Urban Sims

Mid-July.

A straight, meandering wooden track that extends from Yoken to the top of the daunting mountain range of the Ula Plateau.

Like a miracle on earth, all the people who saw this track for the first time were shocked and deeply shocked.

This short track that spans the sky and is about 100 kilometers long may not be much in modern times, but in this ancient civilized world, only the church ’s high temple of Holy Light, the thousand-story lighthouse of the Kingdom of Aguston, The few miracles of civilization, such as the Baizhang stone men of the Kingdom of Pros and the sky city of the Nevis kingdom, can be compared.

Full of 6,174 workers died of various altitude sickness during the construction of this track.

For the more than 6,000 dead workers who were mostly savages and a few were purchased slaves, Zhou Ming did not forget them, but let people build at the end of the track-the top of the high mountain ridge A small monument recorded the merits of these workers for future generations to miss.

After the construction of this track was completed, more than 6,000 surviving slaves were lucky. Zhou Ming announced to these workers: In order to express their gratitude, these workers who are slaves will be granted the status of free citizens. It ’s so good to arrange work for them. As a freelancer, they will complete the construction of the next plateau track (of course, the track in the plateau corridor will be easier to build and will not die in such a large number).

Uh ...

The end of July.

In the newly built business station on the east side of Youken Ling.

Starting from multiple members of the Free Business Alliance, a caravan carrying various merchandise gathered in this large business station. For a time, it was called Ma Si and was very lively.

In the center of the business station, in a large wooden house.

A group of luxuriously dressed nobles are sitting around a large table for a meeting.

Sitting on the top, holding a list of goods, Earl Barton, who was elected as the rotating chairman of the Business League this year, led Earl Houghton, reading the words on the list: "Jokken, 50 canned meat and nuts , Nathan collar, 20-car bread, Patton collar, 200-car ceramic, Gran-collar, 500-car furniture, fur clothing, paper and iron ... and other territories add up to a total of 1,000 car goods, so much The goods are sold to the Kingdom of Copper Mountain. Besides gold coins, what else can we get, the copper of the Kingdom of Copper Mountain? "

Earl Horton was puzzled to ask, if the iron of the Iron Fort Kingdom has a great effect on the business alliance, then naturally it needs to be traded with, but the copper of the Copper Mountain Kingdom is not so important. Of course, copper It's also valuable, but it's not as practical as iron.

"Edward Knight, the plateau corridor you built, it ’s not difficult to transport goods from the Shangmeng, but it ’s a little trouble to transport the goods from outside to the Shangmeng. This ghost place ca n’t even ride a plain horse. , Only the alpine horse can pull something lighter. Going to the south can do more ... but how do you pull the heavy copper of the Copper Mountain Kingdom from the south to the north? "

Another count asked a question, and felt that the plateau corridor developed by Zhou Ming had huge flaws in business.

"Of course I will ask for copper, and I will find a way to ship it from the south, but not now. What we lack most is not copper, but people."

"People?"

Everyone looked at Zhou Ming, they were all a little surprised.

"Yes, it is human beings, to be exact, slave miners, slave miners on countless copper mines in the Tongshan Kingdom. These slave miners are the most scarce commodities currently in the Free Business Alliance."

Zhou Ming explained to everyone.

With the advancement of agricultural technology of the members of the Free Business Alliance in recent years, the meat rations required by each territory are not scarce, and there is no shortage of primary handicraft products such as furniture, agricultural tools, fur clothing, etc. Is still the population base.

Zhou Ming has done statistics and found that the seven counties in the north and south of the Kingdom of Warris, the gap in economic aggregates in the past two years is not very large, but in terms of population, the seven counties in the north are only one-third of the south (Not including the royal territory, which accounts for 1/5 of the kingdom's population). Because of the cold climate, the birth rate in the north is not as high as in the south.

In the future, if there is a Civil War in the Kingdom of Warris, the northern knight ’s individual combat capability is stronger than the south, but the number of soldiers in the north is at a greater disadvantage, coupled with the population base limit, once consumed In the war, it is difficult for the North to say that it has defeated the South and it is tied.

Therefore, Zhou Ming needs as many people as possible to expand the market size of the Free Business Alliance, to promote the economic vitality of the Free Business Alliance, to tap the mineral resources within the Free Business Alliance, and to increase the war potential of the Free Business Alliance.

Therefore, he established a mercenary trade union and absorbed a large number of migrants such as thieves, mercenaries, and thieves; he opened up the plateau corridor, obtained slave miners from the Tongshan Kingdom, and transported them to various mines led by the members of the Free Business League, and excavated Various types of underground resources such as gold, silver, copper, iron and coal. (There are also iron ore copper mines in many areas of the Free Business League, but the reserves are small and the grade is low, but they can also be used).

As long as the population base of the Free Merchants Association changes from quantitative to qualitative changes, the power that eventually erupts is probably not a small Southern Commercial Alliance that can resist it.

After listening to Zhou Ming's theory, the eyes of the barons and counts present brightened.

"I have an iron ore mine in my territory, that is, there is a lack of people to dig. This business is over, can you sell me 1,000 slave miners?"

"My territory also has mines, give me 3000 slaves!"

"I want at least 5000 slaves!"

"10,000!"

"......"

Seeing the extremely enthusiastic appearance of these nobles, Zhou Ming should bear it one by one and secretly said in his heart that after these nobles realized the infinite convenience brought by the slaves, perhaps like the black slaves in his world history, the African black slaves, After being sold to the Americas in hundreds of millions, most of the tragic scenes died during the transportation. I am afraid it will be similarly staged in this world.

Poor slaves?

Of course, but this is capital!

Uh ...

Late August.

Bronze Mountain Kingdom, eastern border.

In the eastern mountains led by Baron Bama, a group of unexpected guests suddenly came.

Hundreds of these uninvited guests are heavy knights with bright armor and long lances; there are thousands of mercenaries with fierce weapons of all kinds of weapons; there are thousands of people who are servants driving thousands of heavy carriages , Their faces were very tired, but because they reached their destination, they cheered together.

Seeing this group of uninvited guests, Lord Bharat's Lord Geradi was almost scared to pee, because the place was closed, and he had not experienced war for hundreds of years. The caiqi knights pulled out were not much more powerful than the stronger farmers. After being played around by the knight brought by Zhou Ming, all of them were captured. The desperate Baron Gerardy's legs softened and he immediately kneeled down.

Zhou Ming did not embarrass him. Instead, he sent some gifts to express his friendliness, saying that he was just a businessman, with his caravan, and wanted to come to Tongshan Kingdom to do some small business.

After looking at the fine goods brought by Zhou Ming, Baron Gerardy, with a golden glow in his eyes, quickly became his first customer, using only a few Paton porcelain, a few stacks of white paper, and dozens A piece of fur clothing, in Baron Gerardi's castle warehouse, which has saved more than 100,000 gold coins and millions of copper coins for hundreds of years, UU reading www.uukanshu.com and a large amount of food, all replaced.

Gathered the family's property for hundreds of years, Baron Gerardi, who wasted all his money, didn't care at all, because the small copper mine in his territory was enough for his family to dig for thousands of years.

The first business came with a great start, Zhou Ming, and his confidence swelled!

In addition, from Baron Geradi, I learned that although the Kingdom of Tongshan is a big country with 47 counts, the army ’s combat effectiveness is not very good. The army defending the Kingdom is mainly composed of foreign mercenaries, and it was defeated by the foreign war. More wins than less ... The so-called riches and sorrows of fighting spirit, arrogance and erosion of ambition are the true portrayal of this country sitting on a copper mine.

Is like Zhou Ming's several Middle Eastern tyrants in the world, all rich in oil, but armed with teeth, Wang Yebing is a scum that no guerrillas can fight.

Knowing this, Zhou Ming, the next thing is even better, under the banner of business, Zhou Ming led his caravan all the way through the city, passing several counties, facing this elite knight, there is The huge caravan guarded by a large number of mercenaries, and the lords everywhere, except for the first trial, no one dared to step forward.

Look at the exquisite goods brought by Zhou Ming one by one.

Early October.

Before the arrival of the snow season, the goods were sold out. At this time, a large number of gold and copper coins were being held. From the hands of various slave traders in the Tongshan Kingdom, Zhou Ming and others who bought slaves in the mines had to be After buying more than 20,000 slave miners, men, women and children, with the balance of nearly one million gold coins (both gold and copper coins) with the balance at hand, after more than a month of hard work, it was finally the first in November. Before the snow came down, he returned to Jokken.