Black Iron Crown

At this moment, Cam was wearing two layers of animal skins and a layer of cotton-padded clothes, covering him like a bloated bear, staggering through the thick snow in the north with his few entourage.

He was a small businessman from the imperial capital. After hearing that the big shots were crazily offering sugar rewards, the businessman's keen sense told him that he should come to the northern border to take a look.

Immediately, he took his two entourages and eight guards to the northern border, hoping to buy sugar in the northern border and get rich overnight.

He came here with full of hope, but after arriving in the northern border, he realized that such a luxury as white sugar was really beyond his reach.

Five gold coins can only buy one kilogram of sugar, what is this enough for?

Do I have to travel to the far north for a kilogram of sugar? This is clearly unrealistic.

Five gold coins, even for him as a businessman, is a huge sum of money. Five gold coins are even enough for a family of five to live for a lifetime. If he really bites his teeth and spends five gold coins to buy sugar, he will have to bear a huge But risk.

However, if he didn't buy white sugar, then his trip was in vain, and the cost along the way was quite a lot. If he didn't buy anything, what awaited him would be nothing but nothing.

In desperation, Cam entered several taverns in the peak season of Mecaron City. After he found out that the handicrafts and animal skins in the northern border were cheap and of high quality, he left the bustling city and prepared to Try your luck in a small village.

Several followers and guards around him led the carriage and walked with difficulty in the snow.

Originally, neat stone roads had been built in the north, and the snow on them had been cleared as soon as winter came.

However, since his target was a remote small village, no one cleared the snow.

Half a person's height of snow made it extremely difficult to move forward. They walked in a staggering pace, and the guards and followers yelled at them from time to time, and they led the carriage forward irritably.

"Head, this ghostly place is too difficult to walk! Let's change places! God knows if we will die in this heavy snow!"

A follower came to Cam's side, opened the warm cloth around his mouth, and begged him.

He glanced behind him, and found that the guards and entourage who followed were all looking at him expectantly, hoping to return.

Cam looked bitter,

Glancing at the gray sky, Weng Shengweng said angrily: "Persevere, my dear brothers! I swear we will make a lot of money this time! When we return to the imperial capital! The ingredients are given to you!"

"Now, we have no choice! We paid so much road tax and spent so much money on the road! If we can't find business opportunities here! We will lose everything!"

After saying these words, he panted heavily, the air-conditioning reduced the oxygen content in the air, and every word he said was a huge burden.

Why didn't he regret it at this time, if he was given another chance to choose, he would definitely not be tempted by the bounty to come to the northern border, a place where no shit.

But things happened happily, and regret was useless. He had to find a way to save his loss.

Cooking smoke curled up, very bright in this gray weather, Dan people in the team couldn't help being ecstatic after seeing the cooking smoke ahead, and it couldn't be better to drink a bowl of thick Dan broth in such cold weather.

After a few strange screams, they speeded up.

"Stop! Outsiders!"

Three adult men holding dung forks appeared in front of the group, watching them warily.

Cam hurriedly explained: "Don't get me wrong! Friends, I'm a businessman from the imperial capital! I came here hoping to buy some gadgets from you! Some gadgets that can benefit us all!"

The three were still vigilant, and one of them said: "Go and call the elder and the village chief!"

Rainer has now deployed a village chief composed of locals and a village official who is mainly responsible for construction and tax collection in the village-level units. The powers of the two check and balance each other to prevent the occurrence of monopoly or corruption.

However, due to the insufficient number of officials in Lehner, this policy can only be rolled out gradually.

After a while, the elders and officials of the village appeared in front of them.

After learning the purpose of their visit, the village officials couldn't help but smile. The task that Reiner gave them was to develop business as much as possible, and now they finally have the opportunity to show their faces in front of the Earl.

After confirming the identity of the other party again, the village official began to lead them to go from house to house to see which family's gadgets and the other party's intentions.

"This... this bear skin..." Cam's eyes were fixed on a intact black bear skin with the head on it, and he couldn't stop talking in wonder.

But soon he came to his senses, coughed lightly, looked at a part with regret, and said, "Hey, this should be a good bear skin, but unfortunately there are still some flaws. It's a pity to see these scars." ..."

The village official watched Cam's performance coldly and did not speak.

"Well, two silver coins. Seeing how poor you are here, I'll take a bit of a loss and buy them at a high price of two silver coins!" Cam looked up and down the huge bear skin, and sighed pretending to be regretful.

Listening to Cam's chatter, the village official interrupted: "Okay, Mr. Cam, if you really want to buy at least one gold coin, or forget it, you may look at other things!"

"..."

"I mean...there is a big flaw in this long bear's skin..." Before Cam could finish speaking, the village official frowned and said, "I also said, at least one gold coin, otherwise you can take a look For other commodities, I am the village official appointed by Earl Rainer, and my duty is to ensure the interests of the residents under my rule and the Earl!"

"Okay..." Cam was very helpless. He didn't expect that his method of being invincible in a small remote place would fail.

Early the next morning, Cam returned with a full load and left the village with three big carts of goods.

He spent a lot of copper, amounting to more than three gold coins, but at this moment his heart was burning, and he knew that he was going to get rich.

The handicrafts here are indeed very high-quality and rare. Exquisite and practical baskets, brooms, small ornaments, and some animal skins can bring him at least ten gold coins in profit in the imperial capital!

Countless small merchants infiltrated the villages, and the big merchants were rich and powerful. Even though they were very dissatisfied with the high price, they still snapped up the white sugar.

In just a few days, there were more than 3,000 gold coins in Leiner's warehouse, and this was not counting the surge in business taxes in various places.

At the same time, there was a conversation like this in a dark room in the imperial capital: "I heard that the expensive white sugar was produced by Earl Rainer in the north?"

"Yes, I think we should be able to take advantage of this..."

"Aha, maybe we should write him a letter to let him know that the big shots in the imperial capital like his white sugar very much, and hope to have a technical cooperation with him..."