Chapter 1311: Financial Crisis
"Oh, of course, of course, where did you just go?" Hades boasted and forgot the topic, and was reminded by the student to pat his head and said: "By the way, there are only ten gold coins on the account at the moment, how can we quickly return a batch of funds and tide over this difficulty?" ”
Zhao Hu muttered: "Why don't we send someone to contact Sophia quickly and make a transaction in advance?" ”
Fei Li smiled bitterly: "Ten gold coins are not even enough to run the cost of the space channel." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "The space doors connected between the territories are mutually beneficial, each with a special person to manage, and the number of openings is recorded every day, and it is settled every three days.
If the number of runs between the two provinces is the same, the cost will be offset, and if the number of times is high, the cost of the space gate will be supplemented. The territory near the Ten Thousand Demon City, no one came to the cold Glacier Continent, and never paid a penny.
"Alas, a war that is not worth it for!" Hades poured another glass of ale, a bit of a drink to drown his sorrows.
"Why is it not a good deal?" Zhao Hu refuted the old guy's short-sightedness. He analyzed the interests of the Conquest Sea Alliance to Hades and Laborious, and expanded the sphere of influence of the territory, not to mention for the time being, how much labor did the 300,000 Sea Clan provide?
The nature of marine life is simple and the belief is firm, with the spread of the dark religion, how many faith souls will have to be born? And the value of the ocean war song is immeasurable. What's more, with the Ocean Alliance, the materials under the sea can be mined, which is a huge treasure that no one has mined!
Hades was convinced, but those are all future interests, how to solve the current dilemma? Even if you go to rob, you have to prepare supplies, this is still more than 10,000 miles away from the Aegean coast, and even if you use the space gate to shorten it from Shark Island by more than half, it will take 3,000 miles. Don't you eat or drink along the way?
"Masters Goode and Paulson ask for an important report!" Outside the door, there was the loud voice of the two beast generals, the battle of the sea clan and the two of them inspired the beast blood madness, fortunately by Durek in time to faint and bleed, and then after the surrender of the Omani queen with the sea war song healing, these two days through the period of weakness, gradually recovered, without any injuries.
"Come in!" Hades poured a second glass of ale in one gulp, grabbed the small barrel and poured another glass. He usually likes to drink a few sips, and when he encounters difficulties, he is even more poured, Zhao Hu once made fun of him, can a series of problems be solved from the wine? He laughed and confessed that this bad problem was really left over from the days of wandering in the abyss world.
Goode and Paulson rushed in and reported two pieces of good news to Zhao Hu.
The first is that the vampire queen Sophia's trade envoy is carrying gold coins, and she has just stepped into the frozen city and is resting in the alchemy test tower! The news was a windfall from the sky, and without saying a word, Hades took Fei Li and the other two magicians and ran out like a gust of wind to his territory to receive distinguished guests.
The crisis of bankruptcy was temporarily solved, and Zhao Hu breathed a sigh of relief, and he motioned for the two beast generals to sit down and speak. Goode and Paulson sat respectfully with their hands on their hands, straightening their waists and pressing their hands on their knees in an orderly manner, not daring to slack off in front of their masters, both of whom were extremely grateful to be saved by their masters on the verge of life and death.
The second news caught Zhao Hu's attention, and the orcs who stayed behind captured a group of traders from the Sun Empire again, and this was the third time that the traders had been captured. Due to the fact that the Glacier Continent is very far away from the mainland in the Arctic Ocean, and it is relatively close to the boundary line of the Demon Race, no one escaped when Wei Botu was wiped out, and the Sun Empire still does not know that the former Wei Botu territory has long since ceased to exist.
According to Goode's account, after interrogating the trader, the merchant ships of the first two times were gone and there was no news of it, and the "Divine Light Traders", one of the three major traders of the Sun Empire who had always traded with Wei Botu, was very anxious, worried about encountering a storm or an iceberg impact in the long ocean, so he sent a third group of merchant ships to transport iron ore. Unexpectedly, as soon as he landed on the shore, he was captured by the orcs who were in ambush.
"Master, I'm worried that none of the three groups of merchant ships will return, and sooner or later it will arouse the suspicion of the Divine Light Traders, but I'm afraid that other means will come to detect it, so we have to take precautions in advance." Goode suggested.
"Well, you're right." Zhao Hu gently bowed his head and said, "Is there any good way?" ”
"Master, I have an idea!" "We polar bears are natives of the Glacier Continent and are very familiar with the land, and the ice bears are our friends and can be driven by our people," Paulson said.
I wonder if I ordered that ice bears should not be hunted, and that my people should monitor the coastline in different areas? Of course, in addition to ice bears, the penguin clan can also drive seals and wild penguins, and with the heart-to-heart connection between the two beast families and the associated beasts, any foreign enemy will be detected as soon as they appear. ”
"This method is good, then order not to hunt the ice bear." Zhao Hu couldn't imagine that ice bears, penguins, and seals had such valuable abilities, so he immediately agreed.
Seeing that his master agreed to his proposal, Paulson opened his lips and smiled: "According to my understanding of the Ice Ocean, it will be more than a month before it will enter the cold winter, and then it will be extremely cold for thousands of miles, and I believe that no matter how advanced the peeping methods are, it will not work, and those who do not know the glacier continent well will freeze to death at night." ”
Zhao Hu also understood this, when Wei Botu led people to set foot on the glacier continent. Hundreds of people had frozen to death in the night, and he and the dozens of others stripped off the clothes of the dead and hugged each other, and fled back to the Sun Empire until dawn, ready to return here for the second time. Cold weather is a natural ally of the Frozen Territory. The sea was frozen in winter, even though the Solar Empire found that Vebto had been wiped out. If you want to send troops to retake this place, you will have to get next spring at the earliest.
Zhao Hu's plan was not to provoke the Sun Empire for the time being, and the blockade of the news would make the Divine Light Chamber of Commerce try its best to guess what kind of tragic fate had happened to the merchant ships it sent. The top priority is to digest the great benefits brought by the various races of the sea that have just been annexed.
As long as the strength increases, I will run to invade you first before you come to provoke me! Zhao Hu said coldly in his heart.
Three months later, an overwhelming snowstorm swept across the glacier continent, and the vast territory was covered in snow, and the sea surface of more than 1,000 miles offshore was covered with thick ice, and the sea surface further out, icebergs and ice blocks increased significantly, and it was very dangerous to sail.
Since the vampire queen Sophia's trade envoy came to the frozen city, the iron ore trade was officially launched, and the ore mined every day was sorted into good types according to quality, and it was shipped away the next day, and the settlement was very neat in seven days, which brought a lot of profits to the frozen territory with a shortage of advanced and shortage, and Le Hades said good things about Sophia for the first time.
In order to prevent the cold in winter, the fire crystal heating stove invented by Hades was manufactured and distributed in large quantities, and this convenient heating magic furnace benefited the sea clan who had just been annexed a lot, and repeatedly praised the deputy lord as a royal alchemy master, even if the magic power was sealed, he could still create such an unexpected magic furnace.
Zhao Hu took out a large number of magic crystals from the Flame Demon Chamber of Commerce that he had robbed at the beginning and handed them to Hades to use, and the high-quality medium and low-level magic crystals made Hades dumbfounded, and asked where he got them? How could he tell the truth, smiling and silently mysterious, which made the old guy depressed, and guessed countless possibilities, but he didn't guess that it was robbed from the Flame Demon Chamber of Commerce.
The fire-type hedron in that batch of magic crystals was immediately used in the heating stove. Others were treasured by Hades for future alchemical casting.
In addition to the fire crystal heating stove, the cold-resistant leather robes and leather boots are also in the hands of the honest bear and penguin women, one by one, the fur is partly taken from the ice bear seal, some is bought, and some is the cold-resistant fur of the sea beasts worshiped by the various tribes of the sea.
In the past three months, under the auspices of Archbishop Paul, a small dark church has been built on the island where each branch of the Sea Clan lives, and the Naga people, as a natural magical race in the Ocean Alliance, have naturally turned into dark priests, and the slow and patient Turtle Clan has promoted many missionaries.
In this way, the dark religion was successfully promoted among the sea tribes, and the sea tribesmen, who had lost the favor of the sea god for many years, believed in the demon god Solomon with a pious attitude, and for a time the demon god code was preached by the turtle missionary and the Naga priest, and quickly formed a trend among the sea tribe, like the most popular faith.
According to the tradition of the Cult of Darkness, priests and missionaries are promoted from among believers, both in order to unite the believers and because the representatives of these believers are more aware of the situation of the people. And the one responsible for the promotion is the work of the dark archbishop, and in this respect the young Archbishop Paul is extremely efficient.
An army of 50,000 elite sea warriors has been formed and stationed on the largest Mermaid Island, under the control of the Queen of Oman. It is not only an important force in the Alliance to Protect the Seas, but also a marine force that supports the Frozen City at any time. The commander of the legion is Benny, the first warrior of the Sea Clan.
The benefits of the submission of the Ocean Alliance are obvious, first of all, the Sea Clan are all masters of fish hunting, and they offer a large number of fish to the Frozen City, saving a lot of money on food, and can also sell into the abyss world in exchange for hard currency such as gold coins or spars.
Secondly, under the guidance of the pwarf leader Rose, he found two iron mines at the bottom of the sea, a copper mine, a gold mine, and even more to Hades' surprise, there was also a Mithril mine. This is the tip of the vast treasure trove at the bottom of the ocean, and more veins will be discovered one after another.