Two days later, Xu Yi, Steele, Yanis, and the ten elves selected before appeared in a small town outside the Black Rice Wasteland.
This small town named Zamora is also built on the Sandy River and is the closest human town to the Black Rice Plateau.
Although humans now rule almost the entire continent of Sainz, other races have not completely disappeared, and among them, the orcs have retained the strongest strength.
Although it is unlikely to pose any threat to human forces, it can still control a land of its own.
Of course, the Black Rice Wasteland is of little value to the humans on Sainz Continent, because this wasteland is really a wasteland. There is not even a piece of land that can be cultivated. No human country will come here with nothing to do. The orcs compete for such a barren land.
Although the orcs do not know magic, most of them are physically strong and have extremely strong individual combat capabilities. If they really want to seize the orcs' living space and force the orcs and humans to fight hard, the losses will definitely be considerable.
Of course no human would do such a loss-making business.
As soon as Xu Yi and others entered this small town with only two streets in total and less than 200 meters from east to west, President Cruz of the Amley Chamber of Commerce and Lei from the Renekton Chamber of Commerce were already waiting here. President Jesus discovered them and immediately came to greet them.
"Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long." Xu Yi's apology was of course mainly addressed to President Leersa.
President Relsa has a strong build and a smile that sounds like the ringing of a bell, very heroic.
"Haha, it's nothing. We have just arrived and are organizing the fleet. We will prepare to set off together when you, President Xu, arrive." President Leersa nodded to Steele beside Xu Yi, and then his eyes fell on Xu Yi. Yanis and the other ten elves behind her frowned slightly. "President Xu, are these elves going too?"
If we say that we have seen the most elves in Bangta City. Before Xu Yi, it was definitely President Leersa.
Because the Renekton Chamber of Commerce has been doing business with the orc tribe in the Black Rice Wasteland, President Leersa often comes to the Black Rice Wasteland and even becomes a guest of the orc tribe. In the orc tribe, I have seen the elves several times.
But because of this, he knows better than anyone else that the relationship between the orcs and elves is very bad.
Even if they don't start fighting as soon as they meet, sparks will definitely fly and they won't be able to communicate normally at all.
When Xu Yi told him that he wanted to go with his caravan to the orc tribe in the Black Rice Wasteland, he didn't pay much attention and readily agreed.
Now he found out that Xu Yi actually wanted to take the elves with him, which was very problematic.
Xu Yi naturally saw President Leersa's concerns and said with a smile: "President Leersa, please don't worry. When they reach the territory of the orc tribe, these elves will temporarily use the invisible technique to become invisible unless necessary. It won’t happen.”
"That's okay."
President Leersa nodded and couldn't help but look at Xu Yi one more time, with some surprise in his eyes.
This is President Xu. He was actually able to get eleven elves to be his bodyguards. As expected, he had a special relationship with the elven tribe in the Forest of Falling Rain, just as the rumors said.
He didn't know that he had simply misunderstood.
After President Leersa and Xu Yi finished their conversation, President Cruz walked over and complained to Xu Yi: "I told you, President Xu, there is no road from Bangta City to here. Running here will make me tired. If you ask me to come all the way, I won't do it."
Xu Yi laughed: "You're right, I asked you to come with us just to see how this road connecting Bangta City and Heimi Wasteland should be built."
As soon as he finished speaking, President Cruz, President Relsa and Steele looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes.
"President Xu, are you kidding me?" President Cruise couldn't help shouting. "What can we do by building such a road? Will it make it easier for the orcs to run into our human territory and mess around?"
Xu Yi sighed. Shaking his head slightly: "President Cruise, you have been working with me for so long, don't you still know that I will never do anything that is not beneficial?"
President Cruise frowned and looked at Xu Yi doubtfully: "I know there is no benefit to you if you don't do anything. But why can't I see the benefit of building this highway?"
Xu Yi raised his head and looked at the sky: "I'll talk to you in detail on the way."
The Renekton Chamber of Commerce's fleet is huge, with a total of thirteen cargo carriages. Judging from the mountains of goods on these carriages, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce may be doing more than just doing business with an orc tribe. .
The relationship between the orcs and humans cannot be said to be very harmonious. If such a caravan walks rashly in the territory of the orcs, the possibility of encountering it will be extremely high.
Therefore, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce was different from most of the chambers of commerce in Bangta City. It established a chamber of commerce guard specifically for this purpose and hired a group of mercenaries to guard the convoy.
After Xu Yi got on the carriage, he glanced out the window at the mercenaries guarding both sides of the convoy, and couldn't help but admire: "Just from the appearance, you can tell that each of these guards are veteran warriors who have experienced hundreds of battles. President Leersa, if your chamber of commerce’s escorts are pulled out, they will probably be no worse than the Kingdom’s regular army.”
President Leersa showed a proud smile and said: "Actually, these guards are all veterans who have retired from the Kingdom's army. Each guard has extremely rich combat experience. I dare say that as long as they are equipped with the same equipment as the Kingdom's army, With their equipment, one of their squads can definitely destroy two squads of the Kingdom’s army.”
"No wonder your Chamber of Commerce has been doing business in the Black Rice Wasteland for so long and has never had any problems." Xu Yi admired.
"It must be a lie if there has never been a problem." President Leersa said with a smile. "There are hundreds of orc tribes, large and small, in the Black Rice Wasteland. Although our Chamber of Commerce has opened up relationships with most of the orc tribes, there are still some short-sighted orcs who will come to our door. We also It's not always possible to stop it. Just four months ago, a convoy coming here was robbed by an unknown orc tribe. Fortunately, the orcs were smart enough and only robbed the goods without causing any harm. People, otherwise our losses will be huge."
"Only grabbing goods, not hurting anyone?" Xu Yi was a little surprised. "Do orcs actually know the rules so well?"
"How dare they not understand?" President Leersa snorted coldly: "In the beginning, these orcs would hurt or even kill people when robbing, but every time something like this happens, I will Ask the kingdom's troops stationed here to carry out bloodbaths against the orc tribes that robbed them. After doing so many times, these orcs will understand the rules and will only target the goods, even if they sometimes do so. If they take people away, they will only ask for a ransom. If they really want to kill them, they are not that bold. "
Xu Yi was even more surprised: "Since you don't dare to kill them, then don't you need to pay them a ransom?"
"Well..." President Leersa laughed dryly. "This can be regarded as a rule. As long as the orcs don't kill people casually, the kingdom's army will not take action casually. If we don't pay the ransom, although the orcs will not kill people, they will not let them go. You let the guys from the Chamber of Commerce join the orc tribe. After being locked up for so long, I’m afraid it will be useless even if he is rescued.”
Xu Yi thought for a while and asked: "In other words, this rule is not only for the orcs, but also for you?"
"Well, that's more or less it. Now the human caravans doing business with the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland will abide by this default rule. Anyway, we make a lot of money doing business with the orcs, and occasionally we can make some blood. It’s nothing.”
Xu Yi couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that the rules tacitly accepted by the orcs and human caravans were really full of barbarism and backwardness. No wonder the monsters and humans are still looked down upon by humans and other races, because their civilization level is too low. for the sake of.
Just when Xu Yi was about to reconsider his strategy for negotiating with the orc tribe after arriving at them, President Cruise came over.
"President Xu, can you tell me now what are the benefits of building a road connecting Bangta City and Heimi Wasteland?"
Xu Yi glanced at him and pointed at President Leersa: "If nothing else, at least it will be good for President Leersa."
"Of course." President Leersa laughed. "If there is a road, our caravans can go back and forth with less effort. President Cruz, in fact, even if President Xu didn't say it, I have already been considering whether to ask you to build this for our Chamber of Commerce. It doesn’t have to be a long road. It only needs to be built to the town of Samara.”
"Isn't that far?" President Cruz glared. "It's only close to a hundred kilometers from Bangta City to Samara Town, right? Even if it's only built as wide as the Luoyu Highway, it will cost at least close to 300,000 gold coins. Are you willing to pay so much?"
"Three hundred thousand gold coins... it's not that much. If you build a toll station, you won't lose much even if you can't recoup the capital." President Leersa thought for a moment and suddenly slapped his thigh hard. "Okay, it's settled! President Cruz, when I return to Bangta City, I will discuss with you how to build this road. What do you think?"
President Cruz and Xu Yi were both stunned. Originally, Xu Yi came to President Cruz to discuss how to build the road, but now it was President Relsa who suddenly decided to build the road
Xu Yi thought for a while and said with a smile: "President Leersa, it is a good thing that you can realize the benefits of building roads. But when I talk about building roads, they need to lead directly to the Heimi Wasteland. Just build them." It’s not enough to go to the small town of Samara.”
This time, President Cruz and President Relsa looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
This guy actually wants to build the road right in front of the orcs' home
He is crazy!