Chapter 28: Regulatory Arbitrage_3
Winters also discovered a very interesting phenomenon: although Wolf Town produces cotton, hemp, and timber, finished goods such as furniture and fabrics still had to be bought from Revodan.
The estates only produced raw materials, yet lacked the capacity to process them—except for tobacco.
The estate economy was actually particularly fragile, extremely dependent on a developed commercial system. Without external merchants to purchase their goods, the entire economic crop planting cycle of the estates would immediately collapse.
However, these matters were of no concern to him; he simply drew his own conclusions from the perspective of an observer.
What he was most concerned about now was the situation in Vineta, so during the convoy's stop in Revodan these past few days, he visited all the commerce houses in Revodan.