On January 10, after witnessing the frenzied rush of bronze being snapped up, Qin Xiaobai knew that he could not delay the production of bronze on a large scale again. Because of the degree of producing 3,000 bronzes in one day, it takes 100 to produce 300,000 bronzes, and it can't even meet the needs of a walled city of the Zhoushui tribe. This level of production is too slow, too slow, and must be expanded again.

"In the near future, I plan to increase the production of bronze tenfold to 30,000 bronzes per day. This is the only way to expand quickly and ensure that we can stay ahead of our competitors in other regions. ”

Qin Xiaobai said lightly. He did not shy away from the bloody killing, the thousands of miles without staying and others, this plan requires their cooperation.

Everyone present was shocked, "10 times? ”

Sheep, Blood, Thousands of Miles Without Leaving and others were all stunned and stunned. Both ecstatic for large-scale expansion, which will bring them great benefits, but also worried about whether it can be done, because the difficulty of expanding production by 10 times is very high, and the high is unimaginable.

Qin Xiaobai said: "What do you think, let's talk about it!" ”

The sheep immediately said: "Big brother, it is not difficult to increase the number of our smelting workshops by 10, and then draw some of our people to join the production." The most difficult place is still the mountain slaves and grain. We have now mobilized nearly 20,000 Shanjung slaves in the Eagle Hand mining area to reach the scale of daily production of bronze. If you want to increase production by a factor of 10, then you will need 200,000 Shanjung slaves to mine, which is simply impossible to do. We don't have so many Shanjung slaves here, and 20,000 Shanjung slaves are already a lot. In addition, in terms of food, the burden of 10,000 catties of food per day for 2 slaves was already very heavy. If it is 200,000 slaves, 200,000 catties of grain will be consumed in a day, where do players get so much surplus food in their hands? Only by solving these two problems will it be possible to expand production capacity. ”

Qin Xiaobai nodded, and then looked at the blood kill and Qianli without staying.

Blood Kill said with a smile: "Little White Brother's plan is very amazing, if it can be completed, we can also become the overlord of the Yan Kingdom." Issue. It's just that the difficulty in the middle is very high, and we don't have so many slaves or so much food in Zhoushui Walled City. It seems that the only way to get out of here is to get out of here. ”

Qianli didn't stay and said: "I support Brother Xiaobai's plan." It's because it seems impossible.

This plan is challenging, so that we can expand our power to the entire Yan Kingdom. And even further afield. Otherwise, we can only be majestic in the Zhoushui Walled City, and other places are occupied by other forces. When we slowly unfold, others will also unfold.

We now have bronze in our hands, it is the best time to expand rapidly, once we miss this opportunity, the forces of other nearby walled cities will also develop bronze. It's hard to scale. ”

The two of them clearly had their targets in the first place. The difficulty of achieving the goal ranked second, and he very much agreed with Qin Xiaobai's expansion plan.

The sheep thought for a moment. In the end, I agreed. If they don't carry out this almost frantic expansion plan, they will soon be overtaken by other cities. What's the point of burying one's head in a walled city of Zhoushui? Yan has forty or fifty such walled cities. There is also Jicheng, the national capital, with a large population.

Qin Xiaobai quickly put forward the general idea of the plan, "The key to this plan is slaves and grain, our Zhoushui Walled City does not have so many, and we must obtain slaves and grain through long-distance trade with other walled cities." I plan to transfer our entire Zhoushui City 'Chamber of Commerce' and 'Workshop Owner'

All of them are united and join forces to carry out this long-distance trade, and sell all the products we produce in exchange for a large number of slaves and food. ”

"Oh, I think a lot of merchants and workshop owners would be happy to participate in this event. I think it would be better to let the god-king and the king-king join in, so that they can also profit from it, lest they secretly cause trouble for us and sabotage our plans. ”

"Yes, you can win them over. As long as there are benefits, they will not get along with the money. ”

The four giants agreed to execute this 10x plan. In order to successfully complete this plan, even former competitors can be brought on board.

Qin Xiaobai himself didn't expect that he had asked the big chief to issue the "Order on the Prohibition of Bronze Weapons" and the "Order on the Exit of Bronze Weapons", two fourteen-day bans, but it was only seven days later, and now he took the lead in undermining these two prohibitions.

The grain in the field was harvested only once in seven days, and he could not get the amount of food he needed through this long wait. The only way to get it was through long-distance trade, from other walled cities, which was the quickest way.

And long-distance trade can only be maximized if it is organized in a unified manner.

In the Zhoushui Walled City, only Qin Xiaobai can do it if he has enough prestige and ability to mobilize all forces to organize and participate in a unified trade plan. Such a huge trade cannot be completed without careful deployment and coordination.

Qin Xiaobai first persuaded the great chief Ji Zhi, and from him, he obtained an official commercial trade license and established the only commercial organization with a government background in Zhoushui Walled City, its full name is: "Zhoushui Industry, Commerce and Security Alliance".

This is an alliance composed of industrial, commercial, and military players as the core, referred to as the Zhoushui Alliance. Organizations that join this alliance will have some preferential treatment from the government and will be openly protected by the government.

Subsequently, Qin Xiaobai first asked the members of the Xiaobai Army, the Sheep Chamber of Commerce, and the Logistics Corps to draw their swords and ask the sky, the Ruyi Wolf Army, the Snow Demon Girl, etc., the forces most closely related to him, to join the Zhoushui Alliance.

Although the Little White Army is nominally an army force, the hundreds of players in it are actually almost all workshop owners, capable of producing almost any product. The members of the Logistics Corps are about the same. The Sheep Chamber of Commerce is a purely commercial organization, and its members are actually workshops and production sites.

Subsequently, Qin Xiaobai invited and mobilized thousands of handicraft workshop owners from the Zhoushui tribe to participate in this alliance.

Some time ago, during the Shanrong Campaign, Qin Xiaobai's logistics corps established close ties with many workshop owners. Purchasing from the player's workshop provides a lot of benefits to the workshop owner. Qin Xiaobai has a good relationship with many workshop owners.

Qin Xiaobai promised that in the event of a war in the future, if he or someone from the Logistics Legion still served as the commander of the Logistics Legion, he would give priority to purchasing the products produced by the local workshop owners who joined the Zhoushui Trade Alliance.

As soon as this promise came out, all of a sudden, almost all the local medicine workshops, wine manufacturers, leather manufacturers, and war bow manufacturers all rushed to join this Zhou Aquatic Merchants Alliance.

Everyone knows the weight of Xiaobai, and once there is a war, Xiaobai is undoubtedly the best candidate for the logistics corps and military Sima. The Great Chief would most likely still let him take on this important position. Then the masters join the Zhou Aquatic Merchants Alliance, and Qin Xiaobai will also purchase military supplies from them in the future. It is undoubtedly a very beneficial thing for the workshop owners.

With the addition of a large number of scattered workshop owners to the Zhoushui Merchant Alliance, this alliance quickly became the strongest alliance in Zhoushui.

The major chambers of commerce in Zhoushui City couldn't sit still. The Chamber of Commerce also depends on the workshop owners to survive. Without the products produced by the workshop owners, they would not be able to survive on their own.

Sheep and Zhoushui, many merchants and chambers of commerce have extensive connections. He came forward to invite many small chambers of commerce to join the alliance. As for the other five or six large-scale chamber of commerce organizations, the sheep could not move, and Qin Xiaobai could only come forward to negotiate with the leaders of these large chambers of commerce in person, and try to win them into the alliance.

Bloody killing, thousands of miles without staying, and also mobilized members of the two legion forces to join the Zhoushui Alliance.

Eventually, more and more power groups joined the Zhoushui Alliance. And there are fewer and fewer people who are free from this alliance. God-king, becoming king, etc. It was impossible to resist this huge economic and military force, coupled with the persuasion of Qin Xiaobai and others. I had to join in with my own forces.

Qin Xiaobai, Blood Killing, Thousands of Miles Without Staying, God King, Becoming a King, Xiaoao, Shanhai and other people Sima held a meeting in the tavern where hooligans are not crimes, put aside the past contradictions, and joined the Zhoushui Alliance together for the sake of common long-term interests.

At least on the surface. Everyone no longer puts contradictions on the surface, and everything is focused on cooperation. Instead of fighting for a walled city of Zhoushui, it is better to sit in the same chariot together and carve up the entire Yan Kingdom.

Everyone understands this truth, just because no one person's strength was enough to subdue everyone before, and all the large and small forces of the Zhoushui tribe could not be screwed together. Now that an alliance of forces that is enough to subdue everyone has been born, it is time for the player forces of the entire Zhoushui tribe to be integrated.

Such a force alliance is extremely complex, including the Zhoushui Alliance of almost all players, and it cannot operate without sufficient efficient management.

Qin Xiaobai designed a strict operating system for this alliance.

Zhoushui Alliance, the implementation of the parliamentary representative system.

All major decisions are decided by a vote of all parliamentary deputies. The Speaker of the Parliament, to be held by Qin Xiaobai, for an indefinite term - until his dominance in the alliance is overthrown, it is believed that no one will be able to replace him.

The alliance is divided into three divisions: industrial division, commercial division, and security division. Each branch elects a vice-president for a one-month term, with the possibility of re-election.

Industry Division: Mainly by industry, divided into different industries. For example, the bronze industry, the herbal medicine industry, the leather industry, the grain industry, the slave industry, the war bow industry, the silk industry, the ceramics industry, and the mining industry each industry choose a conference representative. In addition, each industry is independent and operates efficiently through self-management within each guild. The vice president of the industry is elected from among the representatives of the industry. The first vice president of the industry was sheep.

Commercial Division: Mainly major chambers of commerce. Most of the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce are conference delegates.

The Vice-President for Commerce, elected from among the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce. The first Deputy Speaker for Commerce was nameless.

Security Division: Mainly composed of five major corps. Thirty-two line horses are members, and each line master is a delegate to the meeting. The deputy speaker of security, which is held by the five legions in turn, is the result of a compromise between the five legions, otherwise the god king and the king will refuse to join. The first Deputy Speaker of Security was to become king. To be king is neither a man of blood nor a man of the king of God. It can be regarded as a representative of the neutral legion. It is more appropriate for him to be the first deputy speaker of security, which is also the result of mutual compromise between the various legions, so as to avoid the conflict from intensifying again because of the question of who to choose.

The Zhoushui Alliance, in fact, basically retained the original player forces of Zhoushui, and did not dissolve the original forces. It's just that all the forces in all aspects are combined and unified and cooperate on a unified alliance platform.

One speaker and three vice-chairmen are elected on all issues to be discussed and voted on by the coalition. If two of the four agree on the question, a general vote can be taken.

All delegates to the meeting have the right to submit bills to the Speaker and Vice-Chairmen, as long as they pass them here. A unanimous vote will be taken. Ninety players meeting delegates representing all the industrial, commercial, and military forces of the alliance will be gathered together for one vote each. Decisions were taken by a joint vote. Through the principle of minority subordination to majority.

All player representatives cannot serve as concurrently and can only act as one representative. Possess the power of one vote.

In addition, the number of delegates at the conference is also uncertain, and with the increase of industry, chambers of commerce, and the military, the number of delegates may also increase in the future, becoming more and more numerous.

Qin Xiaobai set a power for himself in advance within the alliance: 1/3 of the right to vote outside. That is, on the basis of the total number of votes, he has an additional 1/330 vote) of the votes to vote.

He is on this alliance. Have significant decision-making power. Unless more than two-thirds of the delegates to the local conference approve or disagree. Otherwise, he would be able to decide directly whether an agenda item would pass or not.

After three days of time to bargain and coordinate. The structure of the Zhoushui Alliance was basically established and began to function.

The first thing to do after the establishment of the Zhoushui Alliance was to discuss and vote on a proposal "on long-distance trade" put forward by Yangyang, one of the three vice presidents: to carry out a unified large-scale long-distance trade. By selling various products from the production areas of the Zhoushui tribe to other parts of the Yan Kingdom, they exchanged for a large amount of grain and slaves.

In fact, trade between the various walled cities has always existed, but the scale of trade is usually small due to the long distance and lack of security guarantees. And there is no coordination between them, some are buying grain, some are selling grain.

This is the case in Zhoushui, where many players are engaged in long-distance trade and are not large. There was also a wide variety of goods traded, and people were buying and selling slaves and grain. The sheep put the purchase of grain and slaves at the heart of trade, and demanded a complete change in the scattered situation of long-distance trade.

Qin Xiaobai, Sheep, Nameless, and Chengwang, the four of them unanimously agreed, and all of them discussed and voted on this bill.

Ninety players council delegates participated in the discussion and voting on the motion.

For the sheep's proposal, the players debated very fiercely, and there were many who agreed and opposed. Agreed, all because of the ability to profit from trade. And those who oppose it are because their interests will be lost in such trade.

The most fierce opposition was the player representative of the food industry, who protested loudly, "Little white boss, there are many products that we ourselves are short of, such as bronzes.

If we sell these products to other cities, what do we use to cultivate the land? Do you always use stone tools? Moreover, if we buy a large amount of grain, the grain we grow ourselves will be very cheap, and farming will become very uneconomical, and no one is willing to buy bronze hoes to cultivate the land, which will directly affect the food production of our Zhoushui tribe. ”

The question asked by players in the grain industry is simple and tricky.

Because there is more grain bought, food prices will naturally plummet.

As soon as the price of food fell, a lot of things became very wonderful.

All players with a large amount of arable land will reduce their income from food to varying degrees. The number of these players is by no means a minority, and it is sure to cause widespread dissatisfaction.

Of course, the skyrocketing price of food is also not good, and players who lack food cannot afford to buy food, which is easy to cause nbsp; Therefore, whether food prices fall sharply or rise sharply, it will cause a great vicious reaction, and it is best to keep food prices stable.

This question was not easily answered by the deputy speakers such as Sheep, Nameless, and Chengwang.

Qin Xiaobai had to respond in person, explaining: "We sold bronzes to other cities and bought back a large number of slaves and grain for mining, this is to expand the scale of copper and tin mining in the Eagle Hand Mining Area. Only copper and tin mining has expanded. in order to produce more bronzes. This is a bit unfavorable to the grain industry in the short term, but it is very beneficial in the long run.

Moreover, in the name of the Speaker, I guarantee that all the grain purchased will be stored and used as much as possible to supply the slaves in the Eagle Hand Mining Area and the Beishui Spring, and that the price of the grain produced in the Zhoushui City will not be affected as much as possible. If the price of grain becomes too cheap, our alliance will take unified action to purchase a large amount of grain and hoard it, raise the price of food, ensure that all players in the cultivated land are not lost, and increase the production enthusiasm of the cultivators. If food is scarce. then sell the reserve grain in the market to ensure that the grain is secured; Grain is one of the most core strategic commodities. It will be the most important issue for our alliance. With regard to food, proper arrangements will certainly be made. But that's the thing. Let's put it on the next bill for special discussion and voting! The "Long-distance Trade" bill is still being debated. ”

Players in the grain industry stopped opposing it after understanding the connection.

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Next, there were many representatives who raised questions from various industries. And by the other delegates to answer, debate.

The meeting lasted three hours before a vote was held, and the player representatives agreed to the trade proposal. The Zhoushui Alliance officially began to prepare for the establishment of a trading team. Prepare to trade in other cities.

After three days of hard preparation. The Zhoushui Alliance organized the largest long-distance trade team and escort team in the Zhoushui Walled City, preparing to go to Jicheng, the capital of the Yan Kingdom, two hundred miles away, to trade.

This trade team involved almost all the handicraft workshop owners of the Zhoushui tribe. They produce themselves with a surplus. It was handed over to the chamber of commerce in the walled city of Zhoushui, and then the merchants came forward to carry out long-distance trading trade.

There were as many as five or six hundred merchant players, carrying tens of thousands of bronze tools and farm tools. A large number of war bows, ceramics, silk, medicine, wine and many other handmade products, hundreds of transport carriages were dispatched, escorted by nearly 10,000 soldiers, to Jicheng.

The 10,000 soldiers escorting the caravan were made up of troops sent by the four player legions of the Zhoushui tribe.

He was personally escorted by King Cheng.

Among them, 7,000 soldiers are specially equipped with bronze swords specially produced by Qin Xiaobai for trade escort, and 3,000 soldiers are equipped with the latest combat weapons in the game, such as war bows. Such a high-standard configuration is enough to easily fight with tens of thousands of "enemy" soldiers.

The journey from the Zhoushui tribe to Jicheng was quite safe, and there were no such huge robbers.

Even if there are small groups of players who want to rob, they can't do anything about such a large trade caravan. The largest team of player robbers in the Yan Kingdom is only a thousand troops. Larger robbers will be attacked by the Yan government army, and it will be difficult to survive.

Between Zhoushui Walled City and Jicheng are plains, very flat, as long as you walk for a day and a half.

After arriving in Jicheng, the trade team spends a day or two selling a large number of goods to local NPC merchants or player merchants, and then exchanging them for a large amount of grain and Shanjung slaves and Beijung slaves.

The arrival of this huge caravan of thousands of people led to a trade boom in Jicheng.

Jicheng has a population of 100,000 native NPCs and a player population of more than 100,000.

Bronze tools are still very rare in the game, and they are very popular with players and NPCs in Jicheng, a 2-weight bronze tool can even be sold for 400~500 copper coins at a terrifying high price, enough to exchange for 200~300 food, or 1 NPC slave, or 1 ordinary transport horse.

And that's just the price of a bronze tool, and if it's a bronze weapon, it's even more terrifying.

These tens of thousands of bronzes alone were exchanged for 100 catties of grain, more than 5,000 slaves, and hundreds of ordinary transport horses in Jicheng. That's a very staggering amount of trade. Coupled with many other commodities, the surplus food in the hands of the players of Jicheng was almost eliminated.

This huge trading caravan swept away the surplus of more than 2 NPC slaves, 7 million catties of grain, and more than 1,000 ordinary horses in Jicheng, and wiped out the entire Zhoushui tribe players, big chiefs, and nbsp; Players cheered for the 2 NPC slaves. With these slaves, the Eagle's Hand mine could be doubled in terms of mine yield, and of course more bronzes could be made.

The NPC chiefs and ministers were pleasantly surprised by the 700 catties of grain, although the 2% trade tax was not much, but it was as high as 140,000 catties, which was enough to feed many NPC officials. And there is no need to worry about the Zhoushui tribe having too little food and causing famine.

The ordinary horses that were bought back were used as carriages to increase the amount of transportation.

The next long-distance trade, you can carry more goods.

These slaves, food, and horses were divided among the players of the entire Zhoushui Walled City. Workshop owners recoup their invested capital, the Chamber of Commerce gets a share of the profits made in the trade, and the escort players receive a portion of the protection fee.

All the players involved in this long-distance trade, regardless of the aspect, have made a high profit of more than 50%, and even as high as 100% is not uncommon.

In particular, tens of thousands of bronzes were sold by dozens of chambers of commerce such as the Sheep Chamber of Commerce and the Nameless Chamber of Commerce, and almost all of them sold for a high price of more than 400 copper coins, far exceeding the cost price of 80 copper coins, which almost made everyone ecstatic. Qin Xiaobai divided 250 copper coins of it, and the remaining 150 profits were divided by many agents and sellers and tens of thousands of escort troops.