I, a fallen nobleman, started the farming system

Chapter 65 The Price of Serfs
"A caravan named Red Heart Lion has a flaming lion on its flag, guarded by at least four knights. It looks quite powerful, and there was no hesitation when paying the money."

Carliss thought carefully, "I think this caravan should have more than this strength, just like a branch in a caravan, and this branch came to the town. By the way, the person in charge of the caravan asked me about my I just told the other party that I am from Ashes Town, and he said that he might come to the town to trade in the future."

"You guessed it right, this caravan should mainly trade in big towns, and the customers it faces are those nobles. They see the value of the spices, and if they resell, they may be able to sell for three times or even four times. Price."

"Huh?" Karis was surprised, and said immediately, "It's all my fault, the price is still too cheap."

"No!" Lin En shook his head, "You don't have to feel guilty, this is a normal thing, what the caravans do is to resell and make money. We sell it in the town, and the price is naturally lower, otherwise no one will buy it. When we arrive in the town , There are more rich people, then the price can be raised.

We are not strong enough now, and we don't have enough knights to guard us. At most, we only go to the surrounding villages and towns for business. When we are strong enough, we can also form caravans. "

Karis understands this truth, and no longer complains that the price is too low.

"How are other things selling?"

"The mint is also sold out, only the arrowhead mushroom is not sold, not even at all." Karis replied, with deep doubts, "I don't understand why this is so, obviously the arrowhead mushroom tastes so delicious, it is used to stew The soup is very delicious."

"They didn't even ask?"

"Yes, I also specially introduced arrowhead mushrooms, but no one is interested, and we are the only ones selling mushrooms in the town."

Lynn thought for a while, and probably understood the reason, "For many people, mushrooms are something that people choose when they are poor and can't afford bread. They don't look down on mushrooms, so naturally they won't ask and buy them."

Carliss thinks the master's statement is quite right, "If this is the case, the arrowhead mushroom will not be able to be sold."

"No, wait until the next time you go to sell it, just stew some mushroom soup there, and let passers-by taste it. After tasting the taste, they should buy it. If no one really buys it, then forget it."

Lynn didn't talk too long on this topic, but asked, "How much did you sell in total, and what about the serfs and freedmen you asked?"

"A total of 21 silver coins were sold, and the price of the spices exceeded my imagination."

Suddenly, Carliss stopped, obviously thinking about what Lynn said, if these spices were stored in big towns, they might be sold at a price several times higher than this.

Lin En laughed and comforted: "Don't think too much, think about those wasted black peppers, if you sell them, I'm afraid it will cost hundreds of gold coins."

Carliss just felt that this comfort was a bit more heart-wrenching. This is a lot of gold coins, and it just disappeared.

He breathed a little, calmed himself down, and continued: "I went to the serf market and asked. The prices of serfs are different. The prices of children and women are lower, ranging from eight silver coins to twelve silver coins. Adult, healthy and disease-free men range from fifteen to twenty-five silver coins.

If there is a disability, the price will be lowered a bit. As for the free people, I haven't seen any free people who want to leave the town unless they pay for employment, but the amount of money must be quite a lot. "

Lynn frowned slightly. The price of serfs was higher than he had imagined. This time, he sold so much fennel and mint for only 21 silver coins, which meant that he could only buy one adult male serf.

As for women and children, you can buy them, but you still need adult men first.

Carliss seemed to see what Lynn was thinking, and said, "My lord, the reason why these serfs are so expensive is because they have complete slave procedures and contracts in the hands of noble lords. If they want to conduct legal transactions, they must Purchase these contracts as well.

In this way, the ownership of these serfs is all yours, and the children they bear will also be your slaves, for generations and forever, and the lord who bought the serfs will not say anything. "

In other words, the price is actually not high, because after you buy them, you can do whatever you want with them.

For the nobles, serfs were a kind of goods, which were used for trading.

In fact, Karis also wanted to say that he was not in a hurry to buy serfs now. He felt that there were enough serfs in the territory, and he just wanted to do things slower.

Lin En pondered, this world has its own set of serfdom system, those nobles are the beneficiaries of this system, naturally they will not break it, as long as you buy a serf, it is yours, there will be no regrets, and There is no problem of finding fault if the opponent dies after using it for a period of time.

"Is there any way to get serfs without spending money?" Lynn asked casually.

"Yes!" Carliss gave an affirmative answer, "Refugees, refugees don't need to spend money. These people have no land, money, and can't even satisfy food and clothing. They live a difficult life in various towns. There is no way, unless Take the initiative to enter the territory of the noble lord and choose to become a serf.

However, refugees are too dangerous, and serfs will be obedient and obedient. There are often many troublemakers among the refugees, which leads to instability in the territory. Moreover, because they do not have slave procedures, they can escape to other places. Every noble lord They are unwilling to find such troublesome things. They would rather spend money and reduce problems.

However, there are some lords who don't care. They arrest these refugees and throw them into the mining area. As for life and death, that is their own problem. "

Lynn looked at Caris in surprise, "How do you know this?"

Karis took a deep breath, "I once saw refugees being arrested. It was a cold winter season. There were about 80 to [-] people in a small gathering place. A knight squad attacked the gathering place and killed more than a dozen people. Those who resisted tied up the remaining people and threw them into the mining area to mine, and I don’t know how many people survived.”

"Father's order?" Lynn asked.

Karis shook his head, "It's not the Earl. At that time, I was still young and hadn't entered the Earl's Castle. After seeing this kind of thing with my own eyes, I swore that I would never become a serf or a refugee."

He calmed down, and continued: "Actually, refugees are very common, especially in the cold winter season, too many people become refugees, freezing to death and starving to death everywhere, because crops cannot be grown in winter, and noble lords will not Get your food out."

(End of this chapter)