Chapter 93 Night Song Tribe filled with “vitality”
“You want to negotiate with the beastmen?” Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi in surprise, “Why?”
“If I said that I could solve the problem of the Falling Rain Forest’s water source, would elder Illusia believe me?” Xu Yi said with a smile.
Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi for a while before shaking her head, “I’m afraid I won’t believe it because you said it last time, you are a human merchant, so you wouldn’t do something if there weren’t benefits for you.”
Xu Yi laughed, “You really are wise. If your clansmen could be as wise as you, you wouldn’t need to spend that much effort in training them.”
Elder Illusia looked at the ten elven workers under the tree that Xu Xi brought back and said with a soft sigh, “Actually in the race war from before, although our elven race was stubborn and sloppy, it wasn’t serious enough that it needed to be changed. Only after living in the forest alone for several thousand years, we elves have lost many advantages that we had before.”
“The elder Illusia, what do you think of these clansmen after they’ve been trained by me?” Xu Yi asked.
Elder Illusia looked at the ten elves for a bit before saying with a nod, “It should be a large change. Although I can’t see concrete effects now, I feel that their performance is much better than if they had stayed in the tribe. Let’s return to the topic we were discussing before, I still don’t see what benefits there are in you going to negotiate with the beastmen.”
“It is because this river problem is not just affecting your tribe, it is even affecting the places down river, affecting Banta City. According to the calculations of the people in Banta City that understand rivers, if we don’t care about the river, it is likely that in ten to twenty years, the river will turn into a big problem. If there is ever a large storm in summer, it could create a disastrous flood.”
“Flood?” Elder Illusia seemed to have thought of something as her expression changed, “That is indeed a very terrifying thing, no wonder you’re paying this much attention to this matter. But why do you need to bring the ten clansmen along with you? The beastmen have never had a good relationship with us elves and the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland have had quite a few conflicts with our Night Song Tribe because of the river problem. If they were to see our ten clansmen, it might not be good for your negotiations.”
“It’s because I want to completely solve the water source problem, so I need the help of the elves. If I can’t seize this chance to reconcile between you two races, I might need to resort to a method that I don’t want to use to control the river.” Xu Yi helplessly said.
“A method you’re not willing to use?” Elder Illusia took a deep look at Xu Yi, but she didn’t keep asking.
But elder Illusia still agreed to Xu Yi’s request.
If it could solve the water source problem of the river, not only would it solve the hidden danger for Banta City, it would also solve the water problem of the Night Song Tribe, so naturally elder Illusia hoped that Xu Yi would succeed.
After deciding this matter, Xu Yi and elder Illusia went to the open air plastic production workshop of the Night Song Tribe.
Compared to when Xu Yi was here last time, the elves responsible for making plastic were much more focused compared to before and weren’t sloppily handling their work.
It seemed like after Xu Yi left, elder Illusia had conducted a lecture with her clansmen to avoid embarrassing the elves in front of Xu Yi again. 𝙗𝙚𝙙𝒏𝙤𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝒎
But even if there was progress, it was far from being as efficient and organized as human workers.
Elder Illusia had the ten elves brought by Xu Yi join the production line and immediately they showed efficiency that surpassed the other elves.
The other elves had been unwilling to submit after seeing Xu Yi because they didn’t understand why elder Illusia would send their clansmen to work under a human, accepting his orders.
To the proud elves, this was simply shaming them,
But after seeing the efficiency of those ten elf workers, the anger and dissatisfaction of the other elves had disappeared.
These ten clansmen had been the same as everyone before, but after working for that human for a few months, their performance had suddenly become this good.
Although the elves were proud, they definitely wouldn’t refuse to accept a fact.
With the fact in front of them, the humans indeed were better than elves at doing things, so their unwillingness to submit to Xu Yi faded in their hearts.
The elves of the Night Song Tribe were very clear on the worries of elder Illusia, so after seeing the performance of these ten elves, there were many elves who even asked elder Illusia to be sent for training in Xu Yi’s factory.
“Chairman Xu, what do you think? Can your factory accept more clansmen to be trained?” Elder Illusia didn’t agree right away and turned to ask Xu Yi.
Xu Yi looked at the excited elves and thought for a bit before replying, “Elder Illusia, actually I came this time in hopes of convincing more elves to leave this enclosed forest and live in our human society. The most suitable choice is of course to have them work in our factory first and become familiar with the environment.”
“Then that means you agree?” Elder Illusia asked.
Xu Yi nodded, “Elder Illusia, I really want to say that just based on the crude plastic production line here, it is far from being able to satisfy our needs. Do you know how many backed up tire orders our company had before I came here?”
“Based on your appearance, it should be quite a bit?” Elder Illusia asked in a curious voice.
“It’s not just quite a bit, it’s a lot!” Xu Yi stressed his words, “Let me tell you, there are over a hundred thousand orders for tires that are piled up at our company!”
Elder Illusia’s eyes opened wide in shock, “It’s actually this many? But we can only make at most ten thousand here.”
“So that means we must expand production.” Xu Yi said with a nod, “If we want to expand, it isn’t enough just relying on this small place and the people here. So I recommend that we move the entire tribe to the plastic factory that I’ve already prepared at the Falling Rain Valley to work for me. I have even researched a series of magic machines that can process plastic, so compared to here, the efficiency will be greatly increased.”
Elder Illusia looked at Xu Yi and suddenly revealed a smile, “Chairman Xu, you have already prepared everything, you’re not planning to let me reject you at all, right?”
Xu Yi waved his hand with a smile, “I am just preparing everything for myself. As for to what degree elder Illusia will agree, that is all up to you.”
“According to the views of humans, are you trying to goad me into action?” Elder Illusia revealed a faint smile and turned to look at her busy clansmen for a while before giving a soft sigh, “I have to admit, since cooperating with you and letting the clansmen work on the resin, although they’ve been busy all day, it is very fulfilling and the tribe has been filled with life. Do you know? Just in three months, there were actually two newborns. This is an once in a thousand year miracle!”
Xu Yi’s expression instantly became very strange.
Last time he heard elder Illusia say that the Night Song Tribe only had a single newborn in the last ten years, but now there were two more in just three months. Although this still couldn’t compare to humans and the other races, it was still an incredible increase.
But what caused this change…...Could it be that the hormones of these proud and cold elves had been stimulated from the work and they were more willing to create humans?
Of course there was a more important reason. It was that after accepting the resin work that Xu Yi had given them, the Night Song Tribe had also received large amounts of rewards from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.
Elder Illusia had no interest in human gold coins, but there was a need for human goods, so she had Xu Yi exchange the gold coins into goods.
Before although the Night Song Tribe could sustain themselves in the Falling Rain Forest, the resources were limited and could only support around a thousand elves. There would be problems if there were more elves.
The elves had accumulated wisdom from their long lives, so they had strictly regulated the number of elves in the tribe. This was an important reason why their tribe had a low birth rate.
Now that they received daily necessities from the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, the Night Song Tribe had more resources and could give birth to more elves.
“That means that you’re agreeing to my suggestion?” Xu Yi asked.
“Un, I do agree, but it is impossible to move all the clansmen right now since this is the home that we’ve lived in for thousands of years.” Elder Illusia said, “How about this, those hundred clansmen can keep working at the factory and I’ll also select three hundred more clansmen to work at the factory. As for how you’ll arrange them, that is up to you.”
Seeing that elder Illusia agreed this readily, Xu Yi couldn’t help saying with a smile, “It will all be arranged by me?” Elder Illusia, you’re putting quite a bit of courage on me.”
Elder Illusia looked at him with a teasing smile like a little girl, “Could it be that this wasn’t what you wanted?”
Chapter 94 - Building roads to the doors of the beastmen
Two days later, Xu Yi, Still, Agnes, and the ten elf workers appeared in a small tone on the outskirts of the Black Rice Wasteland.
This small town called Zamora was built by the river and was the human town closest to the Black Rice Wasteland.
Although it could be said that the humans controlled almost the entire Sines Continent, the other races didn’t completely disappear. The strongest among them was the beastmen race.
Although it was impossible for them to cause any threat to the human powers, it was still enough for them to control their lands.
Of course, the Black Rice Wastelands to the humans of the Sines Continent didn’t have any value since the wastelands were still wastelands, there wasn’t any land to cultivate at all. There were no human countries that were bored enough to contest this desolate land with the beastmen.
Although the beastmen didn’t know magic, most of them had strong bodies and had strong individual fighting strength. To steal the land of the beastmen, it would force the beastmen to go all out with the humans and the loss wouldn’t be small.
This was a business with guaranteed loss, so no human would do it.
Xu Yi’s group had just entered the small town that was less than two hundred meters wide with only two streets. The Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Cruise and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce’s chairman Renersa who had been waiting found them and immediately came over.
“Sorry, we made you wait.” Xu Yi apologized mainly to chairman Renersa.
Chairman Renersa had a strong build and had a great ring to his laugh, looking very heroic.
“Ha, ha, it’s nothing, we also just arrived. We were taking care of the carriages and were preparing to leave after chairman Xu arrived.” Chairman Renersa nodded to Still beside Xu Yi before his eyes fell onto Agnes and the other ten elves. He slightly knit his brows, “Chairman Xu, these elves are coming with us?”
If one was to say who in Banta City had seen elves the most, before Xu Yi, it was definitely chairman Renersa.
This is because chairman Renersa always did business with the beastmen tribes of the Black Rice Wasteland, so chairman Renersa came to the Black Rice Wasteland frequently, even being the guest of several beastmen tribes. In the beastmen tribes, he had seen the elves several times before.
But it was because of this that he was more clear than anyone that the relationship between beastmen and elves weren’t very good.
Even if they didn’t fight at first sight, there were still sparks that flew, so they couldn’t have a normal exchange at all.
When Xu Yi said that he wanted to go with his caravan to the Black Rice Wasteland to see the beastmen tribes, he didn’t really care and agreed quite quickly.
But now he found that Xu Yi actually brought elves along, which would be a very big problem.
Xu Yi naturally saw the worries of chairman Renersa, so he said with a smile, “Chairman Renersa, please don’t worry. When we reach the beastmen tribe, these elves will use their Stealth Spell. They won’t reveal themselves unless it was necessary.”
“That would be best.”
Chairman Renersa nodded, but he couldn’t help taking another look at Xu Yi with a bit of surprise in his eyes.
This chairman Xu, he could actually make elves become his bodyguards. It really was like the rumours, he had a special relationship with the elves of the Falling Rain Forest.
But he never knew that he had made a mistake.
After chairman Renersa finished discussing with Xu Yi, chairman Cruise on the side walked over and complained to Xu Yi, “I say, chairman Xu, there are no roads here, I really am collapsing from how tired I am. You had me run all this way, if there aren’t any benefits, I’ve done this for nothing.”
Xu Yi laughed, “You’re right, having you come along was to see how to build a road between Banta City and the Black Rice Wasteland.”
When his voice fell, chairman Cruise, chairman Renersa, and Still looked at Xu Yi with wide eyes at the same time.
“Chairman Xu, are you joking?” Chairman Cruise couldn’t help raising his voice, “What can you do if you build a road? You’re making it easier for those beastmen to cause trouble in our human territory?”
Xu Yi gave a sigh and shook his head, “Chairman Cruise, you’ve worked me for this long and you still don’t know I am a person who won’t do something if there aren’t any benefits?”
Chairman Cruise knit his brows and doubtfully looked at Xu Yi, “I know that you wouldn’t do something without benefits, but how can I see what benefits there are in building this road?”
Xu Yi looked up at the sky, “I’ll tell you slowly on the way.”
The Renekton Chamber of Commerce’s caravan was quite large, with thirteen horse carriages. Based on the mountain of goods packed in the horse carriages, the Renekton Chamber of Commerce wasn’t just dealing with a single tribe.
The relationship between beastmen and humans wasn’t that good, so if a caravan walked into the beastmen territory rashly, there was a high chance they would encounter some form of danger.
So the Renekton Chamber of Commerce was different from most companies of Banta City, they specially trained their own caravan guards and also hired mercenaries as guards.
Xu Yi sat in the back of a horse carriage and looked at the mercenaries on the side of the caravan. He couldn’t help sighing as he said, “Just based on their appearance, these guards are all veterans who have fought hundreds of battles. Chairman Renersa, if your company’s guards were taken out, perhaps they might not be worse than the royal army.”
Chairman Renersa revealed a confident smile, “Actually these guards are all old soldiers who have retired from the army and each soldier has rich fighting experience. I dare say that if they had the same equipment as the royal army, a single platoon could take out two platoons from the royal army.”
“No wonder your company has done business in the Black Rice Wastelands for this long and no problems have occurred.” Xu Yi praised.
“It would be a lie if no problems have ever occurred.” Chairman Renersa said with a smile, “There are over a hundred beastmen tribes in this Black Rice Wasteland and although our company has built relations with most of the tribes, there are some blind beastmen who still come looking for us. We can’t block them every time. Just four months ago, a caravan was robbed by an unknown beastmen. It was a good thing that the beastmen were smart and only took the cargo, not harming anyone. Otherwise our losses would have been big.”
“Only taking the cargo and not hurting people?” Xu Yi was a bit surprised, “Beastmen actually understand customs?”
“Do they dare not?” Chairman Renersa said with a cold snort, “From the beginning, those beastmen have dared to injure and kill when robbing. But each time this happened, I made a request to the royal army here and the robber’s tribe would be bathed in blood. After many times, these beastmen understood the rules. Even if they do rob, they would only take the cargo and wouldn’t dare hurt anyone. Even if they kidnap people sometimes, they just exchange them for some ransom. They wouldn’t have the courage to really kill anyone.”
Xu Yi was even more surprised, “Since they don’t dare kill, why do you need to pay them ransom?”
“This……” Chairman Renersa gave a dry laugh, “This is also the rule. As long as the beastmen don’t kill people, the royal army can’t make a move. If we don’t pay them ransom, although the beastmen won’t kill them, they won’t let them go. If you let your workers stay in the beastmen tribe for long, they’ll be useless even if they are saved.”
Xu Yi thought about it before asking, “That’s right, these rules aren’t just aimed at beastmen, they’re also aimed at you?”
“Un, it’s pretty much like that. Right now the human merchants who do business with the beastmen of the Black Rice Wasteland follow these rules. Doing business with the beastmen earns us quite a bit of money, so paying a bit isn’t much.”
Xu Yi couldn’t help shaking his head. He thought that the rules between beastmen and humans were really too barbaric and backwards, no wonder the beastmen were looked down on by humans and the other races. It was because their level of culture was just too low.
When Xu Yi was reconsidering his strategy for negotiating with the beastmen, chairman Cruise came over.
“Chairman Xu, now can you tell me what benefits there are in building a road from Banta City to the Black Rice Wasteland?”
Xu Yi looked at him before pointing at chairman Renersa, “Not mentioning anything else, at least chairman Renersa would say that there would be benefits.”
“Of course.” Chairman Renersa revealed a wide smile, “If there really was a road, our caravan could save quite a bit of effort. Chairman Cruise, if chairman Xu hadn’t mentioned it, I was already considering having your company make a road for us. It wouldn’t be far, it would be fine if it reached Samara.”
“That’s not far?” Chairman Cruise glared at him, “It is at least a hundred kilometers from Banta City to Samara, right? Even if it was only built as wide as the Falling Rain Road, it would cost close to three hundred thousand gold coins. Are you willing to pay that much?”
“Three hundred thousand…..That isn’t that much. If there are toll booths, even if I can’t get back the cost, I wouldn’t lose much.” Chairman Renersa thought about it before suddenly slapping his leg, “Good, it’s settled! Chairman Cruise, when we get back to Banta City, I will discuss with your company on building this road. What do you think?”
Chairman Cruise and Xu Yi were both surprised. It was Xu Yi looking for chairman Cruise to build a road, so how did it become chairman Renersa suddenly deciding to build a road?
Xu Yi thought about it before saying with a smile, “Chairman Renersa, it is good that you can see the benefits of building a road. But the road that I mentioned would pass through the Black Rice Wasteand, it would be far from being enough just reaching Samara.”
This time, chairman Cruise and chairman Renersa looked at Xu Yi in surprise.
This fellow actually wanted to build a road to the beastmen’s home?
He was crazy!