Chapter 654

The empty mansion, which was given by the Ryan royal family to Sean, the empty Duke who is now one of the seven new Dukes of Ryan.

The house has always been cleaned by servants from the palace, so when Sean took over the house from King Ryan, the house was not only unusually clean, but also had everything it should have. Sean didn't need to spend extra money to add any new furniture or decoration.

So when Sean moved into the mansion, the only thing he needed to do was to ask a housekeeper to help him manage the mansion.

Because Sean can't live here all the time.

For him, the mansion is only a symbolic meaning. At least as long as the mansion is still there, no one will forget his empty Duke. Of course, if you are an ordinary traditional aristocrat, you will certainly choose to stay in the palace here in the king's capital rather than return to the fief. After all, compared with the two, if you want to obtain first-hand information, the closer you are to the intelligence center, the better.

But Sean is not an ordinary traditional aristocrat.

Although it has been assimilated by the world today, the adventurous hot-blooded gene in the player's body still hasn't weakened. In fact, if he hadn't been dragged here by some things, Sean would have wanted to leave the king of Ryan for a long time. He didn't want to waste even a minute and a second in such a place.

And that's why Sean will choose a housekeeper himself.

As for the servants, they were the servants originally sent from Ryan palace. Sean was still very satisfied with these experienced and quick servants, even if they had to be paid three times as much as ordinary servants. But in this way, the housekeeper's salary can't be too low. To be a housekeeper who can afford this salary, he must be an experienced veteran and at least have excellent abilities in many aspects.

Now the housekeeper, who is in charge of the whole empty mansion, is recommended by yasna. His salary is 50 gold coins a month - enough for the monthly expenses of seven to nine ordinary families.

But a housekeeper with such a high salary is naturally worth it.

Therefore, when Sean opened the door of the conference room, what he got was not a Hello, but a heartfelt praise from Flores, one of the big three of Ryan's dark Giants: "although you spend a lot on servants, the whole residence was really cleaned up, and your housekeeper was not simple These expenses are still worth it. "

Hearing Flores's praise, Sean just smiled politely and didn't reply.

In fact, he almost let the housekeeper go just now, because he disrupted a dead bone transformation scheme that Sean managed to find out.

As an excellent housekeeper, it is natural to have a basic understanding of those powerful people in China. Even if you don't know their appearance, you must at least know symbols such as family emblem. However, the Marquis of Flores is the most mysterious marquis in Ryan, and this visit has not used a carriage with a family emblem, so it is very normal for the housekeeper not to recognize it. If he does not recognize that the momentum of Flores is really different, the housekeeper recommended by Athena will certainly not disturb Sean.

Unfortunately, Sean doesn't know these things.

In a sense, the housekeeper is indeed a little innocent.

"This time, there are actually two things." Seeing that Sean didn't answer, marquis Flores didn't care much. He sat casually on the sofa in the reception room and didn't look like a guest at all.

But Sean, who was so close to his face, felt an invisible pressure coming face to face.

In his vision, it was endless darkness, like a bottomless dark abyss. With the breath of the abyss spreading out, and the endless bloody breath spreading out, Sean is sure that Flores is also a hidden strong man, at least definitely a real strong man in the golden realm. Because these smells emanating from the Marquis Flores are full of surface, and there are not a thousand people who died at his hands, at least 800.

Like William, there are almost no guys who have killed people by hand. Although their momentum will become unique, dignified and powerful due to long-term command, they will never exude an amazing smell of blood like Flores. No matter how he suppresses and hides, for those who have a keen sense, he can still feel this breath.

Of course, for Sean, another reason to judge that Marquis Flores is a strong man is that he has no flaws.

Although it's just a casual sitting, it seems that there are flaws all over the body, but if you look carefully, you will find that these so-called flaws are actually traps. If someone thinks Flores doesn't understand anything and rashly attacks, the end will be very tragic.

This is a strong man who really lives in the dark world.

"Which two?" Sean was silent for a moment before he finally spoke, but his back was imperceptibly soaked with sweat.

"Oh." Flores suddenly chuckled.

As a mature middle-aged man, Flores still has great charm, especially the dangerous smell emitted by him, which is naturally terrible for people with keen perception, but it will be very charming for people who don't understand anything, especially women. Just now, Flores's smile may be charming for some women, but it's nothing for Sean, because his breath hasn't weakened at all.

"Don't be nervous." After a slight smile, Flores said again, "I have no hostility or malice towards you Your strength is still a little insufficient, so you will also be affected by the natural pressure of my breath. When you step into the golden realm, you will be able to feel the change of my real breath. "

"I know." Sean took a deep breath and then said, "I mean, you don't have any hostility or malice to me. Otherwise, I won't come here alone to meet you. "

"Oh?" Flores raised his eyebrows, and his face became interested.

In fact, when Sean first met the Marquis of Flores, the light color he saw from him was green representing goodwill, not other colors, so Sean knew that the Marquis of Flores had no hostility to him from that time on. Of course, the color that King Ryan exudes is also green. As a result, Sean felt a little embarrassed about killing several of the Marquis Flores' men, but the dark king didn't seem to care about those things at all.

Sean didn't know the past of marquis Flores, but from his attitude towards King Ryan, Sean can at least be sure that the external evaluation of marquis Flores is wrong. This is not a person who is only loyal to the throne. In fact, it should be said that the person who is really loyal to him is the current king Ryan - Angus Ryan. From this point, Sean knows that there must be a very important and strong fetter between the dark king and today's King Ryan.

"It's just an intuition." Sean sat on the sofa next to him. Although he tried his best to calm his inner resistance to the dark atmosphere, perhaps as Flores said, there are still some gaps between the two sides, so he still showed some conditioned physical behavior. "Let's talk about business."

"Good." Flores nodded and then said, "the first thing is private."

"Private affairs?" Sean was also very curious to be able to say such a word from Flores.

"I just want to make a deal with you." Flores nodded to confirm that Sean had heard correctly, and then continued, "I know that this time the chamber of Commerce Alliance made a deal with you. Although I don't know the specific transaction items and contents, some of my transactions are about the slave trade..."

Sean had no doubt about why Flores knew this, because he had learned from lodsk the route of the slaves of the chamber of Commerce Alliance - from the Agkistrodon Gobi. In terms of the scale of the team of the chamber of Commerce Alliance, let alone the dark king like Flores, I'm afraid the slightly capable nobles in China have already received the news.

So Sean didn't speak, but continued to listen quietly.

"... so I hope you can transfer at least 5000 barbarians to me. For some reasons, I urgently need a mercenary regiment to complete the task in the near future, but if hired, it may cause intelligence leakage, so I need to form a team to complete the task, and barbarians are the most suitable quick soldiers. "

In fact, for a big man like Flores, there is no need to explain anything to Sean, but at this time, he opened his mouth to explain why he needed barbarians. Although important information is still not said, it is actually a way to show respect. At least Flores thinks Sean is qualified to be on an equal footing with him.

"I see." Sean nodded. "What about the deal?"

"In the next year, you can get any information I know for free from me." Flores said in a deep voice, "I know that my condition is not very good. After all, with your intelligence gathering ability now, it's only a matter of time before you want to be equal to me in intelligence. But if I provide it directly here, you can definitely accelerate progress in this regard. "

"Indeed." Sean nodded, "but in that case, why not change to intelligence sharing?"

"Intelligence sharing?" Flores gave Sean a thoughtful look. "If you ask, I can accept it."

Intelligence sharing and free access to any known intelligence are two distinct concepts.

The former is an unreserved way of information exchange, which is naturally a way of mutual benefit when both sides are on the same basis, but for completely unequal sides like Sean and Flores, Flores will suffer, because it is only the information currently available to Flores, At least it took him more than 20 years, accompanied by countless sacrifices.

Instinctively, Flores did not regard Sean as an equal in the collection and mastery of intelligence.

That's why Sean will propose sharing.

It's just that Flores agreed to Sean's terms so quickly, which still surprised Sean, but it can also show from the side that Flores really needs the 5000 barbarians. In other words, his current task is very urgent and important. Otherwise, Flores doesn't need to make such a big concession, because he will only benefit in the next year.

"Then as for the barbarians, I will transfer them to you at the regular individual transaction price in the slave market."

"Yes." Flores nodded.

The so-called conventional individual transaction price refers not to house type transaction, but individual transaction.

House type transactions refer to transactions one by one.

Under normal circumstances, each barbarian family consists of at least two people, namely a husband and wife file of a man and a woman; If there are a large number of individual households, there may be about five people, including a couple, sons and daughters, or parents. In such a house transaction, the selling price largely depends on the combat effectiveness of the barbarians of this family, but no matter whether the combat effectiveness is high or low, it is usually no less than ten gold coins. If the food expenses are included, it is likely to reach 15 gold coins per family.

In house type transactions, it is usually necessary to buy an entire tribe.

The scale of tribes naturally varies from large to small. Usually, even the smallest tribe will have two or three hundred households, but such a small barbarian tribe, I'm afraid there are only a hundred or less barbarian slaves who can really be driven as soldiers. Therefore, if you want to form a barbarian army of normal scale, you are likely to buy several tribes, or a medium-sized tribe.

As a result, for many nobles or warlords, there are obviously too many people wasting food, and not everyone can afford such expenses.

To this end, there is a targeted trafficking launched specifically to meet this type of customers.

Individual transactions.

The so-called individual trade refers to the sale of young barbarian slaves aged 16 to 30.

Barbarian slaves of this age can fight on the battlefield as soon as they are equipped with weapons. Moreover, because they have been "trained" by the slave owners in advance, there is almost no possibility of insurrection, but the level of combat effectiveness will be more mediocre, It is difficult to achieve the fierce and fearless charge battle like those barbarians in house type trading.

Therefore, whether these individual trading slaves can recover the heroic ability of fearing death depends on the technology of the buyer.

But even so, even if it is mediocre and even used as cannon fodder many times, barbarian individual trading now occupies a very large trading share in the slave market, and almost will become the mainstream trading method to replace house type trading. Therefore, with the increase of transaction share and flow, the transaction volume of individual transactions of barbarians began to increase gradually.

Today, the transaction value of each barbarian individual varies from 20 to 100 gold coins.

The higher the transaction volume, the younger the barbarian, and the greater the potential or knowledge he knows, and so on.

This time, in order to show sincerity, the Federation of chambers of Commerce sent Sean 15000 barbarians, all of whom were young slaves valued from 50 gold coins, of which less than 3000 were barbarian slaves over the age of 25, and the remaining 12000 were between the ages of 18 and 24. However, even this group of 3000 barbarians over the age of 25 is still a very rare boutique for the outside world, because they are all Golden Valley barbarians.

"Are there any requirements for slaves?" Sean said, "lodesk gave me a record sheet. If there is a special demand, I can give it to you for your selection."

"No." Flores shook his head. "I don't have any requirements for height, age, birthplace, strength, potential, etc. all I ask is that they can go to the battlefield immediately. Of course, it's best to know some cooperation in battle. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. "

"If it's war cooperation, I have a lot of good goods." Sean chuckled, "Three Thousand Golden Valley barbarians."

Flores's eyes lit up suddenly: "it's really a good batch of goods The price is not cheap. "

"Anyway, it's from the chamber of Commerce Alliance. Just give you 50 gold coins." Sean shrugged, "but the remaining two thousand people don't have such good goods, but Sheng is still good in potential. After you get it, you can take it to training for a period of time. You should still be able to exert some effect."

"Yes, it's up to you." Flores nodded with great satisfaction.

If you buy it at the market price, how about the two thousand barbarians? Let alone the three thousand Golden Valley barbarians around the age of 25, the transaction price of each will certainly not be less than 80 gold coins. Now he bought 5000 barbarians with excellent "beauty" for 250000, which is equivalent to saying that Sean gave him 2000 barbarians with excellent potential and strength.

"At that time, I will arrange people to deal with you."

"No problem. Let you arrange all these." Perhaps it was because he solved a difficult thing that made Flores very difficult, so at this moment, Sean could feel Flores obviously relaxed, which was a real relief. This made Sean a little more curious about what Flores was going to do, but Flores didn't say, and Sean was really hard to ask, "by the way, there's one thing I almost forgot to tell you Arnom, the guy is asking for your news. "

"Arnold?" Sean was stunned. "The former dabion silversmith?"

"Yes." Flores nodded, and this time his face became a little serious. "You broke his good deeds at the auction and let him lose two apprentices. This is definitely a very humiliating thing for the old man who must report, so the old man has begun to inquire about your identity."

"I see." Sean really didn't expect the old man to take such revenge, but even so, he didn't care much.

"You'd better be careful." Seeing Sean's disapproval, Flores couldn't help but speak again, "since you are also an alchemy blacksmith, you should know what kind of guys are those who are willing to follow the craftsman. This time, although I refused the old man's assignment to investigate you, I believe it won't take long to find out your identity based on the old man's social circle, and it's obvious that the old man seems very serious, because this time he sent out both his strongest followers, so you'd better be careful anyway. "

"Strongest?" Hearing such a word, Sean's face showed some curiosity, "how strong?"

"Both are the top gold peaks." Flores replied, "it's a little troublesome to explain. Due to some professional habits, I have investigated these two people before, so I'll send you the information about them later But for the sake of safety, you'd better leave a stronger follower around you these days. One of them is very tricky. "

"I see." Sean nodded. "Thank you very much for your advice."

"You're welcome. After all, we have a mutually beneficial relationship." Flores shrugged. "All right. Now that the private affairs have been handled, let's have a business negotiation. "

"Business?"

"Well, this time Ryan was upgraded from principality to kingdom, and some neighboring countries also sent people to participate. Therefore, according to the default hidden rules on the mainland, a martial arts festival will be held for competition." Marquis Flores said in a deep voice, "this is the simplest way to judge the national strength of each other On the whole, the martial arts festival is divided into two stages, one is a military competition, the other is a duel of personal strength. "

"Does your majesty want me to fight?" Sean already knows roughly what this business is.

"Yes." Flores nodded. "The two military battles have been determined to be in the charge of Lord Athena g. Evans and Lord Davin sodell saber. In the individual competition, the strong above the holy land are not allowed to participate in the war. Therefore, in fact, the competition is divided into silver group and gold group, and people from different strength levels compete for the championship. However, in view of the strong purpose and tentative nature of this event, the system of single game elimination is adopted, and there is no loser group. "

"I see." Sean nodded, "so your majesty wants me to participate in the silver group?"

"Of course, if Lord Sean agrees, his majesty wants you to allow your followers to participate at the same time."

Hearing this, Sean generally understood what was going on with the martial arts festival he decided to hold temporarily: "that is to say... There is a great risk of death in fighting in such an event?"

"Yes."