Lord of the North

Compared to continuing to win over Rodney, the large amount of food still attracted the attention of the dwarves, so after a brief struggle, they immediately let go of the small detail that Beowulf had just interrupted their conversation.

But the expressions of the dwarves are still a little awkward, because Beowulf, who has a lot of food, has undoubtedly grasped a weakness of the dwarves.

"The dwarf friend's forging technology has always been highly sought after in legends, and His Royal Highness Jason is very interested in it." Beowulf glanced at them, and then said lightly.

The meaning of this sentence is already obvious, either exchange for technology, or exchange for completed weapons and equipment.

Technology Rodney has handed over everything except the core to the blacksmiths of Iron Fang Collar, but they still have many shortcomings compared with dwarves.

This is one of the reasons why Beowulf would make this request. He wanted to use these dwarves as labor for the iron teeth.

And pull them into Jason's chariot. If other forces pull them away, Beowulf will have a headache, and maybe he will risk offending Rodney to shut them up forever.

Because this group of dwarves has not come into contact with other human forces for the time being, but it will be hard to say in the future.

"We can exchange finished weapons and equipment with you, and you can set the price." Elder Hughton and Yatlin looked at each other, and then said solemnly.

It's just that this sentence reveals that they don't know how to negotiate business. How can they let the other party decide the price?

Beowulf was also stunned when he heard this sentence, but fortunately, his purpose was to subdue these dwarves and finally achieve the purpose of bringing them under Jason's command, so he didn't intend to entrap them, otherwise the gain would outweigh the loss.

Take a long-term view.

So he smiled, and then kindly reminded: "It's better for you to offer a suitable price."

This made Rodney couldn't help but glanced at him. Although he usually looked carefree, his thoughts were still very delicate, so he immediately noticed his plan, and felt a little tangled for a while.

Because this is really not good or bad for the Bronzebeard tribe, but for Jason's benefit, and he doesn't want to make himself feel guilty afterwards, so he sat where he was and didn't say a word.

It is true that the Bronzebeard tribe has great benefits in joining Jason's command. At least they don't have to worry about food and safety, but they are also easy to get involved in some disturbances.

Unless they don't leave the ice field, these concerns can be avoided to the greatest extent, but this is obviously unrealistic. Once they join Jason's command, some of the tribe will definitely go to the Iron Fang collar.

The dwarves of the Bronzebeard tribe looked at each other. Although they didn't think so much, they still felt that something was wrong with Beowulf, but in their opinion, no matter how they traded with him, it would be good for the Bronzebeard tribe.

It's just that the biggest headache now is that they don't understand how precious these grains are to Beowulf, let alone how important the equipment forged by the dwarves is to him, so it's not easy to bid.

"How about a weapon of this quality in exchange for ten catties of food?" Finally, Elder Atrin took a short sword from a dwarf warrior with some hesitation, and handed it to Beowulf with a worried expression on his face. .

Beowulf's eyes lit up, he took the dagger that looked a bit simple, flicked the blade lightly, and immediately came to a conclusion.

The quality of this kind of weapon is a grade higher than that of the standard weapons of the Iron Fang Leader Army today. Although the forging techniques are similar, the craftsmen's forging skills are quite different.

"I'm not the kind of profiteer who does business."

Beowulf put down the dagger in his hand, pondered for a while, and then slowly said under the anxious eyes of the dwarves: "I can exchange fifty catties of grain for a weapon, and five hundred catties of grain for a weapon." A set of armor, if it were not for the high cost and risk of transporting it from the inland,

This price can be doubled. "

What he said made Rodney on the side a little stunned. The grain is only how much a catty, and the weapons forged by these dwarves are probably more than three times the price?

He actually said that he is not a profiteer. Although the transportation cost is too high, if the price is doubled, the iron tooth collar will be a big advantage, but he didn't say it, because this price is for the dwarves who are in urgent need of food, dried fruits and other supplies. It is very fair.

"this……"

Elder Hughton struggled. Although he could feel from Rodney's expression that Beowulf might have lowered the price, the dwarf had made a lot of money.

So he felt that he owed such a big favor, and if Beowulf made any request in the future, they would not be able to refuse.

"We agreed."

Before Elder Hughton could speak, Yatlin slapped the table and gritted his teeth to agree.

Then he turned his head and looked at Elder Hughton: "There is nothing to hesitate. If Beowulf and the others want to harm us, do you think our Bronzebeard Castle has the ability to resist?"

The fully armed regular army in the outpost fortress has a total of 3,000 people, of which 1,000 are from Iron Tooth Town, 500 are from Erbia Town, 500 are from Lucca City, and the remaining 1,000 troops are from the supporters of Jia. Sen's Lucca province big and small nobles.

The officials and generals among them all came from these places, and some of them were even the heirs of these nobles. This was to show their loyalty to Jason.

And these three thousand troops received Beowulf's rigorous training for several months before coming to the north, and experienced several bloody battles.

Although those war machines were of no great use to the dwarves in the ground, it was not something that the entire Bronzebeard tribe, men, women, old and young, could resist.

Elder Hughton thought about it for a while, and this was also the case. Because of the lack of supplies for hundreds of years, the size of the Bronzebeard tribe has shrunk greatly, and they have long been unable to make any decent resistance.

"Then shall we sign a contract?"

Beowulf asked, actually he didn't think it was necessary, because the contract is just a symbol, and if you really want to go back on it, it's just a blank sheet of paper.

"No, we trust our dwarven friends."

Elder Hughton also felt that this was superfluous, and there was no third-party notarization here.

"Since these people come with me first, I have prepared some gifts, take them with you when you go back." Beowulf smiled with satisfaction, and then stretched out his hand to invite.

In order to win the favor of these dwarves, he ordered the warehouse to prepare a lot of dried fruits, vegetables and food.