Link looked at the few camel caravans around him speechlessly, and then looked at the heavily guarded Dangerous Rock Fort like a great enemy, and felt a very headache, such a huge fortress did not set up a guard on the periphery, the guard towers on the road along the way have been abandoned, the stone towers have either collapsed or piled up a lot of debris, and from time to time there are several bones of the soldiers of the Purple Dragon Legion who have been stripped naked in the ruins, and Link's small caravan came to the periphery of the fortress in a daze, and met a group of peasants who went out to settle in the wilderness, and those peasants returned to the fortress with a strange scream and closed the gate, leaving Link in a daze outside。

The fourth production team of the Commune has been recruited, and the members are either semi-forced human slaves from the mountain people's villages, orc tribes in exchange for iron tools, or scattered mountain people gradually emerging from all corners of the rocks, the second mountain infantry team has begun to reorganize, and the population of the Rock Commune has exceeded 2,000 people, plus the captives and orc mercenaries reached 3,000 people.

In terms of force, there were 200 mountain infantry, equipped with simple leather armor and shortbow and spear, 50 camel warriors, equipped with composite shortbow and scimitar leather armor, 20 elite cavalry guards, equipped with plate armor and composite longbows, the blacksmith workshop began to vigorously rebuild weapons and equipment, and civilians began to build new cottages and salt drying fields near the caves.

The camels carried some of the mountain goods stored in the autumn, as well as the furs hunted in the winter, and more of the cashmere of some rock goats, which the mountain people beat, filtered, washed, and put on wooden frames to dry, and the cashmere was stripped of its fat and became fluffy and soft under the skillful hands of the mountain people, according to a craftsman who had been taken to the rocks by the orcs, these cashmeres used to be bought by smugglers, transported to the textile workshops in the south, dyed, mixed with strong wayward silk threads, and woven into fine velvet cloth, which was transported to the neighboring kingdom of Sambia in the southern port of the kingdom。

The Sambians cut the flannel cloth into undershirts, added some flashy lace on it, and made the leftover scraps into handkerchiefs or cowhide boot linings, which were shipped along the trade routes to the cities of the Northlands for sale, while the nobles and wealthy merchants used to buy a piece of fine velvet cloth and give it to the craftsman with a piece of wolf skin to make the lining of the wolfskin cloak.

Link has high hopes for these cashmere, Link thinks that in the production of rocks, mountain goods, medicinal herbs, spices and other things are consumables, and these things will gradually be depleted before they can be artificially cultivated, and the rich Cormier towns will not use the iron tools of the commune in poor condition, the salt pans have not yet been produced, and even if they are produced, they cannot be sold at a good price, and coarse salt is hard currency in the rocks, but Link does not think that the seaside Cormiers will not even use seawater to dry salt, and the only promising development is to breed rocky goats.

It is not difficult to raise goats, unlike those delicate mountain goods and medicinal materials, goats are very easy to feed, do not bother much, they will bounce between the rocks and scatter joy, find grass in the rock crevices to eat, the mountain people did not raise goats on a large scale before, all because of the exploitation of the orcs, the richer the cottage is the more ruthless the exploitation, so the mountain people have little incentive to raise goats.

For whether to directly spin cashmere into flannel cloth in the rock, Link has a very cautious attitude, the rock is in the position of a raw material supplier in this industrial chain, and suddenly wants to transform into an ecological chain of products, research and development, and sales, not to mention technical problems, I am afraid that there will be problems in the sales channel, not to mention that the big businessmen in this world also have a very huge power, rashly make enemies, and it is not wise to take people and money.

After thinking for a moment, Link waved the large banner cut from red silk cloth in his hand and shouted to the city wall: "We are a caravan that has come to trade, please let us in to trade." ”

Durag looked at the red flag in Link's hand, stunned, from a country knight to a senior officer of the Purple Dragon Legion, Durag has seen all kinds of flags, in the feudal kingdom of Cormier and Tyser, the banner of the nobility can convey a lot of information, scholars and can judge the distance between the nobleman and the royal family according to the arrangement and number of patterns on the nobleman's flag, the presence or absence of various flowers and animals, and judge who his superior feudal lord is, the merchant lords of Sambia do not have such a long history, so they use griffins, bronze giant snakes and other majestic biological images as banners。

The orc tribe is on the white coarse cloth, with blood scribbled on a flag, many times it is the chief who indiscriminately presses a palm to print things, looking at the red silk cloth in Link's hand, Durag raised his eyebrows, even if it is a newly formed rookie mercenary group, at least a name will be written on the banner or something, how can there be a direct waving of a piece of red silk cloth? The material of the silk cloth is good, it should be produced by Karatu, but there is nothing on the flag? It is even inferior to the orcs, Durag subconsciously lowered his perception of Link.

Looking back at a few of the running and panting mages, Durag pointed to Link below, and said very calmly: "See if there are any invisible targets around him, release the Scout Eye, and scout the surroundings." After a pause, Durag said to the veteran behind him: "Tomorrow we will start to resume the sentry of the rocks, at least a few sentry towers, and we can't let the orcs be found under our noses!"

Several mages began their work in an orderly manner, some cast the detection stealth spell, some released the magic eye for reconnaissance to check the path of Link and the others, and some began to use the prophecy spell to detect the magic on Link and the others, and the ballista that had been prepared had been loaded and pointed directly at Link.

"My lord, the one holding the red flag is just an ordinary mage apprentice, and the war horse under him has emitted a strong arcane aura, as for the masked woman-" The mage who reported pointed to Balusa Hua, who was standing impatiently beside Link, swallowed his saliva and said: "It can't be detected, the strength may be stronger than a few of us, there are no invisible targets around, and there are no ambushed enemies nearby." ”

Durag pondered for a moment, and ordered, "Open the gate, I have to ask about the situation in the rocks, and if the trade routes can be restored, it will be a good thing for us." ”

With the shouting of the veterans around them, the farmers who were forcibly recruited bent up, completely pressed the weight of their bodies on the winch, shouted the trumpet and slowly turned the winch, put the heavy drawbridge on the trench, and then opened the iron-clad inner door, removed the flammable materials and horses in the door, and welcomed Link, a caravan of seven camels, into the dangerous rock fort.

Link looked at the ruined fortress with depression in the middle of it, sighed in his heart, and prepared to start negotiating.

Durag didn't mean to let Link and the others enter the inner fort, so he directly set up a table in the atrium of the fortress, Link didn't care, some just talked, before Link sent orc mercenaries as messengers, or threatened or negotiated, so that several nearby orcs and goblin tribes agreed to Link and others through their territory, and then Link and Balusa together, with a few mountain people to manipulate the camel and came to the Dangerous Rock Fort.

On the simple wooden table, Link and Durag were both knocking on the side to get each other's information, looking at Link with flickering eyes, and then at the dozens of veterans around him, Dulag had the urge to order Link to be taken down, but then looked at the masked woman standing on the side, the battle-hardened Dulag was keenly aware that the woman was a tricky character even without the reminder of the war mage, and forcibly suppressed his impulse, Dulag shifted his attention to Link.

Looking at the rather cunning officer of the Purple Dragon Legion in front of him, Link felt that his plan to try to obtain Cormier's domestic intelligence was about to fail, and after looking at the depressed fortress, Link showed a smile, at least knowing that the other party's life was not easy.

Clearing his throat, Link said: "Without foreign food, the mountain people and orcs in the rocks can no longer live, if the trade route cannot be restarted in a short time, then the next orc tide will begin." ”

Raising his eyebrows, Durag was about to let out a sneer, Link interrupted him and said: "I know what you have to say, orcs, gnolls, goblins, these creatures can make up for the previous loss of population as long as they reproduce for ten years, there is no need to fight the Cormiers now, but think about it, after such a toss, they can't survive now, instead of starving to death in the rocks, it is better to go south to Cormier to try their luck!"

Durag stopped laughing and stared at Link solemnly, "So, who do you represent?"

Shaking his head, Link said, "In order to survive, all the races of the Rock Land have left behind their past hatred and come together, and we are here on behalf of the intelligent races of the entire Rock Land. ”

Durag didn't believe Link's words, but the possibility of a unified voice in the rocks made Dulag secretly wary.

Looking at Durag's appearance, Link stood up: "That's all for today's negotiations, I'll come back in ten days." You'll also have to make a statement to Cormier that the Rock Trade is going to restart, involving all the forces, and the next thing we need to negotiate is pricing power. ”

Listening to Link's words, Durag's eyes narrowed and he sneered, "Do you know what you're talking about?"

Link smiled, "Baron Iwa's castle has all fallen, who can protect the swarming merchants?

Link leaned down and whispered in Durag's ear: "I can, so I want pricing power, merchants can't enter the rocks, they can only trade with me, perhaps, we can set up a market in Dangerous Rock Fort, of course, I will pay you taxes." ”

Durag was silent.

In the past, the smuggling team came to the rock to trade, not to mention the safety but not too dangerous, the smuggling team itself has many guards and adventurers, there is also the castle of the baron of the rock land, and the army of the Purple Dragon Legion is also stationed in the dangerous rock fort, the smuggling team generally only trades with the tribe they are familiar with, and the price is not the same, in the face of the powerful orc tribe, the mountain goods and medicinal materials are exchanged for more food, and some human slave girls will be given to the chief, low-level magic weapons and other luxury goods, the goblin tribe and the mountain people's village use the same goods, they can't exchange much things, and sometimes they will be bullied by the mercenaries of the smuggling team。

Now the rock is no longer the world of the smuggling team, the castle of the baron of the rock has all fallen, the defenders of the dangerous rock fort can only protect themselves, the nobles in order to protect themselves, in this chaotic situation, they do not dare to put their power into the rock land, Durag also understands this, unified pricing power, will damage the interests of many people, but in this case, it can only be accepted, and if you can open a market in the dangerous rock fort, the supply problem of your own army will be solved.

Durag figured this out, smiled at Link, put away the contempt in his heart, left the goods that Link brought as a sample, and agreed to negotiate in the next ten days, and then he used magic to notify the big nobles and big merchants in the country, and sent Link and the others out.

Link took a deep breath of cold air and looked back at the closing door, feeling a pang of sorrow in his heart.

This Durag will definitely send a reconnaissance team to the rocklands to find a way to verify his identity and the lies of the alliance of the rocklands race, and he will have to hurry up and negotiate with the other tribes in the rocklands, and try his best to let them hand over the power to trade with the Cormiers, if they can really trade on behalf of the mountain people, orcs, jackals, goblins and Cormiers of the whole rockland, not only will the commune gain huge economic benefits, but the prestige and voice he has obtained is even more important.

"If I succeed, I'm afraid I'll be able to start the next orc wave. Link's eyes flashed with a light called ambition, and Balusa behind him looked at Link's back, and the boundless darkness at the eye sockets of the white porcelain mask glowed red.