Chapter 101: The Great Price of Salt

The storm finally stopped, the snow began to melt, and the abominable big sun rehanged up in the sky.

The agate wasteland has re-entered the dry season of the year.

In this huge area without vegetation and no water source, perhaps only the rising temperature will make people feel the end of the winter in the wilderness.

The snow on the top floor of the Ogre Canyon began to melt, and the canyon flowed into a snake-python creek, unlike the canyons of the past, when the mountains and mountains meet each other, a simple arch bridge is set up.

In the tunnel, a steel rail laid railway passes through the barbaric ice sheet between the bridge and the tunnel.

In three months, Li tremor hired 100,000 laborers from the city of Smai, completely opened the underground tunnel across the north and south, and the railway track was laid.

Although it is very simple and even has some drawbacks, it has been able to solve huge transportation problems.

For a magic rail to be truly completed, it will take at least three years or even longer.

At least it can be temporarily operated.

At this moment, the red-bearded town, with two long-shaven shrimp, squinting small eyes constantly huddled forward, gathered in front of a long-legged squid seaman, "I am a sea shrimp, 500 pounds of sea salt!"

“Three silver coins!”It was collected directly after weighing, regardless of the price.

In this small town, Redbeard has just given an order to start the acquisition of sea salt for the entire sea area, a full 100,000 tons!

Such a terrible number in the coastal area for the first time, even if the sea people no longer have the ability, can also occupy a small island to dry the sea water to get some sea salt.

These perennially living in the sea are naturally useless, although they can trade with the creatures on the shore, but it is cheap and fatal, and now the red beard is directly marked, two hundred pounds of sea salt, a silver coin.

This is a thousand years can not wait to buy and sell, I heard that the price of seafood has been marked out, the shrimp look at the seafarers, it is known that they are coming to the red bearded town to do business.

The undead knew what the red beard wanted for these things, and heard that some sea tribes had begun to approach the red beard.

The storm city is as quiet as ever, and in this town has guarded the fortress of the east of the wasteland for more than 50 years, that is, the military power, the city of commerce, and the place of the residents.

A small storm city sojourn population, resident population of no less than ten thousand, plus legions, merchants, slaves, the floating population almost three hundred thousand or more!

“I heard, the salt has gone down!”In a tavern, a few small merchants muttered together.

“What do you think is it, not ordinary salt?”The other merchant laughed, and the three gathered together, thinking that there was something good to buy and sell.

“Do you know how much it went down?”

“How much?”

It held out five fingers, “Five times!”

"Son and laugh, one achievement is enough for those merchants to lose money, five times it is not to drink the northwest wind!"Which businessman has rusted his mind to do this kind of business, it is estimated that it is bankruptcy treatment!”

“What bankruptcy is Churchill’s big merchant’s shop, can it be wrong?”

"What, Churchill, it is impossible, he is a great merchant, and he is a great merchant, and he is a charity!"

"The undead do charity, used to have five coppers a pound of salt, now only one!"He said, “The storm city is talking about this!”

“Is there a problem with this salt?”

"Hunt, someone has verified it before, it is fresher than we eat, and some people say it has a seafood smell!"

The merchant next to him hastened to pour a glass of rum for him, "brother, is there any news, don't forget the brothers when you get rich!"The other one also stared straight.

“Isn’t that a secret, have you ever heard of Emerald Ridge?”

"Nonsense, now no one has heard of the Emerald Ridge, people and all the robbers have been in good contact, outside have said, would rather offend the Bolansha fire crane, rather than offend the Emerald Ridge, I heard that they gave those big robbers a month of achievement of two thousand gold hoofs!" 」

“Is it difficult to have anything to do with the Emerald Ridge?”

The businessman slowly took a sip of sake, "Just got the news today, Li tremor did not know where to recruit a group of gray dwarves, in his underground tunnel to lay dwarves dwarves, do you know how much salt he can carry a car?" 」

“How much!”

He held out a hand and said, “Five thousand tons!”

“How much?”These people even around them shouted in surprise, "No wonder the price of salt fell so much, so much luck at a time and earn a head!" 」

"Fun, 50,000 tons is not enough for us to digest the storm, I heard that Churchill has negotiated with Li Tremor, at least 100,000 tons of salt every day!"

“Is that possible?”Can he come here?”

“If you want a million dollars, he can’t satisfy you!”The merchant was somewhat disillusioned, "You have never seen how terrible the magic locomotive is, and you have ten thousand yaks and beasts in each section."

The discussion in the tavern was getting hotter, and suddenly one of them said, "Emerald Ridge can carry salt, do you want to transport something else?"

A common phrase makes everyone suddenly nervous, that is, the business of Storm City is so good, because it is related to the barbaric snowfields of the Orcs.

As long as you dare to go to the agate wasteland, you can make sure to earn enough compensation.

What is passed from the two forces is very popular among the people.

But now, since Li tremor can be transported in short supply of salt, the rest, such as the mineral deposits on the barbaric ice sheet and the rich sand and leather on the Orc Plateau.

“I heard that someone buys food all over the city!”One of them came up next to him and said.

“What do you do with food?”

"Selling the orcs, the cost of transporting them by magic locomotives is reduced to what extent, and what kind of business we have in the future, to support the orcs, the army of Storm City, regardless?"

A burst of discussion constantly refuted, after the merchant in the argument, the heart is more nervous, a copper a pound of salt, in the human race, the normal price of salt also to sell to about seven copper.

This kind of profit can hardly be resisted!

The merchants had already felt the difference, without even too much refuting, and ran to the outside of the storm station to wait.

Sure enough, the current storm station is very different from before, and next to the square, a large open space has been opened.

A row of iron tracks extended from the tunnel, and the entire open space was firmly guarded by the iron net, leaving only a gate for the animal car to enter and exit.

The tracks and the high-speed passages they are able to use are separate.

I could hear the sound of a rumbling.

I saw a long iron dragon driving fast in a dark tunnel.

Behind the black steel locomotive dragged more than thirty strips of black iron skin, above the iron skin, it was a car of crystal clear white sea salt.

“The Dwarf Locomotive!”Now more people want to call it the Emerald Ridge locomotive.

After all, the dwarves were only transported in their own minerals, and although the current locomotives used the Dwarf locomotive template, they were not only twice as large as the dwarves, but the towing tugs was more than tripled.

The dwarves had just stopped, and they saw hundreds of yak carts leaning over, and the clatter of white salt was unloaded on the car like gravel.

Everyone is looking at God, how much white salt should it be!

Now it is only the first day, after this locomotive can transport how much sea salt to the human country, they do not dare to think.

The Shock!

The market shock!

Now that they have been affected by the salt industry where they depend, looking at the dark tunnel, I can’t imagine what the other industries in the storm city will be in the future.

A carload of food began to load into the magic locomotive, thirty cars, not a single empty!

No one can imagine how much profit it would be to transport such a huge car of grain to the orcs, to know that now is the time when the green and yellow are not connected.

This is not sea salt, but food that must be filled with hunger!

Looking at the words on the carnage, Churchill, the famous businessman of the people.

"No, this kind of business can't give him a carousel!"It is clear that no more salt Churchill can swallow.

This great and terrible chamber of commerce, which is full of business in the seven great countries of the people, relying on cheap sales, will completely rule the basic consumption.

Today is sea salt, tomorrow the oil, the day after tomorrow.

In less than a year, all these small traders will be eaten by the big merchants.

There is no other option!

They hated the Emerald Ridge a little, but at the same time dredged the terrible cargo on the magic locomotive.

The merchant's nature, like Wolf's wildness, is as adaptable to the market as any race.