Chapter 912: Ten New Trade Cities
On March 8, 1176, at around ten o'clock, after ten days of walking, they finally arrived at their destination, Shixin Trade City.
According to Regusi Yueji, the long-term population of the Ten New Trade Cities is more than 300,000, and the floating population is also as high as about 200,000, that is, the Ten New Trade Cities have a population of nearly 500,000.
And commerce is also very developed, it is said that before the lover king did not order to prohibit elves from entering the city, the elven clan alone had as many as four or five thousand merchants, of course, the human chamber of commerce was as high as thirty or so, it was an out-and-out commercial city of the dwarf race.
It's a pity that since the dwarf king ordered the dwarven territory to prohibit the elves from entering, the business of the ten new cities has suffered great losses, after all, there were elves and humans competing in the past, which also led to the ten new city goods being much cheaper than other dwarf cities, and many dwarven merchants bought the goods here and sold them in other dwarf cities to earn a meager difference.
Through Lei Gu Qian Yueji's narration, Yan Tielong knew that the city lord of the Ten New Trade City was not the Lei Gu family, but the dwarf king's people, but the Lei Gu family had already vacated the position of the city lord, no matter which dwarf came to be the city lord.
The Regu family forcibly set aside the power of the city lord of the Ten New Trade Cities, but their strategy for the city lords of the Ten New Trade Cities is that only the city lord does not touch the core interests of the Regu family, so the orders of the ten new trade city lords will be obeyed, and even the city lords who are in tune with the plan are given a share of the benefits, which also leads to many dwarves fighting for every change of city lords.
In fact, Yan Tielong was very curious about why the Dwarf King was so relieved that the Lei Gu family had a monopoly on the political power of the Ten New Trade Cities, but Lei Gu Qian Yueji told Yan Tielong that the reason was that their Lei Gu family was obedient.
Regarding Lei Gu Qian Yueji's words, Yan Tielong didn't believe it at all in his heart, if the Lei Gu family was really obedient, then the 150,000 elf style equipment would come from there.
Reguqian Yueji continued to tell Yan Tielong that after the Dwarf King issued an elf ban on entering the Dwarf Capital, the Ten New Trade Cities immediately expelled nearly four or five thousand elf merchants, and like the Dwarf King ordered the elven style equipment to be melted, the Ten New Trade Cities had melted nearly 300,000 pieces of elven style equipment.
Hearing that the Ten New Trade Cities had melted away more than 300,000 pieces of elf-style equipment, Yan Tielong was very distressed in his heart, after all, 300,000 pieces of elf-style equipment was a lot of wealth.
Entering the Ten New Trade City, Yan Tielong felt like he had entered the Book Banner Dixi City of the Flying Dragon Kingdom, of course, it was not the architectural style, and the atmosphere of art and books in the city was very similar.
In response to Yan Tielong's inquiry about the art and book atmosphere in the Ten New Trade Cities, Lei Gu Qian Yueji was a little helpless and said that it was not their Earth Walker influence, but the elven clan's ridicule.
Hearing Reguqian Yueji's story, Yan Tielong and Arya were very curious, so they asked what was going on.
Regusi began to tell that the art and book culture of the Ten New Trade Cities began a thousand years ago, when the elves and the dwarven alliance were fighting against the Earth Flame Demons, so the relationship between the top was not bad, but the customs and habits of the people at the bottom led to a lot of conflicts.
And this conflict is that the elves despise the dwarves for having no culture and artistic cells, and as the dwarven king, of course, he is very unhappy to learn that the people are despised by the elves, so he recruits the learned and wise people in the clan to prove that they dwarves also have artistic cells and knowledge.
However, it turned out to be a very bad blow to the dwarf king's face, because at that time, every ordinary elf had the same level as the current university, and only one of the dwarven wise people at that time had a college level, and the others were only at the high school and junior high school level.
In the face of the blow, the dwarf king at that time asked the earthwalker dwarves with a university level that any changes would not be despised by the elves, and after agreeing to the blows, the earthwalker dwarves who agreed to be struck thought about it for a month, and he told the dwarf king that the basic knowledge reserve between the dwarves and the elves was too big, and they had to start from the basics, so there were ten new trade cities.
Reguqian Yueji proudly told Yan Tielong that the literacy rate of the Ten New Trade Towns was eight layers, and the mastery of the second language was as high as 10%, and the mastery of the third language was as high as 3%, and these statistics had surpassed that of the dwarven royal capital.
Yan Tielong strongly admired the achievements of the Ten New Trade Cities on the surface, but in his heart he despised the dwarves for procrastination in the promotion of knowledge, after all, a thousand years of time had only made the literacy rate of the Ten New Trade Cities eight layers, and the literacy of other dwarf areas was very bad.
However, Yan Tielong still admired the wisdom of the dwarf race very much, after all, it was not easy to build such a large underground city.
Originally, Yan Tielong thought that he wanted the city lord of the Ten New Trade City to talk about 150,000 pieces of elf-style equipment, but Yan Tielong didn't expect that the dwarf who talked to him about 150,000 pieces of elf-style equipment was actually the old man of Lei Gu Baishenmo.
However, the purpose of the old man Lei Gu Baishen Mo was not about 100,000 pieces of elf-style equipment, the real reason he was looking for Yan Tielong was to understand the plans of the dark elf clan for the Earth Flame Demon in the near future.
In fact, the reason why Lei Gu Baishenmo wanted to know about the Dark Elf Clan's plans for the Earth Flame Demon was because since the last time the Dwarf King rejected the Dark Elf Clan's envoy alliance, the Dark Elf Clan had not sent an envoy to negotiate with the Dwarf King, and he was worried that the Dark Elf Clan would not be able to bear the Earth Flame Demon, after all, the Dwarf King had broken off contact with the Dark Elf Clan, which also caused the Dwarf Clan to almost never know the situation of the Dark Elf Clan.
In the face of the inquiry of the old man Lei Gu Baishenmo, Yan Tielong said that he did not know about the recent situation of the Dark Elf Clan, after all, he had not yet arrived at the territory of the Elf Clan, but Yan Tielong also told about the last experience in the territory of the Dark Elf Clan, especially the focus on the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Earth Flame Demon.
After listening to Yan Tielong's story, the old man of Lei Gu Baishen Mo frowned, because the old man of Lei Gu Baishen Mo guessed in his heart that the Earth Flame Demon was using space transfer similar magic to transfer the Earth Flame Demon from the forbidden area to the territory of the Dark Elf Clan.
However, the old man of Lei Gu Baishen Mo also knew that the Flame Demon did know space magic, but a thousand years ago, the elves and the dwarf clan jointly sealed the forbidden area space with an enchantment, that is, the Earth Flame Demon could not get out of the forbidden area at all except for breaking through the fortress built a thousand years ago.
Yan Tielong heard Lei Gu Baishenmo talk about sealing the area where the Earth Flame Demon was located thousands of years ago, Yan Tielong guessed whether the Earth Flame Demon would summon fire elemental creatures to dig an enchantment gap, and then the Earth Flame Demon came to the territory of the Dark Elf Clan through the gap.
After listening to Yan Tielong's speculation, the old man of Lei Gu Baishen Mo fell into deep thought, after all, the method that Yan Tielong said was not impossible.
After pondering for a while, Regu Baishenmo said that he really wanted to go to the territory of the Dark Elf Clan to see the place where the Earth Flame Demon had disappeared in person, but now he was still thinking about dealing with the current matter.
Then the old man Lei Gu Baishenmo began to tell how to trade and where to trade, but Yan Tielong was very puzzled, because the place of trading was thirty miles outside the Shixin Trade City, and the time was actually one o'clock in the morning, so he couldn't help but ask the other party why he arranged it like this?
In the face of Yan Tielong's inquiry, Lei Gu Baishenmo said that they were not as bold as the city lord of Jingyang City, and told Yan Tielong that the city lord of Jingyang just didn't take the dwarf king's instructions too seriously, and as a result, he was caught by the dwarf king, and now he not only lost money, but even his own life was very dangerous.
Hearing Lei Gu Baishenmo breaking the news, Yan Tielong immediately felt that something was wrong, in his words, ten days ago, he also negotiated with the city lord of Jingyang City about twenty pieces of elf-style equipment, if the city lord of Jingyang was caught by the dwarf king, then the deal between them could not be reached at all.
When the old man heard Yan Tielong's doubts, he said that the reason why the city lord of Jingyang still traded with Yan Tielong about 200,000 elf style equipment was that the dwarf king was now short of money.
When Yan Tielong heard Lei Gu Baishenmo's words, he wondered that the dwarf clan did not have a monetary system, and they all bartered for goods, how could the dwarf king be short of money?
Yan Tielong didn't notice that when he told that the dwarf race did not have its own currency system, a trace of gloom flashed in Lei Gu Baishenmo's eyes, after all, he was born as an earth walker, and Lei Gu Bai Shen Mo had already noticed that the development of the dwarf race without its own currency system had been restricted.
Regu Baishen Mo sighed and said that their dwarf king is a hedonist, and there is no problem with the wealth of the dwarf king's warehouse during peace, but to boost the morale of the warriors during the war, then the materials in the dwarf king's warehouse are greatly insufficient;
Lion Arya on the side heard Regu Baishenmo narrate, and she couldn't help but express that it was really good for the Dwarf King to break the ban he had issued as a king?
When the old man heard Arya's words, he said that the Dwarf King did not break his ban, and only other people really broke the ban, such as the city lord of Jingyang City and so on.
After listening to the explanation of the old man Regu Baishenmo, she already understood that once the elf-style equipment incident occurred in the east window, then the city lord of Jingyang would be pushed out by the dwarf king to replace the dead ghost.
After chatting about the city lord of Jingyang and the dwarf king, the old man of Lei Gu Baishen Mo took out a few scrolls, and the content of the scrolls was about the shops in the Ten New Trade City.
Seeing that it was a shop in the Shixin Trade City, Yan Tielong said that he could take a look at his shop now?
In response to Yan Tielong's inquiry, Lei Gu Baishenmo asked one of his disciples, Yan Gu Luos, to lead Yan Tielong to the store.
Under the leadership of Yan Gu Luos, Yan Tielong and the others came to the alien area of the Ten New Trade City, which already belonged to Yan Tielong's shop, and the name of the store was the Holy Pattern Store.
According to Iagoloos, the name and interior layout of the Holy Pattern Store are anonymous and decorated according to the Sacred Pattern Store in Jingyang City, of course, there are some nuances, after all, the two regions are different, and being able to reach the Sacred Pattern Store in Jingyang City almost proves that the Regu family has put a lot of effort into it.