Guided by pedestrians on the road, Wu Liang and his followers rode in two horse-drawn flatbed caravans along the winding stone roads in the mountains until it was dark, when they came across what the pedestrians pointed to as a trading town founded by the owners of the surrounding mines, the proprietors of the forges, the foreign merchants who traveled freely, and the subordinates of the local daimyos, where it was said that they could purchase all kinds of weapons of very high quality.

Along the way, while observing the customs and customs, Wu Liang also found a problem, although from the perspective of physiognomy, the quality of life of the people in the Iron Country should generally be good, but when he entered the town, Wu Liang did not find many old people, and even the number of gray-haired middle-aged and elderly people was not much, and under the seemingly bright neon lights on the main street of the town, Wu Liang found a lot of women and children huddled in the low alleys behind the street to build shacks to live in the cold weather, which was in stark contrast to the pedestrians seen on the road before.

When Wu Liang asked the middle-aged hotel owner when he stayed at the hotel, he learned that the rich life of the people in the country of iron was completely based on the mines, relying on the export of a large number of high-quality forbearance tools in exchange for food, vegetables and fruits and other necessities, more than 60% of the country's population livelihood problems are closely related to coal mines and iron mines, and most of the male owners of the family are miners or forgers, and mines and forging factories are most common are all kinds of accidents, such as mine explosions, collapses, water, poisonous gases, molten steel sputtering in the forges, Mechanical accidents and so on and so on are endless, followed by the local nerves have already numbed the nerves of the casualties, and once the main labor force of the family has three long and two short, then the quality of life of the family will definitely plummet, and even if you save the compensation of those pensions in the Iron Country, a country where most of the necessities of life need to be imported, you can not support it for too long, so for the sake of livelihood, you can only go to the service industry or light manual labor to make a living in a trading town.

As for why the number of elderly people is very small, it involves another relatively heavy problem, along with the mining of various ores, the environment of the Iron Country has inevitably been seriously damaged, heavy physical labor and the pollution of various heavy metal dusts have led to the accumulation of time, and the life expectancy of the people has generally been affected, except for the middle and senior samurai who wear respirators at any time and have mastered the chakra activation body, few ordinary people in the Iron Country can live to be over sixty years old in health.

Sure enough, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, although the country of iron has avoided the poison of the three ninja wars by virtue of its special status, but under the veil of peace, ordinary people still can't escape the collateral damage caused by the war, but this damage has been diluted a lot.

Hearing such uncomfortable news made Wu Liang lose interest, he turned down the dinner provided by the inn, used the ingredients he brought to deal with it temporarily, and decided to make a big purchase tomorrow and immediately leave this sad country with a hint of lead gray in the sky and a feeling of depression just by looking at it.

Nothing to say all night!

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Early the next morning, Wu Liang checked out with his followers and left, heading to the large comprehensive market in the most conspicuous location in the center of the town introduced by the innkeeper to buy supplies ---- expensive chakra metal.

After walking around the market for two hours, Wu Liang was able to figure out the specific transaction process, it turned out that the qualifications to be a merchant in the Iron Country were very easy to obtain, and he only needed to pay a small amount of taxes and fees to purchase conventional metal materials, even if it was a large purchase of forbearance, it didn't matter, but once it came to chakra metal, it was not so easy.

As a method that can conduct chakra and show its attribute characteristics, such as the extended attribute of the wind attribute chakra, the high temperature and high heat of the fire attribute chakra, the paralysis of the thunder attribute, etc., the famous Fog Hidden Seven Ninja Knife is doped with a large amount of chakra metal and forged with a special technique! It can even be used to greatly enhance the strength of the ninja to obtain magical metal, and the strict control of the Iron Country, which is ruled by traditional samurai, is far beyond Wu Liang's psychological expectations, not to mention that it cannot be bought with less money, and even if there is more money, it cannot be purchased openly.

Don't look at the Iron Country, even the ordinary samurai under his command can get a standard saber with a small amount of chakra metal, as if this kind of thing should be very common, but in fact, the annual export share of the Iron Country is very small, and the price is also very high, basically sold by the pound, and there are even strange years with no harvest, so that the countries of the ninja world can only cry out in vain while they are dissatisfied.

Even if they are dissatisfied, who can say that the production of mines and the core technology of refining, and even the forging technology are only in the hands of a very small number of high-level craftsmen in the Land of Iron!

When you are controlled by others, no matter how unhappy you are, you can only endure it obediently!

The treatment of the five major countries in the ninja world is still like this, not to mention the surrounding small countries and even traveling merchants like Wu Liang who can't represent a country, don't you see Asma Gui as the second son of the Hokage, and he went to protect the Daimyo of the Fire Country, and after years of hard work, there are only two light and thin Feiyan available?

Fortunately, according to an old businessman with a long history in the market, an official auction will be organized almost every two years, and the lot will be in addition to high-quality swords, large quantities of high-grade ninja equipment (such as wind demon shuriken, puppet springs, etc.), rare associated ores, gems and other common products, the highlight is often chakra metal of different sizes, As long as you are super willing to spend money and have enough luck, you can buy enough forged weapons made of pure chakra metal at one time.

In three days, the auction will take place, so try your luck if you want to buy chakra!

Wu Liang is indeed not short of money, but this kind of taste of being slaughtered as a fat sheep is very unpleasant, especially when he learns that even if the bid flies to the sky, it is only possible to buy chakra metal under five kilograms, so he has to wait until the triennial auction to bid with a large group of merchants, and after the purchase, he will spend a large sum of money to invite the few national treasure-level craftsmen of the Iron Country to come out of the mountain to carry out the forging work that can last for several months and wait for a year or two for the long, and even if he holds the finished knife in his hand, he cannot relax his vigilanceBecause when you successfully photographed the chakra metal, you have already been targeted, and you must muster up 120,000 points of spirit to kill off more than one group of robbers, and return to your own one-third of an acre of land alive to declare it complete.

The whole process is so cumbersome that it is not to mention, and it is accompanied by a lot of trouble to find your own door, just thinking about the potential risks that come with it can make ordinary people basically discourage the urge to participate in the bidding, so in addition to the agents of the large and small ninja villages, that is, all kinds of wandering ninjas with small savings or high-level bounty hunters, in short, don't think that there will be any easy people to participate in the better!