Swamp Lord: I have an intelligence system

After Lear calmed down, he said with a little curiosity.

"The priest you mentioned is so good that he can predict the future?"

Spider Banshee's striped face showed a subtle expression, she shook her head and explained softly.

"Sir, there is a big difference between divination and predicting the future. Divination can tell whether there is danger or not, but specific matters are difficult to predict. And predicting the future is a power that only God can control."

"The priest's divination is about business. He has made divination seven times, and all the predictions indicate that the swamp will be good."

"Obviously, a new force was born here, otherwise how could trade be carried out?"

This makes sense.

Lear nodded.

"My Weilu City doesn't have many specialties and treasures. What do you want?"

Spider Banshee looked at several cold-blooded cavalry not far away, her eyes full of desire.

"Equipment, lots of equipment!"

In the wilderness, there are very few forces with fixed territories, stable forging sites and high-level blacksmiths like Weilu City.

Even if most tribes obtain high-grade ores, they can only smelt them using the crudest methods.

The forged weapons were horrific.

This complete set of armor made him excited when he first saw it.

No verification is needed. As long as you take a look from a distance, you can feel the indestructibility of the armor on the lizard men.

"Equipment? What do you plan to use to trade with us?"

"Sir, the Yeying Clan occupies several mineral veins and enslaves more than two thousand slaves to mine for us."

"We are willing to trade ore for weapons and armor."

"Also, if your territory lacks anything, we have it, and everything can be put on the table!"

"Ore. What if I need fine gold?"

"The amount of fine gold is very small, and we only reserve a few hundred kilograms, but you can take it out if you need it!!!"

"Can you take it all out? Are you preparing for war?"

"Yes, sir, the Yeying clan has encountered a group of fierce enemies, and a war will inevitably break out with them in the near future. We have no choice but to obtain more powerful power."

"Nothing is more direct than weapons and armor."

"You are honest."

"Sir, the priest has told me that there is no need to hide anything from you. Only sincerity is the basis for cooperation."

"Really? I'm a little curious about your priest."

"I like to hang out with smart people."

"However, the armor currently produced in Weilu City is modeled after my army and is not suitable for you to wear. If you want to trade, additional modifications will be required."

"It takes time."

"Sir, can you tell me how long it will take?"

"How many suits of armor do you need?"

"The more, the merrier."

"Bullshit. I need a lowest number you can accept."

"At least a thousand sets! Equip a brigade!"

"A thousand sets of favors. This is quite difficult."

"Weilu City can provide 2-star level armor, are you willing to accept it?"

"2-star level?!"

"Yes, yes! Sure enough, the priest's divination is God's will! Praise you!!"

"Today is October 11th. These thousand sets of armor will not be delivered to you until the end of November at the earliest. Is this time acceptable?"

"My God, you, you are talking about the end of November?!"

"Accept it, accept it!!!"

"This is great. I thought it would be December or even January next year at the earliest."

"It seems your fight is not that urgent."

"Sir, the enemy has been eyeing us for a long time. He has taken action several times as early as three months ago."

"It's just that we are not sure of victory, so we can only endure it. But by December at the latest, this battle will inevitably break out."

"If possible, I would like to be equipped with your weapons tomorrow, but... I can only think about it."

"Very good. Since you can accept it, I'll have someone come and discuss the detailed price with you."

After Lear finished speaking, he waved his hand to summon Brando, the president of the White Crow Chamber of Commerce.

He didn't know much about the arms trade. Before he stepped into the wilderness, the weapons and armor on the wetland lizard people were given to him by Philena.

Brando has been working hard in Loland City for more than twenty years, and he often enters the wilderness for trade, so he is more suitable for this kind of thing.

Hearing the call, Brando came in a hurry, and was startled when he saw the ferocious appearance of the Spider Banshee.

He is more than three meters tall, and his lower body is a dark brown spider body covered with fluff and markings. Although his upper body is human, the markings cover it all, making him look hairy.

Although he had encountered a lot of strange beings in the City of Dew these days, they were so ferocious and infiltrating that they still sent shivers down his spine.

Spider-turned-human, which is synonymous with death in the wilderness.

It is said that what these monsters like to do most is to tie people up with spider silk, use venom to melt into blood, and then suck them clean bit by bit.

"Brando, the Night Shadow clan wants to establish trade relations with us and plans to use the ore to buy armor."

"Next, we will tailor-make 2-star level full-body armor for them. You are familiar with the weapons market. Go down and discuss the price with this lady?"

Brando immediately became energetic when he heard this.

He can't do anything else, but negotiation is his specialty.

Immediately, he happily accepted the order, went to the side with Spider Banshee, and began to discuss the specific price.

This veteran learned the general situation of the Yeying clan with a few words of probing. After he was confident, he began to have intense price negotiations with the other party.

Although the Spider Banshee maintained enough respect for Lear, her interests came first. When faced with Brando's lion, she opened her mouth and argued with him unceremoniously.

Lear felt relieved about Brando, since it was an exclusive deal and the profit would not be much worse.

This time it was a good start.

Just when he wanted to start trade, a partner came to his door.

The delivery will be in November, which is the second half of October, and a batch of armors need to be cast to prepare reserves for the White Crow Chamber of Commerce to open the Loland City market.

If the profits are good by then, we can continue to expand the scale of the blacksmith shop.

After fierce debate, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

Spider Banshee's expression didn't change much, but Brando stepped forward to report in high spirits.

"Sir, the Yeying Clan has a high-level mineral vein that can produce 3-star level iron ore."

"Its quality is very top-notch. It can directly smelt refined iron. One ton can produce at least 400 kilograms."

"We use this as the price anchor. Every 5 tons of 3-star iron ore can be exchanged for 1 set of armor."

Refined iron can only be obtained after ordinary iron ore has been repeatedly forged and beaten to quench most of the dross.

It is the main material for casting rock heavy armor.

The quality of the iron ore currently occupied by Weilu City is very average. Each ton of ore can only produce 100 kilograms of refined iron after smelting, and the process is very troublesome.

It needs to be repeatedly forged and smelted more than ten or twenty times.

If high-grade ores can be obtained, it will undoubtedly save a lot of processes and greatly improve production efficiency.

Moreover, the refined iron obtained by direct smelting is of higher quality.

5 tons exchanged for a set of armor is definitely not a small amount.

After all, two tons, a full 2,000 kilograms of refined iron can be extracted.

To forge a complete set of rock heavy armor, only 400 kilograms of refined iron is required.

This is the material used to wrap the mount together. Judging from the spider banshee's size, it can't even use half of the heavy rock armor.

Moreover, the forging process and materials used for 2-star armor are obviously lower.

The profit margins came out immediately.

However, the Yeying Clan is not at a loss. Where can they find someone to trade with in the wilderness?

When Lear thought it would stop there, Brando continued.

"In addition, for every 300 sets of armor we provide to the Night Shadow Clan, they also need to provide us with 10 kilograms of fine gold or mithril."

"And each set of armor also comes with an additional ton of smelted ordinary steel."

Lear couldn't help but glance at Brando. Couldn't this guy finish his words in one breath?

Not to mention other things, fine gold is extremely expensive in Loland City.

Almost never circulates in the market.

Sure enough, arms are damn huge profits, and every time, the profit is dozens of times.

very nice.

"Sir, these are just preliminary terms, do we have any other needs?"

Lear thought for a while and called the Spider Banshee not far away.

"Where is your territory?"

"Sir, we are about 400 kilometers away from the swamp and occupy a space gap that leads to other planes, so we are often invaded by enemies inside."

"Space gap? This is rare. My territory lacks population, maybe you can capture slaves?"

"I need some obedient and easy-to-manage races, such as mire people, Delsa people, halflings, etc."

"The more people we have, the faster we can forge armor."

"Sir, this is easy to solve. That sub-plane has a sufficient population. We can capture them at any time. If you need them, we can immediately provide you with a group of thousands of slaves."

"Thousands of people? Okay, okay, okay. If it's convenient, I'll have someone send you back and bring the slaves back."

"Of course it is possible. The priest has told me that I must be honest in my dealings with you. Now that we know where your territory is, we should naturally invite you to our Yeying Clan as a guest."

The entire wilderness is a dark forest, and it is not easy to build enough trust.

From beginning to end, the spider banshee never told a lie, and Lear could sense the sincerity of the other party's attitude.

In this way, he became quite curious about this force.

It's a bit incredible no matter how you look at it, to come to the door suddenly, with such great sincerity, and not even a single lie in the middle.

The other party's ability to achieve this level obviously depends on the priest he keeps mentioning.

That person's means of existence are absolutely extraordinary and he is a powerful person.

He was also a little curious.

"What's the population of your Yeying clan?"

"We have 20,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of ordinary residents!"

"Then why not produce your own weapons?"

"Sir, we are also forging. However, we really have no talent, and the clansmen are even less interested in it. The weapons we forge are terrible, and it is better to be empty-handed."

“I’ve suffered losses many times.”

The spider banshees themselves were a little embarrassed when they said it. In terms of combat power alone, they believed that they could not lose to anyone, but this was a different concept from forging weapons.

They invested an unknown amount of energy, but they were never able to establish their own industry.

But the enemy's edge is already approaching, and they have no choice.

Lear felt the same way.

Before, he suffered from not having weapons. The previous battles were very difficult.

After getting the rock armor, things got better.

After communicating for a while, he brought the spider banshee to the blacksmith shop.

He asked her to wait on the side, and then called Brin.

He handed over the spider banshee's gift of ten kilograms of fine gold.

The leader of the Fry people took the cloth bag and opened it. After taking a look, he suddenly breathed quickly.

"Fine gold? ! ! Sir, this, so much?!"

The arm holding the cloth bag trembled a little, and his face flushed.

This thing is the top material that all blacksmiths dream of!

It is extremely rare and hard to find. It is almost indispensable for forging weapons above 5 stars.

He has only seen it once in his life, and it was the size of a thumb.

This has made him unforgettable for life.

Now, hundreds of gold coins made of fine gold are in his hands.

Happiness comes too suddenly! !

Li Er smiled.

"Use it well, don't waste it."

He said, motioning to the spider banshee who was curiously looking at the blacksmith shop.

"Brin, how long will it take to tailor a set of armor for the spider banshee?"

Brin took a deep breath, trying to suppress his excitement, but he couldn't do it.

He said in a trembling voice.

"Sir, how many stars do we want to cast?"

"2 stars."

"That's easy. We just need to save some processes and reduce some high-end materials to reduce the rock heavy armor to 2 stars."

"Just give me two days to forge it according to their body shape."

"So fast?! Very good, I'll let the spider banshee stay in the blacksmith shop, and you will be responsible for designing and forging it. After the design is completed, cast 20 sets for it first, and it will be used in a few days."

"In addition, we may have to produce tens of thousands of sets of armor for it in the future!"

"You have to be prepared!"

"Yes, sir!"

The leader of the Fry people agreed straightforwardly and resolutely.

Now the blacksmith shop is the focus of the city of Wei Lu, and almost all resources are tilted towards them first.

If you can't do this well, it's too embarrassing.

The gold in your hand hasn't even warmed up yet.

As Lear spoke, he waved his hand to call the spider demon, asking her to communicate her needs and what she wants directly to Brin.

Hearing that this was his own forger who could customize armor for them, the spider demon was immediately excited.

Let them communicate here, and Lear didn't pay much attention to it.

After leaving the blacksmith shop, he thought about it and called the scarlet queen bee.

Although the people brought back this time had no ill will towards the city of Wei Lu, he still felt a little dangerous.

Instruct the other party that no matter who he met in the future, he must not bring them back to the city of Wei Lu directly.

The scarlet queen bee answered honestly, and then told him that she brought them back because she did not sense any hostility from them and put them under absolute control.

Lear didn't blame him too much after hearing this, but this incident reminded him.

There are still many loopholes in the current territory.

He was also unwilling to expose the territory to the eyes of the outside world, which was an extremely dangerous practice.

In the dark forest, whoever shows his head may be killed first.

While thinking, he called Bain and said straight to the point.

"The city of Wei Lu should not allow outsiders to enter. It is very dangerous."

"I plan to build a subsidiary city on the edge of the swamp in the west, which is dedicated to foreign trade and reception of outsiders."

"If you encounter life like the spider witch in the future, you can let it wait in the subsidiary city, and you can't take it directly back to the city of Wei Lu."

"In this way, even if we encounter someone with bad intentions, we can have enough buffer space to deal with it, and we won't put the territory in danger."

"My lord, this is something I haven't thought of before. It's my negligence."

Li Er originally planned to use the area west of the city of Wei Lu to build a commercial center for external exchanges.

But today the spider witch reminded Li Er.

The sudden appearance of outsiders in the territory will bring great risks.

In this way, the best solution is to build a new window city open to the outside world.

The city of Wei Lu serves as the base camp in the rear, so it can be safely put into production.

If there is any threat in the future, there is also a city in the front as the first line of defense.

More importantly, with the means of Wei Lu City, the resources consumed in building such a city are not many.

If other territories want to build a new city, they must do a lot of construction. Just mining raw materials such as stone and wood is a huge project.

And he has vine fairies in his hands. These unique lives can use star vines to build houses, and the territory does not need to consume too many resources for this.

This is great.

"Bain, you should discuss and investigate immediately and select the construction site of the subsidiary city."

"Sir, if it is built on the edge of the territory, will there be any obstacles in terms of transportation? It takes a lot of time to travel in the swamp."

"We can build a wide road to speed up the connection between each other."

"Then we have to prepare the corresponding resources in advance."

"No, we have vine fairies."

It is not easy to build roads in the swamp, but vine fairies are not ordinary lives.

Paving the ground with vines can directly create a road to the sky.

Moreover, the starry vines can be activated. Once foreign enemies invade, these vines can be transformed into combat units.

When Lear thought of this, he felt the wonder more and more.

No wonder the legendary swamp tribe city was built with star vines.

Now that he thought about it, his imagination was still not open, and he just limited the vine fairy to building houses. (End of this chapter)