"When the borrowed troubles are finally returned, you have to add a sad amount of interest."

——Santos, founder of the Sha Rhino chaebol and an early member of the "Scales of Eternal Order" Chamber of Commerce, "Santos Ben Zosse's Letter to the Descendants"

When the last difficult stretch of the road came to an end, the newly formed Sand Rhino caravan entered the town of the Kenzu Clan. After paying the merchant tax, the fat merchant led the team to the building where the blacksmith shop was located to repair and rest.

Unlike the other caravan members who unloaded their cargo and went to their dormitories to catch up on their sleep, Santos, the caravan owner, got out of the camel beast and carried a toolbox and immediately started a "pedicure" for his "little" babies.

With a few taps on the sand rhino's ankles, these humanly creatures curled up their hooves. He carefully used tweezers to remove the grit embedded in the giant camel's toes, then used a spatula to remove the broken skin near the wound and apply a brown ointment.

The craft had only recently been picked up by him - it had been a long time since the Sand Rhino Caravan had become the largest commercial transport in Nome City, and Santos had not actually touched the tools used to care for large camels.

But a succession of misfortunes ruined half of his life's career, and the fat merchant now had to start from scratch.

"Let's replace them with the iron palms I made," Santos' main business partner at the moment, the elder Hassan who ran the blacksmith shop business in the territory of the Dragonlord Clan, walked over. Handed the fat merchant a water bladder with a light beer, the blacksmith said, "Your little ones will get used to it in a few days, and you won't have to give them a pedicure every time." ”

Santos wanted to argue, but he gave up when he thought of the blacksmith's stubborn head like an anvil under his hammer.

You can't tell your partner that the savings in your pockets have been exchanged for bundles of weapons and equipment, at least until they've been replaced with silver Kate that can play the beautiful "jingle bell" music before the fat merchant can consider adding something new.

After finishing his work and soothing his tired muscles with a large sip of beer, Santos returned the water bladder to its owner.

"I promise to follow your advice next time, old man. You can measure the size of the hooves of these little ones in advance. But I still have to ask, how about the sales of the previous batch of goods? How about taking inventory and accounting for the accounts first? I don't disbelieve you, but ......"

The fat merchant wiped the sweat from his neck with the sleeve of his linen shirt, carefully avoiding the use of "business-specific" words, and consulted with his partner in a "friendly and encouraging" tone.

The elder Hassan hated the merchantism of the merchant - in his opinion, the business vocabulary associated with "silver Kate" was a complete blasphemy of the trust between people.

He had even quarreled with Santos over this before, and each time he had dealt a blow to the fat merchant who was "full of silver Kate" with accurate accounts and extra expenses for the food and lodging of the caravan members.

But at this time, the stubborn blacksmith seemed to be a little embarrassed, and he poured the beans he had prepared for his partner's "little baby" in the stable into the trough. Lowering his head and stirring, he said in an apologetic tone: "Fat boy, now may not be the time, someone informed me that I must go to him first after you come." ”

Hearing the elder Hassan say this, Santos immediately realized that there might be trouble. He just wanted to ask a question, but found that he could not speak at all, and a young man not far away was looking at him with a smile.

When the fat merchant followed the boy into a room in the blacksmith's shop, a number of desert kobold warriors rushed in and surrounded the room.

"Fat boy, I'll nail the iron palm to your sand rhino beast, I don't want money. Old Hassan shouted as he looked at Santos's back, and although the Pasha had assured him that he had no intention of harming his partner, the master blacksmith knew that the master was also the owner of the dragon's lair, a dragon known for its ferocity.

However, the elder Hassan finally discovered that the dragon Pasha had kept his word - his partner had just been "freed" intact before the master blacksmith had nailed the four hooves of a sand rhino. Excluding Santos's unusually agitated state of mind, the fat merchant was no different from before.

How could Santos not be excited?

He was overjoyed, for the first time he had been coerced by the "Centaurs" of Norm City, the coercion of the "perverted tabby cats" of Coptic City, the night of horror of the "Shark Lizard Riot" of the Sashan tribe, and the escape of the "Nome Massacre" of the Uzasan, this self-confessed honest businessman felt that time was coming.

The terrible dragon with whom he had once signed a contract, and now the dragon Pasha who was now in charge, had the condescension to negotiate with his small people. The other party took a fancy to its operational capabilities and was willing to invest in the sand rhino caravan to expand the caravan's transportation capacity.

Just before he left that room, Lord Pasha had made a spell contract with him. The contract stipulates:

"The dragon will invest 300,000 silver in Santos in his own name. The entire investment will be implemented in three phases, and the first tranche of 100,000 silver Kate will be delivered in one lump sum before it leaves the Dragon Clan Town.

Subsequent investments are settled in phases, guaranteed by the taxes of the Pasha Domain in the coming years.

After the caravan is profitable, the dragon will pay dividends from the profits. The dividend is 50 percent, and the dragon Pasha has the ownership of the Sand Rhino Chamber of Commerce, but the management rights are forever held by Santos and his family. ”

Among them, the "phased implementation" proposed by Julong is nothing more than the capacity of the caravan to reach 500 sand rhinos and 1,000 sand rhinos respectively. These requirements may be difficult for others, but for him, a veteran businessman who has been immersed in the desert transportation industry for many years, it is only a matter of time before they come true.

In terms of the purchase channels of sand rhinos, Santos took a look at it, and there are fifteen farms in Medici that can provide at least seven or eight hundred heads. Coupled with the scattered transactions from various cities, it is no problem to make up the scale of 1,000 heads for a year.

In addition, there must be preferential prices for centralized procurement from farms, and more than 300,000 silver Kate alone is enough for him to make a lot of money.

Fortunately, the dragon didn't understand the market, and the fat merchant thought to himself. However, also out of fear of this Pasha, Santos was not prepared to put all the money in his pocket.

He considered spending a little more on recruiting people, and he had to find a group of smart and capable men. This can not only act as a façade, but also ensure the safety of such a large-scale caravan, and can also make Lord Pasha feel that it is worth the money when he examines it.

Although the dragon has a high percentage of the profits, and has become the owner of the sand rhino caravan.

But because of this, the Chamber of Commerce was exempt from many taxes – according to Medici, businesses run by the Pasha family were exempt from tax.

Moreover, in the future, the capacity of sand rhinos starting at 1,000 will be ten times that of Santos at its peak. After securing the right to operate, he will be able to earn at least five times as much as he did in his previous best years.

Coupled with the protection of a spell contract, anyone thinks this is a great opportunity.

It's just that the fat merchant didn't see that in the corners of the contract text, there were still the words "the final interpretation right belongs to Party A", and the "command technique" was not the most clever magic at all.

"Old man, I just heard you say that the sand rhino nail iron palm was given to me for free, right?"

......

Quest's investment in the Sand Rhino Caravan was not a whim, it was a very important part of his overall business plan. Long before Santos drove the camel beast to the town of the dragon clan, the young blue dragon had completed his investigation of the territory under his jurisdiction.

And it was this comprehensive investigation that made the previously conceived plan of "farming flow" completely rejected by himself.

Not to mention that most of the land in the Ash World is not suitable for the development of agriculture, even if Quest uses a spell to forcibly "climb the technology tree" to upgrade, the process of improving backward productivity is too slow to alleviate the urgent need.

Therefore, he must abandon the experience he learned from a large number of online articles in his previous life and proceed from reality. In order to adapt to the world of ashes, or to adapt to the existing productivity base of the Medici Empire, start with the trade field, and obtain more benefits through the circulation of goods.

That's why the young blue dragon decided to provide an investment of 300,000 silver kate for the quite capable fat businessman, and the first problem he needed to solve at this time was the first phase of the 100,000 silver kate investment stipulated in the contract.

This is indeed a challenge for the poor dragon Pasha at this time, should he borrow some from the wealthy gourmand Blue, or will he earn it in a short time with his own ability?

This is a problem.

But fortunately, when his thoughts slipped to the dangerous edge of "the value of dignity" and "good friends should help each other", the author who couldn't stand it helped him stop the precipice in time. The face of the protagonist is always something that cannot be given up.

So he could only take his companions, including the holy warrior Jensen, overnight to do the dragon's old business - "turning fate" by force.

With no one else to hold them down, Quest and his party quickly arrived at Spath City. The situation in this ancient city on the banks of the Niro River can be called bad enough at this time.

During the reign of the "Bad King" Egu as consul, he and his family treated the people here as serfs. And it didn't take long for the U-Sang to occupy the city, and the invaders turned it into a watertown.

Although unlike Nome, which experienced the massacre of the city, the city of Spat did not become a large graveyard. But after the burnings and floods, the people here are also constantly threatened with hunger and death.

In fact, after the re-establishment of the consul, the first thing the official did when he took office was to ask the Pasha of Quest for funds to help the victims. Under the exploitation of the Egu family, the city-dwellers here live on agriculture, but their families have no food to spare.

The target of the "fate" of force is naturally not these urban poor, otherwise the holy warrior Jensen brought by Quis would not have agreed to it first.

The young blue dragon's course of action is very clear, he wants to fight a wave of "local tyrants" here.

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Sogou