Chapter 439: The Empty City
These successive opportunities can be said to be coincidences or to some butterfly effects caused by my previous behavior.
Without other external interference, the simple cycle of these craftsmen and merchants will only cause idle production and operation, and the goods will be sold from craftsmen to merchants, and raw materials will be sold from merchants to craftsmen. It won’t take long. This temporarily prosperous market will go bankrupt due to the singleness of the demand side, and eventually leave some incomplete industries, just like the failed investment promotion in many small and medium-sized cities...
But Burnett is not a fool. On the contrary, he is a businessman who once was in charge of foreign trade in Shisongzhuang. Even if this village does not have a marshal who is good at repairing toilets, he will not even be clear about the basic supply and demand relationship.
Therefore, Burnett made up his mind to implement the "trade strategy secretly formulated by Boss Zophie". Therefore, he contacted merchants and craftsmen representatives and sent the 460 Legion to actively maintain market order and optimize the business environment. On the other hand, he took the initiative to go south on the familiar business road to contact the old acquaintance Shanshu clan, trying to persuade these stubborn barbarians to participate in this trade activity covering the entire Gobi.
Burnett set out for fifteen days. During these fifteen days, the 460 Legion encountered something even more strange...
When the Lion Legion was patrolling, while escorting the merchants away from the "Mickey House", they suddenly encountered a group of aggressive pirates in the Saber Water Bay. They surrounded them without saying a word and demanded that all the goods be handed over.
Although the number of the two is similar, there are only seven or eight combatants in the Lion Legion, and with the veteran guards of the caravan, there are only more than a dozen combat powers. If you fight hard, you will only suffer heavy losses.
Just when the two were in a stalemate, a rain of arrows suddenly came from behind the pirates, catching them off guard.
The one who appeared was the leader of the Erwuzi who led the slave division of the Anti-Lightning Army and went out to train in actual combat to fight Qiufeng.
After the two of them made a round, Eaton keenly felt that something was wrong. How could the pirates who had never violated the river suddenly take the initiative to attack?
After the sent scouts responded to the situation, they realized that there was a misunderstanding in Saber Water Bay. After three days of retracting the defense, they finally realized that they were a fool. So they were so angry that they sent pirates to attack everywhere, trying to save face.
In addition to the pirates who tracked the free trade zone, they accidentally sniped by mistake, the rest of them took the initiative to attack the loader's collar, launched a tide-like attack outside the collapsed city wall, and successfully entered the city, achieving a goal that had not been achieved for more than 20 years.
Finally, after the cavalry troops fought back to death, they barely repelled the attack, but paid the price of serious damage to the workshop area and the commercial area - these thieves may have average combat effectiveness, but they are top-notch masters when robbery and destruction. The consequence of fire prevention everywhere was that it took another day and night to complete the disaster relief.
The big merchants in the city were furious about this matter and asked the lord to repay their losses. Otherwise, they would truthfully report their experience to the faction leaders and tell them that the fortress in the Gobi Desert is now just a mere example.
The two sides' quarrels lasted for two days, but the lord did not notice that there were any more dangerous phenomena in the territory...
Out of strategic considerations, Eaton took the initiative to attack several pirates. While showing his fists, he had to expose the virtual and real forces in the free trade zone, and barely gained time.
During this period, a large number of craftsmen from all walks of life in the territory used the name of collecting raw materials from the city to escape to the free trade zone and defected to relatives and friends who had already established workshops.
Their logic is also very simple: the originally safe loader collar has now been broken twice, and this time the craftsmen suffered heavy losses. Isn’t it natural to relocate to a safer free trade zone where strong people are in charge?
After nearly two hundred craftsmen fled in a row, the lord also discovered that something was wrong and tried to suppress the hearts of the people with force.
But this time, the means he used was ineffective.
Because he found that the originally honest businessmen and craftsmen showed an extremely tough attitude.
The merchants said: If you cut off the road to the free trade zone, they will stop all business transactions and move out of the territory immediately and leave this dangerous area.
The craftsmen said: The merchants are right! If they don’t come to purchase things and provide raw materials, they can only stop production and everyone will die together!
In the face of constant external attacks, the demand for war materials in the territory was particularly prominent, and the lord could only grit his teeth and agree to their requests, invisibly accepting the fact that he was kidnapped by the bourgeoisie.
When Burnett returned with the skeptical Gannen, he happened to encounter this wave of industrial transfer.
Both Cannon and Burnett were stunned by the prosperous scene before them.
The trade behaviors that are usually strictly controlled by the territory have almost no restrictions here, and the enthusiasm of business and the power of capital are almost infinitely amplified, just like a pot of boiling water, which seems extremely prosperous!
In my eyes, this is to accept the industrial dividends that have been accumulated for many years by the loader. A group of productive skilled craftsmen and hot capital have been reduced from the sky, and catalyzed the free trade zone market, which was originally just a prototype, into a very complete industrial chain.
When capital has self-circulation and begins to replicate itself, it will begin to invade omnipresent, and its speed and scale will be beyond imagination.
The merchants who left quickly discovered the contradiction between the Loading Hand Corps and the Pirates of the Saber Water Bay. When the territorial industrial zones became hollowed out, the Loading Hand Corps still had to recruit troops and expand their troops. The armed army must rely on the equipment produced by the merchants.
At this time, the seller's market belonging to the free trade zone, the lords could no longer interfere with the production plans of the craftsmen. Therefore, the old blacksmith and the merchant representatives quickly formed a joint force, and took advantage of the continuous desert encounters between the two sides, sold steel weapons and armor, and made a fortune.
Under this stimulation, Gann immediately stated that a new leader had been elected in the clan. He was confident that he would convince the new leader to open the market of the Shanshu clan to them and share this delicious big cake together - the Shanshu clan is proud of his blood? It's so fragrant!
When the free trade zone was rising rapidly, the lords of the loader's lords had countless proposals to talk to me, but all of them were politely rejected by Burnett.
Although Burnett didn't know where I went, this cruel and vicious lord must have asked for it, it must be no good thing.
Under this situation, the lord of the Loading Hand Corps also tried to change this situation - in the second month, he led hundreds of newly established cavalrymen to the tavern in a mighty manner, trying to promote force, suppress the arrogance of the free trade zone, and capture these craftsmen.
When the cavalry surrounded the territory, Eaton once again played an important role.
After he and the 460th Legion secretly planned, they decided to evacuate all the troops in the tavern without any reservation. Anyway, no matter whether it is the Counter Lightning Army or the 460th Legion, they don’t have much chance of winning when they encounter cavalry.
Eaton's method is also very simple: let the zero lion, four-legged chicken, and six-wheeled faces, take turns wearing my whole body armor, a stone war mask, and a steel halberd in his hand, and sit in the tavern in turn, pretending to be me sitting in the room, without saying a word, cosplaying a senior otaku.
And the people outside continued to play music and dance, and everything was fine as usual.
Eton said with great certainty that even if the lord guessed that it might be fake, he would find that he could not afford to bet this time. Because the merchants thought it was true, the craftsmen thought it was true, and even the privateers under his command looked at the armor tremblingly, thinking it was true.
Even if the lord exposes the fake goods in front of him, Saber Water Bay will not let go of the fat meat in front of him easily.
On the contrary, once the production of the free trade zone stops due to collapse, the weapons of the loader's corpse will be greatly affected. The final result will be that pirates roar out of the coastal base, harvesting all the wealth on the land, and finally leaving behind a piece of corpse and ruins.
Chapter completed!