At 11 o'clock at noon on January 18, 1177, in a restaurant called Lifei in the Kingdom of Machine, two men dressed very ordinary people were whispering to each other in a secret table.

The two are Yan Tielong and Yanmai Babad, the representative of the Yanmai family, one of the Silk Alliance Chamber of Commerce, respectively, and the content of the exchange between the two is silk.

Of course, Yan Tielong wanted to suppress each horse of silk to ten gold coins or even lower, and this price certainly caused Yanmai Babad to be dissatisfied, but he suppressed his dissatisfaction in his heart, he was very serious and said that ten gold coins per horse was too low, and he directly said that the low price that the family could accept was twenty gold coins.

Yan Tielong faced the low price of the Yanmai family, he directly shook his head and said that it was too expensive, so the two kept bargaining, and in the end, Yan Tielong did not increase the 16 gold coins per silk horse.

When Yanmai Babad heard Yan Tielong's heaviest price, he did not flappe the table angrily, but said that he would go back to the family to negotiate, after all, the sixteen gold coins each had exceeded the bottom line set by the family master.

After watching Yanmai Babad leave, Arya sat down next to Yan Tielong, and she asked her fiancé how he was talking.

Yan Tielong told his fiancée what he had talked about with Yanmai Babad, and when Arya heard Yanmai Babad's offer, she wondered why her fiancé didn't agree, after all, the price of twenty gold coins per silk was the same as that of the Hundred Machinery Chamber of Commerce, and the benefits could reach about 15 times the benefits, why didn't she agree?

When Yan Tielong heard his fiancée's words, he directly shook his head and said that in fact, each piece of silk was twenty gold coins, even if it was sold for three hundred gold coins, they would not be able to earn 15 times the profit, but about ten times the profit.

When Arya heard her fiancée say ten times the profit, she showed a puzzled expression and directly said that even if she hired guards and carriage transportation, she could get 13 times the profit.

When Yan Tielong heard his fiancée's words, he said that the reason why it was ten times the profit was because he also paid a large amount of protection money, otherwise the goods he purchased would not have been able to return to the Zhandes Kingdom through the desert at all.

When Arya heard that her fiancé had to pay the toll, she already had some guesses that the protection money should be given to the sand thieves, which made her wonder why her fiancé paid the protection money, after all, it was not difficult to destroy the sand pirates with the strength they controlled.

In fact, the reason why Yan Tielong wanted to pay protection money to the sand thieves was because he wanted to use the power of the sand thieves to monopolize the export of the goods of the Tower Kingdom, after all, after sending the information through Mrs. Tuqilier, he found that the goods of the Tower Kingdom were of great interest, so he contacted the Scorpion Clan.

Yan Tielong took out a pure natural gem worth 10 million gold coins and asked the Scorpion Clan tribe to contact various desert tribes and pay protection fees to each desert tribe, after all, most of the desert robbers are desert natives.

And when Yan Tielong had just arrived in the Kingdom of Jita, news came from the Scorpion Fall tribe that they had successfully negotiated with various desert tribes, and as long as there was a caravan with the banner of the Scorpion Fall Clan, it would not be attacked by desert bandits.

If someone even attacks a caravan with the flag of the Scorpion Clan, then the desert tribe will also help, after all, two million gold coins out of the 10 million protection fee are rewarded for help.

Of course, if the help reward is not claimed after a year, then the funds will be divided equally among all desert tribes.

Some people may ask, isn't Yan Tielong worried that the Scorpion Clan will swallow 10 million gold coins, after all, 10 million gold coins can buy a small country.

In fact, many people within the Scorpion Clan instigated the leader and a dozen high-ranking officials to embezzle 10 million gold coins, but all those who instigated were executed.

The reason why the high-level and leaders of the Scorpion Fall Clan have the same attitude is because Yan Tielong has mastered the lifeblood and huge interests of the Scorpion Fall Clan.

The lifeblood of the Scorpion Fall tribe is the water source, and now the water source of the Scorpion Fall tribe map is based on Yan Tielong's Lingquan Baoyu and Yan Tielong's magic array, once Yan Tielong is offended, there will be no problem with the water source of the contemporary Scorpion Fall Clan, but the next generation or even the next generation, after all, Yan Tielong has told the Scorpion Fall tribe that the Lingquan Baoyu can only last for a maximum of thirty years if it is not maintained, or even less.

And Yan Tielong also has huge interests with the Scorpion Fall Clan, which also mentions that Yan Tielong went to the Ice and Fire Continent for the second time to run a business, you must know that that time to run a business, Yan Tielong gave the Scorpion Fall Clan nearly 10 million gold coins of gems.

The high-level leaders of the Scorpion Clan all thought that Yan Tielong would definitely run business, and there would definitely be more than 10 million gold coins at that time.

Moreover, this time Yan Tielong's protection fee is also of great benefit to the Scorpion Fall Clan, and the strength of the Scorpion Fall Clan is indeed the top among the desert tribes, but if they are targeted by more than five tribes, they will not be able to stand it.

And this time, with the help of Yan Tielong's 10 million protection fee, the Scorpion Clan tribe has deepened their relationship with the powerful tribe, after all, Yan Tielong's 10 million gold coins can be obtained almost without doing anything.

Of course, not all desert tribes are eligible for Yan Tielong's protection fee, and those desert tribes that are not qualified do not dare to move the objects protected by various powerful desert tribes, so Yan Tielong will enter the tower kingdom and make a large purchase.

After Yan Tielong brought the goods of the Tower Kingdom to the Wardes Kingdom to generate huge benefits, he and the Scorpion Clan joined forces with the Desert Tribe to monopolize the trade route from the Tower Kingdom to the Wardes Kingdom, until the desert tribe was too inflated before it collapsed, of course, these are all later words.

Yan Tielong didn't tell Arya about his contact with the desert tribe, after all, he didn't influence his fiancée in the dark.

At this time, Arya asked her fiancé in confusion, the price of silk from the Baiji Chamber of Commerce was the same as that of the Yanmai family, so why didn't she even accept the silk of the Yanmai family?

Yan Tielong faced his fiancée's inquiry, and he said helplessly, it was not that he didn't want to collect the silk of the Yanmai family, but that he bought a large amount of silk from the Baiji Chamber of Commerce, which had left him with little money left, so he had to leave some funds to hire personnel and a transport team.

When Arya heard her fiancé say that she didn't have much money, she couldn't help but ask what if the Yanmai family agreed to the price of 16 gold coins.

Yan Tielong heard that his fiancée was worried, he touched the best pure natural gemstone ring in his hand and said that if the Yanmai family was really willing to agree to sell silk for sixteen gold coins, he would use the jewelry on his body as collateral.

Arya was a little surprised to hear her fiancé's answer, after all, she knew that her fiancé liked natural gemstone rings very much, and she would take care of them every time she took them off, and even she had a feeling that she was not as important as those gemstones in her fiancé's eyes.

However, Arya didn't know that in Yan Tielong's heart, Arya was the most precious gem in his heart, and it was the only one, of course, this was also what Arya knew through something in the future, which is all a later story.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Yanmai Babad told the patriarch and the elders of the family about the content of his negotiation with Yan Tielong, of course, he also expressed great dissatisfaction with Yan Tielong's pressing of the silk to sixteen gold coins, after all, sixteen gold coins were indeed profitable for their Yanmai family, but the profit was too low.

It's just that the high-level officials of the Yanmai family were not as angry as Yanmai Babad imagined, but they discussed whether to agree to the price of Yan Tielong 16 per piece of silk, after all, the Yanmai family was really short of funds.

And the reason why the Yanmai family is so short of funds is related to the Silk Alliance Chamber of Commerce forming a caravan to run merchants in the Kingdom of Zhandes.

You must know that the caravan formed by the seven major families at that time, the Yanmai family invested nearly half of the caravan's funds, but the caravan encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters that led to the annihilation of the entire army, which made the Yanmai family hurt its vitality, and later the caravans in the Ice and Fire Continent, the Orc Continent and the Ruins Continent had various problems, which made the Yanmai family have not replaced local armed equipment for almost five years.

The current Yanmai family is the weakest existence in the Silk Alliance Chamber of Commerce, if it weren't for the fact that the Yanmai family didn't sell their land in difficulty, maybe they would have been removed from the Silk Alliance Chamber of Commerce.

For the quarrel between the middle and high-level of the clan, Yan Mai Paiweis, who was born as the patriarch of the Yanmai family, was thinking about whether to agree to Yan Tielong's sixteen gold coin offer, or refuse, once they agreed to Yan Tielong's offer, how would they hand over the goods to Yan Tielong unknowingly, especially if they couldn't be discovered by other alliance chamber of commerce families, after all, once they found out, then their Yanmai family would be removed.

Soon the top of the Yanmai family stopped arguing, and they all looked at the patriarch, after all, the final decision was made by the patriarch.

Seeing that everyone was not arguing and looking at him, he hesitated and asked the members in charge of the family's finances how long their family could hold out if they missed this opportunity.

In the face of the inquiry of the head of the family, the members of the family in charge of the treasury hesitated to give three months after a little consideration, if they did not get 100,000 gold coins in three months, then the land worth 150,000 gold coins that their family had previously mortgaged would be forcibly changed hands.

At the same time, the member in charge of finance also said that he got more than 40,000 gold coins yesterday, but the remaining 60,000 gold coins were not so easy to raise.

Hearing the words of the members of the family in charge of finance, Yanmai Paiwei squinted his eyes and made up his mind to make a deal with Yan Tielong, if he was discovered by the other six major families, then all the responsibility would be put on him, and he would hand over the position of patriarch, but he asked the clansmen not to tell anything about what was decided today, and once a traitor was discovered, the whole clan would be wanted endlessly.