Chapter 1224 Profit from both ends
During this period, Zhou Xu had already arranged for the transfer station in the Northeast region and the trading station that had been discussed with Yalvite before.
In fact, there are not many things to arrange here. Basically, we only need to arrange a group of people to evaluate and pay for the things sent by the female warrior tribe.
As for subsequent purchases, just ask the female warrior clan to take the train to Oil City, Prairie City, or even go directly to Black Moon City to purchase.
Of course, they need to pay the fare themselves.
At the same time, if they want to use steam trains to transport the goods they purchased to the border, the freight will definitely need to be paid. After all, in this way, they will have to occupy several carriages, which will have a negative impact on their internal situation. Transportation work is affected.
Zhou Xu has already negotiated these matters with Yalvite.
If it were an ordinary force, for this first trade, they would definitely bring a few things to test the waters. However, they, Dazhou, and the female warrior clan have always gotten along well. After the trading station was established, the female warrior clan The warrior clan also showed great generosity and came over with cart after cart of supplies.
Yalvite knew that although Zhou Xu had told him that their trading station could receive all kinds of things, what Zhou Xu wanted was definitely not some worthless stuff, but various resources. ! This is the hard currency among the various forces here.
The female warrior clan made many deals with various forces within the coalition in the early years, so they are very aware of this.
This time, they took out some copper ore and iron ore as hard currency as soon as they started, and then sold them together with some less popular or simply unknown ores.
They don’t even know the use of some ores, but are they sure Da Zhou will find them useful? If you just use it to sell it, there will be no loss to them.
From this point, it is not difficult to see that the female warrior clan still has a bit of business acumen. The wood elves, who were not experienced in the world at that time, could not compare with them.
At the trading station, there are experts specially transferred from the Ore Research Institute, who are responsible for identifying various ores sent by the female warrior clan.
But even so, when the staff received the ore sent by the female warrior clan, they would still ask one question...
"What is the use of this ore?"
On the one hand, if the female warrior clan has the answer directly, it can save them a lot of research energy.
On the other hand, if the female warrior clan doesn't know what the ore is used for, then it is obviously impossible for them to buy a batch of ore at a high price that they don't even know what it is used for.
As a result, the prices of these ores will be depressed very low.
After all, this is essentially a transaction, and they are not taken advantage of.
The female warrior clan had undoubtedly been mentally prepared for it. Faced with Da Zhou's offer, they agreed very simply.
From their perspective, it is best to sell these ores that they don’t know what they can be used for, and it doesn’t matter if they don’t.
Because both parties were very happy, the transaction went very smoothly without any hassle.
Both parties paid the money and delivered the goods in one hand, and the money and goods were settled quickly.
After taking the box full of gold and silver coins, the female warriors led by Campbell did not return directly to Mistila City. Instead, they took the money and prepared to go for the first round. purchase.
As the captain of the first team of the Pegasus Knights, Campbell followed Yalvette when she lived in Dazhou, and he has a relatively good understanding of the situation in Dazhou.
Now that they have established a trading cooperation, Campbell has also transformed into the director of the Procurement Office of the female warrior clan, fully responsible for leading the team's procurement related matters. Considering the distance, Campbell thought about it and decided to go to the market in Oil City first.
Compared with Black Moon City as the capital, Oil City is indeed a bit crude, but they have to admit that this one is still better than their Mistila City. Well, all kinds of products in the market are basically available.
After Campbell and the others arrived, the entire procurement work started directly in the form of a sweep.
Based on the premise of an entire ethnic group, that box of money was simply not enough, and it was quickly squandered by them.
Even in the end, if they had to use a steam train to transport goods, the little money they had left would not be enough to cover the freight.
In the end, the trading post happily gave them an IOU and borrowed money, and then all the things were shipped away.
During this period, relevant reports surrounding this transaction with the female warrior clan were delivered to Zhou Xu as quickly as possible.
As for the ores, Zhou Xu, who is not a relevant practitioner, has basically no research. For those unknown ores, Zhang Xuemei will be asked to confirm and study them later, and he will wait for the results.
In comparison, this wave also allowed them to make a lot of copper and iron resources, which made Zhou Xu feel quite good.
Including the transaction with Copperforge Castle, they have made money from both sides this year.
Although copper and iron resources are common, and there is no shortage of these resources within the Great Zhou Dynasty, everyone knows that for important metals like this, the more the better.
At the same time, if these metals can be obtained in large quantities and stably through external transactions, then their internal mines in Dazhou can appropriately reduce the number of related mining workers, thereby freeing up this share. The released labor force is transferred to more needed positions.
The summary is just one sentence, if you can make money from outside, make money from outside first. When the outside is gone, you can then start to dig into your own resource reserves. If you want long-term development, this is a very normal method.
On Dazhou's side, although there have been many troops mobilized in the past two years, internal development has been going quite well thanks to the resources obtained from the transactions between Copperforge Castle and the female warrior clan.
"Bowen, the laying work of the southern railway should be basically completed next year, right?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
This is considered an internal matter for them in the Great Zhou Dynasty It's an important project, and Li Bowen from Qinzheng Palace has been keeping an eye on the progress.
Now when His Majesty asked, Li Bowen also answered quickly.
"The engineering team currently estimates that based on the current construction efficiency, if nothing unexpected happens, the first railway on the southern side will be completely completed in the early autumn of next year, or no later than the end of autumn at the latest. By then, trains from the southern factory will Once you get on the bus, you can go directly to the southern border."
Zhou Xu nodded after confirming the information.
“Next autumn”
Zhou Xu thought about it in his mind.
"In this way, you can ask the Railway Bureau to make arrangements. The route starting from Green Forest City, passing through Anling City, and directly to the New Taipei District Plain Fortress can be gradually confirmed. Then make a plan first. Bring it up for me to see.”
"Yes!"
(End of this chapter)