The iron tools, bronze tools, stone tools, artillery, ballistae and other items from the Divine Envoy King's army will definitely be in demand. The bellicose ants will not let go of any means to improve their combat effectiveness, but among these things, except for the stone tools that have fallen behind, the protagonist Don't even want to take it out.
The pottery is a product of the Black Fire Ant Clan, which is the descendant of the Vulcan God. Taking it out will make people wonder whether the Divine Envoy King's legion has the inheritance of two gods, which will only attract the attention of the ants. You must know that the only inheritance of the two gods in this region is the oldest bullet ant clan. As a new member of the alliance, the protagonist does not want to attract attention.
The protagonist pondered for a while and proposed that the Divine Envoy King's Army could provide food such as honeydew, crow honey, fermented drinks, mealworm dried meat and grass seeds, cloth, ropes, felts, stone tools, and hematite powder as trade goods.
When reporting the list of these trade goods, he was also worried that these items were crude and shabby, as they seemed to have no technical skills. Only to find that the representatives were silent.
After a long while, the Bullet Ant female representative expressed with envy that the products of the Divine Envoy King's legion were really rich!
After inquiring, the protagonist discovered that most of the products provided by the ant tribe were basically concentrated in two categories: food and domesticated insects and beasts. The only products with technical content were very crude and primitive.
In fact, there is no shortage of food for all ant tribes. A real shortage would be a disaster for the entire ant tribe. However, the types of food produced by each ant clan are different and can be exchanged. It is mainly used to improve the taste of high-status ants.
The ant representatives were very interested in the honeydew and crow honey provided by the Angel King's army. After all, even the well-informed leaf-cutter ants highly praised it.
Only the honeypot ants were not happy and questioned, thinking that their nectar could not be as delicious as theirs.
The protagonist immediately said that he had brought some sweet drinks. After getting permission, he asked the leaf-cutting ant workers to help bring it. Each representative was given a small pottery cup of diluted honeydew and a cup of diluted crow honey.
While other ant representatives were tasting the sweet water, the protagonist was rubbing the ceramic cup in his hand with his tentacles.
This pottery cup was traded by the leaf-cutter ant tribe from the black fire ant tribe. It is quite rough. Not only is the shape crooked and irregular, the surface is also very rough. You can even see large grains of gravel mixed in the clay. It is not as good as The pottery making skills of the Legion of God's Envoy are exquisite.
Even other ant tribes do not have such rough pottery. Most of them usually use natural things, such as snail shells and nut shells as containers. There are only some small containers that can only be made of pottery, which must be obtained through trade.
At this time, the representatives were already holding pottery cups, placing them in front of their jaws, and drank the sweet water from the two cups like gluttons. The representatives unanimously praised it, and even the Honeypot Ant representative couldn't say anything.
In the past, this kind of sweet water product was monopolized by the Honey Pot Ant Clan. The product they provided was nectar, which had been refined. However, when you drink it, it doesn’t taste too sweet once you mix it with water. Moreover, due to the different types of mixed nectar, each product has a different taste. The taste quality is not fixed at any one time.
For sweet-loving ants, the highly sweet honeydew of aphids and addictive crow honey are of stable quality and taste better than the nectar traded by honeypot ants.
No matter how dissatisfied the honeypot ant representatives are, trade is a matter of mutual consent. Many ant representatives asked how to exchange their own products.
The protagonist looked at the products of various ethnic groups one by one and felt that he was a genius salesman, so he opened up the trade situation immediately.
He was first interested in the giant dragonflies provided by the Maolin ant tribe and the migratory locusts provided by the bullet ant tribe. Both of these insects can fly for a long time. The current trade system of the civilized ant tribe is mainly derived from these two ant tribes. As a transporter.
If other civilized ant tribes want to use the flying insects of these two tribes to transport goods, they have to pay some fees. For the Bullet Ant clan, which has a small territory, few products, and no special craftsmanship, using locusts to transport goods to earn some transportation money is their important income. Although the hairy forest ants are not so dependent on transportation fees, they do not refuse extra money.
That’s not to say that the mounts of other ant tribes cannot fly long distances, but each has its own shortcomings. For example, the star beetle must chew the tender bark and twigs of trees for food. It is difficult to find food if it flies outside the woods for a long time, plus it carries a heavy burden. Weight is also limited. The butterflies of the honeypot ant tribe can fly long distances, but they cannot withstand strong winds. In addition, their targets are obvious and they lack combat effectiveness, making them easy to be preyed upon by fierce insects.
Other ladybugs, flying termites, wasps, etc. also have their own shortcomings and are not suitable as long-distance transportation vehicles.
The protagonist is very interested in giant dragonflies and migratory locusts, and asks if he can trade their domestication technology. He also wants the domestication technology of other insects, but the price is not as high as the first two.
But representatives of the ant tribe refused one after another. They have a primitive sense of technological confidentiality. Moreover, some representatives also admitted that taming certain insects can only be done by ants of their own species.
Finally, the protagonist uses the exchange price of 20 snail shell honeydew or 10 snail shell crow honey to order 2 flying insects each from the Maolin ant tribe and the bullet ant tribe, and the other party will deliver them to [Xinyang City]. The protagonist also Informed all the tribes about the location of [New Yang City].
With 4 large-capacity flying insects, plus the included hairy forest ants and bullet ant worker ant handlers, the protagonist can form an air transport team, which makes him feel like he is making a lot of money.
The reason why he doesn't trade many flying insects is that on the one hand, the protagonist has to keep some supplies to trade for other commodities. On the other hand, he also wants to see if he can steal the technology of taming these two kinds of flying insects from the driver.
In addition to food and bugs, some ant tribes have unique handicrafts or resources, such as pottery made by black fire ants, fine salt from the Maolin ant tribe, ant silk ropes and nets from the leaf-cutter ant tribe, and flat-headed ants from Sangleri ants. The tribe has formic acid in a sealed container, and the tribe has herbs for preventing and treating ant mites, etc.
The various ant tribes are full of enthusiasm for almost all the products provided by the Angel King Army. They have never seen them before, and they seem to be very useful in the information package.
In addition to honeydew and crow honey, the third best-selling product is hematite powder, which the protagonist did not expect. It turns out that all tribes need to use these to draw talismans. It turns out that this is a major foreign trade product of the leaf-cutter ant tribe.
Finally, the protagonist and all the representatives reached a preliminary agreement on the transaction, which can be implemented as long as both parties go back and get approval from the highest authority.
The protagonist stated that he had no means of long-distance trading and requested that all transactions be made in [Xinyang City], with the Maolin Ant Tribe and Bullet Ant Tribe responsible for transportation. It's just that the buyer and seller each have to pay one-twelfth of the transportation fee.
The protagonist felt a little distressed by so many transportation fees, but he had his own deep-seated motives for insisting on trading in [Xinyang City].
Delegates were delighted with the many initial trade deals.
Only then did the Queen Leafcutter Ant announce the end of the meeting and invited the delegates to watch the insect-beast wrestling show.
