Chapter 1372 posing as the Chamber of Commerce (4)
"By the way, my goods have been traded, and time is money, so it won't stop you."
He winked at Jingxiong and others, then became polite to Zhao Hu and others, and then left in a hurry.
The leader of the Wanfu, who knew the merchant's background, thought that Zhao Hu and his group were indeed from the Free Alliance, immediately said enthusiastically, "Welcome, please come in and drink milk tea."
Then, he pulled Zhao Hu into the tent, and the emperor and eight centurions followed in, while the others stayed outside the door.
"Uncle, you are so awesome. You actually know the situation in Mante Port." Sun Jie said.
"That guy is just an imperialist. He knows nothing? Didn't he just let him run away without seeing me making up a few words?"
Deo looked proud, and when Geralt heard these words, he couldn't help but mutter to himself.
"This commander is not only good at himself, but his personal guard is also great. If he were himself, he might have been exposed..."
There were dozens of low tables in the huge tent. After some courtesy, the guest and the host sat down, and five or six beautiful maids brought the hot milk tea to everyone.
In addition to these maids, there were two people who looked like documents sitting behind the head of the ten thousand men.
Except for the eight men and women's flag soldiers, everyone else just tasted the milk tea and put it down. They couldn't get used to the milk flavor.
Of course, except for Locke and Luo Fei, the two of them, drank bowl after bowl, and then stopped after stretching their stomachs.
Seeing these people frowning, the ten thousand men smiled and said loudly, "I heard from my subordinates that your group brought thousands of kilograms of salt. I hope they will trade them all for us. Don't worry about the price. We will give the best price...
"As for other goods, I also hope you can trade with us, because we are the largest gathering place within a radius of thousands of miles. Although the prices of other goods may be low, we have enough goods here to fully meet your needs. I wonder what your group wants?"
Hearing this, Zhao Hu hesitated for a moment, "Since there are some goods that are inconvenient to decide, please wait a moment, sir."
Then, Deo and five logistics commanders were pulled out of the camp, while the others continued to stay where they were.
Chief Wanfu knew that ordinary business groups would not do business with a maid flag, and maybe some goods had been booked long ago, so he was not surprised that Zhao Hu needed to discuss it, but just shouted when Zhao Hu left.
"There is no problem with the price, and I will definitely give you the best price!"
After leaving the tent, the servants immediately surrounded Zhao Hu and warned him. Zhao Hu asked several people in charge of logistics.
"What should we do? What should we sell?"
Unexpectedly, in order to obtain arrows and maps, he actually wanted to play a guest role as a businessman, and all the five logistics commanders focused on Deo.
Deo is more like a logistics officer than a personal guard. He has left all the logistics affairs of the brigade to manage. Only he knows which ones can be sold and which ones cannot be sold in the batch of goods he brought.
"Sir, we are now stocking 108 packs of salt, 2,500 machetes, 1,500 iron spears, 1,300 sabers, 720 strong bows, and 1,100 ordinary bows. Why just leave a fraction of them for later use, and sell them all, right?"
Originally, a brigade did not have so much inventory, but Zhao Hu was worried about the invasion of the Muqi Banner, so he replaced the excess money department with weapons in the market. In addition, the previous seized became so much.
Zhao Hu and the five sergeant commanders were all shocked. This was almost equivalent to clearing the inventory of the entire brigade. Seeing everyone's solemn expressions, Dio didn't care.
"It doesn't matter, there are hundreds of machetes and hundreds of bows, which are enough for us to use for a long time. And if we don't make such a big bet, we may not be able to supplement the map and arrows at all.
"Also, this will also reduce the load on our carriage and let you run away easily."
Now that I have come to a thousand people, the remaining weapons must be enough to replace them. Moreover, nearly a thousand people use bows and arrows, the demand for arrows is very high. In this prairie, if you want to obtain the supply of arrows, only these large markets can have them.
After passing this village, there is no such store. No one knows when the next battle will break out. You must know that the number of arrows determines life and death.
Also, after reducing so much weight, it is indeed faster to escape. Thinking of this, Zhao Hu agreed.
What goods to change?
Now is the time to run away. Besides horses that are conducive to speeding up the escape, what else can I change?
"We can't sell so much salt, we need at least twenty packs to keep the bottom!"
A sergeant reminded.
Zhao Hu asked, "How long can these twenty packs last?"
In this prairie, you are not afraid of having no food or drink, but you are afraid of having no salt. This is a very important thing.
"It's enough for us to spend a year or two." The sergeant thought for a while and replied.
"Okay, leave twenty-eight packets of salt, sell the others, and sell the strong bows for 500 pieces." Zhao Hu concluded.
It is better to have a strong bow with a sharp weapon at the far end, or to keep more and spare. Some of the weapons inside are weapons, especially strong bows, which are strictly prohibited from leaking out of the army.
Zhao Hu and the others did not realize that their behavior was privately sold weapons and was a serious crime.
Back at the tent, Zhao Hu pointed at Deo and introduced it to Captain Wanfu.
"This is Dio, the manager of our business group. Let him introduce the goods we brought to the adults."
Deo saluted.
"Mr. Wanfu, although we brought nearly a hundred carriages, since this time was a tentative commercial activity, we didn't bring much supplies, only eighty packs of refined salt, two thousand exquisite machetes, one thousand full iron spears, one thousand sabers, five hundred strong bows, and one thousand ordinary bows. It's a pity that there are no arrows."
Hearing this, the captain Jingxiong Wanfu looked surprised, and the captains and logistics soldiers who knew about the inventory changed their faces. Sun Jie couldn't help but pull Ladeo's sleeves. However, seeing Zhao Hu and several logistics commanders' expressions as usual, they understood that this was a decision after discussion, so they felt relieved.
They did not pay attention to the fact that privately selling weapons is wrong, but even if someone asks for guilt, he will shirk responsibility by saying "it is robbed by the enemy."
"Haha, it doesn't matter if there are no arrows. We can't bear to use those arrows from metal poles..."
Before the long story was over, a document came up to mutter, and he immediately changed his words, "... Since we all have the intention to trade, should we take a look at the goods?"
"No hurry, the price has not been negotiated yet. I wonder if I can tell us the price given by Guiqi?"
Deo smiled and the captain Wan thought for a moment and gave instructions to the documents beside him.
"Ask a few people to bring the comparison items."
Hearing this, he knew that the ten thousand men were not stupid and knew to use the comparison to determine the price. Sun Jie immediately became anxious and stood up and thought about something, but was pulled by Geralt beside him in time.
"What do you want to do? We cannot act casually when we are now!" Geralt whispered.
Sun Jie hurriedly replied in a low voice, "I want to remind Uncle Deo that we should first figure out the price of their original goods, otherwise if they quote casually, we will suffer a loss?"
Geralt looked angry, "Idiot! I really don't know what you think! He is the chief of ten thousand men, and he bids on behalf of the Jingzi Muqi!
"For the sake of Muqi's credibility, he would not deliberately falsely report the price. Otherwise, shouldn't the Jingzi Muqi still hang out on the grassland? Even an idiot would not do such a thing!"
Hearing this, Sun Jie was full of suspicion and reluctantly.
The clerk soon came back with a few guards and placed a spear, machete, saber, strong bow, and ordinary bow in the center of the tent, and a bowl of yellow coarse salt. The ten thousand men pointed at these things.
"Let's quote a horse. For ten long spears, one horse, the same is true for machetes and sabers. For two strong bows, one for five general bows, and one for fifty kilograms of salt, you can compare them to see if this price is satisfactory."
Zhao Hu signaled Deo, the logistics commander, Geralt, Sun Jie and others immediately walked up to check the weapons. When they saw it, everyone laughed.
Deo looked up, "Sir, if our goods are better than these, then how do you calculate the price?"
The eyes of the ten thousand men lit up: "Every high-quality level, the price will double!"
Deo turned to Zhao Hu with satisfaction, and said, "Sir, let's go and pull the goods over now?"
Zhao Hutou, Deo immediately took half of the person away.
There is no way, you need to use these unmarked horses to pull the carriage.
Zhao Hu and others had a chat with Jingxiong and Captain Wan, who looked envious, "...You are so good at Free Alliance, the wind is sunny, and we are in trouble here. Although the spring is bright these days, we all know that the weather in early spring changes, and the sky is clear in the morning, and the snow is falling all over the sky in the afternoon... Did the manager Dio come back?
“…… Let me tell you that once it starts to snow, it will be endless and it will not stop for the next month and a half!
"Oh, then, the people in the gathering place are fine, and the food and grass will be ready for a long time. Those who leave the gathering place will be miserable, and a large number of people will be frozen to death every year.
"Not to mention those livestock... By the way, has the manager Deo not come back yet?
"...You are here just right. If you only came in the evening when it was snowing heavily in the snow a month later, the heavy snow would bury you!
"Haha, don't worry, it won't snow during this period of ten days and half a month, which is enough for you to leave the grassland, or you might as well wait for the heavy snow to pass by us?
"We grassland people are very hospitable! The lamb and milk tea are infinitely welcomed... people come! They go to the gate of the gathering place to guard, and only come back after receiving the manager Deo."
Zhao Hu could understand that Jingxiong Wanhuochang was impatient when he asked whether the carriage had arrived from time to time.
Chapter completed!