Thus, after dragging things out for more than half a year, the Slave Merchants' Alliance finally compromised. However, they did not bow their heads to Victor and Alex.
Instead, the great nobles behind them stepped in personally and dispatched an envoy of extremely high rank, led by a marquis, to meet with Alex and Victor for negotiations.
Through exchanges of other benefits, they resolved the trade issues on which the two sides had previously failed to agree. In the end, the Slave Merchants' Alliance purchased the slaves at eighty percent of the original market price.
Aside from the slaves they kept for themselves, Victor and Alex sold all the remaining slaves to those slave merchants: a total of 550,000 people, worth exactly three million gold. After deducting the capital used to purchase those slaves at the beginning of the year, the five great noble houses made a reasonable profit of 1.2 million gold.
This price was actually somewhat disadvantageous to Alex and Victor. By then, slave market prices had already rebounded and were not far below their peak.
However, in exchange, the great nobles behind those slave merchants had to do Alex and the Vela Nobles behind him a favor: find a way to delay the Raine Kingdom's plans to launch a southern invasion.
They were to give the Vela Nobles as much time as possible to recuperate, allowing the nobles of the Vela Region to absorb the gains from this war and begin developing the Northlands Wasteland.
Once both sides reached an agreement, these matters became very easy to push forward.
Considering that there were indeed a large number of slaves, releasing them all into the Raine Kingdom's slave market at once would definitely affect prices directly.
After discussion, the two sides decided that the slaves would be handed