Lord of Rot

Chapter 214 The Unexpectedly Best-selling Porcupine Wine
Under Li Qi's comfort, Claude finally recovered his calm.

It was Claude's resentful gaze that made Li Qi a little unbearable.

After the episode, it was time to talk about merchandise, and Claude needed more soap.

As his merchant ships headed to the territories of some island lords, the soap unsurprisingly opened up the market there.

But the porcupine brand noble soap that Li Qi gave was too little last time, Claude didn't have enough, and a large number of ladies and ladies regretfully failed to buy soap. They would rather not use it than use commoner soap. So Claude's task is heavy.

If you can please those nobles, the future transactions on the island will definitely be smoother.

So Claude's first goal is soap.

Porcupine brand aristocratic soap does not make a lot of money, because the aristocrats are always a minority, but the influence behind it is great.

"You came at the right time," Li Qi said, "Porcupine Collar has researched several scented soaps. I believe those picky ladies will find their favorite scent."

Having received Li Qi's promise, Claude smiled happily, and the resentment just now was swept away.

"Aren't you interested in this?" Li Qi did not forget his identity as a porcupine tie dealer. He waved to the little secretary who was following him, and then took a simple bound paper from the other party: "Better than sheepskin Paper is cheaper, in larger quantities, and thinner."

Paper does even more than soap.Mead and stuff.

"Master" Claude shook his fat cheeks: "The paper you have developed is very characteristic, but... it is difficult for me to find a suitable scene for it"

Claude said: "The nobles are used to using parchment paper. Even if your paper is cheaper, the nobles don't have much demand for paper."

He understood what Claude meant.

Paper, useful, but not very useful.

The nobles could read and write, but they didn't care whether they used cheap paper or more expensive parchment.

As for ordinary people, they can't read at all, and paper is of no use to them.

Knowledge is monopolized, and paper has no market.

Those who can afford knowledge are not short of money, and those who cannot afford it cannot afford paper no matter how cheap it is.

"That's right."

He thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case.

Paper is used to record and spread culture. If you want to promote paper, the first step is to promote education.

For the time being, Li Qi let go of the idea of ​​selling the child to the outside world, if he can't sell it, forget it.

There is no doubt about the role of paper, but it can be used when cultivating talents in the porcupine collar, so let's take care of one-third of an acre of land first.

"The Yankees especially like your porcupine wine." Claude put his hands on his stomach.Like a pregnant woman, the smile on his face could not be restrained: "After drinking good wine, I have no interest in other wines at all. You also know that those long-haired barbarians have very tricky tastes and bad tempers, and It’s very troublesome to do business.”

"The best-selling soap in Dongxia is only half sold in the north, and they don't like bathing at all."

In the icy and snowy environment, materials are relatively scarce, and the cost of boiling water for bathing is too high.

And the weather is cold, even if you don't take a bath, the smell is not obvious.

Li Qi asked curiously, "How's the environment in the northern border?"

Li Qi didn't know much about the northern border. He only knew that the temperature there was very low. Except for summer, people had to wrap themselves in layers of thick clothes in other seasons.

Snowy most of the time, although the terrain is wide, it is the least populated area.

However, the strength of the northern fighters is still well-known in the Lurea continent.

There have been many times in history that the northern border went south to plunder due to lack of food, and the northern border soldiers even captured several towns one after another in one day.

"It's all snow, it's cold." Claude rubbed his stomach, and his body seemed to turn cold suddenly: "However, the houses and buildings there are very distinctive, and there are some huge wonders. If you have time to go to the northern border, you may be able to See it for yourself, but you probably won't like the place."

"I'm really interested." Li Qi nodded.

Maybe one day I will be able to take the Eagle Cavaliers across the continent, flying from east to west, and then from south to north.

Appreciate the landscape and landforms of the entire continent.

Claude continued: "The last time my caravan went to the northern border, I encountered long-haired barbarians. They rowed small boats like biting pompano around the merchant ship, and threw ropes to climb onto the ship. Come."

"Pirate?" Li Qi asked.

The pirate ship that came to Porcupine Collar last time is still parked in Pigtail Bay.

"Yes." Claude nodded: "The weather in that place is too cold to grow crops, so half of the people there will choose to be pirates and plunder passing ships."

"The other half are bandits," Denis interjected.

"Haha, that's right."

The two people who were at odds with each other, when they talked about other areas outside the East Gorge, the arrogance and contempt that the East Gorge people had brought them together rarely unified their camp.

Although you and I don't deal with it, both of us stand on the upper level of the chain of contempt, and we are noble Dongxia people.

Claude continued to talk about his dangerous experience when encountering pirates: "They threw out ropes with iron hooks, and the iron hooks grabbed the side of the ship. They tried to climb onto the ship! My sailors hacked those ropes with knives, but The rope is very thick, one or two knives can't stop, and you can't imagine, those long-haired savages are not afraid of death at all, they rush up madly! I have seen four or five pirates fall into the water with my own eyes. After a few dips, his body froze and slowly sank underwater, and after a while he floated up again, already dead.

Although my ship is bigger and faster, and the sailors are also wearing good cotton armor, but in the face of the fearless long-haired barbarian, I can't stop it at all. Several people were killed in one touch. I know the sailors They couldn't stop the group of pirates, so I ordered the sailors to give up resistance, just to protect everyone more. "

"You did a good job." Li Qi nodded.

Knowing that you can't beat it, giving up resistance and trying to survive as a prisoner is the most correct option.

As long as you are alive, everything has a chance to start again.

Claude said: "Those long-haired savages are still reasonable. After seeing that we stopped resisting, they didn't hurt us, but started to rob the goods. I even saw some women and children among the group of pirates. Those little kids were like crazy monkeys with finger knives, and it was a place you couldn't love."

This is the second time Claude said this sentence.

"What happened later?" Li Qi asked, "Don't tell me that your caravan was robbed and wiped out by them. It's not Claude standing in front of me now. It's a northern ghost."

"Of course not, my lord, the subsequent situation is simply beyond imagination."

Claude said: "The group of barbarians found the wine on my ship, yes, porcupine wine!

I was carrying a portion of soap honey and porcupine wine on board, of course the main commodities were furs and cotton, but unfortunately the commodities were cheaper than those savages, they got drunk on the ship, and then they found themselves in love with this wine.

They said that after drinking a lot of wine, their bodies would heat up, which made them not afraid of the severe cold.

I just saw a few lunatics take off their clothes and dance on the deck. Porcupine wine has a special magic power.

They were afraid that they would never be able to drink this kind of wine again, so not only did they not hurt us, they were even willing to pay for this kind of wine. They only hope that my caravan can often send porcupine wine to the north, because of a robbery, I got a loyal group of customers there. "

(End of this chapter)