The village door opened, and a large group of people rushed out from inside.

The old man in charge bowed and said, "Old Kheechale is the village chief here. I have seen Su Zhixing. Please forgive me for being rude before."

"Chale Village Chief, you are polite. We were reckless and accidentally killed the beasts in your village. I am willing to make compensation for this." Su Chen replied.

When the old man heard the compensation, his eyes immediately shone: "I knew that Su Zhixing must be a good friend, hurry up, please come in."

Damn, why didn’t you say this when you were facing a great enemy? Now you are immediately excited when you hear about compensation.

The villagers have no knowledge, but the people who have no knowledge have their own minds. The pursuit of interests is endless. The only difference lies in what interests they value.

Su Chen was not anxious. While talking and chatting with Chale, he touched the details of the village and observed everything around him.

The village is not big, so it is called Leju Village.

The name is quite meaningful, but unfortunately it is not.

In terms of scale, the number of people in Leju Village is no more than 300. There are two giants in the open space in the center of the village, and they are also two top-quality ferocious beasts. They are sitting bored on the ground in a daze at this moment.

After Su Chen asked, he found out that there were three ferocious beasts here, and they did not need to be fed by villagers. They went out to find food every day and then came back.

Su Chen secretly praised him.

Raising is the basic condition for taming animals. As the saying goes, you will obey your orders only if you have some dependence.

It has been a habit that people control animals by controlling food for thousands of years, but now, there are ferocious beasts that can be controlled without being tamed, and there are more things worthy of fun here.

However, Su Chen also knew that this was related to the secret of the village, so he was not easy to ask directly, so he just pointed indirectly:

"I heard from the village chief Chale just now, you and the blood nobles in Qinghe City seem to be in a state of war? What's going on? How do you do the transaction?"

Chale replied: "Oh, this matter was originally caused by the transaction. Since Su Zhixing came to this Hexi Forest, he should also know some of the situation in this forest."

Su Chen nodded: "I know a little bit. The Hexi forest has a complex terrain and is full of dangers. Not only are there ferocious beasts to abuse, but there are also mysterious curses. Except for the locals, few people can enter and not die."

"That's right! Su Zhixing was able to enter here and kill the holy beasts, which obviously had great skills. But most people didn't have the ability. But this Hexi forest is rich in various resources. If they want to collect, they have to rely on us locals."

"This is true. Besides, you are from Hexi, and you will also give you the resources of Hexi. How can you let outsiders pick them up as soon as they say?" Su Chen flattered and pointed it straight at the critical point.

"That's what!" The old man was immediately excited: "So, what price should we decide on the Hexi resources, right?"

"That's natural." Su Chen already understood the whole story.

"But it is not the case." The warrior commander next to him said angrily: "The resource pricing power of Hexi Mirrors has always been in the hands of the blood nobles in Qinghe. We can only sell whatever price they quote. A single herb with a hundred gold coins outside, but they bought us one gold coins one tael!"

"The price difference is so big?" Su Chen was also shocked by the price difference.

"That's right! At first we didn't know the market outside, but we were cheated by them and sold it. But later we gradually realized it and talked about the price increase with them, but they didn't agree."

"Then why don't you sell it to others?" Su Chen asked.

"I have thought about it too. But Qinghe's business was controlled by them. It's impossible to sell others!" Chale sighed.

From the dense forest in Hexi, the nearest city is Qinghe. Those blood nobles directly controlled the transactions of Qinghe City, from cargo ships, to docks, and then to shops, all under their control.

If the resources in the dense forest in Hexi want to enter the Qinghe River, they must be controlled by them from the beginning of boarding the ship.

Without the permission of the blood nobles, their goods cannot be loaded on the ship, and even if they are loaded on the ship, they cannot be loaded on the dock. Even if they are loaded, no merchant dares to collect their goods.

By the same token, you still need to buy things for money from selling resources, and these shops are also in the hands of the blood nobles. In other words, even if you solve all the previous problems, sell the goods and get the money, you still can't buy anything.

Through this commercial monopoly, the villagers of Hexi have to sell all their resources to them at a low price.

"Then didn't go to another city to see it?"

"I have been there too. But I don't have a boat, and I have two rivers here. The water bandits are also controlled by the blood nobles, and some are even directly their people. We once worked hard to build a boat and transported some goods to the downstream cities to sell goods, but before we even arrived, we were slaughtered by the water bandits. Their heads were still sent by the blood nobles."

"It's really cruel!" Su Chen was also slightly surprised.

The practices of those blood nobles are equivalent to controlling all sales channels and making high profits through channel monopoly, but as the owners and makers of resources, they can only be exploited.

However, even so, the stubborn villagers still did not submit easily. They farmed themselves, picked wild fruits, and hunted animal meat, reducing their dependence on the outside world in this way.

If you can control the channels, I can control the output!

In this way, confront the other party.

When commercial means are used to the extreme and no one can do anything to anyone, the violent and bloody means are often performed one after another.

The blood nobles were quite angry at the villagers' discooperation.

They began to send people in and directly attack the villagers.

Although the curse of Hexilin is quite terrible, the blood nobles have been here for many years and have known some secrets about the situation of Hexi's dense forests.

If you want to say that they cannot avoid curses 100%, they can still significantly reduce the probability of curses by using appropriate measures.

As long as people die, it is still okay to enter the jungle.

This has eliminated most of the natural defenses of Hexi's dense forests.

There were two armed struggles in the Hexi Mills to resist the blood nobles plundering their hard-working wealth, but without exception, they suffered painful failures and paid a lot of blood.

Since it is in a wilderness, no one will stand up for them.

The result was that the local villagers could only bow their heads and let the other party exploit them.

But this situation suddenly changed not long ago.

All the villagers united again and launched a resistance to the blood nobles.

The reason for this is that they have obtained some kind of technology that can control ferocious beasts.

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Chapter completed!