Chapter 166 Concession
The so-called "cement" is a magical alchemy product brought by those aliens, and it is not as simple as other alchemy products.
Just add water and stir it into a slurry, which can harden in the air or better harden in water, and can also firmly glue sand, stone and other materials together, and the hardening strength is extremely high.
Directly used to pave roads is just the simplest and least technical method. It is said that cemented gravel can also be made into concrete and can be widely used in various civil engineering projects.
Well, as for what the hell is "civil engineering", I don't know, after all, it's just what the other party said when selling.
Anyway, those strange people are all weird, like "cement", which is difficult to pronounce, and now it is not surprising to have a few more such words. The forest elves can probably understand what it means even if they guess.
The only drawback is that when they discovered that cement, a low-quality commodity, was approaching the end of bulk trade, and Nadan Kewa's savings had almost been emptied.
This is because the bulk goods needed have been exchanged, and I don’t know how to settle the remaining corners, so they also wanted to see other novel things, so they discovered this magical artifact after the other party’s promotion.
Fortunately, although cement is an extremely magical alchemy product, its price is incredibly low, so even if the final savings are left, it still exchanged thousands of tons for Nadankaiva.
Or for the other world, even drizzle is not even considered a drizzle. After all, even if you build a house in rural areas, it often costs dozens or hundreds of tons. Thousands of tons can't even cost a splash.
But for the just-starting Nadan Kewa tribe, it is only temporary... Of course, it is only temporary.
Because this is a very magical material, and they can use up as many as they can, they will soon find that these amounts are not enough. The reason why they have a lot of illusions now is that they are not infrastructure madmen, they do not have the efficiency or the consumption speed.
Besides, it is normal for a poor man who has never had more than two dollars to hold a hundred-dollar bill and suddenly feels rich.
Think about how many people had to save 50 cents when they were young, but suddenly they felt that they had a huge sum of money when they had two dollars.
There has always been a shortage of materials. I never thought that there was anything that needed to be measured in tons of units, and they had no idea. So the neat piles of thousands of tons of cement in bags, which really shocked these elves who had never seen the world.
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Two elf women walked out of the tribe together and continued to move forward.
After walking for a while, I also arrived at the camp assigned to those strange people.
The two of them were still wearing traditional outfits woven with plant fibers, which became a bit conspicuous in this colorful and colorful landscape, but at this time, no one paid attention for a while.
After all, the construction site is in full swing. Even if you are not a working person, you are interested in coming to see the excitement. Everyone is curious and has some desire to explore the strange things that you have never heard of or seen.
The straight and spacious avenue has been built for hundreds of meters. Some have been hardened and solidified, while others have just been poured, so it cannot be stepped on by people, but the elves themselves are not a clan with strict hierarchy.
Except for the patriarch and the elders are "nobles" in a sense, the other clans are equal, there is no rules, and there is no awe or inexplicable rules, so they are often unable to stop them.
It’s not that they have any bad intentions and deliberately sabotage them, but because they have no awe, they will all surge in excitement. By the time others go to stop them, it’s too late.
A newly paved cement road was finally flattened and was trampled to pieces. The next time, the process was repeated, and the scene was noisy.
Although it is a great road, it can only allow four or five wheelbarrows to be parallel. However, for Nadan Keva, this is an unprecedented major project. Some elves who have gone out to see the world think that even the main cities of the human kingdoms may not have such a good road.
Strange buildings also stood on both sides of the cement road, most of which were three or four floors, just like gray cement roads, with a simple and rough appearance. After all, the current conditions cannot be used for decoration or something.
——First solve the problem of existence or not, then consider the face-saving project.
But this is enough to surprise anyone, and the woods around this area have been cut down and large areas of open space have been cleared out. One by one, one after another, piled up there, occupying every inch of land.
If you walk into it, you can't see the surrounding forest and the elves tribes not far away, it's really easy for people to wonder if this is the unloading area of the dock.
This style of painting that is incompatible with the Elf Blog shows that this is the industry of those magicians. Veronica carefully looked at everything in front of her and thought about it in her heart.
Yesterday, my father finally decided to negotiate in person for the benefit of the tribe. After he came back, the group of magicians also came with him. It was said that the negotiations were successful in the end and my father won huge benefits for the tribe.
But in contrast, tribes have to pay some price.
Of course, it is a very small price, and this is impossible. After all, the tribe has already spent all its savings. You can't expect others to do charity. You don't have to pay for only giving you something, right?
Even if it is a loan, it still requires some mortgage. This is the reason for the world.
So, the result is now. Those magicians set up a rental land in their tribe's territory, planning to plan a commercial area here, and their tribe can also start to represent this aspect and to other tribes... huh? Selling? Is this the word?
Anyway, it seems that it is said, and it should be more and more complicated, but those words are too many and too complicated, and even too difficult to understand.
Although Veronica has paid attention to it, she has never been exposed to these things before. She only thinks that what humans say one by one seems to make sense, but it is really difficult for others to remember one by one.
After thinking about it, she felt that there seemed to be something wrong with it, but it seemed like it was just an intuitive sense of uneasiness. After careful consideration, she couldn't find any harm.
Isn’t this normal for those aliens to use their tribe to open channels for the entire Forest Alliance?
Isn’t it reasonable and appropriate for your own tribe and your father to help them and then seek benefits for the tribe in this way?
Also, other tribes may not trust humans, so in order to win the trust of others, they rented land near their tribe as a commercial area. It seems... there is no problem! Anyway, it is just a piece of land that was rented, and it is still nearby, and the other party is not using it for nothing.
Instead, they pay a large amount of remuneration every once in a while, and it is still quite generous. Of course, they are not used to use useless coins from humans, but to deliver them directly using those goods.
Originally, those aliens were planning to sign a loan contract worth hundreds of years in one go, but hundreds of years were also very long for the elves, just like decades for humans.
Or was my father also uneasy? So he couldn't make a decision in a hurry, but just said he would give it a try first and then make a decision after a while.
If the time is cut, it may be easy to make a decision for fifty years and one hundred years. However, if the time for rent is cut, the "signing fee" will naturally be cut, which makes my father and the elders of the tribe feel heartbroken and reluctant to leave.
Veronica felt that she would not be willing to let it go. She had read the list of various goods, and she couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the huge wealth after her mind changed.
Tens of thousands of sets of excellent equipment...
Countless grains, steel...
Even those precious mysterious knowledge, books, various combat skills, secrets...
However, a small piece of land in the tribe, which lasts hundreds of years, is a generation, and that huge wealth has become the foundation of the tribe! How can those damn humans be so luxurious?!
Where did they come from?!
Walking near the built concrete buildings and watching the people happily helping the humans who call themselves magicians move all kinds of goods into the building, the elf girl sighed.
This situation is nothing surprising. The number of people is very small, so it is normal to hire your own ethnic helpers, and the rewards are also generous.
The forest elves are arrogant, but they are not so stupid as to the point of being so stupid. They are completely acceptable to this normal trading relationship. It doesn’t matter if the other party is a human being, it is not an insult to insult oneself. It is normal for them to work hard to earn rewards.
But Veronica always feels a bad premonition, and this situation will gradually become the norm, right?
My own clan will not take it for granted to serve those strange people in the future, right?
This elf girl has a very keen intuition, but limited to the problems of the entire era and even the entire world, her vision is not so advanced that she can see what is hidden in these changes.
I just simply thought it was not good, and I wanted her to say something bad but couldn't say it. On the contrary, after careful consideration, I felt that everything was good, and my tribe was making a lot of money.
At this time, screams suddenly sounded around, and the crowd suddenly became messy.
The howling wind was born out of thin air, and the violent wind pressure almost made people unable to open their eyes.
"This is--!!"
Veronica woke up instantly and noticed a terrible pressure falling from the sky, her brain almost blank, and the familiar feeling seemed to be the one before...
She subconsciously raised her head and saw a huge body covering the sunlight and casting a huge shadow on the ground.
The huge Losrik flying dragon kept swaying its wings and rolling up strong winds, but this time it didn't have much majesty, because there were several huge containers hanging under it, which looked extremely heavy.
After putting down the goods, the flying dragon took off again and quickly left, becoming a small black dot in the horizon.
Only a trembling elves were left behind.
Veronica took several breaths before she recovered a little, then gritted her teeth and walked towards the direction there.
She was really confused, and she was really uneasy if she didn't ask clearly.
Chapter completed!