantor, it is easier to go to the workshop as an apprentice or serve as an escort to the caravan and be a mate.

Caravan Guards may not be without danger, but relatively speaking, caravans' pensions are a lot higher than those of the army. As for adventurers, they are really life and death and wealthy. However, from the perspective of income, adventurers' income is much higher than that of the army and caravan guards.

In order to allow the Allen Ada sisters to control the army's food logistics, Link also purchased two space wrist guards from His Highness Helena, one for each person. Only the monster meat contained inside will not be deteriorated.

Allen's report today is that because of the improvement of food treatment, the training level of recruits has improved rapidly. This is also expected. Even more newcomers have recently signed up for the army. This number is not very obvious, but it has indeed increased.

Except for the saltpeter that has not been sold, the situation has been very good recently.

After finishing my work here, I came to the manager of three chambers of commerce not long after lunch.

The average level of these three managers is only five in the war position. They are included in adventurers or in the army and are like everyone else.

However, the Chamber of Commerce’s business management requires ability and relationships with the upper level of the Chamber of Commerce to become a leader. None of them is indispensable. If there are many capable people, of course, you should give priority to using your own people.

After the three managers sat down, they began to complain not long after that, because the market price fell due to too much saltpeter, and the inventory was too large, so they could not sell it at all recently. There was only one thing inside and outside, and the price was reduced.

In the past, the three chambers of commerce did not know the output of saltpeter in Baishan Fortress, but this kind of thing could not be hidden from others. The garrisons in Baishan Fortress also used the rotation system. Two months ago, the three chambers of commerce invited a few soldiers who were taking turns to have sex in the tavern for the whole night, and finally, several elite intelligence officers got the approximate output of saltpeter in Baishan Fortress from the soldiers.

Although the saltpeter in Baishan Fortress is not as much as possible, it is no problem to ship it at the current speed and sell it for hundreds of years. This is not a secret in Baishan Fortress. Such a big Baishan, which is full of saltpeter, is there.

The three chambers of commerce received information from intelligence officers and immediately felt that they had a loss here. It also cost to transport them to other places. When they arrived, they could only sell five silver coins by one pound of saltpeter. The big head was earned by the new Marquis of Raphael.

So the three managers reported this matter to the upper level of their respective chambers of commerce, hoping to get support from the upper level. These three chambers of commerce are the main external adventure channels in the Marquis of Raphael, occupying about 70% of the market share.

The decisions of these three families can greatly affect the foreign trade of the entire Marquis of Raphael.

Last month, the upper levels of the three chambers of commerce made a decision to support the view of the three managers. They should find ways to work together to lower the price of saltpeter, so that the profits of the chambers of commerce can greatly increase.

This time, the three chambers of commerce did not want to force Link Raphael to specifically force Marquis Link Raphael. The price offered was one pound of saltpeter. This price will be used for half a year to a year in the discussions of the three chambers of commerce. At that time, the price of saltpeter will be further reduced. The psychological bottom line of the manager of the three chambers of commerce is one and a half silver coins per pound of saltpeter.

After hearing the demands of these three chambers of commerce, Link nodded: "Originally, this matter is not something that cannot be discussed. However, there is one thing that has been used a little bit more people. I have decided to temporarily stop the development of saltpeter. This will save you more risks by eating saltpeter. Well, that's all for this matter. Butler, give away the guests."

Link's words are half true and half false. It is true that no one has developed saltpeter recently. However, Link is definitely not happy about the exploitation of the three chambers of commerce. Besides, Link himself is not short of money, and even the current Marquis of Raphael is not short of money. Now the hundreds of thousands of gold coins in the warehouse are enough to support the Marquis of the Marquis of many years. Not to mention that people are now mobilizing people to dig a higher value ruby ​​mine. That is the daily gold-making business.

"Marquis, you have to consider this matter clearly." The manager of a merchant was a little anxious when he heard this. He was doing business and bargaining was understandable. No one could just stop doing business.
Chapter completed!