Chapter 192 The Caravan Returns from the Kingdom However, Shen Mu didn't care much about the Blue Star humans struggling in the workplace among Dehrim. Because what he cares about most now is making money. Now the food problem has been solved, the military problem has been basically solved, and now Dehrim does not need drastic expansion. For him, how to obtain dinars has now become the most important thing in his mind. Just one word. money. What Shen Mu wants most now is to make money. After everyone had left the meeting room, he still sat in the main seat, reached out and pinched his temple, his expression very complicated. "I really need to think about how to earn more dinars." Shen Mu was also quite helpless.
There was no way, because the way he got dinars now was through the business activities performed by these two caravans. Although the dinars brought by the caravan are still quite useful, for example, if they travel back and forth to the White Tower area, the current profit is preliminarily estimated to be around 1 dinars. This will last for two weeks. This means that Torres' caravan can earn 1 dinars each time it goes to the White Tower area and comes back. If they make two round trips a month, that means he can earn 2 dinars a month. Pretty good profit. However, the transition period for this income is a bit long. After all, Shen Mu is undergoing tremendous changes every day, and he can't wait for the dinars he earns twice a month. After all, there are many places that need money now, waiting for Shen Mu to invest. However, there is another caravan that travels to Calradia approximately once a week to smuggle iron products. "I wonder if this caravan can bring me more surprises." At this time, Shen Mu also thought of Nalot, the bankrupt businessman who was a robber. After all, he had brought back more than 2000 dinars before, which was pretty good. And now, since only a few days have passed, there is no need for him to rush if he wants to speed up time. After all, 1000 points of faith power can speed up the time of a day. For Nalot, who can make a round trip in 7 days, this is quite easy. After all, according to Shen Mu's current estimation, Nalot only has one day left to return to Dehrim. "Then speed up the time by one day." Shen Mu's thoughts have also communicated with the system. [Ding! You have consumed 1000 points of Faith Power to speed up the round trip time of your Narot Caravan.] [Congratulations! The Narot caravan you sent to the Calradia continent for smuggling trade has returned successfully! ] After Shen Mu used the power of faith to speed up the caravan's round-trip time, a dialog box immediately appeared in front of him. The content inside happened to be the news that the Narot caravan had returned from the smuggling trade to the continent of Calradia. "Perfect." Shen Mu nodded with satisfaction at this time. After all, the return of the caravan was a good start. At least he could bring back some vital dinars.
"Convey my order and ask Nalot to put the goods away as soon as possible, and then come here to see me." Shen Mu spoke and instructed the Swadian light infantry who was serving as an attendant next to him. Then the Swadian light infantryman nodded, turned around and left the noble mansion. After about 10 minutes, he came back again. This time, Nalot also came along with a proud smile on his face and a bulging sheepskin bag in his hand. It looked quite heavy, and felt a little heavy in his hand. "Lord Shen Mu, Mr. Nalot is here." The Swadian light infantryman spoke. "Greetings to you, respected Lord Shen Mu, your loyal merchant Nalot is back again." At this time, Nalot also followed behind the Swadian light infantry, respectfully put his hand on his chest and bowed to salute. "Well, it's okay. Come and sit down." Shen Mu stretched out his hand to signal the Swadian light infantry to leave, and then asked Nalot to sit down. He was quite satisfied with Nalot, especially when he saw Nalot taking the initiative to hand over the heavy wallet to him, a smile appeared on his face. "Lord Shen Mu, this is the total profit from this smuggling trade, a total of 5000 dinars." Nalot said very modestly at this time: "Thanks to the battle between the Kingdom of Swadia and the Kingdom of Vikia, the demand for iron products in the Kingdom of Swadia has reached its peak, so the iron products we transported over have received a lot of attention." Only demand can create profit. Nalot now thought about how when he transported those iron products back to the Kingdom of Swadia, the merchants, who were already short of iron products due to the war, immediately started looting them. Although most of the iron products that Nalot transported were also low-quality weapons roughly forged by the abyss demons. But when the blacksmiths of Calradia use furnace fire and hammers to remelt all those demonic weapons and turn them into iron ingots, they will become the finest iron products. They can be made into various armors or weapons, or even farm tools. Swadia's metallurgical capabilities are the strongest in the entire Calradia continent, so the blacksmiths of the Swadia Kingdom are also the most experienced blacksmiths. Simply melt all the spoils that were obviously collected from the battlefield into molten iron, cast them one by one into new iron ingots, and then distribute them to various towns and castles in Swadia. Then they go through the local blacksmiths to forge them into the shapes they need. Everything is very convenient. "So, Lord Shen Mu, those customers in the Kingdom of Swadia who have needs have been telling me that they hope to import more iron products." Nalot thought about how those customers were flattering him, and a smile appeared on his lips. Moreover, Nalot understood very well that these customers were not actually backed by any business guilds or blacksmith guilds or similar organizations. It is precisely the owners of those towns and castles, the lords. After the Kingdom of Vikia restricted the export of iron products, the Kingdom of Swadia directly entered a state of iron shortage. The brutal and long battle directly caused the loss of weapons and armor to reach its peak. If they did not want to suffer too many losses on the battlefield, they would have no choice but to bite the bullet and ask the Blacksmith Guild and the Market Guild in the territory, which served as logistics bases, to transport all the supplementary supplies they needed to the front line. After all, the troops of these lords are actually their own assets. If they suffer heavy losses on the battlefield, then when they return, their territories will be in danger. After all, a lord who has no strength but is rich and powerful is equivalent to a big fat sheep. Everyone wants to go over and take advantage of the situation. Thinking of the stingy, irritable and easily angered King Harlaus of the Kingdom of Swadia, these lords had already been quite dissatisfied. If they were not bound by the name of the Kingdom of Swadia, they would have refused to obey the orders of King Haros long ago.
Now it is only because the inertia of the Kingdom of Swadia is still restraining these zero units that they are still reluctantly obeying the command of King Haras. However, as King Haras led the lords to continue to wage war against other countries and lost batches of elite troops, he was very stingy and did not distribute the valuable castles, towns and even villages that he had captured to the lords who had gathered to obey his orders. A storm was beginning to gather. As a businessman, and one who was instructed by Shen Mu to engage in the smuggling of iron products, Nalote was not on guard against many things and those well-informed people were not at all on guard against him. Besides, Nalot himself had experience as a robber, and the robbers were a rather loose but well-informed gang. So he easily captured the current situation. That is, the lords and nobles of the Kingdom of Swadia have become somewhat impatient with King Harlaus. If that day really comes when King Harlaus is driven out of power and goes into exile, and other kingdoms abdicate, the entire Kingdom of Swadia may become even more turbulent in the future. After all, it is said that Lady Aisona, who has the inheritance rights to the entire Kingdom of Swadia, has already begun to publicly publicize herself as the true heir within the Kingdom of Swadia. She even began to connect with the nobles and lords, hoping that they would push Haros off the position of king and let her be crowned as queen. "Has such a turmoil occurred in the Kingdom of Swadia?" At this time, Shen Mu heard Narot clearly tell him some things about the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Swadia, and he became somewhat interested. After all, he also understands the historical background. It is known that behind these kingdoms of Calradia, in addition to the current kings, there are actually ambitious people who want to usurp the throne. Lady Aisona of the Kingdom of Swadia is actually such a person. "If I remember correctly, Lady Aisona's father should be the previous king of the Kingdom of Swadia. Because she was the only daughter and she was still very young at the time, many nobles and lords recommended Haros, the distant cousin of the previous king, to become the king." Shen Mu told the background story of Lady Aisona that she knew. "That's right, Master Shen Mu, you are right." Nalot shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "But it is precisely because the current King Harlaus is a king recommended by all the nobles that we cannot easily push him off the throne. After all, if we really remove King Harlaus, it means that they have made a mistake. They have elected an incompetent king, which is a great loss of honor." As he spoke, Nalot said to Shen Mu mysteriously, "My Lord, perhaps you don't know that Lady Esona has begun to recruit a group of mercenaries in secret, and is also buying iron products to make weapons and armor. That's why the price of iron products in the Kingdom of Dehrim is getting higher and higher." "Doesn't this mean that if the Kingdom of Swadia sells iron products now, it will bring in very high profits?" Shen Mu raised his eyebrows at this time. "That's right, the profits from iron products have been hyped up to seven or eight times the price now." Nalot nodded and said to Shen Mu, "And I heard that if we can get more weapons and equipment for Madam Aisona, she will give us a very high reward." "It sounds good." Shen Mu didn't say much at this time, but just nodded. After thinking about it, he said again: "Nalot, I need you to continue to trade with Calradia. There are still many iron products in the warehouse, which are all captured after the war. You can transport them to Calradia for trade and exchange them for a lot of dinars." "Understood. I will do a good job of this." Nalot smiled respectfully at this time, and then said: "Now in the Kingdom of Swadia, many people know that these iron products were transported back by you from another world, so the city defense troops and patrol teams turned a blind eye to me and did not make things too difficult for me." "That's very good." Shen Mu nodded. As long as the troops and patrols responsible for investigating smuggling ignore Nalot, his smuggling business will be very profitable. Of course I understand everything, and this should be the respect I give myself. "By the way, Lord Shen Mu, there is one thing I want to report." Nalot spoke at this time. "You say." Shen Mu saw Nalot's hesitation. "When I went to Calradia before, I also met some guild leaders in the Kingdom of Swadia. They all expressed their intention to win me over." Nalot made it short and directly stated his guess: "But I don't think they want to win me over, but want to communicate with you, especially the nobles and lords behind the guild leaders." "Want to communicate with me?" Shen Mu frowned slightly.
"Yes, because I have noticed that they seem to be very dissatisfied with King Harlaus, and your reputation in Swadia is quite high." Nalot said hesitantly; "And that Lady Aisona seems to want to have a good chat with you and seek your affirmation and recognition." At this time, Shen Mu also raised his head slightly, and some special emotions appeared in his eyes. He suddenly realized that the Mount & Blade world could not be viewed simply as a background, and the people living in it actually had their own ideas. They are all real living people, or real people living in a real world. (End of this chapter)