Chapter 73 Exploration for Mineral Veins

Perhaps because they witnessed the changes of the Norma tribe, Patriarch Monto and the two elders were full of hope for cooperation with Xu Yi, so the whole negotiation... oh no, it can be regarded as an ordinary negotiation that went very smoothly.

In just one day, Xu Yi negotiated almost all the details with Patriarch Monto.

For the hundred dwarf craftsmen provided by the Angolan tribe, Xu Yi gave the same salary of eight gold coins per month as the dwarves in Camby.

However, in other benefits, it is a little worse.

This is because the dwarves such as Camby have been working in the New Flying Chamber of Commerce for more than two months, and are now skilled workers, and these dwarves from the Angolan tribe are new arrivals, so naturally they cannot have the exact same treatment.

Patriarch Monto and the two elders have no opinion on this. After all, the salary of eight gold coins per month for each clan is enough to satisfy them.

What's more, Xu Yi also promised to build a material laboratory in the Angolan tribe, not only to provide a fixed research fund of 100 gold coins per month, but also as long as the same results are researched and finally adopted by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they will also Therefore, he was rewarded with five hundred gold coins.

For the long-deprived Angolan tribe, whether it is the monthly salary of eight gold coins fixed by the tribesmen working in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, or the five hundred gold coins that can be obtained after researching the results, it seems like a long drought. Generally, they only feel extremely satisfied, how can they make more demands at this time.

The dwarves were always honest and straightforward, but now they feel that Xu Yi put forward these conditions simply to save them.

So Patriarch Monto and the two elders said that they would also bring Xu Yi to the Angolan tribe as a guest to express their gratitude.

Xu Yi couldn't hold back their enthusiasm, and in the end, he could only follow them to the Angolan tribe accompanied by Patriarch Shiluka and Camby.

Probably because the population is twice that of the Norma tribe, so compared to the previous Norma tribe, the living conditions of the dwarves of the Angolan tribe are slightly better, but they are also limited, and they are still only in a situation where they cannot starve to death. stage.

But compared with the current Norma tribe, it is one heaven and one underground.

After walking around the Angolan tribe, Xu Yi watched a little dwarf boy grabbing a piece of candy he brought and eating happily, and finally couldn't help asking Patriarch Sluka, "I'm very curious, why are the dwarves eating? How can life be so difficult? The dwarves are obviously so hardworking, able to endure hardships, and possess strong forging skills, so shouldn’t they be living this kind of life all the time?”

Chief Sluka and Chief Monto looked at each other and smiled wryly.

After a while, Patriarch Shiluka sighed and said, "President Xu, this question should actually be asked of you humans."

"Oh?" Xu Yi looked at Patriarch Sluka curiously. "why?"

"It's very simple. Since the race wars thousands of years ago, humans have won a great victory, and then they have seized all the good places in the entire Sainz Continent. Whether it is us dwarves, orcs, or Races such as gnomes and goblins that have not been seen for a long time can only live in barren land and cannot obtain enough food at all. If they want to obtain food from humans, they can only pay extremely A high price will do. President Xu, you are from Bangta City. Let me ask you, how much does a pound of wheat sell in Bangta City?"

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and replied, "If I remember correctly, the current price should be fourteen silver coins per pound."

"Look, only fourteen silver coins can buy a pound!" Patriarch Sluka snorted, his tone full of dissatisfaction. "Do you know how much it costs you humans to sell us a pound of wheat?"

Xu Yi frowned, he didn't even need to ask, he knew that the price must be outrageous.

Sure enough, Patriarch Sluka stretched out a thick finger.

"A whole gold coin! You can only buy one catty of wheat! President Xu, do you know that? Our dwarves eat much more than you humans, and one person can eat half a catty of wheat at a meal. In other words, One gold coin is enough for one of our dwarves to eat for a day!" After speaking, there was already a hint of anger in the tone of Patriarch Sluka, and it was obvious that he had long been suffocated by the high price of wheat sold by humans. "The only hobby of our dwarves is fine wine, but brewing fine wine requires more wheat. In order to save the wheat that was finally exchanged from humans, our Norma tribe has already banned wine making. President Xu, do you know? You know, the last time you came to our tribe, was it my first drink in two years?"

Xu Yi couldn't help laughing bitterly, thinking that for the dwarves who are addicted to alcohol, it is indeed a very painful thing to be unable to drink for two years.

No wonder that when Xu Yi promised Camby to provide the dwarf craftsmen with the wine from the Saatchi Manor as a reward, the dwarves' enthusiasm for work immediately became extremely high.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi was a little strange.

"That's not right, Patriarch Shiluka, according to what you said, what do you use to earn gold coins, or what do you use in exchange for food necessary for life?"

"It's very simple, exchange it for ore." Patriarch Shiluka pointed to the high mountain outside the Angolan tribe. "There are a lot of iron ore and magic crystal ore in that mountain. Humans think that this place is too far away and it is not cost-effective to mine, so they have been ignored, so we dwarves rely on collecting these iron ore and magic crystal to sell to Humans in exchange for food."

"If I guessed correctly, the price they bought for iron ore and magic crystal must be very low, right?" Xu Yi asked thoughtfully.

"It's very low, but what can I do?" Patriarch Sluka sighed. "This is also because humans think that mining these mines is not cost-effective, so they ignore them. If humans take a fancy to these mines one day and send troops to drive us away, then we really don't know how to continue to survive. Now it is We would like to thank human beings for at least leaving us a way to live." Having said this, Patriarch Shiluka smiled self-deprecatingly.

Xu Yi looked at Patriarch Monto next to him speechlessly, Patriarch Monto also smiled wryly, nodded to Xu Yi and said, "Although the situation of our tribe was a little better than that of the Norma tribe before, it is generally similar. After all, we are not humans, and humans are the rulers of Sainz Continent."

Seeing the expressions on the faces of the two patriarchs, Xu Yi couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

As a human being, discussing with the two dwarves how humans squeezed the dwarves made him feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the information revealed in Patriarch Shiluka just now caught his attention. He looked up at the high mountain for a while, and Xu Yi suddenly asked, "Patriarch Shiluka, are you dwarves not only good at forging, but also good at forging? Are you good at mining?"

"Well, that's right. We dwarves don't have any other specialties, but we are indeed very talented in smelting ore from wasteland. The ore that you humans spend a day mining may not be as good as the time we dwarves can harvest for a meal. ' replied the Sluka patriarch.

"That's still a bit wrong. Since the dwarves are so capable, why don't the human merchants hire you dwarves to mine?" Xu Yi asked again.

"There used to be. But the salaries offered by those human merchants to our dwarf brothers were very low. Of course, the most important thing is that humans always discriminate against us. Working in human mines is easy to be bullied. It's better to come back and do it yourself. After a long time, there are no dwarf brothers who are willing to go out and work for humans." Patriarch Sluka glanced at Xu Yi and continued: "To be honest, President Xu, if it wasn't for the last time, I really didn't. The solution is, I will never promise Ranu to let you take away my 100 brothers."

Xu Yi nodded. Master Lanu had mentioned this to him last time.

"Of course, later Camby and the brothers all said that your new flight merchants' association had a good time. President Xu not only let the brothers eat well and sleep well, but also let them have drinks, and I gradually felt relieved. That's it." Patriarch Sluka changed his tone of admiration again. "I have to say, President Xu, you are different from other humans and have no prejudice against us dwarves."

Xu Yi shrugged: "Something you may not like to hear, I am a purely human businessman. I only care whether the other party will bring me benefits, but not the other party's race."

Patriarch Shiluka and Patriarch Monto laughed at the same time, and Patriarch Shiluka even stood on tiptoe and patted Xu Yi on the shoulder with difficulty: "If all human beings are as straightforward as you, President Xu, our dwarves' days It would be much better."

Xu Yi couldn't help rolling his eyes, he didn't expect that he would get a straightforward evaluation in exchange for saying this.

Taking another look at the high mountain in the distance, Xu Yi said again: "Patriarch Shiluka, since you are not very good at mining without dwarves, you must be very good at prospecting for mines, right?"

"Well, when it comes to prospecting for ore veins, we dwarves say second, no race in the entire Sainz continent dares to say that it is first!" Patriarch Shiluka said proudly.

"That's good. I happen to have an idea, and I need the help of you to find a few masters of mine exploration." Xu Yidao.

"No problem." Patriarch Monto, who was on the side, patted his chest hard in front of Patriarch Shiluka. "Speaking of experts in prospecting for mineral veins, there are many in our Angolan tribe. Let alone others, I am an expert."

Xu Yi smiled and shook his head: "Of course you don't need Patriarch Monto to go out in person, I hope Patriarch Shiluka and Patriarch Monto each of you pick five people from your clan, and then follow my request to all the people in the Lampari Kingdom. It is best to explore all the ore veins in the place where they are located. Do you think this is feasible?”

"Everywhere in the Lampari Kingdom?" The two patriarchs looked at each other and frowned at the same time. "I'm afraid this is a little difficult, but it's not impossible, but it will take a little longer."

"You can estimate how long it will take?" Xu Yi asked.

"If we just explore iron ore and magic crystal mine, our clansmen are all experienced. If there are ten people in total, I think it will take less than half a year to complete." Patriarch Monto said. "But if other veins are included, it's hard to say..."

Xu Yi was immediately overjoyed: "I won't use it for half a year? That's great! Very good, that's it. Clan Sluka, Clan Monto, you two have each selected five people from your clan who are the most suitable for prospecting for ore veins. Experienced dwarves, tell them that our new flying merchants will not only provide them with enough supplies, but also pay a reward of 100 gold coins per person after the exploration is over."

"One hundred gold coins? That's too much!" As soon as Xu Yi finished speaking, the two patriarchs waved their hands. "This is just a trivial matter, and the reward is not needed, let alone a hundred gold coins."

"The dwarf brothers have worked hard, and of course they need to be paid."

"That one hundred gold coins is too much..."

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Just as the three of them were arguing, a dwarf from the Angolan tribe hurriedly came to Patriarch Monto and said loudly, "Patriarch, that elf guest is here again!"