Chapter 291: An Inflated Confidence
The merchants from the Dukedom of Leo left one by one.
The central posthouse returned to its usual tranquility, but the desert bandits remained vigilant. A large number of teams spread out and patrolled the surrounding dune to ensure that there were no spies with ulterior motives. They continued to explore the desert.
Showing weakness to the enemy first, then bared their sharp fangs and teeth at the crucial moment and swallowing the enemy whole.
This was the cruel law pa.s.sed down in the Sarrand Desert.
In a poor and harsh environment, the loser would be permanently eliminated, and only the winner could survive.
Now, Kant was undoubtedly the winner.
He could get everything!
Rolf came in and put the bulging linen bag on the table. At the same time, he reported to Kant, “Lord Kant, these are the golden eagles obtained in this trade, a total of 268.”
“Yes, well done.”, Kant nodded.
“It’s still a slight loss.”
Rolf’s tone was a little regretful. “Those merchants didn’t spend all their capital.”
“That’s enough.”, Kant curled up the corner of his mouth. “Enough.”
He understood Rolf’s subtext.
If Kant gave the order, then this scoundrel n.o.ble would immediately lead the desert bandits to chase after them and talk to those merchants cordially. In the end, they would be able to perfectly fake the scene of the bandit gang’s attack.
He did the same thing many times in Caradia.
However, Kant did not agree.
Instead, he stopped Rolf. He told Rolf to behave himself and guard this posthouse.
It was not advisable to fish in a dry pond.
Kant needed a complete trade caravan, not a broken caravan.
Only countless caravans could form a prosperous trading line. Only by cultivating basic trust with each other and forming a good relations.h.i.+p of interest and cooperation could it become a qualified trade caravan. It could continuously carry out business activities and earn a lot of money for Kant.
Moreover, Kant himself was a monopolist and the one who made the rules.
This was based on long-term considerations.
If he allowed Rolf to plunder the trade caravan, it would be really simple. They could indeed earn a lot of money in a short period of time.
But in the future, the trade caravan would have to weigh the pros and cons of the trading with Kant.
Was it worth to risk their lives to come to the Nahrin Desert for trade, or to travel a long distance to the Dwarf Kingdom for trade.
Even when Kant chose to face it with violence and allowed Rolf to plunder the trade caravan mercilessly, it would sooner or later arouse the hatred of the n.o.ble families of the Dukedom of Leo. Once they joined forces to attack the Nahrin Desert, the consequences would not be good.
Although he was not afraid of war, he did not like such a worthless war that should not have happened!
“Trade is the best choice.”
Kant reached out his hand and picked up a golden eagle. The patterns were extremely exquisite.
These golden eagles were made of gold, and their purity was extremely high. In addition, they were carved and engraved by craftsmen. The entire eagle looked lifelike. As the light shone outside the window, one could vaguely see a small amount of golden light s.h.i.+mmering the patterns.
This was Kant’s favorite, the world’s top currency.
The golden eagles!
According to the system’s rules.
For example, in the basic continent like Caradia, one golden eagle could be exchanged for 1000 denars.
And for the more prosperous Pendor, one golden eagle could be exchanged for 1200 + denars or even more!
Kant now had 268 golden eagles. As long as he waited for the arrival of Reyvadin’s trade caravan, or Joslin’s trade caravan to Pendor, they could bring Kant at least 268,000 denars of huge profit.
If he rounded it up, it would be a total of 300,000 denars. Such a terrifying profit!
And this was only seven days of production.
Moreover, Kant was only at the initial stage of mining the salt mines and making the refined salt. He could also increase the output by many times.
For example, the current output of 400 bags of table salt per week was just 50 civilians collecting coa.r.s.e salt, 50 camels forming a caravan to transport it, a salt workshop, and the cooperation of 30 salt-making workers.
As long as they increased the number of workers and built additional salt workshops, the output would naturally double.
And according to Manid’s estimation.
After these workers had gone through the adjustment period and increased their manpower, they would be able to reach the production of 1,000 bags per week next month!
After calculation, there would probably be around 700 gold eagles earned per week. And if converted it into denar, it would be whopping 700,000 denars earned per week, almost comparable to the later stages of the game, every city in the entire continent had opened the most valuable velvet cloth factory. This was a huge amount of profit that could only be obtained every week!
This was a terrifying amount of profit that even the entire Continent of Caradia would drool over.
700,000 denars per week.
One had to know that the cost of maintaining the Swadian Knights was only 50 denars.
Currently, Kant could support 14,000 heavy armored knights. They were fully armed and wore double layers of heavy chain armors. When they galloped on the battlefield, they would destroy everything like a flood.
No one in the field would be his match.
Even if they needed to dismount and battle, all of them as strong as a troop of fearsome heavy footmen!
With just this group of level 5 elite knights, defeating an ordinary army of 100,000 people would definitely not be a problem. Even if there was an army of a million in front of them, they would still blow the bugle horn bravely and directly push forward like a flood!
In the battlefield, this heavy cavalry group of 14,000 Swadian Knights would be invincible!
Kant’s breathing could not help but become rapid.
Just thinking of this scene, his heart could not help but throb.
Too strong.
This was truly unreasonable strength!
As long as there were no extraordinary troop cla.s.s, extraordinary attack methods, no matter how many hundreds of extraordinary grand knights there were, they would not be able to block the attack of these 14,000 Swadian Knights.
Extraordinary strength was not unlimited, it could be exhausted.
Waves upon waves of heavy cavalry attacks.
The extraordinary strength would be exhausted sooner or later.
However, according to Kant’s understanding of this world, such as the Dukedom of Leo, even if Grand Duke Cameron gathered all the n.o.ble and civilian armed forces, he probably would not be able to gather hundreds of extraordinary grand knights, let alone an army of a million!
He would not even be able to gather a large number of heavy cavalries.
In the war between countries in the past, the Dukedom of Leo and the Silver Platter Kingdom were at war on the south bank of the river.
Both sides had only invested 50,000 soldiers, of which 20,000 were from the Dukedom of Leo and 30,000 were from the Silver Platter Kingdom. Moreover, these troops were not worth mentioning, and there were many mercenaries involved.
In the feudal era, a country war similar to that in Europe, it was the most number of soldiers that both sides could gather.
The population of the Dukedom of Leo was only over 300,000.
If 100,000 people were dragged out to start a war, even if they won, the entire country would probably fall into a state of stagnation. It would take several years of recovery before it could fully recover. It was no different from losing a war.
“Wait.”
Kant reached out his hand slightly and rubbed the s.p.a.ce between his eyebrows.
His heart quickly regained its calm.
Right now, he was immersed in a kind of longing for the future. It was very unrealistic, like a flower in a mirror. Other than interfering with his normal judgment and rationality, it did not have any effect.
“I don’t have such powerful strength right now.”
Kant calmed himself down.
But when he thought of his inflated confidence just now, he could not help but smile bitterly. “I’m thinking too much.”
He put down the golden eagle in his hand.
Kant instructed Rolf, who was in front of him, “Tie up those captives. I will bring them all back to the castle. You continue to be on guard here. If possible, I will arrange more desert bandits to help you in the near future.”
“Understood.”, Rolf nodded solemnly.
Kant needed to go back after he was done here.
The huge profits from the table salt trade made him extremely tempted, and he was even more determined to develop the business line.
He was now like the spokesperson of “Mount & Blade”.
He was using all kinds of methods to plunder this world’s precious resources.
For example, gold.
This description was very correct. Kant didn’t care about such arrangements like invaders and plunderers. As long as he could obtain the final right to survive and walk to the peak of this world, so what?
The Cheat of the system belonged to Kant and was connected to him.
He knew from the beginning.
As long as Kant, the host, died, then the system would be directly exposed to the rules of this world. The relations.h.i.+p between the system and the rules of this world was like cold water and hot oil. The two completely different rules would directly collide. The system with smaller power, which was originated from the Earth’s technological world and combined with part of the rules of the game, was destroyed to the point that not even a speck of dust remained.
Otherwise, why would the system give all kinds of hints and indicate that it would use its own energy to help Kant?
Because both parties were already on the same rope!
“You can go down first.”
Kant waved his hand, indicating Rolf to leave first.
“Yes.”, Rolf bowed and left the room.
There were no more important things to do.
The central posthouse returned to its usual peaceful state. As long as it continued to strictly guard and forbade outsiders from entering the desert, it would be fine.
This place had once again become the beginning of the forbidden area of the desert.
Only when a new trade caravan arrived at the beginning of the next week would it be reopened.
However, when the next trade caravan was opened, Kant could imagine that there would be more and more authoritative, and larger-scale trade caravans arriving. They would disperse the trade caravans that did not have the capital or the backing of the n.o.ble families and occupy more of the table salt.
Moreover, there would be more n.o.ble families that were unwilling to accept this, and they would take the action angrily.
For example, the 600-man cavalry that they defeated today.
They were all well-trained knight attendants.
It would be impossible without the support of the high-ranking n.o.ble families. After all, large-scale training of knight attendants was not just a matter of money. There was also time and knight instructors who could impart various kinds of experience. Ordinary small n.o.ble families did not have such a foundation.
Just like Baron Dylan. Although he was a baron, he could not afford to train these knight attendants even if he went bankrupt.
“But who exactly is it?”
Kant frowned.
Subconsciously, he excluded this “Uncle Dylan” of his.
He knew that even after a period of development, this “Uncle Dylan” of his had obtained a lot of valuable silver coins. His influence had grown a lot, but it was definitely not to the point of being able to afford 600 knight attendants.
If it was an ordinary 600 light cavalry, then Baron Dylan might have the ability to afford them.
And this was what Kant was puzzled about.
But it was only a doubt. In the Nahrin Desert, as long as the top n.o.ble did not use their trump cards to attack him, the final result would still be that he, who had the system and Caradia as his backing, would obtain victory!