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Chapter XXVIII: The Journey to Kezan and the Fleet

On the sea from Kezan Island back to Tanaris, two single-decker three-masted sailing warships were sailing, followed by four medium-sized single-masted sailing ships on the left and right. In the middle of the fleet, there were six escorting ships.

Merchant ship.

In addition to the original merchant ship, the remaining ten warships and five merchant ships were the fruits of Li De's trip.

‘This trade king, Hot Sand, is not simple...’

Li De, who was standing on the bow of the ship, thought that the month he and Nogfogg went to Kezan was actually not smooth at the beginning.

Because strategic weapon resources such as battleships and timber, few powerful goblins are willing to sell them. As for those who are not powerful, they simply cannot get such things.

Nogfogg visited several business partners one after another, and even contacted a good friend of his: Gazlowe, who was supervising the construction of Ratchet City.

They used to be colleagues, but Gazlowe's status was much higher. When Nogforg was just a product manager, Gazlowe was already the head of an important department. He was more senior than Nogforg.

Trusted by Trade King Hotsand.

Gazlowe, who was far away in Ratchet City, replied to Noglfogg with a letter, the general content of which was:

'He heard that Noggenfogg had made a lot of money recently, and understood his desire to further improve his status, but he suggested that Noggenfogg had better not get involved in the navy and commodity trading, which would easily lead to his death.

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He did have shipbuilding wood, but it was all prepared for the future Ratchet City. He did not dare to play tricks on the accounts and sell the goods of the corrupt trade king to Nogfogg.

Of course, as a good friend, he still gave a suggestion. If Noggenfogg is still unwilling to give up, why not ask Trade King Hotsand?'

After getting this letter, Noggenfogg seemed very distressed. He had never contacted King Steamwheedle out of fear in his heart.

He once resigned from the King of Steamwheedle, and then wanted to join the King of Steamwheedle again through business. But now these are destined to be impossible. He can't explain to the other party that he is loyal to a human race. As for concealing it? He doesn't believe it at all.

Able to hide from a trade king.

Just like he doesn't think that this business can be concluded by asking Trade King Hotsand.

However, unlike Nogfogg's idea, Li De really wanted to meet this mysterious trade king. For the owner of four neutral cities, with such strong strength and being able to stand alone between the Alliance and the Horde, it was very difficult for him.

It's hard not to get Li De interested in him.

Finally, at Li De's strong request, Nogfogg forced Li De to visit King Hotsand.

At first, Li De hid his identity and disguised himself as a guard in his entourage. However, within two minutes of meeting, Resha saw through Li De who was standing behind Nogfogg.

In Hot Sand’s own words:

"I know each of my employees. It is true that Nogfogg is very capable, but he does not have the temperament of a leader. Now it seems that my evaluation of Nogfogg may be even lower.

, no matter where you work, insufficient knowledge of your boss is a dangerous thing.

I don't resent him seeking refuge with a human leader, just as I tacitly approve of Rivergaz doing business with his green-skinned friends from another world.

The world is undergoing drastic changes. If you don't want to lose your wealth, you should be prepared to welcome the changes. The issue between humans and green-skinned orcs will be the core issue in the great changes in the world in the future.

Excellent businessmen often hedge their bets, and Rivigaz established a connection with the orcs by building ships for the orcs. As for the human race, I was actually still worried about how to communicate with the conservative human kingdom. At this time, an emerging

The leader of the human race appears in front of me, do you think I should be happy? Or should I be happy?"

The Trade King's words were so explicit that Li De was a little caught off guard, but he soon understood the reason why the Hotsand King dared to show his strength in negotiations: strength.

His strength is strong enough to move the balance of the world. In the face of absolute strength, he naturally doesn't bother to play tricks, which will increase his transaction costs.

In a word, the trade king Hotsand is investing in the future world structure. On the orc side, he has instructed Levigaz to trade with them and build sea ships.

On the human side, before he can get in touch with other people with higher status, he intends to support Li De. Of course, it is only an intention. If he wants to facilitate a deal, Li De must prove that he has the ability to support him.

The trade king wanted Lidner's certificate of surrender, which was to find a goblin on the island and recover an account of 50,000 gold coins from him.

The person who owes money to the King of Hotsand is a new little bastard who has recently emerged in the trading market, his name is Gallywix.

This goblin is a bit different. He is not only good at playing contract tricks, but also dares to use gangster-like gangster methods: creating explosions to extort and intimidate.

His various tricks made him unbeatable in transactions, and he quickly became famous. So much so that at first, Hot Sand admired him and hired him to do things for him.

Unexpectedly, this guy was so bold that he even tricked the trade king, Hotsand, and squandered his money to defect to the Bilgewater Cartel.

Although the amount of money that was hacked was not much, only 50,000 gold coins, it involved the trade king's face.

Hotsand sent several groups of people to recover the money from Gallywix, but that guy was so slippery and his engineering skills were so good that the previous groups of people couldn't do anything to him!

Because there is also a plutocrat behind that guy, although his strength is not as strong as Hot Sand. But as a trade king, Hot Sand naturally can't end it personally or use more drastic measures.

Then he took this opportunity to throw this problem to Li De as a test for him.

After hearing Hot Sand's request, Nogfogg looked at Li De with some worry. Naturally, he was not worried that Li De would not be able to deal with a hooligan in the trading market, but was worried that Li De would be angered.

In any case, Li De is also a leader and the master of northern Tanaris. To ask him to do this kind of debt collection work like a thug is simply an insult to the Protector.

However, what Nogfogg didn't expect was that Li De agreed without hesitation. In his view, face cannot be eaten as food. Beating up a gangster can be exchanged for a real warship.

Is there any business more profitable than this?

Seeing that Li De agreed so readily, Resha held the thick cigar in his mouth and clapped violently with both hands.

"Happily, I appreciate people with such a temper! Nogfogg, if you want to have a good development, you'd better try to figure out the temper of the new owner."

Li De realized that Hotsand was still a little uncomfortable with the fact that his former employees had switched to other people, otherwise he would not have ridiculed Nogfogg over and over again.

Li De would definitely not acquiesce to such behavior of sowing discord.

"I prefer laws and contracts to trying to figure out complex people's hearts. As long as official business is done, I will reuse all capable people. I have a deep understanding of Noggenfogg's ability. He has many more important tasks than trying to figure out people's hearts.

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After being criticized, Hot Sand valued Li De even more. A coward cannot be a good leader. If you support a coward, the cooperation is destined to not last long.

The next thing was much simpler. After getting the information about Gallywix from Hot Sand, Li De took a few people accompanying him to find trouble with that guy.

When he arrived at Gallywix's residence, Li De knew that the guy from Hotsand had tricked him.

What kind of little hooligan is Gallywix? His current strength is not necessarily much weaker than Nogfogg's back then.

It seems that this guy has amassed a lot of money in the financial market by cutting leeks and using dirty tricks. With this first pot of gold, he is extending his tentacles to the real field. He runs a large engine factory. In addition to

Outside the field of racing, it is probably eyeing the big pie in the military industry.

Li De finally understood why the previous groups of people couldn't do anything about Gallywix. If it weren't for Li De, they wouldn't have been able to do anything about Gallywix's 30-person workers' picket team armed to the teeth.

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To make a long story short, after a competition of force and strategy, Li De finally broke into Gallywix's office and successfully recovered the Hot Sand money from him.

After receiving the certificate of submission, the Hotsand King was very satisfied and agreed to a "fair deal" with Li De.

Two level six sailing battleships were abolished from his fleet and traded to Li De at a price of 20,000 gold coins each. It is difficult to say whether this price is fair. He bought two old ships at the price of purchasing new ships; of course,

It should be considered that the sailing battleship is a "commodity" with a price but no market.

In addition to these two battleships, eight more sloops were purchased. These were quite cheap. After all, they were less than 100 tons of "small ships" and cost 1,000 gold coins each.

In this way, Li De owned an unsatisfactory fleet for the price of 48,000 gold coins.

In addition, the Trade King generously allocated five merchant ships. Of course, these five merchant ships were not given to Li De, but were used to build the trade route between the Hotsand Conglomerate and Tanaris.

This is a great thing for Li De. The buyer and seller are both parties. These merchant ships are all under the banner of the Hotsand Conglomerate. It is much safer to use these ships for trade than to use their own merchant ships.

After the two sides signed an agreement on mutual exemption of tariffs, Li De was in a good mood and spent all the remaining gold coins to purchase a large amount of grain, cotton, wood, and utensils, and then returned home with a full load.

The people over at Hot Sand are also very happy. Even though this is only a transaction of tens of thousands of gold coins, it seems that it is not as eye-catching as the transactions of hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands in the financial market.

But in fact, the wealth circulating in the financial market often has a huge amount of water content. For those currencies that only circulate in the financial market and are unwilling to enter the entity, no matter how large the number is, it is meaningless.

Putting these aside for the moment, Reed and Noggenfogg set sail from the port of Kezan. They didn't care whether they made an enemy in Gallywix during this trip. All they thought about was the next step in building Tanaris.

plan.

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