Chapter 653: Trifle matters (1)
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With the addition of these 100000 people, the Black Earth wilderness finally had some popularity. Although more than 20 villages were still too few compared to the vastness of the Black Earth wilderness, it was much better than before when no one came.
These villages were not far from the iron Mountain fortress. After all, the iron Mountain fortress was the administrative center of the Buda family. These newly built villages were naturally not too far away from the iron Mountain fortress.
After the slaves were settled down, they started to work. They had farm equipment and enough livestock to grow their own land.
Most of these slaves were from a farming background, so they were no strangers to farming. On the contrary, they were best at farming.
It was just that in the past, they had been farming for their master. Although they were very careful and did not dare to be lazy, they could not invest 100%. But it was different now. Now that the land was given to them, they only needed to hand over 40% of the annual harvest, and the rest would be theirs. The higher the harvest, the more food he would leave behind.
However, farming was seasonal. You didn’t have to be busy all year round because there weren’t many things to do. There were only two busiest seasons for farming-spring planting and autumn harvest. After this period, they wouldn’t be so busy, so Zhao Hai wanted them to learn something.
This was what Zhao Hai had instructed green and the others to do. While the slaves were farming, Zhao Hai and the others began building the winery. When the winery was completed, the slaves would have passed the busy spring season. At that time, they could let the slaves go to the winery to work. Of course, they would be paid.
After settling the slaves, Zhao Hai’s business was not finished. The construction of the winery alone would take a long time.
However, these things could be left to green and the others to do. Zhao Hai also used stones for the construction of the winery. As for the other work, he had found people on the island of gold to make them. Now that he had the island of gold, it was very convenient for him to get anything he wanted from the iron Mountain fortress.
Many big families on the continent had businesses on the island of gold. These big families did all kinds of things. Their jobs could produce almost anything you wanted on the continent. Therefore, if Zhao Hai needed anything special, he could order it from them.
Zhao Hai didn’t need to worry about the construction of the factory. With the two million undead army under his command, it was a piece of cake to build a factory. All he needed was a craftsman to look after the factory.
During the construction of the factory, Zhao Hai gave the items he wanted to order to the families that specialized in making these items. After that, he didn’t care anymore. He had other things to do next. He had to go to the orc prairies.
It had been almost two months since the orcs returned to the grasslands. It was time for Zhao Hai to go and take a look. Two months was enough for them to distribute the spoils of war. They should be in need of something again.
Other than delivering the goods to Atai, Zhao Hai felt that he should also go to the orc grassland and interact with the orcs. He wanted to interact with the beast King and see if he could get some business from him. If he could get some business from the beast King, the Buda family would have a huge income in the future.
Right now, Zhao Hai wanted the Buda family to establish a few big clients in the orc prairies and form a large business network there. This would be very beneficial for the Buda family’s future development.
Don’t be busy, the old nest of the Buda family is in the black soil wilderness. If all the land there is developed and used for farming, how much food will be produced every year? It would be a huge threat to the food market of the human race.
Furthermore, the humans and the orcs had signed an agreement on the provision of cheap food. However, the so-called ” cheap food supply ” was only relative. After all, the humans had to pay a huge price for shipping food to the orcs. No merchant was as extravagant as Zhao Hai, who could use the space to transport food.
Therefore, the price of grain to the orc grassland would still be very high, but it would be lower than before. However, this way, the grain merchants wouldn’t earn much. In the future, except for some big grain merchants, the small grain merchants wouldn’t do this business anymore because they wouldn’t be able to make much money.
This would create a bigger shortage of food for the orcs. If not handled properly, it could lead to a war between the two races. Therefore, Zhao Hai wanted to sell the food in the black soil wasteland to the grasslands in large quantities. This way, the food supply in the grasslands would not be so tight, and it could stabilize the food price.
Zhao Hai had also noticed that the orcs were different from the ancient grassland races on earth. The grassland races in China’s generation on earth yearned for the Han people’s land. They wanted to become the owners of that land, so when the Han people were weak, they would invade China.
However, the orcs on the ark continent were different. They had their own civilization, and their civilization was no less developed than the humans’. Therefore, they did not want to go to the human continent. In this world where power was respected, the orcs admired power the most and looked down on humans. In their opinion, humans were too weak, and the reason why humans were so weak was that they lived in good places. Therefore, the orcs did not want to go to the human continent. The beastmen Plains were huge, and it was enough for the beastmen to survive.
If the orcs didn’t have the ambition to invade the human race, they wouldn’t start a war rashly. There was only one reason for them to start a war, and that was that their survival was threatened.
The orcs were aggressive, and this was related to their straightforward nature. In their eyes, black was black, and white was white. In the eyes of many humans, there was a gray generation between black and white, but there was no gray generation in the eyes of the orcs.
The orcs had a bad temper. If they didn’t agree with each other, they would just punch each other. That was why they gave people the impression that they were warlike. In fact, they didn’t really like to fight.
Although the orcs looked down on the humans, they had to rely on the humans ‘food to survive, while the humans also needed the orcs’ hides, blankets, and meat. The two sides could complement each other.
The orcs were bold and generous, but the human merchants were very greedy. They would do anything for profit. In the previous wars between the orcs and the humans, the human merchants were too greedy. They raised the price of food too high, which affected the survival of the orcs. In order to survive, the orcs took up their weapons and rushed toward the stone city walls of the humans.
Zhao Hai wanted to sell a large amount of grain to solve this problem. If he became the number one grain merchant of the orcs one day, the orcs would no longer have to worry about food. The war between them and the humans would not happen often.
If that day really came, how much benefit would the Buda family receive? They were probably the ones who would benefit the most from the human race.
To be honest, when the Rosen Empire wanted to use Zhao Hai to negotiate with the Arkas Empire, Zhao Hai really did make a move. Once he controlled the land of the Versailles Duchy, it would be equivalent to uniting the Duchy of Versailles with the blackearth wilderness. By then, he would not even need the realm to transport the food directly to the orc Plains. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in the end.
However, Zhao Hai wasn’t in a hurry. As long as there was space, he wasn’t in a hurry. He could slowly build a passage for food in the future because he didn’t know how long he could live. If he died, the space would no longer exist, and the Buda family would have to rely on the passage for food.
Zhao Hai’s specialty was to take one step at a time and see three steps at a time. He now knew that the realm would not send out information for no reason. However, he was worried about what would happen if he died. No one could survive, even a ninth-grade powerhouse. Therefore, Zhao Hai had to consider the future of the Buda family.
It was because of this that Zhao Hai thought he should stay in the grassland for a while and get in touch with the orcs. As long as he could get more big customers, it would be hard for the Buda family not to prosper in the future.
After dealing with the matters in the black soil wasteland, Zhao Hai went to the Rosen Empire. Although he had decided to cooperate with the carci family, he still needed to discuss how to cooperate. Not to mention other things, he needed to study the business circulation aspect. Otherwise, their cost would increase a lot.
It was very important for a store to be able to deliver the goods to the place in time and put them on the shelves for sale, so this logistics must be done well.
There were only two forms of logistics on the ark continent. One was by sea, using cargo ships, and the other was by land, using horse carriages or other magic beasts.
Of course, the sea route was more convenient, faster, and cheaper. Horse carriages were more suitable for short-distance transportation, while ships were more suitable for long-distance transportation.
Fortunately, the companies that Zhao Hai wanted to cooperate with were not easy to deal with. Their families had their own transportation network. However, Zhao Hai could not only supply his goods to one place, as it would be too inconvenient.
In the end, Zhao Hai decided that with the Buda family’s current manpower, even with the addition of the mackiderre family, it was impossible to set up too many sales points. Therefore, he settled for the second best. He only set up some specialized supply points in some major cities to save on the transportation and sales to other cities. He left it to the other families.
The carci family naturally agreed. They were really afraid that the Buda family would set up a direct sales point, which would become their competitors. However, there was one place that the carci family didn’t touch, and that was the Versailles Duchy. Ryan was currently overseeing the work there, and the storefront had already been built. That was the only place on the continent where the Buda family could directly sell Paradise Products