The Valley of Thorns and the Ashendale are both the oldest primeval forests in Azeroth, and they are far from the rest.

The trees in the Gray Valley are hundreds of meters high, and not to mention, in the Gray Valley, the night is always quiet and peaceful, even if there are nocturnal animals, their small sounds cannot dominate the tranquility of the Gray Valley.

The Valley of Thorns is different, the Valley of Thorns at night has nothing to do with the word tranquility, almost everywhere you can hear the wild roars of "roaring !!" and "!!", as well as the babbling of small animals fleeing for their lives, this is a wild symphony, and horror is the only main theme here.

The Valley of Thorns at night is more like a battlefield, and it can be a challenge for nerves to be alone.

"Woo~~~!" "Woo woo~~~" However, in recent days, there have been some noises in this musical feast, to say that there are all kinds of wild animals in the Valley of Thorns, but there is one beast that absolutely does not exist, and that is the wolf.

This is the domain of the king of the forest, the tiger and the panther, and the average timber wolf has no living space, let alone the steppe wolf, and there is no grassland in the Valley of Thorns.

So where did this weird wolf howl come from?

"Quick, you have to be quick......" A slender figure struggled to run here, she had dark blue skin, long ears, and looked like an elf.

Actually, it's not very similar, she was originally an elf, she was a night elf.

It's weird to see a Night Elf here, it's the home of trolls, and Night Elves and trolls are almost undying enemies.

Well...... Trolls seem to be undying enemies of any race of Azeroth except for the Orcs and Ogres, but in general, their hatred for the Night Elves is a little deeper, because in ancient times, it was the great empire of trolls that the Night Elves crushed.

So it's very strange that she, a Night Elf, dares to appear here alone.

"Ahh

The Valley of Thorns is not as tolerant of the Night Elves as the Gray Valley, and it is very dangerous to run alone here, just when the tiger is about to pounce on the elf girl, a black shadow jumps out and presses the tiger to the ground, followed by a series of biting sounds.

"Woo woo woo ~~~" The tiger died before it had time to scream a few times, and then look at the creatures that killed it, they were covered in hair, they looked like human hands and claws with sharp nails, and the sharp beak protruded forward grinning a few huge canine teeth, it turned out to be a group of wolves walking upright!

The upright wolves, whose mouths were covered in blood and looked terrifying, confronted the female elf, making threatening noises from their mouths, but did not attack her.

"It's almost gone......"

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"I secretly communicated with your logistics captain, and found that in addition to agricultural taxes and various rents, the economic source of your troops is only a few workshops in the city, and there is not much money in the first place, and they have to be slaughtered by foreign merchants, no wonder you are poor and can't even recruit people. ”

"......" Althea sat at her dining table with a cold face and muttered in her ear, it is worth mentioning that her father, Duke Eberlock, is also here, her mother is also here, and there are a lot of servants next to her, because of Zhang Li, the captain of the garrison, Sorigal, personally led a team of people to guard the Duke and them, and the Eberlock family's meal today was really lively.

And Zhang Li ignored all this, and still talked calmly and calmly, and his cheeks were thick and straight to the sky.

"I won't talk about how to make money, except for robbery, there is no good way to get rich quickly, I'll talk about how to spend money more efficiently, most of your weapons, equipment, and raw materials rely on imports, that is, by merchants, and for these materials, you are still an urgent and urgent situation, so this is equivalent to you begging those merchants to buy things, this is not good, you put the initiative completely in the hands of those merchants, and it is strange not to be slaughtered. Althea didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, but Duke Eberlock looked at him with a smile, but looking at his expression, he obviously regarded Zhang Li as a pastime, and that expression was like listening to an opera.

"The money that could have bought ten catties of iron can only be bought now for one catty, and you still have to buy it, those merchants are determined to eat you, if you can find a way to make them lower the price, won't the money saved be able to do more useful things?"

"Oh, then how do you say you can get them to lower the price?" Duke Eberlock had just eaten a meat steak, and before asking Zhang Li, he first wiped his mouth and took a sip of red wine, and the aristocratic cumbersome table manners had become a habit in his life.

"It's very simple, you must know that people who do the same thing can easily get together and form some kind of rules in the industry for the common good, and those businessmen are probably the same, they either belong to the same chamber of commerce, or several chambers of commerce have reached some kind of tacit understanding with each other, and they will stick to a bottom line in the face of your problems, and if you want to change this situation, you must find another force to attack them. ”

Duke Eberlock: "Another force?"

"That's right, those merchants have no competitors, so you are weak, so you can only let them sit on the ground and raise prices, and if you find them a rival, then the situation will be very different, and then you can sit on the high platform and watch these two groups compete with each other, and then it will not be you begging them to sell, but they will begging you to buy. ”

Duke Eberlock was stunned, he felt that what Zhang Li said seemed to have some truth, so he nodded, as an old nobleman, his every move had an unpretentious aristocratic style, and then he asked: "But who are we looking for as a second party? As you said, the merchants who are working with us now are all from the Elwyn Forest, and they must have reached some kind of tacit understanding, and the Western Wilderness is too busy to take care of itself, and their Defiia is the most disturbing, who else do you think can do business with us?"

"Think about it, apart from the Elwyn Forest and the Wild West, where else are you next to?"

The Duke thought for a moment, then frowned and said, "Are you talking about the Valley of Thorns?"

Zhang Li nodded with a smile and replied affirmatively: "That's right." ”

The duke's face suddenly became unhappy: "You let us do business with trolls?"

"No, no, no, of course trolls are impossible, there is another force in the Valley of Thorns besides trolls, and they have established a city in the far south called Treasure Bay. ”

"You mean goblins!?" the Duke suddenly realized.

"That's right!" Zhang Li snapped his fingers as he replied.

Unexpectedly, the duke shook his head vigorously: "No, we can't do business with goblins, the only condition for Kurtilas to join the alliance is to monopolize the maritime trade rights of the alliance countries, if we do business with goblins and let others know, we will probably be punished for treason." ”

"You also said that it is the right to trade at sea, and you are not near the sea here. ”

“...... Even so, what if we attract the retaliation of the Human Chamber of Commerce? If nothing else, as long as they unite with the salt merchants and do not interact with us for a few months, all the free people in my territory will move somewhere else. ”

"So this is what I'm going to say next, it's not enough to create competitors for the other side, you also need something to make them inseparable from you, let them beg you, and rush to stick to you. ”