Chapter Seventy-Five: The Merchant Group
Unconsciously, it was already dark, and Liu Ergou had been lying on the bed, although comfortable, but there was no sleep.
"I used to be able to sleep soundly on the hardstone slab, but why can't I sleep when I have a bed?" Liu Ergou tossed and turned on the bed, tossing and turning, people are always like this, when they can't get it, they yearn for it, they feel that it is good, it is good, and when they get it, they will unconsciously dislike it, in short, what they can't get is always the best.
"Knock knock!" Just when Liu Ergou was irritable because he couldn't sleep, there was a knock on the door.
Liu Ergou, who had been unable to sleep, got up quickly, opened the door, and stood outside was Elanst, holding a letter in his hand, stamped with a dark gold stamp.
This is a point molten fire paint, used for the sealing of letters, so that it is easy to see whether the letter has been opened, letters sealed with fire paint are generally more important, and the letter in Elanster's hand in front of him has been dismantled, and Elanster should have come to Liu Ergou because of the things on the letter.
"Is there anything wrong?" Liu Ergou said politely, a bit similar to the official tone of the office.
"Venerable Priest, I have received a letter from the Human Merchant Clan, saying that they will pass through here, and then go to the Central Region to trade, and that they will give us some food to pay for the passage when they pass." Elantst handed the letter in his hand to Liu Ergou and said.
Liu Ergou took the letter and read it, the letter sincerely and sincerely expressed his request to go to the middle of the continent to trade through the Beiyuan Road, and the letter called Elanster very warmly, and he actually called him dear old friend directly, obviously this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened, it should have been traded many times.
"This merchant group often goes to the central part of the country to do business through the North Plains, and when they come and go, they will generously give us some supplies, there has been no problem, it has almost become a habit, this time the sacrifice Lord is here, I think these things in the North Plains should be told to you." Ellanster said.
"It's very good, let's start reporting work!" Liu Ergou was secretly refreshed, it seems that Ellanster has basically recognized his leadership position, this time he came over a little bit of a hint, although he didn't call the lord directly, but it was almost the same, he already had a sense of identity, which was a success in a big sense.
"There are caravans passing by, which is also good for the prosperity of the northern plains, do they only trade with the tribes of the central region? You can also trade with them, and you can exchange them for some weapons and supplies, which will also help you resist the beast tide. Liu Ergou suggested to Erantst.
"I've negotiated like this before, but the northern plains are relatively barren, and the human merchant group of the commodities we took out is not interested, and they don't look down on the many items we take out, the only thing that is interested is my magic staff, but I can't do without the assistance of my cane to perform magic against the tide of beasts, so I gave up later." Elantst said helplessly.
As a mage, Elantst didn't want to get some magic weapons from humans to use, with which it might be easier to defend against the tide of beasts, but unfortunately they couldn't come up with something attractive enough.
"What humans are interested in, maybe I can take out a little, I don't know if I can get some weapons." Liu Ergou thought of his own magic crystals.
All the magic crystals Liu Ergou took down from the mercenary ship were brought to Beiyuan, and the spar beast just sucked magic energy from the magic crystal, as long as the magic crystal was not chewed, the absorbed energy Liu Ergou could be instilled back, so feeding the spar beast on the way was not consumed.
Liu Ergou remembered the feeling when he bombarded the ship with a magic guide cannon on the ship, if he could exchange a few magic guide cannons with these humans, his military strength would be greatly improved, and he could also use the magic guide cannon to hunt demonic beasts in the Sunset Mountain Range, which was convenient for better hunting, and he could also quickly increase his blood points, killing multiple birds with one stone.
"Where is the person who sent the letter, I'll go and negotiate with him, and what I have brought out should be useful to them." Liu Ergou is confident and slow.
Most of the weapons of human beings, including many daily necessities, need magic crystals to urge, and there is a great demand for magic crystals, and the number of magicians in the human empire is not very large, and people with magical talents are basically one in a million, and every magician is relatively wealthy in life.
The mages in the Human Empire are just as noble as the sacrifices in the Orc Empire, and charging ordinary magic crystals is only the job of some magic apprentices and lowest-level mages.
Not only is the speed of indoctrination slow, but the magic energy contained in each magic crystal is not very much, and high-level magicians are basically hired by the royal family at a high price to produce high-quality magic crystals for the luxury of the royal family, as well as various agricultural and military consumption.
It is said that the fountain pool used for viewing in the royal garden of the Starfall Empire can consume enough magical energy for a day to meet the basic life of ordinary people for a year! The use of farming machines and irrigation facilities is also inseparable from the supply of magical energy, and the magical energy used by the Imperial Guardian Knights to research new weapons is an astronomical amount, in short, the production and life of human beings are inseparable from magical energy.
"There is no one to deliver the letter, this letter was sent by the human communication griffin, and the merchant group should still be at sea at this time, but it should be there soon." Ellanster said.
"Griffins? Is it the big one? I'd like to take a look. "Liu Ergou's perception of griffins is only a very big one.
"The griffin flew away after delivering the letter, and the human domesticated monster griffin not only has a fight, but also a communication griffin specially used to transmit information, this griffin is not big, but the flight speed is very fast, and it has a lot of stamina, and it flies a long distance without resting, and it is very convenient and fast to transmit information." Ellanster explained.
"Oh, I see, I thought the griffins were all very big, but I didn't expect there to be a special messenger, the size of the griffins has changed so much?" Liu Ergou asked suspiciously.
"This is all specially bred by humans, griffins were originally just ordinary magical beasts, humans caught wild griffins on a large scale, and then carried out special domestication, and over time developed several branches."
"There are war griffins that specialize in serving the military system, as well as small communication griffins, and passenger griffons used for transportation, and the number of all kinds of griffons is very large, and they are divided into categories, each performing its own duties, and it has evolved from a Warcraft race to a tool in the daily life of human beings!" Ellanster said.
"Reduced to a tool, it's a bit pitiful to say this, don't all Warcraft yearn for freedom? Especially this winged monster. Liu Ergou felt that the griffin was a little miserable.
"Well, how to say it, humans are not too bad to griffins, it is illegal to eat griffin meat in human law, so griffins don't have to worry about being hunted, there are good and bad, this has been going on for hundreds of years, and the wildness of griffins has been almost wiped out, and now it is more subordinate to humans, a bit like the vassal races of the major nobles in the orc race." Ellanster said.
"Does the Maiss Rat Clan have vassals to any nobles?" Speaking of this, Liu Ergou suddenly asked.
"No, the Northern Plains is so remote, there is not a single noble race here, even if you want to be vassal, you don't have a chance, besides, the ability of our Maisratren race is not strong, the nobles don't look down on a relatively weak race like us, and besides, it doesn't have to be vassal nobles to live a better life, and there are quite a lot of races of non-vassal nobles in the orc race." There are three points of sense in Elanster's words, three points of surprise and four points of disdain.
"It's good not to have vassals, we are relatively free, we don't have to be dictated by others, the Olo owl clan is more withdrawn, so they came to Beiyuan to be neighbors with us." Ellanster said.
"Anyway, I've been here for so long, and I haven't been in contact with the Olo Owl Clan." Liu Ergou said.
"Actually, I have been in contact, the kid who ran away with Abel before, he is from the Olo Owl Clan, or the son of the patriarch Bufax, Bufax has a very rigid personality, but his son is very rebellious, Cheng Tian and Abel want to leave the Northern Plains, I was also deceived by him, that kid is a ghost, which is much stronger than my unsuccessful grandson." Elantst sighed and shook his head.
"It's the boy named Boudley, when I first came to the North Plains, I chased him in the woods, that kid deliberately didn't use wings at first, just jumped around on various branches, but when I was about to catch up, he spread his wings and flew, and I let this kid swing along." Liu Ergou said with a smile.
"Yes, there is such a thing, if Buderi knew that he had played tricks on a high-ranking priest, he would probably be so excited that he couldn't sleep during the day!" Elanster was shocked, and it could be seen that Elanster was more surprised by Liu Ergou's experience.
"Daytime? Go to bed? By the way, the Olo owl clan is also a nocturnal lifestyle, right? Liu Ergou was puzzled at first, thinking that Ellanster had made a mistake, but after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly realized.
"We all come out by day, which is why the northern plains are particularly desolate during the day." Ellanster chimed in.
"Then the Olo Owl Clan is active now, I'll pay a visit." Liu Ergou wants to talk to this race, it is very convenient for the race that can fly to do a lot of things, and it still has air superiority when fighting, so it is necessary to maintain a good relationship.
"It shouldn't work now, there was a sudden small beast tide just yesterday, today the Bufax guy took the team of the Olo owl clan to the Sunset Mountains to hunt, after the beast tide is a good opportunity to hunt, the monsters at this time are more scattered, easy to deal with, they don't farm, hunting is the only source of food, and sometimes they will exchange prey for food with us." Ellanster said.
"Besides, didn't you say that you want to trade with the merchant group, the human merchant group should be almost here, let's visit the Olo owl clan another day." Ellanster said.
"Well, that's right, this human merchant group is from over there, how did you get in touch with it before, do you want to pick it up?" Liu Ergou asked.
"No, no, no! How could you have such an idea! The relationship between the orcs and humans has always been strained, so how can we pick them up? After the human merchant group landed from the Sea of Watch, they came in a wagon. Elantst hurriedly said, Liu Ergou said this to make Elantst feel very inappropriate.