When you open the door of the warehouse, you feel like you have entered a new world. All kinds of farm tools are neatly arranged, filling the entire room.

"Please feel free to choose, the ones here are only a small part of them. If you are not satisfied, there are other styles of farm tools later."

Hudson said pretending not to care.

In fact, there are not that many types of farm tools that seem to be diverse. The fact that there are so many different styles is mainly due to the hands of different craftsmen.

In order to provide customers with diversified services, Hudson has not engaged in standardized production. After all, they are all made by hand, and unifying the standard is also a troublesome matter.

Due to the need for differentiated pricing, the same product is produced by different craftsmen, and there is also a slight gap in price.

Of course, there is not a big gap in price. This is not because of the lack of Hudson's marketing methods. The main reason is that these products are ordinary agricultural tools and do not have the ability to command a high premium.

An embarrassing scene occurred. Looking at the various farm tools in front of him, Baron Kate Lai had no idea how to start.

If you ask him to choose weapons, he will definitely be able to speak clearly and make professional comments on all weapons. However, choosing agricultural tools is obviously an exam question that is beyond the syllabus and has never been within the scope of his knowledge reserve.

Originally thinking that there were only a few types of farm tools, Kate could just buy them without putting much effort into them, but now she was confused.

Go back and bring the old farmer over to make a selection?

No, wouldn’t that make the great Baron Katere worse than a lowly serf?

Looking at the prices marked on each piece of farm equipment, Baron Katelai breathed a sigh of relief. Although he didn't know how much the price had been driven up, the unit price was indeed not high.

Take a plow as an example. The cheapest one only costs 3.5 silver coins, and the most expensive one only costs 8 silver coins. The main factor that determines the price of a plow is not its craftsmanship but its weight.

Of course, all the small farm tools stored here are large ones pulled by eight oxen, which cannot be bought with just a few silver coins.

The reason why Baron Kate did not sell large farm equipment was because he did not have enough livestock in his territory and relied entirely on human power, so the large farm equipment was simply not of use.

Picking up a farm tool casually, weighing the weight, Baron Katelai frowned and said: "Baron Hudson, the toughness of these farm tools is really poor, and the sharpness is not enough. You can't use high-quality iron. Build it?"

Hearing the most amateurish criticism, Hudson simply rolled his eyes. He would use the finest iron to cast farm tools, and he would probably want to go to heaven.

"If you can afford three times the price, I don't mind casting it with high-quality iron. But it is too luxurious. Farm tools are just farm tools after all, and the performance requirements are far less high than weapons.

The performance of these agricultural tools is completely sufficient for daily farming. If the quality is further improved, they will not be agricultural tools, but weapons."

The customer is the Lord of the Morning. Theoretically speaking, Hudson will not refuse any reasonable request from the customer, provided that the money must be paid in full.

As long as he was willing to pay more, Hudson could also let his subordinates forge farm tools that were of the same level as weapons and equipment.

As for trying to use the price difference to buy farm tools and then smelt and cast weapons, that is simply a dream.

It’s not Hudson’s fault. Once these farm tools are smelted and cast into weapons, the quality will definitely be more impressive.

Unless more money is spent, the quality gap between agricultural tools and weapons cannot be changed. In this regard, Mr. Hudson is very principled.

Kate didn't know how to choose when she came to Baron, so she simply bought what she had seen. Although the farm tools she bought were not necessarily the most cost-effective, they were at least guaranteed to be usable and she would not be cheated too badly.

From beginning to end, Hudson didn't say anything and let him choose completely. The only restriction was that he couldn't bargain.

Of course, this is just a small problem. As a noble nobleman, few like to haggle over every detail. Especially for products with a low unit price, they don’t have an accurate pricing template in mind.

In less than half an hour, Kate came to Baron to complete the selection of products, and her efficiency was definitely worthy of being swift and resolute.

The customer is so cheerful, and Hudson is also very satisfied. This is much simpler than doing business in his previous life. Not only is the quality of the goods low, but he doesn't even need to worry about after-sales.

Such a high-quality customer makes Hudson feel embarrassed to cheat too hard. After all, this kind of business relies on long-term flow, and you can't dig up the leek roots all at once.

"The total is four hundred and one gold coins, three silver coins and forty copper coins. The remaining fractions have been wiped out, making it four hundred and one gold coins.

There is still ninety-nine gold coins left before the minimum consumption. Why don't you choose some daily necessities, such as: kitchen knives, iron pots, shovels...

Everything that can be used in daily life is available here. Applying these products to the kitchen will greatly improve the living standards of soldiers."

Hudson sold it hard.

He did not mention the serfs, because he knew that in the minds of the nobles, the survival of the lowly serfs was a gift, and improving their living standards was not considered at all.

Everyone didn't care about the serfs, but they paid special attention to their elite soldiers.

They are all meritorious officials. If conditions permit, they must naturally give the soldiers a better life. Otherwise, who would be willing to sacrifice their lives?

"Then trouble Baron Hudson!"

Baron Kate came and said calmly.

Seeing that the two carriages he had brought were fully loaded, and there were a bunch of farm tools on the ground waiting to be loaded, and that they only cost 401 gold coins, Kate stopped panicking immediately.

Having bought the most needed farm tools, the rest was no longer a problem. Anyway, he made up his mind to only make the minimum consumption.

Seeing that he couldn't get any more wool out of his head, Hudson didn't bother to waste any more time and took Kate directly to the Baron's kitchenware warehouse to make a selection.

It was said that it was a choice, but in fact it was just a show. After hastily collecting the minimum consumption amount, Kate came to the Baron and said goodbye directly.

Looking at that posture, it seems that if you stay in the mountainous area for a moment longer, something bad will happen to you.

But thinking about what happened to him, Hudson also expressed his understanding. He would bleed heavily every time he came here, and the Mountain Territory was indeed an ominous place for Baron Kate to come.

After sending Kate away to the Baron, Hudson found that there was a problem with his business model. The customers he developed were all nearby neighbors, and there were no big customers from outside.

Occasionally, a few businessmen come to visit, and they sell more goods than purchase. It's not that the businessmen don't see business opportunities, it's just that Hudson's products are too special.

Weapons and equipment are the best to sell. Unfortunately, if you don't have any strength, you can't do this business at all.

Although daily necessities such as farm tools and pots and pans are not risky, nobles and lords are accustomed to buying iron and casting it themselves.

Compared with finished products, it is obviously more cost-effective to process them yourself. Unless Hudson can significantly reduce the selling price, making purchasing finished products cheaper than casting them themselves.

Obviously, this is impossible. Even if Hudson wants to engage in cheap dumping, it must first complete industrial production.

With the little production capacity in the territory, there is no possibility of dumping. His only advantage is that he controls the largest iron ore in the southeastern province, which can affect the iron price on the market.

The current increase in the price of iron products on the market is not only caused by the local nobles driving up prices, but also largely due to his stop selling iron to foreign countries.

An embarrassing scene occurred.

Profitable profits from selling weapons in a short period of time mainly depend on the needs of local nobles to expand their armaments.

If they want to promote daily necessities such as farm tools, their main customers are the nobles of the North. As outsiders, they do not have enough blacksmiths and can only purchase large quantities from outside.

Both parties are customers, and no one can be offended. Isn't this forcing myself to be a wallflower?

No matter what, business has to be done. Only with sufficient financial resources can Hudson be able to develop his own territory.

Although in the eyes of the local nobles in the southeastern province, the small parcels of land in the Salam Mountains were just bad land, in the eyes of Hudson, they still had high development value.

The grain output can reach 70% of that of the outside world. After feeding the serfs, there is still a certain surplus. However, compared with the huge investment in land reclamation, the return period is a few hundred million points longer.

If we change our thinking and develop animal husbandry, there will basically be no restrictions.

The only problem is that everyone is following a self-sufficient economic model. There is no fixed sales market at all, and the cattle and sheep raised can only be eaten by themselves.

There may be consumer demand in big cities, but that is the basic plan of local aristocrats, and it is not the turn of outsiders to intervene.

The self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy is not suitable for the development of industry and commerce, and the self-sufficient aristocratic economy severely inhibits industry and commerce.

As a last resort, Hudson could only repeatedly change the territorial development plan based on the actual situation, and until now, it does not have a complete development outline.

There are only two main lines of development that can be determined: find ways to make money; find ways to increase population.

Only when money and people are available can the territory be comprehensively developed. Only when the economic foundation is improved can it have the strength to promote the development of military power.

It can be said that Hudson's plan is completely incompatible with the way many nobles in this world started their careers.

Almost all the great nobles rose from the battlefield. They achieved leapfrog development of their own strength by relying on the trophies robbed from their expeditions.

The rise of every great noble family is accompanied by the birth of a "son of luck". You must have enough luck to complete primitive accumulation by cheating all the way.

Rubbing his forehead, Hudson, who didn't think he was unlucky, decisively gave up following in the footsteps of his predecessors.

Times have changed. The resource monopoly of the great aristocrats has taken shape. Unless external forces break this pattern, there will be no room for new people to grow.

No matter how hard we try, the pit has been filled up and there is no room at all.

Either pull someone off the horse and take his place; or be pushed down and die without a burial place.

After thinking about it, Hudson put aside the messy thoughts in his mind and directly arranged for manpower to load the truck.

The nobles of the two counties gathered in Dadir City for a feast, and they had to go and enjoy the event. If you do this business well, you will definitely earn more than three years of farming at home.

…

The carriage slowly drove out of Beda City, and the wrinkles on Count Pierce's forehead increased. The situation on the mainland became more and more complicated, forcing him to change his plan.

Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to teach the nobles from the south to the north a lesson, cut off their spines, and then slowly squeeze them out.

Unfortunately, the situation on the mainland has suddenly changed, and the kingdom and the Holy See have come into conflict. Now domestic stability must be maintained.

Against this background, overly targeting the nobles of Northern Xinjiang who went south and destroying unity are obviously not in line with the overall environment of maintaining stability in the kingdom.

"It seems that we can only settle the matter! I just don't know what those old foxes in Northern Xinjiang are thinking. Do they really think that these few pawns can make waves?"

Governor Pierce said to himself.

From the beginning to the end, he did not take the noisy Northern Xinjiang children seriously. For the powerful people in the kingdom like Count Pierce, the only people who are qualified to compete with them are equally powerful forces.

Information transmission in the magical world can be said to be fast or slow. What really affects the speed of news transmission is the thoughts of the big shots.

If we can make it in time, the message from the royal capital can be sent to the southeastern provinces on the same day. But if the big shots are not in a hurry and let the messenger rush on the road, it will not be a problem to delay it for ten days and a half.

Of course, this is just message delivery and does not include decision time.
To be continued...