Chapter 153

The content of the revelation was simple.

Do not send Orcs to handle sales.

Firstly, the Orcs are unfamiliar with the human kingdoms.

Secondly, the Orcs are currently fully occupied with construction and lack the manpower.

If not the Orcs, then what?

The method is simple: utilize the people of the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom!

Just like it is now.

Whether they are nobles or commoners, everyone has the right to come to Flame City to haul potatoes back to the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom for sale.

The wholesale price is quite cheap, only 20 copper coins per jin.

In the currency system of the Continent of Gods, 1 gold coin equals 100 silver coins, and 1 silver coin equals 100 copper coins.

The price of rice on the Continent of Gods is 2 silver coins per jin.

An average commoner family with elderly and children, at least five people, needs to eat at least two hundred jin of rice a month, requiring 4 gold coins.

Yet, by working for nobles, a commoner only earns six or seven gold coins a month; only those with more than two laborers in the family can live a bit more comfortably!

Of course, there are some commoners who can receive land from nobles and just pay taxes; in this way, the harvested grain is their own, and they do not need to buy grain.

But now, a large number of nobles no longer adopt this method.

The method these nobles adopt is to pay to hire commoners to work, keeping the harvested grain for themselves, and then having the commoners buy grain from them.

Through this method, the nobles can earn more!

Buying rice costs 2 silver coins per jin, which is 200 copper coins.

The previous selling price of potatoes was about 70 copper coins per jin, one-third the price of rice.

The wholesale price the Flame Kingdom previously gave to Sir Hawke was also 20 copper coins per jin, allowing Sir Hawke to earn more than double the profit.

But now, the Flame Kingdom has given this supply price to any person from the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom who travels to Flame City, twenty kilometers away!

Regardless of whether they are commoners or nobles!

This gives the commoners of the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom a chance to get rich!

Of course, nobles can also have this opportunity.

After these commoners transport the potatoes back, their ability is insufficient to support transporting them to further places, so they will certainly consume them locally.

As the amount of potatoes consumed locally increases, the selling price of potatoes in the eastern region will drop, and profits will decrease.

This forces the nobles to transport them to further places to earn profits!

Through this method, the Flame Kingdom can, in a very short time and without exerting its own effort, make potatoes popular throughout the entire Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom!

It even squeezes the sales space of the original rice.

This is precisely the goal the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom's royal family hopes for; currently, the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom's rice production is decreasing, and the royal family and the church are hoarding rice in preparation for war.

They hope the Flame Kingdom's divine beans will alleviate the food pressure, but the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom's royal family cannot purchase them from the Flame Kingdom themselves to sell, as it would cause a backlash from the nobles, who are all counting on selling the rice in their hands, which is becoming increasingly valuable!

The previous approach of the fox-woman Qing Ling and Sister Sister Mengying to send Orcs to sell would likewise cause a backlash from the nobles.

But now, the method Lin Yan told them through the revelation involves both the nobles and commoners of the eastern region, letting these nobles actively help the Flame Kingdom expand sales channels, so the backlash is very small; if there is a backlash, it is those nobles who will bear it!

And with this opportunity to make money, I fear even more distant nobles will come to haul potatoes!

By then, the Flame Kingdom's potatoes will be sold to the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom on a large scale at the fastest speed, crushing everything with their price advantage!

This is why, after Sister Sister Mengying understood this connection, she felt more and more how formidable the Lord of Flames is!

Less than half an hour after Sister Sister Mengying left, the first caravan drove onto the Hope Avenue!

It was a small noble's caravan, with a full five wagons in the convoy.

These were the kind of wagons pulled by two horses, each capable of holding at least two thousand jin.

With a wholesale price of 20 and a selling price of 70, they can earn fifty copper coins per jin; in one trip, this noble can earn 50 gold coins!

This is more than what many commoners earn in several months!

Potatoes are currently in short supply; even if they can only make one trip a day, this noble's monthly income of fifteen hundred gold coins is secure!

And this is just a small noble!

A small noble's monthly income is generally only a few hundred gold coins!

Only slightly larger nobles have monthly incomes exceeding a thousand gold coins!

Not every noble is like the Sloe family, with family assets of tens of millions of gold coins!

In the entire eastern region, with millions of people and hundreds of large and small nobles, there is only one Sloe family!

By selling potatoes, this small noble can instantly multiply his income several times over; would he be willing?

Nobles are shrewd.

So immediately, even larger caravans appeared.

This caravan had a full dozen wagons!

These nobles were too proactive!

And one hour after Sister Sister Mengying announced the news, the place became unprecedentedly lively.

Besides nobles, there were also a large number of commoners.

These commoners often gathered in groups of two or three; some used ox-drawn carts, and those without oxen even pushed handcarts.

There were even ten commoners who brought sacks, preparing to carry one hundred jin each.

This is cost-effective!

One thousand jin yields a profit of 5 gold coins!

If ten people pool together to buy one thousand jin, one person can also earn 0.5 gold coins, which is 50 silver coins.

For a forty-kilometer round trip, if they walk fast, they can make exactly one trip a day.

And this is just one day's income!

That is fifteen gold coins a month, double what they earn working for nobles!

As for the level of hardship, it is actually about the same.

And once they earn money, they can pool together to buy a wooden cart or something similar, and the efficiency will be even higher!

These commoners are used to poverty; now that there is such a good opportunity, they will seize it no matter how hard or tiring it is!

This is exactly the effect the Flame Kingdom wants.

They earned money through the grace of the great Lord of Flames; how could they not be grateful to the Lord of Flames?

And those who saved on living expenses by eating divine beans will likewise be grateful to the Lord of Flames.

This lays the best foundation for future wars of faith!

And it also sold off the surplus potatoes.

The Flame Kingdom has too many potatoes now.

They cannot consume them all themselves.

Just think, on the Miracle Wasteland, which is over a hundred kilometers long and dozens of kilometers wide, more than half is potatoes.

The Misty Mountains, which are even larger in area than the Miracle Wasteland, are also filled with potatoes.

The other plains in the Flame Kingdom are also potatoes.

And the current average harvest cycle for potatoes is less than two months.

Who else but the Flame Kingdom has more and more mages, and the bonus effect of Lin Yan's "Fire of Civilization" title is exceptionally good!

The bonus of the "Fire of Civilization" title actually involves a certain power of rules; if it reaches the highest level, it can even involve the power of certain laws.

Otherwise, how could Lin Yan have obtained a law by relying on the highest-level Fire of Civilization?

With so many potatoes, the Flame Kingdom's two million-plus people couldn't finish them even if they multiplied several times over, even if the Orcs have huge appetites!

Therefore, selling them out is just right.

And the reason Sister Sister Mengying proposed a limit of one thousand jin is also simple: the Flame Kingdom only accepts gold coins!

The wholesale price for one thousand jin is exactly 2 gold coins.

Through this method, they can continuously collect gold coins from the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom.

Then the Flame Kingdom simultaneously issued purchase requirements; these caravans coming to transport potatoes can also transport goods from the Duke Duke Xiling Kingdom, which the Flame Kingdom will purchase.

This way, the Flame Kingdom's gold coins are scattered out in large quantities!

In fact, the Flame Kingdom is now also starting to mint silver coins.