Riding and Slashing

Chapter 213 Let them have money to spend

The lord was still riding on the horse, looking down at Aldalian who was lying on his stomach 30 meters away.

The explosion at such a distance would not affect Alice, and the filly was very calm.

Li Ang knew that Aldalion would not hurt him—although this Noldor lord was irritable and thoughtless, he did care about the Noldor people.

There are two hundred young rangers living in White Hart Castle, and they are all young seeds of the Noldor's next generation. As long as those rangers are still in Leon's territory, Aldalion will definitely not attack the lord. An important reason for the Noldor to live in White Hartkeep.

"How is it possible...how can you know Lei Fa!"

Aldalian turned over and got up, touched himself, his tone was not so arrogant anymore.

From the declaration of war to the defeat, it took less than half a minute...

He wasn't injured, and the horse probably wasn't injured either—the one who could jump and jump was almost gone now, running extremely fast, obviously uninjured, just frightened.

Ardalian probably thought that Li Ang was being merciful, and he made such a big noise, but it didn't hurt anyone... He looks at Li Ang now with complicated eyes.

But in fact, the grenade was originally an experimental product, and there was no shrapnel in the shell. Generally, the iron shell itself would only be blown into three or five pieces. Of course, it couldn't hurt Aldalion who was wearing the Noldor Rune Armor.

"Hmph... Do you know how powerful you are? Do you think I was protecting Lord Li Ang just now? I don't know what's good or bad..."

Wentierf rolled her eyes and took the opportunity to bluff again.

"Xin Darui? This is impossible... Your Excellency Li Ang, who are you?"

Aldalian looked at Wendy in surprise, then at Li Ang, and then cautiously faced Li Ang and began to back away slowly, but his attitude had obviously changed, even his address had changed.

"Aldalian, get out of here, and don't let your troops appear in my territory again, or this warning won't be like this...Of course, if your people are willing to trade on an equal footing, you can also go to the market in the forest. At least it won't discriminate against your clan."

Li Ang still had a calm look of a master, still with his hands behind his back, if it wasn't for the injury on his forehead that spoiled his image, he would really look like a master.

After speaking, Alice turned around and walked away. As soon as she turned around, she began to vigorously shake the hands that were originally behind her back.

Just now, I hid my hand behind my back and tapped the fuse with one hand. As a result, my hand was smudged black, and it looked like it was scalded. I have to go back and let Anson treat it...

"Humans who can use magic... You are the royal family of Pendor? You are the royal family of Pendor! Only the blood of Kavala has magic power... You want to restore the country? No! You will drag the Noldor into the war between humans ! Even if you die, I will stop you!"

Aldalian stood behind Li Ang with an uncertain expression, as if remembering something, his tone gradually became hurried.

The bow in his hand was raised again, and an arrow was attached.

It's just that there is some hesitation in the action.

How could he react like this?

Ardalian has a feud with the Pendor royal family?

Oh, probably yes, the war between the Noldor and humans was fought against the Kingdom of Pendor 300 years ago, and Ardalion was the leader of the Noldor at that time...

Li Ang was a little flustered, but he still pretended to be calm and turned around: "What nonsense are you talking about? What about restoring the country?"

"Hmph... Islendil told me that you have one-eighth of Noldor's blood, so you can only be her offspring...I must kill you..."

There was a trace of sadness in Aldalian's eyes, but there was no warmth at all, only a sharp edge and a trace of fierceness.

This is certainly not a good memory, but more like thinking of an enemy.

"Aldalion, what are you talking about? Do you know the consequences of doing this? If you ruin the hope of the Noldor tribe to leave the forest so easily, the three major families will be against you! You will start a civil war!"

Wendy drew out her sword and rushed directly in front of Aldalian.

Although she looks like a naive little girl in some ways, she really knows everything.

At this time, Li Sadilan finally rushed to Li Ang's side, and drew his bow at Aldalian.

"Hmph... It was the same back then, and it is the same now! He is just a human being who can use Noldor enchanted items! He is no different from that woman back then! His Majesty Felgus Anel still hasn't learned his lesson... Put the hopes of the Noldor upon Men? Ha...you shall regret it!"

Aldalian looked at Wendy with a tense face, then at Lisa Dilan who was facing him with a bow, put down the bow in his hand, shook his head and slowly retreated.

Pain appeared on his face, but he remained polite to Wendy.

"Ardarian! What are you talking about? What happened back then?"

Wendy Erff didn't understand, what year was it?Who is that woman?
"Wentyrph, go ask His Majesty Felgus Aner, go ask him about the big plan back then... Go ask him, where is his son now?!"

Aldalian gritted his teeth and said something, took a hard look at Li Ang, then turned around and left quickly.

Obviously, he knew that Wendy was right. If Leon died in his hands, the three major families of the Noldo would all be against him.

Indeed the Noldor could not stand civil war.

Wentierf was stunned for a while, until Aldalian disappeared with the troops, then turned around, only to find that the lord was also in a daze.

"Lord Li Ang, get out of here...he might still be around."

Lisa Dilan reminded aloud.

"Ardarian will not come again..."

The lord shook his head and let out a breath.

Li Ang was a little scared, he could feel that his vest was completely soaked in cold sweat.

The so-called magic did not frighten Ardalion, or the brave Lord of the Noldor did not care about it, and he dared to shoot his own arrows at any enemy.

Aldalian didn't seem to have much awe of "magic" like other Noldor. He was just shocked, but not afraid, and he didn't take it for granted that Leon was a magister.

Perhaps he is indeed a warlike straight-headed man, but he is obviously not too obsessed with the traditions of the Noldor, which makes him more sober than most Noldor elves-no wonder he ignored the decision of the Elven Kings and pulled out a Tribes come.

If it wasn't for Wentierf who blocked Aldalian in time, Aldalian might really want his own life just now.

"I can't actually stop Aldalian, but he seems to be..."

Wendy frowned a little puzzled.

"He doesn't seem to want to hurt you...Wendy, is anyone in your family related to Aldalian? I haven't heard you mention it..."

Li Ang looked at Wendy thoughtfully.

"My lord... my parents died many years ago, at the hands of the Jatu people. Maybe they knew Aldalion very well, I don't know."

Wendy shook her head: "Aldalian was originally from the Fenway family, so he must know my parents."

This is also true, the population of Noldo is small and the life expectancy is long, and most of the people in a clan must know each other, so they cannot be viewed with the logic of human kinship.

"But what about Aldalian? My lord, he probably won't attack you again, but there's no guarantee that he won't attack the caravan...With his fighting power, no one in the forest can stop him."

Lisa Dilan asked with some concern.

"The things Aldalian said, what kind of big plan? And the son of His Majesty Felgasian... It seems that you really have to ask His Majesty Felgasian, maybe this is what he has always said to human beings. Then the reason for the hostility."

Li Ang looked at Wendy Erfu.

"My lord, I'll go ask now."

Wendy turned around and walked into the forest. She never dragged her feet when she did things.

……

Perhaps the grenade thrown by Li Ang still had some effect. In the next few days, neither Aldalian nor his troops appeared again.

The first batch of merchants also successfully arrived at the market in the forest, and the humans who built the road were not attacked.

But Leon still felt uneasy, because Neuer had sent news that Aldalian's troops still hadn't returned to his territory.

He seems to have disappeared completely and no one knows where he went.

However, it is a good thing that no one is making trouble, and the first transaction between White Hart Castle and Noldo has begun to operate on a small scale.

The Noldor actually needed human goods, especially cloth, grain, and spices and living utensils.

These things are lacking in the Noldor Forest.

Books were in short supply, too—the Noldor were intellectuals, but they had difficulty getting human books.

Back then when Wentierf asked Li Ang for his salary, the reason was to buy books to read in human society. Wendy likes to read all kinds of novels very much.

But although the demand is very strong, a new problem has emerged—the Noldor have no money.

To be precise, they don't need money, and they usually don't use a common currency like the dinar.

In fact, from a human point of view, the Noldor elves are very wealthy. Each of them can produce a large amount of high-quality leather, precious medicinal materials, exquisite handicrafts, and even some enchanted equipment.

Long lifespan, there are quite a lot of reserves for many years. In terms of the value of these reserves, every Noldo can be called a rich man.

But the problem is that they haven't used gold and silver currency for hundreds of years, and they don't have the habit of using or saving money-the dinar is not used in the Noldor Forest, and the transactions between the Noldor are basically No currency is required either.

After all, they are very familiar with each other, and the transaction between the Noldor elves is like discussing with friends, it can be done entirely by reputation, and there is no need to spend money at all.

Of course, the Noldor can all realize that dinars are actually needed to trade with humans. They all have culture and can understand the meaning of currency, but they really don't have money in their hands.

Occasionally, I met Noldor elves who could take out a few dirhans, but they were just spoils of war obtained from the slave catchers who entered the forest... Few of them could get out dinars.

This made it possible to barter only in the first place.

But in this way, the trading volume is relatively bleak, because the road has not been repaired yet, and the food and cloth that the Noldor need most are temporarily unable to be sent in on a large scale.

At present, entering the forest requires traversing mountains and mountains in the virgin forest, so the merchants who entered the trade market brought very few commodities, and most of them only brought high-value spices or glass products.

It's okay to barter these things, but the problem is that there are too few of them, and they will be used up in half a day...

At the same time, the merchants did not bring many dinars, so they could not buy too many Noldor crafts and enchanted weapons.

This is not just because the road is difficult to walk, but because businessmen are worried about the safety of the road.

In fact, the Noldor were also willing to exchange their goods for currency, but since neither side brought much money, the transaction volume was naturally not large.

Therefore, the first large-scale transaction between humans and Noldor did not take shape at all, and it seemed a little bit bleak.

In fact, the merchants and the Noldor can all understand, after all, the roads have not been repaired and the goods are not many.

But the lord is quite disappointed - if the trading volume in the early stage of the market is always relatively low, it will not be able to form a demand inertia in the hearts of the Noldor.

This is not a good sign...

The environment will affect people's judgment. The first batch of human merchants came in at a risk. Now the market looks a bit bleak, and the next batch of merchants may not be so motivated.

And if the enthusiasm of human merchants is not high enough, the Noldor will not care too much about this market... If there is a diminishing effect, this market will be meaningless.

This is also the reason why the lord did not intend to operate directly on his own.

Of course, direct marketing can maximize profits, but at the beginning, I didn’t have so much capital and materials, so I couldn’t scale up.

If you want to be a platform, don’t think about taking all the benefits. An open platform can form an exponentially increasing scale effect.

If a market can only be operated on a small scale for a long time, then this market will appear less important, and it will be difficult to make up for it later.

The policies and methods of various trade centers built in many cities are actually okay, but it is often because the initial investment promotion effect is not good, the occupancy rate is dismal at the beginning, and as a result, no one comes later.

This kind of business platform cannot be operated with the basic transaction logic of 'slowly grow from small to large'.

It is necessary to attract more people to come in at the beginning and bring a lot of goods, so that the Noldors can continue to make money, and the merchants can get high profits. Only then will more merchants join in and bring more goods to the lord. A higher return - the return is not just money.

If you can't quickly establish a large-scale trading habit, you won't be able to achieve the ultimate intention of the lord.

What Li Ang wants is to drive transactions between the two ethnic groups, make the Noldors form a transaction dependence, and turn it into a life dependence.

Then, as the controller of commercial output, he can obtain greater benefits in this transaction process-not money, but let the Noldor change their way of life, no longer rely on the output of the forest, but rely on the trading market.

— To be precise, it depends on the lord.

Because this trading market is actually built on Li Ang, the lord himself is now a platform.

He wants the Noldor to never leave this convenient material trading channel built at home, thus kidnapping this ethnic group in his own business platform, and finally can only become his true leader.

This is the real intention of the so-called commerce.

Including Darkfalcon Castle, which was previously claimed in Ravencrow Realm, which is the closest place to both the Misty Mountain People and the Jatu People - Li Ang also planned to do the same.

In order to control a relatively small ethnic group like the Noldor, in fact, it is only necessary to make them rich.

Yes, make them rich.

First supply large quantities of living materials such as food and cloth at low prices, and purchase weapons and handicrafts at high prices in large quantities, so that the Noldor realized that they only need to do what they are best at to live comfortably.

Subsequently, the supply of food and various living materials continued to increase, so that the Noldor lost their desire to independently produce these materials—it was not profitable, and the quality of the goods was not as good as that provided by the lord, so it was more convenient to buy them directly.

Exchanging cheap materials for high-value weapons and equipment will make the Noldor feel that it is a good deal from top to bottom, and it will also make the Noldor be tied to this kind of transaction and cannot turn back.

After they gradually develop this trading habit, most of the Noldor elves will automatically be encouraged to engage in the manufacture of weapons and handicrafts, or change from hunters to scholars or professional fighters-this is what they are good at and can export to the outside world. And it will be bought by Li Ang at a high price.

There would also be many Noldor who would begin to buy from the marketplaces, and trade in retail, and bring supplies to their various peoples.Because this is not only convenient for the clansmen, but also profitable...

Like those retailers at White Hart Castle.

In this way, the output of their living materials will gradually be controlled, and their lifestyles will undergo tremendous changes, but at least they all seem to have produced better and more convenient changes.

And when the lives of the Noldor were controlled by Leon, they would not be able to escape the ship. In order not to interrupt the supply, the Noldor had to accept various demands from the lord—including fighting for him in an all-round way.

In fact, these processes don't take too long. If they are done well, they can be realized in one or two years.

Kidnapping with commercial supply is easier than cultural infiltration, and it pays off faster.

Especially facing the party with a small number of people and unable to export the necessities of life in the market.

In fact, even modern people cannot escape this kind of commercial penetration, especially in some small countries, where the whole people have become dependent on the material supplies of certain big countries.

Especially in some small countries that seem to be very rich, it seems that people live a good life, but the premise is that they must be obedient.

Once disobedient, you will be sanctioned by business...

If the leaders of small countries dare to refuse to accept this, they will often be overthrown by their own people. Maybe the leaders have backbone, but the common people don’t want to suffer under commercial sanctions, let alone change from rich to poor under commercial sanctions.

After all, it only takes one inflation to go from millionaire to penniless...

In fact, the Barkley Empire did exactly that with Mettenheim, but not completely.

If the Barclay Empire can fully purchase the weapons and equipment made by the Mettenheim people at any cost, use dinars to directly attract the vast majority of the Mettenheim people to become blacksmiths, and supply a large amount of low-priced food, so that the farmers have no The income can only be used to forge iron or sell weapons-then it will only take a few years for Mettenheim to be forced to become Barkley's arsenal, and there is no way to think about being independent for too long.

But Barkley couldn't wait to suppress the war, which aroused the people of Mettenheim to resist all-round, and directly cut off the deal between the two parties. This is the thinking habit of traditional feudal countries-always thinking that traitors must be wiped out, But I didn't think there was a more suitable way.

Now that the trading platform in the Noldo Forest is not working properly, Li Ang felt that he might as well take it easy and try again.

(End of this chapter)