Swords only shows me where that market wagon is, I can find no soldiers tho I have defense expense. I get rid of the ore smelter right away. Never tried building a fishers hut and selling the food.
That soldier is cleverly hidden I suppose! Try moving the market wagon and searching again. And the wait on the bricks can be a very long wait. You can sell a little bit of food if you build a fisher's hut. Don't over buy on cloth and set your purchase price for bricks at the max, sometimes that can encourage the traders to sell bricks to you. But still at that you will have to wait until the other players are selling brick to the trader. Only buy 3 brick if you are worried about running out of gold. I put mine on F7 and let it run tilll I get the bricks. I also sleep the woodcutter when he is waiting on trees to grow back in the 7 plots available.