my age of magic

Chapter 1254 58. Transactions
"Marquis Haslab, have you prepared the marching rations for your Constructed Knights for this expedition to the Luoqi plane?" I asked with a smile.

"Ready." The Marquis of Haslab was slightly startled, and then said: "I have a territory that is rich in wheat. When we march, we will distribute baked wheat cakes to all the constructed knights. As for meat and vegetables Basically, they are all local materials, we have a dedicated logistics team to follow the Construct Knights into the Luoqi plane, and they will use local materials to prepare sufficient meat and vegetables for the Construct Knights."

"Then have you considered using this kind of canned products?" Like a magic trick, I took out a box of canned luncheon meat from my sleeve and waved it in front of him.

The Marquis Haslab took a look at the luncheon meat in my hand, leaned his head over and took a deep breath beside the can, and said to me: "Oh, I know the origin of this can, it comes from Pai Plateau, you can buy it in some foreign goods stores in the imperial capital, I have tasted it, and it tastes pretty good... Earl Jijia, you mean that you want me to use this canned luncheon meat as the marching ration for the knights?"

Apparently Marquis Haslabh understood what I meant.

His face suddenly collapsed, staring at the box of canned luncheon meat, looking at me uncertainly.

I put the canned luncheon meat in my hand into the magic pocket, and said to him: "I just made a suggestion to you. This canned food is very convenient to eat. You only need to hang it on the fire for a little while on the march. , you can enjoy a very delicious meat meal, of course, it can also be served cold, and it works very well with toasted wheat cakes.”

Marquis Haslab frowned, and whispered to me: "Count Jijia, if this canned product is used as marching rations, I am afraid it will increase the cost of the war between the planes."

I glanced at him and said, "But the staff of the logistics team will also be greatly reduced, and the price of these canned luncheon meat is not expensive, and each box only costs 25 copper coins."

The price of this kind of canned luncheon meat in El City will not exceed 25 copper plates, and the highest price in the imperial capital is only [-] copper plates per box, but I don’t want to argue with Haslab on this matter. The Marquis haggled over the price, and if he wanted to buy it, he would pay the price I set.

"Let me think about it." Marquis Haslab had an expression on his face as if he had eaten a fly poop, and he pinched his nose and said to me.

After finishing speaking, Marquis Haslab turned around and discussed with the other sixteen lords in a low voice.

The seventeen lords gathered in a circle outside the gate of the dock. Marquis Haslab didn't make me wait too long, but it took only a short while to decide on this matter.

He walked up to me, this time his face returned to normal, and he asked me: "May I ask, do you still have a batch of meat floss bricks in your hand and want to sell them together?"

There is a batch of meat floss bricks in the warehouse of the trading firm, but I don't plan to sell the meat floss bricks that are backlogged in the warehouse.

I'm also thinking about transporting this batch of meat floss bricks to the plane of Yero, and supply them to the barbarian slaves and orc warriors in the legion to make broth for drinking.

The beasts in the black forest on the Hierro plane have basically been preyed upon by giant spiders. If they eat meat, they basically only have the meat of giant spiders. I think it is necessary for them to have a bowl of simple and convenient meat when they eat scones. Soup to drink.

Since the Marquis of Haslab asked me about the meat floss bricks, I said: "The price of those meat floss bricks is higher, and the inventory is not too much. Does the Marquis still want to buy some meat floss bricks?"

The Marquis of Haslab said: "In the battle of the Kampato River in the Warsaw plane, the Royal Constructed Knights led by the Prince of Wales received three scones and a box of canned luncheon meat as standard marching rations every day. The knight team can receive a meat floss brick every three days, so we seventeen lords discussed it and agreed that we still need to buy some meat floss bricks and canned luncheon meat."

"This time, we lords and the Prince of Wales are going to the Luoqi plane together. The grade of the marching rations distributed should not be too different. We have a total of 25 knight orders, and we need to prepare more than 1 marching rations every day. One month to prepare, then at least 1 taels of 500 yuan meat floss bricks, 30 yuan and canned luncheon meat..."

It turned out that these lords were worried that the marching rations prepared would be too poor, which would affect the morale of their own constructed knights, so after collective discussion, they decided to purchase a large amount from me.

Since the Marquis of Haslab has said so, of course I have to express my opinion.

So I said to Marquis Haslab, "Then... I can provide you with the magic herbs you need to make ten boxes of healing potions."

"Okay, but when will these magic herbs be delivered to us?" Marquis Haslab's eyes lit up and he asked me.

"This time next week, right here at the dock." I reached out and patted the big iron gate of the dock, and said to Marquis Haslab.

The Marquis of Haslab held out his hand and gave me a high-five, and said in a loud voice: "Then it's a deal, Earl Jijia, I will prepare the magic spar and wait for news of your ready goods at any time."

The magic caravans pulling the arrows of the giant crossbow had gone far away, and Marquis Haslab and the other sixteen lords rode horses and left the dock surrounded by a group of constructed knights.

Apparently, the preparations before the battle of Luo Qibit made these lords extremely busy.

Raising various supplies not only requires a large sum of money, but also some scarce supplies may not be able to be bought in time if there is money in the market. It also needs to be raised through various relationship networks, the most important ones are first aid bandages and healing potions, etc. first aid supplies.

The Goddess of Liberty issued an oracle, and the priests and battle priests in the temple were therefore bound in the temple.

This means that most of the healers in the Green Empire cannot fight with the army. In the case of an extreme shortage of medical professionals, the casualty rate of each plane war has doubled. In order to effectively control the battle reduction, the lords not only A large number of water magicians were recruited in the mage group, and a large amount of healing potions needed to be prepared. It was precisely because of this that the price of healing magic herbs in the imperial capital doubled.

Marquis Haslab did not mention the price of those magic herbs to me, which means that I set the price of these magic herbs at will, but the more he is like this, the more I can't increase the price. The price is calculated, otherwise it will appear that I am too aristocratic.

For these lords, war has high rewards, but it is also accompanied by high risks.

Even if the victory of a war can make the lords rich overnight, the most valuable loot captured is of course the black magic crystal and some advanced magic materials, followed by the weapons and equipment of the dark army of the abyss, such as Nacoma The black iron armor of humans, the moonblade axes and black iron spears in the hands of spider warriors, etc.

But the failure of a war can also make the lords fall into the abyss. Once the war fails, the lords will lose not only the prepared materials, but also the constructed knights that take several years to cultivate and the expensive The magic pattern structure.

Therefore, the lords who want to gain benefits from the plane war must choose carefully which plane war to participate in.

These seventeen lords firmly believed that the Prince of Wales could lead them to victory on the plane of Loki.

There are not only a few lords who have the same idea as them in the imperial capital. These lords have chosen the Prince of Wales, and the Prince of Wales has to choose some powerful ones from among the many lords. The benefits gained from a frontal war may not be enough.

……

Senior sister Adele did not leave with the seventeen lords, she was quietly waiting for me by the lake at the dock.

I haven't seen her for more than half a year. She has changed a lot. It seems that she is not as irritable as before. She still has long hair and a little light makeup on her face, which makes her look a lot more feminine.

The boatmen in the dock were cleaning up the wreckage of the wooden house by the lake, and they wanted to restore the grassland by the lake, which had been trampled by horses, to its original appearance.

After discussing business with the seventeen lords, I came to the lake with Senior Dylan to meet her.

Senior Adele looked back from the rippling Weiyang Lake. Her dark eyes were like two sharp swords, which seemed to be able to pierce into the sea of ​​my spirit. There will still be such a strong sense of oppression in the past, it seems that in the past half a year, Senior Adele is also growing rapidly.

She took out a roll of parchment from her bosom and unfolded it, straight to the point and said to me: "Bricks of meat floss, canned luncheon meat, hemostatic bandages, magic crossbow arrows, corpse fire oil, healing potions, No. [-] to No. [-] crazy Pharmacy, I need these supplies, Jijia."

I originally guessed that senior sister Adele might learn to be more reserved, and would at least have to exchange pleasantries with me before she took out this list of goods.

Of course I know that the supplies needed by the Prince of Wales to lead the Royal Constructed Knights to fight around have always been provided by Qige.

I frowned, thought for a while, and said, "Senior Adele, the crazy potion was prepared by Qige herself. She is currently in Etia. Please tell the Prince of Wales. Crazy potions No. [-] to No. [-], magic crossbow arrows, corpse fire oil, and healing potions are all in limited supply, and I only provide magic herbs for making healing potions, as for the others, you can pick them up at the trading firm at any time."

"Didn't Qige leave some crazy potions for you before he left?" Adele asked, staring into my eyes.

I shook my head and said, "At that time, she left in a hurry and basically left nothing behind. She just asked me to help her take care of this trading house."

"Okay." Senior Adele didn't intend to get too entangled in this matter, so she asked me again: "How many dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows can you provide?"

I counted the inventory in the Magic Seal Workshop, and said: "I can probably gather two thousand double-attribute magic crossbow arrows. Should I consider single-attribute giant crossbow arrows? The price-performance ratio is much higher than that of dual-attribute giant crossbow arrows." of."

"I want [-] single-attribute 'piercing' magic crossbow arrows, is that okay?" Senior Sister Adele asked me.

Apparently she knew about these magical giant crossbow bolts so well that she didn't even mention the 'sharp' attribute giant crossbow arrows.

"It should be about..." I said.

Adele took a deep look at me and asked me again: "How many barrels of corpse fire oil can you provide?"

Wales has a complete set of flame-throwing devices in his hands. Those flame-throwing devices are powerful. The flames emitted can divide the battlefield like the magic of the fire magician'fire wall'. Of course, Wales will not abandon it. If you use the flame-throwing device, you Corpse kerosene will definitely be used, so corpse kerosene is considered an important material that must be prepared in the eyes of Wales.

I said, "About [-] barrels. I need to go to the warehouse to check the exact number."

Senior Adele looked at me in surprise, and asked, "The magic airship carrying the corpse oil will arrive next week? Can you determine the amount of corpse oil now?"

I asked her: "So, senior sister Adele, you also know about the incident where Prince George and Quentin instigated the manager of the firm to secretly sell magic herbs and corpse oil?"

Senior Adele smiled and explained: "The imperial capital is actually not as big as you think, and the trading house is Qige's after all, and we usually pay attention to it occasionally."

"Okay, I see, the amount of corpse fire oil is about that much." I said to her.

Adele took out a quill pen, bit the tip of the pen lightly, and while carefully making notes on the parchment, she asked me: "Then how much magic herb can you provide to make the healing potion?"

At this time, what I thought about was the batch of magical herbs in the round valley that had entered the mature stage, so I said, "I have to confirm how many magical herbs I can get before I can give you an answer."

Hearing that I didn't directly refuse, but said that I wanted to check the amount of the magic herb, Senior Adele said bluntly: "Hey, to be honest, you are quite generous to Wales."

Then she asked me curiously: "Wales, as Qige's former predecessor, shouldn't the two of you stand on opposite sides?"

"So? Sister Adele, what do you want me to do?" So I asked back. "Is it normal for me to refuse to supply any goods to the Prince of Wales?"

Senior Adele laughed dryly, and said, "Okay, I take back what I said before. Since these things are finalized in this way, then my goal this time has been achieved."

She turned around and was about to leave, but stopped after walking a few steps, turned to me and said, "Oh, by the way, although I can't help you recover the batch of magic that George and Quentin bought from the trading house Herbal medicine, but if I need to teach those two arrogant guys a lesson, I can still do it, how about it, do you want me to help you out?"

"Forget it, although they didn't do it very honorably, they paid the full amount of gold coins after all. After all, I can be regarded as a righteous party. There is no reason to turn myself into a villain just to vent my anger in my heart." I said to Sister Adele said. "I want them to realize their mistakes and make them regret it, and that's enough."

So, Senior Adele looked at me speechlessly.

"..."

(End of this chapter)