Chapter 918: Territory Construction (6)
Huang Bing stayed in the hotel, sold the weapons he brought at a low price, and used the funds to start searching for the information he needed in the city of Dam Town. Yes, not the intelligence that the Liberal Alliance needs, but the intelligence that himself, and the small forces behind him, need.
First of all, he was shocked to find that the Black Lotus Collar, or the dam town, was not short of funds at all, and the amount of funds was very huge, almost everything had to be purchased, not to mention the large-scale purchase of ores, livestock, grain, these war preparation materials, but also purchased such as wood, stones, grass, vines, and so on. The purchase of the dam town from the outside world, regardless of whether the things bought are useful or not, or the things that are completely waste in the eyes of outsiders, can actually be sold for a price here. If it weren't for seeing countless wagons loaded with grass transported into the intake, Huang Bing wouldn't believe that Dam Zhencheng would actually purchase weeds that no one wanted.
In addition to this, all kinds of stones, yes, stones that are of no use except for being used as building materials have also been procured in a large number of ways, and they have been transported to the inlet in an endless stream, and in the past few days, Huang Bing has found that the stones that are enough to fill the entire dam town have disappeared.
There is also a strange situation that the official forces of the dam town actually strictly control the procurement of local materials, such as mining, such as tree cutting, such as breeding, such as mowing grass, etc., are all limited to a certain amount, especially the work of cutting trees and grass, which is required to harvest ten seedlings. It's more about purchasing materials outside the Black Lotus Territory, that is to say, if you are in the Black Lotus Territory, there are restrictions on cutting trees, but outside the Black Lotus Territory, no matter how much you cut down, you will not be ignored. On the contrary, the more trees are shipped, the purchase price will not fall normally, but rise abnormally!
The strange transaction price that the Black Lotus Leader engaged in was more tempting to those merchants than any temptation. Just kidding, which one doesn't sell more goods at a lower price? In this Black Lotus Collar, the more goods there are, the higher the purchase price? There is such a strange thing, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and transport all kinds of materials here to sell!
Others don't know, anyway, Huang Bing knows that the Freedom Alliance originally wanted to target the Black Lotus Territory, but after the spies found out about this strange situation, the high-level leaders of the Freedom Alliance were still wary of the Black Lotus Territory. But the following joining forces have already transported all the materials in stock to Black Lotus for sale, especially for the treatment of the more goods and the higher the price, many small forces have gathered the goods together for trading, and there will be more profits in vain.
And in addition to the fact that the Freedom Alliance he is in does this, there is also the city-state alliance that has almost swallowed one-third of the territory by the Black Lotus Territory, and it is said that when the Black Lotus Territory was established, the City-State Alliance was already calling friends to gather people and horses to prepare to destroy the Black Lotus Territory. As a result, Black Lotus led countless orders to be thrown out, especially after the more goods there are, the higher the price. Although the high-level of the city-state alliance is still clamoring, the city-states below have long laid down their arms and disbanded their armies. Turned around and formed a caravan to trade with the Black Lotus Leader.
It's just that what Huang Bing or most people can't understand is that the Tempest Gang and the Holy Snake Gang, who were also occupied with a part of their territory, didn't have much to do, just condemned and shouted, and continued to bury their heads in the fight as if nothing happened. Their cowardly behavior has made the forces in the vicinity of the two gangs a little stupid. Because these two gangs didn't know what was going on, they didn't send a caravan, it was all the private behavior of the merchants in their territory. And not an official act. Unlike the Leagues of City-States and the Liberty Alliance, which go directly to battle in person. So everyone thinks that they are beating the dog's brain and giving people such a feeling, so don't blame everyone for being stupid and ready to take the opportunity to eat them.
Not to mention the entire Black Lotus Collar, let's just say that the dam town is here, although it has devoured countless materials, but the shipment port of the dam town has also spit out countless materials, not to mention the armaments and materials that everyone is familiar with, and there are a lot of strange things, and most of these strange things are civilian goods, the price is still high but easy to sell. And this is also the reason why Black Lotus has even made out more goods and high prices, and can continue to expand trade. Because the vast majority of businessmen do not accept cash, they directly exchange goods for goods, after all, for businessmen, it is cool to make money in and out.
This is above the economy of the dam town, and as for the army, it is only seen that it is well-equipped and sparsely numbered. That's right, before Huang Bing thought that there were many elite soldiers in the dam town, but after living in the city, he found that this dam town, which was about to be expanded to the county level, only had five hundred of that kind of elite soldiers, oh, it should be a samurai, but in addition to these five hundred samurai, there was an indefinite number, and almost as long as it was a strong man, there was a militia organization. It is said that the samurai are inside the establishment, and those militia are outside the establishment. But no matter how you look at the equipment and training of those militias, they can be compared with the regular army of the Freedom Alliance.
As for the military system of the Black Lotus Leader, the Yellow Soldiers couldn't understand it at all, because they only wore that set of armor with inexplicable signs when they were patrolling, and they couldn't tell who the commander was at all. And in addition to the military system, the internal affairs system of the Black Lotus Collar is also confusing, because he can only find out the titles of unit chief, section chief, and section chief, and it takes a lot of effort to distinguish who is bigger.
It's a pity that such a person can't be seen at all, only the figure with the clerk hanging up, and an outsider like himself, or not a person in the organization, can't enter and leave the City Lord's Mansion at all, and can only handle various affairs at a row of desks outside the City Lord's Mansion. Huang Bing didn't send people to infiltrate the City Lord's Mansion, but only sent people to keep an eye outside, and it turned out that there were also spies sent by other forces in this dam town, but after these spies infiltrated the City Lord's Mansion, they all disappeared without exception. This matter was discovered by the stalkers, and their loyalty to Huang Bing actually increased a little strangely.
Not to mention the Yellow Soldiers, even the people sent by other forces, they all felt that this Black Lotus Leader was extremely weird, and the most strange thing was the City Lord's Mansion that was extremely obvious in the center of each city. As long as it is a character with an inexplicable waist tag, no one intercepts or checks it at all, and it is completely free to enter and leave the city and guard the mansion on his own. It's not that no one snatched or forged such a waist card to enter the City Lord's Mansion, but all outsiders entered and never returned. It made all the spies regard the cities and castle guards under the Black Lotus Command as the devil's lair. But the spies who want to get the secrets have no choice but to circle around this castle guard, because almost anyone with a discerning eye can know that all the secrets are hidden in this castle guard.
Huang Bing's attention was not on the city guard's mansion, his attention was suddenly attracted one day, because he found that there was actually a demon wolf with a metal plate around his neck, swaggering into the town of Dam from outside the city! And the strange thing is that all the residents of the town of Dam are nothing, and those outsiders who have been here for a long time also turn a blind eye, and only newcomers like themselves are dumbfounded.
So needless to say, Huang Bing's attention immediately focused on these demon wolves. (To be continued......)