Take Taobao with you to another world

On the Great Plains of the Western Continent, a boat came from the Wyatt City River Port in the Land of Eternal Wood.

A large white ship from the west, it is said that it was built by the Alliance.

Many people who heard the news went to visit the pier.

For this city, which can be said to be the most prosperous city in the entire kingdom, it is not uncommon for a merchant ship to dock, no matter whether the ship belongs to the Hills Chamber of Commerce with the largest number of merchants, or the richest owner. The Ferguson Chamber of Commerce favored by Earl Malaki, or the Mercenary Chamber of Commerce that dares to do any business.One needn't be surprised.

What hasn't the Wyatts seen?

——Before those "Alliance people" appeared, they could still say this sentence confidently, but the situation is different now.

Because of the appearance of the Alliance, many things have changed.

Located at the prime location of the river and water network, Wyatt is a veritable city of money. As long as you have money, you can get anything you want in this city, whether it is goods, slaves, spells or noble titles.For people who have lived in the fertile land of the Great Plains of Xizhou for a long time, the footsteps of the civilized world have come to an end here, and further west or north is a barren land, although there are many human countries in those places , but the geographical isolation has already turned them into stubborn people who do not know how to adapt, poor and difficult to communicate with, and have never been a welcome guest.

However, the "Alliance Men" came from the West.

They really don't look like they have anything to do with those barbarians.

They caught everyone's attention almost as soon as they set foot on the pier, and any long-time resident of Wyatt would have a pair of venomous eyes to tell the true value of their black clothes, white clothes and black cloaks with just one look. , and this group of people's "raw and astringent" roots.

The underclothes were as white as snow, and the finest flax could not be spun to such a delicate sheen, and the cloak was as black as night and as bright as oil, and it needed so many intact furs without a single hair, and it had to be able to Their seamless workmanship made not one but dozens of these cloaks, and even if this exotic company were only adorned with a brooch, they were Wyatt's finest guests.

It wasn't just the clothes of this group of people that firmly attracted people's attention.There are men and women in this group of travelers who have just arrived in Wyatt, and they are all very young. The exposed faces and skin can be seen to be nourished by a good life, but the black boots are also uniform, and the black leather suitcase is exactly covered. , and even the exact same steps gave them a different kind of intimidating style, making them less like businessmen and more like a group of knights, but even if they were real knights, few people would dare to pose like this in Wyatt City. Unscrupulous formation.

They walked through the streets of Wyatt, led by a discerning guide, to the largest and most chaotic tavern in the city, where they drank, bought a gladiator, clashed with others, and because of this A conflict and a wealth contest that stuns the city.

So people finally knew what was in the suitcases of those foreigners.

Nearly ten people fainted while watching this rich game. Wyatt City will not lack money in circulation no matter what it lacks. Said that people never thought that there were actually people from the land of gold.In the frenzied atmosphere that gradually ignited, the gladiators were kicked off the arena, the servants respectfully set the table, and the two sides came to the stage respectively. Under the eyes of everyone, those young people from foreign countries slammed their suitcases expressionlessly Slamming it on the countertop, unlocking the lock with one hand, the moment the box was opened, the entire tavern was illuminated by radiance, and everyone's eyes reflected a piece of gold and jade splendor.

Even their opponents stood dumbly in place, in front of crates of gold and silver, crates of shining gems, crates of magical instruments, weapons, and complete sets of armor, although his treasures of various colors were carefully placed on trays. It can also be called precious, maybe it is a nominal value, and it may not be necessary to compete with the other party. However, compared with those treasures that need to go to the auction to get the ideal price, there is nothing that foreigners show. It was not hard currency, and what frightened the nobleman was that when he raised objections to the absolute value of these items, these foreigners said that since they were businessmen, they certainly had more than what they had at hand.

The hotel's errand man galloped all the way to the pier as if wishing to have two more legs, and recruited a team of fast horses in the shortest time to load the heavy cargo that would push down the waterline of the merchant ship onto the horses, and then led The horses, on their backs, hurried through the streets blocked by the idlers brought in by this miracle, and sent them one by one to the arena where the height was already clearly defined amidst the eyes of the crowd and the sound of exclamation.

In the end, the nobleman could only lose his title deed convincingly, because the other party won without humiliating him, leaving him with the last dignity, which made it hard for him not to be grateful for this kindness. It can be called a good story in Wyatt City.

The foreigner made a name for himself in Wyatt City at an astonishing speed, and almost effortlessly obtained a few large pieces of good land—although they had already paid the nobleman at a considerable price that day , But under normal circumstances, it is impossible for these strangers to complete such a large transaction on the first day. It only takes one day to set foot on the land of this city from the bottom of their feet!The transaction market has not yet evaluated them, and the brokers have not gotten a drop of oil and water. A land transaction with the largest amount of the day—maybe even the largest amount of the year was completed in this way.

No one disagrees, both the spectators and the trading parties are satisfied with the results they have achieved. Except for some lost speculators, the biggest profit from the transaction is the municipal trading hall. The tax money they extract from it made the secretary of the day almost laugh Jaw dislocated.

Out of jealousy and suspicion, many people look forward to the day when this good story will become a joke, but they have not yet waited.

Foreigners have easily obtained several pieces of golden treasure land, what are they doing with these lands?

There is no need to ask too much about opening a trading house. These foreigners who have completed the formalities quickly built several large-scale shops to sell their impressive rare goods, such as weapon shops, jewelry shops and The spice shop, but the two places with the largest area and the best location, after they hired people to demolish the houses that could still be used, and paid the construction team with the building materials, they built two on the original site in Wyatt. Facilities like never before.

One of these facilities is a hospital.It is not a medical clinic consisting of only one or two doctors whose medical skills have been passed down from generation to generation and a few or a dozen apprentices, and earns the main profit by selling sex medicine and cough medicine, but can cure most traumatic diseases, and treat some unknown diseases It is a "hospital" that treats dozens of patients a day, and is especially good at opening wounds and infectious diseases. Because of their ability, this building is particularly tall, only slightly shorter than the Exchange Some, the continuous crystal windows and the red painted iron cross outside the white wall are its most eye-catching marks.

Although the aliens opened the hospital without the consent of the city's physicians' guild, they soon proved that these self-styled guilds had no restraint on aliens like themselves, just as they made their name in Wyatt the day they created Like the records based on their foothold, they also easily broke the resistance and blockade of the Physician's Guild - because there is really nothing that can resist and block them. The quality of medical skills is as difficult to fake as the purity of gold. After the foreigners fought back all the slanders against them with a month of free medical treatment on the docks, and established their irrefutable authority in this field, they in turn squeezed the doctors' guild until they had to take the initiative to sue for peace.

After this battle, the foreigner's "hospital" changed from deserted to bustling, and essentially monopolized the trauma medicine market in Wyatt City—only part of the profits were distributed to the powerful figures in the city in the name of shares.Their arms, jewelry, and spice businesses expanded in a similar way. Under the principle of "free trade" and under the never-relenting money offensive against powerful people, these foreigners from the Western world quickly became Wyatt City. A force that weighs lightly.

But what makes people feel a little strange is that although the foreigner's industry has become very important to Wyatt City, Wyatt City does not seem to be very important to these foreigners. walking gesture.For example, the doctors who are resident in the hospital are all their own people, and the nurses are recruited by them from the family members of the gladiator group. The medicines they use most often are all finished products they bring, and even the medical equipment they use, such as plaster and cotton wool Consumable materials such as bandages, bed sheets, and hospital gowns that must be changed when patients are admitted to the hospital, all of which come from external input.

The reason is that these foreigners from the West have a "bad reputation".

What kind of bad reputation is it? Related rumors soon became popular in the city. The West—referring to all areas other than the Great Plains of Xizhou—has emerged a rapidly developing empire at some point, known as " "Unbearable" means annexed more than 100 countries in a very short period of time.There is only one means of national expansion, which is war, but there is no unreasonable war. No matter how insane the rulers are, they must find a moral high ground even if they are irrational before going to war. Foreigners—or these alliances This is the filth of human beings. They often invade the countries and regions they fancy with a large number of commodities with the most advantage in a harmless face. When the local foundation is corroded and the owner of the land cannot bear it Fighting against each other gave the empire, which had already been eyeing it, a reason to suppress the army.

As soon as the rumors spread, people's perception of those foreigners also changed.People used to have various speculations about why they provided so many goods and services at a low price and thoughtfully for a long time, but they did not expect such a terrible scheming behind them!Even the king of the capital felt a little uneasy because of this, and specially sent envoys to inquire about this matter.

After some investigation, the king's envoy and the investigation team of Wyatt City announced that all the rumors about the Western Union were malicious slanders from the losers of the previous competition, and the trade relationship between Wyatt City and the Alliance is complementary. , win-win and sustainable for a long time.Alliance people shouldn't be overly worried about this. The goods they bring are equally beneficial to Wyatt City and the Kingdom of Everwood. If they withdraw from the market, it will be distrust of Wyatt's business principles, and even distrust of the king. respect.

This joint statement clarified the reputation of the foreigner, who should have been renamed the Alliance now. Although people are not worried about those rumors, it is hard to believe that there is such a soft way of aggression in the world, because those rumors also say that the Alliance does not The previously donated benefits will not be withdrawn because the purpose of occupation has been achieved-is there such a good thing in the world?

Maybe the Alliance people did have unknown and unbearable things, but the Wyatts—maybe including the nobles in the royal city—had found it difficult to leave their goods.

Because the fundamental reason why the slander against the Alliance appeared and spread so violently was that the Alliance brought a new medicine through the air route.

A specific drug against inflammation.

The Alliance people are very good at treating trauma. They have many medicines with amazing effects, the most famous of which is a hemostatic medicine that is said to come from the secret recipe of the elves.But the reason why this kind of medicine can stir up such a big wind and rain is not because it has a miraculous effect on anti-inflammatory, but because it can cure "love sickness".

Although this infectious disease, which has been prevalent in the countries of Western Continents for many years, can bring special life experience to many literary and artistic figures, more people have to endure the long-term pain it brings, perhaps because it was born from human nature. , so neither witchcraft nor black magic can be effective against it.The Confederates used the drug on Wyatt's lowest class of Laughing Girls, proving irrefutably that they could indeed cure the intractable disease that drives men to madness and death.

This drug is an inexhaustible gold mine. What's more, to express their gratitude, the alliance people gave up the sales rights to the nobles who gave them a lot of help. The noble who lost the land to the alliance people became A model of a blessing in disguise, no matter for their own health or for the long-term interests of Wyatt, everyone including the king will do everything possible to let the alliance people exist in the kingdom of Yongmu for a long time.

So another strange facility built by the Alliance began its operation.

Its name is "Printing Factory".

Undertake all publishing business, and run the publishing business itself.

Before the Leaguers came up with their novelties, not many felt they needed that much paper in their lives.Although the Alliance people made a kind of consumables for cleaning with wastes such as wheat straw and bark in the manor they bought, it quickly replaced the role of muslin and fur, even if it was only a little richer It can also make their respectable buttocks treated like kings, but if they have no intention of pretending to be knowledgeable, what use are books to their lives?

Of course there is, the league said.

In fact, since this "printing factory" began to operate, their business has never had a deserted moment.

First of all, someone came to ask for the contract to be engraved, because the special ink used by the alliance printing cannot be copied, and their unique printing style also eliminates the possibility of imitation and counterfeiting. The expensive paper specially used for the contract can even be waterproof to a certain extent; secondly, the nobles With a friendly and supportive attitude, they asked the alliance people to print their family trees for them; then the Romantics, who would never be short of age, asked to publish their own poetry collections; It is still the court that handles all kinds of lawsuits, only here can expel all kinds of announcements, documents, and lawsuits for them within the time limit; even the scholars from the universities in the capital are attracted by the name...

But no customer consumes as much paper as the Confederates themselves.

The Confederates had the right to publish any printed matter at will, but the first thing they produced and sold to the public was the daily market price list.As soon as this kind of printed matter was launched, it was widely and enthusiastically welcomed. People rushed to buy it like a scarce commodity, because the alliance people already had a high reputation, and people believed that the figures they provided were true and reliable. They certainly did not disappoint.This approach will undoubtedly have some impact on Wyatt's market ... but the league people don't care.They don't need to care.

Then, they began to print advertisements on the back of the price list to help some merchants promote their products. People who lived in the cities had accepted this printed matter in their daily life, and they began to add current affairs news, and foreign rumors. , plus philosophical articles by some contributors, plus some celebrity interviews... The position of the market price list has gradually moved from the forefront to the back, no longer occupying the center of people's attention, and gradually no longer occupying the mainstream position of people's topics.

A publication called "Newspaper" was born, and in a short period of time it became an unofficial, but almost official, current reading.

Like other undertakings undertaken by the Confederates, this "Market" had shares in the royal family and other nobles, which is why they not only did not prevent, but even promoted its circulation to other districts.Through this publication, people exchange information, share joys and sorrows, and learn many interesting things in the world besides the small land around them. Of course, they have great support for the alliance that created this publication and spread it widely in the Xizhou Plain. People are also interested, and their legendary deeds are indeed worthy of interest.

And so the Alliance began to introduce itself to the world.

People believed in the credibility of the Alliance, and also believed in the credibility of the newspaper, so they also believed in the image described by the Alliance.

This is the result they worked so hard to achieve.

At least one of the results.

Clever rhetoric cannot conceal the iron-clad facts. Those "unfavorable rumors" about the alliance members may not be false, and most of them may even be true.But the timing of their occurrence, spread and then being stopped is too appropriate. Once people believe that "it's all slander, but it's not the case", even if things develop later like rumors, they won't deny what has already been denied once. Know.

How can there be such aggression for the purpose of losing money in the world, right?

Solaris thought, so it's hard to say whether those "unfavorable rumors" about the Alliance people were spread by themselves, or whether they found the time came, so they took advantage of it to add fuel to the flames.Didn't the princes of Wyatt and the king of Everwood really not find that all this happened just right?The industries that the alliance people operate in Wyatt are limited, but each of them has formed a substantial monopoly situation. Whether it is weapons, jewelry, spices, medicines or paper, only the alliance people can continue to supply large quantities and maintain price stability. In some cases, these goods stamped with the Union stamp can even become the general equivalent in place of currency.

This means that once they change the supply, whether it is Wyatt, Yongwood City, or even the entire Western Continent Plain, the prices of bulk commodities will fluctuate accordingly.

Solaris reached out and stroked the hilt of his sword.

Even His Royal Highness Rand's "Kingdom on Earth" will inevitably be affected.With the official opening of Sky City just around the corner, they need everything to be smooth, preferably unchanging.

However, directly seeking their goals from the alliance members who operate the industry in the country of Yongmu will not achieve ideal results. Although they have laid such a solid foundation in such a short period of time, the number of alliance members who are actually resident here is at most a few. Hundreds, what they have to do is to track down where they came from.

She and her knight looked at the huge ship docked in the river port.

In the inlet of Wyatt Harbor, it is so big that it is like a product of fantasy. Its shape without sails and oars makes it difficult to imagine how it moves on the water, but people who have witnessed it come to Wyatt It is said that it sails at an astonishing speed, which is almost equal to a fast ship with a downwind wind. Now that it has parked in the harbor, even if it only docks on one side, it will crowd other merchant ships like a group of poor poultry.People crowded on the pier, looking in amazement at this huge white ship of the Confederates. The Confederates had already stated in the newspaper that it was one of their main means of transportation. The water in the river bend was rippling, and the sound of timber rolling on the deck of a merchant ship could be heard nearby. Squeaks, only it is like a water fortress, the porters go up and down, it is not moving.

"It's really big."

"Scary big."

"How many goods have they delivered this time? The porters have moved from the morning to now!"

"Everyone in a city is watching their fleet of motorcades, and there is no such scene as the Duke's daughter getting married..."

"Those foreigners say they are made of steel... How can iron float on water?"

"But if it wasn't made of iron, how could they light a fire in the belly of the ship? Look, the chimney is still smoking!"

"But I still can't believe it... has anyone tried to see if it's true?"

"How to try?"

As soon as the words fell, a stone flew out from the crowd and smashed hard towards the nearly flawless white hull. With a movement of Solaris' wrist, a copper coin bounced from her hand, and the first to catch up The tumbling stone knocked it off its original arc, and finally rubbed against the hull and fell into the water with a bang.

The city guards who had been staring at the side pushed aside the crowd like dividing the sea, and angrily pulled out the troublemaker who had just thought of doing it, and the crowd became commotion. Some troublemakers shouted and laughed, and the command porter on the shore The busy Alliance people ignored the commotion, but turned to look at Solaris and the others.

The eyes of the two met, and each made an estimate of the other in their hearts.

"This woman, with this group of people..." Ansalu thought, "It's not easy."

"Is this the Alliance man?" Solaris thought. "It sure doesn't look so simple."