Development Plan for Edelweiss Territory

Viscount Thoros was interested as well. "Actually, I still have many plans. For example, I intend to continue increasing the number of private soldiers in my territory, arm them with the profits from the cashmere industry, and regularly take them to the Northlands Wasteland to capture slaves. I'll sell all those war slaves to the kingdom's slave traders.

Slave prices are excellent right now. A Barbarian warrior converted into a war slave can fetch at least eight Raine gold coins. As long as I capture a hundred war slaves at once, I can earn at least five hundred gold after deducting the costs.

I know many Northern Frontier nobles are doing the same. This is the best opportunity. If we go too late, the Barbarian Tribes near North Vira Province will have been completely picked clean.

As for the ordinary Barbarian slaves, I can keep them to help me raise cashmere goats. You know that cashmere goats aren't suited to large-scale herding. They can only be raised in small groups of a few dozen, which requires far too many people.

Just maintaining the current scale of cashmere goat farming in Edelweiss Territory already requires more than a thousand people when all the scattered workers are added together. On top of that, the pastures need to be maintained and reseeded with grass. All of this requires labor, and nearly half the serfs in the territory are already occupied with raising cashmere goats.

Even if we want to expand the scale of cashmere goat farming, we'll need not only new pastures but also new herders. Otherwise, I wouldn't want to do this either!

However, if I can purchase large quantities of grain, I can sell it cheaply in the territory. Once those Freemen go bankrupt, the labor problem will be partly solved.