It was still a large amount of food that attracted the attention of the dwarves more than continuing to woo Rodney, so after a short struggle, they immediately let go of the small detail that Beowulf had just interrupted their conversation.

But the dwarves' expressions were still a little awkward, because Beowulf, who had a lot of food, had undoubtedly grasped a weakness of the dwarves.

"The Dwarven Friend's blacksmithing skills have been highly sought after since legend, and His Highness Jason is very interested in it. Beowulf glanced at them, then spoke lightly.

The meaning of this phrase is already obvious, either in exchange for technology, or for weapons and equipment that have already been completed.

The technology Rodney has handed over all but the most core things to the blacksmiths of the Iron Fang, but they still have a lot of shortcomings compared to the dwarves.

This was one of the reasons why Beowulf would make this request, and he wanted to use the dwarves as labor in the service of the Iron Fangs.

And pull them into Jason's chariot, if the other forces pull them away, Beowulf will have a headache, and maybe risk offending Rodney to silence them forever.

Because now this group of dwarves has no contact with other human forces for the time being, but it will be difficult to say in the future.

"We can exchange the finished weapons and equipment with you, and you can set the price. Elder Houton and Atlin looked at each other, then said with some solemnity.

It's just that this sentence exposes that they don't know how to talk about business, how can they let the other party decide the price, and if they change the family, they will not be killed.

Beowulf was also stunned when he heard this, but fortunately, his purpose was to convince these dwarves and finally achieve the goal of bringing them under Jason's command, so he didn't intend to trap them, otherwise the gains would outweigh the losses.

Take a long-term view.

So he smiled, and then kindly reminded: "It's better for you to pay a suitable price for this." ”

This made Rodney couldn't help but glance at him, although he usually looked very aggressive, but his mind was still quite delicate, so he immediately noticed his plan, and his heart was a little tangled for a while.

Because he really didn't know whether it was good or bad for the Copperbeard Clan, but for Jason's benefit, and he didn't want to feel guilty afterwards, he sat in place and didn't say a word.

The Copperbeard Clan has a great advantage of being under Jason's command, at least they don't have to worry about food and security, but they are also prone to getting involved in some turmoil.

Unless they don't leave the ice field, they can avoid these concerns to the greatest extent, but this is obviously not realistic, once they join Jason's command, then some of their people will definitely go to the Iron Fang.

The dwarves of the Copperbeard Tribe looked at each other, although they didn't think much about it, they still sensed that something was wrong with Beowulf, but in their opinion, no matter how much they traded with him, it would be good for the Copperbeard Clan.

It's just that the biggest headache now is that they don't understand how precious these grains are to Beowulf, and they don't understand how important the equipment forged by the dwarves is to him, so it's hard to bid.

"How about a weapon of this quality in exchange for ten catties of food?" Finally, Elder Atlin took a short sword from the hand of a dwarven warrior with some hesitation and handed it to Beowulf with a somewhat apprehensive expression.

Beowulf's eyes lit up, and he took the short sword, which looked a little simple, and flicked the blade lightly and immediately came to a conclusion.

The quality of this weapon is a grade higher than that of today's Iron Fang Collar army's standard weapons, although the forging technology is similar, but the craftsman's forging skills are very different.

"I'm not the kind of profiteer who does business. ”

Beowulf put down the short sword in his hand, pondered for a while, and then slowly spoke under the worried eyes of the dwarves: "I can exchange fifty catties of grain for a weapon, and five hundred catties of grain for a set of armor, if it weren't for the high cost and risk of transportation from the interior, this price could have quadrupled." ”

His words made Rodney on the side a little dumbfounded, how much is the food a catty, and the weapons forged by these dwarves are probably more than three times the price, right?

He actually said that he was not a profiteer, although the transportation cost was too high, but if the price was doubled, the iron tooth collar would also take a big advantage, but he didn't say it, because this price is very fair for dwarves who are in urgent need of food, dried fruits and other materials.

"This ......"

Elder Houton's expression struggled, and although he could sense from Rodney's expression that Beowulf might have been underpriced, it was a big bargain for the dwarves.

Therefore, he felt that he owed such a great favor, and if Beowulf made any requests in the future, they would not be able to refuse.

"We agreed. ”

Without waiting for Elder Hughton to speak, Atlin slapped the table and gritted his teeth to agree.

Then he twisted his head and looked at Elder Hughton, "There's nothing to hesitate about, if Beowulf and they want to be against us, do you think our Copperbeard Fort has the ability to resist?"

The outpost had a fully armed regular army of 3,000 men, of which 1,000 were from Ironfang, 500 from Erbia, 500 from Lucca, and the remaining 1,000 were from the nobles of Lucca Province who supported Jason.

Among them, the big and small officials and generals are also from these places, and some of them are even the heirs of these nobles, which is to show loyalty to Jason.

And these 3,000 troops were subjected to months of rigorous training by Beowulf before coming to the North, and they went through several bloody battles.

Although those war equipment were not very useful to the dwarves underground, it was not something that the entire Copperbeard tribe combined with only three thousand dwarves could resist.

Elder Hughton thought about it, this was also the case, because of the shortage of materials for hundreds of years, the size of the Copperbeard tribe had been greatly reduced, and it had long been impossible to make any decent resistance.

"And do we have to sign a contract?"

Beowulf asked, in fact, he didn't think it was necessary, because the contract was a symbol, and if you really wanted to repent, it would be a blank slate.

"No, we trust our dwarven friends. ”

Elder Hughton also felt that this was redundant, and that there was no third party to do the notarization here.

"Since these guys came with me first, I've prepared some gifts, so take them with you when you go back. Beowulf smiled with satisfaction, then stretched out his hand to invite.

In order to win the favor of these dwarves, he ordered the warehouse to prepare a lot of dried fruits, vegetables and grains.