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The earth was covered with a thick white blanket.

It stands to reason that in this cold weather that is not easy to travel, the best way to do activities is to sit in a warm fireplace with closed doors and windows, bake a fire, drink a little wine, talk to family and friends, and get a good night's sleep to survive this cold winter.

But surprisingly, in front of the gate of the castle of Gran Ling, there are strangely shaped carriages.

These wagons, pulled by a strong horse, were dragged by a square body loaded with 20 heavy bags of grain, about 20 talons.

The wheels of the carriage were not the original pair of round symmetrical spoked wooden wheels, but two wooden planks with both ends upturned and a smooth bottom surface - this is the sleigh invented by Zhou Ming.

In front of the castle, there are as many as 400 sleigh carts full of grain bags, so many sleigh cars, which can transport 8,000 Taren grains at a time to the Paton Merchant Station more than 60 miles away in the north with the efficiency of one trip every two days, and then let another group of people stationed at the merchant station drive sleds with a similar structure to transport the grain from the merchant station to various places where there is a need for grain purchase.

From the county of Merlin at the beginning, to the county of Gagan and the county of Tingen in the west...... The last grain sales outlets were spread over almost the entire northern seven counties.

Zhou Ming was very surprised that because of the poverty and harsh environment in the northland, and the very few traveling merchants, the counts and barons in these seven counties, after hearing that as long as they joined the "Free Business Alliance", they could buy the food they urgently needed.

In a month, the number of members of the Free Business Alliance has increased from the initial 4 to more than 60, and many members took the initiative to apply to join after seeing that their neighbors had bought a lot of food.

Therefore, when the horse-drawn sleigh cart transports bags of grain to the gates of the castles of various counts and baronies, unloads the grain, and puts it into the warehouses of each territory, then thousands of animal skins, precious wood, and savage ore weapons will be moved out of the warehouse (the nobles of the Northland have been fighting with the northern savages for many years, and many ore weapons have been captured), and they will be moved to the side of the sleigh for the caravan leader to choose.

"This fox skin is good, it should be an old fox skin with a life span of more than 20 years, hey, why is there two holes on the head? It's a pity, one hole is fine, two holes are worthless, this fox skin is still not needed." The leader of the team threw aside this fox skin, which was extremely rare in the Southern Kingdom and could sell for hundreds of gold coins, like garbage.

"This white bear skin is okay, it should be more than 30 years old, the color is also very good, hey, how can there be a few yellowish miscellaneous hairs here? It's a pity, it's pure white, it's okay, it's worthless if there are miscellaneous hairs, don't want it, don't want this." "The white bear skin, which is worth no more than 10,000 gold but can be sold for at least 1,000 gold coins after removing the miscellaneous hair, is also regarded as garbage and thrown aside.

"This piece of wood should be more than a thousand years old Han fir wood, the color should be bright golden red, but because of poor storage, the color has darkened, don't!"

"Hey, this savage's axe looks good, and it's golden...... It should be copper! This axe is required!" The shrewd leader inadvertently put this piece of koppon gold into the sled body.

In the warehouses of various territories in the Northland, there are too many furs, wood and ores in them, but according to the trading rules of exchanging a cart of grain for a cart of things, the leaders of the grain transportation teams of each merchant alliance can only pick out the goods with the best integrity, the longest age, the purest color, and the highest rarity from these mountains of goods, and put them into the sled body.

In this selection process, the owners of these goods want to get angry and beat people.

After picking the goods, the sleigh carts full of furs, wood, and ores returned to the Grand Collar, because of the extreme shortage of craftsmen, the Grand Collar did not have the ability to deeply process these goods, so in addition to all the ore left, the remaining pieces of animal fur and precious wood, which can be called treasures, were all sold to several wealthy kingdoms in the south through the hands of a large number of traveling merchants who joined the Free Business Alliance, and sold to the dignitaries of these kingdoms.

Relying on the good operation mechanism of internal coordination, concentration of capable manpower, and unified planning and sales of the Free Business Alliance, the transit base with the Grand Collar as the core was divided into dozens of transport teams by nearly a thousand sledders and protected by hundreds of knights.

Sold out.

Everything that could be sold was sold out.

Take the Grand Collar as an example, in just two months, the 200,000 Talons of grain in the castle granary, together with the black and rotten old grain underneath, were all sold, not to mention the large amount of jerky meat, cheese and sausages accumulated in the Gran Ling Livestock Farm, the tens of thousands of barrels of ale wine brewed in the winery over the years, and the thousands of dried apples left in the orchard, all of which were in short supply and sold cleanly!

The surplus grain in the warehouse of Nathan Ling, the beef and mutton jerky and specialty nuts (a kind of nut produced by the Berdo Ling, with thin skin and thick flesh, similar to walnuts), were sold out after only three or four trips.

In the later period, in order to continue to meet the strong demand in the north, Zhou Ming had to send people to greet people everywhere in the Earldom of Rhodes, and even Baron Garcia in the west lured many times, and finally pulled the surplus grain of the remaining 9 territories in the Earldom of Rhodes (including the direct domain of Count Lhozitz) to the north, which was enough to meet their food needs.

In the last business, Zhou Ming, who still did not forget the "ore weapons" in the hands of the northern savages, personally went out with a horse, including twenty grain carts carrying grain, meat, dried fruits, and eighty empty carts with nothing (in fact, there was no time, with people and horses to eat grain and grass), according to the [World Map] in his mind. The optimal route planned, across the white ice field, arrived at a few savage tribes who were discussing whether it was better to eat the old man or eat women and children, good guy, if it weren't for the fact that these savages couldn't hold weapons when they were hungry, the hundreds of people brought by Zhou Ming would have to be swallowed by these savages.

When returning from the savage tribe, the hundreds of sleigh convoys brought by Zhou Ming, in addition to a dozen of them lost due to various accidents, the remaining more than 80 sleigh cars, all loaded with all kinds of metal ores that were either golden, or black, or silver, as well as some beautiful colors and huge gems (there was a diamond the size of a human head, crystal clear, without a little impurity, Zhou Ming exchanged it with a pound of grain), returned to the land with a full load, and returned to the Grand Collar.

At this time, in the large granary of the Grand Castle, the old grain was swept away, and in its place were countless animal skins, a large amount of precious wood, and all kinds of metal raw ore that had no place to store but could only be placed in the castle room.

How to deal with these three types of items has become the biggest problem in front of Zhou Ming.

This problem must be a big problem for others, but for Zhou Ming, who has already been in his chest, it is just a little drizzle problem that he has already predicted in his complete plan.

"The point is to dispose of all those furs first, so many precious furs, and then want to sell thousands of gold coins to customers one by one, rare things are expensive, not rare things, can only rely on the quantity, those of slightly inferior quality, 50 to 100 gold coins a piece, wholesale to those fur dealers, the highest quality, at a slightly higher price to the nobles of the rich kingdoms in the south, graded sales, to ensure that those nobles in the south, whether it is the lowest knight, or the highest noble king, each nobleman buys a fewIt's so cold, demand won't drop......"

"As for the precious wood, we should put it in our hands first, and when spring begins, recruit a large number of carpenters, and apprentices of carpenters with average skills! In the next few months, the large furniture workshop of Glanling must be established......

"And those ores, also to keep in the hands, these ores, are natural rare metal ores that are not easy to corrode, after being smelted in the blast furnace, all kinds of metal ingots, whether it is to make alloy armor, or to mint circulating currency, can play a huge role......"

Zhou Ming, who had made the above plans, personally took a small caravan carrying thousands of top-grade furs to the Iron Castle Kingdom in the next month.

……

Early spring in February.

After returning from the Kingdom of Ironkeep.

Zhou Ming invited the three members who had originally joined the Shang Alliance, the three lords of Yoken, Nathan, and Paton, to the Gran Castle, and asked the Jian Servant to carry three extremely bulky treasure chests and place them in front of the three lords.

Walking all the way, opening the treasure chests under the feet of the three of them one by one, a dazzling but very delicate and soft light radiated, and Zhou Ming said to them:

"Baron Howard, the 25,000 gold coins in this box are my reward for you and your knights, thank you very much for your strong support for the work of the Business Alliance in the past few months, please accept these gold coins, this is yours, a little reward you deserve. ”

Hearing this, Baron Howard couldn't wait to squat down, his eyes emitted the unique essence of a wealth fan, stretched out his hands, grabbed the gold coins in the box one after another, grinned brightly, and muttered in his mouth: "A lot of gold coins, all mine, all my ......"

"Dear father-in-law, the 30,000 gold coins in this box are your reward, you have provided 100,000 tarun grains and more than 20,000 taren dried meat and fruits for the merchant alliance, and those knights under your command have also followed me to the north and south in the past few months, which is very hard, after you go back, don't forget to take out some of the gold coins and distribute them to them, this is the reward they deserve. ”

Listening to Zhou Ming's words, Baron Sean nodded, and his heart was also very excited, 30,000 gold coins, he had never seen so many gold coins in his life, this time it only took three or four months to earn it, he now has a dream-like feeling, is this true?

In the end, Zhou Ming walked in front of Baron Romon who was a little unable to stand, his eyes wandered, and his eyes were looking at the two treasure chests full of gold coins next to him from time to time - this rough looking Northland man was restless at the moment, and he wanted to open the treasure chest that belonged to him immediately to see how many gold coins were in it, as a reward for him......

However, Baron Romon, who was indomitable on the battlefield and never fearless, still did not dare to open this treasure chest, because in the Free Merchant Alliance, he contributed the least, and he could not take out any grain, dried meat and other goods to make more contributions to the Merchant Alliance, and all he could do was to send some knights and farmers to fight the caravan.

Now when he saw Knight Edward, he wanted to give himself some extra reward, 20,000 or 30,000 gold coins, he didn't dare to think that he could have a few thousand gold coins, he was very happy, his family's armor that had been passed down for several generations, worn for more than a hundred years, and repaired countless times, should be able to be replaced with a new set this time.

Brush!

What a dazzling golden light.

Baron Romont's eyes couldn't help narrowing, and he heard a voice in his ear: "Dear Baron Romont, in the past few months, if you hadn't been able to match the bridges in various territories in the Northlands and provide convenience and help to the Business Alliance, the Free Business Alliance would not have been able to sell so much grain and goods, I am deeply grateful here! Here is 20,000 gold coins, I hope it is not too little, believe me, as long as everyone works together, by next year, you can earn more gold coins than this!"

"Hmm~"

Baron Romon nodded slightly, this has always been a straightforward and hearty northland man, for some reason, his eyes were red, and his nose was slightly sore.

He secretly said in his heart, this free business alliance is really very interesting.