Chapter 53 They are all cattle and horses anyway

Roman frowned slightly.

The situation was becoming increasingly unstable.

Gaoyuan and Wandong were adjacent to the Black Iron Kingdom.

But one was in the north and the other in the east.

Their people were actually gathered together and sold to the town of Sige.

The premonition was getting stronger and stronger.

War was about to start!

"Wow..."

Just then, a weak cry of a baby came from the crowd, attracting Roman's attention.

He saw a shriveled white-haired woman covering the child's mouth with her hands in panic, holding it tightly. The baby's violent struggle was useless, and the sound became weaker and weaker.

Roman frowned more deeply.

He said, "Take your hands away!"

The slave girl looked up at him. Through the messy white hair on her forehead, she saw that the young and heroic lord had a calm expression and his eyes were very focused, like an eagle.

Captured by that gaze, the woman gradually loosened her hand. The baby, who was only seven or eight months old, almost suffocated, and coughed violently and cried loudly, lingering above the crowd. Hearing this miserable cry, the discomfort from the genes suddenly rose from the heart, making everyone present a little uneasy for a while.

Roman ignored the reaction of the group of slaves and said to Daken: "Come with me."

Then, he said to Aaron next to him: "Aaron, you take charge of these people."

Aaron just nodded, he knew what Roman asked him to do.

And Daken gradually felt relieved.

It seems that the lord accepted the batch of goods, but he didn't know how many gold coins he could give him as a reward.

However, Roman did not intend to pay Daken gold coins-he had no cash now.

He took Daken to the warehouse of the Origin Manor.

"You have two choices, one is to accept the 10 gold coins I give you, and the other is to take the 4,000 kilograms of salt."

Dakken looked at the thousands of kilograms of salt in the warehouse. He was stunned for a long time, then his eyes lit up and he said decisively: "I choose salt!"

Only a fool would choose gold coins!

I'm rich this time!

I'm really rich!

The 4,000 kilograms of salt without cost, if all sold, can make him at least 15 or 16 gold coins.

He didn't spend a penny of capital, just by transporting and selling back and forth, he made a net profit of 15 or 16 gold coins!

Who dares to think!

"Here..." Daken looked at Roman with eager eyes.

Roman gestured and said: "Sig Town will produce salt in the future, come here to buy it in the future, the export tariff is only 1 copper coin per 100 kilograms."

This discount is quite amazing.

When he heard the word "salt production", Daken immediately forgot all his previous partners.

He bowed deeply and said, "Respected Lord Roman, from now on, I will be your most loyal partner!"

Roman was completely immune to the flattery of the merchants and continued, "You can also exchange slaves for salt. I want even children... If you can satisfy me, I will treat you preferentially in terms of price."

Dakken left with excitement.

These less than 200 inferior slaves can be exchanged for 4,000 kilograms of salt. He dared not imagine how much higher-quality slaves could be exchanged for.

I originally thought that I was cheated by the slave merchants, but now it seems that this is not a cheat, this is clearly a pie in the sky.

From now on, all slave merchants are my brothers!

With this idea in mind, Daken commanded the manpower and drove away from the town of Sger with 4,000 kilograms of salt.

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Limited by the difficulty of rock salt mining and primitive technology.

Even if Roman invested 200 laborers in the salt mine.

After these days of mining, only thousands of kilograms of fine salt were purified.

This is the result of their hard work.

It can only be said that the production capacity has not reached the level that Roman wanted.

There is no way. The salt miners don’t even have a mining pickaxe. Because iron tools are scarce, most of them rely on wooden tools to mine. Large pieces of rock salt also need to be crushed with stones. The conditions are simple and we can’t ask for too much.

There will be bread and milk. Just survive the opening period.

Roman returned to the barn with full confidence.

Then he received news that Aaron found that the exact number of slaves was 195, not 188.

Aaron was a little confused at first.

But soon found that those children under the age of 5 were not counted as human heads by Daken, probably because he thought they would not live long.

For Roman, this was a pleasant surprise.

He did not think that these children could only eat and not work.

On the contrary, he felt that these children who had not been polluted by this era contained great possibilities.

It was afternoon, past lunch time.

But under Roman's order, the 80 peasant women who were originally responsible for the lunch of all the people in Sige Town were busy again, preparing meals for these slaves, and the standard was the same as the lunch for other people.

Each of them was responsible for the meals of more than 20 people on average. With the division of labor and cooperation, the efficiency would only be faster, and they could also take care of the elderly and children who could not walk.

This is not the point.

The point is that the food that Roman sent people to buy earlier has a bottoming trend again.

Now there are only 60,000 to 70,000 kilograms left, which can last for 20 days.

But these 200 people are also a big burden.

Roman had previously used More's treasury to purchase grain twice, 100,000 catties and 50,000 catties respectively, which almost emptied More's savings. The agricultural official was afraid that he would have to live on his salary this year.

Fortunately, the salt mine was found, which directly revitalized all the difficulties and allowed Roman to continue to accelerate his progress.

Roman planned to let the merchants in Sige Town exchange salt for grain.

On the market, 1 catty of salt is equal to 17 catties of wheat, but the market is a big pit. After going through many levels of hands on the way, it would be good to get about 10 catties of wheat in the end.

Of course, if it is exchanged for oats, beans or vegetables, then the exchange will be more, and it will not be a problem to exchange twenty catties.

Without the carrot of "free lunch", Roman really doesn't know how to spur these stupid donkeys to follow him forward.

If he wants to show his authority and correctness, he must survive this stage.

It is necessary to cultivate the instinct of these stupid donkeys to obey him!

Let these idiots know that what he says is what he is right, and he is the only destiny they have to obey!

This is a relatively long domestication process, but Roman is very patient and confident about it.

Aaron walked towards Roman and asked, "Roman, where are you going to put these people?"

200 people is not a small number, basically equal to one-tenth of the total population of Sige Town.

Roman replied, "Hasn't the livestock shed just been built? Let them live with cattle and horses for the time being."

Anyway, they are all cattle and horses.

Aaron looked back at the livestock shed and nodded.

These more than 100 large animals can't take up all the space, and it won't be crowded even if there are 200 more people living there.

As long as they are covered with thatch, they will be comfortable bunks.

There is no need to be so particular about slaves.