Thunder Woller, the leader of the Woller tribe, tilted his huge wolf-shaped head and glanced at the three humans opposite. The two wolf eyes were full of doubts.
He does recognize President Leersa, because every once in a while, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce run by humans will bring in large quantities of things that the tribe urgently needs, such as salt, ironware, cloth, clothing, and other things that only humans can make. Come here to make a deal.
Although this human used these things in exchange for a large amount of precious furs and some rare medicinal materials that can only be found in the Black Rice Wasteland from the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland, when both parties agreed, this was considered a fair trade, so Most of the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland are relatively polite to President Leersa.
But this time, President Leersa not only came by himself, but also brought two strange humans.
What surprised the leader of the Woller tribe was that the obviously younger and thinner human among them actually said that he wanted to cooperate with the Woller tribe in doing business!
Doing business together
Humans and orcs
This is a joke!
All races on the continent are deeply affected by the cunning of human beings. The orcs are generally deceived because of their low IQ.
Therefore, in the concept of the orcs, humans are almost equal to liars.
And human businessmen are the liars among liars.
The reason why the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and other chambers of commerce were able to successfully do business with the orcs in the Black Rice Wasteland was because these chambers of commerce directly traded with the orcs with spot goods, and there was basically no room for deception.
Even so, many orcs have been deceived several times because of this, and human merchants exchanged some extremely inferior things for their tribe's treasured good things.
So after hearing Xu Yi say these words, Chief Woller immediately determined that Xu Yi was a big liar.
If he says he wants to do business with the Woller tribe, then the Woller chief can still try to believe it first, but if he talks about doing business together...
This is a joke!
For the sake of President Leersa, Chief Woller did not directly tell Xu Yi to get out, but looked like he was considering it. Then he waved his hand and said in a low voice: "We don't cooperate with humans. If you want to trade, show me the goods you want to trade first."
Because of President Leersa’s early warning. Xu Yi was not surprised by the cold reaction of Patriarch Woller. He smiled and continued: "Master Patriarch, please don't refuse in a hurry. Can you first listen to the specific cooperation plan?"
Chief Worrall exhaled two puffs of air from his nostrils impatiently. After thinking about it, he still suppressed the irritability in his heart and groaned: "What kind of cooperation plan? Isn't it just you humans trying every means to take advantage of us?" ?"
"If you still feel this way after hearing this plan... then I promise to leave immediately and promise not to bother you again. But before that, I still hope you can listen to this plan. In fact, this plan is very beneficial to your tribe. It's good." Xu Yi still kept smiling.
"Clan Chief Woller, please allow me to say a few words." President Leersa suddenly said. "President Xu has a very good reputation in our city of Bangta, and the human businessmen who have cooperated with him have benefited greatly from it, so you don't have to worry about him lying to you. In addition, I want to tell you something. If you listen, What will definitely come as a surprise is that in addition to us human workers, the New Flying Chamber of Commerce opened by President Xu now also employs more than a thousand dwarf and elven workers."
"Dwarves and elves?" Chief Worrall's eyes widened, his round eyes full of disbelief. "How is this possible! I can imagine that the dwarves will work in your human chamber of commerce, but how can those guys from the elves put down their pretense and run to work for you, a human? I don't believe it!"
"If you don't believe it, there are eleven elven workers from our chamber of commerce waiting outside right now. I can call them in and let you verify it yourself." Xu Yidao.
Chief Worler narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Yi, thinking for a moment. Shaking his head: "Forget it, I don't like to see those guys who have a bad face all day long. Well, President Xu, since it has come to this point, please tell me about your so-called cooperation plan."
Seeing that President Worrell was finally impressed, Xu Yi breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately explained his plan to him in detail.
According to Xu Yi's plan, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce plans to first open a mine in the Woller tribe to mine non-ferrous metal veins near the Woller tribe.
And because transporting the ore directly from here consumes too much transportation capacity, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce plans to simply build a non-ferrous metal smelting factory directly here.
In addition, the residue produced by the non-ferrous metal smelting plant is suitable for making cement, so another cement plant will be built.
And we want the non-ferrous metals smelted here to be successfully transported out. The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will cooperate with the Recton Chamber of Commerce and the Cruz Chamber of Commerce to build a road from Bonta City to the small town of Samara.
After that, a narrower road will be built connecting the town of Samara and the Voler tribe. Whether other roads will be built will depend on the situation.
So based on this calculation, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will invest in the construction of a mine, two factories, and roads in the Woller tribe alone. It can be said that the investment is huge.
"But what benefits can our tribe get? What do you want to cooperate with us?" After listening to Xu Yi's story, Chief Woller groaned. "Human, I'm warning you, since this mine you are talking about is on the territory of our Woller tribe, we should have the final say, but you can't do whatever you want. Now that I know that there is such a thing Good thing, if you can’t satisfy me, then don’t expect me to cooperate with you.”
"Of course I understand that." Xu Yi smiled slightly, thinking that if you can take the initiative to say the word cooperation, it proves that you are tempted. "Chief Woller, I understand that this non-ferrous metal mine is on your tribe's territory, so I made a special trip to buy this mine from you."
"Do you want to buy the entire mine?" Chief Woller narrowed his eyes, with a rare cunning look in his eyes. "Okay, human, how much do you plan to pay? I heard that it costs a lot of money for you humans to buy an iron mine."
"Yes, an iron mine can indeed be sold for a lot of money among us humans, but Chief Woller, the mine I want to buy this time is not an iron ore. It only produces various non-ferrous metals. This kind of thing is very popular in our human society. It is used very little and cannot be sold for much, so of course I cannot give the same price as the iron ore." Xu Yi said with a well-placed wry smile.
Chief Worrall thought for a while, thinking about the human society he knew. It is true that metals other than iron are rarely used. It seems that the human named Xu Yi did not lie to him.
"Even if it can't sell for the same price as iron ore, it can't be too cheap. Tell me, how much do you plan to pay?" Chief Woller asked again.
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile, thinking that the leader of the Woller clan might be truly moved.
Who said that the orcs are all blind, at least the werewolf leader in front of him is definitely greedy for money.
Xu Yi looked at President Leersa and President Cruz, who nodded to him, indicating that it was up to him to decide.
Xu Yi nodded to express his understanding and extended a slap to Chief Woller.
"Fifty thousand gold coins."
For a moment, Xu Yi seemed to see countless little stars in the eyes of the two wolves of the Woller clan leader.
# # #
Four days later. Xu Yi, President Cruz and Steele returned to Bangta City first.
Yanis stayed in the Black Rice Wasteland with ten other elves.
According to Xu Yi's request, they need to explore the terrain of the Black Rice Wasteland and draw a complete and clear map of the Black Rice Wasteland.
In addition to examining how to control the desertification problem in the Black Rice Wasteland, their most important task is to determine the distribution of all the orc tribes in the Black Rice Wasteland.
According to Xu Yi's plan, cooperation with the Woller tribe is only the first step for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to enter the Black Rice Wasteland.
Based on the information he has in hand. The Black Rice Wasteland is far more than just the non-ferrous metal vein near the Woller tribe.
In fact, the underground minerals of the Black Rice Wasteland are extremely rich. According to preliminary estimates, they even exceed the non-ferrous metal reserves of all other places in the Lampali Kingdom combined.
As for why Xu Yi knows so clearly...
That's because the five dwarves who were hired by Xu Yi last year and sent out to explore the mineral veins in various places in the Lampali Kingdom finally came back.
During this one-year exploration, the five dwarves were divided into five directions and conducted detailed explorations in various parts of the Lampali Kingdom. One of the dwarves named Ramfu explored westward and brought the black rice to the west. Traveled all over the wasteland.
have to say. The dwarves do have extremely high talents in this area.
During this year, these five dwarves had a clear grasp of almost every inch of land in the Lampali Kingdom, and knew the underground mineral veins everywhere.
When Xu Yi asked them to go out for exploration, he mainly asked them to be responsible for exploring the distribution of iron ore.
But after the dwarves went out, they discovered that most of the iron ore deposits in the kingdom had actually been explored, and more than half of them were already under exploration. So the five dwarves turned their attention to the various non-ferrous metals Xu Yi mentioned. On the vein.
conclusion reached later. It is the Black Rice Wasteland that contains a huge amount of non-ferrous metal veins.
Xu Yi even discovered the presence of some rare earth elements in some of the ore specimens brought back by Ramfu!
It happened that a hidden danger was discovered in the Sandy River, and the geological environment of the Black Rice Wasteland in the upper reaches of the Sandy River had to be controlled. So Xu Yi simply took this opportunity to come to the Black Rice Wasteland to seek cooperation with the orcs.
Other humans may have psychological barriers to cooperating with other races. Xu Yi doesn't know it at all.
The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce currently has many dwarfs and an equally large number of elves as employees. If there are more orcs, it actually means nothing.
Of course, at present, this cooperation can only be in an extremely preliminary stage.
The group of people stayed in the Woller tribe for two days, but the head of the Woller tribe insisted that there was no need to talk if there was no money.
So Xu Yi and others could only give up temporarily and return to Bangta City to discuss the next step.
It costs about 300,000 gold coins to build the road from Bangta City to Samara Town. The road from Samara Town to the Woller Tribe is tentatively narrower, and the road is only about ten kilometers long. kilometers, so it only costs 20,000 gold coins.
In addition to the five hundred thousand gold coins spent to purchase the mine, as well as some initial investments, Xu Yi, President Cruz and President Relsa decided to invest a total of one million gold coins.
Because this matter was mainly led by Xu Yi, and because both President Cruz and President Relsa were not very clear about the prospects of non-ferrous metals, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce finally invested 600,000 gold coins and took 60% of the shares of the mine. , while the Amri Chamber of Commerce invested 300,000 gold coins, occupying 30% of the shares, and finally the Renekton Chamber of Commerce invested 100,000 gold coins, occupying only 10% of the shares.
As for the income from road tolls, it is also arranged according to this shareholding arrangement.
And this is only a division of interests in mine production, while the non-ferrous metal smelting plant and cement plant are all funded and constructed solely by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but the Armli Chamber of Commerce and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce have no share.
In fact, Chairman Cruise once asked to also invest in non-ferrous metal smelting plants and cement plants, but Xu Yi refused.
Because these two factories involve the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce’s unique technology, if they cooperate with the Amri Chamber of Commerce, it will inevitably be leaked.
President Cruise naturally understood this, so after Xu Yi rejected his request, he did not continue to pester.
Since he and Chairman Cruise had already discussed the next matters that needed to be handled jointly by both parties on the road, after the carriage entered Bangta City, Xu Yi refused Chairman Cruise's invitation to have dinner with Steele. demanded, and hurried back to Steele's home with Steele.
Because as soon as they entered the city, they received shocking news.
The great magician Camilla suddenly announced the closure of the magician tower!