Chapter 1311 Financial Crisis
"Oh, of course, of course, where did you say it just now?" Hudders forgot the topic, and after a reminder from the student, he slapped his head and said, "By the way, there are only ten gold coins on the book. How can we quickly recover a batch of funds and overcome this difficulty?"
Zhao Hu pondered and said, "Or what if we send someone to contact Sophia quickly and conduct the transaction in advance?"
Fei Li smiled bitterly and said, "The cost of running the space channel for ten gold coins is not enough." The space doors connected between the territories are mutually beneficial and have their own management. The number of openings is recorded every day and settled every three days.
If the number of operations between the two territories is the same, the consumption fee will be offset. If the number of times is large, the cost of the space gate will be filled. In the territory near Wanmo City, no one has come to the cold glacier continent and has never paid a penny.
"Oh, it's a worthless war!" Hudders poured another glass of ale, which was quite a bit like drowning his sorrow with wine.
"Why is it not cost-effective?" Zhao Hu retorted the old guy's short-sighted eyes. He analyzed the interests of conquering the Marine Alliance to Hudders and the difficulty in analyzing the interests of conquering the Marine Alliance, and expanded the sphere of influence of the territory for the time being. How much labor does the 300,000 sea tribes provide?
The nature of the ocean life is simple and firm in belief. With the spread of the Dark Sect, how many souls of faith have been gathered? The value of the ocean war song is immeasurable. What's more, the ocean alliance can mine the materials under the sea, which is a huge treasure that no one mines!
Hudders was convinced after saying this, but that was all future interests. How to solve the current dilemma? Even if you go to rob, you have to prepare supplies. It is still more than 10,000 miles away from the Aegean coast. Even if you use the space gate to shorten it from Shark Island by more than half. Can you not eat or drink along the way?
"Masters Good and Paulson ask for an important report!" Outside the door, the loud voices of the two beast generals came. The battle of the sea tribes caused the beast blood to turn wild. Fortunately, they were knocked out and bleeding by Dulek in time. Later, after the surrendered Queen of Oman was treated with the Marine War Song. She spent the weak period in the past two days and gradually recovered without any disability.
"Come in!" Hudders drank the second glass of ale in one sip, grabbed the small barrel and poured another glass. He usually liked to drink a few sips, but when he encountered difficulties, he even had a big sip. Zhao Hu once made fun of him. Could a series of problems be solved by drinking it? He made him laugh dejectedly and admitted that this bad habit was actually left over from the days of wandering in the abyss world.
Good and Paulson entered one after another and reported two good news to Zhao Hu.
The first one is that the trade messenger of the vampire queen Sophia carried gold coins. He just stepped into the frozen city and was resting at the alchemy test tower! This news was like a bet of money from the sky. Hudders pulled Fei Li and two other magicians without saying a word, ran out like a gust of wind, and went to his territory to receive distinguished guests.
The temporary solution of the bankruptcy crisis also made Zhao Hu breathe a sigh of relief. He signaled the two beasts to sit down and speak. Good and Paulson sat respectfully, straightened their backs and pressed their hands on their knees in a regular manner, and did not dare to neglect in front of the master. They were both extremely grateful for being saved by their master on the verge of life and death.
The next second news attracted Zhao Hu's attention. The left-behind orcs arrested a group of traders from the Sun Empire again. This was the third time that the traders were captured. Since the glacier continent was very far away from the continent in the extreme Arctic Ocean and was closer to the boundary line of the demons, no one escaped when Wei Botu was wiped out. The Sun Empire still does not know that the former Wei Botu territory has long disappeared.
According to Goode, after interrogating the trader, the trader's first two traders were gone forever without any news. The "Sacred Light Trade Chamber of Commerce", one of the three major traders of the Sun Empire, which has always traded with Wei Botu, was very anxious and worried that they would encounter unexpected accidents in the long ocean or iceberg impact, so they sent a third batch of merchant ships to transport iron ore. Unexpectedly, they were caught by the ambushed orcs as soon as they landed on ashore.
"Master, I am worried that no three batches of merchant ships will return sooner or later arouse suspicion from the Holy Light Trading Chamber of Commerce. I am afraid that other means will come to detect it. We must prevent it in advance." Good suggested.
"Well, you're right." Zhao Hu said with a gentle head: "Is there any good way?"
"Master, I have an idea!" Paulson said: "We polar bears are natives of the glacier continent and are very familiar with this land. Ice bears are friends of our bears and can be driven by their tribesmen.
I wonder if I ordered not to hunt ice bears, and instead let my tribe members divide areas and monitor the coastline? Of course, in addition to ice bears, penguins can also drive seals and wild penguins. With the mutual connection between the two major beast tribes and companion beasts, as long as there are external enemy traces appear, they will be monitored."
"This method is good, so I will order not to hunt ice bears." Zhao Hu didn't expect that the ice bear penguins and seals had such valuable abilities, so he immediately agreed.
Seeing that the master agreed to his proposal, Paulson opened his lips and smiled: "Based on my understanding of Bingyang, the cold winter will begin in more than a month. Then the ice is frozen and extremely cold. I believe that any advanced method of peeping will not work. People who do not have a thorough understanding of the glacier continent will freeze to death at night."
Zhao Hu also understood this. When Wei Botu led people to set foot on the glacier continent, he once frozen hundreds of people to death at night. He and dozens of people peeled off the dead and hugged each other, and endured until dawn to escape back to the Sun Empire. He was ready to return here for the second time. The cold weather was the natural allies of the frozen territory. In winter, the sea surface was frozen, and even if the Sun Empire found that Wei Botu was wiped out. If he wanted to send troops to retake it, he would get the spring next year as soon as possible.
Zhao Hu's plan was to not mess with the Sun Empire for the time being. The blockade news made the Holy Light Chamber of Commerce try Bali to guess what kind of tragic fate the merchant ship sent had encountered. It is imperative to digest the great benefits brought by the various tribes of the ocean just surrendered to the land.
As long as your strength is enhanced, I will run to invade you before you get into trouble! Zhao Hu thought coldly in his heart.
Three months later, a covered blizzard swept across the entire glacier continent. The vast territory was covered with silver, and the sea surface of more than a thousand miles near the sea was covered with thick ice. Further to the outside, the number of icebergs and ice cubes increased significantly, making it very dangerous to sail.
Since the trade messenger of the vampire Sophia came to the Frozen City, he officially started trading iron ore. The ore mined every day is divided into types according to quality. It was transported away the next day and the payment was very smooth every seven days. This brought a large profit to the advanced and short-term frozen territory. Hudders was happy to say good things about Sophia for the first time.
In order to prevent the cold winter, the fire crystal heating furnace invented by Hudders was manufactured and distributed in large quantities. This convenient heating magic furnace benefited a lot from the sea clan who had just joined him. He repeatedly praised the deputy lord as an emperor-level alchemist. Even under the seal of magic power, he could still create such an unexpected magic furnace.
Zhao Hu took out a large number of magic crystals from the Flame Demon Chamber of Commerce that he had robbed and handed them to Hudders for use. The high-quality medium and low-level magic crystals made Hudders dumbfounded and asked where they got it? He was not willing to tell the truth, and his smile was mysterious, which made the old guy very depressed. He guessed countless possibilities, but he didn't guess that it was robbed from the Flame Demon Chamber of Commerce.
The fire crystals in the batch of magic crystals were immediately used on part of the heating furnace. The others were treasured by Hudders for future alchemy casting.
In addition to the fire crystal heating stove, the cold-resistant leather robes and boots are also made in the hands of the honest bear tribe and penguin women. Part of the fur is taken from ice bear seals, part of which is purchased, and part of which is the cold-resistant fur of sea beasts worshipped by various tribes of the ocean.
For three months, under the auspices of Archbishop Paul, a small dark church was built on the island where each sea tribe branch lives. As a natural magical race in the Ocean Alliance, the Naga tribe naturally changed to act as a dark priest. The turtle tribe who acted slowly and patiently promoted many missionaries.
In this way, the Dark Cult was successfully promoted among all the tribes of the ocean. The people of the Sea Tribe who had lost the favor of the Sea God for many years believed in the demon god Solomon with a pious attitude. For a time, the Demon God Code quickly formed a trend among the sea tribe under the propaganda of the Turtle Missionary and Pastor Naga, and it was the most popular belief.
According to the tradition of the Dark Church, both pastors and missionaries were promoted from believers, in order to gather the strength of believers, and also because the representatives of these believers are more aware of the situation of the tribe. The person responsible for the promotion was the work of the Dark Archbishop, and the young Archbishop Paul was extremely efficient at this point.
A legion of 50,000 elite marine warriors has been constructed and stationed on the largest Mermaid Island, under the control of the Queen of Oman. It is not only an important force in protecting the Marine Alliance, but also a marine force that supports the frozen city at any time. The head of the legion is Benny, the first warrior of the sea clan.
The benefits of the submission of the Ocean Alliance are obvious. First of all, the sea people are masters of fish hunting. They worshipped a large number of fish to the Frozen City, saving a lot of food purchases, and can also be sold into the Abyss World in exchange for hard currency such as gold coins or crystals.
Secondly, under the guidance of the dwarf demon leader Ross, two iron ore, one copper ore and one gold ore were found on the seabed. What made Hudders even more overjoyed was that there was a mitril silver mine. This is the corner of the huge treasure house under the seabed, and more ore veins will be discovered one after another.
Chapter completed!