Chapter 532 Comprehensive Cooperation

"I'm sorry, Lord Mayor, you're a little late. Those troll corpses have probably been processed and converted into various raw materials." Gavin is not interested in selling raw materials now. "But I have a compromise proposal. We can cooperate to develop troll-related products. We provide core materials, and you provide auxiliary materials and technology. In the end, we will split the products 50-50. What do you think?"

The materials produced by trolls are a little different from regenerated gems.

The quantity is too large, and the product value is relatively low. In the end, it must be sold in large quantities, and the manpower required for production and manufacturing must be expensive.

The same is true for auxiliary materials. Usually the price is not high, but the quantity is large, and it takes time and effort to collect.

If you can divide half of it and enjoy the fruits of your labor, it will definitely be a very cost-effective deal.

Of course, this price is not just what Gavin said casually, but it is calculated by professionals under his command. He does not have so many mages who are good at alchemy, so it is inevitable to find someone to cooperate with him later.

Unexpectedly, Raymond came to the door first.

Raymond made a quick calculation in his mind, and after finding that there was some profit in this matter, he nodded without hesitation and said, "Deal."

"The Lord of the City is really straightforward. I like to do business with straightforward people." Gavin said happily, "Lord of the City, what other cooperation projects are there? Tell me about them together."

"Another cooperation project is related to this city. I hope to sign a long-term iron ore purchase contract with the Lord." Raymond said directly, "We have a dwarf iron smelting plant in the Snowflake Mountains. We can use dwarf technology to smelt iron on a large scale, and all we produce are the best dwarf fine steel ingots."

Dwarf fine steel ingots.

As soon as he heard the name, Gavin was 100% sure that the dwarf iron smelting plant controlled by the other party was not an ordinary coal-fired iron smelting plant. It was either heated by magma like the silver smelting production line in Nanklipt, or directly bound to the element of fire for heating, a fully automated one-stop service.

"Personally, I prefer the cooperation mode similar to the troll corpse. I provide the raw materials, you provide the technology, and I will get 70% of the final profit while you get 30%. The transportation of iron ore will be handled by me." Gavin threw out a new temptation point, "Once the city lord agrees to this plan, the iron ore transported to your dwarf iron production line will not belong to the Dwarf Statue City alone. I will also mobilize more iron ore from other channels and transport it to you for processing and production."

The other channels Gavin mentioned are naturally the iron ore in the Black Well of Dragon Oak Territory.

He is no longer inclined to sell iron ore, but it is not realistic to build his own iron ore plant in a short time.

The traditional iron ore smelting method is not only very consuming, but also causes serious environmental pollution. This is very unpleasant in front of the natural race.

And he has such a close relationship with the natural race and relies on them a lot. This is also the main reason why Gavin has not promoted the iron ore plant in Dragon Oak Territory.

If he can reach an agreement with Raymond, even if it is a 50-50 split, it will be much more profitable than building an iron ore plant by himself - iron smelting is a very costly thing.

As for the iron ore in the Black Well, it cannot be transported purely by land, but must be transported from Misnoel through shadow dragging.

Although the other party is making a lot of money, there is nothing they can do about it.

Who lets the other party control absolute technology?

This is also a win-win situation.

"Deal." Raymond nodded again readily.

Just as Gavin guessed, his dwarf ironworks is a dwarf automated production line, powered by bound fire elements.

These fire elements need some materials from the material plane for energy, but most of the heat is still drawn from the energy of the fire element plane.

The dwarf city where the dwarf ironworks is located was abandoned not because of the war, but because the iron ore there was dug out by the dwarves and had to be abandoned.

There is no large iron ore near Retaven for them to eat.

Raymond is guarding a chicken that lays golden eggs, but he has no rice to feed it. When he heard that Gavin was going to use dog-headed people to dig iron ore in the dwarf statue city, he immediately rushed over impatiently.

Although the profit is smaller than directly taking the iron ore, it is better than nothing.

The other party is not an ordinary person. Once he is annoyed, he will hire dwarves to build a dwarven iron smelting plant of his own. At that time, he will be helpless. It is better to have a win-win situation with equal benefits. This can be seen from the other party's offer.

"Frankly, it is comfortable to negotiate a deal with the Lord of the City." Gavin felt that this was the most pleasant deal he had ever negotiated in his life. "Our ore transport vehicles cannot run empty when they come back. I hope the Lord of the City can send people to help buy food and supplies."

The industrial layout and population composition of the Dwarf Statue City and the Blood Gorge City are destined not to become a large farming city. Most of the food must be eaten from outside. Ruitawen is definitely one of the most suitable sources. Other channels will be further expanded in the future. As long as the trade route is open, everything else will be easy.

"That's easy. I'll send the Municipal Chamber of Commerce to follow up on this matter and buy the cheapest food from the surrounding areas for you." Compared with the huge profits from the iron ore, these are just small profits. Raymond naturally won't think about it.

"There is another thing I need to ask the city lord. Do you know how to cast the mist barrier? Or do you know a spellcaster who can cast this spell?" Gavin took the opportunity to ask.

A city without a mist barrier is not a good city.

But if you want to cover the Dwarven Statue City and Blood Gorge City, it is not possible with a seven-ring or eight-ring mist barrier, at least a nine-ring one is needed.

The only person Gavin knows who is qualified to cast this spell is the legendary arcanist Felanxini.

It's a pity that she was trapped in a place and had no way to rush over, let alone so much time to cast this time-consuming ritual spell.

"This is exactly the third cooperation I want to talk about." Raymond smiled and said, "I have just perfected the method of casting the nine-ring mist barrier. If you trust me, you just need to prepare the corresponding casting materials, and I can build the mist barrier for these two cities for you for free."

Compared with the deal they just talked about, the casting of two nine-ring spells is a drop in the bucket. Raymond directly used it to sell favors to Gavin.

After all, these two cities began to involve his interests, and naturally he didn't want anything to happen.

"Great." Gavin said with a smile on his face, "I feel relieved when the Lord of the City performs the spell. What materials do I need to prepare?"

"There are mainly three main materials, silver, phase spider web and amber, and there are two versions.

One is temporary, which only requires one ton of silver, a phase spider web and a fist-sized piece of amber. The mist barrier created will last for a year.

The other is permanent, but the materials required are nine times that of the temporary one." Raymond directly listed the list of materials.

"Silver is easy to deal with. I just happened to get a batch of crude silver ingots recently. I just need to purify it further. Amber is also easy to deal with. There is never a shortage of it in the market. A fist-sized one should be fine for 10,000 gold coins.

The difficult part is the phase spider web. There are only three on the market in the City of Glory, and the prices of two of them are abnormal.

No wonder the price of phase spider silk has been high. It turns out that it can not only be used to make portable dimensional holes, but also one of the spellcasting materials of the mist barrier, and the demand is so large.

One or two is easy to deal with, but if you need more than ten at once, that's a bit troublesome." Gavin counted the supplies in his hand and found that the most difficult one was still the phase spider web.

Raymond nodded in agreement and said, "Phase spider webs have always been in short supply. First, the demand is high. Second, ordinary mercenaries have no way to deal with this kind of spider that shuttles between the two worlds, let alone collect their webs.

Why don't you collect temporary quantities first and build a temporary fog barrier to protect this place. Except for the duration, there is not much difference in ability between temporary and permanent ones.

Wait until you have collected enough resources, and then build a permanent one. Although this will cause a certain degree of waste, it can at least win a certain buffer time for yourself."

"That's the only way." Gavin could only accept this installment payment method helplessly.

The gap of 18 phase spider webs is really too big, and this thing is not in demand. He is now buying it in several big cities such as Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate and Westgate, and has only bought three so far.

It seems necessary to select candidates and form several phase spider hunter teams to specialize in collecting phase spider webs.

Because as he continues to explore, the number of phase spider webs needed will increase.

"The mist barrier is not static, but can carry many special effects. Each three rings carry an effect. What kind of effect is needed depends on the Baron himself." Raymond introduced the status of the mist barrier to Gavin in detail.

"I don't know what options are available?" Gavin asked humbly. Although he knew a little about the mist barrier, it was not thorough, so he naturally took the opportunity to learn more.

"Forbidden teleportation, forbidden flying, forbidden digging, forbidden invisibility and creating monster guards, I currently have only these five types." Raymond replied.

Although he did not explain in detail, it was easy to understand. Gavin basically understood what he meant. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "The situations in the two cities are different. The fog barrier formed in the Dwarf Statue City must be three-dimensional, covering the entire Dwarf Statue. In addition, there will definitely be a large number of dragon-like Kobolds and anti-aircraft firepower later, so there is no need to ban flying.

The biggest problem is digging through the mountain or digging from underground. Teleportation, digging and invisibility are prohibited in the Dwarf Statue City.

In the Blood Gorge City, teleportation, flying and invisibility are prohibited."

In the Blood Gorge City, although there are also concerns about digging, the number of flying monsters is far greater than that of digging monsters, and the threat is greater, so naturally the larger one is preferred.

As for the option of monster guards, Gavin directly ignored it.

Both cities will have a large population in the future and have their own guards, so there is no need to waste precious capabilities on this.

"In addition, I need to conduct a field survey to prevent accidents when casting spells." Raymond made a new request.

"No problem." Gavin agreed readily, "I'll go with you."

In the future, he will be the one to cast the mist barrier here, so this trust must be given.

There is an additional benefit of Raymond casting the mist barrier, that is, the other party is the lord of a city, and the monk can escape, but the temple cannot, especially when the two sides are about to have a lot of interest disputes.

What the two have just finalized is just the general tone of cooperation and the business involving relatively large interests.

When it really unfolds, there will definitely be many more trade points between them than these.

For example, the giant livestock produced on the Giant Plains are something that Ritavin City does not have. After seeing their pulling power, you will definitely be moved.

For example, Gavin is very keen on the equipment of the Retavin light cavalry. If the hobgoblin wolf cavalry can also be equipped, they will be able to use both light and heavy, and be regarded as a dual-purpose arm.

Instead of directly stealing the equipment from the Ruitawen light cavalry, they handed it over to Ruitawen City to tailor-make their own.

For this kind of large-scale installation, the possibility of outsourcing is very small. The greater possibility is that Shweta Wencheng has its own production line.

Even if it is outsourcing, it is temporary and small batch.

Whether it is for cost, safety, or to avoid being manipulated, this kind of thing must be developed and produced by ourselves.

These detailed and trivial transactions were handed over to the local person in charge, and they slowly negotiated with the person in charge in Shweta Wen City to form a stable cooperative relationship and model.

This matter does not happen overnight, but requires time to settle.

On the tenth day after the war, Gavin returned to Blood Gap City with Shanobah and her Blackwing Guards.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have imagined that half a month ago, this was a wasteland occupied by an orc tribe." Shanoba couldn't help but sigh, "Every time I follow the lord, I feel like It feels like a dream, because a lifetime of change often only lasts a few days. Unfortunately, such opportunities will become much less common in the future.”

This sigh came from the bottom of her heart. She found that her life could be divided into two stages.

One is before meeting Gavin, and the other is after meeting Gavin.

Although the time of the latter is only one-twentieth of the former, the degree of change is completely reversed, with the latter being dozens of times as long as the former.

Now when I recall the situation in Iwaji Old Ax Village, it feels like it was in the distant past, rather than half a year ago.

What triggered her emotion was not just the new round of transformation in the Dwarf Statue City, but also the impact caused by the construction conditions of Blood Gorge City.

Looking down from the air, the visual impact is particularly strong.

The entire Blood Canyon has been cleared out and flattened into a giant square covering an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers.

Rows of caves are embedded in the surrounding blood-colored mountains. They are so densely packed that they are like a honeycomb. It is impossible to count them at a glance.

The terrifying construction speed and ingenious construction methods have allowed the city to begin to take shape, and the rest is a matter of slow decoration and maintenance.

"On the contrary, you will not follow me less, but more time in the future. Distance is not a problem. There are several dragon-shaped kobold warlocks under you who have enabled the teleportation ability. I also expect you to form a team for me. The powerful air force is at my call at any time." Gavin couldn't help but glance at the Black Wing Guards guarding behind the two of them. They were all big kobolds who had activated their dragon transformation.

Under the influence of Zanoba, they all grew black dragon wings similar to flying dragons, and their tails also turned into flying dragon thorn tails, which also have poisonous attacks, but are weaker than those of Zanoba and real flying dragons. .

Whether it is the tall and strong body type or the newly born Thorny Tail, they have stronger combat capabilities than Ward. Coupled with the crash tactics of psychic bullets, this will further make up for the lack of air combat strength.

"The lord has helped me lay the foundation so well. If I still can't make some achievements, I won't be able to see the lord." Shanoba patted her plump chest and promised, "Next, I will We are going to take advantage of the situation and march into the Giant's Run Mountains, dig out all the kobolds there and join our ranks."

"Our reputation has now been established, especially your special ability is very helpful to the kobolds. Therefore, when you recruit the kobolds from other tribes, you can change your strategy appropriately. You don't need to learn from Dragon Oak. The leader moved all the kobolds to the dwarf statue city, but directly collected tributes from those kobold tribes, rewarded them with dragon blood potions, and then held the Ascension Dragon Conference. I believe that no kobolds can resist this combination of punches. Keep your charm, and then you take advantage of the opportunity to help these kobolds deal with the surrounding competitors, allowing them to have a larger living space. I don’t need to say more about what will happen next, right?" Gavin took the opportunity to ask Shanoba. .

Nothing is static, especially with different situations and different abilities. Shanobah and her dwarf statue city do not necessarily have to imitate the dragon oak territory.

Gavin concentrated the population mainly so that he could mobilize large numbers of kobolds for his own use.

And Shanoba will start a serious rule here, concentrating all the kobolds in one city, how can they be scattered over a large area of ​​land and breed faster on their own.

Even if he really needs to mobilize kobolds from Zanoba in the future, he will only mobilize the most elite ones, not ordinary kobolds.

Sanoba herself is not stupid. In recent days, it seems that Gavin has opened up her Ren and Du meridians. Her skills in all aspects have greatly increased. She continued to follow Gavin's thoughts and said, "In this way, those kobold tribes will be transformed into kobold villages loyal to the Dwarf Statue City. At that time, the Dwarf Statue City will not be an isolated city, but a kobold kingdom with a large number of kobolds loyal to it. The process of these kobold tribes developing and expanding on their own is also the process of our power development and expansion. We must encourage those kobolds to carry out large-scale mergers and expansions in my name and in the name of the Lord.

We can even start from those kobolds. The elites from the headman tribe were selected to join the Dwarven Statue City. No, no, it was not a selection, but it was like treating the Dragon Oak Mother Tree. Joining the Dwarven Statue City was a gift. Here, they could gain more powerful strength and more resources. Later, they could even connect with the Dragon Oak Territory and send the elites of the elites to the Dragon Oak Mother Tree to receive a more sacred baptism and leave their own soul marks on the Dragon Oak Mother Tree. "

At the end, Sanoba's eyes were already shining, because she clearly felt that the situation she was talking about was no longer just the expansion of a city or a place, but the expansion of a kingdom.

And this was not an unattainable dream, but something that was within reach.