Unlike the north, which is still covered with ice and snow, spring comes very early in the Central Plains of the south. Within two weeks after the first spring rain falls, the temperature rises rapidly. The continuous spring rain is also a symbol of the new year.
To use a commonly used expression in the church, the goddess of winter, Tonya, also simply handed over the authority to the goddess of spring, Elogel. In this spring season, the plants that have been hibernating all winter sprout new leaves, and the hungry animals
They also start to look for food, a new cycle of the year begins again, everything begins to revive, and new life is born in this golden time.
Well, let’s stop at literature and art. To be honest, let’s start with making money. Since spring is here, business opportunities are also here.
In this era of cold weapons, transportation still relies on horses and carriages. In winter, roads are frozen, making transportation inconvenient. Freight transportation of goods and daily necessities is slow. After one winter, every household consumes a lot and needs to replenish various supplies.
necessity.
Therefore, every spring is a prime time for caravans to make money, and a slight price increase is acceptable. Coupled with the huge demand, for merchants who specialize in this line of business, the astonishing profits of this first batch of goods
, can even account for 30% of the annual income.
The Kingdom of Largos is rich in silk, green crystal ore, red wooden staff, and three-leaf rosemary. Among them, green crystal and three-leaf rosemary are the casting materials among spellcasters, and the red wooden staff is very good.
Staff embryos are a commodity imported in large quantities to the Mage Country and the Bayer Empire.
Where there is a market demand, there will be sellers. The caravans at the beginning of every year will set off on time during the last snow to go to exotic places to exchange specialty goods for gold coins. When it comes to the return journey, the gold coins are exchanged for gold coins rich in the Bayer Empire.
All kinds of specialties. Every time you come here, you will get a huge harvest.
But it's the same as in a different world. Although the profits of border trade are surprisingly large, the risks are also very high. If you encounter bandits or illegal officials, half of the goods will be fine. If you are too unlucky, there may even be a military coup or war.
Unexpected factors may occur, and all your money will be lost.
But in this era, the most dangerous thing is to be attracted by a certain "lord". After all, no matter how big a businessman's connections are, he can still reach neighboring countries. As long as he can have a clear reason to eat the wealth of foreign businessmen,
For some big nobles, this is simply a free breakfast.
Practitioners of businesses that ordinary people dare not do are naturally not ordinary people. Those who dare to engage in border trade are often not easy to deal with. They either have extremely tough backgrounds or are even involved with the royal families of various countries. They are not afraid of the extortion of ordinary lords.
. Or you have the power to protect yourself, raising a mercenary group or something. After all, the only ones who can protect you when you go out are probably the trustworthy combat forces in your hands.
The person in charge of the Vicky Chamber of Commerce is not the inherited noble, but obviously the latter. Although their chamber of commerce is only a new chamber of commerce that has just emerged no more than 20 years ago, due to the painstaking management of the past family heads, it has basically monopolized the Bayer Empire Anliso.
The merchant guild route from the city to the settled city of Largos Kingdom, their private mercenaries are no worse than the army of the small lords, but this year, the situation is a little different.
"...It seems that we can only hope that we won't lose money this time."
As one of the top executives of the Chamber of Commerce, Cindy Vicky, who is 46 years old today, has been running this route for almost 30 years. However, unlike in the past, the domestic situation in the Bayer Empire has been turbulent recently, and various rumors have continued.
Businessmen are naturally sensitive to crises. In their eyes, when there is major internal turmoil in a country, the economy will naturally have problems. Recently, there have been many strange monsters and undead rumors in the Bayer Empire, which has even made the two
The number of caravans traveling between countries dropped sharply.
He could see the tense situation that was about to come, and he was anxious in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. Many orders had been placed last year, and some old customers who had been there for decades could not be offended at all. This business had to leave anyway.
In an emergency, the president of the Vicky Chamber of Commerce was willing to spend a lot of money to hire two of the top ten mercenary groups in the Kingdom of Largos, and also required them to send high-level elite combat forces at the captain level.
As a result, strong players came. Yost, the "Star Sword" of the Solo Eagle Mercenary Group, and "White Dragon" Carogier of the Northern Horn Mercenary Group were both very famous strong men, and they also brought them with them as promised.
He is an elite subordinate of his, but I am afraid that the income this time is not enough to pay the employment fee.
"Don't really get into trouble, especially those undead people who don't care about their lives..."
If there is no battle when hiring mercenaries, according to the usual practice, just paying the commission will be enough, and you will not have to pay a high consolation payment due to the loss, so you can somewhat recover the cost.
"Ms. Cindy, why are you always looking so sad? The weather is really nice today. If you can walk more, you should at least be happy."
In Cindy's eyes, this blond boy with a playful face looked only fifteen or sixteen years old. However, after a little in-depth communication, Cindy found that she still felt that she could not see through this boy named Luo Luo.
He may seem childish and careless, but in fact he is very talented in business. Sometimes the other party will say something casually, and he will think about it for a long time, and in the end he will think it makes perfect sense.
When the silver-coin mercenary group with strange members came to the door and offered ultra-low-price employment fees, I was still surprised and thought there was some conspiracy, but when I saw the batch of goods they were dragging, I understood.
It turned out that I was overthinking it. They were just planning to hitch a ride. The so-called door-to-door service was just a cover-up. The real purpose was to make a small fortune through their huge fleet of vehicles.
Originally, this kind of hitchhiking was a bit taboo and would generally not be accepted. However, when the other party revealed the true meaning of "hitchhiking", he frankly admitted that he was not the one and even offered to pay a considerable amount to the Chamber of Commerce.
Considerable "travel expenses".
"...This batch of Wenluo wine must be delivered. The world is not peaceful now. How dare we go on the road alone with our small bodies. We will pay for it, and if we really encounter trouble, there will be more people to help us."
.”
Of course, we were able to go together in the end. So I really don’t know whether the thank you money given to Cindy in private had any effect.
"By the way, Captain Luo Luo, can you tell me more about the relationship between bank borrowings and market prices that you mentioned yesterday? There were some things I still didn't understand yesterday. For example, if I could talk to the bank...
"
For Cindy, who has been in business for half her life, she has gained a lot in the past few days. Although the man in front of her is young, he is indeed a mage who is famous for his wisdom. His knowledge of the lending industry, banking industry... well,
According to him, they should all be collectively referred to as finance. His personal views are completely different from those of the world. Although he is deviant, if you think about it carefully, he has his own unique ideas, which makes a lot of sense.
Moving to a lower level, when I saw Cindy talking endlessly about business, I felt a little regretful about why I used to be a talkative and talk about those messy financial aphorisms.
"Originally, I joined the group pretending to be a businessman. I casually mentioned a few economic theories from my previous life, but who knew that I actually took it seriously and didn't say it. I was actually very interested in asking the truth. I am a legal major and I am not interested in economics. The principle
If you know it so clearly, if you continue to be questioned, you can only tell nonsense."
How to make a lie look like the truth, just put one lie in another lie that is easy to see through, and let the "smart people" expose the "falsehood" themselves and find the "truth" they want.
It was an unexpected surprise to meet Cindy's caravan, but it is not easy to sneak into their heavily guarded caravan. If we take the initiative to recommend ourselves, we will most likely be rejected. If we show our strength, it will make the other party suspicious.
There wouldn't be any conspiracy, so I simply bought a batch of wine, made a fake order, and pretended to save money and act as a mercenary trader.
As a result, the headache now is that the disguise was a bit too successful. The few words he said casually and heard from hearsay were regarded as treasures by the businessman in front of him. If he continues to ask questions like this, he will really give away the truth.
"Shh, this is forbidden."
Well, since I don’t know how to answer, let’s treat it as a secret that I don’t want to tell. Although the answer and lines I made are not cute at all, but the result is that the other party pays more attention to me, and turns from frontal attack to side detour.
Talk to me every day just to come up with some ideas.
And today is already the third day of departure. This guy actually started asking questions after we met him in the morning. Just when I was about to continue to fool him, suddenly, the noise from behind the team and the sound of weapons clashing attracted our attention.
.
"Come again?"
We are a little helpless. We are not the best in literature and military, and our colleagues are enemies. Another side effect of joining the caravan in the name of an adventure group is that the other two mercenary groups in the caravan are hostile and unhappy with us.
"We have accepted the escort mission. Originally, the two large mercenary groups were unhappy about sharing the mission reward equally. What do you guys mean by jumping out?"
Even though I have said that I will not compete with them for commissions, sometimes in this business I just want to fight for words. Several mercenary groups have provoked quite a lot in the past two days. According to the usual practice, if we are in the wrong, we will suffer a loss once, but even if I
They had been asked to show their weakness to the enemy several times, but in the end, none of them were economical. They promised in person but committed crimes behind their backs. In the end, they tortured the mercenaries time and time again. As a result, the two mercenary groups suffered losses and kept hoping to find someone.
He saved his face, only to suffer more and more losses time and time again.
And now, it is undoubtedly another dispute caused by an "accident".
Suddenly, a purple starlight demonic shadow appeared over the camp, and the source of the attraction was the place where there was a lot of people.
"...Then it should be the epic divine weapon Starfall Sword that Captain Yost is famous for. He is worthy of being a gold-level weapon master. It is so terrifying. It seems that the master has taken it seriously, huh? All
At this point, Captain Luo Luo doesn’t seem to be worried about his own people getting hurt at all?”
I smiled bitterly and shook my head.
"Worried, of course I'm worried, I'm just worried about the Starfall Sword. Let's go and have a look, hope nothing happens... Damn it, that idiot actually challenged Xiaohong! Cindy, you guys take the lead
There are coffins in the goods, I’ll buy one, oh, no, I guess the coffin won’t be used anymore, do you have a tombstone?”
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While Roland and his party were still on the road, the Bayer Empire's surprise attack plan encountered an unexpected little trouble.
Driven by the full force of many obsidian ghost towers, the artificial death plane subsidence was indeed successful. A large number of low-level undead were created, but in a world full of negative energy, even the horizon turned gray-white.
In a monotonous world, there is a patch of green that stands out.
"Haven't you figured out what that is? Damn it, why is there a forest there? It actually actively attacks the forest of the undead."
Lich Ailu originally thought this was a very simple task, just to control a large number of low-level undead to massacre unsuspecting humans, but the sudden appearance of the strange forest made his actions far behind expectations. Thinking of the failure of the undead emperors,
He was treated with such cruelty that even though he was unconscious, he still felt chills running down his spine.
"Sir, there are more and more strange plants in that forest, and the forest has begun to spread, and the most incredible thing..."
Kaka, the vampire in black robe, spoke in an increasingly softer voice. He seemed to be guessing, but he was a little unsure.
"What is it? Just tell me!"
"It feels like the recent best-selling chess game Zombies vs. Plants. The types of plants are all that can be seen in the chess pieces! I am an experienced player, so I can see it at a glance."
"And those plants are specially made for the undead. Those pea shooters can actually shoot holy light bombs. Those magic vines can actually extract the power of death. There is holy water in those plant bombs. It feels like this forest is the natural enemy of the undead.
.”
Elu was stunned for a moment, then became furious, and the ice hand shaped by magic grabbed the unlucky vampire.
"What? Our undead army has actually become someone else's game? Are we now playing monkey tricks in the eyes of others?"
The furious Lich remembered the result of not completing the task, and unleashed his magic power wantonly, causing the high-level undead around him to retreat quickly. Only the unlucky guy, who was pale and frozen, desperately tried to save himself.
"Sir, since the opponent's arms are common in the game, we can also think of ways to deal with the opponent from the game."
Touching his chin, which was only a bone, Lich Ailu nodded.
"for example?"
The unlucky vampire tried his best to use his brains and finally found several methods.
"For example, there are ground-burrowing zombies, flying zombies, and iron-bucket zombies. Plants can only defend one side. We can use the air force to attack, and we can also take a detour. There are many ways."
"Well, well, not bad! You can lead the team."
Well, even dying in battle is better than being executed by your superiors. The bloodthirsty Kaka immediately set off with a new batch of undead army,
But the result remains the same.
Flying? Dandelion bombs floating in the sky are waiting for you."
Escape? The roots of magic vines and demonized plants have long created a deadly soul-stealing network.
Putting a protective coat on the undead? A giant piranha suddenly protruded from the ground and swallowed everything.
Taking a detour? This reality is not a game. There are forests all over the mountains and wilderness. Find a detour there.
But the lucky (unlucky) Kaka miraculously survived. He was completely broken and only had half a breath left. But looking at the blazing blue soul fire in Eru's eyes, he suddenly felt that it would be better not to come back.
good.
"Haha, what else do you plan to say?"
"Sir, you can't blame us for being incompetent. That guy cheated. Those soldiers are rare. If you have to draw tens of thousands of gold coins repeatedly, you may not get one. He actually has them all. This is simply gold coin players bullying us civilian players. It's too much.
!”
"Crack!"
With a crisp sound, the veteran game addict Vampire was frozen into the ice. Elu, who was full of anger, glanced at his subordinates, but only saw dodges in their eyes. In the end, he could only give the order helplessly.
Ordered.
"Attack the entire army and let the Ghost Tower continue to raise new undead. We will fight with him to see who can afford it. The will of the emperors must be implemented, otherwise... you all know." (Unfinished)
