Chapter 178 Human Royal Family(1/2)
As the Duke's Mansion, the Duke's Mansion of Rhodes is not gorgeous, but it is definitely big enough, and looks very cautious, like a large castle as a military camp. [.]
Grand Duke Rhode received Lin Tian and others in the main hall, which can be said to be of great importance!
Seeing Lin Tian, Grand Duke Rod was a little surprised at Lin Tian's youth. Although Lin Tian was wearing a mask, he could still see that the other party was not big.
"Does Qingyue Trading Company?" Grand Duke Rod narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Tian and asked with a smile: "I just don't know if the caravan of Earl Clayya, who has been active in the capital recently, is it related to your side?"
"We provide the caravan goods of Count Clayya." Lin Tian smiled slightly and said to Grand Duke Rhodes.
At this point, neither side had to conceal the goods sold by Lin Tian, with the intelligence unit of Grand Duke Rhode, it was easy to know that there were similar goods sold in the capital. After all, whether it was flour or the weapons and equipment, they all had a strong Warcraft series human style. This style was not something that ordinary forces could imitate.
After receiving Lin Tian's affirmation, Grand Duke Rhode felt a little relieved. He knew that in the capital, these goods were all hot-selling products, and even caravans sold these goods to the legendary capital of the empire.
"Since that's the case, we both should be honest." Grand Duke Rod made up his mind, sat in the first place, and spoke to Lin Tian: "I need the help of your Qingyue Trading Company, I need your resources."
"I want to know how many resources your trading company can provide to our City of Glory?" As soon as Grand Duke Rhodes opened, he asked the most critical supply capacity question.
Baron Josh also showed a look of attention at this time, but he really hoped that Lin Tian's shipments would increase significantly.
"I requested a half deposit in advance." Lin Tian calmly promised under the gaze of Grand Duke Rhodes: "The condition is that we agree to give priority to the supply of the City of Glory. As long as you want, the goods within 1 million gold coins, we can guarantee that we will send them to Grand Duke Rhodes within three days."
"A goods of 1 million gold coins?" Grand Duke Rod did not expect that Lin Tian would have such a big appetite and could also arrive in such a promise as the orcs siege the city.
In addition, the price offered by Lin Tian was only slightly higher than the market price, which made Grand Duke Rhode a little wary of the forces behind Lin Tian.
It is hard to imagine how powerful it would take to carry out such large-scale smuggling under the siege of orcs.
However, this does not prevent Grand Duke Rhode from purchasing Lin Tian’s supplies. The situation is now stronger than that of people. Every time there are more food weapons, there are more opportunities to survive!
"200,000 bags of grain are enough to support the defenders in the city, so let's order this piece of grain first." Grand Duke Rhodes considered the 100,000 troops he could currently control and spoke.
"No problem." Lin Tian smiled slightly. 200,000 bags of grain, which is 1 million gold coins, but there is no need to worry. This little grain may be a bit insufficient in Xiya City, but it should be enough to mobilize part of it from the granary of the City of Dawn.
Moreover, compared to weapons, profits are only small.
Sure enough, after reaching an agreement with Lin Tian on the food transaction, Grand Duke Rhode began to talk to Lin Tian about the issue of weapons trade.
In terms of weapons, no matter how generous the Lord Rhodes is, he becomes cautious because of the price.
After setting up a big framework for the conversation with Grand Duke Rhodes, the details naturally did not require the bigwigs to take action. Lin Tian was invited by Grand Duke Rhodes to attend to tonight's banquet.
In terms of specific details, Baron Josh and the two stewards assigned by the two Grand Dukes Rhodes were responsible for the work.
This is the first time that Lin Tian has officially attended a noble banquet in this world, but he thinks everything is relatively fresh.
Although there were a group of orcs outside the city and there were even more corpses on the city wall today, the noble young people in the gorgeous banquet hall were all smiling and seemed to be unwilling to worry.
Many beautiful ladies even brought their daughters in their families to chatter around Grand Duke Rhodes, introducing their new adult daughter to him, and also tentatively asked what his identity was Lin Tian, who could be accompanied by Grand Duke Rhodes himself.
After many nobles learned that Lin Tian was a businessman, they first showed disdain. After reminding others that they knew the supplies Lin Tian sold, these nobles immediately changed their faces and sent their family members to contact Lin Tian.
After Grand Duke Rhode arranged Lin Tian, he walked up to the front desk to talk to other nobles.
As for Lin Tian, he was quite curious about the various rare foods at the banquet here. After eating them, Lin Tian felt that he was desperate about the backward catering level in this world.
"Tsk tsk, these rustic guys, I really look forward to what expressions you will show when you eat the bread I sold?"
"Ah, it turns out that bread can be so delicious~! It's probably not difficult to show such an expression, right?"
Thinking of this, Lin Tian quickly lost the interest in staying in the banquet hall and walked on the balcony of the banquet hall, breathing in the fresh air of the other world at night.
Outside the balcony is a beautiful purple rose garden.
This rose, called the dark moon and man, emits a charming fragrance under the moonlight, which makes people smell it, and feel refreshed and wandering in their chests.
"Mr. Lin from Qingyue Trading Company, why don't you go to the hall?"
While Lin Tian was enjoying this rare tranquility, behind him, a woman wearing a veil and a white backless dress slowly walked over and asked Lin Tian.
"Oh, I may not be used to the atmosphere at the banquet."
"Hehe, it looks like Mr. Lin is different from other merchants." The woman in the long dress said, leaning against the balcony, looking at the sea of flowers in front of her, and speaking, "By the way, Mr. Lin, I heard that your Qingyue Trading Company sells weapons, but I don't know, apart from those standard weapons, can there be better sales?"
"Better?" Lin Tian was slightly stunned and asked in confusion: "Madam, what better weapon do you plan to buy?"
"You really have those weapons." The woman in the long skirt said with some joy.
"Those?" Lin Tian frowned and asked a question.
But under the moonlight, the woman in the long skirt took out a short dagger and placed it in front of her.
"Magic Weapon!"
Lin Tian held it in his hand and immediately felt that this was a product of the same technique as the young priest who came from the Linyou Poet. Its sharpness is comparable to that of the silver-level weapon, and it also comes with a fixed spell of blood-sucking.
"This is not our Qingyue Trading Company." Lin Tian looked at the short dagger in the woman in the long skirt and whispered: "However, our trading company also has the same level of equipment."
"It's great. It seems that my trip did not disappoint me." A hint of joy flashed in the eyes of the woman in the long skirt, and then she said, "Mr. Lin, I hope I can order 20 sets of such weapons and equipment."
"20 sets?" Lin Tian looked at the woman in the long dress, silver-grade equipment, but she didn't dare to popularize the valuables. This woman actually asked for 20 sets!
"Well, including armor and all the matching weapons." The woman in the long skirt said: "As for the price, I can definitely give you a satisfying amount."
"A set of equipment like this may require tens of thousands of gold coins." Lin Tian said.
"What's wrong with tens of thousands? For victory, I will lose everything I can." The woman in the long dress said this and handed it to Lin Tian's residence in this city of glory.
Lin Tian was a little surprised when he saw this woman in long dress actually lived in Grand Duke Rhode's mansion, and she was in the VIP area, and she obviously had an extraordinary identity!
After reaching a preliminary intention with the other party, Lin Tian returned to Shi Mura and learned about the identity of the woman in the long skirt from Baron Josh.
That woman is actually the real royal family member of the human empire.
Of course, although the woman has a princess title, she is not a top figure in the royal family, and her mother is just the daughter of a small town lord and has a deep background.
However, at least she has a royal title, allowing her to compete with the younger generation of the royal family and win opportunities.
The imperial royal family in this world is now called the Felion family. It is a large family that has been passed down for a long time. They advocate their children to compete within the control range. Therefore, every year, men and women in the royal family are organized to lead 20 personal soldiers to participate in various cruel competitions.
Winners will receive rewards such as the top heir qualifications and family resources, which is a major event that every child of Filien will definitely not miss.
When Lin Tian heard this, he understood why this princess had to order a silver suit with herself.
Speaking of which, in a big place like the imperial capital, Lin Tian believes that there are still magical weapons and weapons. Those things should not be worse than their silver-level weapons, and may be even stronger.
But, the annual output of those things is absolutely pitifully small, let alone supplying a princess who is not valued.
"This princess is really worthless." Lin Tian shook his head when he heard this.
"Haha, the imperial capital has great achievements, so naturally there are many children." Baron Josh smiled and said, "Your Majesty Felion, who is now in power, is called a breeding pig by the ministers below. His greatest achievement is to increase the entire empire by 120 princes and more than 300 princesses."
"Puff." Lin Tian was amazed when he heard such productivity.
"Total of the previous and the next, there are 420 people. This guy... is really hardworking." Lin Tian said with envy and jealousy.
"Haha, this is not counting the illegitimate child." Baron Josh smiled and said, "For the nobles, illegitimate child is usually twice as good as this."
"Twice?" Lin Tian suddenly felt that this emperor was too happy. I wonder if this guy had time to deal with the government affairs besides sowing seeds after he ascended the throne.
"That's true. Apart from the children of the queen and several powerful concubines, the other princesses are not popular in the empire. Grand Duke Rhodes, that is, they are treated politely."
Speaking of Baron Josh, he obviously thought of something. He reported to Lin Tianhui in a good mood: "This time, in addition to reaching a grain transaction of 1 million gold coins, we also reached a weapon transaction with your subordinates with a total price of 2 million gold coins."
"3 million gold coins in the past and after, haha, even with Grand Duke Rhodes' wealth, this time he exhausted his family's property." Baron Josh was excited when he said this. He was able to receive a reward of 300,000 gold coins according to Lin Tian's conditions. However, it was this reward that made Baron Josh completely lean towards Lin Tian's side during the negotiation.
As for Grand Duke Rhodes, of course they would not be unaware of this, but they thought that Qingyue Shang society was indeed here to do business.
After all, almost all trading companies in this other world trade with aristocratic forces in this way. If Lin Tian was really stupid to negotiate, that would surprise these nobles.
After the terms were negotiated, he also received a deposit. Lin Tian asked Shi Mura to stay for other negotiations, and he was shopping in the black market of the City of Glory with Baron Josh's diligent support.
As a black market, it may be the busiest place in the City of Glory at this time.
Many citizens had to spend their wealth to buy food here to make a living. Lin Tian believed that a large part of the food he sold to Grand Duke Rhodes would be circulated here, allowing Grand Duke Rhodes to have subsequent purchasing power.
Lin Tian exploited Grand Duke Rhodes, and Grand Duke Rhodes exploited the citizens of the city of glory. Such an equation would also be valid if other nobles were the same.
The citizens were miserable, many of them were full of worries, and some of the old men were begging along the streets. Unfortunately, when such orcs were sieging the city, who could still care about them?
Lin Tian secretly hated that he had no time and space. Otherwise, if he reached an agreement with Grand Duke Rhode, wouldn’t he be able to recruit a large amount of labor from this city casually?
Even if you are afraid that these labor forces will affect the rule of Shia City, throwing them all into the gold mining area will make a profit.
"Young Master Lin, look, this is the Zhenbaofang in the black market." Baron Josh took Lin Tian into a shop.
"Young Master, now is the best time to buy collectibles. Nowadays, no matter the nobles and rich people, they lack food and money. Many of them have put treasures on sale here, and the price will be quite cheap."
"Oh?" Lin Tian walked in and saw rows of artworks.
Unfortunately, Lin Tian had no interest in these bronzes and glass products and walked away quickly.
Zhenbaofang thought that Haoke had come, so the clerk personally received Lin Tian and introduced him to various precious oil paintings on the wall. Although Lin Tian couldn't understand those oil paintings that were already a bit similar to abstract art, the clerk explained them very well.
The key point is these oil paintings. It is said that each of them was auctioned at a high price, which is a symbol of art. Now it is low for sale. If anyone thinks it is not profitable, then it must be that he doesn’t understand art, he is a nouveau riche, and a country bumpkin!
Originally, in the years of experience in Zhenbaofang, those big businessmen hated others the most saying that they didn't understand art. When they heard that the painting could be auctioned at a high price, and then they would be tempted to buy it with a big hat. However, Lin Tian didn't plan to participate in the art competition in another world. After confirming that these paintings could not provide a large amount of gold coins and could not improve their strength, he ignored them directly.
When he walked to the second floor, which was also the last floor of the Zhenbao Shop, Lin Tian stopped because he suddenly noticed that there were objects in this Tibetan area, and divine power flowing!
"Is this... tortoise shell?" Lin Tian came to an exhibition stand and saw the tortoise shell pieces that emitted very faint divine power. He whispered.
"Master Lin, this is a prop used by wizards in the imperial capital for a long time ago. It consists of 81 such turtle pieces." Baron Josh said: "These things were dug out in a royal secret arena in the imperial capital. After a prince was elected, he secretly auctioned these turtle pieces. This is why these things flowed into our city of glory."
"Oh, are there a lot of this thing?" Lin Tian's eyes flashed with joy, and he felt that he had found the treasure.
To be continued...