This only calculates the consumption of salt from the permanent population of Marin City. Marin City has developed commerce and caravans are constantly communicating. The salt taken away by these caravans every year is the real big trade.

Although the salt price set by Lin Kaixin may not be lower than the purchase price of the six desert countries, it is definitely much lower than the cost of transporting salt from the six desert countries. Caravans of all sizes, eating horses and chewing every day is a big and small number.

What's more, the biggest cost is the sand horse thieves from the six desert countries. Although there has never been a large horse thieves with more than a thousand people, the harassment of dozens of people will make the caravans very annoyed. In order to get rid of the harassment of the desert horse thieves, some caravans will sometimes throw away a small part of the goods, which is equivalent to bribing the horse thieves in disguise.

After Murphy took his people and salt to the rented store house, he asked about the price again, which was five small gold coins a year, and said, "The rent is expensive."

Lin Kaixin: "There is nothing to do, but unfortunately the original owner only rents it and doesn't sell it. Otherwise, I would buy it. I offered two hundred small gold coins, which was already half of the market price, so the other party just didn't sell it."

As a determined to become a big businessman, Lin Kaixin originally wanted to buy a yard with a store. Unfortunately, because the rent in Malin City has increased year by year, people basically rent it but not sell it. As long as they rent a house for ten to fifteen years, they can buy the house with the money they get. With such a high rent price, who is willing to sell it?

Anyway, the space in the city is so large. For commercial cities, except for the military camp and the city lord's mansion, the remaining land is worth every inch. Not to mention the yard with stores along the street, even if it is not a yard with stores, it is impossible to buy it.

As for the expansion of the city, it is impossible to expand. First of all, after the expansion, the housing prices of the original landlords will plummet, and it will also increase the defense scope and difficulty of the city.

Moreover, the city lord doesn’t have that much money, so it is basically impossible for the landlords in the city to slap themselves in the mouth to raise funds to expand the city.

After the salt shop opened, Lin Kaixin transported salt to the salt shop once a day, of course, it was transported from the 21st century. Most mercenaries trained in the yard of the salt shop, or protected Lin Kaixin's safety in the hotel.

As for hiring new mercenaries, this Marin City business is too good. The mercenary group does not lack jobs, and there is no idle mercenary group to accept employment. However, Lin Kaixin has already released the news. If there is an unemployed mercenary group in other places, he may come to Marin City to try his luck.

More than a month passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already mid-May in Marin City. For gold coins, Lin Kaixin had already obtained a lot, with more than 3,000 large gold coins - a large gold coin was equivalent to selling five sacks of salt.

The salt prices in nearby towns and villages were directly suppressed by Lin Kaixin's shipment. However, only a few people suffered losses, and most of them still benefited from it.

With the wealth that Lin Kaixin has accumulated in the past, Lin Kaixin now has 3,500 large gold coins, 570 small gold coins, 800 large silver coins and 200 small silver coins.

Lin was so happy that he didn't want to sell gold on Earth. Although he could make some money, he was far less likely to make money than selling bloodstones.

Lin Kaixin’s purpose is to become the lord of a city and a local tyrant here. Sufficient funds are still necessary.

Just after mid-May, the mercenaries Lin Kaixin was waiting for also received good news, and good things were in pairs. Within three days, two groups of mercenary groups came to ask for employment.

The first group of mercenaries has a larger number of people, with a total of 93 people, but the average level is relatively low, only at an average level of 15. This is still the average level, and the lowest number is only at a level of twelve. Level 12, among the robbers, you may be able to be a small leader. However, if you are a mercenary, your level is still a bit low.

However, Lin Kaixin was a little anxious at that time. June was summer, and kings and lords from all over the country would basically not be idle during this slack season. Then they would start fighting everywhere. Even if you don’t go to war, others will come to fight you - everyone has been fighting for hundreds of years, and they have long been a life-and-death enemy. If there is no such thing as your mind is thrusting this year, you will not want to fight you, and others will not fight you.

In this era, everyone first fought in the field. The party who failed in the field would call for reinforcements and continue to fight in the field. After several field battles, they would choose to defend the city until the end.

Because if you defend the city, it is equivalent to giving up the village directly outside the city, and you will be plundered by the enemy 100%. During the repeated field battles, it is also delayed, and the wealth and people in the village directly can be transferred to the city. In this way, there will be more manpower when defending the city, and the losses of the village being plundered by the enemy will be much smaller.

City and direct territory are equivalent to the foundation of a city lord. The city lord can collect taxes and withdraw taxes in these direct territory. Can wars fight money and people. Without taxes, even if you are an earl, there are no use for birds. In fact, there are some short counts without their own territory.

For example, close ministers who serve the king are usually granted the title of court earls, but they are still useless.

First of all, the titles of various countries do not have corresponding salary or annuity income. The so-called court earl is just a salary given by the king.

A knight with a territory is a real knight, a knight without a territory is just a person who has won the title of a knight. Of course, it is not completely useless. For example, after having the knight's title, you will enjoy a semi-tax discount when doing business and paying taxes within the king. With this policy, it is okay for the knight to recruit a caravan to support his family - even if the knight does not have his own caravan, he can still cooperate with the caravan to do business.

He also talked about the mercenary issue. At that time, Lin Kaixin was not very satisfied with the average level of this mercenary. However, the summer war was approaching, so he couldn't be too picky, and there were also benefits.

That is, the price of this mercenary group is relatively low - this is normal. The mercenary group relies on strength to speak. Although this mercenary group has a large population, its strength is not good. It cannot afford high prices. The 93-person mercenary group's settlement fee and monthly fee are slightly higher than the thirty-four-person Molin mercenary group.

After accepting this 93-man mercenary group, Lin Kaixin had already had 126 armed forces, which was barely enough for Lin Kaixin in this summer war.

As a result, after accepting this 93-member mercenary group, another mercenary group came to join us within two days. It was still with a letter of recommendation brought by the salt merchant who cooperated with Lin Kaixin.

This mercenary group has a slightly small number of people, with fifty-seven people. However, the average level is 20, and the lowest level is 17.
Chapter completed!