Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 10 8. Go, go north
On September 996, 9, the Emperor of the Imperial Calendar, Rand woke up early.

Just last night when they had just settled down, several of his knights found him, thinking that there were too many monsters in the forest, enough to threaten the safety of the entire camp.

Staying here is likely to attract intermediate and high-level monsters, and returning to the previous camp may be discovered by barbarians.

Now Rand is not like what he did with Rolle and Albert before, it is impossible to put down his luggage and more than 200 people.

The only thing he can do is to send a scouting force, let the Greyhound scout in the direction of the forest, and Roll scout out of the forest, and choose a camp plan with the least danger.

However, besides Forest Rand, he was also thinking about other possibilities. He approached Albert and asked about his previous experience of doing business on the Galloping Horse Plain.

Albert was blunt about most of these experiences. The so-called merchants in the Galloping Horse Territory were actually smuggling to the barbarians in the Galloping Horse Plain.

This kind of smuggling is mainly to buy some rune plates, cloth, and grains for daily use from the interior of the kingdom, and exchange them for livestock, meat products, leather products, and woolen products of the barbarians. Of course, it is not smuggling just to exchange native products. Three kinds of strategic materials were smuggled out of the plain: high-quality war horses, iron, and salt.

That's right, both iron and horses are produced on the Benma Plain, but the barbarians who have mastered strategic resources have not been able to complete the upgrade of their organization, nor have they been able to rush out of the Benma Plain to invade the hinterland of the human race. It can only be said that on Alivia , magic is the most basic ability.

The empire monopolizes salt, iron, copper, tin, gemstones, gold and silver, magic ores and magic metals, and a specialized agency - the Imperial Salt and Iron Division conducts unified exploration, mining, transportation, smelting and distribution.

Of course, as a department of the empire, it is impossible to reach out to every principality and kingdom. Therefore, Yantiesi adopted the agent system outside the territory directly under the empire, and found 1-2 agents related to the royal family in each kingdom. Agency related business.

For example, in the Dragon Kingdom, there are three legendary national pillars, and the agent Yantiesi found in the Dragon Kingdom is the Blue Dragon Family, one of the three pillars, acting as an agent for the salt and iron trade in the entire Dragon Kingdom.

As the general agent, the Blue Dragon family will set up a business firm in each earl's territory as a secondary dealer, controlled by the young people of the Blue Dragon family, all the markets and groceries that operate strategic resources such as salt and iron in the entire kingdom Shops are their third-tier distributors.

In the cooperation between the Imperial Salt and Iron Division and the agent, the sales price, profit, share and other key matters in the sale of salt and iron will be stipulated to ensure the stability of the price of salt and iron in the sales area. The interests of the iron company can also reduce the cost of living of the citizens.

The sales profit of each level in the entire three-level dealer system will be stipulated. In this way, on the ledger of the general agent of the Blue Dragon family, after deducting the cost of transporting salt from coastal areas, the sale of salt in the kingdom It is completely small profits but quick turnover, relying entirely on the population base of the entire kingdom to maintain profitability.

In this way, Huck and the others smuggle salt from the Benma Plain, because there is no need to share profits with Lanlong and Yantiesi, as long as the price of smuggled salt is slightly lower than Yantiesi's official salt, they can earn more than Yantiesi. , Blue Dragon, and any first-level dealer's profits, standing on the standpoint of the Blue Dragon family is dividing up their family's interests.

Of course, this kind of division is acquiesced to a certain extent, because most of Huck’s salt is digested in Ben’s territory. Strategic commodities such as salt and iron have low unit prices and high transportation costs. If you want to make a lot of money, you have to think The way to carry out large-scale trade is by water. If you only use animals to carry it, you can't make a lot of money in total. Therefore, Huck's smuggling has no impact on the market outside the barony.

And Huck is in a certain strategic position, and ensuring the stability of Huck's territory is good for the entire northwest region of the dragon. Therefore, for the Blue Dragon Family, the benefits of private salt taken away by Huck are part of what they gave to Huck. A stable fund for the Northwest.

Huck's most profitable trade in recent years is actually war horse trade. The quality of the black-scaled horses on the Galloping Horse Plain is good, but this quality is the result of the double influence of blood and magic environment. Once the black-scaled horses enter the inland, the first The quality of the second generation will be significantly lower than that of the previous generation. To some extent, the black scaled horse is a high-end equipment limited to the production area.

So for Huck, selling black scaled horses is a high-cost, high-yield project, and he doesn't have to worry about his own horses being unable to sell if the big horses get off the pony.However, the total amount of horse trade is also limited. After all, if you are doing business with barbarians, you are collaborating with the enemy on the surface, and you can only trade in private.

Listening to Albert's introduction, Rand couldn't figure out a few things. Why were the barbarians able to mine?Since they can mine, why didn't they build a fixed city?
Now that there is a fixed mining area, why didn't they conduct a large amount of trade with the Dragon Kingdom?Lante didn't quite know the doorway here, but he grasped a point. Apart from cooperating with the Viscount Rotor's territory, Huck's merchants would also do it privately.

The territory of Rott is considered to be the gatekeeper of the Galloping Horse Plain. Since it can hide from the gatekeeper and enter the door quietly, at least there is a window to enter.

Rand's guess was not wrong. Albert was sure that in their current forest, there was a path leading to the Galloping Horse Plain. Southwestern part of the plain.

That night, Greyhound and Roll returned to the camp one after another.According to Greyhound, it is not normal that there are too many monsters near the camp. He doesn't know the reason for this phenomenon, but he can be sure that these monsters are no easier to deal with than the barbarians.

The result of Rolle's investigation was that the barbarians did not leave the baron's castle, and they stayed in the baron's castle.

Lante was a little uncertain. Did Viscount Rott make preparations in advance to increase the number of monsters near the camp? After all, there are not a few people in Rott's territory who know the western forest. Buying some animal offal in advance and putting it near the camp is enough to attract the monsters back.

As long as there is a conflict between humans and monsters, the new smell of blood will only attract more monsters.

But now, Rand has new hope. He asked Roll to go north the next day and go to the business lane for investigation.Let Greyhound take the red sand and go to the depths of the forest to guard.

On the 23rd, after a day of investigation, Rolle came back and reported that the plain outside the northern trail was empty, and there were no barbarians within more than ten kilometers nearby.

Greyhound reported that some small monsters had appeared west of the camp.

Lante knew that he might have no choice, so Lante gathered all the citizens again.He decided to use a speech to let everyone understand why he wanted to go north.

"Every demon owner, every leader" Rand, who summoned the full body leader, stood on a wooden box this time. Fortunately, as a junior knight, he is tall. He has grown a little taller after eating monster meat for two days recently. It is easy to be seen in a crowd.

"We were in a hurry the day before yesterday, and I didn't tell everyone why we hid in the forest.

Now I must tell the truth: the Land of Galloping Horses has been betrayed!My father, Huck Benma, the baron of the territory, encountered an accident on the way out, and my two older brothers were plundered by the barbarians! "

"Ah!" "My God!" "How could this be?" Ordinary people have a very good impression of Huck. It is thanks to Huck that everyone can eat enough these years. At first they thought that Huck had gone to the territory of Rott or Earl's maned wolf city joins other knights.

Now they heard that Huck and his two sons had been kidnapped by the barbarians, and everyone was very worried.

"However, this is not the worst. What's worse is that someone is summoning monsters in the forest to attack us through magic.

Just today, Greyhound knights have discovered some small monsters in the west of us. Tomorrow there will be large monsters. Maybe the day after tomorrow we can only choose whether to be robbed by barbarians or eaten by monsters. "Lant attributed the arrival of Warcraft to magic, and no one would question it anyway.

When Rand finished speaking, there was another burst of surprise and panic below.

"In order for everyone to survive, I will take you north to the Galloping Horse Plain! On the vast plain, it will be difficult for the barbarians to find us, and our livestock can continue to grow.

I announce that the camp will be disbanded early tomorrow morning, and the entire camp will be moved to the Benma Plain within two days! "

After Rand finished speaking, he left and let Albert go to work with the vassals, while he led Greyhound, Rolle and the other two junior knights.

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In the early morning of the next day, Rand's camp had completed the preparations before pulling out the camp. Albert and several reserve knights led the leaders to leave first.Several junior knights including Roll, Rand, and Greyhound stayed together for the time being, ready to hunt.

After the people in the territory were at least 1 kilometer away, Greyhound opened a leather bag, which contained the meat of the steel bristle pigs that had been killed two nights ago.

Taking advantage of the waiting time just now, several junior knights dug some big pits for traps, and put bristle pork into the pits, and soon some small monsters like mandarin ducks, fire iguanas, and water salamanders came over. They were not in a hurry. Seeing these little monsters enter the pit, Luo Er jumped down and killed them one by one. Greyhound and his son were checking for gaps beside the pit.

After more than a dozen small monsters came one after another, Hongsha, who was on guard in the distance, ran over quickly, and it should be that the big one was coming.

Sure enough, not long after, five steel bristle pigs came over smelling the smell.This time, Rand, Greyhound and his son, Walker and Territorial Knight Iron Hammer are beside Roll. There are a total of 5 low-level knights. It is not difficult for 5 people to deal with five pigs: Roll and Greyhound teamed up to kill one by one. It is enough for a few people to pester other pigs, and within 6 minutes, several pigs will all die.

But Rand and the others knew that they were running out of time, and the more advanced Warcraft might not come when.

So they changed the method and put a pig on the ground first, preparing to use it as bait for other monsters.

Rand was on guard, and others cleaned up the other pigs, mainly the magic crystal on the head of the monster, the meat of the monster, and the skin of the monster.And small monsters do not have magic crystals and more valuable skins, so they can only be cut out of flesh.

The difference between Warcraft and ordinary beasts is that Warcraft can perceive and use magic. When Warcraft can use magic, it will form a nucleus-shaped organ on the head to store magic power. This organ is called the magic core.

Specific magic crystals may be precipitated during running-in, that is, magic crystals.

Magic crystals can release a certain amount of magic power and will disappear after release, so they are widely used as a source of magic power for magic items.Because of this, magic crystals are also hard currency that can be used to buy items.

整个人类帝国的发行三种不同面值的货币：金币、银币、铜币。三者换算比例为1:10:100，1个铜币可以购买一份不算小的麦饼，3个铜币可以购买半公斤小麦，而半公斤盐需要2个银币。

Because the magic crystals that can be produced by the magic core of different monsters are different in size and attribute, the price of the smallest magic crystal fluctuates around 10 gold coins.

In the latest hunt, only 1 magic crystals were produced from 8 shadow leopard and 3 bristle pigs.This is a great wealth for Rand. The income of the territory fluctuates between 300-500 gold coins a year. The reason for the fluctuation is how many black-scaled horses can be transported out of the plains. Each of these black-scaled horses It can be sold at a high price of 30 gold coins in Maned Wolf City, but it can be sold at a sky-high price of more than 50 gold coins in Dragon Tooth City.

As far as the territory is concerned, gold coins are just a calculation tool, not a storage tool. No matter how many gold coins are sold in the city, it will become goods needed by the territory and merchants in less than a day.

Just when a few people finished opening the magic core and clearing away the monster meat, a new monster came, the wind wolf. This kind of monster can control the magic element of the wind system, and use the wind element to accelerate itself or form a wind blade.

The wind wolf that came should be an old wind wolf who was alone, and was quickly killed by Luo Er.But within 20 minutes, a black flame tiger came, completely making all the medium-sized monsters run away.

The flame tiger is more than 2 meters high at the shoulder, more than 6 meters long, and has a long tail.Let alone the medium-sized monsters in the forest, even Rand was thinking about how to slip away.Fortunately, Flame Tiger's IQ is not low, so there is no need to fight with others if there is meat to eat.

The tiger ate the big pig, and Lant and others left safely with 2 pigs and 20 small monsters that had already been packed.Several people didn't dare to go to the team immediately, fearing that the monsters would catch up after them, but asked Hongsha to keep checking the team's position.

Several people kept wandering around with animal skin bags on their backs.Finally at night, the crowd and the large army converged on the ancient river going north.

In the early morning of September 9th, Rand walked into the Galloping Horse Plain with his knights and leaders.The moment he entered the plain, Rand felt as if he had crossed the river like a pawn.

After entering the Galloping Horse Plain, the deepest feeling is the sense of chaos of magic elements that I felt in the Galloping Horse Territory a few days ago, and I don't know how many times stronger it is here.

Before, he could barely condense some battle energy, but here he couldn't condense it at all.

Rand understands why only barbarians can survive here. They only need to be physically strong and don't plan to use magic. Naturally, it doesn't matter if there is turbulence or not.

Rand led the camp to find a place with a hillside and a river, and then released Roll and Greyhound to investigate. He asked Albert to be a consultant and began to decorate the entire camp.

Rand doesn't think that even a nomadic tribe can't meet them. If he wants to avoid countless barbarians coming to trouble him, he should first dress up like a barbarian, including adding tent decorations, asking the leaders to wear more white cloth and thicker lines. fur.

Rand also went to the country to do as the Romans do, and made a barbarian-style flag with a picture of galloping horses.

He intends to call his tribe the "Benma Tribe", which can be regarded as inheriting the ancestral system.

The steward came to report in the afternoon that due to the continuous trek in the camp, the food was eaten faster than usual. If the return date cannot be determined, it is necessary to start looking for food.Fortunately, there are rivers here, where you can fish.

However, the camp has a large population, and the knights and demon users eat a lot.

As soon as there is no security pressure, we will face a food crisis.Rand was very helpless, and could only organize the people to start fishing in the river.

However, during the rest process, Rand also discovered many problems.

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