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Chapter 99 - 99 91 Chaotic Dadir_2

99: Chapter 91, Chaotic Dadir_2 99: Chapter 91, Chaotic Dadir_2 “Then, I would have to trouble Baron Hudson!”

Baron Katelai said calmly.

Looking at the two horse carts he had brought fully loaded, and the pile of farming tools waiting to be loaded on the ground, which cost only 401 gold coins, Lord Katelai immediately stopped panicking.

He had bought all the farming tools he needed most.

What was left was no longer a problem, since he had decided to only spend the bare minimum.

Seeing that he could not extract more money, Hudson didn’t bother to waste anymore words.

He directly took Baron Katelai to select kitchen utensils in the warehouse.

It was selection in name only.

In a hurry, after meeting the minimum spending limit, Baron Katelai immediately excused himself and left.

His attitude was as if staying in the Mountain Domain for one more moment would bring him bad luck.

Considering his experiences, Hudson understood.

Coming here always required spending a lot of money, so the Mountain Domain was definitely an ominous place for Baron Katelai.

After bidding farewell to Baron Katelai, Hudson discovered a problem with his business model.

All the clients he had developed were neighbors; he didn’t have a single big customer from outside.

There were occasional merchants knocking on his door, but they were more focused on selling products than buying.

It wasn’t that the merchants couldn’t see a business opportunity, it was just that Hudson’s products were too unique.

Weapons and equipment were the most popular, but unfortunately, without some strength, it was impossible to be in this business.

Even though everyday items like farm tools and kitchen utensils carried a lower risk, the Noble Lords were used to buying iron to forge them on their own.

Compared to finished products, doing their own processing clearly made more financial sense.

Unless Hudson could drop the selling price substantially, making it cheaper for them to buy finished products than to forge their own.

Obviously, this was impossible.

Even if Hudson wanted to play the low-price dumping game, he would first need to achieve industrial production.

With the limited production in his domain, there was no possibility of dumping at all.

His only advantage was owning the largest iron mine in the Southeastern Province, which allowed him to influence the market price of iron.

The recent rise in iron commodity prices on the market was not only due to the price-per-bushel behavior of the native nobles, but a large part of it was also caused by him stopping his external iron sales.

An awkward situation arose.

To sell weapons for profit in the short term relied mainly on the demand of the native nobles to expand their armaments.

As for the promotion of farm tools and other daily necessities, the main customers were the Nobles of the North.

As non-natives, they did not have enough blacksmiths and could only make large purchases from outside.

Both parties were his customers, so he could not afford to offend anyone.

Wasn’t this forcing him to sit on the fence?

No matter what, business had to be conducted.

Only with sufficient funds could Hudson have the ability to develop his own domain.

Even though the native nobles of the Southeastern Province saw the small mounds in the Salam Mountain Range as wasteland, to Hudson, they still had high development value.

The food production could reach 70% of the outside world’s yield.

After feeding the serfs, there was still a surplus.

The only issue was the huge initial investment in opening up the land; the return cycle was a bit long.

If he changed his strategy and developed livestock breeding, he was basically unrestricted.

The only problem was that everyone was engaged in a self-sufficient economic model.

There was no fixed sales market.

The beef and lamb they raised could only be used for their own consumption.

Perhaps big cities had consumer demands, but that was a fundamental region for local nobles, and was not open to non-natives to get involved.

The small-scale, self-sufficient farming economy was not suitable for the development of the industrial and commercial industry; the self-sufficient noble economy even had a more severe suppression on the development of the industrial and commercial industry.

With no other choice, Hudson had to continually revise the development plan of the territory based on the actual situation, and he did not yet have a complete development agenda.

The only sure development trajectory is two-fold: find a way to make money; find a way to increase the population.

Only when both money and people are available can the territory be fully exploited.

Only with an economic foundation can the development of military power be promoted.

One could say that Hudson’s plan was completely at odds with the rise of the majority of nobles in this world.

Almost all major nobles arose from the battlefield.

Their power was strengthened by the spoils robbed by military campaigns.

The rise of each major noble was accompanied by the birth of a “Son of Fortune”.

Only with enough fortune could they accomplish the original accumulation miraculously.

Massaging his temples, Hudson, who did not believe he had such extraordinary luck, decisively gave up following the previous approach.

The times were different.

The resource monopoly of the Major Nobles had been formed.

Unless an external force broke this framework, there would be no space for newcomers to grow.

Even if they were very skilled, there was simply no room at the top as it was already filled up.

They could either pull someone down from their position and replace them; or else they would be suppressed and eliminated themselves.

Sorting out his thoughts, Hudson put aside the mess of ideas in his mind, and directly arranged for people to load the carts.

The banquet where the nobles from two counties gathered in Dardiel City was a must to hawk for some attention.

Completing this business deal would definitely bring in much higher returns than farming at home for three years.

…

As the horse cart slowly drove out of Bera City, a wrinkle was added to Earl Piers’ forehead.

The situation on the continent was becoming increasingly complicated, which made him have to change his plans.

Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to give the Northern aristocracy, who were heading south, a harsh lesson, sever their backbone, and then slowly squeeze them out.