Arimodan is the first barrier between the surface and the underground world, so it is a completely militarized city. In addition to the soldiers who can be seen everywhere, they are military dependents.
In order to stabilize the morale of the soldiers, the craftsmen, vendors, and merchants here are all military dependents. You can imagine how difficult it is for spies to infiltrate.
Downton's first impression when he stepped on the street was that there were so few different races, and the air was filled with the unique smell of dwarf mineral powder.
Mining, forging, polishing weapons, and getting drunk, this is the daily life of most dwarves.
Downton and his party were dumbfounded when they saw that there were more than twenty weapon shops and even more blacksmith shops on a 100-meter street.
"I have never done business, but with so many similar shops, won't the business be bleak?" Sissi pointed to her temple. Although she didn't say the next words, everyone understood that if she asked the dwarf again what was his brain?
Not a problem.
"Don't you see the characteristics of those humans?"
Lao Bu finally found an opportunity to show off.
"With gorgeous clothes and arrogant attitude, he is either an aristocrat or a regional steward from a big businessman's family."
Palin replied casually.
"Your Excellency is wise." Old Bu praised him and continued to introduce, "Hobbit City sells underground specialties and receives ordinary merchants, but here it is different. They sell only ordnance, and their foreign trade partners are all businessmen from various countries.
Ministry, some middle-level nobles are not qualified."
The forging craftsmanship of the dwarves is well-known in the Western Continent. Even a three-year-old child knows that the weapons produced by the dwarves are strong and durable, so even if they work all day long, they will not worry about running out of business because the market cannot be saturated at all.
"The forging of ordnance takes a long time, so the supply of goods is always in short supply, even if these blacksmiths are wearing ordinary clothes. If they immigrate to the surface, they will definitely be rich and wealthy."
"puff!"
Palin couldn't help but laugh out loud. He was still a young rich man. It was no problem to work as a blacksmith on the surface. No one would care about selling a few swords. But if it escalated to the arms trade. Even if it was a small transaction, it would be easy to be suppressed to the point of bankruptcy.
They will most likely die from various accidents.
The only people who can do arms business are the nine empires and those wealthy nobles. They won't talk nonsense with you. The weapons in their hands are the best answer.
Downton also had a dark streak in his mind. He still had thousands of sets of Saint Jutland's armors and weapons in his armory. He originally wanted to sell them to recycle the funds and repurchase equipment that could keep up with the times, but ended up using Abagon's armors and weapons.
Even the commercial ability can’t do it.
This kind of trade monopoly cannot be broken easily.
Everyone was watching with emotion as they walked.
"The weapons are really good. You can buy more to reserve."
Sissi was playing with a fine scimitar under the introduction of the shopkeeper, and wanted to buy some for the army. Anyway, she had a lot of money with her and had room for war, so she could definitely do it.
"Boss, prepare 10,000 of these sabers for me!"
After listening to the princess's words, Perin smiled bitterly. He didn't know how to persuade him. Due to his limited status, Old Boo didn't understand some of the inside stories at all. The production capacity of the dwarves could actually keep up with the consumption of the people on the surface, but the supply was always in short supply.
There are no fools in this world. Everyone knows that the less something is, the more valuable it is. The dwarves even deliberately reduce the supply to force customers to bid for it.
"No!"
The boss responded quickly and neatly, "If you wait for a year, you might be able to get it."
"I can offer double the price."
Sissi did a mental calculation and realized that it would not be a loss to double the amount, but the other party still decisively refused.
"Why?"
Even though Sissi is stupid, she still knows that the boss sincerely does not want to sell.
Palin quickly explained what he knew, and added at the end: "For certain goods, it's not that the more you sell, the more money you make, but you need to control the quantity in circulation."
"It's so stupid. There is no conflict between the surface and underground races. No matter how much weapons are sold, all the surface people will be killed in the end. For them, if they sell one more saber, one more surface person may die. This is not something they like to see.
Something?"
Sissi fanned herself with a handkerchief and recounted her thoughts.
"If it were me, I would try my best to sell weapons. These are consumables. Try to occupy the market and let everyone understand that dwarf products are synonymous with excellent weapons. Think about it, the local people are already accustomed to using dwarf weapons. Everyone
How will the dwarf empire’s wealth reach when you have to prepare a few swords?”
The shop owner stood nearby, thought for a moment subconsciously, and was immediately shocked. It is said that there are nearly 10 billion people on the surface. Even if each person only buys one weapon, it is a terrifying number.
"Besides, selling arms also increases influence, making money is secondary."
Seeing everyone pondering, Sissi immediately racked her brains to think and state her own point of view. After seeing the strength of people like Downton and Twilight, she said from the bottom of her heart that Her Highness the Princess, who relies on equipment to bully others, has a small inferiority complex, so
Desperate to prove one's worth.
"Yes, as long as you ensure that the latest forging technology is in your hands, the most sophisticated weapons are only equipped with your own team, and you maintain your technical advantage, you can sell weapons unscrupulously."
Twilight nodded, agreeing with Sissy's view. In fact, she also felt that what the dwarves did was too stupid. There are still idiots in this world who think they sell too many goods. It is simply ridiculous. Even if they are controlled arms, any one
The first thought of a businessman should be to do everything possible to sell them all over the world.
"This is the national policy of the dwarves that has lasted for tens of thousands of years. Anyone else would be bound by this inertia. Think about it. Thousands of years ago, the forging technology was incomparable to what it is now. The production capacity was limited, so we could only adopt this method.
They used various means to earn high prices, and the profits have been good until now, so they have never thought about correcting it."
Downton couldn't help but laugh. In his dream, he had seen major arms countries cutting prices, and even changing the appearance and performance of weapons in compliance with customers' requirements. They did everything they could to sell weapons to every corner of the world.
"There is never a shortage of buyers for weapons. To those primitive tribes who still use wooden sticks, you sell the worst hatchets. To the orcs who are short of mineral veins, you sell them cheap products to fool them."
Seeing that her views were recognized, Sissi was immediately a little excited and kept up her efforts, "If it were me, I would assassinate and bribe those leaders. If I couldn't provoke a national war, I would provoke family wars and regional conflicts, and turn the whole world into a
Powder keg, as long as the war continues, weapons can continue to be sold."
Ahem!
A sudden cough interrupted Sissi.
"What's wrong?"
Her Royal Highness was puzzled. She found that Downton and Twilight were not the only ones coughing. Even Perrin and Boo were coughing hard to disturb her.
"This topic is too heavy, let's change it to another one!"
Palin was sweating profusely. Her Highness the Princess is too kind and has not been exposed to these dark sides. Are the conflicts and wars over religion, territory, and even inheritance rights really as simple as they appear? I don’t know how many arms there are. Businessmen are behind it, adding fuel to the fire.
Downton and Twilight glanced at the shopkeeper covertly and found that his face was filled with excitement. He kept wiping the oily sweat on his forehead. When Sissi stopped, they quickly urged, "What is this customer's opinion?" It’s very unique, please continue and it will open the eyes of this ignorant underground native like me.”
If it weren't for the fact that these customers were all surface people, the shopkeeper would have been anxious to write down what he heard, fearing that he would be exposed.
Downton looked at Twilight and touched his neck with his right hand.
Twilight nodded, such people must not be allowed to stay. In fact, the dwarves are already doing this kind of dark deeds, but they are unable to achieve significant results due to racial barriers.
At the national level, there is never right or wrong, only interests. Those surface arms dealers are also resisting the intervention of dwarf arms dealers. The surface forces cannot fight for too much. If the dwarves come out to take advantage, it cannot be tolerated.
She couldn't dig too deep into anything. With Twilight's status, she had read some information and knew that several families were secretly agents supported by the dwarves and responsible for the arms trade.
For thousands of years, the dwarves have never given up invading the surface of the earth. However, their plans have been constantly frustrated. In addition, the recent dwarf kings have no ambitions and no elite talents to support them. They have gradually settled down.
"The birth of any king with great talent and strategy will inevitably bring about war. This has been the case since ancient times."
Twilight shook her head and sighed. In fact, killing the dwarf shopkeeper would not help, but she just didn't want to stop Downton's intention.
Because there are too many races in the Western Continent, racial discrimination and conflicts are everywhere. However, when people from underground or on the surface face invasions from the other side, their respective races will unite to resist each other. And when facing plane invasion wars, The surface and underground races will also unite to jointly resist the invasion of foreign enemies.
"Twilight has this kind of knowledge, she is definitely not an ordinary person."
Homer reminded Downton that with the education level of the Western Continent, the literacy rate is less than 50%, and Twilight's performance proves that she is definitely from a big family.
Downton didn't bother to inquire about Twilight's origins. He suddenly discovered a way to make money and was thinking about how sure he was.
"Are you going to be an arms agent?" The Cheap God suddenly guessed Downton's plan, "Are you planning to drag Twilight along to do it?"
"Yes, Bavarian Rose, isn't the background big enough?"
Downton was very excited. Raising an army cost money, and those big-bellied ogres would scare him.
"Ignorance, in the arms business, in addition to humane destruction, there are many commercial methods that can bankrupt people. Can you afford it?" Homer despised, Downton's plan was too unreliable.
"I have Abagong. If it is not enough, I will continue to recruit talents. Besides, isn't the army just for fighting? Instead of raising ogres for nothing, why not release them to compete for the market?"
Downton is not afraid of using force to seize the market. The ogre's ugly appearance is naturally suitable for the job of a thug.
"Sissi, I've thought of a big deal, do you want to join me?"
As soon as he thought of it, Downton immediately attracted the princess, his harmless smile was like a fox wandering outside the vineyard. (To be continued...)