In his spare time, Rand always likes to climb the fortress wall to observe the movement in the Arctic Mountains, which is closely related to his territory, and after calculating the date, there is less than a month left before the end of winter, and in this winter, although the harassment of the beasts has not stopped, the guards with distant firepower can easily defeat each other, and harvest a large number of beast corpses.

By the time spring comes, pickled bison jerky and hides can be shipped to other cities by merchant ships, more than enough to make up for the loss of crops that cannot be harvested in winter, and the fine furs are sold for high prices in cities far from the mountains and forests, and this winter is likely to be the only surplus month in many years.

"There is a lot of wolf skin in the warehouse, and if we can process it, it may be sold at a higher price, but it requires a lot of cumbersome procedures, including antiseptic treatment and odor removal, and we don't have professional technicians, so we can only sell them at the price of raw materials. Touron followed behind Rand, "We can also exchange with the merchants for the grain and spices we need, or crude oil and saltpeter." ”

Saltpeter is by far one of the most scarce raw materials in the rand, and the mass production of cannonballs and the use of *cannonball* cannot be left*, and now in this season, there are few channels for purchasing saltpeter, and only before the arrival of summer, in order to cater to the nobles' hobby of enjoying cold food, saltpeter mines will be transported in large quantities.

"If we can have a stable supply of special supply, we don't have to go all over to find it, and if we supply it for a long time, the price will definitely be lower. Rand thought about it, so far, he seemed to know only the Lanilus family, but the Lannirus family was mainly engaged in the luxury business, and if they wanted to mine like this, they might have to find another family.

"Every spring, the chamber of commerce in the imperial city will have caravans to various cities to seek long-term cooperation, we can contact them when the caravan comes, only need to pay a little commission, they will select the right supplier according to our requirements. "But the caravan does not pass through the air ferry territory, but only stops in Lindong City, and I think I will send someone to Lindong City to talk at that time." ”

"Without going through the air collar?"

"Yes," Touron pondered, "the purchasing power of the Empty Ferry Territory is indeed a bit low compared to other cities!"

"It's just too poor. Rand shrugged.

"Uh...... That's right. Touron wiped his head, he had wanted to use some words to avoid the embarrassment of telling the truth directly, but now it seemed that the lord did not feel uncomfortable because of this.

"I have already thought about it, and in the future, the main industry of the aircrossing will be the sale of weapons and munitions. Countless facts have proved that in the troubled times, only this industry is the most profitable. Rand walked on the fortress wall and nodded at the soldiers who saluted him, "We need to build an assembly-line manufacturing factory to ensure the speed and quality of weapon manufacturing." ”

"Sell weapons, including those new weapons, muskets and rocket launchers?" Touron hesitated, "but if the data on those weapons leaks out, I'm afraid there will be a large number of copycats, and only with these advanced weapons can we barely stand our ground, if all the soldiers on the continent are uniformly equipped with the same weapons as us, then our advantage will be lost." ”

"No, no, no, it is the advanced thinking and design that maintains the advantage, we have the most advanced technology in our hands, and when we sell second-class weapons to the outside world, we must ensure that the core technology is in our hands, for example, if we make a flintlock pistol with rifling, we will sell a smoothbore gun with a slightly weaker accuracy first. ”

"And when we made guns that could fire repeatedly, we peddled rifled flintlock pistols. ”

"As long as the secrecy can be done well, no one will know that these weapons are the leftovers of our play. ”

In this way, you can be sure that your soldiers will always be equipped with the most advanced weapons and will always have an advantage over others.

In order to open up the market, Rand felt that it was necessary to have a wave of high-impact promotion before the sale of weapons.

It is better to have a war with a great disparity of strength, and the side that was originally not favored can turn the defeat that everyone thinks is defeated with advanced weapons, and successfully defeat the enemy.

In this way, the advanced weapons that are the protagonists of the battle situation will be seen by the eyes of the public.

That is, the so-called, C-position debut......

Just as Rand and Touron were discussing his development, Connor's body at the end of the fortress wall shook suddenly, although the soldiers who had seen her abilities were still a little curious, but the lord and the chief assistant minister were there, and no one dared to leave their posts at will to ask what creatures Connor had just controlled and where they went.

But Connor's face was obviously a little nervous, and she could even see the panic and uneasiness in her heart through her eyes, Rand frowned, what did this little girl see?

"My lord, I must tell you something," Connor said with a serious expression, taking a deep breath, "I just used the goat's body to cross the other side of the horizon, and I saw an army moving in this direction, no more than five kilometers away!"

An army?

Rand remembered some possibility, and asked with an ugly face, "Yes, barbarian?"

"The body is huge, and the skin is the color of rocks. Connor nodded, "More than one hundred and fifty!"

The first impression of the barbarians was that they were rude and unruly, and that their organization was as loose as a herd of low-level beasts, and that they had nothing to do with the army.

Just as Rand was guessing, the barbarians' ranks were already in everyone's sight, and at the first sight of them, Rand knew he was wrong.

The barbarians were at the forefront, six of the largest males, carrying in their right arms a heavy, rudimentary shield, which was in fact a sun-dried tree trunk and a lightly treated heavy plank.

But that's shocking enough.

The barbarian, who has always relied on his body to resist injuries, actually knows how to learn to protect?

They were followed by a team armed with wall-breaking weapons such as maces and hammers, while the barbarians at the back carried ropes and hooks on their backs, apparently in preparation for climbing the walls.

Rand gasped.

has changed, you have really changed, and you are no longer the silly iron-headed babies you used to be.