"I said from the beginning - follow the Nu Tao River downstream, and the river will sink into a salt lake, which we call Bay Lake." Annie stretched out her finger and dipped it in water and drew a brief sign on the table. A winding curve is connected to a ball, which looks like a tadpole.

"The lake is full of bitter brine that can\'t be drunk. People can float in it without force. Long ago, someone tried to bask in salt with the lake water and found it poisonous. Later, no one paid much attention to it."

Annie tried to paint a skeleton with her fingernails. As a result, it was more like a pig\'s head than a skeleton. She soon pretended not to care and wiped it away.

The Lord saw it in his eyes, covered his chin with his hand and stole his mouth.

"But six years ago, by chance, our VOYA firm found that a large amount of iron ore was distributed at the bottom of Baye lake. So we contacted familiar dwarf tribes and quietly dug ore to smelt iron."

Richard suddenly realized, "no wonder you want to transport so much coal to the wilderness to smelt iron."

He felt a little strange when he came early. The motorcade passing by VOYA firm twice before loaded a lot of coal. You know, this kind of goods should have been very popular, because there was no lack of fuel in the wilderness.

But if this makes sense, the temperature of ordinary fuel combustion is not enough to smelt ore, so coal must be transported from Pompeii.

"Yes. Making iron in the wilderness, selling it to the aborigines, collecting fur and herbs as a reward, and then transporting it back to Pompeii for sale. This trade route has also made a lot of money in recent years."

There is almost no iron in this barren land of the wilderness. The export tax for selling Pompeii iron is as high as robbery, so iron is very valuable in indigenous tribes. Fur and grass leaves, which are not very valuable in the wilderness, have a big market back in Pompeii

A batch of goods makes money twice, plus the cost is very low, the profit is almost with your toes to know how rich it is.

"It\'s a good deal." an emotion called jealousy was mercilessly biting Richard\'s heart, and the sour taste in his tone could corrode the steel into slag.

"Otherwise, why has our woya firm grown so fast in recent years? The timber business is a joke. How many gold coins can we earn?"

Annie\'s complacency lasted only for a short moment, and soon collapsed into a sad face, "but not long ago, a bear tribe called the last quarter moon discovered this secret, Richard, you may be hard to imagine what kind of temptation an iron ore is for the savages, it\'s completely worth gambling and going crazy."

"They drained all the war potential of the whole tribe - abandoned all the old people who could not fight, blinded one eye to show their determination, slaughtered young animals and female animals, stored military food, and mobilized all warriors to attack the dwarf tribe."

"Isn\'t it right." Richard reached out and knocked on the pine table, interrupted Anne\'s generous speech, didn\'t drop any thorns while listening to the story, so he almost grabbed the melon seeds.

"The dwarves mine and forge by themselves. According to their urine, their soldiers must be well equipped to the extreme. Their strength is not poor. They don\'t beat the beggar bear into a pig\'s head?"

He himself has recently realized that the impact of the quality of equipment on combat effectiveness cannot be overstated. In particular, dwarves and bears themselves are very powerful fighting races. The more experts fight, the more insurmountable the gap caused by the equipment gap.

"Can you stop interrupting? I haven\'t finished yet - the xiaxianyue tribe is a member of the tribe alliance called Xianyue, and their abnormal performance has attracted the attention of other members."

"The situation collapsed very quickly. Now, in addition to the dwarves and the last quarter moon, there are other tribes of the five quarter moon alliance. It is conservatively estimated that seven or eight thousand soldiers also participated in the war, alas..." the half elf was also very good at appearance. Richard saw Anne collapse on the chair and roll his eyes for the first time.

"Their ten tribes haven\'t cleaned up the dwarves yet? Your ally is a little too powerful." the Lord continued to challenge.

If Annie was half or even a quarter smart at ordinary times, she would certainly hear Richard deliberately inducing with words. But now she is full of lawsuits, and her desire to talk has long overwhelmed reason.

"Richard, you look too high at the natives." Anne leaned back in her chair and smiled helplessly, "how can the loose alliance of the wilderness people be maintained in the face of fatal temptation."

"It\'s a big scuffle among more than a dozen tribes, and the alliance has long ceased to exist. Everyone is indiscriminately attacking other tribes, and even some tribes have split several factions within themselves!"

"Good boy!" Richard quickly drank a big mouthful of tea to calm down, "this is not who can fight against bloodletting. In the end, I estimate that at least one third of these tribes will be removed after the fight."

As a military commander, his resume is still very poor. He hasn\'t even commanded a hundred people. It\'s hard to imagine the scene of ten thousand people fighting in more than ten factions.

I\'m afraid it\'s easy for the routed soldiers alone to gather into hundreds of bandits on the scale of one side of the disaster. No wonder other development lords honestly returned to Kelun. Even the most elite three lion Legion in the northeast province may not be willing to touch the bad luck.

Of course, this doesn\'t mean that the regular Legion can\'t clean up thousands of tribal warriors, but there\'s no need to bother to stop a dog biting dog.

"Yes, we were going to reinforce dwarf allies, so we had to withdraw first. This situation has long been beyond the control of a commercial firm." Annie held tea and looked at the table and sighed infinitely, "fate strikes like a pouring rain. Passers-by walk in the wilderness, how can they escape."

"What about the dwarves? Why didn\'t he come with you?" Richard wanted to see if he could hug some dwarven blacksmiths. Although there are several centaurs busmi supporting the military industry of Gaoshan castle, the production speed is still not enough.

"Cling to the iron ore and don\'t want to go." Anne sighed, and the expression on her face perfectly explained what life is loveless. "I advised them to leave quickly, but you know the dwarf\'s temper is more stubborn than stone, saying that death should guard the minerals given to them by God."

"It\'s worthy of being a dwarf, what a tough guy!" Richard put on an affectable thumbs up, and could not see whether it was praise or ridicule.

"After so many years of operation, it\'s all over." Annie lay powerlessly on the table, her index finger circling around the table. "We\'ll take a night off and leave for Colleen early tomorrow morning. If you don\'t feel convenient, we\'ll stay as far away from Gaoshan castle as possible."

"There\'s nothing inconvenient about this. Just feel free."

"Richard, now you know how tense the situation is." Anne looked up, "so are you going to withdraw to Colleen with us?"

She advised Richard to have his own selfishness. There was no doubt that the Lord guard of Gaoshan castle was strong. If we could finish the last few days together, the security would undoubtedly be improved a lot.

"Say it again." Richard smiled with profound meaning.