The five largest open-pit iron ore deposits marked on the "Wuwei Map" are located in Hutou Mountain, downstream, upstream, Jiangshi Village, north and southwest of Xiaobai Town. The three mines in the lower, upstream and north are designated as targets for Zhan Xiaobai. These three locations correspond to three completely different opponents. How to deal with these three opponents has become the key to seizing iron ore resources.

After discussing with Qiushui, Zhan Xiaobai and Qiushui thought that the most easy-to-solve downstream open-pit iron ore was started. Xiaobai Town has a village in this place that signed a "friendly trade" agreement, Zongheng Village, which will help seize control of this iron ore. Of course, the other two places cannot be left unchecked, and necessary measures must be taken to prevent the expansion of competitors.

Before the three armies moved, diplomacy took the lead. This time the war was of great importance, and Zhan Xiaobai decided to visit in person.

The next morning, Zhan Xiaobai, A Fei, Zhan Feng, Ling Yue and other cavalry guards set off downstream. After passing Wutong Village, the fast horse arrived at a hill more than 60 miles downstream in just over an hour.

This is a gentle hilly area that stretches for several miles, only five miles away from the river. The entire hill is a large mineral deposit with more than ten exposed iron ore deposits of various sizes, which are easy to mine. Such a huge open-pit mining area is difficult to monopolize by a village.

Within five or six miles of this hill, there are three large villages, three central villages, and some small villages, all claiming to have the power of hilly iron ore. When Zhan Xiaobai and others arrived under the hilly, they could see hundreds of NPC miners working on the hilly.

Zhan Xiaobai knew very little about this place. He strangled his horse, looked up at the hills, and asked A Fei behind him, "What is this mountain?"

A Fei said: "Brother, this mountain has no name, but the nearby villages call it Hantie Mountain."

Zhan Xiaobai was surprised: "Oh, can it produce high-quality cold iron ore here? The value of this thing is ten times more valuable than that of high-end iron ore."

A Fei shook his head and said, "I don't know. Even if there is one, the output should be very low. Brother, we have made an appointment with the village chief of a nearby alliance village. Let's go there immediately, don't let them wait in a hurry."

"No hurry, let him wait. He made an appointment, which would be beneficial to us."

Zhan Xiaobai rode his horse around the entire Hantie Mountain. He saw as many as fifteen mining sites of all sizes, and many warriors from different villages leveling near the mining sites. However, rather than leveling up, it is better to say that they are guarding the mines, and killing low-level monsters on the hills while bored.

These warrior players are very alert to all people close to the mining site and are prohibited from getting close to each other.

On the surface, players in various villages around this hill live in peace and there is no conflict for the time being.

Zhan Xiaobai, A Fei and others walked around the hills for half an hour before running towards Zongheng Village not far away.

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Zongheng Village is one of the three major villages around Hantie Mountain. Speaking of which, the strength of this village is quite good.

There are several ways to get iron ore materials needed by Xiaobai Town, and some of them were imported from this village. The two sides signed an iron ore purchase and sale agreement in mid-March 184: Zongheng Village uses iron ore to exchange weapons from Xiaobai Village.

Mid-March was the first month when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. Before that, Xiaobai Village and Zongheng Village had no formal exchanges, and even if there was trade, it was a small business between players and merchants.

Zongheng Village has always maintained its own self-sufficiency. It can produce the weapons it needs on its own and does not need the weapons of Xiaobai Village at all.

However, the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out and the world was in chaos. The villages of various villages began to fight sharply. In order to compete for the iron ore on the mountain, the villages around Hantie Mountain fought desperately to attack each other and snatched each other from each other's mouths.

This frequent battle cannot be solved in just one or two strokes, but it is also a test of logistics. The consumption of weapons, equipment and medicines is very serious. After fighting with various villages for a month, the workshops in Zongheng Village were fully production, but the production capacity was still obviously insufficient. Weapons, equipment, and blood medicine were all in a state of shortage. The mining farms built on the mountain were lost one after another. The commanders of the village called Zongheng to urgently allocate arms to them, otherwise they would not be able to defend the mining farms on the mountain.

But Zongheng can't come up with so many arms.

what to do?

purchase?

Now all weapons, equipment and medicines on the market are in urgent need of prices, soaring. Who is willing to sell them to you?!

The boss of Zongheng Village thought of Xiaobai Village dozens of miles away in an anxious moment. At this time, I am afraid that only Xiaobai Village in Wuwei County has the strong strength to provide so many surplus weapons and equipment.

After thinking of Xiaobai Village, Zongheng urgently sent an envoy to Xiaobai Village and requested to exchange iron ore for weapons.

The sword bar, who is fully responsible for commerce in Xiaobai Village, did not make any difficulties. Zongheng signed a trade contract to exchange for weapons: Zongheng Village used the lowest iron ore to exchange for the higher priced arms of Xiaobai Village.

Zongheng had no time to negotiate with Jianba, so he agreed directly. After all, if all the mining farms in his hand were lost, the iron ore would no longer belong to him, and then he would not even be able to get the cheapest iron ore in Zongheng Village.

At the most critical moment in Zongheng Village, they obtained the urgently needed arms provided by Xiaobai Village and saved the situation of retreating on the battlefield.

Xiaobai Village is not only a weapon supplier in Zongheng Village, but also a weapon supplier in many player villages. Even the weapons of the opponents in Zongheng Village have flowed out of Xiaobai Village.

The weapons of Xiaobai Village were still being in a raging war by crazy merchants and players, who risked the risk of cargo robbery, were transported to various battlefields with urgent weapons, and then transported back various resources from various battlefields.

The only player escort agency in the entire Wuwei County was opened in Xiaobai Village at this time.

In addition, in order to ensure the safety of goods, the merchants in Xiaobai Village adopted the safest cargo transportation model of "water bamboo raft transportation + water bamboo raft archers + cavalry escorts", and could even safely deliver goods upstream and downstream hundreds of miles away. The trade network is spread throughout the river for hundreds of miles, and the loss rate of goods is greatly reduced.

The production capacity of Xiaobai Village soared rapidly under this situation. The level of NPC craftsmen continued to improve, recruiting disciples, and expanding production. During the eight months of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the entire Xiaobai Village was full of traffic, and the trade was busy, peaceful and stable. It is impossible to say that this is a commercial miracle under the Yellow Turban War.

Because of this war, Zongheng Village no longer insisted on the arms needed for its production, and the main trading target became Xiaobai Village, and the two villages have always maintained a relatively close trade relationship.

Zhan Xiaobai came to Zongheng Village this time and sent someone to say hello to Zongheng in advance. He had important matters to discuss, hoping to enhance the trade relationship into an alliance relationship. This almost made Zongheng happy.

Zongheng has deeply realized the power of Xiaobai Village in the past few months. Without Xiaobai Village providing force behind him, he could not defend his several mining sites on Hantie Mountain. Moreover, Xiaobai Village has been upgraded to a town and its future is limitless.

If the "trade relationship" between the two villages and towns can be improved to "alliance relationship", this would be great, which would be equivalent to giving the soldiers and players in the village a reassurance, without any fear of provocations from other nearby villages.

When Zhan Xiaobai and others arrived at Zongheng Village several times, a large group of high-end high-end players were waiting at the entrance of Zongheng Village's grand gate. The head was the village chief Zongheng, and the rest were elders, legion commanders, and big boss-level figures, which was enough to show their high attention to Zhan Xiaobai's personal visit.

When Zongheng saw this, his anxious expression suddenly disappeared, and he laughed and greeted him loudly: "Oh, Boss Xiaobai, I'm so anxious! I thought there was something wrong with the road."

Zhan Xiaobai got off the horse and smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I encountered some minor trouble on the road, so I delayed it. Fortunately, I didn't miss the main business. Let's go into the village."

Zongheng hurriedly said, "That's right!"

A Fei, Zhan Feng, Ling Yue and others also dismounted and accompanied by the bigwigs of Zongheng Village, they entered the village. While Zhan Xiaobai and Zongheng were talking to Zongheng, the elders of Zongheng Village did not forget to win over relationships with A Fei and others.

When we arrived at the meeting hall, we took our seats and had tea.

Zongheng did not sit in the first seat in the center of the hall, but sat in the first seat in the left head, while Zhan Xiaobai was in the first seat in the right head. The rest of the members of both sides sat behind each other. This detail alone was enough to show Zongheng's respect for Zhan Xiaobai.

Zongheng smiled and said, "Boss Xiaobai is really surprised by the arrival of my village. If our two villages can reach an alliance, it will be a good thing for both of us."

Zhan Xiaobai nodded, looked at the crowd at Zongheng Village and said, "Our villages have always been friendly and have a very close relationship. So today I came here mainly for two things. One is to hope to establish a further relationship with your village. The other is..."

He smiled, "I heard that you lost several mining sites during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, didn't you?"

Zongheng was stunned. Boss Xiaobai suddenly mentioned this matter. Could it be...Is he thinking?
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