Chapter 16 Speculative Business_3

Two gold plates or twelve silver plates could buy a Malte weight of flour, but it takes fifteen silver coins to exchange for two Gold Coins.

This is because the shadow of war has not yet dissipated, and people generally prefer to collect gold, which is easier to preserve and has a more stable value.

Little Priskin tried every trick in the book and finally managed to get six thousand silver plates—the silver coins minted by the Republic of Palatu.

With this start-up capital, little Priskin didn't directly buy severed heads; instead, he first bought a batch of flour at a low price in the name of the Priskin Trading Company from Revodan grain merchants.

He was cunning; he first hired some vagrants to walk through the slums carrying barbarian severed heads for sale, pricing them unusually low.

Even so, the residents of the slums couldn't afford them, let alone dare to buy them.