Businessman Malacom was sitting in the living room on the first floor of the small building in the garrison camp, lowering his head and thinking about the future path of the Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group.
Suldak and the Great Swordsman Chester sat on the other two sets of sofas. There were exquisite bone china teacups on the table in front of them. The black tea inside was steaming, and Malacom's thoughts drifted away with the steam.
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The Thunder Rhino Merchant Group was inherited by Malacom from his father.
The Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group he took over at the beginning was still the largest trading group in the Bailin plane. In just twenty years, the business group's business has shrunk from covering the entire Bailin plane to only operating south of Wilkes City.
area, the entire northern region was divided up by other business groups.
In order to reduce costs and unnecessary expenses, Malacom continued to reduce the number of Thunder Rhinoceros to ensure a full business volume for the remaining Thunder Rhinoceros caravans.
But even so, his Thunder Rhino Merchant Group continues to decline every year.
Currently, there are large ranches in the northern part of the Bailin plane, and the lords do not lack horse teams, so the nobles have formed their own business groups.
Thunder Rhino Transport has no competitiveness at all.
Now some business groups in Wilkes City have begun to penetrate into the occupied area in the southern part of Wilkes City and gradually occupy the southern market.
If the beast tide hadn't come, merchant Malacom might have started competing with those small business groups for the southern market.
A small group of ghost-striped red ants infiltrated into the northern area of Bailin, and the cavalry could not stop the ambush of the ghost-striped red ants. His Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group was ordered to do so at the critical moment. It was called up by the military to transport war supplies and support the northern border towns.
This incident has caused dissatisfaction among many elders in the family. Recently, he can only try his best to calm down the family disputes caused by this incident.
It's not that he doesn't want to be a supplier to the military.
In fact, business groups can only get some stable transportation business if they have a military background.
When the Bena people opened up the White Forest Plane, the opportunity for the Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group to enter the White Forest Plane was because the Thunder Rhinoceros could carry various supplies in complex terrain.
The lords of the Bena Province fought in the Bailin plane and gradually opened up a land of nearly a thousand kilometers in radius.
However, Malacom's great-grandfather died on the battlefield to open up the territory. His grandfather was also seriously injured while leading a caravan to transport supplies to the front line. He died not long after returning home. His father was also transporting supplies on the way.
Lost two legs...
In his generation, the only condition for inheriting the Thunder Merchant Group is to promise not to join the military merchant group.
Thinking of my father holding his hand before he died, he said: 'Malacom, I know you...you are just like me when I was young. You want to develop the business group. I don't care what you do, but you must
Don't become a business group accompanying the army. They always want to send the Thunder Rhinoceros to the front line. Hey... I don't want you to regret it after you lose something...'
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves outside the window, and a group of cavalry passed by the window, raising a cloud of dust.
Malacom retracted his thoughts, raised the tea cup to his mouth and blew on it, then asked Surdak: "Baron Surdak, you said you want to acquire these sixteen modified Thunder Rhinoceros...
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There was some bitterness and reluctance in his voice, but there was determination in his eyes.
Surdak and the great swordsman Chester looked at each other before saying: "Yes, but if you want to become a merchant group accompanying the army, we are also very welcome. The Lutheran Army will continue on the Bailin plane.
Stationed for a period of time, I can help you apply for the greatest convenience, and... aren't we engaged in trade now?"
After speaking, he paused again before continuing: "This is actually no different from the merchant group accompanying the army."
Businessman Malacom rubbed his temples, put the tea cup to his lips again and took a sip of tea. He put down the tea cup and said to Suldak: "I have decided to sell these sixteen Thunder Rhinoceros to you!"
Regarding Malacom's decision, not only Suldak was stunned, Great Swordsman Chester was also surprised.
Suldak had previously proposed to businessman Malacom that he wanted to take over these sixteen thunder rhinos. Not only would he return all the modification costs for the 23 thunder rhinos, but he would also buy the 16 thunder rhinos at the original price.
For such a huge deal, Surdak thought for a while and said: "In this case, with sixteen Thunder Rhinos, an epic sharp bow and the previous debt, I can pay you 1,600 magic crystals...
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This amount of money was equivalent to the cost of ten sets of primary magic pattern constructs. Surdak found that he was actually far away from the Construct Knights.
"Originally, I wanted to make some more money, buy some magic pattern structures, and form a knightly structure!" Surdak said with a smile.
The great swordsman Chester was stunned, and then said:
"Assembling the Constructed Knights? I'm afraid this is really difficult. Not only is it difficult to buy magic pattern constructs, but those war horses are also hard to find. Even if Grand Duke Newman wants to buy a black scale horse, he has to go to Salta himself.
Duke, in addition to that, you also need to consider the daily maintenance of these magic pattern constructs. Each construct knights also need to have a full-time inscription master... Those are inscription masters! They are not the magicians that can be seen everywhere in the magic union."
Surdak just said it casually, but he didn't expect that the great swordsman Chester would actually understand it so well.
Surdak sighed softly and said: "So...each Constructed Knights can show the true heritage of a noble family."
Malacom smiled and said to Surdak: "Of course, to independently form an order of Construct Knights, not counting the salary paid to the Construct Knights, the establishment alone will cost at least one million gold coins."
"If the knights have weapons at hand and only need to prepare war horses and magic patterns, then they will need at least 800,000 gold coins and find so many first-level knights. What is the reason for the noble lords who do not have a certain reputation?
Where to follow?”
The three of them talked about constructing the Knights, and Surdak discovered that implanting the magic pattern of life was probably another way. Although the magic pattern printed on the body was worse than the magic pattern construct, it was better than life.
The cost of making magic patterns is not high.
Surdak spent huge sums of money to purchase these thunder rhinoceros, not to form a caravan and prepare to launch commercial trade on the Bailin plane.
His idea was to form an archer regiment with a mobile turret, which could also serve as a logistics team. These modified Thunder Rhinoceros could completely become a war beast on the battlefield.
The only trouble is that these thunder rhinos eat a lot.
You need to eat wheat bran, hay, and bean cakes pressed from beans every day. These forages alone will cost a lot of money.
There is alfalfa everywhere in Duodan Town, so there is no cost, but wheat bran and beans need to be purchased from merchants.
The two sat on the sofa on the first floor and discussed for a whole afternoon before finally settling on the deal.
Surdak took out a magic contract scroll and made some transaction terms with the businessman Malacom, and both parties signed their names on it.
After sending away the businessman Malacom, the Great Swordsman Chester finally realized a problem: where did the money in Suldak's hand come from.
Before coming to the Bailin plane, Marquis Luther secretly created a new cavalry battalion because he was worried that Suldak would not be able to afford the military expenses for setting up a cavalry battalion.
It was just that there were some differences with Surdak on some personnel concepts, so the new cavalry battalion army did not reach Bai Lin's plane in the end.
After a second thought, I finally thought about those hard armors placed on the grassy slope outside the town... Come to think of it, there is a magic crystal behind each piece of hard armor, and the red ant armor covering the grassy slopes
There must be at least thousands of armor skins.
These days, the cavalry battalion goes to the hills and mountains to hunt ghost-striped red ants almost every day.
But seeing the way these cavalrymen hunted ghostly red ants, Great Swordsman Chester wasn't surprised...that's how it should be.
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In order to complete the deal, Surdak could only transport the wooden boxes filled with magic cores back to the small building, and then he picked up Gulitem who was eating and drinking, and was gambling with the veterans in the cavalry camp.
Andrew, Samira and the others who were practicing archery on the archery range worked together to unlock all these magic cores.
Fortunately, Surdak possesses the 'eye of truth', which allows him to see through the hard surface of the magic core and see the outline of the magic crystal inside.
The magic cores selected by Surdak himself basically contain formed magic crystals.
The remaining ones contain incomplete magic crystals, which can only be made into magic crystal fragments. Now we don't have time to deal with these magic cores, so we have to put them all back into the box.
Early the next morning, Surdak took 1,600 magic crystals and came to the camp of the Thunder Rhino Caravan to complete the transaction with Malacom.
In the future, both parties will continue to cooperate closely.
The business of transporting hard armor leather has to be left to the Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group. Surdak has recently accumulated a large amount of hard armor leather, and through the leather making workshop of Helensa, Surdak has now completed 500 pieces of hard armor leather.
The war horses were all replaced with hard leather armor made of soldier ant leather.
All five hundred sets of plate-type armor made of black iron have been eliminated and will be sold by Malacom's Thunder Rhino Merchant Group.
This time, Malacom also brought ten single-item magic pattern structures and one hundred magic weapons. Surdak will also pay merchant Malacom 600 magic crystals.
I couldn't help but pat my forehead, thinking about the magic crystals I owed... and whether I should use those magic crystal fragments to pay off the debt.
Surdak also asked Malacom to help him train some local aboriginal herdsmen to become Thunder Rhino handlers.
In addition, he was asked to buy some bed crossbows from the magic market and install them on the platform of the Thunder Rhinoceros.
The number of Thunder Rhinoceros has increased to eighteen, and it is impossible for Surdak to unload all the thirty-two crossbows remaining on the northern city wall...
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The second batch of hard armor shipped to Bena City has been loaded and is all loaded onto the shelves of the Thunder Rhino Caravan, which is about to depart from Dodan Town.
Businessman Malacom is doing the final inventory with his entourage. These hard armors will be transported to Bena City and handed over to the Brunei manager of the Gophero family.
At the same time, a large amount of fresh ghost-marked male ant monster meat was brought to the butcher shop owner Xander.
Hathaway and Beatrice will also leave Dodan Town with the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group, and their short vacation is over.
Although they hoped that they could stay and help him deal with the affairs of the town, Hathaway and Beatrice thought about it for three nights and decided to return to Bena City.
Great Swordsman Chester will also rush to Wilkes City with the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group.
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Surdak stood on the hard carapace of the ghost-striped male ant next to the southern entrance of the town.
The Thunder Rhinoceros Merchant Group took heavy steps and gradually moved away amidst the rumble and roar.
With the scent of roses from the passionate kiss between Beatrice and Hathaway still lingering on his lips, Suldak retracted his gaze from the distance and jumped down from the hard carapace of the two-meter-high male ant.
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He knew that the two fiancées would not stay this time.
Before the big wedding, you may not see each other too much.
This time, Marquis Luther stuffed himself into his legion, making it clear that he was here to gain meritorious service.
Now this meritorious service has been accumulated. As long as this beast wave is over, the reward of promotion to the title should be passed down.
Marquis Luther needs to hold a decent and grand wedding for his daughter. Nothing else is missing. The only thing missing is Suldak's identity. Obviously, as a baron, marrying the beloved daughter of the Marquis family is always a bit awkward.
Not decent enough.
Surdak guessed that he would probably become a viscount.
I just didn't expect that military garrison would actually gain so many benefits.
Marquis Luther had never mentioned the information about the Bailin plane before, and he was obviously testing Surdak. The greater his ability, the greater the benefits he would gain...
No wonder the noble lords are rushing to squeeze into the plane.
Sure enough, the richness here is much better than the sulfur mine in Pudu Mountain...
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Hathaway and Beatrice stood on the platform behind Thunder Rhinoceros, holding on to the wooden railings with their hands. The town of Dodan in the distance became smaller and smaller.
Thunder Rhinoceros walked very smoothly.
Standing on the back of Thunder Rhino, the breeze on the grassland ruffled Hathaway's golden curls. She protected her long hair with her hands, and Beatrice took out a gauze scarf to help her wrap her long hair.
The corners of Hathaway's mouth turned up slightly, a sweet smile broke out, she turned around and hugged the chubby Beatrice tightly, and said softly:
"This is his life, and it will be our life in the future."
Beatrice was obviously a little slow and didn't quite understand the meaning of Hathaway's words, so she asked: "How long will he be stationed here?"
Hathaway smiled even sweeter, and her eyes fell on the top of the snowy peaks of the towering Thorny Mountains in the distance. The thick clouds were like a pile of white wool piled together.
"It is possible that it will be stationed forever."
"Why?" Beatrice asked.
"This may no longer be a border town. The empire's territory on the Bailin plane will continue to extend northward to Invercargill Forest. I am afraid that two mines will be opened there in the future. He will open up Invercargill Forest."
After opening up, at least one-third of this forest and this large area of hills and mountains belongs to him." Hathaway whispered to Beatrice.
"What to do with these ghost-striped red ants? That forest is not as dangerous as the Thorny Mountains. How can we defend it when the beast tide comes?" Beatrice covered her mouth in surprise and lowered her voice.
"That may be a long time later, but we have to prepare early." Hathaway pulled Beatrice into the wooden house, sat on the bench and said easily: "I want to return to Bena City, so I will start looking up