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The next day, the sales representative who finished sending the Blackwater Settlement from Amagi was embarrassed!

Although you have reduced the price, the Iron Ciep has reduced the price faster than you. Although the price is the same, yours can only pick up the goods yourself, while the Steel Castle is home delivery. In addition, there are other important resources that can be purchased in the Steel Castle! It's impossible to go to Amagi to buy it. Besides, you've cheated people before!

The lack of interest talked to the representative of Tiancheng for a few words, and Director Liu said that he still had something to do, and got up to see off the guests.

The representative of Amagi had no choice but to return to Amagi.

"What! They've also lowered their prices! ”

Hearing the report, Wang Qiang frowned. In fact, during this period of time, watching the grain in the granary decline day by day, his mood was not good.

In the conference room, one of Wang Qiang's subordinates said: "It seems that this steel castle is determined to get along with us!" ”

Another person immediately suggested, "Then let's cut the price again." The saltpeter of the steel castle needs to be transported from Xinjiang Province all the way, and the cost must be very high, so if I can't fight the price, we can't fight them! ”

Someone supported: "Yes! It's a big deal that we're going to sell back to the original price! ”

But the person in charge of logistics immediately denied: "This will not work." Our population has more than tripled now than in the past, and if we sell at that price in the past, the food we earn will not be able to feed so many of us! ”

"Then reduce the rations of ordinary people! As long as you don't starve to death, it's fine. "Someone proposed.

However, the person from the logistics department said: "We are already doing this, and the people below have reacted very much, and some people are clamoring to leave our Heavenly City to join the Iron Castle. So it's not a long-term solution after all! ”

So everyone focused their attention on Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang thought for a moment and said, "It seems that this is the true purpose of the Steel Castle. They want to corner, and then annex and absorb our population. ”

Thinking about this clearly, Wang Qiang's eyes suddenly sharpened, and he asked the Minister of Logistics: "If you want to feed half of our current population, how much should the price of saltpeter be set?" ”

The Minister of Logistics replied: "We currently have more than 5,200 people, and if we only consider half of the population, our price can go back to the original price of 1 kilogram of saltpeter for 1 kilogram of grain." ”

"Then reduce the price again, if it doesn't work, we will sell it at the original price! The fourth brother is right, I don't believe that they have transported saltpeter from Xinjiang Province all the way to the Iron Castle, and the price can be better than ours! Wang Qiang said viciously: "Fight the price war with us, then we will simply give him a bite to the end, and drag them to death!" ”

"But the city lord, this is only enough to feed half of the people, what about the remaining half of the people?"

"I announce a few orders!" Wang Qiang sorted out his thoughts for a while, and then said: "First, from today, Tiancheng will close the entry window and no longer accept foreign survivors. Second, idle people in the Celestial City who do not have a job are allowed to leave the Celestial City and go wherever they want. Third, reactivate the Amagi Material Collection Team, and go outside to collect supplies for me starting tomorrow! ”

"But the city lord, the nearby villages and towns have been cleaned up by the people of the Iron Castle, and we can't find any supplies at all!"

In the past, Amagi also had a material collection team, but their situation was more embarrassing, they didn't have the strength to fight in villages and towns with zombies, so they could only find some lonely buildings in the surrounding areas, such as forest rangers, field protection huts, or farms and factories in the villages and towns of the principle to find materials.

There were such places, but there were not many, and soon they ran out of supplies in these places.

Later, the troops of the Self-Salvation Army expanded the scope of cleanup and cleaned up all the villages and towns near Amagi, and the material collection team in Amagi had no place to collect supplies, so it was disbanded.

At this time, Wang Qiang was really helpless to reactivate the material collection team.

He replied, "If there is no nearby, then go farther away!" ”

However, in this matter, Wang Qiang miscalculated two places.

The first is naturally the price of saltpeter in the Iron Castle. These saltpeter Chen Yuan, they were indeed transported from all the way from Xinjiang Province, yes. However, the production costs are extremely low. The saltpeter mine in Xinjiang Province has a nitrate content ten times that of the Tiancheng saltpeter mine, and the production efficiency is more than 100 times that of the Tiancheng mine.

The most expensive thing is just the freight, and the average cost of using the train to transport large quantities is not much.

Therefore, in a price war, Amagi is bound to lose.

The second is the timing of the collection of supplies and the strength of their collection team.

As for Amagi, although recently because of the relatively rich relationship, there are slowly more people and more weapons. But most people only use the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle that they bought from the Iron Fort. Firepower is very limited.

In addition, it was already mid-April at this time, the ice and snow began to melt, and the mobility of the zombies had gradually recovered. At this time, if you attack zombies, I'm afraid you will suffer.

Sure enough, it wasn't long before the efforts of the Amagi side in both directions were declared unsuccessful.

The price of saltpeter fell again and again, and finally it did drop to the price that Amagi had originally sold to the Iron Castle. But the people of the Blackwater settlement remained indifferent.

Because the price of saltpeter in the steel castle has also been reduced to the standard of exchanging 1 kilogram of saltpeter for 1 kilogram of grain. This can make the Blackwater settlement happy. However, this trade is still profitable for the Steel Castle. What's more, at the beginning, the price of exchanging 1 kilogram of saltpeter for 10 catties of grain had already made Chen Yuan and them a lot of money.

And Amagi's troops who went to collect supplies suffered unprecedented losses.

A collection team of nearly 300 people went to attack a small village of just over 150 zombies 20 kilometers north of Celestial City. was almost wiped out by zombies.

56 and a half on the walls of the defensive open can be, people have enough time to aim and shoot. But on flat ground, in the face of the zombie horde rushing at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, the combatants didn't have time to fire two shots before the zombies rushed in front of them.

As a result, the defensive position of the Amagi side was like a piece of paper, and it was broken through in an instant.

The members of these collection teams in Celestial City have very limited strengthening, and the zombie melee at this time, there is no need to think about it at all. So although there were many people, after seeing the few people in front of them easily torn apart by the zombies, the rest of the people were either paralyzed to the ground in fright, or turned around and ran.

But is it useful to run, they can't outrun the zombies at all.

Therefore, of the material collection team of nearly 300 people, only 40 people successfully escaped back to Tiancheng! Weapons are even more lost.

Wang Qiang, who got the news, sat down directly on the chair and muttered: "I knew that I shouldn't have fallen out with the Steel Castle in the first place!" ”