Before ascending to God, be a good lord

On Yunhu Lake, the only source of water near Eagle Rock City, following a series of blisters, black square objects suddenly drilled out one by one.

"Ah, that's great, it's finally here!" Zhuo Ya, the leader of the harpies, showed a satisfied smile on her face, and then called the nearby clansmen in Feizikong to dive over the lake together.

The harpies dropped more than a dozen large nets, one of which was caught in each net, and the four harpies lifted up a net with all their strength and lifted into the air, transporting the big black box to Eagle Rock City.

In the air, Lante held the sword of the magic net and controlled the wind element to get close to the flying teams, but saw that the big net under their feet was actually filled with his own magic pattern container.

"Huh? The cabinet in our house rushed from the bottom of the icy lake to the surface of the lake, and then was caught and flew away by a group of harpies?" The impact of the scene in front of Rand was no less than that when he saw the icy lake just now. degree.

At this moment, Zhuo Ya, the leader of the harpies, landed on a piece of ice that had just formed, and began to chat with a girl exposed under the lake.

It wasn't until Rand flew to the lake that he realized that it was the high-ranking priest of the finless porpoise tribe, Osikaya, who was talking to Zhuoya.

"Priest Oshikaya, it's a surprise to see you!" Lante smiled when he saw an acquaintance, "Those boxes just now look so familiar!"

"You should be familiar with it, that is the magic-weave container we bought from Yeqi City," Priest Osikaya did not conceal the origin of the container, "It contains Breyak's seafood. Love the seafood!"

Seeing the finless porpoise being so frank, Rand felt rather embarrassed, and could only say, "Your usage really opened my eyes? Is this transporting the container directly in the dark river?"

"That's right, the bright and dark water system of the Benma River spreads all over Hindukel. In the past, our family often received orders for freight from various city-states, but they were all transported with space rings, but after all, only dead objects can be transported with rings, and space rings can only transport dead objects. The cost itself is too high, and the container can not only transport living things, but also an intermediate water mage can control several units..."

Before today, the finless porpoise people in Rand's eyes were just the orcs in the river, but today the high-ranking priest Oshikaya talked eloquently, and let him know that this sparsely populated race actually has such business acumen.

As soon as they discovered that Rand's magic-weave containers could be used in water, they made a commercial attempt, and in just half a month, they opened commercial passages between the city-states in the Hindukel Basin.

"Lord Rand, your magic-weave container is very useful. If possible, we would like to order 200 units!" Oshikaya finally said with a smile, "I know that the price you sell to other families is 100 gold coins, I think What do you think of the priority purchase with 150 gold coins?"

The profit she can get from transporting a container of seafood far exceeds the purchase price of the container, and her race has monopolized the commercial channels, and she is not afraid of other ethnic groups robbing the market. Therefore, for Osikaya, the more containers the better. , even if you increase the price to buy it.

Looking at the smiling face of the high-ranking finless porpoise priest, a huge container ship suddenly appeared in Rand's mind. After a moment of silence, he asked with a smile, "How about we change the way of talking? I'll give you a discount of 50 A box of gold coins, but I also have some commodities here, I hope you can help me transport them to various cities, and I will pay for the transportation costs."

"Oh?" Oshikaya also laughed when she heard it. She sank into the water first, then changed her posture and floated up, allowing her upper body to completely climb onto a piece of ice, and after completely stretching her tail fin several meters long , then continued to ask:

"Master Lante, since we are talking about business, we must be serious! You want to participate in my business route, so what can you offer us?"

"For example, a city-state?" Rand replied with a smile.

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At noon on the 19th, Rand hurried back from Fort Morgat to the Temple of Commerce in Iowa to participate in the secret business meeting in the temple. At this moment, Rand had a rather grand blueprint in mind and needed a large number of magic workshops in the empire cooperate together.

During today's secret meeting, not only were Rand's acquaintances giant trees, antlers, dragon claws, etc., even Mr. "Sea Turtle" who hadn't come last time was online again. However, after Mr. White Wolf went online, only Mr. Antlers sent A simple message expressed greetings, but the "sea turtle" who was willing to talk alone in the past behaved very strangely.

"It seems that the 'Mr. Turtle' this time may not be familiar with Jenny's style." Looking at the logo of Mr. Turtle, Rand secretly thought.

After going online, Mr. Antlers was the first to send a separate message: "Mr. White Wolf, last time I asked you to introduce Mr. Gatsby for me..."

Rand knew that Antlers, the agent of the southern elk family, was most concerned about being able to contact Gatsby. However, with more and more goods in the territory and wider distribution of trade, Rand also had new ideas about business. And arrangements, he is not going to associate the commercial interests of the territory with a profit-seeking businessman too closely.

"Mr. Antlers, I did get in touch with Gatsby Lan Yuan, but he is unable to participate in commercial transactions beyond Dragon Tooth City. As far as I know, Yeqi City will announce a new commercial agent arrangement within a few weeks. You can pay attention."

"Oh, did Yeqi City announce it directly? That's really great. If you hear about the update, you must let me know!" It is also very cost-effective to be able to directly contact the agent authorized by Ye Qicheng.

The conversation between the two didn't last long, and Mr. Jushu from the imperial capital began to speak in the public frequency band.

"Ah, Mr. White Wolf, I heard that you and Mr. Antlers had a little business in private." As soon as Rant went online, Mr. Giant Tree brought the topic over. "Has your business not affected the southwestern border of the empire?"

"Mr. Giant Tree, look at what you said, we are all businessmen who are responsible, how dare we participate in that kind of business," Mr. Antlers said with a smile before Lante could answer, "The matter over there does not only involve local nobles !"

"Oh, so the magic wolf Tutapala didn't participate?" the giant tree asked with a smile.

Rand knew that many of the people present were in the Dragon Kingdom. They would not be ignorant of the affairs of White Tree City, and he represented the position of Thapala, so he simply said: " What I can say is that Demon Wolf Totapala was indeed in White Tree City last week, but I am sorry for the rest of the content, because there were too many Your Excellencies that day."

"Of course, we're not here to discuss those sensitive matters. Everyone is here for business." Mr. Jushu expressed his understanding of Rand's reluctance to discuss further, and continued to ask, "Actually, Mr. White Wolf, Before you came, some of us wondered whether White Tree City was really handed over to the local lord, but now this question has been answered by Mr. Antlers, if you have nothing more to say today..."

"Mr. Jushu, actually I have something very interesting, I hope to share it with you," Lante said before the giant tree finished speaking, "The magic workshop in Yeqi City is willing to cooperate with other workshops to jointly batch Produce magic-weave containers and purchase them at a price of 65 gold coins."

"65 gold coins? Are you kidding me?"

"That box can't be made without the cost price of 80 gold coins?"

Sure enough, upon hearing Mr. White Wolf's offer, the members present voiced doubts one after another. In their opinion, a cabinet with 4-6 runes and 5 or 6 kinds of magic lines is not worth it anyway. Probably less than 80 gp.

"Everyone, as you all know, the earliest manufacturer of magic-weave containers was the magic workshop in Yeqi City. The price of the first-generation container was only 100 gold coins, but the price corresponds to the powerful functions of the container, including maintaining temperature. , reinforcement, ventilation and weight reduction, etc.”