It was already late at night, but on the second floor of the backyard of a store in the east area of Savile Town, President Hans and others who had just left Derrick Manor gathered together again.
After dismissing the servants who came to bring some food and drink, President Hans closed the doors and windows himself, and the three of them sat around a flickering candle.
Looking at the floating flames, the three of them seemed to see their future destiny. After a long time, President Massa of the Slavin Chamber of Commerce suddenly said: "You two, do we really want to tie all our wealth to the Daxia collar that doesn't even have a single citizen?"
"Then what else do you want? Compete with Derrick's several chambers of commerce in the Saville Territory?" President Fleck of the Shining Gold Chamber of Commerce shook his head and said disdainfully, as if he was mocking or self-deprecating.
"The Saville Territory has been developing for so many years. If it weren't for the orcs, it would have expanded abroad a long time ago. We chambers of commerce are neither as close as other people's cronies nor have the background strength of foreign chambers of commerce. If we participate rashly, we will only be eaten to our bones. Nothing left." President Fleck's words seemed to resonate with the other two presidents. President Hans slapped the table and said bitterly with a sense of resentment: "That's not bad. Even if there is no development, our lives will be better. It’s not a good time either. Some time ago, people from the Plantagenet Merchant Guild were caught for smuggling grain. It had nothing to do with me at first, but the tax officer still took an extra two hundred gold coins as an excuse. If I hadn’t mentioned that I knew Derrick Sir, it’s more than just these two hundred gold coins.”
"Two hundred gold coins?" The other two people also shook their heads. Two hundred gold coins were nothing to them, but this behavior of constantly deducting money made them feel uneasy. It would be okay if they completely leaned on Derrick.
But who can become a businessman without extraordinary ambition! If you are not desperate, who would be willing to submit to others!
If they could invest in a new territory, maybe they could become someone like Derrick! After all, they are mature businessmen. After each of the three complained, they began to discuss how to coordinate and allocate supplies. The three chambers of commerce were in different fields and could form a closer alliance to deal with possible risks.
...On the other side, somewhere in the Green Bead Forest, the elf Fenowita is sullen and angry with the family guards. He just arrived in the Green Bead Forest tonight, but he did not hear any good news from the family guards - humans Many great mages appeared in the territory, and there were great arcane masters behind them. The development plan of Savile Territory was a foregone conclusion; the members of the guard searched almost the entire Green Bead Forest, but did not find any clues about the Stardew Scepter, and when they could It is unlikely that any clues will be found in the foreseeable future.
Fenowita was fully thinking about finding the Stardew Scepter for his family, but in this situation, he felt that his arrival was superfluous.
"Why are you saying nothing? The clan leader has long been sure that the Stardew Scepter is in the Green Bead Forest. Even if it takes so many years to dig up every inch of the land, it should be found! Are you sure that you are really elves and not goblins?" Fenowita was so angry that even the goblins said such things. An elf in the guard with a slightly unruly face could no longer tolerate it and stood up to retort: "The clan leader will know whether we have good intentions or not. It's not your turn to come to us yet." , the patriarch’s order is for us to cooperate with you, let us see what you can do? Honorable Archmage Fenowita!” Although the last sentence is an honorific, the deliberately changed tone makes it full of ridicule. Meaning, when even a few Guard members repeated it again.
Fenowita's face was red with anger, and he wanted to teach them a lesson, but all the guard members in front of him were related to him, and the most unruly one was the son of his grandfather's father's brother.
In terms of seniority, Fenowita still calls him uncle! The furthest thing from the others was the husband of a distant aunt of his. If he really took action, there might be trouble in the family again!
It would be a grave sin to disturb the only high-level mage in the family, and even affect that person's time in the world.
"Hmph!" Fenowita took a deep breath, without looking at his uncle's annoying face, and directly ordered the captain,
"The search mission cannot stop. Tell me where you find any doubts, and I will go and check them myself."
"Yes!" The captain responded calmly. Although he was a close confidant of the clan leader, he did not have any special treatment for the clan leader's younger brother.
Hundreds of years of long life have long made him see through everything. What he pursues is just the family's prosperity. If Fenowita is not the most promising person in the family to become a high-level mage, he will not even pay attention to it. .
"By the way, the humans are also keeping an eye on it. I suspect -" Fenowita didn't come out with the rest of the words, but the captain who had been searching for the Stardew Scepter for these years understood the meaning behind it.
He nodded, pointed at an elf to leave for Fenowita to explain, and then left quietly with the other elves.
As soon as the guards left, Fenowita threw out a plump green seed, and then triggered the magic network.
In a short time, the seeds took root and sprouted, growing into an exquisite wooden house. He called to the remaining guard member,
"Come in."
"Yes." Then the two of them talked softly, and the wooden house isolated everything from the dark forest. ...Tower of Time.
After returning to his residence, Xia Duo immediately sat down at his desk, writing and drawing. Before taking a break, he had to make a simple list for territory development.
Such as the quantity and type of the first batch of personnel and materials, the number of people needed later, development steps, problems encountered in the process, the first profit point, etc.
Over the past few years, whenever Xia Duo had free time, he would consider these things, but he had never written down a plan on paper. He would have to discuss development matters with Mrs. Patty, and he would have to make all preparations.
It wasn't until late at night that Xia Duo went to rest. ...The first thing Xia Duo did the next morning was to check the development list from last night to see if there were any deficiencies, or to reconsider the ones that were found to be unrealistic.
After checking it roughly, he put it away and put it away. In the afternoon, Xia Duo put away the four magic scrolls he had made during his free time in the morning and hurriedly left the mage tower.
In order to rush for time, he just cast magic and summoned his mount when he went out. He arrived at Mrs. Patty's house in a hurry. Mrs. Zheng Patty and a steward from the Liaton Chamber of Commerce were already waiting for him.
As soon as he came over, Chateau asked: "Is that Leiden priest here?"
"I'll send someone to invite you right away." Mrs. Patty waved her hand, and the housekeeper who had been prepared left directly.
And Mrs. Patty continued: "Sir, this is Manager Arman of the Liaton Chamber of Commerce. He will follow up on the development of the Daxia Territory at any time."
"Yeah!" Shado nodded and noticed a stack of documents in Arman's hand, which looked like some accounts. He saw a crappy elf text at the top, which was exactly
"Daxia collar".
"What is that? Show it to me!" Xia Duo stretched out his hand. Arman did not dare to refuse. He glanced at Mrs. Patty first and saw that she had no reaction. He quickly handed the document to Sha Duo: "Sir, this is a development plan I made, and the purchased Part of the supply list." Sha Duo received it in his hand and took a closer look. The first page was the list of the 20 free people mentioned by Mrs. Patty yesterday.
"Settle-in allowance". It's not much. One person only needs 20 gold coins to change these 20 people from Savile subjects to Daxia subjects. Of course, the 20 people can't get these money, they are collected by Savile.
