Live Stream: I Am A Lord In Another World

“Half-elf, are they the offspring of elves and other races?” Richard asked.

Dorothy shook her head and said, “No, Master, it is said that elves cannot have offspring with other races. I don’t know how half-elves came to be.”

Richard looked at her and asked, “Then how did you recognize her?”

Dorothy said, “Ears. When she was happy just now, the pointed ears under her cloak showed a little, and also the scent. She doesn’t have the scent of humans on her, nor does she smell like demi-humans, so I guess she should be a half-elf. Of course, there’s also a possibility that she’s an elf, but elves wouldn’t enter human kingdoms alone like her.”

Richard toyed with the magic stone in his hand. After Dorothy finished speaking, he said, “It’s getting late, go to sleep, Dorothy.”

“Yes, Master!”

By the time Richard returned to his bedroom, he couldn’t see the figure of the silver-cloaked girl on the balcony anymore.

He didn’t pay it much mind and temporarily put the matter aside, taking out the magic stone and examining it.

This world was indeed relatively backward, but it had magic, and even stones like magic stones with such peculiar structures.

He took out a high-powered magnifying glass and looked at the magic stone through it.

Under the magnifying glass, there were quite a lot of pores on the magic stone. The structure of the entire magic stone resembled a honeycomb, but it was more complex than a honeycomb.

“Is this structure for storing energy?” Richard wondered.

After looking for a while, he put away the magic stone.

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Early the next morning, Richard got up early.

Although he had slept late last night, his spirits were quite good.

When he went out, Richard noticed that there were three caravans waiting in the square.

These three caravans had quite a few guards. Altogether, there were more than two hundred guards with the three caravans.

At this moment, these guards were all shopping in the square.

The strange and curious items in the shops attracted the attention of all the guards, and many of them were preparing to buy a few.

“Good morning, Lord!”

Among these three caravans, the leader of one of them had been here before.

“Why are you bringing so many guards?” Richard asked.

Hearing the question, the leader of the caravan sighed and said, “There’s no other way. There are more bandits on the road now. If it weren’t for the high cost, we would have prepared to bring even more guards.”

Richard casually asked, “How’s the situation in the inland?”

The caravan leader said, “Not optimistic. The locust plague is still going on, and there are more bandits. There have been refugees attacking noble castles in groups, trying to rob food. But larger cities are still okay; there’s quite a bit of food stored there. It’s just that winter is coming soon, and it will probably get more chaotic then.”

After chatting with the caravan leader for a while, Richard gained a better understanding of the situation.

After the chat, formal trading began.

Richard was personally in charge of the major grain transactions every day, as he still had to sell glassware. However, after selling so many glass cups consecutively, glass cups were not easy to sell anymore, and the price couldn’t go up anymore.

Instead, porcelainware became increasingly popular.

So, Richard brought out some new items, such as some custom-made vintage pocket watches found on the online store, old-fashioned alarm clocks, crystal ornaments, and so on.

Although the prices of these items were a bit higher, they still sold for a good price, ranging from several gold coins to dozens of gold coins, far exceeding their original value.

As a result, the money from these three caravans was thoroughly squeezed dry by Richard.

Naturally, they still bought large quantities of grain.

For the “luxury items” that Richard sold them, he would need to find buyers, but grain was always in demand.

Moreover, with the continued disaster, there would be fewer and fewer buyers for “luxury items” in the future because everyone would be saving money to buy food. Food would become more expensive, and it was possible that even if they had money, they wouldn’t have anywhere to buy from.

After these three caravans left, Richard realized that after this period of trading, he had nearly two thousand gold coins in his hands.

With so much money, he could do a lot of things.

Even some of the big nobles in this world would take one or two years to earn so much money, but Richard had earned it in less than a month…

“Mia, how many people are there in the total population of the territory now?” Richard asked.

Mia said, “Master, there are more than eight thousand people who have been officially registered, and in addition, there are more than seven thousand refugees who have not been registered.”

Yes, besides being Richard’s bodyguard, Mia had become his assistant, doing various odd jobs for Richard. Many things were thrown to this cute little cat girl.

Mia didn’t complain at all. Busy work made her feel fulfilled.

Moreover, in such a busy work environment, Mia gradually broke away from the state of daily training and killing that she had lived in for more than ten years, making her feel like she had been reborn.

Well, this way Richard could exploit this underage laborer without guilt!

“More than fifteen thousand people, still too few,” Richard muttered to himself.

After taking over Baron Laurie’s territory, with such vast lands and some development over time, Richard could easily sustain over ten thousand people even without buying goods online.

However, because it was located on the border, the recent influx of refugees had slowed down significantly. Many refugees from the surrounding areas had already arrived.

Even though refugees from distant places were fleeing, few of them were heading towards sparsely populated border areas.

Most were fleeing to cities further inland.

Moreover, the current refugee situation was largely caused by bandits. Places untouched by bandits still had some reserves, and a great famine had yet to fully break out.

“Why doesn’t Master buy the territory in the northwest border as well?” Perhaps hearing his muttering, Mia suggested.

Richard looked at Mia.

Mia continued, “With bandits causing so much trouble now, many nobles on the border are panicking. Master could take this opportunity to buy a few more pieces of land and expand the territory.”

“Those nobles may not necessarily sell,” Beside him, Dorothy interjected.

Mia said, “Master can send someone to inquire first. When the banditry subsides later, they’ll surely think us out of fear.”