I, a fallen nobleman, started the farming system

Chapter 75 Buying Serfs
"My lord, I. I." Caris kept silent for a long time.

He panted heavily, he didn't even dare to breathe a few more times in the caravan just now, because he was afraid of being timid.

Lynn smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "How is it, how do you feel?"

"It's so exciting!" Carliss expressed his heartfelt emotion.

Only he could understand that feeling. Facing the other party's inquiries, inspections of potions, and bids again and again, his heart was beating violently.

Every price is a challenge for him.

Karis knew that the potion was expensive, but he didn't expect the other party to ask for one gold coin. Although he had seen a lot of gold coins, but now he was selling the potion on behalf of the adults. If the price was lower, he would be sorry for the trust of the adults.

Fortunately, what Lynn said was firmly in his mind.

"Keep silent, don't be afraid, look into the other person's eyes, imagine they are cows, and wait until the other person's mood changes significantly before agreeing."

I don't know why, this sentence seems to have magic power, and in the final transaction, Karis won.

"Four gold coins, these are four gold coins." Karis was afraid of being heard by others, so he could only suppress his excitement.

Lynn smiled. Karis really has the talent for doing business, and it seems that a caravan can be formally established in the future.

"Well, not bad." Lynn was relatively calm.

Karis admired him immensely. As expected of the lord whom he was loyal to, he was so calm in the face of this kind of thing. On the contrary, he, the old housekeeper, was a little too happy.

Thinking of this, Karis also tried to calm himself down.

Lin En paid attention to his emotional changes and said, "Don't suppress it, just laugh when you are happy."

"Hahahaha!" Karis laughed.

Lynn: "."

People around: "."

The serf market in Sheep Town.

There are many serfs huddled inside a circle of fences, men and women, old and young, scantily clad, dry and thin, their expressions are numb, their eyes are dull, and they have no emotion for others to watch.

Maybe it's just getting used to it!

Lynn and Carliss stood outside the fence. One of the purposes of their visit to Sheep Town this time was to buy serfs.

These serfs all had slave status and complied with the trading rules. As long as they spent money, they could buy everything from the other party. As for problems after the sale, it was none of the seller's business.

There were not many onlookers. It was not uncommon to buy and sell serfs. They happened everywhere. For ordinary civilians, they didn’t have enough money to buy them. As for the wealthy freemen, they already had servants at home. These serfs simply looked down on them.

Generally speaking, the nobles who bought serfs in large quantities would only be nobles. They had enough money and needed serfs to work.

Lynn looked at the serfs inside the fence. These people were waiting to be bought and sold. Before they were bought, they would live here. Whether it was eating, drinking, or messing, they didn't have any dirty concept, and their bodies were covered with filth.

The eyes of the vast majority of serfs are full of numbness, ignorance, and sluggishness. Only a small number of young serfs still have light in their eyes, but if their lives do not change, this light will gradually dissipate and become Just like their parents.

After inquiring, Karis came back and said, "Master, there are a total of 62 serfs here, including 23 adult male serfs and fifteen adult female serfs. How many serfs do we want to buy?"

Lynn was a little surprised, "It's just a small town, but there are so many serfs?"

Karis replied, "This is still a small number. In some relatively large towns, the number of serfs is even more than a few hundred, and these are serfs who survived. After a winter, too many serfs died. "

He had said before that the cold winter was the death season for serfs. Without food and warm items, they would starve to death or freeze to death. Nobles didn't care about serfs' life and death, anyway, there were plenty of them.

"Choose healthy, non-disabled adult serfs, including men and women, and buy them all, and buy ten children and the elderly respectively," Lynn said.

Karis was puzzled, "My lord, adult serfs can be bought, but why buy old people and children, especially these elderly people, who have no strength to work and are easy to die of illness."

"Children represent plasticity, while old people have rich experience."

Karis still didn't understand, but the adults said so, and he didn't say any more.

Watching Karis go to negotiate the price with the serf seller, Lynn looked at the serf inside the fence and sighed softly.

Sometimes, it is just a simple and broken fence, but it divides people into two different levels. This is the case in this world, and it is the same in any world.

What Carlis said is quite right. When most nobles buy serfs, they will choose adult serfs, which are more valuable in use. As for children and the elderly, they can’t do much work and are easily exhausted. Buying them is a waste of money.

But Lin En held a different view. Children are the most plastic stage, and their thoughts can be easily changed. After all, when he bought serfs, he didn't want to simply use them as cattle and horses.

As for the elderly, they are the most numb but have experience, so it depends on how to make full use of it.

Karis came back and said, "My lord, I talked to them, because we bought a lot of serfs at one time, and they gave a certain discount. The original adult male serfs who were disease-free were 25 to 25 silver coins. Serfs with abilities are more expensive, but the highest is 25 silver coins. Five of these serfs have mastered the skills of brewing, weaving, carpentry, sheep herding, and cloth dyeing, and the price remains unchanged at [-] silver coins.

The rest of the serfs are cheaper. In addition, the purchase price of children and the elderly is very low. The other party wants us to buy more of these two serfs, but I refuse. They don’t want it. Why don’t they give it away for nothing? They want us to spend money Buy it, I'd really like to think about it. "

The second half of the sentence is purely Carliss' complaint.

"Okay, just buy it like this. By the way, if there is a family among the serfs purchased, then buy the rest of the family along with it." Lynn nodded.

Karis went to trade, and after a while, he saw the seller open the fence, dragged the serf up rudely, and shouted, you lowly serfs, if the master is willing to spend money to buy them, hurry up and come out.

The serfs were all excited, they didn't want to stay in this place anymore, and wanted to leave one by one.

But only the serfs ordered by the sellers are eligible to go out, and the rest can only stay here.

After a while, all the purchased serfs were pulled out.

A fence divided the serfs into two types. The serfs inside the fence looked enviously at the serfs outside the fence, but the serfs outside the fence looked into the distance.

(End of this chapter)