The 162nd trade system of the Ant Clan
The iron, bronze, stone, artillery, ballista and other things of the Divine Envoy King's legion will definitely be sought-after when taken out, and the warlike ants will not let go of any means to improve their combat effectiveness, but in addition to the stone tools that have fallen behind, the protagonist does not want to take them out.
And the pottery is a product of the Black Fire Ant Clan of the Fire God Inheritance, and taking it out will make people wonder if the Divine Envoy King Legion has a dual god inheritance, which will attract the attention of the ants. You must know that at present, the only inheritance of the two gods in the region is the oldest bullet ant clan. As a new member of the Alliance, the protagonist doesn't want to get everyone's attention.
The protagonist ponders for a moment and proposes that the Legion of the Divine Envoy King can provide grains such as honeydew, crow honey, fermented drinks, mealworm jerky, and grass seeds, cloth, rope, felt, stone tools, and hematite powder as trade goods.
Reporting the list of these trade goods, he was also worried about whether these things were shabby and shabby, and they didn't seem to have any technical cold. It turned out that the delegates were silent.
After a while, the representative of the bullet ant female ant said enviously that the products of the Divine Envoy King Legion were really rich!
After questioning, the protagonist discovers that most of the goods provided by the ant tribe are basically concentrated in two categories: grain and their respective domesticated insects and beasts, and the only goods with technical content are also very simple and primitive.
In fact, there is no shortage of food in all ant tribes, and the real shortage is a disaster of extinction. However, the types of food produced by each ant family are different, and they can be exchanged for each other, mainly for the high-status ants to improve their taste.
For example, the honeydew and crow honey provided by the Legion of the Divine Envoy King were very interesting to the ant representatives, after all, even the well-informed leafcutter ants were highly respected.
Only the honeypot ants were not happy and questioned that it was impossible for their nectar to be delicious.
The protagonist immediately states that he has brought some sweet drinks, and when he agrees, he asks the leafcutter workers to help deliver them, giving each representative a small cup of diluted honeydew and a cup of diluted crow's honey.
While the other ant representatives taste the sweet water, the protagonist is rubbing the clay cup in his hand with his antennae.
This pottery cup was traded by the leaf-cutting ant tribe from the black fire ant tribe, it is quite rough, not only the shape of the vessel is crooked, very irregular, the surface is also very rough, and you can even see large particles of sand and gravel mixed in the clay, which is not as exquisite as the pottery skills of the Divine Envoy King Legion.
It is such a rough pottery, and other ant tribes do not have it, and most of them usually use some natural things, such as snail shells, nut shell lamps as containers, only some small containers, which can only be used pottery, and they have to be obtained through trade.
At this time, the delegates were already holding pottery cups, placing them in front of their big jaws, and gluttonously sucked the sweet water in the two cups. The delegates unanimously praised, and even the honeypot ant representatives couldn't say anything.
In the past, this kind of sweet water commodity was monopolized by the honeypot ant tribe, and the product they provided was nectar, which was refined, but when they drank it, it didn't taste too sweet when they mixed with water, and due to the different types of nectar they mixed, the taste quality was not fixed each time.
For the sweet-loving ants, the high-sweetness honeydew of aphids and the addictive crow honey are of stable quality and taste better than the nectar traded by honeypot ants.
Even if the honeypot ant representatives are dissatisfied, trade is also a matter of your willingness, and many ant representatives ask how to exchange if they exchange their own goods.
The protagonist examines the goods of each ethnic group one by one, and feels that he is really a genius salesman, and opens up the trade situation at once.
He was first very interested in the giant dragonflies provided by the Maolin Ant Clan and the flying locusts provided by the Bullet Ant Clan, both of which can fly for a long time, and the current trade system of the civilized ant clan is mainly used by these two ant tribes as transporters.
Other civilizations have to pay some fees if they want to use the flying insects of these two tribes to transport goods. For the bullet ant family, who have a small territory, few properties, and no special technology, it is an important income for them to use locusts to transport goods to earn some transportation money. Although the Maolin ant is not so dependent on transportation fees, it also does not refuse extra money.
It's not that the mounts of other ant tribes can't fly long distances, but each has its own disadvantages, such as the star beetle must gnaw on the tender bark and young branches of the tree for food, and it is difficult to find food if it flies outside the woods for a long time, and the weight is limited. The butterflies of the honeypot ant clan can fly long distances, but they cannot resist strong winds, and the target is obviously lacking in combat effectiveness, so they are easy to be preyed upon by predators.
Other ladybugs, flying termites, wasps, etc., also have their own shortcomings, and they are not suitable for long-distance transportation.
The protagonist is intrigued by both the giant dragonfly and the locust, and asks if he can trade their domestication technology, including other insect domestication techniques, but the price is not as high as the first two.
But the representatives of the ant clan refused one after another, and they had a primitive sense of technical secrecy. Moreover, some delegates also admitted that domesticating a certain insect can only be done by ants of their own family.
In the end, the protagonist uses the exchange price of 20 snail shell honeydew or 10 snail shell crow honey to order 2 flying insects each from the Maolin ant tribe and the bullet ant tribe, and the other party will deliver them to [Xinyang City], and the protagonist also tells the location of [Xinyang City] to each clan.
With 4 flying insects with a large transport volume, plus the accompanying Maolin ant and bullet ant worker ant pilot, the protagonist can form an air transport team, which makes him feel like he has made a lot of money.
The reason why he doesn't trade more flying insects is that on the one hand, the protagonist has to leave some materials to trade other goods, and on the other hand, he also wants to see if he can steal the technology of domesticating these two flying insects from the driver.
In addition to food and insects, some ant tribes have unique handicrafts or resources, such as pottery fired by black fire ants, Maolin ants have good salt, leaf-cutting ants have ant silk ropes and nets, mulberry flat-headed ants have formic acid in sealed containers, and completely heteroblind leaf-cutting ants have herbs to prevent and treat ant mites, etc.
And the ants are full of enthusiasm for almost all the goods provided by the Divine Envoy King's legion, which they have not seen before, and it seems to be very useful in the information packet.
In addition to honeydew and crow honey, the third best seller is actually hematite powder, which makes the protagonist unexpected. Originally, all races needed to use these to draw runes, and this was originally a major foreign trade item of the leaf-cutting ant clan.
In the end, the protagonist and all the representatives reach a preliminary agreement on the transaction, which can be executed as long as both parties go back and are approved by the highest authority.
The protagonist says that he has no means of remote trading, and demands that all transactions be made in [Xinyang City], and that the Maolin Ant Clan and the Bullet Ant Clan be responsible for transportation. However, the buyer and the seller each have to pay one-twelfth of the transportation fee.
So many transportation fees make the protagonist feel a little distressed, but he insists on trading in [Xinyang City], and he also has his own deep intentions.
Delegates were pleased with the numerous trade deals that had been initially reached.
Only then did the leaf-cutter ant queen announce the end of the meeting and invite the delegates to watch the insect and beast gladiatorial performance.