Voller Tribe's chief Leiming?
Voller tilted his large wolf head and looked at the three humans in front of him. His two wolf eyes were filled with doubt.
He recognized chairman Renersa because every once in a while, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce opened by the humans would bring large amounts of things that the tribe urgently needed, such as salt, iron, cloth, clothing, and other things that only humans could make. They would come here to trade.
Although this human had used these things to trade for large amounts of precious furs and rare herbs from the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland, with both sides agreeing, this was a fair trade. Therefore, the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland were quite polite to chairman Renersa.
But this time, chairman Renersa had not only come himself, he had also brought two unfamiliar humans.
What surprised Chief Voller was that the younger and skinnier human actually said that he wanted to do business with the Voller tribe right from the start!
Do business together?
Humans and beastmen?
This was simply a joke!
All the races on the continent knew how cunning humans were. Because the beastmen didn't have high intelligence, they had been cheated countless times.
So in the eyes of the beastmen, humans were scammers.
As for human merchants, they were scammers among scammers.
The reason why the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and other companies were able to do business with the beastmen in the Black Rice Wasteland was because these companies directly brought their goods to the beastmen. There was no room for deception.
But even so, many beastmen were cheated several times and had their precious treasures exchanged with inferior goods by the human merchants.
So when he heard Xu Yi say these words, chief Voller immediately determined that Xu Yi was a big scammer.
If he said that he wanted to do business with the Voller Tribe, chief Voller could try to believe him, but if he said to do business together …..
This was simply a joke!
Based on chairman Renersa's face, chief Voller didn't directly send Xu Yi away. He acted like he was considering it before waving his hand and saying in a muffled voice, "We don't cooperate with humans. If you want to make a deal, first take out the goods you want to trade for me."
Because of chairman Renersa's reminder, Xu Yi wasn't surprised by chief Voller's cold reaction. He smiled and continued, "Sir chief, don't be in a hurry to refuse. Can you listen to the specific cooperation plan first?"
Chief Voller impatiently snorted out two puffs of air from his nostrils. After thinking about it, he suppressed the irritation in his heart and snorted, "What cooperation plan?
Isn't it just you humans trying to take advantage of us? "
"If you still feel this way after hearing this plan ….. Then I promise to leave immediately and not disturb you.
But before that, I hope that you can listen of this plan.
Actually, this plan is very beneficial to your tribe. "Xu Yi said with the same faint smile.
"Patriarch Voller, please allow me to speak," President Renersa suddenly said.
Chairman Renersa suddenly said, "Chairman Xu has a very good reputation in our Banta City and the human merchants that have cooperated with him have all obtained great benefits, so you don't need to worry about him lying to you.
Other than that, I want to tell you something that will shock you. It is that in the New Flyer that Chairman Xu opened, other than us human workers, there are also over a thousand dwarven and elven workers. "
"Dwarves and elves?" Chief Voller's eyes widened, and his round eyes were filled with disbelief.
"How is that possible!
I can imagine the dwarves working in your human merchant guild, but how could the elves put down their pride and work for a human like you?
I don't believe it! "
"If you don't believe me, there are eleven elven workers from our company waiting outside. I can call them in for you to personally verify it." Xu Yi said.
Chief Voller narrowed his eyes as he looked at Xu Yi. After thinking for a bit, he shook his head, "Forget it, I don't like seeing those fellows with ugly faces all day long.
Alright, Chairman Xu, since you've said this, tell me about your so-called cooperation plan. "
Seeing that chairman Voller was finally moved, Xu Yi let out a sigh of relief and immediately explained his plan to him.
According to Xu Yi's plan, the New Flyer was planning to open a mine in the Voller Tribe, using the non-ferrous metal veins near the Voller Tribe.
Because it consumed too much energy to transport the ores, the New Flyer was planning to build a non-ferrous metal smelting factory here.
Adding in the fact that the residue of the non-ferrous metal smelting factory could be used to make cement, they would also build a cement factory.
To transport the refined non-ferrous metals out, the New Flyer would work with the Renekton Chamber of Commerce and the Cruz Chamber of Commerce to build a road from Banta City to Samara Town.
After that, they would first build a narrow road between Samara Town and the Voller Tribe. As for whether they would build other roads, that would depend on the situation.
So calculating it like this, the New Flyer would have to invest in a mine, two factories, and a road in the Voller Tribe, which was quite a large investment.
"But what benefits can our tribe obtain?
What do you want to cooperate with us on? "After hearing Xu Yi's explanation, chief Voller gave a snort.
"Human, I'm warning you. Since this mine you mentioned is in our Voller Tribe's territory, we have the final say and you can't do whatever you want.
Now that I know about this good thing, if you can't satisfy me, don't think of cooperating with me. "
"Of course I understand this."
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. Since you can take the initiative to say the word cooperation, it means that you're already moved.
"Chief Voller, I understand that this non-ferrous metal mine is in your tribe's territory. That's why I made a special trip here to purchase this mine from you."
"You want to buy the entire mine?" Chief Voller narrowed his eyes as a rare sly look appeared in his eyes.
"Alright, human, how much are you planning to pay?
I've heard that you humans spend a lot of money to buy an iron mine. "
"Right, an iron mine can indeed sell for a lot of money among us humans, but chief Voller, the mine I want to buy this time isn't iron, rather it produces non-ferrous metals.
This kind of thing is rarely used in our human society, so it can't be sold for much.
So for this mine, of course I can't give you the same price as the iron mine. "Xu Yi revealed a bitter smile as he spoke.
Chief Voller thought for a while. He thought about the fact that in human society, metals other than iron were rarely used. It seemed that this human called Xu Yi wasn't lying to him.
"Even if you can't sell it for the same price as an iron mine, it can't be too cheap.
Tell me, how much are you planning to pay? "Chief Voller asked again.
Xu Yi couldn't help but smile. He thought that this chief Voller was truly moved.
Who said that the orcs were all stubborn? At the very least, this chief in front of him was definitely greedy for money.
Xu Yi looked at President Renersa and President Cruz. The two of them nodded at him, indicating that he could make the decision.
Xu Yi nodded to show that he understood. He then stretched out his hand to Chief Voller.
"Five hundred thousand gold coins."
For a moment, Xu Yi seemed to see countless little stars in Chief Voller's eyes.
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Four days later, Xu Yi, president Cruz, and Stiel returned to Banta City first.
Agnes and the other ten elves remained in the Black Rice Wasteland.
According to Xu Yi's request, they needed to investigate the terrain of the Black Rice Wasteland and draw a complete map of the Black Rice Wasteland.
Other than investigating how to solve the problem of the Black Rice Wasteland's desertification, their most important task was to determine the distribution of all the orcs tribes in the Black Rice Wasteland.
According to Xu Yi's plan, cooperating with the Voller Tribe was only the first step for the New Flyer to enter the Black Rice Wasteland.
According to the information he had, the Black Rice Wasteland didn't just have a single non-ferrous metal mine near the Voller Tribe.
Actually, the Black Rice Wasteland was rich in minerals. According to preliminary estimates, it even surpassed all the non-ferrous metals in the Lampari Kingdom added together.
As for why Xu Yi knew this clearly … …
That was because the five dwarves that had been hired by Xu Yi last year to explore the various mines of the Lampari Kingdom had finally returned.
In this year of exploration, the five dwarves had gone in five different directions, carefully exploring every part of the Lampari Kingdom. One of the dwarves named Ram had explored to the west, covering the entire Black Rice Wasteland.
It had to be said, the dwarves really did have high talent in this aspect.
In this year, the five dwarves had explored every inch of the Lampari Kingdom, knowing all the underground mines like the back of their hands.
When Xu Yi had them go out to explore, they were mainly in charge of exploring the distribution of iron ores.
But after the dwarves went out, they found that most of the iron ores in the kingdom had already been explored and over half of them were being explored. So the five dwarves placed their attention on the non-ferrous metal mines that Xu Yi had mentioned.
The conclusion that they reached was that the Black Rice Wasteland had large amounts of non-ferrous metal mines.
Even in the ore samples that Ram had brought back, Xu Yi had found the existence of some rare earth elements!
It was a good thing that there was a hidden danger in the Sandy River, so they had to control the geological environment of the Black Rice Wasteland upstream of the Sandy River. So Xu Yi used this chance to come to the Black Rice Wasteland and seek cooperation with the beastmen.
Other humans might have psychological barriers to cooperating with other races, but Xu Yi didn't have any.
New Flyer had quite a few dwarves and a few elves as employees, so if there were a few more beastmen, it didn't count for much.
Of course, this cooperation was still in its initial stages.
Their group stayed in the Voller Tribe for two days, but chief Voller insisted that there was no need to discuss without money.
So Xu Yi's group could only give up for now and return to Banta City to discuss their next step.
It would cost around three hundred thousand gold coins to build the road from Banta City to Samara Town and because the road between Samara Town and the Voller Tribe was a bit narrower, adding in the fact that it was only ten kilometers away, it wouldn't cost more than twenty thousand gold coins.
Other than that, adding in the five hundred thousand gold coins spent on the mine and some initial investments, Xu Yi, chairman Cruz, and chairman Renersa decided to invest a total of one million gold coins.
Because this matter was mainly led by Xu Yi and chairman Cruz and chairman Renersa didn't understand the prospects of the non-ferrous metal mines, in the end New Flyer invested six hundred thousand gold coins and took 60% of the mine. The Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce invested three hundred thousand gold coins and took 30%. Finally the Renekton Chamber of Commerce invested a hundred thousand gold coins and took 10%.
As for the income from the road tolls, it was also arranged according to this share.
Moreover, this was just the income from the mine. The non-ferrous metal smelting factory and the cement factory were all funded by New Flyer, the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce didn't have a share.
Actually, chairman Cruz had asked to invest in the non-ferrous metal smelting factory and the cement factory, but Xu Yi had rejected him.
This was because these two factories involved New Flyer's unique technology, so if they cooperated with the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce, it would definitely be leaked.
Chairman Cruz naturally understood this, so after Xu Yi rejected his request, he didn't keep pestering him.
Because he had already finished discussing the matters on the road with chairman Cruz, after the horse carriage entered Banta City, Xu Yi rejected chairman Cruz's invitation to have dinner with Stiel and rushed back to Stiel's home with Stiel.
Because as soon as they entered the city, they received a shocking piece of news.
Great Magician Camilla had suddenly announced the closing of the Magic Tower!