After a heavy snowfall of goose feathers fell, the cold winter season came.

The earth was covered with a thick white blanket.

Logically speaking, in this cold weather that is not easy to travel, the best way to move is to stay in the house with closed doors and windows, sit by the warm fireplace, roast on fire, drink wine, talk to family and friends, have a good sleep, and survive this cold winter.

But unexpectedly, there were strangely shaped carriages parked in front of the gate of Glenling Castle.

These horse-drawn carts were pulled by a strong horse, and a square cart was dragged behind them. Among them, there were 20 bags of heavy food, which were about 20 taron-weight.

The wheels of the carriage are not the original pair of circular symmetrical spoke wooden wheels, but wooden boards with two ends raised at the ends and smooth bottom surfaces - this is the sled car invented by Zhou Ming.

In front of the castle, there are 400 sled trucks filled with grain bags. There are so many sled trucks. At one time, 8,000 tarons of grain can be transported to Patton Trading Station more than 60 miles away in the north with the efficiency of one trip every two days. Then, another group of people stationed at the Trading Station drove similar sled trucks to transport the grains of the Trading Station to various places where there is a need for grain purchase.

From the nearest Earls Merlin, to the west Earls Gagen, to the Count Tingen... the last grain sales outlets are almost all over the seven Earls in the north.

Zhou Ming was very surprised that because the northern region was poor, the environment was harsh, and there were very few travelers and merchants. The Counts and Barons in these seven counts, heard that as long as they joined the "Free Business Alliance", they could buy the food they were in short supply. Perhaps they were poor and wanted to change. After thinking about it for a while, most of the territory joined the Free Business Alliance one after another.

In one month, the number of members of the Free Trade Alliance increased from the initial 4 to more than 60. Many members also applied to join after seeing their neighbors buying a lot of food.

So, when the horse pulled the sled truck and transported bags of grain to the entrance of the castle led by the earls and barons, unloaded the grain and put it into the warehouses of various territories, then thousands of animal furs, precious woods, and savage ore weapons (the northern nobles fought with the northern savages all year round, and they captured a lot of ore weapons) were moved to the side of the sled truck for selection by the caravan leader.

"This fox skin is good. It should be an old fox skin with a lifespan of more than 20 years. Hey, why are there two holes on the head? What a pity, one hole is fine, two holes are not worth the money, so I don't want this fox skin." The leader threw this fox skin that was extremely rare in the Southern Kingdom, enough to sell hundreds of gold coins, and threw it aside like throwing garbage.

"This white bear skin is OK. It should be an old bear skin that is over 30 years old. It's also very good. Hey, why are there a few yellow miscellaneous hairs here? What a pity, it's okay that it's pure white, but if there is miscellaneous hair, it's not worth it. No, no, no more." The white bear skin, which is worth not ten thousand gold, can be sold for at least a thousand gold coins after removing the miscellaneous hairs, was also regarded as garbage and thrown aside.

"This piece of wood should be a cold fir tree over a thousand years old. The color should be bright golden red, but because of improper storage, the color becomes darker, so don't!"

"Hey, this savage axe looks good, it's golden in color...it should be copper! I'm going to want this axe!" The smart leader accidentally put this piece of dog-headed gold into the sled car.

In the warehouses of various territories in the northern region, there are too many fur, wood ore. However, according to the trading rules of changing one truck of grain to another truck, the leaders of the grain transport teams of various merchants and alliances can only pick out the goods with the best integrity, the longest year, the purest color and the highest rarity from these piles of goods and put them into the sled truck.

This selection process is a matter of comment, picky and extremely picky! The owners of these goods all want to get angry and beat people.

After picking up the goods, they were filled with fur, wood, and ore sled trucks. After returning to Glencol, because there was a shortage of craftsmen, Glencol did not have the ability to deep-process these goods. Therefore, except for all ore and part of the wood, the remaining pieces of animal fur and precious wood were sold to several wealthy kingdoms in the south through a large number of wandering merchants who joined the Free Trade Union and were sold to the high-ranking officials and nobles of these kingdoms.

Relying on the regular internal coordination of the Free Trade Alliance, concentrating capable personnel, and unified planning of good sales operation mechanisms, throughout the winter, the transit base with Glentang as the core was divided into dozens of transportation teams for transportation, and hundreds of knights were protected by the protection of hundreds of knights, the originally quiet and deserted trade activities suddenly became unprecedentedly vibrant among dozens of territories, and in this even cold winter, it was still full of enthusiasm.

Sold out.

All the things that can be sold are sold.

Take Glentang for example. In just two months, the 200,000 Taron grain in the castle granary, together with the black and rotten old grains underneath, were sold completely. The large amount of jerky, cheese and sausage accumulated by Glentang livestock farms, tens of thousands of barrels of ale brewed in the winery over the years, and the thousands of dried apples left in the orchards were sold completely!

The remaining grains in the warehouse that Nathan took, the beef and mutton jerky and specialty nuts that I got (a nut in the specialty of I got thin skin and thick flesh, similar to walnuts), were sold out in just three or four times.

In the later period, in order to continue to meet the strong demands of the north, Zhou Ming had to send people to say hello to Count Rods's corpses. Even Baron Garcia in the west had entrusted many times, and finally pulled all the excess grain reserves in the remaining nine territories in the corpses of Count Rods (including the direct subordinates of Count Rods's corpses) to the north, which barely met their food needs.

In the last business, Zhou Ming, who did not forget the "orch weapons" in the hands of the savages in the northern world, took a horse with a 20 grain trucks carrying dried meat and dried fruits, and eighty empty trucks that had nothing (actually, they were not free, and they brought food and grass for personnel and horses). According to the optimal route planned in the mind [World Map], he crossed the vast thousand-mile ice field and arrived at a few savage tribes who were discussing whether to eat the elderly or eat women and children. Good guys, if these savages were not hungry, they could not get weapons, the hundreds of people brought by Zhou Ming would have been swallowed by these savages with their leather and bones.

When returning from the Savage Tribe, the hundreds of sled convoys brought by Zhou Ming, except for the dozens of damaged due to various accidents, the remaining 80 sled cars were all filled with various metal ores, including golden, black, silver, and some beautifully colored and huge gems (a diamond as big as a human head, crystal clear and without any impurities. Zhou Ming exchanged it for a pound of food), returned to the ground with a full load and returned to Glen.

At this time, in the large granary of Glenling Castle, the old grain was swept away and replaced by countless animal furs, a large amount of precious wood, and various metal ores that have no place to be stored in the castle room.

How to deal with these three types of items has become the biggest problem when placed in front of Zhou Ming.

This problem must be a huge problem for others, but for Zhou Ming, who has long been clear about it, it is just a little drizzle that he had already predicted in his complete plan.

"The key is to deal with all the furs first. It is unlikely to sell them to customers in so many precious furs, and then sell them to customers in thousands of gold coins. If things are rare, they can only rely on quantity to make the volume. Wholesale those with a slightly lower quality, 50 to 100 gold coins per piece to those travelers who operate furs. The highest quality ones are sold at a slightly higher price to those nobles in the south at a slightly higher price, and sell them in a graded manner to ensure that the nobles in the south, whether they are the lowest knights or the most noble kings, each of them buys a few pieces! The weather is so cold, and the demand will not drop..."

"As for some of the precious woods, I should keep them in my hands first. After the spring begins, I will recruit a group of carpenters to come. Carpenters with average craftsmanship will also need to be taught! In the next few months, the large furniture workshops led by Glen must be built..."

"There are also those ores that must be kept in your hands. These ores are natural, non-corrosive, rare metal ore. After being smelted in the blast furnace, all kinds of metal ingots made can play a huge role, whether they are making alloy armor or casting circulating currency..."

Zhou Ming, who made the above plans, took a small caravan in the next month, and took thousands of top-notch furs to the Iron Fort Kingdom.

...

Early spring February.

After returning from the Iron Fort Kingdom.

Zhou Ming invited the three lords who originally joined the merchant alliance, including Ken Corner, Nathan Corner and Parton Corner, to the Glen Corner Castle, and asked Jian Master to carry three extremely bulky treasure chests and place them in front of the three lords.

As we walked along the way, we opened the treasure chest under the three of us one by one. A dazzling but very delicate and soft light radiated out. Zhou Ming said to them:

"Baron Howard, the 25,000 gold coins in this box are my reward for you and your knights. Thank you very much for your strong support for the work of the Merchant Alliance over the past few months. Please accept these gold coins. This is yours and the reward you deserve."

After hearing this, Baron Howard couldn't wait to squat down, his eyes emitted the unique shimmer of money-lovers. He stretched out his hands and grabbed the gold coins in the box hand in hand, grinned and smiled brightly, murmured: "There are so many gold coins, they are mine, they are mine..."

"Dear Father-in-law, the 30,000 gold coins in this box are rewards for you. You have provided the Merchant Alliance with 100,000 tarons of food and more than 20,000 tarons of dried meat and dried fruits. The knights under your command have followed me in the past few months. It is very hard. After you go back, don't forget to take out some of the gold coins and give them. This is the reward they deserve."

After hearing Zhou Ming's words, Baron Sean nodded and was very excited. He had never seen so many gold coins in his life. This time he only earned it in three or four months. He now has a dream-like feeling. Is this true?

Finally, Zhou Ming walked to the point where he couldn't stand, his eyes wandered, and his eyes occasionally glanced at the two Baron Romon who was filled with gold coins and treasure chests next to him - this rough-looking man from the north was restless at this moment and wanted to open the treasure chest under his feet immediately to see how many gold coins were contained in it, which was the reward for him...

However, Baron Romon, who was unafraid on the battlefield, dared not open this treasure chest, because in the Free Merchant Alliance, he made the least effort and could not produce any food, jerky and other goods that could make more contributions to the Merchant Alliance. At most, he could send some knights and farmers to fight the caravan.

Now that he saw that Knight Edward wanted to give himself some extra rewards, 20,000 or 30,000 gold coins, he didn't dare to think about how many thousand gold coins he could get. The set of armor in his family has been passed down for several generations, wearing it for more than a hundred years and sewing countless times. This time he should be able to change to a new set.

brush!

What a dazzling golden light.

Baron Romon's eyes could not help but narrowed, and a voice heard in his ears: "Dear Baron Romon, if you hadn't been connecting with various territories in the north in the past few months, providing convenience and assistance to the merchant alliance, the Free Merchant Alliance would not have sold so much food and goods. I am deeply grateful to you here! Here are 20,000 gold coins, I hope you don't think it's too little. Believe me, as long as you work together, you can earn more gold coins next year!"

"Yeah~"

Baron Romon nodded slightly. This man who had always been straightforward and cheerful, somehow, his eyes turned red and his nose slightly sore.
Chapter completed!