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Chapter 150 - 150 108 Out of My Control_3

150: Chapter 108, Out of My Control_3 150: Chapter 108, Out of My Control_3 Orc slaves, apparently, were not necessities for purchase.

Even if nobles were interested in exotic beauties of different races, this was discretionary consumption, and no one was interested in taking the high-priced bait.

Regarding the coliseums, there were only about three to five in the Southeastern Province.

Even if they were willing to purchase openly, they would probably only take in a few hundred individuals at most.

One would still need connections to be able to sell them there.

After all, they have specific partners they work with and are not likely to replace them easily.

The most valuable slaves can’t sell for high prices, so making a fortune through monopoly is impossible.

Even the difficulty of return has instantly increased several-fold.

On the contrary, the probability of a loss has begun to rise rapidly.

“I haven’t seen Baron Hudson in person.

However, according to his steward, their order quantity is sharply decreasing, and by early spring, it will gradually reduced production.

The information should be reliable.

This year, the Mountain Domain has taken many large orders, the commodities sold in just half a year, has exceeded fifty thousand gold coins.

Now that the situation tends to stabilize, their shoddy weapons, other than being inexpensive, are useless.

In the future, they are sure to be unsellable.

Just selling farming tools and daily necessities, next year’s orders definitely can’t compare to this year’s.

If Baron Hudson insists on not selling iron, it’s inevitable that the mines will start reducing production,” said Knight Holman reluctantly.

It was not that he as a salesperson wasn’t doing his best.

In fact, he worked so hard that he even inquired about the production situation in the Mountain Domain.

Knowing oneself and the enemy would have been the right way to go.

Regrettably, the one he dealt with was just a borrowed steward, not the genuine decision-making layer of the Mountain Domain, so the information he got was superficial.

Misinformation led Knight Holman to err in judgment, believing that Master Hudson was reducing mine production and that the demand for labor had greatly decreased.

Although the Mountain Domain is constantly opening up new lands, the outside world still does not believe that this situation can continue indefinitely.

Most people believe that Hudson’s ambitions to develop new lands are only to make his lands self-sufficient in food supply, thereby reducing fiscal expenditures.

Given the current population size of the Mountain Domain, this land cultivation endeavor will probably end in a year or two.

Prolonging it further, even if Hudson would, his purse must also be able to sustain it.

A working serf and a non-working one do not consume at the same rate.

Especially this kind of heavy manual labor in land cultivation, the body won’t be able to withstand it without adequate nutritional support.

The output of newly cultivated land is low.

For the first few years, the focus is mainly on nurturing the land, therefore productivity can’t be expected in the short term.

The reason why Hudson can exhaust himself in cultivation now is that he has profited greatly from the sale of weapons this year.

But such profiteering deals are rare, and the income from the mines cannot always be so high.

After considerable thought, Baron Katelai, who had engaged in a fierce struggle within himself, slowly said, “Don’t sell the exotic beauties for now; they’re like cash cows.

It’s not profitable to sell them off in one go.

Assign a businessman to open a brothel in his name.

Let it be located within our domain to attract the nobles to come over for entertainment.

I had originally intended to add taverns, casinos, and gladiatorial facilities, but our domain’s finances are not abundant, so we have to mortgage them for now.

Try to sell as many of the rest of the slaves as possible to reclaim funds.

I’ll personally visit Baron Hudson.

Although orc slaves may not be of much good use, they can still be used as hard laborers.

There can’t just be plains in the Mountain Domain after cultivating so much land.

They can’t just rely on nature for sustainance, can they?

I presume our neighbor has already started planning a water conservancy project, which is a bigger task than land cultivation.

Without enough lives to use, I doubt they’ll manage.

They have not started construction yet, so I guess they haven’t prepared themselves to throw lives into the project.

Although serfs are not valued, a heavy loss of lives is still a blow to a noble’s reputation.

From what I know, that cunning merchant is someone who seeks reputation, absolutely unwilling to carry a reputation of cruelty and tyranny.

Under normal circumstances, he will likely carry out a portion of the construction each year to prolong the construction period, thereby reducing casualties.

But now that cheap slaves who can be exploited to the maximum are being pushed to his door, it’s hard to believe this guy wouldn’t accept.

If we’re successful this time, we might still get a chance to save our initial investment.

Even if we really sustain a loss, it shouldn’t be too heavy.

While our neighbor is a cunning merchant, there is no denying that he works within clear lines.

He’s made so many trades without ever pushing anyone to desperation.

He distributed quite a few farming tools on credit before the autumn tillage.

While the prices were a bit high, he did help solve many people’s pressing problems,

It seems that besides me, the unlucky one, most people who’ve had dealings with him still praise him secretly.”

It was clear that Baron Katelai was unwilling.

But there was no help for it; the nobles of the Southeastern Province just aren’t into orc slaves.

The most probable reason was that they weren’t immensely desperate.

As local snakes of their own territory, they naturally had an easier way of acquiring serfs than these newcomers.

Why would they buy orc slaves of uncertain use, when they have superior human serf alternatives?

Not to mention anything else, the language barrier alone was a significant difficulty.

Unless Baron Katelai would also equip translators provided with the slave sales.

This, of course, was impossible as the orc species varies greatly.

Who but those bizarre shamans could possibly claim they were proficient in the language of all orc species?

They couldn’t solve the user’s problems, so this business venture was destined to fail from the beginning.

Baron Katelai found it the hardest to accept and struggled with the fact that after all this effort, he was essentially aiding his competitor, and in the end, still had to hope that he had some moral limits to save the initial down payment.

Having said this, the assertive Baron Katelai immediately mounted his horse and left.

The situation couldn’t continue to drag on, with every day delayed meaning the consumption of thousands of pounds of food.

He couldn’t stand this anymore.