Lord Highlander

Businessman Malacombe sat in the living room on the first floor of the small building in the garrison camp, lowering his head and thinking about the future path of the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group.

Suldak and Great Swordsman Chester sat on the other two groups of sofas. On the table in front of them were delicate bone china teacups. The black tea inside was steaming, and Malacombe's thoughts drifted away with the steam. .

The Thunder Rhino Merchant Group was inherited by Malacolm from his father.

The Thunder Rhino business group he took over at the beginning was still the largest trading group in the Bailin plane. In just 20 years, the business of the business group has shrunk from covering the entire Bailin plane to only operating in the south of Wilkes City. The entire northern region was carved up by other business groups.

In order to reduce costs and unnecessary expenses, Malacom has continuously reduced the number of Thunder Rhinoceros, so as to ensure the full business volume of the remaining Thunder Rhinoceros caravans.

But even so, his Thunder Rhino Merchant Group continued to decline every year.

At present, there are large pastures in the northern part of the Bailin plane, and the lords do not lack cavalry, so the nobles have already formed their own business groups.

Thunder rhino transportation has no competitiveness at all.

Now some business groups in Wilkes City have begun to infiltrate into the southern occupied area of ​​Wilkes City, gradually occupying the southern market.

If it weren't for the beast horde, the merchant Malakom might have already started to compete with those small business groups for the southern market.

A small group of ghost-striped red ants penetrated into the northern area of ​​Bailin, and the horse team couldn't stop the ambush of the ghost-striped red ants. Conscripted by the military to transport combat supplies and support the northern border town.

This incident has already caused dissatisfaction among many elders in the family. Recently, he can only try his best to quell the family disputes caused by this incident.

It's not that he doesn't want to be a military supplier.

In fact, business groups can only get some stable transportation business if they have a military background.

When the Bena people opened up the Bailin plane, the opportunity for the Thunder Rhino business group to enter the Bailin plane was because the Thunder Rhino could carry various materials in complex terrain.

The lords of the Bena province fought in the Bailin plane, and gradually opened up a piece of land with a radius of nearly a thousand kilometers.

However, Malakom's great-grandfather died on the battlefield of opening up the territory. His grandfather was also seriously injured when he was leading a caravan to deliver supplies to the front line. He died not long after returning home, and his father was on the way to transport supplies. lost two legs...

In his generation, the only condition for inheriting the Thunder Merchant Group is to promise not to be a military merchant group.

I thought of my father holding his hand before he died and saying: "Malakom, I know you...you are the same as me when I was young. You want to grow the business group. I don't care what you do, but you must Don't be a military merchant group, they always want to send the Thunder Rhino Behemoth to the front line, hey... I don't want to wait until you lose something before you know regret...'

There was a rush of horseshoes outside the window, and a group of cavalry passed by the window, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Malakom withdrew his thoughts, held his teacup to his mouth and blew, and then asked Suldak: "Baron Suldak, you said that you want to buy these sixteen remodeled Thunder Rhino... ...?"

There was some bitterness and reluctance in his voice, but there was a kind of determination in his eyes.

Suldak and Chester Great Swordsman looked at each other, and then said: "That's right, but if you want to become an accompanying merchant group, we welcome it very much. The Luthor Legion will continue on the Bailin plane. Stationed for a period of time, I can help you apply for the most convenient conditions, and... aren't we doing trade now?"

After he finished speaking, he paused again, and then continued: "This is actually no different from the military business group."

The businessman Malakom rubbed his temples, and took another sip of the teacup to his lips. He put down the teacup and said to Suldak, "I've decided to sell these sixteen thunder rhinos to you!"

Regarding Malacombe's decision, not only Suldak was stunned, but the great swordsman Chester was also surprised.

Previously, Suldak proposed to the businessman Malakom that he wanted to take over the 16 Thunder Rhinos. He would not only return all the transformation costs of the 23 Thunder Rhinos, but also buy the 16 Thunder Rhinos at the original price.

For such a huge transaction, Suldak thought about it and said, "In this case, I can pay you 1,600 magic crystals with sixteen thunder rhinos, the epic sharp bow and the previous debt... "

This amount of money is equivalent to the cost of ten sets of elementary magic pattern constructions, and Suldak found that he was actually far away from constructing the Knights.

"Originally, I wanted to earn some more money, buy some magic-weave structures, and form a knight order!" Suldak said with a smile.

Chester Great Swordsman was astonished, and then said:

"Forming a Constructed Knight Order? I'm afraid it's really difficult. Not only is it difficult to buy a magic pattern structure, but those war horses are also hard to find. Even if the Grand Duke Newman wants to buy a black scaled horse, he has to go to Salta himself. Duke, in addition to this, you also need to consider the daily maintenance of these magic-weave structures, and each knight order must have a full-time inscriber... That's an inscriber! Not a magician that can be seen everywhere in the magic union."

Suldak just said it casually, but he didn't expect the great swordsman Chester to know so well.

Suldak sighed softly, and said: "So...every Constructed Knight Order can show the true background of a noble and wealthy family."

Malakom smiled and said to Suldak: "Of course, to independently form a construction knight order, not counting the salary paid to the construction knights, just the establishment will cost at least a million gold coins."

"If the knights have weapons at hand and only need to prepare war horses and magic pattern constructions, then at least 800,000 gold coins will be needed, and so many first-rank knights will be found. Is there any reason why there are no noble lords with a certain reputation? follow?"

The three of them talked about constructing the Knights, and Suldak discovered that implanting the magic pattern of life may be another way. Although the magic pattern printed on the body is worse than the magic pattern construction, it is better than life. The cost of magic pattern is not high.

Suldak spent a huge amount of money to buy these thunder rhinos, not to form a caravan and prepare to start commercial trade on the Bailin plane.

His idea is to form a group of archers with mobile turrets, which can also serve as a logistics team. These modified Thunder Rhinos can completely become giant war beasts on the battlefield.

The only trouble is that these thunder rhinos eat a lot.

The wheat bran, hay, and bean cake pressed from beans that need to be eaten every day will cost a lot of money just for these forages.

Alfalfa is everywhere in the town of Dodan, and there is no need to spend anything, but wheat bran and beans need to be purchased from merchants.

The two sat on the sofa on the first floor and discussed for a whole afternoon, finally finalizing the deal.

Suldak took out a magic contract scroll, and entered into some transaction terms with the businessman Malakom, and both parties signed their names on it.

After sending away the businessman Malakom, the great swordsman Chester finally realized a problem: Where did the money in Suldak's hand come from.

Before coming to the Bailin plane, Marquis Luther was worried that Suldak would not be able to afford the military expenses for setting up a cavalry battalion, so he secretly started a new cavalry battalion.

It's just that there are some differences with Suldak on some employment concepts, so the new army of the cavalry battalion was not pulled to the Bailin plane in the end.

After thinking about it, I finally thought about those carapaces placed on the grass slopes outside the town... Thinking about it, there will be a magic spar behind each piece of carapace, covering the grass slopes with red ants. There must be at least thousands of armor skins.

These days, the cavalry battalion went to the hills and mountains almost every day to hunt the red ants.

But seeing the way these cavalrymen hunted the ghost-striped red ants, the great swordsman Chester was not surprised... that's how it should be.

...

In order to complete the deal, Suldak had no choice but to transport the wooden boxes full of magic cores back to the small building, and then took Gulitum, who was eating and drinking, to gamble with the veterans in the cavalry battalion. Andrew, who was practicing archery on the archery range, and Samira and others worked together to unlock all these magic cores.

Fortunately, Suldak has the 'Eye of Reality', and can see the outline of the magic spar inside through the hard skin of the magic core.

The magic core that Suldak picked out by himself basically contained formed magic crystals.

The remaining ones contain incomplete magic crystals, and they can only be made into magic crystal fragments. Now there is no time to deal with these magic cores, so they have to put them all back into the box.

Early the next morning, Suldak brought 1,600 magic spar to the campsite of the Thunder Rhino caravan, and completed the deal with Malakom.

In the future, the two sides will continue to cooperate closely.

The business of transporting hard armor leather has to be handed over to the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group. Suldak has recently accumulated a large number of hard armor leather, and through Hailansa's leather workshop, Suldak has already completed 500 pieces of leather. All the war horses were put on hard leather armor made of soldier ant leather.

The 500 sets of hanging armor made of black iron are all eliminated, and will be sold by the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group in Malakom.

This time Malakom also brought ten single-product magic pattern structures and one hundred magic weapons. Suldak will also pay the merchant Malakom six hundred magic crystals. He couldn't stop patting his forehead, thinking about the magic spar he owed...whether he should use those magic spar fragments to pay off the debt.

At the same time, Suldak also asked Malakom to help him train some local aboriginal herdsmen to become the drivers of Thunder Rhinoceros.

In addition, he was asked to buy some bed crossbows from the magic market and install them on the platform on the back of Thunder Rhino.

The number of thunder rhinos has increased to eighteen, and it is impossible for Suldak to remove all the remaining thirty-two bed crossbows on the north city wall...

...

The second batch of hard armor leather shipped to Bena City has been loaded, and all of them have been loaded into the shelves of the Thunder Rhino Caravan, and they are about to depart from Duodan Town.

The businessman Malakom is taking his entourage to do the final inventory work. These hard armors will be transported to Bena City and handed over to the Brunei manager of the Gophero family.

At the same time, a large amount of fresh ghost-striped male ant monster meat was brought to Shan De, the butcher shop owner.

Hathaway and Beatrice will also leave Dodan with the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group, and their short vacation is over.

Although they hoped that they could stay and help him handle the affairs in the town, Hathaway and Beatrice considered for three nights before deciding to return to Bena City.

Great swordsman Chester will also rush to Wilkes City with the Thunder Rhino Merchant Group.

...

Suldak stood on the hard carapace of the ghost-striped drone near the entrance on the south side of the town.

The Lei Ting Rhino Merchant Group walked away with heavy steps, amidst the rumbling roar.

The scent of roses after Beatrice and Hathaway's passionate kiss still remained on his lips. Suldak withdrew his gaze from a distance, and jumped off the hard carapace of the male ant more than two meters high. .

He knew that the two fiancées would not stay this time.

Before the wedding, there may not be too many meetings.

This time, Marquis Luther stuffed himself into the army under his command, making it clear that he came here to make meritorious deeds.

Now this feat has been accumulated, as long as this beast tide is over, the award for promotion to the title should be passed down.

Marquis Luther needs to hold a decent and grand wedding for his daughter. There is nothing lacking. The only thing he lacks is Suldak's status. Obviously, as a baron, marrying the beloved daughter of the Marquis's family is always a little bit awkward. Not decent enough.

Suldak guessed that he might become a viscount in one fell swoop.

It's just that I didn't expect that the army garrison would get so many benefits.

Marquis Luther had never mentioned information about the Bailin plane before, and he was obviously testing Suldak, as much as he had ability, he would get as much benefit...

It's no wonder that noble lords are scrambling to squeeze into the plane.

Sure enough, the richness here is much better than the sulfur mines in Pustout Mountain...

...

Hathaway and Beatrice stood on the platform on Thunder Rhino's back, holding on to the wooden railing, and the town of Dodan in the distance became smaller and smaller.

Thunder Rhino walked very smoothly.

Standing on Thunder Rhino's back, Hathaway's golden curly hair was messed up by the breeze on the prairie. She covered her long hair with her hands, and Beatrice took out a scarf to help her wrap her long hair.

The corners of Hathaway's mouth curled up slightly, showing a sweet smile, she turned her head and hugged the chubby Beatrice tightly, and said softly:

"This is his life, and it will be our life."

Beatrice was obviously a little dull, and didn't quite understand the meaning of Hathaway's words, and asked, "How long will he be stationed here?"

Hathaway smiled sweeter, and her eyes fell on the top of the towering snow peaks of the Thorny Mountains in the distance. The thick clouds were like a pile of pure white wool piled together.

"It's possible that it will be stationed forever."

"Why?" asked Beatrice.

"This may no longer be a border town. The empire of the Bailin Plane will continue to extend north to the Invercargill Forest. I am afraid that two mines will be opened there in the future. He will take the Invercargill Forest After opening up, at least one-third of this forest and this large area of ​​hills and mountains belong to him." Hathaway whispered to Beatrice.

"What about these ghost-striped red ants? That forest is not as dangerous as the Thorny Mountains. How can we defend it when the beast swarm comes?" Beatrice covered her mouth in surprise and said in a low voice.

"That may be a long time later, but we have to prepare early." Hathaway pulled Beatrice into the wooden house, sat on the bench and said relaxedly: "I want to go back to Bena City, so I will start to check information on this."

"Okay! Let's go together..."