"We want to use the experience of the two great saints to help our Lie tribe open up new business lines!"
"Opening up new business lines?"
"Yes." Chief Lie said slowly: "Our Lie tribe wants to open up another trade line to the outside world!"
As Patriarch Lie narrated, Chu Ci showed a thoughtful look on his face.
He had learned some information about opening up trade routes from Captain Bailie before, but it was not as detailed as what Leader Lie said today. Now he finally understood why the Lie tribe wanted to open up new trade routes.
For Liecheng, they had two business lines leading to the outside world.
One leads to Yecheng, more than three hundred miles away in the southeast, and the other leads to Baisui City, more than five hundred miles away in the west.
After hundreds of years of development and improvement, these two trade routes have become the only way for Liecheng to communicate with the outside world. They are also the trading place for Liecheng to obtain some supplies outside the desert.
Since the water source dried up a few years ago, Liecheng has started trading with two commercial cities, exchanging desert specialties for water.
It was okay at first. With their long-term trading relationship, the two cities were happy to exchange water with Liecheng. But after a while, problems arose.
First, there was a problem in Yecheng. Due to the awkward geographical location of Yecheng, it was located in a plain area on the border of two deserts. It was an isolated city surrounded by deserts.
Because of this, the conditions in Yecheng are better than those in desert areas, but they are not much better.
Not long after the water source depleted in the Spitting Fire Desert, Yecheng was also affected. Their water source had some problems and the water output was less.
This frightened Yecheng, fearing that they would follow in the footsteps of the Fire-Spitting Desert, so in order to reduce the pressure on water sources, they stopped exchanging water resources with Liecheng and other cities, and also closed the city to the outside world and suspended inter-urban tribal relations.
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Without Yecheng as a trading partner, Liecheng only has one business line, Baisui City.
Compared with the isolated city of Yecheng, the place where Centennial City is located is much better. It is a real desert outside, a green land covered by grass, trees and mountains.
There are a total of thirteen cities living on this green land, and Centennial City is one of the larger cities.
Since most of the people in Centenary City were originally composed of sand people who migrated from the desert, this is a city that is relatively friendly to sand people and is also the main trading city for many urban tribes in the desert.
In the past, Liecheng had always had a good relationship with Baisui City, but no matter how good the relationship was, it could not withstand the scrutiny of interests.
Perhaps due to too much contact with the outside world, Centennial City gradually lost the unique simplicity of the desert people and became infected with the greed of outsiders.
Since learning about the lack of water sources in the Spitfire Desert, Centenary City has begun to test Liecheng's bottom line, constantly raising the upper limit of each water transaction, making Liecheng miserable, but it has to change, and every time it can only
He pinched his nose and admitted.
Liecheng also thought about letting the caravan go further, no longer trading with Baisui City, and choosing several other cities to trade.
But I don’t know when, Baisui City and twelve other cities joined together to form the Thirteen Cities Alliance, a united front. No matter which city Liecheng went to, the exchange price was the same.
In desperation, Liecheng could only choose to continue trading with Baisui City.
But there is no way to continue like this. Over time, no matter how much savings Liecheng has, they will be squandered.
Coincidentally, last time a foreign caravan got lost and went in the wrong direction, and came to Liecheng, where they rested for a few days.
From the words of this caravan, Liecheng learned that there was a larger city thousands of miles away from them to the north, with extremely rich resources.
The most important thing is that there are not many people on this land.
This gave Liecheng the idea of opening up a new business line. Although it is dangerous to open a new business line, and this new business line is far away, it will lose a lot of manpower and energy, but once it succeeds, they will no longer have to suffer the consequences of being a hundred years old.
It overcomes the constraints of the city and has new channels for trading water resources.
Moreover, after the new trade line is successfully opened, if the new place is as vast and sparsely populated as the caravan said, then maybe people from the Lie tribe can move there through the trade line and build a new city there, and then the problem of water sources will be solved.
It can be solved once and for all.
Originally, Liecheng was preparing to open up new trade routes in the near future, but now that Chu Ci and Luo Jiuyou are here, it is an unexpected surprise for them.
With the help of two great saints, the process of opening new trade routes in Liecheng will definitely be smoother, and the number of people and resources lost will be greatly reduced.
Listening to Patriarch Lie's sincere request, Chu Ci looked thoughtful.
Helping Liecheng to open up new business lines is nothing to the two of them, it just takes a little more time to hide their identities.
But in this way, his plan will be affected, and this method treats the symptoms but not the root cause, and is not a long-term solution.
After pondering for a while, Chu Ci said: "Opening up new business lines is one way, but after all, we still rely on outsiders, which is not conducive to long-term development."
"Oh? What do you have in mind?" Captain Bailie raised his eyebrows.
This method of opening up new business lines has been the final solution reached by Liecheng's leadership after a long period of consideration.
Of course they know the limitations of this method, but now they can only do this.
"I dare not take it seriously." Chu Ci said slowly, "I don't know if you know about the Holy Land."
"Holy Land? Of course you know. This is a legend known to everyone in the desert, and it is also the ultimate goal of your pilgrims." Patriarch Lie frowned: "But does this have anything to do with what we are talking about?"
"Of course, if it is a holy land, then water source will no longer be a problem."
"Don't tell me that you have found the Holy Land?" Captain Bailie looked suspicious. After hearing Chu Ci's words, the doubts in his heart came to his mind again.
Could it be that these two people are also liars?
Fortunately, Chu Ci's next words dispelled his doubts, but they also gave him an even greater shock.
"Of course not, but it's almost the same, because the two of us have seen gods before!"
Seeing the shocked expressions on the two people's faces, Chu Ci's mouth curved slightly and he began to use his great deception technique.
"If you know the legend of the Holy Land, you should understand how the Holy Land appeared. It is an ideal habitat given by the gods to all desert people."
"We are fortunate enough to have seen this god."
"It was a cold night when we were traveling through the fourth desert..."
Next, Chu Ci tells the story of a pilgrim who encounters a dilemma in the desert, encounters a miracle and sees the gods when he is about to die.