Luke's words made the woman's face change drastically, and at the same time, she felt her lower back being pressed against a sharp object. A thin sword stretched out from under the robe of another short attendant, the blade as steady as if it was fixed in the air, and the power transmitted by the tip of the sword penetrated into his skin, and any reckless movement of himself would be pierced in an instant.

Very strong!

It is a woman's evaluation of the strength of the master of the rapier.

"My name is Mauffsman." The woman introduced herself, then asked Luke, "Please tell me who you are and what you are here so that I can report to my boss." ”

"I think it's more appropriate to call you a poisonous scorpion." Luke pointed out the woman's other identity, the scorpion is a famous sand thief in the West, but there are very few people who know that the scorpion is Mephesman. Then Luke took out a bottle and said to Mephesman, "Give this to your boss, he should meet me." ”

Mephesman, who was exposed to the identity of the sand thief, would definitely burst out and kill people if his back was not held by the sword. Now she could only obediently take the bottle from Luke's hand, and looking at the pure blue liquid inside, Mephesman thought about where she had seen it.

Water Elemental Essence!

There has been news from the Scorched Wood camp outside the Halmutu Basin that an unusually powerful elven mage has passed by. The elven magician was going to the ancestral grassland, and in order not to be disturbed by the sand thieves, he took out a lot of water elemental essence and gave it to the sand thieves.

The people of the Scorched Wood camp said that the elven mage could rain rain in the desert at will, turning the rain into snow in the scorching heat. Even the orc Hamm feared the power of the elven mages and persuaded the sand thieves to accept the elves' kindness.

In the hands of the boss of the Slave Corner in Sunlight City, there were several bottles of water elemental essence flowing from the scorched wood camp.

This noble mystery has something to do with that powerful elven magician?

Mauffsman saluted Luke, "Honored guest, I will go and report your visit to my boss now. ”

Luke raised his hand slightly to make the kestrel put away his weapon, and then said to Mephesman, "Go! ”

The sharpness of the lower back vanished, and Mephesman slowly backed away before turning and walking into an alley in a residential area.

A group of guards from the slave corner appeared around, occupying high points and several key positions, faintly surrounding Luke and his party. Tension built up in the silence, and even the slaves in the nearby cages, sensing the danger, huddled at the far end of the cages.

But there was a little boy standing nearby, and he clung to the fence and looked at Luke, and cried out in a feeble voice, "Help me, save my mother......"

Luke looked at the boy.

The boy's clothes were rotten and unshapely, and they hung on his body. His hair and skin were covered with sand, but his eyes were full of spirit, and even though his thin body could clearly see the bones beneath the skin, there was hope in his eyes.

Next to the boy lay a woman, with a rag under her, motionless, not knowing if she was dead.

Before Luke could speak, the kestrel had already walked over.

She came to the front of the cage, lifted her hood, and looked at the child in the cage.

"What happened to your mother?" ”

The child in the cage didn't expect that Kestrel turned out to be a girl about his age, with a noble temperament and good cultivation.

Hearing Kestrel ask, the boy immediately said, "She was knocked unconscious trying to grab food for me." Can you give me some food and water......

She gave me all the food and water she had snatched. ”

As he spoke, the boy couldn't help but squat down and cry: "Our home is gone, and our family is dead...... We've never hurt anyone, what have we done wrong?

Why treat us like this. ”

"Your mother should need this right now."

A water bag was handed to the boy by the kestrel, and the boy took it and opened the stopper, and when he found it full of mare's milk wine, he immediately crawled to his mother's side. He fell to his knees, lifted her mother to her knees, and slowly fed her mare's milk wine.

Crying while feeding.

Seeing that the boy's mother's breath was soothing, the kestrel walked back to Luke's side.

"My lord, I want to save them."

Luke looked at the slaves who wanted to grab the mare's milk but didn't dare to do it, and said to the kestrels, "You have saved them once, but you can't save them forever, and you can't save all the people who have happened to them like them." ”

When Fast Legs saw the scene just now, he couldn't help but think of his own life experience.

"The scarcity of survival resources leads to the struggle for survival resources, a cruel and bloody process, as in the West, and in the lower city of St. Lun.

Following the adult experience in the lower part of the city of Saint-Lun made me realize that charity does not solve the problem. ”

Kestrel seemed to understand as she turned her head to look at the boy and his mother in the cage. The mother regained some strength, she held the boy in her arms, made him drink mare's milk, and finally threw the rest of the mare's milk wine to the other slaves.

After a while, Mephesman walked out. She was visibly stunned when she saw the kestrels, and apparently she didn't expect that the strong man who could suppress herself was just a little girl, not an adult dwarf or goblin.

But Mephesman did not delay, she walked up to Luke and saluted respectfully: "Distinguished guest, my boss, please come with me." ”

"Let's go!" Luke touched Kestrel on the head and followed Meffsman inside.

Kestrel took one last look at the boy and his mother, then quickly followed Luke's footsteps.

Entering the residential area, it is even darker inside.

It is surrounded by two or three story rammed earth buildings, each with a guard on the roof, and suddenly it is a small fortress. It was filled with slave cells, brothels, casinos, taverns, ...... From time to time, screams and other strange sounds could be heard from some of the doors.

There were also unclothed slaves tied up in strings, dragged like walking corpses, and they didn't know where to go.

Mauffsman leads Luke and his party through several heavily guarded passes, passing through a metal gate and entering a palatial house. The guards here were obviously a few notches stronger than the guards outside, with orcs, elves, barbarians, and dwarves, all looking at strange visitors with ferocity on their faces.

Stepping on a fluffy carpet and walking through a well-guarded hallway, Mephesman ushered Luke into a room full of books.

Between the bookshelves was a spacious desk, and a bespectacled, emaciated gnoll sat behind it, holding an account book and perusing it.

In a conspicuous position on the desk, there are three bottles of water elemental essence.

"Mr. Scream, the guests are here." Maevesman is in awe of the gnolls.

The Gnoll Scream is the boss behind the Slave Horn in Sunshine. He glanced at the visitor, put down the ledger, took off his glasses, but did not rise to greet him.

Instead, he said: "The people who dare to boast that they can buy Sunshine City, and even the entire Western Realm, are probably the only ones in this city, Lord Meteor, the Governor of Angry Waves City. ”

Luke lifted his hood and stepped forward, but Mephesman tried to stop him, but was stopped by the gnoll's scream.

Lukra sat down on the opposite side of Scream in a chair, glanced at the room full of books, and then said with a smile: "I have long heard that Mr. Scream is the great butler of many well-known sand thieves in the West, and he manages the wealth of the sand thieves in an orderly manner.

When I see it today, it's really worthy of the name! ”

With the temperament of a scholar, he said very modestly: "The sand thieves earn desperate money, and when they die, they have nothing, and they can barely have food to eat when they live."

Unlike the Governor, a little money leaked through his fingers was enough to feed countless people.

I don't know why the Governor secretly came to the Slave Corner when he arrived in Sunshine City today? ”

"I'll give you some money."

Luke grabbed three bottles of water elemental essence from the table and arranged them in a line every ten centimeters.

Shrill asked suspiciously, "Lord Governor and the elven mage who passed by the scorched wood camp know each other, is it because they want to sell water elemental essence?" ”

Luke said, "It's not complicated to make a water elemental essence, but Elf Sky doesn't put any effort into making a water elemental essence. And I can't make much money selling water elemental essence, so I'm here to ...... It's about a bigger deal with you. ”

The scream suddenly had a spirit.

The Governor of the Falling Star didn't like the Water Elemental Essence business, but the Sand Thieves did, and now the Governor of the Falling Star said that the business he was going to talk about was more profitable than selling the Water Elemental Essence, and it was really a "big" business.

"I'm looking forward to the surprise that the Governor has to offer me."

Luke pointed to the three bottles of water elemental essence on the table: "This crescent oasis in the east represents the empire, the nobility of the west represents in the middle, and the entire west represents the entire western border.

Now the normal trade exchanges between the empire and the western frontier have been cut off by the nobles of the western frontier. ”

Scream looked at the three bottles on the table and asked, "What does this have to do with us?" ”

Luke said: "Mr. Scream should be well-informed and must have known about the fact that I had just bought Halfling wine for a barrel and a gold voucher. ”

"I know about it." The Imperial Mission entered the city, and the Slave Corner of course sent all its eyes to hear the news. Screaming said disdainfully: "I can't figure it out, why does the Governor charge a barrel of gold coupons for a barrel of halfling wine, when you can buy a barrel of halfling wine for one gold coin."

Is it the Governor's way of doing business to buy things at five times the price? ”

In the face of the shrill mockery, Luke said with a smile: "Actually, in my heart, the price of halfling wine ...... It should be two gold coupons in a bucket. ”

Shriek's expression changed: "Lord Governor, are you kidding? ”

"I'm not kidding you." Luke crossed his legs and said: "Now that world trade is very prosperous, the demand for red wine in the international wine market has always been in short supply, and the price of red wine has been rising. Especially for high-end red wines, the premium is more than you can imagine.

Take halfling wine as an example: a barrel of halfling wine is transported to the city of Fury Waves, and after reprocessing, portioning and packaging, one barrel can make about 1,200 bottles of red wine.

Relying on the quality of halfling wine and the publicity of the eldest princess of the empire, how much do you think such a bottle of red wine can be sold for? ”

"I don't know anything about the situation outside the Western Frontier, but I listen to the tone of the Governor...... It should be worth a lot of money!

Can you sell it for a silver coin and a bottle? ”

Luke shook his head and sighed, "You know too little about how the world is changing. A silver coin and a bottle of red wine is a low-end product, which is simply a desecration of the quality of halfling wine and the imperial royal family.

The minimum is 1,000 Reichsmarks, which is a bottle of gold coins, and this is still the wholesale price I give to the liquor distributor. ”

Shrill quick mental arithmetic.

A gold coin and a bottle of halfling red wine are 1,200 gold in a barrel. This translates to 240 gold tickets, and the purchase price of the Governor of Meteor is ...... A golden ticket!

The werewolf howled wide, not knowing that his tongue had been pulled out, and he was completely devoid of the scholar he had seen before.

It's ridiculous that I just laughed at the Governor of Meteor for not being able to do business, spending a gold coupon and a barrel to buy halfling wine, it turns out that this gold coupon is really sewn by someone's fingers.

This kind of violence can make money faster than robbery.

"Your Excellency, Governor...... What do you want to talk to me about...... Is it a halfling wine business? ”

Lu Keyi leaned in his chair and said contemptuously: "Is this kind of small business worth my special trip to talk to you?" ”

The howling tongue drooped longer.

"Than, bigger business than that?" The shrill tone was full of unconfidence, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch this mountain of gold that had been smashed.

Luke said: "It's not just halfling wine that the Westside produces, but mare's milk wine, which I think is also very tasty. Cheese, blankets, olive oil, bristles......

The trade in these goods was controlled by the nobles of the West. ”

Hearing Luke say this, he shrieked vigilantly to restrain his rising greed.

"Lord Governor, I know what the Empire has sent its mission to the West, and I admit that you have a great temptation for me. But...... No matter how much money you have, you can only spend it if you have a life.

Although the Sand Pirates can crisscross the desert, they are definitely no match for the nobles of the West. If you want our sword to be used by the Empire, then you think things too simply. ”

Luke said, "I never told you to attack the nobles of the West, and you don't have the ability to do that.

The western realm is very, very large, and the vast desert is the home of the sand pirates, so you can completely avoid the territories of the nobles of the western realm and open up another trade route. Break into pieces and connect the Crescent Oasis with the barbarian tribes scattered throughout the West.

I've ordered Ragwaves to set up a Western Trade Office in the Crescent Oasis, and I've ordered Ragwaves to develop a means of transport suitable for running in the desert as soon as possible.

If you are willing to cooperate, I will register a logistics company for you in Nutao City. You'll be responsible for the development and operation of the West's Trade Routes, and the City of the Mighty Waves will give you maximum trade support and set up a new route opening incentive fund.

No matter how remote the barbarian tribe is, as long as you connect the trade routes, I will guarantee that your logistics company will make money. ”

Scream instantly understood what Luke meant.

In the West, who is most familiar with the environment here, the sand pirates are definitely the first. They raided for survival, knowing the location of every barbarian tribe and every safe road in the desert.

If the sand thieves switch to business, as long as someone is willing to invest a lot of money, the thief road will instantly become a business road.

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