Killing Perez received a benefit that Chu Tianjiang did not expect. That is, the caravan did not encounter any trouble on the way to Salt Lake City.

Although the Las Vegas white group claimed that the Perez caravan was looted by robbers and did not point the finger at Stewart, the most suspect, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the antagonistic relationship between Chu Tianjiang and Perez is not a secret in Las Vegas. As a result, rumors quickly replaced the "official news" published by the Las Vegas white group. In just a few days, from Phoenix to Denver to Houston, almost everyone knew about the Stewart caravan, and even more so that the captain of the caravan's guard was a powerful character. Some rumors are even more bizarre, such as Stewart hired all the free mercenaries and mercenaries in Las Vegas to form a convoy of tens of thousands. For another example, Chu Tianjiang, the captain of the caravan guard, is a martial arts master from the East, with strong martial arts, can use sword qi to kill people a hundred steps away, and has practiced a hard kung fu that is not as good as a sword and gun. The direct impact of these rumors and rumors is that the robbers who are entrenched on the road from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City have avoided it.

Even so, the caravan traveled from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City in six days.

In fact, that's pretty remarkable.

From Las Vegas to Salt Lake City, the road mileage is about 800 kilometers. Even a small caravan would take four days without getting into trouble. For a large caravan with hundreds of caravans, hundreds of guards, and more than 2,000 slaves, it usually takes fifteen to twenty days. The point is, no other large caravan would have carried so many slaves in a vehicle.

Because there were enough vehicles, the speed of the Stuart caravan was tripled.

During these six days, Chu Tianjiang asked Connie and the others to sleep during the day, and at night they went outside the camp with him for combat and physical training.

Chu Tianjiang had already thought of a way to settle Connie and them, that is, to use them to form a legion.

No matter what, Chu Tianjiang couldn't treat Connie and the others like he did with Nicole and them. It's not that Chu Tianjiang can't deal with so many wives, but it's that there is no need for this at all, and Nicol and they may not agree, and they have to consider the feelings of Clara and Anna. What's more, it is impossible for Chu Tianjiang to make Connie and the others all energy people like he did in the transformation of Nichol, because there are not so many energy bodies at all. In addition, Chu Tianjiang did not think about letting Connie stay in the United States or taking them back to China.

After completing the task and finding the two energy sources, Chu Tianjiang will leave the United States.

If they can't bring Connie back to China, the only way for them to survive in this troubled world is for them to have strong enough individual abilities, and to form a legion to form a group, rely on and protect each other, and become a force that no one can help.

To this end, it is necessary to seize the time to train them.

Of course, fifty people will definitely not make a legion, at least five hundred people are needed, and the more the better. It's just that Chu Tianjiang didn't let Connie and the others develop other slaves. According to Chu Tianjiang's idea, Connie and other fifty women will be the backbone of the legion, and they will be expanded in Denver.

During the day, Chu Tianjiang was not idle.

Through Stewart, Chu Tianjiang had some understanding of the next stop, which was Salt Lake City.

What made Salt Lake City famous, and what made it notorious was the unrestricted slave trade.

Of the five central trading cities in the West, Salt Lake City had the most special status because it was the only city where the slave trade could be carried out legally.

By contrast, the Black Syndicate in Salt Lake City is not very strong.

Among the five large secession forces in the west, the Salt Lake City black group was the smallest, although it had twenty legions with a size of more than 5,000 men in name, but fifteen of them were slave legions, and they had no combat effectiveness at all, and only five core legions had strong combat effectiveness. If the Slave Legion is eliminated, the black group in Salt Lake City is not even as large as the separatist forces of Albuquerque and El Paso.

The fact that the black group was able to entrench itself in Salt Lake City and was not destroyed by the Denver Jewish group and the Las Vegas white group was also related to the slave trade.

As Stewart had mentioned earlier, the other secession powers did not support the open slave trade, and all secession powers needed to obtain labor through the slave trade, so they could not do without the slave trade, so they would try their best to maintain the status quo in Salt Lake City.

The problem was that through the slave trade, the black group was very profitable.

Don't forget, it's mostly extremely cheap labor slaves that are bought and sold openly in Salt Lake City, while the more valuable entertainment slaves are mostly sold in illegal markets in Las Vegas and elsewhere, or digested through other channels, and only a very small number are sent to Salt Lake City for public auction.

The value of the goods directly determines the profit.

Obviously, the black syndicate in Salt Lake City didn't make much money at all through the slave trade alone, and it was difficult to even maintain a legion.

From the point of view of profitability, the slave trade was not the primary industry in Salt Lake City at all, and at most it ranked third.

In addition to the slave trade, Salt Lake City had two major industries, salt and munitions.

Adjacent to the Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City has an inexhaustible supply of salt, not just for edible salt, but also for industrial use in the production of explosives and fertilizers.

According to Stewart, the number of salt merchants to Salt Lake City was the largest.

Although the industry in the United States has not yet recovered, and there are even fewer chemical companies, the large-scale separatist forces are expanding, and the supply of chemical products is basically in short supply, especially nitric acid and sulfuric acid, which are necessary for the manufacture of high-performance explosives, so there are many small chemical workshops in various places.

To make these strong acids, the first thing you need is industrial salts.

By fighting for a salt tax and controlling the amount of salt sold, the black syndicates made a staggering profit, accounting for about one-third of their total revenue.

It's just that it's still not the most profitable industry.

Relying on the Great Salt Lake and an abundant supply of industrial salt, the black group will naturally not give up a better means of making profits, that is, developing the arms industry.

In fact, one-third of the chemical workshops in the western region are in Salt Lake City.

More than half of these chemical workshops produce strong acids. It's just that the industry of manufacturing high-performance explosives is monopolized exclusively by the black group. Relying on the explosives produced, the black syndicate mass-produced expensive ammunition. Although heavy ammunition is the main low-level industry, the market demand for ammunition can be said to be extremely large, so ammunition is not only expensive, but there is no need to worry about sales.

According to Stewart, half of the bullets in the western region came from Salt Lake City.

Driven by the ammunition industry, Salt Lake City also has the largest ammunition market in the West and the second-largest arms market after Denver.

There is no doubt that weapons and ammunition are the real high-value commodity.

In addition, the transportation of weapons and ammunition is more convenient.

Although the caravans engaged in the trade of weapons and ammunition are not large in size, and there are generally only dozens of vehicles, they are all genuine large caravans, and the escorts are generally more than 1,000 people, and the guards of the Chamber of Commerce are mainly well-equipped and of excellent quality.

In fact, these caravans are generally under the direct control of the Chamber of Commerce, serving the forces of the separatist forces in which they are located.

The arms trade is an out-and-out profiteering industry, with revenues up to half of the total revenues of black groups in Salt Lake City.

According to Stewart, it was the arms industry that made the black group openly support the slave trade. At the beginning, Chu Tianjiang didn't understand it at once, and it was only after Stewart gave a detailed introduction that he understood the internal relationship between the slave trade and the arms industry.

Because there is no automated production line, munitions are produced by hand, and the manufacture of explosives and reloading ammunition not only involves contact with highly toxic substances, but also carries a high risk. Civilians will never be engaged in the production of explosives and reloading munitions as long as they have other means of livelihood. Even in the handicraft workshops where strong acids are made, the environment is extremely harsh, and some workers who have been exposed to toxic conditions for a long time do not even live for a month.

In Salt Lake City, almost all of the people who did this work were slaves.

The life span of a working slave is extremely short, for example, in some poor chemical workshops, even a strong working slave rarely reaches three months. There is also a high risk that an explosion in an explosives production plant could kill thousands of working slaves at a time.

The combination of these factors made the need for labor in Salt Lake City even more urgent, and forced the black group to openly engage in the slave trade.

Obviously, Salt Lake City had an arms industry first, and then there was a slave trade.

As a result, two months earlier, Salt Lake City had been buying slaves mainly from other places, that is, slave traders sent slaves bought elsewhere to Salt Lake City and sold them to local slave owners. It wasn't until Salt Lake City's slave market became famous, and more and more slave traders used it as their main trading location, and more and more labor slaves were sent, exceeding the local demand for labor slaves in Salt Lake City, that Salt Lake City began to export labor slaves.

The demand for slaves also made the Salt Lake City Negro group the most expansive force in the West.

It's just that the expansion of the black group is not based on land grabbing, but on plundering people. In every foreign war, the black group does not occupy the land, but plunders the people and goods on the land.

Obviously, the Salt Lake City black syndicate is more like a powerful gang of robbers.

The more he learned, the more disgusted Chu Tianjiang became with the black group in Salt Lake City. But who is to blame for this? The freak of the black syndicate in Salt Lake City is also only a product of a seriously distorted American society. If we go back to the roots, the culprit is the federal government elected by American citizens.