Aremotan is the first barrier between the surface and the underworld, and as such is entirely a militarized city, except for the soldiers who can be found everywhere.

In order to calm the morale of the soldiers, the craftsmen, hawkers, and merchants here are all military dependents, and the difficulty of spies trying to infiltrate can be imagined.

Downton's first feeling when he stepped on the street was that there were so few alien races, and the air was filled with the smell of mineral powder unique to the dwarven race.

Mining mines, forging and sharpening weapons, plus getting drunk, are the daily routines of most dwarves.

Seeing that there were more than twenty weapons shops and even more blacksmith shops on a hundred-meter street, Downton and his party were dumbfounded.

"I've never done business before, but with so many of the same shops, wouldn't it be bleak?" Sissi pointed to her temples, and although she didn't say anything else, everyone understood, and she asked the dwarf if there was something wrong with his brain.

"Don't you see any characteristics of those humans?"

Lao Bu finally found an opportunity to show off.

"Richly dressed, arrogant in attitude, either aristocratic or a district steward of a large merchant family. ”

Perrin replied casually.

"Your Excellency is wise. Lao Bu praised it and continued to introduce, "Hobbit City sells underground specialties and receives ordinary merchants, but here it is different, they sell ordnance, and their foreign trade partners are the Ministry of Commerce of various countries, and some middle nobles are not qualified. ”

The dwarven forging process is well-known in the Western Earth Continent, and even a three-year-old child knows that the weapons produced by the dwarves are strong and durable, so even if they start work all day, they don't have to worry about running out of business, because the market can't be saturated at all.

"The ordnance is forged for a long time, so the goods are always in short supply, and these blacksmiths wear them. If you immigrate to the surface, you are definitely a small rich man with a good family fortune. ”

"Poof!"

Perrin couldn't help laughing, he was still a little rich, it was no problem to be a blacksmith on the surface, and no one would care if he sold a few swords, if he rose to the arms trade. Even if it is a small transaction, it is light to be suppressed to the point of bankruptcy, and they will die in various accidents nine times out of ten.

The only ones who can do the arms business are the Nine Great Empires and those wealthy nobles, they won't talk nonsense with you, and the weapons in their hands are the best answer.

Downton is also a black thread, he still has thousands of sets of St. Gertland armor and weapons in his armory, and he originally wanted to sell the recovery funds and buy new equipment that can keep up with the times, but he can't do it with Abagon's commercial ability.

This trade monopoly is not something that can be easily broken.

The crowd watched as they walked. I was emotional.

"The weapons are really good, you can buy more reserves. ”

Sissi was playing with a fine scimitar under the introduction of the shopkeeper, and she really wanted to buy some for the army, anyway, she had a lot of money with her, and there was room for war, so she could do it completely.

"Boss, prepare me 10,000 of these sabers!"

Listening to the princess's words, Perrin smiled bitterly. I don't know how to persuade Lu Dao, Lao Bu is limited because of his identity. I don't know anything about the insider, and the production capacity of the dwarves can actually keep up with the consumption of the surface people, but it has always been in short supply.

There are no fools in this world, everyone knows that the less things there are, the more valuable they are, and the dwarves even deliberately reduce the supply to force customers to bid for purchases.

"Nope!"

The boss's answer was quick and neat, "If you wait a year." Maybe you can get it. ”

"I can offer double the price. ”

Sissi did the math and didn't lose as much, but the other party still decisively refused.

"For what?"

Even if Sissi is stupid, she knows that the boss of Lu Dao sincerely doesn't want to sell it.

Perrin hurriedly explained what he knew, and added at the end. "For some goods, it is not that the more you sell, the more you make money, but that you need to control the quantity in circulation. ”

"It's too stupid, there is no conflict between the surface and the underground race, no matter how much ordnance is sold, the last cut is all surface people, for them, selling one more saber may kill one more surface person, isn't this a happy thing?"

Sissi fanned the wind with a handkerchief and recounted her opinion.

"If it were me, I would sell weapons hard, this thing is a consumable, try to occupy the market, and let everyone understand that dwarf products are synonymous with excellent weapons, think about it, when the people on the earth are used to using dwarven weapons, and everyone has to prepare a few stalks, what will be the wealth of the dwarven empire?"

The shopkeeper stood next to him, subconsciously thought about it, and was immediately shocked, it is said that there are nearly 10 billion people on the surface, and even if everyone only buys a weapon, it is a terrifying number.

"Besides, arms trafficking increases influence, and making money is secondary. ”

Seeing everyone pondering, Sissi immediately racked her brains to think, stated her opinion, and after seeing the strength of Downton and Twilight, she said in her heart, Her Royal Highness the Princess, who bullied people with equipment, was a little inferior, so she was eager to prove her worth.

"Yes, as long as you ensure that the latest forging technology is in your own hands, and the best weapons are only equipped with your own army, and you can maintain your technical superiority, you can sell weapons unscrupulously. ”

Twilight nodded, agreeing with Sissi, in fact, she also thought that the dwarves were too stupid, and it was ridiculous that there were still stupid people in this world who still sold too many goods, even if they were controlled arms, the first thought of any merchant should be to do everything possible to sell them to the world.

"This is the national policy of the dwarves for tens of thousands of years, and whoever is replaced by this inertia will be bound by this kind of inertia, think about it, 10,000 years ago, the forging technique and the current art can not be compared, the production capacity is limited, so they can only take this means to earn a high price, and until now the income is not bad, so they have never thought of correcting it. ”

Downton couldn't help but laugh, in his dreams, he had seen those arms powers reduce prices, and even comply with the customer's request to change the shape and performance of weapons, all in order to sell weapons to every corner of the world.

"There is never a shortage of buyers for weapons, and those primitive tribes who still use wooden sticks, you sell the worst wood knives, and you sell cheap products to fool the orcs who lack mineral veins. ”

When Sissi saw that her views were agreed, she immediately became a little excited, and made persistent efforts, "If it were me, I would assassinate and buy those leaders, and if I couldn't provoke a national war, I would provoke a family war and a regional conflict, so that the entire world would become a powder keg, and as long as the war continued, weapons could be sold forever." ”

Ahem!

A sudden cough interrupted Sissi.

"What's wrong?"

Her Royal Highness was puzzled, she noticed that it was not only Downton and Twilight who were coughing, but even Perrin and Lao Bu were coughing vigorously to interfere with herself.

"This topic is too heavy, let's change it!"

Perrin was sweating profusely, and Her Royal Highness the princess was too kind to touch these dark sides, are you really as simple as it seems to be in the conflict and war because of religion, territory, and even inheritance?

Downton and Twilight glanced at the shopkeeper vaguely, and saw that his face was full of excitement, and he kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, and when they saw Sissi stop, they hurriedly urged, "This guest has a very unique insight, please go on and open the eyes of my ignorant underground native." ”

If it weren't for the fact that these customers were all surface people, the shopkeeper would have been anxious to write down what he heard.

Downton looked at Twilight and touched his neck with his right hand.

Twilight nodded, this kind of person must not stay, in fact, the dwarves are already doing this kind of dark thing, but because of the racial barrier, they can't get significant results.

At the national level, there is never right or wrong, only interests, those surface arms dealers are also resisting the intervention of dwarf arms dealers, and the surface power is not too much to fight, if the dwarves come out to take advantage, it will be unbearable.

Nothing can be dug deeply, with Twilight's status, she has read some information, and several families are agents supported by the dwarves behind their backs, in charge of the arms trade.

For thousands of years, the dwarves have never given up invading the surface, but their plans have been constantly thwarted, and the recent dwarven kings have no ambitions and no elite talents to support them, so they have gradually settled down.

"The birth of any great king will inevitably bring war, as has always been the case. ”

Twilight shook her head and sighed, killing the dwarven shopkeeper wouldn't help, but she didn't want to stop Downton.

Because there are too many races in the Western Earth Continent, there is simply racial discrimination and conflict everywhere, but when both the underground people and the surface people face the invasion of the other party, their respective races will unite to resist each other, and in the face of the plane invasion war, the surface and underground races will also unite to resist the invasion of foreign enemies.

"Twilight has this insight, and she's definitely not an ordinary person. ”

Homer reminds Downton that with the education level of the West Continent, the literacy rate is less than 50%, and Twilight's performance proves that she definitely comes from a large family.

Downton doesn't bother to find out where Twilight came from, but he suddenly discovers a way to make money, and is thinking about how sure he is.

"You're going to be an arms dealer, aren't you?" Cheap guessed Downton's plan for a moment, "Are you going to take Twilight with you?"

"Yes, Bavarian Rose, that's big enough, isn't it?"

Downton was very excited, it cost money to raise an army, and those big-bellied ogres were going to eat him.

"Ignorance, in the arms business, in addition to humane destruction, there are many commercial means that can make people bankrupt, can you afford it?" Homer despised that Downton's plan was too unreliable.

"I have Abagon, if I don't have enough, I will continue to recruit talents, and besides, isn't the army just for fighting?

Snatching the market by force, Downton is not afraid, the ogre's ugly appearance is naturally suitable for doing the work of thugs.

"Sissi, I thought of a big deal, do you want to join the gang?"

As soon as he thought of it, Downton immediately wooed the princess, and the harmless smile of humans and animals was like a fox wandering outside the vineyard. (To be continued......)