Chapter 41

When Lucas walked into the living room and saw the blood on the corners of Bryan's mouth, his mouth twitched. Remembering the report that Ben had given him earlier, Lucas wanted to laugh.

"Sir Bryan, please sit down." Lucas said, waving his hand and ordering people to bring more refreshments.

"Thank you, Baron Lucas." Bryan said, slowly sitting down. He eagerly looked at the pastries on the table, suppressing his urge to just grab the pastries. He could not afford to lose face for the sake nobles of Sakura City.

"I would like to thank Sakura City for its generosity and willingness to sell us wheat." Lucas said, taking a sip from the teacup. His behavior had become more and more noblelike in the past few days.

"This is a trivial matter with mutual benefits. There is no need to take it to heart. Baron Lucas." Bryan said.

He did not dare to underestimate Lucas anymore. All the details he had seen from the time he entered the castle showed that Lucas had an amazing living standard. It was at least a dozen times better than the living standards of the nobles of Sakura City.

As for the life of the commoners, Bryan didn't care at all. They were just there to provide for the nobles anyways. There were extras.

Bryan thought about the butler named Ben, who wore better clothes than him. He then thought about Lucas's clothes, which were even better. He had never even seen that style before.

"Then, Sir Bryan, what business did you come for?"

Lucas went straight to the point, as he didn't have time to argue. There was a good show to watch that night, and he had to oversee the preparations.

Hearing that, Bryan tried his best to sit up straight. From Lucas's point of view, however, Bryan's whole body was basically his belly.

"Baron Lucas, my father, who is Sakura City's City Lord, hopes that you can open up the hide trade in Sedona City."

Bryan continued before waiting for Lucas to reply. "Of course, our Sakura City will continue to open up wheat trade for you. We have accumulated enough wheat to last for 2 years."

Sakura City was close to a river, so it had a lot of fleets, which often go to other cities for trades. Wheat was the main food source in this world and was an important product.

Lucas believed that Sakura CIty had enough wheat stored to last for 2 years. The idea of hide trade made him think of something, and he couldn't help but smile a bit.

"Oh? Hide trading? It's not a big deal. I can agree." Lucas said. Not only could hide be used to make warm clothes, they could be used to make leather armor for war.

Sedona City was one of the cities closest to the Forbidden Mountains, which had tons of beasts.

Every year, the hunters in the terriBryan would hunt a bunch of wild beasts and skin them and sell the skins at high prices.

"Really?" Bryan was stunned. He had thought it would take a bit of bargaining, so he hadn't expected Lucas to agree so easily.

"Sir Bryan, there isn't much wheat like Sakura City, but there are a lot of hides, which can generate plenty of income for the residents, which is a good thing." Lucas said, smiling. He did not mention the fact that he had no need for leather armor, as he already had iron and steel.

Besides, he realized that Sakura City wasn't in a good spot, since they came to ask for hides directly. Most nobles purchased military supplies secretly.

Bryan frowned and wondered if there was a scheme. Any nobleman with some knowledge would know about the importance of hides.

Every city banned selling hides in large quantities. Some cities even banned the act of selling and buying hides, and the city owner collected all the hides.

Of course, only the hides that could be made into leather armor were included. These hides include wild boar hides and rhino hides.

"Baron Lucas, do you have any requests?" The only thing Bryan could think of was that Lucas had requests.

"Oh?" Lucas was stunned for a bit, and he faintly smiled. "Of course. We need a lot of wheat. We also need cattle, sheep, and horses. We just need the cubs though."

"That's all?" Bryan was even more confused. He couldn't understand the request at all. He could understand young horses, as they could become war horses when they grew up. He couldn't understand cattle and sheep, however, as these animals could only be used as a source of food.

It took forever for cattle to grow up to be old enough to be killed and skinned to make armor. It was much better to buy other hides, like boar hides.

Sheep fur was good as it could make warm clothes, but the meat was extremely bad. Only the commoners liked to eat them.

"Yes, that's all." Lucas learned that everyone was like Bryan and thought that cattle meat tasted bad.

Lucas almost died of laughter when he learned that people raised cattle as pigs for their meat and then took their hide.

Lucas thought about the level of technology in this period and understood. The commoners didn't use horses or cattle to farm and did it manually instead.

In this era without iron tools, many people used stone hoes to cultivate the land one by one. Planting wheat that way would obviously lead to a low yield ratio and starve many people to death.

There was no shortage of hides in Sedona City, but they lacked these three animals. Only the inland had them. It was said that these animals came from far away and were very rare.

Lucas was going to put rings on the cattles and make them farm cattles. He would then bring out new tools for farming and seeds from the Earth which would increase the output of the crop in the fields.

Next year, Sedona City would be able to leave famine behind completely and then, there would no longer be any need to buy wheat from Sakura City or any other cities.

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