Chapter 43: A Seed, a Trade Route
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Under the clear blue sky, a figure is holding a small dandelion umbrella in one hand and fluttering in the wind, looking very lonely and lonely.
"Lord Gardener, they didn't come today!" said softly to a green eyeless frog lying close to the neck of Wanxiangdao.
When Wanxiang Dao heard this, he slowly opened his closed eyes and replied lazily: "Forget it, ignore them, they will naturally come when it is time to come!"
Compared with the big mouth, this "Fu Frog" is much more reliable. For example, it is particularly sensitive to odors, and can detect odor distributions within a maximum range of ten miles, and distinguish the trajectory of friend and foe.
No, it only took a few days to discover several waves of snoopers with ill intentions towards Ban's Manor. After comparing several of them with Eve, they were surprised to find that they might be the elves of the Great Forest.
Wanxiang Dao always thought that he could still be calm after taking pictures of the elf fruit, but it may be the negligence of the elf clan that caused him to escape. Now it seems that he is thinking too much, and the elves should have been eyeing him a long time ago, but it is strange that he still hasn't started until now!
In this regard, Ireland's words made Universal Dao suddenly realize: "They are watching to see if you can successfully breed elves, and the moment they hatch smoothly is the moment they do it!"
Yes, not everyone is a fool, as a longevity elf who is only an adult at the age of fifty, all of them can be called "old elves"! If it weren't for the fact that most of the life breath of the elf fruit in their hands leaked out, I'm afraid they would have run up and snatched it back! Now, if you want to find out the person who has the greatest hope of successfully giving birth to the elf fruit, who else is more suitable than yourself?
Of course, Ireland also proposed to Wanxiang Dao more than once, that is, to go to the elven forest to absorb the natal energy of the elven tree, so that the elven fruit can quickly give birth to elves. It's a pity that Wanxiang Dao values his life more than anything else, and he refuses to agree to the itinerary of the Elven Great Forest.
As soon as the toes of Wanxiang Dao's dandelion umbrella touched the ground, Taigalie and Dino not far away couldn't wait to run over, making him have a premonition that something was wrong.
"My lord, this is a rare business opportunity, but Taigale ran to stop it. Dino said indignantly towards Wanxiangdao, his words quite resentful.
"Business opportunities, who knows what benefits he gave you behind his back, and he was stunned to cut such a large piece of meat from the manor to outsiders!" Taigariel snorted, sneering at Dino as well.
Wanxiang Dao listened to what they said, and it took a while to figure out what was going on. It was the merchants who were to blame, and they were at odds over the distribution of goods.
First of all, let's recognize the strange territory of the Empire of Light, its central area is the endless Lamo Desert, and legend has it that no one can penetrate its central core. And the ten kingdoms are arranged in a circle at the edge of it, so it can be said that any one kingdom is only frequented by the other two kingdoms, and the advantages will of course be much less friction and disputes, and the economic exchanges between the bad kingdoms are really limited to the local area.
Thus came into being the merchants, who took on the responsibility of circulating the goods of the two kingdoms not close to each other, and they existed in the form of caravanserans, traveling between the kingdoms to sell large quantities of goods in order to earn the difference.
It is precisely because of these waves of merchants that the Empire of Light maintains economic ties, and to some extent, a certain trade route affects the economic rise and fall of a kingdom's territory to a certain extent! And now the merchants who come to Ban's Manor to negotiate are precisely a Lolita caravan that the Empire of Light is famous for!
Wanxiang Dao has recently tried to let go of Ban's manor's potion sales business, and many things are decided by Dino and Taigale. But now the position of the two has led to today's rivalry.
Dino was very supportive of the cooperation of Lolita Merchants, while Taigalie was clearly opposed!
Because the consequences of the matter are obvious, the cooperation between Ban's Manor and the Lolita Caravan means that the share of the mage tower's potions will be reduced, and Taigare, as the only contact between the Ban's manor and the mage tower, will naturally suffer a certain loss of indirect benefits!
Wanxiang Dao looked at the two of them with a headache, Dino is the patriarch of Ban's Manor, and Taigalie is a capable leader who has recently belonged for Ban's Manor!
In desperation, Wanxiang Dao could only meet the representative of the Lolita merchant in person. He really wanted to see how the figure who had caused Dino and Taiga to quarrel was three-headed and six-armed.
The living room was a golden pumpkin hut the size of a classroom, and as soon as Wanxiang Dao walked in, he saw Locke sitting there, a short merchant in a thick gray cotton jacket, his head glowing, his face was yellow, his face was beardless, and he looked very friendly.
Locke also looked at the legendary "master of the manor" quietly in the gap between getting up, this young man with black hair and black eyes had a sparse green plant growing on his head, and his delicate face looked lazy, as if he didn't care about everything.
After some hypocritical politeness, Wanxiang Dao sat there and listened to Locke smile and repeat their demand for goods again, nodding his head from time to time, his face thoughtful.
The amount of goods that Lolita merchants traded with Ban's Manor this time was huge, and the magic potion was essential, but it was not the main thing. On the contrary, they are more interested in cheap and practical things, such as antidotes, curative drugs, health medicines, and so on.
Wanxiang listened to Locke's list of goods that were not much different from those of the other traders, and in the end, Locke's intentionally or unintentionally asking for some of the baobab seeds caused him to subconsciously suspect it. Like their tall saplings, go back and plant a few to admire?
Locke looked at Wanxiang Dao and suddenly frowned, silent, and suddenly felt a handful of sweat in his hands, and he was very worried, he didn't have any baskets, did he really find out?
Finally, Wanxiang Dao's face changed, and he laughed out loud, clapping his hands to express his approval of the deal with Locke.
After signing the transaction contract and all the handovers, Wanxiang Dao looked at Locke with a smile, and said while waving his hand: "Mr. Locke is a smart man and is very good at doing business." If it weren't for your bulk cargo, I would have thought you were here for our bread tree seeds!"
As soon as these words came out, Locke's face changed greatly, and he smiled vigorously at Wanxiangdao, and finally he touched the embarrassed back of sweaty sweat on his forehead and hurriedly left Ban's Manor.
Unlike Dino's confusion, Taigare, who was finally no longer blinded by the interests of the Mage Tower, with a hint of shock in his eyes, he turned his head to look at Wanxiang Dao, who was looking at Locke's departure with a smile on his face, and felt that he still had to look at this "old friend" of his colleague for several years!
It wasn't until he left Ban's Manor for a few miles that Locke flashed a trace of fear, and he regretted his contempt for Ban's Manor before, it was really unusual for them to break into such a name!
In fact, Locke came to Ban's Manor with the intention of watching the excitement, wanting to see if Ban's Manor lived up to its name. But it was only after he overheard someone from Ban's Manor who pierced the bread tree with a pot to get water that he decided to make a deal and quietly get his hands on its seeds.
I thought this Ban Manor was just a bunch of lucky fools. It's a pity that at the last moment, the owner of the manor seems to have seen through his intentions, where did he reveal his flaws? Why didn't he expose himself on the spot? Locke's heart was full of confusion, could all his actions be expected by him? If so, the owner of the manor would be terrible!
Ignoring Locke, who was puzzled along the way, Taigalie, who came to his senses, pointed at Dino with a blank face and roared: "Idiot, look at the good deeds you have done!
Looking at Dino, who was very aggrieved, Taigalet was even more angry, and he poked Dino's head with his fingertips and said, "Think about it, what would happen if they planted a tree of water (their name for the bread tree) in the desert?"
When Dino heard this, he finally had a clear vision and figured out the key to something!
But Taigalie didn't want to let Dino go like this, he stared at Dino and sneered repeatedly: "560,000 gold coins have sold a trade route! Maybe even several! Dino, you can really do it!"
Yes, although the metamorphosis version of the bread tree could not escape the fate of the fifth generation losing its magical activity, the saplings saved from these generations of seeds alone were enough to carve out a trade route along the way in the desert where there was a great shortage of water and strong winds!
A trade route that belongs to itself, without the protection fees charged by the forces along the way at fixed checkpoints, and there are no bandits who kill and plunder one after another, if they shorten the distance by a while, they will further seize the market business opportunities! Even if they have no ideas, they can borrow money from other caravans, and charge different amounts of guidance fees, which is enough to make them worry about food and clothing for several lifetimes!
How much is a new trade route worth? Some people say that it is a million gold coins, ten million gold coins, but in the eyes of people of insight, it is priceless! Because a gold trade route can be profitable for generations, and if it is properly managed, it is simply an endless financial route! This is also the biggest reason why Taigaret dares to denounce Dino, because he is in charge!
"Lord Gardener, why don't you stop us?" asked Taigar after a moment of frenzy before looking at Wanxiang Dao with a complicated expression. This is the first time he has given the universal dao honorific title, and he still can't understand it, the universal dao has clearly seen Locke's intentions, and even let it become a fact under his eyes.
"Well, I've thought about it, and I'll leave the rest for them as a reward for opening up a trade route, although it's a bit much!" Wanxiang Dao sat on the side and watched their bustle with his cheeks in his hands, and only made no secret of his thoughts when Taigari asked what he thought.
As for why you don't stop Dino from being trained, hehe, if the people below are too popular, they are easy to get hot-headed and do bad things. Besides, he can't keep an eye on Ban's Manor all the time, right? In the future, it will always be their turn to make up their minds, and this time he should spend money to buy a lesson for Ban's Manor!
After listening to Wanxiangdao's words, Taigalie nodded his head in admiration. This can be regarded as a grand expansion plan of Ban's Manor! Even if Ban's Manor expands several times the scale and produces more potions, it will be a drop in the bucket for the entire Bright Empire, in order to maximize profits, it is inevitable to expand the scope of potion sales! In a word, the greater the number of people in mainland Ireland who demand Ban's Manor's potions, the greater the profit of Ban's Manor!
However, as a member of the Ban Manor, what they have to do is to fight for the maximum benefit of the manor in the process of distributing trade routes, which is what they should do as wage earners!
It is conceivable that the confusion of the two of them this time led to dereliction of duty, which made the "loss" of Ban's manor very large, and this matter was no less than selling a thousand-year-old ginseng at the price of cabbage! This made the always conceited Taigaret feel very humiliated, hehe, he was quietly put on a stand by Locke!
Wanxiang Dao walked out of the house with a lot of interest, and walked around to find that Qintian Pig was playing happily with magic, its hooves holding its wand, carefully watching the changes in the movements of the cyan figure in front of it, carefully making fine-tuning.
Looking at the beautiful bearded man not far away playing with the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in his hand, Wanxiang Dao also waved the magic wand in his hand with an itchy heart, and a figure turned into a water-blue streamer and flew in front of "Guan Yu", holding a Fang Tian painting halberd and slamming forward. "Guan Yu" was stunned, he couldn't resist this attack, and turned into countless cyan points of light and dissipated in the air!
The next moment, Qintian Piggy looked up at Wanxiang Dao who was standing aside with a magic wand, and then the magic wand in his hand also shook, and there was a cyan light in front of him, and a figure with a prominent belly appeared, he had a square head and big ears, holding a nine-toothed nail rake in both hands, and took over the previous battle with great momentum!
Wanxiang Dao was stunned, Qintian Little Pig actually chose to condense the shape of Zhu Bajie?? In the gap when he couldn't react, "Lu Bu" holding Fang Tian's halberd repeated the previous scene of "Guan Yu", and was killed by the "Zhu Bajie" with a nine-tooth nail rake!
"Qintian little pig, how can you condense Zhu Bajie?" Wanxiang Dao complained angrily. This is very inconsistent with the rules of fair fighting, how can you take Zhu Bajie of "Journey to the West" against Lu Bu of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?
"Originally, they didn't have the difference between tricks and supernatural powers, they all relied on brute force, and Zhu Bajie is my own family, what's not to do?" Qin Tian Little Pig sat on the ground and wiped his wand by himself, and responded very strangely.
Wanxiang Dao was speechless when he heard it. Indeed, if the condensation can really "reproduce" Zhu Bajie, the world will be chaotic. The condensation of the magic element is similar at best, and even the legendary and powerful gods have never heard of the creation of living life except for their own god clones.
Being able to create life is such an unbelievable thing that even the will of the Irish plane has heard of! After all, it involves too many levels, and Ireland even suspects that only the great sea of stars can possess this ability!
"Don't talk nonsense, you're here to ask if your alien girlfriend is back, right?" Qin Tian Piggy pouted disdainfully, mercilessly exposing someone's little Jiujiu.
"No, she hasn't been back since she went out yesterday morning! I said, you don't have to worry about her, that alien princess is smarter than any of us. Qin Tian Little Pig shook his head vigorously, it was identified by the silver sword on Xiaohua's body, and it had never made a mistake!
When Wanxiang Dao heard this, there was a trace of unconcealable loss on his face. I don't know what to say when I see it, but I miss it so much if I don't see a pretty person!
Since they helped rescue the seventeen clansmen of Xiaohua in the Third Prince's mansion, she has been running non-stop to the scattered Gadi tribesmen in other remote kingdoms.
In the past week or so, Wanxiang Dao has only seen Xiaohua a handful of times, although he understands her distress, but it does not mean that Wanxiang Dao has no idea at all! The most important thing is that Wanxiang Dao vaguely noticed that Xiaohua was deliberately avoiding himself, which made him even more anxious.
It was late at night, and the pumpkin huts in the manor had gone to sleep, and these round things looked like mushrooms on the grassland from a distance, quiet and normal.
Suddenly, a transparent ripple rippled in the void, and a petite figure jumped out of it, she held her breath and looked at the pitch-black smiling pumpkin hut opposite, patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief, wanting to step into the cute cat pumpkin hut behind her.
"Don't tell me when you come back, if I don't come to you, have you been avoiding me?"
Angel was startled, and looked at the roof of her house, where the figure with a plant on its head stood up from a squat, patted her buttocks, and said softly.
"Master, I... Angel pondered for a while, trying to explain something, but didn't know how to speak.
"I didn't mean anything else here, I just wanted to tell you, if you want to leave, tell me, I won't stop you, on the contrary, there is something I want to give you!" Wanxiang Dao said, holding her shoulders, he felt tears in his eyes, just trying to hold them back.
Xiaohua lowered her head and was silent, so Wanxiang Dao put down her hands in embarrassment, with a hint of self-deprecation: "I couldn't sleep tonight so I got up to go shopping, I didn't expect you to come back suddenly, uh, I'll go back to sleep, you can rest early!"
So, under Xiaohua's gaze, Wanxiang ran back to the pumpkin hut opposite in embarrassment and slammed the door shut. It's just that when he leaned weakly behind the door, his face was full of tears, a wry smile and helplessness.
"Hey, Bambets!"
Wanxiang Dao was looking sad when he suddenly heard someone calling out to him in the dark corner of the room. He hurriedly wiped his cheeks and shouted angrily in the direction of the voice: "Who? who is hiding there?
"Bambats, I'm hungry, do you have that stuff from last time? It took a while for this timid word to come from the darkness over there, which contained inexplicable grievances.
Wanxiang Dao was speechless, and took out a flashlight from the "seed bank" space to shine there, but it was Vivian squatting on the ground holding her stomach, looking at herself with her small mouth full of grievances.
At this moment, Wanxiang Dao really regretted it, how could he come back as an alcoholic? It seems that he has time to see if there are any anti-alcoholic medicines, otherwise the entire Ban Manor will have to let Vivian drink it all, magic wine, this thing is too hurtful!
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