Chapter 172: Trade, Bamboo Silk, Winning Hearts

In the Frozen Abyss world, although there is little communication between encampments, there are still very obvious commonalities in the regulations of some items.

For example, weapons are a very good example.

Like Great Xia, the weapons of the Mirror Immortal encampment also have two specifications, according to weight, which are over five hundred jin and over a thousand jin.

Iron bows are even more obvious. Although the bowstrings used are different, the pulling force is also divided into between five thousand and ten thousand, and over ten thousand, and the weight of the bow body is about three hundred jin for the former and six hundred jin for the latter.

This is basically the same as Great Xia's current regulations.

The reason is also very simple. Weapons, in the final analysis, are all used by people. Or because of different individual talents, there are various styles such as knives, spears, swords, and halberds, but their weight will definitely not be too different.

After all, the Woodcutting Realm five thousand jin threshold, Earth-Digging Realm ten thousand jin threshold, this is the same in any encampment.

Over 4,700 weapons, the lowest iron bow is also over three hundred jin, the heaviest long spear is even over three thousand jin. If calculated by an average weight of 1000, there are at least over four million jin.

There are only over a hundred Earth-Digging Realm experts who came over tonight. Although they are all Earth-Digging Realm cultivation, wanting to move these weapons back empty-handed is definitely impossible.

Fortunately, the Mirror Immortal encampment has iron-made trailers with wheels.

Seeing the iron-made trailer at that moment, not to mention Xia Chuan and the others, even in Xia Hong's eyes, a trace of shock rose slightly.

Great Xia has been making trailers for a while.

But except for the rotating shaft and key parts using iron, the main material is basically wood.

Who would dare to think about building one with pure iron.

However, the Mirror Immortal encampment actually has three.

It's really rich and generous!

On the snow ground north of the arrow bamboo forest, three giant two-wheeled vehicles are lined up in a straight line driving south. At the front of each vehicle, there are twenty-plus people pulling thick iron chains. Everyone talks while walking, and there is not a hint of effort.

At the very front of the team, there are ten-plus people constantly sweeping the snow on the road, clearing a convenient road for the three trailers behind. In this way, the speed of the trailers is not slow at all, and soon they saw the arrow bamboo forest.

"This trailer has a total weight of 500,000 jin and can carry cargo five times the weight of the vehicle body. It only needs twenty-plus Earth-Digging Realm experts to drive it. It was also used by our encampment to carry cargo and trade with the Beehive encampment before."

Xia Hong's group, who were at the rear, had their gazes focused on the trailer. Hearing Director Yu Wen Tao's explanation, everyone couldn't help but click their tongues.

That trailer is more than ten meters long. Originally, they guessed the weight was not light, but 500,000 jin was still far beyond their expectations.

Only Xia Hong's unexpected look was not strong.

The density of iron in the Frozen Abyss world is much greater than in the ordinary world. A piece the size of a fist weighs forty or fifty jin. The volume of the trailer is so large, 500,000 jin can be considered reasonable.

But hearing Director Yu Wen Tao's later words, he became interested and asked:

"Trade with the Beehive encampment?"

Director Yu Wen Tao nodded, remembering that Great Xia's scale is not large and Xia Hong doesn't know much about many encampments, and immediately opened his mouth to explain: "Actually, most encampments are limited by location, and the resources they occupy are relatively single and limited. They must find ways to exchange resources with other encampments.

But first, the suspicion between encampments is relatively heavy, and it is difficult to trust each other;

Second, geographical distance is also a problem. Encampments without strength can't even walk too far, let alone talk about trading with other encampments.

Therefore, truly successful resource exchange often occurs between two encampments that are not too far apart and whose strength is not much different. Just happen, Beehive and Mirror Immortal meet these two conditions."

This is not much different from the situation when the Rogge encampment was in Red Wood Ridge before. Other small encampments also used wood and crystal fruit to exchange for a small amount of iron weapons.

Xia Hong thought for a while and immediately opened his mouth to ask: "What you were short of before should be cold beast meat and cold beast blood. What you used iron and coal to exchange with the Beehive encampment for is these two things, right?"

Among the supplies counted just now, the smallest quantities are cold beast meat and beast blood.

Seeing Xia Hong guess so accurately, Director Yu Wen Tao immediately nodded:

"Not bad, cold beasts are one of the most scarce resources in the Mirror Immortal encampment. In most cases, what we exchange with the Mirror Immortal encampment is cold beast meat."

"Then what proportion is exchanged?"

Why only exchange cold beast meat, not beast blood, Xia Hong didn't need to ask at all.

Beast blood is a key material for the Earth-Digging Realm to break through to the Cold-Resisting Grade, and the difficulty of obtaining it is very high. But any encampment that is a bit smart will definitely keep it for their own use.

The Beehive encampment, since its strength is equal to Mirror Immortal, must not be rich enough to take out this kind of material to exchange with others.

Hearing Xia Hong ask about the exchange ratio, Director Yu Wen Tao revealed a look of helplessness and shook his head: "40 jin of iron ore or 70 jin of coal stone can exchange for 1 jin of cold beast meat."

Hiss......

After Director Yu Wen Tao's words fell, Xia Hong hadn't opened his mouth yet, Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, Yuan Chuan, Yue Feng, and the rest of the Great Xia crowd around him all gasped, their eyes wide open, their faces full of shock.

Xia Hong, of course, was no exception.

"So, Leader knows why we were so covetous of Red Wood Ridge before, right?"

This last sentence, Director Yu Wen Tao didn't need to add at all.

The Great Xia crowd had already realized.

What kind of treasure land they had been sitting on all along.

Xia Hong was also dumbfounded at this moment. If he had known earlier that cold beast meat could exchange for so much iron and coal, he wouldn't have had to take the encampment's Earth-Digging Realm experts to stay in the mine cave bitterly every day.

No, no.

This is just a special case.

You have to happen to meet an encampment that lacks cold beast resources.

And happen that this encampment is not short of iron and coal.

And, the strength of the two encampments must be equal, otherwise what is finally formed is not exchange, but annexation and attack.

Soon Xia Hong realized the key to the problem.

Cannot take this as a real exchange ratio.

But Xia Hong realized even more the importance of communication and exchange with other encampments.

"The Frozen Abyss world is like this. Unequal resource exchange is very normal. After all, no matter how strong or weak, all encampments almost have to be limited by geography. Wanting to get things from other places can only be done through exchange with others. Everything exchange ratio, in the final analysis, depends on which side needs it more."

Hearing Director Yu Wen Tao's words, not only Xia Hong, but Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the others nodded slightly, and the excitement on their faces calmed down.

Cold beast resources are necessary materials for the cultivation of Woodcutting, Earth-Digging, and Cold-Resisting realms, which can be considered hard currency needed by all encampments;

Iron and coal are of course also important, but the problem is that the threshold for obtaining these two is not high. Medium-sized encampments with Earth-Digging Realm experts, as long as they can find coal mines and iron mines, can basically mine them themselves.

The Beehive encampment's strength is equal to Mirror Immortal. They must have coal mines and iron mines in their hands, and they are not short of cold beast meat, so forming this kind of unequal trade is inevitable.

"Of course, on our side, there are also things that the Beehive encampment wants. Raw bamboo silk and Snow Bamboo are two of the most important."

Raw bamboo silk!

A bright light rose in Xia Hong's eyes. He took out a transparent white silk thread from his hand.

This white silk thread, it was not the first time he had seen it.

Earlier, when he first killed He Meng and He Gang's group, on the long bows seized from their hands, Xia Hong had already seen it once.

"This bamboo silk is a material used for bowstrings, right?"

Director Yu Wen Tao nodded and shook his head, then cut a small piece from his clothes and handed it to Xia Hong.

"Not just for bowstrings. After this raw bamboo silk is roasted with furnace fire, the texture will be much softer, but the toughness will remain unchanged. Cloth woven from this kind of silk, wearing it on the body will be very comfortable, and the warmth retention is also very strong. It even possesses a certain defensive nature. It can be considered the most important material in our encampment. Using it to exchange for cold beast meat with the Beehive encampment is also the most cost-effective. Five jin of raw bamboo silk can exchange for one jin."

Paper, cloth, silk!

Xia Hong touched that small piece of clothing, felt its soft and comfortable texture, pulled it gently, and noticed that the toughness was also good. His eyes instantly lit up, and three things also emerged in his mind.

"Leader, the use of this raw bamboo silk should be more than that. The bow we built for you, the bowstring is made of bamboo silk mixed with medium-level Teng Dragon tendon and roasted. This method was researched by Mu Dong."

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xia Hong immediately nodded. Seeing Director Yu Wen Tao on the side looking curious, he directly threw the giant bow behind his back to him. Director Yu Wen Tao caught the giant bow, looked at the bowstring material, and found that it was indeed Teng Dragon tendon mixed with bamboo silk. Then he pulled it hard, but couldn't even pull it open halfway.

"This bow can withstand a pulling force of 100,000 jin. Except for Big Brother, I'm afraid no one can use it for the time being."

Hearing Xia Chuan's explanation, Director Yu Wen Tao's pupils instantly condensed.

Then thinking of something, he also ran to a trailer in front, took out a bow and arrow, and handed it to Xia Hong.

Xia Hong immediately recognized that the bow was used by Director Yu Wen Hu before.

"My father's bow doesn't use ordinary raw bamboo silk. This is Snow Bamboo silk, the yield is extremely scarce, and it only comes out a little bit every cold beast tide."

As soon as Director Yu Wen Tao finished speaking, others immediately understood his meaning.

The bamboo silk used for the bowstring of the bow in Xia Hong's hand was seized from He Meng and the others.

This means that ordinary raw bamboo silk, plus medium-level Teng Dragon tendon, the toughness after roasting can directly rival Snow Bamboo silk.

Then what if it is Snow Bamboo silk, plus Teng Dragon tendon roasted?

This time, even Xia Hong was a bit uneasy.

His basic strength is now as high as ninety thousand jin.

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This 100,000 jin pulling force bow, to be honest, he still has to use it with restraint.

If he could make a bow and arrow that could withstand his full strength, that would be great.

"Here, Hong Tian and Hong Guang are coming!"

After walking for less than a while, the crowd had already arrived at the edge of the arrow bamboo forest.

Seeing Hong Guang and Hong Tian from afar, Director Yu Wen Tao hurriedly signaled.

Following the two leading the way, the crowd continued to walk toward the edge of the bamboo forest. Behind a mound, the bonfire and the vast crowd of people slowly entered their eyes.

Seeing those three thousand-plus people, Xia Hong's expression was slightly stunned.

Xia Chuan, Luo Yuan, and the others were also the same.

The reason is very simple. Just a rough look, they found that more than half of the three thousand-plus people in front of them were actually children.

The outer circle is all adults, the middle is older children holding babies, and those under ten years old are huddled together to keep warm. From the scale of the crowd, it is very easy to distinguish.

Discovering the expressions of Xia Hong and the others, Director Yu Wen Tao thought he was a bit dissatisfied and immediately opened his mouth to explain: "Mostly because adults have a deeper understanding of the cruelty of the Frozen Abyss world, so they are easily incited by the Mirror Immortal. On the contrary, these small children don't know much about the outside world, so they survived."

Xia Hong nodded, a smile appeared on his face and said: "No matter."

Hearing Xia Hong's normal tone, Director Yu Wen Tao was relieved and signaled Hong Guang, Hong Tian, and others to hurry and organize people to begin migrating to Great Xia Valley.

When Hong Tian came over just now, he should have already notified Hong Guang and discussed with everyone about merging into Great Xia.

So for the migration, although everyone's expressions were very sad, they didn't make any objections.

Only a small part of the adults showed resistance.

The vast majority of children had red eyes, their faces full of hesitation, and some were clearly still sobbing, but the sound they made was very small.

Only some very young ones looked at Xia Hong from time to time, their faces mostly curious and exploratory, which also matched their characteristics.

Judging from the proportion of people who died in the Mirror Immortal, these children should mostly have lost their parents, that is to say, they became orphans.

From an emotional level, Xia Hong naturally sympathized with them; but thinking from a rational angle, such children, as long as Great Xia cultivates them carefully, will be the fastest to integrate into the encampment and the most loyal to the encampment in the future.

"Xia Chuan, you go back to the encampment first, organize a group of people to pick up these children. Relying on them walking like this, the speed is too slow."

Xia Chuan turned his head to look at the sky that was gradually fading from dark, nodded immediately, and rushed back to the south side first.

Last night's cold beast tide plus battle, the wooden house had already collapsed, and the valley was also in a mess. The encampment side should still be in a state of reconstruction. Normally, at this time, they couldn't spare anyone.

But Xia Hong still ordered Xia Chuan to go.

One is to leave a good impression on these children and the Mirror Immortal crowd;

Two is that the sky is really about to dawn. Just this arrow bamboo forest piece is ten miles of road. After leaving the arrow bamboo forest and then to the valley, they have to walk another six or seven miles. If so many people don't speed up, once the sky dawns, the problem will be big.

Three is Great Xia's losses last night, strictly speaking, actually all on property. Personnel casualties were not large.

Xia Hong had been paying attention from beginning to end.

Not one Earth-Digging Realm expert died; a group of children also arrived on the third floor in time; it was just the Woodcutting Realm experts on the first floor who were impacted by the cold beasts in the final stage.

Casualties were at most around ten people.

Compared with the things the Mirror Immortal encampment encountered this night, Great Xia, whose wooden house was destroyed, could already be considered extremely lucky.

"Urge the people in front to speed up, let the people pulling the carts be faster, take turns. It's not far from dawn, everyone, seize the time!"

With Xia Hong's order, Hong Guang, Hong Tian, Luo Yuan, Yuan Cheng, including Director Yu Wen Tao, all Earth-Digging Realm experts went to pull the carts. Those who didn't pull the carts went to the front to urge the team.

Everyone also knew that it was about to dawn, so the walking speed also became faster and faster.

When the sky was just dawning, the crowd at the very front of the team finally saw the outline of the Twin Dragon Mountains from afar.

At the same time, a team composed of three or four hundred people, pushing over a hundred wooden trailers, also rushed over from the east outskirts of Red Wood Ridge.

"Children, come up, we'll pull you back."

"I can take twenty here."

"Thirty is no problem on my side."

"Come, all come, children who can't walk, all come over."

"Those with injuries can also come, speed up, the sky is about to dawn."

The enthusiasm of the Great Xia crowd made Director Yu Wen Tao and Hong Guang's group stunned, and a trace of movement appeared in their eyes;

And those adults in the Mirror Immortal encampment, regardless of whether they had Woodcutting Realm cultivation or not, immediately followed the people Great Xia sent, helped the children get on the carts, and then either followed and pulled, or stayed behind the carts to help push forward.

Those children who were urged to get on the carts, or were directly hugged onto the carts, were a bit stunned at first, but as they were driven by the trailers, seeing the busy figures in front and behind, warmth also rose on their faces.

At the very back of the group, seeing the performance of the Great Xia crowd, a look of deep approval rose on Xia Hong's face.

"This kid Xia Chuan is getting better and better at things!"

No need to think, it must be Xia Chuan who taught these people.

Xia Chuan's ability is indeed getting stronger and stronger.

After this wave, these people won't say they recognize Great Xia at once.

But at least, it can be considered a good start.

Very clearly, the small part of adults who showed resistance just now, their complexions have eased a lot.

Even some of them have started to chat with the Great Xia people.

Looking at it, they are clearly probing the various situations of Great Xia.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 173 =====