"I know, they must have been tricked by that lord. As long as I tell them my true value, those Barbarians will definitely leave him. Then our chance will come!" Owen paced around the tent excitedly. From his expression, it seemed like he had already recruited more than 30 powerful Barbarian warriors.
"I'm so stupid. No wonder Johnson didn't care about my conditions. They don't even know the difference between silk and linen. I should've known!"
"Ahem, sir, we are now in the territory of that noble lord. Doing this seems …" The leader of the mercenaries, Alec, reminded him.
"Yes, this is still his territory." Owen finally came to his senses and stopped. However, he couldn't hide the excitement on his face. His eyes flickered continuously, and no one knew what he was plotting in his heart.
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The next morning, Owen handed a carriage full of goods to Wang Yi as tax. Suhlen accepted it without hesitation. He was so poor that he didn't need to be so courteous.
After paying the tax, Owen requested that their caravan rest in the city for two days before leaving. Suhlen agreed to his request.
Suhlen ordered the slaves to move the goods from the carriage to the warehouse. When they were in the warehouse, Suhlen checked that the carriages were filled with food. This was good news for Suhlen.
Due to the sudden increase in population, he didn't have enough food. A carriage like this could carry a thousand pounds of goods. A thousand pounds of food might not be much in Calt City, but here, the value of a thousand pounds of food was at least ten times higher.
There weren't many types of trade in the wasteland. Tea, cloth, salt, and so on. The most popular trade was ironware. Grain wasn't the most profitable. Owen brought so much food because the centaur tribe requested that there must be a certain percentage of grain and ironware in the trade.
Originally, the centaur tribe didn't lack food. However, they had been at war with an orc tribe for the past few years. Naturally, they didn't have enough food. If it weren't for the caravans transporting large amounts of food, the centaur tribe wouldn't have been able to survive.
Now that they were able to hold on, it was their opponent's turn to suffer. The long war had caused them to lack food. They had been evenly matched at the beginning, but now they were barely holding on.
On the second day after the barbarian women and children arrived, Suhlen began to distribute houses and land to the barbarians. There were already 50 to 60 houses in the camp. Although the houses made of mud and reeds didn't look good, it was still comfortable to live in. It was much better than the houses the barbarians used to live in.
Each of the 35 Barbarian warriors was given a house. Apart from them, the women and children of Suhlen were also given a house. Although they didn't have any battle achievements or points, they could still owe them.
In addition to the houses, each family was given 20 mu of farmland and 30 mu of wasteland to cultivate. As for the wild bulls, they also needed to be exchanged for battle merits or points. Of course, if he didn't have enough battle merits or points, he could still owe them. Soon, more than thirty of the hundred or so bison were distributed.
Suhlen also rewarded the mercenaries with land, but it was much less than the barbarians. Most of them were about five mu. After all, the mercenaries had limited battle merits, and the points they earned every day were also very little.
After receiving the land, the group of mercenaries was also very happy. Although the days of the mercenaries seemed to be very carefree, and some bards said that the mercenaries' adventurous life was magnificent, but in reality? Most of the mercenaries didn't have a good life.
Many of the mercenaries didn't have land, money, or proper jobs. In the end, they could only be mercenaries. Of course, many of them became bandits. If there was land to farm, many mercenaries wouldn't be in this line of work.
In the Kingdom of Florence, the land had already been distributed. Except for some farmers, the rest of the land was basically divided up by the nobles. With the growth of the population, the farmers who didn't have land could only leave their hometown and come to the city to work.
They didn't have any skills, so most of them became coolies or mercenaries. Now that they had land, these people naturally didn't want to live a life of bloodshed. It was foreseeable that these mercenaries would become the first batch of free people in Suhlen's territory.
Just as Suhlen was busy distributing land to the mercenaries, Owen also began to secretly contact the barbarians. Most of the barbarians were forthright and carefree. After facing a businessman like Owen, they quickly had a good impression of him.
After gaining the initial trust, Owen began to tell these barbarians what kind of treatment powerful warriors like them should receive. He also promised that as long as they were willing to follow him back to the Kingdom of Florence, all of these could be realized.
However, to his disappointment, the barbarian mercenaries were not interested in the knighthood or the treatment of nobles that Owen had mentioned. Hence, they directly rejected his recruitment. Owen couldn't accept this at all. Of course, he didn't give up. Instead, he went to contact other barbarians.
The result was exactly the same as before. All the barbarians rejected Owen's recruitment. This was unexpected.
"Damn it, what's going on? Why are those barbarians still unwilling to cooperate with me after I explained things so clearly? " Owen said angrily in the tent of the caravan's encampment. The other mercenaries around him looked at each other a few times, but no one answered.
"Sir, is it because these barbarians don't trust us?" One of the people who looked like a merchant said.
"After all, we just met them. It's normal for those barbarians to be vigilant. Maybe we should take out something to show them our sincerity? "
"That's also a way. Then I'll leave this matter to you." Owen thought for a while and still wasn't willing to give up, so he decided.
If Suhlen knew what Owen and the others were thinking, he would definitely laugh himself to death. All the barbarians had a loyalty value on the system interface. Now, most of these loyalty values were above 90, and there were even some that were above 100.
With such a high loyalty value, it wasn't something that could make them betray. Moreover, the barbarians worshipped the strong. After following Suhlen for a while, many of them had become loyal to Suhlen. It was basically impossible for them to betray him.
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