Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 79 79Small Business

"Boss, the carriage of Miss Ronin Alice, the Earl's daughter, has just arrived at the main entrance." A guard hurried over, lowered his voice, and leaned into Tang Mo's ear to report.

Tang Mo was stunned for a moment, then looked at the other party: "Why is she here? Are you sure it's her?"

"Yes! As soon as she came, she sent people to find Tiger. It shouldn't be a lie." The guard immediately replied.

Hearing what the other party said, Tang Mo nodded. Since he was looking for Tiger when he came here, it was obviously not a fake.

So he apologized and made a rude gesture to the excited John, and then looked at the guard who came to deliver the news: "Just right, let Tiger accompany her to look around, there are no secrets here anyway! Let Bernard lead people to keep an eye on my laboratory, no one is allowed to come near it!”

"Yes!" The guard saluted with the same military salute as the students, and then immediately turned around and ran away.

“Miss!” Tiger, who rushed out immediately upon receiving the notification, hurriedly ran out. After seeing Alice at the door, he greeted her loudly.

"Tiger! How are you? Are you doing well here?" Alice took her hands out of her gloves, handed them to the housekeeper casually, and then asked with a smile.

“Of course, Miss, everything is fine here!” Tiger stood at attention and held his head high, showing off his strong body: “Why did you come to Bunas?”

 Alice tilted her head and looked at Tiger: "What? Can't I come here?"

"No! Miss, you...I mean, of course you...can come here!" Tiger said incoherently. He didn't know what he was nervous about, but he was very nervous anyway.

"When did he get together with the elves of the Poplar Kingdom?" Alice was about to walk inside when she suddenly saw a group of sailors standing inside the gate.

These sailors were obviously not wearing the bright yellow sailor uniforms of the Kingdom of Wright, so Alice recognized their origins at a glance—these sailors were all from the Kingdom of Poplar.

"They just arrived here today. Tang Mo sold his K1 gun to the elves..." Tiger replied with a blush, as if it was entirely his fault that he failed to prevent Tang Mo from completing the deal. Same.

"Why not?" Alice thought for a few seconds, then looked at Tiger with a smile and said, "You have to know, these elves are very rich."

She, who has always been engaged in economics, naturally knows that whether it is Beiling or Tang Mo now, what they lack is not K1 fast guns or other weapons. What they lack is actually gold coins!

 Guns cannot solve all problems. With food, economy, money and guns, a perfect closed loop can be formed.

The transaction between Tang Mo and Beiling cannot form such a perfect closed loop, because the slow development cannot support Tang Mo and Beiling to face the enemies they are about to face.

So Tang Mo can get extra funds or more supplies from the elves, which is obviously beneficial to Tang Mo and Beiling.

Because of this, Alice, who looked at Tang Mo's actions at the moment from an economic point of view, naturally understood Tang Mo.

Tiger nodded dejectedly: "I know that we in Beiling have always wanted to establish a relationship with these elves before, but they are not short of resources. They even come here to sell ore and wood every time."

As Alice walked into the gate, she said to Tiger behind her: "But Tang Mo has something they like. They need weapons and machines... These are things that could not be bought with gold coins before."

"Yes, Tang Mo...has what they want." Tiger followed Alice helplessly, not thinking there was anything wrong with Alice walking into the factory on her own.

The housekeeper who was following Alice spoke at this time, took over Alice's words, and said with emotion: "So, Tang Mo will probably squeeze a lot of money out of these elves this time."

Alice made a little calculation and guessed how much money Tang Mo could earn: "The elves' income is probably between 20,000 and 40,000, and Tang Mo estimates that they can pay at least half of the gold coins."

Unfortunately, she guessed wrong because she didn't guess what Tang Mo actually sold. However, based solely on the numbers she guessed, compared with Tang Mo's income from gun sales, the numbers are quite accurate.

Hearing this number, Tiger on the side was slightly startled, and even his steps were a little staggered: "So many?"

The housekeeper followed Alice with a smile, looked at Tiger and said, "Is that much? If he takes out the K1 gun, the elves will probably be willing to give out 10,000 gold coins! Just a lot more!"

Tiger didn’t know what to say, so he could only demonstrate his embarrassment with a dry laugh: “Haha!”

Alice walked forward and continued her analysis: "If he even took out the revolver, he would probably be able to get these elves to come up with 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins..."

"Then he can be said to be very rich now." The housekeeper reminded Alice unconsciously. Beiling's current economic situation is not very good. Due to the problem of unsalable food and the secret operations of the Cyric Consortium, Beiling's economy has actually been very difficult.

After spending more on purchasing Tang Mo's weapons, the earl's income decreased again - most of the output was circulated to Tang Mo in the form of barter, so Alice came here in person to distribute the goods. Nass wanted to see if he could use the credit situation to take away more than 5 steam engine equipment from Tang Mo.

Thinking of this, Alice nodded absently: "Yes, very... very rich. Almost half of the profits from the elves' sea trade went into his pocket."

At this time, she really thought about it and got a loan from Tang Mo, plus some mechanical equipment, to alleviate the economic pressure on Beiling in winter.

So, she murmured to herself: "Maybe, I will borrow some gold coins from him this time for the winter."

Suddenly, she came back to her senses and looked at Tiger: "Where is he? Take me there!"

Alice didn’t say who he was, but Tiger knew who he was referring to. So Tiger immediately took Alice to the No. 3 workshop where revolvers were produced.

 Tang Mo and John had just finished visiting the workshop where Tang Mo produced bullets, and were now visiting the factory building where revolvers were produced.

 The environment here is obviously better than that of the two old factories. There are glass windows all around, making it look brighter.

 Similarly, the machines here are also newer and the supporting facilities are more complete. John can see the difference between this place and the previous two old factories at a glance.

 Obviously, the standards here are higher and the layout is more reasonable. The workers here were also more proficient, and the speed at which they assembled revolvers made John feel dizzy.

Just as he was imagining that he could build a factory like this in his own country and watch his workers produce revolvers so quickly, he saw a beautiful girl walking in with all her might. .

Her long legs were really impressive, and at the same time, her graceful figure made John couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Tang Mo followed John's gaze and saw the stunning Alice. To be honest, he met countless people before traveling through time, but he rarely saw such a beautiful girl.

Just because of her figure and appearance, Tang Mo before time travel didn't mind making her a movie star. Even the moment he saw Alice, Tang Mo thought of his beautiful life a few years later.

 She is really only 16 years old? Tang Mo cursed, and then heard John next to him say a flattering compliment: "Ah! Such a beautiful lady, you must be the brightest pearl in this kingdom."

"Thank you!" Alice walked up to her and gave her a graceful salute. She was generous and full of nobility: "Nice to meet you. My name is Alice, Ronin Alice. I belong to Earl Ronin Fisherow. The eldest daughter."

“I am also very pleased to meet you! I am Augustine John, and my father is Augustine Williams, Duke of Poplar Kingdom.”

“I didn’t expect Miss Alice to come here in such a big way. I’m really rude not to be able to greet you.” Tang Mo smiled and stretched out his hand, took the back of Alice’s hand, and gave a symbolic hand kiss near her mouth.

Alice smiled and nodded to Tang Mo, and said politely: "I took the liberty of disturbing you and came uninvited. I hope Mr. Tang won't be offended."

Although she said this, she looked at John: "Mr. John is here for business, right? I don't know, are you two willing to let me listen?"

"In fact, the conversation is over, Miss Alice." John shrugged and said, "Originally, I should have invited you to have dinner with me, but now I am penniless and even gave him my favorite ring. So. …This meal may be a treat for Mr. Tang Mo.”

"I'm very happy." Tang Mo didn't mind treating his two big customers to a good meal: "I wonder what you two want to eat?"

"It doesn't matter what you eat. I'm curious as to how much money he spent on you and why he even gave you a personal ring." Alice looked at Tang Mo curiously and asked tentatively.

John seemed to be deliberately digging a hole for Tang Mo, and immediately rushed to answer: "I spent hundreds of thousands of gold coins here...not just my ring, I even gave him the fleet!"

"What, what?" Even Alice didn't expect this ending. She widened her beautiful big eyes and looked at Tang Mo with fluttering eyelashes: "What fleet?"

"Ahem..." Tang Mo pretended to cough, looking humble as if he didn't deserve a beating: "It's a small business, just a small business."

 (End of this chapter)