"Lord God! This thing of yours is good... indeed... a good thing!..."
The setting sun is setting, and the birds are flying far away. The battalion was cooking at the inn, and smoke rose from the kitchen. In a corner around the inn, Woodpecker Aipei rubbed his forehead with a wry smile on his face.
"that is…"
"What is it?"
"It's just a little too good...I'm afraid I can't grasp it..."
Hearing this, the red-haired leader Mikui's eyes flashed. He narrowed his eyes again and grinned like a wolf.
"It's so strange! There are people who dislike things... You guys, if you don't buy it, we will sell it to others!...Don't say we didn't give you a chance!!"
"Ah! Sell it to others...Ah! Don't!..."
Hearing this, Woodpecker Aipei trembled in his heart, as if he was about to lose something vital. He shouted quickly without even hearing the hidden threat from the red-haired leader.
"No! I want it! They are mine! Mine! I buy them!!"
"Haha! I told you earlier! You have to spend so much effort and go round and round... Your southern tribe is just not as happy as our wilderness tribe!..."
Hearing Aipei's promise, the red-haired leader Mikui also breathed a sigh of relief. If he could make a happy transaction, he didn't want to mess around in the kingdom. Apart from anything else, there are so many tribal flag corps in this area! If some battalion commander of a noble military figure is killed here, and the kingdom really pursues it and investigates it to the end...you can't escape with the flag team, right? There's no way to escape that, no one wants to!
"Praise the Lord God! In the past few years, we have been following the powerful Chief of Death and the brave Chief of Black Wolf, and everyone has lived a better life than ever before! ... We can eat every meal, and there is plenty of food in the house. Store food, don’t worry about cold waves and spring famines... live in wooden houses, everyone has a mother-in-law, and give birth to a lot of babies... After the war, there are so many mountain products to sell, the good times have just begun!..."
Thinking of this, the red-haired leader Mikui looked at the woodpecker Ape, smiled honestly, and asked kindly.
"Okay! If you are willing to buy mountain goods, you are a brother of the tribe! ...Brother, how many pieces of these top-notch expensive goods do you want to buy? And how many baskets of ordinary gold, silver, sacrificial vessels, etc. do you want to buy?! "
"Ah! Sacred sacrificial vessels, sold by baskets..."
Woodpecker Aipai pursed his lips, his mouth was quite dry. He took a deep breath, but he couldn't help but shine with greed in his eyes. Among all the people here, he is probably the only one who knows how much these sacred sacrificial vessels from city-state temples are worth!
"In the eyes of knowledgeable people, that is a priceless treasure! Ah! I am actually here today, able to own these inherited treasures!..."
The woodpecker gritted his teeth, first stretched out a palm, and then couldn't help but clenched it into a fist.
"I want five of these top-notch expensive goods! No, that's not right! I want them all! ... As for the ordinary mountain goods, I want to see them in person! Select several baskets of them one by one! ..."
"Hey! What did you say? You want them all?!"
Hearing this, the red-haired leader Mikui looked surprised. He looked carefully at the brightly dressed "turkey" again, and his eyes shone with a simple and greedy light.
"Witness the Lord God! Brother, you know, these are all good things. Although the price is fair, they are not cheap! Especially if there are so many, can you eat them? We don't want to take credit..."
"Uh... Just tell me how to change it, and you can charge whatever you want!..."
"What to collect? Then we have to collect a lot of things! There are so many flag teams, tens of thousands of people! There is a lot of missing things..."
As he spoke, the red-haired leader Mikui cleared his throat vigorously and recited loudly.
"Large items, used in the village, various pottery for water and things, stone utensils for processing grains, wooden utensils for home use, various farm tools for farming, metal axes for felling trees, and stone tools for making things. , bronze, iron tools... We all want all of these, at a higher price!"
"Medium items, things for food and clothing, that is, cloth, clothes, cocoa beans, bacon, smoked fish, grains, oil, salt... These are all priced at the regular market price, and you need more! In fact, we don't I am happy to go to the market to buy and sell. They all know that we are simple and honest, always buy at lower prices and sell at higher prices, and even sell bad ones... It makes me angry when I say this! We have killed several evil-hearted businessmen..."
"Oh, I'm going too far! There are also small items. Expensive goods can be exchanged for expensive goods. We can't figure out the price of these things, so we are generally not willing to accept them. But the gems in the lake can be collected, and they can be sold everywhere, and they can also be purchased at It is used in places where the legion fights! However, the price we charge is not high, because the price of gems in the lake has been falling in the past two years. Some people say that this is made by the great chief's magic power, and it can turn stones into gems... "
"By the way! I remembered it again! In the wilderness, the tribe only processed furs, made bacon, and built sheds. As for farming now, priests come to teach us, and we are also learning. And these people make things, weave, etc. It’s really not easy to build a house with cloth!… It would be even better if you could get a craftsman to teach us!”
The red-haired leader Mikui talked a lot. Judging from his proficiency, it was obvious that he had thought about it for a long time and memorized it carefully. He didn't know if anyone taught him.
"Lord God! These tribal flag teams actually have so many things they need? Hmm... It seems that our military estates in Gyeonggi Province can provide most of them... There are also carpenters and stonemasons in many estates, and they all make things by themselves..."
The woodpecker Apei sat on the ground, his eyes flashing, thinking quickly. Perhaps it was the wisdom and blessing that sitting among the "artifacts" brought him. He suddenly felt keenly that the huge demand of these tribal flag corps, large quantities of tools, grains, and cloth, could be perfectly matched with the output of the Gyeonggi Military Manor! The biggest shortcoming was originally the flag team's lack of currency, but now it can be made up with these "expensive" "mountain goods"!
"Lord God! I also saw the newly settled tribal flag team yesterday. The village was poor and lacked almost everything. As for these Guakili flag teams that have been fighting for several years, although the appearance of the village is much better, But I’m afraid there will only be more things that need to be added!”
"Because, with wooden houses, food storage, and new children...these dog tribes no longer just want to eat enough to survive, but also want to live a good life!...Ah! Isn't this the case? The question I was thinking about before, how can the tribal flag team be turned into a village for the people? It turns out that the solution is here, we have to let them live a good life!..."
"Witness the Lord God! I am truly a born wise man! Why didn't I become a priest in the first place? It was such a waste! It was a waste of my wisdom and also a waste of these precious heritage sacrificial vessels...my sacrificial vessels..."
Thinking of this, the woodpecker Aipei felt sorry for himself for a while. Then, he became energetic again, with a look of anticipation on his face.
"Tsk tsk! These canine tribes don't know the value of these mountain products, but I know it, and the military nobles in Gyeonggi Province will also know it! Each family is newly promoted, and many of them are civilian warriors, and there is no inheritance at all. Ancient relics. But you don’t have any in hand, but you have seen them with your eyes, seen the behavior of those great nobles, and seen various ancient sacrificial utensils, and you don’t know how envious you are all the time..."
"And now, hasn't the opportunity come? Compared with these ancient sacrificial vessels from the Holy City of Cholula and the four Snake Cities, what are those in the hands of ordinary nobles?! I'm afraid even the ones from the capital city of Union Lake are nothing All the great nobles will be greedy for it! Haha!..."
"In that case! Then I will collect mountain products from here and sell them to the capital; then I will collect grain, cloth, and tools from the capital and sell them here...the rewards, the profits, the status and the face!...My Lord God!"
The woodpecker was lost in thought for a long time, and its face suddenly changed. He only discovered today that there is such a huge and complementary demand between the plundering tribal flag troops and the military nobles who farm! And as long as he grasps the channel of this transaction and connects both parties...
"Who can handle such a big thing?... Oh! No! I have to come back from the Western Expedition soon and handle this big thing myself! As for now..."
The woodpecker Aipai raised his head and saw the red-haired leader Mikui squinting his eyes and looking down at him. The red-haired hunters surrounding him also gathered around, like a group of hyenas sizing up their prey.
"Friend, did you listen to what I said carefully? You are sincere and want to trade, right?"
"The Lord God witnesses! Sure! Of course!!"
The woodpecker reached out and grabbed the red-haired leader's arm. He was so hard that the other person's eyebrows jumped.
"I don't just want to trade with you once, I want to trade with you many times! Since the Lord God has blessed me and allowed me to meet you, I have to do something big!..."
"Huh? What a big deal?!"
Hearing this, the red-haired leader Mi Kui was startled, with a knowing and simple smile on his face.
"Okay! That's great! That brother, you are so smart! You already guessed it before I even said it!..."
"That's right! You want these top-notch expensive goods today. We give them to you and take them away! And we also want to get some useful goods from you... In this case, what is that called? , Oh! The dung beetles are rolling balls of dung, they want to stink together... Oh no, that's what it means anyway!...Let everyone feel at ease!..."
"Lord God! What? Rolling balls of dung together? Let's stink together?"
Hearing this, the woodpecker Aipai blinked his eyes, and an ominous premonition suddenly appeared in his heart. He looked around and saw that his bodyguard seemed a little far away. And within three steps of him, there were actually seven or eight fierce red-haired hunters surrounding him, all wearing leather armor and holding their hands on copper axes.
"Huh? You...the big deal you're talking about...what do you want to exchange these sacrificial vessels for? Be clear..."
"Ah! Didn't I make it clear just now? I thought you understood?"
The red-haired leader Mikui scratched his head in confusion, subconsciously holding down the sharp copper ax on his waist and patting it hard.
"Of course you have it now, in your camp, on the backs of civilians...the official military goods of the kingdom!..."
(End of chapter)
