Three hundred and seventieth chapters galloping road (11)
Danica smiled and said, "If we can provide power, we can copy the machine production in the southern coastal areas." Machine production in the southern coastal areas mainly relies on water conservancy and manpower, and the technology is already very mature. Moreover, compared with the southern coastal areas, the central region has a better geographical location, and this land is closer to many raw material production areas, such as wool produced by the beast tribe, cotton produced by the Druids and human areas, and even iron ore produced by the Kingdom of Solomon. If coal can be successfully studied, the central region will replace the southern coastal areas and become an important industrial product production site.
"That would be great." Ai Xue said happily. The southern coastal areas have developed trade, but in fact, machine production is also very powerful. More than 50% of the cotton and linen cloth in the entire Katic continent comes from the southern coastal areas, and the coastal areas are not as big as one-tenth of the eastern region controlled by the Holy See. The reason why such high production capacity in such a narrow and long area is that it relies on machine production, which has created huge wealth for the southern coastal areas.
"Why do I feel like gold coins are coming out of your eyes?" Danica said with a smile.
"Is there any? No!" Ai Xue quickly denied, but just now she was really thinking how much money the Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce could make if the Gemini Kingdom could really establish a machine production industry like the southern coastal areas.
"You are really interested in making money!" Danica sighed.
"No, no." Ai Xue lowered her head and said embarrassedly. Danica once said that she had been several times, don't be obsessed with making money. Her current status should be more about whether the economic operation of the entire Gemini Kingdom is healthy. As for how much money or less, it is not that important.
"Whatever you do, as long as you do your job well, it doesn't matter if you want to make more money." Danica was quite open-minded this time.
"Yeah." Ai Xue responded softly. In fact, she wasn't sure what Danica was thinking now. Is this sentence antonym? It doesn't feel like it!
"By the way, you were checking the accounts just now, are you? How is the trade between us and the Druids?" Danica asked again.
Aishue replied: "We mainly buy food from the Druid Sect and some other cash crops, but some troublesome things are that we don't have much to sell to them. The villages of the Druid Sect have strong self-sufficiency and do not have some kind of bulk materials like the orcs." This led to a large amount of gold coins flowing into the Druid Sect, but Aishue did not say this sentence.
Danica thought for a while and asked, "Do you have any solution, or a solution?"
Ai Xue said with some embarrassment: "The self-cultivated farming economy of the Druid Sect has a closed loop, and it is really difficult for us to open up its market. However, the economic crop trade mentioned by the owner may be a breakthrough. We can buy sugarcane, soybeans, tobacco and the like from the Druid Sect, process it into sugar, oil, tobacco, and then sell it to the eastern region. This can obtain huge profits and at least allow us to balance the income and expenditure of gold coins."
After saying the answer he had prepared before, Ai Xue suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I just talked with the person in charge of the Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce and learned that the Druids seemed to be interested in buying a batch of arms from us. If that batch of arms trade could be reached, it could also make up for the previous trade gap."
Arms? Is it related to the conflict between the orcs? Danica asked casually: "How much armaments do they want to buy?"
"There are many types, such as armor, weapons, arrows, etc., and the total value is estimated to be more than 30 million gold coins."
"So much?" Danica said in surprise.
"I was also shocked when I heard this news." Ai Xue said, "But this is indeed the fact that the Druids seem to need a large amount of arms in a short period of time. To be honest, the self-cultivated farmer economy they pursue has led to weak industries like arms production, which can be regarded as an economic weakness of the Druids." Speaking of which, arms production is an advantageous industry in the Gemini Kingdom. With the information that Danica was almost blackmailed from Aphro and Vigs, the Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce has made breakthrough progress in steel manufacturing. Even the tulip military crossbow that can be called the top military can be copied, and some changes can be made. Some ordinary armor and weapons are no problem. However, after all, the military is not ordinary goods, and not many people can buy it. Even if it can be bought, you have to consider whether it can be sold.
However, at this time, Danica was not considering economic issues at all. This unexpected intelligence made her plan make a big problem. If the Druid Sect really needed such a large amount of military equipment, it means that they would fight against the orcs, which means that there are strong hardliners within the Druid Sect. According to Danica's previous plan, by giving political pressure, the elders of the Druid Sect were forced into anxiety and panic, and then handed over power to Tyran. But if there are strong hardliners within the Druid Sect, then the so-called political pressure may not work at all, and instead cause a rebound.
"You have to follow up on that business." Danica ordered, "Think some ways to delay the time and don't let the arms business be reached. Even if it is completed, it cannot be shipped immediately. Do you understand?" Without sufficient arms, the hardliners of the Druid Sect would not be so confident, right?
"Ah! I understand, I understand." Ai Xue nodded and responded. It seemed that this military business would involve complex political games, which was not what he was good at. It was a pity that this opportunity could earn a large amount of gold coins from the Druids.
"Okay, I'm a little tired." After hearing this not-so-good news, Danica was not in the mood to continue chatting with Ai Xue.
"Oh, okay, the master's room is on the second floor." Ai Xue stood up and took Danica to the master bedroom on the second floor.
This service point is not big. There is a master bedroom on the second floor on the back of the second floor, and there is a second bedroom. Danica lives in the master bedroom. The second bedroom was arranged by Ai Xue for himself. The remaining guys can only live in small rooms on the first floor, or in the shop in front.
Lying on the bed, Danica looked straight at the ceiling, her mind spinning rapidly. She wanted to think of a way to actually give pressure to the Druid Sect. What are they most afraid of?
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The next morning, Danica sent someone to inform Tyran that there was something urgent about the Gemini Kingdom and she needed to go back, but soon, she would come back in a few days. Tyran didn't think much about it. After all, this friend of her is the queen of a kingdom, and it is normal for urgent matters to be dealt with.
However, Tyran probably didn't expect that Danica did not return to the Gemini Kingdom, and took Ai Xue, two people and two horses to quickly head towards a small town at the junction of the Gemini Kingdom and the beast tribe.
"Okay, let's take a break." Seeing that the sun had already dropped to the edge of the mountain, Danica stopped Muke and said.
"Oh, OK, OK." Ai Xue, who followed behind and was riding a horse, said weakly. They were still in the town of Rees early in the morning, and now the sun is about to set. They are already in the wilderness more than a hundred kilometers north of the Twin Cities.
After turning over and dismounting, Miao Ke also gasped heavily. He ran more than 200 kilometers in one day. Even if it was a nightmare beast, he was exhausted. As for Ai Xue, her mount had been rotated three times. The first time she was approaching the Twin Cities was about to be close to the first time. After running more than 50 kilometers, she changed it at a service point of Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce. Now she has run more than 50 kilometers. It seems that this war horse specially screened and trained is a little over 50 kilometers.
Ma is so tired, let alone a human being, so it is even more tired. At least Ai Xue feels like this now. Although she is a professional or a third-level warlock, she has never conducted systematic fighting training, and her physical fitness is very weak among third-level professionals.
Ai Xue got off the horse, her legs became weak and almost knelt on the ground. She struggled to sit on a stone, leaning against a tree without moving. She seemed to have not experienced such intense exercise for several years. Usually, when she went out, she would take a carriage and ride a horse for hundreds of kilometers. It was unimaginable for her. Ai Xue felt that the inner side of her thigh had been bleeding, and her whole body was almost shattered.
Although she was very tired, Danica's physical and psychological toughness were much better than Aishi. She also found a place to sit down and asked, "How far is we from House Town?"
House Town is located at the junction of the Gemini Kingdom and the Beast, but unlike the town of Reis, the transportation there is not convenient, nor is it a trade window for humans and beasts to trade. The town was actually built by the Aishe Chamber of Commerce itself, located in a ravine. The purpose of its construction is to hand over the horses of the horse farm she and the Beasts jointly built. It has such a large number of war horse transactions with the Beasts, which is not a news suitable for too many people to know. Lucyya cannot explain it to the Beasts, and the Gemini Kingdom also has to face humans’ doubts. Therefore, the Aishe Chamber of Commerce built such a small town in such a remote place.
After getting up this morning, I learned from Aishi that there were a group of war horses trading in House Town, and Lucia also came this time. Danica decided that she wanted to go there and she needed to talk to Lucia in person. The Druid Sect, the Orcs, and a Gemini Kingdom that was mixed up. The situation is too complicated now.
Ai Xue's breath is still very unstable now. She gasped for a few times and said, "It's still seventy or eighty kilometers away from...House Town."
Seventy or eighty kilometers? Danica estimated their speed and said, "Okay, take a night off, we will set out tomorrow morning and strive to reach the town of House as soon as possible."
"I have actually notified Lucia." Ai Xue couldn't help but mutter in her heart. When Danica decided to set off, Ai Xue passed the news that Danica was coming to Lucia through the Ai Xue Chamber of Commerce. She would definitely wait for Danica there. If this is the case, would they need to be so anxious?
"Why, can't hold on?" Danica joked with a smile, "You still need some training... who!"
Suddenly, Danica turned her head and looked at a bush next to her. At the same time, before she finished speaking, a wind blade had already flew over, and then she saw a stream of blood spurting out of the bush. I don’t know who the wind blade hit.
Immediately afterwards, the second wind blade quietly set off, and a human head fell from the tree, just next to the stone where Ai Xue was sitting, which scared her.
"Is this...wewolves?" Ai Xue said in surprise. It seemed that they had met the wolf clan who had wandered here again.
Danica did not speak, but looked around. The enemy had not been completely resolved. Through the perception just now, there should be two werewolfs hiding nearby. Danica did not think that the werewolf would take the initiative to evacuate. The wolf clan had lost power in the grassland. They just fled from there. No matter what the future ahead, they had to bite the bullet and hold on.
Seeing that Danica was still on guard, Ai Xue became nervous. She stood up with the tree and looked around nervously, but saw nothing. In actual combat, Ai Xue was really too poor with Danica.
Ai Xue stood there, not knowing what to dare. She wanted to ask what was going on now, whether there were other werewolfs lying around, but she didn't dare to see Danica's vigilance.
Just when Ai Xue was standing there at a loss, she saw blood spurting out in two places, one in the bushes in front of the left, and the other in a tree far away. And she also heard the sound of something falling to the ground, it should be a corpse.
After dealing with the two people, Danica's expression relaxed, but Aishi didn't see how she took action from beginning to end.
"There are so many werewolfs wandering here!" Ai Xue said embarrassedly, as if she was feeling embarrassed for not helping her at all.
Danica said lightly: "Maybe they really can't survive in the Orcs."
Seeing that Danica was not interested in chatting, Ai Xue shut up. After this period of rest, her physical strength had recovered a little and began to prepare for the rest tonight.
In this case, it is impossible to pay so much attention. Only the two of them, Danica did not bring her luggage at all, and only Ai Xue cleaned up a little while she left in the morning.
Ai Xue took out two hammocks, found two trees with the right distance, and hung them on them. They will rest on them tonight, hoping that it will not rain.
Chapter completed!