The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 698 Equipment for Food

"Ahem, well said!" Roland quickly coughed twice to cover his embarrassment. After all, if Adolf Heinrich hadn't reminded him, he would have completely forgotten that his dragon riders were now available for deployment. Because of the war...
"However, when to buy is also an art. If the timing is right, we should be able to acquire a large amount of grain at a low price!" Yun Feng poured himself a cup of tea and sipped it contentedly.

"Is there such a thing?" Roland was taken aback. Did the timing of the acquisition have anything to do with time?
"Of course, the price of grain you buy now will be different from the price you buy during the autumn harvest!" Yun Feng covered his face helplessly. His king was really something else. Didn't he understand such a simple principle?
"Oh, I understand." Roland nodded, understanding Yunfeng's meaning.

“Then let’s plan to go south to buy grain during the autumn harvest!” Adolf Heinrich said to Yun Feng. He completely ignored Roland, since Roland usually acted as a hands-off manager and he wouldn’t get anything out of him anyway. It was better to discuss it directly with Yun Feng.

“Yes, the weather is good this year, it should be a bumper harvest. The grain-producing areas of Gondor should have a great harvest, and we should be able to purchase enough grain!” Yunfeng nodded in agreement with Adolf Heinrich’s suggestion.

"But what will we use to buy it? Gold Dragon Coins?" Adolf Heinrich frowned. Dragon Coins had a strong reputation in the North. Although they had little presence in the South, as long as the gold content of the coins was high enough, the nobles would still accept them.

"Let me remind you..." Roland said weakly, raising his hand from the side.

"Excessive extraction of Golden Dragon Coins could lead to deflation! After all, the amount of currency we issue is limited!" Having received nine years of compulsory education, Roland knew far too much about inflation and deflation! His hometown on Earth was a typical place where everything was going up except wages… (bitter tears! All from profiting from human suffering!)
"No! We won't use Golden Dragon Coins for trading!" Yun Feng shook his head. How many Golden Dragon Coins were circulating in the kingdom? How much grain could they buy? Yun Feng wanted a huge amount!
"No Dragon Coins for trading? Then what other specialties do we have?" Adolf Heinrich frowned.

"It's alright, I'll handle it! Oh, and Your Highness, remember to reimburse me for the materials!" Yun Feng proudly raised his head, like a victorious rooster.

"Oh..." Roland silently signed the "humiliating unequal treaty." After all, this job really had to be done by Yunfeng. If you ask what's the most profitable thing in Middle-earth? It's definitely the arms trade, just like on Earth! Otherwise, why were the dwarves of Lonely Mountain able to prosper? It was because their arms trade sold throughout Middle-earth! Now, even the sky knights of the Kingdom of Lagrange are terrified of the skies, and more than one dragon rider has been hit by the Black Arrow... It can only be said that the damned Black Arrow will be infamous for eternity! Such a high-class weapon for slaying dragons has been turned into a mass-produced, civilian product by the dwarves... The Moria dwarves deserve to die!
Now Yunfeng is going back to his old ways, since magical equipment is even more lucrative than the arms trade! Due to certain special reasons, the dwarves and elves, the two main forces selling magical equipment, don't sell much knightly equipment (mainly because the dwarves and elves don't even have the class of knight...). This has resulted in the arms market being flooded with warrior and ranger equipment, while knightly equipment is scarce. Therefore, Yunfeng plans to focus on crafting magical equipment for knights. Those noble lords are happy to spend money to buy equipment for their own lives! Although the main forces of Gondor and Rohan are mostly infantry warriors, the majority of noble lords are knights! So knightly equipment still has a large market!

"What do you plan to do?" Roland asked curiously.

"Ten sets of superior-grade knight equipment are enough to supply the entire kingdom's tens of thousands of people for a year!" Yun Feng calculated. The kingdom's total population was less than 100,000 (including Roland's vassals). Ten sets of superior-grade equipment should be more than enough to supply his 25,000 tons of grain. After all, superior-grade knight sets were priceless heirlooms in the Central Plains!
"So... there's a problem, how should we get the grain back?" Roland asked the next question.

“Good question! We can use space equipment for transportation!” Adolf Heinrich said matter-of-factly.

“Um… let me do the math for you. A seven-meter-high granary needs two thousand square meters to store ten thousand tons of grain… which means we need at least three 71020 storage devices… do we have that many?” Roland asked tentatively, since besides his own system space, it seemed that only Apophis Breo’s ancestral space ring had that much space.
"Is this thing... really that big?" Adolf Heinrich frowned, somewhat puzzled.

"Um, Your Highness, it's normal that you don't know some common sense since you didn't experience the Imperial era..." Yun Feng smiled awkwardly at Adolf Heinrich. "This kind of simple transport space equipment is actually very easy to make and very cheap. It's not as sophisticated as those storage devices. After all, it only serves a transport function, and you don't need to care about whether time passes in the space. This kind of space equipment is the least technically demanding and the easiest to make. At the height of the Empire's power, the grain transport teams were escorted by dragon knights. Each legion would be given a space bracelet with a capacity of 10 cubic meters, which was a year's worth of grain for an entire legion!" Yun Feng told Roland about the glory days of the Empire.

Well, Roland was already envious. After all, the idea of ​​dragon knights as a grain transport team was still too advanced for Roland's young mind! Although what he was about to do was similar to that.

"So there's no need to worry about us not being able to transport it. I can easily pull out a whole bunch of those storage devices that don't need to consider spatial flow speed!" Yun Feng chuckled.

"Uh..." Well, it was Roland the Clown. His worries now seem a bit ridiculous, but the result is good. Otherwise, Roland would have had to personally go and use the system space to collect it.

"Alright, I'll go prepare. Luckily we have a small lava forging furnace, otherwise it would be really hard to gather these equipment!" Yun Feng muttered to himself, then got up and left.

"By the way! I don't have time to deal with the government affairs during this period, so you can handle it yourselves!" Being able to do her favorite alchemical experiments without having to worry about the kingdom's government affairs made Yun Fengshuang walk even more lightly, as if every step she took was on cotton.

“Yes, I will inform Lord Lance to take over!” Adolf Heinrich nodded. Although he was also an assistant administrator, his main job was to guard the core area of ​​the castle and keep an eye on magical communications and the city's shield. Political affairs were secondary. Yunfeng and Lance's job was to help Roland handle political affairs.

"Tsk!" Yun Feng sighed softly, as if mourning for Lance. After all, he had left, leaving the entire kingdom to rest on Lance's shoulders. Thinking of this, Yun Feng felt a pang of guilt.

“I will help.” Nyx calmly lifted her skirt and turned to enter, nodding slightly as she passed Yunfeng to show her respect.

"Greetings, beautiful Queen! May you be in good health!" Adolf Heinrich and Yunfeng quickly bowed. After all, Nyx was very popular in the kingdom. Although her husband Roland was a man even dogs would dislike, it didn't stop Nyx from perfectly embodying the role of a queen. In some ways, Nyx was even more like a king than Roland. If it weren't for the limitations imposed by her bloodline, Nyx would have been fully capable of ousting Roland and becoming queen herself. After all, the Lagrange Empire was quite tolerant, having produced several empresses, let alone queens.

“Greetings, everyone. I heard you say you’ve been too busy with official duties lately? Then I’ll take over!” Nyx nodded to Yunfeng.

"Then I'll trouble you, Your Highness!" Yunfeng said respectfully, patting his chest.