The water supply system built a large cistern outside the city, and the water from the Hongsha River was not directly drinkable, although the river was clear at this time, and many people drank the river directly.

Drawing water directly from the river would threaten the city's drinking water if there were dead animals upstream, and one of the aims of Suren's reservoir was to disinfect it.

The reservoir will be covered with pebbles, fine sand, charcoal and other filtered river water, of course, these can only filter the debris in the water, Suren also prepared a fine net made of sterling silver, after the first few processes of filtration and then with silver net for disinfection, after a few processes of disposal, the water source can be guaranteed safety.

It took a long time for the water supply system to be completed, and just as the water supply facility was being built, a caravan arrived from Carthusian to buy sugar.

.....

After Jean left, the city of Calent.

Fernande is the head of the caravan sent by the Flamingo Chamber of Commerce to Zhenbeibao, and he is also the largest of the eight chambers of commerce that came here together, and the Skylark Chamber of Commerce that has cooperated with Zhenbeibao is also among them, but the scale of the Skylark Chamber of Commerce is only the fourth among the eight chambers of commerce.

In addition to Robert of the Skylark Chamber of Commerce, there is also an old acquaintance of Su Lun in these chambers of commerce, Owen, the steward of the Bauhinia Caravan, who is the fat man who was cheated by Su Lun last time.

At the beginning, he came here to dig the foot of the wall, and he didn't want to pay any price, but he was pitted by Su Lun and the barbarian warriors, but he didn't expect that he would dare to come to trade this time. Of course, Su Lun will not deliberately pit him again, he needs the prosperity of Zhenbei Fort, and it is better to do less of this kind of thing, of course, if someone thinks that Su Lun is easy to bully, then he doesn't mind playing with these people.

"Mr. Fernand, I think we should form an alliance and monopolize the sugar trade here. ”

"Yes, I think so, as long as we can monopolize the sugar trade here, we can easily double our annual profits. ”

"I agree. The other caravan stewards agreed that they had completely taken the sugar from Zhenbei Fort as their own.

"Now that everyone agrees to monopolize the sugar trade, now we need to divide some shares. Fernande nodded.

Then Fernande looked around at the heads of the other seven chambers of commerce, and then said unceremoniously, "I want 20% of the sugar share, and you can negotiate the remaining 80% by yourself!"

The other seven chambers of commerce did not have any opinions on this, obviously this was already the norm, and then the seven chambers of commerce began to negotiate and quarrel for a little more share, and the whole scene became extremely hot. Fernand sat aside and didn't mean to interject, but took out a delicate little pair of scissors and trimmed his nails seriously.

It wasn't until the directors of these chambers of commerce had determined the share that they began to speak: "Since the share has been agreed, let's determine the purchase price." ”

"Robert, what was the price of your last purchase?"

"One hundred and twenty kinnar a pound. ”

"This price is too expensive, we should let him reduce the price!" As soon as Robert's voice fell, Owen next to him couldn't wait.

"Yes, the price reduction, I think it will be at least eighty-five kinnar to be acceptable. Another caravan steward agreed.

"You're thinking too simply, and in order to get a high price, he's probably going to bid at auction. Robert knew that Chrissy was difficult and poured cold water on him.

"So what, we negotiated the price, and if it exceeds this price, we won't shout directly. ”

"Yes, that's it. ”

A crowd agreed.

"What if he doesn't want to sell?" said one of them suddenly.

"It's very simple, if he dares to refuse the transaction, then let him see it, and I think he will agree to the strength of our eight chambers of commerce. The others laughed, as the eight largest chambers of commerce in Carthusian City, which controlled more than sixty percent of Carthusian City's trade, they were qualified to say this.

After the group had discussed the matter, they held a small banquet before preparing the caravan to the north fort of Zhenbei.

......

Su Lun didn't know that the eight chambers of commerce had already discussed a monopoly on the sugar trade, of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care, in his opinion, the alliance of these people was not reliable at all, and with only a small external force, the alliance would fall apart.

Eight caravans came to Zhenbeibao, except for Robert, the other caravans were shocked by Zhenbeibao, in their thoughts, this small territory located in the northern wasteland should be inferior to those countryside in the northland.

When I came here, I found that although the town was small, it was unusually clean and tidy, the roads were all paved with stones, there were drainage ditches on both sides of the road, there was no stench of fermented feces in the air, and all the houses were neatly arranged, which looked like a different kind of beauty.

Everyone was told the rules before entering the town, and the first time they heard such cumbersome rules, many caravan guards and mercenaries found it difficult to accept, and that city even had to walk on the right side?

As a result, after the two barbarian giant axe warriors directly attacked and taught the restless mercenaries a lesson, all the caravans agreed. If you don't agree, you can't help it, who would have thought that two barbarian warriors would actually kill most of a caravan's dozens of guards and mercenaries.

After knowing the force value of Zhenbei Fort, even those caravan stewards were honest. After a dismount, the caravan was placed in the trading market.

Suren was not very interested in the arrival of the caravan, and he was now busy building a water supply canal, which was gradually lowered from the river, and the beginning of the canal was about half a meter lower than the end point of the reservoir here. And the closer you are to the town, the higher the ground, the less work the water canal will be, and the faster the construction will be.

After releasing the mud into stone for this water channel, Suren rode his black-maned horse to the tavern, during which time he would sit in the tavern every day for a while, after all, didn't the tavern have a chance to attract some heroes here?

After coming to the tavern, Su Lun found that today's tavern was very lively, and the tavern that could accommodate eighty or ninety people was actually full, but fortunately, this bar was a three-story building, and there were still many vacant seats on the second floor.

Su Lun asked for a glass of rum, then found a corner, and began to observe the guests in the tavern, but what disappointed him was that although there were many people in the tavern today, these people were mercenaries except for the guards, and they didn't find any special people coming at all.

These mercenaries are very fond of rum, and although the price is twice as expensive as ale, it is still very popular, and it seems that rum can be sold at a good price.