Western Fantasy: The Princess Wants to Save the World

Chapter 143 Purchase of Food

The geographical location of Huguzhi City is a bit remote, but not too remote.

Cecilia went to a city called Latafia, west of Huguzhi City.

That's where the south and the east meet.

It is a place where no one cares, and yet both sides care.

It took two and a half days to reach the city of Latafia by teleporting and traveling all the way.

Cecilia didn't dare to rest along the way, and when she arrived in Latafia City, she went straight to the farmers' market.

The style of the city of Latafia is very distinct. It is located at the junction of two duchies, and its biggest advantage is trade.

All the grain from the east is transported here so that the people of Latafia can sell it to the south.

The most common thing here is merchants purchasing goods.

But it is rare to see someone like Cecilia who wants to buy out all the food of an entire chamber of commerce in one go.

At first, the Chamber of Commerce boss thought that the person was sent by some company to cause trouble for him.

Cecilia did not dare to claim that she was a princess.

The city of Latafia is not the city of Huguzhi, but here is where the Rose Daily found and sold.

Before coming to the Chamber of Commerce, Cecilia took the time to buy a newspaper to learn about the situation outside.

It's just terrible.

The situation over there in the Wakadi Mountains is terrible.

The Duke of Bulwer has disappeared.

Many of his former soldiers were still fighting hard, and support from Petra was on the way.

I don’t know if I can hold on until Petra’s rescue arrives.

But if there had been no epidemic, and if more troops could be sent to the south to support it, the pressure on the Wakadi Mountains would have been greatly reduced.

What concerned Cecilia the most was that there was still a small section in the newspaper that read, "Her Royal Highness the Princess is missing. The reward for finding her is 50,000 gold coins."

A normal family only spends three to five gold coins a year.

For the nobles, although 50,000 is not enough, if they can really find Her Royal Highness the Princess, wouldn't they be able to be promoted?

Even if Cecilia cannot use the identity of a princess for the time being, she can still use the original owner's vault.

In the end, the president of the Chamber of Commerce was blinded by Cecilia's huge wealth and really sold all the grain in the warehouse to Cecilia.

It is indeed a city where trade is rampant.

This is just a chamber of commerce that Cecilia randomly found. It may not even have a good reputation here. It is estimated that the food in this warehouse is enough for the residents of Huguzhi City to eat for half a month.

This is not the case when we have to live frugally.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce asked Cecilia with a flattering face where the grain would be transported so that he could calculate the transportation costs.

They noisily distanced themselves from the responsibility if the grain became moldy due to rain during transportation.

Cecilia didn't listen.

He simply used a magic to put the food away and said goodbye to the president of the Chamber of Commerce with a rather cold attitude.

On the way back, Cecilia couldn't bear it anymore and rested for four hours.

After waking up, I started traveling non-stop again.

On the sixth day, Cecilia finally returned to Huguzhi City.

Cecilia didn't have time to ask. As soon as she entered the city, she went straight to Babbitt's manor and put all the food into the manor's granary.

One granary is not enough.

Babbitt temporarily sent someone to clean up a place to store the food.

While the servants were cleaning up, Babbitt asked Cecilia how much money she had spent.

Cecilia waved her hand and said, "Just consider it as part of Petra's financial allocation this year."

She had not fought such a rich battle four hundred years ago.

I spent money lavishly for a while.

She spent twice the market price on these grains.

Fortunately, the original owner’s small treasury was strong enough.

After all the food was returned, Cecilia said she wanted to have a good rest.

So she returned to the room where she had stayed in the manor before.

She slept until the next day. In total, she had been in the south for half a month.

Including today, it has been exactly fifteen days.

Thinking of the situation in the Wakadi Mountains, Cecilia went to find Babbitt as soon as she woke up. She wanted to know what Valken was sent by Gallup to discuss with Babbitt.

"do not you know?"

"Should I know?"

Babbitt pondered for a moment and said, "It's actually quite simple. Petra will provide free economic and agricultural support to the south."

"What are the conditions you offer?"

"After conscription, march to the Wakadi Mountains."

Cecilia frowned. This didn't seem to be an equal deal, and Valken shouldn't agree to it.

Babbitt seemed to know what Cecilia was thinking. "In a way, you helped me. Captain Valken seemed to have mistakenly believed that I forced you to get married."

Cecilia responded, "It seems that you are already a dishonest businessman in Valken's eyes."

Babbitt didn't care. "I don't think so. I guess before the captain left, he probably still misunderstood that you were forced to stay. I guess it was in the next two days. Petra will have more people coming soon."

Seeing Babbitt's fearless look, Cecilia was somewhat expected, but still a little curious, "Aren't you afraid that it's my father who's coming here personally?"

"I'm scared, so scared that I want to run away immediately."

There was no indication in his tone how scared Babbitt was.

Cecilia pouted.

Babbitt said seriously, "Do you know how many people there are in the entire southern region?"

It has to be said that Babbitt's territory is the largest of all dukedoms.

There are three remaining parts, each with two to three dukes.

In the vast South there is only one Duke, Babbitt.

Cecilia first estimated the approximate number of people in her mind based on the cities and villages she encountered along the way from Petra.

Compare it with the total number displayed by the system.

There are nearly a million people in the entire South?

How can this be?

The population of Hu Guzhi City is less than 180,000.

The population of the cities and villages I encountered along the way was pitifully small.

The population in villages is definitely less than 10,000, and the population in big cities is probably around 80,000 to 90,000. It is not certain for small cities, some may have just over 10,000 people, and no matter how many there are, the population will not exceed 50,000.

How many cities did you encounter along the way?

Most of them are villages.

How could there be nearly a million?

Moreover, the values ​​displayed by the system do not include illegal immigrants and people of other races.

If you count those people.

Aren’t there actually more than a million people in the entire South?

How many people are there in the entire Anatolia Palace?

Is it really not that there is something wrong with the system again?

Cecilia reported a lot less based on the data displayed by the system. Babbitt smiled and said, "It's too low."

He stood up and handed a booklet to Cecilia. "There are a total of 918,237 people in the entire South. There are 382,174 people within the eligible age and gender range. Of course, I am included."