307 The Frightened Bird

The complete set of Zhangye County economic plans formulated by the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce are basically perfect and there are no major loopholes.

But there are still small problems that cannot be solved.

Jianba explained this situation to Zhan Xiaobai.

If the members of the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce purchase large quantities of raw materials from the villages of Zhangye County at 10% higher than the market price and transport them back to Wuwei, thereby raising the raw materials in Zhangye County, causing the sudden surge in raw materials in Zhangye County to cause the economic order to be disordered, and the production capacity of products will be reduced.

The raw materials in Zhangye County were scarce, and it rose by 10% overnight. Wuwei County obtained a large number of raw materials, and the market price fell by about 10% overnight.

This will form a reverse price difference of more than 20%, which is amazing.

If there are scattered Wuwei merchant players who are not afraid of death, they secretly operate in reverse: purchase raw materials from Wuwei County at a low price, transport them to Zhangye, and then resell them in Zhangye County at a high price to players of the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce. After such a resell, deducting freight, bodyguard and other expenses, you can still get high profits. You will get back and forth a few times and make a fortune.

With such high profits, written bans, warnings, etc. alone cannot prevent some obsessed businessmen and players from going to make huge profits.

This will lead to a civil war, and one's own merchants will beat one's own chamber of commerce. Even players from Zhangye County may come to Wuwei County to purchase cheap raw materials and take them back to Zhangye to sell them at a high price, causing significant losses to the novice Chamber of commerce and shooting themselves in the foot.

After thinking about it, Zhan Xiaobai decided to use the army.

Those who are obsessed with making huge profits can only wake up violence and let them know what can be done and what cannot be done.

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On June 20, on the border between Wuwei and Zhangye County, there were suddenly five thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry and one thousand well-trained Xiaobai Town player warriors. They set up several military camps, garrisons, guards, build fortifications, and fences on the border.

Instead of crossing the border into Zhangye County, they built a narrow passage on the border line and built a fence that lasted more than ten miles long, with only a gate in the middle, guarding heavily, allowing players to pass, and players are strictly prohibited from passing in other places.

The player leading the Iron Cavalry is A Fei, the commander of Xiaobai Town Legion.

After the border fence was built, several legion commanders including Zhan Xiaobai, Qiushui, Chunqiu Shaoxia and other legion commanders came to the military camps that night to inspect the front line. Although the military tasks are heavy now, many military and political affairs in the alliance have to be handled. However, these three giants still came to this important location together.

Early the next morning, Zhan Xiaobai wore a white shirt and checked the border with Qiushui, A Fei, Chunqiu Shaoxia and others.

The fence is very simple, but it lasts for miles and can't see the edge at a glance. Because it's too simple, players can even flip past it, so they can only guard against gentlemen and villains.

If it weren't for the huge scary military camp nearby and the numerous Western Liang cavalry riding horses carrying guns and carrying longbows and sharp arrows, cruising back and forth across the border, forming a huge deterrent of force, these simple fences would have been demolished by players who were unhappy.

Under the powerful deterrence of thousands of iron cavalry forces, the players coming and going were staring at each other and could only pass through the gate of the middle level honestly.

A wooden sign hanging high at the gate of the level, writing the ban:

"The Little White Alliance Command issued a temporary economic ban on war: prohibiting the carrying of the following goods into Zhangye County in batches. The product list includes: bows, guns, knives, swords, armor, blood medicines, body medicines, war horses, large equipment; herbs, iron ore, wood, stone... (hundreds of finished products, raw materials), martial law period: June 20th to July 20th."

A large number of NPC soldiers and the players and soldiers of the Fei General Legion under Ah Fei were guarding the level. Ordinary players must open the package and check it for the level players to release it. Bulks of the above products are not allowed to enter Zhangye County. If they are carried, they can only be sold to villages in Wuwei County. Even players from the Little White Alliance Chamber of Commerce are not allowed to bring the above products into Zhangye County.

Early in the morning, some ordinary players had already traveled between Zhangye and Wuwei, gathered at the gate of the pass, and looked at the ban, and were full of discussion and amazed. This was the first time they encountered such a situation where players set levels and checked to pass the level.

There was a warrior player who was reckless and disliked restraint. He quarreled loudly with the players guarding the level and asked to pass directly. More than a dozen players next to him also yelled loudly, "Why check us?"

An NPC general led a group of hundreds of Xiliang iron cavalry to rush from a distance, showing off a cold iron spear, a big bow, and a thunderous shout, "Who is making noise here?"

The dozen or so players who wanted to make trouble immediately shrank and became honest.

Many of these players were merchants and secretly regretted that they received news of the Chamber of Commerce's major action in the morning, so they secretly purchased a batch of raw materials and wanted to ship them to Zhangye to resell. Unexpectedly, a level was run out here and they did not allow the goods to be brought over.

It’s still light to regret, and they will soon be heartbroken.

The news that the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce went to Zhangye to purchase raw materials was reported. The prices of raw materials in Wuwei County began to fall generally. Those merchants and players who purchased raw materials in Wuwei County but could not transport them to Zhangye County for high-priced reselling were stored in large quantities of raw materials and could not be sold, and it was useless. In the end, they could only cut their money and sold them to nearby villages at a reduced price, recovering funds, and causing heavy losses.

Zhan Xiaobai inspected the entire border line, and the border line was well built, which made him satisfied. After building this managed border line, it would be easier to manage the behavior of merchants and players, so as not to make trouble in secret and operate in reverse.

"How can we ensure their personal safety after a large number of businessmen have passed by Zhangye County?"

"There are already some villages near the other side of the border that have joined the My Little White Alliance and can send bodyguards to escort them. The merchants mainly stationed in the alliance villages and friendly villages, set up acquisition points, and attract a large number of other players to sell raw materials. Then they will transfer the raw materials to our Wuwei County side. Therefore, there is a high guarantee of personal safety. Besides, we have a large number of troops here, and we may kill the boundaries at any time, and the villages opposite dare not attack us merchants at will."

"Well, that's good, and it's not possible to send a large number of protection troops."

Dozens of them rode their horses up a slope and looked out at the vast mountains and wilderness of the border.

There are still few people coming here, only some caravans who are moving early. But I believe that in a few days, a large number of NPCs and player legions will come to Zhangye County to fight.

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Zhangye County.

The Little White Alliance in Wuwei County advocated the attack on Zhangye, but there was no military movement for a long time, which made ordinary players in many villages in Zhangye County feel very puzzled.

As the saying goes, soldiers are more important than speed. If you send troops to fight, you must be as fast as lightning and fire, and you can knock your opponent down in one fell swoop. It is best if the opponent doesn't even have time to react and then you will fall down. This is the war master.

There is no such thing as the Little White Alliance, which has been clamoring for many days and is clamoring to attack, but has not even seen the shadow of the army yet. It is a bit strange.

Oh, the shadow of the army has appeared, but he has been staying on the border of Wuwei County, digging deep pits and building fortifications, without any intention of crossing the line to invade.

Those who don’t know may also think that Wuwei County is the passive defense party, not the attack party.

The army of Little White Alliance did not make any big moves, but the caravans of Little White Alliance came to Zhangye County to conduct large-scale procurement.

The caravans were quite large and amazing. Any caravan with a hundred people bought raw materials for one or two villages. Grandma, the merchants in Wuwei County were rich, and it was rare to see such large-scale caravans in Zhangye County. There were at least hundreds of such caravans in Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce... I'm afraid there were hundreds of them, enough to move half of the raw material warehouse of Zhangye County.

Some people don’t understand what the Little White Alliance is doing?

Most ordinary players don’t quite understand why the merchants in Wuwei County come to Zhangye to purchase raw materials? Although they don’t understand, they are very happy. The prices of raw materials, which are usually cheap, suddenly rose, which will make them make a fortune. They take out the materials in the warehouse and sell them to players of the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce.

The leaders and players of dozens of alliance forces in Zhangye County changed their faces suddenly.

They know what the novice businessmen are doing - buying raw materials in large quantities, increasing raw material prices, and suppressing the production capacity of the villages in Zhangye County. Or they may surge and fall, and collect profits.

These are just small things, and what is more serious is the subsequent methods.

The product output of Wuwei County villages increased greatly, and under the leadership of the Chamber of Commerce, it unified large-scale shipments to Zhangye County. The prices of goods in the entire Zhangye County directly plummeted. The goods produced by the Zhangye County villages could not be sold, and they were hoarded in warehouses, and their production capacity was tragically destroyed. In the end, the production capacity of Zhangye County villages gradually lag behind Wuwei County in an all-round way, and they could not turn over again.

This kind of bad business behavior is also called: market manipulation.

The most disgusting behavior in the game is to manipulate the market.

Of course, the market cannot be easily manipulated by any person. Only by having huge amounts of money flowing can the ability to centrally import/ship, causing economic disruption.

Although the leaders of dozens of alliance forces in Zhangye County were determined to resist the malicious behavior of Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce, without unified actions, this invasion could not be resisted.

They can control the interior of the village of this alliance and order a certain raw material not to be sold to the novice chamber of commerce, but they cannot control the sale of other alliances.

These alliances forced the sale of these raw materials, and some other alliances restricted the sale of other raw materials, which eventually led to chaos in the entire Zhangye County market, like boiling porridge, and various items were blindly rising without restraint.

When the pot of "porridge" in Zhangye County was boiling and the purpose of disrupting the economic order was achieved, that is, the Xiaobai Chamber of Commerce withdrew from Zhangye County and the alliance launched a large-scale advance.

The leaders of various alliance forces and village chiefs were thinking too much, and they were a little scared and anxiously waiting for the next method of the Little White Alliance. This kind of waiting was simply torment. Instead, they hoped that the Little White Alliance would immediately attack the Ma Wanjun in Zhangye City, so as to get a winner and lose result immediately.

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On the side of the border of Wuwei County, on the hillside, more than ten people including Zhan Xiaobai looked at the distant Zhangye County opposite the border line. Only more than ten miles can be seen here. It is still very far away from Zhangye City.

A Fei asked with some concern: "Brother, when will we advance to Zhangye County?"

Zhan Xiaobai smiled and said, "What are you anxious about? Our army needs some days to rectify. Once the rectification is done, we will advance naturally."

A Fei scratched his head and laughed foolishly: "It's either I'm anxious. I'm just afraid that this matter will be delayed for too long. I'm afraid that the villages in Zhangye County will be ready to resist. We can't do a raid on them. Head-on battle will lead to great losses."

“Raising?”

Zhan Xiaobai said: "Our goal is to capture Zhangye City, not to raid those player villages. Zhangye City is in the hands of Ma Wan, and Ma Wan is a historical general after all. He can only rely on his strength to win the city. He cannot use the simple tactic of raiding to capture the city. Therefore, whether this military operation has the military effect of raiding is not the most important thing."

A Fei was a little confused and asked, "Brother, the raid is not the most important, so what is important?"

Zhan Xiaobai said: "The raid is just a tactical use. If you are lucky, you can succeed or you may encounter unexpected failures. Zhangye County has a complex geography and is rash and deep, and is easily trapped. After Dong Zhuo defeated Han Sui, he chased Jincheng and was surrounded by the Qiang army. He must be taken as a warning. The raid is too accidental, so it cannot be placed on this. The most important thing is that the overall situation is in his own hands, and he can fight whatever he wants in this battle."

Qiu Shui smiled and said, "I agree with Brother Bai's strategy. Before the war, it will economically destroy their continuous combat capabilities. It may not be a bad thing for our army to attract and not trigger before it is ready. Instead, it can put strong mental pressure on Zhangye County players. After a while, they will become frightened birds and then defeat them in one fell swoop."

The young man from Chunqiu who was following the last one was surprised to hear this sentence: "Psychological tactics? No, you even use this?"

Qiu Shuidao: "This kind of battle is rare, and all kinds of tactics are naturally used to test the effect."

Zhan Xiaobai smiled and said, "I didn't expect Qiu Shui to start to master the psychological behavior of speculating on his opponent. Yes, a weak enemy, if he can't see his opponent's movement, he will fall into extreme anxiety and will easily become a frightened bird."
Chapter completed!