Vol 8 Chapter 54: Am

Anm, often referred to as the
Businessman Territory
, is the youngest kingdom in the southern part of the Sword Coast. Most of the Amians believe in the
God of Trade and Wealth
, and money is not valued and circulated in any other country as it is in Amn.
Every businessman in the mainland of Feren has more or less contact with Am, they want to deal directly with Am, and the horse has to go through Anm several times a year.
The location of Amm also makes it unique on the mainland trade highway. It is located in the middle of the entire mainland trade, connecting Jianwan to the north and south. The products produced by the two major powers of Kalinshan and Tassel need to be sold northward through this place, and the abundant natural resources of the Northland need to be transported to the Southern Steam Lake Industrial Zone through Amn.
This gives Amm the same status as
Sembia
and
Deepwater City
in trade. These three regions also have a long and continuous competition around
Who can become a trade center of the whole continent
.
The top leader of Amn is not the king, but a six-member council composed of six major business groups. Due to its origins, the Six-member Council has set a very low commercial tax for Amm, canceled most of the domestic checkpoints, and largely realized trade freedom. This is also the most fundamental reason why Amem can become the southern trading center of Jianwan.
However, due to the interests of their respective business groups, the six-member councils are unable to unite more often and are not very binding on other chambers of commerce and organizations in the country, thus causing the chaos of Amm’s other decrees besides trade. .
According to the inaccurate statistics of the administrative agencies of the six-member council, Amm now has a population of more than three million, and most of them live in the two rivers between the coast of Baojian and Lake Esmer.
The majority of Am's population is human, and a small part is half-length. Dwarves and elves are rarely publicly available in Amn, the former living in the mountain range of Amn, while the latter living in the Viper Forest.
In fact, most of Amn's dwarves were gray dwarves, who were driven to the ground by the Sannah dwarves in ancient times. The position of the dwarf is the same as that of the elves. The elves of the Viper Forest are scattered tribes, rare in number, without their own elves, and even Milares did not intend to officially visit them.
Amn’s social atmosphere is
money and omnipotence
, and a variety of expensive and expensive social evenings are a common practice for Amians to demonstrate status and power. They will give potential customers a generous gift and give the service provider a large amount of tips in an extremely arrogant manner.
The capital of Acapara is the center of all activities of Ams. The city has a well-equipped Amber Guard. In addition to a elite fleet that has been driving in the sea of ​​swords for many years, they also have three small fleets stationed in Ace. The Mill River and Wenhu Lake the merchant ships on the river.
The Amians have a more open mind about race and faith and can tolerate other intellectual races and any religious beliefs. In fact, this is also the nature of the merchants. For them, as long as the opposite customer has gold coins in his pocket, it doesn't matter if the green face is fangs.
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"Ferrar, why haven't they come back yet?" Mileras squatted and squatted in the tent, shaking Qin Lun's eyes.
"Milleras, Stark and Robin headed for two hours. If there is no suitable target, it is estimated that they will not be able to come back tonight. You should sit down first!" Qin Lun licked his nose. Said helplessly.
"Ferrar, can your idea be successful?" Milares said with some concern.
"Not my thoughts, this is the plan that everyone discussed together!" Qin Lun stood up and opened the curtain of the tent, watching this small camp on the lakeside.
The waterway in the area of ​​the Esmer Lake is a bit like the Jiangnan Water Town in the Huaxia District of the Earth. Looking far away from the camp, the rice on both sides of the road is like a golden wheat swaying in the warm spring breeze. At midday, a strand of smoke rises from the distant village.
In front of the boundless Aismer Lake, there is an endless stream of flat-bottom merchant ships. The cabins of these merchant ships are wide, but they are not suitable for sailing on the rough seas and only adapt to the calm and inland rivers.
After the serpent forest was blocked, everyone had to choose to travel to Ascatra. However, due to the threat of the Tallinn, they could not enter the big business with the confusion and opportunity. To this end, everyone discussed a lot of methods, and finally Qin Lun gave everyone an idea.
Most of their ambassadors are mercenaries, at least in the dress up are some plot mercenaries. After this period of travel, not to mention the apostles, even the original Elf nobles such as Milares and Ilistin are used to mercenary life.
Qin Lun’s idea was to pretend to be an ordinary mercenary group, then hired some caravans near Lake Esmere and entered Ascatra under the cover of the local caravan.
The method is simple, but it is also very effective. As long as they don't show flaws, the scattered Tallinn will not recognize them even if they notice the caravan. Big hidden in the city, the best way to dissolve in water is to turn yourself into water.
Originally, Robin wanted to go one step further and directly control a small caravan, but it was finally rejected by everyone. With their force, it is easy to control the caravan. The problem is that the caravans are different from the mercenary group. They have to deal with people of all kinds along the way. Any flaws may invite doubts from the Tallinn, so it is best to let it go.
In this way, finding a suitable target as an employer is particularly important. The words of the big business group are definitely not suitable. They not only have fixed guards and mercenaries, but also have complicated intelligence sources. It is hard to say whether they will have doubts about the foreign mercenary groups who are actively looking for the door.
As for the small caravan, it is not so easy to find. The sources of small business people are not as broad as those of big businessmen, but since they can stand in the chaotic land of Am, the ability to observe the words will not be too weak. From here all the way to Askatra, there is at least a week of travel, it is difficult to guarantee that doubts will not be seen in this mercenary group with many elves and strong strength.
Qin Lun they need a small caravan with a small scale and a leader who can't be too smart. Seriously, this selection task is really not very good. Fortunately, Qin Lun does not have to shoot himself.
Stark and Robin and others may not be as good at IQ as they are, but they far surpassed him in their adventures and experience. Some things that made him feel a headache can be solved satisfactorily under both hands. He Just have to come up with an idea.
Since this time, Qin Lun has benefited a lot from the apostles of the two teams. Whether it is Stark, Robin, or the early apostle who is far less powerful than his Lor, he often has his performance, which makes him feel the importance of a mature team.
In fact, several of Robin came back in the evening and brought a good news, they found the right employer.
The Hulan Chamber of Commerce, a small chamber of commerce belonging to Tesell, was just established years ago. With Robin and Stark, the president of the chamber of commerce, West Buddha Hulan, is a young gentleman with a beautiful dress and a beautiful character.
He was originally a small aristocrat of Tesell. He was only a family leader. He did not have the talent to practice martial arts and magic. He had to learn business before bankruptcy and hoped to one day reinvigorate the family.
This time, Hulan sold all the property except the ancestral home, collected a batch of alchemy items from the special products of Taisel, and planned to ship it to the door of Bode. Like Qin Lun, due to the blockade of the Viper Forest, they had to turn to Ascatra to the door of Bode.
This small caravan is very much in line with the requirements of Robin and Stark, and the final destination to the door of Bode is also in line with the ambassador. It was only when they contacted West Buddha Hulan that they were puzzled by the route of the caravan before.
To know that the caravans are different from them, the Japanese elves have enough force to deal with the thieves and the World of Warcraft in the eastern border of Amn, and the caravan of West Buddha is different.
Through inquiry, they realized that the original West Buddha had its own experience and believed that there would be layers of exploitation of the Taishir nobility in Amm. In order to avoid the numerous tariffs, the trade decided to take the sparsely populated eastern border before departure, instead of following the two rivers to Asctra like other caravans.
To this end, the grass-rooted Hulan Chamber of Commerce also hired a team of well-known domestic mercenaries, but they came all the way from Tesell. These mercenaries died and wounded. Although avoiding the unwarranted tariffs, the goods were not swallowed up by the thieves along the way, but the pensions of the casualties were also a large sum, so that the little nobles who lacked experience regretted.
If the goods carried by Hulan Chamber of Commerce cannot be sold at the door of Bode, then West Buddha is afraid to pay a fortune. After coming to this place, West Buddha has no plans to spend money to hire other mercenaries, but fortunately he has a savvy butler. The old butler persuaded him not to risk ~EbookFREE.me~ would rather spend a little more, but also to ensure the safety of the goods.
For this reason, the caravan of Westfoss stayed for two days at the brothers' pub on the shores of Lake Esmere, just in time to find Robin and Stark to find employers.
I heard that Robin’s team had many elves and dwarves, and the old housekeeper of West Buddha persuaded the owner to hire this mixed mercenary group. Although the old butler is also lacking in adventure, he has been in charge of the housework in the Hulan family, but the elderly with rich experience know that there are a large number of mercenary groups of elves and dwarven mercenaries. Most of them will abide by the professional ethics of mercenaries, at least Will not pay attention to the employer.
After watching the camp, Xifo Hulan and the old butler around him were very satisfied. It felt that Robin and Stark did not hide anything. This mercenary group not only has elves and dwarven mercenaries, but the mercenaries seem to be arrogant, but each is refined and powerful, which is in line with their requirements.
The two employers are satisfied, and Qin Lun and others are certainly more satisfied. The Hulan Chamber of Commerce from Tassel also concealed their last flaw, and at least no one would be surprised by their dress and face different from the mercenaries in Amm.
However, the world is impermanent, waiting for the next day to really meet Hulan’s caravan, and the talents found that things were not as good as they thought...