I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 47 The Arrogant Smuggler
+I recently discovered a very arrogant smuggler. +
+What's going on? +
+This smuggler named Chris Lin is selling large quantities of banned fur to our country.

According to reliable information, he bypassed customs and smuggled goods into the country, selling one bear skin and fifteen polar bear skins, making a considerable profit.
So arrogant!? Did they catch him?
+Can't catch him, he's not in China. +
+Then how did your department know that he sold one bear skin and fifteen polar bear skins in our country? +
He filed a tax return with our country's tax authorities and paid it... and on that return, he listed in detail everything he sold.
+…This guy is really arrogant…+
……

After a night's rest, Isaac's caravan and a hundred or so barbarians set off together.

White pig Aisha leads the way at the front of the group.

The river crossing point and rope that Mia mentioned were actually things left behind by the Oka barbarian tribe.

Chris was extremely shocked when the barbarians pulled up two thick ropes made of an unknown hemp plant from the bottom of the river, and then used wooden boards to build a floating bridge on top of it that could accommodate one person and one horse.

This is also possible! ?
This is really possible.

This barbarian floating bridge is not wide and has low load-bearing capacity. It can only allow one person to lead a horse with a safety rope tied around their body to cross the river. The traffic efficiency is very low.

But because of the existence of this floating bridge, caravans and barbarians no longer need to go down the river and risk being hit by ice to cross the river.

The safety of crossing the river has been greatly improved.

The caravan and the barbarians totaled more than 300 people, along with a large amount of supplies. It only took one morning to cross the river.

During this period, there was no other loss except for a few unlucky people who fell into the river because they were too scared and their legs went weak, and the river washed away a bag of food, two tents, and two knives.

As for the unlucky people who fell into the river, since they had ropes tied to their bodies, when they fell into the river, people on the other side of the river would pull the ropes hard and drag the people who fell into the river to the shore in the shortest time possible.

Apart from being frozen like dogs and being hit by ice a few times, which broke a few bones, these people were not killed.

It took a whole morning to cross the river and officially leave the territory of the Bohemian Empire. After entering the territory of Bagnia, everyone started cooking by the river at noon.

It is worth noting that when the caravan started cooking, the barbarians did not come over to eat, but instead dug holes and buried pots on the side to cook their own food.

The barbarians were so strong-willed that Chris looked up to them a little. He liked dealing with people who had principles and rules like this.

After a simple meal, the team started their journey in the afternoon and walked into the tail end of the Kaslo Mountains. At a glance, everything was white and gray, except for the green Bagnia Mountains.

More than 300 people began to climb up, repeating the process of crossing the mountain, going down the mountain, and then climbing the mountain again.

Led by the mountain barbarians and Mia, the team walked on a very narrow mountain road where it was difficult to find traces.

The mountain road was winding and difficult to walk on, so the caravan members were forced to stop and rest after walking for an hour.

In addition to being tired, climbers lose their energy quickly because the Kastro Mountains are colder than the plains.

Chris, who grew up in the city, was so tired that he lay on the side and vomited violently.

On the other hand, looking at the barbarians next to him, Chris was tired of vomiting and looked to the side. At most, they were breathing heavier, and there was not even sweat on their foreheads, including the elderly and children.

These guys' physiques are really well adapted to the snowy mountain environment. They are natural plateau mountain soldiers.

Chris's mind became active again.

Is it possible to recruit polar bear skins as well as mountain soldiers?

Because of the caravan, the barbarians were forced to stop and rest for twenty minutes. During this time, Chris asked people to boil water, boiled broken tea leaves, and threw a large bag of brown sugar into the pot for people to drink.

In addition to the people in the caravan, Chris also had two iron buckets of sweet tea delivered to the barbarians.

The people of the Oka tribe did not ask for things on their own initiative, but they were not polite at all and drank the sweet tea that Chris gave them.

In no time, the barbarians finished two buckets of steaming sweet tea, and then returned the buckets. The two barbarians who returned the buckets knelt down to the big white pig Aisha.

It's strange to say, although these barbarians bow down to the big white pig Aisha day and night and are very respectful to Mia, they have never intended to keep this combination of man and pig in the tribe, allowing them to come and go freely.

Of course, what was even stranger was the big white pig. Chris had no idea what was going on with it. When climbing the mountain, it would run very fast in front of the person, and would stop from time to time to wait for the person behind it.

As for Mia...sitting on Aisha's back, she didn't need to use her legs to measure the ground at all, which made Chris extremely envious.

Because of crossing the river and climbing the mountain, by the evening today, when the light was a little dim, we only traveled four kilometers the whole day.

We set up camp, cooked, and slept soundly. It was a dreamless night without any accidents.

The next morning, the team woke up and continued their journey.

At this time, someone in the caravan finally fell ill due to cold and fatigue. Chris quickly arranged for a player doctor to treat him, and then spent some food and invited a few barbarians to carry the patient on a stretcher.

The second day of crossing the river was better than the first, and the team walked ten kilometers.

Twelve kilometers on the third day, and on the fourth day... we stopped for a while on the fourth day.

Because the barbarians had arrived at the place, they had brought over twenty bear skins and nearly a hundred seal skins, as well as hundreds of cow skins, wolf skins, and tiger skins from some featureless hilltop.

Chris used twenty-five muskets, more iron arrowheads, iron pots, a thousand kilograms of food, and some medicine to exchange for these furs.

If Chris could sell these skins, he would have enough money to raise an army temporarily.

The barbarians who got these muskets left happily, and at this time, Isaac also came to them.

"Sir, according to Mia, we'll need another four to six days of walking before we can cross this uninhabited and uninhabited mountainous area and enter the inhabited area. A small town called Biqi is waiting for us."

Isaac hesitated, but he continued.

"I think we've exchanged some food and weapons for so much valuable leather. Shouldn't we send it back?"

"No, Isaac, we can't let Popoli know that we have established relationships with the mountain barbarians and gained their trust."

Chris rejected Isaac's suggestion.

"Once we reach that little town of Biqi and successfully establish ourselves, I will have you return to the Bohemian Empire with the money and some valuable items and ask Boboli for a share of the profits.

But we must not let him know about the mountain barbarians."

"why?"

Facing Isaac's doubts, Chris sneered.

"If you don't want Popoli to turn against us or stab us, don't mention such things. There are many things related to politics and interests here. It's difficult for me to explain them to you. You just need to know not to talk about it.

We are so weak now that it would cost Popoli nothing to turn against us."

Chris is not a fool. The reason why he was cheated by players in the past was only because he had lived in peace for too long, so he became careless, trusted the moral bottom line of his fellow villagers too much, and underestimated their ability to cause trouble.

Seeing Isaac's puzzled expression, Chris knew that if he didn't talk things over, the former would definitely feel uncomfortable, so he explained.

"This white bear skin is very valuable, that's one reason. Secondly, these mountain barbarians know a shortcut through the Kashro Mountains, and such information is likely to be very valuable.

Never gamble with your friendship with Popoli. If you win, you gain nothing. If you lose, it will kill us all.

The mountain barbarians are hiding from the Bohemians; they must have a reason; they have suffered great losses before."

"I understand."

(End of this chapter)